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SAT SATURDAY 30 JULY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b012r7w3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b012tn9j (Listen) SAT Hood Rat, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Gavin Knight. The reader is Siobhan Redmond. SAT SAT Discovering an innovative new way of confronting gang crime SAT which has been developed in the US, Karyn McCluskey decides SAT to try it out in Glasgow. There is scepticism amongst the SAT cops on the street, but Karyn is determined that something SAT has to change. SAT SAT Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012r7w5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012r7w7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012r7w9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b012r7wc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012r9p1 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh SAT Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study SAT of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b012r9p3 (Listen) SAT 'News of The World came to our rescue' The family of a shot SAT policeman explain why they are still grateful to the tabloid SAT 60 years after his murder. The News of The World raised SAT money for Nat Edgar's wife and children, and his next of kin SAT reflect on that act of kindness and the scandal which has SAT now destroyed the paper. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer SAT Tracey. And Jeremy Paxman and Evan Davis make special guest SAT star appearances. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b012r7wf (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b012r7wh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b012w8c8 (Listen) SAT Dale Farm Traveller site in Essex was started in the 70's. SAT It's now the largest Irish Traveller site in the UK and as SAT the site has grown so has local opposition. Today Basildon SAT Council have issued a notice of eviction but the Travellers SAT say they will not leave without a fight. SAT SAT Helen Mark looks beyond the headlines to ask what this means SAT for the countryside. Some argue that with the urgent need SAT for housing in the South East we need to look again at our SAT greenbelt land. The Travellers themselves argue that they SAT are very much a part of the countryside and that they would SAT rather be homeless than be moved into towns. Whilst Basildon SAT Council argue that we cannot let rules be bent by some, SAT especially when the precious green areas that surround our SAT biggest urban areas are at stake. SAT SAT How we use our countryside in the future and how we see the SAT Gypsy and Traveller communities as part of this will be a SAT debate which is hard to solve. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b012w8cb (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b012r7wk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b012w93y (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b012w940 (Listen) SAT Anita Anand, Alexei Sayle, Elvis McGonagall, Eoin Colfer, SAT Janet Barker, Richard Williams, Brian Belle-Fortune SAT SAT Anita Anand hears from creative polymath Alexei Sayle, poet SAT Elvis McGonagall, Richard Williams, who was caught up in the SAT bombing that killed and injured many people in Oklahoma City SAT in 1995, Brian Belle-Fortune who was at Ben Johnson's SAT incredible 1988 Olympic 100 metre win and now has tickets SAT for the 100 metre final in London in 2012 and Janet Barker SAT who sets quiz questions for the big TV quizzes. And there SAT are the inheritance tracks of children's author Eoin Colfer. SAT Producer: Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b012w942 (Listen) SAT Sandi is joined by Nick Mayhew Smith who has undertaken a SAT pilgrimage to every "holy place" in England, Scotland and SAT Wales. Nick has compiled a travel guide which not only SAT details where sacred treasures can be found, but also tells SAT you what to expect and ranks them in terms of holiness. SAT Sandi also talks to two Antarctic explorers: Angie Butler SAT loves Antarctica so much she set about recovering the ashes SAT of a forgotten Edwardian Polar explorer and Katie Walter was SAT only seventeen when she made it to base camp at the South SAT Pole, the youngest person ever to walk there. SAT Producer: Laura Northedge. SAT SAT 10:30 The Ice Cream Van Cometh b012w944 (Listen) SAT Sound designer Jim Carey celebrates the colourful history of SAT one of our great national treasures - the British ice cream SAT van. SAT SAT For over a hundred years extravagantly painted wagons have SAT been delivering extravagant looking ice creams to the SAT streets of Britain. What are the origins of these curvacious SAT and pastel skinned creatures? Why are there so many people SAT of Italian origin involved? What has Margaret Thatcher got SAT to do with it? And, providing the acoustic backdrop for SAT generations of British summers, where do those evocative SAT chimes come from? SAT SAT Carey's quest leads us headlong into the rich whippy world SAT of all things ice cream van; a story of art, science, music, SAT cuisine, royalty, turf war and childhood. Francis Rossi SAT (co-founder of Status Quo and ex-ice cream van man), Johnny SAT Vegas (entertainer and ice cream enthusiast) and Banksy SAT (graffiti artist and ice cream van owner) join historians, SAT engineers, and ice cream people to help piece together the SAT story of how ice cream vans have charmed and chimed their SAT way into our subconsciousness as icons of British cultural SAT life. SAT SAT Written and presented by Jim Carey SAT Produced by Jim Carey SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b012w9sp (Listen) SAT Can campaigners exert too much power with modern techniques? SAT David Grossman looks at how they try to influence government SAT and corporations. He visits the fierce battle over high SAT speed rail, and explores how internet based campaign groups SAT mobilise their supporters. And he looks more broadly at who SAT has achieved campaign success and why? SAT SAT Presenter: David Grossman SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby SAT Editor: Jane Ashley. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b012w946 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b012w9sr (Listen) SAT Pensions SAT SAT In this second part of our series on inter-generational SAT finance, Alvin Hall talks to young people about their SAT attitudes towards pensions. SAT SAT Fewer than 40% of under 30 year olds contribute to pension SAT schemes offered by their employer. Alvin accompanies the SAT Pensions Advisory Service for a session educating young SAT workers at a hire car firm about the benefits of their SAT scheme and he meets pensions sceptic and youth activist SAT George Lewkowicz to hear why he's stopped saving. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b012r9b1 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Rhys Thomas and Simon Day SAT SAT Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each SAT week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses SAT another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns SAT interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone SAT else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series. SAT SAT This seventh series starts with Rhys Thomas - perhaps SAT better-known to the Radio 4 audience as Gary Bellamy, host SAT of Down The Line - interviewing the actor Simon Day. They SAT have worked together since The Fast Show, when Simon was an SAT established member of the team, and Rhys was a supporting SAT cast member; Simon also appeared in the sitcom Swiss Toni, SAT which Rhys co-wrote, and provides voices for Down The Line. SAT But Simon, sixteen years older than Rhys, came to prominence SAT in a very different comedy culture to Rhys. He also came SAT from a live background, as opposed to Rhys's first break SAT working as a runner on Shooting Stars; he also waited until SAT this year to have his own show (Radio 4's The Simon Day SAT Show), whereas Rhys had written two series of his own sitcom SAT by the age of 21. All these differences, and all this common SAT ground, makes for an absorbing and hilarious interview. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b012r7wm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b012r7wp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b012r9kz (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics SAT from the RAF Museum in Colindale, London, with Leader of the SAT House and Lord Privy Seal, Sir George Young; New Statesman SAT columnist and senior editor, Mehdi Hasan; Director of the SAT Institute for Government and former Labour Cabinet member, SAT Andrew Adonis; and columnist for the Spectator and GQ SAT magazines, Melissa Kite. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b012w9w8 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00nwz36 (Listen) SAT The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial SAT SAT Neil Patrick Harris (Hollywood's current king of cool and SAT star of How I Met Your Mother) plays Tennessee teacher John SAT Scopes, and Ed Asner ('Lou Grant' or the voice of Disney SAT Pixar's latest smash hit 'Up', depending on your age) plays SAT prosecution lawyer William Jennings Bryan in this new SAT version of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, adapted from SAT the original trial transcript by Peter Goodchild. SAT SAT In 1925, the same year that Franz Kafka's novel The Trial SAT was first published, this real life case was one of the most SAT unusual trials ever seen in a United States courtroom. It SAT took place in Dayton, then a small town with a population of SAT less than 2000, and yet the two lawyers ranged against each SAT other couldn't have been higher profile. Counsel for the SAT Prosecution was three-time Democratic candidate William SAT Jennings Bryan, a Christian Fundamentalist. For the defence SAT was Chicago lawyer, and declared agnostic, Clarence Darrow, SAT who had recently saved two brutal child killers from the SAT death penalty in a very high profile case. SAT SAT Earlier that year Tennessee had passed The Butler Act, a law SAT forbidding anyone "to teach any theory that denies the Story SAT of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to SAT teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of SAT animals." In other words, the teaching of evolution was SAT outlawed. SAT SAT In the stifling heat of July, 1925, and in a courtroom hung SAT with banners proclaiming 'Read Your Bible Daily' , 24 year SAT old John Scopes, a part time teacher, stood trial. SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 15:30 Composer Joseph Horovitz: No Ordinary Joe b012qsdp (Listen) SAT This is the story of a composer of the kind of music that SAT just fits so beautifully, that you hardly notice yourself SAT humming along. Joseph Horovitz is a composer of concertos SAT and ballets, operas and chamber music, yet he is best known SAT for other kinds of music such as Rumpole of the Bailey, and SAT Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo. Composer Debbie Wiseman SAT in interview with Joseph Horovitz, journeys through his SAT remarkable life and career. SAT SAT Captain Noah has been translated into six languages, and has SAT proved to be a best seller for Horovitz. The Berkshire SAT Maestros, and conductor David Hill with the Bach Choir, have SAT all recently rehearsed and performed this work, and give SAT their views on why Captain Noah has been so popular over the SAT past 40 years. Dancer Wayne Sleep, conductor John Wilson, SAT and television executive producer Tony Wharmby, also discuss SAT their collaborations with Horovitz, and give their thoughts SAT on his music. SAT SAT Horovitz's story begins with his escape from the Nazis as SAT they entered Vienna in 1938, to then include giving musical SAT appreciation lectures during the war to the forces, being SAT awarded two Ivor Novello awards for his later compositions, SAT and working with such comic legends as Gerard Hoffnung and SAT Michael Flanders. This life journey has been one of SAT distinction in many ways, yet Horovitz has not been taken as SAT seriously as he'd like. Debbie Wiseman grapples with this SAT issue, to understand why Horovitz has not received the SAT acclaim that his artistry deserves. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b012w9wb (Listen) SAT Post Millie Dowler: Rape and sexual assault trials failing SAT victims? SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer Louise Corley. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b012w9wd (Listen) SAT With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b012r9p3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012r7wr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b012r7wt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012r7ww (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b012w9wg (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the Post-Punk, New Wave legend that is SAT Adam Ant. Prince Charming himself will not be so much SAT standing but sitting and delivering news on the rejuvenation SAT of his musical career. Adam has now formed a new band The SAT Good, The Mad and The Lovely Posse and they'll be playing SAT two shows in London later in the week. SAT SAT Olivier Award-nominated Sahr Ngaujah is bringing the success SAT of his Broadway performance to London's Sadler's Wells SAT returning as the lead in FELA! The all singing production SAT explores the extravagant world of Afrobeat legend and SAT political activist Fela Kuti. SAT SAT Have you ever stopped to think about how the design of a SAT building affects you? Well Tom Dyckoff, architecture critic SAT and presenter has done just that. In his new Channel 4 SAT series 'The Secret Life of Buildings' Tom discovers that the SAT pure economics or mere aesthetics of buildings are far less SAT important than the ways in which they influence our SAT behaviour, feelings and wellbeing. SAT SAT Unfortunately, Michael Simkins had to retire from playing SAT cricket for the Harry Baldwin Occasionals but fortunately SAT for Loose Ends this gave him time to write his new book The SAT Last Flannelled Fool and talk to fellow cricket fan Arthur SAT Smith about it. This is the story of his love of cricket, SAT it's demise and his one-man odyssey around the country to SAT take the temperature of the game. SAT SAT Music from two newcomers with debut music to perform in the SAT Loose Ends studio: Lucy Rose plays her single 'Middle Of The SAT Bed'. And bringing some Brazilian rhythm, jazz and silky SAT smooth vocals is Emily Saunders with the track Wishing Well SAT from her debut album Cotton Skies. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b012wb1h (Listen) SAT John Armitt SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. Presented by Shari Vahl. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b012wb1k (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Gillian Slovo, historian SAT Dominic Sandbrook and anthropologist Kit Davis review the SAT week's cultural highlights including Julian Barnes' new SAT novel. SAT SAT The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes is narrated by Tony SAT Webster, a man in his sixties who is forced to think again SAT about the story of his life when he receives a lawyer's SAT letter about an unexpected and puzzling bequest. His problem SAT is that he can't be sure how reliable his memory is about SAT two significant events in his life. SAT SAT Lee Chang-dong's film Poetry won the Korean director the SAT Best Screenplay award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Yun SAT Jung-hee plays Mija - a woman who is diagnosed at the SAT beginning of the film as being in the early stages of SAT Alzheimer's. She also discovers that the surly and SAT ungrateful teenage grandson who is living with her has SAT committed a crime which has led to a girl's suicide - she SAT finds herself coerced into persuading the girl's mother to SAT hush the matter up. SAT SAT The starting point for Nicholas Wright's play Rattigan's SAT Nijinsky - which has premiered at the Chichester Festival SAT Theatre - is an unfilmed screenplay which Rattigan wrote in SAT 1974 for the BBC, about the relationship between Sergei SAT Diaghilev and the brilliant young Russian dancer. Wright SAT locates the drama in Rattigan's suite at Claridges where SAT episodes from the Nijinsky script play out between the SAT playwright's meetings with the dancer's widow and with a BBC SAT producer. SAT SAT Amy Winehouse's death has generated a huge amount of instant SAT reaction copy in the press. Tom and his guests have been SAT reading news stories, tributes and opinion pieces to get a SAT sense of how the British media have responded to this sad SAT event -- and to what extent they have attempted to fit SAT Winehouse's death into the same well-worn template of SAT rock-star misbehaviour that characterised most of the SAT coverage of her while she was alive. SAT SAT The Borgias is a Showtime mini-series about the prominent SAT Renaissance family which is being shown on Sky Atlantic. SAT Written by the Irish writer and filmmaker Neil Jordan, it SAT stars Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia whose elevation to the SAT papacy is the subject of the first episode. Sex, poisoning SAT and corruption soon enter the picture. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b012wb1m (Listen) SAT Getting to Know My Father SAT SAT For Radio 4, Today presenter, Justin Webb goes on a personal SAT journey through the archive to get to know his father; SAT journalist and BBC man Peter Woods. SAT SAT Justin met him only once, when he was six months old, but SAT despite not knowing him Peter was omnipresent when he was SAT growing up. Whether reporting from Berlin when the wall was SAT built, or presenting the BBC's first colour news programme, SAT he dominated the news. Using the archive to piece together SAT his career, from the 1950s tabloid journalism through to his SAT comedy cameos in the 1980s, Justin tells the story of his SAT father's on-screen life, and that of his secret son whose SAT career was happening in parallel. SAT SAT Getting To Know My Father takes the listener back to 1960s SAT Fleet Street, '70s newsrooms, and the halcyon days of the SAT alpha-male journalist and the hard-living culture that SAT eventually interfered with Woods' career, as Justin's SAT colleague, John Humphreys reveals: SAT 'How can I put this politely? Peter was very very different SAT from you, Justin. He was colourful. You never quite knew how SAT he was going to behave. And it did depend a little bit, I'm SAT afraid, on how recently he'd had an encounter with the SAT bottle". SAT SAT Meeting other people who knew Peter back in his prime: SAT comedian Michael Palin; broadcaster Angela Rippon; and SAT former Fleet Street editor Brian Hitchen, Justin finds out SAT what kind of man his father was: SAT "He was very streetwise, and very cunning. During the Suez SAT crisis he conned the commanding officer of the parachute SAT regiment that he could do a jump- he'd never done one SAT before". Brian Hitchen, Daily Mirror colleague. SAT Building a picture of his father Justin contemplates on the SAT man he never knew, and who never tried to contact him. Will SAT Peter reveal himself through the archive and will Justin SAT like the person that is uncovered? SAT SAT Producer: Gemma Newby SAT A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b012qnl6 (Listen) SAT The History of Titus Groan, Titus Discovers SAT SAT By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SAT Episode Three 'Titus Discovers' SAT Ten year old Titus Groan, 77th Earl of Gormenghast, makes an SAT unexpected discovery in the forest, as the mystery SAT surrounding his father's disappearance deepens. Elsewhere, SAT Irma Prunesquallor grows determined to find a husband, and SAT Steerpike's ambitions may well claim the life of a second SAT member of the Gormenghast household. SAT Titus...Luke Treadaway SAT Artist...David Warner SAT Young Titus...Hugo Docking SAT Steerpike...Carl Prekopp SAT Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson SAT Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet SAT Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig SAT Bellgrove...William Gaunt SAT Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar SAT Cora ...Claudie Blakeley SAT Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan SAT Flay ...Adrian Scarborough SAT Barquentine...Gerard McDermott SAT Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw SAT Keda...Susie Riddell SAT With the voices of Paul Rhys and Mark Benton SAT With Jonathan Forbes, James Lailey, Alun Raglan, Alex SAT Tregear SAT Music by Roger Goula SAT Directed by David Hunter and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b012r7wy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Four Thought b012r6z6 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Clare Lockhart SAT SAT Clare Lockhart, co-founder and director of the Institute for SAT State Effectiveness, talks about the need for a new model of SAT aid for the developing world to reduce dependence and build SAT economic growth 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 b00zsjz3 (Listen) 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 third and final programme, 'Monsters', Michael SAT investigates another view of economics: that it is the story SAT of people, how they think and behave. SAT SAT The idea raises intriguing questions about whether we really SAT are the rational, self-interested agents described by the SAT machine-like economic models of last week's programme. SAT SAT Is my, or your, economic judgement as sound as we probably SAT both like to think? Are we swept along by the mob and the SAT moment? Are we prisoners of time and place whose choices SAT aren't calculated, but absorbed from culture? SAT SAT All this human stuff certainly complicates the calculations. SAT SAT Add that to everything else we have discovered in this SAT series - that economics is moral, political, scientific, SAT technical, statistical, theoretical, cultural, historical - SAT and, oh dear. Is it any wonder economists disagree? SAT SAT Producer: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b012qq83 (Listen) SAT Series 47 Episode 4 SAT SAT Episode 4 in the new series of Quote...Unquote, hosted by SAT Nigel Rees. This week's quotation quizzers are former BBC SAT Chairman, Michael Grade, comedian Simon Munnery, poet Ian SAT McMillan and psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SAT SAT 23:30 Down off the Pedestals b012qnlb (Listen) SAT The nineteenth century witnessed a flourishing of dialect SAT poets in the new industrial centres. Though they were very SAT popular locally, they were typically sneered at by the SAT metropolitan literary establishment, and their reputations SAT have fared badly in the years since. SAT SAT Now Simon Armitage sets out to explore the lives and works SAT of two writers whose influence in his Pennine home is felt - SAT Samuel Laycock and Ammon Wrigley. Armitage grew up hearing SAT their poems recited as party pieces, and while he initially SAT wanted to, "get past them" and forge his own reputation, SAT he's now keen to show why they deserve more serious SAT attention from the reading public beyond their home turf. SAT SAT Along the way Armitage speaks with musicians who've helped SAT keep the poems alive as songs, and writers such as Glyn SAT Hughes who have long championed the works. Hughes, sadly, SAT has died since the programme was recorded. SAT SAT Producer: Geoff Bird SAT A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 JULY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b012w4s5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Scottish Shorts b00nvfc1 (Listen) SUN Series 10, Miss Bell and Miss Heaton SUN SUN Stories showcasing new Scottish writing. SUN SUN By Janette Walkinshaw, read by Ann Louise Ross. SUN SUN Jane Bell has some difficult news for her best friend in SUN this elegiac tale of love in its many forms. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012w4s8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012w4sb (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012w4sf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b012w4sj (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b012wckm (Listen) SUN The bells of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake, Oxfordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b012wb1h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b012w4sm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b012wckp (Listen) SUN Rabindranath Tagore: Unity in Diversity SUN SUN For the 150th anniversary of the birth of visionary polymath SUN Rabindranath Tagore, Mark Tully presents a special edition SUN of Something Understood exploring Tagore's vision of the SUN unity of all creation. SUN SUN Tagore was a Nobel prize winning poet, author, musician SUN artist and philosopher. He argued for the essential SUN 'oneness' of humanity and aimed to heal the divisions SUN between East and West, science and spirituality and man and SUN nature. Mark Tully asks what we can learn from Tagore's SUN belief that 'truth implies unity, a unity expressed through SUN many and varied manifestations, a unity which, when we are SUN able to realise it, gives us freedom'. SUN SUN Mark speaks to Vandana Shiva, a philosopher, physicist, and SUN globally renowned environmental campaigner, who explains her SUN understanding of Tagore's concept of the universal. SUN SUN We hear music from around the world - from sarode player SUN Wajahat Khan to Purcell's 'Ode to St Cecelia'. And we learn SUN that Gustav Holst immersed himself in Hindu mysticism and SUN spirituality. His series of choral hymns from the Rig Veda, SUN the oldest of the Hindu scriptures, was the outcome of that SUN experience. Readings come from William Cullen Bryant - an SUN American romantic poet inspired by the wildness of the SUN forest, Jean-Paul Sartre and, of course, from Tagore SUN himself. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Coombs SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b012wckr (Listen) SUN Farne Island Puffins SUN SUN Just 2 miles off the Northumberland coast, the numerous SUN Farne Islands, viewed from the mainland resemble a dark pod SUN of whales in the glistening North Sea. For Living World this SUN week, Paul Evans is on a quest to learn more about one of SUN our favourite seabirds, the puffin. Catching an early boat, SUN he arrives on Inner Farne to all the sounds and smells of a SUN seabird colony at the height of the breeding season. Here he SUN is met by David Steele, a warden on these islands for 11 SUN years. SUN SUN To begin their adventure, they must head towards the Pele SUN tower, which means that David and Paul have to negotiate the SUN dive bombing attacks of another breeding bird on the island, SUN the Arctic tern. Avoiding razor sharp bills is not for the SUN faint hearted, the terns though are just protecting their SUN eggs and chicks which are all around Paul's feet as he SUN walks. SUN SUN Scrambling to the top of the Pele tower this allows not only SUN a respite from the bombarding terns but a panoramic view of SUN the island beyond the adult puffins relaxing on the edge of SUN the tower. Paul encounters a wandering puffin in the SUN courtyard allowing an opportunistic, if painful, close up SUN encounter with this charismatic member of the auk family. SUN But where do these birds breed? David leads us over to the SUN grassy slopes near the sea cliffs where, with his arm all SUN the way down a burrow, he searches for the single downy SUN chick. Blinking in the summer sun, this chick has never seen SUN daylight before. But in just a few short weeks on a dark SUN night, it will leave the safety of its burrow for ever. With SUN no assistance from its parents, it will scramble across the SUN island and swim off into the great unknown of the North Sea SUN for three solitary years, before returning once more to land SUN to breed as an adult. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b012w4sp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b012w4sr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b012wckt (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b012wckw (Listen) SUN Lymphoma Association SUN SUN James Landale presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Lymphona Association. SUN SUN Donations to Lymphona Association should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Lymphona Association. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN You can also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Lymphona Association 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: 1068395 SUN SUN Lymphoma Association SUN SUN The Lymphoma Association provides essential specialist SUN information and emotional support to people affected by SUN lymphatic cancer, which is the 5th most common cancer SUN diagnosed in the UK. This year marks the charity’s 25th SUN anniversary. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b012w4st (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b012w4sw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b012wcky (Listen) SUN from St Martin's Belfast SUN SUN A Service of the Word from St Martin's Church, Belfast, led SUN by the Rector, the Rev John Cunningham. Preacher: The Rev SUN Simon Doogan who explores how Jesus' grief at the death of SUN John the Baptist gave way to compassion for the crowd. SUN With music by Melisma, directed by Philip Stopford. SUN Producer: Bert Tosh. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b012r9l1 (Listen) SUN On Social Climbing SUN SUN Alain de Botton reflects on social climbing - and argues SUN that the activity should be seen - at times - as evidence of SUN a natural curiosity about the modern world. And he says in SUN the current environment, it's often not idle SUN pleasure-seeking, but an attempt to keep yourself in a job. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b012wcl0 (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b012wcl2 (Listen) SUN Written by: Caroline Harrington SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham 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 Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b012wcl4 (Listen) SUN Danny Baker SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster and writer Danny SUN Baker. SUN SUN He is a Sony Gold award winning broadcaster with one of the SUN most recognisable voices on our airwaves and his numerous SUN radio and TV shows have brought him legions of fans. As a SUN writer, he has put words in the mouths of Jeremy Clarkson, SUN Ricky Gervais, Chris Evans and even the legendary George SUN Burns. SUN SUN Despite the successes, he says he's never plotted his next SUN career move: "No plan - certainly no plan - you've only got SUN to look at the incredible way this is all botched together SUN and yet I don't feel that's somehow lucky when you look SUN around at some of the half-wits and boss-eyed bozos who SUN people this business - and they're running departments. All SUN of this is an ant-hill that somebody's kicked over, and I SUN happen to be one of the more bumptious ants." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012qqr5 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Ep.5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a first visit to the SUN Grassington Festival in the Yorkshire Dales. Old-timers SUN Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined SUN on the panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. SUN Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b012wcl6 (Listen) SUN Yeast SUN SUN Yeasts, mysterious members of the fungi kingdom, are an SUN essential part of our food production. They play a critical SUN role in baking, brewing, wine-making and much more. SUN SUN Dr Bill Simpson is the Managing Director of a company in SUN Leatherhead that has hundreds of samples of yeasts, old and SUN new, frozen in liquid nitrogen. By preserving different SUN yeasts from around the world his team are able to recreate SUN ales and lagers from the past. SUN SUN Vincent Talleu stumbled upon baking by chance but is now SUN consumed by a passion for good, tasty, healthy bread. SUN Working with a twenty-year-old Swedish yeast 'starter' in an SUN artisan bakery in London, he believes that 'real bread' must SUN be made as it used to be; slowly. This allows the yeast to SUN work its magic. SUN SUN Andrew Whitley is a food educator who started the Village SUN Bakery with a yeast sample he brought back to the UK from SUN Russia. For Andrew, there is absolutely no reason why SUN natural yeasts cannot be used much more widely in SUN bread-making, so that loaves with no synthetic additives and SUN longer production times can be available to all. SUN SUN John Downes pioneered the Australian sourdough revolution in SUN the seventies, and is now working daily with yeasts, SUN recreating the indigenous loaf of the British Isles: ale SUN barm bread. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b012w4sz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b012wcl8 (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 b012wclb (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 2 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 even secured an SUN injunction to stop him returning. He is living in a bed and SUN breakfast hostel and he must soon undergo a kidney operation SUN which could keep him out of the 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 Producer: Sue Mitchell. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012r99q (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition, Sparsholt College SUN SUN Why do trees bleed? Can you eat the leaves and stalk from SUN your Brussels sprouts? How do I grow blueberries from a SUN bathtub? SUN SUN Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Biggs figure out SUN the answers to your questions sent by post and email. SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs this postbag edition recorded at SUN Sparsholt College, Hampshire. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Mabey in the Wild b012wclg (Listen) SUN Samphire SUN SUN Samphire (pronounced 'sam-fer') is Richard Mabey's favourite SUN edible wild plant. SUN SUN In this programme he's on the marshy coast of Suffolk where SUN the plant grows in shallow water. He celebrates the SUN pleasures of eating the plant that used to be known as 'poor SUN man's asparagus' but which is now fashionable in restaurants SUN across the land. SUN SUN Richard explains something of the plant's history, its SUN appearance in literature and we go onto the foggy marshes of SUN the Wash with Michael Castleton who has been gathering SUN samphire for more than 40 years. SUN SUN Richard concludes the programme (and the series) with news SUN that samphire is being used in experiments to mitigate SUN coastal erosion on the east coast of England. Samphire is a SUN pioneering plant that helps to MAKE land. So our wild flora SUN is not just a beautiful enhancement of our countryside - it SUN may have a vital part to play in its future too. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b012wclj (Listen) SUN The History of Titus Groan, Titus Departs SUN SUN By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SUN Episode Four 'Titus Departs' SUN Steerpike takes up his new role as the Master of Ritual, and SUN as Titus grows older, so his suspicions about the former SUN kitchen boy grow. When Steerpike's plans at last begin to SUN unravel, a final, tragic trail of bodies is left in his wake SUN and Titus must make a desperate bid for vengeance and, SUN ultimately, freedom from Gormenghast. 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 Blakley SUN Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan SUN Flay ...Adrian Scarborough SUN Barquentine...Gerard McDermott SUN Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw SUN Keda...Susie Riddell SUN With Jonathan Forbes, James Lailey, Alun Raglan, Alex SUN Tregear SUN Music by Roger Goula SUN Directed by Gemma Jenkins and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b012wcll (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostup in the final part of her history of women's SUN writing considers developments in female fiction since the SUN publication of Bridge Jones's Diary in 1996. Its creator SUN Helen Fielding reveals how the anonymity of the newspaper SUN column allowed her to be honest than she would have been if SUN she was writing a novel and regrets the widening of the gap SUN between pulp fiction and the literary novel. SUN SUN What is the state of writing by women a century after women SUN achieved emancipation? Is the idea of women's writing SUN outmoded now, where does 'chick lit' fit in, and is feminism SUN a concept which young female novelists consider central to SUN their work? The programme also asks whether the literary SUN establishment itself is suffering from gender bias. SUN SUN This - and more - is discussed with best selling author and SUN co-founder of the Orange Prize Kate Mosse, writer and SUN playwright Lucy Caldwell and novelist Matt Thorne in a round SUN table discussion with contributions from: Helen Fielding on SUN Bridget Jones and popular fiction; Margaret Drabble on SUN feminism and the "domestic" novel and the former literary SUN editor of the Independent on Sunday Suzi Feay on SUN commissioning reviews in a male dominated media. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Workshop b012wcln (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Poet Ruth Padel launches the first edition in a four part SUN landmark series "Poetry Workshop" which taps into the SUN excitement and pleasures of writing and reading poetry. More SUN and more of us are connecting with poetry for pleasure or SUN emotional insight, for memorable comfort at moments of SUN personal crisis, and to discover new ways of seeing our own SUN lives. Unprecedented access to poems and poets means that SUN any of us can engage with it even if we have felt shut out SUN from it in the past. Poetry and its fans are everywhere - on SUN the underground, internet and in science labs; on the stage SUN at slams and festivals; in pubs, schools, colleges and in SUN workshops and reading groups. Radio 4's Poetry Workshop aims SUN to deepen the experience for those who love to spend time SUN with poetry and to open up to everybody new ways of SUN connecting with it. By exploring how specific poems work in SUN a practical setting the series will profile the talent and SUN enormous enthusiasm for poetry round the country. The first SUN workshop comes from Exeter where members of ExCite - one of SUN the Poetry Society's regional "Stanza" groups - join Ruth SUN Padel and fellow poet Lawrence Sail to work on some of their SUN poems in progress. Radio 4 listeners get to eavesdrop as SUN Ruth and Lawrence guide the Workshop members through the SUN process of writing and improving their poems, sharing SUN practical and inspirational pointers as well as encouraging SUN new ways of thinking. As they go behind the scenes of the SUN poems to look at their techniques, language and wordplay, SUN they reveal the creative processes and craft that make SUN poetry so rewarding. SUN SUN Producers: Sara Davies and Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b012qtvw (Listen) SUN Revolving Doors SUN SUN Each year scores of senior civil servants and ex-government SUN ministers quit Whitehall for higher-paid posts in business. SUN Companies in the fields of defence, health, energy and SUN transport are particularly keen to recruit experienced SUN politicians, policy makers and managers with close links to SUN the wheels of power and procurement. This is the so-called SUN "revolving door" between government and the world of SUN commerce and industry. In recent years a free flow of talent SUN both ways has been encouraged in the name of both efficiency SUN and better communication between Whitehall and the wider SUN world. But Government orders for goods and services are SUN worth billions of £'s every year, and critics say the system SUN is vulnerable to abuse and conflict of interest. For 'File SUN on 4' Julian O'Halloran examines the effectiveness of the SUN independent committee whose job it is to police the divide SUN and protect the public interest. SUN Producer: Andy Denwood. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b012wb1h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012w4t1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b012w4t3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012w4t5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b012wclq (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio. SUN Sheila McClennon's picks this week include the toe curling SUN outcome when comedian Simon Day got close to two of his SUN idols Paul Weller and Eric Clapton. But Louis Armstrong has SUN more success when he meets the Pope as he reveals in the SUN reel to reel tape recordings he loved to make at home during SUN the last twenty years of his life. SUN SUN There's an explanation of what reading the Riot Act really SUN meant on the streets of the eighteenth century and how 250 SUN years later, young men are still drawn to gang violence. SUN There's a visit to the world's largest cash and carry, Danny SUN Baker on the perks of being a docker's son and Milton Jones SUN does his bit for world peace by upsetting most of the United SUN Nations. SUN SUN Satchmo by Satchmo - Radio 2 SUN The New Silk Road with Roger Law - Radio 4 SUN Voices from the Old Bailey - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: Hood Rat - Radio 4 SUN Opening Lines: Writing in Chalk - Radio 4 SUN Chain Reaction - Radio 4 SUN Composer Joseph Horovitz: No Ordinary Joe - Radio 4 SUN Americana - Radio 2 SUN Another Case of Milton Jones - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Play: A9 - Radio 4 SUN Desert Island Discs - Radio 4 SUN Today: Michael Morpurgo - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b012wcls (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b012wclv (Listen) SUN An insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00pqj9d (Listen) SUN The Curiosities of the Egyptian Hall, Between Isis and SUN Osiris SUN SUN Introduced by Tony Lidington as Alfred, Custodian of the SUN Hall. SUN SUN A series of three specially commissioned stories inspired by SUN London's Egyptian Hall - 'England's Home of Mystery & Many SUN Illusions', which stood in Piccadilly for most of the 19th SUN Century. The recordings were made in front of an invited SUN audience at the Concert Artistes' Association in Covent SUN Garden. The first tale is read by award-winning radio actor, SUN Miriam Margolyes. SUN SUN London's Egyptian Hall was originally built in 1812 to house SUN collections of curiosities brought back from the most remote SUN and mysterious parts of the globe - from the South Seas, SUN North & South America and Africa. But it soon became the SUN venue for extraordinary spectaculars, panoramas and pseudo SUN scientific demonstrations - such as Britain's first ever SUN films, illusions, magic and freak shows. By the end of the SUN 19th Century, it had become known as 'England's Home of SUN Mystery and Many Illusions', under the management of the SUN renowned magician, Maskelyne. It became the centre of magic SUN and spiritualism where new acts were demonstrated and SUN charlatans exposed. SUN SUN It is this rich legacy that has inspired these three stories SUN - which are as quirky, mysterious and surprising as the SUN curiosities themselves! SUN SUN Each tale is introduced by Alfred - the custodian of the SUN Hall (played by Tony Lidington) - who tells us a little of SUN the Hall's history, before each story. SUN SUN Miriam Margolyes tells the tale of artist Benjamin Robert SUN Haydon, whose exhibition at the Egyptian Hall was eclipsed SUN by the hugely popular American midget, General Tom Thumb. SUN With Tony Lidington as Alfred, the Custodian of the Hall. SUN SUN Written by John Peacock SUN Read by Miriam Margolyes SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b012r99l (Listen) SUN The controller of Radio 4 Gwyneth Williams takes questions SUN directly from listeners on her recently announced plans to SUN shake-up the schedule. Listeners tackle her on the SUN controversial decision to cut afternoon readings from three SUN to just one a week from next April. SUN SUN She also defends the axing of On The Ropes and The Choice SUN and explains why more news is needed at lunchtime. SUN SUN Andy Parfitt, the controller of Radio 1 tells Roger Bolton SUN why he is leaving the station after 13 years at the helm. SUN And this summer, Radio 3 is making every one of its Proms SUN concerts available in high definition. But will the sound SUN quality be that much better? 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 b012r99v (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Cec Thompson - the first black man to play rugby league for SUN Great Britain, he overcame a troubled childhood to become an SUN inspirational teacher and successful businessman. SUN SUN Also Dekha Ibrahim Abdi who won international awards for her SUN work in bringing peace and reconciliation to her native SUN Kenya SUN SUN Robert Ettinger who pioneered cryonics and has now been SUN frozen along with his two wives and his mother. SUN SUN Germany's answer to Rupert Murdoch - media tycoon Leo Kirch SUN SUN And the stage and screen actress Googie Withers. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b012wxxw (Listen) SUN Prescribed Addiction: John Waite investigates the "scandal" SUN that has left up to 1.5 million people addicted to drugs SUN prescribed to them by their GPs. Experts in the field tell SUN us that addicts to benzodiazepine tranquillizers, the most SUN popular of which are diazepam and temazepam, far outnumber SUN those addicted to illegal drugs. There's evidence that some SUN family doctors are ignoring guidleines by prescribing the SUN drugs for much longer than is recommended, while successive SUN Governments are accused of turning a blind eye to the SUN problem and offering little by way of treatment to the SUN victims who want to withdraw. SUN SUN Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b012wckw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b012r7ty (Listen) SUN New Dimension SUN SUN Three-D printing may be the next revolution in SUN manufacturing. It's being used to make things in a SUN completely different way from the mass production we've been SUN familiar with ever since Henry Ford introduced the SUN production line more than 100 years ago. Ford made a SUN succession of almost identical items and that's what mass SUN production still does today. 3D printing --or additive SUN manufacturing as it's also known -- means that every product SUN can be individual. It's a completely different way of SUN thinking about manufacturing and costs little more to SUN customise than it does to mass produce. This could SUN potentially revolutionise manufacturing and businesses from SUN top to bottom. Peter Day investigates. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b012wclz (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 b012wcm1 (Listen) SUN Episode 63 SUN SUN Sarfraz Manzoor of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b012r99x (Listen) SUN In this week's Film Programme Matthew Sweet talks to SUN Hollywood royalty, Anjelica Huston. Their extended SUN conversation embraces her latest excursion into kids films, SUN Horrid Henry but also her reflections on Montgomery Clift, SUN Jean Paul Sartre, Dick and Dom, her father and childhood in SUN Ireland. She's joined by the designer, Wayne Hemingway, who SUN shares his enthusiasm for the vintage film, Jazz on a SUN Summer's Day and by Mark Gatiss who reveals the SUN extraordinary story of the Spanish Dracula in the second SUN instalment of his series about foreign horror. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b012wckp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 AUGUST 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b012w4tx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b012r6vg (Listen) MON Creating capabilities MON MON Development of a country is conventionally measured by GDP, MON but that can mask a growing inequality in that nation and MON makes no reference to freedoms, rights or education. The MON philosopher Martha Nussbaum outlines her 'human MON capabilities' approach which she has developed with the MON Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen. She tells Laurie MON that her index can be applied around the world and across MON all cultures as an index which measures how populations are MON flourishing or flailing. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b012wckm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012w4tz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012w4v1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012w4v3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b012w4v5 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012wdj9 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh MON Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study MON of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b012wdjc (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b012w4v7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b012wdjf (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b012wdjh (Listen) MON Series 4, Class MON MON Stephen Fry's idiosyncratic meander along the byways of MON English takes him into dangerous territory: Language and MON Class. Is it still the contentious issue it used to be? MON MON In the Nineteen Fifties a famous distinction was drawn MON between what came to be called "U" and "Non-U" words, MON expressions and pronunciations that were supposed to give a MON pretty clear indication as to which class the speaker MON belonged. That's all old hat now surely? Or are there still MON differences between the way the social classes speak, and MON are perceived? MON MON Once the social boundaries were very clear. Now they seem a MON lot more porous. So have we changed the way we speak to cope MON with social changes? The answer - according to experts in MON the programme seems to be "yes, but not as much as you might MON think". MON MON With the help of a socio-linguist, a waspish columnist, a MON professional voice coach and Yorkshire poet Ian Macmillan, MON Stephen looks at the history of class and speech, and finds MON that changes have been subtle. Yet for many old tribalisms MON remain. MON MON Macmillan helps show how the issues always seem to be MON debated in a metropolitan context. They take on a very MON different hue if seen from elsewhere. MON MON Producer: Ian Gardhouse MON A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Blind Man's Bete Noire b012wdjk (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON In the final programme of the series, Peter White explores MON his bete noire of Going Slowly with record-breaking Steve MON Cunningham ("the fastest blind man on the planet") about why MON sighted people try to slow him down. MON MON Comedian Nick Hancock explains to Peter the joys of fishing MON but he remains unconvinced about the benefits of sitting MON still for a long time, doing apparently nothing. MON MON Visually-impaired BBC News correspondent Gary O' Donoghue MON also comments. MON MON Peter finally experiences ultimate freedom by running full MON pelt along a Northumbrian beach. MON MON Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b012wdjm (Listen) MON Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue, Episode 1 MON MON Lynn Knight's memoir tells how three generations of her MON family were adopted in three distinct ways. Today, it is MON 1865 and her great-grandfather begins his new life. MON MON The corner shop at 150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill in MON Derbyshire was run by Lynn Knight's grandmother, and for the MON first half of the twentieth century was at the heart of MON family life. Everything from bread, eggs, sweets and laundry MON soap could be bought there, and it was also the place where MON the story of three adoptions across three generations MON unfolded. As Lynn Knight reveals her family's story she also MON sheds light on a vanished world. MON MON The reader is Barbara Flynn. MON Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b012wdjp (Listen) MON Is pole fitness suitable exercise for girls, at a time when MON there are so many expressions of concern over the MON sexualisation of young children? Wrest Park: after decades MON behind virtually closed doors, its treasures overgrown and MON practically lost, one of Britain's most important historic MON landscapes is restored. Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: Lynn MON Knight talks about her book telling how three generations of MON her family were adopted. Her grandmother ran a corner shop MON at Wheeldon Mill in Derbyshire, and for the first half of MON the twentieth century, this - and its stock of sweets, MON laundry soap and bread - was at the heart of family life. MON And Women in Business: Woman's Hour is following three MON businesswomen this year as they try to expand their MON companies. Jo Pateman runs a pond cleaning and maintenance MON company based in Hertfordshire - called Women With Waders. MON Her mentor is Nikki King, the Managing Director of Isuzu MON Trucks UK Ltd. We hear how their latest session went. MON Presented by Jenni Murray. MON MON Pole fitness for children MON MON Pole dancing classes for adults have become increasingly MON popular. But reports of a classes springing up for children MON has attracted criticism. The organisers of such classes MON describe them as nothing more than keep-fit classes, while MON critics say they’re another symptom of an over-sexualized MON society. To discuss Jenni is joined by instructor Carly MON Wilford from Make Me Fabulous in Northampton and the MON journalist Leah Hardy. MON MON Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue MON MON Lynn Knight's latest book tells how three generations of her MON family were adopted in three distinct ways. Her grandmother MON ran a corner shop at Wheeldon Mill in Derbyshire, and for MON the first half of the 20th century, this – and its stock of MON sweets, laundry soap and bread - was at the heart of family MON life, and where the story of the adoptions unfolded. Lynn MON Knight joins Jenni to recreate the tales told of her MON great-grandfather, a fairground boy, given away when his MON parents left for America in 1865; her great-aunt, rescued MON from an Industrial School in 1909; and her mother, adopted MON as a baby in 1930. MON MON Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: the Story of an Accidental MON Family by Lynn Knight is published by Atlantic Books on 2nd MON August 2011. MON MON Wrest Park MON MON After decades behind virtually closed doors, its treasures MON overgrown and practically lost, one of Britain's most MON important historic landscapes has been undergoing a massive MON restoration project. Wrest Park near Silsoe in Bedfordshire MON was the home of the de Grey family for nearly 700 years - MON from the Middle Ages until the early 20th century. And MON while each generation of the family left their mark on the MON estate, one woman made was particularly influential. MON Jemima, Marchioness Grey was in her early 20s when she MON inherited the estate in 1740. She dedicated much of the MON next 60 years to the park and garden at Wrest - engaging MON Lancelot "Capability" Brown to work on the water features, MON as well as adding such fashionable features as a Mithraic MON Glade, a Bath House and a Chinese Temple and Bridge - making MON Wrest Park a must-travel-to-and-see park for 18th century MON English garden-lovers. On Thursday, 4 August, after years MON of work, English Heritage is re-opening Wrest to the public. MON Anna McNamee went along to have a preview. MON MON Women in Business MON MON Woman’s Hour is following three businesswomen this year as MON they try to expand their companies. And to help them do MON that, we’ve paired each woman with a mentor. Jo Pateman MON runs a pond cleaning and maintenance company based in MON Hertfordshire - called Women With Waders. Her mentor is MON Nikki King, the Managing Director of Isuzu Trucks UK Ltd. MON Our reporter Judy Merry met Jo at her house before she set MON off to meet Nikki for their next mentoring session. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012wdjr (Listen) MON A Farewell to Arms, Episode 1 MON MON Ernest Hemingway's novel, dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. MON 1/10 Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver for the MON Italian army, plays courtship games with Catherine Barkley, MON a British nurse. MON MON Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy MON Catherine ..... Morven Christie MON Rinaldi ..... Carl Prekopp MON Ferguson ..... Alex Tregear MON Manera ..... Jonathan Forbes MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 11:00 Too Clever by Half b012wdjt (Listen) MON The stories of women who've been in relationships where MON there's an intellectual mismatch. Presented by Stephanie MON Calman. MON MON One aspect of romantic relationships which remains largely MON taboo is the issue of intellect. Somehow it still raises MON eyebrows when a woman is obviously much brighter than her MON male partner... but what exactly is the problem? Stephanie MON Calman explores this, through the stories and experiences of MON several women. MON MON 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b01211y4 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and MON charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This MON week the perils of an American learning French in Paris in MON "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and an essay dealing with a MON friend's concern for cleanliness; "It's Catching". MON MON Producer: Steve Doherty MON A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b012wdrr (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b012w4v9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b012wdrt (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b012wdrw (Listen) MON Episode 5 in the new series of Quote...Unquote, hosted by MON Nigel Rees. This week's quote fans are legendary actress, MON Sian Phillips, sports journalist James Richardson, MON broadcaster Edward Stourton and the comedian and actress, MON Rebecca Front. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b012wcls (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b012wdry (Listen) MON The Last Project - El Ultimo Proyecto MON MON El Ultimo Proyecto - The Last Project MON by Michael Butt MON A play in two languages- Spanish and English. A romantic MON thriller set in the hills of Andalucia. A British former MON soldier, Travis, has a love affair with the wife of a famous MON Spanish film director. Story telling and reality collide MON when the director insists Travis helps with his latest film, MON his 'last project' in which a murder is committed. MON MON Travis ..... Bryan Dick MON Ines ...... Yolanda Vazquez MON Javier .... William Marquez MON Singer - Hugo Cubilla MON With original song composition by Akintayo Akinbode and MON words by Federico Garcia Lorca MON Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b012wb1m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012wds2 (Listen) MON Series 2, The Doctor's Plot MON MON By the late 1940s, the Soviet Union was the most powerful MON force in Europe, but Stalin faced a wave of discontent in MON the states annexed after the war and when Mao Zedong formed MON the People's Republic of China in 1949 was eager to conserve MON his place as the leader of world communism. MON MON He encouraged conflict between North and South Korea but had MON to appeal to Mao for help when the US came to the South's MON aid. It was a tactical failure for Stalin. In early 1952 MON Stalin's personal physician, Vladimir Vinogradov, told the MON Soviet leader he was suffering from hypertension and MON sclerosis of the arteries, and if wished to avoid death he MON must retire from public activity. Stalin saw this as part of MON a plot to remove him from power. The New York Times MON correspondent in Moscow, Harrison Salisbury, writes: "on the MON 13th of Jan, we picked up Pravda and found the announcement MON of the doctors' plot, as it was so called ... it was the MON most sinister news I read while I was in Moscow." MON MON As a result of Stalin's paranoia, hundreds of innocent MON doctors were arrested, a new show trial was prepared, and MON top party leaders including Mikoyan, Molotov and Beria MON feared they were among the targets. It never happened. MON Martin Sixsmith walks around Stalin's secret Dacha on the MON outskirts of Moscow, "a set of high metal walls surrounding MON a hidden compound where you can glimpse the roofs of some MON dark brick buildings," and describes Stalin's death of a MON massive stroke. Newspapers were printed with black borders MON and Soviet radio replaced its transmissions with funereal MON music. MON MON For thirty years, the Soviet people had been subjugated to MON the cruellest tyranny, but they spoke of feeling 'orphaned' MON by Stalin's death. It held out the possibility of freedom. MON But for a numbed, subjugated nation, freedom was far from MON easy to grasp. MON MON Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b012wcl6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b012wdtw (Listen) MON According to recent research, a Christian couple in Britain MON has only a 50 percent chance of transmitting their beliefs MON and practice to their children. If a child has just one MON Christian parent the chance is 25 per cent. Why is it so MON difficult for parents to pass on their faith? And do MON grandparents and parents in minority faith communities face MON the same problems when it comes to transmitting their MON religious beliefs and values across the Generational Divide? MON Ernie Rea's guests in Beyond Belief today are Professor MON David Voas from Manchester University, Sadek Hamid a MON researcher into Muslim youth, and the Rabbi and Baroness, MON Julia Neuberger. MON MON 17:00 PM b012wdty (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012w4vc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012wdv0 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at the Grassington Festival, MON Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in MON the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b012wdv2 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b012wdv4 (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including an interview with the writer MON Hari Kunzru, whose new novel is set in 2008, in a remote MON town in the Californian desert. MON MON Producer Andrea Kidd. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012wdjr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b012wf3s (Listen) MON In 1965, the British colony of Rhodesia broke away from the MON Empire. Ian Smith led the country's ruling white minority MON into a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. MON MON But black independence fighters waged a long struggle to MON oust Smith's regime. By the late 1970s, Joshua Nkomo and his MON ZAPU party, and Robert Mugabe and his ZANU party, were both MON engaged in a bush war against Smith's regime. MON MON Resolving the situation had become one of the most pressing MON issues of British foreign policy. The Foreign Secretary MON David Owen believed he had to bring all parties to the table MON if a long-term settlement was to be achieved. MON MON Both Owen and Ian Smith had favoured Joshua Nkomo as the MON first black majority leader of Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe - until, MON in 1978, Nkomo's ZAPU fighters brought down a civilian MON Rhodesian airliner, and butchered a group of survivors. MON MON Mike unearths the famous interview shortly afterwards in MON which Mr Nkomo was heard to chuckle over this most MON destructive act in the long-running and increasingly bloody MON independence struggle. MON MON The Rhodesian special forces immediately stepped up plans to MON assassinate Nkomo. On 13th April 1979, an audacious raid was MON launched against Nkomo's house in Lusaka - in Zambian MON territory - but it failed because he wasn't at home. MON MON Veterans of the Rhodesian forces remain convinced today that MON their intelligence was good and that Nkomo's escape was the MON result of a tip-off. And a ZAPU leader agrees with that MON suspicion. MON MON In this edition of Document, Mike Thomson investigates the MON accusation that it was the British, informed by someone MON inside the Rhodesian command, who tipped off Nkomo. And he MON also examines whether the British later did the same when MON attempts were made on Robert Mugabe's life in Mozambique. MON MON Did the belief that getting all parties to the table was the MON only way forward mean that, where possible, men who were MON responsible for what some saw as terrorism were to be MON protected? MON MON Memos within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office suggest MON that the survival of Nkomo and Mugabe was indeed due, in MON part, to British involvement. MON MON In his bid to uncover the truth, Mike talks to members of MON the Rhodesian defence forces as well as senior British MON diplomats involved at the time. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b012r7jv (Listen) MON Escape from North Korea MON MON Lucy Williamson reports from Seoul on the dangerous trade of MON the people brokers, smuggling desperate people out of North MON Korea to the safety of the South. She investigates the way MON the South Korean government tries to integrate refugees from MON the North into their own modern, open society - and the MON challenges this creates for people who have only known MON poverty and extreme political repression. MON MON Shadowy world of Korea's people smugglers MON MON Almost 3,000 North Koreans make it to the South every year MON with the help of a network of people smugglers and brokers, MON reports the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul. MON MON 21:00 Material World b012r7tk (Listen) MON This week, Quentin Cooper asks if physicists are seeing the MON first signs of the elusive Higgs particle and if culling MON badgers really can control bovine TB. He hears how flawed MON diamonds give clues to the first continental drift and how MON the drama at the axon terminal in brain cells has inspired MON music. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b012wdjh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b012w4vf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b012wf3v (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012wf3x (Listen) MON Pereira Maintains, Episode 6 MON MON Unsettled by his conversations with his new assistant MON Pereira goes to a clinic in Parede where he has time to MON reflect on his past and to discuss with his doctor the MON importance of the soul. And he considers his discomfort with MON the political climate in his beloved homeland and wonders MON what he can do. MON MON Written by Antonio Tabucchi MON Read by Derek Jacobi MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b012qtbf (Listen) MON Surnames MON MON What's in a name? Chris Ledgard looks at where our surnames MON come from and what they mean to us. He meets two people with MON very unusual stories, then visits the team of researchers at MON UWE who are tracing the origins of 43,00 family names in the MON UK - many for the first time. MON And Gregory Clark is using surnames to track the wealth and MON status of families over forty generations, with surprising MON results. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Polyoaks b011ppph (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Nigel Planer, Celia Imrie, David Westhead, Phil Cornwell and MON Tony Gardner star in a timely satire on the NHS set in the MON bewildering new world of Coalition healthcare. This new MON sitcom is written by Private Eye's medical columnist, MON broadcaster, comedian and practising GP Dr. Phil Hammond and MON David Spicer ('Double Income, No Kids Yet' and 'Three Off MON the Tee'.) 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 In this second episode TV's Dr. Jeremy and the two Dr. MON Thornton brothers have been persuaded by their Consortium to MON buy the Polyoaks Walk-In centre and set up a polyclinic. MON It's now their Practice Manager Betty's unenviable task to MON show them how manage the money. Well they couldn't do it on MON their own, could they? Hugh's too busy playing squash with MON local politicians and Roy has started filming consultations. MON And if, God forbid, any of their patients is seriously ill, MON will anybody notice? 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 Stafford: David Holt MON Nanny/Mrs Grafton: Kate O'Sullivan MON Oliver: Hugo Docking 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 02 AUGUST 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b012w4w0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b012wdjm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012w4w2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012w4w4 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012w4w6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b012w4w8 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012wg2d (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh TUE Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study TUE of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b012wg2g (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b012wg2j (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Beyond Hackgate: Who Should We Trust Now? b0133s0f (Listen) TUE A discussion of the implications of the hacking scandal for TUE the shape of power in Britain. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b012ylw4 (Listen) TUE Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue, Episode 2 TUE TUE The reader is Barbara Flynn. TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b012wg2l (Listen) TUE Kathryn Tickell performs with her Northumbrian pipes. TUE Presented by Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012wg2n (Listen) TUE A Farewell to Arms, Episode 2 TUE TUE Ernest Hemingway's novel, dramatised by Steven Keyworth. TUE 2/10 Frederic is injured while seeing to the suppers of his TUE fellow ambulance drivers TUE TUE Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy TUE Rinaldi ..... Carl Prekopp TUE Manera ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Gavuzzi ..... James Lailey TUE Passini ..... Daniel Rabin TUE Driver ..... Simon Bubb TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Science: From Cradle to Grave b012wg2q (Listen) TUE In medicine, there are few certainties when it comes to TUE cause and effect. Diseases can take a long time to develop TUE and people tend overall to live a long time. And during TUE their lives they're exposed to an almost endless series of TUE experiences that might alter their risk of developing a TUE particular condition (diet, social class, lifestyle, TUE economics, education and so on). So the only way we can be TUE reasonably certain about the risks is to observe vast TUE numbers of people over a long period of time and record what TUE happens to them. It's costly, it's unbelievably slow but it TUE works and it's the bedrock of medicine. Without the numerous TUE evidence-based discoveries that have come out of decades of TUE longitudinal science, medicine would be stuck in the dark TUE ages. TUE TUE In this programme, as part of the Generations Apart project TUE which launches the following week on Radio 4, Ben Goldacre, TUE medic and author of the Bad Science Column, explores the TUE past, present and future of longitudinal research. How did TUE these monumental long term-studies come about? What have we TUE learned from them and what do we still need to know? TUE TUE Ben talks to some of the pioneers of epidemiology including TUE Sir Michael Marmot whose famous study on civil servants TUE changed our view of executive stress and Professor Diana TUE Kuh, who worked on the original 1946 cohort study. And he TUE meets the scientists behind a new UK Birth cohort study, TUE starting in 2012 which will track a whole new generation of TUE children, starting from their development in the womb to TUE their final days of life. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b012wg2v (Listen) TUE Claire Tomalin TUE TUE Claire Tomalin chooses some of her favourite extracts from a TUE few of the many great writers whose lives she has written TUE about, including Hardy, Dickens and Pepys. Her readers are TUE Harriet Walter, Nicky Henson, Robin Ince and Meera Syal. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b012wgzp (Listen) TUE Immigration: Should you be forced to learn English if you TUE want to live in the UK? A British Indian woman is TUE challenging a new rule that bans her husband from joining TUE her in Britain because he can't speak a word of English. TUE Rashida Chapti has lived here for six years. Her husband, TUE Vali, is still in India and she wants him to move here. She TUE claims the new rule is racist and breaches her human rights, TUE so she's taking her case to the High Court. Does she have a TUE point? Do you need to speak English to live and work in TUE multi-cultural Britain? Or if you want to live here, is it TUE only fair you learn the native tongue? Call You and Yours TUE with Julian Worricker. Your chance to share your views on TUE the programme. Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text 84844 and TUE we may call you back or call 03700 100 444. (Lines open at TUE 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b012w4wb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b012wgzr (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 ADHD and Me b011c0nn (Listen) TUE Comedian Rory Bremner has found success in his ability to TUE switch between impersonating many different people. But TUE behind this comic persona is a man who struggles to focus, TUE loses the thread and takes on too many tasks that can leave TUE his personal and professional life in disarray. Rory had TUE always put his chaotic lifestyle down to his personality. TUE TUE However, after a diagnosis of Attention Deficit TUE Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, within his family, Rory has TUE realised he too may have the condition. For this TUE documentary, Rory goes on a personal journey to find out how TUE this condition affects adults, how attitudes have changed in TUE the two decades since the ADHD was first recognised, and how TUE we can support the next generation of sufferers to cope with TUE this potentially devastating condition. TUE TUE Producer: Lisa Needham TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b012wdv2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b012wjcq (Listen) TUE The Meaning of Love TUE TUE by Anna Symon TUE TUE When Ed finds himself sleeping in the spare room he realises TUE he might have to rediscover exactly what love is. But coming TUE up with the correct definition proves harder than he first TUE imagines. TUE TUE Ed ..... Paul Ritter TUE Fiona ..... Tessa Peake-Jones TUE Simone ..... Aurelie Ambland TUE Captain Cook ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Julian ...... Peter Polycarpou TUE Cath ..... Jane Whittenshaw TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b012wjcs (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 b0134d6z (Listen) TUE New Irish Short Stories, The Crippled Man TUE TUE From the book 'New Irish Short Stories' we celebrate the TUE work of three internationally celebrated masters of the TUE form; William Trevor, Roddy Doyle and Dermot Bolger. TUE TUE The collection celebrates the range and calibre of Irish TUE storytelling - conjuring a wealth of emotions and taking a TUE look at the beauty of Ireland as it passes through a TUE turbulent time - its eye always on the future. TUE TUE 'The Crippled Man' by William Trevor read by Stephen Rea: TUE TUE William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, county Cork in TUE 1928. He had won the Whitbread Prize three times and the TUE Hawthornden Award once and has been nominated five times for TUE the booker prize, most recently for his novel Love and TUE Summer. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012wjcx (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Secret Speech/Scramble for Power TUE TUE When Stalin died in March 1953, the USSR was militarily TUE strong, but economically fragile. Beria, Molotov, Malenkov TUE and Khrushchev assumed the collective leadership of the TUE Soviet Union but the struggle for supremacy had begun. TUE TUE Khrushchev and Malenkov accused Beria of being a British TUE spy. His execution sparked unrest in labour camps across the TUE county - at Kengir in Kazakhstan, 13,000 political prisoners TUE and former Red Army men seized power and demanded justice. TUE The new men in the Kremlin set up an inquiry to expose the TUE abuses that had sent innocent millions to the Gulag. The TUE report found all four had acquiesced in the abuses, but TUE Nikita Khrushchev decided the facts could not be kept TUE secret. "If we don't tell the truth," he told the politburo, TUE "We'll be forced to do so in the future. And then we won't TUE be the people making the speeches - we'll be the people TUE under investigation." His report to a session of senior TUE party officials, now referred to as Khrushchev's secret TUE speech, portrayed Stalin as a murderer, a coward and a TUE bungler. TUE TUE The myth of the mighty infallible ruler was debunked; TUE Communist orthodoxy was shaken, and with it the ethical TUE basis of the whole Soviet system. Khrushchev's speech fanned TUE the flames of the independence movements - Polish workers TUE went on strike; in Hungary the crisis was deeper and limited TUE concessions encouraged demands for much more. TUE TUE But powerful colleagues opposed Khrushchev's TUE de-Stalinisation programme. Martin Sixsmith visits Asbest in TUE Western Siberia to which Lazar Kaganovich was humiliatingly TUE sent after his failed bid to overthrow Khrushchev. The TUE plotters all escaped with their lives, signalling the end of TUE Stalinist terror, but Khrushchev's unpredictable nature left TUE its mark on the erratic course of the country in the years TUE ahead. TUE TUE Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b012wjcz (Listen) TUE Tired of living next to his noisy neighbours, Les Barker TUE opted out of urban Manchester and moved to North Wales. TUE "Although I'd spent half a lifetime an hour's drive away, TUE I'd never heard of Hedd Wyn. Or any other major figure in TUE Welsh history or literature, apart from Max Boyce and Dylan TUE Thomas." So Les began to learn...and learn...and learn..... TUE TUE "After toying briefly with 'Teach Yourself Welsh', I went on TUE a four-day course in Denbigh; Craig Jones was the tutor. TUE Over the summer I did a couple of week-long courses in TUE Denbigh, initially with another Mr Jones, but he went off TUE sick and was replaced by a Mrs Jones. Wales is full of TUE them." TUE TUE "Being a beginner is frustrating. After a lifetime of being TUE fluent, I suddenly had the vocabulary and grammar of a TUE three-year-old." But Les persevered, and is now a serious TUE performer on the Welsh poetry scene, and one of the TUE organisers of this summer's Eisteddfod. Chris Ledgard meets TUE Les as he makes last minute preparations for the festival. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b012wjd1 (Listen) TUE Series 25, Graham Greene TUE TUE The Third Man, Brighton Rock, Travels With My Aunt - the TUE books of Graham Greene all still have a definite ring. But TUE the the man himself was an enigma. He worked both as a spy TUE as well as a foreign correspondent, and wrote endlessly TUE about shady characters and secret affairs. This programme TUE opens with him talking about his love of playing Russian TUE Roulette - it turns out that Graham Greene was easily bored. TUE Choosing Greene for Great Lives is Tim Butcher, 20 years a TUE war reporter for the Daily Telegraph and more recently TUE author of Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, a TUE title that suggests the influence of Greeneland. Tim says TUE that it's his depiction of seedy life that appeals. TUE The programme also features the voices of Beryl Bainbridge, TUE Christopher Hampton and Auberon Waugh, along with a classic TUE clip of Trevor Howard as Scobie in the Heart of the Matter TUE from 1953. TUE Matthew Parris is unimpressed with Greene's treatment of his TUE wife, Vivienne, and questions whether the image Greene TUE created was really true. David Pearce, founding trustee of TUE the International Graham Greene Festival offers a robust TUE defence. TUE Future programmes in the series include editions on TUE Shakespeare, Kirsty MacColl, and Antonio Carluccio on the TUE sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b012wjd3 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012w4wd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b012wjd5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing TUE the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. Lucy is a true TUE chameleon who can embrace any character with uncanny TUE accuracy, from a non-stop chattering public school girl to a TUE decrepit and self-abasing charwoman. Lucy is a rare and TUE multifaceted performer her intelligence and Barry TUE Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a smart and TUE distinctive edge. TUE TUE Like all big stars, Lucy's worked hard to earn her tilt at TUE the windmill of fame. In her ten years since Footlights TUE she's honed her talents on Radio 4 shows as diverse as the TUE Sony Gold winning Down the Line, The Museum of Everything, TUE The Department, Another Case of Milton Jones, Mastering the TUE Universe, Torchwood, The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook TUE and The Way We Live Right Now. On television she has made TUE her mark on BBC THREE's TittyBangBang, BBC ONE's Armstrong TUE and Miller and BBC TWO's - Bellamy's People. TUE TUE Starring; Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie TUE Walter and Waen Shepherd TUE Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve TUE Burge, Jon Hunter, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Fay Rusling. TUE Script Editor; Dan Tetsell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b012wjd7 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b012wjd9 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with the writer TUE Gerald Seymour, whose new novel focuses on a British plot to TUE assassinate an Iranian bomb-maker. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012wg2n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b012wjdc (Listen) TUE Exiles in Fear TUE TUE The UK is the largest bilateral donor to Rwanda, giving TUE around £83m a year. President Paul Kagame is praised by the TUE British government for bringing stability and economic TUE growth to a country torn apart by the genocide in 1994. But TUE recently it was revealed that two opponents of the Rwandan TUE regime living in London had been warned by police they were TUE in danger of being assassinated by their own government. TUE Other Rwandans living in the UK have been threatened too. TUE The Rwandan High Commission say the allegations are TUE baseless. TUE TUE Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe also receives substantial amounts TUE of British aid but via charities and other non-governmental TUE organisations. However an exile involved in the ex-patriot TUE community and who had attended Movement for Democratic TUE Change meetings has been revealed as a former torturer. Far TUE from rejecting his past, its alleged he has until recently TUE been on the pay-roll of the notorious Central Intelligence TUE Organisation - leaving the Zimbabwe community scared and in TUE disarray. TUE TUE Jenny Cuffe asks whether in the light of such claims the TUE British government should question its aid policy. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b012wjdf (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b012wjdh (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 3 TUE TUE Vivienne Parry explores changing attitudes to giving birth TUE and asks what is a normal birth. TUE TUE 21:30 Beyond Hackgate: Who Should We Trust Now? b0133s0f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b012w4wg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b012wjdk (Listen) TUE With Robin Lustig. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012wjdm (Listen) TUE Pereira Maintains, Episode 7 TUE TUE Pereira is troubled, by the repression in the country he TUE loves, by his own reluctance to get involved and by his TUE young assistant and his girlfriend who seem prepared to risk TUE everything for a cause they believe in. After long talks TUE about the soul with a doctor at a clinic in Parede, he goes TUE to seek out his old friend Father Antonio to see what advice TUE he can give. 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 b012wjdp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bigipedia 2.0 - BigiHype! 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 BigiHype - the sure-fire way to raise the profile of a new TUE event or an unpopular charity! 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 Guy Jackson has done some music and that. TUE TUE David Tyler's radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm TUE Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, Another Case Of Milton TUE Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley TUE Hogg Goes Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree TUE and even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits TUE include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, TUE Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's TUE Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria TUE Wood's dinnerladies TUE TUE Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Towards Zero b00pr3vn (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE By Agatha Christie TUE dramatised by Joy Wilkinson TUE TUE Against her better judgment, Lady Tresselian permits dashing TUE Nevile Strange and his wife to come to her house party at TUE the same time as his ex-wife, and sure enough, as soon as TUE everyone arrives, the tensions are evident. TUE TUE Nevile............Hugh Bonneville TUE Lady Tresselian.......Marcia Warren TUE MacWhirter.........Tom Mannion TUE Audrey............Claire Rushbrook TUE Mary.............Julia Ford TUE Kay............Lizzy Watts TUE Latimer...........Joseph Kloska TUE Royde............Stephen Hogan TUE Treves...........David Hargreaves TUE Umpire/Butler........Philip Fox TUE Receptionist...........Annabelle Dowler TUE Porter............Benjamin Askew TUE TUE Directed by Mary Peate. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 AUGUST 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b012w4x1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b012ylw4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012w4x3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012w4x5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012w4x7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b012w4x9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012ww69 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh WED Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study WED of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b012ww6c (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sarah Swadling. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b012ww6f (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Voices from the Old Bailey b012ww6h (Listen) WED Series 2, Sexual Subcultures WED WED Amanda Vickery uses court cases to explore the lives of gay WED men and cross-dressers in the 18th century. Lesbians did not WED appear in court as lesbianism was not against the law - but WED we find and record an 18th century lesbian love song, as WED well as the hilarious 'Bumography'. WED WED The 3 court cases in the programme range from the tragic to WED the hilarious. First, the case of a milkman caught in a raid WED on a gay brothel - and sentenced to death. His father-in-law WED appears in court to plead for him - it turns out the milkman WED is a widower, with a daughter to raise. But to no avail: he WED hangs for the crime of sodomy. WED WED The second case is blackmail, and reveals the vulnerability WED of all men at the time to accusations of sodomy. The third WED stars the hilarious 'Princess Seraphina', a cross-dresser WED with a bevy of female admirers who turn up in court. It WED gives a priceless insight into 18th century camp. WED WED Three contributors discuss the cases: leading gay historian WED Rictor Norton, whose books and website have a cult WED following; Helen Berry, historian of sexuality, whose book WED on castrati is published later this year, and Professor WED Peter King, historian of crime. They open up a debate about WED how far there was a clearly-defined gay identity in the 18th WED century. WED WED Recorded on location in Lincoln's Inn, where barristers have WED been beavering away for centuries. But outside their WED chambers, this was one of the naughtiest places in London - WED a notorious gay cruising ground, and site of the WED 'bog-house', the public toilets which were a place of WED assignation. The music used in this programme was arranged WED by David Owen Norris, from original 18th century ballads. WED WED Produced by Elizabeth Burke WED A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b012ymh3 (Listen) WED Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue, Episode 3 WED WED The reader is Barbara Flynn. WED Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b012ww6k (Listen) WED Eva Gabriellson on her exclusion from the inheritance left WED by Stieg Larssen with whom she lived for more than thirty WED years. Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012ww6m (Listen) WED A Farewell to Arms, Episode 3 WED WED Ernest Hemingway's greatest love story, set on the Italian WED front in the Great War, dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. WED 3/10 Frederic and Catherine are reunited in a Milan hospital WED WED Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy WED Catherine ..... Morven Christie WED Gage ..... Susie Riddell WED Dr Varella ..... Jonathan Forbes WED Dr. Valentini ..... James Lailey WED House Doctor ..... Carl Prekopp WED Porter ..... Daniel Rabin WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b012ww6p (Listen) WED Series 14, Episode 1 WED WED In 1961, the 264 inhabitants of the world's most remote WED inhabited island, Tristan da Cunha, were evacuated when a WED volcano erupted. They were brought to Britain where they WED became the objects of intense media and medical scrutiny. WED Having lived for six generations cut off in the middle of WED the south Atlantic, their speech, customs and manners seemed WED other-worldly in sixties Britain. In this programme, Jolyon WED Jenkins opens the Colonial Office files to discover that the WED British government had no intention of letting them go back WED home, and deliberately fobbed them off when they insisted on WED returning in 1963. But he also discovers, talking to WED surviving Tristans and those who knew them, that some did WED not want to go home and were pressured by island elders into WED presenting a united front. WED WED 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b012wxxr (Listen) WED Series 2, Patrick Trumball WED WED Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. WED WED Patrick Trumball's strange fascination for thunderstorms, WED lightening and other epic forces of nature appear to mark WED him out as an unusual, otherworldly child confirmed by WED Pickerskill when he discovers that the boy also possesses a WED perfect photographic memory. WED WED Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid WED Fintan Grice ....... Toby Longworth WED Patrick Trumball ....... Louis Williams WED A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne WED Stealgroynes ........ Jack Edwards WED Calman .......Kris Saddler WED Moorcroft ...... Joe Cooper WED Matron ....... Mia Soteriou WED WED Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b012wxxt (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 b012w4xc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b012wxxy (Listen) WED With Martha Kearney. National and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b012wxy0 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b012wjd7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b012wxy2 (Listen) WED The Other Simenon, The Little Man from Archangel WED WED Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of WED other novels, often tough, gripping and WED psychologically-penetrating stories like this tragic tale of WED a bookseller whose wife goes missing. When Gina fails to WED come home one night, Jonas Milk tells his inquisitive WED neighbours that she's visiting a friend. But the gossips in WED this small country town know Gina has been having flagrant WED affairs and when it becomes clear that she's disappeared the WED bookseller is drawn into a nightmare of police enquiries and WED painful discoveries. Dramatised by Ronald Frame. WED WED Jonas ................... STEVEN McNICOLL WED Supt Devaux ....... CRAWFORD LOGAN WED Gina ................ FRANCESCA DYMOND WED Fredo/Le Bouc .............. KENNY BLYTH WED Angele/Berthe ........... ELIZA LANGLAND WED Louis/Pepito..................... GAVIN KEAN WED Other parts played by the cast. WED Producer/director Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b012w9sr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0134dbh (Listen) WED New Irish Short Stories, Animals WED WED 'Animals' by Roddy Doyle read by Brendan Gleeson WED WED Roddy Doyle is the author of nine novels, including The WED Commitments, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which won the Booker WED Prize, and The Dead Republic. He has written several books WED for children as well as pieces for the stage, screen and WED television. His most recent book is Bullfighting , a WED collection of stories. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012wxy4 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Rise and Fall of Khrushchev WED WED Martin Sixsmith walks down Cosmonauts Alley in Moscow where WED plaques and statues commemorate the achievements of the WED Russian space programme. WED WED He uses archive recordings from 1961 when Yuri Gagarin WED became the first man in space. The USSR had beaten the US, WED and Khrushchev claimed vindication: "once-illiterate Russia WED has pioneered the path into space. Let everyone who has WED sharpened their claws against us know this!" He was WED determined to prove the USSR equal to the US, but he WED struggled to modernize and the Soviet Union remained a WED police state. He insisted the era of socialist struggle was WED over and fancifully predicted Communist perfection by 1980. WED WED Having committed himself to big improvements in living WED conditions he had to start delivering, but Shostakovich's WED operetta Cheryomushki shows just how far the Soviet Dream WED had diverged from the reality of everyday life. The economy WED was slow to respond to Khrushchev; with few incentives to WED work hard, people joked 'they pretend to pay us and we WED pretend to work.' With agriculture failing to meet the WED country's needs, Khrushchev embarked on a series of WED disastrous grand schemes but still had to cut the defence WED budget to buy food. Perceived military vulnerability lead to WED thawing relations with the West, but Khrushchev continued to WED bluff and intimidate. WED WED He told Western ambassadors that the triumph of communism WED was inevitable. "Like it or not," he said, "history is on WED our side. We will bury you." But humiliation in Cuba WED undermined his authority. While on holiday on the Black Sea WED in October 1964, he was summoned to Moscow and forced to WED resign. "I'm old and tired", he told a friend. "Let them WED cope by themselves. I've done the main thing. The fear has WED gone now; we can talk as equals. That is my contribution." WED WED Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b012wxy6 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor discusses the mummy's curse and other Oriental WED myths with Marina Warner and Roger Luckhurst. The Ancient WED Egyptians had no real concept of the curse; instead, WED Luckhurst argues, it was a product of the Victorian WED imagination, a result of British ambivalence about Egypt's WED increasing self-determination. The curse was part of a wider WED Western tradition of portraying the East as exotic and WED irrational, dominated by superstitions. That attitude is WED revealed in the British reaction to English language WED translations of The Arabian Nights, which played into WED Oriental stereotypes of barbarity, cruelty and unbridled WED sexuality. Marina Warner discusses the reasons why the WED stories of Aladdin et al are as popular as ever in modern, WED multi-cultural Britain. WED Producer: Stephen Hughes WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b012wjdh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b012wxy8 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012w4xf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00yj2g9 (Listen) WED Series 7, Summer of '76 WED WED Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back, complete with WED his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his never ending WED capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever scraps his WED agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and cat WED together. WED WED Ed has embraced the online age and subscribed to Facebook WED but finds he has opened up a Pandora's box of so-called WED friends that he's never actually met. That is until one WED Fiona Templeton pops up and he's reminded of the events of WED 1976 when he was a hot new writer and she a hot young model. WED Should an old acquaintance be renewed or should Ed leave WED well enough alone? WED WED Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas WED Recycling Man ..... Paul Sharma WED Pearl ..... Rita May WED Olive ..... Stephanie Cole WED Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Fiona ..... Jenny Agutter WED Jaz Milvane ..... Philip Jackson WED Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Cliff ..... Geoff McGivern WED Ray ..... Simon Greenall WED WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas WED Produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b012wxyb (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b012wxyd (Listen) WED With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the Irish WED writer Sebastian Barry, whose novels The Secret Scripture WED and A Long, Long Way were both shortlisted for the Booker WED Prize. WED WED Producer Andrea Kidd. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012ww6m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Keynes Vs. Hayek b012wxyg (Listen) WED What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get WED out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th WED century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes WED believed that government spending could create employment WED and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich WED Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real WED savings rather than increased public spending or WED artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, WED Professor Lord Skidelsky, will take on modern day followers WED of Hayek in a debate at the London School of Economics. Paul WED Mason, economics editor of Newsnight, is in the chair. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b012wxyj (Listen) WED Series 2, Musa Okongwa WED WED Poet and musician Musa Okongwa explores the downside of WED living a life on Twitter and Facebook. He describes his WED recent but powerful addiction to tweeting and checking his WED Facebook page. "I have a lot of followers but I have no idea WED where I'm leading them," says Musa. A painful breakup with WED his girlfriend has led him to reassess this dependence. "I WED clicked on a button and changed my relationship status from WED 'in a relationship' to 'single'," he says. "Thing is, I WED never even wanted to list that I was in a relationship in WED the first place." He is inspired anew by the words of an WED Egyptian revolutionary whose uprising was achieved on the WED streets, not in cyberspace. As Musa says, "While we retweet, WED they don't retreat." His solution is to get away from his WED computer and out into the real world, listening to his WED favourite soul-sustaining music. WED WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Human Kind b012wxyl (Listen) WED Matthew Taylor tells the story of the last eight years in WED the life of George Price - a scientist who studied the WED evolution of altruism and who suffered for his faith. With WED contributions from Price's biographer Oren Harman, writer WED Marek Kohn, Professor Steve Jones and Price's family and WED friends, Matthew follows a journey that began with a WED sensational breakthrough in evolutionary biology and ended WED in poverty and suicide. WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b012ww6h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b012w4xh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b012wxyn (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012wxyq (Listen) WED Pereira Maintains, Episode 8 WED WED As the fighting in Spain intensifies Pereira is told to WED modify the content of his culture page in the weekly Lisbon WED newspaper. Irritated by the interference and the overbearing WED attitude of his editor, he wonders what is becoming of his WED beloved Portugal. 