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SAT SATURDAY 04 JUNE 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b011jx96 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b011mt39 (Listen) SAT Ox Travels, The Wrestler SAT SAT Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top SAT travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these SAT stories. SAT SAT Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting SAT life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they SAT transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of SAT encounters. SAT SAT Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain SAT project which he launched with local people to regenerate a SAT poverty-stricken district in Kabul. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011jx98 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011jx9b (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011jx9d (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b011jx9g (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011jx9j (Listen) SAT Tina Beattie SAT SAT With Dr Tina Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at SAT Roehampton University. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b011jx9l (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b011jx9n (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b011jx9q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b011mr7j (Listen) SAT Literary Walks, Malcolm Saville - Shropshire SAT SAT Clare Balding joins walkers and members of the Malcolm SAT Saville society in the Shropshire Hills where the author of SAT children's fiction based his Lone Pine series. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b011mr87 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Many upland farmers say they can't make a living from their SAT difficult land and are reliant on subsidies. Caz Graham asks SAT if its time to take farming away from the uplands. SAT SAT This week a new report - the National Ecosystem Assessment - SAT proposed reassessing how land is valued - putting a price on SAT beautiful views, clean water, recreation, and all the other SAT things the uplands provide. It aims to calculate how land SAT could be used for the greatest benefit. But for some farms SAT that might not be for food production. SAT SAT Caz Graham visits the Peak District national park, to see SAT first hand the challenges and opportunities for those SAT farming this wild and difficult terrain. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b011jx9s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b011msk2 (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b011msk4 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with actor and director Richard Wilson, poet SAT Susan Richardson, a woman who discovered her outwardly SAT respectable father was in fact a criminal gangster, and a SAT man who kept a lion as a pet. There's an I Was There feature SAT from a man who worked on the world's first international SAT satellite TV broadcast, and writer Jodi Picoult shares her SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b011msk6 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy talks to travel journalist Harry Bucknall SAT about his journey round the Greek islands which vary from SAT the crowded to the deserted and novelist Meaghan Delahunt SAT reveals her love of Naxos an island less frequented by SAT tourists. They discuss the appeal of the islands to the SAT history lover and the holidaymaker. SAT SAT John also meets the writer Jasper Winn who paddled his way SAT around Ireland in a kayak. The journey led him to see his SAT home island from a new perspective with its wild coastline, SAT wildlife - and wild winds which on one occasion stranded him SAT on an uninhabited island. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 What's So Great About ...? b011msk8 (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Pogues SAT SAT Lenny Henry never quite got The Pogues. From the fist time SAT he saw the band on the TV in the 80's, with the singer SAT banging a tray on his head during a drunken reverie, they SAT have mystified this Luther Vandross fan. He goes on a SAT journey of enlightenment through Poguedom speaking to SAT musicians, the former manager, music critics and die hard SAT fans to gain a better appreciation of this unmissable London SAT Irish band. He explores the romantic and brutally realistic SAT poetry of Shane McGowan and summons up the raw energy of SAT their live performances as he asks - what's so great about SAT The Pogues? SAT SAT Producer Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b011mskb (Listen) SAT The political map of Scotland has changed dramatically SAT following the resounding success of the Scottish National SAT Party in the May 2011 elections. Michael Buchanan goes SAT behind the scenes at the SNP and the Scottish Labour Party SAT to find out how the SNP achieved its victory and what the SAT result means for Scotland's future. The election pitted the SAT use of modern campaigning techniques against more SAT traditional politics and marked a transformation of the SAT argument for independence. But what are the forces at work SAT behind the campaign rhetoric and why were so many in SAT Scotland surprised by the extent of the SNP's success? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b011p0fg (Listen) SAT A mysterious encounter with the sinister Colonel Tariq, SAT thought to be from Pakistani Intelligence, is described by SAT Aamer Ahmed Khan. Tim Whewell's in the Sinai Desert looking SAT for terrorists and finding a roaring trade in rifles. A SAT guided tour of Benghazi with Andrew Hosken: he finds that SAT Colonel Gaddafi couldn't make the railways run on time -- he SAT couldn't make the railways either! An acute housing shortage SAT in Beijing is described by Martin Patience - it's meant SAT people living in air raid shelters, bunkers and tunnels. And SAT there's joy and some plum brandy in the foothills of the SAT Carpathians as Caroline Juler joins a cheerful crowd of SAT farmers at their annual measuring of sheep's milk. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b011p0fj (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT A crucial weekend for those hoping to get 2012 Olympic SAT tickets but had banking teething problems SAT Plus:Can teenagers be liable in law if they've signed up for SAT a service that has misleading charges? SAT And: would you invest in a fund classified as A, B, C, or D? SAT The programme will reveal all. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b011jx7l (Listen) SAT Series 74, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b011jx9v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b011jx9x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b011jx7s (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion about politics and SAT what's in the news from St Julian's Methodist Church, SAT Newport, Gwent, with the historian and biographer of SAT Georgiana, the Duchesss of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman; SAT shadow Labour minister for Wales, Owen Smith; Conservative SAT MP, Nadine Dorries; and Helen Mary Jones, who was Plaid SAT Cymru's assembly member for Llanelli but lost her seat in SAT May's elections. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b011p0fl (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b011p0fn (Listen) SAT Little Platoons SAT SAT by Steve Waters SAT SAT Separated from her partner, Martin, and disillusioned with SAT teaching at the west London comprehensive which their son SAT Sam attends, Rachel's looking for an outlet for her SAT evangelical zeal. More out of curiosity than conviction, she SAT goes to a pilot meeting of a free-school initiative headed SAT by middle-class Nick and Lara. Only to find herself SAT embroiled in a mix of private and public rows that exposes SAT the confusion that surrounds the subject of how we can best SAT educate our children. SAT SAT Rachel de Witt ..... Claire Price SAT Martin ..... Richard Henders SAT Nick Orme ..... Andrew Woodall SAT Lara Orme ..... Susannah Harker SAT Parvez Akhtar ..... Christopher Simpson SAT Polly Tyneham ..... Joanne Froggatt SAT Samuel ..... Otto Farrant SAT Marcus ..... Kerron Darby SAT Amitha ..... Mandeep Dhillon SAT Sadie ..... Holli Dempsey SAT Brandon ..... Joe Cole SAT SAT Directed for stage by Nathan Curry SAT Produced by Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b011p0fq (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Slutwalk: is it okay for women to SAT wear what they want, when they want, and where they want? We SAT talk to Frederick Leboyer, the father of natural childbirth; SAT news of a retrospective on the work of the fashion designer SAT Joyce Ridings; author Ann Patchett on her new book; what was SAT the practice of baby farming in history? Ballerina Tamara SAT Rojo; and champion bowler Betty Morgan from Wales. SAT SAT Producer Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b011p0fs (Listen) SAT With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b011p0fv (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT With plenty to worry about in the world economy, Evan asks SAT his panel of influential business leaders whether now is a SAT good time for companies to sit tight and play it safe, or to SAT take a risk or two. They also discuss greed - is there SAT anything wrong with a touch of it in business? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Geoff Cooper, chief SAT executive of builders merchant Travis Perkins; Harriet SAT Green, chief executive of electronic components distributor SAT Premier Farnell; serial technology entrepreneur Sir Terry SAT Matthews. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b011jx9z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b011jxb1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011jxb3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b011p0fx (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive talks to singer-songwriter k.d. lang. Her ground SAT breaking twenty five year career has see her collect four SAT GRAMMY Awards, a Brit, a VMA and Canada's highest civilian SAT honour, The Order of Canada. With the release of her album SAT Sing It Loud, she joins us on the tail end of her UK tour SAT with her band the Siss Boom Bang. SAT SAT Although Anthony Horowitz's phenomenally successful Alex SAT Ryder books have come to an end (which persuaded the SAT notoriously difficult market of teenage boys to read), SAT Anthony is no less busy. 81 years after the death of Sir SAT Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony has written a new Sherlock SAT Holmes book and has penned a new series for ITV1 - SAT 'Injustice' a psychological thriller set in the British SAT legal system. SAT SAT The explorer Ed Stafford Walked the Amazon, from source to SAT sea, 4000 miles in total and it took him 853 days. So it was SAT a stroll in the park to get himself to the Loose Ends studio SAT and tell us about his adventures. SAT SAT Rachael Stirling talks to the Fairy Jobmother Hayley Taylor SAT who has her work cut out trying to help the unemployed and SAT seemingly unemployable back to work for her second series on SAT Channel 4. SAT SAT There's music from the effortlessly inventive, Brit award SAT winning four piece Guillemots, performing their new single SAT 'I Must Be A Lover' from their album Walk the River. SAT SAT And American bluesman Seasick Steve performs on a variety of SAT customised guitars for his latest album 'You Can't Teach An SAT Old Dog New Tricks'. It could be a 3 String Trace Wonder, a SAT Cigar Box guitar or even one made from a Morris Minor hubcap SAT - which one will it be when he plays 'It's A Long, Long Way' SAT for us in the Loose Ends studio? SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b011p0fz (Listen) SAT Series 10, Episode 6 SAT SAT With the governance of international football being so much SAT in the news this week, Ed Jones takes a look at how morality SAT plays out at a more local level. Two football dads meet over SAT a pint and discuss their lads. SAT SAT Jonah....Greg Wood SAT Robbie...Will Ash SAT SAT Director Gary Brown SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b011p0g1 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests film-maker James Runcie and SAT writers Lisa Appignanesi and Kevin Jackson review the SAT cultural highlights of the week including Much Ado About SAT Nothing. SAT SAT Josie Rourke's production of Much Ado About Nothing at SAT Wyndham's Theatre in London stars David Tennant as Benedick SAT and Catherine Tate as Beatrice - the pair of bickering SAT lovers who overcome their mutual antipathy. Rourke has SAT relocated the action to somewhere resembling Gibraltar in SAT the early 1980s complete with Princess Di masks and lurid SAT cocktails. SAT SAT Senna is Asif Kapadia's film about the three times World SAT Champion Brazilian Formula 1 driver. Using only archive SAT footage, the documentary follows Senna from his first SAT Formula 1 season in 1984 to his final race at Imola ten SAT years later and also charts the increasingly bitter rivalry SAT between Senna and Alain Prost. SAT SAT Veteran American writer Cynthia Ozick's new novel Foreign SAT Bodies is partly set in early 1950s Paris - a city still SAT recovering from war and populated by many displaced people. SAT Bea travels there from New York to retrieve a nephew who she SAT barely knows on behalf of her overbearing brother, but her SAT attempts to resolve the family's problems have their own SAT unforeseen consequences. SAT SAT There are two new comedies on BBC TV this week. Angry Boys SAT is Chris Lilley's follow up to Summer Heights High and sees SAT him playing six characters including twin brothers Daniel SAT and Nathan and their grandmother who employs unconventional SAT methods in her work at a young offenders institution. In SAT With the Flynns is a family-based sitcom starring Will SAT Mellor and Niky Wardley as a Manchester couple juggling work SAT and parenthood. SAT SAT The Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition is the world's SAT largest open submission contemporary art show and this is SAT its 243rd year. This year's co-ordinator is sculptor and SAT painter Christopher Le Brun who says that because of some of SAT the Royal Academicians' mixed feelings about the exhibition SAT in previous years, a greater emphasis has been placed on how SAT the work is hung and curated. Most of the work in the SAT exhibition is for sale. SAT SAT Producer Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b011p0hz (Listen) SAT A Life Less Ordinary, Episode 2 SAT SAT This is the second programme in a series of three looking at SAT how an ordinary life can be transformed by extraordinary SAT events. One minute Kim Cotton was a housewife, the mother of SAT two children, but then she saw a programme about an American SAT agency looking for surrogate mothers in the UK. She was SAT fascinated and decided it would be a way for her to earn SAT money for her family. She became pregnant with a child that SAT became known as Baby Cotton for a fee of £6,000. Everything SAT was fine until she decided to sell her story to the Daily SAT Star for £15,000. She was vilified by much of the media and SAT the public for both selling the baby and then making money SAT from the newspaper. Kim goes back through the archive and SAT speaks to journalists who interviewed her at the time. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b011j3kf (Listen) SAT Plantagenet: Series 2, Edward I - Old Soldiers SAT SAT Edward the First - Old Soldiers SAT by Mike Walker. Inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Edward SAT Longshanks - the Hammer of the Scots - was grief-stricken SAT after the death of his first wife. But he finds new love SAT with Margaret, sister of the French King. And heartache with SAT his son Ned. SAT Edward 1st ... Philip Jackson SAT Margaret ...Ellie Kendrick SAT Ned ... Sam Troughton SAT Gaveston ...Simon Bubb SAT Wallace.. .James Lailey SAT Roger Bigod ... Jonathan Forbes SAT With Sean Baker, Brian Bowles, Nyasha Hatendi, Stuart SAT McLoughlin, Joanna Monro, Peter Polycarpou, Daniel Rabin, SAT Alun Raglan and Jane Whittenshaw. SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b011jxb5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b011jv8m (Listen) SAT Science and morality SAT SAT You wouldn't have thought that a book on the latest SAT discoveries in the science of human behaviour would be high SAT on the reading lists of politicians, but think again. David SAT Brooks' The Social Animal is required reading for SAT politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. When he visited SAT the UK a couple of weeks ago he had meetings with both the SAT Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party. Politicians, SAT it seems, are increasingly turning to disciplines like SAT neuroscience and evolutionary anthropology to understand why SAT we do things, so they can better tailor and design policies SAT that will work in the real world. That all sounds very SAT sensible, but how far should we take this new found SAT enthusiasm for scientifically designed political policies? SAT As science increasingly begins to explain our behaviour it SAT is also challenging our assumptions about moral and social SAT values. For millennia our moral reasoning has been guided by SAT first principles - theology and philosophy. Should we SAT embrace rather than fear the knowledge science brings as it SAT helps unravel some of morality's muddles that have so far SAT defeated our greatest thinkers? We almost un-questioningly SAT accept that science can be used to improve our physical SAT wellbeing, but why shouldn't it be used to make us better SAT people? If neuroscience can change our understanding of SAT human behaviour - and misbehaviour - why should it not be SAT used to frame our laws, our ethics, our morality, to make SAT the world a better place? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by David SAT Aaronovitch with Claire Fox, Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik SAT and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b011j7v7 (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 9 SAT SAT The contest to find this year's musical mastermind reaches a SAT crucial stage, with Paul Gambaccini chairing the ninth and SAT last heat of the 2011 series. One of today's competitors SAT will take the only remaining place in the semi-finals of SAT this year's competition. SAT SAT The final trio of contestants this year come from the London SAT area and Kent. To make it through, they'll have to SAT demonstrate the widest possible knowledge of music in many SAT genres, from the classical repertoire through show tunes, SAT film themes, jazz, classic rock, and six decades of the pop SAT charts. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT JOHN AMBLER, a former solicitor from London; SAT PETER KINNISON, a lay reader in the Church of England, from SAT Blackheath in London; SAT SUSAN WEDLAKE, a PR executive from Sevenoaks. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b011j3kk (Listen) SAT A mixture of poetry requests to take us from dawn to dusk, SAT with work by Norman MacCaig, Stephen Spender and Peter SAT McDonald. There's a languid poem dreamt up by the American SAT James Wright as he lay in a hammock at dusk, one by DH SAT Lawrence longing for the company of his love to watch the SAT sun setting and a 'crop of stars' growing silently, and a SAT wry warning to a deluded Lothario as he takes the night air SAT to try his luck. SAT SAT The readers are Jonjo O'Neill, Peter Marinker and Alison SAT McKenna. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 JUNE 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b011p0sf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00nfmkn (Listen) SUN The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets, The Octopus Nest SUN SUN Series of chilling tales from crime writer Sophie Hannah's SUN first short story collection. SUN SUN Claire and Timothy have no idea why there's a strange woman SUN appearing in so many of their family photographs. As Claire SUN stumbles across the answer, she is more frightened than SUN ever. SUN SUN Read by Helen Bradbury. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011p0sh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011p0sk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011p0sm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b011p0sp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b011p0st (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary and St Chad, Brewood, Staffordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b011jv8p (Listen) SUN Series 2, Anne Applebaum SUN SUN Anne Applebaum, the author of "Gulag", asks how governments SUN can best compensate victims of former repressive regimes and SUN turn secret police records into meaningful archives. SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SUN front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the SUN encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, SUN speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on SUN the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SUN culture and society. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b011p0sw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b011p10g (Listen) SUN Faith on the Frontline SUN SUN The journalist Jo Fidgin examines how religious belief can SUN be both diminished and strengthened during service on the SUN frontline. SUN SUN She talks with Padre Simon Rose of the Duke of Lancaster's SUN Regiment about his experiences in Afghanistan and with Brian SUN Turner, the American poet who served in Iraq. And she also SUN draws upon the writings of soldiers who saw action in the SUN First World War, including the Padre Geoffrey Studdert SUN Kennedy, and Vietnam (the poet Yusef Komunyakaa). SUN SUN With music by Bobby McFerrin, Sheryl Crow, Ivor Gurney and SUN Penderecki. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b011p10j (Listen) SUN Colin and Pauline Dyer, and their 22 year old son Michael, SUN have just reintroduced a herd of dairy cows to their farm SUN near Bodmin. They are going against the tide, with many SUN farmers deciding to stop milk production because it's not SUN profitable or because they can't afford to re-invest in the SUN business. The Dyers have bought a herd of Jerseys and are SUN selling their milk at a good price for ice cream production. SUN Presented and produced by Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b011p0sy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b011p0t0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b011p10m (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b011p10p (Listen) SUN Penny Brohn Cancer Care SUN SUN Jessica Brohn presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Penny Brohn Cancer Care. SUN SUN Donations to Penny Brohn Cancer Care should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Penny Brohn Cancer Care. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Penny Brohn Cancer Care with your full name SUN and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. SUN The online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 284881 SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b011p0t2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b011p0t4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b011p10r (Listen) SUN All ground is holy ground SUN SUN As the BBC establishes a new broadcasting centre at SUN MediaCityUK in Salford Quays, Sunday Worship swaps its SUN traditional church setting for one of the BBC's new studios, SUN for a service with the local community exploring the SUN Christian belief that God is present everywhere, including SUN in our places of work and play. SUN SUN The BBC Philharmonic and Manchester Chamber Choir, conducted SUN by Paul Brough, lead a congregation gathered from the city SUN of Salford, from the BBC and of MediaCityUK representatives. SUN The music will include the hymns Dear Lord and Father of SUN Mankind, Angel-voices ever singing and Bach's beautiful SUN anthem: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. SUN SUN The preacher is the Bishop of Bolton, The Rt Revd Chris SUN Edmondson, who has been closely involved in the development SUN of MediaCityUK and its links to the wider community. The SUN service is led by the Chaplain to MediaCityUK, The Revd SUN Hayley Matthews. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011jx7v (Listen) SUN Series 2, Chameleon SUN SUN 16/20. Many of the world's chameleons live on the huge SUN continental island of Madagascar off the Eastern coast of SUN Africa. Some are tiny, as small as a finger nail - others in SUN comparison are giants. Sir David Attenborough gives us a SUN personal insight into the natural history of chameleons SUN through one very special individual - a chameleon he had as SUN a pet, called Rommel. In this life story you will feel as if SUN you've met Rommel personally and with the delightful embrace SUN with which Sir David writes, you smile all the way through. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b011p10t (Listen) SUN Patrick O'Connell presents news and conversation about the SUN big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b011p10w (Listen) SUN Written by: Adrian Flynn SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth 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 Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Sofia ..... Izabella Urbanowicz SUN Penny Marsh ..... Elaine Claxton. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b011p13c (Listen) SUN Alfie Boe SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Alfie Boe. SUN SUN He is one of our most popular tenors and, highly unusually, SUN is a sell-out success in both opera houses and musical SUN theatre. The youngest of nine children, he left school to SUN work as a mechanic - before being plucked off the shop-floor SUN for stardom. However, while he's at home on the stage, you SUN won't necessarily find him in the stalls: "I like good SUN singers, I don't necessarily like one genre of music, I just SUN like good singers, good voices and good songs," he says, SUN adding: "I never go to the opera... it's just not my world." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b011j7vh (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 3 SUN SUN It's the panel game that rewards chatterboxes but only if SUN they don't repeat themselves, hesitate or deviate from the SUN subject given to them by chairman Nicholas Parsons. SUN SUN Today's show sees Stephen Fry describing How to Clean a SUN Chandelier, Sue Perkins revealing her violent style of SUN Weeding, Paul Merton sharing all he knows about Aristotle SUN and new girl Fi Glover describing The Best Sort of SUN Babysitter. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b011tw7n (Listen) SUN Burgers and meat SUN SUN The burger is one of the world's most popular foods and it SUN made meat eating affordable for millions, but it also became SUN the food that symbolised many of the failings of the world's SUN modern food system. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at a new attempt to revive its SUN reputation as a quality food. This new "burger scene" where, SUN immense care is taken with sourcing the meat and using the SUN right cuts, reflects not only a shift in burger eating, but SUN also in attitudes to meat eating itself. SUN SUN The highly respected food and farming writers Simon Fairlie SUN and Colin Tudge both share the views on eating meat in the SUN 21st. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b011p0t6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b011p1kg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with David SUN Eades. Listeners can comment via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on SUN twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Balancing Bluebottle b00jz7cc (Listen) SUN The natural history film is a hundred years old. Percy Smith SUN was its greatest pioneer, making dozens of short but SUN brilliant films on subjects like flies and slime mould. In SUN his principal studio, the back garden of his home in north SUN London, he developed innovative microscope- and time-lapse SUN photography in the 1920s that still makes viewers gasp and SUN filmmakers jealous. SUN SUN Talking to historians and to Sir David Attenborough and SUN eavesdropping on flickering reels of film, Tim Boon of the SUN Science Museum tells how the balancing bluebottle came to SUN be. SUN SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b011jx0h (Listen) SUN Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team join gardeners in Kirkcudbright, SUN West Scotland. He is joined by Anne Swithinbank, Christine SUN Walkden & Matthew Biggs. In addition, Christine Walkden SUN visits Logan Botanic Garden. SUN Matthew Wilson updates on the 2012 Olympic Park in London. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 GPs Who Need GPS b00tdmsr (Listen) SUN Doctor of the Isles SUN SUN GP Rachel Weldon's Medical Practice stretches beyond the SUN shores of the remote Isle of Eigg to cover the other Small SUN Isles of Muck, Rum and Canna. SUN SUN The very much suburban GP Phil Hammond narrates the journeys SUN taken by Rachel, her husband and boatman Eric and collie dog SUN Laurie, as they carry out their monthly round to Canna. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Lloyd. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b011p246 (Listen) SUN Plantagenet: Series 2, Edward II - The Greatest Traitor SUN SUN Edward the Second - The Greatest Traitor SUN by Mike Walker. Inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. While SUN Edward's power is prey to his passions, his queen, Isabella, SUN and his most powerful ally, Roger Mortimer, find a passion SUN of their own. SUN SUN Edward the Second ..... Sam Troughton SUN Isabella ..... Hattie Morahan SUN Mortimer ..... Trystan Gravelle SUN Prince Edward ..... Joseph Samrai SUN Despenser ..... Jonathan Forbes SUN SUN Other parts were played by Sean Baker, Simon Bubb, James SUN Lailey, Peter Polycarpou, Daniel Rabin, and Alun Raglan . SUN SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b011p248 (Listen) SUN Nicole Krauss - The History of Love SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to American writer Nicole SUN Krauss, shortlisted for this year's Orange Prize. SUN SUN Our chosen novel is her critically acclaimed The History of SUN Love. SUN SUN It's a complex tale of loss - a lost manuscript, lost SUN homelands, characters grieving for lost loved ones. There SUN are four separate narrators who are all drawn to the lost SUN book - also called The History of Love. SUN SUN Leo Gursky is at the end of his life, tapping his radiator SUN each evening to let his neighbour know he's still alive, SUN drawing attention to himself at the local coffee bar. He SUN doesn't want to die on a day when no-one has seen him. SUN SUN As a young man Leo wrote The History of Love in pre-war SUN Poland. Although he doesn't know it, the book also survived, SUN crossing oceans and generations and changing lives. SUN SUN Fourteen-year-old Alama was named after a character in that SUN book, and lives across New York City from Leo. She and her SUN little brother, who thinks he is the Messiah, are recovering SUN from the loss of their father. SUN SUN The starting point for writing the novel was the story of SUN her grandmother, who came to England as a chaperone on the SUN Kindertransport, and lost all her family in the Holocaust. SUN She had fallen in love with a young doctor, whom she had SUN also presumed dead. Forty years later, he wrote to her SUN grandmother from South America. SUN SUN Nicole's History of Love is like a jigsaw, where all the SUN pieces come together at the end - and she talks about how SUN she has no preconceived idea about where the story will end SUN as she begins. Nicole likens it to being a traveller in a SUN foreign city, walking from street to street, finding her SUN way. SUN SUN July's Bookclub choice : 'The Music Room' by William SUN Fiennes. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b011p24b (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with a varied selection of poetry requested by SUN listeners, including subjects as diverse as gardening, SUN Heaven, and whether or not writing is poetry counts as SUN proper work. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 The Men with the Ear of the President b011jrh9 (Listen) SUN Who advises the most powerful man in the world and what do SUN they tell him? Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former Chief of SUN Staff, speaks to key advisors to the American President SUN including Karl Rove, the man described as George W. Bush's SUN "brain." What is the role of the Chief of Staff? How do they SUN break bad news to their boss? Are they sounding boards or SUN punching bags? How do interpersonal dynamics intersect with SUN developing strategy? How do they cope with global crises and SUN what fits them for the job? SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b011p0fz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b011p0t8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b011p0tb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011p0td (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b011p24d (Listen) SUN It's a busy week on Pick of the Week this week which sees SUN Steve Delaney, creator of Radio 4's Count Arthur Strong, SUN travelling the globe, economy class of course, stopping off SUN in Africa, with Fela Kuti, passing through Jamaica with SUN Lenny Henry and popping over to Nashville with Suzi Quatro. SUN Pausing only to have a quick listen to Tony Blackburn, take SUN in a little bit of politics and experience Sore Fingers in SUN the Cotswolds. Which hopefully you can get some ointment SUN for. All without leaving the kitchen. How's that for SUN reducing your carbon footprint! SUN SUN Suzi Quatro in Search of Patsy Cline - Radio 2 SUN Sounds of the 20th Century - Radio 2 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN Corrinne Come Back and Gone - Radio 4 SUN Ox Travels - Radio 4 SUN Fela Kuti Comes Home - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Tony Blackburn - Radio 2 SUN Party - Radio 4 SUN Boy Racers - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service SUN Sore Fingers - Radio 4 SUN French and Saunders - Radio 2 SUN Great Unanswered Questions - Radio 4 SUN Words and Music - Radio 3 SUN SUN Steve Delaney makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of 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 b011p24g (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b011p24j (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00nk4lm (Listen) SUN Tales From The Low Countries, My Father's Photo Album SUN SUN When the Dutch-Moroccan character at the centre of SUN Abdelkader Benali's short story learns that his mother is SUN ill, he's compelled to make a long-overdue visit to his SUN parents' house in Rotterdam. The visit proves to be the SUN start of a journey through his childhood, family history and SUN sense of himself. SUN SUN Read by Khalid Abdalla SUN Translated by David McKay SUN Abridged and produced by Emma Harding. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b011jx0f (Listen) SUN Is local radio in England worth its £110 million budget? SUN Roger returns to his home county of Cumbria to speak to SUN listeners there about why their local BBC radio station is SUN one of the most popular in the country. SUN SUN And you wanted to hear more from Sharon Shoesmith, the SUN former director of Haringey children's services. Maybe you SUN would have if it was someone other than John Humphrys SUN interviewing her on The Today programme. SUN SUN How many children listen to the radio in the middle of the SUN night? None we hope, so why are so many of you being kept SUN awake by CBeebies programmes at 2 o'clock in the morning? SUN Radio 4's Network Manager Denis Nowlan explains. SUN SUN And what exactly is a lamb bank? Well it helps save the SUN lives of thousands of lambs each year - and there no bonuses SUN involved. SUN SUN Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what else you'd SUN like him to tackle this series about anything you've heard SUN on BBC radio. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b011jx0k (Listen) SUN Dame Barbara Mills, Gil Scott-Heron, Leonora Carrington, SUN Flick Colby SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN Dame Barbara Mills QC, the successful barrister who became SUN the first woman Director of Public Prosecutions. SUN SUN The poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron who gave voice to the SUN black American experience. SUN SUN The surrealist artist Leonora Carrington who scandalised her SUN father by running away with Max Ernst and became a national SUN treasure in Mexico. SUN SUN And Flick Colby who choreographed Pans People's weekly SUN routines on Top of the Pops. We have a tribute from Babs. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b011p0fj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b011p10p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b011j7vr (Listen) SUN Unhealthy Expectations? SUN SUN Is our NHS debate avoiding the key issue? The talk is of SUN another reorganisation of the NHS and greater efficiencies SUN enabling the NHS in England to face the future. But the SUN overall challenge goes much deeper, and the politicians dare SUN not address it. As well as the pressures of demography and SUN inflation in health care costs, the health service faces SUN what it has always faced - public expectation of ever better SUN health care means an ever greater proportion of our national SUN wealth has been spent on health. Now it is said that this SUN must simply stop. But does this hope - one in a long history SUN of so far unrealised hopes -simply obscure the more painful SUN reality. One way or another, privately or publicly, our SUN health care ambitions have to be paid for, and we are SUN failing to decide how. SUN SUN In 'Unhealthy Expectations' Michael Blastland looks at how SUN this problem has loomed for years but never been faced - at SUN least not in open political debate. He explores what the SUN real choices are if constantly improved care is to be SUN provided - and whether this must mean either much higher SUN personal taxes or a population prepared to pay much directly SUN for care. Or is there a realistic way of squaring the circle SUN of rising demand within fixed budgets? SUN If something has to give, then what? Will you give up your SUN expectations? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b011p25n (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn previews the week ahead in Parliament with a SUN leading political journalist. SUN SUN She talks to the former Liberal leader David Steel. Lord SUN Steel has proposed a bill to change the way members of the SUN upper house are appointed. He explains why he believes a SUN properly independent appointments commission is needed along SUN with a means of allowing peers to retire. He also wants the SUN Lords to be rid - over time - of hereditary peers. SUN SUN This week's MPs panel is made up of the Conservative MP SUN Jacob Rees-Mogg and the Labour MP Gregg McClymont. They SUN discuss some of the big political stories. SUN SUN Maurice Glasman, a Labour peer and adviser to Ed Miliband, SUN debates the meaning of 'Blue Labour' with Patrick Diamond, SUN who advised the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. SUN They 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 b011p25q (Listen) SUN Episode 55 SUN SUN Miranda Green, the Editor of The Day analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and Beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b011jx0m (Listen) SUN Documentaries are in vogue. From Man on Wire to the fillms SUN of Michael Moore they've captured our hearts and our minds. SUN In this week's edition of The Film Programme Francine Stock SUN examines the very latest and very best of the current SUN releases such as Asif Kapadia's much lauded Senna and Jerry SUN Rothwell's subtle account of the family in the age of the SUN sperm bank, Donor Unknown. The BBC's Storyville's editor, SUN Nick Fraser, will be paying tirbute to two acknowledged SUN masters, the Maysles Brothers , whose work includes the SUN iconic, Gimme Shelter and the beautiful and affecting SUN portrait of down-at-heel American aristocracy, Grey Gardens SUN .And to round things off Charlie Phillips, one of the SUN organisers of the Sheffield Documentary Festival and the SUN director, Emily James discuss crowd funding -- a business SUN model that's revolutionising the genre. SUN SUN Producer Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b011p10g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 JUNE 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b011p117 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b011jv8c (Listen) MON Household breakup in New Orleans - Communist memories MON MON Hurricane Katrina led to the compulsory evacuation of all MON the residents of New Orleans. They were sent to shelters in MON distant destinations ranging from Houston to Tennessee. The MON scale of the disaster meant that most were unable to stay MON with or near family. But new research finds that this trauma MON was compounded by the authorities' failure to recognise the MON prevalence of extended families amongst the New Orleans MON poor. The trailers to which they re-located were set up for MON nuclear families as was the reconstructed housing to which MON they returned. The American social scientist Michael Rendall MON discusses post Katrina family breakdown with Laurie Taylor. MON Also, the process of remembering Communism in Central MON Eastern Europe. The historian James Mark's new book MON considers how countries come to terms with the legacies of MON the past. He joins the Psychology lecturer, Dr Jovan Byford, MON to question whether people's actual memories of the MON communist era at odds with officially imposed narratives? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b011p0st (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011p119 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011p11c (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011p11f (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b011p11h (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011p81r (Listen) MON Tina Beattie MON MON With Dr Tina Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at MON Roehampton University. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b011p81t (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the MON countryside.Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anne-Marie MON Bullock. MON MON 05:57 Weather b011p11k (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b011qfln (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b011p723 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the historian Jane Shaw about the story MON of Mabel Barltrop: she was renamed Octavia by her followers MON who believed she was the daughter of God. The theatre MON director, Jonathan Kent, brings the last non-Christian ruler MON of the Roman Empire to the stage, in the little known Ibsen MON play, Emperor and Galilean. Ziauddin Sardar gives his take MON on the Qur'an, drawing contemporary lessons from this Sacred MON Text on everything from power and politics, to sex and MON evolution. And Ross Perlin exposes the world of unpaid work, MON in his investigation into the deals done in the name of MON internships. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b011p5h8 (Listen) MON Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention, Episode 1 MON MON Constantly rewriting his own story, Malcolm X became a MON criminal, a minister, a leader, and eventually an icon, MON assassinated at the age of 39. MON MON The details of his life have long since calcified into a MON familiar narrative: his early years as a vagabond in Boston MON and New York, his conversion to Islam and subsequent rise to MON prominence as a militant advocate for black rights, his MON acrimonious split with the Nation of Islam, and ultimately MON his violent death at their hands. Yet this story, told and MON retold to various ends by writers, historians, and MON filmmakers, captures only a snapshot, a fraction of the man MON in full. MON MON Manning Marable's new biography is a stunning achievement, MON filled with new information and shocking revelations that MON will reframe the way we understand his life and work. MON Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of the darkest days of MON racial unrest, from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the MON struggles of the civil rights movement, examining his MON engagement with the Nation of Islam, and the romantic MON relationships whose energy alternately drained him and MON pushed him to unimagined heights. MON MON Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention is an attempt to MON definitively capture one of the most iconic figures of the MON twentieth century, a man who constantly strove, in the great MON American tradition, to remake himself anew. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b011p7sp (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Illustrator and writer Shirley MON Hughes on 30 years of her creation, Alfie. The MP who thinks MON 'shared parenting' should have the backing of the law when MON parents divorce - we discuss what's in the children's best MON interests. Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter on MON international success and her love of Chopin. Speech loss MON after a stroke is common but what help is available for MON those who suffer from long term communication difficulties? MON MON Aphasia MON MON Every five minutes someone has a stroke and one of three MON will have aphasia, a communication disability. But according MON to a charity there is very little long term support for MON people with aphasia. Sharon Smith had a stroke 21 years ago MON but didn’t find out she had aphasia until 17 years later. MON She is joined in the studio by Carol Pound, speech therapist MON and founder of Connect, a charity for people living with MON aphasia and Professor Roger Boyle, National Director for MON Heart Disease and Stroke at the Department of Health. MON MON Shirley Hughes’ Alfie Turns 30 MON MON One of the most popular characters in children’s picture MON books, the little boy Alfie, is celebrating his 30th MON birthday. To mark the event an exhibition of illustrations MON from the books has now opened in London. Though his creator MON Shirley Hughes has written and illustrated plenty of other MON titles – selling over 11 million copies in total - Alfie is MON the character she keeps returning to. There have now been MON nine different stories, each describing the little boy MON dealing with a new challenge, whether it’s putting his MON wellies or going to a birthday party on his own. The next in MON the series, ‘All About Alfie’, is due for publication in the MON Autumn. MON MON A special exhibition of Alfie artwork is running at The MON Illustration Cupboard, 22 Bury Street, London, SW1Y 6AL MON until the end of June. MON MON Shared Parenting MON MON When parents divorce or separate should the presumption be MON that they share parenting, with the children spending equal MON time with each parent? A Private Member's Bill currently MON going through parliament aims to change the law so that this MON would be the case. But a briefing paper from the Department MON of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University MON argues that shared parenting legislation is not in the MON interests of children. On Monday’s programme we’ll be MON debating the issue – Jane will be joined by the sponsor of MON the Bill, the Conservative MP Brian Binley, and by Mavis MON Maclean, who is one of the briefing paper’s authors. MON MON Ingrid Fliter MON MON The Argentinian pianist, Ingrid Fliter, received the 2006 MON Gilmore Artist Award, which is given to an exceptional MON pianist who possess broad and profound musicianship and MON charisma, and who can sustain a career as an international MON artist. She is only the fifth pianist to have been honoured MON in this way. Ingrid is most associated with the music of MON Chopin, and was the Silver Medal Winner of the Chopin MON Competition in 2000. She has recorded two CDs of his music, MON and has performed around the world with the likes of the MON Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the MON BBC Symphony Orchestra, and at venues including Carnegie MON Hall and the Metropolitan Museum. She joins Jane to discuss MON her latest album of Beethoven sonatas and to play a Chopin MON waltz live in the studio. MON MON Ingrid performs three Beethoven piano sonatas at the Queen MON Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday 7 June, including the famous MON 'Tempest' and 'Appassionata' sonatas. The album Beethoven: MON Sonatas 8, 17 +& 23 by Ingrid Filter is released on EMI MON Classics. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011p5hn (Listen) MON The Elephant Keeper, Episode 1 MON MON In this adaptation of Christopher Nicolson's vivid and MON dramatic novel, the central story is about the relationship MON between a boy and an elephant. But this is no whimsical love MON story - it's about power, and how power and violence distort MON relationships. It's about how the rich abuse the poor, and MON how humans abuse animals. And yet, this is also a simple MON moving drama, told by a young man, about the defining love MON of his life. MON MON Tom is 16 when the story opens, a simple West Country boy, MON the son of a groom on a country estate in the 18th century. MON When his master acquires a pair of elephants, the job of MON keeper falls to him. Overcoming his fears, Tom begins a MON relationship with the elephants which will change the course MON of his life. MON MON Adapted for radio by Elizabeth Burke MON MON Tom .....Stuart McLoughlin MON Lizzie .....Sarah Ovens MON Mr Harrington .....Bertie Carvel MON Mrs Harrington .....Claire Cage MON Dr Chisholm .....Richard Mitchley MON MON Producer: Kate McAll MON BBC Cymru Wales. MON MON 11:00 Good in Vestments b011p7sr (Listen) MON Amidst the rustle of silk, the drape of damask and the MON questions over whether the green or the red lining is MON better, the Reverend Richard Coles explores the ancient MON tradition of ecclesiastical vestment-wearing. MON MON At the recent Royal Wedding, all eyes may have been on MON Catherine Middleton's dress, but the magnificent vestments MON worn by the Archbishop of Canterbury also caught peoples' MON attention. MON MON Why do clergy still wear these clothes, who designs and sews MON them and has the emergence of women priests made any MON difference to who's wearing what in church? MON MON In this programme, Rev Richard Coles talks to various MON members of the clergy and historians to find out more about MON the traditions and developments in the way vestments have MON been adopted by Anglicans and Catholics. MON MON He goes to one of London's oldest vestment companies to meet MON priests being measured for their new clothes, and to talk to MON the seamstresses who stitch the chasubles and stoles by MON hand. MON MON As well as hearing about the traditional designs, he MON investigates how some clergy are seeking out new pictures MON and patterns - and asks what that says about the role of MON vestments in an increasingly secular society. MON MON Producer: Emma Kingsley. MON MON 11:30 Mr Blue Sky b011p7st (Listen) MON Good Luck 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 Robbie is taught a lesson whilst Harvey MON feels it's time to spill the beans, nothing is sure to get MON in the way... MON MON Harvey Easter .... Mark Benton MON Jacqui Easter ..... Rebecca Front MON Charlie Easter ..... Antonia Campbell-Hughes MON Robbie Easter ..... Joe Tracini MON Kill-R .... Javone Prince MON Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry MON Ray Marsh ..... Justin Edwards MON Sean Cahoun ..... Michael Legge MON Sergeant Major ..... 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 b011p7sw (Listen) MON Julian Worricker on consumer news including proposed MON benefits cuts for those living in social housing deemed too MON big for their needs. We explore claims that the plans will MON drive low income tenants towards debt and loan sharks as MON they try to stay in their homes. Also, the row over MON discounted cosmetic procedures; the British Association of MON Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons condemns online deals offered on MON procedures such as breast augmentation and filler MON treatments. We consider a new treatment approved for MON addressing Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. It's called EMDR MON which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and MON Reprocessing and the Ministry of Defence is just one of the MON bodies beginning to use it. And the risks and benefits of MON the new craze for fish pedicures. MON MON 12:57 Weather b011p11m (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b011x1ly (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news, MON featuring analysis, comment and interviews. Listeners can MON share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: MON #wato. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b011p7sy (Listen) MON Series 25, Sem 1 MON MON Do you know which classical composer was humble enough to MON dedicate his ninth symphony to God? MON MON You can find out the answer with Paul Gambaccini, as the MON general knowledge music quiz reaches the first semi-final of MON its 25th anniversary series. The three competitors taking MON part today have all come through their respective heats with MON flying colours. Which of them will take a place in the grand MON Final in a few weeks' time? MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b011p24g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b011p7t0 (Listen) MON Hearing Voices MON MON by Jimmy McAleavey MON MON D.I. James McCoy is an old style, hard-man copper, who MON though tempted by an offer of redundancy, determines to nail MON the killer of a colleague involved in undercover work. McCoy MON knows what he has to do to gain a conviction, but for the MON first time in his career he finds himself undermined not MON only by a psychopathic murderer, but by a somehow familiar MON voice in his head which ridicules and emasculates him, and MON threatens to completely destroy him. MON MON James McCoy - Tim McInnerny MON The Voice - Danny Webb MON Kenny -Ian Bartholomew MON McKenzie - Daniel Rabin MON Fairleigh - Ewan Bailey MON Anika - Jane Slavin MON Davide - Nyasha Hatendi MON Psychologist - Joanna Munroe MON MON Hearing Voices was directed and produced by Eoin MON O'Callaghan. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b011p0hz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Rattigan Versions b011s7zd (Listen) MON Memories of Terence Rattigan from Princess Jean Galitzine MON MON Memories of playwright Terence Rattigan, from people with a MON close personal or professional connection to him, in MON conversation with Mark Lawson. Princess Jean Galitzine was a MON good friend and neighbour, and was the basis for a central MON character in Separate Tables. MON MON Producer India Rakusen. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b011tw7n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b011p6yz (Listen) MON Series 4, 6 Degrees MON MON The Infinite Monkeys, Brian Cox and Robin Ince, are joined MON on stage by special guest Stephen Fry and science writer MON Simon Singh to find out whether we really are only 6 degrees MON of separation from anyone else? What started as an MON interesting psychology experiment in connectedness, back in MON the 1960's, has not only taken on a life of its own in MON popular culture, but in the last 10 years has begun to MON influence everything from mathematics, to engineering and MON even biology. Brian and Robin look at how the concept of 6 MON degrees has influenced a whole new field of science and MON whether, in this age of social network sites such as Twitter MON and Facebook, we are in fact, far more connected than ever MON before. We also find out what Robin's "Bacon" number is. MON Whether Brian has an "Erdos" number, and whether, like MON Russell Crowe, any of the panel have successfully managed to MON combine the two. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b011r5q7 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011p11p (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b011p7t2 (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 4 MON MON On this week's show, which Nicholas Parsons describes as MON having affection and aggro in equal measure, the panellists MON are Paul Merton, Julian Clary, Gyles Brandreth and Tony MON Hawks. MON MON Nicholas metes out the subjects and challenges each MON panellist to speak on a subject for one minute without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation - a task much more MON fiendish than it sounds. MON MON This week Tony Hawks describes The First Signs of Summer, MON Paul tells us some Reasons Not to Go On Holiday, Gyles MON reveals his theory on Dividing Household Chores and Julian MON reveals what gives him A Good Laugh. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b011p605 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b011p7t4 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011p5hn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Blogging Against Bribery b011p7t6 (Listen) MON Imagine if you had to pay a bribe to see your newborn baby, MON get your water supply connected or just obtain your driving MON licence? MON MON This sort of everyday bribery corrodes the lives of millions MON of people across India. But campaigners are now trying to MON harness the power of the internet to tackle this insidious MON problem. As Mukti Jain Campion reports from Bangalore, the MON founders of ipaidabribe.com says its mission is to "uncover MON the market price of corruption" by enabling ordinary people MON to record their experiences of bribery, where it took place MON and how much was involved. No naming is permitted as it is MON not about targeting individuals but instead highlights which MON areas and procedures are most prone to corruption so that MON they can be tackled. MON MON The website has already had a number of notable successes MON such as with Bangalore's head of regional transport who MON decided to use the website's revelations to tackle MON corruption amongst his own staff using technology to bypass MON the bribe-taking middlemen - including the introduction of MON the world's first automated driving centre. MON MON The website is just part of a growing use of the internet MON and social media by civil society groups to tackle MON corruption. In April this year the blogosphere was set abuzz MON by the hunger protest of veteran campaigner Anna Hazare to MON force the Government to enact an anti-corruption bill that MON had been stalled for 42 years. His fast in Delhi was MON supported by campaigners across India and the world, fuelled MON by Facebook and Twitter to make it the most successful use MON of social media in an Indian protest. In the face of mass MON media coverage and spread of what is being nicknamed MON click-tivism, the Indian Government conceded to Anna MON Hazare's demands after just 4 days. MON MON Producer: Mukti Jain Campion MON A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b011p7t8 (Listen) MON Goodbye the Golden Eggs of Banking? MON MON Time was when the City of London and the financial services MON industry generally were the apple of most politicians' eyes. MON The fabulous wealth they generated and taxes they paid MON seemed to set Britain on the road to lasting prosperity MON without having to worry about its manufacturing sector. With MON the crash, the political consensus has turned. Now, MON metal-bashing is back in favour and the bankers can do no MON right. The ritual call, heard at least once a generation, MON for Britain's economy to be more like Germany's is echoing MON across the land again. MON MON But is making things rather than financial innovation really MON the way to make Britain's economy grow faster? When we have MON a competitive edge in banking and managing money, should we MON cast it aside? And why should Britain's economy be the same MON as that of other countries? MON MON Janan Ganesh asks if we should be turning our back on the MON goose that has laid our golden eggs for so many years. And, MON with no immediate signs that manufacturing is taking off on MON a bountiful new trajectory, considers if we can instead use MON the pause in economic growth to puzzle out what we did wrong MON in financial services and how we can do better in the MON future. MON MON Producer: Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Material World b011jvz3 (Listen) MON New E-coli strain found in Germany. MON Quentin Cooper talks to Professor George Griffin, Head of MON the Academic Centre for Infection at St George's, University MON of London. MON MON Hominid teeth MON MON Early cavemen had foreign brides! An international team of MON researchers has been studying hominid teeth from two caves MON in South Africa. They were looking at the ratios of MON different types or isotopes of strontium in the teeth which MON they thought might reflect changing diet due to seasonal MON migration. Instead, they found a significant difference MON between the teeth of males and females. Most of the males MON had strontium values similar to those in the nearby rocks, MON suggesting they had lived in the same area for most of their MON lives, whereas many of the females seems to have come from MON different areas. Professor Julia Lee-Thorp, from the MON University of Oxford, explains more. MON MON Science and Innovation MON Writer Mark Stevenson, has curated a series of talks at the MON British Library as part of their Out of This World MON exhibition. His talk, ‘The Age of Entanglement’ looks at MON human interaction with science and innovation and whether we MON are too dependent on technology and how we view progress. He MON believes that science and innovation in the UK is being MON stifled and that there is a fear about progress. Last week, MON David Cameron and President Obama announced a key MON collaboration initiative concentrating on science, MON innovation and education. Obama called science education MON "critical to our future prosperity" and said that the U.S. MON and U.K could continue to emphasize "investments in MON education, science, technology, infrastructure -- things MON that help our economies grow". How dependent are we on MON technology and innovation? Quentin talks to Mark Stevenson MON and Sir Martin Taylor. MON MON Fly Your Thesis! MON MON Postgraduate students from Leicester have just had the next MON best thing to a spaceflight. They are back from a series of MON flights in France with the European Space Agency aboard a MON plane sometimes dubbed ‘the vomit comet'. It was part of an MON initiative called ‘fly your thesis’ in which PhD student MON projects get the chance to fly in a series of parabolic MON flights that simulate the weightlessness of space. Apart MON from the fun of experiencing zero gravity, they were also MON investigating one of the mysteries of the early stages of MON planetary formation. MON David Gray and Dr Charly Feldman from Leicester University, MON join Quentin to explain more. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b011p723 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b011p11r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b011r7zn (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 b011p7z2 (Listen) MON Please Look After Mother, Episode 3 MON MON Kyung-Sook Shin is arguably Korea's most popular and MON acclaimed novelist. Please Look After Mother has already MON sold over 1.5 million copies in Korea and has been reprinted MON over 100 times, turned into plays and a film. It is now MON published in 19 countries. MON MON Please Look After Mother tells the story of So-nyo, an MON elderly wife and mother, who goes missing on Seoul station. MON Only with her gone, do her children and her husband begin to MON appreciate not only all she has done for them, but who she MON really was and how much they have left unsaid. MON MON A story in part about the cultural clash between the MON generation who inhabit modern, urban Seoul and their parents MON steeped in the rural traditions of Korea, Please Look After MON Mother is also a universal reminder of how easy it is to MON take the people we love for granted. MON MON In today's episode, Hyong-Chol, the first born and favourite MON son, continues to search fruitlessly for his mother. As he MON does so, memories of his youth surface and he begins to MON realise all that he owes to her. MON MON The reader is Sian Thomas MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The translator is Chi-Young Kim MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b011jvyx (Listen) MON Foreign MON MON When did you first notice that not everyone was like you ? MON For American satirist Joe Queenan, growing up in an Irish MON American neighbourhood of Philadelphia, it was the moment he MON walked into an Italian cheese shop. Poet Elvis MacGonagall, MON sole resident of the Graceland caravan park outside Dundee, MON dodges the question by writing a brilliant poem that rhymes MON foreign with sporran. And Amanda Mitchison recounts an MON episode in a Cairo market where she was continually MON shortchanged in her efforts to buy chicken breast. In short MON she says, to be foreign is always to be the fool, unsure how MON to dress, to speak, and to buy a decent piece of chicken. MON New writing and discussion on the subject of Foreign, what MON it means and why it matters, chaired by Dominic Arkwright. MON The programme is produced by Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b011p7z4 (Listen) MON Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 JUNE 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b011p11w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b011p5h8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011p11y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011p120 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011p122 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b011p124 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011p5hb (Listen) TUE Tina Beattie TUE TUE With Dr Tina Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at TUE Roehampton University. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b011p5hd (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b011p5hg (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk TUE at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; TUE Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Choice b011p5hj (Listen) TUE Joe Glenton TUE TUE Joe Glenton was a bright young soldier, destined for TUE leadership and intent on helping the local people, when he TUE made his first trip to Afghanistan in 2006. TUE But what he experienced there led him to make the hardest TUE choice of his life.. to honour his commitment to his TUE colleagues and the people of Afghanistan or abandon his men, TUE break his promise and run away to the other side of the TUE world. TUE TUE 09:30 Britain's Labs b00shrc2 (Listen) TUE The Institute for Cancer Research TUE TUE In the first of four programmes looking at Britain's leading TUE laboratories, Professor Iain Stewart visits the Institute of TUE Cancer Research in Sutton in Surrey. The laboratory grew out TUE of the Royal Marsden Hospital with which it shares a site TUE and the two work closely together. TUE TUE The ICR is one of the main centres for the investigation of TUE the genetic causes and possible cures/remedies for cancer. TUE The effort is going into identifying the genetic drivers for TUE the disease and then finding a way to turn these off. The TUE work has been hugely accelerated by the completion of the TUE Human Genome Project and by information technology which TUE allows researchers to sift through genetic data at TUE unprecedented speed. TUE TUE Iain hears about new drugs which are being developed and TUE about how we will think differently about the nature of TUE cancer in years to come. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b011s4nh (Listen) TUE Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention, Episode 2 TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b011p5hl (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Who should win the Orange Prize TUE for fiction? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pq29 (Listen) TUE The Elephant Keeper, Episode 2 TUE TUE In this second episode of our adaptation of Christopher TUE Nicholson's novel, Tom grows close the elephants and gives TUE them names - Jenny for the female and Timothy for the male. TUE But Timothy is approaching sexual maturity and having a TUE frustrated and aggressive elephant on the estate proves TUE difficult for Tom, though it provides much amusement for the TUE other estate workers. Then one night the elephants escape TUE from their stables and run amok in the gardens of the TUE Harrington Hall. After that Mrs Harrington is determined TUE that they should be sold. TUE TUE Adapted for radio by Elizabeth Burke TUE TUE Tom ... Stuart McLoughlin TUE Lizzie ... Sarah Ovens TUE Mr Harrington ... Bertie Carvel TUE Mrs Harrington ... Claire Cage TUE TUE Producer: Kate McAll TUE BBC Cymru Wales. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b011p5nt (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 7 TUE TUE 7/30 This week's Saving Species explores the mysteries of TUE bird migration. Many birds undertake extraordinary long TUE distance migrations to find favourable conditions and TUE resources for feeding and breeding. Chris Sperring is in TUE Somerset finding out about the fortune of the pied TUE flycatcher, a summer visitor to this country which migrates TUE from Africa to breed in woodlands on the Western and South TUE West side of the UK. Scientists are ringing chicks to try TUE and monitor when the adults breed and the numbers of chicks TUE that survive and leave the nest. With adult pied flycatchers TUE arriving earlier due to milder Spring seasons, they may be TUE out of sync with the vital food supply of caterpillars they TUE need for their chicks when they hatch. Is this the reason TUE behind the declines in population numbers over recent years? TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Unbuilding Detroit b011p5nw (Listen) TUE In a city that has shed almost fifty percent of its TUE population since its peak in 1950 - the problem of abandoned TUE houses and crumbling neighbourhoods in Detroit is a TUE significant one. TUE TUE As architect Dan Hoffman, remarked, "unbuilding has TUE surpassed building as the city's major architectural TUE activity." Since 1970 almost one-third of the city's TUE occupied houses, more than the total number of occupied TUE dwellings in the entire city of Cincinnati, has been TUE demolished - but many more still remain. TUE TUE The city has become a site of artistic pilgrimage for some - TUE often times painted as a ghost town, with images that TUE contain no trace of humanity - just skeletal, abandoned TUE structures reaching up into the sky. But concealed behind TUE the symbolism of this grand, decaying industrial city and TUE its emptiness lies a vibrant network of artists, activists TUE and architects - seeking to beautify, to transform and to TUE re-imagine Detroit. TUE TUE In this programme we discover how charred, crumbling TUE buildings and dilapidated factories - remnants of Motown's TUE industrial past- have been transformed into riots of colour TUE and sound. Featuring contributions from the artists Scott TUE Hocking, Tyree Guyton and Olayami Dabls. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b011p5ny (Listen) TUE How should we revitalise Britain's struggling high streets? TUE The government's appointed retail marketing consultant, Mary TUE Portas, to look at ways to make our shops more prosperous TUE and diverse. How would you tackle the problem of empty units TUE and towns that look the same? Is the answer lower rents, TUE fewer chain stores and extra help for independent retailers? TUE Latest figures suggest consumer spending is likely to remain TUE sluggish, so how to breathe new life in your local high TUE street? Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. Your TUE chance to share your views on the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text 84844 and we may call you back TUE or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b011p126 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b011r45k (Listen) TUE National and international news, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. Listeners can share their views via email: TUE wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Liszt and His Women b011p603 (Listen) TUE In the two hundredth year of his birth, Franz Liszt's TUE reputation as a piano virtuoso - he was after all, the TUE inventor of the recital and a pioneer of the celebrity tour TUE - is eclipsed only by his reputation as a womaniser. TUE TUE Ken Russell's 1970s film 'Lisztomania', with the composer TUE played by a mostly bare-chested Roger Daltrey, is bizarrely TUE not as over-the-top as it might first appear. Adoring woman TUE fans fought over his cigar stubs to wear on chains on their TUE bosom! TUE TUE The pianist Lucy Parham, who's long been in love with TUE Liszt's music, investigates the truth behind his romantic TUE image, visiting his home in Weimar, where his bohemian TUE lifestyle obliged him to keep a house on the edge of the TUE town. TUE TUE She talks with pianists Cora Irsen, who's boyfriend admitted TUE a jealousy for the long-dead composer, and Stephen Hough, TUE who sees in Liszt a soul struggling to balance the TUE necessities of concert life with a deeply spiritual TUE inclination. She hears from cultural historian Donald TUE Sassoon about the context in mid-19th Century Europe for TUE Liszt's lucrative tours. And she asks Rick Wakeman, a TUE flamboyant musical star of later generation, about his TUE involvement with Liszt's music and that Ken Russell biopic! TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b011p605 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b011p607 (Listen) TUE A Monstrous Vitality TUE TUE by Andy Merriman TUE TUE June Whitfield stars as the indomitable actress Margaret TUE Rutherford in a tale of chimpanzees, Jordanian Princes, an TUE adoring husband and falling in love with a musician 30 years TUE her junior. TUE TUE Margaret ..... June Whitfield TUE Malcolm ..... Ryan McCluskey TUE Stringer ..... Sean Baker TUE Rumer ..... Gabrielle Lloyd TUE Prince Juan ..... Adeel Akhtar TUE Driver ..... Lloyd Thomas TUE Chimp trainer ..... Sally Orrock TUE Doctor ..... Sam Dale TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b011p609 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor 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 b011p60c (Listen) TUE Lido, To Brixton Beach TUE TUE by Stella Duffy. TUE TUE Three stories that explore the most evocative experience of TUE summer - outdoor swimming. TUE A mysterious swimmer spends all day in the pool at Brockwell TUE Lido. Read by Adjoa Andoh. TUE TUE Stella Duffy is an award winning novelist, short story TUE writer and playwright. In addition to her writing work, TUE Stella is an actor, comedian and improviser. She has TUE performed in Improbable Theatre's highly acclaimed Lifegame TUE throughout Britain, off-Broadway in New York, and in TUE Australia. She has also recorded several plays and the TUE sitcom Losers for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Rattigan Versions b011vp7f (Listen) TUE Memories of Terence Rattigan from Ronald Harwood TUE TUE Memories of playwright Terence Rattigan, from people with a TUE close personal or professional connection to him, in TUE conversation with Mark Lawson. Oscar-winning screenwriter TUE Sir Ronald Harwood sought advice from Rattigan as a young TUE writer and later adapted The Browning Version for cinema. TUE TUE Producer India Rakusen. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b011p60f (Listen) TUE Super injunctions TUE TUE Celebrities have been taking advantage of new privacy laws TUE to protect their reputations. Presenter Joshua Rozenberg TUE looks at how and why these new laws have developed. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b011p60h (Listen) TUE Chris Smith, Mavis Cheek TUE TUE Lord Chris Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, and TUE novelist Mavis Cheek are Harriett Gilbert's guests in this TUE edition of A Good Read. Each brings a very different TUE recommended read to the studio: a series of essays TUE celebrating the wild places in nature; an early novel by a TUE poet; and a profound but disquieting debut novel about a TUE disturbed child. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b011r5mj (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011p128 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b00sx2ql (Listen) TUE Series 6, The Crush TUE TUE Clare decides to focus her attention on her son, Thomas. TUE This leads to a chance meeting at Toddler Tunes that could TUE change the course of Clare's life. Meanwhile, Brian's TUE admiration for Nali grows when she visits his school and TUE tames Year Nine. All this plus Clare and Libby both TUE interview for the Team Leader post. TUE TUE Clare ..... Sally Phillips TUE Brian ..... Alex Lowe TUE Ray/Pendred/Interviewer .... Richard Lumsden TUE Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck TUE Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti TUE Libby ..... Jess Robinson TUE Sybil/Girl/Nuli ..... Alex Tregear TUE Howard ..... Paterson Joseph TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b011p6yl (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b011p6yn (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pq29 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b011p6yq (Listen) TUE Is Iran exploiting the turmoil caused by the Arab Spring, TUE and the uncertainly following the killing of Osama Bin TUE Laden? After Iranian military rockets were found on the TUE battlefields of Afghanistan, Allan Urry assesses new TUE evidence alleging Iran's closer ties with al Qaeda and the TUE Taliban. And, with more illicit shipments of weapons from TUE Iran being seized in the Middle East, in breach of a UN arms TUE embargo, the programme also reports on the discovery of a TUE weapons smuggling ring set up in the heart of Europe to TUE service Tehran. It also investigates the involvement of a TUE former British Royal Marine in the ring. TUE Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b011p6ys (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b011p6yv (Listen) TUE Why is it that humans have evolved to be capable of both TUE extreme cruelty but also deep compassion? Compassion-focused TUE therapy was developed with an emphasis on what evolutionary TUE psychology tells us about our brain and emotions. Compassion TUE is the cornerstone of Professor Paul Gilbert's work as a TUE psychologist in Derby, and for people with chronic mental TUE health problems, often from neglectful or abusive TUE backgrounds, it is designed to help stop their feelings of TUE shame and self-criticism. Claudia Hammond talks to Paul TUE Gilbert about compassion, what is it, why did it evolve and TUE why is it useful as a basis for talking therapies? TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b011p5hj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b011p12b (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b011r7zb (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 b011p6yx (Listen) TUE Please Look After Mother, Episode 4 TUE TUE In today's episode, Hyong-chol recognises his mother's hopes TUE for him, and his father returns their rural home, to an TUE extraordinary revelation about his missing wife. TUE TUE The reader is Sian Thomas TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The translator is Chi-Young Kim TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b011p6yz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b011p6z1 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 JUNE 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b011p12v (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b011s4nh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011p12x (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011p12z (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011p131 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b011p133 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011pkfh (Listen) WED Tina Beattie WED WED With Dr Tina Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at WED Roehampton University. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b011pkfk (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b011pkfm (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b011pkfp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b011s4qg (Listen) WED Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention, Episode 3 WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b011pkfr (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pkft (Listen) WED The Elephant Keeper, Episode 3 WED WED In the third episode of our adaptation of Christopher WED Nicolson's novel, Tom and Jenny the elephant are living WED happily on Lord Bidborough's estate. The old man is WED eccentric but kindly and takes great delight in the WED relationship between the boy and the elephant. But then he WED falls ill and his son, Charles, arrives from abroad to take WED over the estate. Charles likes to drink and begins to use WED 'rides on the elephant' as a way of seducing local women. WED Uneasy and guilty, Tom is forced to be complicit in this but WED is bribed by Charles to keep quiet. WED WED Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Burke. WED WED Tom ... Stuart McLoughlin WED Lizzie ... Sarah Ovens WED Lord Bidborough ... John Rowe WED Mr Harrington ... Bertie Carvel WED Charles Singleton ... Matthew Gravelle WED WED Producer: Kate McAll WED BBC Cymru Wales. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b011pkfw (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 2 WED WED Alan Dein meets Arthur Lowe, a 75-year-old life model and WED former financial adviser, from Shipston-On-Stour who poses WED for art students as a contribution to society. Arthur puts WED his trim physique down to the lengths he regularly swims in WED his local pool - training which helped him win a gold medal WED at last year's world master's swimming competition in WED Sweden. WED WED Alan visits an art class and observes the students at work WED as they capture the essence of the man at the front of the WED class. Although, he is physically naked before them, many WED know little of the life within and the issues that concern WED Arthur. Away from the studio, Alan explores exposure, vanity WED and the ageing process with Arthur who is acutely aware that WED his days as a model may be numbered. WED WED 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b00jsykr (Listen) WED Series 1, Portland WED WED In the last show of this repeated series Comedian Mark Steel WED gets to grips with the bird observatory, stone quarries and WED customs of the Isle of Portland in order to find out what WED makes it so distinctive. Find out why the locals are WED obsessed with obelisks and why you must never say the 'r' WED word. WED WED Producer - Julia McKenzie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b011pkfy (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b011p135 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b011r45m (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 b011pkg0 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b011p6yl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b011pkg2 (Listen) WED The 40 Year Twitch WED WED Yvonne's having a wobble. Her husband's always been one for WED the birds and now she's worried she's finally lost him. But WED do blue tits really lure men into midlife crises? Can WED sparrows be a bad influence? Comedy drama by Daniel Thurman. WED Yvonne ..... Paula Wilcox WED Neil ..... Philip Jackson WED Wendy ..... Anne Reid WED Austin ..... Brian Bowles WED WED Directed by Toby Swift WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b011pkg4 (Listen) WED Do you know the cheapest and most efficient way of paying WED for goods and services or spending money both in the UK and WED abroad? WED WED If you want to avoid those hidden extra charges join Vincent WED Duggleby and his guests for Money Box Live. WED WED One method that's free is the Faster Payments Service, which WED moves money between UK banks in seconds rather than days. WED But banks still get complaints about gaps in the service and WED slow payments. WED WED You will often have to pay though for other types of WED transactions when using a debit or credit card. For example, WED if you want to purchase goods abroad or buy foreign WED currency. How can you reduce those extra fees? WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011pkg6 (Listen) WED Lido, Lido Lover WED WED by Michèle Roberts. WED WED Three stories that explore the most evocative experience of WED summer - outdoor swimming. WED An English woman finds a kind of fulfilment on the Venetian WED Lido. WED WED Read by Joanna Tope. WED WED 15:45 The Rattigan Versions b011vpt3 (Listen) WED Memories of Terence Rattigan from Adrian Brown WED WED Memories of playwright Terence Rattigan, from people with a WED close personal or professional connection to him, in WED conversation with Mark Lawson. Director Adrian Brown had a WED relationship with Rattigan in the last part of his life. WED WED Producer India Rakusen. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b011pkqd (Listen) WED Dirt is dust, soil, refuse, excrement, bacteria, filth, WED sleaze, slime, smut. How easily the word changes its meaning WED from the physical to the moral. It is this fascinating WED relationship Collection's exhibition 'Dirt: The Filthy WED Reality of Everyday Life'. In a special edition recorded WED with an audience of the public at Wellcome, Laurie Taylor WED and a panel of experts explore the meaning of dirt, its WED relationship to order and how hygiene and the mass WED generation of dirt have become such potent symbols of WED civilisation. He is joined by the anthropologist Adam Kuper, WED the writer and cartoonist Martin Rowson and the historian WED Amanda Vickery to discuss dirt and why it provokes such WED fear, loathing and occasionally desire. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor and threat which dirt seems to pose WED that is explored in the Wellcome. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b011p6yv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b011r5ml (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011p137 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b011pkqg (Listen) WED Series 2, It's technology, stupid WED WED The young aspiring politicians of the new political Party WED get to grips with technology and whether it is making people WED stupid. Meanwhile, they launch a recruiting campaign on the WED internet. Second series of a satirical comedy written by Tom WED Basden. WED WED Simon ..... Tom Basden WED Duncan ..... Tim Key WED Jared ..... Jonny Sweet WED Mel ..... Ann Crilly WED Phoebe ..... Katy Wix WED Jared's Mum ..... Jane Whittenshaw WED WED Produced by Julia McKenzie. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b011pkqj (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b011pkql (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on a new staging of Arnold WED Wesker's play Chicken Soup with Barley. WED WED Producer India Rakusen. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pkft (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b011pkqn (Listen) WED Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Westminster WED and Whitehall to ask how controversial decisions are WED reached. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b011pkqq (Listen) WED Series 2, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto WED WED Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto explodes what he sees as WED the newly revived myth of the Protestant work ethic and WED debunks cultural explanations for economic progress or WED decline in different parts of the world. 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 in London, speakers take to WED the stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b011pkqs (Listen) WED Disease resistant chickens may be the first genetically WED engineered farm animals to reach the supermarket. Scientists WED in Scotland and Cambridge have produced poultry that can WED stop bird flu from spreading and are working on complete WED resistance to infection. The same technology can be used for WED pigs, sheep and cattle for a range of diseases . Sue Broom WED reports on the current state of the science of genetically WED engineered farm livestock and the ethical concerns that WED surround them. WED WED Producer, Erika Wright. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b011pkfp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b011p139 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b011r7zd (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 b011pkqx (Listen) WED Please Look After Mother, Episode 5 WED WED In today's episode, back in their rural home, Father WED remembers the early years of love and marriage, and realises WED just how often he failed to understand his wife. WED WED The reader is Sian Thomas WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The translator is Chi-Young Kim WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Shedtown b011pkqz (Listen) WED Foundations WED WED Written by Kevin Eldon. Colin (Johnny Vegas) is all at sea WED as the foundations of Jimmy's dream take shape on the beach. WED Wes and Father Michael witness the profits of some WED not-so-spiritual meat. 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 Carly ..... Jessica Knappett WED Father Michael ..... James Quinn WED Wes ...... Warren Brown WED WED Narrator ..... Maxine Peake WED Music ..... Paul Heaton WED Created by Tony Pitts. Directed by Jim Poyser WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b011pkr1 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 JUNE 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b011p13k (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b011s4qg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011p13m (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011p13p (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011p13r (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b011p13t (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011pldf (Listen) THU Tina Beattie THU THU With Dr Tina Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at THU Roehampton University. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b011pldh (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b011pldk (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, THU 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; Thought for the Day THU 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b011pldm (Listen) THU The Origins of Infectious Disease THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests, including the geneticist Steve THU Jones, discuss the origins of infectious disease. Some human THU diseases, such as Ebola and HIV, first appeared on the THU planet less than a century ago. Others, including plague and THU leprosy, are much older, documented in early written sources THU including ancient epics and the Bible. But where do the THU agents of disease come from, and what determines where and THU when new viruses and bacteria appear? The story of disease THU provides a fascinating microcosm of the machinery of THU evolution. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b011s54x (Listen) THU Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention, Episode 4 THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b011pldp (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Including volunteering during the THU Olympics. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pldr (Listen) THU The Elephant Keeper, Episode 4 THU THU When Charles, Tom's drunken master, offers to take another THU young girl for a 'ride on the elephant, Tom knows that he THU plans to rape her. To save the girl he encourages Jenny the THU elephant to stampede. The master is furious and lashes out THU at Tom with a metal hook, disfiguring him. What happens THU next, in this fourth episode of our adaptation of THU Christopher Nicolson's powerful novel, propels Tom on a new THU and even more wretched path. THU THU Adapted for radio by Elizabeth Burke THU THU Tom ... Stuart McLoughlin THU Charles Singleton ... Matthew Gravelle THU Ellie ... Rebecca Newman THU Alice ... Kate Sobey THU Susan ... Grace Williams THU THU Producer: Kate McAll THU BBC Cymru Wales. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b011plrq (Listen) THU The stories behind the world headlines. THU THU 11:30 The Twilight World of Syd Barrett b011plrs (Listen) THU Five years after his death (7th July 2006) Syd Barrett lives THU on freeze framed, still young and a striking lost soul of THU the sixties whose brief moment of creativity outshines those THU long years of solitude shut away in a terraced house in his THU home town of Cambridge. THU THU This revealing programme hears how his band Pink Floyd (and THU family) coped with Barrett's mental breakdown and explores THU the hurriedly arranged holiday to the Spanish island of THU Formentera - where the star unravelled. In the programme we THU also hear about Barrett's pioneering brand of English THU psychedelic pop typified on early Pink Floyd recordings THU 'Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play' and the strange songs on THU Pink Floyd's impressive debut album 'The Piper At the Gates THU of Dawn'. THU THU Undoubtedly Barrett's experimentation with the drug LSD THU affected him mentally and the band members reveal how THU concerned they were when he began to go catatonic on-stage, THU playing music that had little to do with their material, or THU not playing at all. By Spring 1968 Barrett was out of the THU group and after a brief period of hibernation, he re-emerged THU in 1970 with a pair of albums, 'The Madcap Laughs' and THU 'Barrett', but they failed to chart and Barrett retired to a THU hermit life existence under the watchful gaze of his caring THU sister Rosemary (featured in the programme) THU THU We hear from David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright (one THU of the last interviews before his sad passing) about how THU there was little understanding of mental illness when it THU came to the drug fused culture of the time. These days a THU strung out star is hurriedly booked into the Priory and THU given counselling. As this programme reveals Barrett's THU mental breakdown was not understood and the steps taken to THU help him were in appropriate and still rankle the members of THU Pink Floyd today. THU THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b011plrv (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b011p13w (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b011r45p (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 b011plrx (Listen) THU Terrible Food THU THU What's the worst thing that could be served to you for THU lunch? Fox lasagne? Tripe? Raw seal blubber? Dominic THU Arkwright joins three guests for new writing and stimulating THU discussion on the subject of Terrible Food. THU THU His first guest Jonathan McGowan explains how liver turns THU his stomach, but doesn't think anything of eating dead rats THU - as long as they're rats from the countryside. Johann Hari THU reveals how for many years he's had a culinary addiction THU that now makes him shudder, and Stephanie Calman describes THU what definitely not to serve at a dinner party. THU THU Produced by Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b011pkqj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b011plrz (Listen) THU The Apple Tree THU THU Family drama set on a Scottish island, starring Juliet THU Stevenson. THU THU Maria is an Englishwoman who has fallen in love with her THU husband Iain's Highland heritage - but there's a shock in THU store for them when they take a trip home to his mother's THU island croft. THU THU It is Hogmanay. Iain, an artist, and the son of a crofter, THU has just received news of his mother's death. He and Maria THU set off from Edinburgh to attend the funeral. They drive THU north in blizzard conditions. Eventually they reach Iain's THU mother's house, where brother James, sister-in-law Ishbel, THU and the church elders are gathered. In the aftermath of this THU family crisis Maria's love affair with the island way of THU life will be severely tested. THU THU Maria..............Juliet Stevenson THU Iain.................Iain MacRae THU James.............David Walker THU Ishbel..............Carina MacLeod THU Minister..........Angus Peter Campbell THU THU Producer/director: Bruce Young THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b011mr7j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b011p10p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011pls1 (Listen) THU Lido, The Horizon Pool THU THU by Linda Cracknell. THU THU Three stories that explore the most evocative experience of THU summer - outdoor swimming. THU THU An unexpected swimming companion in the UK's northernmost THU outdoor pool - the Trinkie in Wick - may hold the key to THU recovery for a teenage boy. Read by Finn den Hertog. THU THU 15:45 The Rattigan Versions b011vp8v (Listen) THU Memories of Terence Rattigan from Thea Sharrock THU THU Reflections on playwright Terence Rattigan, from people with THU a close connection to him or his work, in conversation with THU Mark Lawson. Young theatre director Thea Sharrock recently THU revived two largely forgotten Rattigan plays - After the THU Dance and Cause Celebre. THU THU Producer India Rakusen. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b011p248 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b011pls3 (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. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b011r5qw (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011p13y (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Your Round b00yrfwr (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format THU is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the THU panellists has brought along their own round for the others THU to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and THU unpredictable. THU THU This episode Andy Parsons, Rebecca Front, Miles Jupp and THU prog-rock legend, Rick Wakeman battle it out to see who can THU beat each other at their own games. THU THU Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the THU games they've brought along. Can the teams guess the concept THU for Rick's new prog rock album in his "What's The Concept?" THU round? And what happens when the teams have to play Andy's THU inventively titled "It's Not Your Round"? And would Rebecca THU Front like to marry Prince William? Find out the answers to THU these questions and more in this show. THU THU Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure THU everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. THU THU Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b011pls5 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b011pls7 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who meets comedy performers Julian Barratt THU of The Mighty Boosh and Doon Mackichan as they star in a new THU staging of Gogol's classic satire Government Inspector. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pldr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b011p60f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b011pnml (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b011p5nt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b011pldm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b011p140 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b011r7zg (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 b011pnmq (Listen) THU Please Look After Mother, Episode 6 THU THU In today's episode, Park So-nyo tells her own story at last. 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 b011pnms (Listen) THU The Bilderberg Group THU THU Dave Lamb's brand new sitcom series about conspiracy THU theorist Dave Railings continues and this week he's THU wrestling with the Bilderberg Group. THU THU The Bilderberg Group are an elite council of the world's THU most powerful industrialists and politicians who secretly THU rule the world. They meet once a year in a different highly THU secured five star hotel and this year Dave's convinced that THU they're meeting near the high security flat he shares with THU his frustrated younger brother Jim. THU THU Dave's suspicions are further aroused when a girl Jim's met THU just a few hours earlier invites herself round. Meanwhile, THU community police officers Nigel and Geoff are investigating THU a series of car thefts, no-one's asked them to, they're just THU doing it because Nigel's convinced that this is the case THU that'll finally win them a place on the police force proper. THU A car-jacking rollercoaster ride of an adventure pits Dave THU against the Bilderberg Group in a battle he simply has to THU win... that's assuming the Bilderberg Group actually exists. THU THU Dave Railings ..... Dave Lamb THU Jim Railings ...... Jim North THU Nigel Spikes ...... Nick Walker THU Geoff Brown ...... Richie Webb THU Katie Jones ...... Carrie Quinlan THU THU Written by Dave Lamb THU Script edited by Anil Gupta THU THU Directed by Adam Tandy THU Produced by Richie Webb THU A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b011pnmv (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b011p144 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b011s54x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011p146 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011p148 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011p14b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b011p14d (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011ppp3 (Listen) FRI Tina Beattie FRI FRI With Dr Tina Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at FRI Roehampton University. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b011ppp5 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b011ppp7 (Listen) FRI With John Humphreys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk at FRI 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; FRI Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b011p13c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b011s5f3 (Listen) FRI Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention, Episode 5 FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b011ppp9 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pppc (Listen) FRI The Elephant Keeper, Episode 5 FRI FRI Tom has fled to London where he and Jenny the Elephant are FRI working in a seedy Menagerie. A country boy, he is shocked FRI by the poverty and filth of the city. Then one day he thinks FRI he sees his old sweetheart, Lizzie, in the streets and FRI follows her. We soon see what this woman has become but for FRI Tom in his loneliness and isolation, this is love. In this FRI final episode of our adaptation of Christopher Nicolson's FRI novel, Tom begins to hatch a plan to take the elephant back FRI to her former home, the Indies. At last, he has hope of FRI escape - of escaping England, his position in the class FRI system, and all the violence and abuse - thanks to the FRI elephant. FRI FRI Adapted for radio by Elizabeth Burke FRI FRI Tom ... Stuart McLoughlin FRI Lizzie ... Sarah Ovens FRI Lord Bidborough ... John Rowe FRI Mrs Harrington ... Claire Cage FRI Charles Singleton ... Matthew Gravelle FRI FRI Producer: Kate McAll FRI BBC Cymru Wales. FRI FRI 11:00 A Child to Sponsor b011pppf (Listen) FRI Sponsoring a child in the developing world is a hugely FRI popular form of giving. Millions of donors are linked with FRI millions of children thousands of miles away. But this form FRI of aid has often sparked controversy. Over the years, many FRI of the large sponsorship charities have revised the way they FRI operate their child sponsorship schemes. There are now two FRI very different approaches - that of regular donations to an FRI individual child versus giving sponsorship money to FRI community development. FRI FRI Emily Buchanan visits Ghana to see what impact different FRI models of child sponsorship have on the ground and explores FRI some of the unexpected dilemmas they throw up. FRI FRI How is the money used? Why do donors choose to give in this FRI way? What are the advantages for charities of this form of FRI fundraising? What are the ethical issues involved in FRI managing the relationship between the donor and the child? FRI And what do the children make of it all? FRI FRI Producer Jane Ashley. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b011ppph (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Nigel Planer, Celia Imrie, David Westhead, Phil Cornwell and FRI Tony Gardner star in a timely satire on the NHS set in the FRI bewildering new world of Coalition healthcare. This new FRI sitcom is written by Private Eye's medical columnist, FRI broadcaster, comedian and practising GP Dr. Phil Hammond and FRI David Spicer ('Double Income, No Kids Yet' and 'Three Off FRI the Tee'.) 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 In this second episode TV's Dr. Jeremy and the two Dr. FRI Thornton brothers have been persuaded by their Consortium to FRI buy the Polyoaks Walk-In centre and set up a polyclinic. FRI It's now their Practice Manager Betty's unenviable task to FRI show them how manage the money. Well they couldn't do it on FRI their own, could they? Hugh's too busy playing squash with FRI local politicians and Roy has started filming consultations. FRI And if, God forbid, any of their patients is seriously ill, FRI will anybody notice? 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 Stafford: David Holt FRI Nanny/Mrs Grafton: Kate O'Sullivan FRI Oliver: Hugo Docking FRI FRI Written By Phil Hammond and David Spicer FRI Producer/Director: Frank Stirling FRI An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b011pppk (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b011p14g (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b011r45r (Listen) FRI National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b011pppm (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 b011pls5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bqf6h (Listen) FRI The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole, Going for Silk FRI FRI Another adventure for John Mortimer's wily defender of our FRI civil liberties. Having avoided an ASBO, Rumpole is hoping FRI to become a QC at last as he prepares to defend a murder FRI case. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b011pppp (Listen) FRI Totnes, Devon FRI FRI The GQT team are guests of Transition Town Totnes, Devon. FRI Eric Robson is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Christine Walkden FRI and Chris Beardshaw. FRI FRI Anne Swithinbank visits a local nut forest. Pippa Greenwood FRI catches us with the Eastmans near Bristol as part of the FRI Listeners' Gardens series. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Rattigan Versions b011vp8x (Listen) FRI Memories of Terence Rattigan from Donald Sinden FRI FRI Memories of playwright Terence Rattigan on the day of his FRI centenary, in conversation with Mark Lawson. Sir Donald FRI Sinden appeared in several Rattigan projects and delivered FRI the address at his memorial service in 1978. FRI FRI Producer India Rakusen. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b011pppr (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 b011pppt (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b011r5mr (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011p14j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b011pppw (Listen) FRI Series 34, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis host the topical stand-up and FRI sketch show. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b011pppy (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b011ppq0 (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, including a report from one of the four FRI remaining contenders for the Art Fund Prize for museums and FRI galleries. FRI FRI Producer Robyn Read. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011pppc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b011ppq2 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion from the FRI Cheltenham Science Festival in Gloucestshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011ppq4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Nectar FRI FRI 17/20. The beautiful thick, sweet and luscious tasting FRI delicacy of honey is one of the world's natural goodies. FRI Indigenous peoples from all over the world will go to great FRI lengths to get the honey from wild bees - and for most of us FRI less connected to the natural world, we love this product of FRI bees bought from the shop. Honey is nectar and David FRI Attenborough poignantly points out this "was the first bribe FRI in nature..." - it evolved one hundred million years ago FRI with the flowering plants and drove the evolutionary FRI relationship between animals and plants. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00cxy4r (Listen) FRI This Is a True Story FRI FRI The story of Howard Neal, based on his own handwritten FRI accounts and adapted for radio by Pia Di Mattina from a FRI stage version by Nick Harrington and Tom Wright. FRI FRI Howard, who has a low IQ, has been in prison for 25 years. FRI Proceedings will soon be completed in the US courts to have FRI him finally removed from death row on account of his mental FRI impairment. FRI FRI Howard ...... Tom Wright FRI FRI Directed by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b011p14l (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b011r7zj (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis, presented by FRI Ritula Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011ppq6 (Listen) FRI Please Look After Mother, Episode 7 FRI FRI In today's episode, Park So-nyo finishes her own story and FRI her daughter Chi-hon makes a pilgrimage to Rome. FRI FRI The reader is Sian Thomas FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The translator is Chi-Young Kim FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b011p60h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b011ppq8 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
03 June, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 04/06/2011 - 10/06/2011
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