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SAT SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0132k0w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0132pjs (Listen) SAT Bred of Heaven, Episode 5 SAT SAT "You have to pay to get in. The current cost, if you're in a SAT car, is £5.30. Pressing a note into a fleshy female palm, I SAT deploy the lone word of conversational Welsh in my locker. SAT 'Diolch'. Thanks. Then I push my right foot down and SAT accelerate into the land of my fathers. I'm not really sure SAT where I'm going." SAT SAT Author and journalist Jasper Rees rises to the challenge of SAT embracing his 'inner Welshness'. His grandparents on his SAT father's side were Welsh. So it's partly in recollection of SAT times spent at their house on a hill in Camarthen that he SAT opts for full 'immersion'. This means learning the language SAT and putting to paper to some of his grandparents vivid SAT stories about Wales. It also means travelling around, SAT setting himself various tasks - singing in choirs, SAT sheep-shearing, coracling, coal-mining. Some tasks are SAT accomplished with deftness, others not, in his wry SAT travelogue, which is abridged in five parts by Katrin SAT Williams: SAT SAT 5. Embracing all things Welsh means you start dreaming SAT about the country, which has something to do with SAT the author's grandfather Bert and an atmospheric SAT house at Carmarthen... SAT SAT Reader Ben Miles. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0132k0y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Select Committees b0132k10 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0132k12 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0132k14 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0132pw5 (Listen) SAT With Rev. Dr. Trystan Owain Hughes SAT SAT Producer Mrs Sian Baker. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0132pw7 (Listen) SAT "Princess Margaret's boyfriend picked us up." Listeners SAT share tales of hitchhiking. This week, ipm canvassed the SAT listeners to find out if they still thumb a lift, or have SAT fond memories of doing so in days gone by. Celebrity SAT encounters, drunk lorry drivers, roaring lions and farting SAT dogs all featured, but the overall picture was of the SAT kindness of strangers and the joy of travel. Two listeners, SAT Tom and Liz McGeough, share more about their travels. "He SAT didn't talk a lot about the cruelty." How a man held as a SAT prisoner of war in Japan during World War Two instilled a SAT love for the nation in his daughter. Miss Wales reads your SAT news. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0132k16 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0132k18 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0134sqr (Listen) SAT The Wye historically has been England's greatest salmon SAT river. However stocks have declined massively as a result of SAT drift nets at sea, estuarine putchers, and continuous SAT removal of stocks caught on rod and line. In the early SAT sixties a few hundred barbel were released in the River SAT Lugg. These found their way into the Wye and quickly SAT established themselves from Hay on Wye down to Brockwier. SAT Today The Wye holds a remarkable population of very long SAT large finned lanky and hard fighting barbel. SAT SAT The barbel year starts in June but recently some good barbel SAT rivers have declined as a result of otter and mink SAT predation, fish eaten by migrant populations and fish being SAT washed out of or back to main river during flooding. There SAT are also those who blame the barbel for the decline in SAT salmon. SAT SAT Richard Uridge goes in search of this hardy fish, asks SAT whether the salmon will ever return and along the way finds SAT some of the most idyllic spots the River Wye has to offer. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0134sqt (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith visits the Warwick Crop Centre to find out SAT about work to increase vegetable yields, and quality, in the SAT face of climate change and increasing pressures on food SAT security. Currently the UK imports about 40% of the food SAT consumed here, but a ComRes poll commissioned by Farming SAT Today and BBC 1's Countryfile found that 88% of people said SAT that the UK is too reliant on food from abroad. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith SAT Producer: Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0132k1b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0134srh (Listen) SAT Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including SAT Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0134srk (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with Tom Dyckhoff, Matt Hampson, Toyah SAT Willcox, Kenneth Grange, Steve James and Kate Fox SAT SAT Richard Coles with architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff, poet SAT Kate Fox, former rugby player Matt Hampson whose career was SAT cut short when he was paralysed from the neck down and SAT product designer Kenneth Grange who has shaped the way we SAT see everything from trains and taxis to parking meters and SAT pens. Performer Toyah Willcox shares her Secret Life and SAT documentary-maker Steve James shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0134srm (Listen) SAT Sonia Deol hears about the re-enactment of a historical SAT voyage round Africa from marine explorer Philip Beale. He SAT built a replica of an ancient sailing boat to recreate the SAT Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa. He and his crews SAT sailed clockwise round the continent and on the two year SAT journey risked whale sharks, modern shipping and pirates. SAT Even after the journey the problems weren't over as Philip SAT had to rescue the boat from the recent troubles in Syria. SAT SAT Sonia also looks at the British seaside with journalist SAT Brian Viner and author Jane Struthers. Both were brought up SAT in seaside towns and have continued to have a fascination SAT for coastal resorts ever since. They discuss the history of SAT the British beach holiday and the continuing appeal of SAT summer by the sea. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Interrail Tales b0134ssl (Listen) SAT The Early Years: 1972-1990 SAT SAT Writer Miranda Sawyer dons her rucksack to explore the SAT impact of cheap European train travel on generations of SAT Britons. For many, it was a rite of passage, clutching that SAT all important rail pass. Sleeping on trains, running out of SAT money, barely escaping trouble. Seeing new cultures and SAT making friends. But with the arrival of budget airlines a SAT decade ago, is exploring Europe by train as popular as it SAT once was? SAT SAT Part one: the early years: 1972 - 1990. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b0134sv2 (Listen) SAT Northern Ireland SAT SAT Northern Ireland's power-sharing arrangement has fostered SAT peace, but does it allow for true democracy? Nick Watt finds SAT out how politics works in a system with no opposition. SAT Producer: Helen Grady. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0134sv4 (Listen) SAT This week Kate Adie introduces reports from: Aleem Maqbool, SAT who has been to Karachi where inter-ethnic violence between SAT Urdu speakers and Pashtuns has killed hundreds in the last SAT few months; as Sonia Gandhi receives medical treatment in SAT the US, Mark Tully explores her enduring political power in SAT India, despite the fact that she holds no government office; SAT Orla Guerin is in Misrata, in Libya, where rockets still SAT threaten civilians and little appears to have changed for SAT the better; Sudan is now officially divided into two and SAT Sudanese pride, especially in the north, has taken a SAT battering - James Copnall describes how national hopes lay SAT with a horse called Diktator at the Sudanese Derby; and SAT despite their economic woes, Jake Wallis Simons sees how the SAT Portuguese still found a way to celebrate, with trays full SAT of bread. SAT SAT Producer: John Murphy. SAT SAT 12:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b0134sv6 (Listen) SAT Housing SAT SAT In the final part of our series on inter-generational SAT finance, Alvin Hall assesses young people's housing needs. SAT SAT The financial guru meets the son of a buy-to-let landlord SAT who's been priced out of the market while his father is SAT relying on his property portfolio to fund his retirement. SAT But will he be able to sell them when would-be first-time SAT buyers like his son are struggling to raise the necessary SAT deposit? SAT SAT Alvin Hall also assesses whether a Government scheme to SAT build homes for £60k helped make them more affordable to SAT young people. He asks what lessons the initiative offers to SAT future policy makers seeking to lend a hand to first-time SAT buyers. SAT SAT And he travels to Cambridge to examine the likely impacts of SAT the Coalition's changes to housing benefit and affordable SAT rents and asks whether the reforms will disproportionately SAT affect young people. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b0132pv7 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Peter Hook Interviews John Cooper Clarke 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 After Rhys Thomas interviewed Simon Day, Simon interviewed SAT the musician and author Peter Hook. This week, Peter SAT interviews a fellow Salfordian, the punk poet laureate John SAT Cooper Clarke. Coming to prominence during the punk years of SAT the late 70s, Clarke would appear on the bill with The Sex SAT Pistols, The Buzzcocks, and Peter's own Joy Division - and SAT Peter's next band, New Order, would support John on a tour SAT of New Zealand and Australia. The interview takes in their SAT shared Salford heritage, doing adverts in the 1980s, and SAT John's recent appearance on the GCSE English syllabus. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0132k1d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0132k1g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0132pvf (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and SAT politics from St Edward the Confessor Church in York, with SAT Mail on Sunday columnist, Peter Hitchens; Deputy Leader of SAT the Labour Party, Shadow Secretary of State for SAT International Development and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, SAT Harriet Harman; Conservative Party Chairman and Cabinet SAT Minister without portfolio, Sayeeda Warsi; and chief SAT executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Julia Unwin. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0134tj3 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0134v08 (Listen) SAT Belle Amie SAT SAT By Frances Byrnes. Has age tamed the ruthless charmer SAT Georges Duroy? A witty new sequel to Maupassant's SAT 19th-century Bel Ami. SAT SAT 15:30 Mr Suzuki's Bach Passion b01322d5 (Listen) SAT The story of how a group of remarkable Japanese musicians SAT overthrew centuries of tradition - and prejudice - to become SAT one of the of the world's most brilliant baroque music SAT ensembles. Presented by Roland Buerk. SAT SAT A musical revolution is in the air. After three centuries as SAT the undisputed masters of Johann Sebastian Bach's legacy, SAT Germany has found itself rudely usurped...by Japan. SAT SAT The Bach Collegium Japan - and their musical director, SAT Masaaki Suzuki - are a phenomenon. Founded in 1990, they've SAT overcome the cultural prejudices of a snooty musical world SAT to become one of the most lauded baroque musical ensembles SAT in the world. SAT SAT The BCJ have won major award after major award for their SAT extraordinary complete series of Bach's cantatas: the Mount SAT Everest of baroque music, numbering more than 200 works and SAT 50 CDs of some of the most beautiful - and challenging - SAT music ever written. SAT SAT Critics praise the remarkable clarity, finesse and sheer SAT musicianship of their performances: readings that throw off SAT hundreds of years of European baggage to reveal the SAT unadorned beauty and raw devotion of the notes beneath. SAT SAT Yet wasn't always this way. When Suzuki set up the BCJ more SAT than two decades ago, Western critics were in stitches. SAT "Don't worry - this isn't Bach in kimonos", chuckled one SAT reviewer - after all, how could a nation with its an SAT entirely alien musical and cultural tradition - a place SAT where classical music and Christianity were decidedly SAT minority interests - master some of the most complex, subtle SAT and devotional music ever written? SAT SAT They're not laughing now. Critics and members of the public SAT alike queue around the block to catch a glimpse of the SAT ensemble in rehearsal - whilst their CDs sell in their SAT hundreds of thousands across the globe. SAT SAT In "Mr Suzuki's Bach Passion", Roland Buerk follows the BCJ SAT as they prepare for the latest in their acclaimed series of SAT performances - recorded in February this year, and featuring SAT exclusive excerpts from the group's latest series of cantata SAT recordings, as well as their acclaimed readings of the St SAT John and St Matthew Passions, and Bach's B Minor Mass. SAT SAT As momentum builds towards a sell-out performance at Tokyo's SAT vast Opera City Hall, Roland investigates the roots of SAT Japan's love affair with JS Bach and the BCJ - trying to pin SAT down why a nation with less than 3% Christian population is SAT so taken with this highly contemplative, devotional SAT religious music. SAT SAT Is there something in the Japanese national psyche that SAT mirrors the unadorned aesthetic beauty of JS Bach's music? SAT How much does a musical culture require a tradition - and SAT how much is it hindered by it? And does an age-old Western SAT claim about Japanese society - that it is brilliant at SAT copying and refining, yet can lack true originality - apply SAT to the BCJ's music? Or does it merely reflect Western SAT prejudices? SAT SAT Roland also reflects on the message of hope imbued in Bach's SAT music - and its power to heal - in the aftermath of the SAT devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March this SAT year. SAT SAT Contributors include Masaaki Suzuki, director of the Bach SAT Collegium Japan; Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the SAT Royal Academy of Music; Catholic priest Fr. Takehiro 'Gus' SAT Kunii; Robert von Bahr, founder of BIS records; and the SAT celebrated German tenor and BCJ soloist Gerd Tuerk. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0134w8j (Listen) SAT Cook the Perfect...Ice cream, Randy Crawford SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray: Root causes of riots across SAT England, Randy Crawford, Cook the Perfect...Ice Cream, SAT babies and salt research, female jockeys, Jill Dawson on her SAT new novel and garden weeds - how to learn to love them. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0134w8l (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines SAT with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0132pw7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0132k1j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0132k1l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0132k1n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0134wjg (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT It's music all the way on Loose Ends this week. Peter talks SAT to Laurence Cane-Honeysett about the history of Trojan SAT Records. Whilst rapper Akala gives us the rundown on British SAT emcee culture and its unique contribution to spoken word and SAT poetry, through rap, jungle, drum and bass, garage and SAT grime. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0134xd2 (Listen) SAT Theresa May SAT SAT The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is centre stage as she SAT deals with the aftermath of riots across England which have SAT shocked the country and led to the recall of Parliament. The SAT police are under scrutiny for their tactics and performance SAT in London particularly, with reported tensions arising SAT between the Home Secretary and the Met Commissioner. SAT SAT May is a politician who's not afraid to challenge the SAT existing order - and speak the unspeakable. Last year, she SAT told the police that they need to cut their spending and SAT re-organise the way they work. As the chair of the SAT Conservatives in the early 2000s, she said the party was SAT perceived by the public as the "nasty party." It was a start SAT of the rebranding of the Conservatives. SAT SAT The daughter of a clergyman, she attended an independent SAT convent and a number of state schools before going to SAT Oxford. After graduating, she joined the City - working for SAT a time at the Bank of England. She took the hard route into SAT politics - starting off stuffing envelopes in a constituency SAT office before being elected as a councillor in the London SAT Borough of Merton where she spent the best part of a decade. SAT SAT She has a reputation for being focussed on the job and SAT having a Thatcheresque work ethic with few outside SAT interests. Simon Cox profiles Theresa May, one of only four SAT women to hold the key offices in British politics. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0134xf6 (Listen) SAT Bidisha and her guests comedian David Schneider, novelist SAT Deborah Moggach and theatre writer David Benedict review the SAT week's cultural highlights including Anna Christie. SAT SAT Anna Christie is Eugene O'Neill's stormy, sea-swept play SAT about a woman returning to the docks and sailors' bars where SAT her sea-lag father drinks himself into oblivion. He's trying SAT to forget his guilt at having sent her away to a farm when SAT she was a little girl. He thought he was sending her to SAT safety, but land turned out to be just as dangerous as the SAT sea. In Rob Ashton's production at the Donmar Warehouse in SAT London, Ruth Wilson plays Anna, for whom redemption seems to SAT come in the form of Jude Law's virile Irishman, Mat Burke. SAT But he knows nothing about her former life - and when he SAT finds out, all hell and hypocrisy break loose. SAT SAT The Artist of Disappearance is a trio of novellas by the SAT internationally acclaimed writer Anita Desai. These novellas SAT are a sober, carefully written lot, dealing with the past SAT and its mementoes: a young government worker visits a museum SAT full of artefacts from colonial voyages; a translator tries SAT to render some literature in a minority dialect for a wider SAT audience, and a hermit-like man finds his solutide disrupted SAT by a film crew documenting the ravages of climate change. SAT SAT Project Nim is director James Marsh's documentary about a SAT group of American scientists and researchers who, in the SAT 1970s, decide to try to teach a chimpanzee sign language and SAT bring it up in all respects as a human baby. A 10 day old SAT chimp - Nim Chimpsky, named in satirical honour of the SAT academic Noam Chomsky, who'd scoffed at the project - is SAT taken from his mother and handed over to one of psychology SAT professor Herb Terrace's former students to bring up. The SAT documentary tells the story of Nim's chequered life and of SAT the consequences of the scientists' intervention on their SAT own relationships - and their conscience. SAT SAT Debbie Tucker Green's play Random debuted to great success SAT at the Royal Court in 2009. Its star was actress Nadine SAT Marshall, who played all the different roles of a black SAT British London family going about their business on a spring SAT morning, until their lives are transformed by a devastating SAT event. Debbie Tucker Green has now adapted the play for SAT Channel 4 and also directs it, while Nadine Marshall returns SAT to narrate and to play one of the characters. SAT SAT Curtain Call is the latest attempt by the Roundhouse in SAT North London to capitalise on its vast, rotund shape. SAT Designer Ron Arad has put up a giant round curtain made up SAT of 5,600 white silicon rods hanging from the ceiling, with a SAT diameter of 18 metres. You step inside and sit yourself down SAT to watch a 2 hour loop of video pieces by a variety of SAT contributors from fashion designer Hussein Chalayan to SAT students from the Royal College of Art. Is it the perfect SAT meeting of form and function? Or is it like watching a big SAT Imax screen? SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0134xn5 (Listen) SAT Raise Your Glasses - A History of the After-Dinner Speech SAT SAT Arthur Smith scours the archives for the best and worst SAT after-dinner speeches in history. He also tries to find out SAT if there's a winning formula for the perfect speech. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01304fj (Listen) SAT The History of Titus Groan, Titus Abroad SAT SAT by Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SAT Episode Five 'Titus Abroad' SAT Far from Gormenghast, Titus finds himself in an alien world. SAT Lost in a country policed by machines, he must trust to the SAT good will of an eccentric zookeeper, and the kindness of a SAT beautiful woman named Juno. SAT Titus...Luke Treadaway SAT Artist...David Warner SAT Muzzlehatch...Gerard Murphy SAT Juno...Maureen Beattie SAT Acreblade...Alun Raglan SAT Magistrate...Peter Polycarpou SAT Drugg...Jonathan Forbes SAT With Elaine Claxton, James Lailey, Gerard McDermott, Susie SAT Ridell, Alex Tregear SAT Music by Roger Goula SAT Directed by David Hunter and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0132k1q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Iconoclasts b0132l7l (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 1 SAT SAT Gordon Graham, Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at SAT Princeton Theological Seminary, argues that democracy is SAT overrated. "There is a relentlessness about the democratic SAT process that eliminates all possibility of dissent despite SAT the myth to the contrary." SAT SAT Professor Graham's views will be challenged by Edward Lucas SAT (European Editor of The Economist), Professor Robert Hazell SAT (Director of the Constitution Unit at University College SAT London) and Professor David Chandler (of the Centre for the SAT Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster). SAT SAT The live studio discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. SAT You can join in by e-mailing: iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk or text SAT 84844. SAT SAT Producer: Peter Everett. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b013214d (Listen) SAT Last in the current series of Quote...Unquote, presented by SAT the renowned Nigel Rees. Joining Nigel to wave au revoir are SAT the comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty, SAT writer Brian Sibley and actor Martin Jarvis. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SAT SAT 23:30 Wordsworth's Mysterious Trip to Calais b0131x9x (Listen) SAT In August 1802 the poet William Wordsworth and his sister SAT Dorothy set off from the Lake District bound for Calais. SAT SAT Few people knew about the journey - only his closest SAT friends, and his wife-to-be, Mary Hutchinson. The writer SAT John Worthen follows in Wordsworth's footsteps in what was a SAT momentous time for the poet. Ten years before, in 1792, when SAT the French Revolution was still in full swing, Wordsworth SAT had visited France and while there had fallen for Annette SAT Vallon. Their love affair produced a daughter, but by then SAT Wordsworth had had to return to England, and the following SAT 10 year long war between the two countries meant no return SAT visit was possible. SAT SAT When the war came to an end, Wordsworth took the decision to SAT go to France and meet his illegitimate daughter, called SAT Caroline, whom he had never seen. John Worthen starts the SAT programme at Dove Cottage, Wordsworth's home in Grasmere, SAT and talks to Pamela Woof, the editor of Dorothy Wordsworth's SAT Journals. It is through these Journals that we know about SAT the visit, and her account is only a meagre couple of pages. SAT But the visit that was planned for about 10 days lasted a SAT month, and John Worthen is accompanied by the Wordsworth SAT biographer Juliet Barker on its next step to Calais. SAT SAT Juliet speculates about a legal contract that may have been SAT drawn up between them, but for Wordsworth one mystery was SAT cleared up, the fact that he had met his daughter, and kept SAT her in his memory (as well as providing financial SAT assistance). One offshoot of the journey was Wordsworth's SAT most famous poem - the sonnet Composed Upon Westminster SAT Bridge. William and Dorothy set off in the early morning SAT from London on the coach for Dover and crossing the Thames, SAT Wordsworth was struck by the stillness and peace of the SAT city. He finished the poem in Calais. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Bannerman SAT A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0133r6f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading: The Time Being b00pmcqd (Listen) SUN Series 4, The Painter and the Dybbuk SUN SUN Series of original stories by unpublished writers. SUN SUN In Jewish folklore a Dybbuk is the wandering soul of a dead SUN person that enters the body of a living person and controls SUN his or her behaviour. A painter's talent has so far kept him SUN alive in Auschwitz. But as he starts on a portrait of one of SUN the guards, he wonders just who is in control. SUN SUN By Claire Griffiths, read by Nicholas Farrell. SUN SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0133r6h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0133r6k (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0133r6m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0133r6p (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0134xv0 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Nicholas, Leeds, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0134xd2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0133r6r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0134xvj (Listen) SUN Theatre in Worship SUN SUN In 'Theatre in Worship', Mark Tully investigates the role SUN theatre and performance can take in acts of worship and SUN examines the arguments both for and against theatricality in SUN religious ceremony and ritual. SUN SUN From the Puritan movement of the seventeenth century to the SUN extravagance of baroque ecclesiastical architecture, from SUN the vibrancy of religious festival and the popularity of SUN religious theatre and dance to the single-minded pursuit of SUN spiritual simplicity, performance in religion has often been SUN controversial. SUN SUN This edition of 'Something Understood' looks at some of the SUN reasons for this with the help of theologian and writer Theo SUN Hobson and the work of seventeenth century poet George SUN Herbert, nineteenth century novelist Stendhal and twentieth SUN century playwright Anthony Minghella. The music is by SUN Spanish bagpiper Hevia and Japanese composer Toshi SUN Tsuchitori. SUN SUN The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Isla Blair SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b0134yc9 (Listen) SUN Vampire Plants SUN SUN For this weeks Living World on Radio 4, Paul Evans is in SUN Weardale in the North Pennines where he joins Dr Phil Gates SUN from Durham University on a botanical exploration with a SUN difference. Walking through this breathtaking wildflower SUN rich landscape in high summer, all is not as tranquil as it SUN first appears. Nature has a twist in its tail as Paul is SUN shown some of the underhand tricks developed by flowering SUN plants to help them survive nutrient starved environments, SUN highly competitive situations or extremely toxic soils. SUN Journeying from a boggy hillside where carnivorous round SUN leaved sundew consumes its live prey, to the highly toxic SUN lead mine spoil heaps nearby, home to spring sandwort, Paul SUN discovers that far from being the vampires of horror movies, SUN these plants have adapted to a harsh environment and in many SUN cases, actually are beneficial to conservation and land SUN reclamation. SUN SUN Producer Mr Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0133r6t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0133r6w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0134yf7 (Listen) SUN Edward focuses on the riots that have dominated the news SUN this week and how faith communities across England have been SUN affected, and how they have reacted in the aftermath. SUN SUN Trevor Barnes has travelled around London to hear how the SUN riots touched three different groups in some of the worst SUN hit parts of the capital: Enfield, Southall and Ealing. SUN Trevor will join them to find out about how their SUN experiences over the past week and how they intend to move SUN on. SUN SUN Edward will meet Irene Kuszta who organised the clean-up in SUN Salford the day after her community was attacked. She will SUN tell Edward how her faith motivated her to dig out her SUN dustpan and brush. SUN SUN We hear the latest from Qamar Bhatti a Muslim community SUN leader in Birmingham which is in mourning for the three SUN young men killed as they tried to protect their community. SUN SUN And Edward will ask a panel comprising Nadine Dorries MP, SUN Chaplain to the Speaker to the House of Commons Rev Rose SUN Hudson-Wilkin and S Pastor Paul Lloyd from the Victory SUN Outreach Church in Salford about the role of the church in SUN the inner cities. Has Christianity lost its moral authority, SUN with the inevitable consequence being the breakdown of law SUN and order? SUN SUN Away from events of the past seven days on the streets of SUN England's cities, Matthew Bell reports on the Arab Spring SUN and its progress during the holy month of Ramadan. SUN SUN And how come the UK is now rated as being as bad as Russia SUN and China when it comes to the tolerance of religion? Brian SUN Grim from the Pew Forum joins Edward from Washington DC to SUN explain his findings. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0134yf9 (Listen) SUN Handicap International UK SUN SUN Sir Trevor McDonald presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Handicap International UK. SUN SUN Donations to Handicap International UK should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Handicap International UK . Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Handicap International UK SUN 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: 1082565. SUN SUN Handicap International SUN SUN Co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Handicap International SUN is an international aid organisation working in situations SUN of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working SUN alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable SUN populations in over 60 countries, we respond to their SUN essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote SUN respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0133r6y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0133r70 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0134yfc (Listen) SUN The Revd Roy Jenkins leads a service from Mount pleasant SUN Baptist Church Northampton, to mark the 250th anniversary of SUN the birth of missionary pioneer, William Carey. The preacher SUN is the General Director of the BMS World Mission, the Revd SUN David Kerrigan. Director of Music, Paul Lavinder. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b0132pvh (Listen) SUN The Advantages of Pessimism SUN SUN Alain de Botton on why pessimism is the key to happiness. He SUN argues that the incompatibility between the grandeur of our SUN aspirations and the reality of life is bound to disappoint - SUN unless we learn to be a bit more gloomy! SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0134ypy (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0134yq2 (Listen) SUN Written by: Carolyn Sally Jones SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b0134z00 (Listen) SUN The Courtauld Institute SUN SUN In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites five SUN past pupils of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, which SUN pioneered the teaching of art history, has produced SUN countless stars of the art and museum world, and whose most SUN famous Director was the fourth man in the infamous Cambridge SUN spy ring. SUN SUN On the 15th November 1979, Anthony Blunt was exposed as a SUN Soviet spy. The former Cambridge don was at the peak of his SUN career as an art historian - he was Surveyor of the Queen's SUN Pictures, had received a knighthood, and as director of the SUN Courtauld Institute, had made it one of the most prestigious SUN centres for the study of art history. SUN SUN The news was greeted with outcry by the public for whom SUN Blunt represented elitism and sordid decadence. Blunt was SUN stripped of his knighthood, hounded by the press, and never SUN returned to the Institute he had dedicated his life to. But SUN to his students, Blunt was a remarkable tutor who had given SUN them their careers, many as staff at the Institute. SUN SUN Joining Sue around the table is: Booker-prize winning author SUN and past tutor at the Institute, Anita Brookner; Director of SUN the British Museum, Neil MacGregor; travel-writer Michael SUN Jacobs; founder of the Art Newspaper, Anna Somers Cocks, and SUN the art critic who was a close personal friend of Blunt's, SUN Brian Sewell. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b013214n (Listen) SUN Series 61, With Sheila Hancock and Graham Norton SUN SUN Returning series of the ever popular Just A Minute, hosted SUN by Nicholas Parsons. Graham Norton, Paul Merton, Sheila SUN Hancock and Tony Hawks are attempting to speak without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation on 'Barn Dances' 'My SUN Personal Assistant' and other subjects. The producer is SUN Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0134zx8 (Listen) SUN Scotland's Food Policy SUN SUN The Food Programme looks at Scotland's first ever national SUN food policy, introduced by the SNP, to try and join up every SUN aspect of food production and health in the country. SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon. SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0133r72 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01351q0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; SUN twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Too Many Books b01351q2 (Listen) SUN It's something that most of us have to do, from time to SUN time: get rid of old books. People moving house, someone SUN whose partner has died, those simply needing more space who SUN find that their bookshelves just aren't big enough. SUN SUN Sarah Cuddon examines the difficult decisions behind the SUN seemingly mundane choices we make when deciding which books SUN stay and which books go. SUN SUN Amongst the people she talks to are Brian, who lives in SUN Dorset. One shelf at a time, he wades through, weighing up a SUN Delia Smith against a book about Spike Milligan. Does it SUN stay on the shelf? Should it go in the box? Angel is SUN contemplating a vast and varied collection of valuable SUN volumes left after the death of her husband. Whilst Trevor SUN in South East London peruses each title, skimming, pausing SUN to reflect on his attachment to Boswell, Hunter S Thompson SUN and James Lee Burke. They all stare at their shelves and SUN start making painful decisions, based on their human SUN relationship with individual books. SUN SUN What will happen to them? Sarah visits Britain's largest SUN second hand bookshop, Bookbarn International which is home SUN to around 3 million rejected and dejected titles all hoping SUN for a new owner. Every book has to justify its shelf space SUN and Sarah discovers the fate of thousands of unwanted ones. SUN Many are sold for scrap and pulped. Some are reprieved and SUN shipped overseas. Death, decomposition or liberation? SUN SUN Arriving early, pavement bookseller Mike assesses junked SUN books at a car boot sale. Why doesn't he pick up Mr Nice by SUN Howard Marx? It's a very personal and selective set of SUN criteria, making decisions about which books are worth SUN something and which books aren't. As the stories unfold, we SUN learn that the reasons people hold on to them are as SUN individual as the books. SUN SUN Producer: Tamsin Hughes SUN A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0132ptx (Listen) SUN Blackpool Winter Gardens SUN SUN Out and about in Blackpool Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden SUN and Matthew Biggs advise on salt-resistant trees, how to SUN prevent mildew and colour-spraying your Leylandii out of SUN desperation. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson discovers how ice and straw help maintain SUN hanging baskets. We visit the new participants of our SUN Listeners' Gardens series. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b0132p7l (Listen) SUN More Tribes of Science, Diamond beam line scientists SUN SUN The scientific tribe that Peter Curran meets this week has a SUN spectacular gleaming home. The tribal dwelling place is a SUN gigantic silver bagel in the Oxfordshire countryside. Within SUN this flying saucer-like construction is the UK's largest SUN particle accelerator and it functions as the country's most SUN powerful x-ray machine. It's called the Diamond Light Source SUN synchrotron and it enables scientists to peer deep inside SUN matter at the scale of atoms. Four years old, it's the SUN newest of Britain's megascience facilities. SUN SUN Hordes of researchers visit every year to image and study SUN everything from new drug compounds to novel materials for SUN computers, tiny viruses to meteorites, and Dead Sea Scroll SUN parchment to aircraft wing alloys. SUN The work of the visitors is only possible thanks to the SUN resident scientists who run Diamond's experimental stations SUN called beam lines. These are labs are positioned at SUN different points around the giant accelerator's ring. At SUN these points, beams of radiation - from x rays to SUN ultraviolet - fire out from the bagel and are channelled for SUN use in research projects. SUN SUN Peter Curran puts the beam line scientists under his own SUN anthropological microscope. The beam line scientists are SUN largely physicists and chemists by background and each of SUN the 15 beamlines has its own team of them, working in units SUN called 'hutches'. The researchers have designed and built SUN each station and are responsible for its smooth operation SUN and pristine maintenance. They host the researchers who come SUN to use the facilities. Some of these beamlines are operating SUN 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. SUN SUN Peter aims to discover what working life is like in the UK's SUN most glittering new science facility and what might SUN characterise the average beam liner. What are the thrills of SUN harnessing radiation from Britain's biggest particle SUN accelerator, and what are the more onerous aspects? How do SUN the beam line scientists feel about having the SUN responsibility of being keepers of Diamond's light when that SUN role means they forgo full pursuit their own research? SUN What's the formula for maintaining a harmonious hutch? SUN SUN Producer; Andrew Luck-Baker. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b013522k (Listen) SUN The History of Titus Groan, Titus Alive SUN SUN by Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore, dramatised by Brian SUN Sibley SUN Episode Six 'Titus Alive' SUN Titus attracts attention from the strange but alluring SUN Cheeta, and ultimately becomes the victim of a torturous SUN joke. Rescued by old friends but unable to bear their SUN company any longer, he stumbles into a world uncannily like SUN our own - and is drawn to a mysterious artist, whose SUN presence may at last grant him peace. SUN Titus...Luke Treadaway SUN Artist...David Warner SUN Cheeta...Morven Christie SUN Muzzlehatch...Gerard Murphy SUN Juno...Maureen Beattie SUN Anchor... James Lailey SUN Acreblade...Alun Raglan SUN Scientist...Peter Polycarpou SUN Gertrude... Miranda Richardson SUN Prunesquallor... James Fleet SUN With Elaine Claxton, Jonathan Forbes, Gerard McDermott, SUN Susie Ridell, Alex Tregear SUN Music by Roger Goula SUN Sound production by Peter Ringrose SUN Directed and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0135279 (Listen) SUN Crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell talks to Ruth Rendell about SUN "Vault", her 23rd Inspector Wexford novel. At 81 years old SUN Ruth Rendell is the mistress of the mystery novel from the SUN psychological thriller to the police procedural. In "Vault" SUN Inspector Wexford comes out of retirement to investigate one SUN of her own "cold cases" - an unresolved murder at the heart SUN of her 1998 stand alone novel "A Sight For Sore Eyes". SUN SUN How do writers write the city? Dreda Say Mitchell's latest SUN novel "Hit Girls" is set - like her previous four - in SUN London's East End, a city which Ruth Rendell also explores SUN in a number of her books from "Keys to the Street" to SUN "Portobello". They are joined by Newcastle born writer SUN Martyn Waites who has set 9 thrillers in his native city, SUN including four featuring his private investigator Joe SUN Donovan. What are the social as well as literary SUN implications of setting a book in the grimy underbelly of SUN the urban sprawl and what do writers of literary fiction SUN have to learn from their crime writing colleagues about the SUN relationship between location, narrative and the message at SUN a book's heart? SUN SUN And nearly forty five years after the iconic classic SUN "Rosemary's Baby" was published - famously filmed by Roman SUN Polanski starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes - critic SUN Michael Carllson profiles its author Ira Levin. Whilst Levin SUN might be better known for the film adaptations of his work - SUN three more of Levin's seven novels were adapted for the SUN cinema, The Stepford Wives, A Kiss Before Dying and The Boys SUN From Brazil - are the books themselves worthy of attention SUN and what do we know about the man who wrote them? SUN SUN Producer - Hilary Dun. SUN SUN 16:30 Listen to Them Breathing b013528r (Listen) SUN Sibyl Ruth is a poet who is also a practising Quaker. For SUN many years she thought her poetry had little to do with her SUN Quaker background. But then, after a meeting with the poet SUN and Quaker Dorothy Nimmo, she began to see connections SUN between her Quaker beliefs and the poetry that spoke most SUN clearly to her. In this programme she goes in search of SUN other poets who are Quakers, to try and find out if there is SUN a relationship between their belief in the Quaker ministry SUN and their writing. She talks to Rosie Bailey about her late SUN partner UA Fanthorpe; to publishers Anne and Peter Sansom SUN about the writing workshops they organise which draw on many SUN of the principles of Quaker meeting; to Gerard Benson, the SUN co-founder of Poems on the Underground, who became a Quaker SUN quite late in life; and to Philip Gross, a line from whose SUN poem 'The Quakers of Pompeii' provides the programme's SUN title. SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01322dt (Listen) SUN Kick Starting Recovery? SUN SUN The Government's strategy to boost local enterprise in SUN England began poorly. The Director of the CBI criticised it SUN as 'a shambles' and Business Secretary Vince Cable admitted SUN it was 'Maoist and chaotic'. SUN SUN Now 36 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) have been SUN established with the aim of supporting economic growth and SUN innovation and encouraging a network of Enterprise Zones. SUN But some experts remain sceptical. They claim that the SUN policy has failed to put business interests first and that SUN in some parts of the country it has been hijacked by local SUN politicians. Others complain that areas of deprivation have SUN been overlooked in favour of more affluent neighbours. There SUN is also concern that the strategy is not implementing the SUN government's policy of localism. SUN SUN Can LEPs deliver the economic fruits they promise? Or will SUN some just fizzle out, as one insider fears? Gerry Northam SUN reports. SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane SUN Editor: David Ross. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0134xd2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0133r74 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0133r76 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0133r78 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0135290 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Kirsty MacColl, Milton Jones and Des Lynham, are among the SUN all star line up on Liz Barclay's Pick of the Week, making SUN music, cracking jokes and waffling on from the touchline SUN respectively. The power of the voice, bravery in the face of SUN rioters, and a misspent youth in Dublin are also on the SUN agenda and if you want to know how to make sweet music with SUN vegetables you'll find the answer here. SUN SUN In Tune - Radio 3 SUN The Art of Water Music - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Giving the Critic Back His Voice - Radio 4 SUN Another Case of Milton Jones - Radio 4 SUN Touchline Tales - Radio 4 SUN The Sense of an Ending - Radio 4 SUN Too Many Books - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory - Radio 4 SUN Crossing Continents - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN With Great Pleasure - Radio 4 SUN Mr Suzuki's Bach Passion - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01352b3 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b01352b5 (Listen) SUN As international stock markets see-saw in the wake of SUN America's downgrade to AA status, we bring you the economic SUN outlook from America's other trading floor - the Chicago SUN Mercantile Exchange. SUN SUN Mormon blogger Joanna Brooks exposes the greatest myths SUN surrounding Mormonism in America - and assesses the SUN prospects of two Mormon presidential hopefuls. SUN SUN Vera Farmiga - star of 'Up In The Air' - talks about her SUN directorial debut, "Higher Ground," in which she explores SUN America's relationship with religion. SUN SUN And from religious to the irreligious, author Otto Penzler SUN uncovers America's obsession with zombies. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00pqj9j (Listen) SUN The Curiosities of the Egyptian Hall, Curious Shadows SUN SUN Series of three stories inspired by the Victorian venue in SUN Piccadilly, famed as the home of magic, spectacle, freak SUN shows and pseudo-scientific demonstrations. SUN SUN By Jerome Vincent. The early film makers guarded their SUN technical secrets closely. In this tale their rivalry leads SUN to murder. Read by Gunnar Cauthery. SUN SUN With Tony Lidington as Alfred, the Custodian of the Hall. SUN SUN Directed by David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0132pk7 (Listen) SUN In More or Less this week: SUN SUN England's riots SUN SUN Can numbers tell us what caused the violence? We look at SUN claims that cuts caused the trouble and we suggest other SUN explanations - including the possibility that simple SUN demographics made the unrest more likely. SUN SUN Sovereign debt SUN SUN Who do indebted nations actually owe? We explain with the SUN help of Adam Davidson, co-host of US National Public Radio's SUN 'Planet Money' show. SUN SUN Disability payments SUN SUN Recently the Department for Work and Pensions published SUN statistics about Employment Support Allowance, or ESA. The SUN numbers prompted headlines like this one: 'The shirking SUN classes: Just 1 in 14 incapacity claimants is unfit to SUN work'. But is that really what the statistics told us? SUN (Short answer: no.) SUN SUN When to buy a lottery ticket SUN SUN At what time should you buy a lottery ticket to have a SUN greater chance of winning than of dying before the draw? SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0132pv1 (Listen) SUN Michael Bukht, Hugh Carey, John Hoyland, Nancy Wake and Joe SUN Arroyo SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The founding programme controller of Classic FM Michael SUN Bukht, who had another career as TV's crafty cook Michael SUN Barry. SUN SUN The Governor of New York, Hugh Carey, credited with saving SUN the state and city from bankruptcy in the 1970s. SUN SUN The abstract painter John Hoyland. We visit his studio and SUN hear a tribute from his friend the sculptor Sir Anthony SUN Caro. SUN SUN Nancy Wake - who risked her life during the war working SUN behind enemy lines as a member of the Special Operations SUN Executive. SUN SUN And the Colombian singer Joe Arroyo, who achieved SUN international success despite his addiction to drugs. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b0132k5g (Listen) SUN Mind The Funding Gap SUN SUN Trams should be back running along the streets of Edinburgh. SUN More than half a billion pounds of public money was set SUN aside to make it happen. But the project is in chaos. The SUN best guess now is for trams to arrive three years late on a SUN route much shorter than envisaged and at an extra cost of SUN around £230m which the city needs to find within weeks. The SUN trams themselves have been built... but Edinburgh now has SUN more of them than it actually needs. John Waite investigates SUN what's gone wrong and why costs have spiralled. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Douglas. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0134yf9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0132p8p (Listen) SUN Bad Company SUN SUN Business leaders make a lot of fuss about corporate SUN governance, but the scandals keep on coming. Peter Day asks SUN what's wrong with the way companies are run. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0135nrm (Listen) SUN Programme Editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0135p03 (Listen) SUN Episode 65 SUN SUN Mehdi Hasan analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0132pv3 (Listen) SUN In the Film Programme this week Matthew Sweet talks to James SUN Marsh about Project Nim, the director's first feature since SUN the Oscar- winning Man on Wire. It's the story of a SUN chimpanzee taken from his mother as a baby and brought up in SUN a human family as part of an experiment to see if he could SUN acquire and use language. With the release of Rise of the SUN Planet of the Apes as well this week the philosopher and SUN cinephile, Raymond Tallis reflects on cinema's fascination SUN with the links between apes and humans and weighs up the SUN motives behind those involved in experiments such as Project SUN Nim. Further afield the young French director, Romain SUN Gavras, discusses his debut, Our Day will Come, as well as SUN volunteering observations on rioting, nihilism and the dead SUN hand of the New Wave on France's film culture. To round SUN things off Mark Gatiss mounts a broomstick and whizzes off SUN to the Russian steppes which is the latest staging post in SUN his brief history of foreign horror. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0134xvj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 AUGUST 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0133r7x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0132l78 (Listen) MON Children, sex and mobile phones - Terror of history MON MON What role does the mobile phone have in showing off, hooking MON up and getting dumped? Laurie talks to Emma Bond about her MON new study into how young people use mobile phones in their MON intimate sexual relationships. MON Also on the programme the historian Teofilo Ruiz talks about MON the radical thesis of his book the Terrors of History: Is MON our struggle to find rational solutions to the fearful MON events of history entirely in vain? Is the idea of progress MON nothing more than a sweet lie? David Byrne also joins them MON to discuss whether anything can be done to address the cruel MON vicissitudes that history makes us suffer. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0134xv0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0133r7z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0133r81 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0133r83 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0133r85 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013n782 (Listen) MON With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0135p1t (Listen) MON Farmers and landowners in the UK receive around £3.5billion MON in subsidies from Europe each year. That's approximately MON £110 for every taxpayer. When asked whether they should MON continue to receive them in a Farming Today/Countryfile MON Comres poll 63% of people thought they should continue to MON receive them for food production and supporting wildlife but MON 9% felt they shouldn't receive subsidies at all. Charlotte MON Smith hears from a farmer about why he feels his income is MON justified. Jack Thurston from Farmsubsidy.org argues the MON well-off shouldn't receive them at all. MON MON People making mobile phone calls in rural areas may be MON better off with an old-style phone than a snazzy MON smart-phone. Charlotte Smith asks our technology reporter MON why that's the case. MON MON And organic farmers say the future is bright for their MON industry despite the amount of land gong into conversion MON dropping to around a third the amount seen in 2007. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne Marie MON Bullock. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0133r87 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0135q32 (Listen) MON Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including MON Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b0135q52 (Listen) MON Peter White returns with the highly-acclaimed series which MON poses the questions about disability which other programmes MON are too embarrassed, or too politically-correct, to ask. MON MON In the first programme he interviews the Foreign Office high MON flyer Jane Cordell, who had a diplomatic posting to MON Kazakhstan, her second overseas posting, revoked when MON officials ruled that her deafness made it too expensive to MON send her abroad. MON MON She tells Peter that her disability makes her particularly MON attuned to social situations, reading body language and MON picking up on everything, from the way people clench their MON toes to nervous movements which might signal suspicion: MON "When I walk into a room I pick up immediately a sense of MON what the atmosphere is - whether there's going to be a MON rapport with the speakers and what's going on. You read MON people's faces, their gestures, you can pick up messages MON that possibly people who aren't deaf couldn't. MON MON "I always went into it with an open mind, believing that the MON more straightforward barriers presented by not being able to MON hear can be fairly easily overcome. But then I'm an MON optimist." MON MON Jane talks about her musical childhood and how in her MON twenties she coped with the realisation that she was MON gradually losing her hearing. But this did not deter her MON from pursuing her goals, although it's acted as a good MON filter when it came to prospective partners: "It was MON possible to tell a lot about people by how they reacted to MON my disability and I used this as a good way to test whether MON someone was worthy of my friendship." MON MON In programme two, Peter meets the Malaysian politician and MON human rights campaigner, Karpal Singh, who was left in a MON wheelchair after a motor accident in 2005. In 1987 Karpal MON was detained for fifteen months without trial and declared a MON prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. Just a year MON earlier he had represented the British born drug smuggler MON Kevin Barlow who was eventually executed for the crime in MON Malaysia. Karpal tells Peter about his long career fighting MON for justice and the obstacles now in his way as he battles MON the discriminatory stance towards his disability by fellow MON MP's. MON MON Known as the Tiger of Jelutong for his astonishing fifth MON electoral win in the Penang constituency he is publicly as MON sharp and formidable as ever although in private he has MON struggled to regain his health following the accident. MON MON Peter White also meets Dr Lin Berwick, the blind wheelchair MON user who heads a charity providing accessible holiday homes MON for disabled people. She talks about the problems which MON exist when you have dual disabilities and have to combat MON multiple problems. The last programme in the series features MON the model Shannon Murray, who was paralysed in a diving MON accident when she was 14 and is now challenging attitudes to MON fashion. MON MON 09:30 Head to Head b00wdl77 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON In a new series, Edward Stourton revisits broadcast debates MON from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds MON behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day MON politics. MON MON In the first episode, two leading minds tangle over the MON age-old question of the trade-off between liberty and MON equality. Sir Isaiah Berlin's regular media appearances made MON him famous in a way very few philosophers are today. On MON Radio 3 in 1976 he met John Vaizey, an economist and loyal MON Labour man finding himself on a journey from left to right. MON MON Equality has always been, says Berlin, one of the ultimate MON goals of men, that it has meant fairness. But, says Vaizey, MON at what cost? Must we give up much of our freedom and let MON despots and tyrants orchestrate grand sweeping plans in MON order to attain an egalitarian society? On the other hand, MON if we accept a society where citizens are free to be MON unequal, is this not desirable for a vibrant and flourishing MON culture? The discussion reflects a post-war Europe shaken to MON its boots by the totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany and MON Soviet Russia. MON MON And in David Cameron's Big Society, similar arguments play MON out today. Has a top-down state-led Britain lost out to a MON healthy dose of liberty? The conservative ideology of MON reeling in the state's tentacles, including funding for MON public institutions, mean many may suffer - but for the MON betterment of British society? MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate are Quentin Skinner, MON Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary's, MON University of London, and Paul Kelly, professor of political MON theory at the London School of Economics. MON MON Producer: Dominic Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0135q6c (Listen) MON Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 1 MON MON A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's MON most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who MON is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. MON MON Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's MON final five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring MON friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. MON MON Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, MON Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age MON of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he MON regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with MON depression and by his marriage. MON MON But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote MON poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. MON The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would MON produce some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth MON century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: MON Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas MON stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and MON those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable MON book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter MON Monday 1917. MON MON Read by Tobias Menzies MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Emma Harding MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0135q76 (Listen) MON French actor Audrey Tautou, Big Feet, Family Businesses MON MON French actress Audrey Tautou on her latest film Beautiful MON Lies and success since starring in the Oscar nominated MON Amélie ten years ago. The numbers of children with Type 1 MON diabetes is rising, with a five fold increase in the under MON 5s. We discuss why and look at strategies for caring for MON those at the younger end of the scale. Women in Business MON looks at the pitfalls of setting up a company with members MON of your family. We get tips on avoiding family rifts and MON making the business a success. Bigger feet: are women MON embarrassed by their size and what's the evidence that MON they're getting larger? MON MON Audrey Tautou MON MON It was ten years ago when Audrey Tautou first came to MON international attention in the hugely successful and Oscar MON nominated whimsical feel good film Amélie. Since then The MON French actress has gone on to star in Da Vinci Code, MON Priceless and played the lead role in the bio pic of fashion MON designer Coco Chanel. She joins Jane to talk about her MON latest film, 'Beautiful Lies'. MON MON 'Beautiful Lies' is in cinemas now MON MON Women and their shoe size MON MON New research has found that most women with size 8 or 9 feet MON are ashamed by their shoe size, and nearly half lie about MON how big their feet are. So, why all the fuss? Jane chats to MON Keren Miller a long time sufferer of big feet blues who has MON taken matters into her own hands, and asks podiatrist MON Lorraine Jones whether big footed women are fast becoming MON the norm. MON MON Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes MON MON There are over 22,000 people under the age of 17 with MON diabetes in England. Ninety-seven per cent have Type 1. The MON peak age for diagnosis is between 10 and 14 years of age, MON but the number of under five-years-old with Type 1 has MON increased five-fold over 20 years. Jane is joined by Karen MON Slatter whose daughter Daisy was diagnosed with Type 1 MON diabetes aged 13 months, Libby Dowling, Clinical Adviser for MON Diabetes UK and David Leslie, Professor of Diabetes and MON Autoimmunity at Barts, London. MON MON Women in Business: Working with family members MON MON Setting up a business with family members may sound like a MON dream ticket to a close and hard-working relationship with MON colleagues. But family feuds – whether they start in the MON family and spill into the business, or start in the business MON and affect the family – are a major factor in family MON businesses having such a poor survival rate. How can you MON make it work? Jane is joined by Martin Stepek of the MON Scottish Family Business Association.Martin Stepek who MON founded the Scottish Family Business Association and Alison MON Booth and Ruth Umpleby of umpie bags MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0135qsk (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 1 MON MON Kris Marshall plays Samuel Pepys, and Katherine Jakeways his MON wife, in this new dramatisation of the famous diaries by MON Hattie Naylor. MON On a freezing day in January 1660, a 26 year old man decides MON to start keeping a diary. It's two years since he had a MON life-threatening operation to remove a bladder stone and MON he's feeling pretty well - despite there being quite a lot MON to worry about. He's behind with his rent, he goes out too MON often, and drinks too much. He lies awake worrying about MON work, and despite being happily married, can't keep his MON hands off other women. For the next ten years, in his secret MON diary, Samuel Pepys faithfully records the day's events, and MON confesses his innermost thoughts. He gives us eyewitness MON accounts of some of the great events of the 17th century but MON he also tells us what people ate, wore, what they did for MON fun, the tricks they played on each other, what they MON expected of marriage, and of love affairs. Over three MON hundred and fifty years may have passed since Pepys first MON put pen to paper but the man and his preoccupations feel MON surprisingly familiar. The world of Samuel Pepys, his wife, MON his rivals, his lovers and his friends are vividly brought MON to life in Hattie Naylor's new adaptation. MON MON Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways MON Jane, the maid ..... Rebecca Newman MON Edward Montagu ..... Blake Ritson MON Landlord ..... Dick Bradnum MON John Pepys ..... Stephen Marzella MON Mrs Hunt ..... Manon Edwards MON Mr Hunt ..... Brendan Charleson MON Balty ..... Matthew Gravelle MON Soldier ..... John Biddle MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. MON Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David Miller. MON Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by Alice MON Baxter. MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 Taking Tea with Tyrants b0135qsm (Listen) MON Diplomacy is often presented as an art form, the peak of MON civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens MON when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial MON human rights abusers? MON MON Lyse Doucet speaks to the politicians, diplomats and MON activists who have had to deal with the worst tyrants in MON modern history - from Saddam Hussein to Slobodan Milosevic - MON and how they coped with it. How did they operate when they MON knew the next meeting on the president's list might be held MON in the torture chamber? How did they separate emotion from MON the need to conduct business? And what if they found MON themselves actually liking the person even while abhorring MON their behaviour? MON MON As well as the personal, Lyse asks tough questions about MON compromise and complicity. Is engagement always better than MON isolation in the case of tyrannical regimes? Is it, in other MON words, always good to talk? MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b0129bpk (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 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, we learn no two families are ever alike in "Us and MON Them" and we get a peep into the caustic mind of the author MON when he reads selections from his extensive diaries. MON MON Producer: Steve Doherty MON A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0135s81 (Listen) MON The high street chains accused of ripping off consumers by MON encouraging them to spend as much as £100 on high-definition MON cables which are no more effective than ones costing as MON little as £2. We report on what's been dubbed the great MON cable con. MON MON Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson on how the Government is MON failing UK enterprise. MON MON And ice cream - one of life's little luxuries or a daily MON essential? We report on a bid by the UK's beleaguered ice MON cream makers and sellers to get VAT lifted on the nation's MON favourite treat. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0133r89 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0135s83 (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 Round Britain Quiz b0135t0k (Listen) MON (1/12) MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the first contest in the MON 2011 series of radio's longest-lived quiz. Tackling the MON cryptic clues and devious lateral thinking puzzles today are MON Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego of the South of England, MON opposite Diana Collecott and Jim Coulson representing the MON North. MON MON Other regulars appearing in the new series include Polly MON Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland, Stephen Maddock MON and Rosalind Miles of the Midlands, and the defending MON champions David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander of Wales. MON MON Each week Tom will also present a teaser question for MON listeners to tackle, with the answer revealed at the MON beginning of the following edition. As always, the series MON also includes a wide selection of questions written by RBQ MON listeners in an attempt to outwit the panel. MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01352b3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jd6r7 (Listen) MON A Question of Royalty MON MON Comedy by Andrew Lynch, inspired by real events. Two MON bungling self-employed plasterers, ignorant of the MON constitutional crisis their actions could precipitate, steal MON The Queen's wedding certificate while working on the MON refurbishment of the Public Records Office. MON MON Bernie ...... Johnny Vegas MON Danny ...... Ricky Tomlinson MON Sarah ...... Catherine McCormack MON Jan ...... Nicola Stephenson MON Tim ...... Tim Bentinck MON Farnworth ...... Rupert Degas. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0134xn5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 A Guide to Farmland Birds b0135t6m (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher, Stephen Moss, MON on an arable farm on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. MON With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they MON offer a practical and entertaining guide to identifying the MON birds which you're most likely to see and hear in arable MON fields on Britain's farms; birds like Skylark, Grey MON Partridge, Red-legged Partridge and Lapwing. MON MON This is the first of five programmes to help identify many MON of the birds seen and heard in the British countryside, in MON hedgerows, copses, winter pastures, farmyards and arable MON fields. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the MON birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them MON from their calls and songs. MON MON This series complements four previous series; A Guide to MON Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds, A Guide to Water Birds MON and A Guide to Coastal Birds and is aimed at both the MON complete novice as well as those who are eager to learn more MON about our farmland visitors and residents. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0134zx8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b0135t7l (Listen) MON We were told that Globalisation would kill off religion. In MON fact, the vast majority of the world's population continues MON to maintain religious beliefs and practice. So how does MON Globalisation affect Religion? Does the spread of religion MON across national boundaries mean that its universal elements MON will develop at the expense of the national and particular? MON Is there a danger that faith and culture might become MON separated from one another? And can faith communities help MON to mitigate the worst effects of globalisation? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Martin Palmer from the Alliance of MON Religion, Conservation and the Environment, Dr Sara MON Silvestri from City University, London, and Adrian MON Wooldridge a columnist with The Economist and the co-author MON of the book "God is Back.". MON MON 17:00 PM b0135t7n (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0133r8c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b0135t7q (Listen) MON Series 61, With Phill Jupitus, Julian Clary, Josie Lawrence MON and Rick Wakeman MON MON The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons, in which MON the panellists attempt to talk uninterrupted for a Minute MON without hesitation, repetition or deviation. This week the MON players are Josie Lawrence, Julian Clary, Phill Jupitus and MON the ex-rocker Rick Wakeman. Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0137w0p (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0135t8c (Listen) MON Jonathan Lynn, Andre Dubus, Brendan Gleeson in The Guard MON MON Mark Lawson reviews Brendan Gleeson in The Guard and talks MON to Andre Dubus III about his memoir of troubled teenage days MON and talks to Jonathan Lynn about writing comedies including MON Yes Minister. His new book Comedy Rules includes advice MON about dealing with taboo subjects and pitching screenplays MON in Los Angeles. MON MON Producer Ella Mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0135qsk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b0137tff (Listen) MON Mike Thomson investigates the collapse of the US UK special MON relationship in 1973, via a revealing transcript of a phone MON call between President Nixon and Henry Kissinger which MON suggests the split was deeper and more severe than MON previously thought. MON MON As Britain joined the EEC, US Secretary of State Henry MON Kissinger became increasingly annoyed at the lack of support MON by Edward Heath's government for American foreign policy. MON Mike uncovers papers which suggest that in retaliation, the MON US switched off the supply of intelligence to the UK. MON MON Among those Mike speaks to are former Defence and Foreign MON Secretary Lord Carrington and Lord Powell, later Margaret MON Thatcher's Private Secretary. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0132p7v (Listen) MON Murder, migration and Mexico MON MON Every year, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans leave MON home and travel north overland, hoping to make a new life in MON the United States. MON MON This has always been a difficult journey. Now it is MON perilous. Mexican drug cartels have seen a business MON opportunity in the migrants: they are being systematically MON kidnapped en route, and held to ransom. Often they have been MON killed, and Mexico is currently investigating a number of MON mass graves. MON MON With the Mexican government's hardline military campaign MON against the cartels, these criminal organisations are moving MON south. The northern Guatemalan department of Peten - an area MON through which many migrants cross to Mexico - is vulnerable. MON On May, 27 farmworkers were killed at a remote farm in MON Peten. This was apparently revenge for a drug debt, and the MON killers are believed to be Zetas - the bloodiest Mexican MON cartel. The Zetas are battling other organised crime groups MON to take control of Peten. There's a fear that if they MON succeed, not only will they terrorise the local population, MON but they will begin to kidnap, extort and murder some of the MON thousands of migrants moving through - as they do routinely MON in Mexico. MON MON Crossing Continents follows part of the migrants' route - MON from Peten in Guatemala, to the southern Mexican town of MON Tenosique. Linda Pressly meets two Hondurans who were lucky MON to escape with their lives after an encounter with the MON Zetas. She hears from a Franciscan monk dedicated to MON protecting migrants. But the story of migration is complex. MON Not only do the cartels abuse the migrants, they also MON recruit them. And alongside the hopeful, innocent travellers MON travelling north, come criminals. In Tenosique, she speaks MON to a local businessman whose son was kidnapped and killed. MON MON How Mexico's deadly gang tactics are spreading MON MON Central American migrants heading north to the United States MON fear that they are increasingly in danger of being kidnapped MON and murdered by drug gangs expanding their criminal MON operations south from Mexico. MON MON Download the Crossing Continents podcast MON MON Don't miss an episode of Crossing Continents by downloading MON the programme podcast. You can also listen again via the MON Radio 4 website. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0137wyg (Listen) MON This week Quentin Cooper investigates the psychology that MON turns a peaceful protest into a rioting mob. He hears about MON a major international study that is tracking down the MON genetic background to multiple sclerosis. As a new MON documentary is released about Project Nim, he revisits the MON classic experiment to bring a chimpanzee up like a human MON child. And he learns how Amazon tribes shrank human heads. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b0135q52 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0133r8f (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0137x39 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0137x3c (Listen) MON The Shielding of Mrs Forbes, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5 Alan Bennett's delightful "unseemly" story The Shielding MON of Mrs. Forbes send-ups up the vanities and hypocrisies of MON Middle England by taking the Mrs. Bucket motto of 'Keeping MON Up Appearances' to its extreme conclusion. Bennett writes MON about unconventional sexual arrangements among the MON apparently conventional. The snobbish and priggish Mrs. MON Forbes is appalled that her son Graham is "chucking himself MON away" by marrying the unprepossessing Betty. What she MON (apparently) doesn't know is that her son is gay, and by MON marrying Betty he is not only ensuring his financial future, MON but also - he thinks - helping himself and his mother keep MON up appearances. MON MON Producer Gordon House MON Executive Producer: Sara Davies. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01322dh (Listen) MON In the programme exploring the world of words and the ways MON in which we use them, Chris Ledgard examines the production MON of talking newspapers for the blind. From cassette MON distribution to downloads, the daily newspaper can be as MON up-to-date for blind people as it is for their sighted MON neighbours. But how do you "voice up" both the Daily Star MON and the Telegraph? And what does it take to be the "reader" MON on FHM or Private Eye? MON MON 23:30 Polyoaks b0120785 (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Written By Phil Hammond and David Spicer. 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. MON MON This new sitcom is written by Private Eye's medical MON columnist, broadcaster, comedian and practising GP Dr Phil MON Hammond and David Spicer ('Double Income No Kids' and 'Three MON off the Tee'.) As responsibility for the Health Service is MON stripped from managers and handed to doctors, MON brothers-in-medicine Roy and Hugh Thornton are struggling to MON work out what to do with all this sudden money and power. If MON they can diagnose acute appendicitis surely they can manage MON an £80 billion health budget. Can't they? But a useless MON celebrity TV doctor, an overly-aggressive South African MON nurse and a sinister GP Consortium Chairman don't make their MON lot any easier. MON MON This week, to Practice Manager Betty's horror, Hugh MON discovers an enormous fiscal hole in the Consortium budget. MON Polyoaks has no money, even though they're swamped with MON patients, most of whom are 'frequent flyers.' The worried MON well may well have not very much wrong with them, but they MON can prove very expensive to treat. The practice has to come MON up with a way of getting rid of them. Hugh is advocating MON swingeing cuts in the treatments on offer and Roy's beloved MON therapies are under threat. Could the brilliant bedside MON manner of the incompetent Dr Jeremy provide them with a MON surprising solution? 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 ..... Phil Cornwell MON MON All Patients played by David Holt and Kate O'Sullivan MON MON Producer/Director: Frank Stirling MON An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 AUGUST 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0133r92 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0135q6c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0133r94 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0133r96 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0133r98 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0133r9b (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0137xb7 (Listen) TUE With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0135z19 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0135z1c (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 One Hundred Years of Secrecy b0135z1f (Listen) TUE Kicking off Radio 4's Secret Britain series, Peter Hennessy, TUE the leading Whitehall-watcher, tells the story of the TUE Official Secrets Act and explores the tension between TUE Britain's culture of state secrecy and more open government. TUE TUE One hundred years ago, in the hot summer of 1911, Asquith's TUE Government exploited a scare about German spies and a panic TUE over a German gunboat in a Moroccan port to rush a new TUE Official Secrets Act through parliament. The measure was TUE presented as being necessary for national security, but TUE ministers seized their opportunity to extend the law much TUE further. The Act included a 'catch-all' section that forbade TUE the unauthorized disclosure of anything about the TUE government's work, including innocuous matters that posed no TUE possible threat to national security. TUE TUE Peter Hennessy explains why Britain developed a culture of TUE state secrecy and shows how politicians kept politically TUE inconvenient information secret. He examines how reform of TUE official secrets eventually came and explores the tension TUE between the competing needs for secrecy that protects TUE national security and more openness in a democracy. TUE TUE Producer: Rob Shepherd. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0135z1h (Listen) TUE Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode, the first meeting of Edward Thomas and TUE Robert Frost marks the start of a life-changing friendship. TUE TUE Read by Tobias Menzies TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Emma Harding TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0135z1k (Listen) TUE Glamping versus camping; lost gardens of Heligan; Egypt's TUE female presidential candidate. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0137z00 (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 2 TUE TUE In this second episode of Hattie Naylor's new adaptation, TUE Samuel Pepys is on a dangerous, secret mission, helping to TUE restore King Charles to the English throne. It starts badly. TUE On the way across the Channel to Holland Pepys' cabin TUE windows are accidentally blown out by a gun salute, and he TUE turns out to be a poor sailor. As he lies groaning with TUE sea-sicknesses in his cabin, he's unimpressed by the TUE suggested remedy of oysters. Once recovered and ashore in TUE The Hague he's impressed by the beauty of the local women, TUE how many languages the Dutch speak, and how neat and tidy TUE Holland looks. On the way home, with the King safely on TUE board, he hears the dramatic tale of Charles' escape from TUE the Battle of Worcester, including how he hid all day in an TUE oak tree. TUE TUE Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall TUE Edward Montagu ..... Blake Ritson TUE Will ..... John Biddle TUE Mr Banes ..... Matthew Gravelle TUE Charles II ..... Ewan Bailey TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity b0135z1m (Listen) TUE Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution TUE TUE Human uniqueness takes many forms: we can communicate TUE complex ideas; we have developed technologies, such as TUE medicine and transport; and we change our environment to TUE suit our biology. But how does human culture affect our TUE biology - our genes? TUE TUE Geneticist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford explores the TUE complex and sometimes controversial world of human TUE evolution. He talks to geneticists, evolutionary TUE psychologists and anthropologists to try and understand and TUE untangle the relationship between our biology - our genes TUE and our cultural and social behaviour. TUE TUE Have we, as Professor Steve Jones thinks, evolved beyond TUE evolution by natural selection? He thinks that in the TUE western, developed world, the normal driving force for TUE evolution by natural selection is tailing off. We are all TUE having a similar number of babies and those children are TUE surviving and having children of their own. The impact of TUE this is that there's no longer an opportunity for genes TUE which may be beneficial to be selectively passed on. As TUE these trends increase, he says that "if we haven't already TUE stopped evolving, we soon will." TUE TUE Seeing evolution in action isn't easy, by its very nature, TUE it only occurs on a generational time-scale. But there is TUE evidence of very recent human evolution, some of which may TUE still be occurring now. Since the Human Genome was decoded, TUE geneticists are finding regions of genetic code which are TUE relatively stable amongst populations - the so called TUE "Darwin's Fingerprint" - evidence that these genes have been TUE selected for and passed on, in the past. Examples of these TUE include genes for lactose tolerance, which evolved in dairy TUE herders, as recently as 3000 years ago, and is thought to TUE still be spreading as the world switches to a dairy-rich TUE diet. Disease-resistance is also seen in our genomes, as is TUE apparent increases in the length of time women are able to TUE have babies. TUE TUE Probably the most important area of human evolution since we TUE split from our last common ancestor with chimpanzees, is in TUE the development of our brains. But there is very little TUE evidence that our brains are still evolving - biologically. TUE Being more intelligent does not mean that you will have more TUE babies and pass your 'brainy' genes to more children. TUE TUE Cognitive psychologist, Steven Pinker thinks that "just TUE because our society is changing and our way of life is TUE changing beyond recognition doesn't mean that our genes are TUE changing as well." TUE TUE But, Kevin Laland, at St Andrews University says we're not TUE just passive actors in our genetic destiny. In fact it's our TUE ability to change our environment which not only drives out TUE cultural evolution, but has a direct effect on our genes as TUE well. TUE TUE Many recent examples of human evolution have happened in TUE closed societies and are a result of pairing up within a TUE limited gene pool. One example is the Ashkenazi Jews, who TUE may have evolved increased intelligence, as well as a number TUE of heritable diseases. With societies now starting to open TUE up, and the increasing acceptance of interracial and TUE cultural marriages; ease of travel; and increased TUE connectivity through the internet etc. Adam Rutherford asks TUE if we're heading for a much more homogenous society? And TUE what will this mean for our genetic diversity and possible TUE future evolution? TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Roberts. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b0137vpm (Listen) TUE Gerry Robinson TUE TUE The businessman and broadcaster Sir Gerry Robinson TUE introduces some of his favourite readings, recorded in front TUE of an audience at Magee College, Londonderry. He's helped by TUE two readers, Stella McCusker and Stuart Graham. TUE TUE Gerry explains that making a recent BBC1 documentary on TUE Alzheimer's was one of the hardest things he's done, not TUE least because his own father died of the illness. He chooses TUE a powerful, moving poem by the Irish poet Paul Durcan, TUE 'Golden Mothers Driving West'. It's like a three minute road TUE movie, in which three Alzheimer's sufferers do a bunk from TUE their care home. TUE TUE Gerry reflects on his Donegal childhood, before his family TUE moved to east London, and how he pursued a vocation for the TUE priesthood until his faith became less important to him than TUE earning a living in business. He shows a deep fondness for TUE his family, and the readings reflect an indebtedness to TUE them. We hear how Gerry's older brother drowned at 14, and TUE he chooses a moving tribute to his father, linking it to TUE Sebastian Barry's powerful play about early twentieth TUE century Ireland, 'The Steward of Christendom' in which a TUE father fully forgives his son for a transgression. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0137vpp (Listen) TUE What next after the violence? Rioters and looters could lose TUE their homes and welfare benefits after David Cameron warns TUE they'll "pay" for their behaviour. Police could get powers TUE to shut down social networks, order rioters to remove their TUE masks and ban 14-17 year-olds from gangs, under plans to TUE prevent more disorder. And the government's announced TUE financial help for those who've lost homes and livelihoods TUE because of the disorder. But how effective will these TUE measures be? And how soon before victims receive any cash? TUE Call You and Yours if you've been directly affected by the TUE riots, if you've lost your home, your business or your job TUE as a result of the violence. Or if you've got a view on the TUE measures designed to stop it happening again. TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. Your chance to TUE share your views on the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text 84844 and we may call you back TUE or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0133r9d (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0137vtm (Listen) TUE With Martha Kearney. National and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b0137vtp (Listen) TUE Series 12, Mendelssohn's Octet TUE TUE This exploration of the impact that Mendelssohn's Octet has TUE had on different people's lives, demonstrates the healing TUE power of music in a variety of situations around the world. TUE TUE Mendelssohn wrote his Octet for double string quartet in TUE 1825 when he was only 16 years old. Despite his youth, this TUE is a mature and brilliant piece of music described in this TUE programme by the interviewees as "carnivalesque", "a romp", TUE "a party". TUE TUE Choreographer Bill T Jones describes the way in which the TUE Octet showed his company how to keep living during the TUE onslaught of AIDS in the 80's. Cellist Raphael and violinist TUE Elizabeth Wallfisch talk about falling in love whilst TUE learning this music in the 70's. South Korean Lisa Kim tells TUE a story about going on tour with the New York Philharmonic TUE to North Korea and her intense fear and mistrust being TUE replaced by wonder when they played the Octet with a North TUE Korean Quartet. And Matthew Trusler describes the importance TUE of playing this work after the death of his son. TUE TUE The recording of the Mendelssohn Octet featured in the TUE programme is by the Emerson String Quartet on Deutsche TUE Gramophon. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0137w0p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b0137x62 (Listen) TUE Higher: Episode 2 Restructure by Joyce Bryant TUE TUE The Vice Chancellor wants to restructure three departments TUE into two, so one of the Deans is for the chop. Jim Blunt is TUE determined it is not going to be him. But he hasn't reckoned TUE on the Dean of Arts, baby faced killer Roland Keith Chubb. TUE TUE Jim.........Jonathan Keeble TUE Karen......Sophie Thompson TUE David.......Jeremy Swift TUE President....Cyril Nri TUE VC............Russell Dixon TUE Roland......Lloyd Peters TUE Lara.........Melissa Jane Sinden TUE Torturer....Hamilton Berstock TUE TUE Producer Gary Brown TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b0137x70 (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 b0137xd4 (Listen) TUE Summer Ghosts, All the Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends TUE TUE "Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the TUE auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to TUE die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. TUE Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose deaths TUE were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They TUE were evil while alive..." TUE TUE In this series of commissioned stories, the idea is to TUE present ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of TUE day. Will something 'unexplained' be as scary in a light TUE that is... well, reliable to the eye! TUE TUE 1. All The Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends by Sophie TUE Hannah. TUE Mel makes a friend at the school gates and learns about the TUE different types of ghosts in the world. Then the theories TUE are tested out... TUE TUE Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 15:45 A Guide to Farmland Birds b0137ynk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher, Stephen Moss, TUE on an arable on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. With the TUE help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they offer a TUE practical and entertaining guide to identifying the birds TUE which you're most likely to see and hear in winter pastures TUE on Britain's farms; birds like Fieldfare, Redwing, TUE Black-headed Gull and Golden Plover. TUE TUE This is the second of five programmes to help identify many TUE of the birds seen and heard in the British countryside, in TUE hedgerows, copses, arable fields, farmyards and winter TUE pastures. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the TUE birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them TUE from their calls and songs. TUE TUE This series complements four previous series; A Guide to TUE Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds, A Guide to Water Birds TUE and A Guide to Coastal Birds and is aimed at both the TUE complete novice as well as those who are eager to learn more TUE about our farmland visitors and residents. TUE PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b0137ynm (Listen) TUE Voice Recognition TUE TUE Chris Ledgard looks into how new voice recognition TUE technology is changing the way we use language. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b0137ynp (Listen) TUE Series 25, Emily Dickinson TUE TUE Emily Dickinson's reclusive life has long gripped her TUE biographers, but Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis gives short shrift TUE to any romantic or sentimental readings of her choice of a TUE great life. Dickinson, she argues, was fiercely independent TUE and passionate, that she "had a bomb in her breast". Matthew TUE Parris is told by Dickinson biographer Lyndall Gordon how TUE the American poet paradoxically turned her back on the world TUE in order to better engage with it, and how her appeal has TUE only broadened since her death. She died in the 1880s having TUE only had a handful of poems published, but the boldness of TUE her voice speaks directly to modern audiences. The reader is TUE Lia Williams. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0137ynr (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0133r9g (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b0137yqf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 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 deluded teenager to a nonagenarian Diva. TUE Lucy is a rare and multifaceted performer her intelligence TUE and Barry Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a TUE smart and 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 TUE Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve TUE Burge, Jon Hunter, Fay Rusling, Abigail Burdess, Suk Pannu, TUE Andy Wolton and Joseph Morpurgo. TUE TUE Script Editor; Dan Tetsell TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0137yqh (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0137yqk (Listen) TUE Kirsty Lang talks to The Inbetweeners as they move from TV TUE to film. TUE TUE Producer Andrea Kidd. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0137z00 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Slums 101 b0137z02 (Listen) TUE Across the world, rural poverty is causing an unstoppable TUE tide of migration to the cities. By 2050, it's predicted TUE that around 2 billion will live in slums. Paul Mason, TUE Newsnight's economics editor, visits Manila to ask a TUE question the city fathers of the 19th century would have TUE shuddered at: do we have to learn to live with slums? Are TUE these vast shanty towns here for the foreseeable future? And TUE can we, in the rich world, learn from how people in these TUE places live? TUE Producer: Jo Mathys. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0137z04 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life b0137z06 (Listen) TUE In the Womb TUE TUE Imagine if your health as an adult is partly determined by TUE the nutrition and environment you were exposed to during a TUE critical period of development - the first 1000 days of TUE life. A strong body of scientific evidence supports this TUE explosive idea, and is gradually turning medical thinking on TUE its head. To understand the cause of chronic adult disease, TUE including ageing, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, TUE obesity and lung problems we need to look much further back TUE than adult lifestyle – but to the first 1000 days. TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter investigates this influential idea and meets TUE the world experts leading this burgeoning field of research. TUE He talks to David Barker, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology TUE at the University of Southampton and the man behind the TUE Barker Theory. This links the risk of developing illnesses TUE in adult life to poor nutrition in the womb – typically TUE evident when a baby is born underweight. Low birth weight TUE is associated with a number of long term health problems in TUE adults, ranging from osteoporosis to stroke. Chronic TUE disease may be expressions of key developments in the womb. TUE “That does not mean you are doomed, it means you are TUE vulnerable” explains Professor David Barker. TUE TUE Researchers have studied the Dutch Famine or ‘Hunger Winter’ TUE at the end of the Second World War where babies developing TUE in the womb were exposed to severe conditions. Nearly TUE seventy years later, Tessa Roseboom, a researcher at the TUE Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, has found long term TUE health risks for Dutch adults who were in the womb during TUE that difficult winter. TUE TUE But it’s not just underweight babies that may be at risk – TUE being too heavy has its problems too, and is an increasingly TUE common challenge in the UK. As Professor Lucilla Poston - TUE Head of Women’s Health at Kings College London – explains, TUE overweight mothers tend to have big babies and more pregnant TUE women are overweight. These babies are potentially at risk TUE for negative health outcomes in later life. TUE TUE The First Thousand Days: A Legacy for Life calls for a new TUE approach to understanding chronic disease. In recognising TUE the long term impact of events during these early critical TUE phases of development, the medical profession could TUE dramatically change its approach to disease prevention. TUE TUE 21:30 One Hundred Years of Secrecy b0135z1f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0133r9j (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0137z1h (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0137z1k (Listen) TUE The Shielding of Mrs Forbes, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5 Alan Bennett's delightful "unseemly" story The Shielding TUE of Mrs. Forbes send-ups up the vanities and hypocrisies of TUE Middle England by taking the Mrs. Bucket motto of 'Keeping TUE Up Appearances' to its extreme conclusion. Bennett writes TUE about unconventional sexual arrangements among the TUE apparently conventional. The snobbish and priggish Mrs. TUE Forbes is appalled that her son Graham is "chucking himself TUE away" by marrying the unprepossessing Betty. What she TUE (apparently) doesn't know is that her son is gay, and by TUE marrying Betty he is not only ensuring his financial future, TUE but also - he thinks - helping himself and his mother keep TUE up appearances. In this episode he spends the night before TUE his marriage in circumstances that would certainly raise TUE some eyebrows amongst his mother's guests at the wedding. TUE TUE Producer Gordon House TUE Executive Producer: Sara Davies. TUE TUE 23:00 Harry Worth: The Man in the Window b00p8c17 (Listen) TUE Glenn Mitchell pays tribute to the master of comic TUE confusion, Harry Worth, one of the most popular - and TUE subsequently most neglected - comedians of the 1960s. TUE Mitchell interviewed Worth in 1987 and his recording forms TUE the backbone of this tribute, in the 20th anniversary year TUE of the comedian's death. TUE TUE Harry Worth's television and radio shows drew comparisons TUE with Tony Hancock, and the famous opening gag of his TV TUE series, that of Harry posing beside a shop window so that TUE his reflection suggests a man spreadeagled in mid-air, is TUE still fondly remembered - and imitated - by public and TUE professionals alike. TUE TUE The programme tells his story through interviews with Harry TUE and his friends and colleagues and, perhaps for the first TUE time, explains why his career lost direction for over a TUE decade before getting back on track shortly before his TUE death. Including contributions from producers John Ammonds TUE and William G Stewart and actor Jonathan Cecil. TUE TUE 23:30 Towards Zero b00q3kvy (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective TUE novel. TUE TUE Lady Tresselian is discovered murdered in her bed, leaving TUE everyone in the house party very distressed. Inspector Leach TUE leads the investigation. TUE TUE Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville TUE MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion TUE Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook TUE Kay ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Royde ...... Stephen Hogan TUE Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox TUE Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska TUE Sergeant ...... Matt Addis TUE Doctor Lazenby ...... Benjamin Askew TUE Constable ...... David Hargreaves TUE TUE Directed by Mary Peate. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 AUGUST 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0133rb3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0135z1h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0133rb5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0133rb7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0133rb9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0133rbc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01380m5 (Listen) WED With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01380m7 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b01380pc (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Voices from the Old Bailey b01380pf (Listen) WED Series 2, Whose Law Is It Anyway? WED WED Throughout Voices from the Old Bailey Amanda Vickery uses WED court cases to reveal the life of ordinary people in the WED 18th century. WED WED In this final programme she examines the law itself, and how WED far it gave everyone a fair trial. The three court cases in WED the programme take us from the lowest in society to the WED highest, an Earl who is tried for murder in the most WED sensational trial of the century. We hear the voice of an WED 18th century private detective. And we hear the voice of a WED poor Irish laundress accused of murder, who becomes her own WED defence lawyer and takes five hours to cross-examine WED witnesses before producing an ingenious closing speech. WED WED Three contributors discuss the cases: Professor David WED Sugarman, a barrister who is now a historian of law; WED Professor Peter King, historian of crime, and Professor WED Robert Shoemaker, co-founder of the online archive OldBailey WED online. They reveal a legal system which was surprisingly WED sophisticated in its treatment of offenders, with a clear WED hierarchy of penalties for different kinds of people. This WED was a period before lawyers took over, and so it allowed WED both victims and defendants their own voice in court, in a WED way which has been unequalled since. WED WED The programme is recorded on location in the Middlesex WED Sessions House in Clerkenwell, once an 18th century court WED house but now the headquarters of the Masons. We discover an WED original 18th century cell in the basement. Our historians WED cram into it, and imagine what it must have been like to be WED held there, and then to emerge into the blinding light of WED the open-air court room. We give listeners links to read the WED cases in full. WED WED Produced by Elizabeth Burke WED A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01381n5 (Listen) WED Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, Edward Thomas and Robert Frost have an WED emotional encounter with a hostile gamekeeper, and Thomas WED sits down to write his first poem. WED WED Read by Tobias Menzies WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Emma Harding WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01381n7 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01381n9 (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 3 WED WED In episode 3 of Hattie Naylor's adaptation, Pepys returns WED safely across the Channel with the King. Given the task of WED escorting the King's spaniel ashore, he finds it hilarious WED when the dog misbehaves. The King invites the sick to court, WED and they come in their thousands to be touched by him and WED 'cured'. For his part in restoring the King, Edward Montagu WED is knighted and made Lord Sandwich, and there's a promotion WED for Samuel. He 's given the job of Clerk of the Acts for the WED Navy Board. Samuel and Elizabeth will have their own boatman WED and a new house in Seething Lane. But Pepys has a rival for WED the job - a Mr Barlow is laying claim to the post - and it's WED a race against time, and bureaucracy, for Pepys to get his WED contract signed and sealed! WED WED Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall WED Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways WED Charles II ..... Ewan Bailey WED Edward Montagu ..... Blake Ritson WED Mr Beale ..... Lee Mengo WED Robert Holmes ..... Andrew Wincott WED Mr Payne, the boatman ..... Matthew Gravelle WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01381nc (Listen) WED Series 14, Episode 3 WED WED In October 1980, a new play,The Romans in Britain, opened at WED the National Theatre. Eighteen months later, the director, WED Michael Bogdanov, found himself in the dock at the Old WED Bailey facing charges of indecency. WED WED The play tackles the theme of imperial domination and WED repression by drawing parallels between the Roman invasion WED of Britain and the presence of British troops in Northern WED Ireland. The writer, Howard Brenton, had included a scene in WED which a Roman soldier attempts to rape a native Celt, WED Marban. As a metaphor for the rape of a culture, Brenton WED insisted that the scene was central to the play. But Mary WED Whitehouse was not impressed, and pursued a private WED prosecution against the director of The Romans in Britain WED for "the commission of an act of gross indecency with WED another male, in a public place.". WED WED Over thirty years later, Chris Ledgard explores how a play WED ended up in the dock, and discovers what the scandal did to WED the lives and careers of those involved. WED WED 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b01381nf (Listen) WED Series 2, Richard and Gregory Severin WED WED Written by Andrew McGibbon. WED WED It is the late forties and Gregory and Richard Severin, soon WED to head off to university, become entranced by the in-vogue WED teachings of Lenin, Marx, Engels and Trotsky and the Soviet WED experiment. WED WED In a bid to save himself from being bored to death by their WED endless Spartist dogma, Pickerskill uses a detention with WED them to say that he is secretly one of them - a communist, WED and that they must remain silent until he gives them the WED signal to join him in the vanguard of the great British WED workers proletarian rebellion. Unfortunately, his false WED pledge of allegiance is overheard by the cook of Castlereagh WED House who happens to be the daughter of a murdered White WED Russian anti-communist. WED WED Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid WED Richard Severin ........Tom Kane WED Gregory Severin ...... James Rowland WED A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne WED Mrs Stroove ...... Mia Soteriou WED Cartwright/Dawson .......Toby Longworth WED The Colonel/Pyotr Stroove ...... Andrew McGibbon WED WED Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon WED Directed by Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01381nh (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01381nw (Listen) WED With John Waite. Investigative series looking at consumer WED and social stories from the UK. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0133rbf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b013820l (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 b013820n (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0137yqh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jdms7 (Listen) WED Aromatherapy WED WED By Ed Harris. Robert returns from holiday in Thailand in WED crippling pain from an illness with a very unusual cure. WED WED Robert ...... Martin Freeman WED Oliver ...... Nigel Anthony WED Doctor Magisterne ...... Pip Torrens WED Lily ...... Clare Corbett WED Sophie ...... Polly Lister WED WED Directed by Chris Wallis. WED WED 15:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b0134sv6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b013835j (Listen) WED Summer Ghosts, The Queen of Craigielee WED WED 2. The Queen of Craigielee by Louise Welsh WED Photographing the deserted tower block means going to its WED thirtieth floor, which isn't really the place to be... WED WED Reader Tracy Wiles WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 15:45 A Guide to Farmland Birds b013835l (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher, Stephen Moss, WED on an arable farm on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. WED With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they WED offer a practical and entertaining guide to identifying the WED birds which you're most likely to see and hear in farmland WED hedgerows; birds like Fieldfare, Redwing, Black-headed Gull WED and Golden Plover. WED WED This is the third of five programmes to help identify many WED of the birds seen and heard in the British countryside, in WED winter pastures, copses, arable fields, farmyards and WED hedgerows. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the WED birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them WED from their calls and songs. WED WED This series complements four previous series; A Guide to WED Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds, A Guide to Water Birds WED and A Guide to Coastal Birds and is aimed at both the WED complete novice as well as those who are eager to learn more WED about our farmland visitors and residents. WED PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b013835n (Listen) WED Does beauty pay? A new book argues that good looking people WED have higher incomes and even boost company profits. Laurie WED Taylor is joined by the author and professor of economics, WED Daniel Hamermash and by the social scientist, Dr Catherine WED Hakim, who claims evidence for the power possessed by those WED with 'erotic capital'. Also, Gordon Matthews, the author of WED a book about Chungking Mansions, the cheapest accomodation WED in Hong Kong, describes its multifarious residents. This WED ramshackle building in the heart of the tourist district is WED home to a polyethnic melting pot of people - from Pakistani WED phone stall operators to American backpackers and Indonesian WED sex workers. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life b0137z06 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b013835q (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0133rbh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Wondermentalist Cabaret b00yqspr (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Matt Harvey's warm-hearted poetry cabaret, Wondermentalist, WED is today in the company of fellow poets Les Barker, Pete WED Hunter and Jude Simpson. Supported by one man house band, WED Jerri Hart, they vie for the audience's approval at the WED Comedy Box, Bristol, in the Dead Poets' Slam, wooing us with WED the deathless words of their best-loved poets from the past. WED The audience too play their part, composing their own WED crowd-sourced poem (the subjects of which can vary wildly, WED from reflecting on the delights and demerits of cheese, to WED Sunday mornings, and the winter habits of gerbils). WED WED Producer: Mark Smalley. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b013835s (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b013835v (Listen) WED AL Kennedy, pianist Bobby Crush and Andy Zaltzman. WED WED Mark Lawson presents a special programme from the Edinburgh WED Festival, with guests including writer and comedian AL WED Kennedy, pianist Bobby Crush and stand-up Andy Zaltzman. WED WED Producer Jack Soper. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01381n9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b013835x (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED WED Professor Julian Le Grand of the London School of Economics WED argues that inherited wealth is bad for the nation. His WED views will be challenged by Madsen Pirie (Founder and WED President of the Adam Smith Institute), Philip Beresford WED (Compiler of the Sunday Times Rich List) and Faiza Shaheen WED (Researcher on Economic Inequality for the New Economics WED Foundation). WED WED The live studio discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. WED You can join in by e-mailing: iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk WED or text 84844 WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b013835z (Listen) WED Series 2, Owen Hatherley WED WED Writer and cultural critic Owen Hatherley attacks the WED architectural results of recent "urban regeneration". He WED regrets the loss of confidence in a vision of how cities of WED the future should be. Defending the buildings of the 1960s, WED he says, "even the most reviled of blocks contain spacious WED apartments", whereas, "The new blocks you can see everywhere WED are designed from the outside in - irregular windows and WED brightly coloured cladding hides the tiny mean proportions WED and a total lack of planning for human use." WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the WED encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, WED speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 The Path of Least Resistance b0138361 (Listen) WED Last year the Director General of the World Health WED Organisation forecast that 'the world is heading for a WED post-antibiotic era'. In July this year a strain of WED gonorrhea completely resistant to antibiotics was identified WED in Japan, with the warning that the infection could now WED become a global threat to public health. WED WED Dr Stuart Flanagan works in a sexual health clinic and WED regularly treats patients with gonorrhea. So far the WED resistant strain hasn't arrived in the UK but, with WED international travel and the established pattern of WED migration shown by other resistant bacteria, it won't be WED long. WED WED It's inevitable that bacteria will evolve and the ones able WED to resist the antibiotics aimed to kill them - the fittest - WED will survive. But over-prescription, failure to complete WED courses, and factors such as poor hygiene have all contrived WED to help bacteria become resistant. For immuno-suppressed WED patients, like those with HIV or undergoing chemotherapy, WED resistant bacteria can prove fatal. WED WED Over 80% of antibiotics in the UK are prescribed by GPs; WED Stuart Flanagan hears from Professor Chris Butler, Head of WED Primary Care and Public Health at Cardiff University about WED the STAR study, aimed at reducing antibiotic prescribing, WED and from Dr Jennifer Byrne of Queens Medical Centre, WED Nottingham, about treating immuno-suppressed patients. Dr WED David Livermore of the Health Protection Agency explains how WED we've helped resistance to grow. Especially in the WED developing world, where poverty and fake medicines WED exacerbate the situation. Newly affluent India and China, WED show resistance levels as high as 60%. And Otto Cars of WED ReAct - an independent global network tackling antibiotic WED resistance - considers the global options. The Chief Medical WED Officer, Dame Sally Davies, reflects on the UK's role. WED WED 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b01380pf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0133rbk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0138363 (Listen) WED With Ritula Shah. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0138365 (Listen) WED The Shielding of Mrs Forbes, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5 Alan Bennett's delightful "unseemly" story The Shielding WED of Mrs. Forbes send-ups up the vanities and hypocrisies of WED Middle England by taking the Mrs. Bucket motto of 'Keeping WED Up Appearances' to its extreme conclusion. Bennett writes WED about unconventional sexual arrangements among the WED apparently conventional. The snobbish and priggish Mrs. WED Forbes is appalled that her son Graham has "chucked himself WED away" by marrying the unprepossessing Betty. What she WED (apparently) doesn't know is that her son is gay, and by WED marrying Betty he is not only ensuring his financial future, WED but also - he thinks - helping himself and his mother keep WED up appearances. The marriage is actually working better than WED any party had a right to expect. Graham enjoys the novelty WED of sex with a woman, while still taking the occasional night WED out with his gentlemen friends. And Mr. Forbes realises that WED his daughter-in-law, while not conventionally beautiful, is WED intelligent, witty and great fun - and a welcome relief from WED his wife. Much of his spare time is spent doing DIY jobs for WED her. All would be well were it not for the re-appearance of WED one of Graham's 'friends'. WED WED Producer Gordon House WED Executive Producer: Sara Davies. WED WED 23:00 Verse Illustrated b0138367 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED In the second of the new series of illustrated poems, spoken WED word artists Luke Wright and Zena Edwards tell two very WED different stories. WED WED 'The Ballad of Chris and Anne's Fish Bar' written and WED performed by Luke Wright WED A tragic love story set in a chip shop: "He'd banter with WED the customers, as she dipped cod in batter, and though their WED profits were quite slim, it didn't really matter." WED WED 'The Deadline' written and performed by Zena Edwards WED A deadline induced journey through an idyllic dream: "The WED seas shushes its way up and down the shore, pushing and WED pulling its liquid love along the lip of the yellow-white WED sands." WED WED Actors... Jonathan Forbes, Susie Riddell and Elaine Claxton WED WED Directed by James Robinson. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00y2sq7 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Root of all Evil WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. WED WED This week Mordrin recruits ally and former Wizard activist WED Ben The Brown to settle a garden dispute with his neighbour WED Jill. WED WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Bernard The Blue: Jack Doherty WED Ben The Brown: Arnold Brown WED Jill: Katrina Bryan WED Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson WED Ash: Greg McHugh WED Sickie-More: Johnny Austin WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Rory Bremner's International Satirists b00rdxm7 (Listen) WED Victor Giacobbo - Switzerland 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 Victor Giacobbo has been a satirical presence in Switzerland WED for the best part of 30 years and uses a variety of comic WED character creations to illustrate the subtle but active WED social differences in this well-behaved country. The fact WED that Switzerland is the oldest culturally integrated, openly WED democratic country in Europe cannot conceal the absurdities WED and contradictions found in the political classes and the WED people of this cheerful, mildly repressed, law-abiding WED nation. WED WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 AUGUST 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0133rc4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01381n5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0133rc6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0133rc8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0133rcb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0133rcd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01383b3 (Listen) THU With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01383b5 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b013851v (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The House I Grew up In b013851x (Listen) THU Series 5, Jasvinder Sanghera THU THU Jasvinder Sanghera is the founder of the charity, Karma THU Nirvana, which campaigns against forced marriage. She was THU also one of the influential voices behind the 2008 Forced THU Marriages Act. THU THU Jasvinder was born into a Sikh community in Derby, part of a THU family of seven daughters and one son. Her mother married THU off each of her girls one by one. But when it was THU Jasvinder's turn, she refused. So she was dragged to her THU bedroom and a lock was put on the door. She was told that THU she had brought huge shame onto her family and that she THU would not be allowed out until she promised to go ahead with THU the wedding. She finally agreed but, once free, hatched a THU plan to run away with her secret boyfriend. She was just 15. THU This caused a family rift which, in the 30 years since, has THU never fully healed. The relationship which Jasvinder mourned THU the most was with her father, to whom she was very close. THU After his death he made Jasvinder executor of his estate - THU proof, for her, that despite everything he had always loved THU her. THU THU She takes Wendy Robbins back to her childhood homes and THU haunts and tells her about her recent trip to India's THU Punjab, to meet the one sister she had never met before. THU Bachanu had decided not to make the journey with the rest of THU her family when they came to England in the late 1950s. This THU was a cathartic meeting. Bachanu told her sister she should THU carry no shame. Their father had travelled to this country THU in order to live by western values, and Jasvinder, she THU thought, should not have been punished when that is what she THU tried to do. THU THU 09:30 The Tribes of Science b013851z (Listen) THU More Tribes of Science, The Statisticians THU THU At the annual Royal Statistical Society Awards and Summer THU Reception, Peter Curran puts the tribe of statisticians THU under his anthropological microscope. What rouses the THU passions of statisticians? What are the differences between THU statisticians and mathematicians? How do they feel about the THU way politicians and the media make use their hard work? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0138521 (Listen) THU Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode, Thomas wrestles with the conundrum of THU whether to enlist. A poem by his friend Robert Frost forces THU his hand. THU THU Read by Tobias Menzies THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Emma Harding THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0138523 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0138525 (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 4 THU THU In the fourth episode of Hattie Naylor's adaptation, Samuel THU and Elizabeth have moved into their new house in Seething THU Lane. The house needs some work doing so they've got the THU builders in. They make an enormous mess and keep sneaking THU off early. Sam can't stand mess; it's one of his pet hates. THU Now that Sam has been promoted to Clerk of the Acts for the THU Navy Board, he's inundated with 'gifts' from people hoping THU to soften him up for a favour - a jar of olives from one and THU some turtle doves from another. He's not surprised to find THU himself being offered bribes - that's what happens when you THU get into a position of power. There's a fashionable new THU drink - and Pepys goes to try it - but he isn't at all THU impressed and doesn't think that 'tea' will catch on. A man THU who supported the execution of Charles I is hanged, drawn THU and quartered. Sam goes to watch but finds it a very THU disturbing sight. THU THU Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall THU Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways THU Lord Sandwich ..... Blake Ritson THU Mr Payne /Thomas Harrison..... Matthew Gravelle THU Plasterer . . . . . . . . . . . Dick Bradnum THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0138527 (Listen) THU Takoradi, Ghana's Oil City THU THU In December, Ghana turned on the taps and began pumping its THU first commercial oil. Production will top 100,000 barrels a THU day this year -- enough the government believes to more than THU double the country's economic growth. At the centre of this THU oil rush is the once sleepy city of Takoradi. Already things THU are starting to change here: new businesses setting up to THU service the offshore oil industry, an increase in THU population, and, spiralling expectations. So can Ghana - one THU of the most stable countries in Africa - escape the curse of THU violence and corruption that has afflicted other big oil THU producers on the continent? Rob Walker visits Takoradi to THU find out, and he'll be returning to observe the THU transformation of Africa's newest oil city over the coming THU years. THU Producer: Katharine Hodgson. THU THU 11:30 Opening the Boxes: A Soprano's Secrets b0138529 (Listen) THU Two years ago, music critic Michael White was asked to look THU at some storage boxes, in which were packed the memorabilia THU of the soprano Jennifer Vyvyan, who died in 1974. THU THU For several months, he and her son Jonathan Crown delved THU through them and uncovered the fascinating story of one of THU Britain's most dazzling classical music stars. In this THU programme, White reveals his discoveries, from the dramatic THU roles she pioneered for Benjamin Britten to her definitive THU recordings of Handel, made with Sir Thomas Beecham and Sir THU Adrian Boult. We learn of her aristocratic roots, a THU controversial marriage, her championing of new music and the THU baroque revival, as well as a lifelong struggle against a THU fatal disease. THU THU We also hear archive recordings of Vyvan herself, and the THU recollections of her contemporaries April Cantelo, Steuart THU Bedford and John Copley. Above all we hear one of the most THU golden voices of the post war era of British music. THU THU Producer: Alyn Shipton THU An Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b013852c (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0133rcg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b013852f (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 b013852h (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 unrivaled THU collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. THU THU In this richly informative programme all manner of questions THU are looked into. Some recent enquiries that sparked THU particularly large responses included: What happened to all THU the wrought iron fencing that was collected during the THU Second World War? Is it possible to create one sound, which THU completely cancels out another sound? and How was the THU direction of writing originally established? THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b013835s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b013852k (Listen) THU Rightfully Mine THU THU In 'Rightfully Mine', Ella Hickson explores the relationship THU between a mother and a daughter and asks what rights raising THU a child gives you - do the things you do for your children THU really come for free? THU THU 'I suddenly wonder whether the best thing you can ever do THU for your child is not to sacrifice anything for them, to THU live, almost in spite of them - that way you'll never hold THU it against them - you'll never feel that they owe you THU anything...' THU THU Twenty six year old Amy is desperate to have her own child, THU but a teenage illness and subsequent operation has made it THU impossible for her to bear her own. Her last resort is to THU ask her fifty year-old mother, Celia, to act as surrogate. A THU favour which Celia gives freely, and Amy is afraid to THU recieve. THU THU Celia: Kath Howden THU Amy: Shauna MacDonald THU Paul: John Paul Hurley THU THU Written by Ella Hickson THU Directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0134sqr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0134yf9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b013857g (Listen) THU Summer Ghosts, Swings THU THU "Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the THU auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to THU die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. THU Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose death THU were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They THU were evil while alive..." THU THU In this series of commissioned stories the aim is to present THU ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of day. Will THU something 'unexplained' be as as scary in a light that is... THU well, reliable to the eye! THU THU 3. Swings by Adam Thorpe. THU Howard is alone when he visits the deserted playground. THU Then something starts to make a squeaking noise... THU THU Reader Kenneth Cranham THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 15:45 A Guide to Farmland Birds b013857j (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher, Stephen Moss, THU on an arable farm on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. THU With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they THU offer a practical and entertaining guide to identifying the THU birds which you're most likely to see and hear in farmland THU copses; birds like Pheasant, Rook, Buzzard and Little Owl. THU THU This is the fourth of five programmes to help identify many THU of the birds seen and heard in the British countryside, in THU winter pastures, arable fields, farmyards, hedgerows and THU copses. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the THU birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them THU from their calls and songs. THU THU This series complements four previous series; A Guide to THU Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds, A Guide to Water Birds THU and A Guide to Coastal Birds and is aimed at both the THU complete novice as well as those who are eager to learn more THU about our farmland visitors and residents. THU PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b0135279 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b013857l (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b013857n (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0133rcj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b0138xmh (Listen) THU Series 5, Milton Jones - Lorry Driver THU THU Milton Jones is the king of the world of refrigerated THU haulage with his very own fleet of iced lorries. But his THU 1000th lorry contains a secret more deadly than one of his THU mum's famous all-day breakfasts.. THU THU He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom THU Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") THU and Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"). THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0138xmk (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0138xmm (Listen) THU Alan and Marilyn Bergman, David Mach THU THU Mark Lawson talks to veteran American husband-and-wife THU lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman about their long THU association with Barbra Streisand, which includes songs THU written for her new album What Matters Most. In a rare THU interview, the Emmy and Oscar-winning couple discuss their THU prolific 50-year career which has included hits such as The THU Windmills Of Your Mind, You Don't Bring Me Flowers and The THU Way We Were, and involved saying no to Frank Sinatra. THU THU David Mach has spent three years preparing work for his THU exhibition in Edinburgh which uses the King James Bible to THU create a series of collages. During the show his team are THU working at the City Art Centre putting together an image of THU The Last Supper and in September they will display an image THU of Christ made from burnt matches. Mark Lawson visits the THU gallery to report on their progress. THU THU Producer Claire Bartleet. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0138525 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0138xmp (Listen) THU Hacking Scandal THU THU In an exclusive interview with Radio 4's The Report, Tom THU Watson MP calls on the government to look again at the links THU between the murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan and THU the phone and email hacking scandal. As a result of evidence THU brought to light by The Report, Tom Watson states he will THU write to the Prime Minister the day before the transmission THU of the programme to demand that the 1987 Daniel Morgan THU murder case be reinvestigated as part of the Leveson public THU inquiry. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0138xmr (Listen) THU Made in India THU THU In 1995, Peter Day visited Bangalore, the place that created THU India's reputation as computer outsourcing centre. Then THU India was just starting to take off, fueled by deregulation THU and a huge pool of high-tech talent. Since then, THU entrepreneurs have branched out into other industries, and THU the country has established itself as a world class business THU hub, but problems including poverty and poor infrastructure THU remain. Peter Day recently revisited India to hear from the THU entrepreneurs who started the boom ... and the people who THU are setting up new businesses today. THU THU 21:00 In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity b0135z1m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The House I Grew up In b013851x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0133rcl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0138xmw (Listen) THU With Felicity Evans. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0138xmy (Listen) THU The Shielding of Mrs Forbes, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5 Alan Bennett's delightful "unseemly" story The Shielding THU of Mrs. Forbes send-ups up the vanities and hypocrisies of THU Middle England by taking the Mrs. Bucket motto of 'Keeping THU Up Appearances' to its extreme conclusion. Bennett writes THU about unconventional sexual arrangements among the THU apparently conventional. The snobbish and priggish Mrs. THU Forbes is appalled that her son Graham has "chucked himself THU away" by marrying the unprepossessing Betty. What she THU (apparently) doesn't know is that her son is gay, and by THU marrying Betty he is not only ensuring his financial future, THU but also - he thinks - helping himself and his mother keep THU up appearances. The marriage is actually working better than THU any party had a right to expect. Graham enjoys the novelty THU of sex with a woman, while still taking the occasional night THU out with his gentlemen friends. And Mr. Forbes realises that THU his daughter-in-law, while not conventionally beautiful, is THU intelligent, witty and great fun - and a welcome relief from THU his wife. Much of his spare time is spent doing DIY jobs for THU her. All would be well were it not for the re-appearance of THU one of Graham's paid lovers - the ubiquitous Gary/Kevin who, THU finding out that Graham has not told his mother he is gay, THU starts to blackmail him. A trip to the police station to THU report the blackmail leads to an unexpected and unwelcome THU revelation. THU THU Producer Gordon House THU Executive Producer: Sara Davies. THU THU 23:00 House on Fire b0138xn0 (Listen) THU Series 2, Quarantine THU THU The return of the comedy radio series written by Dan Hine THU and Chris Sussman. THU THU In her job as legal secretary, Vicky rarely finds herself in THU a courtroom. That is - until she decides to defend her THU father on a charge of International War crimes. THU THU Meanwhile, Matt's parents have decided to go on a world tour THU just as Matt contracts a horrible flu. Desperate to avoid THU catching anything from Matt, Vicky agrees to a number of THU disturbing household duties - just as long as he agrees to THU never set foot outside his room. THU THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt ..... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ..... Philip Jackson THU Julie ..... Janine Duvitski THU Gerald ..... Clive Brill THU Sir Nicholas ..... Nick Sampson THU THU Additional characters played by Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Elvenquest b00kjjyy (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU THU Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. THU THU The Questers face the Tower of Tests and are horrified when THU one of their number is struck down. Meanwhile, Lord Darkness THU must confront some revolting slaves. 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 19 AUGUST 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0133rd5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0138521 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0133rd7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0133rd9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0133rdc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0133rdf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0138ykr (Listen) FRI With Rev Dr Trystan Owain Hughes. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0138ykt (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0138ykw (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b0134z00 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0138yky (Listen) FRI Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode, Thomas says a final farewell to his FRI friends and family in early 1917 and leaves for France, just FRI as his first collection of poems nears publication. FRI FRI Read by Tobias Menzies FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0138yl0 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0138yl2 (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the fifth episode of Hattie Naylor's adaptation, Sam and FRI Elizabeth have still got the builders in and the mess in the FRI house is driving Sam to distraction. As if that wasn't FRI enough, his neighbour's cess pit overflows into the cellar FRI of Sam's house. There's no quick solution. It takes five FRI days before the night soil men come to clear it out. Sam FRI comes home drunk and beats the maid, Jane, with a broom. FRI Then the weather whips up into a gale and The Assurance FRI sinks at Woolwich. Sam goes out on the river to see the FRI wreckage. The year ends happily with Sam and Elizabeth FRI getting on well, the workmen gone and the house tidy, the FRI King restored to the throne. And so to bed! FRI FRI Samuel Pepys ..... Kris Marshall FRI Elizabeth Pepys ..... Katherine Jakeways FRI Mr Blackburne ..... Ewan Bailey FRI Jane, the maid ..... Rebecca Newman FRI Mr Payne, boatman ..... Matthew Gravelle FRI Mrs Hunt ..... Manon Edwards FRI Frenchman ..... Ewan Bailey FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b0138yl4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Hop, Step and Jump FRI FRI Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head for some FRI famous sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and FRI trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their FRI lives. Today, they wander between the equine competitors at FRI the Open Show of the West Sussex Riding Club, begin to FRI consider which sports they would like to see at the FRI Olympics, and try not to put their feet into ordure - both FRI literally and figuratively. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has, as FRI ever, a fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal. But FRI Christopher gamely tries to match him stride by stride with FRI his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest FRI levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at FRI the lowest). FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b00v72ft (Listen) FRI Series 10, Tennessee Williams FRI FRI This week the "Author of the Week" is American playwright FRI and twice Pulitzer Prize-winner, Tennessee Williams. The FRI teams answer questions about his immensely colourful life FRI and work, as well as solve the usual literary brain-teasers FRI as posed to them by Write Stuff host, James Walton. FRI FRI Joining Sebastian Faulks on his team this week is FRI bestselling children's author and "Horrid Henry" creator, FRI Francesca Simon. Opposite them, on John Walsh's team will be FRI award-winning crime writer, Mark Billingham. FRI FRI The show will end, as ever, on the hilarious pastiches that FRI the panellists have written of Williams' work. This week FRI their brief is to imagine what Williams' plays might be like FRI if he had set them, not in the American Deep South, but in FRI the British Home Counties. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0138yl8 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0133rdh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0138ylb (Listen) FRI With Edward Stourton. National and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b0138yld (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0138xmk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0138zlf (Listen) FRI No Particular Place to Go FRI FRI Written by Robert Rigby. Iraq veteran, Alex, is finding it FRI hard to adapt to his latest mission as an undercover FRI security guard patrolling the floors of a provincial FRI department store. And shoplifter Simon has his own tactics FRI and escape and evasion plans. FRI FRI Alex ..... Steve Nicolson FRI Simon ..... Rikki Lawton FRI Jude / Ken ...... Ben Crowe FRI Helen ..... Teresa Gallagher FRI Chorus ...... Robert Rigby FRI FRI Location Recording: Lucinda Mason Brown FRI Sound Design: David Chilton FRI Original Songs: Robert Rigby FRI FRI Producer: Nick Russell-Pavier FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0138zlh (Listen) FRI Canning Town, London FRI FRI Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Eric FRI Robson are guests of the Canning Town Regeneration Project FRI in East London. FRI FRI Matthew Wilson gives the lowdown on allotment gardening in FRI bags. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 A Guide to Farmland Birds b0138zlk (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher, Stephen Moss, FRI on an arable farm on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire. FRI With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson they FRI offer a practical and entertaining guide to identifying the FRI birds which you're most likely to see and hear in Britain's FRI farmyards; birds like Tree Sparrow, House Sparrow, Barn FRI Swallow and Jackdaw. FRI FRI This is the last of five programmes to help identify many of FRI the birds seen and heard in the British countryside, in FRI winter pastures, arable fields, hedgerows, copses and FRI farmyards. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the FRI birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them FRI from their calls and songs. FRI FRI This series complements four previous series; A Guide to FRI Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds, A Guide to Water Birds FRI and A Guide to Coastal Birds and is aimed at both the FRI complete novice as well as those who are eager to learn more FRI about our farmland visitors and residents. FRI PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0138zlm (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b01390b9 (Listen) FRI With Francine Stock. Film programme looking at the latest FRI cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01390bc (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0133rdk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b01390bf (Listen) FRI Series 7, John Cooper Clarke interviews Kevin Eldon 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 week, the punk poet laureate John Cooper Clarke FRI interviews the comedian Kevin Eldon. Kevin Eldon is a writer FRI and actor for whom it would probably be quicker to list the FRI brilliant programmes he's not been in than those he has - FRI which include Brass Eye, 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Look FRI Around You, Black Books, Big Train, World of Pub, Jam, I'm FRI Alan Partridge and Attention Scum!. He also wrote and FRI starred in Radio 4's Poets' Tree, in character as the FRI Islington poet Paul Hamilton, and is the lead singer in FRI Beergut 100. John talks to him about spoof poetry, real FRI poetry, bring a polymath, and the benefits of not being the FRI star. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01390bh (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01390bk (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang talks to writer Fransisco Goldman, whose latest FRI book concerns his wife's death and to musican Wynton FRI Marsalis. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0138yl2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01391jr (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and FRI politics from Nelson, Lancashire, with Maurice Glasman and FRI Eve Pollard. FRI FRI Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01391jt (Listen) FRI The celebrated thinker John Gray gives his reflection on the FRI meaning of folly. Taking the myth of the Trojan horse as his FRI starting point, he explores what he sees as the modern day FRI folly unfolding in Europe. He calls on European leaders to FRI reconsider the single European currency - a project he says FRI was always doomed to fail. FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b01391jw (Listen) FRI Midsummer FRI FRI Midsummer - a play with songs by David Greig and Gordon FRI McIntyre. FRI Starring Cora Bissett and Matthew Pidgeon. FRI FRI It's a Midsummer's weekend in Edinburgh. It's raining. Two FRI thirtysomethings are sitting in a FRI New Town bar waiting for something to turn up. FRI FRI Midsummer is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost FRI weekend of bridge burning, wedding bust-ups, chases, bondage FRI miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hungover self FRI loathing misery. A warm hearted adult romantic comedy! FRI FRI Midsummer was first produced by the Traverse Theatre FRI Edinburgh. It was widely acclaimed at the 2009 Edinburgh FRI Fringe Festival and has since toured to Ireland, Canada and FRI England. FRI FRI HELENA...............CORA BISSETT FRI BOB.....................MATTHEW PIDGEON FRI All other parts played by Cora and Matthew. FRI FRI Producer/director - David Ian Neville. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0133rdm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01391jy (Listen) FRI With Felicity Evans. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01391k0 (Listen) FRI The Shielding of Mrs Forbes, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/5 Alan Bennett's delightful "unseemly" story The Shielding FRI of Mrs. Forbes send-ups up the vanities and hypocrisies of FRI Middle England by taking the Mrs. Bucket motto of 'Keeping FRI Up Appearances' to its extreme conclusion. The snobbish and FRI priggish Mrs. Forbes is appalled that her son Graham has FRI "chucked himself away" by marrying the unprepossessing FRI Betty. What she (apparently) doesn't know is that her son is FRI gay, and by marrying Betty he is not only ensuring his FRI financial future, but also - he thinks - helping himself and FRI his mother keep up appearances. The marriage is actually FRI working better than any party had a right to expect. Graham FRI enjoys the novelty of sex with a woman, while still taking FRI the occasional night out with his gentlemen friends. And Mr. FRI Forbes realises that his daughter-in-law, while not FRI conventially beautiful, is intelligent, witty and great fun FRI - and a welcome relief from his wife. Much of his spare time FRI is spent doing DIY jobs for her. All would be well were it FRI not for the re-appearance of one of Graham's paid lovers - FRI the ubiquitous Gary/Kevin who finding out that Graham has FRI not told his mother he is gay, starts to blackmail him. A FRI trip to the police station, to report the blackmail, proves FRI entirely unsuccessful, as Graham discovers that far from FRI being a lorry driver, or a panel beater, Kevin/Gary is in FRI fact a policeman. But in this concluding episode we discover FRI that no blackmailer is a match for the resourceful Betty. FRI FRI Producer Gordon House FRI Executive Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b0137ynp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r187 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI FRI This week's comedy talk show features comedian Colin Murphy FRI and Irish comic PJ Gallagher discussing questions such as: FRI how thick is a twig before it is considered a branch? FRI Resident scientist Dr David Booth will attempt to offer some FRI answers amidst the laughs and computer whizz Matthew Collins FRI will trawl the internet to find content which will heighten FRI the entertainment value. FRI
13 August, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 13/08/2011 - 19/08/2011
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