22 July, 2011

Radio 4 Listings for 23/07/2011 - 29/07/2011

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SAT SATURDAY 23 JULY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b012lj65 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b012pd5g (Listen) SAT Let Not the Waves of the Sea, Episode 5 SAT SAT Let Not The Waves Of The Sea is Simon Stephenson's account SAT of his emotional journey following the death of his brother SAT Dominic - and his brother's girlfriend Eileen - in the SAT Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. SAT SAT Simon's journey takes him back to the scene of the disaster SAT in Thailand, where the redemptive power of the people and SAT the culture, which his brother loved, help the healing SAT process. SAT SAT Thirty two year old Simon Stephenson is a writer and doctor SAT who lives in London. For several years, the Scot made his SAT living as a screenwriter. Let Not The Waves Of The Sea is SAT his first book. SAT SAT Written by Simon Stephenson SAT Abridged by Pete Nichols SAT Reader: Mark Bonnar SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012lj67 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012lj69 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012lj6c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b012lj6f (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012lmks (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Clair Jaquiss. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b012lmkv (Listen) SAT 'Rupert loves papers, we found him inspirational.' Listener SAT David Sinclair worked for several Murdoch titles, and SAT praises his boss's contribution to journalism and national SAT life. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Mishal Husain SAT reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b012lj6h (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b012lj6k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b012ql51 (Listen) SAT Northumberlandia SAT SAT How are the people of Cramlington reacting to the open cast SAT mining in their area and to the creation of the largest SAT replica of the human body in their landscape? Will it SAT attract tourists and put Cramlington on the map or will they SAT become the laughing stock of Northumberland? SAT SAT For this week's Open Country, Jules Hudson visits SAT Cramlington in the north east where work has started on a SAT giant sculpture of a naked woman which is to be carved into SAT the Northumberland landscape. It will be made from 1.5 SAT million tonnes of overburden from the Shotton open cast SAT mine, near Cramlington. It will be 400 metres long and will SAT stand higher than the Angel of the North. The sculpture, SAT known as Northumberlandia, will form the centrepiece of a 29 SAT hectare public park on the Blagdon Estate and, once SAT developed, it is believed it will be the largest human form SAT to be sculpted into the land, in the world. But these plans SAT have prompted opposition from some, as did the plans for the SAT open cast mine. SAT From the car park of the Snowy Owl pub, Jules hears from SAT landlord Colin Ward about his thoughts on his newest and SAT nearest neighbour, before heading off to check on progress. SAT Taking the route along the leg, knee and thigh of SAT Northumberlandia, Jules arrives on the sculpture's forehead SAT with Mark Dowdell and Iain Lowther of the Banks Mining Group SAT to find out about their reasons for embarking on such an SAT ambitious project and what they hope it will bring to the SAT local economy and community. SAT But not everyone is happy. Back at the Snowy Owl, Jules SAT meets Tony Ives who set up a local opposition group, SCRAM - SAT Support Cramlington Residents Against Mining. Tony tells SAT Jules why he is so unhappy with the idea of SAT Northumberlandia, which has been given the alternative SAT nickname of 'Slag Alice' by some people who are against the SAT idea. However, at nearby North Shotton farm, tenant farmers SAT Julie and Robson Philipson are looking forward to the SAT completion of the sculpture and the park. Despite losing SAT much of their farm to the open cast mine, and being left SAT with only two of their fields, Julie and Robson are adapting SAT to a different way of life on the farm and are excited about SAT the prospect of Northumberlandia opening in 2013. SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b012ql53 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b012lj6m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b012ql55 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b012ql57 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with comedy supremo Paul Jackson, poet Aoife SAT Mannix, Martin Pistorius who was locked into his own body, SAT ventriloquist Steve Hewlett who's brought Archie Andrews SAT back to life, a Thing About You feature telling the story of SAT a very special perfume bottle, and Inheritance Tracks of SAT actress Tessa Peake-Jones. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b012ql59 (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys SAT of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading b012ql5c (Listen) SAT Dolly Parton grew up in poverty in rural East Tennessee, SAT where children only attended school if there was no work to SAT be done on the farm. She came to regard good literacy skills SAT as one of the key passports to enhanced life chances and in SAT 1995 she launched the 'Imagination Library'. The idea was SAT quite simple. All children in the area were sent one book a SAT month from birth until five years. In 2007 she took South SAT Yorkshire by surprise when she turned up in Rotherham - not SAT a city used to celebrity visits. But what happened next? Did SAT her library capture the imagination of Rotherham's children? SAT We follow up to ask whether it was just a flash in the pan SAT or a serious project. SAT SAT Travelling to Dollywood for an Imagination Library SAT conference, Sarfraz Manzoor meets people from all over the SAT world who have signed up for the literacy project. From SAT Alaskan children in remote communities to young readers in SAT Nottingham, Sarfraz finds that Dolly's influence is global. SAT SAT Sarfraz will meet Dolly Parton in Dollywood to talk about SAT her life and work. We'll hear from those who knew her as a SAT child and understand the motivations for this charitable SAT work she undertakes with such passion. SAT It will be a journey to the glamorous heart of country SAT music, but one which reveals much more about one of the SAT world's best loved country singers. Dolly Parton in her own SAT words and in her own personal world of the Imagination SAT Library. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b012ql5f (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b012ql5h (Listen) SAT Will Thursday's eurozone agreement be enough to save the SAT European single currency and the union of European nations? SAT Chris Morris in Brussels considers the deal designed to SAT prevent the debt crisis from spreading. Michael Buchanan was SAT in Helmand province Afghanistan as the city of Lashkar Gah SAT was returned to Afghan control. For the westerners leaving, SAT he says, their job was far from done. Some Ethiopian girls SAT are getting married at the age of five and Claudia Hammond SAT has been finding out about the efforts being made to stamp SAT out the practice of child marriage. Ever wondered what sound SAT a post-coital baboon makes? Wonder no longer. Jake Wallis SAT Simons imitates it as part his extraordinary story about the SAT Australian much more at home in the real jungle than its SAT urban equivalent. And Berlin's a city noted for its SAT counterculture, its anti-establishment stance. Steve Evans SAT is there exploring its more gentle side. SAT SAT 12:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b012tpzg (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Politicians have been talking a lot more about younger SAT people in recent months. The Chancellor George Osborne says SAT the Coalition Government has to tackle the deficit now SAT because it wouldn't be fair to future generations to leave SAT them a legacy of debt. While the Labour leader, Ed Miliband SAT says Britain's in danger of raising the first generation for SAT some time to be worse off than their parents. Financial guru SAT Alvin Hall assesses these claims and offers advice to young SAT people and their families about how to tackle the financial SAT problems facing today's youth. SAT SAT Each programme in this four-part series will focus on a SAT different theme, from housing and employment through to SAT pensions and inheritance. Through the families and SAT individuals he meets, Alvin will assess whether the sons and SAT daughters of Britain's bulging baby-boomer generation really SAT will be worse off than their parents. From the young estate SAT agent struggling to get on the housing ladder while his SAT father controls a large buy-to-let portfolio, to the student SAT struggling to fund a vital internship to kick-start his SAT career - Alvin Hall explores how younger people are SAT navigating their way through an economy shaped by the SAT previous generation. SAT SAT The series will also shed light on a growing movement SAT committed to raising the profile of intergenerational SAT inequality. Alvin speaks to the founders of a new think-tank SAT dedicated to the issue hoping to shape public policy and he SAT speaks to the young journalist who's dubbed his SAT contemporaries the 'jilted generation'. The financial guru SAT hears their arguments in this new series, which broadcasts SAT this summer while BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme takes a SAT break. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b012lm0h (Listen) SAT Series 34, Episode 7 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present topical stand-up, SAT sketches and songs. Featuring Mitch Benn, Margaret SAT Cabourn-Smith, Robin Ince and Jon Holmes. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b012lj6p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b012lj6r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b012lm4r (Listen) SAT The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, chairs a SAT discussion of news and politics from the Harlington Centre SAT in Fleet, Hampshire, with former Cabinet minister Tony Benn, SAT columnist Dominic Lawson, Conservative MP and chairman of SAT his party's Economic Affairs Committee John Redwood, and SAT Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Maria Eagle. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b012ql5k (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00773ft (Listen) SAT Playing with Fire SAT Originally produced at the National Theatre in 2005, SAT David Edgar's play is set against the background of a SAT riot in the fictional northern town of Wyverdale, in the SAT early part of the 21st century. In a revised version for SAT radio, Edgar offers a powerful combination of political SAT and personal drama. SAT SAT Alex Russell ..... Emma Fielding SAT George Aldred ..... David Troughton SAT Frank Wilkins ..... Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Riaz Rafique ..... Paul Bhattacharjee SAT Anwar Hafiz ..... Pal Aron SAT Arthur Barraclough ..... David Fleeshman SAT Jack Ross ..... David Bannerman SAT Joan Cummings ..... Marian Kemmer SAT Shirley Honeywell ..... Fiona Clarke SAT Les Slater ..... Peter Meakin SAT Stephen Croft ..... Sam Dale SAT Ricks ..... Graham Padden SAT Lord Stanley ..... Robert Lister SAT Counsel ..... Susan Brown SAT Leena Harvey-Wells ..... Souad Faress SAT Shaz ..... Bethan Walker SAT SAT Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b012ql77 (Listen) SAT Cook the Perfect... Carrot Cake, Varicose Vein Treatments SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. Taking other people's kids on holiday: a recipe for SAT familial harmony? Could a woman be appointed to head the Met SAT Police? Women and Twitter; new BBC show "The Hour"; varicose SAT vein treatments; Eileen MacKenny talks about her life of SAT crime; and Cook the Perfect... Frosted Carrot Cake. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b012ql79 (Listen) SAT With Samira Ahmed. A fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b012lmkv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012lj6t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b012lj6w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012lj6y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b012qlbq (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Rick Stein has been going to Spain on holiday since he was a SAT child. And that's where he returns in his latest BBC Two SAT series and accompanying book 'Rick Stein's Spain' to SAT discover such treats as Asturian cider, pimenton and the SAT best anchovies to be found in the world. SAT SAT Legendary Broadway star Ellen Greene joins the cast of the SAT new West End musical Betwixt!. Famous for her role as Audrey SAT in the quirky and hugely successful Little Shop of Horrors, SAT she has more recently appeared on the small screen in SAT various US television productions, such as Heroes and SAT Pushing Daisies. SAT SAT Dave Stewart talks to Peter about life after Eurythmics. Not SAT only has he written the music and lyrics for 'Ghost The SAT Musical' which opened this week to critical acclaim in the SAT West End, he also has a new album out called 'The Blackbird SAT Diaries'. And if that isn't enough, he's one the members of SAT a new band SuperHeavy (alongside Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, SAT Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman) who released their first SAT single 'Miracle Worker' earlier this month. SAT SAT Comedy's favourite poetry man Tim Key con'verses' with Nikki SAT Bedi. His book 'The Complete Tim Key' is heavy with poems on SAT love, sex, death and fruit (strawberries, beans etc) and SAT it's of a nice weight. He'll also be in Edinburgh in August SAT with his one man show 'Masterslut'. SAT SAT Fresh from headline dates in the US and now back for their SAT UK tour - music comes from Noah And The Whale playing their SAT new single Life is Life from their Top 10 album 'Last Night SAT on Earth'. SAT SAT And Dave Stewart wasn't leaving the Loose Ends studio before SAT he played a track from The Blackbird Diaries. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b012qlbs (Listen) SAT Elizabeth Filkin SAT SAT There were cheers and jeers in the House this week when SAT Elizabeth Filkin was named as head of the enquiry to advise SAT on cleaning up the relationship between the Met and the SAT media following the hacking scandal. SAT SAT As former Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards she SAT challenged vested interests at Westminster, until she was SAT 'hounded out' by MPs in 2002 after questioning the probity SAT of some of their number. She took on Keith Vaz - who this SAT week chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee's questioning SAT of recently resigned Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir SAT Paul Stephenson - during her investigation into his links SAT with the Hinduja family and accused him of deliberately SAT trying to thwart her enquiries. SAT SAT Supporters describe her as "fair but firm... someone who SAT cannot be bribed, bought or bullied." SAT SAT Filkin doesn't come with the typical background for a SAT Government-appointed inquisitor. She is a former community SAT worker, having worked in the London Borough of Brent back in SAT the 1970s. She went on to to be an academic, as well as SAT Chief Executive of the Citizens Advice Bureau. SAT SAT Now over 70, in recent years Elizabeth Filkin may have been SAT out of the limelight, but as Shari Vahl reports, her SAT antecedence suggests she's someone who wants to get at the SAT truth - and isn't too concerned who she upsets along the SAT way. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b012qlbv (Listen) SAT With Tom Sutcliffe. A review of the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b012qlbx (Listen) SAT The 1981 Ashes Series SAT SAT In 1981 Mike Brearley - 39 years old, retired and greying - SAT took over the England team in the middle of a six-match SAT series, already one-nil down against the Australians. His SAT predecessor as captain was still in the side, but the side SAT had not won a game for a year and that captain's poor SAT performances were partly to blame. On his first two days SAT back Australia ran up another huge total and Brearley's own SAT side collapsed. Amidst baying newspaper headlines England SAT were 500 - 1 against winning the game. SAT SAT Yet Brearley's team achieved a victory to rival any in SAT sport, which galvanised the nation and saw many who had SAT never been interested in cricket before glued to the events SAT on the pitch as Ian Botham led the team to the front pages. SAT SAT Brearley himself goes back to the archives to tell the SAT inside story of what remains one of the most remarkable SAT summers of sport there has ever been. As the Royal wedding, SAT the rise of the SDP and the inner city riots all came and SAT went, the cricket united the nation. We hear from the SAT players of both sides including Botham, Border, Willis and SAT Lillee, as well as the memories of Sam Mendes, Donald SAT Trelford, Scyld Berry and Gideon Haigh. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b012kn23 (Listen) SAT The History of Titus Groan, Titus Inherits SAT SAT By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SAT Episode Two 'Titus Inherits' SAT As tension between Mr Flay and Swelter, head chef of SAT Gormenghast, takes a deadly turn, Titus's foster mother Keda SAT is drawn back into her old life amongst the bright carvers. SAT Meanwhile, the first of Steerpike's great plans comes to SAT fruition as he manipulates the ladies Clarice and Cora to SAT great and tragic effect. 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 Barquentine ...Gerard McDermott SAT With Simon Bubb, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, Alun SAT Raglan, Alex Tregear SAT Music by Roger Goula SAT Directed and Produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b012lj70 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b012lj4k (Listen) SAT Series 2, Hilary Cottam SAT SAT Hilary Cottam, co-founder of Participle, unfolds her vision SAT for re-designing the welfare state with participation, not SAT passivity, at its core. She tells the story of families SAT whose lives have been transformed though their own SAT involvement in making decisions about the help being SAT provided for them 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 b00zm0hy (Listen) SAT Cogs 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 second programme, 'Cogs', Michael travels to Chicago SAT to explore another view of economics: that it is a science, SAT explaining the irrefutable mechanism of the market. SAT SAT But has economics, with its language of 'laws', 'models' and SAT 'forces', deceived itself and others by creating a false SAT impression of precision? Why, despite decades of mechanical SAT economics, do answers to some of biggest economic questions SAT still elude us? SAT SAT In the next programme, 'Monsters', Michael asks whether the SAT problem is not the machine, but the people within it. In SAT recent years economics has looked increasingly to the human SAT factor, to experimental studies of behaviour, and to SAT psychology. And that's where we turn next week. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b012krrh (Listen) SAT The legendary quotations quiz Quote...Unquote returns for a SAT new series, hosted by the incomparable Nigel Rees. This SAT week's panellists are the Irish comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, SAT Sony Gold-winning broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty and celebrated SAT actor Martin Jarvis. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SAT SAT 23:30 Tagore at 150 b012kn27 (Listen) SAT Poets, singers and ecological activists share their SAT favourite Tagore verse at a festival at Dartington Hall in SAT Devon to mark the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. SAT SAT Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature in SAT 1913 for his collection Geetanjali ("The Song Offerings"). SAT He wrote more than 1,000 poems and 2000 songs and his work SAT has been translated into all the major languages of the SAT world. SAT SAT UNESCO has declared 2011 as the Year of Tagore and his life SAT and work are being celebrated at events throughout the SAT world. SAT SAT This programme comes from the recent Tagore Festival in SAT Dartington Hall, the centre for poetry, music, arts and SAT crafts in Devon that was founded at the suggestion of Tagore SAT himself. SAT SAT We hear from poets such as William Radice (whose new SAT translation of Geetanjali has just been published), Ketaki SAT Kushari Dyson and former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, SAT singers Debashish and Rohini Raychaudhuri, environmentalist SAT Jonathon Porritt and internationalists such as Clare Short SAT and Satish Kumar, Artistic Director of the Festival who is a SAT devotee of Tagore's ecological teachings as well as his SAT poetry. SAT SAT Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SAT A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 JULY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b012qk7p (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Scottish Shorts b00nvfbz (Listen) SUN Series 10, Fifty-One SUN SUN Stories showcasing new writing from Scotland SUN SUN Fifty-One SUN by Tat Usher SUN SUN A teenager spends her evenings swimming lengths of her local SUN pool until a familiar face makes her question her SUN motivation. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012qk7r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012qk7t (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012qk7w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b012qk7y (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b012qmf9 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's Church, Dunsford, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b012qlbs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b012qk80 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b012qmfc (Listen) SUN Side Effects SUN SUN In this week's Something Understood, the poet and novelist SUN Christie Dickason reflects on how we deal with the SUN unexpected. How do we recover from the troubles which can SUN shift an individual off-track - like loss, illness or SUN accident? SUN SUN Featuring readings from Rebecca Solnit, Pablo Neruda and SUN Antonio Machado, music from Louis Armstrong, Peteris Vasks SUN and Radiokijada, and an interview with the writer Simon SUN Brett. SUN SUN Produced by Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b012qmff (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b012qk82 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b012qk84 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b012qmfh (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and SUN unfamiliar SUN "We cannot wait for politicians to sort things out. We have SUN got to make a difference ourselves." The words of the SUN Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, this week at the SUN conclusion of a conference highlighting the plight of SUN Christians living in the Holy Land. Trevor Barnes spoke to SUN some of those attending. SUN Lord Brian Mawhinney, Chairman of More than Gold on why it's SUN imperative that local churches partake in the spirit of the SUN Olympic Games. SUN The race to be the Republican challenger to President Obama SUN in next year's election is well and truly underway. Even SUN though that's not until February, most candidates are hard SUN at work wooing the voters through the summer, and as Matt SUN Wells reports from Des Moines, Christian Conservative SUN activists are calling the tune - for now. SUN We look at the conflict between Beijing and the Holy See SUN over the appointment of Bishops. SUN As the UN declares a famine in parts of Southern Somalia we SUN talk to Christian Aid's Sarah Wilson who has just returned SUN from the refugee camps in Northern Kenya and met many of SUN those who have fled from Somalia. SUN The Reform Movement in Judaism has appointed its first SUN national Rabbinical spokesperson. In her first broadcast SUN interview we speak to Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner about her SUN vision for the role and ask is this a direct threat to the SUN Orthodox Chief Rabbi? SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b012qmfk (Listen) SUN Cardiac Risk in the Young SUN SUN John Inverdale and Stephanie Hunter together present the SUN Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Cardiac Risk in the SUN Young. SUN SUN Donations to Cardiac Risk in the Young should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope CRY. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can SUN also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide Cardiac Risk in the Young SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1050845. SUN SUN CRY SUN SUN Each week in the UK 12 apparently fit and healthy young SUN people under the age of 35 die from cardiac conditions that SUN have not been diagnosed. Cardiac Risk in the Young or CRY is SUN a national charity established to prevent these tragedies SUN occurring and to help the families that are left behind SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b012qk86 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b012qk88 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b012qmfm (Listen) SUN Let the earth hear his voice! SUN SUN Each summer, thousands come together for the Keswick SUN Convention, held in the heart of the Lake District, to SUN worship God and to grow in faith. This service, from the big SUN tent, explores how faith affects our words and actions in SUN the world. Preacher: Dr Ajith Fernando, National Director of SUN Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka. Leader: Jonathan Lamb, SUN Director of Langham Preaching International. Music SUN directors: Ray Monk & Steve James. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b012lmhc (Listen) SUN What's in a marriage SUN SUN Alain de Botton on our high expectations for modern SUN marriage. He argues that expecting one person to be a good SUN partner, lover and parent is - almost - asking the SUN impossible. And he shows how different it all was before the SUN mid eighteenth century... SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b012qn4v (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b012qn4x (Listen) SUN Written by: Caroline Harrington SUN Directed by: Jenny Stephens SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jack Woolley ..... Arnold Peters SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Adrian Pegg ..... James Lailey SUN Sally Collins ..... Jane Whittenshaw. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b012qn4z (Listen) SUN Heather Rabbatts SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the businesswoman Heather SUN Rabbatts. SUN SUN Born in Jamaica and raised in Britain, her early years were SUN unpromising and she left school with just a few O levels. SUN But after evening classes, she studied law and became a SUN barrister before making her name as the youngest council SUN chief in the country. SUN SUN She's at home in the toughest business environments - from SUN Millwall Football Club to the Royal Opera House - and says: SUN "I definitely like being in charge and I've always felt that SUN I can gather everyone's spirits and energies to take that SUN jump into the unknown together." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012l0rd (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 4 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return SUN visit to the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. Regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by David Mitchell, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin SUN Sell attempts piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b012qn51 (Listen) SUN School Food SUN SUN Sheila Dillon follows two schools as they attempt to SUN transform the way their pupils eat. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b012qk8b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b012qn53 (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b012qn55 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 1 SUN SUN When Sebastian Coe presented London's bid for the Games on SUN the international stage in 2005 he was surrounded by 30 East SUN End youngsters who represented the rich cultural diversity SUN of their community. Faces of young sporting hopefuls SUN appeared on billboards and the hopes and dreams they SUN embodied became those of the nation. Radio 4's commitment to SUN follow them has resulted in tremendous access to teenagers SUN from very different backgrounds as they emerge into SUN adulthood and deal with issues ranging from sporting SUN successes and failures to romantic ones. SUN SUN As 2012 draws near we hear from Ellie - the face of the SUN London bid as she dived from the Thames Barrier. In earlier SUN programmes we followed her family as they made the difficult SUN decision to move to Australia, with its plentiful supply of SUN 50 metre pools and access to top quality swim coaching. Now SUN she's firmly on course to compete in 2012 and has her sights SUN set on a gold medal. SUN SUN By way of contrast Tom Brown - who proudly carried the torch SUN through the streets of London - has experienced several SUN setbacks on the road to swimming success. His parents have SUN thrown him out of the family home and have reluctantly SUN resorted to an injunction to stop him returning. He is SUN living in a bed and breakfast hostel and he must soon SUN undergo a kidney operation which could keep him out of the SUN pool for several weeks. SUN SUN Danielle still hopes to dance her way into the 2012 Olympic SUN opening ceremony. The Singapore trip having shaped many of SUN her experiences to date, so much so that she thinks the main SUN reasons she's made the semi-finals of Miss England is due to SUN the confidence she gained on that Singapore trip. Meanwhile SUN Amber, who first presented London's Olympic bid to the IOC SUN in Geneva in 2004, is honing her basketball skills at an SUN American University. She received a full scholarship on the SUN basis of her ability but since moving there she's fallen SUN madly in love and is even thinking of marriage. SUN SUN Peter White catches up these and the others who inspired SUN London's Olympic bid, from Perry - currently coaching SUN football in America, to Amy about to start on a football SUN scholarship at an American college. There's Alex, who as a SUN teenager dreamed of Olympic glory as he pounded the streets SUN on his East London council estate and now pounds a punch bag SUN as he trains in his new sport - boxing. And Ashley, the SUN economics student with an eye on a future in banking and SUN dreams of riches way in excess of anything imagined by his SUN mother, who struggled to bring him up on her own. SUN SUN Producer - Sue Mitchell. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012llz4 (Listen) SUN RHS Show Tatton Park SUN SUN What is the magic number when it comes to growing jumbo SUN leaks? What can an ant teach you about the state of your SUN compost heap? Chris Beardshaw, Matthew Biggs and Bunny SUN Guinness have the answers. SUN SUN In addition, Bunny Guinness talks to Daniela Coray, Daniela SUN Coray - winner of the RHS Young Designer of the Year SUN Competition 2011. SUN SUN Matthew Biggs investigates 'Blue Mouse Ears' and 'Frosted SUN Mouse Ears' Hostas. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Mabey in the Wild b012qnl4 (Listen) SUN Indian Balsam SUN SUN Indian balsam is a contentious plant. It may be beautiful SUN and prolific, attractive to bees and first to colonise the SUN empty mud banks of rivers - but many revile its invasiveness SUN and accuse the plant of shading out and squeezing out native SUN varieties. They have declared war on Indian balsam. SUN SUN Richard Mabey takes a different view. He celebrates the SUN plant that was introduced to British gardens in 1839 and SUN then 'escaped' into the wild. He reflects on its robust SUN nature and wonders at the wisdom of trying to eliminated it. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b012qnl6 (Listen) SUN The History of Titus Groan, Titus Discovers SUN SUN By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SUN Episode Three 'Titus Discovers' SUN Ten year old Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast, makes an SUN unexpected discovery in the forest, as the mystery SUN surrounding his father's disappearance deepens. Elsewhere, SUN Irma Prunesquallor grows determined to find a husband, and SUN Steerpike's ambitions may well claim the life of a second SUN member of the Gormenghast household. SUN Titus...Luke Treadaway SUN Artist...David Warner SUN Young Titus...Hugo Docking SUN Steerpike...Carl Prekopp SUN Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson SUN Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet SUN Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig SUN Bellgrove...William Gaunt SUN Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar SUN Cora ...Claudie Blakeley SUN Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan SUN Flay ...Adrian Scarborough SUN Barquentine...Gerard McDermott SUN Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw SUN Keda...Susie Riddell SUN With the voices of Paul Rhys and Mark Benton SUN With Jonathan Forbes, James Lailey, Alun Raglan, Alex SUN Tregear SUN Music by Roger Goula SUN Directed by David Hunter and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b012qnl8 (Listen) SUN A History of Women's Writing Part Three; Has Crime Writing SUN Become Too Gory? SUN SUN In the third instalment of her history of women's SUN twentieth-century writing, A Book of One's Own, Mariella SUN investigates the era of sexual liberation in the 1960s and SUN 70s and how it ignited feminist fiction. She also traces the SUN explosion in feminist literary theory, a development which SUN has not been welcomed by some women writers, as Mariella SUN finds out from novelist AS Byatt. SUN SUN And as this year's Harrogate Crime Writing Festival ends, SUN Mariella asks if the genre has become too gory. SUN SUN 16:30 Down off the Pedestals b012qnlb (Listen) SUN The nineteenth century witnessed a flourishing of dialect SUN poets in the new industrial centres. Though they were very SUN popular locally, they were typically sneered at by the SUN metropolitan literary establishment, and their reputations SUN have fared badly in the years since. SUN SUN Now Simon Armitage sets out to explore the lives and works SUN of two writers whose influence in his Pennine home is felt - SUN Samuel Laycock and Ammon Wrigley. Armitage grew up hearing SUN their poems recited as party pieces, and while he initially SUN wanted to, "get past them" and forge his own reputation, SUN he's now keen to show why they deserve more serious SUN attention from the reading public beyond their home turf. SUN SUN Along the way Armitage speaks with musicians who've helped SUN keep the poems alive as songs, and writers such as Glyn SUN Hughes who have long championed the works. Hughes, sadly, SUN has died since the programme was recorded. SUN SUN Producer: Geoff Bird SUN A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b012l2yv (Listen) SUN An Emergency Crisis? SUN SUN Why are ambulances queuing up to unload patients needing SUN treatment at hospital Accident and Emergency Departments? SUN Some senior A and E medics say there are too few beds and SUN not enough staff in a front line service struggling to cope. SUN Cash strapped NHS Trusts are closing casualty units, or SUN replacing them with lower grade Urgent Care Centres but SUN what's been the impact on patients? Allan Urry asks whether SUN A and E is on life support, at a time when the NHS is trying SUN to make £20 billions savings without compromising patient SUN care. SUN Presenter: Allan Urry SUN Producer: Samantha Fenwick. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b012qlbs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012qk8d (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b012qk8g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012qk8j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b012qnld (Listen) SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b012qnrt (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b012qnrw (Listen) SUN As the presidential campaign for 2012 ramps up Americana SUN checks in with leaders and laymen from the African American SUN community about how interest in this season may compare to SUN voter engagement in years past. Political commentator SUN Michelle Bernard and professor of political science Dr Hasan SUN Crockett weigh in. SUN SUN Comedian Alonzo Bodden has become a master of laughter. He SUN explains how to dance across the line politically, socially SUN and racially. SUN SUN Mumbo sauce is hitting markets across the Washington DC SUN area, playing well with soul food fans from across the SUN nation. Americana takes a taste. SUN SUN And trombonist Fred Wesley explains the political language SUN of jazz versus funk. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00pfsqw (Listen) SUN Bright Young Things, Bernice Bobs Her Hair SUN SUN And now the second of our stories celebrating the riotous, SUN cocktail-swilling, 'Bright Young Things' of the interwar SUN years. Laurel Lefkow reads F Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz SUN Age tale set in 1920s California, 'Bernice Bobs her Hair', SUN in which revenge comes in the shape of a daring new SUN hairstyle. SUN SUN F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of 'The Beautiful and the SUN Damned', 'Tender is the Night' and 'The Great Gatsby', is SUN regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. SUN His stories epitomised the Jazz Age, which he defined as a SUN 'generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, SUN all faiths in man shaken'. SUN SUN Written by F Scott Fitzgerald SUN Read by Laurel Lefkow SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton SUN Produced by Justine Willett. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b012lls5 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton gives a Feedback listener an access all areas SUN backstage pass to the Today programme. Francesca Fenn talks SUN to Sarah Montague, Charlotte Green and John Humphrys. SUN SUN Roger puts your queries to Ceri Thomas the editor of Today SUN including length of items, gender balance and Murdoch SUN overkill. SUN SUN A Feedback listener has a miserable Sunday night listening SUN to Pick of the Week. SUN SUN And will the "visualisation of radio" mean early retirement SUN for those with "a good face for radio"? SUN Plus the World Service's Director of Global News Peter SUN Horrocks talks about falling listeners and new funding SUN models. 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 b012llz8 (Listen) SUN Lucian Freud, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Hanna Segal, Roland Petit, SUN Manuel Galban SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The painter Lucian Freud - we evaluate his life and work and SUN talk to three people who saw him paint. SUN SUN Also Ahmed Wali Karzai, half brother of the Afghan president SUN and a noted powerbroker in the country. SUN SUN The French choreographer Roland Petit who created renowned SUN works for his glamorous wife Zizi Jeanmaire. SUN SUN And Hanna Segal, the leading psychoanalyst who studied SUN patients who suffered from psychosis and also worked to SUN understand the artistic impulse. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b012l4nl (Listen) SUN The Loan Cowboys SUN SUN Debt management can be a crucial tool in helping people get SUN to grips with their finances. But some companies have left SUN many of their vulnerable customers owing more than ever. SUN John Waite investigates how these companies offered to help SUN hard-up families ease their debts but held on to their cash, SUN leaving many of them close to the financial edge. SUN SUN Debt management companies sprung up in the mid Nineties, SUN offering to save struggling people from the threats of banks SUN and creditors by settling their debts. For a monthly fee, SUN customers believed their debts were being paid off but, as SUN Face the Facts discovers, some companies took advantage of a SUN weak regulatory system and accepted money from their SUN desperate clients without passing it on to the creditors. SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b012qmfk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b012lkzp (Listen) SUN Europe on the Edge SUN SUN The Euro crisis in Greece is creating effects that can be SUN felt across the continent. Peter Day finds out how this SUN turbulence is affecting businesses in Spain and Poland. SUN SUN Producers: Sandra Kanthal and Julie Ball. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b012qpwk (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 b012qpwm (Listen) SUN Episode 62 SUN SUN Andrew Porter, Political Editor of The Telegraph, analyses SUN how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories in SUN Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b012llzb (Listen) SUN Modern love is the focus in this week's film programme SUN presented by Matthew Sweet. A septuagenarian Christopher SUN Plummer comes out after forty years of marriage when his SUN wife dies in Mike Mills' Beginners; Jennifer Aniston plays a SUN randy dentist in Seth Gordon's new film, Horrible Bosses; SUN and Rita Hayworth torments herself and Glenn Ford in the SUN luminescent, Gilda -- King Vidor's classic film noir which SUN has just been re-released. All are subject to scrutiny -- SUN Matthew discusses the part autobiography plays in Beginners SUN with the director; probes Jennifer Aniston on the need for SUN boundaries in comedy; and muses on the femme fatale with the SUN novelist,Linda Grant, who is passionate about Rita Hayworth. SUN There's also the first of six trips into the weird and SUN wonderful world of horror with the comedian and actor, Mark SUN Gatiss. This week he takes Matthew Down Under to a SUN terrifying nursing home where one of its residents, Patrick, SUN casts his deadly spell. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b012qmfc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 JULY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b012qk95 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b012l4p1 (Listen) MON Privacy and parenting by mobile phone. MON MON What is personal, what is confidential and what is private? MON These are all questions which are addressed in a new MON sociological study of the nature of privacy. Christena MON Nippert-Eng claims that 'privacy violations' are MON particularly damaging because they go to the heart of our MON rights to determine ourselves as individuals. Her work MON brings precision to an analysis of current reactions to the MON unwarranted intrusions of the press. MON Also on the programme, how the millions of migrants from the MON Philippines attempt to parent their stay at home children by MON mobile phone. Do they think they are successful? Do their MON children agree? Mirca Madianou talks about her study of MON mothers in Britain and their children back home. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b012qmf9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012qk97 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012qk99 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012qk9c (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b012qk9f (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012qq7d (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Clair Jaquiss. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b012qq7g (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. MON MON 05:57 Weather b012qk9h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b012qq7j (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 b012qq7l (Listen) MON Series 4, Persuasion MON MON The language of persuasion interrogated. Advertisers, MON lawyers, cold callers and politicians are all, in a way, MON language experts. And we are all targets for people who try MON to persuade us of something, whether to buy a particular MON brand of soap powder, change our car insurance, or vote for MON a political party, for instance. And most of us at one time MON or another try to persuade other people to do something that MON we want them to do for us. It might be that it's to give us MON a job, come on holiday with us, or lend us a fiver until pay MON day. Is it possible to maximize your chances of success with MON the right approach, and by simply using the right words MON control someone else's behaviour? MON MON How did the great persuaders of the past sway their MON audiences? We look at rhetoric and gesture, as well as MON hearing from an advertising executive, a professor of MON political history, a legal expert, and someone who runs one MON of the country's most successful telemarketing companies. MON Just how good do you have to be to sell someone something MON over the telephone? How hard is it to sell anything MON face-face with your client? We hear what happens when MON someone from one of Britain's most influential management MON training institutions observes a man selling sausages for MON his living from a stall in a London market. Does a humble MON street trader use the same devices as a vast multi-national MON corporation when it comes to getting you to put your hand in MON your pocket? You will listen, won't you? You know you MON deserve it. MON MON Producer: Ian Gardhouse MON A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012qq7n (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Peter White is joined by author Sue Townsend who is also MON blind, to discuss their pet hate of being introduced to MON other blind people. Peter says that often sighted people MON will suggest that he meets someone, not because they may MON have anything in common, but purely because they are both MON blind. Visually-impaired BBC News correspondent Gary O' MON Donoghue also comments. MON MON But Peter then meets Irene, June and Kathleen who disagree MON with his sentiments and point out what they consider to be MON the benefits of meeting other people who are also MON visually-impaired. MON MON Producer : Cheryl Gabriel. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b012qq7q (Listen) MON Hood Rat, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Gavin Knight. The reader is Siobhan Redmond. MON MON Journalist Gavin Knight reports from the frontline of MON Glasgow's ganglands. This serialisation taken from his new MON book 'Hood Rat' follows the efforts of Karyn McCluskey MON recently appointed as head of intelligence at Strathclyde MON police force. Karyn is determined to understand the stories MON behind the horrifying statistics of violent knife crime and MON murder. MON MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b012qq7s (Listen) MON Presented by Jenni Murray. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012qq7v (Listen) MON The Little Ottleys, Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Episode One MON It's 1916. The Little Ottleys, as they were called, have a MON new daughter and have moved from their very concise flat to MON a very concise house. Time has passed and Edith has tried to MON forget Aylmer Ross. A little difficult when you are married MON to someone like Bruce. But they are about to have a visitor MON .. MON MON Ada Leverson..............Haydn Gwynne MON Edith..........................Juliet Aubrey MON Bruce.........................Bertie Carvel MON Madame Frabelle.........Jane Whittenshaw MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON 11:00 The Lunatic Line b012qq7x (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON The 600-mile railway line from the Kenyan port of Mombasa to MON Uganda, built by the British between 1895 and 1901 through MON hostile tribal lands and malarial swamps, became known as MON "The Lunatic Line". Spiralling costs and massive engineering MON challenges were just a few of the problems facing the MON railway. Hundreds of Kenyan and indentured Indian labourers MON died during the railway's construction, mostly from disease, MON although the man-eating lions of Tsavo also devoured many. MON MON Yet the railway created modern Kenya, and Nairobi hardly MON existed until the railway workers set up camp there just MON over a century ago. MON MON Today, the old British-built railway still runs - but only MON just - and more as a tourist curiosity than a functioning MON service. Semi-privatised 25 years ago, it has suffered MON woefully from lack of investment, and today is but a MON decrepit relic of its former self. MON MON Now Kenya has announced hugely ambitious plans to shunt its MON rail network into the 21st century by commissioning a new MON high-speed line with double-decker passenger and freight MON trains cruising at up to 100mph, reducing the journey time MON from Mombasa to Nairobi from 13 hours to three. MON MON Ayisha Yahya travels on the existing creaking line and asks MON whether plans to rebuild and expand the railway network are MON little more than another lunatic notion? Or will they have MON as great an economic and social impact on the region as the MON Lunatic Line's original construction? MON MON Producer: Ruth Evans MON A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b011tzmn (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and MON charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. MON MON This week a memoir of one nefarious summer while studying at MON college: "The Incomplete Quad" and a modern take on the MON anthropomorphic fable in: "The Squirrel & The Chipmunk" MON MON Producer: Steve Doherty MON A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b012qq7z (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b012qk9k (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b012qq81 (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 b012qq83 (Listen) MON Episode 4 in the new series of Quote...Unquote, hosted by MON Nigel Rees. This week's quotation quizzers are former BBC MON Chairman, Michael Grade, comedian Simon Munnery, poet Ian MON McMillan and psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b012qnrt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b012qq85 (Listen) MON A9 MON MON Article 9 of the Tokyo Judgement at the end of WWII withdrew MON from the Japanese constitution the state's right of MON belligerency. Traumatised and guilt ridden for having killed MON enemy soldiers in war, Bernard has to attempt to coerce his MON children to continue his life's work, and makes their MON awaiting inheritance dependent on their abandoning their MON present careers and dedicating their lives to the promotion MON of A9. MON MON Bernard Bottomly ..... David Warner MON Unity ..... Rebecca Saire MON Victor ..... Oliver Cotton MON Claire ..... Deborah Findlay MON Jools ..... Jonathan Tafler MON Roger ..... Ewart James Walters MON Ernest ..... Malcolm Tierney MON MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b012qlbx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012qq9d (Listen) MON Series 2, The Great Patriotic War MON MON The words of Konstantin Simonov's poem 'Wait for me and I MON shall return,' is an anthem of loss, courage and yearning MON for the terrible months that followed the outbreak of war in MON 1941. MON MON Untrained volunteers fought with pikes and sticks, entire MON divisions were wiped out, but the Red Army did not collapse MON as Hitler had predicted. One General reported, "It is MON increasingly plain we have underestimated the Russian MON colossus... if we destroy a dozen, the Russians present us MON with a dozen more." Neither did the Soviet people welcome MON the Germans as saviours. Some Baltic states, where the MON invaders were seen as allies helping to throw off the Soviet MON yoke, greeted German soldiers with bread and salt, but they MON were repaid with brutality. Martin Sixsmith visits the MON suburb of Kiev that witnessed the biggest single massacre of MON the holocaust, immortalized in Yevgeny Yevtushenko's epic MON poem 'Babi Yar'. A heartrending account of one woman who MON survived is set against music from Shostakovich's 13th MON Symphony that uses the words of the poem. But German MON casualties were mounting. As winter approached, Hitler urged MON his generals to capture the major Soviet cities. MON MON By early November the exhausted Germans were within 50 miles MON of Moscow. 600 miles and two fifths of the Soviet population MON were under enemy control, but the people's determination to MON fight was passionate. Stalin evoked heroes of the past to MON inspire new Russian heroes, but Sixsmith reflects, "their MON motives were not always the ones the Kremlin desired: people MON were fighting not for Stalin, not for the revolution or the MON Soviet Union, but for the Russian land." In the hit song of MON 1942 Napolean speaks to Hitler from the grave saying 'I'll MON move over and you can join me down here." The Soviet Union MON had been facing annihilation, but it had survived. MON MON Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking MON Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b012qn51 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b012qqr1 (Listen) MON If there is one idea on which David Cameron has staked the MON reputation of his government it is the Big Society, and he MON has stressed the role he believes faith groups have to play MON in it. Their reaction has, however, been mixed with the MON Archbishop of Canterbury describing it as a "stale slogan" MON in danger of being seen as an opportunistic cover for MON spending cuts. So what is the Big Society, and are its MON values consistent with religious values? Ernie is joined by MON Phillip Blond, Director of the Think Tank Respublica and MON widely credited as being the originator of the government's MON Big Society idea, Maleiha Malik, Professor in Law at King's MON College, London: and Antony Lerman, former founding director MON of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research. MON MON 17:00 PM b012qqr3 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012qk9m (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012qqr5 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a first visit to the MON Grassington Festival in the Yorkshire Dales. Old-timers MON Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined MON on the panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. MON Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b012qrtl (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b012qrtn (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with writer Moni MON Mohsin, whose new novel Tender Hooks satirizes life amongst MON the upper reaches of society in contemporary Lahore. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012qq7v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Waiting for Independence Day b012qrtq (Listen) MON Quebec has been asked twice whether it wants to become MON independent. Scotland will be asked the same question soon. MON Iain MacWhirter travels to Montreal and Ottawa to ask MON whether the experience of having a referendum hanging over MON it has harmed or galvanised Quebecois society? MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b012lkkd (Listen) MON Libyan refugees MON MON Crossing Continents joins a British doctor volunteering to MON help women and children stranded in Tunisian refugee camps MON while the men fight Gaddafi's forces in the mountains south MON of Tripoli. MON Producer: Bill Law. MON MON 21:00 Material World b012lkkv (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper hears about the arrival of NASA's Dawn MON spaceprobe at the asteroid Vesta, the landing of the last MON Space Shuttle flight, attempts to reduce the number of MON animals used in scientific research and testing, and, as the MON two thousandth test match begins, the physics of cricket. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Dawn over Vesta MON MON As the Space Shuttle ended its final mission, NASA’s MON unmanned Dawn spaceprobe went into orbit around the asteroid MON Vesta. Mission Manager Dr Marc Rayman of the Jet Propulsion MON Lab in California says that Vesta is a protoplanet, a planet MON that never grew full size, due to Jupiter’s gravity. So MON studying it will give clues to the early history of the MON Solar System, 4.5 billion years ago. MON MON Reducing Animal Experiments MON MON On Monday this week the government announced plans to reduce MON the use of animals in scientific research and to end animal MON testing of household products. The UK National Centre for MON Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research MON (NC3Rs) will lead the process. Quentin speaks to Dr Vicky MON Robinson, Chief Executive of the NC3Rs and Professor Roger MON Morris of Kings College London, whose Biomedical Sciences MON department uses animals for research. MON MON Calculation Cricket MON MON Today is the first day of a cricket Test match between MON England and India at Lord’s. But it is not just any Test MON match- it is the 2000th Test match in history and the 100th MON Test match between England and India. Additionally one of MON India’s players, Sachin Tendulkar, will be attempting to MON record his 100th international century (score of 100). But MON what actually makes cricketers like Sachin so good- is it MON all down to talent? What is the best angle to hit the MON cricket ball and why is the sweet-spot so sweet? Quentin MON finds out from Astronomer, Dr Mark Kidger, who has turned MON his scientific talents to cricket with his book ‘The Physics MON of Cricket’. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b012qq7l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b012qk9p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b012qrzt (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012qs0b (Listen) MON Pereira Maintains, Episode 1 MON MON Derek Jacobi reads this prizewinning novel set in the MON sweltering summer of 1938 when Portugal was under the MON Fascist shadow of Spain. MON MON Pereira Maintains tells a tale of reluctant heroism. The MON editor of the arts page of a Lisbon newspaper, Dr Pereira, MON wants nothing to do with politics. Something of an academic MON he spends his time immersed in nineteenth century French MON literature. His closest confidante is a photograph of his MON late wife. But all this changes when he meets Francesco MON Monteiro Rossi, a charismatic young man with links to the MON anti-Franco International Brigade. As Pereira comes to MON realise the extent of the suppression of free speech in the MON country he loves, he is drawn into a reckless act of MON rebellion. MON MON Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b012l253 (Listen) MON Students are no longer choosing to study modern foreign MON languages. In the first of a new series of Word of Mouth, MON Chris Ledgard asks how much this matters. MON MON In 2001, 78% of pupils in England did a language GCSE. By MON last year that had fallen to just 43%. Chris Ledgard talks MON to Andy Burnham, Shadow Secretary of State for Education; MON Vivienne Hurley of the British Academy; Professor Andrew MON Hussey of the University of London Institute in Paris; John MON Rushforth, Deputy Vice Chancellor of UWE; Swansea University MON language student Catherine Rendle; Luke Young, President of MON the NUS in Wales and Glyn Hambrook, a former language MON lecturer, to find out the true picture and ask if it really MON matters. MON MON 23:30 Polyoaks b011jx09 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON First episode of a new Sitcom written by Private Eye medical MON columnist Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer set in the MON Bewildering New World of the NHS. MON MON As responsibility for the Health Service is stripped from MON managers and handed to doctors, brothers-in-medicine Roy & MON Hugh Thornton are struggling to work out what to do with all MON this sudden money and power. If they can diagnose acute MON appendicitis surely they can manage an £80 billion health MON budget. Can't they? MON MON But a useless Celebrity TV Doctor, an overly-aggressive MON South African Nurse and a sinister GP Consortium Chairman MON don't make their lot any easier. MON MON Anyone who wants to know what's really happening to the MON Nation's Health Service, (but can't wade through the 367 MON page Health & Social Care Bill) should listen to 30 minutes MON of Polyoaks, starring Nigel Planer, Tony Gardner, Celia MON Imrie and David Westhead. MON MON Dr Roy Thornton ..... Nigel Planer MON Dr Hugh Thornton ..... Tony Gardner MON TV's Dr Jeremy ..... David Westhead MON Betty Crossfield ..... Celia Imrie MON Vera Du Plessis ..... Carla Mendonca MON Mr Devlin/ Patient ..... Phil Cornwell MON Mr Ridgewell/ Mr Dawson ..... David Holt MON Mrs Briggs ..... Kate O'Sullivan MON MON Written By Phil Hammond and David Spicer MON Producer/Director: Frank Stirling MON An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 JULY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b012qkb8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b012qq7q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012qkbb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012qkbd (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012qkbg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b012qkbj (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012qs5n (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Clair Jaquiss. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b012qs5q (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b012qs5s (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b012qs5v (Listen) TUE In the late 1950's The Manchester Guardian demonstrated its TUE national ambition by dropping Manchester from its title. The TUE Guardian wanted to establish itself as far more than a TUE high-brow regional paper with a strong reputation for TUE international coverage. And so, in 1961 the paper started to TUE print in London. It wasn't a great success, furnishing TUE parodists with acres of Gruaniad style material to parody TUE while leaving ink all over the hands of the expanding TUE Southern readership. But in 1964 the editorial headquarters TUE followed the printing presses to the capital. Manchester and TUE the north were in decline, yesterday's cities. To be a TUE national paper the feeling was that you had to be based in TUE London. Spool forward four decades and the BBC have taken an TUE entirely different approach to being a national media TUE organisation. The move of substantial programme making TUE operations including Five Live and BBC 1 breakfast to TUE Salford is a statement of intent. A new and exciting TUE northern contribution to output, far greater than the old TUE regional headquarters could ever manage, appears to be the TUE way forward. TUE TUE So do you achieve national coverage by going to London or by TUE leaving London? The Long view examines whether the decisions TUE are right and why they were made. It tells a story of the TUE changing balance of the North South divide examines the TUE relationship between how you cover the UK and where you are TUE within it. TUE TUE 09:30 Top of the Class b012qs5x (Listen) TUE Series 3, Andrea Levy TUE TUE Andrea Levy is now part of the literary establishment. She TUE was short listed for the Booker Prize in 2010 with her TUE novel, The Long Song. In Top of the Class, she goes back to TUE the building where her creative success took root - the old TUE City Literature building in London's Covent Garden. TUE TUE As a school girl, Andrea's literary talent never shone - it TUE was only when she started doing an adult education class in TUE creative writing that she realised hers was a voice which TUE had something powerful and resonant to say. TUE TUE Encouraged by her classmates, some of her early classroom TUE forays into creative writing were the starting point for her TUE first novel, Every Light in the House Burnin'. TUE TUE John Wilson takes Andrea back to the building and reunites TUE her with her creative writing tutor, Alison Fell and class TUE mate, Aubyn Hall. They retrace their steps - try and find TUE their former classroom of more than twenty years ago and TUE tell the story of Andrea's literary journey from classroom TUE to international success. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b012trd8 (Listen) TUE Hood Rat, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Gavin Knight. The reader is Siobhan Redmond. TUE TUE There is anger and a sense of urgency when four young men TUE are murdered in South London in a single weekend. But that TUE level of crime is normal for Glasgow and instead of anger TUE the reaction is indifference and acceptance. Karyn McCluskey TUE and her colleague John Carnochan are determined to find a TUE way to break the cycle of violence. TUE TUE Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b012qs5z (Listen) TUE Presented by Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r6kc (Listen) TUE The Little Ottleys, Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode Two TUE Edith is devastated to discover that Aylmer Ross has been TUE injured in the War. She's desperate to know how seriously TUE hurt he is ... TUE TUE Ada Leverson..............Haydn Gwynne TUE Edith..........................Juliet Aubrey TUE Bruce.........................Bertie Carvel TUE Aylmer.......................Jonathan Firth TUE Madame Frabelle.........Jane Whittenshaw TUE Dulcie.........................Leah Brotherhead TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b012qs61 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 14 TUE TUE 14/30 Chris the cuckoo is south bound, heading for Africa - TUE but where exactly is he? We visit the British Trust for TUE Ornithology's HQ in East Anglia and find out latest progress TUE of him and his compatriots. We also have a report about the TUE UK Lady Bird Survey being conducted by the Biological TUE Records Centre. Over recent years we have heard much about TUE the invasive harlequin ladybird pushing out our native TUE species - but is this really the case. And how easy is it to TUE see all the ladybrid species found in the British Isles? TUE We'll be encouraging you to join in and if you don't know TUE your ladybirds, why not use ispot. TUE TUE We also feature Tree Sparrows with a report in the field TUE from northern England and an interview with the RSPB on why TUE we should care about this species in particular. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Sheena Duncan TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b012qsdh (Listen) TUE Simon Singh TUE TUE Science journalist Simon Singh presents some of the pieces TUE of writing which have captured his imagination, including a TUE blog, an online hoax, a nursery rhyme and a well-loved TUE contemporary novel. Simon's readers are his performance TUE collaborator Robin Ince and writer and actress Meera Syal. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b012qsdk (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 b012qkbl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b012qsdm (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 Composer Joseph Horovitz: No Ordinary Joe b012qsdp (Listen) TUE This is the story of a composer of the kind of music that TUE just fits so beautifully, that you hardly notice yourself TUE humming along. Joseph Horovitz is a composer of concertos TUE and ballets, operas and chamber music, yet he is best known TUE for other kinds of music such as Rumpole of the Bailey, and TUE Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo. Composer Debbie Wiseman TUE in interview with Joseph Horovitz, journeys through his TUE remarkable life and career. TUE TUE Captain Noah has been translated into six languages, and has TUE proved to be a best seller for Horovitz. The Berkshire TUE Maestros, and conductor David Hill with the Bach Choir, have TUE all recently rehearsed and performed this work, and give TUE their views on why Captain Noah has been so popular over the TUE past 40 years. Dancer Wayne Sleep, conductor John Wilson, TUE and television executive producer Tony Wharmby, also discuss TUE their collaborations with Horovitz, and give their thoughts TUE on his music. TUE TUE Horovitz's story begins with his escape from the Nazis as TUE they entered Vienna in 1938, to then include giving musical TUE appreciation lectures during the war to the forces, being TUE awarded two Ivor Novello awards for his later compositions, TUE and working with such comic legends as Gerard Hoffnung and TUE Michael Flanders. This life journey has been one of TUE distinction in many ways, yet Horovitz has not been taken as TUE seriously as he'd like. Debbie Wiseman grapples with this TUE issue, to understand why Horovitz has not received the TUE acclaim that his artistry deserves. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b012qrtl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00b0swj (Listen) TUE Dear Writer TUE TUE By Jane Rogers. TUE TUE Ten-year-old Polly sends an email to her favourite author, TUE asking why there have been no new books published recently. TUE The writer responds that she is old and tired and has run TUE out of stories, but there are deeper reasons for her TUE inability to conjure any more from her imagination. TUE TUE Writer ...... Anna Massey TUE Child ...... Leah Verity White TUE TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b012qsdr (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's 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 b012qtb9 (Listen) TUE Opening Lines, Writing in Chalk TUE TUE A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging TUE short story writers their radio debut. TUE TUE A young girl, struggling with her reading and writing in TUE school, looks to her mother for support in this touching TUE story by Helen Barton TUE TUE Read by Claire Skinner TUE Produced by Robert Howells TUE TUE In 2009, Helen won the Orange Harper's Bazaar short story TUE award and has written a novel and several short stories, as TUE well as a series of literary quiz books. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012qtbc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Redemption through Blood TUE TUE Having retreated from Moscow, Hitler focused on capturing TUE the oilfields of the Caucasus, penetrating farther into TUE Russia than any western army. Stalin urged the Red Army to TUE greater sacrifices: "we must throw back the enemy whatever TUE the cost. Those who retreat are traitors . and must be TUE exterminated on the spot." 150,000 soldiers were executed TUE for cowardice. TUE TUE Those who survived were sent to penal battalions "to redeem TUE by blood their crimes against the Motherland," drawing on TUE the deep-seated Russian belief that the individual must TUE sacrifice himself for the good of the state. Women took the TUE strain in industry and agriculture, overtime was obligatory, TUE holidays suspended and the working day increased to 12 TUE hours. Food supplies were limited; the author Fyodor Abramov TUE wrote of "little girls with runny noses" working in the TUE forests: "you didn't dare come back without fulfilling your TUE quota! Not on your life! "The front needs it!"' Hitler had TUE pledged to make Leningrad a terrifying symbol of Nazi TUE invincibility and for 900 days the city was shelled nonstop TUE and starved of fuel and food. One in three of the city's 2.5 TUE million inhabitants starved to death. TUE TUE Martin Sixsmith stands in the concert hall where TUE Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, which he dedicated to "our TUE struggle against fascism ...our coming victory over the TUE enemy and to my native city, Leningrad..." was first TUE performed on August 9th 1942. So many members of the TUE orchestra had died in the siege that amateur players were TUE brought in to fill their seats, and the brass section was TUE given special rations to give them the strength to play. But TUE the performance was a triumph. It was broadcast on national TUE radio and then around the world as a symbol of the strength TUE of Soviet resistance that would eventually defeat the Nazi TUE menace. TUE TUE Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking TUE Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b012qtbf (Listen) TUE What's in a name? Chris Ledgard looks at where our names TUE come from and what they mean. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b012qtbh (Listen) TUE Alexander Waugh, Xanthe Clay TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert talks to Alexander Waugh and Xanthe Clay TUE about their favourite books. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b012qttz (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012qkbn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b012qtv1 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing TUE the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. TUE TUE Starring: Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie TUE Walter and Waen Shepherd. TUE TUE Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve TUE Burge, Jon Hunter, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Fay Rusling. TUE TUE Script Editor ..... Dan Tetsell TUE Producer ..... Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b012qtvr (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b012qtvt (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the long list for the TUE Man Booker Prize for fiction, announced today. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r6kc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b012qtvw (Listen) TUE Revolving Doors TUE TUE Each year scores of senior civil servants and ex-government TUE ministers quit Whitehall for higher-paid posts in business. TUE Companies in the fields of defence, health, energy and TUE transport are particularly keen to recruit experienced TUE politicians, policy makers and managers with close links to TUE the wheels of power and procurement. This is the so-called TUE "revolving door" between government and the world of TUE commerce and industry. In recent years a free flow of talent TUE both ways has been encouraged in the name of both efficiency TUE and better communication between Whitehall and the wider TUE world. But Government orders for goods and services are TUE worth billions of £'s every year, and critics say the system TUE is vulnerable to abuse and conflict of interest. For 'File TUE on 4' Julian O'Halloran examines the effectiveness of the TUE independent committee whose job it is to police the divide TUE and protect the public interest. TUE Producer: Andy Denwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b012qtvy (Listen) TUE We look at the impact of NICE's decision not to approve a TUE drug used for treating diabetic macular oedema, a condition TUE affecting 50 000 people in the UK. Plus more from Sight TUE Vilage, the exhibition which showcases the latest technology TUE for blind and partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b012qtw0 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 2 TUE TUE Is there such a thing as a normal immune system? Vivienne TUE Parry investigates. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b012qs5v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b012qkbq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b012qtw2 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012tr1t (Listen) TUE Pereira Maintains, Episode 2 TUE TUE Dr Pereira has met a charismatic young man and offered him a TUE job on the culture page of his newspaper but he is concerned TUE by the company the young man keeps, for this is Portugal in TUE 1938 and one has to be careful who one is seen with and what TUE one says. TUE TUE Written by Antonio Tabucchi TUE Read by Derek Jacobi TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Bigipedia b012qtwd (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bigipedia 2.0 - BigiBuzz! 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 with BigiBuzz! Find out what's popular TUE so you can be one of them! 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 Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Lost Albums b007cnxj (Listen) TUE Series 1, Bright Phoebus TUE TUE Pete Paphides reveals the story and music behind the 1972 TUE folk album by Mike Waterson, Martin Carthy and Ashley TUE Hutchings. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 JULY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b012qkc9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b012trd8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012qkcc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012qkcf (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012qkch (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b012qkck (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012r6jj (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Clair Jaquiss. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b012r6jl (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b012r6jn (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Voices from the Old Bailey b012r6jq (Listen) WED Series 2, Riots WED WED Amanda Vickery explores the culture of 18th century Britain WED through its dramatic court cases. In this first programme of WED the new series, she hears evidence from 3 bloody riots. WED Ordinary Londoners caught up in violence on the streets tell WED their story, and rioters argue their case in court, WED desperately attempting to avoid the noose. WED WED The 3 riots span the 18th century and reveal huge political WED change: we move from a group of sailors destroying a brothel WED in a drunken rampage to the first modern political riot, the WED 'Wilkes and Liberty' riot. Finally we hear evidence from the WED anti-Catholic Gordon riots, the worst episode of civil WED unrest in British history. The whole of central London was WED garrisoned with mounted troops, who shot to kill. Professor WED Vickery reveals that left-wing historians of the 70s and 80s WED ignored the Gordon Riots because they didn't fit their WED ideological model of the noble rioter. WED WED Three contributors discuss the court cases: Professor Peter WED King, Dr Katrina Navickas and Professor Tim Hitchcock, WED co-founder of the online archive, OldBailey Online. With a WED ballad about a food riot sung by Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas WED Guthrie; recorded on location in the oldest pub in London, WED the Guinea in Mayfair, and with a visit to a Catholic chapel WED which was attacked in the Gordon Riots. The music used in WED this programme was arranged by David Owen Norris, from WED original 18th century ballads. WED WED Producer: Elizabeth Burke WED A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b012r6js (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r6jv (Listen) WED The Little Ottleys, Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Aylmer Ross has returned to London and the attraction WED between him and Edith is as electric as ever but where do WED they go from here? ... WED WED Ada Leverson..............Haydn Gwynne WED Edith..........................Juliet Aubrey WED Bruce.........................Bertie Carvel WED Aylmer.......................Jonathan Firth WED Madame Frabelle.........Jane Whittenshaw WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED 11:00 The Shipwrecked Bears b012r6tt (Listen) WED Gyles Brandreth investigates the mystery of three thousand WED missing teddy bears, the first ever made. WED WED Three thousand teddy bears went missing in 1903, supposedly WED en route for New York from their native Germany. Bear expert WED and storyteller-par-excellence Gyles Brandreth attempts to WED discover what really happened to these earliest toy bears. WED WED In 1902 the first ever toy bear was designed in Germany by WED Richard Steiff: Bär 55 PB, a lifelike bear with joints, a WED humped back and a snout. A New York toy company placed an WED order at the Leipzig Toy Fair in 1903 for three thousand of WED the bears - a novelty - to be ready in time for the WED Christmas market. The bears were made and packed up for WED shipment, but there is no record of them reaching their WED destination and none of this load of US-bound bears has ever WED been found. The templates, patterns and even photos of this WED bear exist but not even one sample was kept. One popular WED explanation is that there was a shipwreck and the bears had WED a watery end. All that is certain is that if one of these WED bears turned up now it would be 'open chequebook' time for WED certain museums and collectors. WED WED Witty, magical and heart-warming, the documentary reveals WED fascinating detail behind the making of the bears, including WED a trip to the Steiff factory and a riffle through their WED detailed archives, as Gyles delights us with this WED little-known story, and imagines where water-logged bears WED might have washed up. WED WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b012r6tw (Listen) WED Series 2, Paul Whitney Beauchamp WED WED Darkly comic drama written by Andrew McGibbon. Ian McDiarmid WED stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill retired English master of WED Haunchurst School for boys, looking back on his most WED favourite pupils, their formative moments in the college and WED what became of them in the adult world. WED WED When day boy Beauchamp is picked on repeatedly and brutally WED by Castlereagh House bullies, his mother Lady Sylvia WED Beauchamp puts Dr Pickerskill on the spot by arriving WED unannounced at Haunchurst requesting her child attend a WED different school. WED WED Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid WED Lady Paula Whitney Beauchamp ...... Sheridan Smith WED Paul Whitney Beauchamp ........ James Rowland WED A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne WED Stealgroynes ....... Jack Edwards WED Calman ....... Kris Saddler WED Moorcroft/Udwin Parminter ....... Joe Cooper WED Matron ......... Mia Soteriou WED Honorable Vivian Wainfleet ....... Jonathan Ruffle WED WED Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon WED Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b012r6ty (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b012r6v0 (Listen) WED Mister Bollywood and the Case of the Missing Millions WED WED Ramzan Nasir goes by the stage name "Zain" and styles WED himself as a former star of Bollywood. Having moved into WED property investment, his company "Heaven on Earth" sold WED off-plan apartments in Dubai on the promise of high returns WED on outlays which ran into millions of pounds. John Waite WED meets the man and his clients, who include doctors, WED shopkeepers and a former Minister of Health for Tanzania - WED many of them claim they've nothing to show for their money. WED WED 12:57 Weather b012qkcm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b012r6v2 (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 b012r6v4 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b012qtvr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b012r6v6 (Listen) WED The Other Simenon, In Case of Emergency WED WED New series 1/3. Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, WED published scores of other novels, often tough, gripping and WED psychologically-penetrating dissections of small lives WED confounded by fate. Ronald Frame dramatises three of these WED stories beginning with the obsessive affair between a lawyer WED and a jewel thief. When her plan to rob a jeweller's shop WED goes wrong, Yvette - young, beautiful and dangerously WED impulsive - asks middle-aged lawyer, Lucien, to defend her WED in court. When he wins the case they begin an affair but he WED discovers that Yvette has a boyfriend who has no intention WED of giving her up. WED Lucien .......................... JIMMY CHISHOLM WED Yvette ........................... LISA GARDNER WED Viviane .......................... SARAH COLLIER WED Jeanine/Secretary ........... LAURA SMALES WED Mazetti/Inspector ........... KENNY BLYTH WED Other parts played by the cast. WED Producer/director Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b012tpzg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012r6vb (Listen) WED Opening Lines, Ladies of the Soil WED WED A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging WED short story writers their radio debut. WED WED A meditative tale by Gill Blow about unspoken tensions WED between a husband and wife as they look to an uncertain WED future. WED WED Read by Philip Jackson WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012r6vd (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 13 WED WED Victory at Stalingrad in February 1943 turned the tide of WED the war. For 6 months, 2 million soldiers had battled for a WED city that was already in ruins. WED WED German conscripts recorded the brutality of the combat: WED "Stalingrad is no longer a city ... Even the hardest stones WED cannot bear it. Only men endure." Soviet forces were trapped WED in a thin strip of land on the edge of the Volga. But for WED all the horror and all the losses, they did not retreat. The WED world watched: if Stalingrad could be held, it seemed the WED war could be won. At last, a counter offensive trapped WED 300,000 enemy troops in a sealed enclave christened the WED 'cauldron'. WED WED When the Germans finally surrendered only 90,000 of them WED remained alive. Just 5,000 would make it home. The retreat WED westward gathered pace and 6 months later Hitler ordered his WED final offensive on the eastern front. Martin Sixsmith visits WED Kursk where the "biggest tank battle in history" dealt WED Hitler his final body blow. Within a year, the Germans had WED been driven out of the Soviet Union. The Red Army swept WED westwards to Warsaw. Andrzej Wajda's 1957 film 'Kanal' WED depicts the final harrowing hours of the destruction of WED Warsaw by the Nazis, but its anger is also directed against WED the Soviets, who allowed 50,000 civilians to be wiped out to WED secure the future dictatorship of Communism. In mid-April, WED the Soviet assault on Berlin began. The Nazi capital was WED pounded with more shells than the Allied bombers had dropped WED on it in five years. A week later the Hammer and Sickle was WED planted on the roof of the Reichstag. WED WED On the 9th of May, Stalin told the Soviet nation Germany had WED surrendered. "Our mighty nation - our mighty people - have WED triumphed over the forces of German imperialism... All our WED sacrifices, all our suffering and all our losses have not WED been in vain." WED WED Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking WED Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b012r6vg (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b012qtw0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b012r6vj (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012qkcp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00y5hvy (Listen) WED Series 7, Writer in Residence WED WED Episode 5: WED "Writer In Residence" 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 Fed up with everything on the radio originating from WED Cambridge, Ed decides to immerse himself in popular culture WED and retunes away from Radio Four. The new outlook on the WED world that Radios 1, 2 and 5 bring to Ed proves fortuitous WED when his daughter, Eli, manages to secure him an interview WED at her husband's university. So it is that Ed finds himself WED 'Writer in residence' with all the benefits that this WED affords, including discussing the merits of the worst Lady WED Gaga wardrobe malfunction of the year. WED WED Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas WED Professor Judith ..... Rachel Atkins WED Announcer ..... Lewis Macleod WED Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Felix ..... John Fortune WED Eli ..... Lisa Coleman WED Bill ..... Darren Boyd 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 b012r6z0 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b012r6z2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r6jv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Leader Conference b012r6z4 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED 4/4. In the last of the series, Andrew Rawnsley chairs a WED live debate with fellow journalists in the style of a WED newspaper leader conference. They discuss which three top WED news stories at home and abroad should be the subject of WED leading articles and what points those editorials ought to WED make and why. WED WED From tabloids to broadsheets, from London to Cardiff, from WED left, right and centre the gamut of journalistic opinions WED are on offer as the newspaper leader conference comes to the WED air. Top writers on Britain's newspapers distil the complex WED events of the week into a concise, easily digested summary WED and seek to put it all into perspective. WED WED Producer Simon Coates. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b012r6z6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Clare Lockhart WED WED Clare Lockhart, co-founder and director of the Institute for WED State Effectiveness, talks about the need for a new model of WED aid for the developing world to reduce dependence and build WED economic growth 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 British, More or Less b012r6z8 (Listen) WED In 2010, scientists in Dublin successfully sequenced the WED first entire genome of an Irish person. This research WED revealed some startling differences between the 'Irish' and WED that of already sequenced 'English' genomes. With the WED explosion in the rate of DNA sequencing, it is only a matter WED of time before countless genomes from across the British WED Isles are available, allowing direct comparisons to be made WED between the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh. WED WED In this programme, Tracey Logan explains how analysis of DNA WED can be used to trace back ancestral lineages. She considers WED what the results of such studies might tell us about ancient WED Britons and how this is reflected in the multi-cultural WED British Isles of the 21st century. She asks should we be WED prepared to draw further lines of difference between the WED four nations or will we be forced to accept a shared ancient WED heritage? WED WED She travels to Edinburgh where she finds a Scottish WED Chieftain who is fearful of the impact that hard genomic WED facts might have on his much-loved clan heritage. She meets WED geneticists who are looking for traces of Viking ancestry WED amongst modern day residents of the Wirral peninsula. She WED joins volunteers in Canterbury who have elected to share WED their DNA with the People of the British Isles Project and WED she decides to have her own maternal and paternal ancestral WED lineages revealed though DNA analysis. WED WED Producer: Helen Toland WED WED 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b012r6jq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b012qkcr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b012r6zd (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012tr4z (Listen) WED Pereira Maintains, Episode 3 WED WED Pereira has taken on a young assistant to help him with the WED culture page of a Lisbon newspaper. But the young man, WED though charming and eager to help, writes articles that are WED unpublishable in the repressive political climate of WED Portugal in 1938. And yet inexplicably, Pereira finds WED himself paying the young man out of his own pocket. WED WED Written by Antonio Tabucchi WED Read by Derek Jacobi WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00n9llk (Listen) WED In Praise of Love WED WED Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. WED WED Inspector Steine is compering a beauty pageant on Brighton WED seafront. But when Brunswick's old flame Doris reappears as WED a contestant, Brunswick is thrown into emotional turmoil - WED which is probably why he doesn't notice that the south WED east's big-shot criminals are converging on Brighton. WED WED Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens WED Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm WED Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green WED Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro WED Doris/Maisie ...... Rachel Atkins WED Roy ...... Douglas Hodge WED Diamond Tony ...... David Holt. WED WED 23:30 Just One More Thing: Columbo! b007y9sl (Listen) WED The Hollywood actor Peter Falk, whose name became synonymous WED with the TV character Columbo whom he played for 35 years, WED died last month after a long illness. In a programme first WED heard in 2007, crime-writer Mark Billingham delves into the WED mystery that was one of the small screen's greatest WED detectives. The raincoat, the cigar, the spluttering WED convertible car, the villain's deed in the first scene and WED the final "...just one more thing". The American TV WED detective series Columbo was a literature inspired, award WED winning, rule breaking television original. Billingham WED tracks down the unusual suspects who made it possible WED including star Peter Falk, creator William Link, writer WED Steven Bochco, director Jonathan Demme and guest star WED villain Robert Vaughn. WED WED Producer: Peter McHugh WED (Repeat). WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 JULY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b012qkdb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b012trfz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012qkdd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012qkdg (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012qkdj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b012qkdl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012r7jg (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Clair Jaquiss. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b012r7jj (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b012r7jl (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b012r7jn (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 3 THU THU Palliative Care teams are used to supporting patients at the THU end of life. But recently, some patients with motor neurone THU disease have been making an unusual request. THU THU They want to stop using the ventilator mask they were THU prescribed to help them breathe. Initially prescribed to THU aide breathing at night, their disease has progressed to THU such a degree that they are no longer able to take breaths THU without it. THU THU They are aware that removing the mask will lead to death THU within hours or minutes, and to remove it themselves would THU be extremely distressing. So they ask the palliative care THU team to keep them comfortable during the process. THU THU Patients have a legal right to refuse treatment, but these THU requests cause consternation among staff. Some worry that THU they could be accused of assisting in their deaths. Can they THU conscientiously object to supporting these patients at the THU end of their lives? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b012trk8 (Listen) THU Hood Rat, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Gavin Knight. The reader is Siobhan Redmond. THU THU Cathy is a social worker in the East End of Glasgow - her THU clients are mostly young men desperate for love, products of THU families riddled with domestic abuse and almost all of them THU had fatherless childhoods. But even Kenny, one such young THU man, still clings to hope for the future. THU THU Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b012r7jq (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r7js (Listen) THU The Little Ottleys, Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Bruce and Madame Frabelle appear to be two of a kind and THU Edith has set Aylmer thinking by telling him that Dulcie is THU in love with him ... THU THU Ada Leverson..............Haydn Gwynne THU Edith..........................Juliet Aubrey THU Bruce.........................Bertie Carvel THU Aylmer.......................Jonathan Firth THU Madame Frabelle.........Jane Whittenshaw THU Hyacinth.....................Alex Tregear THU Dulcie.........................Leah Brotherhead THU Lady Conroy................Joanna Monro THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b012r7jv (Listen) THU Escape from North Korea THU THU Lucy Williamson reports from Seoul on the dangerous trade of THU the people brokers, smuggling desperate people out of North THU Korea to the safety of the South. She investigates the way THU the South Korean government tries to integrate refugees from THU the North into their own modern, open society - and the THU challenges this creates for people who have only known THU poverty and extreme political repression. THU THU 11:30 My Empire of Dust b012r7jx (Listen) THU Wolfgang Stoecker is on a mission to explore the cultural THU meanings of dust, swept up from historic buildings. THU THU Cologne-based artist Stoecker has collected samples of dust THU from historic buildings across Europe and beyond. With the THU help of scientists and an electro-microscope at Augsburg THU University he has analysed the dust and discovered it THU contains tiny fossils, dust from the Sahara, pollutants of THU various kinds and human debris. THU THU Aeolian research, research into dust particles and THU sediments, is an established branch of geographical study, THU often concerned with the history and future of climate THU change, desertification and landscape erosion, but as THU Wolfgang has discovered, dust can also tell us something THU about human culture. THU THU Wolfgang has been surprised and delighted by the excitement THU his requests for dust generate, and the enthusiasm of THU curators of historic buildings to comply. John Campbell is THU the Dean's Verger at Lincoln cathedral. He received THU Wolfgang's initial email with some scepticism but it made THU sense too, because dust is often on his mind as the person THU responsible for the upkeep of this great building. He THU collected two samples for Wolfgang's collection: 'secular' THU dust near the entrance, where the traffic of feet is THU greatest, and 'sacred' dust, near the altar, where traces of THU candles, incense and sacred silverware are to be found. THU 'I've challenged him to tell me which is which', says John. THU 'I like to think that the dust here at Lincoln might contain THU traces of the pilgrims and worshippers who've been coming THU here over the centuries. Everyone leaves a trace of THU themselves behind in the dust'. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b012r7jz (Listen) THU Consumer news with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b012qkdn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b012r7k1 (Listen) THU National and international news, with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b012r7tc (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson continues 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 unrivalled 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 during this THU 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 Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b012r6z0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j4hjw (Listen) THU Welcome to the Wasteland THU THU By DJ Britton. THU THU As Chief Executive of her local council, Robyn has just days THU to stop recycling being wiped from her ambitious THU environmental plans. But the credit crunch continues to put THU pressure on other priorities. Meanwhile her daughter Afrah THU provides a safe house for a fiercely committed THU environmentalist from Eastern Europe. THU THU Robyn ..... Lesley Sharp THU Anastasia ..... Anamaria Marinca THU Afrah ..... Lizzy Watts THU Mike ..... Sam Dale THU Don ..... Ben Askew THU Bob, Professor Stevens ..... Stephen Hogan THU Councillor Larby, Sacha ..... Philip Fox THU THU Produced by Pam Marshall. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b012ql51 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b012qmfk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012r7tf (Listen) THU Opening Lines, The Marzipan Husband THU THU A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging THU short story writers their radio debut. THU THU A charming fable by Sarah Dunnakey about letting go in which THU a wife discovers that her husband appears to be turning into THU marzipan. THU THU Read by Melanie Kilburn THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012r7th (Listen) THU Series 2, The Spoils of War THU THU Victory had been a remarkable national achievement and a THU chance for national unity that might have healed a fractured THU society. THU THU But instead Stalin used the war as a pretext, to carry out a THU cynical campaign of ethnic engineering against those THU nationalities he viewed with suspicion: ethnic Soviet THU Germans were deported to Siberia; hundreds of thousands of THU Chechens, Ingush, Kalmyks and Tartars were expelled from THU their homes; anti-semitism, briefly forgotten during the war THU resurfaced. People who expected their heroism to be rewarded THU with freedom and the right to participate in the running of THU their country found the party-state apparatus had reasserted THU its grip on power and did not intend to let go. THU THU Major Yershov, in Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate, THU sums up the hopes of the nation: "He was certain that he was THU not only fighting the Germans, but fighting for a free THU Russia: certain that a victory over Hitler would be a THU victory over the death camps of the Gulag where his father, THU his mother and his sisters had perished..." Instead, the THU state was seeking to suppress the very qualities it had THU encouraged during the years of fighting. Courage, initiative THU and enterprise were deemed dangerous, former soldiers were THU regarded as a potentially hostile force, freedoms (religious THU and artistic) granted during the war were swiftly withdrawn, THU and the regime acted to prevent unrest in the only way it THU knew how - by sending potential troublemakers to the Gulag. THU THU Set against Shostakovich's Anti-Formalist Rayok, written in THU private having been forced to publicly recant, Martin THU Sixsmith concludes, "if nothing had changed after the war, THU if Soviet society was simply going back to the old ways, the THU question inevitably arose in many people's minds of what THU exactly they'd been fighting for." THU THU Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking THU Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b012qnl8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b012r7tk (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 b012r7tm (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012qkdq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b012r7tp (Listen) THU Series 5, Milton Jones - International Diplomat THU THU Diplomat Milton Jones is on the run after leaking all the THU UN's emails - except for the Swiss ones, which were too THU dull. And he meets a shadowy hacker. And the shadowy THU hacker's mum. He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars THU Tom Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dan Tetsell ("Newsjack") and THU Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"). THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b012r7tr (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b012r7tt (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, presented by Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r7js (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b012r7tw (Listen) THU The MOD's Missing Kit THU THU How did the MOD lose track of over £6bn worth of military THU equipment? Firearms, ammunition, even a plane fuselage are THU unaccounted for. A tenth of all the Bowman radios bought, THU worth £184m are lost, stolen or have strayed from their THU rightful place. The Ministry of Defence insist that doesn't THU mean they are not being put to good use somewhere - but THU there's no way of knowing. Antiquated paper based records THU and poor IT systems mean that keeping track of the thousands THU of pieces of kit is - according to some - an impossible THU task. Adrian Goldberg enters the labyrinthine world of the THU military stores and distribution networks, and asks where THU some of the 'mislaid' equipment is, how it got there, and THU the impact on troops. THU THU Producer: Rob Cave. THU THU 20:30 In Business b012r7ty (Listen) THU New Dimension THU THU Three-D printing may be the next revolution in THU manufacturing. It's being used to make things in a THU completely different way from the mass production we've been THU familiar with ever since Henry Ford introduced the THU production line more than 100 years ago. Ford made a THU succession of almost identical items and that's what mass THU production still does today. 3D printing --or additive THU manufacturing as it's also known -- means that every product THU can be individual. It's a completely different way of THU thinking about manufacturing and costs little more to THU customise than it does to mass produce. This could THU potentially revolutionise manufacturing and businesses from THU top to bottom. Peter Day investigates. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b012r7jn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:45 Talking to the Enemy b00tgf16 (Listen) THU From agreements to peace THU THU How do agreements in the negotiating room develop into THU peace? Should we always talk or are some terrorists beyond THU the pale? Jonathan Powell presents the final programme on THU negotiating with terrorists. Produced by David Stenhouse. THU THU 21:58 Weather b012qkds (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b012r7v0 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012tr5k (Listen) THU Pereira Maintains, Episode 4 THU THU Pereira escapes from Lisbon to a health spa in the country THU but when he returns to the city he discovers his young THU assistant is in need of his help. In spite of the fact that THU he is putting his own reputation at risk Pereira finds THU himself agreeing to the unusual request. THU THU Written by Antonio Tabucchi THU Read by Derek Jacobi THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b012r7v2 (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU THU Comedy sketch show set in a vast call centre run by a mail THU order catalogue company. THU THU 23:30 Elvenquest b010j3zz (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU THU Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. THU THU A small band of heroes set out to defeat Lord Darkness and THU his forces of evil by finding The Chosen One - who happens THU to be the dog of a misanthropic science fiction author. THU THU Vidar ...... Darren Boyd THU Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon THU Amis ...... Dave Lamb THU Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan THU Sam ...... Stephen Mangan THU Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 JULY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b012qkfc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b012trk8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012qkff (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012qkfh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012qkfk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b012qkfm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012r990 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Clair Jaquiss. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b012r992 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b012r994 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b012qn4z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b012tn9j (Listen) FRI Hood Rat, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Gavin Knight. The reader is Siobhan Redmond. FRI FRI Discovering an innovative new way of confronting gang crime FRI which has been developed in the US, Karyn McCluskey decides FRI to try it out in Glasgow. There is scepticism amongst the FRI cops on the street, but Karyn is determined that something FRI has to change. FRI FRI Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b012r996 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r998 (Listen) FRI The Little Ottleys, Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI Has Madame Frabelle discovered Edith's secret love for FRI Aylmer? ... FRI FRI Ada Leverson..............Haydn Gwynne FRI Edith..........................Juliet Aubrey FRI Bruce.........................Bertie Carvel FRI Aylmer.......................Jonathan Firth FRI Madame Frabelle.........Jane Whittenshaw FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI 11:00 The New Silk Road with Roger Law b012r99b (Listen) FRI Roger Law visits the Chinese city of Yi Wu, the world's FRI largest market place for consumer goods. Its massive FRI exhibition halls are temples to the gods of consumerism and FRI globalisation. But it's not for the west. As Roger soon FRI discovers, it is Arab traders who have been visiting Yi Wu FRI since 9/11. Entrepreneurs from the Middle East found it FRI virtually impossible to travel to America due to visa FRI restrictions, so turned their attention to a much more FRI welcoming China. Now mosques and Middle Eastern restaurants FRI are sprinkled across Yi Wu as traders make themselves at FRI home. FRI FRI Forget selling DVDs to America and shoes to Europe, Yiwu is FRI making a fortune selling to the developing world. Anything FRI from plastic ducks to rubber rings are on sale in Yi Wu. FRI Roger finds himself in a hall full of thousands of sock FRI sellers and gets lost amongst wall-to-wall soft toys. Adrift FRI in a sea of plastic, he tries to make sense of the new FRI consumerism spreading across emerging countries around the FRI world. FRI FRI The route to Yi Wu is set to be the new silk road, FRI connecting China to the Middle East and beyond, with trade FRI routes onward from Dubai to Africa and South America. Roger FRI Law is our erudite guide as he cuts his way through the FRI jungle of consumer goods at the epicentre of global trade. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b012r99d (Listen) FRI Series 3, Rotterdam FRI FRI It's Lifejacket, Camera, Action as stardom beckons for one FRI of the crew of MJN Air... but who will get to blow the final FRI whistle? And will they look good in a vest? 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 Martin Davenport ..... Gus Brown 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 b012r99g (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b012qkfp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b012r99j (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 b012r99l (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 b012r7tr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b012r99n (Listen) FRI DeLorean FRI FRI Northern Ireland was a very dark place in the 1980's. A FRI hunger strike was looming and street violence and tit for FRI tat murders were an everyday occurrence but in a small FRI corner of West Belfast something extraordinary was FRI happening. In a factory in Dunmurry a unique new sports car FRI was being built, a DMC 12, a style icon for the late FRI twentieth century. For two years John DeLorean brought hope FRI to communities flattened by the Troubles in Northern FRI Ireland, where every other person was out of work and the FRI unemployment rate was the highest in Western Europe. This is FRI the story of that two year dream as seen through the eyes of FRI key employees - including a union representative, an FRI assembly line worker and a supervisor. Over 9,000 DMC's were FRI produced during this period, cars which today still retain FRI their cult status. The workforce put their heart and souls FRI into this car plant believing that this was going to be the FRI start of a better future, they too could 'live the dream.' FRI FRI Liz - Michelle Fairley FRI Anto - Richard Dormer FRI T.C. - Rhys Dunlop FRI Al Benetar - Stuart Milligan FRI James Callaghan - Anton Lesser FRI Robert - Patrick Fitzsymons FRI FRI Producer - Clare Delargy FRI Director - Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012r99q (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition, Sparsholt College FRI FRI Sparsholt's Rosie Yeomans join Eric Robson and the panel for FRI postbag programme. FRI FRI Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Biggs answer the FRI questions you've been sending in by post and email. FRI FRI Rosie Yeomans updates on the GQT garden and trial beds at FRI Sparsholt. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012r99s (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Iron Curtain FRI FRI In 1946 Winston Churchill defined the realities of post-war FRI Europe and etched an image in the world's imagination: "an FRI iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that FRI line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central FRI and Eastern Europe ... This is certainly not the liberated FRI Europe we fought to build up, nor is it one which contains FRI the essentials of permanent peace." FRI FRI Martin Sixsmith argues, "there were genuine fears that FRI Stalin had designs on the West, but the allies had a crucial FRI advantage: the atomic bomb." The motherland was defenceless FRI and Stalin exhorted Igor Kurchatov, leader of the Soviet FRI nuclear programme: "Build us an atomic weapon in the FRI shortest possible time! You must build the bomb to save us FRI from a grave danger." Kurchatov called his team 'soldiers' FRI in a new scientific war. They were driven hard and lived FRI under the threat of reprisals if they failed to deliver. FRI Then on the 29th of August 1949, the Soviet Union exploded FRI its first atomic weapon in the deserts of Kazakhstan. FRI Neither side could now prevail unscathed. FRI FRI When the Western Powers merged their half of divided Germany FRI into a new semi-independent state, the Federal German FRI Republic, the Soviet sector became a separate, socialist FRI state and to underline the split, the Soviet authorities FRI halted all Western shipments into Berlin, an "island of FRI capitalism in a sea of communism" which irritated Stalin. It FRI was the first flashpoint of the post war years and FRI Khrushchev later said Stalin was "prodding the capitalist FRI world with the tip of the bayonet". But he hadn't counted on FRI the West's determination. The Berlin airlift forced Stalin FRI to capitulate. On the 12th of May 1949, Moscow lifted the FRI blockade but it left a legacy of bitterness and mistrust. FRI The Cold War had begun. FRI FRI Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b012r99v (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 b012r99x (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b012r99z (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012qkfr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b012r9b1 (Listen) FRI Series 7, Rhys Thomas and Simon Day FRI FRI Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each FRI week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses FRI another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns FRI interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone FRI else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series. FRI FRI This seventh series starts with Rhys Thomas - perhaps FRI better-known to the Radio 4 audience as Gary Bellamy, host FRI of Down The Line - interviewing the actor Simon Day. They FRI have worked together since The Fast Show, when Simon was an FRI established member of the team, and Rhys was a supporting FRI cast member; Simon also provides voices for Down The Line. FRI The interview takes in Simon's early life, including chronic FRI bed-wetting and a spell in borstal; his discovery by Vic FRI Reeves and Bob Mortimer, who may or may not have given him a FRI name for his most famous character; an unsuccessful stand-up FRI tour; and what he'd like Stephen Fry to Tweet about him. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b012r9kv (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b012r9kx (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, presented by Mark Lawson. FRI FRI Producer Claire Bartleet. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012r998 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b012r9kz (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics FRI from the RAF Museum in Hendon, London. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b012r9l1 (Listen) FRI On Social Climbing FRI FRI Alain de Botton reflects on social climbing - and argues FRI that the activity should be seen - at times - as evidence of FRI a natural curiosity about the modern world. And he says in FRI the current environment, it's often not idle FRI pleasure-seeking, but an attempt to keep yourself in a job. FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b012r9l3 (Listen) FRI Series 2 Omnibus, War and (Uncertain) Peace FRI FRI Germany swept across the Soviet Union, but failed to take FRI Moscow before winter, and as Stalin urged the Red Army to FRI ever greater sacrifices, Soviet society became an FRI all-consuming military state. 1 in 3 of the inhabitants of FRI Leningrad died during the 900-day siege when the city was FRI shelled nonstop, but Victory at Stalingrad in February 1943 FRI turned the tide of the war. The retreat westward gathered FRI pace. FRI FRI The Red Army pursued the Nazis to Warsaw but let the FRI retreating SS murder 50,000 civilians in order to secure the FRI future dictatorship of Communism. In mid April the Soviet FRI assault on Berlin began and on May the 9th Stalin told the FRI Soviet nation Germany had surrendered. "Victory had been a FRI remarkable national achievement and a chance for national FRI unity that might have healed a fractured society," says FRI Martin Sixsmith. Instead Stalin used the war as a pretext to FRI destroy those nationalities he viewed with suspicion. People FRI who expected their heroism to be rewarded with freedom and FRI the right to participate in the running of their country, FRI found the party-state had reasserted its grip on power and FRI was not letting go. FRI FRI Courage, initiative and enterprise were deemed dangerous; FRI former soldiers were seen as a potentially hostile force; FRI freedoms (religious and artistic) granted during the war FRI were withdrawn. The pre-war suspicion between the Soviet FRI Union and the Western powers returned and Churchill's FRI powerful image of "an iron curtain" dividing Europe came to FRI define the realities of post-war Europe; once Russia FRI developed the bomb neither side could prevail unscathed. The FRI first flashpoint in this conflict of ideologies centered on FRI Berlin. The allied airlift forced Stalin to capitulate FRI humiliating the Soviets, which left a legacy of bitterness FRI and mistrust. The Cold War had begun. FRI FRI Historical Consultant: Professor Geoffrey Hosking FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b012qkft (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b012r9l5 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012trbj (Listen) FRI Pereira Maintains, Episode 5 FRI FRI Pereira is worried that his young assistant is being drawn FRI into politics by his beautiful girlfriend. His fears are FRI confirmed when the young man fails to keep an appointment at FRI the Café Orquidea, but the girl comes in his place and tells FRI Pereira that he has gone to Alentejo, to recruit dissidents FRI to go and fight the fascist regime in Spain. FRI FRI Written by Antonio Tabucchi FRI Read by Derek Jacobi FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b012qtbh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Rhapsody in Bohemia b0076vcv (Listen) FRI In the three decades since the group Queen's extravagant FRI existentialist six minute pop production about 'a poor boy' FRI who'd 'just killed a man' first topped the British charts, FRI Bohemian Rhapsody has become woven into the musical, visual FRI and literary fabric of all our lives - with the exception of FRI Times music critic Hilary Finch who offers here an 'innocent FRI ear' review, having somehow never heard it! FRI FRI Other musicians and writers - including the classical singer FRI Jane Manning, tribute band 'Freddie Mercury' Rob Comber, FRI singer-songwriter (and unrepentant Queen fan) Andy Watts, FRI film buff Tommy Pearson, broadcaster Andrew McGregor and the FRI composer and former pop band member Joby Talbot - evaluate FRI the song's cultural legacy in this award-winning feature FRI that includes glimpses of Queen themselves and reference to FRI Camus, the Qur'an, commedia dell'arte and, of course, the FRI film comedy Wayne's World. FRI FRI Producer: Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI