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SAT SATURDAY 20 AUGUST 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0133rfl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0138yky (Listen) SAT Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 5 SAT SAT A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's SAT most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who SAT is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. SAT SAT Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's SAT final five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring SAT friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. SAT SAT Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, SAT Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age SAT of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he SAT regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with SAT depression and by his marriage. SAT SAT But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote SAT poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. SAT The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would SAT produce some of the most memorable verse of the twentieth SAT century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: SAT Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas SAT stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and SAT those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable SAT book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter SAT Monday 1917. SAT SAT In today's episode, Thomas says a final farewell to his SAT friends and family in early 1917 and leaves for France, just SAT as his first collection of poems nears publication. SAT SAT Read by Tobias Menzies SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0133rfn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0133rfq (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0133rfs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0133rfv (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013927k (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b013927m (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0133rfx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0133rfz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b013f4bc (Listen) SAT Island Revival SAT SAT Just off the coast of Mull lies the tiny island of Ulva. For SAT 200 years it has been virtually abandoned. The Highland SAT Clearances saw the removal of most of the 800 people who had SAT been scraping a living from its shores and its farmland. SAT Today a shot of energy is pulsing through the island, giving SAT this beautiful place a chance of economic and natural SAT revival. SAT SAT The manager of the island, Jamie Howard has just married SAT field biologist and broadcaster, Tessa McGregor. Together SAT they've come up with a plan to turn Ulva into a paradise for SAT nature tourism. They've identified the island's SAT extraordinary variety of unusual plant and animal species, SAT they're helping archaeologists reconstruct the nine thousand SAT year history of human habitation and they're replanting the SAT native woodland and reconstructing abandoned buildings. SAT SAT For 'Open Country' Helen Mark will be joining the energetic SAT couple in the middle of a crucial summer for the island's SAT future. Can they use the short tourist season to attract SAT people and money into Ulva to fund their grand revival SAT plans? SAT SAT Producer: Alasdair Cross. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b013f4bf (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Last year £3.5 billion pounds of EU subsidies were claimed SAT by UK farmers, landowners and food producers. Critics say at SAT a cost of £110 for every tax payer, the agricultural SAT industry shouldn't need to be supported in this way. There SAT are a variety of schemes available, the largest of which is SAT the Single Farm Payment, which was claimed by 100,000 SAT farmers last year at a cost of £1.75 billion. Other schemes SAT such as Entry and Higher Level Stewardship reward farmers SAT for conservation work on their land. Presenter Caz Graham SAT visits John Braithwaite, an arable farmer from Staffordshire SAT to see how he meets the standards necessary to claim the SAT money - and how it's changed the way he farms. Working SAT alongside John is Nigel Baskerville from FWAG, the Farming SAT and Wildlife Advisory Group, who helps support John as he SAT manages the conservation areas on the farm. SAT Also on the programme - as farmers across the UK are awarded SAT money based on different criteria, a Scottish crofter SAT explains how she uses the £700 subsidy to pay for feed, SAT whilst an Inverness mixed farmer says without the subsidy SAT food prices would go up. It's not just farmers and SAT landowners who claim the money. Some of the biggest SAT recipients of money from the European Common Agricultural SAT policy are large, multi-national companies that process food SAT or sell commodities. The National Farmers Union Policy SAT Director explains why millions of Euros are claimed by sugar SAT and dairy processors. SAT SAT Presenter: Caz Graham ; Producer: Angela Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0133rg1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b013f5jd (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b013f5jg (Listen) SAT Kevin Dutton, Salena Godden, Pat Reid, George Carrigill, SAT Chipping Norton Crowdscape, Pauline Black's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles with psychologist and persuasion expert Kevin SAT Dutton, poet Salena Godden, a man working with young people SAT to stop them joining street gangs, and one of Britain's SAT oldest bookies. There's a Crowdscape from Chipping Norton SAT and The Selecter's Pauline Black shares her Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b013f5jj (Listen) SAT Istanbul - Part 1 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig in the first of two programmes begins to SAT explore the ancient and modern city of Istanbul which SAT straddles the border between Europe and Asia. She gets an SAT overview of the city from the tops of two very different SAT towers, hears about the impact of tourism and economic SAT growth on the city and rediscovers a forgotten opera singer. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Interrail Tales b013f5kc (Listen) SAT 1990 to the Present Day SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer dons her rucksack to explore the impact SAT interrailing has had on different generations of young SAT people. The scheme's been going almost forty years. For SAT many, it was a rite of passage, clutching that all important SAT month-long rail pass. Sleeping on trains, running out of SAT money, barely escaping trouble. The collapse of communism in SAT the late 80's opened up new cultures and unfamiliar places SAT in Europe for backpackers to explore. But do people still SAT interrail around Europe these days, especially when they're SAT used to cheap flights to exotic locations. Join Miranda SAT Sawyer to find out. Playwright David Greig, travel writer SAT Sarah Baxter and railway guru, Mark Smith, amongst others, SAT talk to the programme. Part Two: 1990 - 2011. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b013f5kw (Listen) SAT 4/6. The Blue Line Thins SAT SAT 4/6. This month's street disturbances in England provoked SAT outrage and soul-searching. But what are their lasting SAT lessons for politicians and those involved with policing? SAT John Kampfner explores, in a studio discussion, politicians' SAT more considered reflections on the rioting and looting. Is SAT British society "sick", in the Prime Minister's words? What SAT do we need to change in our approach to the policing of SAT public order to restore public confidence? And what steps do SAT we need to take over the next twelve months to ensure next SAT summer is trouble free? Joining him to tackle those SAT questions and more are the MPs, Margot James, Chuka Umunna SAT and Tom Brake, as well as social policy expert, Dr Marion SAT Fitzgerald. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Coates. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b013f5qg (Listen) SAT 'Politics at its most brutal, its most basic, democracy as a SAT demolition derby.' That's Mark Mardell's view as he SAT contemplates months of Republican infighting ahead of next SAT year's presidential election. The Moscow coup of twenty SAT years ago: Bridget Kendall, who was there during that SAT eventful August back in 1991, says it could so easily have SAT succeeded. The smiles seem to have faded somewhat in SAT newly-independent South Sudan but Robin Denselow, just back SAT from the capital Juba, says they still revere their cattle. SAT David Hargreaves has been attending a spectacular riverside SAT religious festival in central India and Karishma Vaswani's SAT had to call in the Indonesian witch doctor after strange SAT goings-on at her house in Djakarta. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b013f6qg (Listen) SAT In a Money Box special, Ruth Alexander asks whether the UK SAT faces a 'lost decade'. SAT SAT Will the economy stagnate over the next 10 years, as Japan's SAT did in the 1990s? SAT SAT In a Money Box special, Ruth Alexander asks whether the UK SAT faces a 'lost decade'. SAT SAT Will the economy stagnate over the next 10 years, as Japan's SAT did in the 1990s? SAT SAT And experts predict the food, energy, fuel and house prices SAT we will be paying in 2020 - as well as what salaries might SAT be. SAT SAT Presenter: Ruth Alexander SAT Producer: Ben Carter. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b01390bf (Listen) SAT Series 7, John Cooper Clarke interviews Kevin Eldon SAT SAT Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each SAT week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses SAT another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns SAT interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone SAT else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series. SAT SAT This week, the punk poet laureate John Cooper Clarke SAT interviews the comedian Kevin Eldon. Kevin Eldon is a writer SAT and actor for whom it would probably be quicker to list the SAT brilliant programmes he's not been in than those he has - SAT which include Brass Eye, 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Look SAT Around You, Black Books, Big Train, World of Pub, Jam, I'm SAT Alan Partridge and Attention Scum!. He also wrote and SAT starred in Radio 4's Poets' Tree, in character as the SAT Islington poet Paul Hamilton, and is the lead singer in SAT Beergut 100. John talks to him about spoof poetry, real SAT poetry, bring a polymath, and the benefits of not being the SAT star. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0133rg3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0133rg5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01391jr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and SAT politics from Nelson, Lancashire, with Maurice Glasman and SAT Eve Pollard. SAT SAT Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b013f6s0 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00jq17x (Listen) SAT Road to Durham SAT SAT Douglas Livingstone's play about Bevin Boys, the young men SAT who were sent down the mines instead of joining the armed SAT forces in the Second World War. Two 80-year-old former Bevin SAT Boys, who have not seen each other for 63 years, decide to SAT go to the Durham Miners' Gala together and confront their SAT memories of the past. SAT SAT Christopher ...... Timothy West SAT Benny ...... Douglas Livingstone SAT Young Christopher ...... Fergus Rees SAT Young Benny ...... Sam Fletcher SAT Sally ...... Faye Castelow SAT Jim ...... Christoher Connel SAT Michael ...... David Whitaker SAT Older Sally ...... Jane Whittenshaw SAT Headmaster ...... Brian Lonsdale SAT SAT With recordings made at the Durham Miners' Gala and at West SAT Pelton Primary School. SAT SAT Directed by Jane Morgan SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b0137vtp (Listen) SAT Series 12, Mendelssohn's Octet SAT SAT This exploration of the impact that Mendelssohn's Octet has SAT had on different people's lives, demonstrates the healing SAT power of music in a variety of situations around the world. SAT SAT Mendelssohn wrote his Octet for double string quartet in SAT 1825 when he was only 16 years old. Despite his youth, this SAT is a mature and brilliant piece of music described in this SAT programme by the interviewees as "carnivalesque", "a romp", SAT "a party". SAT SAT Choreographer Bill T Jones describes the way in which the SAT Octet showed his company how to keep living during the SAT onslaught of AIDS in the 80's. Cellist Raphael and violinist SAT Elizabeth Wallfisch talk about falling in love whilst SAT learning this music in the 70's. South Korean Lisa Kim tells SAT a story about going on tour with the New York Philharmonic SAT to North Korea and her intense fear and mistrust being SAT replaced by wonder when they played the Octet with a North SAT Korean Quartet. And Matthew Trusler describes the importance SAT of playing this work after the death of his son. SAT SAT The recording of the Mendelssohn Octet featured in the SAT programme is by the Emerson String Quartet on Deutsche SAT Gramophon. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b013f77p (Listen) SAT Audrey Tautou, Tara Fitzgerald, Camping or Glamping? SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. French actress Audrey Tautou, Tara SAT Fitzgerald best known as the forensic pathologist in Waking SAT the Dead on her new stage role, we look at camping versus SAT glamping, will rising tuition fees discourage girls from SAT going to university, caring for a child with diabetes, the SAT Victorians and the language of flowers and the woman SAT standing for President of Egypt. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b013f77r (Listen) SAT With Ritula Shah. A fresh perspective on the day's news with SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b013f7h1 (Listen) SAT 'It's awful to think, I'm glad my child's locked up.' A SAT listener talks about raising a wayward daughter. Presented SAT by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Plus Emily Maitlis reads SAT Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0133rg7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0133rg9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0133rgc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b013f7h3 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy from the Edinburgh Festival! SAT SAT You'll like this...not a lot, but you'll like it, because SAT bringing some magic to Loose Ends at Edinburgh is magician SAT Paul Daniels. From the 1970's Paul became a household name SAT hosting his own show on BBC1 with his wife Debbie McGee and SAT becoming a regular fixture on television. They are now SAT starring in a new show at Edinburgh called 'Hair Today Gone SAT Tomorrow'. SAT SAT A surprise for the festival this year is Phill Jupitus who SAT joins Clive to talk about his return to the Fringe after a SAT 10 year hiatus from standup comedy. Phill is a familiar face SAT as a team captain on BBC 2's music quiz 'Never Mind the SAT Buzzcocks' and a regular guest on 'QI'. He's also made a SAT name for himself on the stage, having starred in 'Hairspray' SAT and 'Spamalot'. SAT SAT Former MP and Labour backbench radical Bob Marshall-Andrews SAT QC has written 'Off Message' a witty and subversive account SAT of life under New Labour and Tony Blair. Find out what SAT happens when you work on the case of your constituent's pet SAT alligator and more. SAT SAT Edinburgh and Loose Ends wouldn't be the same without our SAT regular right-hand man Arthur Smith (so identified with the SAT Edinburgh Fringe that they named one of the city's high SAT peaks after him...*). Arthur talks to the woman who put SAT Luton Airport on the map, Lorraine Chase. SAT SAT And from the Outer Hebrides, music comes from the Scots Trad SAT Music Awards 2010 Composer of the Year, Iain Morrison with SAT album track, 'The Sky Throws You'. And from even further SAT afield, in fact from around the world, Voices perform SAT 'Imani' in acappella. SAT SAT *possibly not true. Although it sure feels as though SAT Arthur's been around as long as Arthur's Seat... SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b013f7pf (Listen) SAT Arsene Wenger SAT SAT The Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger is credited with turning SAT around the fortunes of his club and forging a new approach SAT to football management. Known as the 'Professor' and lauded SAT as a genius, he now faces criticism from some of his own SAT loyal fans. Andy Denwood profiles the Frenchman at the heart SAT of English football. SAT SAT Producer - Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b013ffl1 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Natalie Haynes; novelist SAT Louise Welsh and musician Pat Kane review the cultural SAT highlights of the week including In A Better World. SAT SAT This award winning Danish film tells the story of Anton, a SAT doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in SAT Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. His older SAT son Elias is being bullied at school but is befriended by SAT Christian, and the boys form a strong bond, but when SAT Chrisian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge their SAT lives are put in danger. SAT SAT Precious Light is a contemporary celebration of the King SAT James Bible by David Mach. His exhibition of sculpture and SAT collage is at The City Art Centre, Edinburgh and features a SAT dramatic depiction of the crucifixion at Calvary, sculptures SAT made from match heads and coat hangers and his trademark SAT witty and intricate approach to collage. SAT SAT Turner prize winning artist Tony Cragg's exhibition at the SAT Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art features around SAT fifty major sculptures, some of which are on a monumental SAT scale and are sited in the Gallery's grounds. Cragg has SAT worked in materials such as plastic, bronze, glass, SAT stainless steel and wood. SAT SAT The novel The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje is set in the SAT early 1950s, when an eleven-year-old boy boards a ship bound SAT for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table" SAT with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other SAT boys. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, SAT through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean, the boys SAT tumble from one adventure to another, "bursting all over the SAT place like freed mercury." But there are other diversions: SAT one man talks to them about jazz and women, another about SAT literature. And at night, the boys spy on a shackled SAT prisoner - his crime and fate, a mystery that will haunt SAT them. SAT SAT Finally a selection of theatre presented at the Edinburgh SAT festival, among them Marc Almond and Mark Ravenhill's song SAT cycle Ten Plagues; and Art Malik and his daughter Keira SAT starring in Rose, a play about a cultural hybrid who SAT believes he will thrive best if he cuts off his roots SAT altogether SAT SAT Producer: Anne Marie Cole. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01465z9 (Listen) SAT A Tribute to Robert Robinson SAT SAT We all know Robert Robinson as the chairman of such SAT broadcasting classics as Ask the Family and Brain of Britain SAT but in a career spanning many decades, he also made travel SAT programmes, Points of View, the Today programme and Stop the SAT Week which ran on Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992. In Archive on SAT 4: A Tribute to Robert Robinson, Laurie Taylor takes a look SAT at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting SAT legends in the company of some of the former contributors to SAT Stop the Week; Ann Leslie, Matthew Parris, Sarah Harrison SAT and Nick Tucker. There are also contributions from Will SAT Wyatt, Victor Lewis-Smith and Hunter Davis and a wealth of SAT archive that reveals a complex man, a consummate wordsmith SAT and one of the first TV celebrities. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b013522k (Listen) SAT The History of Titus Groan, Titus Alive SAT SAT by Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore, dramatised by Brian SAT Sibley SAT Episode Six 'Titus Alive' SAT Titus attracts attention from the strange but alluring SAT Cheeta, and ultimately becomes the victim of a torturous SAT joke. Rescued by old friends but unable to bear their SAT company any longer, he stumbles into a world uncannily like SAT our own - and is drawn to a mysterious artist, whose SAT presence may at last grant him peace. SAT Titus...Luke Treadaway SAT Artist...David Warner SAT Cheeta...Morven Christie SAT Muzzlehatch...Gerard Murphy SAT Juno...Maureen Beattie SAT Anchor... James Lailey SAT Acreblade...Alun Raglan SAT Scientist...Peter Polycarpou SAT Gertrude... Miranda Richardson SAT Prunesquallor... James Fleet SAT With Elaine Claxton, Jonathan Forbes, Gerard McDermott, SAT Susie Ridell, Alex Tregear SAT Music by Roger Goula SAT Sound production by Peter Ringrose SAT Directed and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0133rgf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Iconoclasts b013835x (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 2 SAT SAT Professor Julian Le Grand of the London School of Economics SAT argues that inherited wealth is bad for the nation. His SAT views will be challenged by Madsen Pirie (Founder and SAT President of the Adam Smith Institute), Philip Beresford SAT (Compiler of the Sunday Times Rich List) and Faiza Shaheen SAT (Researcher on Economic Inequality for the New Economics SAT Foundation). SAT SAT Producer: Peter Everett. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b0135t0k (Listen) SAT (1/12) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the first contest in the SAT 2011 series of radio's longest-lived quiz. Tackling the SAT cryptic clues and devious lateral thinking puzzles today are SAT Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego of the South of England, SAT opposite Diana Collecott and Jim Coulson representing the SAT North. SAT SAT Other regulars appearing in the new series include Polly SAT Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland, Stephen Maddock SAT and Rosalind Miles of the Midlands, and the defending SAT champions David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander of Wales. SAT SAT Each week Tom will also present a teaser question for SAT listeners to tackle, with the answer revealed at the SAT beginning of the following edition. As always, the series SAT also includes a wide selection of questions written by RBQ SAT listeners in an attempt to outwit the panel. SAT SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Listen to Them Breathing b013528r (Listen) SAT Sibyl Ruth is a poet who is also a practising Quaker. For SAT many years she thought her poetry had little to do with her SAT Quaker background. But then, after a meeting with the poet SAT and Quaker Dorothy Nimmo, she began to see connections SAT between her Quaker beliefs and the poetry that spoke most SAT clearly to her. In this programme she goes in search of SAT other poets who are Quakers, to try and find out if there is SAT a relationship between their belief in the Quaker ministry SAT and their writing. She talks to Rosie Bailey about her late SAT partner UA Fanthorpe; to publishers Anne and Peter Sansom SAT about the writing workshops they organise which draw on many SAT of the principles of Quaker meeting; to Gerard Benson, the SAT co-founder of Poems on the Underground, who became a Quaker SAT quite late in life; and to Philip Gross, a line from whose SAT poem 'The Quakers of Pompeii' provides the programme's SAT title. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Davies SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b013fhtw (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 b00pmcqg (Listen) SUN Series 4, Smell My Fleece SUN SUN Series of original stories by unpublished writers. SUN SUN With four fewer teeth and a mouth stuffed with cotton wool, SUN Debra isn't having the easiest of days. And then she meets SUN Dale. A curious tale of dentistry, stalking and poetry. SUN SUN By Anna Towers, read by Claire Foy. SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013fhty (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013fhv0 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013fhv2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b013fhv4 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b013fj37 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Nicholas, Leeds, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b013f7pf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b013fhv6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b013fj4f (Listen) SUN Learning to Wait SUN SUN Taking his cue from Richard Church's eponymous poem, Tom SUN Robinson considers what's required of us in 'Learning To SUN Wait'. SUN SUN The poem's paradoxical observation, 'All that I have grasped SUN at I have lost, All I relinquished won', provokes Tom to SUN explore the work of other writers who have reflected on SUN wanting and waiting, including Milan Kundera, TS Eliot and SUN DH Lawrence. With music by KD Lang, Shostakovich and Brian SUN Eno. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b013fjqs (Listen) SUN Malham Caddisfly SUN SUN Malham Tarn is a unique wetland habitat nestling high up in SUN the Yorkshire Dales. Surrounded by upland acidic SUN environments, surprisingly the Tarn itself is an alkaline, SUN base rich, upland lake home to many species not usually SUN found at this altitude. At a maximum depth of just 14 feet, SUN it is also a very fragile habitat, where its' clean but SUN shallow waters could easily be damaged by surrounding land SUN use and activity. SUN SUN The Tarn is home to the subject of this weeks' Living World. SUN First documented over 50 years ago by the then warden of SUN Malham Tarn, Paul Holmes, since then very little has been SUN discovered about our rarest caddisfly, Agrypria SUN crassicornis, which for this programme and with agreement SUN from the scientific community, has now been given a common SUN name of, The Malham Sedge. SUN SUN Paul Evans travels to Malham and joins Ian Wallace for a SUN different Living World. With the caddisfly's nearest SUN population to Britain being in Scandinavia, no one really SUN knows how or why it is here, or how it survives in this SUN upland lake. Aware the last confirmed sighting of a Malham SUN Sedge was in 2007, from the beginning, Paul does not know if SUN the Malham Sedge still exists in Britain. Joining Ian on an SUN agreed research project, the pair attempt to re-locate this SUN caddisfly while along the way testing and devising SUN acceptable monitoring techniques for future research. SUN SUN On a tranquil summer's night Paul and Ian clamber into a SUN rowing boat and head off onto the calm waters of the lake. SUN As darkness envelops them, using a light trap, within a SUN short while a snowstorm of thousands upon thousands of SUN emerging caddis fly surround the pair and the boat. The air SUN is alive with tiny wing beats but are any of these of the SUN caddis fly the actual species they are searching for? SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b013fhv8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b013fhvd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b013fjqv (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims will descend on Madrid SUN this weekend as Pope Benedict leads a series of events SUN across the city. However many Spaniards have also been SUN protesting about the costs of the papal visit. Jane Little SUN will get the latest from correspondent Sarah Rainsford. SUN SUN A Renaissance manuscript made for use in the Sistine Chapel SUN has been reunited with six similar volumes to complete a SUN rare collection in Manchester. Jane Little will visit the SUN Rhylands library and examine the complete Missal. SUN SUN Phil Mercer reports from Sydney on how proposals for a SUN carbon tax in Australia have split the church. On the one SUN hand a multi-faith network has been lobbying vigourously for SUN change and yet some of the most ardent climate change SUN sceptics are to be found amongst conservative religious SUN groups. SUN SUN This week the rebels in Libya have made a number of gains SUN while in Syria the international pressure on President Assad SUN has grown. Jane speaks to Professor Fawaz Gerges about what SUN is likely to happen next in the Arab Spring. SUN SUN Britons of South Asian origin are 4 or 5 times more likely SUN to develop Type 2 Diabetes than their white counterparts. SUN How do they cope during Ramadan when they cannot eat or SUN drink anything for 15 hours a day? Kevin Bocquet SUN investigates SUN SUN In the aftermath of the riots are the harsh sentences being SUN handed out an angry kneejerk reaction or exactly what is SUN needed to restore order? Jane will debate the morality of SUN punishment with Tim Montgomerie, Editor of the SUN ConservativeHome website, Niall Cooper from Church Action on SUN Poverty and Canon Dr Alan Billings a member of the Youth SUN Justice Board. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b013fjqx (Listen) SUN The Esther Benjamins Trust SUN SUN Philip Holmes presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Esther Benjamins Trust. SUN SUN Donations to Esther Benjamins Trust should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Esther Benjamins Trust. 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 Esther Benjamins Trust 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: 1078187. SUN SUN Esther Benjamins Trust SUN SUN We are a grassroots children’s charity leading the way in SUN the rescue and rehabilitation of Nepali children who have SUN been trafficked or displaced into India. Many of the SUN children were sold by their impoverished families to work as SUN performers in Indian circuses. Wherever possible, we reunite SUN children with their families – we believe that in an ideal SUN world, the best place for children is at home. We currently SUN provide full-time residential refuge near Kathmandu to over SUN 130 children for whom this is not a safe option. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b013fhvg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b013fhvj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b013fjs8 (Listen) SUN The Rev'd Jonathan Lawson and Lilian Groves reflect on the SUN legacy of the Saints of the North in a service from the SUN Chapel of the College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham, with SUN members of the sixth of this year's Eton Choral Courses SUN directed by Ralph Allwood. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b013fjvb (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b013fk0c (Listen) SUN Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Edited by: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Wayne Foley ..... Ian Brooker SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b013fk5s (Listen) SUN Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster SUN SUN In the third programme of the latest BBC Radio 4 series of SUN The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites people involved with the SUN Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. SUN SUN The Townsend Thoresen ferry capsized minutes after leaving SUN the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on March 6, 1987 - the worst SUN maritime disaster involving a British registered ship in SUN peacetime since the Titanic sinking in 1912. SUN SUN 193 passengers and crew were killed - the youngest was just SUN 23 days old - and very few families survived all together. SUN SUN The disaster would have been much worse if the ferry had not SUN capsized onto a sandbank. The subsequent public inquiry SUN found that human error was to blame - the ship's bow doors SUN had been left open. SUN SUN The design of roll on roll off ferries, with a huge open car SUN deck, was also a contributory factor. However, senior SUN management at Townsend Thoresen were also heavily SUN criticised. SUN SUN They were accused of imposing quick turnaround times for SUN ferries in order to meet increasing passenger demand in an SUN era of cheap fares and booze cruises. SUN SUN Sue is joined around the table by survivor Simon Osborne, SUN who lost two close friends; Margaret de Rohan, whose SUN daughter and son-in-law died in the tragedy; Captain Malcolm SUN Shakesby MBE, who took control of the immediate rescue SUN operation; Dover Counselling Centre co-founder Dr Bill Moses SUN MBE and Dr Ian Dand, who investigated the cause of the SUN disaster for the public inquiry. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Green SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b0135t7q (Listen) SUN Series 61, With Phill Jupitus, Julian Clary, Josie Lawrence SUN and Rick Wakeman SUN SUN The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons, in which SUN the panellists attempt to talk uninterrupted for a Minute SUN without hesitation, repetition or deviation. This week the SUN players are Josie Lawrence, Julian Clary, Phill Jupitus and SUN the ex-rocker Rick Wakeman. Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b013fm7g (Listen) SUN Food Icons: Major Patrick Rance SUN SUN In a special summer series of programmes on food icons and SUN iconic kitchens, The Food Programme profiles the campaigner SUN and cheese expert Major Patrick Rance. SUN SUN In the 1950s he set up a shop which offered a rare sight: SUN row after row of British cheeses. By promoting and selling SUN farmhouse cheeses he saved many from extinction. SUN SUN Later in the 1980s he became a prolific writer publishing SUN The Great British Cheese Book in 1982. For the first time SUN home-produced cheeses were documented and explained. He SUN inspired a new generation of farmers, producers and SUN retailers to bring a food culture back from the brink. SUN SUN Chef Richard Corrigan, writer Juliet Harbutt and cheese SUN expert Randolph Hodgson all explain why Patrick Rance's SUN legacy is still alive today. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b013fhvl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b013fmcl (Listen) SUN With Edward Stourton. The latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 How to Write a Personal Statement b013fmcn (Listen) SUN f you want to get into university these days it's not just SUN A-level grades that matter. You need a brilliant personal SUN statement as well. That's because most universities don't SUN interview anymore. There are just too many applicants. So SUN they rely on the UCAS form and in particular the section SUN where pupils have to sum up their whole life so far in 4000 SUN characters. The personal statement. But what should it say? SUN SUN Imogen Stubbs investigates how to write a personal SUN statement, choosing as her case study one of the most SUN competitive subjects at university: law. She asks 2 experts SUN to re-write a personal statement she's cobbled together from SUN examples on the internet: The director of 6th form in a top SUN state school and a former top judge both do their best. But SUN which one will convince the admissions tutor? SUN SUN Producer: Lore Windemuth SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0138zlh (Listen) SUN Canning Town, London SUN SUN Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Eric SUN Robson are guests of the Canning Town Regeneration Project SUN in East London. SUN SUN Bunny Guinness meets the community growing bumper crops of SUN Chinese broccoli amongst other things, in their temporary SUN sand-bag allotment site. SUN SUN In addition, how to spur prune your pear tree, how to beat SUN blossom-end rot and how to cultivate dye-plants such as SUN Lady's Bedstraw, Coreopsis and Woad. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b013851z (Listen) SUN More Tribes of Science, The Statisticians SUN SUN At the annual Royal Statistical Society Awards and Summer SUN Reception, Peter Curran puts the tribe of statisticians SUN under his anthropological microscope. What rouses the SUN passions of statisticians? What are the differences between SUN statisticians and mathematicians? How do they feel about the SUN way politicians and the media make use their hard work? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b013fnz7 (Listen) SUN Classic Serial: The American Senator, Episode 1 SUN SUN The American Senator SUN By Anthony Trollope SUN Dramatised by Martyn Wade SUN Part One SUN Arabella is determined to keep her engagement to John Morton SUN a secret. Perhaps, there is a more exciting and wealthy SUN husband she might be able to catch ... SUN SUN Anthony Trollope..........Robert Glenister SUN Arabella Trefoil.............Anna Maxwell Martin SUN Lady Augustus.............Barbara Flynn SUN John Morton.................Blake Ritson SUN Senator Gotobed..........Stuart Milligan SUN Reginald Morton...........Daniel Rabin SUN Mrs Morton..................Richenda Carey SUN Mary Masters...............Penelope Rawlins SUN Lawrence Twentyman...Carl Prekopp SUN Lord Rufford.................Henry Devas SUN Mr Bearside.................Sean Baker SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b013gjhx (Listen) SUN DJ Taylor talks to Joe Dunthorne, whose debut Submarine was SUN recently adapted as a successful film. He talks about his SUN newly-published second novel Wild Abandon, set in a Welsh SUN commune, and explains why in his work children tend to get SUN the best lines. SUN SUN Sixty years ago the German-born art historian Nikolaus SUN Pevsner published a small book about the buildings of SUN Cornwall. It was the first volume of the forty-seven that SUN make up his monumental architectural survey, The Buildings SUN of England. This anniversary year has been marked by the SUN publication of a new biography. Its author, Susie Harries, SUN talks about the writing of The Buildings of England; and two SUN architectural writers, Jonathan Glancey and Hugh Pearman, SUN reflect on the quirks that make this magnum opus such a SUN pleasure to read. SUN SUN And the novelist Adam Thirlwell explains his passion for SUN Petersburg, a strange and wonderful book by the Russian SUN writer Andrei Bely and set in the city of the same name. SUN SUN Producer: Thomas Morris. SUN SUN 16:30 Maledictions and Disaffections - Poetry That Doesn't SUN Please b013gjhz (Listen) SUN Not all poetry comes out of praise and celebration. An SUN anthology of spells and grudges presented by Matthew Parris, SUN delving deep into hate poems: the poetic equivalent of a SUN doll and a box of pins. Horace and Catullus begin it all but SUN bad-mouthing stretches to the football terraces and the SUN family photo album. Anger is an energy and curses are alive SUN and well even if witches are not. SUN SUN 17:00 Slums 101 b0137z02 (Listen) SUN Across the world, rural poverty is causing an unstoppable SUN tide of migration to the cities. By 2050, it's predicted SUN that around 2 billion will live in slums. Paul Mason, SUN Newsnight's economics editor, visits Manila to ask a SUN question the city fathers of the 19th century would have SUN shuddered at: do we have to learn to live with slums? Are SUN these vast shanty towns here for the foreseeable future? And SUN can we, in the rich world, learn from how people in these SUN places live? SUN Producer: Jo Mathys. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b013f7pf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b013fhvn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b013fhvq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013fhvs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b013gjj1 (Listen) SUN Myfanwy Alexander makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN There appears to be rather a lot of wildlife elbowing its SUN way into Myfanwy Alexander's Pick of the Week, from SUN miniature horses to skylarks. Add in poets, heroes, mothers SUN and secrets and you get a blend too good to be embargoed SUN under the forty year rule. SUN SUN Meet David Sedaris - Radio 4 SUN The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Radio 4 SUN Taking Tea With Tyrants - Radio 4 SUN One Hundred Years of Secrecy - Radio 4 SUN The Day The Wall Went Up - World Service SUN A Tribute to Robert Robinson - Radio 4 SUN Midsummer - Radio 4 SUN No Triumph, No Tragedy - Radio 4 SUN The World Tonight - Radio 4 SUN The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4 SUN Rightfully Mine - Radio 4 SUN Chain Reaction - Radio 4 SUN Opening The Boxes - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Wild Swimming - Radio 3 SUN Now All Roads Lead To France - Radio 4 SUN A Guide To Farmland Birds - 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 b013ggpl (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b013gjj3 (Listen) SUN This week, as Barack Obama's personal approval ratings slump SUN to an all-time low of just 39%, we'll ask Democrat SUN Strategist Terry McAuliffe whether the President can still SUN pull off a dramatic comeback, in the style of number 33, SUN Harry Truman. SUN SUN Brother and sister Tamim Ansary and Rebecca Pettys recall an SUN idyllic American childhood...spent in Afghanistan's Helmand SUN Valley. SUN SUN The author Philip Connors gives us a call from his SUN self-imposed solitude among the treetops of New Mexico's SUN Gila National Forest. SUN SUN And Darius Rucker tells all on going from rock band SUN frontman...to black country & western singer. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00q3g74 (Listen) SUN Once Seen, The Lodger SUN SUN Series of three stories inspired by a very modern small-ads SUN phenomenon. SUN SUN By Anna Maxted, read by Sandra Duncan. SUN SUN Victoria is widowed, middle-aged and living in cold, wet SUN London rather than her hot, sunny adopted homeland, SUN Portugal. She has a lodger she is singularly ill-equipped to SUN cater for; nonetheless he is grateful to her. This is a SUN surprise for Victoria, which then leads to another. SUN SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0138yld (Listen) SUN In More or Less this week: SUN SUN Is salt bad for you? SUN SUN A recent Cochrane Collaboration review set out "to assess SUN whether advice to cut down on salt in foods altered our risk SUN of death or cardiovascular disease". Its plain English SUN summary read: "Cutting down on the amount of salt has no SUN clear benefits in terms of likelihood of dying or SUN experiencing cardiovascular disease". That might surprise SUN you. Public health bodies have been telling us to eat less SUN salt for years. So has the Cochrane Collaboration paper SUN really challenged that advice? More or Less investigates. SUN SUN 'Zero-tolerance' policing SUN SUN One of the stories of the week was the arrival of American SUN supercop Bill Bratton as an advisor to the Prime Minister in SUN the wake of the recent riots and looting. We were curious SUN about the statistical evidence on Bill Bratton's record as SUN the chief of police first in Boston, then New York and later SUN in Los Angeles. What did he actually do, did it work and - SUN if it did - did it work for the reasons Bill Bratton's SUN supporters claim? SUN SUN Predicting the adult height of growing children SUN SUN We were recently asked a question by a rather short man who SUN is married to a rather tall woman. He was wondering whether, SUN as an old piece of homespun wisdom claims, sons are always SUN taller than their mothers - in which case his two boys will SUN grow to be big strapping lads. But is there any truth in it? SUN Or is it just a tall tale? SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0138zlm (Listen) SUN Mathew Bannister on SUN SUN Robert Robinson - erudite host of radio's Stop the Week and SUN Brain of Britain and TV's Call My Bluff and Ask the Family SUN SUN Mother Thelka the Greek Orthodox nun who became a muse for SUN the composer Sir John Taverner. He pays tribute. SUN SUN Bollywood's answer to Elvis - Shammi Kapoor SUN SUN Professor Paul Wilkinson who made the study of terrorism a SUN respected academic subject SUN SUN And Marshall Grant who was so much more than a bass player SUN to Johnny Cash. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b01381nw (Listen) SUN 'Bogus' jobs at the Jobcentre - John Waite investigates SUN claims that it's too easy to advertise fake jobs via SUN Jobcentre Plus. He speaks to those who've been tricked into SUN committing crimes, who've been the subject of elaborate SUN frauds and who have handed over money as deposits for SUN non-existent jobs. SUN SUN Dame Anne Begg, Chair of the Work and Pensions Select SUN Committee, tells him, "If you are someone that wants to set SUN up a scam, then there's never been a better time." SUN SUN The economic climate and welfare reforms mean criminals will SUN be "sat rubbing their hands in glee" she says. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b013fjqx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0138xmr (Listen) SUN Made in India SUN SUN In 1995, Peter Day visited Bangalore, the place that created SUN India's reputation as computer outsourcing centre. Then SUN India was just starting to take off, fueled by deregulation SUN and a huge pool of high-tech talent. Since then, SUN entrepreneurs have branched out into other industries, and SUN the country has established itself as a world class business SUN hub, but problems including poverty and poor infrastructure SUN remain. Peter Day recently revisited India to hear from the SUN entrepreneurs who started the boom ... and the people who SUN are setting up new businesses today. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b013gjj5 (Listen) SUN Programme Editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b013gjj7 (Listen) SUN Episode 66 SUN SUN David Aaronovitch of The Times is at the Edinburgh Festival SUN to analyse how the newspapers are covering the week's SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01390b9 (Listen) SUN The Film Programme this week is all about odd but SUN exhilirating couples. Harrison Ford talks about his new SUN film, Cowboys & Aliens and resists attempts to suggest he SUN has anything in common with John Wayne; the writer and SUN comedian Mark Gatiss shares his guilty pleasure in Coffin SUN Joe - the star of an extraordinary Brazilian horror which SUN glories in the title Tonight I Will Possess Your Corpse; and SUN the film historian Jeffrey Richards and the critic Karen SUN Krizanovich vie with each other to come up with the weirdest SUN pairings in film titles from the past. To round things off SUN Matthew also hears how Britain's blonde bombshell, Vera Day, SUN sent Marilyn Monroe into a spin when she appeared on the set SUN of Laurence Olivier's The Prince and the Showgirl. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b013fj4f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 AUGUST 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b013f1xf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b013835n (Listen) MON Blame the parents? - Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong MON MON Are we right to blame the parents? Is there anything they MON could do? Laurie Taylor speaks to two researchers behind a MON massive investigation into the families of British gang MON members. Judith Aldridge and Jon Shute tell him what they MON discovered about the lives and experience of families with MON children in gangs and whether it is possible to intervene. MON Also, Gordon Mathews, the author of a book about Chungking MON Mansions, the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong, describes MON its multifarious residents. This ramshackle building in the MON heart of the tourist district is home to a polyethnic MON melting pot of people - from Pakistani phone stall operators MON to American backpackers and Indonesian sex workers. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b013fj37 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013f1xh (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013f1xk (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013f1xm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b013f1xp (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013f1xr (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Andrew Martlew. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b013f1xt (Listen) MON We discover how free range hens could be prevented from MON pecking each others feathers by the simple measure of MON planting trees in their fields. New research from the Food MON and Animal Initiative has discovered that the cover from MON tree canopies encourages free range hens to venture into the MON fields which prevents them from attacking each other. MON MON Also, Caz Graham hears how across the globe we waste a third MON of all of our food. In the UK, this amounts to 16 million MON tonnes of food waste every year - with 40% going into MON landfill. Emma Marsh from Love Food, Hate Waste says that MON small changes in buying habits could make a huge difference. MON MON Sarah Swadling visits an anaerobic digester in Devon to see MON how that waste can be saved from landfill and made to MON produce electricity. MON MON And Pete Higgins tells Caz about his invention "Use Within MON Labels" which warn people when the jars in their fridge MON should be thrown away. MON MON Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b013f1xw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b013dzbz (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b013dzc1 (Listen) MON In this programme he interviews 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 drug smuggling MON in Malaysia. Karpal tells Peter about his long career MON fighting for justice and the obstacles now in his way as he MON battles the discriminatory stance towards his disability by MON fellow MPs. 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: "I am MON fighting an internal battle that people don't see and which MON I can't express," he says. "Life is so different now. I MON can't stand to address the court or parliament and I need MON help to even scratch my forehead. It's a terrible thing when MON you can't do simple things that were once so normal." MON MON Producer: Susan Mitchell. MON MON 09:30 Head to Head b013f0xh (Listen) MON Series 3, Press freedom in the 1970s MON MON Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast MON debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great MON minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day MON politics. MON MON Two media men clash over press freedom in Britain. Harold MON Evans, campaign editor of the Sunday Times, appeared on BBC2 MON in 1974 to the backdrop of two major controversies in the MON newspaper business - Watergate and thalidomide. He met Lord MON Windlesham, pillar of the Tory establishment. Evans was MON furious that British media law prevented him reporting the MON cases of the victims of the morning sickness drug MON thalidomide, for whom he was determined to win fair MON compensation. In stark contrast, the other side of the MON Atlantic had seen President Nixon brought to justice by the MON Washington Post. Could Watergate have happened in the UK? Or MON would our laws, such as contempt of court, libel and MON Official Secrets Act, have restricted this course? MON MON Windlesham, however, took a more conservative line, that MON existing legislation was in place to curb the excessive MON powers of a press that wasn't very good at taking criticism. MON Evans later secured victory for thalidomide victims at the MON European Court of Human Rights. But more than 40 years after MON this discussion, in a world of Wikileaks and MON super-injunctions, how does the contemporary media landscape MON compare? MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate are Peter Preston, MON editor the Guardian for 20 years and now a columnist at the MON paper, and John Kampfner, who has worked in newspaper, MON broadcasting and magazine journalism and is now the chief MON executive of the Index on Censorship. MON MON Producer: Dominic Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b013f0xk (Listen) MON Book of the Week: Fire Season, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON MON For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each MON year in a 7 foot by 7 foot room at the top of a tower, on MON top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote MON American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. MON MON Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job MON and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of MON solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire MON at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with MON drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular MON midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening MON above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and MON black bears. Filled with Connors' heartfelt reflections on MON our place in the wild, Fire Season is an instant modern MON classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once a homage to the MON beauty of nature, the blessings of solitude, and the freedom MON of the independent spirit. MON MON Read by Kerry Shale MON MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b013f0xm (Listen) MON Esther Rantzen on loneliness, Tracie Bennett on Judy Garland MON MON Tracie Bennett discusses playing Judy Garland. Esther MON Rantzen and psychotherapist Christine Webber talk to Jane MON Garvey about loneliness - how harmful is it? Men working in MON childcare; and keeping urban chickens. MON MON Men in Childcare MON MON A recent survey shows that nearly 98% of parents whose MON children go to day nurseries are now in favour of men MON working with young children. There appears to have been a MON big shift in attitudes to men working in child care, but MON latest figures show that only around 3% of workers in early MON years education are male. MON On today’s programme we visit a nursery to talk to men about MON what they enjoy about working there. And Jane will be MON talking to Neil Leitch, Chief Executive of the Pre-School MON Learning Alliance and Thom Crabbe from the Children’s MON Workforce Development Council about what can be done to MON encourage more men to work in this area. MON MON Tracie Bennett on playing Judy Garland MON MON Tracie Bennett received superb reviews for her portrayal of MON Judy Garland in End of The Rainbow about the star's final MON performances in London in 1968 and her controversial life MON off stage. The play was nominated for four Olivier Awards MON including best actress for Tracie and is about to go on a 13 MON week national tour. Now it’s just been announced that it MON will transfer to America next year with performances on MON Broadway. Tracie talks to Jane about being Judy and about MON her own successful career on TV, Stage and Screen. MON MON Loneliness MON MON Studies have shown that loneliness can be as bad for you as MON smoking or obesity. Early this year a group of charities MON launched The Campaign to End Loneliness, aimed at loneliness MON in old age. A new survey of 4,000 people has found that in MON ‘Lonely Britain’ we’ve lost the art of making friends and MON almost six out of ten respondents – whether 18 or 80 – MON simply want someone to have a coffee and a chat with. MON Nearly a third of people live alone, and projections MON forecast the number of single-person households could reach MON 11 million by 2031. MON MON Esther Rantzen talks to Jane about her own personal MON experience and the stigma of loneliness, and they are joined MON by the psychotherapist, Christine Webber, to discuss the MON issues and what can be done to combat it. MON MON Keeping Urban Chickens MON MON It’s a story of infatuation, death, bullying – and plenty of MON eggs. Chicken-keeping has got it all and now it’s got a MON self-help manual too. Chicken Coops for the Soul charts MON Julia Hollander’s unexpected love affair with hens. Like MON many urban dwellers she’d always dreamed of living her very MON own Good Life – so, when she succumbed to buying her MON daughter a pet rabbit, Julia also found herself picking some MON chickens. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013f0xp (Listen) MON Village SOS, Episode 1 MON MON By Val McDermid. MON MON DCI Marion Bettany (Helen Baxendale) and DS John Hodgson, a MON new detective team created for Radio 4 by award-winning MON author Val McDermid, investigate a murder in the sleepy MON Northumbrian village of Shilwick. They love their work, they MON enjoy each other's company and like nothing better than MON investigating a new crime. The only thing that makes life MON difficult is dealing with the public. Take the residents of MON the former mining community of Shilwick, for example. MON MON DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale MON DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon MON Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland MON Colin Arnott ..... Antony Byrne MON Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton MON Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove MON Tilly Francis ..... Rachel Bavidge MON Tom Briggs ..... Christian Rodska MON MON Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher MON MON 11:00 Return to Vukovar b013f0xr (Listen) MON For 87 days in 1991 the world watched in helpless horror as MON 2000 civilians, and volunteers from all around Croatia, MON defended the town of Vukovar against tens of thousands of MON heavily armed soldiers from the Serbian dominated Yugoslav MON National Army. The fighting had broken out in the wake of MON the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Vukovar, on the banks MON of the Danube, became known as "The City of Heroes" for the MON almost countless acts of valour among the untrained MON volunteer army of defenders. Yet it also has a much darker MON significance. Not only was this the first town in Europe to MON suffer such devastation since the Second World War, but the MON pattern of the indiscriminate bombardment of civilians that MON characterised the Yugoslav wars, was first seen here. The MON siege also brought a new and terrible phrase into common MON usage. The first cases of organised ethnic cleansing took MON place in Vukovar. Former BBC correspondent Martin Bell, who MON covered the siege, returns 20 years later to find out how MON Vukovar and its people are recovering and finds Vukovar MON today is a shadow of its former self; haunted by the ghosts MON of 1991. MON MON 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b012f9s3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Memento Mori and Motherless Bear MON MON The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and MON charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience MON readings. This week: The consequences of buying your partner MON an antique skeleton in "Memento Mori" and a dark fable about MON mourning: "The Motherless Bear". MON MON Producer: Steve Doherty MON A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b013f11t (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. Today - the end of the MON traditional light bulb. How the internet is destroying the MON culture business and how the culture business can fight MON back. And neither a borrower nor lender be? We'll be looking MON at a new website that allows people to rent items from each MON other . So instead of borrowing your neighbour's lawnmower, MON you could pay a small sum fee and make it official. MON MON 12:57 Weather b013f11w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b013f11y (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 b013f120 (Listen) MON (2/12) MON Another two of the regular teams join Tom Sutcliffe for the MON notoriously devious quiz of lateral thinking and fiendish MON connections. This week Michael Alexander and Alan Taylor of MON Scotland take on Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles of The MON Midlands. MON MON Tom will be revealing the answer to last week's teaser: he MON asked what stature is shared by a French international who MON played for Arsenal and Chelsea, an anonymous author, and the MON straight man in a 1970s double-act. MON MON There will be plenty more puzzles along similar lines for MON the panellists to tackle, including, as usual, some devised MON by Round Britain Quiz listeners. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b013ggpl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b013f1kj (Listen) MON Souvenirs MON MON By Barbara Norden MON Samantha goes abroad to adopt two young children. Her guide, MON Jarilo Veles, acts as mediator with the director of the MON orphanage. But it is clear that nothing is straightforward MON in this world, and elements of fable and fantasy intrude in MON the story, which is told through the device of a recorded MON narrative Samantha is making for the children she plans to MON adopt. MON MON Samantha...Katherine Parkinson MON Jarilo Veles...Ivan Marevich MON The Director...Dado Dzihan MON Morana...Alex Tregear MON Song by Dado Dzihan MON Directed by Jeremy Mortimer MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b013spvh (Listen) MON Stephen Fry Does the Knowledge MON MON Stephen Fry is of course a black cab driver, known for his MON prodigious knowledge. Taking the taxi journey as metaphor, MON Stephen tries to pin down what the knowledge is, with the MON help of cab drivers quiz contestants, quizmasters MON philosophers, memory champions and educationalists. And he MON looks at the idea of 'general' knowledge, as in general MON knowledge games and General Certificates of Education. MON MON There are excerpts from a variety of quiz shows, starting MON with the very first British example, less of a quiz and more MON of a spelling bee. Though quiz shows aren't the be-all and MON end-all of the subject they do show how our perception of MON knowledge has changed, from the deeply serious to the MON wilfully trivial. In an era when popular culture is taken MON very seriously, the question of 'what's worth knowing?' MON needs careful thought. Magnus Magnusson, for example argues MON for knowledge for its own sake. MON MON Technology - the way Knowledge is shared - is also a theme. MON Is The Knowledge, as famously earned by London cabbies, MON threatened by Satellite Navigation? What happens to how we MON value knowledge in an age when technology offers us such MON wide horizons? MON MON Stephen discovers fascinating pre-Google knowledge sharing MON systems including the much loved Daily Telegraph Information MON service and the nineteenth century Society for the Diffusion MON of Useful Knowledge. He argues that how we share knowledge MON doesn't alter its nature and that a study of the subject MON -epistemology, to give it its correct name - is ultimately a MON philosophical matter. MON MON The programme's nonetheless entertaining with apposite MON contributions from Alan Bennett, Magnus Magnusson, Nicholas MON Parsons, John Peel, Bertrand Russell, Fred Housego and the MON philosopher Mary Margaret McCabe. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill b013f1kl (Listen) MON Origins MON MON The writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah has regularly attended MON the Notting Hill Carnival since the 1970s. This year, before MON he gets ready to dance in the streets of West London, he MON sets out to explore the history of the festival and to meet MON some of the key people who make the event happen. MON MON The Notting Hill Carnival is the biggest multicultural MON festival in Europe. It's generally accepted that the event MON started somewhere between 1959 and 1965 as a MON community-strengthening celebration of Caribbean culture. MON But for decades the carnival community has been divided over MON precisely when the festival started and who should be MON credited with laying its foundations. For some people the MON first Carnival was organised by black American Civil Rights MON campaigner Claudia Jones in January 1959, as an indoor MON event. Eyewitnesses describe evenings of calypso, steelband MON and costume competitions, staged as a reaction to the race MON riots that had gripped Notting Hill. MON MON Other witnesses are certain that the festival started much MON later, in August 1965, by the white community worker Rhaune MON Laslett who created a multicultural festival aimed at MON bringing together the poor communities living in Notting MON Hill. Experts and surviving witnesses take Kwame through MON their private archives to shed light on this early period. MON MON Presenter Kwame Kwei-Armah is famous for his role as a MON paramedic in the BBC drama, Casualty. He is also an MON award-winning playwright and has recently been appointed MON Artistic Director of Baltimore's state theatre, Center MON Stage. MON MON Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon MON A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b013fm7g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b013f1kn (Listen) MON The Scottish Premier League season is well underway with MON memories of the sectarian attacks on the Celtic manager MON earlier in the year still fresh in the mind. What do these MON incidents tell us about the nature and extent of MON sectarianism in Scotland today? Is it confined mainly to MON football or is it endemic within wider society? With church MON attendance in rapid decline, is religion still a potent MON force in reinforcing sectarian attitudes? And - even given MON their diminished influence - what role do the churches have MON in countering such attitudes? MON Joining Ernie to discuss sectarianism in contemporary MON Scotland are Peter Kearney, a spokesperson for the Catholic MON Church in Scotland, Michael Rosie, Senior Lecturer in MON Sociology at Edinburgh University and Harry Reid, former MON editor of The Herald and member of the Church of Scotland. MON MON 17:00 PM b013f1kq (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013f1ks (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b013f1kv (Listen) MON Series 61, With Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth and Jason Byrne MON (from Edinburgh) MON MON The popular panel game from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, MON hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Gyles MON Brandreth and newcomer Jason Byrne. MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b013ggrj (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b013f1kx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film One Day, MON based on the best-selling novel by David Nicholls and talks MON to American novelist Nicholson Baker. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013f0xp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Caring Too Much b0138vgk (Listen) MON Julie Fernandez, a disabled actor best known for her role in MON The Office as the 'Woman in a Wheelchair' explores the MON complex relationship between disabled child and parent MON carer. MON MON Julie has brittle bone disease and Julie's mother cared for MON her through more than seventy operations and considerable MON pain. Always strict, she made Julie help with housework even MON when encased in full body plaster, fought to get her into a MON boarding school and encouraged her independence. So Julie MON was not prepared for what happened when she left home to get MON married. For several months her mother wouldn't speak to MON her. MON MON Inspired by her experience Julie undertakes a personal MON journey into what happens when parents care too much? Funny, MON frank and very challenging she talks to parents and their MON adult dependent children when as one mother put it 'two MON become one.' MON MON She explores the different issues for parents of children MON with physical disabilities compared to those with learning MON difficulties. Jenny's story is typical: she is 68 and still MON caring for 47 year old Simon who is autistic and has MON schizophrenia. "I have never stopped to think have I missed MON out, because I haven't missed out on Simon, he's lovely..its MON a privilege to have had him." However desperate the MON individual circumstances parents echo this sentiment again MON and again. MON MON But the issues around separation are complex. One mother MON whose 27 year old son requires round the clock care MON confessed that the year he left home to start a job in MON London was the worst of her life. It caused her profound MON grief, despite her pride at his achieving all she had MON dreamed of for him, and more. MON MON Finally Julie returns to her mother to reflect on their MON experiences anew. Their journey also involved seemingly MON insurmountable obstacles but was overcome by courage and MON love. MON MON Producer: Hilary Dunn MON A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0138527 (Listen) MON Takoradi, Ghana's Oil City MON MON In December, Ghana turned on the taps and began pumping its MON first commercial oil. Production will top 100,000 barrels a MON day this year -- enough the government believes to more than MON double the country's economic growth. At the centre of this MON oil rush is the once sleepy city of Takoradi. Already things MON are starting to change here: new businesses setting up to MON service the offshore oil industry, an increase in MON population, and, spiralling expectations. So can Ghana - one MON of the most stable countries in Africa - escape the curse of MON violence and corruption that has afflicted other big oil MON producers on the continent? Rob Walker visits Takoradi to MON find out, and he'll be returning to observe the MON transformation of Africa's newest oil city over the coming MON years. MON Producer: Katharine Hodgson. MON MON 21:00 Material World b013gk8y (Listen) MON This week Quentin Cooper feels his way round a new aid to MON keyhole surgery, tracks brainy bees from flower to flower MON and wonders how they do it so efficiently. He hears how MON unblocking the nose of a primitive fish enabled vertebrates MON to develop jaws, how plesiosaurs may have been caring MON parents, and how we perceive passing time in a blink of an MON eye. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b013dzc1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b013gk90 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b013gk92 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013fb8w (Listen) MON The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Moshin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed. MON MON At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani accosts an MON uneasy American stranger and tells him the story of his MON life. But as dusk deepens to night it becomes clear that MON this is no chance encounter. MON MON Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant MON Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; MON and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to MON publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York MON Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other MON places including New York and London. MON MON Abridged by Lisa Osborne MON Produced by Lisa Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b0137ynm (Listen) MON Voice Recognition MON MON Chris Ledgard explores the world of voice recognition and MON finds out how the technology is changing the way we use MON language. Belfast writer Malachi O'Doherty shows how he's MON had to train his voice recognition software to recognise his MON particular accent. Forensic linguist Peter French talks MON about the qualities of different voices, and how they can be MON quantified. Tyler Perrachione has found that people with MON dyslexia also find it difficult to recognise voices. And MON Chris meets Steve Renals, whose group has been given a 6.2 MON million pound grant to work on improving synthetic voices MON and speech recognition. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 A History of the World Special b010y36c (Listen) MON When Peter Lewis heard that the BBC were inviting people to MON nominate personal objects that helped tell the story of the MON history of the world, he thought immediately of his Uncle MON Bryn. MON MON The invitation was intended to complement the award-winning MON Radio 4 series 'A History of the World in A Hundred MON Objects', made in partnership with the British Museum. Those MON objects told of mankind's origins, of dynasties, of trade MON and economics, of science and engineering, war, peace, MON growth and development. MON MON The many thousands of contributions to the BBC website threw MON vivid personal light on those broader subjects, but perhaps MON none more than Bryn's portrait of his World War Two MON sweetheart, and later wife, Peggy. MON MON The picture, which still hangs in his living room, was MON painted in oils from a Red Cross postcard photograph that MON Peggy had sent him when he was a prisoner of war in Poland. MON He'd been captured in April 1940 and, in spite of twelve MON unsuccessful escape attempts, he wouldn't see Peggy again MON until 1945. MON MON His life as a prisoner is an extraordinary story of a MON private soldier gifted with an iron will, a wicked optimism MON and an unshakeable survival instinct. MON MON Many of the camps in which he was held are familiar to MON historians: Thorn, Stalag VIIb Lamsdorf, Terezin - but it's MON Auschwitz that leaps most agressively from the page. MON MON Bryn was never held with the Jewish prisoners in the main MON camp. As a British soldier, he had rights they could only MON have dreamt of. But he was a labourer in the metal workshops MON alongside the main camp, and he saw the brutality meted out MON over the several months of his incarceration there. MON MON It was during this period that a fellow worker, a Polish MON Jew, told him that he could get the tired photograph of MON Peggy painted for him in oils. MON MON Bryn was uneasy about losing such a treasured possession - MON but when he learnt about the Nazi policy of employing Jewish MON craftsmen and artists to copy stolen art treasures in the MON camp next door, he relented. MON MON A couple of weeks later, his postcard photo was returned, MON along with a beautiful portrait of Peggy. For obvious MON reasons, it was unsigned. MON MON So Bryn would never discover the name of the person who MON painted it, but he treasured it beyond any other possession MON and kept it taped to his stomach or back for the remaining MON two years of the war. MON MON Bryn is now in his nineties. He's always been reticent about MON telling the stories of his imprisonment, but here he talks MON to Peter Lewis about his survival, his escapes, and the MON portrait from Auschwitz that he brought home safely to the MON woman who was to become his wife. MON MON PRODUCER: Tom Alban. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 AUGUST 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b013f31b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b013f0xk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013f31g (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013f31j (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013f31n (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b013f31q (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013f31v (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b013f3b7 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b013f3rx (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 D for Discretion: Can the Modern Media Keep a Secret? TUE b013f3rz (Listen) TUE Twice a year, over tea and biscuits at the Ministry of TUE Defence, senior media editors meet senior civil servants to TUE talk about what should be kept secret in the military, TUE intelligence and counter-terrorism worlds. Originally known TUE as the D-Notice Committee, it's been in existence for nearly TUE a century. It started out dominated by newspaper TUE proprietors, now though even Google is a member. In D for TUE Discretion Naomi Grimley asks where does the public's right TUE to know end and the state secret start? And can the media TUE even be trusted to keep such secrets in the internet age? TUE TUE In the early days the remit of the D-Notice Committee was TUE wide. Newspapers, for example, weren't supposed to make any TUE mention of Rasputin and his relationship with "the highest TUE personage in Russia". Nowadays, though, the system is TUE supposed to be used only in the most serious cases when TUE national security may be at stake. TUE TUE The "Defence Advisory Notice System" - as it is now called - TUE is supposed to be entirely voluntary. In reality, though, TUE it's very rare for any of the mainstream media organisations TUE to ignore the committee's requests. But how does this work TUE in the age of Wikileaks and citizen journalism? This TUE programme looks at the challenges to the system posed by TUE social media websites. What happens if members of the public TUE try to reveal government secrets on Twitter - in a similar TUE way to this year's row about super-injunctions? And how do TUE newspapers like The Guardian square their Wikileaks TUE collaborations with their own editorial guidelines on TUE national security issues? TUE TUE Produced by Alicia Trujillo. TUE TUE 09:30 Head to Head b013ptf0 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Is free will an illusion? TUE TUE Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast TUE debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great TUE minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in the present TUE day. TUE TUE In the third episode, the very notion of free will is up for TUE question - do we have it? B F Skinner was an American TUE behaviourist and one of the most influential psychologists TUE since Sigmund Freud. To confront his quite controversial TUE views on the human condition was an equally brilliant Donald TUE Mackay, who in 1971 when they met on US television, was a TUE British academic at the cutting edge of a new discipline TUE called neuroscience. TUE TUE Skinner had just published Beyond Freedom and Dignity, where TUE he set out his contentious blueprint for a utopian society. TUE He believed that if human beings were prepared to give up TUE their freedom, which was an illusion anyhow, their behaviour TUE could be controlled in such a way that would solve some of TUE the greatest challenges of our times, such as climate change TUE and crime. TUE TUE The mass social experiments that Skinner proposed met TUE vehement opposition from Mackay. Is Skinner's bleak TUE determinism, his assumption about our inability to follow TUE our own intentions, just plain wrong? Today, the discussion TUE continues - the latest research on the mind has yielded TUE surprising results. Experiments that measure activity in TUE different regions of the brain have shown that what we feel TUE to be a conscious intention, a thought that is put into TUE action, is in fact sparked by the unconscious part of the TUE brain, which is beyond our knowing control. TUE TUE In the studio are Angus Gellatly, professor of cognitive TUE psychology at Oxford Brookes University, and Frederick TUE Toates, who is professor of biological psychology at the TUE Open University. TUE TUE Producer: Dominic Byrne TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b013n5g7 (Listen) TUE Book of the Week: Fire Season, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. TUE TUE In April there's little lightning in the Gila wilderness so TUE a fire is unlikely, meanwhile the fire lookout spies the TUE first hummingbird of the season from his tower and learns TUE once more to embrace the solitary nature of his summer job. TUE TUE Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job TUE and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of TUE solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire TUE at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with TUE drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular TUE midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening TUE above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and TUE black bears. TUE TUE Read by Kerry Shale TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b013f3s1 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013f4q4 (Listen) TUE Village SOS, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Val McDermid. TUE TUE DCI Marion Bettany, played by Helen Baxendale, continues her TUE investigation into Colin Arnott's murder, but the residents TUE of Shilwick are curiously reluctant to help. Colin's plans TUE to turn a deconsecrated chapel into a performing arts centre TUE had ruffled feathers throughout the village, and Bettany TUE wants to know if that's a strong enough motive for murder. TUE TUE DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale TUE DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon TUE Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton TUE Tilly Francis ..... Rachel Bavidge TUE Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove TUE Peter Robson ..... Shaun Prendergast TUE TUE Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher TUE TUE 11:00 In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity b013f4q6 (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 continues to TUE explore the evolutionary fate of the human race... TUE TUE Following on from Programme 1 where, Adam discovered that TUE humans are still evolving, but perhaps not as much as we TUE have done in the past. And he learnt that our culture TUE (medicine, technology etc.) certainly does interact with our TUE biology. This week, he explores more how genes and culture TUE interact and asks whether the choice of who we have children TUE with is changing and whether this has an effect? He finds TUE out if the increase in global travel is opening up more TUE options for us to find partners and tries to pin down an TUE answer to the often asked question - are we getting TUE brainier? TUE TUE Many people think that evolution is always progressive and TUE always for the best. But Steve Jones says that this is a TUE common misconception, where Darwinian evolution gets muddled TUE up with Lamarckism. French biologist, Jean Baptiste de TUE Lamarck saw a pattern in evolution - which he called, 'the TUE Law of Necessary Progress' - that it was built in that TUE things were bound to get better. But evolution by natural TUE selection is not like this - it's just a mechanism that just TUE cranks around... So a future, where we evolve large thumbs TUE for better texting and playing video games and even become TUE more intelligent, isn't all that likely. TUE TUE A major reason why humans are changing genetically nowadays, TUE is due to the impact of travel and globalisation. Professor TUE Steve Stearns is excited by the prospect of grandchildren TUE from his youngest son who has married a Tanzanian lady - if TUE they have children, "there will be genes meeting, that TUE haven't seen each other for more than a hundred thousand TUE years." This genetic refreshment caused by out-breeding TUE could spell a genetically healthy human future. TUE TUE Professor Spencer Wells', Human Genographic Project is TUE attempting to trace human migrations throughout history - TUE tracking down where individuals have come from - and he is TUE already seeing massive genetic diversity in cities all over TUE the world. TUE TUE Professor Steve Jones thinks that this is where evolution TUE has actually speeded up and is really active. But he thinks TUE it's speeding up towards a grand averaging out, where, over TUE hundreds of generations of this great mixing, individuals TUE will end up, genetically very fit, but as a species, very TUE homogenous. And we won't know what the consequences of this TUE might be. TUE TUE Adam attempts to untangle another evolutionary pressure - TUE that of sexual selection. Who we choose as a mate, also has TUE an effect on our evolutionary trajectory. Kevin Laland from TUE St Andrews University thinks that our cultural preferences TUE can be stronger than genetic preferences, which means that TUE sexual selection could become a more important driving force TUE for human evolution in the future. TUE TUE As to whether we're evolving greater intelligence? No chance TUE says Steven Pinker! TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Roberts. TUE TUE 11:30 Hemingway Days b013f96m (Listen) TUE Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, who together launched the Red TUE or Dead label, have long been admirers of Robin and Lucienne TUE Day, a husband and wife design team from another era. TUE TUE As we mark the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain TUE this summer, Wayne looks back at the impact of Robin and TUE Lucienne Day on post war Britain and how they emerged from TUE the FOB to spearhead our understanding of modern design. TUE TUE He talks to colleagues, friends and family about their TUE vision and their drive and explores some of the less well TUE known areas of their personal lives and their creative TUE partnership. TUE TUE Lucienne was a textile designer. Inspired by abstract art, TUE she pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract TUE patterns. TUE TUE Robin was a furniture designer best known for his injection TUE moulded polypropylene stacking chair, of which over 20 TUE million have been manufactured. TUE TUE The Days shared a vision of good, affordable design for all. TUE Together they established themselves as Britain's most TUE celebrated post-war designer couple, and have often been TUE compared to their US contemporaries, Charles Eames and Ray TUE Eames. TUE TUE But despite their growing fame in the 50s and 60s they TUE remained uncomfortable with the public attention they TUE received. They shared a passion for nature and spent more TUE and more time outdoors. Lucienne drew much of her TUE inspiration from plants and flowers and Robin was a talented TUE and obsessive mountain climber. TUE TUE In this programme Wayne reflects on the many layers to Robin TUE and Lucienne and, with his wife Gerardine, he draws on their TUE own experiences of working as a husband and wife creative TUE team. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Cuddon TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b013f96p (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE The lobby against the proposed relaxation of planning rules TUE is gathering strength . The Campaign to Protect Rural TUE England has been accused by the Government of running a TUE "carefully choreographed smear campaign against the TUE reforms". But the CPRE say they are just trying to protect TUE the Green Belt. The last census showed that the total amount TUE of land used in the UK is 9 per cent - that covers TUE everything from housing to roads. So many argue there is TUE plenty of land available. We examine the pros and the cons TUE of the changes to planning policy. TUE TUE Does the Greenbelt help or hinder life in the countryside? TUE TUE Is it necessary to stop the countryside being concreted TUE over, or a bar to breathing new life into rural areas? TUE TUE An opportunity to contribute your views to the programme. TUE Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines TUE open at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b013f96r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b013f96t (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 b013f96w (Listen) TUE Series 12, Wichita Lineman TUE TUE Wichita Lineman, the ultimate country/pop crossover track, TUE is the subject of this week's Soul Music. TUE TUE David Crary is a lineman from Oklahoma. He describes his job TUE - storm-chasing to mend fallen power-lines; travelling on TUE 'dirt roads, gravel roads, paved roads... up in the TUE farmlands of Illinois and Missouri... down south in the TUE Swamplands... it ain't nothing to swerve in the middle of TUE the road in your bucket-truck to miss an alligator '. TUE TUE He recalls the first time he heard Wichita Lineman, TUE travelling in the back of his family's Station Wagon, TUE listening to the radio... thinking that being a lineman TUE 'must be a cool job' if someone's written a song about it. TUE Also a part-time musician, David has recorded his own TUE version of the song which sums up his working life... on the TUE road, working long hours, away from his wife and six kids. TUE TUE Wichita Lineman was written by Jimmy Webb for the Country TUE star Glen Campbell. It tells the story of a lonely lineman TUE in the American midwest, travelling vast distances to mend TUE power and telephone lines. TUE TUE Released in 1968 it's an enduring classic, crossing the TUE boundary between pop and country. It's been covered many TUE times, but it's Glen Campbell's version which remains the TUE best loved and most played. TUE TUE Johnny Cash also recorded an extraordinary and very raw TUE version. Peter Lewry, a lifelong Cash fan, describes how TUE this recording came about, towards the end of Cash's career. TUE TUE Meggean Ward's father was a lineman in Rhode Island... her TUE memories of seeing him in green work trousers, a plaid shirt TUE and black boots, wrapping his cracked hands in bandages TUE every morning before setting off to climb telephone poles TUE are interwoven forever with Wichita Lineman... as a child TUE she always felt the song was written for her father, who TUE else? TUE TUE Glen Campbell also gave an interview for this programme. TUE Shortly after the interview was recorded, Campbell went TUE public about his diagnosis of Alzheimer's. His contribution TUE to the programme is brief, and includes an acoustic TUE performance of the song. It was a real privilege to record TUE this, appropriately enough, down the line. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b013ggrj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b013f96y (Listen) TUE Higher, Rebrand, Relaunch TUE TUE Higher: Ep 3 Rebrand, Relaunch by Joyce Bryant TUE TUE To Jim's dismay Roland becomes Vice Chancellor and image TUE consultants 'Harsover Tutt' are brought in to rebrand the TUE university. Jim feels he's being forced out. Will he find an TUE ally in Karen? TUE TUE Karen.....Sophie Thompson TUE Jim.........Jonathan Keeble TUE Roland....Lloyd Peters TUE Dame Sheila....Brigit Forsyth TUE Clive.....Malcolm Reaburn TUE Radio Announcer....Luke Jerdy TUE TUE Producer Gary Brown TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b013f970 (Listen) TUE A new series of 'Making History'. Tom Holland, Helen Castor TUE and Fiona Watson share the workload as we sift through TUE listener's questions and research and turn to some of our TUE leading historians for some answers. TUE TUE Each week, the Making History team: tackles listeners TUE questions; hears about the latest research and puts the TUE Radio 4 audience at the heart of historical debate. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0144tx2 (Listen) TUE Comic Fringes, Episode 1 TUE TUE By Sarah Millican. TUE TUE Poignant and funny monologue exploring the tricky turning TUE point in a woman's life, when she goes from being thought of TUE as useful to becoming invisible. TUE TUE A series of brand new short stories written and performed by TUE leading comedians Sarah Millican, Joe Lycett and Bridget TUE Christie. TUE TUE Recorded live in front of an audience at the BBC's own venue TUE at Potterrow, listeners are invited to take front row seats TUE for 'as live' performances by three of the freshest talents TUE appearing at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill b013gjx5 (Listen) TUE Innovation TUE TUE The writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah discovers how today's TUE carnival emerged from the wasteland created by the building TUE of a new flyover. For years the Notting Hill Carnival was a TUE festival organised for, and by, the local community. But the TUE construction of the M40 Westway in North Kensington TUE destroyed homes and caused huge disruption that tore into TUE the community spirit. As part of the Westway regeneration TUE project, the Notting Hill Carnival was given encouragement TUE to create something spectacular out of the rubble. TUE TUE From August Bank Holiday 1973 the Notting Hill Carnival was TUE transformed under its new director Leslie Palmer to include TUE many of the features which are now familiar to us. It was TUE the first year of a carnival route, stalls, full costume TUE bands and several steelbands. It was also the era that saw TUE the introduction of sound systems playing Jamaican reggae. TUE For the first time Carnival reached out beyond the TUE Trinidadian expatriate community and began to accommodate a TUE diverse youth culture from across London. TUE TUE Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon TUE A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b013f974 (Listen) TUE Counting Word Incidences TUE TUE Chris Ledgard looks at the ways of counting incidences of TUE words and what that can tell us. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b013f976 (Listen) TUE Series 25, Eduardo Paolozzi TUE TUE This week's Great Life, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, hated being TUE tagged as the father of pop art, yet his representations of TUE images from popular culture came almost two decades before TUE Warhol and Lichtenstein. Prolific and generous, his public TUE sculptures populate many cities across the country, yet his TUE name is not as well known as Moore, Hepworth or Gormley. The TUE diversity of the forms that he worked in, and his reluctance TUE to be packaged and promoted by agents, accounts at least TUE partly for that. TUE TUE Paolozzi's personal story is no less complicated. Born in TUE Edinburgh to Italian parents that sent him back to Fascist TUE summer camp in Italy every year, all the men in his family, TUE including the young Eduardo were interned when Mussolini TUE declares war in 1940. Eduardo spent three months prison, but TUE his father and grandfather met a far worse fate. TUE TUE Joining Matthew in the studio are two close friends of TUE Paolozzi's. Nominating him is the restaurateur Antonio TUE Carluccio, who remembers dining and cooking with Paolozzi, TUE and marvelling at how his 'fatty sausage' fingers could TUE produce artwork of such intricacy. Cultural historian, TUE Professor Sir Christopher Frayling who taught with Paolozzi TUE for many years also has many anecdotes to tell, and he and TUE Matthew agree to differ on their appraisal of one of TUE Paolozzi's most well known works; the mosaics at Tottenham TUE Court Road tube station. TUE TUE Produced by: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b013f978 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013f97b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b013n71d (Listen) TUE The Roots of Red Hair TUE TUE Richard Herring looks at the Celtic roots of red hair and TUE asks why ginger hair bullying is acceptable, as he reclaims TUE the ginger hair and tartan hat wig that is widely available TUE for sale in the heart of Edinburgh. TUE TUE Written and performed by Richard Herring, starring Emma TUE Kennedy and guests. TUE TUE Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b013ggsr (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b013f9cx (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reviews Pedro Almodovar's film The TUE Skin I Live In, the story of an inventive plastic surgeon, TUE who creates an indestructible synthetic skin. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013f4q4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks b013xsm1 (Listen) TUE Patients with high grade brain tumours can expect to survive TUE for little more than one more year, and that's with the best TUE available surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. There's TUE only one, very expensive drug available that can penetrate TUE into the brain and attack the most aggressive tumours there, TUE and nothing new on the horizon. For these patients, the TUE outlook is as bleak as it can get. But ten years ago, TUE researchers discovered that the out-of-fashion TUE antidepressant drug clomipramine has apparently remarkable TUE anti-tumour properties. What's more the treatment costs TUE pennies, not hundreds or thousands of pounds. Yet these TUE scientists have struggled to find anyone to back their TUE research. And many patients are being given the drug without TUE the scientific proof it is really helping them. Why is such TUE a promising treatment going to waste? Gerry Northam TUE investigates. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b013f9d1 (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 b013f9d3 (Listen) TUE Part 2: Infancy TUE TUE Imagine if your health as an adult is partly determined by TUE the nutrition and environment you were exposed to in the TUE first 1000days of life. Or even further back; that the TUE lifestyle of your grandparents during their children's first TUE 1000 days, has programmed your adult health. A strong body TUE of scientific evidence supports this explosive idea, and is TUE gradually turning medical thinking on its head. To TUE understand the cause of chronic adult disease, including TUE ageing, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity and TUE lung problems we need to look much further back than adult TUE lifestyle - but to the first 1000 days. TUE TUE In this groundbreaking three part series Dr Mark Porter TUE talks to the scientists who now believe that this TUE 'lifecourse' approach, will find the cause of many adult TUE diseases. "Chronic disease is going up in leaps and bounds, TUE this is not a genetic change" says Kent Thornburg, Professor TUE of Cardiovascular Medicine in Oregon, America "it's because TUE the environment in the womb is getting worse. We know now TUE that the first 1000 days of life is the most sensitive TUE period for determining lifelong health'. TUE TUE But it's not just down to mothers or grandmothers, there is TUE growing evidence that diet and lifestyle along the paternal TUE line matters too. 'You are what your dad ate,' argues TUE Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith of Cambridge University. TUE TUE "Growth has a pattern," continues Alan Jackson, Professor of TUE Nutrition at Southampton University "everything has a time TUE and a place and if that gets interrupted then you can catch TUE up, but there are consequences". TUE TUE So where does that leave us as adults? Good diet and TUE lifestyle is very important, but scientists know that some TUE individuals are more vulnerable to disease than others, and TUE that's not just down to genetics. "All diseases may be TUE expressions of key developments in the womb" explains TUE Professor David Barker, "That does not mean you are doomed, TUE it means you are vulnerable. Understanding that challenges TUE the way medicine is structured". TUE TUE Mark Porter sets out to investigate his own birth history TUE and meets families to debate these overwhelming ideas. He TUE talks to world leading scientists about how this approach to TUE adult disease can help make us healthier and learns top tips TUE for the first 1000 days. TUE TUE 21:30 D for Discretion: Can the Modern Media Keep a Secret? TUE b013f3rz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b013f9dk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b013f9zx (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013m7cp (Listen) TUE The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed. TUE TUE On the forty-first floor of Samson and Underwood's New York TUE offices Changez feels on top of the world. TUE TUE Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant TUE Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; TUE and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to TUE publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York TUE Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other TUE places including New York and London. TUE TUE Abridged by Lisa Osborne TUE Producer: Lisa Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide b013fb8y (Listen) TUE Stephen K Amos hosts a selection of the Edinburgh Festival TUE Fringe's best stand-up comedians to present an Idiot's Guide TUE to "Holidays and Getting Away". TUE TUE With guest stand-up from: TUE TUE Susan Calman - On Scottish family holidays TUE W. Kamau Bell - On being an American visiting the UK TUE Tim FitzHigham - On always reading the instructions when TUE travelling abroad TUE Simon Munnery - On the philosophy of getting away TUE and TUE Josie Long - On getting away from the Edinburgh Fringe (by TUE imagining that she's an otter) TUE TUE Recorded at The BBC@Potterrow at The Edinburgh Festival TUE Fringe 2011. TUE Producer: Colin Anderson. TUE TUE 23:30 Towards Zero b00qcjl3 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective TUE novel. TUE TUE Now Nevile is in the clear, suspicion has turned on Audrey TUE for the murder of Lady Tresselian. But no-one can find her, TUE and MacWhirter is convinced she's innocent. TUE TUE Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville TUE MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion TUE Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook TUE Mary ...... Julia Ford TUE Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska TUE Kay ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox TUE Royde ...... Stephen Hogan TUE Sergeant ...... Matt Addis TUE TUE Directed by Mary Peate. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b013fbf4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b013n5g7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013fcz6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013fcz8 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013fczb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b013fczd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013fczg (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b013fczj (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b013fczl (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Keynes Vs. Hayek b012wxyg (Listen) WED What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get WED out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th WED century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes WED believed that government spending could create employment WED and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich WED Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real WED savings rather than increased public spending or WED artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, WED Professor Lord Skidelsky, will take on modern day followers WED of Hayek in a debate at the London School of Economics. Paul WED Mason, economics editor of Newsnight, is in the chair. WED WED The debate was recorded before an audience on 26th July at WED the LSE. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b013n5hj (Listen) WED Book of the Week: Fire Season, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. WED WED Near the end of April, with the snow melted, the mule WED packers arrive with supplies and ask the fire lookout if he WED ever gets lonely or sad in his wilderness lookout but he's WED not about to confide the near mystical feelings he WED experiences to two guys in leather chaps and cowboy hats. WED WED Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job WED and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of WED solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire WED at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with WED drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular WED midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening WED above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and WED black bears. WED WED Read by Kerry Shale WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b013fj13 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013fj15 (Listen) WED Village SOS, Episode 3 WED WED By Val McDermid. WED WED On the hunt for Colin Arnott's murderer, DCI Marion Bettany WED (Helen Baxendale) turns her attention to the village post WED office, run by terse sub-postmistress Angela Bryman. And WED Angela's not the only villager who resented Colin's project WED to turn a deconsecrated chapel into a performing arts WED centre. WED WED DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale WED DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon WED Angela Bryman ..... Lynn Fairbairn WED Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton WED Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland WED Tilly Francis ..... Rachel Bavidge WED Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove WED WED Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b013fj17 (Listen) WED Series 14, Episode 4 WED WED In 1974 an provincial orchestra sold out the Albert Hall. WED But this was no ordinary band - it was the Portsmouth WED Sinfonia, billed as the "world's worst orchestra". In its WED ranks were some distinguished musicians, including Brian WED Eno, Michael Nyman and the composer Gavin Bryars. But under WED the rules of the orchestra they had to play an instrument WED they were unfamiliar with. Alongside them were amateurs with WED no musical ability whatsoever. The conductor knew nothing of WED conducting but had studied pictures of Herbert von Karajan. WED WED The Portsmouth Sinfonia played light classics and rock WED arrangements, and the familiar tunes were just discernable WED through the miasma of wrong notes and unforced errors. It WED enraged some in the musical establishment who felt they were WED murdering good music, but got huge national attention, WED appearing regularly on TV programmes and in the newspapers, WED thanks in part to the fact that the orchestra signed a deal WED with a record company with a flair for publicity. Brian Eno WED was the producer of its first records. WED WED The orchestra had been founded by Gavin Bryars while he was WED a lecturer at the Portsmouth College of Art, and most of the WED original members were art students. So was it all an art WED school prank? By no means, say former members. It was an WED important contribution to the experimental music scene. WED Michael Nyman says it was hugely influential on his own WED work. Some people have claimed that the orchestra was a WED precursor of the punk movement. Others say that's nonsense. WED WED The orchestra never formally disbanded but stopped live WED performances in 1979. Portsmouth Sinfonia's recordings have WED never been re-released on CD and the vinyl recordings are WED collectors' items. In this programme Jolyon Jenkins talks to WED key former members of the orchestra, gives listeners the WED chance to savour those classic recordings, and tries to work WED out whether the Portsmouth Sinfonia had any artistic merit WED whatsoever. WED WED 11:30 A Case for Paul Temple b013fj19 (Listen) WED In Which Paul Temple Hears About Valentine WED WED Episode 1 of a new production of a vintage radio serial from WED 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of 'Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery' aimed WED to sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might WED have done if its recording had survived. The serial proved WED so popular that it was soon followed with equal success by WED two more revivals, 'Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery' and WED 'Paul Temple and Steve'. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of 'A Case for Paul Temple', WED in which Paul and Steve brave great danger to reveal the WED identity of the mysterious West End drug dealer known only WED as 'Valentine'. WED WED Episode 1: In Which Paul Temple Hears About Valentine WED WED Ten apparent suicides in one single week, and all of them WED drug addicts. WED Scotland Yard is desperate for Temple's help. WED WED Paul Temple CRAWFORD LOGAN WED Steve GERDA STEVENSON WED Sir Graham GARETH THOMAS WED Major Peters GREG POWRIE WED Supt. Wetherby RICHARD GREENWOOD WED Sheila Baxter MELODY GROVE WED Snooker Riley JIMMY CHISHOLM WED Charles Kelvin NICK UNDERWOOD WED Joy LUCY PATERSON WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b013fj1c (Listen) WED Consumer news with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b013fj1h (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b013fj1k (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 b013fj1m (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b013ggsr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00z62b1 (Listen) WED Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster WED WED Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is an elegy to WED the young gap-year student who was attacked in Stubbeylee WED Park, Bacup, Lancashire. She later died on August 24th 2007. WED This is an elegy to mark the anniversary of her death, four WED years later. Aged twenty, Sophie suffered fatal injuries WED while cradling her boyfriend Rob's head in an attempt to WED protect him from a ferocious attack by a group of youths. WED Rob survived but Sophie went into a coma and never WED recovered. WED WED Sophie was an intelligent bookish child who showed signs of WED wanting to be different from an early age. Political, WED vegetarian, a pacifist, Sophie had left school with A levels WED and was thinking about what to do with her future when it WED was taken so brutally from her. WED WED Sophie and Rob dressed in a unique way, expressing their WED individuality as creative artistic people through goth-style WED clothes, piercings and make-up, which provoked the fatal WED attack in the early hours of that Saturday morning. Sophie WED had been dating Rob Maltby, a 21-year-old art student for WED three years. WED WED SOPHIE ...........Rachel Austin WED Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b013f6qg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0144v1t (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, Spooky and the Van WED WED By Joe Lycett. WED WED Seventeen year old Julian is writing a blog. He's currently WED experiencing the weird limbo that lies between finishing WED school and starting university. As well as musing upon how WED his life might change, Julian's neighbour, nicknamed Spooky, WED is providing plenty of writing material and mystery... WED WED Second in a series of brand new short stories written and WED performed by comedians. Recorded earlier this month in front WED of an audience at the BBC's own venue at Potterrow, WED listeners are invited to take front row seats for 'as live' WED performances by some of the freshest talents appearing at WED this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill b013gjxk (Listen) WED Carnival Clash WED WED The Notting Hill Carnival is one of the world's biggest WED carnivals, a showcase for multicultural celebrations. But WED the event often makes the news for all the wrong reasons. WED Kwame goes behind the headlines to explore the complex WED relationship between the Notting Hill Carnival community and WED the Metropolitan Police. WED WED From 1973 the Notting Hill Carnival was attracting crowds of WED a scale rarely seen on the streets of Europe and by 1975 WED organised gangs of pickpockets were working those crowds. In WED reaction to such burgeoning criminality, thousands of police WED officers were placed on duty in the carnival the following WED year. Large scale policing has characterized the event ever WED since. There was a major riot in 1976 and there have been WED occasional clashes since but it's clear that the police are WED now as much a part of the event as the costume procession. WED WED Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon WED A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b013fj1p (Listen) WED Thinking Allowed explores the changing nature of home in a 3 WED part summer series recorded in the homes of our listeners. WED Who do we live with, how do our homes operate and what do WED they say about us and about the dramatic social WED transformations of the last century and the century to come? WED By invitation, in each edition a new type of home is WED invaded, analysed and explained by Laurie Taylor and a panel WED of two sociologists round the kitchen table. WED WED Much political debate still revolves around the assumption WED that most of us live in conventional family homes. However WED research suggests that in 20 years time only 2 out of 5 WED people will be in marriages and married couples will be WED outnumbered by other types of household. Behind closed WED doors, Britain is changing: Single living has increased by WED 30% in 10 years but at the same time financial pressures are WED fuelling a growth in extended families - people sharing WED bills, childcare and mucking-in in a way which makes private WED life far less private. WED WED After generous invitations from Thinking Allowed listeners, WED Laurie Taylor visits three. In this edition he visits a big WED multi-generational family in Bristol accompanied by the WED sociologists Rachel Thomson and Esther Dermot. They attempt WED to divine the future for Britain's private life. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life b013f9d3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b013fj1r (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013fj1t (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Great Unanswered Questions b013fj1w (Listen) WED Edinburgh Special WED WED This week's comedy talk show comes from the Edinburgh WED festival and features Northern Irish comedian Colin Murphy WED with special guest comedian Andrew Maxwell. Resident font of WED knowledge Dr David Booth will attempt to answer the WED questions presented by the audience and as the others debate WED and discuss, computer buff Matthew Collins will trawl the WED internet to find content which will enhance the humour and WED knowledge. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b013ggtq (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b013fj1y (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with singer Jacqui WED Dankworth, whose new disc includes arrangements by her late WED father, saxophonist John Dankworth. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013fj15 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Black Roses Debate b013n5j5 (Listen) WED Matthew Taylor chairs an audience debate on the issues WED raised by today's Radio 4 drama 'Black Roses' about the WED murder, four years ago, of 20-year-old 'goth' Sophie WED Lancaster. How should 'hate crime' be defined - and what can WED we do to stop it? The panel includes Sophie's mother, Mrs WED Sylvia Lancaster, and will involve members of the invited WED studio audience. WED WED Was the killing of Sophie an exceptional crime or was it WED typical of a wider problem of unprovoked attacks on WED strangers? WED WED If 'hate crimes'- ranging from verbal abuse to murder - are WED commonplace, is the situation worse or better than it was a WED generation or two generations back? How has the authorities' WED response to these crimes changed during that time? WED WED 'Hate-crime' in the UK currently includes offences motivated WED by prejudice about the victim's race, religion, sexuality or WED disability. Sylvia Lancaster is campaigning to extend the WED definition of 'hate crime' to include offences motivated by WED 'hatred of sub-cultural groups'. But how could these be WED defined? Were the authorities hampered by legal constraints WED in their attempts to deal appropriately with what happened WED in Sophie's case? Would changes in the law be useful in WED future similar cases? WED WED Is there anything to be gained from trying to understand the WED mental processes that lead to such crimes? Can anything be WED done to reform such criminals either before or after they've WED offended? WED WED Would harsher sentences act as a deterrent to hate-criminals WED or would they make no difference? WED WED Are there no-go areas in our towns and cities? Times of WED night when it's unwise to walk in the park or down a WED particular street? Places where it's unwise to be obviously WED different? If so, should we accept it as 'the way it is'? WED Contributory negligence on the part of the victim? WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b013fj20 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 18 WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. In a talk WED recorded at this year's Edinburgh Festival, Andrew Robinson WED asks, 'what can we learn from geniuses?'. WED WED 21:00 An Unhealthy Wait b013fj22 (Listen) WED On average it takes 17 years between the time a medical WED discovery is made and the time that it's put into wide use. WED Why does it take so long? Some of the reasons include WED regulatory requirements, established practices, professional WED jealousy and a fear of failure. A combination of these WED factors prevented the introduction of anaesthesia for 30 WED years, yet allowed disastrous new practices in intensive WED care units that are acknowledged as having killed hundreds WED of people in the 90s. The programme will explore these WED barriers but also the way that patient advocacy groups and WED even the Department of Health are now overturning them in WED order to bring research more quickly to the people who need WED it most.Vivienne Parry talks to eminent surgeon Professor WED Lord Ara Darzi about his passion for innovation - and how it WED can sometimes go too far, creating must-have operations that WED aren't necessarily the best treatment for the individual WED patient. The Director of the Wellcome Trust, Professor Mark WED Walport, meets Vivienne at the building site of the Francis WED Crick Centre for Innovation - where it's hoped tomorrow's WED innovators will be nurtured and supported. We hear from one WED innovator who has produced new hoist and bed designs. He WED believes to overcome the barriers in the way of your WED products being adopted you should start by asking hospital WED staff what they would like to use and taking their comments WED on board. WED WED 21:30 It's My Story b0128hsj (Listen) WED Letting Go of James WED WED "I've driven home from work in tears many times recently, WED because I just don't want to let go", says Jane, James WED mother at the start of Letting Go of James. But the truth is WED that the family isn't coping with him living at home. He is WED 16, severely autistic, does not speak and can attack other WED members of the family. WED WED He has been offered a place in full time residential care, WED and the family is now going through the process of WED transition. James three brothers take part in several visits WED to the school and Charles, James' father, comments on the WED irony that the family is spending more times with James just WED as they are about to say goodbye. WED WED Before the final goodbye they have a last family holiday, WED which despite some magical moments, underlies the fact that WED James needs to go. WED WED On the final evening tensions are running higher than normal WED as his parents prepare James for bed, but there is a real WED moment of revelation when they all do finally say goodbye, WED as the youngest sibling touches James for the first time, WED and with time the boys begin to experience a new side of WED James. WED WED The process of adjusting continues for the family who do not WED say that they are 'happier'. They all miss James more than WED expected, although they can enjoy doing more together, relax WED a bit more and are relieved it has happened. WED WED James has a number of successful visits home - although just WED where home is becomes a heartbreaking issue in the WED programme. WED WED At Christmas he pulls his first ever cracker, but New Year WED leads Jane to reflect on her ongoing fears for her son. The WED initial honeymoon period does pass and Jane and Charles WED admit there are no fairytale endings. Letting Go of James WED ends with the recognition - from the whole family - that WED life will never be easy for James and that there will always WED be difficult choices. WED WED Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:58 Weather b013fj24 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b013fj26 (Listen) WED With Ritula Shah. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013mzrl (Listen) WED The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed. WED WED Changez relationship with Erica deepens. WED WED Abridged by Lisa Osborne WED WED Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant WED Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize WED and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to WED publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York WED Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other WED places including New York and London. WED WED Producer: Lisa Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Verse Illustrated b013fj5t (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In the third of the new series of illustrated poems, spoken WED word artists Salena Godden and Scroobius Pip tell two very WED different stories. WED WED 'A Valentine at Waterloo' written and performed by Salena WED Godden WED A post-apocalyptic vision of our sexual future: "They have WED real flying femen, ladybirds and buttflies, cock-a-tails and WED flick beans, hermaids and mermaids, 8-breasted gooligans, WED whippers, flippers and strippers to-go-go..." WED WED 'A Hell of a Week' written and performed by Scroobius Pip WED This should be 'one of the biggest solo spoken word shows WED ever to be recorded', exclusively for Radio 4. But where WED exactly is Scroobius Pip...? WED WED Actors... Carl Prekopp, Peter Polycarpou and Jonathan WED Forbes. WED WED Directed by James Robinson. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00y8yk1 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Dating Wizard 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 decides to join a Wizard dating website WED after the being convinced by Bernard the Blue, but fails to WED read the full terms and conditions. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty WED Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy WED Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson WED Molly ..... Fiona Morrison WED Duchess of Bedlam ..... Susan Calman WED WED Producer/ Director ..... Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 The Marx Brothers in Britain b00sp198 (Listen) WED Author and historian Glenn Mitchell profiles the fascinating WED visits to Britain of legendary comedy team The Marx WED Brothers. WED WED The Marx Brothers; Groucho, Harpo, Chico and (for a while) WED Zeppo, inspired a generation of comedians, not least in WED Britain via The Goon Show and, by extension, Monty Python's WED Flying Circus. Although Britons knew the Marxes essentially WED from their American films, they worked in the UK on several WED remarkable occasions, the first of which pre-dates their WED movie career. WED WED Featuring actor Michael Roberts, famous for playing Groucho WED on the UK radio series Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel and WED using archive and new contributions from people that met and WED worked with them this programme recreates and explores the WED eventful visits of the brothers. WED WED Beginning with their first in 1922, with an ensemble that WED included future 'boop-oop-a-doop' girl Helen Kane, the WED opening night at the London Coliseum saw them the target of WED flying pennies. With the act not working they reverted to an WED earlier sketch, moving to the Alhambra for the third week WED prior to appearances in Bristol and Manchester where WED elsewhere on the bill was a young Sandy Powell. WED WED By the time of their next visit, in 1931, the Marxes had WED gone from vaudeville to being the biggest attraction in WED Broadway musical-comedy. Two of their shows had been filmed WED - The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers - and had done WED sufficient business in the UK for impresario C.B. Cochran to WED invite them to star at the Palace, London. WED WED Audiences were thrilled and the Marxes enjoyed their second WED stay in London, even when Harpo and Chico, drawn into a WED protracted card game in an unheated flat, found themselves WED burning the furniture to keep warm! The journey back saw WED Groucho and family strip-searched at US Customs when Groucho WED put down his occupation as 'smuggler'. WED WED In 1947, Chico accepted a solo engagement at the London WED Casino. He returned to Britain in January 1949 for an WED extensive variety tour, joined briefly by Harpo for a WED four-week engagement at the London Palladium in June. In a WED dockside interview - to be heard in the programme - Chico is WED asked about the Italian accent he used when in character and WED claims that, after seeing what they'd done to Mussolini, WED he'd become Greek! WED WED Chico's final UK visit was in 1959 for two BBC appearances, WED one of which, Showtime hosted by David Nixon. WED WED There will also be interview material from Groucho's various WED trips to Great Britain between 1954 and 1971. Some of his WED activities were professional - such as a British TV version WED of his quiz show You Bet Your Life - while others were WED purely social, notably his celebrated meeting with T.S. WED Eliot. WED WED Contributors include actor Ron Moody, Theatre historian WED Chris Woodward and Marxist fan Peter Dixon. WED WED The programme is produced by Stephen Garner WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 AUGUST 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b013flcr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b013n5hj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013flct (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013flcy (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013fld0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b013fld6 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013fldb (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b013fldg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b013fldl (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The House I Grew up In b013fldn (Listen) THU Series 5, Toby Young THU THU Writer and journalist Toby Young returns to his childhood in THU North London. The son of Lord Young of Dartington, a THU towering figure in post-war social policy making and the THU originator of many of this country's institutions, Toby THU remembers his father being a formidable over-achiever and THU workaholic. His mother, the artist and writer, Sasha Mooram THU gave up a career at the BBC to look after Toby and his THU sister full time, something the children remember as being THU very difficult for their mother. THU THU Toby's father, who believed in comprehensive education, sent THU his son to two comprehensive schools. After leaving school THU at 16 with only one O level and on the insistence of his THU mother that he get a trade, he attended a work experience THU programme where he trained as a car mechanic, washer upper THU and a lavatory cleaner. But he decided the work of a manual THU worker was not for him. He was persuaded by his parents to THU go back to school and attended the sixth form at William THU Ellis Grammar school in London gaining 3 A levels. And it is THU the traditional education he experienced here, its THU discipline and high expectations, that Toby wants to provide THU in the new free school he is opening next month in West THU London. It is something he believes his father would be THU proud of. THU THU In the House I Grew Up In, Toby Young takes Wendy Robbins THU back to the home and haunts of his childhood. THU THU 09:30 The Tribes of Science b013flds (Listen) THU More Tribes of Science, Antarctic Scientists THU THU Peter Curran puts scientists at the British Antarctic Survey THU under his anthropological lens. What are the rituals, THU motivations, passions and survival strategies of this THU ice-bound tribe? THU THU He meets the geologists who live in two-man tents for months THU in the Antarctic ice fields, hundreds of miles from nearest THU people. He also talks to Katrin Linse, a polar marine THU biologist who vowed as a twelve year old to go to Antarctica THU after she was barred from a sightseeing tour of an Antarctic THU research ship because she was a girl. Among other THU vindications, she now has species of Antarctic sea cucumber THU named after her - an honour bestowed upon her by tribal THU colleagues. THU THU Peter also meets ice chemist Rob Mulvanney who has visited THU the frozen continent in the cause of scientific discovery THU for three decades. Peter finds out from him how the culture THU and community of the Antarctic tribe has changed over the THU years. The former months of extreme isolation from the THU outside world has gone now that the scientists can go on THU Facebook and use satellite phones. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b013n5jn (Listen) THU Book of the Week: Fire Season, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. THU THU May is relentless with wind, the fire lookout's tower THU vibrates, guy wires scream and the distant hills are THU swallowed in dust. As he spots a cloud rise from the hills THU his eye is drawn to the contours but he decides the spiral THU is just dust, it's colour and movement don't jibe with THU smoke. He quits his post early and finds a spot of early THU evening peace by a mountain pond. THU THU Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job THU and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of THU solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire THU at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with THU drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular THU midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening THU above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and THU black bears. THU THU Read by Kerry Shale THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b013fldx (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013flf3 (Listen) THU Village SOS, Episode 4 THU THU By Val McDermid. THU THU Today's episode of Village SOS takes us to Shilwick's beach THU house workshops, where DCI Bettany and her sidekick DS THU Hodgson interview even more villagers with a grudge against THU murder victim Colin Arnott, his grieving widow Kai Ling, and THU their plans to turn a disused chapel into a performing arts THU centre. THU THU DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale THU DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon THU Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton THU Bob Brandison ..... Bill Fellows THU Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland THU Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove THU Peter Robson ..... Shaun Prendergast THU THU Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b013flf5 (Listen) THU The Mysterious Story of Dirar Abu Sisi THU THU On the 18th of February 2011 a Palestinian engineer by the THU name of Dirar Abu Sisi boarded a train in eastern Ukraine. THU He was travelling to Kiev, where he hoped to apply for THU Ukrainian citizenship. But when the train arrived at its THU destination the following morning, Mr Abu Sisi was no longer THU on board. He had vanished. THU THU For more than a week, nothing was heard from Mr Abu Sisi, a THU manager at Gaza's main power plant. Then his wife got a THU phone call: her husband was in an Israeli jail. Now he is THU awaiting trial, accused of being the brains behind Hamas' THU rocket programme. THU THU Only twice in the country's history has Israel abducted THU someone on foreign soil to bring them back to face trial at THU home. Adolf Eichmann, one of the principal organizers of the THU Holocaust, was kidnapped in Argentina in 1960, and THU subsequently tried and executed. In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu THU was drugged and smuggled out of Italy after revealing the THU existence of Israel's nuclear programme. THU THU So who is Dirar Abu Sisi? Did he really study rocket science THU at a Ukrainian military academy, as the Israeli indictment THU claims? Is he a senior Hamas operative? Or is he an innocent THU victim of mistaken identity? What role if any did the THU Ukrainian authorities play in his disappearance from that THU train? THU THU In this edition of Crossing Continents, Gabriel Gatehouse THU unravels the mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi, tracking his journey THU across Ukraine and beyond, to Israel and Gaza. It's a story THU that involves the secret services of at least two nations, THU and goes to the very heart of the conflict between the THU Israelis and the Palestinians. THU Producer: Smita Patel. THU THU 11:30 The Little Black Fish That Created Big Waves THU b013flf9 (Listen) THU Journalist Negar Esfandiary looks inside the covers of one THU of her favourite childhood books from Iran and discovers THU that the delightful tale of a little fish that leaves its THU little pond to swim to the sea is actually a powerful THU political allegory - one which caused major ripples which THU still reverberate to this day. THU THU The story was written in 1967 by a school teacher called THU Samad Behrangi from the Azeri community in northern Iran and THU was strikingly illustrated by Farshid Mesghali (who won the THU Hans Christian Andersen award for it in 1974). It tells of a THU little black fish who defies the rules of her community to THU leave her pond in order to discover what lies beyond. As she THU travels along the river encountering other creatures, she THU learns many things and faces down her fears. As she reaches THU the sea she performs one final heroic act and experiences THU the euphoria of freedom, before meeting an untimely death. THU Samad Behrangi drowned in 1968 aged only 29; some believed THU his death to be a murder by the secret services but those THU close to him say it was just a tragic accident. The book THU became a huge success and has inspired generations of THU political activists. The story was quoted by Kurdish teacher THU Farzad Kamangar on the eve of his execution last year. THU THU Hedayollah Soltanzadeh, a friend of the author says The THU Little Black Fish was the story of his generation and the THU symbolism used by Samad Behrangi to disguise his political THU message in a time of tight censorship was well-understood. THU Composer Mehran Rouhani was so inspired by the story that he THU composed a symphonic poem which was performed in London by THU the Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra in 2007. THU THU Producer: Mukti Jain Campion THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b013flff (Listen) THU Consumer news with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b013flfh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b013flfm (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 b013flfr (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 b013ggtq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jngcx (Listen) THU Dolly THU THU By Christopher Douglas, based on the real events surrounding THU the selection of Basil D'Oliveira for the England cricket THU team in the 1960s. THU THU Having emigrated to England and been called up to the THU national team, D'Oliveira's one unfulfilled ambition is to THU be selected to tour against his native South Africa. But the THU administrators of both South African and English cricket THU have other ideas. THU THU Basil 'Baz' D'Oliveira ...... Jude Akuwudike THU Naomi D'Oliveira ...... Rakie Ayola THU Smithy ...... Justin Salinger THU Reg ...... Tim Woodward THU Anne ...... Rachel Atkins THU Bishop of Adelaide ...... Lewis McLeod THU Tiene Oosterhuizen ...... Saul Reichlin THU Peter West ...... Christopher Douglas THU Damian D'Oliveira ...... Job Angus THU Shaun D'Oliveira ...... Haydon Downing THU THU Directed by Roland Jaquarello. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b013f4bc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b013fjqx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b013f972 (Listen) THU Comic Fringes, Episode 3 THU THU By Bridget Christie. THU THU When Bridget's husband is assaulted by the ghost of a long THU dead European leader, it highlights the vast differences in THU interpreation between a believer and an atheist. THU THU Recorded earlier this month in front of an audience at the THU BBC's own venue at Potterrow, listeners are invited to take THU front row seats for 'as live' performances by some of the THU freshest talents appearing at this year's Edinburgh Festival THU Fringe. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill b013gjxp (Listen) THU Enterprise THU THU Writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah discovers how the Notting THU Hill Carnival was transformed from a British urban arts THU festival into a global phenomenon during the 1980s and 1990s THU - but at great personal cost to those at the heart of the THU organization of the event. THU THU This was the era when the carnival-goers increased THU year-on-year, until numbers reached two million in 1999. The THU costumes and the bands also became bigger every year. Big THU name sponsors were persuaded to invest and the carnival THU looked well-positioned to becoming a fully commercial THU enterprise. However, although crime at the Carnival was THU generally low, in 1987 a man was fatally wounded. By 2000, THU four deaths had been linked to the event and the carnival THU organisation came under intense scrutiny. THU THU Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b013gjhx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b013fm6c (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 b013fm6g (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013fm6j (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b013fm6m (Listen) THU Series 5, Milton Jones - Undercover Journalist THU THU Milton Jones becomes Britain's best-known undercover THU journalist. Which means that Milton Jones also becomes THU Britain's most least-effective undercover journalist... 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 Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"). THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b013ggtx (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b013fmkj (Listen) THU Kirsty Lang talks to author Miroslav Penkov and reviews THU films set at music festivals. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013flf3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b013fmkl (Listen) THU The Riots - How They Began THU THU England has witnessed its worst rioting for a generation THU this month. The majority have been shocked by scenes of THU people, some as young as 11, looting high street shops with THU seemingly no fear of being caught by the police or of any THU punishment that could be handed out by the courts. THU THU The violence started in Tottenham, North London, where what THU started out as a peaceful protest over the shooting of 29 THU year old Mark Duggan, spiralled out of control. Two days THU after Mr Duggan had been killed by armed officers, his THU friends and family gathered outside Tottenham police station THU asking for more information on the circumstances surrounding THU his death. Five hours later, trouble ensued. THU THU Police cars were set on fire; shops were destroyed along the THU length and breadth of Tottenham High Road; and families were THU forced to flee their homes as the flames spread. Later that THU night, just a mile or so away in Tottenham Hale, the looting THU began. THU THU The Report investigates what happened on that fateful THU Saturday - August 6th 2011 - in Tottenham and asks why the THU situation grew so violent. Wesley Stephenson speaks with THU people who were on Tottenham High Road when the violence THU broke out. He reveals deep-seated anger at the police within THU some sections of the community and hears claims that the THU police response was not robust enough. THU THU Producer: Hannah Barnes. THU THU 20:30 In Business b013fmkn (Listen) THU Crunching the Crisis THU THU Series of programmes about the whole world of work, public THU and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers. THU THU 21:00 In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity b013f4q6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The House I Grew up In b013fldn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b013fmkq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b013fmks (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013mztz (Listen) THU The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed. THU THU Changez's star is rising at work but when the twin towers THU collapse his reaction is unexpected. THU THU Abridged by Lisa Osborne THU THU Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant THU Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THU and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to THU publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York THU Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other THU places including New York and London THU THU Producer: Lisa Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 House on Fire b013fmkv (Listen) THU Series 2, Makeover THU THU Vicky decides she needs a new body and where better to get THU one than down the local gym. One session with Hans - a man THU who put the boot into camp - is enough to convince her she THU never wants to go back. But Hans has other ideas. THU THU Meanwhile, Matt's parent have other ideas about THU restructuring their lives.... THU THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt ..... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU Julie ..... Janine Duvitski THU Hans ..... Stephen Mangan THU Receptionist ..... Kellie Shirley THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Elvenquest b00kfgcx (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU THU PROGRAMME 4 OF 6 THU THU OUR HEROES? QUEST FOR THE SWORD OF ASNAGAR IS INTERRUPTED THU WHEN THEY ANSWER A DISTRESS CALL FROM SOME SIRENS. AND LORD THU DARKNESS? PURSUIT OF ALL THINGS EVIL IS ALSO PUT TO ONE SIDE THU AS HE CONSIDERS GETTING HIMSELF AN HEIR. THU THU STARRING: THU JAMES BACHMAN AS AMIS, THE CHOSEN ONE THU DARREN BOYD AS ELF LORD, VIDAR THU KEVIN ELDON AS DEAN THE DWARF/KREECH, LORD DARKNESS? THU HENCHMAN THU STEPHEN MANGAN AS SAM THU ALISTAIR MCGOWAN AS LORD DARKNESS THU SOPHIE WINKLEMAN AS AMAZON PRINCESS, PENTHISELEA THU THU PRODUCER ANIL GUPTA & PAUL SCHLESINGER. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 AUGUST 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b013fnvw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b013n5jn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013fnvy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013fnw0 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013fnw2 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b013fnw4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013fnw6 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b013fnw8 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b013fnwq (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b013fk5s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b013n5k1 (Listen) FRI Book of the Week: Fire Season, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. FRI FRI A new relief lookout appears on the mountain but the author FRI is unsure that he has what it takes to cope alone in the FRI wilderness. And some smokejumpers arrive to put out a fire, FRI which reminds the author of the famous tragedy of the Mann FRI Gulch fire which inspired Norman Maclean's famous book. FRI FRI Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job FRI and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of FRI solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire FRI at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with FRI drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular FRI midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening FRI above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and FRI black bears. FRI FRI Read by Kerry Shale FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b013gcn6 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013gcn9 (Listen) FRI Village SOS, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Val McDermid. FRI FRI DCI Bettany fears she's no closer to finding Colin Arnott's FRI murderer. Colin's plans to convert a United Reformed chapel FRI into a performing arts centre made him enemies in the FRI village. Bettany hopes that spending a night in the village FRI pub will bring her closer to the killer. FRI FRI DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale FRI DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon FRI Peter Robson ..... Shaun Prendergast FRI Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland FRI Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton FRI Tom Briggs ..... Christian Rodska FRI FRI Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b013gcnc (Listen) FRI Series 2, More Fruitcake? 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 bring the current series to a close with a FRI tranquil visit to the Oval for the third day of of a FRI mid-week game of county cricket. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des is never FRI short of a story to tell, or an insight to reveal, about the FRI men and women in professional sport - their lives, their FRI characters, their training regimes, their triumphs and their FRI disasters. And Christopher continues to play a straight bat FRI with his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the FRI highest levels of sport (and an occasional participant at FRI the lowest). FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b00vcpf4 (Listen) FRI Marcel Proust FRI FRI James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary FRI correctness. With team captains John Walsh and Sebastian FRI Faulks, discussing the life and works of Marcel Proust. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b013gd22 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b013gd24 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b013gd26 (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b013gd28 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b013ggtx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b013gd2b (Listen) FRI Pink Boy Blue Girl FRI FRI by Mateusz Dymek FRI FRI When a Swedish PhD student interviews a couple about raising FRI their child gender neutrally she begins to wonder if their FRI choices are as politically correct as they first seem. FRI FRI Malin ..... Morven Christie FRI Håkan ..... Joseph Milson FRI Catalina ..... Leah Brotherhead FRI Receptionist ..... Jonathan Forbes FRI Policewoman ..... Susie Riddell FRI Old Man ..... Karzan Sherabayani FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b013gfgp (Listen) FRI Southport FRI FRI What is happening at this year's Southport Flower Show? FRI Christine Walkden, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew report. FRI In addition : what did Southport Flower show ever do for me? FRI Eric Robson gives the history of the largest independent FRI flower show in Britain. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill b013gk08 (Listen) FRI Legacy FRI FRI Writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah goes to the Notting Hill FRI Carnival to meet some of the multitude who create the event FRI and discovers most are volunteers, passionate about FRI preserving the heritage of carnival culture. FRI FRI Among them are several veterans who were involved in the FRI first indoor carnival and the first street festival and who FRI are still at the heart of the carnival community today. FRI Young and old, they are all adjusting to a new era of FRI regulations and negotiations with powerful stakeholders. FRI FRI Some old conflicts have been resolved but new pressures are FRI appearing elsewhere in the carnival that demand a different FRI way of working. Kwame discovers that the Notting Hill FRI Carnival is an event with a history of transforming itself FRI and today it's doing so by diversifying and building new FRI partnerships. FRI FRI Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon FRI A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b013gfgr (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 b013gfgw (Listen) FRI With Francine Stock. Film programme looking at the latest FRI cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b013gfgy (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013gfh0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b013gfnh (Listen) FRI Series 7, Kevin Eldon interviews Mark Steel 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 Kevin Eldon is a writer and actor for whom it would probably FRI be quicker to list the brilliant programmes he's not been in FRI than those he has - which include Brass Eye, 15 Storeys FRI High, Spaced, Look Around You, Black Books, Big Train, World FRI of Pub, Jam, I'm Alan Partridge and Attention Scum!. He also FRI wrote and starred in Radio 4's Poets' Tree, in character as FRI the Islington poet Paul Hamilton, and is the singer in FRI Beergut 100. FRI FRI Mark Steel has presented a range of his own programmes on FRI Radio 4, from The Mark Steel Solution, The Mark Steel FRI Revolution, The Mark Steel Lectures to, most recently, the FRI Sony Silver Award and Writers Guild Award-winning Mark FRI Steel's In Town. He also occasionally appears in programmes FRI that don't have his name in the title, such as The News FRI Quiz. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b013ggwg (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b013gfnk (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with prize-winning FRI children's author David Almond, creator of Skellig, who has FRI now written his first novel for adults. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013gcn9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b013gfnm (Listen) FRI Edward Stourton presents a discussion of news and politics FRI from the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. FRI FRI Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b013gfnp (Listen) FRI Kim Philby FRI FRI The celebrated thinker John Gray gives his reflection on a FRI topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00jntf4 (Listen) FRI I'm the Boss FRI FRI By Karen Brown. Successful HR manager Diane's life is turned FRI upside down by a sinister online bullying campaign, and when FRI she finally discovers the culprit, her world begins to FRI disintegrate. FRI FRI With Lesley Sharp. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b013gfnr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b013gfnt (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013mzx3 (Listen) FRI The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed FRI FRI Changez's new life begins to unravel. FRI FRI Abridged by Lisa Osborne FRI FRI Producer: Lisa Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b013f976 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r189 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI FRI This week's comedy talk show features Northern Irish FRI comedian Colin Murphy and special guest comedienne Holly FRI Walsh discussing questions such as: when you wash clothes, FRI why do jumpers get baggy and jeans shrink? Resident know-all FRI Dr David Booth will attempt to answer this and other FRI questions and computer nerd Matthew Collins will click his FRI way through the world wide web in an attempt to add other FRI mind baffling "stuff". FRI
19 August, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 20/08/2011 - 26/08/2011
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