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SAT SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b013gfqm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b013n5k1 (Listen) SAT Fire Season, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. SAT SAT A new relief lookout appears on the mountain but the author SAT is unsure that he has what it takes to cope alone in the SAT wilderness. And some smokejumpers arrive to put out a fire, SAT which reminds the author of the famous tragedy of the Mann SAT Gulch fire which inspired Norman Maclean's famous book. SAT SAT Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job SAT and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of SAT solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire SAT at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with SAT drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular SAT midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening SAT above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and SAT black bears. SAT SAT Read by Kerry Shale SAT SAT Produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013gfqp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013gftv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013gftx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b013gftz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013gfv1 (Listen) SAT Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b013r8r6 (Listen) SAT 'Everywhere I go people are nervous. I see people holding on SAT to their bags.' We hear from pupils who have been expelled SAT from mainstream education. And, a teacher tells us she is "a SAT bit of a cow" to her students, but her approach gets SAT results. Plus Evan Davis reads Your News. With Eddie Mair SAT and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b013r40n (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b013r40q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b013r40s (Listen) SAT The Devil's Beeftub SAT SAT 17th Century Scotland was a troubled time. Immortalised by SAT Sir Walter Scott the cavernous 'Devil's Beeftub' and the SAT spectacular 'Grey Mare's Tail' waterfall became hiding SAT places for Border Reivers and Covenanters as the countryside SAT became a battleground for clans and religious factions. SAT SAT Alistair Moffat has written about the infamous Reivers. They SAT hid the cattle they stole from either side of the border in SAT the 'Beeftub' as it provided a perfect vantage point to see SAT any approaching armies. Theirs was a lawless time and SAT knowledge of the landscape was vital for survival. Today the SAT landscape is being carefully restored to a time before SAT intensive cattle and sheep grazing had created the open SAT vistas we see today. The Borders Forest Trust are attempting SAT to plant thousands of native trees and work with farmers SAT like Jim Mitchell to integrate todays community with SAT conservation for the future. SAT SAT Just down the road is the 'Grey Mare's Tail', one of the SAT highest waterfalls in Scotland. Today it is home to feral SAT goats and rare plantlife but in the 17th century it provided SAT a hiding place for the Covenanters, those who objected to SAT the interference of the Stuart Kings in the affairs of the SAT Presbyterian Church. The National Trust now own the site and SAT as well as the human history and wildlife the area also SAT features some extremely old fossils. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b013r42s (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b013r49z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b013r4b1 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b013r4b3 (Listen) SAT Stella Duffy; Luke Wright; former Vice Consul Hugh Hunter, SAT May Shigennobu, George Orwell's landlady Irene Stacey, SAT Chris Tarrant SAT SAT Richard Coles with writer and performer Stella Duffy, poet SAT Luke Wright, a man who used to be a Vice Consul in Orlando SAT and Marseilles, and a woman whose mother was a leader of the SAT Japanese Red Army. There's a strange story about George SAT Orwell's beer mug and Chris Tarrant's Inheritance Tracks. SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b013r4b5 (Listen) SAT Istanbul - Part 2 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig in the second of two programmes continues her SAT exploration the ancient and modern city of Istanbul which SAT straddles the border between Europe and Asia. She looks at SAT the its richness both in history and the fusion of eastern SAT and western cultures in the arts and cuisine. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Ibiza: Britain's Balearic Soul b013r76j (Listen) SAT The island of Ibiza has subtly influenced British youth SAT culture and the nation's night-time economy for more than 20 SAT years. SAT SAT The Balearic attitude to nightlife and entertainment was SAT first adopted in Britain during the late 80s and soon many SAT young Brits would no longer be divided by class, race, SAT football allegiances or even sexuality, instead becoming SAT united by their devotion to house music, recreational drug SAT taking and warehouse parties or raves. SAT SAT By the mid-90s, millions of ordinary young people spent SAT their weekends 'dancing on drugs' and, as alcohol sales SAT dropped and customers fell away, the licensed leisure SAT industry replaced so-called spit 'n' sawdust pubs with more SAT modern bars while bottled beers and alcopops became the new SAT drinks of choice. With Radio 1 broadcasting live from the SAT world's house music clubs, dance music culture moved into SAT the mainstream and has stayed there ever since. SAT SAT In 'Ibiza: Britain's Balearic Soul' Dr Kate O'Brien meets SAT those at the heart of these changes. Internationally SAT celebrated DJ Paul Oakenfield shares with Kate his first SAT experience in Ibiza and how he tried to recreate the SAT island's bohemian, hedonistic party scene, while Radio 1's SAT Pete Tong explains how he pushed the station into being part SAT of this unrelenting youth movement. SAT SAT Kate also hears from a former Chief Constable on his SAT struggle to manage 40,000 party-goers at an all-night rave, SAT and experts on alcohol and drug consumption tell how society SAT and government reacted to the 'normalisation' of SAT recreational drug taking and young people's determined move SAT away from the limitations of licensed premises over two SAT decades. SAT SAT The history of British dance culture and clubbing is complex SAT and fascinating, and Kate explores its impact on young SAT people's identities and lifestyles since the late 1980s SAT SAT Producer: Russell Crewe SAT A Made in Manchester Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b013r76x (Listen) SAT Talking Straight SAT SAT Why can't politicians speak their minds? Instead of giving SAT honest interviews, all too often politicians end up SAT regurgitating the same soundbite over and over. What would SAT be the consequences of greater openness? To what extent are SAT the voters and the media responsible for driving this SAT behaviour? Would the public prefer politicians to be more SAT open? While voters often warm to a maverick, would they ever SAT elect a government of mavericks? How do politicians SAT themselves feel about having to be evasive? And has SAT coalition government changed the rules of the game? Tim SAT Samuels looks at what happens when politicians do speak SAT their minds. He talks to voters, journalists, experts and SAT politicians about whether it would be desirable for this SAT aspect of our political culture to change, and whether it SAT could ever happen? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b013r8f2 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Producer: Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b013r8f4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b013gfnh (Listen) SAT Series 7, Kevin Eldon interviews Mark Steel 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 Kevin Eldon is a writer and actor for whom it would probably SAT be quicker to list the brilliant programmes he's not been in SAT than those he has - which include Brass Eye, 15 Storeys SAT High, Spaced, Look Around You, Black Books, Big Train, World SAT of Pub, Jam, I'm Alan Partridge and Attention Scum!. He also SAT wrote and starred in Radio 4's Poets' Tree, in character as SAT the Islington poet Paul Hamilton, and is the singer in SAT Beergut 100. SAT SAT Mark Steel has presented a range of his own programmes on SAT Radio 4, from The Mark Steel Solution, The Mark Steel SAT Revolution, The Mark Steel Lectures to, most recently, the SAT Sony Silver Award and Writers Guild Award-winning Mark SAT Steel's In Town. He also occasionally appears in programmes SAT that don't have his name in the title, such as The News SAT Quiz. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b013r8f6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b013r8f8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b013gfnm (Listen) SAT Aylesbury SAT SAT Edward Stourton presents a topical discussion of news and SAT politics from the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury, SAT Buckinghamshire. This week's panel will be Dame Wendy Hall, SAT Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of SAT Physical and Applied Sciences at the University of SAT Southampton; award-winning theatre director and Artistic SAT Director of the Southbank Centre, Jude Kelly; the Chief SAT Executive of Islamic Relief, Jehangir Malik and financial SAT services columnist Margaret Doyle. SAT SAT Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b013r8fb (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b013r8fd (Listen) SAT Marnie SAT SAT It's 1961 and blonde and stunning Marnie Elmer poses as a SAT secretary in order to steal from her employers and fund her SAT mother's existence in Torquay. But she's yet to meet SAT handsome company director, Mark Rutland, whose pursuit of SAT her will ultimately lead to her downfall. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna SAT SAT Marnie ..... Jade Williams SAT Mark ..... Patrick Kennedy SAT Terry ..... Carl Prekopp SAT Edie ..... Elaine Claxton SAT Lucy ..... Joanna Monro SAT Roman ..... Brian Bowles SAT Dawn ..... Susie Riddell SAT SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b013f96w (Listen) SAT Series 12, Wichita Lineman SAT SAT Wichita Lineman, the ultimate country/pop crossover track, SAT is the subject of this week's Soul Music. SAT SAT David Crary is a lineman from Oklahoma. He describes his job SAT - storm-chasing to mend fallen power-lines; travelling on SAT 'dirt roads, gravel roads, paved roads... up in the SAT farmlands of Illinois and Missouri... down south in the SAT Swamplands... it ain't nothing to swerve in the middle of SAT the road in your bucket-truck to miss an alligator '. SAT SAT He recalls the first time he heard Wichita Lineman, SAT travelling in the back of his family's Station Wagon, SAT listening to the radio... thinking that being a lineman SAT 'must be a cool job' if someone's written a song about it. SAT Also a part-time musician, David has recorded his own SAT version of the song which sums up his working life... on the SAT road, working long hours, away from his wife and six kids. SAT SAT Wichita Lineman was written by Jimmy Webb for the Country SAT star Glen Campbell. It tells the story of a lonely lineman SAT in the American midwest, travelling vast distances to mend SAT power and telephone lines. SAT SAT Released in 1968 it's an enduring classic, crossing the SAT boundary between pop and country. It's been covered many SAT times, but it's Glen Campbell's version which remains the SAT best loved and most played. SAT SAT Johnny Cash also recorded an extraordinary and very raw SAT version. Peter Lewry, a lifelong Cash fan, describes how SAT this recording came about, towards the end of Cash's career. SAT SAT Meggean Ward's father was a lineman in Rhode Island... her SAT memories of seeing him in green work trousers, a plaid shirt SAT and black boots, wrapping his cracked hands in bandages SAT every morning before setting off to climb telephone poles SAT are interwoven forever with Wichita Lineman... as a child SAT she always felt the song was written for her father, who SAT else? SAT SAT Glen Campbell also gave an interview for this programme. SAT Shortly after the interview was recorded, Campbell went SAT public about his diagnosis of Alzheimer's. His contribution SAT to the programme is brief, and includes an acoustic SAT performance of the song. It was a real privilege to record SAT this, appropriately enough, down the line. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b013r8gp (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT As Anne Hathaway's new film One Day opens, how does a SAT beautiful woman play a plain one? Plus: Miriam O'Reilly on SAT ageism in TV; Esther Rantzen on being lonely; why babies are SAT getting bigger; training or GCSEs - would some teenagers be SAT better off leaving school at 14?; jazz singer Tammy Weis on SAT the memories of her mother that inspire her songs; and Cook SAT the Perfect...Gazpacho soup. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b013r8k4 (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b013r8r6 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b013r8xc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b013rflj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013rfll (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b013rg2h (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT In the studio this week is a diva. Sheila Ferguson was one SAT of the longest serving members of the 1970's soul group The SAT Three Degrees performing hits such as 'When Will I See You SAT Again'. She now stars at The Garrick Theatre in 'Respect La SAT Diva' covering songs by the likes of Whitney Houston and SAT Tina Turner. SAT King George VI has been propelled into popular culture SAT recently following the success of the film 'The Kings SAT Speech'. What is less well known, until now, is that Geordie SAT Greig's father, Louis Greig was the first doctor to play a SAT key role in the development of the soon to be king. Geordie, SAT the editor of the Evening Standard chat's to Clive about his SAT new book 'The King Maker'. SAT John Crace has written 'Vertigo', discussing how fandom for SAT his favourite Tottenham Hotspur Football Club started out in SAT boyish hope but ended in dark comedy. John discusses how SAT even when your favourite club are performing like champions, SAT you soon become anxious through fear of success. SAT Nikki Bedi will be talking to Wayne Thallon, the director of SAT new film 'A Spanking in Paradise'. This SAT semi-autobiographical comedy looks into the dirty and SAT dangerous world at the 'Paradise Sauna' and has been taking SAT this year's Edinburgh Festival by storm. SAT There's music from two American bands, the first are 'Water SAT Tower Bucket Boys' who have been brewing up a storm in the SAT folk music world and will be bringing their bluegrass style SAT into the Loose Ends studio with track 'Easy Way Out. Also SAT performing are 'Other Lives' who are just completing a UK SAT tour after 3 months on the road in the US and will be SAT playing their new single 'Tamer Animals' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b013rg2k (Listen) SAT Mustafa Abdul Jalil SAT SAT Mustafa Abdul Jalil is a former Justice Minister for the SAT Gaddafi regime and now Chairman of Libya's National SAT Transitional Council. SAT SAT He was jailed after confronting the dictator but was SAT released as a sop to the democracy movement. Gaddafi turned SAT down his resignation preferring to keep Mustafa Abdul Jalil SAT close, apparently encouraged by the leader's son Saif SAT al-Islam Gaddafi. SAT SAT Known as a man of integrity and a stickler for the law, he SAT is only a recent convert to the democratic movement having SAT defected in February after visiting the city of Benghazi, SAT near his home town. SAT SAT Mr Jalil recently did the rounds of European capitals SAT convincing their governments to support the rebels. But as SAT Nick Ravenscroft reports there are doubts as to whether he SAT has the leadership qualities to manage the disparate rebel SAT groups and steer the country toward democracy. SAT SAT Producer: Rob Cave. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b013rg2m (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests historian Kathryn Hughes, novelist SAT Louise Doughty and writer Jim White discuss the cultural SAT highlights of the week including the film The Skin I Live SAT In. SAT SAT The Skin I Live In is Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's SAT latest film. Ever since his wife died of her burns in a car SAT crash, surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) has been SAT interested in creating a new skin with which he could have SAT saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a SAT skin that is a real shield against every assault. But the SAT research laboratory in his own home has its own sinister SAT secret. SAT SAT The Genius in My Basement, the Biography of a Happy Man is SAT Alexander Masters' story of mathmatics genius Simon Phillips SAT Norton. Simon is exploring a theoretical puzzle so complex SAT and critical to our understanding of the universe, that it SAT is known as the Monster. This is Masters' folllow-up to his SAT critically acclaimed Stuart: A Life Backwards SAT SAT Bartlett Sher's production of South Pacific reinvents SAT Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical. It swept the 2008 SAT Tony Awards, played to sold-out houses on Broadway for 2 SAT years, was televised across America, and now makes its SAT London debut. SAT SAT The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is almost upon us. Memory SAT Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17 at the Imperial War SAT Museum is a photographic exhibition by artist Francesc SAT Torres to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist SAT attacks. We juxtapose that with a visit to another SAT exhibition. The Museum of Broken Relationships is a touring SAT exhibition, now open in London, which has collected together SAT the weird and wonderful paraphernalia of hundreds of failed SAT romances. SAT SAT Phase Eight is a contemporary spy film, by David Hare, SAT featuring Johnny, played by Bill Nighy, a long-serving MI5 SAT officer. His boss and best friend Benedict dies suddenly, SAT leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the SAT very stability of the organisation. Johnny is forced to walk SAT out of his job, and then out of his identity, to find out SAT the truth. SAT SAT Producer: Anne Marie Cole. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b013rg2p (Listen) SAT When the Eyes of the World Were on the Clyde SAT SAT "We are not going to strike. We are not even having a sit-in SAT strike. Nobody and nothing will come in and nothing will go SAT out without our permission. And there will be no SAT hooliganism, there will be no vandalism, there will be no SAT bevvying, because the world is watching us." (Jimmy Reid) SAT SAT Forty years ago, shipyard workers in Glasgow embarked on a SAT paradigm-shifting piece of industrial action. The general SAT public of the 1970s were used to strikes. But a mass work-in SAT in the Clyde ship yards drew support from across the SAT political spectrum, and delivered a humiliating blow to the SAT Heath Government. SAT SAT In June 1971 John Davies, Secretary of State for Trade and SAT Industry, declared there will be no more state subsidies for SAT the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders - all part of Ted Heath's plans SAT to remove "lame duck" industries from the public purse. Shop SAT steward Jimmy Reid's responded: "We don't only build ships SAT on the Clyde, we build men. They have taken on the wrong SAT people and we will fight." SAT SAT The eyes of the world's media fell on Clydeside for the SAT fourteen month work-in. Radio Four revisits the dramatic SAT confrontations at Westminster between John Davies and Tony SAT Benn, the Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, SAT and reveals a private meeting between union leaders and Ted SAT Heath at No 10, where they were reputedly offered whisky, SAT but refused. SAT SAT Journalist John Lloyd looks back at the extraordinary story SAT of how Clydesiders took their future into their own hands, SAT and looks at its relevance to current day events. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b013fnz7 (Listen) SAT Classic Serial: The American Senator, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Anthony Trollope SAT Dramatised by Martyn Wade SAT Part One SAT Arabella is determined to keep her engagement to John Morton SAT a secret. Perhaps, there is a more exciting and wealthy SAT husband she might be able to catch ... SAT SAT Anthony Trollope..........Robert Glenister SAT Arabella Trefoil.............Anna Maxwell Martin SAT Lady Augustus.............Barbara Flynn SAT John Morton.................Blake Ritson SAT Senator Gotobed..........Stuart Milligan SAT Reginald Morton...........Daniel Rabin SAT Mrs Morton..................Richenda Carey SAT Mary Masters...............Penelope Rawlins SAT Lawrence Twentyman...Carl Prekopp SAT Lord Rufford.................Henry Devas SAT Mr Bearside.................Sean Baker SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b013rg2r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Black Roses Debate b013n5j5 (Listen) SAT Matthew Taylor chairs an audience debate on the issues SAT raised by today's Radio 4 drama 'Black Roses' about the SAT murder, four years ago, of 20-year-old 'goth' Sophie SAT Lancaster. How should 'hate crime' be defined - and what can SAT we do to stop it? The panel includes Sophie's mother, Mrs SAT Sylvia Lancaster, and will involve members of the invited SAT studio audience. SAT SAT Was the killing of Sophie an exceptional crime or was it SAT typical of a wider problem of unprovoked attacks on SAT strangers? SAT SAT If 'hate crimes'- ranging from verbal abuse to murder - are SAT commonplace, is the situation worse or better than it was a SAT generation or two generations back? How has the authorities' SAT response to these crimes changed during that time? SAT SAT 'Hate-crime' in the UK currently includes offences motivated SAT by prejudice about the victim's race, religion, sexuality or SAT disability. Sylvia Lancaster is campaigning to extend the SAT definition of 'hate crime' to include offences motivated by SAT 'hatred of sub-cultural groups'. But how could these be SAT defined? Were the authorities hampered by legal constraints SAT in their attempts to deal appropriately with what happened SAT in Sophie's case? Would changes in the law be useful in SAT future similar cases? SAT SAT Is there anything to be gained from trying to understand the SAT mental processes that lead to such crimes? Can anything be SAT done to reform such criminals either before or after they've SAT offended? SAT SAT Would harsher sentences act as a deterrent to hate-criminals SAT or would they make no difference? SAT SAT Are there no-go areas in our towns and cities? Times of SAT night when it's unwise to walk in the park or down a SAT particular street? Places where it's unwise to be obviously SAT different? If so, should we accept it as 'the way it is'? SAT Contributory negligence on the part of the victim? SAT SAT Producer: Peter Everett. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b013f120 (Listen) SAT (2/12) SAT Another two of the regular teams join Tom Sutcliffe for the SAT notoriously devious quiz of lateral thinking and fiendish SAT connections. This week Michael Alexander and Alan Taylor of SAT Scotland take on Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles of The SAT Midlands. SAT SAT Tom will be revealing the answer to last week's teaser: he SAT asked what stature is shared by a French international who SAT played for Arsenal and Chelsea, an anonymous author, and the SAT straight man in a 1970s double-act. SAT SAT There will be plenty more puzzles along similar lines for SAT the panellists to tackle, including, as usual, some devised SAT by Round Britain Quiz listeners. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Maledictions and Disaffections - Poetry That Doesn't SAT Please b013gjhz (Listen) SAT Not all poetry comes out of praise and celebration. An SAT anthology of spells and grudges presented by Matthew Parris, SAT delving deep into hate poems: the poetic equivalent of a SAT doll and a box of pins. Horace and Catullus begin it all but SAT bad-mouthing stretches to the football terraces and the SAT family photo album. Anger is an energy and curses are alive SAT and well even if witches are not. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 AUGUST 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b013rg9d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00qplcy (Listen) SUN The Writing Life, The Author at Home SUN SUN 1/3 The Author at Home SUN There's the lady novelist reclining in her Creating Hammock, SUN attended by Juan her fragrant assistant. Or maybe not. SUN SUN Produced by Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013rg9g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013rg9j (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013rg9n (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b013rg9q (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b013rg9s (Listen) SUN The bells of Christchurch, Radyr, Cardiff. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b013rg2k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b013rg9x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b013rgb1 (Listen) SUN Choosing to Care SUN SUN The choice to care or be cared for is one that faces over SUN half of us and some stage in our lives. SUN SUN Mark Tully presents an edition of Something Understood to SUN explore that choice and to discuss the emotional, practical SUN and spiritual costs and rewards of caring and being cared SUN for. He examines the benefits and the responsibilities felt SUN within such relationships in the company of Jean and SUN Geoffrey Almond, a couple living with the consequences of SUN Multiple Sclerosis, and with poetry by a variety of carers SUN as well as music from Shostakovich, Elmer Bernstein and SUN folk-singer Kate Rusby. SUN SUN The readers are Kenneth Cranham and Isla Blair SUN SUN The producer is Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b013rgb3 (Listen) SUN Saltmarsh lamb is sold as a delicacy, but the semi-feral SUN animals live a life of jeopardy as they negotiate the SUN dangerous Morecambe Bay marshland. If the tide comes in too SUN quickly the lambs have to swim the channels to survive or SUN hope that the farmer can dig them out in time before they SUN die in quicksand. SUN SUN Caz Graham visits Stuart and Harry Wilson's farm near SUN Grange-over-Sands. Their farm has actually grown land, as SUN the saltmarshes have been reclaimed from the sea. William SUN Case's farm neighbours the Holker Estate, which sells the SUN local saltmarsh lamb. It is the unique herbs and grasses SUN that grow on his land that gives the meat its defining SUN flavour, known as "Agneau de Pré-salé" in France where it is SUN particularly valued. However, rounding up the flock in SUN Morecambe Bay can be treacherous, as even William refuses to SUN walk on these unpredictable sandflats. SUN SUN Stuart Higginson sells saltmarsh lamb from the Holker Estate SUN in his butcher's shop - which people travel across the SUN country to buy. SUN SUN Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b013rgb5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b013rgb7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b013rgb9 (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and SUN perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b013rgql (Listen) SUN The Stroke Association SUN SUN Liz Smith presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity The Stroke Association. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 211015 SUN SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Stroke Association SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b013rgqn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b013rgqq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b013rgqs (Listen) SUN From St Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, the SUN venue for many of the events of the Annual Charles Wood SUN Summer School. The service is led by the Dean of Armagh, the SUN Very Rev Patrick Rooke and the preacher is Canon Colin SUN Moore, the Cathedral Chancellor. The Charles Wood Boys' SUN Choir and the Charles Wood Singers are directed by Nigel SUN McClintock. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b013gfnp (Listen) SUN Kim Philby SUN SUN As recently discovered letters from Kim Philby are SUN published, John Gray argues that the spy's life illustrates SUN why we are so poor at predicting the future. Where Philby SUN saw a bright future in Soviet Communism - one that led him SUN to betray friends and colleagues - many in the West hoped SUN for a different utopia in Russia as Communism collapsed. SUN Neither saw their dreams realised. As John Gray observes, SUN both groups "failed to understand that the only genuine SUN historical law is the law of irony." SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b013rjgf (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b013rjgh (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Directed by ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Pip Archer ..... 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SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b013rjgk (Listen) SUN Boys from the Blackstuff SUN SUN In this edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor reunites Julie SUN Walters, Alan Bleasdale, Tom Georgeson, Michael Angelis and SUN producer Michael Wearing to talk about their roles in the SUN landmark 1980s drama series Boys from the Blackstuff. SUN SUN Writer Alan Bleasdale's hard-hitting drama series was set SUN against the harsh backdrop of struggle and bleak SUN unemployment in the Liverpool of Thatcher's Britain. It SUN chronicled the lives of a group of men as they sought to SUN find work, whilst suffering the despair and indignity of SUN life on the scrapheap. First transmitted in October 1982, it SUN received widespread critical acclaim and became a SUN 'television event'. SUN SUN Boys from the Blackstuff had an immediate and startling SUN impact, thanks to the sheer heartfelt emotional power of SUN Bleasdale's uncompromising writing and an extraordinarily SUN gifted ensemble cast. It painted an uncomfortable, but SUN warranted portrait of a city and a country teetering SUN precariously on the brink of social and economic disaster, SUN where the only real victims were those who were prevented by SUN circumstances from leading fulfilling and productive lives. SUN SUN The original team join Sue MacGregor to talk about their SUN experiences of the making of the series and its widespread SUN resonance across the nation. SUN SUN Producer: Christina Captieux SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b013f1kv (Listen) SUN Series 61, With Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth and Jason Byrne SUN (from Edinburgh) SUN SUN The popular panel game from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SUN hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Gyles SUN Brandreth and newcomer Jason Byrne. SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b013rjgm (Listen) SUN Food Icons: Kitchen designers SUN SUN A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at SUN the history of kitchen designs and the designers who have SUN influenced the most important space in our homes. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b013rjbv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b013rjbh (Listen) SUN With Shaun Ley. The latest national and international news, SUN with an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The British Caste Conundrum b013rjbk (Listen) SUN Comedian Paul Sinha found out he was from the Brahmin caste SUN only when he asked his parents when he was 12, after a SUN history lesson at school. It hadn't figured in his life at SUN all to that point. His parents had emigrated to the UK from SUN Bengal to further his father's career as a doctor. Paul SUN later became a doctor himself, but gave it up to become a SUN standup. SUN SUN This is how Paul puts it himself: "I'm British born and grew SUN up in a fairly middle class suburban South London background SUN and frankly 'caste' was something of which I was only SUN vaguely aware. At the outset of making this programme my SUN view, like yours I'd imagine, was that caste is a relatively SUN outdated system of prejudices which may have significance in SUN certain parts of India, but is largely irrelevant in modern SUN Britain. SUN SUN But that isn't the case. In the course of making this SUN programme I've met British Asians who feel that they are SUN being discriminated against because they are Untouchables, SUN or Dalits, as they refer to themselves." SUN SUN In this programme Paul meets British Untouchables (so lowly SUN that they are not officially a caste) who claim they are SUN being discriminated against in their daily lives. SUN SUN He also interviews Hilary Metcalfe whose report into the SUN caste system in the UK for the National Institute of SUN Economic and Social Research found anecdotal evidence of SUN discrimination based on caste. SUN SUN The NIESR report was commissioned by the government to SUN inform its deliberations over whether or not to make SUN discrimination on the grounds of caste an offence under the SUN Equality Act. As yet they have not made up their minds. SUN SUN He also meets Hindu and Sikh leaders who feel strongly that SUN caste discrimination can be dealt with as an internal matter SUN within their communities and no legislation is needed. SUN SUN Producer: David Morley SUN A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b013gfgp (Listen) SUN Southport SUN SUN What is happening at this year's Southport Flower Show? SUN Christine Walkden, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew report. SUN In addition : what did Southport Flower show ever do for me? SUN Eric Robson gives the history of the largest independent SUN flower show in Britain. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b013flds (Listen) SUN More Tribes of Science, Antarctic Scientists SUN SUN Peter Curran puts scientists at the British Antarctic Survey SUN under his anthropological lens. What are the passions and SUN survival strategies of this ice-bound tribe? SUN SUN Peter meets the geologists who live in two-man tents for SUN months in the Antarctic ice fields, hundreds of miles from SUN nearest people. He also talks to a polar marine biologist SUN about how she copes with months apart from her 3 year old SUN son. SUN SUN Peter hears about the thrills, sights and sounds of diving SUN under the sea ice, and glaciologist Rob Mulvaney reveals the SUN nightlife to be had on the frozen continent, under the snow. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b013rj8z (Listen) SUN Classic Serial: The American Senator, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Anthony Trollope SUN Dramatised by Martyn Wade SUN Part Two SUN Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that SUN much more needs to be done to win him and his estate. It is SUN now time to tell John Morton she no longer wants to marry SUN him? 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 Lady Ushant................Joanna David SUN Reginald Morton...........Daniel Rabin SUN Mary Masters...............Penelope Rawlins SUN Lawrence Twentyman...Carl Prekopp SUN Lord Rufford.................Henry Devas SUN Duchess of Mayfair.......Elaine Claxton SUN Mounser Green............Joanathan Forbes SUN Mrs. Masters...............Jane Whittenshaw SUN Mr Bearside.................Sean Baker SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b013rj91 (Listen) SUN DJ Taylor talks to Barry Unsworth, who shared the 1992 SUN Booker Prize for his historical novel Sacred Hunger. Now SUN Unsworth has completed a sequel, The Quality of Mercy, which SUN revisits the eighteenth-century world of the slave trade. He SUN discusses returning to the subject twenty years on, and SUN explains how he was affected by the horrific conditions SUN experienced by eighteenth-century coalminers. SUN SUN The Indian-born novelist Anita Desai talks about her latest SUN book The Artist of Disappearance, a trio of novellas, and SUN explains why in her eighth decade she found herself SUN exploring this new form. And the literary critic Peter Kemp SUN traces the history of the novella, from Renaissance SUN literature to Julian Barnes. SUN SUN Producer: Thomas Morris. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b013rj93 (Listen) SUN Throughout Autumn, Roger will be guiding us through a rich SUN mixture of listeners' requests for poetry both old and new. SUN He will also be featuring poets reading their own work; SUN Michael Longley, Jean Sprackland, Robin Robertson and Clare SUN Pollard. SUN SUN The first programme will include work by Thomas Hardy, SUN Carole Satyamurti and Karl Shapiro. The readers today are SUN Mark Meadows, Jennifer Jellicorse and Catherine Cusack. SUN There are poems about car crashes, the weather, Beethoven's SUN lost love and one about bad behaviour in public libraries. SUN There's escapist verse by WW Gibson and the American Shel SUN Silverstein. There's also a sad poem about a man's fancy SUN handwriting by a poet new to the programme, Marianne Burton. SUN Making her debut appearance is the prize winning poet Jean SUN Sprackland, reading 'Hard Water'. And with readings by SUN Michael Longley too, it makes for a typically rich half an SUN hour of poetry. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks b013xsm1 (Listen) SUN Patients with high grade brain tumours can expect to survive SUN for little more than one more year, and that's with the best SUN available surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. There's SUN only one, very expensive drug available that can penetrate SUN into the brain and attack the most aggressive tumours there, SUN and nothing new on the horizon. For these patients, the SUN outlook is as bleak as it can get. But ten years ago, SUN researchers discovered that the out-of-fashion SUN antidepressant drug clomipramine has apparently remarkable SUN anti-tumour properties. What's more the treatment costs SUN pennies, not hundreds or thousands of pounds. Yet these SUN scientists have struggled to find anyone to back their SUN research. And many patients are being given the drug without SUN the scientific proof it is really helping them. Why is such SUN a promising treatment going to waste? Gerry Northam SUN investigates. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b013rg2k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b013rj00 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b013rj02 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013rj04 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b013rj06 (Listen) SUN Ian McMillan makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN On Pick of the Week this week, Ian McMillan hears from Bob SUN Harris on 40 Years of The Old Grey Whistle Test, and SUN discovers the elusive meaning of the show's title. He SUN returns to Vukovar in former Yugoslavia with Martin Bell, SUN twenty years after the massace that was the genesis of the SUN terrible phrase 'ethnic cleansing' and he goes to a shop in SUN Paris with the American humorist David Sedaris to buy a SUN human skeleton. SUN SUN He listens to great orators and singers: the trade unionist SUN Jimmy Reid of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and the country SUN musician Glen Campbell as well as Pete Townsend of The Who SUN and the calypsonian Lord Beginner on the 1950 victory of the SUN West Indian Cricket Team at Lords. SUN SUN There's also a freefall over the Suffolk Countryside from SUN the In Touch archive and a sports reporter on Radio SUN Gloucestershire almost, but not quite, winning a lot of SUN money on a non-league football match. SUN SUN Whistle Test 40 - Radio 2 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory - Radio 4 SUN Meet David Sedaris - Radio 4 SUN Verse Illustrated - Radio 4 SUN Stories From Notting Hill - Radio 4 SUN Sporting Witness - World Service SUN Open Country - Radio 4 SUN Souvenirs - Radio 4 SUN Return to Vukovar - Radio 4 SUN Maledictions And Disaffections - Radio 4 SUN Pete Townshend - Before I Get Old - Radio 2 SUN Archive on 4 - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN BBC Radio Gloucestershire SUN In Touch - Radio 4 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b013rhz7 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b013rhyg (Listen) SUN The US Post Master General discusses the fate of the US SUN Postal Service as demand and profits decline. SUN SUN Professor Bill Marling discusses James M Cain's American SUN noir classic, "The Postman Always Rings Twice." SUN SUN And in a week when the people of Martha's Vineyard dealt SUN once again with a presidential holiday, Americana talks SUN finds that not everyone enjoys the attention. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00q9342 (Listen) SUN Once Seen, The Up Escalator SUN SUN Series of three stories inspired by a very modern small-ads SUN phenomenon. SUN SUN By Matt Beaumont. SUN SUN As the narrator travels up towards daylight on the SUN escalators at London's Holborn tube station, the second SUN longest on the network, she gazes into the startling grey SUN eyes of a man coming down. He looks at her for the entire SUN length of the journey, even turning round once they've SUN passed. But how will she ever gaze upon them again? Perhaps SUN an ad is the answer. SUN SUN Read by Jane Collingwood. SUN SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b013gd28 (Listen) SUN In More or Less this week: SUN SUN Scottish independence SUN SUN Listeners have already been in touch with us asking for SUN clarification on the various claims made about the economic SUN viability of an independent Scotland with the prospect of a SUN referendum in the next five years. Is Scotland subsidised by SUN the rest of the UK or does it more than pay its way through SUN North Sea oil revenues? And what would have happened if an SUN independent Scotland had to bail out RBS and HBOS? SUN SUN Mobile phones and cancer SUN SUN There have been some scary headlines about mobile phones and SUN links to brain cancer recently after the WHO classified SUN radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly SUN carcinogenic to humans. But did all the press coverage get SUN this right? Professor Kevin McConway from the Open SUN University explains what this development really means. SUN SUN Is Tendulkar the greatest sportsman alive? SUN SUN It's a question that often prompts heated discussion but can SUN maths help us arrive at a more definitive answer? Writer Rob SUN Eastaway makes the case for Indian cricketer, Sachin SUN Tendulkar. SUN SUN Producer: Phil Kemp. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b013gfgr (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Jerry Lieber who with his partner Mike Stoller wrote scores SUN of classic songs - from Hound Dog for Elvis Presley to Stand SUN By Me for Ben E King and Pearl's a Singer for Elkie Brooks. SUN SUN Diana Lamplugh who reacted to the disappearance of her SUN daughter by launching a campaign to change atitudes to SUN personal safety SUN SUN John Howard Davies - as a child actor he played Oliver in SUN David Lean's film - as an adult he produced and directed SUN many classic TV comedies including Monty Python, the Goodies SUN and Fawlty Towers. SUN SUN Ctirad Masin - Czech resistance fighter whose violent and SUN daring escape still causes controversy today SUN SUN And Geroge Devol who invented the first industrial robot - SUN the Unimate. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b013r8f4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b013rgql (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b013fmkn (Listen) SUN Crunching the Crisis SUN SUN Series of programmes about the whole world of work, public SUN and private, from vast corporations to modest volunteers. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b013rhyl (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators, presented by Anita Anand. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b013rhx1 (Listen) SUN Episode 67 SUN SUN One of the country's leading political journalists analyses SUN how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b013gfgw (Listen) SUN Leading ladies hog the limelight in this week's Film SUN Programme with Matthew Sweet. Anne Hathaway talks about SUN mastering a Yorkshire accent for her role as Emma in the SUN celluloid version of David Nicholls' much loved book, One SUN Day and Elena Anaya discusses the challenges of acting for SUN Pedro Almodovar in his disturbing new feature, The Skin I SUN Live In... a sort of cross between Frankenstein and Jane SUN Eyre if you can imagine that! There's also the concluding SUN part of Mark Gatiss' world of horror series. This week he's SUN in India for the extraordinary Bollywood film, Mahal. And SUN then last, but certainly by no means least - there's SUN Jonathan Balcon - whose father Michael was the driving force SUN behind Ealing Studios. Jonathan paints a picture of his SUN father and reflects on the ethos which inspired films such SUN as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob, two SUN of the Ealing classics that have been re-released on DVD SUN this summer. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b013rgb1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 AUGUST 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b013r3bv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b013fj1p (Listen) MON Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household MON MON Thinking Allowed explores the changing nature of home in a 3 MON part summer series recorded in the homes of our listeners. MON Who do we live with, how do our homes operate and what do MON they say about us and about the dramatic social MON transformations of the last century and the century to come? MON By invitation, in each edition a new type of home is MON invaded, analysed and explained by Laurie Taylor and a panel MON of two sociologists round the kitchen table. MON MON Much political debate still revolves around the assumption MON that most of us live in conventional family homes. However MON research suggests that in 20 years time only 2 out of 5 MON people will be in marriages and married couples will be MON outnumbered by other types of household. Behind closed MON doors, Britain is changing: Single living has increased by MON 30% in 10 years but at the same time financial pressures are MON fuelling a growth in extended families - people sharing MON bills, childcare and mucking-in in a way which makes private MON life far less private. MON MON After generous invitations from Thinking Allowed listeners, MON Laurie Taylor visits three. In this edition he visits a big MON multi-generational family in Bristol accompanied by the MON sociologists Rachel Thomson and Esther Dermot. They attempt MON to divine the future for Britain's private life. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b013rg9s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013r3l8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013r3lb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013r3ld (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b013r3lg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013r3lj (Listen) MON Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b013r3ls (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b013r3bx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b013ptdw (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b013ptdy (Listen) MON Peter White meets Shannon Murray, who first hit the MON headlines when she won a competition to find a disabled MON model and then went on to appear on the television programme MON 'How to Look Good Naked.' MON MON Shannon was the first disabled model to be featured in an MON advertising campaign by a major department store. She has MON been a wheelchair user since a diving accident in her teens MON and is a vociferous champion for the rights of disabled MON people. MON MON Shannon has appeared in several television dramas but says MON she tends only to be offered parts for women in wheelchairs MON and encourages casting directors to take more risks and cast MON disabled actors in mainstream roles... MON MON Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. MON MON 09:30 Head to Head b013sg1f (Listen) MON Series 3, Britain's place in Europe MON MON Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from MON the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind MON them and echoes of the arguments today. MON MON In the fourth episode, a British and a French politician MON discuss Britain's place in Europe. Denis Healey was Shadow MON Foreign Secretary when he met Maurice Schumann, later MON France's Foreign Minister, on BBC television in 1960. Healey MON was the brilliant intellectual bruiser while Schumann, a war MON hero in the Resistance, was his equal. MON MON The European Economic Community was two years old and has MON risen out of World War Two to ensure peace on the continent. MON Many, including Schumann, thought that Britain should not MON only have joined the club but led it from the front. Healey, MON though, represented a nation reluctant to give up its MON sovereignty. His proposal of simple economic union to allow MON free trade was not to be. And the six members - MON particularly, France - saw Britain's other allegiances to MON the Commonwealth and, importantly, the United States as MON patently un-European. MON MON In coming years, French President De Gaulle twice vetoed MON British membership. Britain's conditions for joining judged MON not in the spirit of the Euro project was one issue. But MON France's difficult relationship with and suspicions of MON America, Britain's closest ally, and Her unwillingness to MON get drawn into NATO and the Cold War play out. MON MON On to today and how far has Britain's position changed since MON this discussion. Is a deeply anti-European current here MON simply one of the enduring facts of British political life? MON MON In the studio are Dr James Ellison, reader in international MON history at Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Piers MON Ludlow, reader in international history at the London School MON of Economics. MON MON Producer: Dominic Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b013xm61 (Listen) MON All Made Up, Episode 1 MON MON Award-winning author Janice Galloway brings all the MON brilliance of her fiction to bear on her memories of MON adolescence in small-town Scotland. Since the death of their MON father, Janice and her unpredictable older sister, Cora, MON have lived in close quarters with their downtrodden mother. MON But the timid child, who has survived by observing rather MON than acting, is about to hit adolescence. MON MON Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. MON MON Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b013ptf4 (Listen) MON Bank Holiday Special: Women in Aviation. To celebrate the MON fact that Hilda Hewlett became the first British woman to MON receive a pilot's licence 100 years today, Jenni Murray MON presents a programme featuring some of the women who have MON made important contributions to the world of flying over the MON last century. She is joined by Gail Hewlett - Hilda's MON biographer - and by Caroline Gough-Cooper [Chairman of the MON British Women Pilot's Association]. MON MON Also on the programme: What happened to Amelia Earhart? MON Jenni interviews Ric Gillespie - the man who has spent 23 MON years trying to track down evidence that the world's most MON famous female flyer died a castaway on a Pacific Island. MON MON Other guests: Astronaut Cady Coleman who returned from a MON five month tour of duty on the international space station MON in May and Wing Commander Sara Machmin - a helicopter pilot MON who is in charge of three search and rescue teams. MON MON Hilda Hewlett and the early British female flyers MON MON One hundred years ago today, Hilda Hewlett made aviation MON history by becoming the first British woman to receive a MON private pilot’s licence. This unconventional woman - the MON daughter of a vicar from a poor London parish - eventually MON became a pilot and aircraft manufacturer and was accepted MON and respected by the men who dominated those early, heady MON days of flying. Gail Hewlett, who is married to Hilda’s MON grandson Anthony, has researched Hilda’s memoirs and MON manuscripts and has written a book about her illustrious MON relative called ‘Old Bird - The Irrepressible Mrs Hewlett. MON She joins Jenni and Caroline Gough-Cooper, Chairman of the MON British Women Pilots’ Association, who has recently written MON about some of the early British female pilots. MON MON Looking for Amelia Earhart MON MON She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in MON 1932, she set many many flying records and – with her MON tousled good looks – Amelia Earhart looked like central MON casting’s ideal choice for the role of glamorous 30’s female MON flying ace. But, at the height of her fame in 1937 – whilst MON attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world - MON Amelia Earhart confirmed her status as an aviation icon MON forever by disappearing over the Pacific. She, her navigator MON Fred Noonan, and her airplane, have never been found. Over MON the years there have been numerous theories surrounding her MON disappearance but now aviation archaeologist Ric Gillespie MON believes that he knows what happened to her. Jenni talks to MON Ric about his many expeditions to the island of Nikumaroro MON where he believes that Amelia died as a castaway. They are MON joined by Dr Tom Crouch, Senior Curator in Aeronautics at MON the Smithsonian Institution, who is sceptical about Ric’s MON findings. MON MON Astronaut Cady Coleman MON MON It’s been over 45 years since Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova MON became the first woman in space (in 1963). Since then, many MON women have become part of the international space programme MON but it’s still rare for little girls to dream of becoming MON astronauts. With the closure of America’s Space Shuttle MON programme last month, the space race isn’t the priority it MON was once was - yet women are still prepared ‘to boldly go MON where no man has gone before’. Colonel Catherine ‘Cady’ MON Coleman, a NASA astronaut who returned to earth in May after MON five months on the international space station, chat to MON Jenni about her amazing career. MON MON Female Pilots Today MON MON Despite the fact that women have been flying airplanes for MON 100 years, today fewer than 10% of commercial pilots are MON female and women account for only 3% of military flyers. Why MON do so few women fly for a living and what is the attraction MON for those who do? Wing Commander Sara Mackmin – who flies MON Sea King helicopters and is the commander of three search MON and rescue teams – and Caroline Gough Cooper, a former MON airline pilot discuss their passion for flying. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xz7 (Listen) MON Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, Getting to Know You MON MON Episode 1 - Getting to know you. MON MON 2005. Bee, a London journalist, contacts May, an Iraqi MON academic, about life in her battle-scarred country. Neither MON foresees the dramatic events that will change their lives. MON MON May ..... Souad Faress MON Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar MON Ali ..... Zubin Varla MON Justin ..... Stephen Hogan MON Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir MON Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou MON Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes MON Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton MON MON Director..... Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 11:00 The Peace Corps Writers b013ptf8 (Listen) MON President John F Kennedy sent out an 'army' of everyday US MON citizens to every corner of the globe - the Peace Corps. His MON big idea was to counter the idea of the 'ugly American' and MON in some way stem the spread of communism. Bridget Kendall MON goes to the United States to meet former Peace Corps MON volunteers and evaluate their role as America's MON 'missionaries of democracy'. And to hear, in their own MON words, their incredible tales. MON MON Up to a point, JFK's concept was to fill skills and training MON gaps in developing countries, similar UK's VSO (Volunteer MON Services Overseas). Beyond that was an explicit mission to MON open America up to the world, to learn about foreign peoples MON and customs, and bring that knowledge back to out-of-touch MON Americans. After 50 years, 200,000 volunteers have returned MON home from far-flung regions of the world with stories of MON moving successes, naive failures, amusing cultural faux-pas MON and fascinating historical snapshots from the remote. MON MON For many, the intensity of a double culture shock inspired MON them to put pen to paper. Life in a remote African village MON or Micronesian island followed, after two years service, by MON a return to the what became the equally strange land of home MON in the United States. For some, including novelist Paul MON Theroux, the experience kick-started a career. MON MON Today, the US president has once again turned to the Peace MON Corps. Does it still represent America's pursuit of moral MON leadership on a global scale? Has it lived up to its purpose MON and principles? Is it a genuinely altruistic organisation MON or, as critics argue, simply self-interested soft power at MON work? And, in the face of new challenges, especially MON America's reputation in the Arab World, where does the Peace MON Corps go from here? MON MON Producer: Dominic Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b012lpvz (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 6 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 some serious thought is put into buying MON a holiday home in 'The Ship Shape' and the complexities of MON gender assignment when learning French in 'Make That a MON Double'. MON MON Producer: Steve Doherty MON A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b013ptfb (Listen) MON Countdown to the Olympics. Julian Worricker asks who our MON potential medallists are and whether Britain's Olympic and MON Paralympic teams can repeat the success of Beijing. We'll be MON hearing how the plans for the venues are progressing, asking MON whether the transport system can cope with the extra strain MON of thousands of visitors and what the long term benefits MON will be for London and the whole country after the Games. MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Steven Williams. MON MON 12:45 Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square b013ptfd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON As part of the BBC's Domesday Reloaded, five Radio 4 MON presenters return to their 'square' - the 3x4 kilometre MON piece of Britain that had special significance for them in MON 1986 - . What's changed? What's the same? And what do their MON discoveries tell us about how society's moved on? We hear MON from Mark Lawson, Sheila Dillon, Paddy O'Connell, Richard MON Coles and Jane Garvey. MON MON 12:57 Weather b013ptfg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b013ptfj (Listen) MON With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners MON can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on MON twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b013ptfl (Listen) MON (3/12) MON Can you explain how Superman's father, plus 'The Body', plus MON Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, could equal 150? MON MON The answer to this and other cryptic questions will be MON revealed in this week's Round Britain Quiz, with Tom MON Sutcliffe. The North of England team, wood scientist Jim MON Coulson and literary critic Diana Collecott, take on the MON Welsh pairing of David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander, who MON are beginning the defence of their Round Britain Quiz MON champions' title. MON MON As always, the questions range across high and low culture, MON science, sport and history - and include a number of devious MON suggestions from Round Britain Quiz listeners. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b013rhz7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rm21n (Listen) MON Arabian Afternoons, The Casper Logue Affair MON MON by Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON MON An absurd black comedy thriller, set in Baghdad. The first MON of three Arabian Afternoons - contemporary plays inspired by MON tales from The Arabian Nights. MON MON Junior diplomat Bob Goldacre is in trouble: the American MON businessman he was looking after has vanished from a Baghdad MON street. As the suspects pile up, Goldacre is going to have MON his work cut out if he wants to save his career and make MON sure that justice is done. MON MON Shahrazad.........SIRINE SABA MON Shahrayar..........KEVORK MALIKYAN MON Aseera..............BETSABEH EMRAN MON Rahim...............SARGON YELDA MON Goldacre...........TREVOR WHITE MON Hammond.........BRUCE ALEXANDER MON Casper..............NATHAN OSGOOD MON Kindermann.......RUFUS WRIGHT MON Carlton.............JOHN BIGGINS MON Charlene...........ALISON PETTIT MON MON Directed by Abigail le Fleming. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b013rg2p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Generation E b013ptfn (Listen) MON Portugal's Reverse Migration MON MON Lucy Ash travels across Europe to meet the continent's next MON generation, as they face a future where the recent MON certainties - the Euro, comfortable growth, ever closer MON union - have been brought into question. She explores the MON challenges they face and the innovative ways they are MON meeting them. MON MON Programme 1: Portugal's Reverse Migration MON MON Portugal has never had so many graduates, but at the same MON time, it has never been so hard for young people to find MON work. They call themselves the geração à rasca, or MON "desperate generation" - university graduates aged from 21 MON to 35 who are desperate to start a career, earn a steady MON wage and move out of their parents' homes. Faced with a MON choice between dead-end jobs and a one-way ticket to another MON life elsewhere, they are leaving in droves - and many are MON heading for Portugal's former colonies in Africa and Latin MON America. MON MON Lucy talks to Natalia, an angry young teacher from Porto, MON employed on a string of badly paid, temporary contracts. In MON Lisbon she runs into Antonio, a young businessman who MON encourages her to look for work in Angola. MON MON Lucy also meets Alexandre, one of the young leaders of MON Portugal's M12M protest movement. Inspired partly by the MON youth uprisings in north Africa, Alexandre and tens of MON thousands of other dejected graduates are rebelling against MON their plight in an unexpected way that has tapped into some MON of Portugal's deepest social grievances. MON MON In March the group held mass demonstrations in ten cities MON after sending messages to supporters on Facebook. Hence the MON name M12M, "Movement of the 12th of March". Lucy attends an MON M12M protest picnic in a Lisbon park and finds out why a MON song entitled 'What A Fool I Am' has become the unofficial MON anthem of Portugal's "precarious generation". MON MON Producer: Arlene Gregorius. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b013rjgm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b013ptfq (Listen) MON Religious symbols can cause offence these days, it seems - MON whether it's a Christian cross over a work uniform or a MON Muslim woman's headcovering. But people seem to have no MON problem with statues of the Buddha in shops and garden MON centres. Secularists who are quick to pour scorn on MON Christianity and Islam often have a soft spot for his MON teachings. But is Buddhism as we experience it in the West, MON the genuine article? It may be one of the fastest growing MON religions in the West, but can it thrive apart from the MON cultural soil in which it took root? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined in discussion by Nagapriya from the MON Buddhist Triratna Order, AniRinchen Khandro, a nun in the MON Tibetan tradition, and Will Buckingham, a lecturer at MON deMontfort University, Leicester who know describes himself MON as "Buddhish" rather than "Buddhist.". MON MON 17:00 PM b013ptfs (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013ptfv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b013ptfx (Listen) MON Series 61, With guests Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi MON Khorsandi and Russell Kane MON MON The popular panel game from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, MON hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Gyles MON Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi and first timer Russell Kane. MON Subjects include My Tartan Underwear and Call Centres. MON Produced by Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b013pynd (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b013pyng (Listen) MON Mark Lawson talks to Michael Ondaatje who won the Booker MON Prize with his novel The English Patient. Now he's MON publishing a poetry collection and a new book The Cat's MON Table, which depicts a boy journeying from Ceylon to England MON in the 1950s. The author made exactly the same journey, but MON is adamant that this new work is a fiction. He explains why. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xz7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 God in China b013sd3l (Listen) MON Taoism and Folk Religion MON MON 35 years after the Cultural Revolution, another revolution MON is sweeping across China. As the Communist Party seeks to MON address the effects on Chinese society of becoming MON manufacturer to the world, combined with rampant consumerism MON and its own one child policy, it is turning to religion to MON fill the void. MON MON China is set to be the most powerful country on earth in the MON 21st century. In two generations, from the Maoist Red Guards MON of the 1960s, through Tiananmen Square, to the Beijing MON Olympics, those alive in China today have lived through one MON of the greatest revolutions in the history of the world. MON From the outside, China appears as a nation reborn. MON MON But what has been the effect on the inner lives of MON individuals who have seen the worship of a human idol in Mao MON Zedong, give way to the assertion that to be rich is good, MON as the most closed society on earth has become manufacturer MON to the world? Has this nation of aspiring capitalists and MON consumers sown the seeds for the creation of a supremely MON selfish society, which is rapidly losing any sense of its MON Chinese identity? Communist Party internal documents speak MON of disillusionment and ideological emptiness post the MON Cultural Revolution. Now the Communist Party itself is MON turning to religion to fill that vacuum. MON MON In this 3 part series, Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne's MON College, Oxford, travels through this vast nation of 1.4 MON billion people, to explore the role of "God in China". MON MON Producer: Liz Leonard. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b013flf5 (Listen) MON The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi MON MON On the 18th of February 2011 a Palestinian engineer by the MON name of Dirar Abu Sisi boarded a train in eastern Ukraine. MON He was travelling to Kiev, where he hoped to apply for MON Ukrainian citizenship. But when the train arrived at its MON destination the following morning, Mr Abu Sisi was no longer MON on board. He had vanished. MON MON For more than a week, nothing was heard from Mr Abu Sisi, a MON manager at Gaza's main power plant. Then his wife got a MON phone call: her husband was in an Israeli jail. Now he is MON awaiting trial, accused of being the brains behind Hamas' MON rocket programme. MON MON Only twice in the country's history has Israel abducted MON someone on foreign soil to bring them back to face trial at MON home. Adolf Eichmann, one of the principal organizers of the MON Holocaust, was kidnapped in Argentina in 1960, and MON subsequently tried and executed. In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu MON was drugged and smuggled out of Italy after revealing the MON existence of Israel's nuclear programme. MON MON So who is Dirar Abu Sisi? Did he really study rocket science MON at a Ukrainian military academy, as the Israeli indictment MON claims? Is he a senior Hamas operative? Or is he an innocent MON victim of mistaken identity? What role if any did the MON Ukrainian authorities play in his disappearance from that MON train? MON MON In this edition of Crossing Continents, Gabriel Gatehouse MON unravels the mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi, tracking his journey MON across Ukraine and beyond, to Israel and Gaza. It's a story MON that involves the secret services of at least two nations, MON and goes to the very heart of the conflict between the MON Israelis and the Palestinians. MON Producer: Smita Patel. MON MON 21:00 Material World b013pyz2 (Listen) MON This week, Quentin Cooper looks at what may be the oldest MON fossils on Earth; he tracks cholera across continents, plays MON games with weather forecasts to understand uncertainty and MON asks how many species there really are on Earth. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b013ptdy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b013pyz4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b013pyz6 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013pz5t (Listen) MON The Reluctant Fundamentalist MON MON Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne. MON At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an MON uneasy American stranger the story of his life. MON MON Changez watches in fury a newscast of American troops MON invading Afghanistan. MON MON Reader: Riz Ahmed MON Produced by Lisa Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b013f974 (Listen) MON Counting Word Incidences MON MON Chris Ledgard looks at what counting the incidences of words MON can tell us - from whether a writer has Alzheimer's, to who MON really wrote Macbeth and even how to read the mood of the MON country. With the advent of computers it's possible to find MON patterns in texts, and to use that information for MON applications like web translation and anti-plagiarism MON software. And David Quantick rounds things off with a more MON human analysis of the most frequently used words in pop MON music. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Dick Barton: A Very Special Agent b00t0fnk (Listen) MON Alexander Armstrong examines the impact and popularity of MON special agent Dick Barton whose adventures, which began on MON BBC Radio over sixty years ago, are still enjoyed today. MON MON Dick Barton starred in the BBC's first ever daily radio MON serial, and went on to appear in over 700 episodes between MON 1946 and 1951. Every evening, millions gathered around the MON wireless feeling a rush of excitement when they heard the MON serial's memorable signature tune 'Devil's Gallop', MON listening entranced to the exploits of the ex-commando MON Captain and his faithful lieutenants Jock and Snowy. MON MON In this programme Alexander Armstrong looks back to Barton's MON arrival on Radio and discovers that despite the serial's MON enormous popularity the programme attracted many critics, MON including one listener who desribed it as "blatant sadism MON corrupting the minds of our youth using the exact method MON used by the Nazis". MON MON We discover in attempt to respond to the controversy the MON script-writers adhered to 13 codes of conduct, such as: no MON sex, no booze, no bad language and all violence must be MON limited to "clean socks on the jaw." MON MON Contributors include Gareth Johnson, son of the first actor MON to play Barton, award winning playwright Phil Wilmott and MON Barton fan John Mundy. MON MON Archive interviews include Producer Neil Tuson and various MON cast members including Thora Hird who played various female MON roles in the first few series MON MON The programme also reveals Barton's various reincarnations MON on film, television and most recently a stage musical. MON MON With readings from Delia Corrie and Phil Wood the programme MON is written and produced by Stephen Garner MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 AUGUST 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b013pzjn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b013xm61 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013pzjq (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013pzjs (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013pzjv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b013pzjx (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013pzjz (Listen) TUE Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b013pzk1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b013q205 (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Secret Britain b013q209 (Listen) TUE As part of Radio 4's Secret Britain series, Peter Taylor TUE meets people who keep or have kept the darkest state TUE secrets, to hear how it feels to live a life in the shadows: TUE TUE The Derry family who put their lives on the line for peace; TUE the Muslim agent who spies on Islamist extremists; the TUE mandarin charged with guarding Britain's secrets; and the TUE Special Branch officer who infiltrated subversive TUE revolutionary groups. TUE TUE Presenter: Peter Taylor TUE Producer: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 09:30 The Tribes of Science b013q20c (Listen) TUE More Tribes of Science, Volcanologists TUE TUE A lad's mag claimed that being a volcanologist was the TUE second coolest job in the world after being an astronaut. TUE This scientific tribe also loses one member each year, on TUE average, in a fatal accident on a volcano. Peter Curran puts TUE on his anthropological hard hat and asks what makes these TUE researchers risk life and limb, clambering around active TUE volcanoes? Are they driven by a desire to protect local TUE people by understanding the timing of eruptions. Or are they TUE drawn like moths to the sulphurous flames in a purely TUE scientific quest. TUE TUE Peter talks to volcanologists based at the University of TUE Bristol, some of whom worked on Montserrat during the TUE heights of the Caribbean island's volcanic crisis in 1997. TUE He hears stories of crater-based craziness inside Mount Etna TUE and a slide down a flow of volcanic glass. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b013ptf2 (Listen) TUE All Made Up, Episode 2 TUE TUE Award-winning author Janice Galloway reads extracts from her TUE new book - a compelling account of her adolescence in 1970s TUE Scotland. Young Janice has arrived at secondary school TUE bearing a huge weight of expectation from her eager mother TUE and unpredictable, violent, sister. TUE TUE Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b013q20f (Listen) TUE Samantha Womack, women in Somalia, swimming with whales TUE TUE Jane Garvey talks to Samantha Womack about going from TUE EastEnders to South Pacific. We discuss the Somalian famine TUE and violence against women. What is the reality of being a TUE stay-at-home dad? And Ingrid Visser describes swimming with TUE killer whales. TUE TUE Famine and Sexual Violence in Somalia TUE TUE As famine hits the Horn of Africa yet again this summer, the TUE UN estimates that nearly two million people in Somalia – a TUE quarter of the population – have been forced to leave their TUE homes in search of food. Camps for the displaced in the TUE south of the country and over the border in Kenya have TUE expanded to hold many thousands of people, and aid TUE organizations report that women and children are the worst TUE affected sections of the population. They also report that TUE sexual violence against women is endemic in the camps. But TUE why? Jane discusses the issues with Miriam Yassim from the TUE IIDA Women’s Development Organization, which works with TUE Somali refugees in Kenya, and by Sally Healy, who monitors TUE events in Somalia from Chatham House. TUE TUE Dr. Ingrid Visser: Swimming With Whales TUE TUE For most people the idea of swimming with killer whales TUE would fill them with dread but not for marine biologist Dr TUE Ingrid Visser. For the past 20 years she’s been swimming TUE with the orca whales of New Zealand which are considered one TUE of the most feared predators in the world. She is now the TUE focus of a new BBC TWO TV documentary that reveals that the TUE orca are becoming critically endangered due to overfishing TUE and high levels of chemicals in the water. Ingrid is on a TUE mission to save them. TUE TUE 'The Woman Who Swims with Killer Whales’ is on BBC TWO on TUE Wednesday 31 August, at 8pm. TUE TUE Stay at Home Dads: The Challenges TUE TUE Not so long ago, the idea of dads staying at home to be full TUE time child carers was seen as a bit of an oddity. Nowadays TUE there seems to be increasing numbers doing so whether it be TUE for a few months, few years and in some cases permanently. TUE So what’s it like being a stay at home dad? And what are the TUE challenges? Judy Merry visits the home of Anton Thorpe in TUE Hasslingden, Lancashire who has been looking after his TUE daughter for for the past six years. To discuss the issues TUE Jane is joined by Duncan Fisher, co-founder of the TUE Fatherhood Institute and Dalia Ben-Galim, Associate Director TUE for Family, Community and Work at the Institute for Public TUE Policy Research. TUE TUE Woman's Hour will be having a phone-in on Stay at home dads: TUE the challenges on Wednesday 31 August. TUE TUE Samantha Womack TUE TUE She's most well known for playing tragic soap heroine Ronnie TUE Mitchell in the controversial baby-swap plotline in TUE Eastenders. But actress Samantha Womack has now left Albert TUE Square for much sunnier climes, playing the eternal TUE 'cockeyed optimist' Nellie in the musical South Pacific. She TUE joins Jane to talk about her return to the stage in an TUE acclaimed version of the much loved Rodgers and Hammerstein TUE musical. TUE TUE South Pacific runs at the Barbican in London until 1 October TUE before embarking on a nationwide tour from 12 October in TUE Milton Keynes. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xzc (Listen) TUE Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, Secrets TUE TUE Episode 2 - Secrets. TUE TUE 2005. May Witwit is an English Literature lecturer at TUE Baghdad University specializing in Jane Austen. Bee Rowlatt TUE works at the BBC World Service in London as a reporter. For TUE some time they've been exchanging emails initially as part TUE of Bee's work and a curious friendship has grown up. TUE TUE May ..... Souad Faress TUE Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar TUE Ali ..... Zubin Varla TUE Justin ..... Stephen Hogan TUE Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir TUE Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou TUE Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton TUE TUE Director..... Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b013q20h (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 15 TUE TUE 15/30 Butterflies and swifts are the subject of this weeks TUE Saving Species, presented by Brett Westwood. The Wailing TUE Wall in Jerusalem is the oldest known nesting site in the TUE world for the common swift but numbers are falling there and TUE elsewhere - why and what is being done to help? Find out TUE more about swift towers and chick rescue schemes as TUE conservationists battle to help save them. And Brett TUE discovers more about the private life of the beautiful TUE woodland butterfly the Silver Washed Fritillary, a TUE specialist woodland species that brightens any shady glade. TUE Brett also gets an update on Chris, the Saving Species TUE cuckoo that is making its way to its wintering area in TUE Africa. The first time ever cuckoos have been tracked on TUE their epic journey, helping us understand more about this TUE icon of spring. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Cat Women of the Moon b013q20k (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Cat Women of the Moon was a 1950s film that followed a TUE popular motif in science fiction; an all women society TUE surviving without men. Charlotte Perkins Gilman explored the TUE idea as early as 1915 in the classic novel 'Herland'. In TUE part one of a two part programme we look at how science TUE fiction has been used to examine relationships between the TUE sexes - and in some cases, more than two sexes. In many TUE novels the exploration of sexuality is unconventional and TUE experimental. Some societies have more than one sex, in TUE others people can change sex at will. In certain imagined TUE worlds people form relationships with aliens or don't have TUE sex with flesh and blood beings at all - but with artificial TUE life forms instead. The programme includes contributions TUE from some of Britain's leading science fiction writers TUE including Iain Banks, China Mieville and Nicola Griffith. TUE The programme is presented by the writer Sarah Hall, author TUE of 'The Carhullan Army' and 'The Electric Michelangelo' TUE which was short listed for the Booker Prize. The programme TUE is produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b013q20m (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE Despite almost 2.5 million people being unemployed some TUE businesses complain they can't find the staff. With TUE shortages of engineers, hi-tech, hospitality and catering TUE staff, where do you think the problem lies? TUE TUE The British Chamber of Commerce blame a lack of basic skills TUE and the failure of families and the education system to TUE prepare people for the world of work. The GMB Union say TUE companies have unrealistic expectations and need to do more TUE to train new staff. TUE TUE Are some careers just not considered sexy? Is low pay to TUE blame? Or is a lack of skills at the root of the problem. TUE TUE If you're someone who's struggling to get a job or an TUE employer who's struggling to recruit new staff we want to TUE hear from you. 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 12:45 Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square b013xvnx (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE As part of the BBC's Domesday Reloaded, five Radio 4 TUE presenters return to their 'square' - the 3x4 kilometre TUE piece of Britain that had special significance for them in TUE 1986 - . What's changed? What's the same? And what do their TUE discoveries tell us about how society's moved on? We hear TUE from Mark Lawson, Sheila Dillon, Paddy O'Connell, Richard TUE Coles and Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b013q20p (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b013q20r (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 b013q20t (Listen) TUE Series 12, Spiegel im Spiegel TUE TUE Exploring the impact that Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's TUE piece for piano and violin Spiegel im Spiegel has had on TUE people's lives. TUE TUE Written in 1978, just prior to his departure from Estonia, TUE Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel is musically minimal, yet TUE produces a serene tranquillity. TUE TUE It's in F major in 6/4 time, with the piano playing rising TUE crotchet triads and the violin playing slow scales, TUE alternately rising and falling, of increasing length, which TUE all end on the note A. The score of the piece looks TUE deceptively simple, but as violinist, Tasmin Little TUE explains, it's one of the most difficult pieces to perform TUE because the playing has to simply be perfect, or the mood is TUE lost. TUE TUE "Spiegel im Spiegel" in German literally can mean both TUE "mirror in the mirror" as well as "mirrors in the mirror", TUE referring to the infinity of images produced by parallel TUE plane mirrors. TUE TUE The programme contains an interview with visual artist Mary TUE Husted who heard this work and was inspired to produce a set TUE of collages called "Spiegel im Spiegel" which in a round TUE about way, led to her long lost son tracing her for the TUE first time in his life. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b013pynd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rmrpw (Listen) TUE Arabian Afternoons, The Porter and the Three Ladies TUE TUE by Rachel Joyce TUE TUE A wild, dark modern fairytale, set in Damascus. The second TUE in a series of contemporary plays inspired by stories from TUE the Arabian Nights. TUE TUE It is time for Shahrazad to tell another tale to save her TUE life. In this story within a story, we find out that if Joe TUE doesn't find the exclusive to satisfy his ruthless editor, TUE he will lose his job. He finds three beautiful women in TUE Damascus but what is the truth behind their secret life? TUE TUE Shahrazad ........Sirine Saba TUE Shahrayar .........Kevork Malikyan TUE Joe....................Stephen Tompkinson TUE Margot............... Joanna Monro TUE Mira................... Indira Varma TUE Affyah.................Jasmine Jones TUE Juliba..................Melissa Advani TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b013q20w (Listen) TUE Radio 4's popular history magazine series. Listeners share TUE their ideas and questions with some of the world's leading TUE historians. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b013q20y (Listen) TUE The Pat Hobby Stories, Pat Hobby's Secret TUE TUE Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney. TUE TUE Alfred Molina returns with a new series of F. Scott TUE Fitzgerald's brilliant stories of late 1930s Hollywood, TUE directed by Martin Jarvis. Since the advent of the talkies, TUE hack screen writer Pat Hobby has fallen on hard times and TUE hard liquor. TUE TUE Now, desperately in need of a studio writing job, he pursues TUE a drunken movie director and obtains some secret information TUE about a crucial film script idea. Producer Banizon is TUE prepared to buy the idea from Pat, because the knowledge TUE could save his next movie. So can Pat Hobby, at last, hold TUE the studio up to ransom before spilling the beans? Maybe. TUE But death and desperation make things even more problematic TUE than usual for Pat. TUE TUE Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Generation E b0146bdy (Listen) TUE Life in a Spanish Ghost Town TUE TUE Lucy Ash travels across Europe to meet the continent's next TUE generation, as they face a future where the recent TUE certainties - the Euro, comfortable growth, ever closer TUE union - have been brought into question. She explores the TUE challenges they face and the innovative ways they are TUE meeting them. TUE TUE Programme 2: Life in a Spanish Ghost Town TUE TUE Spain's economic crisis has pushed record numbers to default TUE on their mortgages and repossessions are at an all time TUE high. Some claim that 180 families are now being evicted TUE from their homes each day. Yet at the same time the country TUE is full of brand new, empty properties. TUE TUE When the real estate bubble burst, it left behind a country TUE full of empty lots, half built homes and unnamed streets. On TUE the outskirts of big cities, it is common to find large TUE apartment blocks inhabited by just a handful of families. TUE TUE Nowhere is the problem more acute than in Valdeluz, an TUE hour's drive north of Madrid. This dormitory city was TUE designed back in 2004 for 30,000 people but only a few TUE hundred people moved in. They have seen the value of their TUE flats halved and many fear they will never be able to sell TUE up and move elsewhere. TUE TUE It's a negative equity nightmare but a group of young TUE reisdents are determined to make the best of things. They TUE describe the joys of rollerblading down the deserted streets TUE and the quiet, wide open spaces. They also say the low TUE number of people has fostered a warm community spirit and TUE that Valdeluz has the atmosphere of a big village. Joaquin TUE Ormazabal, the newly elected mayor tells Lucy his vision of TUE Utopia is modelled on Basildon in Essex. TUE TUE Producer: Arlene Gregorius. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b013q210 (Listen) TUE English As a Lingua Franca TUE TUE Most conversations in English are among people who aren't TUE native speakers of the language. In universities around the TUE world, vast voice banks are being compiled by researchers TUE who are examining the use of English as a contact language TUE in a globalized world. They believe their work has TUE implications for the way in which English is taught: for too TUE long, they say, students have been given native speaker TUE standards of correctness as their model. But is there really TUE such a thing as English as a Lingua Franca? Chris Ledgard TUE investigates. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b013q212 (Listen) TUE Series 25, William Shakespeare TUE TUE No less a figure than the national bard, William TUE Shakespeare, is nominated for great life status by poetry TUE curator and TV producer, Daisy Goodwin. Dominic Dromgoole, TUE Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre joins Matthew Parris TUE to put flesh on the life that is remarkably light on known TUE and verifiable facts. How and why did this son of an TUE illiterate glovemaker from Stratford on Avon come to TUE bestride the international stage, adopted not only as TUE England's national poet, but even displacing Goethe and TUE Schiller in Germany? Dromgoole argues that more than a sense TUE of the man is conveyed in his 37 plays. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b013q239 (Listen) TUE Presenter Eddie Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013q23c (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00qj1qq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Jack Black's Black Jacks TUE TUE Sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald TUE McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop. TUE TUE Sanjay finds a girlfriend and embraces the arts, much to TUE Ramesh and Dave's amusement. TUE TUE Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kolhi TUE Dave ...... Donald McLeary TUE Sanjay ...... Omar Raza TUE Alok ...... Susheel Kumar TUE Kayla ...... Eleanor Bird TUE Father Henderson ...... Gerard Kelly TUE Ted ...... Gavin Mitchell TUE Keenan's Mum ...... Maureen Carr TUE Mrs Gibb ...... Marjory Hogarth TUE Mr Hepworth ...... Tom Urie TUE TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b013q28h (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b013q28k (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the actress TUE Dame Judi Dench. TUE TUE Producer Jack Soper. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xzc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Kill Factor b013q28m (Listen) TUE "The hardest time is doing it the first time. After I pulled TUE the trigger for the very first time in Basra when I was 19 TUE years old, it got a lot easier after that". TUE TUE Ben Close, a former member of the Coldstream Guards, talks TUE about the first time he killed in battle. It's an experience TUE that transformed him. "I was like a time bomb ticking TUE waiting to go off. I was ready to kill in an instant". TUE TUE Stephen Evans examines how soldiers are taught to kill and TUE the psychological effects of becoming a killer. TUE TUE At Sandhurst, the elite military establishment where the TUE British Army has trained officers since 1812, the recruits TUE are put through their paces. In a simulator - reminiscent of TUE a very big, realistic video game - Stephen sees how life and TUE death decisions about taking human life are made - the moral TUE dilemmas that have to be juggled in the heat of tense, TUE frightening and chaotic battle. TUE TUE Stephen explores why talking about killing is the great TUE taboo in armies across the world. Lieutenant Col Pete TUE Kilner, an officer in the United States Army, says "As a TUE profession of arms, we recruit people to kill, we train TUE people to kill, we make the orders for people to kill, yet TUE after the fact we don't talk about killing. TUE TUE Stephen asks if this is partly to blame for the long-term TUE effects killing has on many soldiers. TUE TUE Andy Wilson, an ex-SAS soldier, was commended for bravery in TUE Afghanistan. But he was unable to cope with the experience TUE of taking another man's life. "I'd killed him. Whenever I TUE closed my eyes, it kept flashing back to me. I basically TUE stayed awake for four days. On the fifth day I collapsed TUE because I'd had no sleep. And then I'd be awake for another TUE four days. It is torture at night, pure torture" Andy's TUE nightmares and flashbacks led to him being diagnosed with TUE Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. TUE TUE The programme combines gripping first-hand testimony from TUE those who have been on the front line, with powerful archive TUE and contributions from the experts who are wrestling with TUE the theory and practice of killing in warfare. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b013q28p (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 b013q28r (Listen) TUE Future Generations TUE TUE Part 3: Future Generations 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 Secret Britain b013q209 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b013q2bb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b013q2bd (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013xvnz (Listen) TUE The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne TUE TUE At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an TUE uneasy American stranger the story of his life. TUE TUE Changez's sense of alienation increases as he confronts the TUE possibility that soon his country could be at war TUE TUE Reader: Riz Ahmed TUE Produced by Lisa Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00hlcr4 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 1 TUE TUE Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. TUE TUE Hell is thrown into confusion when a dog turns up. Animals TUE are not supposed to end up in Satan's care because they are TUE not evil - except for dolphins of course. TUE TUE Satan ...... Andy Hamilton TUE Edith ...... Annette Crosbie TUE Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan TUE Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville TUE TUE With Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope. TUE TUE 23:30 Last of The Last of the Summer Wine b00tjf81 (Listen) TUE As the seemingly immortal 'Last of the Summer Wine' draws to TUE a close, Broadcaster and poet Ian McMillan pays tribute to TUE television's longest running situation comedy. TUE TUE It would be hard to argue that Last Of The Summer Wine is TUE anything but a British classic. Until recently the world's TUE longest running TV situation comedy seemed immortal. In its TUE heyday, the adventures of senior citizens Compo, Foggy and TUE Clegg drew audiences of 19 million and as we know, this TUE current next series will be the last. TUE TUE The lyrical adventures of three bungling, elderly oddballs TUE have charmed viewers of all generations for over a third of TUE a century, and this programme charts the shows unbelievable TUE success. TUE TUE The show was pioneering in many ways, one of which was the TUE decision to have and ultimately set the trend for a double TUE length Christmas special. TUE TUE Including exclusive interviews with major cast members and TUE archive of the late Bill Owen and Kathy Staff, who turned TUE the character of battleaxe Nora Batty into a treasured TUE national icon, the programme delves behind the scenes with TUE writer Roy Clarke and producer/director Alan J. W. Bell who TUE offer fascinating insights into the show's journey from TUE script to screen. TUE TUE Cast members pay tribute to Ronnie Hazelhurst's theme music TUE and and McMillan calls to mind his own favourite characters TUE in the series. TUE TUE The programme examines why the series has survived so long, TUE surprising critics, audiences and even the BBC itself which TUE has often been accused of underestimating its importance. TUE TUE The producer is Stephen Garner. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 31 AUGUST 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b013q2gl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b013ptf2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013q2gn (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013q2gq (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013q2gs (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b013q2gv (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013q2gx (Listen) WED Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b013q2gz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 06:00 Today b013q2h1 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Archive on 4 b01465z9 (Listen) WED A Tribute to Robert Robinson WED WED We all know Robert Robinson as the chairman of such WED broadcasting classics as Ask the Family and Brain of Britain WED but in a career spanning many decades, he also made travel WED programmes, Points of View, the Today programme and Stop the WED Week which ran on Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992. In Archive on WED 4: A Tribute to Robert Robinson, Laurie Taylor takes a look WED at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting WED legends in the company of some of the former contributors to WED Stop the Week; Ann Leslie, Matthew Parris, Sarah Harrison WED and Nick Tucker. There are also contributions from Will WED Wyatt, Victor Lewis-Smith and Hunter Davis and a wealth of WED archive that reveals a complex man, a consummate wordsmith WED and one of the first TV celebrities. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b013xn4d (Listen) WED All Made Up, Episode 3 WED WED Janice Galloway brings the brilliance of her fiction to bear WED on her memories of small-town adolescence. Janice's love of WED learning is about to be disrupted as she is thrown off the WED straight and narrow by a growing awareness of the opposite WED sex. WED WED Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b013q30z (Listen) WED Phone-In: Stay-at-Home Dads WED WED Presented by Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xzt (Listen) WED Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, An Escape WED WED Episode 3 - An Escape. WED WED 2005. May Witwit is a lecturer at Baghdad University, Bee WED Rowlatt a reporter for the BBC World Service. For many WED months they've conducted a curious and moving correspondence WED by email. At last, faced by continuous threats to her life, WED May pleas with Bee to help her and her husband escape. Bee WED decides to discuss it with her husband Justin, a reporter WED for 'Newsnight'. This is a true story. WED WED May ..... Souad Faress WED Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar WED Ali ..... Zubin Varla WED Justin ..... Stephen Hogan WED Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir WED Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou WED Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes WED Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton WED WED Director..... Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 11:00 What's Eating the Museum? b013q311 (Listen) WED Chris Ledgard hears how museums are waging war against the WED insect pests threatening their collections. WED WED Anyone who has had a bad infestation of moths in their WED wardrobe knows the misery they cause. WED WED But clothes - though expensive - can at least be replaced. WED For museum conservators, moth and beetle larvae pose a more WED serious threat. An insect infestation in a museum collection WED can destroy artefacts which are not only valuable but also WED irreplaceable. WED WED In What's Eating the Museum?, conservators explain the WED quandary they find themselves in: insect populations - WED particularly clothes moths - have increased rapidly in WED recent years. At the same time, chemical pesticides have WED been taken off the market because of safety fears. So the WED people responsible for our great natural history, WED ethnographic and costume collections find themselves in a WED continual battle to keep the insects at bay. WED WED The guru of insect pest management, David Pinniger, takes us WED around the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford to see how WED conservators there are coping. Also in the programme, Chris WED Ledgard visits the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of WED London, and Dover Castle. And what's the secret to winning WED this war? It's simple, says David Pinniger - good WED housekeeping. And you have to learn to think like a moth. WED WED Producer: Chris Ledgard. WED WED 11:30 A Case for Paul Temple b013q313 (Listen) WED In Which Steve Meets Captain O'Hara WED WED Episode 2 of a new production of a vintage serial from 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 pursue the mysterious West End drug WED dealer known only as 'Valentine'... WED WED Episode 2: In Which Steve Meets Captain O'Hara WED WED Temple's investigations lead him to a Limehouse pub for a WED drink with a very Irish sailor, and then to a chilling WED discovery in a lonely quarry. 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 Snooker Riley JIMMY CHISHOLM WED Charles Kelvin NICK UNDERWOOD WED Captain O'Hara ROBIN LAING WED Mary ELIZA LANGLAND WED Sheila Baxter MELODY GROVE WED Sir Gilbert Dryden MICHAEL MACKENZIE WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b013q355 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:45 Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square b013xvqb (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED As part of the BBC's Domesday Reloaded, five Radio 4 WED presenters return to their 'square' - the 3x4 kilometre WED piece of Britain that had special significance for them in WED 1986 - . What's changed? What's the same? And what do their WED discoveries tell us about how society's moved on? We hear WED from Mark Lawson, Sheila Dillon, Paddy O'Connell, Richard WED Coles and Jane Garvey. WED WED 12:57 Weather b013q357 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b013q359 (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b013q3fs (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b013q28h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rmxb8 (Listen) WED Arabian Afternoons, A Dish of Pomegranates WED WED by Peter Jukes WED WED The third in a series of plays inspired by stories from the WED Arabian Nights. WED WED Shared roots and scattered families in the melting pot of WED modern Jerusalem. Tired after a stressful trip, Ajib is WED stopped by security officers as he tries to fly out of Ben WED Gurion airport on his way home to the U.S. They don't think WED his story adds up. Can he make them believe him? And does he WED actually know the whole story himself? WED WED Shahrazad .......................SIRINE SABA WED Shahrayar/Vardan.............KEVORK MALIKYAN WED Ajib.................................WILLIAM EL-GARDI WED Orit..................................BETSABEH EMRAN WED Rafi..................................ZUBIN VARLA WED Howard.............................ALLAN CORDUNER WED Julia.................................KEELY BERESFORD WED Café Owner.......................STEFAN KALIPHA WED Tawfik/Trader 2..................MOZAFFAR SHAFEIE WED Flight Attendant/Trader 1....DAVID SEDDON WED Protestor...........................RUFUS WRIGHT WED WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b013q3fz (Listen) WED Money Box Live returns on Wednesday 31 August 2011, when WED Vincent Duggleby and panel will take your questions about WED saving and investing. WED WED Whether your interest is in cash savings or stock markets, WED income or growth, you can ask the experts for advice. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm and the number to call is 03700 WED 100 444. Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from WED mobiles may be higher. The programme starts after the three WED o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b013wnbt (Listen) WED The Pat Hobby Stories, Teamed with Genius WED WED Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney. WED WED Studio head Jack Berners calls hack writer Pat Hobby into WED his office. Surprisingly he has a writing job for him. Pat WED seems ready for it. Berners teams him with British writer, WED Rene Wilcox. It's ballet picture. As Pat leaves the office WED Berners calls him back and puts some dollars in his hand. WED 'Get a new hat,' he says, 'You used to be quite a boy around WED the secretaries in the old days. Don't give up at WED forty-nine!' But over in the Writers' Building Pat discovers WED that Wilcox has never written for the cinema before, and WED doesn't want to collaborate. Can Hobby survive? Will he have WED to do some proper writing at last? WED WED Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Generation E b0146blt (Listen) WED The Picnic Protesters WED WED Lucy Ash travels across Europe to meet the continent's next WED generation, as they face a future where the recent WED certainties - the euro, comfortable growth, ever closer WED union - have been brought into question. She explores the WED challenges they face and the innovative ways they are WED meeting them. WED WED Programme 3: The Picnic Protesters WED WED Leila Chaibi was fed up with paying more and more for basic WED food in her local supermarket. So she invented what she WED describes as a new kind of political action. She organises WED flash mobs to take food off the shelves, unwrap it and WED invite shoppers to dine with them, in the supermarket WED itself. Leila and her friends claim they are using an old WED French law that allows customers to try food before buying WED it. So far they have escaped arrest and being charged with WED criminal damage or theft. WED WED Her group "L'Appel et la Pioche" (a pun on "the pick and WED shovel", spelled as if to say "the appeal" and shovel) WED campaigns against global capitalism, consumerism, bank WED bail-outs, poor housing, expensive food, what they consider WED high profit margins and the fact that many French youth of WED today are worse off than their parents. WED WED Lucy also visits a couple of socially conscious, cut-price WED restaurants. One of them helps train young people who have WED been in trouble with the law. Another is both a cheap place WED to eat and a place where local charities can come to cook WED and do some fund-raising. WED WED Producer: Arlene Gregorius. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b013q3g3 (Listen) WED Home Life 2: Single Person Household WED 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 fueling 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 invitations from a host of Thinking Allowed listeners, WED Laurie Taylor visits three. In this edition he travels to WED Cove in Argyll and Bute to meet someone who lives alone and WED works from home. He is accompanied by the sociologists Roona WED Simpson and Bren Neale in order to help divine the future WED for Britain's private life. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life b013q28r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b013q3g7 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013q3nf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00g4481 (Listen) WED Series 2, Houston We Have An Problemme WED WED Hie ye to "The Castle", a rollicking sitcom set way back WED then, starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four WED Weddings & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode Master Henry hits puberty, Lady Anne & WED Charlotte hit the bar, De Warrenne hits a Planning Official WED and Sam Tree goes off like a rocket... WED WED Sir John Woodstock ..... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ..... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ..... Montserrat Lombard WED Cardinal Duncan..... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ..... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ..... Steven Kynman WED Merlin ..... Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller with additional material by Paul WED Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Producer/Director: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b013q3nh (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b013q3nk (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with author A N WED Wilson, who has written a new history of the Elizabethans. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xzt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b013q3nm (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED WED Charlie Wolf argues that the Geneva Convention should not WED apply to the war against terrorism. His views will be WED challenged by Richard Norton-Taylor (Security Editor of The WED Guardian), Dapo Akande (Co-Director of the Oxford Institute WED for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict) and Dr Robert Barnidge WED (School of Law, University of Reading). WED WED The live studio discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. WED You can join in by e-mailing: iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk or text WED 84844. WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b013q3np (Listen) WED Series 2, At the Edinburgh Festival WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b013q3nr (Listen) WED Cave Carnage WED WED Deep beneath southern Europe there stretches a 500 kilometre WED long subterranean world. Underground rivers and vast caverns WED are home to unique and unusual species like the blind WED salamander and the freshwater sponge. Barely explored, the WED caves of Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Albania are WED facing up to a rash of environmental threats. WED WED In Costing the Earth Tom Heap will be joining caver and WED Whitley Award-winning biologist, Jana Bedek to explore the WED caves, spot the wildlife and witness the destruction. Waste WED dumping and agricultural pollution are damaging waterways WED all through the cave system but it's in Croatia that some of WED the toughest challenges exist. Preparing for European Union WED membership the country is pushing ahead with the development WED of highways and hydro-electric plants. The construction is WED threatening some of the most valuable wildlife sites on the WED continent but the damage is invisible to most local people WED and all but the most adventurous of visitors. WED WED Is damage unavoidable in the rush to join the EU or does WED Croatia risk losing its natural foundations? WED WED 21:30 The Real Apprentice b010t5wk (Listen) WED Seven unemployed men compete to win a builder's WED apprenticeship in South Wales. Jon Manel follows their WED progress, and explores how our concept of apprenticeship has WED changed over centuries. WED WED The charity Construction Youth Trust took its Real WED Apprentice scheme to Newport in the summer of 2010. Seven WED young people who weren't in education or employment were put WED to work on a building site, redeveloping two flats. The best WED performer won an apprenticeship with Newport City Homes. Jon WED Manel watches the competition and hears about the WED contestants' experience of trying to find work. WED WED But what can the winner expect of his apprenticeship? And WED how does the experience of today's apprentices compare to WED that of their predecessors decades - even centuries - ago? WED WED Jon meets a manager at Tata Steel - formerly British Steel - WED in Port Talbot, who is still with the company nearly forty WED years after he joined as an apprentice. And then we go back WED nearly six hundred years to discover the story of a WED fifteenth century butcher's apprentice from Newbury, WED recorded in a document in the Berkshire Record Office. WED Alison Fuller from Southampton University gives a potted WED history of how the lives of apprentices developed in the WED intervening years - for better and for worse. WED WED 21:58 Weather b013q3nt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b013q3nw (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013xvqd (Listen) WED The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne WED WED At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an WED uneasy American stranger the story of his life. WED WED On a work assignment in Chile, Changez makes a monumental WED decision. WED WED Reader: Riz Ahmed WED Produced by Lisa Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Verse Illustrated b013q3ny (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED In the last in the series of illustrated poems, spoken word WED artists Inua Ellams and Ross Sutherland tell two very WED different stories. WED WED 'The Ballad of Abdul Hafiz' written and performed by Inua WED Ellams WED An encounter on a bus with a drunk Algerian man, who has a WED story to tell: "I looked at him intently, at the almost WED black neckline at dried saliva on his lips, I wished he'd WED tell me why." WED WED 'Parade' written and performed by Ross Sutherland WED A hypnotic carnival of the subconscious: "How unreal these WED buildings now seem. Their facades thin, like sets of WED Westerns. The wind faked with pulleys, the windows painted WED on. With LEDs mimicking the reflection of the sun." WED WED Actors... Peter Polycarpou and Alex Tregear. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00yjcp6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Birthday Magic WED WED This week Mordrin takes on childminding duties for his WED neighbour Jill, but inadvertently gives Tracey a special WED Wizard edition of Treasure Island to read with disastrous WED results. WED WED Featuring and co-written by Scottish stand up David Kay, and WED starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty with guest star WED Arnold Brown. Mordrin McDonald mixes the magical with the WED mundane and offers a hilarious take on the life of a modern WED day Wizard. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty WED Jill ..... Katrina Bryan WED Tracey ..... Rosemary Hollands WED WED Producer/ Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Elvenquest b00k9d80 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 WED WED The Questers face the Tower of Tests and are horrified when WED one of their number is struck down. Meanwhile Lord Darkness WED must confront some revolting slaves. WED WED Darren Boyd as Vidar WED Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech WED James Bachman as Amis WED Stephen Mangan as Sam WED Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness WED Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea WED WED PRODUCER ANIL GUPTA. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b013qxjc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b013xn4d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013qxjf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013qxjh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013qxjk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b013qxjm (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013qyw5 (Listen) THU Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b013qyw7 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b013qyw9 (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The Class Ceiling b013qz77 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU In a major new two-part documentary series for BBC Radio 4, THU the journalist and author Polly Toynbee explores the THU ever-more-pressing question of how possible it is to move up THU through British society. Who gets to break the 'class THU ceiling'? THU THU Polly argues that, while deference is long gone, and Prime THU Ministers have swapped ties and titles for first name THU informality, Britain's class system is still going strong. THU THU In this opening programme, she asks what can happen in your THU early years to boost or block your chances later on. THU THU With the help of an education neuroscientist, she begins at THU the beginning, exploring the science behind the growing THU calls that a child's earliest years have a crucial impact. THU THU And she visits an obscure corner of an Oxford council estate THU which is home to a remarkable project. It aims to persuade THU struggling young parents to understand the importance of THU reading to their babies. THU THU She talks to an array of academics and politicians from THU across the political spectrum, including Universities THU Minister David Willetts, Shadow Education Secretary Andy THU Burnham and former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis. She THU asks why we put such huge pressure on schools to deliver THU social mobility - and whether they can really do very much THU about it at all. THU THU She hears from pupils at two very different schools - a THU sixth form college in a deprived north London borough, and a THU community school nestled in the northern fells of the Lake THU District. What do these two institutions do to maximise the THU chances of pupils progressing into higher education? THU THU Along the way, we hear from two women called Shirley. One THU left her Lake District school to work in a shoe factory; her THU daughter has just got a First at Birmingham University. The THU other is a 20 year old from Hackney. At 18 she had no THU qualifications; she now has an offer of a place at Oxford. THU THU But, Polly asks, why has the massive expansion of our THU universities not resulted in more stories like this? THU THU Plus: in the final programme, she explores what happens THU after you leave education. A degree may be more expensive THU than ever, but how much benefit does it bring? And what THU happens to those with no university education? Polly THU explores the argument that they were better off decades ago, THU when you could join a company at 16 and rise to the top. THU THU Producer: Phil Tinline. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b013xn57 (Listen) THU All Made Up, Episode 4 THU THU Author Janice Galloway reads from her new book - a THU compelling memoir of her adolescence in Scotland of the THU 1970s. A misguided attempt to gain control over her life THU will set the studious young girl on a collision course with THU her mother. THU THU Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b013qz79 (Listen) THU Suzy Quatro, Rape Convictions, Sue Johnston THU THU Suzi Quatro on her new album. Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xzw (Listen) THU Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, Getting it Right THU THU Episode 4 - Getting it right. THU THU Bee, a British journalist, has been helping May, an Iraqi THU university teacher, to escape from the terrible violence in THU Iraq . Their first attempt was poorly planned and a failure. THU This time they realize they must be more self-disciplined THU and plan things far more professionally. Bee, whose just had THU her third baby Elsa, goes to see an immigration lawyer. THU THU May ..... Souad Faress THU Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar THU Ali ..... Zubin Varla THU Justin ..... Stephen Hogan THU Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir THU Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou THU Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes THU Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton THU THU Director..... Peter Kavanagh. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b013qz7c (Listen) THU 9/11 - Toxic Ash THU THU David Shukman reports on the thousands who have become ill THU from the toxic dust that blanketed Lower Manhattan after the THU Twin Towers collapsed on Sept 11th. The buildings released a THU cocktail of deadly carcinogens including, asbestos, lead, THU mercury and PCBs. THU THU Frontline responders such as fire-fighters, police and THU emergency medical workers breathed in the contamination for THU several weeks as they toiled at Ground Zero. The fires THU burned for a hundred days and many of the emergency workers THU toiled without respirators or proper protection amid the THU dust and debris. THU THU Now officials say more than 18,000 people have received THU medical treatment in the last 12 months for World Trade THU Center related conditions - many of them serious. The head THU of the federal programme overseeing victims compensation THU says he expects more people to die because of their THU exposure. THU THU Nearly three thousand people perished on the day, but the THU suffering resulting from the attack is far from over. THU Producer: Linda Sills. THU THU 11:30 Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills b013qzfr (Listen) THU Actor, poet and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall (aka Richard THU Smith) examines the enduring popularity of A.E. Housman in a THU journey through the Shropshire of his most famous sequence THU of poems. THU THU In his previous programme 'Doggerel Bard' on satirical verse THU a remarkably diverse range of poets including Tony Harrison, THU Wendy Cope and John Cooper Clarke all cited Housman as a THU primary influence. The enduring popularity of this private, THU intellectual and academic poet is remarkable as much for its THU breadth of appeal as for its longevity. THU THU 'Beacons and Blue remembered Hills' takes Housman's longest THU sequence (written when Housman was in London) to the places THU that the poet was remembering as he explored some of the THU themes at the core of his work. At the heart of 'A THU Shropshire Lad' is a real sense of Englishness, unusual in a THU collection that concerns itself with personal and political THU themes in such a raw and vulnerable way - loss, grief, THU suicide, sexuality, nature and joy. What did the settings of THU 'A Shropshire Lad' - Shropshire and Worcestershire - mean to THU Housman? THU THU Elvis visits many of the locations that inspired Housman's THU verse - London, Bromsgrove, Bredon Hill, Ludlow, The Wrekin THU and talks to people along the way about these evocative THU landscapes, asking them to read their favourite poems on the THU way. THU THU Contributors include Andrew Motion, Martin Newell, Wendy THU Cope, Colin Dexter, Antique Roadshow's Henry Sandon and the THU many Housman fans of Worcestershire and Shropshire. Elvis THU attempts to meet Housman himself, listens to the bells of THU Bredon, goes in search of the loveliest of cherry trees and THU even finds poetry in a Brewery. THU THU Producer: Frank Stirling. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b013qzft (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square b013yw5g (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU As part of the BBC's Domesday Reloaded, five Radio 4 THU presenters return to their 'square' - the 3x4 kilometre THU piece of Britain that had special significance for them in THU 1986 - . What's changed? What's the same? And what do their THU discoveries tell us about how society's moved on? We hear THU from Mark Lawson, Sheila Dillon, Paddy O'Connell, Richard THU Coles and Jane Garvey. THU THU 12:57 Weather b013qzfw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b013qzfy (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b013q3nr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b013q3nh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b013qzpj (Listen) THU The Lighthouse THU THU By Alan Harris. Lighthouse keepers Howell and Griffith are THU posted to 6 weeks on the Smalls - a desolate rock 20 miles THU off the Pembrokeshire coast. But the two men share a past. THU Because of what happens next, lighthouses would never again THU have only a crew of two. Based on a true story. THU THU Howell... Paul Rhys THU Griffith... Ifan Huw Dafydd THU THU Directed by James Robinson THU THU 15:00 Open Country b013r40s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b013rgql (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b013xm20 (Listen) THU The Pat Hobby Stories, Pat Hobby Does His Bit THU THU Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney. THU THU It is a difficult business, in Hollywood, to borrow money THU from an actor on a set during the shooting of a moving THU picture. But Pat Hobby is desperate. THU THU It's the stiffest chore Pat has ever undertaken but he's THU doing it to save his car. His old jalopy might not seem THU worth saving but, because of Hollywood's great distances, THU it's an indispensable tool of the writer's trade. But what THU Pat doesn't foresee is that, because of this financial THU arrangement, his whole life in pictures is about to change. THU THU Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Generation E b0146bm8 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Lucy Ash meets Europe's disaffected youth. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b013rj91 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b013qzps (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 b013qzpv (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013qzpx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b013qzvm (Listen) THU Series 3, Michael Winner THU THU My Teenage Diary returns with four more brave celebrities THU ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their THU intimate teenage diaries and reading them out in public for THU the very first time. THU THU Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by film director and THU restaurant critic Michael Winner, whose journals describe an THU impossibly glamorous trip to America in 1953 and a THU titillating canoe accident. THU THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback Thames production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b013qzwn (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b013qzwq (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who talks to film-maker Mike Figgis as he THU programmes a festival at the Royal Opera House. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0145xzw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b013qzxw (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b013qzxy (Listen) THU Prize Performers THU THU At a time of grave crisis, some of the world's top Nobel THU Prize winning economists have been meeting for a conference THU on an idyllic Bavarian island. Peter Day was there to find THU out if they had any ideas about how to get out of the mess THU we're in and what their predictions are for the future. THU Producer : Neil Keonig. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b013q20h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The Class Ceiling b013qz77 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b013r01t (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b013r01w (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013xvrk (Listen) THU The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Reluctant Fundamentalist THU THU Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne THU THU At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an THU uneasy American stranger the story of his life. THU THU Erica vanishes as Changez's American dream comes to an end. THU THU Reader: Riz Ahmed THU Produced by Lisa Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 House on Fire b013r01y (Listen) THU Series 2, Haunting THU THU The return of the comedy series written by Dan Hine and THU Chris Sussman. THU THU Vicky has invested in a top of the range kitchen blender and THU Matt feels compelled to put its claim to blend anything to THU the test. Meanwhile, all is not going well with Vicky's THU father's new girlfriend. Kelly has been acting suspiciously THU and Colonel Bill has come to the conclusion she must be THU having an affair. Commando tactics are called for - along THU with some help from the spiritual world. THU THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt ..... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU Kelly ....Kellie Shirley THU THU Additional characters are played by Fergus Craig and Colin THU Hoult THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Elvenquest b00kpw9l (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 6 THU THU Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. THU THU The Quest seems near its end as the noble band reach the THU Rock of Sorrows. But Sam is tempted by Lord Darkness and has THU to decide between his friends and his home. THU THU Vidar ...... Darren Boyd THU Dean the Dwarf/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon THU Amis ...... Dave Lamb THU Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan THU Sam ...... Stephen Mangan THU Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b013r0ss (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b013xn57 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b013r0sv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b013r0sz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b013r0t1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b013r0t3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013r05k (Listen) FRI Short reflection and prayer with Glenn Jordan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b013r13j (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 b013r19j (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b013rjgk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b013xn65 (Listen) FRI All Made Up, Episode 5 FRI FRI Award-winning author Janice Galloway reads an extract from FRI her new memoir. Teenaged Janice is about to leave the FRI security of Ardrossan Academy for university, a FRI long-cherished dream of her downtrodden mother. FRI FRI Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b013r1fn (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013ptf6 (Listen) FRI Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, A House in Chawton FRI FRI Episode 5 - A House in Chawton. FRI FRI May's name has appeared on a terrorist death list. She and FRI her husband Ali are desperate to escape from Iraq. Bee, a FRI British journalist, has managed to arrange a university FRI place for May, but to get to Britain they must first get to FRI Jordan. At the last moment Ali's Jordanian visa is refused. FRI May resolves to go by herself to Jordan and sort out the FRI problem. This is a true story. FRI FRI May ..... Souad Faress FRI Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar FRI Ali ..... Zubin Varla FRI Justin ..... Stephen Hogan FRI Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir FRI Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou FRI Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes FRI Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton FRI FRI Director..... Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 11:00 Spirit of the Beehive b013r2gv (Listen) FRI Nina Perry's composed feature 'Spirit of the Beehive' FRI explores our enduring relationship with the honeybee, FRI lifting the lid of the beehive to hear some surprising FRI lessons to be learnt through observing and working with FRI bees, as well as how the life of bees inspires human FRI endeavours in the arts and in business. FRI FRI We follow a group of young people from Hackney in London who FRI are passionate urban beekeepers. They work for The Golden FRI Company, a social enterprise taking their beekeeping to new FRI heights by installing bees on the roof of investment bank FRI Nomura - where the bees are seen as a symbol of productivity FRI and growth in the city. FRI FRI Scientists at Sussex University explain how they are looking FRI at ways to help the honeybee by eavesdropping in on their FRI communication system, the waggle dance. We peek inside the FRI bee-inspired Parisian Artist community La Ruche (the FRI beehive) and are lead through the bee sanctuary of the FRI Natural Beekeeping Trust to discover the virtues of FRI listening to bees. FRI FRI Musician: Oli Langford (Violin) FRI Producer: Nina Perry FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b00vhgjw (Listen) FRI The Beats FRI FRI Once again the team captains are joined by special guests - FRI poet and musician, Ian McMillan and broadcaster, writer and FRI journalist, Francis Wheen - as they set out to solve yet FRI more book-based brainteasers, set to them by Write Stuff FRI chairman, James Walton. FRI FRI As ever, there is an "Author of the Week" whose life and FRI work provides a focus for the show. This time, however, FRI there isn't just one author for the teams to examine, but FRI three, as they look into the lives and work of Jack Kerouac, FRI William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg - or "The Beats" as FRI they were known. FRI FRI For the pastiches at the end of the show the teams must FRI imagine a nursery rhyme or fairy tale as a member of "The FRI Beats" might have written it... FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b013r2gx (Listen) FRI Jane Garvey in the final Doomsday Reloaded FRI FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square b013ywc1 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI As part of the BBC's Domesday Reloaded, five Radio 4 FRI presenters return to their 'square' - the 3x4 kilometre FRI piece of Britain that had special significance for them in FRI 1986 - . What's changed? What's the same? And what do their FRI discoveries tell us about how society's moved on? We hear FRI from Mark Lawson, Sheila Dillon, Paddy O'Connell, Richard FRI Coles and Jane Garvey. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b013r2gz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b013r2h2 (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 b013r2h4 (Listen) FRI In More or Less this week: FRI FRI Debt: A European Odyssey FRI FRI On More or Less we're always looking for the perfect analogy FRI to help clarify complicated things. And the European debt FRI crisis is pretty complicated. The good news is that we think FRI we've come up with exactly the right way to describe the FRI whole sorry business - as Homer's Odyssey. FRI FRI Alternative medicine and the placebo effect FRI FRI Earlier in the summer a study was published which seemed to FRI suggest that acupuncture might help some patients with FRI unexplained symptoms. Interesting. We asked Margaret FRI McCartney, a Glasgow GP and a blogger on medical evidence, FRI to investigate. But Dr McCartney thinks the study tells us FRI about more than just acupuncture - it tells us something FRI about the whole way in which treatments are administered on FRI the NHS. FRI FRI Asking the right questions FRI FRI This summer, the Office for National Statistics celebrates FRI seventy years of its social surveys. We've been looking back FRI at their work, some of which is a little surprising. In FRI November 1941 the Wartime Social Survey Unit undertook a FRI major study of women's undergarments. The reason? Steel. FRI Britain needed to know how much metal was being used to FRI support the country's women, rather than the war effort. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Knight. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b013qzwn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b013r2h6 (Listen) FRI Do You Like Banana, Comrades? FRI FRI by Csaba Szekely FRI It's difficult being young and in love when your Dad is a FRI high ranking official in Ceausescu's communist machine, your FRI mother weeps all the time and your brother is trying to kill FRI you. FRI FRI This wild and sideways look at life behind the Iron Curtain FRI during Ceausescu's regime is a first play by a young FRI Hungarian writer living in Romania and was shortlisted for FRI the BBC World Service/British Council's International FRI Playwriting Competition. FRI FRI Robert ..... Freddy White FRI Tibor ..... Michael Begley FRI Silvia ..... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Laura ..... Julia Tarnoky FRI Repairman ..... Brian Bowles FRI Dani ..... Daniel Rabin FRI Titi ..... Luke Newberry FRI Director: Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b013r2h8 (Listen) FRI Suffolk FRI FRI Peter Gibbs leads Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Chris FRI Beardshaw in a horticultural discussion. FRI Bob Flowerdew uncovers the medicinal properties of common FRI garden plants. FRI In addition, how to create a bird-friendly garden. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Generation E b0146bxh (Listen) FRI Poland's Young Beggars FRI FRI Lucy Ash travels across Europe to meet the continent's next FRI generation, as they face a future where the recent FRI certainties - the Euro, comfortable growth, ever closer FRI union - have been brought into question. She explores the FRI challenges they face and the innovative ways they are FRI meeting them. FRI FRI Programme 5: Poland's Young Beggars FRI FRI Poland is the only nation in Europe that did not enter FRI recession during the global financial crisis. The country is FRI booming, construction is on the rise and families are buying FRI more cars and household goods. An increasing number of Poles FRI are returning to their homeland from Britain, cashed up FRI after earning wages in a stronger currency and demanding the FRI latest in Western food and fashion. FRI FRI Yet at the same time, a group of young Polish Catholics FRI spent this summer turning their backs on the material world. FRI Lucy joins a group of young men and women trekking along the FRI beaches of the Baltic sea with no money in their pockets. FRI They tell her they have no idea about when they would next FRI eat nor where they would spend the night. Every evening when FRI they arrive in a town or village, they hold a mass and then FRI ask local people to put them up. What drives them and how FRI representative are they of Polish youth today? FRI FRI Producer: Arlene Gregorius. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b013r2hb (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 b013r2hf (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to the screenwriter Moira Buffini about FRI her new version of Jane Eyre starring Michael Fassbender. FRI FRI Producer; Zahid Warley. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b013r2hh (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b013r2hk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b013r2hm (Listen) FRI Series 7, Mark Steel interviews Barry Davies 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 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 Barry Davies is a commentator perhaps best-known for his FRI football coverage, covering ten World Cups, seven European FRI Championships, and two FA Cup finals. He's also commentated FRI on the Olympics, the Commonwealth games and Wimbledon, as FRI well as the World Stare-Out Championships in 1998. FRI FRI In this interview, obsessive sports fan Mark asks Barry FRI about being present at some of the most important sporting FRI moments of the last forty years; about remaining impartial FRI ("Where were the Germans? Frankly, who cares?"); and about FRI the changing face of sports and sports broadcasting. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b013r2hp (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b013r2hr (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang. Out of Joint director Max Stafford-Clark FRI and writer Stella Feehily discuss creating a play inspired FRI by aid workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bang FRI Bang Bang opens at the Bolton Octagon and tours to Oxford, FRI Southampton, Leicester, London, Exeter and Salisbury. FRI FRI Producer Andrea Kidd. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b013ptf6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b013r2ht (Listen) FRI Martha Kearney presents a topical discussion of news and FRI politics from Somerton, Somerset, with Norman Lamont, Joan FRI Bakewell, John Kampfner and Iain Dale. FRI FRI Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b013r2ld (Listen) FRI The celebrated thinker John Gray gives his reflection on a FRI topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Play b00ht3rz (Listen) FRI The Complete Ripley, The Talented Mr Ripley FRI FRI Series of plays based on the novels by Patricia Highsmith FRI about the suave and amoral Tom Ripley. FRI FRI Tom is barely one step ahead of his creditors when a FRI stranger offers him a free trip to Europe and a fresh start. FRI Tom wants money and success and he is willing to kill for FRI it. FRI FRI Tom Ripley ...... Ian Hart FRI Dickie Greenleaf ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Marge Sherwood ...... Barbara Barnes FRI Mr Greenleaf ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Mrs Greenleaf ...... Janice Acquah FRI Roverini ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Buffi ...... Matt Addis FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b013r2t1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b013r01w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b013xvrf (Listen) FRI The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Reluctant Fundamentalist FRI FRI Written by Mohsin Hamid. Abridged by Lisa Osborne FRI FRI At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani tells an FRI uneasy American stranger the story of his life. FRI FRI In Lahore, Changez's new life is revealed. But who is FRI pursuing whom? FRI FRI Reader: Riz Ahmed FRI Produced by Lisa Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b013q212 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r18c (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI This week's comedy talk show features Northern Irish FRI comedian Colin Murphy and master of mimickery Dermot Whelan FRI discussing questions such as: what can you tell about FRI someone based on whether they have a right, left or centre FRI parting in their hair? Why does one style suit some people FRI better than others? As Dermot resorts to his arsenal of FRI voices (including a very good Terry Wogan) to tackle the FRI questions, resident brainiac Dr David Booth will attempt to FRI offer some sense amidst the nonsense and computer whizz FRI Matthew Collins will trawl the internet to find content FRI which will heighten the entertainment value. FRI
26 August, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 27/08/2011 - 02/09/2011
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