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 b00nh06p (Listen) WED The Deep Blue Sea WED WED Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. WED WED It is Twitten's birthday but no one's in the mood to WED celebrate - Mrs Groynes has a problem with contraband and WED lovesick Brunswick is threatening to resign, so Twitten WED suggests that a boat trip might solve things all round. WED WED Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens WED Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm WED Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green WED Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro WED Adelaide Vine ...... Janet Ellis. WED WED 23:30 Rory Bremner's International Satirists b00r5xfm (Listen) WED Hans Teeuwen - Holland WED WED Rory Bremner engages topical comics, satirists and comedians WED from different countries about their cultures and how they WED relate to ours - if at all. WED WED Mad bad and dangerous to know, Hans Teeuwen is an absurdist WED comic performer who takes great risks on stage and has been WED likened to Bill Hicks and Andy Kaufman. But after the murder WED of his close friend Theo van Gogh he decided to start WED performing his Dutch 'cabaretier' show in English, to wide WED acclaim. WED WED Rory and Hans explore the world of performance and topical WED and absurdist comedy, exchanging views and impressions while WED discussing the risks facing Dutch comics today. WED WED The programme features media academic Liesbet van Zoonen of WED Loughborough University and Rotterdam University. WED WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 AUGUST 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b012w4y2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b012ymh3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012w4y4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012w4y6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012w4y8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b012w4yb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012wzf2 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh THU Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study THU of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b012wzf4 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b012wzf6 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The House I Grew up In b012wzf8 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 1 THU THU Shirley Williams, now Baroness Williams, returns to her THU childhood homes in London's Chelsea and the New Forest. Her THU mother was the writer, Vera Brittain, whose most famous THU novel - Testament of Youth - was a best-seller when Shirley THU was a child in the 1930s. Her father, George Catlin, was an THU academic and and an instinctive feminist whose own mother THU had been an early suffragette, ostracised by Victorian THU society. He was a frustrated politician who stood for THU parliament a number of times but was never elected. But THU these were not the only nurturing adults in her young life. THU Also hugely significant was her mother's best friend, THU Winifred Holtby, and the housekeeper and her husband, Amy & THU Charlie Burnett - a bright, under-educated working class THU couple whom Shirley adored. THU THU The conversations in her childhood home centred on world THU events - the Spanish civil war and the rise of Hitler. Vera THU Brittain was a pacifist and, as such, found herself and her THU husband on the Nazis' blacklist. Had the Germans invaded in THU 1940, Shirley's parents would likely have been eliminated. THU Fearful of this, soon after war broke out and with the THU battle of the Atlantic raging, they put Shirley and her THU brother on a ship and evacuated them to the USA. THU THU The programme focuses on the relationships she forged with THU the adults in her early life and what she learned from them THU all. She credits her father with giving her the confidence THU to pursue a life in politics, Amy with embuing in her a THU practical understanding of the constraints of a class-bound THU society, her mother with a vision of nobility and Winifred? THU Winifred was simply fun. THU THU Wendy Robbins accompanies Shirley Williams as she revisits THU the homes and haunts of her childhood. THU Producer : Rosamund Jones. THU THU 09:30 The Tribes of Science b012wzfb (Listen) THU More Tribes of Science, Episode 1 THU THU In the first of a new series, Peter Curran puts THU archaeologists under his anthropological microscope. Do the THU scientists who discover and interpret lives in the distant THU past have a distinctive culture and mind set of their own? THU To find out, Peter visits a tribe of British archaeologists THU at their excavations on the island of Jersey. THU THU For 200 000 years, Jersey was a magnet for bands of nomadic THU Neanderthals and later Stone age hunter gatherers. During THU much of that time, sea level was lower than today and you THU could walk to Jersey from Britain or France. When ice ages THU waned, groups of Palaeolithic people gravitated there to THU hunt mammoths, rhinos and reindeer. THU THU Today Jersey is drawing archaeologists from all over the UK THU because of its windows into the early Stone Age past. One is THU in a rocky ravine by the sea and the other in a potato THU field. While the scientists want to learn about the people THU and their lives in the landscape back then, Peter Curran THU gets down in the dirt to find out what makes the THU archaeologists tick and whether they form an unique tribe THU themselves. THU THU Matt Pope from University College, London is one of the THU excavation team leaders. He says they are like a tribe. THU Every summer he and his colleagues travel from distant parts THU of the country (London, Manchester, Wales and Southampton) THU and convene on the island for a month. There they live as a THU tight band of people with a common purpose at their camp THU which has its own rules and culture. THU THU Peter explores what drives the desire to spend a summer THU month crouched in the dirt with trowels and sieves, and how THU archaeologists think about the distant past and the people THU who inhabited it. And he aims to find out if life in the THU trenches really does mean you have to wear sandals. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b012ymnc (Listen) THU Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue, Episode 4 THU THU The reader is Barbara Flynn. THU Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b012wzfd (Listen) THU The secrets of urban beekeeping, with Alison Benjamin. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012wzfg (Listen) THU A Farewell to Arms, Episode 4 THU THU Ernest Hemingway's greatest novel of love and war, THU dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. 4/10 Frederic has to go back THU to the war, and Catherine gives him some parting news. THU THU Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy THU Catherine ..... Morven Christie THU Major ..... James Lailey THU Gage ..... Susie Riddell THU Van Campen ..... Jane Whittenshaw THU Ettore ..... Simon Bubb THU Shopkeeper ..... Alex Tregear THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b012wzfj (Listen) THU Tim Judah travels to Senegal to report on the Mourides, an THU increasingly powerful Senegalese Muslim movement that THU stresses the importance of hard work THU THU Many of the African street sellers in cities like Paris or THU Rome, and on Mediterranean beaches, are in fact Mourides. THU Far from being chancers who washed up on Europe's shores and THU now barely scrape a living from selling fake designer THU handbags or miniature Eiffel towers, they are part of a very THU organised and supportive brotherhood that now wields great THU economic and political power in Senegal. THU THU Thanks to their strong work ethic and the unparalleled THU networking opportunities the brotherhood provides, Mourides THU now dominate many sectors of the economy. THU THU They are said to constitute up to 40% of Senegalese Muslims THU (who make up over 90% of the population.) So not THU surprisingly, senior politicians, if they are not Mourides THU anyway, are courting the Mouride vote by going on pilgrimage THU to the Mouride holy city, Touba, several hours' drive east THU of the capital. The president of Senegal is a Mouride, as is THU the man who is probably the most famous Senegalese of all: THU singer Youssou N'Dour, who tells Tim why his Mouridism THU matters to him, and why it could be a way forward for THU Africa. THU THU So who are the Mourides? What do they believe and what THU matters to them? Tim travels to Dakar and the fabled holy THU city of Touba to find out. THU THU Producer: Arlene Gregorius. THU THU 11:30 Paddling with Peter Duck b012wzfl (Listen) THU Arthur Ransome is best known for writing the 'Swallows and THU Amazons' series of children's books. These tell of THU school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake THU District and the Norfolk Broads. Nearly all of Ransome's THU books involve sailing, a reflection of his own passion for THU boats, which he spent his lifetime owning and enjoying. THU THU Ransome owned many boats during his lifetime, and in this THU programme John McCarthy, a keen sailor himself, goes to see THU many of them, gradually piecing together a picture of the THU writer, through the boats he owned. THU Nancy Blackett is featured in 'We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea', THU as the Goblin, the boat in which four children sail across THU the North Sea to Holland. Ransome sailed the course himself THU in Nancy, and worked on the book aboard her, while living THU near Pin Mill on the River Orwell in Suffolk. THU THU Recently rescued and restored, Nancy Blackett is now THU preserved and maintained and sailed regularly by its owners. THU Nancy Blackett was Arthur Ransome's favourite amongst the THU cruising yachts he owned during his lifetime. He named her THU after his favourite character, the adventurous, THU irrepressible leader of the Amazon Pirates who first appears THU in 'Swallows and Amazons'. THU THU Ransome's dinghy Coch-y-Bonddhu was his favourite for THU sailing around the Walton Backwaters, just a few miles fom THU his home on the Orwell. He used to anchor up to work and it THU was here in Coch-y-Bonddhu that he wrote 'Secret Water'. The THU boat appears as 'Scarab' in the books. John also visits THU Ragged Robin, formerly named Lottie Blossom, and Peter Duck. THU THU As John McCarthy travels around the UK visiting and sailing THU in Ransome's boats, he also encounters Mavis, which was the THU model for the Amazon and Esperance, a steam launch and a THU likely model for 'Captain Flint's Houseboat'. THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b012wzfn (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b012w4yd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b012wzfq (Listen) THU With Martha Kearney. National and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b012wzfs (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 b012wxyb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j8dk1 (Listen) THU Stream, River, Sea THU THU Hugh and Bella, are running to the same timetable, the THU timetable you're on if someone you love has just died, and THU they keep running into each other. THU THU They visit the same undertakers at the same time; Hugh's Mum THU is cremated immediately after Bella's husband; and they even THU end up in the same bereavement-counselling group. THU THU But Hugh and Bella are dealing with very different types of THU grief. Hugh's heart is like a toy that has never been taken THU out of the box, Bella's is like a beautiful crystal glass THU that's been dropped from a 30 storey building. THU THU Hugh... Alex Jennings THU Bella... Juliet Stevenson THU Daisy... Lizzy Watts THU THU Directed by Gordon House. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b012ql51 (Listen) THU Northumberlandia THU THU How are the people of Cramlington reacting to the open cast THU mining in their area and to the creation of the largest THU replica of the human body in their landscape? Will it THU attract tourists and put Cramlington on the map or will they THU become the laughing stock of Northumberland? THU THU For this week's Open Country, Jules Hudson visits THU Cramlington in the north east where work has started on a THU giant sculpture of a naked woman which is to be carved into THU the Northumberland landscape. It will be made from 1.5 THU million tonnes of overburden from the Shotton open cast THU mine, near Cramlington. It will be 400 metres long and will THU stand higher than the Angel of the North. The sculpture, THU known as Northumberlandia, will form the centrepiece of a 29 THU hectare public park on the Blagdon Estate and, once THU developed, it is believed it will be the largest human form THU to be sculpted into the land, in the world. But these plans THU have prompted opposition from some, as did the plans for the THU open cast mine. THU From the car park of the Snowy Owl pub, Jules hears from THU landlord Colin Ward about his thoughts on his newest and THU nearest neighbour, before heading off to check on progress. THU Taking the route along the leg, knee and thigh of THU Northumberlandia, Jules arrives on the sculpture's forehead THU with Mark Dowdell and Iain Lowther of the Banks Mining Group THU to find out about their reasons for embarking on such an THU ambitious project and what they hope it will bring to the THU local economy and community. THU But not everyone is happy. Back at the Snowy Owl, Jules THU meets Tony Ives who set up a local opposition group, SCRAM - THU Support Cramlington Residents Against Mining. Tony tells THU Jules why he is so unhappy with the idea of THU Northumberlandia, which has been given the alternative THU nickname of 'Slag Alice' by some people who are against the THU idea. However, at nearby North Shotton farm, tenant farmers THU Julie and Robson Philipson are looking forward to the THU completion of the sculpture and the park. Despite losing THU much of their farm to the open cast mine, and being left THU with only two of their fields, Julie and Robson are adapting THU to a different way of life on the farm and are excited about THU the prospect of Northumberlandia opening in 2013. THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b012wckw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012wjcv (Listen) THU New Irish Short Stories, Winter THU THU 'Winter' by Dermot Bolger read by Dearbhla Molloy THU THU Dermot Bolger is a novelist, poet and publisher, whose ten THU novels include The Family on Paradise Pier, The Journey THU Home, The Woman's Daughter and A second Life. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012wzp8 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Brezhnev Years THU THU Leonid Brezhnev's 'era of stagnation' returns the country to THU the stifling conservatism of the past, plunging the USSR THU into crisis. THU THU Speaking freely was risky and repression worsened after the THU Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia when Soviet demonstrators THU were beaten up and sent to jail, although their courage THU inspired new generations of dissidents. The March of the THU Communist Brigades trumpets Soviet power: "Working hard THU every day is a holiday for us..." the workers sing, but the THU whole economy needed a radical overhaul. THU THU As Brezhnev stalled and prevaricated "the USSR began the THU inexorable decline that would end in collapse, a quarter of THU a century later," says Martin Sixsmith. By the end of the THU 1960s national discontent was increasing in the Soviet THU republics, but Brezhnev ignored the fault lines that THU eventually tore the Soviet Union apart, instead he looked THU for scapegoats. When Solzhenitsyn wrote An Open Letter to THU the Soviet Authorities in 1973, urging Brezhnev: "Throw away THU the dead ideology that threatens to ruin us!" he was THU banished to the West. Sakharov, who took up the baton, was THU given 6 years internal exile. In 1979 Soviet troops invaded THU Afghanistan; the arms race resumed bankrupting the USSR, and THU hastening its collapse 10 years later. THU THU In 1980 Lech Walesa turned a local rebellion into a THU nationwide struggle for Polish liberty and national dignity. THU The people's grievances were suppressed, but would explode THU again at the end of the decade. Meanwhile Reagan pressed THU ahead with his controversial 'Star Wars' missile shield, THU which left the Soviets vulnerable to an American nuclear THU strike. The Kremlin couldn't afford another arms race, but THU both Brezhnev's successors agreed to increase spending THU leaving problems for the next Soviet leader that put the THU country's very survival in doubt. THU THU Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b012wcll (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b012wzpb (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly round-up of the latest THU science research and how it affects people's lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b012wzpd (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012w4yg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b012wzpg (Listen) THU Series 5, Milton Jones - Gardening Expert THU THU Milton crosses stamens with a deadly rival in the vicious THU cutthroat world of gardening. He's joined in his endeavours THU by his co-stars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb THU ("Come Dine With Me") and Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU ("Miranda"). THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b012wzpj (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b012wzpl (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the musical THU partnership of violinist Viktoria Mullova and cellist THU Matthew Barley, whose new disc draws on folk and jazz THU traditions. THU THU Producer Ella-mai Robey. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012wzfg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b012wzpn (Listen) THU Politicians say they are committed to a 'science led' THU approach to tackling TB in cattle, but as a new badger THU culling trial is announced in England and the proposed cull THU in Wales is abandoned by the new Labour Government while the THU evidence is reviewed, Nick Ravenscroft assesses the impact - THU on farmers and badgers - of what some say is a decade of THU indecision. THU THU Producer: Gail Champion. THU THU 20:30 In Business b012wzqr (Listen) THU Bitter Pill THU THU The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is closing most of its giant THU research facility at Sandwich in Kent, the place where THU Viagra was developed, putting two thousand science jobs at THU risk. Peter Day asks what the surprising decision means for THU an important UK industry. THU THU Producer : Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Science: From Cradle to Grave b012wg2q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The House I Grew up In b012wzf8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b012w4yj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b012x030 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012x032 (Listen) THU Pereira Maintains, Episode 9 THU THU Pereira's assistant returns from Alentejo where he has been THU recruiting for the International Brigade. His cousin has THU been arrested and he is on the run from the authorities. In THU spite of the danger Pereira offers him shelter. 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 House on Fire b012x034 (Listen) THU Series 2, Loan THU THU The return of House on Fire. Written by Dan Hine and Chris THU Sussman. Vicky (Emma Pierson) and Matt (Jody Latham) are two THU of the most unlikely people to buy a house together. THU THU When Matt's plans for winning the Spanish lottery go awry he THU is forced to borrow money from his flat mate, Vicky. THU Unfortunately, Matt fails to read the small print and the THU penalty for late payment involves a painful process THU involving toe torture. Meanwhile - Vicky has set her father THU up on a blind date - with seriously unforeseen consequences. THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Elvenquest b00k49s9 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU THU Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. THU THU The heroes go in search of Amis when he is kidnapped by Lord THU Darkness. THU THU Vidar ...... Darren Boyd THU Dean the Dwarf/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon THU Amis ...... Dave Lamb THU Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan THU Sam ...... Stephen Mangan THU Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 AUGUST 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b012w4z3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b012ymnc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012w4z5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012w4z7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012w4z9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b012w4zc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012x121 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh FRI Michael Mumisa, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study FRI of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Cambridge. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b012x123 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b012x125 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b012wcl4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b012ymq5 (Listen) FRI Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue, Episode 5 FRI FRI Lynn Knight's family memoir tells how three generations of FRI her family were adopted in three distinct ways. Today, Lynn FRI Knight recounts the story of how her mother uncovered the FRI mystery and the truth surrounding her beginning. FRI FRI The reader is Barbara Flynn. FRI Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b012x127 (Listen) FRI Women crew members of the Royal National Lifeboat FRI Institution. Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012x129 (Listen) FRI A Farewell to Arms, Episode 5 FRI FRI Ernest Hemingway's beautiful novel of love and war, FRI dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. 5/10 Frederic takes up with FRI a new ambulance unit, and takes part in the great Italian FRI retreat. FRI FRI Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy FRI Catherine ..... Morven Christie FRI Bonello ..... Carl Prekopp FRI Girl ..... Alex Tregear FRI Bartolomeo ..... Jonathan Forbes FRI Sergeant ..... James Lailey FRI Medical Officer ..... Simon Bubb FRI Piani ..... Daniel Rabin FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 So You Want To Be an Exorcist b012x12c (Listen) FRI Exorcists report rising demand for their services. According FRI to the president of the American Association of Exorcists, FRI "I get thousands of emails from people concerned that they FRI may have been demonically possessed". A church of England FRI vicar, a former official Diocesan Exorcist, agrees that FRI demonic activity in the UK is on the up: "The word that FRI comes to me is almost despair". FRI FRI Why do exorcists and their clients think that demonic FRI possession is on the increase? Exorcists point to an alleged FRI increase in interest in the occult, together with risky FRI behaviour such as practising yoga, reading horoscopes, and FRI an increase in new age forms of spiritualism. One Anglican FRI bishop has said that clues to the presence of an evil spirit FRI include "repeated choice of black, for example in clothing FRI or colour of car". FRI FRI It's a concern that goes across Christian denominations, FRI from evangelical churches to the Roman Catholics. The chief FRI exorcist of Rome has said: "you have to hunt high and low FRI for a properly trained exorcist." To meet the demand, FRI various schools of exorcism have started. In Rome, a FRI Catholic University runs a yearly course on exorcism. "For FRI us it has been incredible," says Father Caesar Truqui, who FRI runs the course. "We have had phone calls from all over the FRI world from people wanting to attend". FRI FRI The American Association of Exorcists runs a correspondence FRI course, and one evangelical pastor based in Britain runs his FRI own distance learning course using the internet. Most FRI exorcists agree however, that there is no substitute for FRI hands on mentoring with an experienced practitioner. FRI FRI In this programme Jolyon Jenkins investigates this curious FRI world, where witchcraft, levitations, ancestral curses, and FRI demonic possession are matter-of-fact, everyday phenomena. FRI He attends an exorcism in a hotel in Margate, and talks to FRI practicing exorcists and those who are trying to train the FRI next generation of practitioners. FRI FRI Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b012x12f (Listen) FRI St Petersburg FRI FRI Some vodka and an unwary bird could spell the end of the FRI line for MJN Air, and when Carolyn meets her ex-husband the FRI atmosphere turns even icier... FRI FRI with special guest Timothy West FRI FRI Cast: 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 Gordon Shappey .... Timothy West FRI Tommo .... Paul Shearer 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 b012x12h (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b012w4zf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b012x12k (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b012x12m (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b012wzpj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jcgxc (Listen) FRI Dewey Eyed FRI FRI by Sarah Naomi Lee FRI FRI Philippa is a librarian from a long line of librarians. When FRI her father dies and her mother loses her wits, Philippa FRI tries the only language Vera understands, that of the Dewey FRI cataloguing system, to guide her back to sanity. FRI FRI Philippa ..... Olivia Colman FRI Vera ..... Sheila Reid FRI Sheila ..... Caroline Guthrie FRI Alistair ..... Paul Rider FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012x12p (Listen) FRI Walsham Le Willows FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs this horticultural Q&A from Walsham Le FRI Willows in Suffolk. We revisit Bob Flowerdew's laboratory FRI garden. Matthew Wilson turns everything on its head at the FRI upside-down garden in Hampton Court. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b012x12r (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Shape of Things to Come FRI FRI Martin Sixsmith draws on his experience as BBC Moscow FRI Correspondent during Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership of the FRI Soviet Union, which began he says, "with little hint of the FRI tectonic shocks it would unleash." Gorbachev's aim was to FRI revitalize communism, not destroy it. FRI FRI He had to make radical reforms, which he referred to as FRI perestroika or 'restructuring'. His first target was to FRI revive the civilian economy, allowing a measure of free FRI enterprise. Sixsmith remembers being surprised by "the FRI number of restaurants, private bakeries, hairdressers and FRI taxi firms that sprang into existence. It all seemed FRI remarkably hopeful." But, it aroused fierce opposition, and FRI Gorbachev's military and foreign policies met the same FRI resistance. FRI FRI To counter conservative opposition, Gorbachev appealed FRI directly to public opinion to back his policies. Glasnost, FRI or 'openness', intended to give the people access to FRI information in order to prove that the changes he proposed FRI were a good thing: a test case was the Chernobyl nuclear FRI disaster. It was unprecedented and risky and would have FRI momentous, unforeseen consequences. Attacked by both left FRI and right, Gorbachev needed to shore up his own position. At FRI the 19th Party Conference in 1988 he proposed replacing the FRI old parliament, with a new body, the Congress of People's FRI Deputies - its Chairman would serve in the new post of FRI President of the USSR, and could be removed only by the FRI parliament, and not a rival faction in the party elite. FRI FRI The first genuinely contested elections in the history of FRI the Soviet Union were set for March 1989. The communist FRI party had voted - almost inadvertently - to loosen its own FRI grip on power. But Yeltsin saw the elections as his chance FRI and within months the tide of popular revolution would be FRI lapping at the Kremlin. FRI FRI Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b012x12t (Listen) FRI With Jane Little. Obituary series, analysing and celebrating FRI the life stories of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b012x12w (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to Mark Gatiss about the world of FRI international horror and examines Project Nim the new film FRI directed by James Marsh who made Man on Wire. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b012x12y (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012w4zh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b012x130 (Listen) FRI Series 7, Simon Day Interviews Peter Hook 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 started with Rhys Thomas interviewing FRI Simon Day. This week, Simon is asking the questions, and has FRI chosen one of his musical heroes: Peter Hook, best known for FRI playing bass in Joy Divison and New Order, and for co-owning FRI and running one of the most famous nightclubs in the world - FRI which lost £10 for every punter who walked through the door FRI for over a decade. The interview skips through the early FRI days of punk, Joy Division's transformation into New Order, FRI and Peter's new career as a DJ. "I thought DJs were arrogant FRI and overpaid", he says, "So when I became one I fitted right FRI in". FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b012x132 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b012x134 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012x129 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b012x136 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics FRI from Poolewe, Wester Ross, north west Scotland, with Rory FRI Stewart, Mike Russell and John McFall. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b012x138 (Listen) FRI Modern Parenting FRI FRI Alain de Botton takes a witty look at modern parenting. He FRI explains why today's parent simply can't avoid baking FRI biscuits and helping to paint Tyrannosaurus Rex's scales! FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b012x13b (Listen) FRI Series 2 Omnibus, Cold War FRI FRI By the late 1940s, the Soviet Union was the most powerful FRI force in Europe, but Stalin faced a wave of discontent in FRI the states annexed after the war and when Mao Zedong formed FRI the People's Republic of China in 1949 was eager to conserve FRI his place as the leader of world communism. FRI FRI He encouraged conflict between North and South Korea but had FRI to appeal to Mao for help when the US came to the South's FRI aid. It was a tactical failure for Stalin. In early 1952 FRI Stalin's personal physician, Vladimir Vinogradov, told the FRI Soviet leader he was suffering from hypertension and FRI sclerosis of the arteries, and if wished to avoid death he FRI must retire from public activity. Stalin saw this as part of FRI a plot to remove him from power. The New York Times FRI correspondent in Moscow, Harrison Salisbury, writes: "on the FRI 13th of Jan, we picked up Pravda and found the announcement FRI of the doctors' plot, as it was so called ... it was the FRI most sinister news I read while I was in Moscow." FRI FRI As a result of Stalin's paranoia, hundreds of innocent FRI doctors were arrested, a new show trial was prepared, and FRI top party leaders including Mikoyan, Molotov and Beria FRI feared they were among the targets. It never happened. FRI Martin Sixsmith walks around Stalin's secret Dacha on the FRI outskirts of Moscow, "a set of high metal walls surrounding FRI a hidden compound where you can glimpse the roofs of some FRI dark brick buildings," and describes Stalin's death of a FRI massive stroke. Newspapers were printed with black borders FRI and Soviet radio replaced its transmissions with funereal FRI music. FRI FRI For thirty years, the Soviet people had been subjugated to FRI the cruellest tyranny, but they spoke of feeling 'orphaned' FRI by Stalin's death. It held out the possibility of freedom. FRI But for a numbed, subjugated nation, freedom was far from FRI easy to grasp. FRI FRI Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b012w4zk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b012x13d (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritulah FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012x13g (Listen) FRI Pereira Maintains, Episode 10 FRI FRI There's a knock on Pereira's door and three men who call FRI themselves political police burst in to the apartment. They FRI are looking for Pereira's assistant and they say he needs to FRI be taught a lesson. Finally Pereira has to make a choice. 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 Great Lives b012wjd1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011mffd (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI FRI This weeks comedy talk show features Northern Irish FRI comedians Colin Murphy and Martin Mor discussing questions FRI such as; do triangular sandwiches taste better than FRI rectangular ones? Resident brainiac Dr David Booth will FRI attempt to offer some sense amidst the nonsense and computer FRI whizz Matthew Collins will trawl the internet to find FRI content which will heighten the entertainment value. FRI
29 July, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 30/07/2011 - 05/08/2011
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