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SAT SATURDAY 16 JULY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b012fs8h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b012fvcy (Listen) SAT Ghosts by Daylight, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Janine di Giovanni. SAT SAT Whilst Janine di Giovanni was struggling with her anxieties SAT over motherhood and coming to terms with the ghosts of her SAT past her husband Bruno was her greatest support, but just as SAT she finally relaxes into her new life, his back breaks. SAT SAT Abridged by Jane Marshall SAT Read by Emma Fielding SAT Produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012fs8k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012fs8m (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012fs8p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b012fs8r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012fttj (Listen) SAT A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with SAT the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the SAT Titanic Quarter in Belfast. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b012fttl (Listen) SAT 'I had to stop the police lynching him.' A listener who SAT trained police family liaison officers shares her experience SAT of the sometimes difficult relationship between journalists SAT and detectives. With Eddie Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b012fs8t (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b012fs8w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b012j8pp (Listen) SAT The South Downs - An Inspirational Landscape SAT SAT The chalk hills of the South Downs and the rolling Sussex SAT landscape are rich in history, culture and a traditional way SAT of life. The valleys, the woods, the hills and the coastline SAT have inspired people, poets, artists and musicians down the SAT centuries. For this week's Open Counry, Helen Mark takes a SAT musical journey across Sussex and the South Downs talking to SAT some of the people who have put their love of this landscape SAT into song and music or simply been inspired creatively by SAT its existence. SAT Helen is joined by John Copper, his sister Jill and her SAT husband Jon Dudley, of the singing Copper Family. The SAT family, who come from the coastal village of Rottingdean in SAT Sussex, are a living, breathing folk singing tradition. They SAT have lived and worked in this area for over 400 years as SAT farm workers and shepherds and throughout the generations SAT have seen many changes in this landscape. Their songs have SAT been handed down from generation to generation and are still SAT being sung today in the same way that they were sung SAT hundreds of years ago, but at the heart of this music is the SAT countryside around them, the natural beauty of the South SAT Downs and a traditional way of life. SAT Bulgarian composer, Dobrinka Tabakova, tells Helen how she SAT composed a piece of music to accompany the words of poet SAT Francis William Bourdillon. 'On The South Downs' is a SAT symphonic poem which aims to paint a sonic picture of the SAT beautiful South Downs and captures a day's walking on the SAT Downs. Dobrinka was commissioned by the 'Friends of West SAT Sussex Young Musicians' to write the music which was first SAT performed by cellist Natalie Clein and the Chichester Pro SAT Camerata orchestra in 2009 and Dobrinka tells Helen how, SAT while writing the piece, she experienced a slow falling in SAT love with the landscape around her. SAT And msician Matt Hopwood describes how after several years SAT he found himself drawn back to a place he would visit as a SAT teenager, Edburton, a small village at the foot of the South SAT Downs. It was here that Matt spent months in the isolated SAT village church and found inspiration from his surroundings SAT to write music for his new album. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b012j8pr (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 b012fs8y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b012j8yb (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b012j9tn (Listen) SAT Dreda Say Mitchell, Mr Gee, Bury St Edmunds, Mandela's SAT friend Paul Goldreich, page 3 girl Caroline Christensen, SAT Jacqui Smith SAT SAT Richard Coles with crime novelist Dreda Say Mitchell; poet SAT Mr Gee; a former page 3 model, and a man who grew up with SAT Nelson Mandela. There's a Crowdscape feature from Bury St SAT Edmunds, and Inheritance Tracks from former Home Secretary SAT Jacqui Smith. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b012jbp4 (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores Cape Town in the company of two very SAT different experts. Lindsay Johns has family connections to SAT the city and visits regularly. Bryan Tully is a forensic SAT psychologist and has recently led a 'forensic tour' to South SAT Africa. While mortuaries, hospitals and prisons feature on SAT the tour, Bryan talks especially about his impressions of SAT Cape Town. Sandi also talks to journalist Miranda Sawyer who SAT has retraced both her footsteps and the train tracks of her SAT youthful InterRailing adventures around Europe. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Barry Humphries in Weimar b012jbp6 (Listen) SAT Barry Humphries has a passion for the world of 20s and early SAT 30s Berlin - its music, its art, its satire. SAT SAT Growing up among emigres in Melbourne he became fascinated SAT by the music of the Weimar Republic era and would scour SAT libraries and archives for records and scores. SAT SAT In later life, he came to know a number of the leading SAT composers of the age, including Ernst Krenek, whose 'jazz SAT opera' Jonny Strikes Up he discusses here, as well as Mischa SAT Spoliansky, one of the great composers of the Berlin Cabaret SAT stage. SAT SAT With the help of his great friend, Dame Edna Everage, who SAT offers us an exclusive and never-before-heard performance of SAT some of her favourite - and cheekiest - cabaret numbers, SAT Barry Humphries brings to life this fascinating period of SAT political strife, economic turbulence and explosive SAT intellectual and artistic productivity. SAT SAT Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b012jbp8 (Listen) SAT Peter Riddell looks at the future of press regulation after SAT the phone hacking scandal; he asks how far the relationship SAT between journalists and politicians has changed over the SAT years; and he talks to the Speaker of the House of Lords as SAT she steps down after five years in the job. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b012jbpb (Listen) SAT Could the Libyan rebels be poised to march on the capital SAT Tripoli? Gabriel Gatehouse has been spending time with them SAT near the coastal city of Misrata. Andrew Hosken's just SAT returned from Somalia where the rains have failed again, SAT drought has taken hold and many people are in danger of SAT starving to death; a battle between modernity and an older SAT way of doing things is underway in the Indian state of SAT Orissa and Justin Rowlatt's been finding out that in this SAT case, the modern world might be about to lose out; Chris SAT Simpson's in the Gambia where the president has made it SAT clear that he has a low opinion of journalists - the media SAT people, on the other hand, complain of harassment and worse. SAT And from the Seychelles out in the Indian Ocean, a tale from SAT Tim Ecott about the extraordinary coco de mer; a coconut SAT tree with erotic connotations. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b012jbpd (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b012ftsc (Listen) SAT Series 34, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt presents an assortment of topical stand-up SAT sketches and songs, with Jon Holmes, Danielle Ward, Mitch SAT Benn and Laura Shavin. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b012fs90 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b012fs92 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:15 The Reith Lectures b0126d70 (Listen) SAT Securing Freedom: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi: Dissent SAT SAT The pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, examines what SAT drives people to dissent in the second of the 2011 Reith SAT Lecture series. 'Securing Freedom'. SAT SAT Reflecting on the history of her own party, the National SAT League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, examines the meaning SAT of opposition and dissident. She also explains her reasons SAT for following the path of non-violence. SAT SAT 14:00 My Teenage Diary b00wldvl (Listen) SAT Series 2, Sheila Hancock SAT SAT Rufus Hound hosts this six-part comedy series in which SAT celebrities are asked to revisit their teenage diaries and SAT read them out in public for the very first time. This week, SAT Sheila Hancock. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Payne SAT A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b012jcfy (Listen) SAT The Purple Land SAT SAT Published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of SAT William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The SAT Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one SAT of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and SAT as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time. SAT SAT In Davies' hands this 'road novel' becomes a fast paced romp SAT in the tradition of Tom Jones, with a dash of Don Quixote SAT for good measure. SAT SAT It is an exuberant, wryly comic account of a young SAT Englishman's imprudent adventures, set against a background SAT of political strife in nineteenth-century South America. SAT Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an SAT implacable enemy of his teenage bride's father. Leaving her SAT behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the SAT country to seek his fortune. SAT SAT Whilst doing so he learns to hunt, ride, herd, love - even SAT kill. On his way to becoming a man. SAT SAT Hemingway alluded to this book in his masterpiece "The Sun SAT Also Rises", claiming that "The Purple Land" is 'dangerous SAT reading if read too late in life'. SAT SAT Hopefully - it doesn't make for dangerous listening! SAT SAT Richard ..... David Tennant SAT Paquita ..... Denise Gough SAT Marcos/Major Domo ..... Danny Webb SAT Toribia/Grandmother ..... Carol Macready SAT Isidora ..... Lizzie McInnerney SAT Herdsman/Allday ..... Nigel Cooke SAT Paquita's father/Winchcombe ..... Richard Durden SAT Monica/Donna Mercedes ..... Jacey Salles SAT Cloud/Blanco Major ..... Nicholas Murchie SAT Epifanio/Chillingwoth .....Chuk Iwuji SAT Juez/Bartender/Blass ..... Trevor Martin SAT Cleta/Mother ..... Jane Slavin SAT Herdsman's Daughter/Margerita ...... Beth Cooke SAT Anita ...... Grace Horbury SAT Herdsman's Boy ..... Danny Concha SAT SAT Music Composed and performed by SAT Ross Hughes SAT Esben Tjalve SAT Trumpet - Daniel Weitz SAT SAT Script Editor - Eileen Horne SAT Producer/Director: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b012jcg0 (Listen) SAT Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - on show together for the SAT first time in the UK. We look at their relationship and SAT their art. Helen Walsh's jagged experience of broken nights SAT after the birth of her child is the subject of her new novel SAT "Go to Sleep" - she tells Jane what the impact of severe SAT sleep deprivation was on her. Schools Minister Nick Gibb SAT explains why he thinks the end of modular GCSEs might be a SAT good idea; and the mezzo soprano Christine Rice talks about SAT performing with over 1,000 others in an extraordinary piece SAT at the Proms - including four brass bands off stage. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b012jcg2 (Listen) SAT With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b012fs74 (Listen) SAT Limits of Automation SAT 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 asks his panel of top executives about the SAT limits of automation. How far can they go in removing human SAT beings from their business? Which processes are beyond SAT automation? The panel also swap thoughts on the benefits of SAT the corporate awayday. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Mike Lynch, founder and SAT chief executive of the software company Autonomy; Colin SAT Drummond, chief executive of waste management firm Viridor; SAT Douglas Anderson, president and chief executive of the SAT global travel management company Carlson Wagonlit Travel. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012fs94 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b012fs96 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012fs98 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b012jcs4 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by one of America's most successful and SAT recognisable supermodels, Christie Brinkley (was she the SAT Uptown Girl that her former husband Billy Joel sang about?) SAT But it's as an actress that brings her to Loose Ends, as she SAT joins the London cast of Chicago fresh from an acclaimed SAT Broadway run. SAT SAT Marcus du Sautoy takes joy from explaining numbers and maths SAT - as he should as Oxford Professor of Mathematics and the SAT Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. SAT In his latest BBC TV series 'The Code' he searches for the SAT mysterious code - the numbers, shapes and patterns that SAT govern our world. SAT SAT The Bandidos are one of the world's most feared outlaw SAT motorcycle gangs. Writer and former policeman Duncan McNab SAT talked to a member of the Australian Chapter who did the SAT unthinkable - became a police informant and is on the run SAT from the gang, he's a 'Dead Man Running'. SAT SAT Unofficial Mayor of Balham, Arthur Smith celebrates the SAT sights, sounds and soul of one of the world's greatest SAT cities as he talks to Mark Mason about his book 'Walk the SAT Lines: The London Underground, Overground. SAT SAT Swing, blues and rock 'n' roll siblings Kitty, Daisy and SAT Lewis are joined by their mum and dad for their Loose Ends SAT Session and play 'I'm Coming Home' from their album, Smoking SAT in Heaven. SAT SAT And the 7 piece goodtime party outfit Soul Rebels Brass Band SAT give us a taste of Mardi Gras and their home town of New SAT Orleans as they perform a track from their forthcoming album SAT 'Unlock Your Mind' SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b012jcs6 (Listen) SAT Rupert Murdoch SAT SAT Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation which is SAT currently being investigated over illegal phone hacking and SAT the payment of police officers. Steve Hewlett profiles the SAT 80-year-old whose high risk business gambles built an SAT empire, as the high risk behaviour of some of its former SAT employees threatens to undermine it. SAT SAT Producer: Nicola Dowling. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b012jct7 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests comedian Natalie Haynes, SAT academic John Mullan and musician Pat Kane review the SAT cultural highlights of the week. SAT SAT The Hour is a BBC2 six-part drama, by Abi Morgan, which SAT takes viewers behind the scenes of the launch of a topical SAT news programme in London during the Suez Crisis and Cold War SAT espionage of 1956. Starring Dominic West, Romola Garai and SAT Ben Whishaw. SAT SAT Cell 211, directed by Daniel Monzon, has won eight Goya SAT Awards - Spain's equivalent of the Oscars. The film features SAT two sides of a prison riot, told by an inmate and a guard SAT who pretends to be a prisoner in a desperate attempt to SAT survive the ordeal. SAT SAT Lay Me Down Softly is Billy Roche's new humorous yet SAT melancholy play set in Ireland in the 60s. We join Delaney's SAT Travelling Road show and in particular its boxing hall, SAT where prize fighter Dean takes on all comers on a nightly SAT basis. That is until a challenge from a professional fighter SAT upsets the apple-cart. SAT SAT The Life is the latest novel by Australian author Malcolm SAT Knox. It features a champion surfer recalling his glory days SAT on the water and wondering whether he can get to ride the SAT waves again. SAT SAT Jake or Dinos Chapman is the title of the latest exhibition SAT by the Brit Art brothers, who, for the past year, have been SAT working in separate studios. Only in the staging of the show SAT will each become aware of what the other has been creating. SAT SAT Producer Anne-Marie Cole. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b012jct9 (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, 16/07/2011 SAT SAT Professor Germaine Greer's book 'The Female Eunuch' defined SAT the 1970s for a generation of women, and she's continued to SAT be an outspoken champion for women today. Her career is SAT well-known for encompassing academic success and feminist SAT thought. But there are other sides of her career too which SAT are less well known - acting in revue and hosting TV sketch SAT shows for instance, as well as a short stint in the 'Big SAT Brother' house. SAT SAT In the final programme in the series 'Meeting Myself Coming SAT Back', Germaine Greer relives key moments from her life and SAT career in conversation with John Wilson. She discusses her SAT role in the development of feminist thought and reflects on SAT her life through the decades. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b012f7ms (Listen) SAT The History of Titus Groan, Titus Arrives SAT SAT By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SAT Episode One 'Titus Arrives' SAT A baby is born: Titus Groan, heir to crumbling stone and SAT ancient ritual, only son of Sepulchrave, the 76th Earl of SAT Gormenghast. Whilst the castle flies into state of high SAT excitement, change may at last come creeping through its SAT empty halls, on the heels of a sly but ambitious kitchen boy SAT named Steerpike. SAT Titus...Luke Treadaway SAT Artist...David Warner SAT Steerpike...Carl Prekopp SAT Sepulchrave, Earl Of Groan...Paul Rhys SAT Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson SAT Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet SAT Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig SAT Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar SAT Cora ...Claudie Blakley SAT Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan SAT Flay ...Adrian Scarborough SAT Abiatha Swelter ...Mark Benton SAT Sourdust...James Lailey SAT Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw SAT Keda...Susie Riddell SAT With Simon Bubb, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, Alun SAT Raglan, Alex Tregear SAT Music by Roger Goula SAT Directed by Gemma Jenkins SAT Produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b012fs9b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b01292gl (Listen) SAT Series 2, Matthew Engel SAT SAT Matthew Engel charts the growth of Americanisms in the SAT English language and explains why, as a former Washington SAT correspondent, he thinks this is now a serious problem SAT Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SAT provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SAT front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the SAT encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, SAT speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on SAT the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SAT culture and society. SAT Producer: Sheila Cook. SAT SAT 22:30 The Story of Economics b00zf344 (Listen) SAT Gods SAT SAT In this three-part series Michael Blastland lays out the SAT history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes SAT wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right. SAT SAT In the first programme, 'Gods', Michael travels to Athens SAT and the site of Aristotle's Lyceum - where economics as a SAT discipline began. He finds that the first economists were SAT not really economists at all. They were moral philosophers. SAT SAT Today, questions of morality remain at the heart of SAT economics. Your greedy self-interest is another's virtuous SAT self-reliance. SAT SAT And here's a funny thing. If you think government should get SAT off our backs - for moral reasons of course - you probably SAT think cutting it will be good for the economy too. If you SAT think the government should help people more, you probably SAT also think doing so will stimulate economic growth. SAT SAT 'Good' and 'bad' sure complicate the sums. Is it any wonder SAT economists can't agree? SAT SAT In next week's programme, 'Cogs', Michael travels to Chicago SAT to explore another view of economics - that it is not moral SAT philosophy but a hard science, explaining the irrefutable SAT mechanism of the market. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b012fbw4 (Listen) SAT The popular quotations quiz, Quote...Unquote, returns for a SAT new series hosted by Nigel Rees. This week Nigel is joined SAT by a fantastic array of stars: the legendary actress, Sian SAT Phillips, sports journalist James Richardson, broadcaster SAT Edward Stourton and the comedian and actress, Rebecca Front. SAT As well as quizzing about quotations, the guests will share SAT anecdotes and nuggets of advice they've picked up over the SAT years. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SAT SAT 23:30 Pearl b012fbkb (Listen) SAT 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is one of the landmarks of SAT medieval English literature and we know of it because a SAT small manuscript survived from the 14th century. Now SAT catalogued in the British Library as 'Cotton Nero A x', the SAT manuscript includes three other poems, thought to by the SAT same poet. One is a masterpiece. This is 'Pearl' and in this SAT documentary Julian May brings it out from the dark shadow of SAT Gawain's tale of beheading and questing into the light where SAT its lustre can glow. SAT SAT Pearl is the poet's two year old daughter, who has died. Her SAT grieving father falls asleep on her grave and Pearl appears SAT to him in a dream and leads him to some understanding of SAT this calamity. Yet while he takes some comfort from this he SAT not reconciled to her loss, and needs to grieve. SAT SAT In this feature Jane Draycott, who has just published a new SAT translation; Bernard O'Donoghue, the poet who teaches SAT Medieval Literature at Oxford University; the American poet SAT and critic Dana Gioia (who himself lost a child in infancy) SAT all reveal the way this ancient poem of great beauty as well SAT as sadness speaks to us today. Though a reflection on a SAT death, it is full of life; though a dream poem, it is vivid SAT and real; though an expression of orthodox Christianity, it SAT is a poem of human relationship and feeling - and not SAT without wit and humour when Pearl, as daughters do, lectures SAT her father, and he, as fathers do, complains she's getting a SAT bit uppity. SAT SAT The poem is of great formal elegance and intricacy, itself a SAT linguistic string of pearls and there readings of it by SAT James Layley, from Draycott's translation and Trevor Eaton SAT in the original Middle English. And at the British Library, SAT Julian Harrison, the curator who looks after the manuscript, SAT shows Julian May this diminutive book, no larger than a SAT paperback, for someone's personal reading and well-thumbed, SAT that contains two of the treasures of the English language. SAT SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 JULY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b012jcz8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Scottish Shorts b00nvfbx (Listen) SUN Series 10, One Of Us SUN SUN Stories showcasing new Scottish writing. SUN SUN By Julia Butler. SUN SUN A young boy struggling to adapt to a new environment comes SUN alive on the football pitch. SUN SUN Read by Simon Tait. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012jczb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012jczd (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012jczg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b012jczj (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b012jd0y (Listen) SUN The bells of St Paul's Cathedral, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b012jcs6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b012jczn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b012jd2g (Listen) SUN Letting Your Hair Down SUN SUN Mark Tully presents an edition of Something Understood on SUN 'Letting Your Hair Down', in which he goes to the pub, talks SUN with friends and tests the premise that kicking over the SUN traces and relaxing is healthy mentally and spiritually. SUN SUN In a roistering programme about the importance of SUN celebrating, relaxing and pushing the boat out once in a SUN while, he examines the pros and cons of letting our hair SUN down and asks where we should draw the line and what the SUN types of rest and recreation that we ought to take seriously SUN are: from food and drink to laughter and friendship. SUN SUN The programme draws on the writings of an eclectic bunch SUN this week, with readings from St Thomas Aquinas, Graham SUN Greene, Casanova and John Masefield and with music from SUN Mozart, Elgar and Fats Waller. SUN SUN The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Isla Blair. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b012jdpm (Listen) SUN Farming on military land in the Salisbury Plain is a battle SUN between artillery and agriculture. Tom Heap joins Bruce SUN Waight on his farm in the Salisbury Plain which is owned by SUN the Ministry of Defence. The MOD has 43 tenant farmers and SUN 90,000 acres of agricultural land. The MOD use Bruce's land SUN to train their troops, and they are in constant SUN communication to ensure none of his cattle are harmed. SUN SUN Presented by Tom Heap. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b012jczq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b012jczs (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b012jdpp (Listen) SUN This week a report into abuse in the Cloyne diocese in SUN Ireland painted a depressing and familiar picture of SUN failings in the safeguarding policy of the Irish Catholic SUN Church. Jane will hear from Ian Elliot, who first brought SUN the failings of the Church to light, and priest Father Brian SUN Darcy. SUN SUN The Nigerian city of Maidiguri is under siege after more SUN attacks this week by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram. SUN Jonah Fisher in Lagos explains who they are and their deadly SUN agenda. SUN SUN Young people are running away from home at a younger age SUN than ever before according to a report this week by The SUN Children's Society. Jane will discuss with Children's SUN Minister Tim Loughton and the Church of England's Advocate SUN for Children, Bishop Tim Stevens. SUN SUN Matthew Kalman joins Jane from Jerusalem to explain more SUN about a row over plans to build a Jewish Museum on the site SUN of a Muslim cemetery in the heart of Jerusalem and how this SUN relates to a corruption involving former Israeli prime SUN minister Ehud Olmert. SUN SUN The news has been dominated again this week by the hacking SUN row. We report on the influence of the Murdoch family which SUN has spread to the Catholic Church, who accepted a hundred SUN thousand pound donation from Rupert Murdoch. But should the SUN Church have taken the money and now should it give it back? SUN Jane asks Bishop Keiron Conry and Francis Davis. SUN SUN And Dawn Bryan meets the Christian preachers who spread the SUN word far and wide from their narrow boats. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b012jdpr (Listen) SUN Campaign for National Parks SUN SUN Ben Fogle presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Campaign for National Parks. SUN SUN Donations to Campaign for National Parks should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Campaign for National Parks. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Campaign for National Parks 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: 295336. SUN SUN Campaign for National Parks SUN SUN This week the Campaign for National Parks is celebrating its SUN 75th anniversary. Richard Reed has been supporting the SUN charity for over 50 of those 75 years! The South Downs are SUN Englands newest National Park and an area where Richard SUN spent many a childhood holiday . Click here to read about SUN his memories including target practice off Beachy head SUN during the war. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b012jczv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b012jczx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b012jdrw (Listen) SUN Each year, the annual Buxton Festival of Music and the Arts SUN on the edge of Derbyshire's Peak District is graced with SUN three Festival Masses sung in St John's Church. Today's SUN service is Haydn's Little Organ Mass sung by the Buxton SUN Madrigal Singers directed by Michael Williams. The celebrant SUN is the Rector of Buxton, the Revd John Hudghton and the SUN preacher is the Very Revd Dr John Davies, Dean of Derby. The SUN organist is Roger Briscoe and the producer is Stephen SUN Shipley. SUN SUN Church of St John the Baptist, Buxton, 17 July 2011 SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b012ftsk (Listen) SUN The Art of Conversation SUN SUN Alain de Botton on why preparing conversation is as SUN important as preparing a good salad for our summer picnic. SUN He questions why we put so much effort into our social SUN encounters, but leave our conversation to chance. With SUN examples from history and literature, he argues that it's SUN when there are rules to our conversation that our spirit can SUN best be set free. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b012jdry (Listen) SUN With Sian Williams. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b012jds0 (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Spencer Wilkes ..... Jonny Venkman SUN Natalie ..... Maddie Glasbey SUN Elona ..... Eri Shuka SUN Zofia ..... Izabella Urbanowicz. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b012jf8n (Listen) SUN Michael McIntyre SUN SUN Michael McIntyre interviewed by Kirsty Young's for Desert SUN Island Discs. SUN SUN In less than five years he's gone from being an unknown SUN stand-up with debts of more than £30,000 to become one of SUN the most successful comedians in the business - with awards, SUN chart-topping DVDs and sell-out arena shows under his belt. SUN SUN He says: "I was on the circuit for years, I did get more and SUN more in debt - it really did drag on and I just couldn't get SUN a break. But when my chance came, I'd envisaged it so many SUN times, I wasn't even nervous. I knew I could do it." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012fc5g (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a SUN first-time visit to the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by David Mitchell, with Jack Dee in SUN the chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b012jf8q (Listen) SUN Emergency Food SUN SUN Sheila Dillon investigates how emergency foods are made for SUN disasters, droughts and wars. Companies developing meals for SUN the crisis in the Horn of Africa explain their latest work. SUN SUN Sheila also visits one of the biggest emergency food hubs in SUN the world, The United Nations' World Food Programme base in SUN Brindisi in Southern Italy. From one warehouse, food for SUN hundreds of thousands of people can be stored and dispatched SUN within a few hours of a crisis call coming in. SUN SUN In Rome teams of nutritionists are looking into the very SUN latest foods that can be sent around the world for SUN populations affected by drought, conflict and earthquakes. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b012jczz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b012jf8s (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton presents the latest national and SUN international news, with an in-depth look at events around SUN the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Power of Om b012mzsp (Listen) SUN Reverend Richard Coles explores the world of spiritual sound SUN and meditation and tries to understand what it is about SUN certain sounds and chants which gives practitioners a sense SUN of proximity to the Divine. He tunes into the Om, a sacred SUN sound in several religions including Hinduism, Sikhism, SUN Jainism and Buddhism and its vibration is believed by many SUN to be healing. He speaks to the Director for the Oxford SUN Centre for Hindu Studies, Shaunaka Rishi Das, who states SUN that Meditation is something we all do from childhood, for SUN example when we are focussing on something we want to buy SUN and how to get it or when we kiss, but that it can be used SUN for greater ends SUN SUN Richard meets neuroscientist Dr Alan Watkins of Imperial SUN College who has worked with the Dalai Lama and his team in SUN Tibet and found that people who meditate together showed SUN signs of "entrainment" in their brain activity, the same SUN phenomenon that allows flocks of birds or shoals of fish to SUN move together. Is this the sense of "one-ness" people talk SUN about when meditating? SUN SUN Richard speaks to the expert in comparative religion Martin SUN Palmer who suggests that there is nothing inherently sacred SUN about chanting, but that is a trick whose powers can be SUN harnessed by despots as well as for good. SUN SUN Richard talks to Jem Finer of The Pogues, writer of their SUN greatest hit The Fairytale of New York about his Longplayer SUN project, a musical composition based on the meditative sound SUN of Tibetan Singing Bowls and designed to play continuously SUN for 1000 years. SUN SUN Richard also hears from the nuns at Saint Cecilia's Abbey on SUN the Isle of Wight who sing Gregorian Chant everyday in its SUN original form. What does the power of the Mother Note in SUN Gregorian chant have in common with the mantra recitations SUN of the Hindu tradition? SUN SUN Producer: Victoria Shepherd SUN A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012fts3 (Listen) SUN Winchester, Hampshire SUN SUN How to maximise vegetable yields: Bob Flowerdew and Pippa SUN Greenwood explain the effects of lime and sulphate of potash SUN on your soil. SUN SUN In addition, Matthew Wilson explains how you should divide SUN up a small garden. SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this edition of Gardeners' Question Time. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon & Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Mabey in the Wild b012jfqq (Listen) SUN Wild Roses SUN SUN Wild roses are treasured for their simple beauty. Richard SUN Mabey finds them in the rambling hedgerows of rural Norfolk SUN and explains something of their natural and cultural SUN history. SUN SUN Wild roses have inspired poets and painters - Shakespeare's SUN famous line 'with sweet musk roses and with eglantine' SUN describing the bank where Titania sleeps in Midsummer's SUN Night's Dream is a tribute to the dreamy smell of some wild SUN roses - but references go back through history to the SUN Persian poets. SUN SUN Richard also celebrates the part that the robust wild rose SUN has played in the breeding of cultivates roses. He talks to SUN Peter Beales - one of the country's most respected SUN authorities on roses - about the part the wild rose has SUN played in developing the garden varieties. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b012kn23 (Listen) SUN The History of Titus Groan, Titus Inherits SUN SUN By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SUN Episode Two 'Titus Inherits' SUN As tension between Mr Flay and Swelter, head chef of SUN Gormenghast, takes a deadly turn, Titus's foster mother Keda SUN is drawn back into her old life amongst the bright carvers. SUN Meanwhile, the first of Steerpike's great plans comes to SUN fruition as he manipulates the ladies Clarice and Cora to SUN great and tragic effect. SUN Titus ...Luke Treadaway SUN Artist...David Warner SUN Steerpike...Carl Prekopp SUN Sepulchrave, Earl Of Groan...Paul Rhys SUN Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson SUN Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet SUN Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig SUN Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar SUN Cora ...Claudie Blakley SUN Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan SUN Flay ...Adrian Scarborough SUN Abiatha Swelter ...Mark Benton SUN Sourdust...James Lailey SUN Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw SUN Keda...Susie Riddell SUN Barquentine ...Gerard McDermott SUN With Simon Bubb, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, Alun SUN Raglan, Alex Tregear SUN Music by Roger Goula SUN Directed and Produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b012kn25 (Listen) SUN Al Murray on Thackeray, and a History of Women's Writing SUN Part Two SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents the second part of her series SUN examining the history of women's writing in the last hundred SUN years. This week in A Book of One's Own she explores fiction SUN of the 1930s and 40s - a time when the vote had been won but SUN sexual inequality was still rife - with the help of writers SUN and critics including Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf's SUN biographer, and feminist publisher Carmen Calil. SUN SUN With the bicentenary of William Makepeace Thackeray's birth SUN fast approaching we ask comedian Al Murray to tell us about SUN his great, great, great grandfather and why he thinks Vanity SUN Fair is still as relevant today as it was when it was first SUN written in 1848. SUN SUN Plus, we find out about a new charitable scheme which is SUN giving away books for free. SUN SUN Producer: Ella-mai Robey. SUN SUN 16:30 Tagore at 150 b012kn27 (Listen) SUN Poets, singers and ecological activists share their SUN favourite Tagore verse at a festival at Dartington Hall in SUN Devon to mark the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. SUN SUN Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature in SUN 1913 for his collection Geetanjali ("The Song Offerings"). SUN He wrote more than 1,000 poems and 2000 songs and his work SUN has been translated into all the major languages of the SUN world. SUN SUN UNESCO has declared 2011 as the Year of Tagore and his life SUN and work are being celebrated at events throughout the SUN world. SUN SUN This programme comes from the recent Tagore Festival in SUN Dartington Hall, the centre for poetry, music, arts and SUN crafts in Devon that was founded at the suggestion of Tagore SUN himself. SUN SUN We hear from poets such as William Radice (whose new SUN translation of Geetanjali has just been published), Ketaki SUN Kushari Dyson and former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, SUN singers Debashish and Rohini Raychaudhuri, environmentalist SUN Jonathon Porritt and internationalists such as Clare Short SUN and Satish Kumar, Artistic Director of the Festival who is a SUN devotee of Tagore's ecological teachings as well as his SUN poetry. SUN SUN Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b012fdwj (Listen) SUN Open Borders? SUN SUN The Border Agency is charged with preventing drugs, weapons SUN and would-be illegal immigrants from getting to the UK. But SUN three years after being created, the Agency has been accused SUN by MPs of failing to enforce immigration rules. Faced with SUN cuts to its budget and the loss of around one-fifth of its SUN staff over the next four years, the Agency is looking to new SUN technology to improve its effectiveness. But with delays to SUN the e-borders project and problems with existing computer SUN systems, Morland Sanders investigates whether the strategy SUN will work. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b012jcs6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012jd01 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b012jd03 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012jd05 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b012kn29 (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN This week on Pick of the Week : We hear about the table SUN manners of the Rolling Stones , and other rock and roll SUN stories from a motorway café.Comedian Paul Sinha toys with SUN cricket and national identity. Joanna Lumley takes a walk SUN down the Street of Dreams and discovers how Broadway helped SUN shape American culture. SUN Why a rummage in the freezer evokes memories of a win on the SUN bingo. There's the startling arrival of Titus Groan at SUN Gormenghast. And we meet the woman behind the perfectly SUN modulated voice on the London Underground. SUN SUN Late Nights at the Blue Boar - Radio 4 SUN The History of Titus Groan - Radio 4 SUN Beyond Belief - Radio 4 SUN Ghosts by Daylight - Radio 4 SUN Witness - World Service SUN The Disappeared - Radio 4 SUN Happy Birthday Neptune - Radio 4 SUN The Hunt for Bin Laden - Radio 4 SUN Waterline - Radio 4 SUN Fry's English Delight - Radio 4 SUN Bigipedia - Radio 4 SUN The Sinha Test - Radio 4 SUN Joanna Lumley on Broadway - Radio 3 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b012kn2c (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b012kn2f (Listen) SUN An insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00pfsqt (Listen) SUN Bright Young Things, The Garden Party SUN SUN Romola Garai reads the first of two stories celebrating the SUN extravagant, cocktail-swilling party people of the 1920s, SUN the 'Bright Young Things'. In today's story, one of SUN Katherine Mansfield's all-time classics, a tragic death SUN threatens to intrude upon the lavish preparations for a SUN rather extravagant summer party. SUN SUN Born in 1888 in New Zealand, Katherine Mansfield is widely SUN considered to be one of the finest short story writers of SUN the early 20th century and was a major influence on the SUN evolution of the modern short story form in Britain and SUN Europe. SUN SUN Written by Katherine Mansfield SUN Read by Romola Garai SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton SUN Produced by Justine Willett. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b012ftrz (Listen) SUN Have BBC journalists overindulged in the Murdoch meltdown? SUN Roger Bolton puts your thoughts to Mary Hockaday the head of SUN the BBC newsroom. SUN SUN What's your reaction to changes to the Radio 4 schedule? SUN More news and more comedy? Roger finds out what's in store. SUN SUN And "watching" the radio - more networks are wheeling in the SUN cameras to get their guests and presenters on screen as well SUN as on air. But why? SUN SUN Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like SUN him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC SUN radio. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b012fts5 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The former American First Lady Betty Ford, noted for her SUN outspoken views and for her battles with drug and drink SUN addictions SUN SUN The Earl of Harewood, cousin to the Queen, opera buff, SUN free-speech-campaigner-turned-film-censor and lifelong Leeds SUN United fan SUN SUN Christiane Desroches Noblecourt the French Egyptologist who SUN led the challenging project to move vast Nubian temples, SUN stone by stone, to avoid the waters of the Aswan Dam SUN SUN Betty Callaway - the ice dance coach who helped Torvill and SUN Dean to a series of World Championships and Olympic Gold. SUN Christopher Dean and Michael Crawford pay tribute SUN SUN Itamar Franco, the Brazilian President who brought his SUN country's rampant inflation under control and was SUN photographed alongside a scantily clad model SUN SUN And Josef Suk - the leading violin soloist who was Dvorak's SUN great grandson. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b012kn2k (Listen) SUN Saving Lives in Seconds SUN SUN John Waite presents the investigative series looking at SUN consumer and social stories from the UK. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b012jdpr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b012fc5q (Listen) SUN Unsure about Sure Start SUN SUN Sure Start was one of the flagship policies of the Labour SUN years, and the Coalition Government has just underlined its SUN commitment to keeping it going. SUN SUN But in this edition of Analysis Fran Abrams asks a question. SUN To many, it's a seriously heretical one: is Sure Start worth SUN saving? SUN SUN Twelve years and £10 billion since it began, some are still SUN struggling to describe what Sure Start has achieved for SUN children. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b012kn2m (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 b012kn2p (Listen) SUN Episode 61 SUN SUN George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b012fts7 (Listen) SUN As the Hogwarts Express prepares to chug off into the sunset SUN Francine Stock reflects on the legacy of Harry Potter. SUN There's an interview with David Yates, who directed the last SUN four films in the series and you can hear some of the SUN distinguished British actors who've given the films much of SUN their savour. Francine will also be talking to Aidan Gillen SUN about his role in Treacle Jnr - the new film by the much SUN lauded independent director, Jamie Thraves who remortgaged SUN his home to fund the feature. And Jane Asher shares her SUN thoughts about starring in Skolimowski's cult classic, Deep SUN End. We'll also be hearing about Martin Scorsese's programme SUN of films for the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall, plans to SUN screen The Great Dictator at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin SUN and the Lexi Cinema's Nomad project which among other things SUN will bring Fitzcarraldo to the Serpentine this summer. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b012jd2g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 JULY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b012knjr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b012fqt5 (Listen) MON Liverpool Riots - Children and Politics MON MON 30 years ago riots broke out in Liverpool which lead to 160 MON arrests and 258 police officers needing hospital treatment. MON The four days of street battles, arson and looting lead to MON violent disturbances in many other British cities and have MON changed community relations and disorder policing in the MON country forever. On today's Thinking Allowed, Laurie Taylor MON explores a study of first hand accounts of those tumultuous MON days, from police officers, rioters and residents. Richard MON Phillips and Diane Frost recreate the times. MON Also on the programme, what makes a child political? Dorothy MON Moss discusses research which reveals how engaged young MON children are in issues and social change. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b012jd0y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012knjt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012knjw (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012knjz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b012knk1 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012kq2h (Listen) MON A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with MON the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the MON Titanic Quarter in Belfast. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b012kq2k (Listen) MON This year's weather has led to a bumper crop of summer MON fruit. But rhubarb growers have not had so much joy. Also, MON Farming Today reports on the latest plans to control TB in MON badgers. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Swadling MON Producer: Fran Banres. MON MON 05:57 Weather b012knk3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b012kq2p (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 Fry's English Delight b012krqz (Listen) MON Series 4, Brevity MON MON Stephen Fry explores 'Brevity' - from lyrics to headlines MON and epitaphs to telegrams. MON MON We've always had a taste for the tweet-sized. Proverbs and MON aphorisms go back to the ancient Greeks. We explore the MON possible links between the Tweet and the Haiku - including MON that tiny rarity, an English Haiku. We visit Bunhill MON Cemetery in London with writer Kevin Jackson to enjoy the MON necessary terseness of epitaphs and reflect on a poetic MON exponent, William Blake. MON MON The concision of telegrams created poetry and humour born of MON economy. We recall Oscar Wilde's famous telegram exchange MON with his publisher in which he enquires about sales of his MON recent book with a lone '?' The response was of course, '!' MON MON One liner-machine Tim Vine joins Stephen in the studio to MON discuss his affinity with brevity and 'his passion for small MON hand grenades of wit' as one reviewer put it. He describes MON the liberation of the bite-size joke and reflects on why he MON would make the perfect headline writer. MON MON 'The pun is the life blood of the headline' according to MON Kelvin Mackenzie who recalls the origins of his famous MON headline from the 1980s - 'Gotcha' and reflects on the MON importance of short words for any tabloid newspaper editor. MON Laura Barton, writer for the Guardian, explores her love of MON short writing and of neologisms in pop lyrics. If 'la la' MON means 'I love you' and 'wop-bop-a-loop-a' was an expression MON which captured the freedom of 50s rock and roll, what short MON word sums up the world today? MON MON Alex Krotoski chooses the word 'Meme' and examines the way MON technology has given us the means to create ever smaller MON bespoke packages of information. And more of them. The MON chopped up doesn't necessarily mean the dumbed down. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012krr1 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON In Blind Man's Bete Noire, Peter White explores some of the MON things which annoy him most about his blindness. MON In the second programme Peter is joined by broadcaster and MON travel expert Simon Calder. They spend the Isle of Wight MON ferry crossing discussing the best type of holiday for Peter MON to enjoy independence, flexibility and action. MON MON Simon suggests a cruise may well meet Peter's requirements MON and mentions that there are also tailored holidays for blind MON people. Peter talks to one such specialist company about the MON holidays they offer, providing blind travellers with a MON sighted guide, to enable them to go on holiday on their own. MON MON Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b012krr3 (Listen) MON Let Not the Waves of the Sea, Episode 1 MON MON Let Not the Waves of the Sea is Simon Stephenson's account MON of his emotional journey following the death of his brother MON Dominic - and his brother's girlfriend Eileen - in the MON Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. MON MON Simon's journey takes him back to the scene of the disaster MON in Thailand, where the redemptive power of the people and MON the culture, which his brother loved, help the healing MON process. MON MON Thirty two year old Simon Stephenson is a writer and doctor MON who lives in London. For several years, the Scot made his MON living as a screenwriter. Let Not the Waves of the Sea is MON his first book. MON MON Written by Simon Stephenson MON Abridged by Pete Nichols Reader: Mark Bonnar MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production MON for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b012krr5 (Listen) MON Abi Morgan on 'The Hour', schools and violence, women and MON antidepressants. MON MON Abi Morgan on 'The Hour' MON MON Abi Morgan is one of the most in-demand scriptwriters in the MON country with several major upcoming projects including ‘The MON Iron Lady’ – a feature film about Baroness Thatcher. Her MON latest series, BBC2’s ‘The Hour’ is a Cold War espionage MON drama set in a 1956 television newsroom. Its retro-style and MON exploration of sexual politics has led many to bill it as MON Britain’s answer to ‘Mad Men’. Abi Morgan joins Jenni to MON discuss the inspiration and challenges of writing ‘The MON Hour’. MON MON ‘The Hour’, six part series begins on BBC2 on Tuesday 19th MON July at 9pm MON MON Shoreditch Sisters MON MON The Shoreditch Sisters is just one of the chapters of the MON Women’s Institute that has been credited with breathing new MON life into the organisation. In recent years there has been MON an influx of women in their 20S and 30s, often based in MON urban centres, who are drawn by a shared interest in MON domestic crafts, feminism, and social activism. The MON Shoreditch Sisters is based in Hoxton in east London, dubbed MON by some as the trendiest WI in Britain. Their latest project MON aims to highlight their campaign against female genital MON mutilation by creating a quilt of patches featuring lovingly MON crafted vulvas. Anna McNamee went to one of their meetings MON to find out what had drawn these young women to the WI in MON the first place. MON MON Antidepressants MON MON A third of women have taken antidepressants at some point in MON their lives, according to a survey carried out by the MON women’s group Platform 51. And nearly half of women MON currently on antidepressants have been on them for five MON years or more. Are GPs too quick to prescribe tablets for MON depression? Once on them, how easy is it for women to stop? MON How regularly do patients need to be monitored by their GPs? MON And what are the alternatives to drugs? Jenni will be joined MON by Dr Joanna Moncrieff, a Psychiatrist at University MON College, London and Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal MON College of GPs. MON MON Preventing domestic violence and the role of schools MON MON It is estimated that violence against women costs society MON £40 billion each year. Yet prevention, campaign groups say, MON has been a historically neglected part of government policy. MON Part of the problem has been the lack of evidence about the MON effectiveness of prevention programmes in changing attitudes MON towards domestic violence in children and young people. The MON first robust evaluation of prevention programmes in schools MON in the UK, however, has just reported positive results. One MON of the study's authors, Dr Claire Fox from Keele University, MON joins Jenni to discuss her findings and is joined by Holly MON Dustin, Director of the End Violence Against Women MON Coalition. While reporter Anna McNamee visits a school in MON London to talk to teenagers who have been taking part in MON workshops run by Tender, an education charity who specialise MON in violence prevention work. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012krr7 (Listen) MON Imaginary Friends, Episode 6 MON MON By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray MON MON Roger has gone to see Verena, worried that Tom McCann has MON influenced the announcement that the Varnians are about to MON visit earth. MON MON Roger ... Jonathan Forbes MON McCann ... Nathan Osgood MON Elsie ... Barbara Barnes MON Verena ... Alex Tregear MON Sissy ... Susie Riddell MON Bill ... Peter Polycarpou MON Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw MON Ken ... Simon Bubb MON Peggy Elaine Claxton MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 11:00 The Lunatic Line b012krr9 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The 600-mile railway line from the Kenyan coast to Uganda MON became known as The Lunatic Line for the astronomical MON financial and human costs of construction. MON MON Built by the British between 1895 and 1901 through hostile MON tribal lands and malarial swamps, it was an enormous MON engineering challenge. Thousands of workers died during the MON railway's construction, mostly from disease, although the MON man-eating lions of Tsavo also devoured many. Little wonder MON then that it was opposed as a gigantic folly. MON MON In the first of two programmes, Ayisha Yahya looks back at MON the history of the railway that transformed East Africa MON beyond recognition. MON MON Producer: Ruth Evans MON A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b00sk7rk (Listen) MON Series 1, Desperately Seeking Dolores MON MON Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom MON Sorry, Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. Sorry ran for seven MON series on BBC 1 and was number one in the UK ratings. MON MON In this Radio 4 sitcom, Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is MON growing old happily along with his dog Henry. His grown up MON children - both married to people Sandy doesn't approve of MON at all - would like him to move out of the family home so MON they can get their hands on their money earlier. But Sandy's MON not having this. He's not moving until the dog dies. And not MON just that, how can he move if he's got a lodger? His MON daughter is convinced that his too attractive lodger Dolores MON (Liza Tarbuck) is after Sandy and his money. MON MON Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a MON friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help MON a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together MON face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make MON it more so. MON MON The final episode is Desperately Seeking Dolores. Sandy and MON Dolores are always bickering but this time it's serious and MON she walks out on him and his dog Henry. Luckily, Sandy MON remembers that Dolores is going on a charity run dressed as MON a chicken; but so are all her friends. In an exciting chase MON sequences, Henry comes up trumps. MON MON Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett MON Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Lance ..... Philip Bird MON Mrs Pompom ..... Sally Grace MON Drobny ..... Jon Glover. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b012krrc (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b012knk5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b012krrf (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 b012krrh (Listen) MON The legendary quotations quiz Quote...Unquote returns for a MON new series, hosted by the incomparable Nigel Rees. This MON week's panellists are the Irish comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, MON Sony Gold-winning broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty and celebrated MON actor Martin Jarvis. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b012kn2c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j5889 (Listen) MON Smoke and Daggers by Hugh Costello. MON MON A political thriller by a skilful writer who is making an MON increasing reputation in movie and TV writing. "Holby City", MON Thin Ice (2005) "Auto da Fe", "On Home Ground" (2001) TV MON Series "The Ambassador" TV Series (writer) The Rope Trick. MON Hugh's latest film is the Emmy Award winning Bernard and MON Doris starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes. Recently MON for R4, Slightly Larger Than West Virginia and The MON Forgetting Curve. MON MON His latest play imagines its way inside the lives of a MON political elite who surrounded the former Taioseach, Bertie MON Ahern. MON MON Dublin, 1997. When Joe Finnerty marries into Dublin's MON political aristocracy his fortune appears to be made. MON Lucrative government contracts and the ready patronage of MON his heavy hitting father-in-law ensure that Joe soon becomes MON a man to be reckoned with. MON MON His own career in politics seems pre-ordained, until a MON disgruntled Party apparatchik leaks information concerning MON the unexplained death of Joe's ex partner, creating a MON scandal which shakes the Finnerty empire and threatens to MON destroy Joe and everything he once held dear. MON MON A cautionary tale about an individual's pact with political MON preferment - Irish style. MON MON Joe Finnerty - Patrick Fitzsymons MON Oliver McQuaid - John Kavanagh MON Louise Finnerty - Amanda Hurwitz MON Gemma - Cathy White MON Fintan - Michael J Murphy MON Murtagh - Hugh Costello MON D.I. Glynn - Frankie McCafferty MON Miriam - Nicky Doherty MON And Conor Finnerty - Padraig Dooney MON MON The play was directed by EOIN O'CALLAGHAN. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b012jct9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012l0r4 (Listen) MON Series 2, Collectivisation MON MON Collectivisation was Stalin's flagship policy, crucial to MON the creation of the New Soviet Man, moulded in the ways of MON socialism, and he couldn't afford to see it fail. But his MON confident announcement of victory, celebrated in the 1930s MON musical 'The Rich Bride' (a sort of Ukrainian 'Oklahoma!') MON was premature. MON MON Martin Sixsmith draws on the memories of 84 year old Masha MON Alekseevna, who witnessed the drive to collectivise Soviet MON agriculture with the eyes of a startled child. The problem MON for the Bolsheviks was that they'd never had much support in MON the countryside. For millions of ordinary peasants MON collectivisation meant swapping the yoke of the private MON landlords for the new yoke of the state and thousands of MON towns and villages rose up in revolt. 25,000 shock troops - MON class-conscious urban workers, former soldiers and young MON communists - were sent to bring the countryside to heel. MON MON Sixsmith travels to Veryaevo, 250 miles SE of Moscow, where MON one of the fiercest rebellions took place and resentment and MON resistance bubbled on even after the authorities regained MON control. The immediate result of collectivization was MON appalling, widespread famine - described in contemporary MON reports by British diplomat Gareth Jones, and Malcolm MON Muggeridge, one of the few Western journalists courageous MON enough to travel to the affected areas and report the truth. MON MON Just as Soviet cinema was turning out films about happy MON singing peasants, cases of cannibalism were increasingly MON being reported in the Ukraine, where 6 to 8 million people MON died. Stalin hadn't forgotten the civil war when some MON Ukrainians had welcomed the Polish invaders and he doubted MON the loyalty of non Russian nationalities. His suspicions MON would grow, until they ripened into the purges that would MON leave their dreadful mark on the rest of the decade. MON MON Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking MON Producer: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b012jf8q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b012l0r8 (Listen) MON Christianity is a Middle Eastern Religion. Its early MON expansion was Eastwards and it quickly became the dominant MON religion of the region. That changed with the arrival of MON Islam but Christians have always had a significant presence. MON But during the last century Christians began leaving the MON Middle East in large numbers. MON Sometimes it was because they were more able to take up the MON opportunities the West offered; sometimes it was because MON they felt less able to express their faith under growing MON political Islam. In this programme Ernie Rea asks how the MON events of the Arab Spring will affect the fortunes of MON Christians in the Middle East. He is joined by Nadim Nassar, MON a Syrian and Anglican priest, Professor Madawi al-Rasheed MON from Kings College London, and Ziya Meral, fellow of the US MON Commission on International Religious Freedom. MON MON 17:00 PM b012l0rb (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012knk8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012l0rd (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 4 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return MON visit to the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. Regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by David Mitchell, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin MON Sell attempts piano accompaniment. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b012l0rg (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b012l0rj (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with designer MON Kenneth Grange, whose portfolio includes cameras, food MON mixers and the distinctive nose-cone of the InterCity 125 MON train. MON MON Producer Andrea Kidd. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012krr7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Soft Power Hard News b012l0rl (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON On the other side of the globe, China's CCTV is fast MON expanding, and now has a vast newsroom in London, and MON operations around the world. Like France 24, Russia 24, MON Press TV (Iran), Al Jazeera, and many more, CCTV is the MON latest attempt for a nation to make the world see things MON through their eyes, and it's backed by serious government MON fund. But, as Rajan discovers in part two, those funds make MON no difference without credibility and some semblance of MON independence. MON MON As the planet's diplomatic borders are re-drawn through the MON media, Soft Power Hard News examines how the new world order MON is taking shape. Former media superpowers like the BBC World MON Service are shrinking, and increasingly wealthy and powerful MON new ones are vying for their place. But who will win, and MON what will the planet's media landscape look like in five MON years time? MON MON Producer: Paul Hardy MON A Moonbeam Films production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b012fs6f (Listen) MON On the road with Hillary Clinton MON MON The BBC's Kim Ghattas has gained exclusive, behind the MON scenes access to the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton MON during one of her recent overseas visits. Code named MON "Special Air Mission 883", the trip took eight days, covered MON thirty thousand miles and touched down in four countries in MON the Middle East and Africa. MON MON Kim joins what is affectionately known as "the bubble", the MON travelling band of diplomatic staffers, special security MON detail, international press and handlers that accompany the MON Secretary, or "S" as she is known, on the trip. MON MON We share their thoughts and hopes, priorities and MON frustrations as Hillary Clinton pursues United States MON foreign policy goals. There are meetings of high diplomacy MON with kings and rulers as well as more grass roots events MON like the promotion of democracy and good governance at an MON African womens collective. MON MON A surprisingly intimate portrait of the Secretary and her MON closest aides. MON MON Producer: Jane Beresford. MON MON 21:00 Material World b012fs6t (Listen) MON This week, Quentin Cooper explores hidden landscapes under MON the ice of Antarctica and underwater volcanoes off its MON coast. He hears of a vast land that emerged from the North MON Atlantic, only to be lost again beneath the waves. He asks MON what the quest for mythical monsters can bring to human MON psychology and the study of rare species. And he hears the MON mathematical secrets of the Tibetan singing bowl. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON ANTARCTIC HIDDEN LANDCSAPE MON MON DC3 aircraft equipped with radar takes off from Casey Base MON in Antarctica Photo: The ICECAP team/John Holt MON MON An International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences is MON taking place this week in Edinburgh. Prof Martin Siegart of MON Edinburgh University chairs its science committee and MON describes how radar has revealed fjords and mountain ranges MON beneath several thousand metres of ice in East Antarctica. MON It reveals the spread of the ice sheet over 30 million years MON and hints at its future. MON MON ANTARCTIC VOLCANOES UNTERWATER MON MON Sea-floor mapping technology reveals volcanoes beneath the MON sea surface. MON Image: British Antarctic Survey MON MON Dr Phil Leat of the British Antarctic Survey describes the MON discovery of a chain of active volcanoes off the South MON Sandwich Islands near Antarctica. MON MON NORTH ATLANTIC HIDDEN LANDSCAPE MON MON Ancient buried landscape two kilometres beneath the North MON Atlantic Ocean. MON Image: Nature; R A Hartley et al. MON MON Geologists have discovered a vast new landscape that rose MON above the North Atlantic waves 56 million years ago. It was MON caused by a sudden up welling from the Earth’s mantle and MON may explain rapid climate change that took place at about MON that time. Dr Nicky White of Cambridge University led the MON research which is published in Nature Geoscience. MON MON CRYPTOZOOLOGY MON MON One of the original illustrations of the Daedalus sea MON serpent of 1848. MON MON The Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, giant sea serpents – these MON are all examples of creatures rumoured to exist but never MON proven. Dr Charles Paxten of St Andrews University discussed MON the science of cryptozoology at a meeting at the Zoological MON Society of London this week. But is it a valid science? Can MON anecdotal reports tell us about real monsters, rare species MON or just human psychology? MON MON PHYSICS OF TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS MON MON flidkr, Jarius Khan MON Tibetan Singing Bowl MON MON The haunting resonances of large metal bowls can be heard in MON Asian temples and increasingly in Western meditation MON centres. Mathematician Professor John Bush from MIT has MON studied the mathematics of the waves they produce and how MON water in them ripples and splashes in response to their MON vibrations. Young Musician Louisa Golden demonstrates the MON sound. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b012krqz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b012knkb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b012l0rn (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012l0rq (Listen) MON Waterline, Episode 6 MON MON 'Waterline' is Ross Raisin's long-awaited new novel after MON the success of his prize-winning debut 'God's Own Country'. MON MON 'The sun is on his face, and he spots the postie turning in MON through the gate... He is awake, that's obvious enough, but MON he has this sense of unrealness. That it's him that's not MON real. That's aye what it feels like. As if all these goings MON on around him - the sunshine, the television still quietly MON on, the post tummelling onto the mat - they are all part of MON some other life, one that he can see, but he's no a part MON of.' MON MON After the death of his beloved wife Cathy, ex-Glasgow MON shipbuilder and union man, Mick Little finds himself MON struggling. The shipyard's gone and with it his old way of MON life, and now his wife too. With the ties that bound him to MON his old life suddenly loosened, he sets about finding a new MON way to live. And so Mick finds himself starting again, away MON from Scotland, but never away from the guilt he feels over MON Cathy's death. MON MON Tracing Mick's journey from his old life in Glasgow to the MON harsh, alien world of a hotel kitchen, to the rough streets MON of London, this is an intensely moving portrait of a life MON being lived all around us, and a story for our times. MON MON Today: now moneyless and jobless, Mick finds himself trying MON to negotiate life on the harsh streets of London. MON MON Reader: Alexander Morton MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b012fs6p (Listen) MON Neighbours MON MON When Guy Browning decided to make a film, he roped in his MON entire village to help keep the costs down. Which makes you MON wonder - is this the Big Society finally at work ? Also MON joining presenter Dominic Arkwright to discuss the support MON network of neighbours, both nasty and nice, are Laurie Penny MON the writer of the Penny Red blog; and Dr Edson Burton, who MON recalls when living in bedsits didn't just mean your MON neighbours were in the same street, but under the same roof. MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b012l0rs (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 JULY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b012knl0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b012krr3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012knl3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012knl5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012knl7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b012knl9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012qm8h (Listen) TUE A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with TUE the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the TUE Titanic Quarter in Belfast. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b012l1y0 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b012l1y2 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b012l1y4 (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland is joined by Norman Lamont and historian TUE Patricia Clavin to discuss how Britain's departure from the TUE Gold standard in 1931 sheds light on the predicament of TUE Greece and the Euro today. It's a shared story of economic TUE collapse, austerity measures, mass protest and the TUE international money markets. All in the context of a TUE currency network that arguably hindered instead of helped TUE its crisis hit members. Britain left the Gold standard in TUE 1931, but would Greece benefit from leaving the Euro today? TUE TUE 09:30 Top of the Class b012l1y6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Michael Portillo TUE TUE In today's instalment of Top of the Class, John Wilson takes TUE Rt. Hon. Michael Portillo back to his former school in TUE Harrow. In his day, it was a boys' grammar school and in TUE this visit to celebrate 100 years of the school, Michael is TUE one of the guest speakers. The school has changed greatly TUE since Michael's time there and is now a mixed comprehensive. TUE TUE At the school, Michael is reunited with one of his former TUE teachers, Mr. Ken Waller who remembers him as a very TUE conscientious pupil and someone who he never thought would TUE go into politics! John Wilson also manages to get the school TUE to find an old school report of Michael's which he has never TUE seen. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b012pc2x (Listen) TUE Let Not the Waves of the Sea, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Simon Stephenson TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols Reader: Mark Bonnar TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production TUE for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b012l1y8 (Listen) TUE Varicose veins, online pornography, women in literature in TUE 1600s. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012l1yb (Listen) TUE Imaginary Friends, Episode 7 TUE TUE By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray TUE TUE It's the moment the Truth Seekers have been waiting for. TUE Their spiritual guides from the planet Varna are about to TUE arrive. TUE TUE Roger ... Jonathan Forbes TUE McCann ... Nathan Osgood TUE Elsie ... Barbara Barnes TUE Verena ... Alex Tregear TUE Sissy ... Susie Riddell TUE Bill ... Peter Polycarpou TUE Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Ken ... Simon Bubb TUE Peggy Elaine Claxton TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b012l1yd (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 13 TUE TUE 13/ 30 Chris Sperring this week interviews Jeremy Biggs from TUE the charity Pond Life about how well we are doing looking TUE after the wildlife that live in ponds. Ponds are small TUE wetlands caricatured by frogs, water lilies and dragonflies TUE but they are much more as Biggs says. Over the years BBC TUE programmes have broadcast how the classic village pond as a TUE centre piece to the village green have been in decline - And TUE the conservation of ponds has been one of the key TUE Biodiversity Action Plans (BAP) on the government list of TUE species and habitats to return to favourable status post Rio TUE de Janeiro Convention on Biodiversity. So, how well have we TUE done in saving our ponds? TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b012l1yg (Listen) TUE Pamela Stephenson TUE TUE Pamela Stephenson, whom many people will remember fondly TUE from her time on Not the Nine O'Clock News, has a wide range TUE of references to draw on for her selection of favourite TUE pieces of writing. After much agonising she chose some TUE classic travel pieces, reflecting her year sailing around TUE the South Pacific; a wickedly sexy piece from Ovid, TUE reminding us that she is a fully qualified clinical TUE psychologist; some remarkable poetry about the Australian TUE landscape, and two classic pieces of comedy. Her readers are TUE Eleanor Bron, Michael Maloney and Dominic Jephcott. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b012l1yj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b012knld (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b012l1yl (Listen) TUE With Martha Kearney. National and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Making Tracks b012l1yn (Listen) TUE Critic and cultural commentator Paul Morley returns to the TUE Basing Street Studios, home to Island Records and then his TUE own ZTT label. These were the very rooms in which everyone TUE from Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens and Bob Marley through to TUE Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Art of Noise and Grace Jones TUE recorded some of their most iconic albums. In the company of TUE Island's Chris Blackwell and ZTT's Trevor Horn, as well as TUE legendary engineer Tony Platt, Paul attempts to find out TUE what it was about this particular space that led to some of TUE the most memorable recordings of the 70s and 80s. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b012l0rg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j16kt (Listen) TUE Getting to Zero TUE TUE By Sarah Woods TUE With George Monbiot, Paul Allen and Peter Harper. TUE TUE Have you got what it takes to get to zero carbon? Our expert TUE panel set one average family the task of eliminating their TUE carbon footprint... and living with the consequences. TUE Originally broadcast in March 2009. TUE TUE Sue ..... Kate Ashfield TUE Ian ..... Don Gilet TUE Chloe ..... Poppy Lee Friar TUE Jack ..... Ryan Watson TUE Bill ..... Malcolm Tierney TUE Meter ..... Jonathan Tafler TUE Narrator ..... Janice Acquah TUE Delivery Man ..... Stephen Hogan TUE TUE Producer/Director: Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b012l1ys (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012l1yv (Listen) TUE The Foxes Come at Night, Gondolas TUE TUE Now 78, Cees Nooteboom is one of Holland's leading and most TUE respected authors, a writer of both novels and travel books TUE and a consummate short story writer. The Foxes Come at TUE Night, his most recent collection, has won the 2010 Gouden TUE Uil - the most prestigious literary award in Flanders and is TUE now published in English. TUE TUE The collection is set in the cities and islands of the TUE Mediterranean, territory Nooteboom knows well. The stories TUE are linked by their meditations on memory and age, on love TUE won and lost and on the fragments of life treasured in a TUE photograph or a detail. TUE TUE In 'Gondolas' a fine art dealer finds the past stirred by a TUE photograph taken on the same Venetian canal bank forty years TUE ago. In 'Thunderstorm' a couple's own fissures are reflected TUE in a horrific moment on a beach. And in 'Late September' a TUE woman waits on a windblown Spanish cafe terrace before the TUE inevitable conclusion to her lonely day. TUE TUE Written with haunting attention to detail and pitch perfect TUE prose, sensitively translated by Ina Rilke, these stories TUE show one of the European masters of the genre at his best. TUE TUE Reader Ian McDiarmid TUE Abridger Sally Marmion TUE Producer Di Speirs. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012l251 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Industrialisation TUE TUE Martin Sixsmith stands at the restored 'People's Economic TUE Achievements Exhibition' in Moscow. He remembers visiting as TUE a child when "proud guides delighted in showing us TUE foreigners round the extravagantly decorated pavilions TUE showcasing the achievements of Soviet industry and TUE technology." He then recalls the subsequent years of decay. TUE "What a perfect metaphor," he says, "for the meteoric rise TUE and subsequent sorry fall of the Soviet Union's mighty TUE industrialization programme." TUE TUE Stalin launched his first Five Year Plan in 1928, tapping TUE into centuries-old fears of Russian vulnerability and the TUE spectre of powerful enemies at the gates, to mobilise the TUE nation in the face of overwhelming odds: "We are 50 or 100 TUE years behind the advanced countries. We must make up this TUE distance in ten years... Either we do it, or they will crush TUE us!" TUE TUE The Five Year Plans set impossibly high targets and punitive TUE timetables, but in spite of everything, the Soviet people TUE rose to the challenge: output doubled and the Soviet Union TUE became the world's second largest industrial producer. The TUE surging energy of those years is captured in Mosolovs 'The TUE Iron Foundry', and the iconic music Vremya Vperyod- Time Go TUE Faster, which would introduce Soviet TV news bulletins up TUE until 1991. But, as early as 1934 the reality was a sorry TUE one. Despite Soviet propaganda which created a new national TUE mythology (its heroes workers such as Alexei Stakhanov, a TUE coalminer who mined a 102 tons of coal in one shift) when TUE targets were not met, workers were branded 'wreckers' and TUE saboteurs while relentless purges instilled constant anxiety TUE -a great motivating factor, identified by playwright TUE Alexander Afinogenov in his remarkably outspoken play TUE 'Fear'. TUE TUE Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking TUE Producer: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b012l253 (Listen) TUE Students are no longer choosing to study modern foreign TUE languages. In the first of a new series of Word of Mouth, TUE Chris Ledgard asks how much this matters. TUE TUE In 2001, 78% of pupils in England did a language GCSE. By TUE last year that had fallen to just 43%. Chris Ledgard talks TUE to Andy Burnham, Shadow Secretary of State for Education; TUE Vivienne Hurley of the British Academy; Professor Andrew TUE Hussey of the University of London Institute in Paris; John TUE Rushforth, Deputy Vice Chancellor of UWE; Swansea University TUE language student Catherine Rendle; Luke Young, President of TUE the NUS in Wales and Glyn Hambrook, a former language TUE lecturer, to find out the true picture and ask if it really TUE matters. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b012l2yl (Listen) TUE Raymond Tallis, Allegra Stratton TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert talks to polymath Raymond Tallis and TUE political journalist Allegra Stratton about their favourite TUE books. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b012l2yn (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012knlg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b011ppyc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 6 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 - "Bullying at work - TUE a trapeze artist who's been pushed off her perch" and "I've TUE finally found what I'm looking for...Terry, it's you!" TUE TUE Sarah Millican Sarah TUE Ruth Bratt Marion TUE Simon Day Terry TUE Anna Crilly Judy TUE Elis James Evan. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b012l2yq (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b012l2ys (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012l1yb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b012l2yv (Listen) TUE Why are ambulances queuing up to unload patients needing TUE treatment at hospital Accident and Emergency Departments? TUE Some senior A and E medics say there are too few beds and TUE not enough staff in a front line service struggling to cope. TUE Cash strapped NHS Trusts are closing casualty units, or TUE replacing them with lower grade Urgent Care Centres but TUE what's been the impact on patients? Allan Urry asks whether TUE A and E is on life support, at a time when the NHS is trying TUE to make £20 billions savings without compromising patient TUE care. TUE Presenter: Allan Urry TUE Producer: Samantha Fenwick. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b012l2yx (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b012l2yz (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 1 TUE TUE Attraction and feelings of desire drive our libidos, but TUE Vivienne Parry asks what is "normal" . TUE Sex drive is influenced by many things, such as stress, TUE relationship problems, work and being overweight, not to TUE mention having young children. So it's not surprising that TUE about 40% of the population report having a low libido at TUE some time in their lives, while ten per cent of women and TUE about five per cent of men report low sexual desire lasting TUE over six months. Whether this is a problem depends on the TUE individual and their partner, if they have one. Vivienne TUE Parry discovers that "normal" is highly subjective, with TUE some people who claim to be completely asexual and others TUE who, like poet John Betjeman, regret not having had more sex TUE in their lives. So should we worry about a diminished love TUE life or are we too influenced by a sexualised society? TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b012l1y4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b012knlj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b012l2z1 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012l2z3 (Listen) TUE Waterline, Episode 7 TUE TUE Today: still struggling to stay afloat on the streets of TUE London, Mick finds shelter, and an unlikely ally. TUE TUE Reader: Alexander Morton TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 23:00 Bigipedia b012l2z5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bigipedia 2.0 - The Wisdom Of Crowds TUE TUE At last, the long-awaited release of Bigipedia 2. 0 - the TUE infallible, ever-present cyberfriend is back! Now with all TUE errors mistake. TUE TUE Bigipedia 2.0 - now bigger, better and closer - so it looks TUE bigger twice! TUE TUE In this episode, the wisdom of crowds, the joy of TUE deregulated advertising and Bigipedia throughout history TUE TUE Bigipedia was conceived by Nick Doody, and written by Nick TUE Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan, with Carey Marx. TUE TUE It features Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, TUE Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Martha Howe-Douglas, Lewis Macleod TUE & Jess Robinson. Occasionally you can hear Matt Kirshen. TUE TUE Producer/Director: David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b012l2z7 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme and the BBC's parliamentary team with the top TUE news stories from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 JULY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b012knm3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b012pc2x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012knm5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012knm7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012knm9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b012knmc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012qm98 (Listen) WED A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with WED the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the WED Titanic Quarter in Belfast. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b012l4n4 (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 b012l4n6 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b012l4n8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Anita Anand and guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b012pc3f (Listen) WED Let Not the Waves of the Sea, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Simon Stephenson WED Abridged by Pete Nichols Reader: Mark Bonnar WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production WED for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b012l4nb (Listen) WED Taking other people's kids on holiday, cook the perfect... WED frosted carrot cake, Grace Dent on her Twitter obsession. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012l4nd (Listen) WED Imaginary Friends, Episode 8 WED WED By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray WED WED Things have taken a bizarre turn, as sociologist Tom McCann WED has claimed he has been possessed by the spirit of the alien WED guru, Ro of Varna, WED WED Roger ... Jonathan Forbes WED McCann ... Nathan Osgood WED Elsie ... Barbara Barnes WED Verena ... Alex Tregear WED Bob/Ken... Simon Bubb WED Cop ... Alun Raglan WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 11:00 The Real Mr Khan b01291w0 (Listen) WED Presenter and comedy performer Adil Ray grew up in a WED Pakistani community in Birmingham, surrounded by WED well-meaning but overbearing 'uncles'. WED WED These men collectively inspired Adil's comedy character Mr WED Khan, the self-appointed Community Leader from Radio 4's WED Down the Line and BBC2's Bellamy's People. In this WED documentary, Adil takes to the streets of London's East End WED in search of some REAL community leaders. And because Mr WED Khan seems to have only a hazy idea of what community WED leadership involves, Adil meets community leaders, young and WED old to find out what they really do. But does he find anyone WED resembling Mr Khan on his travels? Or is he pleasantly WED surprised by what he finds? WED WED Producer: Isobel Williams WED A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b012l4ng (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Sitcom by Justin Moorhouse & Jim Poyser starring Justin, WED Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A Manchester DJ tries to balance WED love, work, life and everything else without much success. WED This week house-hunting causes all sorts of difficulties. WED WED Anne Reid ..... Gran WED Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa WED Jim Poyser ..... Lisa's boyfriend WED Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin WED Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn WED Paul Copley ..... Ray WED Susan Cookson ..... Tanya WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b012l4nj (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b012l4nl (Listen) WED Debt management can be a crucial tool in helping people get WED to grips with their finances. But some companies have left WED many of their vulnerable customers owing more than ever. WED John Waite investigates how these companies offered to help WED hard-up families ease their debts but held on to their cash, WED leaving many of them close to the financial edge. WED WED Debt management companies sprung up in the mid Nineties, WED offering to save struggling people from the threats of banks WED and creditors by settling their debts. For a monthly fee, WED customers believed their debts were being paid off but, as WED Face the Facts discovers, some companies took advantage of a WED weak regulatory system and accepted money from their WED desperate clients without passing it on to the creditors. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 12:57 Weather b012knmf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b012l4nn (Listen) WED National and international news, with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b012l4nq (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b012l2yq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b012l4ns (Listen) WED Rock of Eye WED WED Three elderly tailors, a trouser-maker, a coat-maker and a WED waistcoat-maker, have been commissioned to make a bespoke WED suit for an up and coming politician. They have worked WED together for decades but have only met very rarely, although WED increasingly, these days, at their colleagues' funerals. The WED suit has been designed by Mrs White, a mysterious woman whom WED they've never met. Mrs White has imposed very strict rules WED about secrecy, and all off-cuts have to be returned to her. WED The suiting fabric supplied is also unusual. It seems to WED change colour and quality with the mood of the tailors, and WED to move against the needle in a sentient manner. As the WED garment takes shape, it begins to have a powerful effect on WED anyone who comes into contact with it. WED WED Morris Allan Corduner WED Harry Malcolm Storry WED Griff Stephen Marzella WED Lauren Catrin Stewart WED Mrs White Liza Sadovy WED Krista Claire Cage WED Fraser Richard Nichols WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, written and directed by Anita WED Sullivan. WED WED 15:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b012tpzg (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Politicians have been talking a lot more about younger WED people in recent months. The Chancellor George Osborne says WED the Coalition Government has to tackle the deficit now WED because it wouldn't be fair to future generations to leave WED them a legacy of debt. While the Labour leader, Ed Miliband WED says Britain's in danger of raising the first generation for WED some time to be worse off than their parents. Financial guru WED Alvin Hall assesses these claims and offers advice to young WED people and their families about how to tackle the financial WED problems facing today's youth. WED WED Each programme in this four-part series will focus on a WED different theme, from housing and employment through to WED pensions and inheritance. Through the families and WED individuals he meets, Alvin will assess whether the sons and WED daughters of Britain's bulging baby-boomer generation really WED will be worse off than their parents. From the young estate WED agent struggling to get on the housing ladder while his WED father controls a large buy-to-let portfolio, to the student WED struggling to fund a vital internship to kick-start his WED career - Alvin Hall explores how younger people are WED navigating their way through an economy shaped by the WED previous generation. WED WED The series will also shed light on a growing movement WED committed to raising the profile of intergenerational WED inequality. Alvin speaks to the founders of a new think-tank WED dedicated to the issue hoping to shape public policy and he WED speaks to the young journalist who's dubbed his WED contemporaries the 'jilted generation'. The financial guru WED hears their arguments in this new series, which broadcasts WED this summer while BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme takes a WED break. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012l4nx (Listen) WED The Foxes Come at Night, Thunderstorm WED WED Now 78, Cees Nooteboom is one of Holland's leading and most WED respected authors, a writer of both novels and travel books WED and a consummate short story writer. The Foxes Come at WED Night, his most recent collection, has won the 2010 Gouden WED Uil - the most prestigious literary award in Flanders and is WED now published in English. WED WED The collection is set in the cities and islands of the WED Mediterranean, territory Nooteboom knows well. The stories WED are linked by their meditations on memory and age, on love WED won and lost and on the fragments of life treasured in a WED photograph or a detail. WED WED In 'Gondolas' a fine art dealer finds the past stirred by a WED photograph taken on the same Venetian canal bank forty years WED ago. In 'Thunderstorm' a couple's own fissures are reflected WED in a horrific moment on a beach. And in 'Late September' a WED woman waits on a windblown Spanish cafe terrace before the WED inevitable conclusion to her lonely day. WED WED Written with haunting attention to detail and pitch perfect WED prose, sensitively translated by Ina Rilke, these stories WED show one of the European masters of the genre at his best. WED WED Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman WED Abridger Sally Marmion WED Producer Di Speirs. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012l4nz (Listen) WED Series 2, Socialist Realism WED WED "My husband was like the little bird in the old Russian WED poem: they capture him and squeeze him by the throat -and WED then they tell him to sing!" Irina Shostakovich tells Martin WED Sixsmith. "They banned his music, he lost his job. But he WED wrote his secret revenge, his music". WED WED For this programme, Sixsmith has spoken to those who lived WED through the persecution of the Stalin years - writers, WED composers and henchmen of the regime - to try to understand WED the role of art in a time of fear. "It allowed us to keep WED alive our freedom of memory and independence of thought in WED the dark years when 'they' were trying to reduce us to WED nothing..." says Yevgeny Pasternak of whose father, Boris, WED Stalin wrote on his police file: 'Leave that cloud-dweller WED in peace'. Sixsmith tells the stories of Anna Akhmatova who WED committed her verse to memory and burned the manuscripts; WED Osip Mandelstam who let rip - just once - with savage WED unguarded hatred for Stalin, was arrested and sent to the WED Gulag where he died; theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold who WED was tortured in the cells of the Lubyanka. WED WED The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky epitomises the destiny of many WED who loved the revolution, and then, desperately out-of-love, WED committed suicide; and Sergei Prokofiev who fled abroad only WED to find he could live neither in his native land nor outside WED it. On his return, he was denounced by Tikhon Khrennikov, WED the head of the Soviet Composers' Union, and like Miaskovsky WED and Khatchaturian forced to make a humiliating public WED recantation for his musical 'crimes'. WED WED When Khrennikov spoke to Sixsmith shortly before his death WED he fiercely rejected suggestions that he'd been a willing WED accomplice in the repression of musical life: "When I said WED No! it meant No. But - what else could I have done? Stalin's WED word was law." WED WED Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking WED Producer: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b012l4p1 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b012l2yz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b012l4p3 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012knmh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00y28q5 (Listen) WED Series 7, Parsnip Junction 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 Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Py ..... Katy Wix WED Charles ..... Geoffrey Palmer WED Pearl ..... Rita May WED Olive ..... Stephanie Cole WED Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas WED Produced by Dawn Ellis WED WED 19:00 The Archers b012l4p5 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b012l4p7 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a review of the stage musical WED Ghost, based on the hit 1990 film which starred Demi Moore WED and Patrick Swayze. WED WED Producer Robyn Read. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012l4nd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b012lj4h (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED 3/4. 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 Among those taking part in this week's programme are: WED Camilla Cavendish of the Times; Kamal Ahmed of the Sunday WED Telegraph; Jason Beattie of the Daily Mirror; Mary Ann WED Sieghart of the Independent and Leo McKinstry of the Daily WED Express. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b012lj4k (Listen) WED Series 2, Hilary Cottam WED WED Hilary Cottam, co-founder of Participle, unfolds her vision WED for re-designing the welfare state with participation, not WED passivity, at its core. She tells the story of families WED whose lives have been transformed though their own WED involvement in making decisions about the help being WED provided for them WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the WED encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, WED speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Erased Memories and Spotless Minds b012lj4m (Listen) WED For Radio 4, Dr Mark Lythgoe investigates the science of WED memory erasing. WED WED In a Hollywood movie it's a simple choice. You take the blue WED pill and wipe away all those unpleasant memories that are WED hard to deal with. Or you take the red pill and bear their WED burden, possibly forever. This is not Hollywood -but soon WED that choice could well be yours. WED WED Captivated by the media headlines over the past few years WED claiming scientists can now 'erase bad memories', WED neuroscientist Dr Mark Lythgoe travels to New York to WED examine the latest research in memory modification. WED WED Looking at work done in animals and humans Mark discovers WED how close scientists are to wholesale erasure of specific WED memories. WED WED 'We had that animal very well trained and then we erased WED that memory by injecting Zip in the motor region of the WED cortex, the memory was gone and the relearning process was WED not any quicker- it still took a week of slow learning to WED build that skill so that's why we think it really is a true WED erasure': Dr Todd Sacktor. WED WED Near the site of Ground Zero he meets some of the people who WED have been victims of trauma to find out whether they would WED trade their distressing memories for memory erasure, and he WED talks to a victim of a violent armed robbery who believes WED memory manipulation has cured him of his Post Traumatic WED Stress Disorder. WED WED Unravelling the ethical dilemmas involved in these WED technologies Mark asks what happens when we open this WED Pandora's box and people use memory modification to erase WED feelings of something bad they have done or something bad WED that has been done to them; eliminating memories like you WED would eliminate a headache, with a pill. WED WED 'I think the chances that eventually we will have a drug WED that will be able to reduce the emotional component of WED traumatic memories, I think there's a good chance that's WED going to happen sooner or later' Dr Roger Pitman. WED WED In Erased Memories and Spotless Minds, Mark discovers just WED how close we are to the mythical memory pill and questions WED whether society is ready for such life-changing technology. WED WED Producer: Gemma Newby WED An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b012l4n8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b012knmk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b012lj4r (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012lj4t (Listen) WED Waterline, Episode 8 WED WED Today: Mick and his ally Beans have carved out a form of WED existence on the riverbanks of London, when a horrific WED attack shocks Mick into action... WED WED Reader: Alexander Morton WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 23:00 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n5tzr (Listen) WED Variation on A Theme WED WED Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. WED WED Brunswick is back with his dear friends from the station, WED just in time for the annual cricket match between the WED villains and the police. But Steine's life continues to be WED under threat. So if it's not Brunswick, who is responsible? 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 Albert ...... David Holt. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b012lj4w (Listen) WED Mark D'Arcy and the BBC's parliamentary team with the top WED news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 JULY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b012knn4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b012pc3f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012knn6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012knn8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012knnb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b012knnd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012qm9j (Listen) THU A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with THU the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the THU Titanic Quarter in Belfast. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b012lkk2 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie THU Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b012lkk4 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b012lkk6 (Listen) THU Series 7, Disclosing Information THU THU What happens when a proposed medical treatment clashes head THU on with a patient's cultural values? THU THU Moha has kidney failure. He's on dialysis to replace his THU lost kidney function, and on the waiting list for a THU transplant. But his chances of receiving a kidney from a THU deceased donor are slim. THU THU The donor pool is primarily Caucasian, and given that Moha THU is African and has a rare blood type, it's unlikely a tissue THU matched kidney will come up. THU THU His nephew back in his country of origin offers to donate THU one of his kidneys. But Moha has a secret that only he and THU his medical team know about. THU THU As his nephew has offered to donate a kidney, the team feel THU that he has a right to know. Should Moha be forced to tell? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b012pd54 (Listen) THU Let Not the Waves of the Sea, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Simon Stephenson THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Reader: Mark Bonnar THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b012lkk8 (Listen) THU Teetotal in your 20s, long summer holidays and loss of THU learning, novelist Amanda Coe. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012lkkb (Listen) THU Imaginary Friends, Episode 9 THU THU By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray THU THU Following an argument during which a shot was fired, Tom THU McCann and his fellow Truth Seekers have come to the THU attention of the local police. THU THU Roger ... Jonathan Forbes THU McCann ... Nathan Osgood THU Elsie ... Barbara Barnes THU Verena ... Alex Tregear THU Bob/Ken... Simon Bubb THU Bill/Cop ... Peter Polycarpou THU Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw THU Cop ... Alun Raglan THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b012lkkd (Listen) THU Libyan refugees THU THU Crossing Continents joins a British doctor volunteering to THU help women and children stranded in Tunisian refugee camps THU while the men fight Gaddafi's forces in the mountains south THU of Tripoli. THU Producer: Bill Law. THU THU 11:30 Horsepower b012rgkk (Listen) THU Pulitzer prize winning novelist Jane Smiley takes us to the THU races in California - to the Santa Anita Derby, one of the THU biggest of the west coast races. THU THU She explains her own love of horses - how horse literature, THU film and TV helped shape popular culture in the USA when she THU was growing up and how she came to keep race horses herself. THU As an owner she had access to the exciting world of horse THU racing. Her fascination translated into several books THU including the novel Horse Heaven. THU THU Against the backdrop of an exciting day of racing we hear THU how the characters, the drama, the money and the risk of THU racing are fertile ground for a writer - and how the races THU are a wonderful metaphor for American life more generally. THU THU Producer: Susan Marling THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b012lkkg (Listen) THU Consumer news with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b012knng (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b012lkkj (Listen) THU With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners THU can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on THU twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b012lkkl (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson begins another sparkling series of THU Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to THU those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by THU current events and popular culture. THU THU Now in its nineteenth series, QQ has become something of an THU institution on Radio 4 providing informed and ingenious THU answers to questions such as, How do you know when a volcano THU is extinct? When was the conventional heart icon first THU drawn? How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? What is a THU Siamese Blood Chit? THU THU Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed THU and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivaled THU collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. THU THU In this richly informative programme all manner of questions THU are looked into. Some recent enquiries that sparked THU particularly large responses included: What happened to all THU the wrought iron fencing that was collected during the THU Second World War? Is it possible to create one sound, which THU completely cancels out another sound? and How was the THU direction of writing originally established? THU THU Among the array of puzzlers we'll be tackling at the start THU of this series of Questions Questions: THU THU - Why does the height of a swallows flight vary so much ? THU - Can you hear a bell ring under water ? THU - What is the origin of the word 'Wingwoms' ? THU THU 14:00 The Archers b012l4p5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b012lkkn (Listen) THU Positive THU THU In the second of two Afternoon Plays commissioned to THU accompany the current series of Inside the Ethics Committee, THU a pregnant teenager and her angry mother present the THU ante-natal team with a series of increasingly difficult THU decisions. When Annie is admitted to A&E with stomach pains, THU she's shocked to find out that she's pregnant. Her mother is THU even more horrified, and the ante-natal team must decide if THU Annie is capable of making her own decisions without her THU mother's consent. The situation is further complicated when THU Annie wants to keep an even more shocking piece of news from THU her mother, and the medical team's efforts to support her THU come under real pressure as an emergency confronts them with THU a difficult decision about what is best for Annie's welfare. THU THU Rosie: Nicola Miles-Wildin THU Theresa: Lucy Black THU Jacqui: Susie Ridell THU Tess: Deirdre Mullins THU Des: Jack Holden THU Michael: Gerard Cooke THU Paul: Chris Yapp THU John: Mark meadows THU Mr Joseph: Russell Boulter THU Sam/Lily: Nadia Williams THU THU Directed by Sara Davies THU THU 15:00 Open Country b012j8pp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b012jdpr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012lkkq (Listen) THU The Foxes Come at Night, Late September THU THU Now 78, Cees Nooteboom is one of Holland's leading and most THU respected authors, a writer of both novels and travel books THU and a consummate short story writer. The Foxes Come at THU Night, his most recent collection, has won the 2010 Gouden THU Uil - the most prestigious literary award in Flanders and is THU now published in English. THU THU The collection is set in the cities and islands of the THU Mediterranean, territory Nooteboom knows well. The stories THU are linked by their meditations on memory and age, on love THU won and lost and on the fragments of life treasured in a THU photograph or a detail. THU THU In 'Gondolas' a fine art dealer finds the past stirred by a THU photograph taken on the same Venetian canal bank forty years THU ago. In 'Thunderstorm' a couple's own fissures are reflected THU in a horrific moment on a beach. And in 'Late September' a THU woman waits on a windblown Spanish cafe terrace before the THU inevitable conclusion to her lonely day. THU THU Written with haunting attention to detail and pitch perfect THU prose, sensitively translated by Ina Rilke, these stories THU show one of the European masters of the genre at his best. THU THU Reader Hannah Gordon THU THU Abridger Sally Marmion THU Producer Di Speirs. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012lkks (Listen) THU Series 2, Show Trials THU THU Sergei Kirov had been a loyal ally of Stalin in the 1920s, THU but his popularity made Stalin regard him as a rival. Martin THU Sixsmith visits the "rather sumptuous 5 room apartment" in THU St Petersburg from which Kirov left for work on December 1st THU 1934. He never arrived. THU THU Rumours that Stalin ordered Kirov's murder would persist for THU many years; the next day Stalin personally interrogated the THU assassin, forcing him to sign a statement that he had acted THU as part of an opposition plot led by Trotsky, Zinoviev and THU Kamenev. Within days 100s of people were arrested and THU executed without trial and in the following years Stalin THU used the Kirov murder as a pretext to exterminate 100s of THU 1000s of people whom he considered enemies or potential THU enemies. Leading Bolsheviks were arrested and tortured until THU they confessed to imaginary crimes against the state; the THU Soviet Union was gripped by fear; denunciations THU proliferated. Executions could be ordered without a judge. THU THU Families were held responsible for the crimes of a relative, THU and children were taught to inform on anyone they suspected THU of disloyalty to Stalin. The Tale of Pavlik Morozov, a THU schoolboy who denounced his own father was compulsory THU reading in schools; plays, paintings and an opera inculcated THU the message that loyalty to one's family is less important THU than loyalty to the state. THU THU With the murder of Trotsky who, from his in exile in Mexico THU had kept up a vendetta against Stalin, in 1940, Stalin had THU achieved his goal of removing all actual or potential rivals THU for power. But the purges of the 1930s had disastrous THU consequences. Millions died, the economy suffered, national THU security was undermined, and Stalin had destroyed the cream THU of the Soviet Union's armed forces at the very moment that THU the clouds of world war were gathering on the horizon. THU THU Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking THU Producer: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b012kn25 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b012lkkv (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 b012lkkx (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012knnj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b012lkzf (Listen) THU Series 5, Milton Jones - Astronomer THU THU Move over Brian Cox - Milton Jones is now a world-famous THU astronomer and seeker after scientific truth and accuracy. THU Typical Sagittarian. He's joined in his endeavours by his THU co-stars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Ben Willbond THU ("Horrible Histories") and Lucy Montgomery ("Down The THU Line"). THU THU Milton Jones returns to BBC Radio Four for an amazing 9th THU series - which means he's been running for longer than THU Gardeners' Question Time and answered more questions on THU gardening as well. THU THU Written by Milton with James Cary ("Think The Unthinkable", THU "Miranda"), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton," THU returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a THU shipload of new jokes. THU THU The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( "Spamalot"), THU Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine THU With Me") and Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories") THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b012lkzh (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b012lkzk (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012lkkb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b012lkzm (Listen) THU Phone Hacking THU THU Simon Cox investigates whether the phone hacking scandal THU goes further than just the News of the World. THU THU 20:30 In Business b012lkzp (Listen) THU Europe on the Edge THU THU The Euro crisis in Greece is creating effects that can be THU felt across the continent. Peter Day finds out how this THU turbulence is affecting businesses in Spain and Poland. THU THU Producers: Sandra Kanthal and Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b012lkk6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:45 Talking to the Enemy b00tdn9f (Listen) THU Face to face with the enemy THU THU Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, took part in THU the negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement in THU Northern Ireland. Here he takes us into the negotiating room THU and explains how negotiations with men of violence come THU about, work or fail, and can lead to peace. Produced by THU David Stenhouse. THU THU 21:58 Weather b012knnl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b012lkzr (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012lkzt (Listen) THU Waterline, Episode 9 THU THU Today: as Mick starts to rebuild his life in London, painful THU news from Glasgow forces him to confront his past. THU THU Reader: Alexander Morton THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b012lkzw (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU Comedy sketch show set in a vast call centre run by a mail THU order catalogue company. THU THU 23:30 Pieces of a Man b012lkzy (Listen) THU Poet Lemn Sissay explores the life of the influential THU activist, musician, writer and 'godfather of rap' Gil THU Scott-Heron, who died in May 2011. THU THU Following in the footsteps of Harlem Renaissance poet THU Langston Hughes, The Black Arts movement and jazz and blues THU musicians such as John Coltrane and Billie Holiday, Gil THU Scott-Heron helped pioneer the fight for racial equality and THU developed a new way of fusing music with hard-hitting THU political poetry. His story reflects the modern THU African-American struggle, from segregation in the South to THU triumph in the White House. THU THU Lemn will speak to Gil about his childhood, spent with his THU feisty grandmother in Tennessee, and his teenage years in THU New York at the height of the Civil Rights movement, THU punctuated by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and THU Malcolm X and when black artists, musicians and writers were THU beginning to find a voice in modern American society. THU THU Gil spent four decades in the music business during which THU time he joined forces with Stevie Wonder to campaign for a THU Martin Luther King national holiday, paved the way for the THU birth of hip hop, influenced some of the biggest names in THU popular culture and wrestled with a long term addiction to THU drugs. THU THU Featuring interviews with Chuck D, Greg Tate and Benjamin THU Zephaniah. THU THU Gil Scott Heron died on May 27th 2011. THU THU This programme was first broadcast in 2009. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Alker THU An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 JULY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b012knp5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b012pd54 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012knp7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012knp9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012knpc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b012knpf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012qmb1 (Listen) FRI A short spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with FRI the Rev Chris Bennett, Church of Ireland Chaplain to the FRI Titanic Quarter in Belfast. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b012llrn (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b012llrq (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b012jf8n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b012pd5g (Listen) FRI Let Not the Waves of the Sea, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Simon Stephenson FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Reader: Mark Bonnar FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b012llrs (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012llrv (Listen) FRI Imaginary Friends, Episode 10 FRI FRI By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray FRI FRI Roger, on his way to visit Tom McCann in hospital, has FRI stopped off to visit Elsie, where he has heard some terrible FRI news. FRI FRI Roger ... Jonathan Forbes FRI McCann ... Nathan Osgood FRI Elsie ... Barbara Barnes FRI Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Nurse ... Elaine Claxton FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 11:00 The Hunt for Bin Laden b012llrx (Listen) FRI From Tora Bora to Abbottabad FRI FRI The Hunt for bin Laden FRI FRI 2. From Afghanistan to Abbottabad. FRI FRI The death of Osama bin Laden in May this year brought the FRI long search for the world's most wanted terrorist to a final FRI end. It had begun well before 9/11, but that event focused FRI both minds and resources on the mission. FRI FRI A special team was despatched to Afghanistan where bin Laden FRI was under the protection of the Taliban. Their leader was FRI given special instructions to 'bring back bin Laden's head FRI in a cardboard box'. Today Cofer Black, head of the CIA's FRI Counter Terrorism Unit and the man who gave the order, FRI explains why: FRI FRI "If you have engaged the target, you have to have a FRI compelling proof that you've been successful. . . When you FRI go up to your commander in chief and say 'We got him', FRI what's the next question? 'Are you sure?'. FRI FRI The team never did manage to find bin Laden. Their best FRI opportunity was in the Tora Bora mountains where the FRI al-Qaeda leader took refuge in the caves he had known from FRI his days fighting Soviets. The team was accompanied by US FRI Special Forces but asked for extra troops as their Afghan FRI allies were proving reluctant to fight. Their request was FRI denied, a decision defended in the programme by General FRI Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. FRI FRI Osama bin Laden is thought to have escaped across the border FRI to Pakistan where American troops were unable to follow. FRI Various attempts were made to find out where he was over the FRI following years but to no avail. A hotel owner describes how FRI two mysterious Americans rolled up with night vision goggles FRI in Northern Pakistan and Gary Faulkner, a former Colorado FRI construction worker, talks about his own mission to find bin FRI Laden disguised in local dress and armed with a sword. Bin FRI Laden, meanwhile, continued to taunt the world by releasing FRI the occasional video, proving that he was still alive. FRI FRI In the end, one of bin Laden's couriers was to provide the FRI breakthrough which led to the raid on the compound in FRI Abbottabad earlier this year. Intelligence officials talk FRI about the use of harsh interrogation techniques (or torture FRI in some people's eyes) which may have played a part. FRI FRI Senior members of the current administration describe the FRI lead up to the raid in Abbottabad which, had it failed, FRI could have cost Barack Obama his presidency. As it is, there FRI are still those who think the hunt could have ended much FRI sooner, including Richard Clarke, Counter Terrorism adviser FRI under both Bill Clinton and George Bush: FRI FRI "I hate to use a simplistic analogy but if you order a pizza FRI delivery that shows up fifteen years later it might be a FRI really good pizza but it's still fifteen years late." FRI FRI Presented by the BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera. FRI Producer: Mark Savage. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b012llrz (Listen) FRI Series 3, Ottery St Mary FRI FRI Martin is a Man With A Van, Douglas flies A Plane With An FRI Otter and Carolyn dates A Pilot With A Problem With Sheep. FRI And two mysteries solved - the name of Carolyn's dog and the FRI rules of "Yellow Car" 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 Capt. Herc Shipwright ..... Anthony Head FRI Mrs. Laurel ...... Flip Webster FRI Mr Hardy ..... Ewan Bailey FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI Producer/Director: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b012lls1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b012knph (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b012lls3 (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 b012lls5 (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 b012lkzh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hzgp0 (Listen) FRI Cry Babies FRI FRI Written by Kim Newman. FRI FRI Barty and Angela Flitcroft are having a baby, by the popular FRI method of delayed obligation parenthood, based on the FRI science of cryo-genesis which everyone thought would be used FRI for freezing sick old rich people until cures for their ills FRI were developed, but instead it is being used by busy, FRI professional couples who no longer have to put off having FRI children. These couples can conceive their child and leave FRI the Polish surrogate mother to take over and carry them to FRI term. Then, they put the new-borns on ice until they're FRI ready to make space in their lives to become parents! FRI FRI In Kim Newman's science-fiction afternoon play 'Cry Babies', FRI we follow the life of one of these cryo-children, Joy FRI Flitcroft, and experience what it is like to be revived and FRI then forced back into stasis every few years. As Joy ages at FRI a much reduced rate while in the cryo-machine, she is also FRI educated by the voice of the SleepLearn programme. This FRI advanced education, coupled with the slow growth rate, marks FRI Joy, and her fellow 'cry-babies' out from the 'normal' FRI children, and they experience cultural bias, bullying and FRI different laws, all while coping with the sudden 'jumps' FRI from one period of freedom to the next. FRI FRI Cry Babies' is a science fiction satire, extrapolating from FRI current trends in medical science and society in general to FRI look at the way family ties may change in the future. The FRI structure, scenes set years apart, allows us to have a FRI sweeping view of future history, and make observations about FRI the way current obsessions might alter. But at heart it's a FRI story about irresponsible, self-absorbed parents and a child FRI who suffers from an economically privileged but emotionally FRI sterile upbringing. FRI FRI Dr Rossiter ..... Alex Jennings FRI Angela Flitcroft ..... Natasha Little FRI Barty Flitcroft ..... Rupert Degas FRI SleepLearn Machine ..... Sarah Douglas FRI Joy ..... Sia Alexander FRI Roger ..... Colin Morgan FRI Jeff ..... Sam Alexander FRI Aruna ..... Emma Darwall-Smith FRI Daisy ..... Kirsty Stuart FRI Ari ..... Rob Kendrick FRI Marketa/Girl ..... Emma Handy FRI FRI Music Composed by Jeremy Paul Carroll FRI Executive Produced by Dirk Maggs FRI Producer/Director: Neil Gardner FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012llz4 (Listen) FRI RHS Show Tatton Park FRI FRI This week's edition comes from RHS Show Tatton Park in FRI Cheshire. FRI Eric Robson steers Matthew Biggs, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny FRI Guinness in a gardening discussion. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012llz6 (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Faustian Pact FRI FRI Archive footage recreates the arrival of the German Foreign FRI Minister in Moscow on the 23rd of August 1939. As the FRI Kremlin bells chimed midnight, Germany and Russia signed a FRI treaty of non-aggression, guaranteeing that each remain FRI neutral if the other attacked a third nation. FRI FRI Martin Sixsmith observes, "The Pact was a cynical marriage FRI of convenience, and it meant old enmities had to be FRI reversed." Wolfgang Leonhard, a young German living in FRI Moscow at the time recalls: "On the same day all FRI anti-fascist books were taken out of the libraries. All FRI anti-Nazi films were taken out of the cinemas. There was no FRI mention even of the existence of fascism any more." Poland FRI was the biggest loser and within weeks had been invaded by FRI Germany in the West and Russia in the East. The Nazi-Soviet FRI pact shocked the world; would lead to the deaths of millions FRI and the division of Europe, but it was not to last. FRI FRI When the weakness of the Red Army was revealed, after a FRI humiliating retreat from Finland, Germany responded. FRI Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history, began FRI on the 22nd of June 1941. The army was unprepared and Stalin FRI collapsed in a state of debilitated despair. It was 10 days FRI until Stalin pulled himself together to address the nation, FRI appealing to old 'bourgeois' values of nationalism and FRI patriotism, urging a divided, discontented people to come FRI together to defend their country: "This war is not an FRI ordinary war. It is a great war of the entire Soviet people FRI against the German fascist forces. This is a national war in FRI defence of our country." It worked. But it would be a brutal FRI and terrible fight to the death that revived Russia's FRI deep-seated fears of national annihilation and conditioned FRI the way its people thought of their country and of FRI themselves for many years to come. FRI FRI Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI Producer: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b012llz8 (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b012llzb (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b012llzd (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012knpk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b012lm0h (Listen) FRI Series 34, Episode 7 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present topical stand-up, FRI sketches and songs. Featuring Mitch Benn, Margaret FRI Cabourn-Smith, Robin Ince and Jon Holmes. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b012lm4m (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b012lm4p (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012llrv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b012lm4r (Listen) FRI The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, chairs a FRI discussion of news and politics from the Harlington Centre FRI in Fleet, Hampshire, with former Cabinet minister, Tony FRI Benn, columnist, Dominic Lawson and Shadow Secretary of FRI State for Transport, Maria Eagle. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b012lmhc (Listen) FRI What's in a marriage FRI FRI Alain de Botton on our high expectations for modern FRI marriage. He argues that expecting one person to be a good FRI partner, lover and parent is - almost - asking the FRI impossible. And he shows how different it all was before the FRI mid eighteenth century... FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b012lmhf (Listen) FRI Series 2 Omnibus, Stalin's Iron Fist FRI FRI Josef Stalin adopts the model of an all-powerful centralized FRI autocrat as he rules Russia with an iron fist. FRI Collectivisation destroys the country's agriculture and FRI leads to widespread famine - exploited by Stalin to destroy FRI anti-soviet elements including 6 to 8 million Ukrainians who FRI die of starvation. FRI FRI Meanwhile Stalin's Five Year Plans, financed by heroic FRI sacrifices on the part of the workers, transform a backward FRI agricultural nation into a modern industrialised one at FRI breakneck speed. Stalin taps into centuries old fears of FRI Russian vulnerability: "We are 50 or 100 years behind the FRI advanced countries. We must make up this distance in ten FRI years... or they will crush us!". The creative arts are not FRI free from Stalin's stifling grasp either, and Martin FRI Sixsmith recalls speaking with those who lived through the FRI persecution of the Stalin years - writers, composers and FRI henchmen of the regime - to try to understand the role of FRI art in a time of fear. FRI FRI Stalin himself was becoming more and more paranoid. The FRI murder of Sergei Kirov - head of Leningrad's Communist party FRI - unleashes paranoia, terror and suffering for millions of FRI people as Stalin begins his extermination of political FRI enemies, real and imagined. The purges of the 1930s had FRI disastrous consequences, not least that Stalin destroyed the FRI cream of the Soviet Union's armed forces at the moment the FRI clouds of world war were gathering on the horizon. The FRI non-aggression pact signed with Germany does not save Russia FRI from the war, "more brutal and more terrible than anything FRI seen on the Western Front, perhaps even in the history of FRI war," says Sixsmith. "It revived Russia's deep-seated fears FRI of national annihilation and conditioned the way its people FRI thought of their country and of themselves for many years to FRI come." FRI FRI Historical Consultant - Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI Producer: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b012knpm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b012lmhh (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012lmhk (Listen) FRI Waterline, Episode 10 FRI FRI Today: Finally off the streets now, Mick determines to face FRI up to the past. But can there ever be a future for him and FRI his two sons? FRI FRI Reader: Alexander Morton FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b012l2yl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Then-Now b0076whd (Listen) FRI 'Then' - on Wednesday November 9th 2005 at 6pm hundreds of FRI people across the country recorded in sound one minute of FRI their day finishing at exactly one minute past 6. FRI FRI 'Then' - producer Andy Cartwright and poet Sean Street took FRI these recordings and weaved them into a unique 'radio-poem' FRI composed entirely from these simultaneous recordings of a FRI minute in time - creating a musical collage of words and FRI sounds that looks both forward and back through time - FRI uniting people in common activities who will never, ever FRI meet. FRI FRI 'Now' - as Kevin Macdonald's new film 'Life in a Day', FRI constructed from videos recorded during a single day opens, FRI Radio 4 presents a repeat of its own award-winning radio FRI poem about a frozen minute in time. FRI FRI Producer: Andy Cartwright FRI A Soundscape Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
15 July, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 16/07/2011 - 22/07/2011
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