01 July, 2011

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SAT SATURDAY 02 JULY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0124r5n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0124qt5 (Listen) SAT The House in France, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Gully Wells. SAT SAT Abridged by Jane Marshall. It is 1969, the Summer of Love, SAT and Gully is 19 and keen to shed her studious image before SAT going up to Oxford. Then after another summer in France, SAT with the strains of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in her SAT head, she meets up with an old friend, Martin Amis, and SAT falls hopelessly in love. SAT SAT Read by Rosalind Ayres SAT Produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0124r5q (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0124r5s (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0124r5v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0124r5x (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0124r7b (Listen) SAT With Monsignor Tony Rogers. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0124r7d (Listen) SAT "Tabloids destroyed my friend's life." Listener Gillian SAT Maher talks about how press intrusion can ruin ordinary SAT lives. With Eddie Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0124r5z (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0124r61 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0128fk5 (Listen) SAT Hay Meadows SAT SAT When we hear about the threat to some of our precious and SAT important habitats, our minds often turn to the polar ice SAT cap or the rainforests of the Amazon. But one of our most SAT threatened natural environments is right here in the UK and SAT that is the traditional upland hay meadow - fields packed SAT with grasses and wild flowers, alive with bird song and the SAT buzz of bees. Sadly these meadows have almost disappeared SAT from our landscape. There are less than 4 square miles of SAT this habitat left in the UK and around 40% of that is in the SAT North Pennines. A lot of hard work is currently being SAT undertaken to protect and preserve what we have left. For SAT this week's Open Country Helen Mark travels across the north SAT of England, meeting and chatting with some of the people who SAT are working to preserve these precious habitats. Rebecca SAT Barrett of the North Pennines AONB tells Helen about the SAT work they are doing with farmers such as Karen Scott from SAT Low Way Farm in Middleton-in-Teesdale to save the hay SAT meadows. This work involves harvesting seed from a donor SAT field to sow elsewhere in the hope that the hay meadows of SAT the future will begin to grow. Vet, Neville Turner, shows SAT Helen his former beat where he has travelled over a million SAT miles in 30 years in his work , always accompanied by his SAT trusty camera which captured a year in the life of an upland SAT hay meadow. These photographs now accompany a touring play SAT 'Sward! Story of A Meadow' and Helen catches up with the SAT Blaize Theatre Company and its artistic director, Mike SAT Bettison, in the Yorkshire village of Reeth as they prepare SAT for their afternoon performance. And Helen meets hay meadow SAT expert Professor John Rodwell, who tells Helen about his SAT concern over the decline in our upland hay meadows... after SAT all, who needs a hay meadow museum? SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0128fk7 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0124r63 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0128fk9 (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0128fkc (Listen) SAT Clare Balding presents Saturday Live from Wimbledon with SAT jazz legend Al Jarreau and poet Matt Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0128fkf (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig looks at rites of passage with Anders Ryman SAT who spent seven years photographing the ceremonies SAT associated with key events in human life; birth, coming of SAT age, marriage and death from Micronesia to Madagascar and SAT Norway to Nepal. They are joined by author Sarah Murray who SAT has travelled the world looking at rituals associated with SAT death and Lucy Neville whose memoir of her time in Mexico SAT includes her experiences of the Day of the Dead festival and SAT the Saint of Death religious cult. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Taboo be Doo b0128fkh (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT When Terence Blacker started looking for new music to play SAT in his duo with guitarist Derek Hewitson, he found many of SAT the songs they wanted to play were likely to cause offence - SAT to women, black people, gays, disabled people, foreigners - SAT pretty much everybody really. SAT SAT Terence started to wonder more and more about these songs SAT and the questions they raised - were they written to offend? SAT Has what offends us changed over time? What's politically SAT incorrect now? Is a song, however offensive, ok if it's SAT funny? And most important of all, can he and Derek get away SAT with playing these songs in front of an audience? SAT SAT Some of the songs Terence will be listening to - and playing SAT - will have been specifically written to provoke outrage. SAT More often, though, they will simply reflect the prevailing SAT moods, prejudices, fears and hang-up of the times in which SAT they were written. SAT SAT Running through this programme is Terence and Derek's gig SAT recorded at the Aldeburgh Literary Festival. How will the SAT audience react to politically incorrect songs from the 1920s SAT to the present day? Can they really play Frank Zappa's SAT Jewish Princess without being run out of town? SAT SAT And of course we get to hear all those politically incorrect SAT songs from the past - and can judge for ourselves their SAT ability to amuse, provoke, shock and delight. SAT SAT Presenter: Terence Blacker is the author of numerous SAT children's books and eight novels for adults as well as the SAT acclaimed biography of his friend Willie Donaldson, You SAT Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This. He has SAT written a twice weekly column for the Independent since 1998 SAT and is a regular broadcaster. Terence is also one half of SAT the acoustic guitar duo Something Happened. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Greenwood SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0128fkk (Listen) SAT With Elinor Goodman. A look behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0128fkm (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0128fkp (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b0124qty (Listen) SAT Series 34, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Susan SAT Calman, Laura Shavin, Boothby Graffoe and Nik Pynn, to SAT present a mix of topical stand-up, sketches and comedy SAT songs. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0124r65 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0124r67 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0124r4h (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs debate about politics and news in SAT front of an audience from the Wiltshire Music Centre, SAT Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, with musician Billy Bragg, SAT businesswoman Deborah Meaden, Work and Pensions minister, SAT Steve Webb and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern SAT Ireland, Shaun Woodward. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0128fkr (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0128fkt (Listen) SAT White Nights SAT SAT By Ann Cleeves. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Iain Finlay MacLeod. SAT SAT Atmospheric crime drama set in Shetland at midsummer - the SAT time of white nights, when the sun never quite leaves the SAT sky and birds sing at midnight. SAT SAT The launch of Bella Sinclair's art exhibition, at the SAT Herring House Gallery in the remote hamlet of Biddista, is SAT ruined by the appearance of a distressed stranger, claiming SAT amnesia. The man is later found hanged but local detective SAT Jimmy Perez has a hunch that it's murder not suicide. SAT SAT When the dead stranger is finally identified, strands of SAT clues point towards a dark secret held deep within the SAT collective memory of the community, one which has brought SAT death to the present. SAT SAT D.I. Jimmy Perez ..... Steven Robertson SAT Kenny ..... Finlay Welsh SAT Edith ..... Anne Lacey SAT Bella ..... Eileen McCallum SAT Fran ..... Tracy Wiles SAT D.I. Roy Taylor ..... Robin Laing SAT Peter ..... Steven McNicoll SAT Roddy ..... Finn den Hertog SAT SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 15:30 The Politics of Dancing b0124284 (Listen) SAT Disco is one of the most maligned and misunderstood of SAT musical genres, thought to be musically vapid, hedonistic SAT and frivolous. Far from it. Disco was utopian and SAT subversive, and political to its core. Born in New York's SAT deepest underground, it brought together strands of gay SAT liberation and post Civil-Rights racial integration. Disco SAT put into practice what the Sixties preached. This feature SAT uncovers the politics of the disco movement, beginning in SAT the lofts of New York and culminating in a racially charged SAT backlash and the mass burning of disco records in football SAT stadiums across America. SAT SAT Presented by Martha Reeves, with contributions from Nile SAT Rodgers, Gloria Gaynor, Frankie Knuckles, Jocelyn Brown, SAT Nicky Siano and Vince Aletti. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Hollis SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0128fqj (Listen) SAT The stigma of being ginger? Sexual grooming of children SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. First national report into the problem of the sexual SAT grooming of children, the stigma of being ginger? The story SAT of one woman's experience of pancreatic cancer. The latest SAT treatments to deal with problem snoring, the dishwasher: has SAT it revolutionised the life of women, New Domestic Violence SAT Orders to combat abuse and music from Avery Sunshine. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0128fql (Listen) SAT With Ritula Shah. A fresh perspective on the day's news with SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0124pxl (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 This week Evan's panel of business leaders hail from the SAT worlds of social networking and retail. He challenges them SAT to cast their minds forward and imagine how the Web will SAT look by the year 2020. What will have changed? Will bricks SAT and mortar matter any more, or will everything be in the SAT cloud? They also consider the value of storytelling in SAT business. So many brands these days seem to have a story to SAT tell - but what business benefit really is there in a good SAT yarn? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Michael Birch, internet SAT entrepreneur and founder of social networking website Bebo; SAT Laura Tenison, founder and managing director of maternity SAT and babywear retailer Jo-Jo Maman Bébé; Justin King, chief SAT executive of supermarket chain Sainsbury's. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0124r69 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0124r6c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0124r6f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0128fqq (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Rita Rudner joins Clive as she returns to the London stage SAT for the first time in fifteen years with her one-woman show SAT 'Rita Rudner Live in London. Rita is Las Vegas's most SAT successful female comedian, with the longest running solo SAT show in history with over one million tickets sold. SAT SAT Designer and co-founder of the Red or Dead fashion label SAT Wayne Hemingway talks about his Vintage Festival, SAT celebrating seven decades of British cool with live music SAT from Sandie Shaw, Percy Sledge and Robin Gibb. With DJ sets SAT from Norman Jay and Craig Charles. And it's all indoors with SAT proper toilets! SAT SAT Michelle Ryan is best known for playing Zoe Slater in SAT Eastenders but she has also appeared in Dr Who, Merlin and SAT was The Bionic Woman. She stars in Ben Miller's directorial SAT debut feature film Huge with Noel Clarke and Johnny Harris SAT as a double act trying to make it big in the comedy world. SAT SAT Listen Against and The Now Show's Jon Holmes talks to the SAT comedian Dave Gorman. His past projects have involved a SAT worldwide search to find other Dave Gorman, an obsession SAT with Googlewhacks and a road trip to find non-corporate SAT America. His latest book 'Dave Gorman Vs The Rest of the SAT World, sees him challenge people all over the UK to a SAT variety of games of their choice, from cards, darts, SAT scrabble and Monopoly to Khet, Kubb, Tikal and Smite. And in SAT August he returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time SAT in eight years with his new show, Dave Gorman's Powerpoint SAT Presentation. SAT SAT Born on a hippie commune in Ontario then raised in another SAT in Virginia, USA, singer-songwriter Devon Sproule returns to SAT the Loose Ends studio. With a full band behind her, she SAT performs the title track from her latest album 'I Love You, SAT Go Easy'. SAT SAT And the soundtrack of summer comes folky Vetiver from San SAT Francisco. They play 'Wonder Why' from their album The SAT Errant Charm. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0128fqs (Listen) SAT Christine Lagarde SAT SAT The IMF elects the French Finance Minister, Christine SAT Lagarde as its new Managing Director. Front-runner Ms SAT Lagarde, who's used to breaking glass ceilings in the world SAT of politics and economics, becomes the first female head of SAT this international financial institution. A yoga and SAT exercise enthusiast - she once represented France in SAT synchronised swimming - she wears Chanel and treasures the SAT simple pleasures of her rural retreat in Normandy. A healthy SAT contrast perhaps to the challenges facing the International SAT Monetary Fund in Europe as Greece struggles to manage its SAT political crisis and the threat of default. Adrian Goldberg SAT reports. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0128fqv (Listen) SAT With Tom Sutcliffe. A review of the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0128fqx (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, Bob Geldof SAT SAT The first programme in the new series of 'Meeting Myself SAT Coming Back', the series in which leading public figures SAT explores their lives through the BBC archives, features Bob SAT Geldof in an intimate, revealing and emotional interview SAT with John Wilson. SAT SAT When Bob Geldof exploded onto the pop scene as lead singer SAT of The Boomtown Rats in the 1970s, he quickly forged a SAT reputation for being outspoken. This trait would stand him SAT in good stead when he used his skill as an organiser and SAT negotiator to persuade fellow musicians to sing for famine SAT relief in Africa, first on the Band Aid single 'Do They Know SAT It's Christmas?' and then for the subsequent Live Aid SAT concert. It was to be the start of campaigning work which SAT has lasted to the present day and brought him a knighthood, SAT meetings with the world's leaders and recognition upon the SAT global stage. SAT SAT In the first programme of the new series of 'Meeting Myself SAT Coming Back', Bob Geldof meets his younger self in the BBC SAT archives in an experience which provokes both laughter and SAT tears. At one point he becomes overwhelmed by reliving his SAT first experience of being in Ethiopia and seeing the SAT consequences of the famine for himself. SAT SAT He hears his own career progression from opinionated rock SAT star through to Live Aid organiser and world anti-poverty SAT ambassador. SAT SAT And he relives his reactions to personal tragedies like the SAT death of his former wife, Paula Yates. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0122r2m (Listen) SAT The Hireling, The Hireling SAT SAT In this 1957 thriller by the author of The Go-Between, SAT L.P.Hartley, ex-Sergeant Stephen Leadbitter, raised from an SAT unhappy working class childhood between the wars, is on a SAT peacetime mission to business success as a chauffeur and car SAT for hire. He uniformly despises his clients, especially the SAT ladies, until the young, widowed, naive and immensely rich SAT Lady Franklin hires him to take her on trips to cathedrals SAT which she had visited with her late husband. SAT SAT Lady Franklin has been in mourning for her late husband - a SAT man considerably older than her and an invalid - for two SAT years, and is finding it impossible to return to normal SAT life. In the confines of the car, and in search of a cure SAT for her depression, she shares her burden with him. He SAT obliges with a story of his own, a fiction, which grows, SAT monster-like, to plague the inventor. Two alien classes are SAT put on a collision course, causing salvation or destruction SAT to all involved, from the epicentre of an unexpected burst SAT of love. SAT SAT Dramatised by Judith Adams from the novel by L.P.Hartley. SAT SAT Narrator ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Steve Leadbitter ..... Simon Day SAT Lady Franklin ..... Lisa Dillon SAT Hughie ..... Joseph Millson SAT Constance ..... Ursula Burton SAT Clarice ..... Nicola Duffett SAT Simmonds ..... Anthony Gleave SAT Bert Standing ..... Kevin James SAT Landlady ..... Jane Purcell SAT Porter ..... Andrew Cullimore SAT SAT Producer/Director: Chris Wallis SAT An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0124r6h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b012402s (Listen) SAT Securing Freedom: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi: Liberty SAT SAT The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, explores SAT what freedom means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lecture SAT series, 'Securing Freedom'. SAT SAT Reflecting on her own experience under house arrest in SAT Burma, she explores the universal human aspiration to be SAT free and the spirit which drives people to dissent. She also SAT comments on the Arab Spring, comparing the event that SAT triggered last December's revolution in Tunisia with the SAT death of a student during a protest in Burma in 1988. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b0122tgg (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 13 SAT SAT The 25th anniversary series of the evergreen music quiz SAT reaches its grand Final, with Paul Gambaccini in the SAT questionmaster's chair. SAT SAT The winners of the three semi-finals gather in the BBC Radio SAT Theatre for the tense climax of the series. One of them will SAT take away a handsome silver trophy and join the roll of SAT honour as the 25th Radio 4 Counterpoint champion. To achieve SAT it, they'll have to show knowledge of the widest possible SAT range of music, from the classical repertoire to light SAT music, show tunes, film themes, jazz, rock and pop. SAT SAT As always, Paul will have plenty of musical extracts on SAT hand, some familiar and some surprising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THE 2011 FINAL SAT SAT ANTHONY DEAN, a teaching assistant from Nottingham SAT RICHARD FOSTER, a piano tuner and technician from SAT Crowborough in East Sussex SAT DEREK HALL, a retired personnel manager from Upton, Notts. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b0122rkl (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 JULY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0128gp8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00n9k19 (Listen) SUN Lyrical Ballads, The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems SUN SUN A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 SUN collaboration which marked the beginning of the English SUN Romantic poetry movement. SUN SUN The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem' in which he SUN disputes the traditional association of the nightingale with SUN melancholy. And Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about SUN the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy. Recorded on SUN location in the Quantock Hills, Somerset and in the Wye SUN Valley, Monmouthshire. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0128gpb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0128gpd (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0128gpg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0128gpk (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0128hrt (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, Harpole, Northamptonshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0128fqs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0128gpn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0128hrw (Listen) SUN Gardens SUN SUN Mark Tully celebrates the healing power of gardens, and SUN talks to Rev. Lizzie Hopthrow, Chaplain of the Pilgrims' SUN Hospice in Canterbury, about how her hospice garden brings SUN hope to patients and their families. With poetry from 14th SUN century Persia, to contemporary writers Karl Capek and Diana SUN Athill, and music by de Falla, June Tabor and Stevie Wonder. SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0128hry (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. SUN Presented by Tom Heap. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0128gpq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0128gps (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0128hs0 (Listen) SUN The religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments SUN and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0128hs2 (Listen) SUN Village Aid SUN SUN A Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Village Aid. SUN SUN Donations to Village Aid should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Village Aid. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can SUN also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide Village Aid with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1067322. SUN SUN Village Aid is a small, community charity working in four SUN West African countries to alleviate extreme poverty. Based SUN in the UK market town of Bakewell, Village Aid supports SUN small scale, long term projects with rural, African village SUN communities. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0128gpv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0128gpx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0128hs4 (Listen) SUN The Art of Worship SUN SUN The Revd Nicholas Holtam and the Revd Ben Quash, Professor SUN of Christianity and the Arts at King's College London, SUN reflect on paintings in the National Gallery inspired by SUN scripture. They alert us to the details that reveal the SUN depth of association and the reverberations within the SUN canvas that give fresh insight into the perennial themes SUN which are part of any human life journey. With the choir of SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields directed by Andrew Earis and SUN accompanied by Martin Ford. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0124r4k (Listen) SUN Series 2, Elsa SUN SUN 20/20. David Attenborough tells us how, whilst en route to SUN Madagascar, his bosses in the BBC asked him to break his SUN journey in Kenya to visit the Adamsons. Joy and George SUN Adamson were famous for hand rearing a Lioness whom they SUN called Elsa. Elsa was the central character in the book SUN written by the couple "Born Free". In this Life Story Sir SUN David cleverly takes us from the romanticism of Born Free SUN and being close to habituated lions, to the harsh reality of SUN befriending a big cat. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Polly Procter. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0128hs6 (Listen) SUN With Patrick O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0128hs8 (Listen) SUN Written by: Joanna Toye SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Archer ..... Alison Dowling SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Zofia ..... Izabella Urbanowicz SUN Spencer Wilkes ..... Jonny Venkman SUN Police Officer ..... Alun Raglan. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0128hsb (Listen) SUN Tony Robinson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor and broadcaster Tony SUN Robinson. SUN SUN His Baldrick to Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder turned idiocy SUN into an art form and the series went on to become one of our SUN best-loved comedies. The role changed his life but, he says, SUN when he first saw the script he didn't think much of it: "It SUN was only about eight lines of dialogue and none of them were SUN funny - but it was with these incredible people. On the one SUN hand, I thought what a lousy part and on the other hand I SUN thought, I'd love to work with these people". SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0124sc5 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 55th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment SUN for all the family, as the series starts its run in front of SUN an audience of 2,500 at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by special guest Marcus Brigstocke, SUN with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant chairman. Regular SUN listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless SUN revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0128hsd (Listen) SUN Food in the Scottish Borders SUN SUN Ben Weatherall farms rare Blackface sheep and Galloway SUN cattle on his remote hill farm near Dumfries, and aims to SUN rear his animals with as little input as possible. He's one SUN of a number of people working to keep food traditions alive SUN in the Scottish Borders. SUN SUN Following the River Nith downhill, as the animals will be SUN doing later in the year, Sheila Dillon also meets Jim SUN Henderson who has overseen the transformation of this SUN stretch of the river. Formerly polluted and with low fish SUN stocks it is now clean and stocks are thriving. Jim also SUN plays a key part in the ongoing battle with poachers. SUN SUN Ben's brother's farm is home to a rare herd of pedigree SUN indigenous Ayrshire cattle. They're well known for their SUN incredible cream and milk - but the raw (unpasteurised) milk SUN is not allowed to be sold under Scottish law. SUN SUN Robbie Cowan, Tom Brown and Ronnie Clark practice the SUN ancient Norse fishing technique known as Haaf Netting, a SUN practice in harmony with fish stocks. They believe the SUN survival of this method to be essential to preserving local SUN heritage, yet it's not possible to make a living from it now SUN as fish numbers are down. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0128gpz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0128hsg (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 It's My Story b0128hsj (Listen) SUN Letting Go of James SUN SUN "I've driven home from work in tears many times recently, SUN because I just don't want to let go", says Jane, James SUN mother at the start of Letting Go of James. But the truth is SUN that the family isn't coping with him living at home. He is SUN 16, severely autistic, does not speak and can attack other SUN members of the family. SUN SUN He has been offered a place in full time residential care, SUN and the family is now going through the process of SUN transition. James three brothers take part in several visits SUN to the school and Charles, James' father, comments on the SUN irony that the family is spending more times with James just SUN as they are about to say goodbye. SUN SUN Before the final goodbye they have a last family holiday, SUN which despite some magical moments, underlies the fact that SUN James needs to go. SUN SUN On the final evening tensions are running higher than normal SUN as his parents prepare James for bed, but there is a real SUN moment of revelation when they all do finally say goodbye, SUN as the youngest sibling touches James for the first time, SUN and with time the boys begin to experience a new side of SUN James. SUN SUN The process of adjusting continues for the family who do not SUN say that they are 'happier'. They all miss James more than SUN expected, although they can enjoy doing more together, relax SUN a bit more and are relieved it has happened. SUN SUN James has a number of successful visits home - although just SUN where home is becomes a heartbreaking issue in the SUN programme. SUN SUN At Christmas he pulls his first ever cracker, but New Year SUN leads Jane to reflect on her ongoing fears for her son. The SUN initial honeymoon period does pass and Jane and Charles SUN admit there are no fairytale endings. Letting Go of James SUN ends with the recognition - from the whole family - that SUN life will never be easy for James and that there will always SUN be difficult choices. SUN SUN Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0124qtp (Listen) SUN Plympton St Maurice SUN SUN Eric Robson leads a horticultural discussion in this small SUN village in Plymton, Devon. A fly-on-the-wall report from SUN Plympton St Maurice's unique Open Garden Day. Anne SUN Swithinbank visits a community nut forest in Totnes. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Mabey in the Wild b0128jbv (Listen) SUN Wild Daffodils SUN SUN Wordsworth wrote his famous poem about them and they were SUN once so plentiful that a special train service was employed SUN to distribute them around the country...the wild daffodil is SUN Richard Mabey's first choice of plant in his new series SUN 'Mabey in the Wild'. SUN SUN From an ancient wood in Suffolk where the wild daffodil SUN grows in profusion, Richard tells the story of this plant - SUN its natural history and the important part it still plays in SUN the life of the villages of the 'Golden Triangle' in SUN Gloucestershire where once the Daffodil Express came to SUN collect thousands of bunches of the flower. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio. SUN SUN 15:00 Saturday Play b00k2mfh (Listen) SUN The Admirable Crichton SUN SUN Adaptation of JM Barrie's classic satire about the changing SUN fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler. Liberal aristocrat SUN Lord Loam favours a return to nature, with masters and SUN servants living together as equals, but Crichton is the SUN perfect butler and the perfect snob who adores the SUN intricacies of the class system. He cannot help but be SUN horrified by his master's opinions, and it will take a sea SUN change to alter them. SUN SUN Crichton ...... Russell Tovey SUN JM Barrie ...... David Bannerman SUN Lady Mary ...... Beth Chalmers SUN Lord Loam ...... David Timson SUN Lady Agatha ...... Martha Howe-Douglas SUN Ernest Woolley ...... Gunnar Cauthery SUN Tweeny ...... Lizzy Watts SUN Rev John Treherne ...... Adrian Grove SUN Lord Brocklehurst ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Lady Brocklehurst ...... Tina Gray SUN SUN Directed by Fiona Kelcher. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b0128jbx (Listen) SUN William Fiennes - The Music Room SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to William Fiennes about his SUN memoir The Music Room. SUN SUN The book is his account of growing up in a castle with an SUN epileptic brother. It's an honest yet discreet story of a SUN fascinating family and how they deal with the eldest SUN brother's struggle with epilepsy. In his upbeat moments, SUN Richard brims with tenderness and high spirits, and at his SUN worst he is threatening and even violent. SUN SUN Richard dies of a seizure at forty-one; his life defined by SUN damage done to his brain by his epilepsy. The book is potted SUN with medical histories of epilepsy alongside anecdotes about SUN the film crews, country fairs and conventions that dominated SUN daily life for Fiennes' family in the castle. But it's also SUN a testament of a family's love for their ill and sometimes SUN difficult son. SUN SUN William talks about his family story and the result is an SUN unforgettable picture of the disordered world that he SUN experiences through his brother, set in an ancient house SUN where the music room of the title is the place where he SUN sought refuge and enjoyed playing as a child. SUN SUN August's Bookclub choice: 'Death at La Fenice' by Donna SUN Leon. SUN SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0128jp5 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with another selection of listeners' requests. SUN Subjects this week include sleeplessness and famous SUN quotations taken from poems. With specially recorded SUN readings by contemporary poets Colette Bryce and Imtiaz SUN Dharker. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01247gy (Listen) SUN Elderly Care SUN SUN Over the last month Britain's biggest provider of care homes SUN for the elderly, Southern Cross, has been beset by financial SUN woes. But across the country an even deeper crisis is SUN unfolding as local authorities implement massive budget SUN cuts. SUN SUN This week File on 4 investigates how cutbacks are leaving SUN elderly people with insufficient care, and councils with a SUN major financial headache. SUN SUN The programme also hears from small care home providers who SUN say they are being forced out of business because the fees SUN local authorities now pay them are too low. SUN SUN And with the report from a Government commission due in a SUN few days, the programme asks whether the gap in funding for SUN the care of elderly people can be closed.. SUN SUN Reporter: Fran Abrams SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0128fqs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0128gq1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0128gq3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0128gq5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0128jp7 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0128jp9 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b0128jpc (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00nqbl5 (Listen) SUN The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 2 SUN SUN Series of readings featuring extracts from the diaries of SUN Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line SUN during the First World War. SUN SUN It is 1915 and Edie has been moved to a hospital in Etretat SUN on the Normandy coast, where she must supervise members of SUN the Voluntary Aid Detachment. These are well-meaning but SUN relatively untrained girls and, at times, Edie finds their SUN presence somewhat trying. SUN SUN Read by Rachel Atkins SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0124qtm (Listen) SUN The BBC complaints system needs an overhaul says an SUN influential House of Lords Committee. Frustrated listeners SUN agree. SUN SUN Roger visits the BBC Weather Centre to find out where north SUN ends and south begins and to find out what a "sandwich of SUN weather" is. Should forecasts substitute detail for SUN metaphor? SUN SUN Hundreds of listeners have contributed to PM's Privacy SUN Commission which is drawing a line between public interest SUN and personal intrusion. Roger interviews the programme SUN editor to find out how useful listener comments have been SUN and to see what happens to all the information that's been SUN gathered. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0124qtr (Listen) SUN John Wilson on: SUN SUN Arthur Goldreich, who sheltered and taught the young Nelson SUN Mandela and led the armed wing of the ANC in the fight SUN against South African apartheid. SUN SUN Crime writer Mark Billingham pays tribute to actor Peter SUN Falk who created shambolic television detective Columbo. SUN SUN We hear about union activist - and feminist campaigner - SUN Terry Marsland. SUN SUN And restaurateur Mario Cassandro - who helped introduce SUN Italian cuisine to 1950s Britain - is remembered by chef SUN Antonio Carluccio. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0128fkp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0128hs2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0123x03 (Listen) SUN Is America Doomed? SUN SUN Justin Webb, the BBC's former North America Editor, regards SUN the United States with affection and respect. But he is SUN worried that America is in denial about the extent of its SUN financial problems and therefore incapable of dealing with SUN the gravest crisis the country has ever faced. SUN SUN A decade of tax cuts and increased public spending took the SUN United States from an era of budget surpluses to one of SUN growing deficits. The Congressional Budget Office predicts SUN that federal debt could reach 90 per cent of GDP within a SUN decade. The nation's partisan political culture, argue some, SUN means its leaders are incapable of taking the necessary SUN action to avert financial disaster and a loss of SUN international influence. SUN SUN Justin Webb examines the consequences of failing to deal SUN with the growing debt and looks for any signs that the SUN United States might start to tackle its problems before it SUN is too late. SUN SUN Interviewees include Diane Coyle, David Frum, Richard Haass, SUN Jeffrey Sachs and Anne Applebaum. SUN SUN Producer: Bill Law. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0128jpf (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0128jph (Listen) SUN Episode 59 SUN SUN Iain Martin of The Daily Mail analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0124qtt (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Tom Hanks to discuss his new SUN comedy Larry Crowne, and reveals why smoking marijuana and SUN watching pornography doesn't necessarily make a character SUN irredeemable. SUN SUN Asghar Farhadi's A Separation was the first Iranian film to SUN win the Golden Bear award at the Berlin film festival SUN earlier in the year. As it gets its UK release, critic Karen SUN Zarindast discusses this tale of a troubled marriage. SUN SUN Director Bob Rafelson looks back at his celebrated feature SUN from 1970, Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson. SUN SUN They were the first country to send a man into space but did SUN Russia also win the cinematic space-race? Film historian Ian SUN Christie discusses a glut of Russian-made films inspired by SUN the cosmos. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0128hrw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 JULY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0128gqt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0124nty (Listen) MON Chavs - Ageing Goths MON MON Have the working class in modern Britain become objects of MON fear, scorn and ridicule? That's the claim of Owen Jones who MON joins Laurie and Imogen Tyler on today's Thinking Allowed. MON He claims that the media and politicians alike dismiss as MON feckless, criminal and ignorant a vast, underprivileged MON section of society whose members have become stereotyped by MON one, disgust-filled word - 'chavs'. If this is true, then MON how has the reality of the working-class majority become MON regularly served up as a feral rump for our contempt and MON amusement? MON Also, what happens to Goths when they get old? Laurie talks MON to Paul Hodkinson about his study of members of that youth MON cult which used to be called Gothic Punk. How have they MON adapted their love of black clothes, multiple piercings, MON make up and androgyny to mortgages, children and the rites MON of passage incumbent upon middle age? MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0128hrt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0128gqw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0128gqy (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0128gr0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0128gr2 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0128l6r (Listen) MON With Monsignor Tony Rogers. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0128l6t (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0128gr4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0128l6w (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0128l6y (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the science fiction writer China MON Mieville, whose latest planetary creation explores the links MON between language and thought, and asks what it means to have MON no concept of lying. AN Wilson explores a world closer to MON home, but no less alien, medieval Florence, as he tries to MON uncover the life and work of Dante. Jonathan Bates' play, MON Being Shakespeare also attempts to bring to life the work of MON the Bard and the real man behind the legend, by placing him MON in his historical context. And the prize-winning poet Jo MON Shapcott argues for the transformative nature of poetry. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b012cyhs (Listen) MON Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar MON Wilde, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Franny Moyle. MON MON Constance was a shy child with a bullying mother. After the MON death of her father she escapes to live with her grandfather MON and blossoms into a confident, outgoing young woman. MON MON In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed MON irrevocably. MON Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for MON homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in MON society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular MON children's author, a fashion icon, and a leading campaigner MON for women's rights. A founding member of the magical society MON the Golden Dawn, her pioneering and questioning spirit MON encouraged her to sample some of the more controversial MON aspects of her time. Mrs Oscar Wilde was a phenomenon in her MON own right. MON MON But that spring Constance's entire life was eclipsed by MON scandal. Forced to flee to the Continent with her two sons, MON her glittering literary and political career ended abruptly. MON Having changed her name, she lived in exile until her death. MON MON Franny Moyle's biography tells Constance's story with a MON fresh eye and new material. Drawing on numerous unpublished MON letters, she brings to life the story of a woman at the MON heart of fin-de-siècle London and the Aesthetic movement. In MON a compelling and moving tale of an unlikely couple caught up MON in a world unsure of its moral footing, she uncovers key MON revelations about a woman who was the victim of one of the MON greatest betrayals of all time. MON MON Reader: Rachel Atkins MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0128l72 (Listen) MON Presents for teachers, Social Care, Cook the Perfect Risotto MON MON What today's report on social care might mean for women. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Funding of social care MON MON Today’s publication of the Dilnot commission report is MON expected to place the funding of social care in England at MON the heart of national debate. With women making up the MON majority of informal carers and with women’s increased life MON expectancy, what support is needed for the ranks of carers MON and what provisions need to be made to fund the care of MON women as they grow older? We hear the experiences of staff MON and residents at one care home while Jane Garvey is joined MON in the studio by Dr Ros Altmann, director-general of Saga, MON and by Anna Dixon, Director of Policy at the King’s Fund. MON MON Cook the Perfect… Risotto MON MON Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett first learnt how to MON make risotto from her Italian grandmother, perfecting her MON skills over years of working in some of this country’s top MON restaurants. As part of our Cook the Perfect series she MON shows Jane how to get the flavour and texture of a risotto MON just right, and adds a twist by using red wine and chorizo. MON MON Dame Gillian Weir MON MON Dame Gillian Weir is one of the finest performers on the MON organ in the world. As a student she won the prestigious St. MON Albans International Organ Competition. She made her début MON at the Proms, and went on to become the first woman MON President of the Royal College of Organists. Through her MON performances with leading orchestras and conductors, recital MON tours, television programmes, recordings and master classes, MON she has transformed the image of organist from esoteric MON musician to beloved celebrity. As part of this year’s City MON of London Festival, Dame Gillian is performing with the City MON of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in St. Paul’s Cathedral on MON 12 July. MON MON A Present for Teacher – what’s appropriate? MON MON End of year presents used to mean an apple for the teacher MON or a pretty bunch of flowers. Now in some schools pupils are MON handing over hundreds of pounds worth of vouchers, MON designer-label hand-bags and champagne. But is this really MON appropriate? Is a hand-made card not enough to say thank MON you? And is the custom of giving expensive gifts now so MON ingrained that parents are finding it difficult to opt out? MON Jane is joined by parenting expert Sarah Ebner. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0128qtd (Listen) MON Legacy: Blood in the Mountains, Episode 1 MON MON When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, MON probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, MON search backwards through the family line to find the true MON heir and get a slice of the fortune. Their quest leads them MON to uncover a broken family with a terrible secret. MON MON Henry Gaunt has died leaving a sizeable estate but no Will. MON His step-sister can't inherit and there are no known kin. MON The step-sister doesn't know much about Henry's father: she MON thinks he died in the Second World War when Henry was a MON small child. Dan and Rachel's investigation leads to a MON surprising discovery. MON MON DAN.....William Ash MON RACHEL.....Claire Keelan MON YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes MON GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 11:00 Down and Out in the City of Angels b0128lmt (Listen) MON Rob Campbell used to be in charge of a top secret computer MON system for the US military; he now camps down for the night MON in a doorway, his hair matted, his fingernails grimy, alert MON for trouble from cops. Corporal Hernadez left the US MON Infantry in 2006, and considers himself pretty sorted out; MON but he still gets jumpy hearing fireworks on the 4th of MON July. MON MON It's Veteran's Day in California. It's a day to celebrate MON returning heroes, and in true Hollywood style, Arnold MON Schwarzenegger is giving the address. But Los Angeles, city MON of sunshine and movie stars, is also the homeless capital of MON America - estimates vary between 50 and 75 thousand - and MON returning US veterans from Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and MON Afghanistan, make up a fifth of that number. MON MON Veterans are 50% more likely to become homeless than any MON other demographic in the US, and to try and end the crisis, MON one year ago, President Obama gave a speech in which he not MON only promised to fight the problem, but end homelessness MON completely amongst veterans by 2015. MON MON Can Obama succeed in his plan to avert a human crisis as a MON flood of newly discharged soldiers, carrying with them the MON trauma of war, re-enter an economy in recession? MON MON Peter Bowes heads out to skid row - more than just a row, MON actually 50 square blocks of down town LA - to find out what MON the challenge will be, meeting the down and outs on skid MON row, a city within a city, to find out where things went MON wrong for America's heroes, and whether Obama has a hope of MON turning round America's hidden shame. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 11:30 When The Dog Dies b00sddnk (Listen) MON Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man MON MON Sandy's daughter Ellie is an artist but he's never liked her MON work. The trouble is that she never sells anything - until MON Sandy buys a canvas anonymously. He instantly regrets doing MON such a thing - what if she finds out? He must go to any MON length to ensure that she doesn't, even admitting to a MON strange predilection involving nuns... MON MON Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom MON Sorry - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent - for a new comedy MON for Radio 4 about Sandy Hopper, a granddad happily growing MON old along with his dog Henry and his lodger, Dolores (Liza MON Tarbuck). MON MON Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett MON Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh MON Mrs Pompom ..... Sally Grace MON Lance ..... Philip Bird MON Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Estate Agent ..... Jon Glover MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0128lmw (Listen) MON Peter White discusses new proposals for funding social care MON with economist Andrew Dilnot, head of the independent MON Commission. And we gauge reaction from Age UK and the MON insurance sector. MON Why is it so difficult for governments to cut red tape? are MON the Coalition's latest initiatives having any impact|?. MON And as Habitat puts most of its stores into administration, MON we explore the health of british contemporary design. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0128gr6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0128lmy (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b0128ln0 (Listen) MON The popular quotations quiz returns for a new series, hosted MON by Nigel Rees. This week the panellists are former BBC MON Chairman, Michael Grade, comedian Simon Munnery, poet Ian MON McMillan and psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0128jp9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b0128m45 (Listen) MON Ditched, Episode 1 MON MON After the dream-turned-nightmare of their wedding in MON 'Hitched' we revisit the bride and groom, Emma and Richard, MON two years after their big day. The couple have been living MON in America and have a young baby daughter, but the honeymoon MON is well and truly over and wedded bliss hasn't turned out to MON be, well, blissful. MON MON With their relationship reaching crisis point, Emma returns MON from America with her young daughter to discover her life MON isn't the only one that has changed. Her troubled brother, MON Sam, has returned home and is living with their father, Max, MON while her mother, Ellie, has an unexpected new romance in MON her life. MON MON But just what has happened between Emma and Richard, and MON what has Richard done to provoke Emma to return home alone? MON MON When Richard in turn flies back to the UK, the stage is set MON for another unforgettable family encounter. As Richard's MON parents, the long-suffering Jenny and increasingly MON insufferable Barry, prepare to host a 'family summit' the MON in-laws are about to come face to face once again. MON MON With sparks sure to fly at a family reunion no one wants to MON attend, Emma and Richard must finally decide what the future MON holds for their marriage. MON MON Will it be Hitched or Ditched? MON MON Doug Lucie's satirical sequel to 'Hitched' stars: MON MON Max - Stephen Moore MON Ellie - Frances Barber MON Barry - David Schofield MON Jenny - Cheryl Campbell MON Richard - Harry Lloyd MON Emma - Lydia Leonard MON Peter - Adrian Lukis MON Sam - Brendan Patricks MON Joy - Alison Pettitt MON Sheila - Lynn Farleigh. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0128fqx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Making of Music b007nf4j (Listen) MON Series 1, The Reformation MON MON James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the MON development of classical music. Why should the Devil have MON all the best tunes? Luther changed religion and religious MON music forever. He harnessed secular songs for sacred MON purposes and introduced congregational singing. MON Reader: Benedict Cumberbatch MON Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt MON MON BBC Birmingham. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0128hsd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0128mlk (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON MON Science V The Supernatural: Does Science Kill the Magic? MON Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by actor and MON magician Andy Nyman, psychologist Richard Wiseman and MON neuroscientist Bruce Hood as they take on the paranormal. MON They'll be looking at some of the more popular claims of MON supernatural goings on, and asking whether a belief in MON ghosts, psychic abilities and other other-worldly phenomena, MON is just a bit of harmless fun, or whether there are more MON worrying implications in a belief in the paranormal. MON MON 17:00 PM b0128mlm (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0128gr8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0128mlp (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 2 MON MON The 55th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart, as the programme pays a return visit MON to the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. Regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again MON joined on the panel by Marcus Brigstocke, with Jack Dee in MON the chair. Regular listeners will know to expect inspired MON nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0128mlr (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0128mlt (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including a review of Terrence Malick's MON film The Tree of Life, winner of the Palme d'Or at this MON year's Cannes Film Festival. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0128qtd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Private Lives of British Pakistanis b0128mlw (Listen) MON When former Home Secretary Jack Straw suggested some men of MON Pakistani origin tend to see white girls as "easy meat", he MON was accused of stereotyping. He spoke out after two Asian MON men who abused white girls in Derby were given long jail MON sentences and said there is a specific problem which MON involves Pakistani men who target white girls because MON Pakistani girls are off limits. MON MON Presenter Adil Ray, himself a British-born Pakistani, was MON also shocked by the comments at first but felt that there MON was a bigger problem at the heart of the debate which had MON yet to be aired or addressed. Many of his peers, who were MON born and raised here in the liberal, permissive sexual MON culture of the west, had little choice but to create a web MON of secrets and lies to live the way they wanted to live MON whilst also appeasing their parents - who lived by a very MON different sexual and moral code based their strict Islamic MON upbringing in Pakistan. MON MON Adil talks to ordinary young Pakistanis who are caught up in MON this web about how they navigate the system and asks why MON that system has managed to last so long. MON MON Producer: Mohini Patel. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0128mly (Listen) MON Scotland MON MON No university tuition fees, free personal care for the MON elderly, reduced prescription charges. In all sorts of ways, MON Scotland seems to have kept a level of public service the MON rest of the UK is denied. How has this happened, and can MON Scotland continue to enjoy this as overall UK spending is MON cut? Will English resentment grow if Scotland is seen to be MON enjoying an unfair advantage? Or can the SNP persuade Scots MON that their economic vision will deliver a public service MON paradise? And how will all this flow into the increasingly MON urgent debate about Scotland's constitutional future after MON the SNP's recent electoral success? Instead of all the MON theoretical debate about Scottish independence, Anne McElvoy MON discovers the hard bargaining already underway about who MON gets the best UK deal, and who pays for it - a deal that MON will be crucial in deciding whether the UK will survive. MON MON Presenter: Anne McElvoy MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0124pxb (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week: how climate models may be MON underestimating the severity of sudden climate change; how MON our interest in happy faces is in our genes; how the most MON distant quasar ever seen throws light on the early universe MON and how mobile phones are transforming our behaviour and MON revealing social and cultural differences. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Sudden Climate Change MON MON Climate models are already predicting significant change as MON the world gets warmer, but evidence from the geological past MON suggests that there have been sudden changes even more MON severe than the models are able to predict. In a commentary MON in Nature Geoscience, Professor Paul Valdes of Bristol MON University concludes that even the best climate models we MON have today may be systematically underestimating the MON potential for sudden climate change. MON MON Eocene Climate MON MON The map above shows average temperatures 55 million years MON ago according to models (colour) and geological measurement MON (labels). The poles were much warmer than the model MON predicts. (Paul Valdes/Nature Geoscience) MON MON Distant Beacon MON MON Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar ever MON seen. Quasars are very bright galaxies powered by a MON super-massive black hole. This one, discovered during a MON survey by the UK InfraRed Telescope in Hawaii and reported MON in Nature, is so distant that we are seeing it as it was MON 12.9 billion years ago, a mere 770 million years after the MON Big Bang. Though not the most distant galaxy ever seen, it’s MON the first that’s bright enough to, quite literally, throw MON light on conditions in the very early universe. It raises MON questions about how such a monster black hole could form so MON quickly. Professor Steve Warren of Imperial College London MON discusses the implications. MON MON Face Gazing MON MON Reading faces is an important skill for humans when they MON interact with others. However, the length of time MON individuals scan other people’s faces varies. At one end of MON the scale are people with autism spectrum conditions, who MON look less at faces and have trouble decoding expressions and MON emotions. Research published this week in Molecular Autism MON shows for the first time that there is a genetic basis for MON the length of time we look at faces. Quentin Cooper speaks MON to Dr Bhismadev Chakrabarti of the University of Reading MON about his findings and their implications for our MON understanding of social mechanisms and autism. MON MON Mobile Behaviour MON MON A social anthropologist from Goldsmiths, University of MON London has carried out a global study into how mobile phones MON are shaping our behaviour. The study, carried out in MON association with software company Amdocs, explored the MON cultural and regional differences in how people use their MON phones as well as how phones are affecting the way we MON socialise. Quentin Cooper finds out which tribe of phone MON user he fits into from study author, Dr Massimiliano MON Mollona. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0128l6y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0128grb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0128mm0 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0128mm2 (Listen) MON Half Blood Blues, Episode 6 MON MON Shortly after the fall of Paris in 1940, Hieronymus Falk - a MON brilliant young jazz trumpeter who made his name in Berlin - MON is arrested in a café and never seen nor heard from again. MON He is black - and a German citizen. Falk and his fellow MON bandmates Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones fled Berlin the MON previous year. But as Sid puts it: "We ...known [we] MON wouldn't fend off the chaos forever. Ain't no man can outrun MON his fate." MON MON But what really happened to Hieronymus Falk? MON MON Fifty years later, Sid and Chip return to Berlin - but Chip MON has received a mysterious letter which sets the pair of them MON on a new journey to uncover the secrets of past. But the MON heart of the story is set in those wartime days in Berlin MON and Paris. It's a jazzman's tale, with a language and MON preoccupations that give us a very fresh take on some MON well-known historical events. MON MON Half Blood Blues sings of betrayal, loyalty and creative MON ambition, with the thought that if you don't tell your own MON story others may tell it for you. And they just might tell MON it wrong ... MON MON The Hot-Time Swingers are disintegrating. Paul has been sent MON to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Fritz has decided to MON stay in Berlin and still there's no word from Delilah. MON Ernst, Sid, Hiero and Chip have driven to Hamburg waiting MON for papers that will take them to Paris and a meeting with MON Louis Armstrong. MON MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON Read by Ricky Fearon MON Produced by Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b0124pp5 (Listen) MON Always On MON MON Mobile phones, laptops and tablet computers give us the MON opportunity to be constantly deluged by information wherever MON we are in the world. And if we have one of these devices and MON don't turn it off then we can be reached, wherever we are. MON So is being always on a good thing? Here with new writing MON and discussion are the Financial Times Slow Lane columnist MON Harry Eyres, Guardian digital media correspondent Jemima MON Kiss and the best selling author William Powers who has MON written a guide book on how to live wisely and happily in a MON connected world. MON Producer Paul Dodgson. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0128mm4 (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 JULY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0126d4f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b012cyhs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0126d4h (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0126d4k (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0126d4m (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0126d4p (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012bv2r (Listen) TUE With Monsignor Tony Rogers. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0128py5 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0128py7 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b0126d70 (Listen) TUE Securing Freedom: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent TUE TUE The pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, examines what TUE drives people to dissent in the second of the 2011 Reith TUE Lecture series. 'Securing Freedom'. TUE TUE Reflecting on the history of her own party, the National TUE League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, examines the meaning TUE of opposition and dissident. She also explains her reasons TUE for following the path of non-violence. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b012f3l3 (Listen) TUE Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar TUE Wilde, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Franny Moyle. TUE TUE Reader: Rachel Atkins TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0128py9 (Listen) TUE Psychologist Tanya Byron on children and lying. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0128pyc (Listen) TUE Legacy: Blood in the Mountains, Episode 2 TUE TUE When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, TUE probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, TUE search backwards through the family line to find the true TUE heir and get a slice of the fortune. Their quest leads them TUE to uncover a broken family with a terrible secret. TUE TUE Henry Gaunt died leaving a sizeable estate but no Will. Dan TUE and Rachel have discovered that Henry's father George died TUE fighting in the Spanish Civil War and that his cousin Eric TUE joined the International Brigades with him. If Eric is still TUE alive he might be the rightful heir. TUE TUE DAN.....William Ash TUE RACHEL.....Claire Keelan TUE YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes TUE GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle TUE CORPORAL REEVES.....Russell Richardson TUE ERIC.....Russell Dixon TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b0128pyf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 11 TUE TUE 11/30 The Green Turtle is one of nature's great travellers, TUE migrating from feeding grounds to breeding grounds TUE traversing the oceans of the world. Like so many species TUE reported in the series, Green Turtles are in decline. Our TUE reporter James Brickell reports from the Great Barrier Reef TUE with biologists who are both trying to understand the TUE natural history of these magnificent creatures and help in TUE their conservation. And we have turtle biologist Brendan TUE Godley from Exeter University live in the studio. TUE TUE We'll have an update from the two Beavers we're following in TUE Devon - Chris Sperring has been down to visit the site and TUE to see the Beavers. TUE TUE And how is Chris the Cuckoo doing? We'll be spying in on his TUE migration south. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Tim Key's Suspended Sentence b0128pyh (Listen) TUE Perrier award-winning comedian and poet Tim Key sleuths out TUE what makes a great literary opening line. With contributions TUE from author Joe Dunthorne, literary critic John Sutherland TUE and comedian and novelist Mark Watson. TUE TUE Truths universally acknowledged. Clocks striking thirteen. TUE Bests and worsts of times. A truly great opening line can TUE make a novel iconic. But what makes these famous first TUE sentences sing to us? TUE TUE Perrier award-winning comedian and poet Tim Key is itching TUE to find out. He's desperate to write his first novel - it's TUE in him, just waiting, waiting to be unleashed. If only he TUE could think of a good beginning... TUE TUE Fresh from his acclaimed stage show and regular spots on TUE Charlie Brooker's "Newswipe" and Steve Coogan's "Mid-Morning TUE Matters With Alan Partridge", Tim's on a mission to pen the TUE ultimate opening line: one that will knock your socks off, TUE hook you in, blow you away (he'll sort out the rest later, TUE yeah?). TUE TUE As he slowly crafts his one-sentence magnum opus, Tim taps TUE into the minds of some of Britain's top literary talents to TUE find out what a first line should and shouldn't do, and the TUE hours of sweat and toil enshrined in those crucial few words TUE - his interviewees include the writer Joe Dunthorne (author TUE of the hit novel "Submarine"), and literary critic John TUE Sutherland. Tim also taps into the strange and brilliant TUE mind of his friend, the stand-up comedian and novelist Mark TUE Watson, over a spin of one of the world's strangest literary TUE board games. TUE TUE The pressure's on, as we hear a roll-call of some of the TUE finest and most famous first lines in publishing history - TUE from Dickens to Dostoevsky to uh, Dan Brown. Overwhelmed TUE with information, we also hear a crash course on what not to TUE do - as Tim visits Knebworth House, ancestral pile of a man TUE whose most famous first sentence is legendary for all the TUE wrong reasons: Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author of the infamous TUE "It was a dark and stormy night...". TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0128pyk (Listen) TUE Saving money or denying access to justice? How will you be TUE affected by the government's planned cuts to legal aid in TUE England and Wales? The government wants to reduce the TUE current £2.1 billion legal aid bill by £350 million by 2015. TUE It's planning to scrap financial help for civil cases TUE including those involving welfare benefits, employment, TUE clinical negligence, complaints against the police, TUE education, private family law, most immigration cases and TUE some debt and housing issues. Critics say society's most TUE vulnerable will lose out because they can't afford to pay TUE for their own legal costs. The government argues the reforms TUE will target those who need it most and provide value for TUE money for taxpayers. So who's right? TUE Call You and Yours with Winifred Robinson. Your chance to TUE 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 b0126d4r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0128pym (Listen) TUE National and international news, with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 The Bird Fancyer's Delight b0128pyp (Listen) TUE In the 18th century, musical manuals circulated showing TUE songbird keepers how to teach their birds to sing human TUE tunes. These treatises were known as the Bird Fancyer's TUE Delight, sheets of music specially written to play to a pet TUE bullfinch, linnet or canary in order that it would learn the TUE tune and sing it back. The idea was to engineer primordial TUE feathered recorders in the home, 100 years before the TUE arrival of the phonograph and the advent of recorded sound. TUE Musician and inventor Sarah Angliss explores to what extent TUE this interplay was successful and looks for its modern day TUE equivalent. TUE TUE Her journey takes her via Yorkshire's 'Champion of Champion' TUE canary fancyer Ken Westmorland, whose prize birds' rolling TUE sounds are not their natural music. She listens for song TUE during a Northumbrian dawn chorus with poet Katrina Porteous TUE and ornithologist Geoff Sample and reflects on human TUE attempts to control nature and birdsong. And she joins TUE composer Aleks Kolkowski who worked with canaries and a TUE string quartet to make some highly unusual inter-species TUE music. TUE TUE Producer: Neil McCarthy. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0128mlr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b0128pyr (Listen) TUE Ditched, Episode 2 TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b0128pyt (Listen) TUE Have you ever wondered why the branches of a tree rarely TUE touch the ground? Why a spike of ice grew vertically from a TUE frozen tumbler? Or whether the claims made for energy saving TUE light bulbs stand up to scrutiny? Home Planet is the TUE programme that invites your observations and queries about TUE the world around us and challenges our panel of experts to TUE explain what's going on. This week listeners want to know TUE how the giant wandering albatross survives the ferocious TUE storms of a Southern Ocean winter. To unravel some of the TUE myths surrounding poverty and environmental degradation. And TUE why a mob of crows turned on and killed one of their own. TUE TUE Answering these and other questions this week are Graham TUE Appleton of the British Trust for Ornithology, Ros Taylor, TUE development specialist from Kingston University and TUE Professor Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from the TUE University of London. TUE TUE The programme is presented by Richard Daniel. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0128pyw (Listen) TUE Three for My Baby, Awesome Day TUE TUE These stories take their cue from the Johnny Mercer classic TUE 'One For My Baby' - made famous by Fred Astaire, Ella TUE Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and especially Frank Sinatra. TUE Each of these specially-commissioned pieces tell of a 'brief TUE episode' of the kind the song alludes to but doesn't TUE describe. In other words, these are stories about doomed TUE love: affairs that turned sour, were thwarted by TUE circumstance or were never, ever, going to work. TUE TUE Awesome Day by Shena Mackay TUE TUE "Rick looked up at the clock above the counter. A quarter to TUE three. It was always a quarter to three at the Wooden Nickel TUE ... It had been quarter to three when he and Meriel first TUE came to the Wooden Nickel and it was still quarter to three TUE when they left." Meriel loves the theatre. Rick loves TUE Meriel. Or is it New York he's in love with? TUE TUE Reader: Burn Gorman TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Making of Music b007nlbn (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Counter Reformation TUE TUE James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the TUE development of classical music. Luther's hymns were TUE accessible - and popular. The Counter Reformation responded TUE to Luther's musical revolution by giving an edict that the TUE words of church music had to be clear and understood. This TUE is the story of the composer Palestrina who became embroiled TUE in the politics of the high church. TUE TUE Reader : Simon Russell Beale TUE Produced by Rosie Boutlon, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt TUE BBC Birmingham. TUE TUE 16:00 Debating Animals b00yrfwm (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Fox and the Rat TUE TUE They're both on the wanted list, dead rather than alive, and TUE they're both classed as vermin, but there's a world of TUE difference between our national attitudes to the Fox and the TUE Rat. TUE TUE Once again Rod Liddle sets out to find out why we think and TUE react as we do to these creatures. What are we to make of TUE the statistics that periodically terrify newspaper readers TUE as rats threaten to over-run our cities? But this debate is TUE moving all the time. Twenty years ago the Fox was the emblem TUE of the put-upon. The hounded beauty standing between the TUE Toff and his stirrup cup it was always hard work for the TUE hunting fraternity to persuade us of their menace. But with TUE urban attacks and foxes scavenging on every street corner TUE the tide is turning against 'the foxy whiskered gentleman'. TUE TUE Rod takes to the field and lane with experts involved with TUE both animals and he seeks guidance from literature and TUE history as he debates our reaction to The Rat and The Fox. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0128q6y (Listen) TUE Fay Weldon, Louise Welsh TUE TUE Fay Weldon and Louise Welsh talk to Harriett Gilbert about TUE the books they love. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: We Need to Talk About Kevin by TUE Lionel Shriver TUE Publ. Serpent's Tail TUE TUE Fay Weldon's choice: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE Louise Welsh's choice: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0128q70 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0126d4t (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b011d6rf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second TUE series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real TUE advice for real people. TUE TUE Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she TUE wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of TUE ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of TUE the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self TUE qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's TUE problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which TUE normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). TUE TUE This week the team tackle two problems - "It's me or the TUE dog!" and "My phobias are out of control but I'm too scared TUE to even admit it" TUE TUE Sarah Millican Sarah TUE Ruth Bratt Marion TUE Simon Day Terry TUE Margaret Cabourn-Smith Laura TUE Harry Peacock Barry TUE Tim Key John. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0128q72 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b012bv7b (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson talks to Romola Garai about acting on stage at TUE the Royal Court and on TV in '50s newsroom drama The Hour TUE and reviews David Schwimmer's film Trust about online TUE friends. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0128pyc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b0128q7z (Listen) TUE In the wake of the financial disaster, policy makers and TUE regulators around the world pledged to make banking safer TUE and more transparent. But the reality, many experts claim, TUE is proving very different. TUE For this edition of File on 4, Michael Robinson investigates TUE some of the apparently straightforward financial products TUE banks now offer and uncovers disturbing complexity. TUE One product, called Exchange Traded Funds, appears to offer TUE private individuals and pension funds a cheap and simple way TUE to invest - in anything from the top 100 companies on the TUE British stock exchange, to obscure companies in emerging TUE economies or even to baskets of commodities. TUE Beneath this apparent simplicity, the programme discovers TUE that many EFTs hide a forest of financial engineering TUE designed to increase the profits of the banks which provide TUE them. But at what risk? TUE Another product, so-called "Naked Credit Default Swaps" may TUE have an obscure name but they were at the heart of the TUE financial crisis and are still one of the most widespread TUE instruments used by banks. They are now accused by some of TUE exacerbating Europe's sovereign debt problems. TUE A leading British financial academic likens them to taking TUE out insurance on someone else's life. There is then an TUE obvious incentive, he tells the programme, to push the TUE person who's life you have insured under a bus. TUE On both sides of the Atlantic, regulators hoped to reduce TUE the risks of this massive market. But, as the programme TUE discovers, there's widespread doubt among financial TUE professionals that they've succeeded. TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0128q81 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b0128q83 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond explores the limits and potential of the TUE human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 Europe: Driving on the Right b00yj924 (Listen) TUE Austria and Germany TUE TUE Continuing his series on successful new populist political TUE forces in Europe, Chris Bowlby meets the Freedom Party in TUE Austria, ahd questions its charismatic leader HJ Strache. He TUE goes on to investigates links between the new populists TUE across Europe, visiting a continental campaign against the TUE building of mosques in European cities such as Cologne. And TUE he asks whether mainstream parties have fundamentally TUE changed their position, accepting the new populists as a TUE permanent part of the political scene. TUE TUE Producer: Daniel Tetlow. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0126d4w (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0128qsk (Listen) TUE With Felicity Evans. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0128qsm (Listen) TUE Half Blood Blues, Episode 7 TUE TUE Reunited with Delilah in Montmartre, Sid, Chip and Hiero TUE meet Louis Armstrong. Delilah tells Sid what really happened TUE in Berlin. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. TUE Read by Ricky Fearon. TUE Produced by Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0128mlk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0128qsp (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 JULY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0128q8r (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b012f3l3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0128q8t (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0128q8w (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0128q8y (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0128q90 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012btwy (Listen) WED With Monsignor Tony Rogers. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01291vr (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b012by37 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01291vt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Lord Rees-Mogg. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b012f3zr (Listen) WED Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar WED Wilde, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Franny Moyle. WED WED Reader: Rachel Atkins WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01291vw (Listen) WED What a new study can tell us about babies born from frozen WED embryos used in IVF treatment. Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01291vy (Listen) WED Legacy: Blood in the Mountains, Episode 3 WED WED DAN.....William Ash WED RACHEL.....Claire Keelan WED YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes WED GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle WED JO.....Eithne Brown WED MR GHYLL.....Russell Richardson WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 11:00 Wandering Souls b012h98z (Listen) WED American veterans of the Vietnam War are often described as WED 'haunted'. In the USA, it's a metaphor, shorthand for WED psychological trauma or PTSD. But what happens when the WED veterans return to Vietnam - and the ghosts become real? WED WED Nearly four decades after what's known in Vietnam as the WED 'American War', more than 300,000 Vietnamese people are WED still classified as Missing in Action. Their families WED continue to search for remains. They believe their loved WED ones have become 'wandering souls' - doomed to eke out an WED impoverished existence on the edge of the everyday world. WED WED These ghosts are often angry. They're imprisoned by bad WED memories - the traumatic and unjust nature of their final WED moments. Many Vietnamese believe these unhappy spirits cause WED bad luck and frightening dreams... or worse, can possess the WED living and make them experience the physical agony of a WED battlefield death. WED WED During the War, the American military exploited this belief WED - playing the desperate moans of a wandering soul from WED helicopters to scare the opposition. The 'wailing ghost' WED psy-ops tape was so frightening soldiers were instructed not WED to play it over friendly South Vietnamese forces - in case WED it encouraged desertion. WED WED But nearly forty years on, some American veterans are moved WED by the beliefs of their old enemies. They feel a connection WED with the Vietnamese ghosts... it could so easily have been WED them. And perhaps the identification goes deeper - between WED the ignored and angry wandering souls... and the survivors WED of a war America would rather forget. WED WED Cathy FitzGerald follows a group of American Vet.s as they WED search for a mass grave of soldiers they once killed. WED WED Producer: Cathy FitzGerald WED A Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01292g0 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser WED WED A new sitcom by Justin Moorhouse & Jim Poyser starring WED Justin, Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A Manchester DJ tries to WED balance love, work and everything else without much success. WED This week, his job seems to be on the line. WED WED Anne Reid ..... Gran WED Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa WED Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin WED Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn WED Paul Copley ..... Ray WED Susan Cookson ..... Tanya WED WED Produced by Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01292g2 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0128q92 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b012bxfs (Listen) WED With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners WED can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on WED twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b01292g4 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0128q72 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b01292g6 (Listen) WED Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You WED WED By Molly Naylor WED WED How does it feel to have your world blown apart? Molly moves WED to London full of naive dreams, high hopes and on a quest to WED make her life just like the movies. Then on 7/7/2005 she WED finds herself on a tube train blown up by terrorists and her WED life is forced to take a different direction. Funny, frank WED and poetic; this is the true story of what happened next and WED how things are put back together after they've been blown WED apart. WED WED To be broadcast to mark the 6th anniversary this year. WED WED Molly ..... Morven Christie WED Dan ..... Bryan Dick WED Dad ..... Sam Dale WED Mum ..... Susie Riddell WED Pavel ..... Jonathan Forbes WED Matt ..... James Lailey WED WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01292g8 (Listen) WED If you need advice about mortgages you can put your WED questions to a team of mortgage experts on Wednesday's Money WED Box Live. WED WED Whether you are looking for a cheaper rate, struggling to WED choose between products or anxious about deposits and fees, WED our experts will ready with tips and advice. WED WED Whatever your mortgage question, phone lines open at 1.30pm WED on Wednesday afternoon and the number to call is 03700 100 WED 444. Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles WED may be higher. The programme starts after the three o'clock WED news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b01292gb (Listen) WED Three for My Baby, Harold Lloyd Is Not the Man of My Dreams WED WED Harold Lloyd Is Not The Man Of My Dreams by Morven Crumlish WED WED She met Walter on the day she was supposed to fall in love. WED But Walter had no inkling of the conflicting emotions that WED could be aroused by silent comedians ... WED WED Morven Crumlish's stories have been published and broadcast WED widely, and she also contributes to the Guardian. Her work WED has featured in three previous Sweet Talk productions for WED BBC Radio 4. 'Loulou and Barbie and the Seven Deadly Sins' WED appeared in Curly Tales 2 (2005); Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs WED - five of her stories - in 2008; and most recently 'A Good WED Impression' (Platform 3, 2010). Morven lives in Edinburgh. WED WED Reader: Morven Christie WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Making of Music b007njhr (Listen) WED Series 1, Venice WED WED James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the WED development of classical music. An uncle and nephew, Andrea WED and Giovanni Gabrieli wrote music that filled St Marks WED Basilica, using the space as a stage for many voices. The WED music inspired travellers who passed through the Serene WED City, then the crossroads of the known world. WED WED Reader: Laurence Fox. WED Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt WED BBC Birmingham. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01292gd (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b0128q83 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b012fqtr (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0128q94 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00xhbcz (Listen) WED Series 7, From Bean to Cup WED WED Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, WED complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his WED never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever WED scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and WED cat together. WED WED Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas WED Felix ..... John Fortune WED Jaz Milvane ..... Philip Jackson WED Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Heidi ..... Matilda Ziegler WED Window Cleaner ..... Dan Tetsell WED Pearl ..... Rita May WED Olive ..... Stephanie Cole WED Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Houseowner ..... Paul Merton WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas WED Produced by Dawn Ellis WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01292gg (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b012btms (Listen) WED Mark Lawson talks to art historian Robert Hughes, whose new WED book charts the story of Rome, from its ancient origins to WED the present. WED WED Producer Andrea Kidd. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01291vy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b01292gj (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED 1/4. In a new series, Andrew Rawnsley chairs a live debate WED with fellow journalists in the style of a newspaper leader WED conference. They discuss which three top news stories at WED home and abroad should be the subject of leading articles WED and what points those editorials ought to make and why. WED WED From tabloids to broadsheets, from London to Edinburgh, from WED left, right and centre the gamut of journalistic opinions WED are on offer as the newspaper leader conference comes to the WED air. Top writers on Britain's newspapers distil the complex WED events of the week into a concise, easily digested summary WED and seek to put it all into perspective. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b012fr3w (Listen) WED Series 2, Penny Pepper WED WED Writer and cabaret artist Penny Pepper gives her perspective WED on human identity from her personal experience as a disabled WED person and wheelchair user. Four Thought is a series of WED talks which combine thought provoking ideas and engaging WED storytelling. Recorded live in front of an audience at the WED RSA in London, speakers take to the stage to air their WED latest thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions WED that affect our culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01292gn (Listen) WED Is there a test for how long you will live? If you believe WED what you read in some newspapers recently, perhaps the WED answer is yes. Recent media coverage of an intriguing area WED of ageing research suggested that measuring the ends of your WED chromosomes can tell you when you will die. WED WED Two biotech companies are now marketing these chromosomal WED check-ups to members of the public through their doctors. WED The blood tests measure the length of tiny structures in our WED cells called telomeres. Telomeres are protective caps at WED each end of our chromosomes. They are like the plastic caps WED at the tips of shoelaces and they shorten over the course of WED our lives. They have become key to understanding how and why WED we age. WED WED The two companies do not claim their tests will give you the WED date of your death but they do believe the measurements can WED inform people how fast they are ageing and offer valuable WED information about their risk of many age-related diseases WED like heart disease, diabetes and dementia. One of the firms WED was co-founded by Professor Elizabeth Blackburn who shared WED the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2009 for her research on WED telomeres. WED WED But as Andrew Luck-Baker discovered, other leading experts WED on ageing (including one who won the Nobel Prize with WED Professor Blackburn) say the launch of telomere tests for WED individuals is premature and that such tests may never be of WED any clinical use. At an international scientific meeting on WED telomeres and health in Stockholm which Andrew Luck-Baker WED attended, many said at least currently the chromosomal WED read-outs will tell us little or nothing about a person's WED longevity and risks beyond other simple tests doctors WED already use. A Danish researcher argues that how old someone WED looks to other people is more predictive about when they are WED going to die than measuring their telomeres. WED WED In population studies, short telomere length has been WED strongly linked to reduced longevity and increased risk of WED heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, depression, WED dementia and cancers. Environmental and behavioural factors WED such as smoking, not exercising, obesity, chronic stress and WED lower social class also erode the chromosome caps. Studies WED following the effect on telomeres of exercise regimes and WED meditation are now underway. So why are many researchers WED dubious about the value of telomere measurements for WED individual patients? WED WED The row about tests aside, the science of telomeres is WED certainly telling us important things about how and why we WED age. Their relevance to the human ageing process only became WED apparent 15 years ago and their study has transformed the WED study of ageing. And it is on the verge of pharmaceutical WED exploitation. WED WED There are already anti-cancer drugs in second stage clinical WED trials which target abnormal telomeres in lung and breast WED cancer cells. If it turns out that their erosion over time WED is a fundamental cause of ageing itself, it may be possible WED to use drugs to slow down or halt their shortening. WED Potential compounds are soon to start testing in humans. If WED they work, telomere researchers say that the effect on us WED may well be that we will live with good health until our 80s WED and 90s. Then we'd bow out with a much shorter period of WED disease and suffering than is the norm today. WED WED Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01291vt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0128q96 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01292gs (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01292gv (Listen) WED Half Blood Blues, Episode 8 WED WED As the war closes in around them, Sid, Chip and Hiero get to WED play with Louis Armstrong. But for Sid, disappointment is WED waiting around a Paris street corner. WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. WED Read by Ricky Fearon. WED Produced by Rosalynd Ward. WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00mx6bf (Listen) WED Separate Tables WED WED Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. WED WED Brunswick has been sent undercover indefinitely in the hope WED that it will make him forget his deadly grudge against WED Inspector Steine. But Mrs Groynes seems more interested in WED Twitten's criminal records. WED WED Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens WED Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm WED Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green WED Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro WED Unknown Villain ...... Adrian Bower WED Ventriloquist Vince ...... Ewan Bailey WED BBC Announcer/Tony ...... David Holt. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01292gx (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 JULY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0128q9s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b012f3zr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0128q9v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0128q9x (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0128q9z (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0128qb1 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012bxf4 (Listen) THU With Monsignor Tony Rogers. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01292tq (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b012bxf6 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01292ts (Listen) THU The Minoan Civilisation THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Minoan Civilisation. THU THU In 1900 the British archaeologist Arthur Evans began THU excavating some ancient ruins at Knossos, on the island of THU Crete. He uncovered an enormous palace complex which THU reminded him of the mythical labyrinth of King Minos. Evans THU had in fact discovered the remnants of a Bronze Age society THU which he named the Minoan Civilisation. THU THU The Minoan Civilisation flourished for twelve centuries and THU was at its height around three and a half thousand years THU ago. Today much is known of Minoan religion, culture and THU society, but still much remains mysterious. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b012f4kt (Listen) THU Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar THU Wilde, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Franny Moyle. THU THU Reader: Rachel Atkins THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01292tv (Listen) THU Free schools: will they be accessible to a wide social mix? THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01292tx (Listen) THU Legacy: Blood in the Mountains, Episode 4 THU THU DAN.....William Ash THU RACHEL.....Claire Keelan THU YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes THU GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle THU JO.....Eithne Brown THU REEVES / BENNY.....Russell Richardson THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01292v1 (Listen) THU The stories behind the world headlines. THU THU 11:30 A Hundred Years of Mervyn Peake b01292v3 (Listen) THU "The intense love for my parents, with its resultant THU anguish, lives on for me". Sebastian Peake, eldest son of THU Mervyn Peake, the remarkable author and artist, takes a THU return trip to the Island of Sark where he spent his THU childhood. THU Peake, whose centenary is being celebrated this week, is THU best known for his 'Titus Groan' series of novels, and to a THU lesser degree his art and illustrations; but he was also a THU passionate husband, married to artist Maeve Gilmore, and THU family man. Never too busy to indulge his children, he THU enriched their lives with his fantastical imagination as THU much as those who read his novels or relished his art. THU Here, Sebastian revisits the family home in the Channel THU Islands, walks the traffic free byways, recalling his THU remarkable father; the day he sketched 50 of the islanders THU at the annual fair; the acts of derring-do, climbing down to THU dangerous coves to gather semi-precious stones for Maeve; THU his time as one of the Sark Group of painters; and finally THU the days spent writing his most famous novel, 'Gormenghast'. THU With his brother Fabian, he pours over diaries, paintings THU and sketches to talk about their father's artistic legacy, THU from the best loved "Treasure Island" illustrations to THU poignant sketches of the last inhabitants of Belsen. With THU his sister Clare, he mourns his fathers struggles in later THU life, the onset of Parkinson's and the difficult final years THU for the family, and their mother in particular. THU THU This is the life of Mervyn Peake, from his youth as an THU artist, to his untimely death in 1957, having become one of THU the most truly imaginative and haunting writers in the THU world, talking to those who knew him best. THU THU Producer: Sara Jane Hall. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01292v5 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0128qb3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b012bxf8 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b01292v7 (Listen) THU The Games People Play THU THU George Bernard Shaw reckoned that we don't stop playing THU because we're old, but we grow old because we forget to THU play. Putting that idea to test are David Goldblatt, author THU of The Ball is Round; Helen Bentley, one of the organisers THU of Igfest in Bristol - the Interesting Games Festival; and THU the man behind The Importance of Being Trivial, Mark Mason. THU Are we really as playful as we like to think, and what does THU our choice of game say about us ? The presenter is Dominic THU Arkwright, and the producer Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01292gg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b01292v9 (Listen) THU Life Begins at Crawley THU THU In Roy Apps's comedy, Penelope Keith plays Eleanor THU Prendergast - the wife of a newly imprisoned Tory MP who's THU been fiddling his expenses big time! She's driven to crime THU to make ends meet (she's got her Porsche to run after all, THU and the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm to pay) and soon finds THU herself at the wheel of a stolen articulated lorry full of THU vodka, facing down an armed Russian mobster and - perhaps THU most scary of all - eating chips out of a polystyrene tray THU on Brighton Pier! THU THU Written by Roy Apps THU THU Eleanor ...... Penelope Keith THU Kerry ...... Kelly Adams THU Charles ...... David Collings THU Malky ..... Russell Floyd THU Andronnikov ..... Richard Attlee THU Sasha ......Rob Heaps THU Agency Man ..... Nicholas Boulton THU Agency Girl ..... Jessica Carroll THU Kelvin ..... Sam Taylor THU THU Producer/Director: David Blount THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0128fk5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0128hs2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b01292vc (Listen) THU Three for My Baby, Mighty THU THU Mighty by Tom Connolly THU THU It has been going well for the Man and his lover. So much so THU that they plan to start a family. But the arrival of a cat THU in the neighbourhood seems to call his lover back to a THU painful past ... THU THU Tom Connolly is a film-maker and writer. His first novel, THU The Spider Truces, was published in 2010. This is his first THU story for Radio 4. He lives in a remote corner of the Rother THU Valley, in East Sussex. THU THU Reader: Tom Goodman-Hill THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Making of Music b007njht (Listen) THU Series 1, Elizabeth I THU THU James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the THU development of classical music. Two composers, William Byrd THU and Thomas Tallis, turned the end of the sixteenth century THU into a golden age for English music, despite being on the THU wrong side of the political and religious divide. THU THU Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey and Lucy Lunt THU BBC Birmingham. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b0128jbx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b01292vf (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 b012bxk8 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0128qb5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Your Round b00zm32d (Listen) THU Episode 6 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 Johnny Vaughan, Alan Davies, Roisin Conaty and THU Arthur Smith battle it out to see who can beat each other at THU their own games. 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 b01292vh (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b012bxkb (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including a review of the European THU premiere of Stephen Sondheim's musical Road Show, the tale THU of two early 20th century fortune seekers, and their schemes THU to get rich. THU THU Producer Jack Soper. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01292tx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01292vk (Listen) THU Patient safety has become a growing concern for the NHS. And THU significant numbers of clinicians are aware of failings in THU care. Yet when they raise concerns, some find themselves THU facing allegations themselves and can find themselves THU suspended from their jobs. They may end up at home on full THU pay for years at considerable cost to the taxpayer. In some THU cases clinicians have highlighted serious concerns which, THU had they been listened to, might have averted subsequent THU tragedies. In The Report today Simon Cox hears the stories THU of whistleblowers in the NHS. He asks why their bosses THU sometimes ignore their concerns and investigates the use of THU gagging orders and other methods aimed at stopping THU whistleblowing clinicians from telling their stories. THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01292vm (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 b0128pyf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01292ts (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0128qb7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01292wz (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01292x1 (Listen) THU Half Blood Blues, Episode 9 THU THU With the Wehrmacht closing on Paris, Delilah tries to get THU visas to get Sid, Chip and Hiero out of France and on to THU America. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. THU Read by Ricky Fearon. THU Produced by Rosalynd Ward. THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01292x3 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU An audience sketch show set in a call centre. Everyone is THU falling ill in the open-plan offices of Smile5, the THU catalogue company that sells anything and everything. THU THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie, Denise and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn THU Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh and other characters ..... Paul sharma THU Various ..... Philip Fox THU Written by ..... Various THU Script editor ..... James Kettle THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01292x5 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 JULY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0128qbt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b012f4kt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0128qbw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0128qby (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0128qc0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0128qc2 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0129tcn (Listen) FRI With Monsignor Tony Rogers. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01293bl (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01293bn (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; FRI Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0128hsb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0128l70 (Listen) FRI Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar FRI Wilde, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Franny Moyle. FRI FRI Reader: Rachel Atkins FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01293bq (Listen) FRI Extreme embroidery and Cook the Perfect Fish Soup with chef FRI Georgio Alessio. Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01293bs (Listen) FRI Legacy: Blood in the Mountains, Episode 5 FRI FRI DAN.....William Ash FRI RACHEL.....Claire Keelan FRI YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes FRI GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle FRI JO.....Eithne Brown FRI ERIC.....Russell Dixon FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 11:00 Supermarket Symphony b01293bv (Listen) FRI Nina Perry's composed feature 'Supermarket Symphony' reveals FRI the beauty, musicality and personal stories found in FRI supermarkets over a day. Specially composed music and the FRI sounds of the supermarket are interwoven with some of the FRI human encounters to be discovered along with the weekly FRI shop. FRI FRI Amongst stories and rituals of shoppers and supermarket FRI workers, we hear from Michael, a theatrical cheese counter FRI assistant, who now in his 70's reveals his many past lives, FRI and the happiness he finds serving people with cheese; FRI Father Pat, a priest who enjoys the chance to connect with FRI his local community whilst wheeling his trolley down the FRI aisles and Julie who works on the tills, and has a gift for FRI turning a frown into laughter. FRI FRI Produced by Nina Perry FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b01293c9 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Paris FRI FRI When a bottle of highly-expensive whisky goes missing, FRI Martin becomes the Miss Marple of MJN Air with Arthur FRI assisting as his trusty Doctor Watson and Douglas hindering FRI as his untrusty prime suspect. FRI FRI Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole FRI 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam FRI Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore FRI Mr Birling ..... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Mrs Birling ..... Flip Webster FRI Phil ...... Ewan Bailey FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI Producer/Director: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for the BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0129426 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0128qc4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0129428 (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b012942b (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 b01292vh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b012942d (Listen) FRI Gilda and her Daughters in Looking for Goldie FRI FRI Comedy drama by award winning film maker Carine Adler. FRI Eccentric Romanian Gilda finds herself in the middle of yet FRI another family argument, as her bickering daughters fight FRI for their deceased father's fortune. Thankfully Gilda's toy FRI boy lover Vip is on hand to provide a welcome distraction. FRI FRI Gilda .. Sian Thomas FRI Amy .. Pippa Haywood FRI Natalie ... Fiona Clarke FRI Clarissa .. Claire Bleasdale FRI Vip/Dad ... Amerjit Deu FRI Harry .. Toby Hadoke FRI Cosmo .. Declan Wilson FRI FRI Produced and directed by Charlotte Riches. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012942g (Listen) FRI GQT Summer Garden Party FRI FRI Join gardening pilgrims from far and wide at this FRI horticultural celebration: Bunny Guinness, Christine FRI Walkden. Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw formulate the FRI answers.Eric Robson chairs the discussion. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Making of Music b007njhw (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Birth of Opera FRI FRI James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the FRI development of classical music. Opera was invented by a FRI group of Italian intellectuals called the Camerata in FRI Florence around 1600. They stumbled across something FRI extraordinary - why not tell a story in music? It took off FRI and soon theatres were springing up all over Italy - forty FRI in Venice alone. FRI FRI Reader Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey and Lucy Lunt. FRI BBC Birmingham. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b012942j (Listen) FRI With John Wilson. Obituary series, analysing and celebrating FRI the life stories of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b012942l (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b012byfy (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0128qc6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b012942n (Listen) FRI Series 34, Episode 5 FRI FRI Topical stand-up, sketches and songs. Steve Punt is joined FRI by Jan Ravens, Gareth Gwynn, John Finnemore and Laura FRI Shavin, plus songs and satirical Darth Vader impressions FRI from Mitch Benn. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b012942q (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b012byg0 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including a report on a major new FRI extension for the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. FRI FRI Producer Robyn Read. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01293bs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b012942s (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics FRI from Leicester, with Claire Fox and Cristina Odone. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b012942v (Listen) FRI In Praise of the Zoo FRI FRI Following the birth of a baby moose in Whipsnade zoo - a FRI rare event - Alain de Botton muses on the value of exotic FRI animals in helping to give us perspective on our own lives. FRI He explains why he's rediscovered wild animals and suggests FRI a zoo trip as a perfect summer outing! FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00j9kbx (Listen) FRI Stone, God's Witness FRI FRI By Danny Brocklehurst. FRI FRI Last in a series of four detective dramas featuring DCI John FRI Stone. A woman witnesses the murder of a young boy by a FRI notorious gang and chooses to speak up, but can she really FRI risk her safety and that of her family? FRI FRI Stone ...... Hugo Speer FRI Paula ...... Maxine Peake FRI Liz/Sue ...... Deborah McAndrew FRI Ray ...... Tony Mooney FRI Anna/Shirley ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Kyle/Michael ...... Oliver Lee FRI Tanner ...... Craig Cheetham FRI Catriona ...... Zoe Henry FRI Ned ...... James Quinn FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0128qc8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b012942x (Listen) FRI With Robin Lustig. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012942z (Listen) FRI Half Blood Blues, Episode 10 FRI FRI Poland 1992. After long coach journey from Berlin, Sid and FRI Chip, both in their 80s, arrive at a strange, remote house. FRI Have they finally found Hiero? FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. FRI Read by Ricky Fearon. FRI Produced by Rosalynd Ward. FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b0128q6y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0129431 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI