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SAT SATURDAY 02 JUNE 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01j2dyf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01jlkjk (Listen) SAT Midnight in Peking, Episode 5 SAT SAT Read by Crawford Logan. SAT SAT Author Paul French reveals the true-crime "cold case" that SAT haunted the last days of old Peking. SAT SAT Summer, 1937. Pamela Werner's unsolved murder is forgotten SAT amidst the violence and chaos of the Japanese invasion of SAT China. But Pamela's father presses on with his own, SAT unofficial, investigation and makes some shocking SAT discoveries. SAT SAT Abridged by Robin Brooks. SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01j2dyh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01j2dyk (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01j2dym (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01j2dyp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01j6wtw (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon SAT Mark Oakley of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01j6wty (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01j2dyr (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01j2dyt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01j6t0g (Listen) SAT Series 21, Dartmoor SAT SAT Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in SAT this new series of Ramblings. SAT SAT Prog 5: Dartmoor with Alex Lyons who is a search and rescue SAT dog handler. SAT SAT Alex Lyons is a dog handler with the Tavistock-Dartmoor SAT Search and Rescue Team. He and several members of his team - SAT and their dogs - take Clare for a wild, wet and windy walk SAT on Dartmoor. Clare sees how the rescue dogs work, and asks SAT why anyone would want to spend their leisure time doing a SAT voluntary job which is exhausting and occasionally SAT upsetting. The answer? A sense of fulfilment, the SAT opportunity to spend time in beautiful and remote SAT countryside, and - of course - the joy of working with SAT highly trained and intelligent dogs (who make their presence SAT felt, and heard, throughout the programme). SAT SAT Producer Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01jg53s (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The SAT presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Angela SAT Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01j2dyw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01jg55d (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and SAT Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for SAT the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01jg73m (Listen) SAT Tim Smit, Congo siblings, medal heroes, John McCarthy in SAT Beirut, Face Shape Science, Bedlington, Inheritance Tracks, SAT IVF couple SAT SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles with founder of the Eden SAT Project Tim Smit, a brother and sister returning for the SAT first time to the Congo where the rest of their family was SAT massacred in 1964, a couple who spent 12 years and £35,000 SAT trying to have a baby, a caricaturist turned amateur SAT scientist who's trying to prove that people who look the SAT same also sound the same, John McCarthy as a tourist in SAT Beirut, a gathering of Victoria Cross recipients, Coronation SAT memories and a Jubilee Crowdscape from Bedlington in SAT Northumberland, and singing legend Sir Tom Jones's SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:30 Smile b01jg73p (Listen) SAT Smile. SAT SAT Historian and author Kate Williams goes in search of the SAT modern winning smile. SAT The wide and toothy smile is all around us and used in many SAT different and persuasive ways, from the delight of meeting SAT up with friends, beautiful people beaming down from SAT billboards persuading us to buy their product, to SAT politicians vying to win our votes, the broad and confident SAT smile is very much at the centre of communication in today's SAT society. However this hasn't always the case, with open SAT mouthed smiling deemed a sign of madness and undignified. SAT SAT We discover the impact of dentistry and films on our SAT changing relationship with our smiles, the role gender and SAT culture play, why most of us hate smiling in photographs and SAT Jenni Murray explains why she would never broadcast without SAT one. SAT SAT Producer: Andrea Kidd. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b01jg73r (Listen) SAT The 2012 Olympic Games will be the biggest sporting event SAT ever held in the United Kingdom, costing billions of pounds SAT of public money. The Government says there will never be a SAT better opportunity to transform the nation's sporting SAT culture. SAT SAT Away from the glitz and the glamour of the Games, former SAT England cricketer and now journalist and author, Edward SAT Smith, assesses the Government's sports policy. Increasingly SAT sport is seen by policy makers as a vehicle for behavioural SAT change to achieve for better public health and improved SAT social cohesion. But how successful is it? SAT SAT And how far should sports policy be designed to deliver SAT community objectives rather than glory on the field? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01jg73t (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01jg73w (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance with Paul SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01j6whk (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 9 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Rebecca Front and SAT Susan Calman. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01j2dyy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01j2dz0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01j6wsx (Listen) SAT Belfast SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Methodist College, Belfast, one of the winning SAT schools in the BBC's nationwide Schools Questions and SAT Answers challenge. The students will be helping Jonathan SAT Dimbleby put the programme together and will be involved in SAT the production from start to finish. On the panel, leader of SAT the Ulster Unionist Party, Mike Nesbitt; deputy leader of SAT the Democratic Unionist Party, Nigel Dodds; Sinn Finn SAT representative and education minister at Stormont, John SAT O'Dowd; and Provost of Magee Campus and Dean of Academic SAT Development at the University of Ulster, Deidre Heenan. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01jg73y (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01jg740 (Listen) SAT The Forgotten SAT SAT A young girl emerges from a forest after a nameless war, SAT knowing nothing of where she has come from or where she has SAT been. She finds the local doctor, Charonne, trapped in the SAT briar. After she has freed him he takes her back to his SAT village where she lives in secret in his house. But she has SAT been spotted by the villagers who wish to call Charonne to SAT account for his conduct in the war. SAT SAT As the pressure on Charonne mounts he disappears into a SAT familiar story in which the young girl takes a leading role. SAT Questions of guilt, memory and responsibility are all raised SAT in The Forgotten, Hattie Naylor's dark retelling of the SAT story of The Sleeping Beauty. SAT SAT The play stars Tim McMullan as Charonne, Ruth Mitchell as SAT Sylvanne and Laura Greenwood as Ireena. SAT SAT Anton ...... John Biddle SAT Ireena and Rosa ...... Laura Greenwood SAT Young Charonne ...... Harry McEntire SAT Charonne ....... Tim McMullan SAT Sylvanne ....... Ruth Mitchell SAT Marie ....... Sally Orrock SAT SAT Writer: Hattie Naylor SAT SAT Director: Paul Dodgson SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b01j5j2d (Listen) SAT Series 8, Vivaldi's Flute Concerto SAT SAT In a special edition of Tales from the Stave Frances Fyfield SAT heads to Edinburgh to tell the story of what was thought to SAT be a lost Vivaldi Flute Concerto. SAT SAT It's a rare and thrilling moment for a classical music SAT researcher to unearth a manuscript that has been hidden for SAT centuries. But that was the lot of Andrew Woolley when he SAT found, nestling in the Marquesses of Lothian's family papers SAT at the National archives in Edinburgh, a Flute concerto by SAT Antonio Vivaldi. SAT SAT In this Tales from the Stave Special, Frances follows the SAT research, cross checking and confirmation that followed SAT Andrew's discovery and lead, very quickly, to the first SAT recording and first recorded performance of the concerto SAT known as Il Gran Mogol. SAT SAT The manuscript, copied out from a lost original and probably SAT sold to Lord Robert Kerr during a continental journey, tells SAT the story of Vivaldi's composing methods and the cross SAT fertilization of Southern European creativity and the SAT Scottish Enlightenment. Andrew Woolley and the Vivaldi SAT scholar Michael Talbot help tell the concerto's story. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01jg742 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01jg746 (Listen) SAT Patrick O'Connell presents the day's top news stories, with SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01j6t47 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT As the mood on Europe swings from doom to gloom, Evan Davis SAT asks his executive guests about the outlook for the Euro. SAT What will it take to save the single currency? And what are SAT the prospects for business more generally in 2012? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Warren East, chief executive SAT of FTSE 100 microchip designer ARM Holdings plc; Dr Carol SAT Bell, energy industry executive with particular expertise in SAT investment and financing in the oil and gas sector and a SAT board member of three energy companies, including Salamander SAT Energy plc; Michael Morley, chief executive of private bank SAT Coutts. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01j2dz2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01j2dz4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01j2dz6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01jg7j4 (Listen) SAT Freddie Flintoff, Louis Theroux, Alistair McGowan and SAT Brendan Walker SAT SAT Clive's bowled over by cricket legend Freddie Flintoff , who SAT since retiring from cricket in 2010 is now a broadcasting SAT all-rounder. He's presented on BBC Radio Five Live and was SAT team captain on 'A League Of Their Own'. Now Freddie SAT journeys to the far flung corners of the earth for an epic SAT series of wildlife adventures. 'Freddie Flintoff Goes Wild' SAT is on Discovery Channel on Thursdays at 21.00. SAT SAT Jon Holmes hopes stand-up comic and actor Alistair McGowan SAT will make a Big Impression on him and talks to Alistair SAT about his career impersonating hundreds of famous people. SAT He's hosting ITV's topical sports entertainment show 'You SAT Cannot Be Serious' on Saturday nights at 19.30 SAT SAT Clive's at home with the world's only 'thrill engineer' SAT Professor Brendan Walker. His new Channel 4 series SAT celebrates the science behind the inventions and innovations SAT that transformed the way we lived and catapulted an SAT exhausted post-war country into the modernity of 1950's SAT Britain. 'The House the 50s Built' begins Thursday 7th June SAT at 21.00. SAT SAT Clive has a Weird Weekend with Louis Theroux, whose SAT broadcasting career has seen him interview anti-zoinists and SAT white supremacists. In 1998, Louis went to San Fernando SAT Valley, the hub of America's adult entertainment industry to SAT find out if being a male porn star was one of the best jobs SAT a man can have. Now Louis returns to talk to some of the SAT performers he interviewed 15 years ago to see how they have SAT fared. 'Twilight of the Porn Stars' is on BBC Two on Sunday SAT 10th June at 22.00. SAT SAT With music from Manchester-based alternative folk rockers SAT The Slow Show who perform 'God Only Knows' from their EP SAT 'Brother'. SAT SAT And the new star of Bluegrass Sarah Jarosz performs 'Annabel SAT Lee' from her album 'Follow Me Down'. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01jg7j6 (Listen) SAT Series 12, A Greek Proposal SAT SAT A Greek Proposal by Lou Ramsden SAT SAT In a week which has seen bookings of Greek holidays soar SAT despite the unstable financial situation, writer Lou Ramsden SAT takes a humorous look at how up-tight Euan Clarke tries to SAT turn a cheap holiday to Kos to his advantage by proposing to SAT his unsuspecting girlfriend. SAT SAT Performed by: ... Stephen Hoyle, Sarah McDonald Hughes and SAT Jon Lolis. With music performed by Dimitri Vatikiotis and SAT Paschal Paschalis. SAT SAT Directed by ... Charlotte Riches. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01jg7j8 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Malorie Blackman and SAT Giles Fraser and musician Pat Kane review the week's SAT cultural highlights including Ridley Scott's film Prometheus SAT and Christopher Eccleston's performance as Creon in Antigone SAT at the National Theatre. SAT SAT It is over thiry years since Ridley Scott all but invented SAT the science fiction film genre, first with Alien and then SAT with Blade Runner. Prometheus is described as a prequel to SAT Alien, the film which itself has spawned so many sequels. SAT Starring Girl With The Dragon Tatoo star Noomi Rapace along SAT with Michael Fassbender and British actor Idris Elba - does SAT the film live up to the hype? And does the vastly superior SAT digital technology three decades on aid or detract from the SAT creation of monster aliens and forbidding planets? SAT SAT Christopher Eccleston is Creon and Jodi Whittaker is SAT Antigone in a new production of Sophocles's Antigone at the SAT National's Olivier Theatre translated into modern idiom by SAT Don Taylor. Directed by up and coming director Polly Findlay SAT and set in an Eastern European type bunker, how does a play SAT which explores the conflict between the individual and the SAT state resonate in 21st century Britain? SAT SAT Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford's new novel SAT Canada explores the adolescent trauma of 15 year old Del SAT Parsons whose parents rob a bank. This extraordinary event SAT is recounted in great detail 50 odd years later by Del SAT himself. The novel explores the themes of memory and SAT survival, issues that lie at the heart of American identity. SAT SAT Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry brings us a new SAT three-part series All In The Best Possible Taste on Channel SAT 4 in which he goes on safari through the taste tribes of SAT Britain, not just to observe our taste, but to tell us in an SAT artwork what it means. The work he'll be creating is a SAT series of six imposing tapestries called 'The Vanity of SAT Small Differences' - his personal but panoramic take on the SAT taste of 21st century Britain, from Sunderland to Tunbridge SAT Wells to the Cotswolds. SAT SAT And the Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at SAT the V&A is the first solo exhibition of this polymath SAT designer / architect / sculptor whose creations range from SAT the new London Routemaster Bus to the Zip Up Bag to the SAT controversial B for a Bang star burst sculpture in SAT Manchester SAT SAT Producer: Hilary Dunn. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01jhpfq (Listen) SAT Bards of the Back Straight SAT SAT A journey through the BBC archives. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01j2ff2 (Listen) SAT Mrs Dalloway, From Afternoon to Nightfall SAT SAT Dramatised by Michelene Wandor SAT SAT Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. SAT As Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an SAT important party, Septimus visits another doctor and becomes SAT increasingly troubled. SAT SAT 2 of 2: From afternoon to nightfall SAT SAT Mrs Dalloway ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT Richard ..... Sam Dale SAT Septimus ..... Paul Ready SAT Rezia ..... Susie Riddell SAT Peter ..... Scott Handy SAT Sally ..... Liza Sadovy SAT Elizabeth ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Lucy ..... Amaka Okafor SAT Sir William ..... Patrick Brennan, SAT Miss Kilman ..... Christine Absalom SAT Dr Holmes ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer, SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01j2dz8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b01j5nwx (Listen) SAT The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on SAT the process by which controversial decisions are reached SAT behind closed doors in Whitehall. SAT SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01j5fwl (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 6 SAT SAT (6/13) SAT Would you be able to name the two earlier composers whose SAT names provided the title of an 1898 opera by Rimsky SAT Korsakov? SAT SAT And which colourful character did the singer and bandleader SAT Cab Calloway describe as 'a red hot hoochie-coocher'? SAT SAT These are among the musical teasers Paul Gambaccini will be SAT putting to the contestants in this week's heat of SAT Counterpoint. They'll have to prove the breadth of their SAT knowledge across a range of musical styles if they're to SAT stand a chance of winning through to the semi-finals of this SAT year's competition. SAT SAT There'll be plenty of musical extracts to identify, both SAT familiar and surprising - and as always, the contestants SAT will have to answer specialist questions on a musical topic SAT for which they're completely unprepared. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01j2ld1 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents two classic works and readings. SAT First, the opening section of Under Milk Wood by Dylan SAT Thomas recorded in 1954. It's hard to resist Richard Burton SAT inviting us to hush and 'come closer'. SAT Then, Paul Scofield reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' tormented SAT cry The Wreck of the Deutschland. Composed after the SAT foundering of a German boat in the Thames, it was also SAT Hopkins first poem written since his conversion to SAT Catholicism and becoming a Jesuit priest. As Hopkins said SAT himself, it's a poem to be read by the ears, and there is no SAT finer rendition than this 1975 gem from the archives. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT This week's poems SAT SAT Extract from Under Milk Wood SAT By Dylan Thomas SAT From Under Milk Wood – Read by Richard Burton.BBC Radio SAT Archive SAT SAT The Wreck of the Deutschland SAT By Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT From The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins SAT Publisher: Oxford University Press SAT Read by Paul Scofield. BBC Archive SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 JUNE 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01jg7mf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Platform 3 b01jll1h (Listen) SUN The Homecoming SUN SUN Written by Olga Grushin. You can find all of human life at SUN railway stations and Platform 3 is a set of stories inspired SUN by hanging around them. Sweet Talk commissioned three SUN writers to explore the theme: all the places, destinations, SUN thoughts, hopes and fears. The people - or lack of them. SUN SUN Gregory is a successful New York businessman who has SUN returned to Russia for the first time in many years to visit SUN his mother. He takes a trip out to his mother's dacha in the SUN country and then heads for the local station. He has an SUN urgent plane to catch. Moscow is only two hours away - but SUN only if the train comes. And while he waits, he has a SUN strange encounter... SUN SUN Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her SUN childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first SUN Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United SUN States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was SUN shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named SUN one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She SUN has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) SUN and The Concert Ticket (published in the US as The Line) in SUN April 2010. 'The Homecoming' is her first story for radio. SUN Olga lives in Washington D.C. SUN SUN Reader: Alan Cox SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jg7mk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jg7mm (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jg7mp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01jg7mr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01jg8qp (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary le Ghyll in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01j5nwz (Listen) SUN Series 3, Paddy Docherty SUN SUN Entrepreneur Paddy Docherty says business is best placed to SUN bring prosperity to impoverished and post conflict nations, SUN arguing that only the commercial sector can supply the scale SUN and dynamism needed to make a lasting impact on development. SUN Four Thought is a series of talks with a personal viewpoint SUN recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01jg7mt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01jg8qr (Listen) SUN Fruits of Labour SUN SUN After giving birth recently for the first time, the writer SUN and broadcaster Melissa Viney reflects on how motherhood can SUN affect a woman's creative life. SUN SUN Does it open up new ways of viewing the world or can it SUN occasionally push them 'to the side of their own lives' as SUN Philip Larkin suggested? Including readings from the work of SUN Esther Morgan, Ellen Bell and Chana Bloch, music from Nina SUN Simone and Clara Schumann and new interviews with the SUN artists Charlotte Verity and Jo Dennis. SUN SUN Producer: Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01jg8qt (Listen) SUN For this week's On Your Farm, Naturalist Nick Baker visits SUN 42 acres of woods and fields, where a small community is SUN pioneering a system which aims to produce its own food while SUN living in harmony with nature. The landmatters project near SUN Totnes in Devon has been given five years planning SUN permission by the Government to practice permaculture on the SUN land. Permaculture has been operating in the UK for the last SUN 30 years and it's popularity is growing. With the threat of SUN climate change and global warming, Nick Baker investigates SUN whether this way of living could could be a solution for the SUN future? SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01jg7mw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01jg7my (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01jg8qw (Listen) SUN As fears of civil war in Syria escalate Samira asks Fergal SUN Keane have we seen this before and can comparisons be drawn SUN with Bosnia and Rwanda? SUN SUN BBC School Reporters from St Paul's Cathedral School have SUN been talking to 96-year-old Maurice Sills who helps out at SUN their school and in the Cathedral library. He gave his SUN reflections on the Queen, the Jubilee and St Pauls. SUN SUN More details have emerged this week in the Vati-leaks SUN scandal; the pope's butler was arrested amidst allegations SUN that he didn't act alone and that a shadowy group of SUN Cardinals were behind the leaks. Robert Mickens reports from SUN Rome. SUN SUN Amid all the pomp & ceremony of the Diamond Jubilee it's SUN easy to forget the religious significance of the monarch and SUN the Queen's personal Christian faith. Charles Carroll has SUN been looking at 'what the Queen believes' SUN SUN Richard Hoskins, author of The Boy in the River, tells SUN Samira how his work on a ritual sacrifice case has lead to SUN him becoming one of the lead experts in African tribal SUN religion. SUN SUN Sunday explore the historic and changing relationship SUN between Queen and Church with a special report by Trevor SUN Barnes. SUN SUN Scotland's first woman bishop is consecrated on June 7th. SUN Exclusive interview with Bishop Elect Helen Hamilton, of the SUN Open Episcopal Church about her upcoming position. SUN SUN As the dust settles after two amendments to women bishops SUN legislation left many 'angry and disappointed' we hear from SUN both sides of the debate and assess the chances of the SUN legislation passing as was originally hoped at the July SUN General Synod. Discussion with Bishop Pete Broadbent and SUN Judith Maltby, Chaplain of Corpus Christie College Oxford. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01jg8qy (Listen) SUN Body & Soul SUN SUN Trevor Eve presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Body & SUN Soul. SUN Donate: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Body & Soul. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal SUN Reg Charity: 1060062. SUN SUN Body & Soul SUN SUN Since 1996 award-winning charity Body & Soul has been on the SUN frontline in the field of HIV, providing complete support SUN for thousands of children, young people and families living SUN with HIV right here in the UK. Each day Body & Soul strives SUN to improve the lives of people who are living with the virus SUN in areas of support, advocacy and information, running SUN programmes at their purpose-built facility. Body & Soul also SUN sees its responsibility to the wider community and aims to SUN increase knowledge and understanding of HIV alongside SUN challenging the stigma surrounding HIV. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01jg7n0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01jg7n2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01jgb8m (Listen) SUN Matins from Westminster Abbey SUN SUN A service of Matins from Westminster Abbey on Trinity Sunday SUN in celebration of Her Majesty the Queen's Diamond Jubilee SUN with music by Stanford and Byrd sung by the Abbey Choir SUN directed by James O'Donnell and accompanied by Robert SUN Quinney. Preacher: The Very Revd Dr John Hall, Dean of SUN Westminster. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01j6wsz (Listen) SUN On Bees and Being SUN SUN "The other day" Adam Gopnik writes, "my son was working his SUN way through the text of Shakespeare's 'Henry V' with an eye SUN to a student production". He read Canterbury's famous speech SUN on how the well regulated kingdom is like a bee hive. "How SUN could Shakespeare know that much about the division of SUN bee-labour" he ponders "and not know that the big bee in the SUN centre was -- a girl bee?" SUN SUN Gopnik takes us - via a bunch of bee experts - on a journey SUN of "long and buzzing thoughts". He discovers a transgendered SUN bee in Virgil's Georgics, dressed up as a king bee. He finds SUN himself deep in the world of the Dutch biologist, SUN Swammerdam. "Swammerdam!" he writes. "One of those great SUN Northern European names, like Erasmus of Rotterdam that SUN carries its credibility within its consonants". SUN SUN He draws lessons about the theory of knowledge and the SUN working of the human mind. He rejects the notion "that SUN thought proceeds in fortresses as ordered and locked as a SUN beehive seems to be." In truth, he argues, "no age thinks SUN monolithically, and no mind begins with absolute clarity ... SUN The sticky honey of uncertainty, the buzz around the SUN beehive's entrance - these are signs of minds at work". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01jgb8p (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01jgb8r (Listen) SUN EDITOR..... JOHN YORKE SUN WRITER..... NAWAL GADALLA SUN DIRECTOR..... JOHN YORKE SUN SUN KENTON ARCHER..... RICHARD ATTLEE SUN DAVID ARCHER..... TIMOTHY BENTINCK SUN RUTH ARCHER..... FELICITY FINCH SUN PIP ARCHER..... HELEN MONKS SUN JOSH ARCHER..... CIAN CHEESBROUGH SUN PAT ARCHER..... PATRICIA GALLIMORE SUN TOM ARCHER..... TOM GRAHAM SUN ADAM MACY..... ANDREW WINCOTT SUN IAN CRAIG..... STEPHEN KENNEDY SUN LILIAN BELLAMY..... SUNNY ORMONDE SUN CHRISTINE BARFORD..... LESLEY SAWEARD SUN PEGGY WOOLLEY..... JUNE SPENCER SUN JOLENE PERKS..... BUFFY DAVIS SUN JOE GRUNDY.....EDWARD KELSEY SUN CLARRIE GRUNDY..... ROSALIND ADAMS SUN SUSAN CARTER..... CHARLOTTE MARTIN SUN CHRISTOPHER CARTER..... WILLIAM SANDERSON-THWAITE SUN ALICE CARTER..... HOLLIE CHAPMAN SUN MIKE TUCKER..... TERRY MOLLOY SUN VICKY TUCKER..... RACHEL ATKINS SUN LYNDA SNELL..... CAROLE BOYD SUN ALAN FRANKS..... JOHN TELFER SUN USHA FRANKS..... SOUAD FARESS SUN AMY FRANKS..... JENNIFER DALEY SUN JIM LLOYD..... JOHN ROWE SUN HARRY MASON..... MICHAEL SHELFORD SUN ELONA MAKEPIECE..... ERI SHUKA SUN SPENCER WILKES..... JOHNNY VENKMAN. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01jgb8t (Listen) SUN Margaret Rhodes SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Margaret Rhodes. SUN SUN As the first cousin to the Queen, she has a unique insight SUN into the life of the royal family. She used to spend her SUN summer holidays at Balmoral with the Princesses Elizabeth SUN and Margaret while, during the war, she worked for MI6 and SUN lodged at Buckingham Palace. She attended the Queen's SUN wedding and coronation and, in later life, worked as an SUN assistant to the Queen Mother. SUN SUN Remembering the Queen's coronation, she says: "We had only SUN just recovered from six or seven years of deprivation and SUN blackouts and rationing - it was like the sun suddenly SUN coming out behind a lot of very dark clouds and I think SUN everybody felt that with a new young Queen, a whole new era SUN was opening up. It was somehow exciting." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01j5fwv (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 3 SUN SUN Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary & Greg Proops join SUN Nicholas Parsons for the game in which panellists have to SUN talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition & SUN deviation. SUN SUN Today Sue Perkins talks on the subject of The Worst Night of SUN my Life, Julian Clary teaches us all about The Vikings, Paul SUN Merton explains How he would Describe his Personality and SUN Greg Proops enlightens us on the subject of Why the SUN Dinosaurs Died Out. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01jgb8w (Listen) SUN Wine Trends SUN SUN Simon Parkes reports from the London International Wine fair SUN to discover the latest trends in the wine industry. SUN SUN Simon meets wine producers from emerging wine producing SUN countries such as India and Brazil to taste the wines that SUN could soon be hitting the supermarket shelves in the UK. He SUN also samples wines with a lower alcohol strength to discover SUN if it is possible to produce wines that taste good without SUN the high levels of alcohol. SUN SUN The Food Programme also reports on two smaller festivals SUN focussing on 'natural wine': wines made with a minimum of SUN chemical input to find out whether natural wines are now SUN becoming more established in the UK wine market. SUN SUN Presenter: Simon Parkes SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01jg7n4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01jgb8y (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis including a live report from the SUN Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. Presented by James Robbins. SUN SUN 13:30 Reading between the Lines b01j5j2v (Listen) SUN Beyond the Reading Wars SUN SUN Michael Morpurgo - former Children's Laureate, writer, SUN father, grandfather and ardent advocate for children's SUN reading - explores how the seminal experience of learning to SUN read has changed over the last 70 years. It is a subject SUN close to his heart and one which he approaches with his SUN customary curiosity and passionate engagement. SUN SUN In June 2012, all Year One children in English primary SUN schools will sit a compulsory new 'Phonics Screening Check'. SUN SUN Meanwhile, authoritative studies show British ten year olds SUN performing less well and expressing less enthusiasm for SUN reading than many of their international peers. SUN SUN In the first programme, Michael tried to square the circle SUN between getting children reading and getting them to love SUN reading. SUN SUN 2.Beyond the Reading Wars SUN SUN In this second programme, Michael Morpurgo explores how the SUN contemporary debate has been informed by teaching methods of SUN the recent past- and is, in some ways, a reaction to them. SUN SUN He hears from the influential teacher and author, Margaret SUN Meek, now in her eighties, about her belief in letting SUN children learn to read from "real books", and he challenges SUN Julia Eccleshare, Children's Books Editor of The Guardian SUN newspaper, on whether this method really worked for her own SUN children. SUN SUN He explores why learning to read has traditionally been a SUN weather vane for wider classroom philosophies with the help SUN of fellow children's author Michael Rosen. SUN SUN Finally, he hears from the distinguished Cambridge SUN neuroscientist, Usha Goswami, about how her research on SUN dyslexia might help us understand what goes on in children's SUN minds when they learn to read - and might even bring an end SUN to the so-called 'Reading Wars'. SUN SUN Producer : Beaty Rubens. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01j6wh5 (Listen) SUN South Oxhey, Herts SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the panel are guests of the Dig Deep SUN Community Project in South Oxhey. The team also report from SUN the brand new Chelsea Fringe show. SUN SUN Produced by Robert Abel SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01jgb90 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series SUN capturing the nation in conversation: today's programme SUN covers the vital support offered by friendship, and also SUN family life in all its rich variety. SUN SUN Betty, a retired cook from Hull, chats with her daughter, SUN Elaine - a cleaner - about bringing up ten children with SUN lots of love, but not much money. Catherine tells her SUN friend, Liz, about the impact the fact that her parents met SUN when they were a priest and nun had on her childhood, and on SUN her current relationship with the Catholic church. And SUN friends Anne and Steve talk about how each has supported the SUN other through the serious dramas of life: bereavement and SUN the suicidal despair caused by childhood abuse. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that SUN aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which SUN people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with SUN someone close to them about a subject they've never SUN discussed intimately before. The conversations are being SUN gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and SUN national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every SUN conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an SUN important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then SUN edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN participants. Many of the long conversations are being SUN archived by the British Library which they will use to build SUN up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the SUN UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload SUN your own conversations or just learn more about The SUN Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Mohini Patel. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01jgb92 (Listen) SUN Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Adapted by Ellen Dryden. SUN SUN Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson, one of the most SUN infamous and talked-about women of the early 19th century. SUN Her lovers included aristocrats, adventurers and even the SUN Duke of Wellington himself. And when they all ceased to SUN support her after her retirement, she had a simple bargain SUN for them - 'pay up, and I'll keep you out of my memoirs'. SUN SUN A scandalous bestseller of their time, her memoirs reveal a SUN sharp-witted, good-hearted, infinitely adaptable, madcap SUN woman who took on the patriarchy of the time and did SUN something close to beating them at their own game. SUN SUN Harriette's exciting, secretive, unpredictable world is SUN brought vividly to life in Ellen Dryden's radio SUN dramatization of the book which set the whole country SUN gossiping about the behaviour of the men who ran it, and the SUN women they loved. SUN SUN In the first episode, Harriette escapes from the SUN stultifyingly boring household of her first aristocratic SUN protector in favour of a more exciting, younger lover. But SUN will he be able to keep her in the style to which she has SUN become accustomed? SUN SUN We also meet Harriette's friends and rivals such as the SUN mysterious Julia, her saintly sister Fanny, and her satanic SUN sister Amy. Featuring Blake Ritson as the Duke of Argyle, SUN Charles Edwards as Lord Ponsonby, and Barnaby Kay as the SUN Duke of Wellington. SUN SUN Harriette ...... Nancy Carroll SUN Ponsonby/ Melbourne ...... Charles Edwards SUN Wellington ...... Barnaby Kay SUN Argyle ....... Blake Ritson SUN Julia....... Leila Hackett SUN Fanny ...... Anna Francolini SUN Amy/Old Woman ....... Abigail Burdess SUN Tom Sheridan ....... Jonathan Dryden Taylor SUN Frederick/ Alvanley ....... Richard Galazka SUN Mrs Porter ...... Sarah Finigan SUN SUN Producer: Ellen Dryden SUN A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01jgb94 (Listen) SUN Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl SUN SUN Philippa Gregory, queen of historical fiction, talks about SUN her best-selling tale of lust, jealousy and betrayal, The SUN Other Boleyn Girl. James Naughtie presents and a group of SUN readers ask the questions. SUN SUN The novel charts the lives of Anne Boleyn, and her sister SUN Mary, thought to be the mistress of Henry VIII before Anne. SUN SUN Each in their turn are "the other Boleyn Girl", pawns of SUN their fiercely ambitious, conniving family who in the novel SUN use the girls to advance their own positions at the court of SUN Henry VIII. SUN SUN Philippa Gregory will be talking about her fascination with SUN Anne Boleyn's lesser known sister and about the lines SUN between working with fact and fiction; and how she drew on SUN her research to create the claustrophobic detail of palace SUN life in Tudor England. SUN SUN Philippa Gregory depicts Mary, aged just 13, as little more SUN than a child when she is presented to Henry and ordered by SUN her family to serve her King and country by becoming his SUN mistress. SUN SUN Inevitably though, the King's eyes soon begin to wander and SUN Mary is overlooked, helpless to do anything but aid her SUN family's plot to advance their fortunes, replace her with SUN Anne and give Henry the greatest gift of all: a son and SUN heir. SUN SUN July's Bookclub choice : Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by SUN Elizabeth Taylor SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01jgccz (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests read by SUN Seán Gleeson and Barbara Barnes. This week's mixture SUN includes an anti-war poem by James Joyce. We also hear the SUN jaunty song recorded in 1902 that inspired Joyce's poem. Its SUN refrain of "Mr Dooley-ooley-ooley-ooh" is pleasingly SUN difficult to shake. SUN Roger dons a hybrid scouse-west country accent to indulge in SUN a little Smuggling, courtesy of Rudyard Kipling and SUN introduces work by one of his favourite poets, Norman SUN MacCaig. SUN There's a clever and moving 'mirror' poem by Julia Copus, SUN recalling a memory of a father, which is also the subject SUN for a poem by Ken Smith. And Anna Crowe joins the programme SUN to read her poem 'Alice and the Birds.' SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Summit Fever b01j5myh (Listen) SUN Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff, SUN discusses what happens at intergovernmental summits. There SUN are now more summits than ever before, and world leaders SUN often see more of each other than they do of their cabinet SUN colleagues back home. How have they emerged as the decision SUN making forum of our era and could they ever be replaced by SUN skype or teleconferencing? Powell's interviewees include SUN Tony Blair, Lord Carrington, Lord Hurd, David Milliband, and SUN Lord Robertson. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01jg7j6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01jg7n6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01jg7n8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jg7nb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01jgcd1 (Listen) SUN Felicity Finch makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN In this week's Pick of the Week prepare to celebrate SUN anniversaries and age.we'll be looking back at the history SUN of Radio Luxembourg, meeting a 70 year old reggae DJ and SUN Harry Belafonte. We'll also hear the disturbing story from SUN Canada of quintuplets born in the 1930's as well as a SUN tribute to a woman of ninety with 10 children and we take an SUN intriguing journey through our cites.... SUN SUN Radio Luxembourg - Radio 2 SUN DJ Derek - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service SUN Witness - World Service SUN Invisible City - World Service SUN Afternoon Play: Cry For Me - Radio 4 SUN One to One - Radio 4 SUN Listening Project - Radio 4 SUN Off The Page - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Radio 3 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01jgcd3 (Listen) SUN Ambridge celebrates with the nation, but will Clarrie's SUN jubilee cake be ready on time? SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b01j6t4c (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN Rory Bremner and the team return for another series of SUN Tonight, the topical satire show that digs that bit deeper SUN into national and international politics. SUN SUN Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SUN things as it is to make fun of them. With a team that SUN includes veteran satirists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody and SUN versatile impressionist and character comedian Kate SUN O'Sullivan, Tonight promises to do both. This is half an SUN hour of stand-up, sketches, and investigative satire. And at SUN the core of the show are Rory's incisively funny interviews SUN with the most informed guest commentators on the current SUN political scene. SUN SUN More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with SUN the word fiscal in them - and some truly brilliant SUN impressions: a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. SUN SUN Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 The Transit of Venus: Pilate's Wife b01jgcd7 (Listen) SUN by Patricia Duncker. SUN SUN To mark this week's Transit of Venus across the sun. SUN SUN Pilate's wife has had an unsettling and disturbing dream, SUN making her run from her husband and seek refuge with her SUN servant's family. Escaping from Jerusalem, she encounters a SUN terrifying individual on the road. SUN SUN A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the SUN planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, SUN becoming visible against the solar disk. During a transit, SUN Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving SUN across the face of the Sun. SUN SUN Read by Francesca Dymond SUN Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01j6whc (Listen) SUN Have you ever listened to the radio and felt that what you SUN were hearing was too private for broadcast? SUN SUN In the first of the new series of Feedback, Roger is joined SUN by a group of programme makers to discuss how they tread the SUN line between gripping radio - and exploitation. Editor SUN Philip Sellars discusses Radio 4's recent series The Trouble SUN with Kane, which follows the treatment of a twelve year old SUN boy arrested for cannabis possession. Editor Louisa Compton SUN talks about Victoria Derbyshire's 5Live broadcast from an SUN abortion clinic. And Foreign Correspondent Mike Thomson SUN describes a harrowing interview with a woman who had SUN suffered greatly at the hands of rebel Rwandan soldiers. SUN SUN As the BBC's Delivering Quality First plans are finally SUN approved, Feedback listener Andy Boddington asks the SUN managing editor of his local station, BBC Radio Shropshire, SUN what impact the cuts will have. SUN SUN And we hear a plea for restraint in the face of the Jubilee SUN jamboree. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01j6wh9 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Leopold De Rothschild the banker who raised millions for SUN musical charities and ran a railway in his garden SUN SUN Donald "Duck" Dunn - the bass player behind scores of soul SUN hits from the sixties SUN SUN Elisabeth Tomalin the designer who used art therapy to help SUN the children of Nazis come to terms with their guilt. SUN SUN Colin McIntyre - the founding editor of the BBC's Ceefax SUN service. SUN SUN and the clarinettist Alan Hacker who played a key role in SUN the performance of new music. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01jg73w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01jg8qy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01jb6vz (Listen) SUN Middle East: Too Soon for Democracy? SUN SUN Edward Stourton explores the prospects for post-revolution SUN government, following the Arab Spring. Elections are being SUN held, but can voters be sure autocratic rule is in the past? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01jgcdc (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b01jgcdh (Listen) SUN Episode 106 SUN SUN Patrick O'Flynn of The Express analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01j6t0l (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Charlize Theron to discuss her SUN role in two films out this week - Prometheus and Snow White SUN and the Huntsman. SUN SUN It's been one of the most hyped films of the year, but does SUN Ridley Scott's Prometheus deliver? Critic Tim Robey is here SUN with his verdict. SUN SUN Neil Brand is behind the piano to study the use of music in SUN films based on fairy tales. SUN SUN Tom Lawes, owner of the Electric Cinema in Birmingham, has SUN made a documentary called The Last Projectionist. He SUN discusses the dying trade of the 35mm projectionist. SUN SUN Producer Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01jg8qr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 JUNE 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01jg7pb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01j5nwl (Listen) MON AIDS conspiracy theories; comics MON MON British comics are full of iconic and transgressive MON characters from Dan Dare to Minnie the Minx. Laurie Taylor MON talks to professor James Chapman the author of a new book MON charting the cultural history of British comics. They are MON joined by the broadcaster Matthew Sweet. MON MON Also, Professor Nicoli Nattrass explains why a MON disproportionate percentage of Black South Africans and MON African Americans subscribe to conspiracy theories about the MON origins of AIDS.. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01jg8qp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jg7pd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jg7pg (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jg7pj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01jg7pl (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jggkm (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon MON Mark Oakley of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01jggkp (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The MON presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Clare MON Freeman. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01jg7pn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01jggkr (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day with MON Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01jggkt (Listen) MON Grayson Perry at the Charleston Festival MON MON In a specially recorded edition of Start the Week Andrew MON Marr is at the Charleston Festival with Grayson Perry, MON Virginia Nicholson, Faramerz Dabhoiwala and Janice Galloway. MON As the home of Vanessa Bell, Virginia Nicholson's MON grandmother, Charleston was a by-word for sexual freedom and MON the Bohemian lifestyle. But Dabhoiwala insists that far from MON the 1920s being the time of real sexual revolution, that MON honour goes to the 18th century, the origin of our modern MON attitudes to sex. Janice Galloway brings the story MON up-to-date as she relives her adolescence in small town MON Scotland in the 1970s. And the celebrated potter Grayson MON Perry explores changing social attitudes in relation to MON taste: the choices people make in the things they buy and MON wear, and uses these details of modern life to create six MON tapestries, called 'The Vanity of Small Differences'. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01jggkw (Listen) MON Strands, Episode 1 MON MON A year of discoveries on the beach. Jean Sprackland MON meditates on objects revealed by the shape-shifting sands, MON or washed up on the wild beaches between Blackpool and MON Liverpool. MON MON Recorded on location on Ainsdale Sands, 'Strands' is a book MON about what is lost and buried, then re-discovered; about all MON the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, natural or MON man-made; about mutability and transformation - about MON sea-change. MON MON In today's episode, Jean contemplates the miraculous MON re-appearance of the Star of Hope, wrecked on Mad Wharf in MON 1883, but suddenly raised up from the depths one day - an MON entire wreck, black and barnacled, taking the air for a MON while before sinking back under the sand. MON MON Read by Jean Sprackland MON Abridged by Miranda Davies MON Produced by Emma Harding MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jggky (Listen) MON The Noisettes MON MON Shingy Shoniwa of the Noisettes - best known for Don't Upset MON the Rhythm (Go Baby Go) - talks about the inspiration behind MON the band's new album and plays live in the studio with Dan MON Smith. MON MON Why the Government doesn't want to impose mandatory quotas MON for the number of women on Boards. MON MON Queen Victoria's life revealed through a new exhibition at MON Kensington Palace. We reveal the crucial role the Palace MON played in her life. And the joy and pain of first love. MON MON Presented Miranda Sawyer. MON Producer Laura Northedge. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jggl0 (Listen) MON Chronicles of Ait - The Saxon Stones, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Michael Butt MON MON Chronicles of Ait -The Saxon Stones finds author and MON one-time TV historian Linus Scott returning to the remote MON east coast settlement of Ait to attend the funeral of his MON childhood mentor, Kenrick, a scholar of Old English who had MON rescued the young boy from a problem background. But also MON attending the ceremony is a stranger, Alice Pyper, who, to MON Scott's surprise, appears to have had some connection to the MON deceased man. When Alice begins snooping around Kenrick's MON house, Scott confronts her, and the first door is opened MON onto a labyrinthine mystery that leads deep into the history MON of the Saxon Stones and the ominous myth of Dracamuth. MON MON Linus Scott . . . . . Greg Wise MON Alice Pyper . . . . . Amanda Drew MON Darlene . . . . . Heather Craney MON Thurgis . . . . . Richard Hope MON Irwin . . . . . Christopher James MON Aidan . . . . . Jonathan Keeble MON Child Linus . . . . .James Foster MON MON Produced & Directed by John Taylor MON A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Desperately Seeking Sympathy b01jggl2 (Listen) MON Why would a perfectly healthy person pretend they had MON cancer? Or pretend that were pregnant with a foetus that MON could not survive long after birth? Munchausen's disorder MON has been known about for years but it's spread to the MON internet. People are constructing elaborate false MON identities, faking medical misfortunes and then posting MON online support forums. Few forums have escaped the imposters MON in what has become an epidemic of fakery. MON MON In this programme Jolyon Jenkins speaks to those who have MON fallen victims of this kind of deception, as well as MON tracking down those who have perpetrated it. He learns how MON people who have genuinely suffered from medical misfortunes MON go online to offer help to other sufferers, only to find MON themselves taken for a ride by fakers. For some, learning MON that they have been getting into a deep and personal MON relationship with someone who turns out to be an emotional MON fraudster, is traumatic. Entire online communities sometimes MON feel devastated to learn that they have been harbouring an MON imposter. MON MON The deception is often highly elaborate. "Munchausens by MON Internet" sufferers often invent multiple online MON personalities (known as "sock puppets"): to support each MON other husbands, boyfriends, relatives and friends who pop up MON to validate the main character. In one case, the Macmillan MON cancer forum was hoaxed by a teenage girl who posed as the MON mother of a young girl, "Charly", with terminal cancer. MON Members of the forum were gripped for months as the Charly's MON fortunes rose and fell. Eventually she lost her brave fight MON against cancer; forum members painted their nails pink in MON tribute to Charly's alleged last wishes and others wrote MON poetry in her memory. When it turned out that Charly was MON completely fictional, Macmillan forum members, many of whom MON had cancer themselves, were stunned. Some still refused to MON believe they had been corresponding with a teenager. MON MON Imposters are not always detected but when they are they MON usually disappear without a word. Sometimes they reappear MON later under different names, but tracking down the real MON person behind the fake is virtually impossible. Why do they MON do it? Not for money. In interviews with two sufferers, MON Jolyon Jenkins hears of their desperate need for attention, MON their feelings of inadequacy in real life, and of loveless MON childhoods. MON MON Other questions are raised by the phenomenon: why are people MON prepared to offer 24 hour support to characters who they MON don't know, and whose very existence they take on trust? And MON given the psychological damage done by perpetrators, MON shouldn't forum owners take more care to check that they are MON not providing a home for this new kind of online fraud? MON MON 11:30 With Nobbs On b01jggl4 (Listen) MON The Fall and Reprise of Reggie Perrin MON MON With Nobbs On sees David Nobbs, the comic genius behind MON Reggie Perrin, The Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd MON and Radio 4's The Maltby Collection, presenting a three-part MON series of entertaining, joke-laden, insider observations on MON his comedy career to a studio audience along with guest MON readings, archive material and unpredictable delights. MON MON David Nobbs describes life after he creates one of the most MON memorable of British characters, Reginald Iolanthe Perrin MON and how Reggie keeps on rising. MON MON Written and presented by David Nobbs MON Featuring Martin Trenaman and Mia Soteriou MON MON Produced by Andrew McGibbon MON A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01jggl6 (Listen) MON Is the British film industry value for money? MON MON The British film industry receives hundreds of millions of MON pounds of state support in tax relief and subsidies. But MON does it deliver in terms of jobs and economic payback? Can MON we justify funding indigenous British films which struggle MON to attract large audiences, or should we throw all our MON weight behind attracting American blockbusters to film here MON or use our facilities? And what about the cinemas MON themselves? Are multiplexes with ever bigger and better MON screens the answer - or should we look to the network of MON village hall cinemas for a broader range of films beyond the MON mainstream? The way we watch films could be about to MON radically change too, as we move on from 3-D to holographic MON projections. And what if cinemas could measure your fear MON while you watch - and then alter the film so you become even MON more frightened? It could happen sooner than you think. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01jg7pq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01jggl8 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with James MON Robbins. Listeners can share their views via email: MON wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle MON b01jgglb (Listen) MON Breaking Up MON MON In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers MON the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 MON years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard MON Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he MON takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, MON through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in MON subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and MON writers, up to the present day. MON MON This week he looks at the story of doubt from the 16th MON Century to the Enlightenment. The journey takes in the MON fragmentation of Christianity during the Reformation, the MON early non conformists and how some of the great minds of MON Europe responded to the discoveries of the Scientific MON Revolution. He also addresses the price that doubters paid - MON through the Roman Inquisition, censorship and MON excommunication. He ends the week with an essay on Free MON Will. MON MON In today's programme, Richard Holloway explores the role of MON doubt as a means of challenging the prevailing religious MON thought, and in the 16th century points to Martin Luther as MON the man who "lit the fuse that was to blow Christendom MON apart". This was the time of the Reformation when the focus MON in Christianity shifted from the highly organised life of MON the Catholic Church to a system of theological ideas derived MON directly from the Bible. A.N. Wilson explains that the MON reformers thought they were restoring the original purity of MON a faith that had been corrupted, and Luther, a generation MON later, was followed by another hugely influential reformer, MON John Calvin. As Richard Holloway says, "The Reformation let MON a multitude of genies out of the bottle". MON MON Producer: Olivia Landsberg MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01jgcd3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00t28db (Listen) MON Circus Train MON MON Margarita Sharapova's tale, based on working in a Russian MON circus, is adapted by Louis Nowra. MON MON While their train is waiting at a remote rural station, MON animal trainer Orest and his assistant Alex take the dog out MON to relieve herself and their long circus train leaves MON without them. With no papers or money and not knowing where MON they are, they embark on a madcap journey, hopping goods MON trains and hiding away in carriages. Some are full of MON contraband, others have stowaways and one clattering goods MON train is carrying mysterious chemicals. Alex and Orest MON encounter a host of eccentric characters who are finding new MON and often desperate ways to survive. MON MON As they manically switch trains to try to rejoin the circus, MON they explore the hinterland of Russia. Life here has changed MON since communism and yet in many ways is also much the same. MON A farm is still very much a co-operative even though the MON spokeswoman talks about the new economy and there is a MON picture of President Obama on the wall. The drab and ugly MON towns Orest and Alex pass through rejoice in fictive names MON like Yellow Rat Town - this is a heightened picaresque tale MON where imagination vies with grim reality. MON MON Drunken soldiers, village policemen and a succession of MON chicken farmers harass and pursue the circus couple, MON convinced they are criminals on the run. MON MON Recorded by a Russian-speaking repertory cast. MON MON Orest Anderlect ... Yasen Peyankov MON Alex/Alyona ... Anne Bobby MON Nastya ... Angelique Doudnikova MON Berg ... Michael Levi Harris MON Gorlogryzov ... Stass Klassen MON Bruskov ... Moti Margolin MON Hayk ... Peter Von Berg MON Train Dispatcher ... Tatyana Zbirovskaya MON MON All other parts were played by members of the cast. MON MON Music composed by Gene Pritsker. MON Sound design by Peregrine Andrews. MON MON Producer: Judith Kampfner MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01jggld (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 7 MON MON (7/13) MON Could you remember which contemporary composer wrote the MON anthem 'This Is The Day' for the marriage service of the MON Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last year? MON MON The seventh heat in the current series of the wide-ranging MON music quiz features competitors from Surrey and Kent MON answering Paul Gambaccini's questions, not just on classical MON music but on jazz, film music, musical theatre and sixty MON years of pop and rock. MON MON There are plenty of musical extracts for them to identify, MON both familiar and surprising. They will also have to be MON prepared to answer a set of specialist questions on a MON musical topic that's been sprung on them by surprise. MON MON The winner will take another of the remaining places in the MON series semi-finals, which begin next month. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01jgb8w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Pina Bausch - Dance for Your Life b01jgglg (Listen) MON Recorded with dancers in Pina Bausch's Tanztheater company MON in Wuppertal, former lead dancer for the Royal Ballet, MON Deborah Bull, pays tribute to this extraordinary artist. MON MON Bausch's subject is the relationship between men and women, MON which is played out in all her pieces. Her dancers, who MON break any conventional rules about age and shape, actively MON share in the creation of the choreography - bringing their MON life experiences, memories and personalities to the dance. MON MON Each of the performances has the capacity to provoke MON immense, powerful and individual responses. There's no MON single narrative in each piece; it's more like a sequence of MON captured moments, close ups and sometimes lucid, sometimes MON inexplicable enactments of life. MON MON Tanztheater, literally, means Dance Theatre. It's a hybrid MON or a genre that slips between the definitions and breaks MON down the formal boundaries between different arts. MON MON The raw, expressionistic movements, often so extreme, pose MON open questions about culpability, moral responsibility and MON humanity's dark side. For all the intensity though, she MON incorporates humour - her dancers will leave the stage and MON offer the audience jam sandwiches, cups of tea, or ask MON someone in the front row if they are in love. MON MON Pina Bausch alongside other German artists and performers, MON including her mentor Kurt Joos, also addressed the aftermath MON of war on a profound level, asking again and again what it MON is to be human. MON MON With Fiona Shaw, Antony Gormley, Michael Morris, Wim MON Wenders, Judith Mackrell and principal dancers from the MON Company - Dominique Mercy, Julie Shanahan, Julie Anne MON Stanzak and Eddie Martinez MON MON Producer: Kate Bland MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Digital Human b01jgj09 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b01jgj0c (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jg7ps (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01jgj0f (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 4 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition & deviation? Regulars Jenny Eclair MON and Tony Hawks welcome relative newcomers Richard Herring MON and Paul Sinha to try. As ever, Nicholas Parsons chairs this MON popular comedy panel show. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01jgj0h (Listen) MON Vicky ruffles a few feathers. Meanwhile Ruth and David try MON to hide their concerns. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01jgj0m (Listen) MON Harry Belafonte at 85 MON MON From life as the child of a single, immigrant mother in New MON York to international music sensation, civil rights activist MON and Martin Luther King's right hand man - Harry Belafonte's MON life would be fascinating on these grounds alone. However MON Belafonte was also involved with the African independence MON movement, and he began his professional music career as a MON singer for Charlie Parker's band. As his new memoir My Song: MON A Memoir of Art, Race and Defiance, is published, he talks MON to Kirsty Lang about some of the milestones in his eventful MON life. MON MON Producer Ekene Akalawu. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jggl0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b01jgj0p (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 2 MON MON Michael Portillo remembers the Morgenthau Plan which aimed MON to strip post war Germany of its industry and turn it into MON an agricultural country. It was replaced by the Marshall MON Plan. MON MON Many of us remember the Marshall Plan, the US programme to MON rebuild post war Europe. Far less is known about the MON Morganthau Plan (also drawn up in Washington a few years MON earlier) which aimed, amongst other things, to destroy MON German industry after the country had surrendered. Winston MON Churchill also signed up to the plan which would turn MON Germany into an agrarian "pastoral" society, unable to MON manufacture the machinery of warfare in the future. Michael MON Portillo examines the Morganthau Plan and discovers it was MON in fact drafted by a Soviet agent working high up in the US MON Administration. He considers the implications of this, looks MON at how far the plan was implemented and asks why we have MON forgotten to remember it. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01j5h51 (Listen) MON Steve Keen: Why Economics Is Bunk MON MON Newsnight Economics Editor Paul Mason interviews the MON controversial economist Steve Keen before an audience at the MON London School of Economics. Keen was one of a small number MON of economists who predicted there would be a major financial MON crisis before the 2008 crash. He argues that if we keep the MON "parasitic banking sector" alive the economy dies, and says MON that conventional economics provides an unwitting cover for MON "the greatest ponzi schemes in history". MON Producer: Kavita Puri. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01j6t0n (Listen) MON It's 80 years since British Physicist James Chadwick MON discovered the Neutron. Finding this key particle led to the MON development of many different branches of science from MON theoretical physics to modern medicine, engineering and MON electronics. Quentin Cooper discuss the significance of MON Chadwick's work and his legacy with Professor Peter MON Rowlands, from Liverpool University - where Chadwick worked MON on particle accelerators and Professor Andrew Harrison, from MON the Institut Laue-Langevin, one of the world's leading MON neutron research facilities. MON MON We hear the first results from one of our 'So You Want to Be MON a Scientist' teams. What noises do we really find horrible MON and why? MON MON And we examine the state of the world's helium supply. It's MON not just used to inflate party balloons, helium has a key MON role in protecting sensitive microelectronics and enabling MON the correct functioning of medical scanners and equipment MON used in the study of neutrons. It occurs in the same MON deposits as natural gas, but is not managed well by the MON industries which extract and store it according to Dr MON Richard Clarke from the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01jggkt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01jg7pv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01jgj0r (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Roger MON Hearing. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jgj0t (Listen) MON Jubilee, Episode 6 MON MON The inhabitants of Cherry Gardens appear to be working MON happily together to organise the perfect street party but, MON not far beneath the surface, tensions rage. MON MON And 30 years later, when one of worst offenders finds MON herself dependant on the skill of a boy she once wronged to MON save the life of her child, she finds the situation too MON difficult to bear. MON MON Jubilee is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj Garewal MON and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions MON MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b01j5j2s (Listen) MON No Country for Old Men MON MON "That is no country for old men," wrote Yeats in the opening MON line of his poem Sailing to Byzantium. "I am trying to write MON about the state of my soul," he later explained. Since when MON the phrase has been picked up in a novel by Cormac McCarthy, MON and a Coen brothers film based on the same book. But are we MON any closer to understanding what this phrase means, beyond MON realising something poignant is at work ? MON MON Tibor Fischer, Katharine Whitehorn and Guy Browning all MON approach the subject with three very different columns about MON age, experience, and youth. For Guy Browing this is no MON longer a country for old men because they've decided that MON staying young is more to their taste. Katharine Whitehorn, MON agony aunt at Saga, argues for the creation of a fourth age MON of man, while Tibor Fischer worries about what has changed MON more, his world or him. MON Dominic Arkwright presents. MON MON 23:30 Jon Ronson On b010mrsk (Listen) MON Series 6, Voices in the Head MON MON Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another MON 5 part series of fascinating stories shedding light on the MON human condition. MON MON Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she MON was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a MON label she totally rejects. Now she is a high achieving MON academic. What started the voices and how did she get to a MON point where she not only lives happily with the voices that MON still exist but also works with others who have the same MON experience? With contributions from writer Graham Linehan MON and comedian Josie Long. MON MON Producer: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs MON An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 JUNE 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01jg7qr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01jggkw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jg7qt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jg7qw (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jg7qy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01jg7r0 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01js6sp (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon TUE Mark Oakley of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01jglkz (Listen) TUE Building houses using the rural skills of thatching, timber TUE framing and flint knapping. Anna Hill travels around Norfolk TUE to visit craftsmen. Steven Letch and apprentice Boz are TUE re-thatching a traditional cottage in Bressingham. They want TUE thatching to be used much more frequently in new build TUE housing. TUE TUE John Lord is a flint knapper - a traditional way of chipping TUE flint to use it to decorate the walls of building. Flint TUE knapping is no longer popular, but flint is still being used TUE as a building material. TUE TUE And John Falvey is re-discovering the traditional TUE architecture of timber framing. He mixes old knowledge with TUE modern techniques to build new houses. TUE TUE The presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Emma TUE Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01jgll1 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day with TUE Evan Davis and Justin Webb. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01jgll3 (Listen) TUE Robert May TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to the former chief scientific advisor, TUE Robert May about restoring public trust in science in the TUE wake of the BSE crisis and at the height of the anti-GM TUE campaigns of the mid-nineties. If he were a species of TUE plant, Bob May says he would be the "weedy type", moving as TUE he has into new fields of science and proliferating rapidly, TUE rather than a more established, specialised variety. He has TUE applied mathematics first to physics, then ecology and, most TUE recently, to banking. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01jgll5 (Listen) TUE Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Andrew TUE TUE Killing another person is humanity's greatest taboo. Mary TUE Ann Sieghart continues her series of conversations with TUE those who've been responsible for taking another life. TUE Andrew knocked down and killed a young mother in a road TUE traffic accident in 1989. He was given eighteen months TUE despite the victim's family asking for a non custodial TUE sentence. These events have always haunted him and they've TUE shaped the rest of his life. He now works with young male TUE drivers teaching them about speed awareness and safe TUE driving. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01jk46d (Listen) TUE Strands, Episode 2 TUE TUE A year of discoveries on the beach. Jean Sprackland TUE meditates on objects revealed by the shape-shifting sands, TUE or washed up on the wild beaches between Blackpool and TUE Liverpool. TUE TUE Recorded on location on Ainsdale Sands, 'Strands' is a book TUE about what is lost and buried, then re-discovered; about all TUE the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, natural or TUE man-made; about mutability and transformation - about TUE sea-change. TUE TUE In today's episode, Jean contemplates the surprising effects TUE of anti-depressants on shrimp populations. TUE TUE Read by Jean Sprackland TUE Abridged by Miranda Davies TUE Produced by Emma Harding TUE TUE 10:00 15 Minute Drama b01jgll7 (Listen) TUE Chronicles of Ait - The Saxon Stones, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Michael Butt TUE TUE Chronicles of Ait -The Saxon Stones finds author and TUE one-time TV historian Linus Scott returning to the remote TUE east coast settlement of Ait to attend the funeral of his TUE childhood mentor, Kenrick, a scholar of Old English who had TUE rescued the young boy from a problem background. But also TUE attending the ceremony is a stranger, Alice Pyper, who, to TUE Scott's surprise, appears to have had some connection to the TUE deceased man. When Alice begins snooping around Kenrick's TUE house, Scott confronts her, and the first door is opened TUE onto a labyrinthine mystery that leads deep into the history TUE of the Saxon Stones and the ominous myth of Dracamuth. TUE TUE Linus Scott . . . . . Greg Wise TUE Alice Pyper . . . . . Amanda Drew TUE Darlene . . . . . Heather Craney TUE Thurgis . . . . . Richard Hope TUE Irwin . . . . . Christopher James TUE Lord Ethel/Aidan . . . . . Jonathan Keeble TUE Child Linus . . . . . James Foster TUE TUE Produced & Directed by John Taylor TUE A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:20 The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving TUE b01jgll9 (Listen) TUE A service live from St Paul's Cathedral to mark Her Majesty TUE The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. TUE TUE Following the many celebrations over the Bank Holiday TUE weekend to mark 60 years of Her Majesty The Queen's reign, TUE commentator Nicholas Witchell describes the scene in St TUE Paul's Cathedral as Her Majesty, other members of the royal TUE family, senior members of the Government and Opposition, and TUE representatives from around the UK and the Commonwealth TUE gather to celebrate and give thanks for the Diamond Jubilee. TUE TUE With music from the Diamond Choir, made up of young singers TUE from across the UK specially brought together for the TUE service, and from the choirs of St Paul's Cathedral and of TUE the Chapels Royal. Director of Music: Andrew Carwood. TUE Organist: Simon Johnson. Preacher: The Archbishop of TUE Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Vivian. TUE TUE 11:30 Modern Day Griot b01jhb34 (Listen) TUE How are modern musicians re-imagining the role the West TUE African griot? Traditionally griots belong to particular TUE West African families who act as oral historians, advisors, TUE story-tellers and musicians for their culture. Now a TUE generation of artists living in the West, who have African TUE roots, are learning musical techniques from the masters but TUE creating songs and stories with contemporary relevance. TUE TUE In a programme rich in musical sounds and poetic TUE storytelling, writer Gaylene Gould explores what it means to TUE be a griot today. When modern culture uses the term as a TUE shorthand - what does it mean to call someone a griot? TUE TUE Hereditary griot Seckou Keita, leads a music workshop at a TUE primary school, teaching harp-like instrument the Kora. At TUE the age of 10, Tunde Jegede travelled from England to Gambia TUE to train with a master kora player. He now collaborates with TUE both orchestras and the hip-hop artist HKB FiNN - who has TUE changed the way he approaches writing lyrics and embraced TUE the griot label. Sona Jobarteh, Tunde's sister, is a TUE hereditary griot. She gives Gaylene a lesson in kora playing TUE and discusses how her sex affects the role and why she is TUE reluctant to call herself a griot. TUE TUE Award winning poet and performer Inua Ellams has been TUE performing at the National Theatre and Malian musician TUE Fatoumata Diawara sells out gigs internationally- both are TUE called griot by their fans but aren't entirely comfortable TUE with the label. Fatoumata believes she couldn't address TUE topics like female circumcision as a griot. London based TUE spoken word artist Zena Edwards explains why she wants to TUE honour the tradition. TUE TUE Reflecting on the importance of the tradition in its purest TUE form, Tunde Jedege says "every time a griot dies it's like a TUE library burning down." TUE TUE Producer Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE Writer and Presenter Gaylene Gould TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01jhb36 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: How do you feel about Great Britain? TUE TUE On this week's Call You and Yours we're asking 'How do you TUE feel about Great Britain?' TUE TUE The bunting is out and the union flags are flying to TUE celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The Olympic torch is TUE touring the country reminding us that the Olympic and TUE Paralympic games are just around the corner. TUE TUE So with the eyes of the world focused on us, how do you feel TUE about Great Britain? TUE TUE Have the street parties, the pomp and pageantry of golden TUE carriages and boats on the Thames changed the way you feel TUE about this country? Have feelings of patriotism stirred or TUE been rejuvenated? TUE TUE Or does the commercial tat and flag waving fail to disguise TUE the problems we have in this country. The faltering economy, TUE the disillusioned youngsters who are unable to find a job TUE and the many communities still feeling broken after the TUE riots of last August. TUE TUE Do you feel proud of Great Britain or sorry for it? TUE TUE Call us on 03700-100-400 before ten, 03700 100444 after ten, TUE or email us via our website at TUE www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours ; leave us a message or a TUE name and number where we can call you back. TUE TUE Presented by Julian Worricker TUE Produced by Karen Dalziel. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01jg7r2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01jhb38 (Listen) TUE National and international news with James Robbins. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle TUE b01jhb3b (Listen) TUE The Agony and the Ecstasy TUE TUE In today's programme Richard Holloway focuses on three TUE writers, each of whom wrote about their personal spiritual TUE struggles. He begins with the 17th century poet and preacher TUE John Donne, best known for his early love poems, but it's in TUE his religious work that he grappled with the themes of TUE faith, doubt and temptation. Richard Holloway talks to the TUE former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion about Donne's internal TUE doubts. TUE TUE A generation later, John Bunyan, known universally for his TUE religious allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, wrote about his TUE profound feelings of guilt, doubt and melancholy. TUE TUE Richard Holloway's third writer is the 19th century poet TUE Gerard Manley Hopkins. Holloway talks to AN Wilson about TUE Hopkins' belief that religion could make society more TUE effective and compassionate, yet inside, he thought of TUE himself as a failure as a priest, a teacher and a poet. TUE TUE Producer: Olivia Landsberg TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01jgj0h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jhb3d (Listen) TUE Operation Black Buck TUE TUE During the Falklands War 30 years ago, the RAF staged the TUE world's longest bombing run, in an attempt to damage the TUE runway at Port Stanley. Using ageing Vulcan bombers, crews TUE flew a round trip of 8000 miles from Ascension Island to the TUE South Atlantic. Such a journey required not just in-flight TUE refuelling, but re-fuelling of the refuelling planes - a TUE hazardous undertaking that had never before been attempted TUE on such a scale. TUE TUE In this drama, Robin Glendinning recreates the nail-biting TUE adventure. Not only were the raids themselves difficult to TUE pull off, but even getting the aircraft ready for the TUE flights was a major task. Aviation museums across the world TUE were raided for spares, and key parts retrieved from TUE junkyards. TUE TUE But there are those who question whether or not the TUE operation was militarily useful - or whether or not the same TUE job could have been done more effectively using planes TUE attached to the naval task force. Was this really about war, TUE or was it about the RAF trying to carve out a role for TUE itself in a conflict that threatened to be entirely TUE dominated by the Army and Royal Navy? And how successful TUE were the raids anyway? TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01jhb3g (Listen) TUE Historian Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Join in by contacting the programme: TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE Join the conversation on our Facebook page or find out more TUE from the Radio 4 website - TUE www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/makinghistory TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b01jhb3j (Listen) TUE The Garden of Eden TUE TUE "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and TUE there he put the man whom he had formed." The story of the TUE Garden of Eden in Genesis is perhaps the most influential TUE tale ever told. Its chief components of God, Adam and Eve TUE and the snake, temptation, and a paradise lost still exert a TUE hold on western thinking. Children understand it almost TUE immediately, but this ancient story has not always been TUE benign in its effects. TUE TUE Joining presenter Dominic Arkwright are the novelist Zina TUE Rohan, who talks about her own investigations into what this TUE story has meant, particularly to women in the west; Sean TUE Thomas writes about his search for where the real garden TUE might have been; and Brook Wilensky-Lanford, whose book TUE Paradise Lust is published in the UK later this year, TUE describes the events of the Scopes trial of 1925. This TUE famous clash between Darwinists and creationists featured an TUE American presidential candidate who declared his belief that TUE Eve was literally made from one of Adam's rib. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01jhb3l (Listen) TUE Secret courts, drones and international law TUE TUE In the first of a new series Joshua Rozenberg talks to Sir TUE Daniel Bethlehem the former principal legal advisor at the TUE Foreign Office. He asks him about the changing face of TUE international law and its effect on the making of foreign TUE policy, including the rise in litigation against the TUE government on foreign matters. He also asks about TUE international law and the use of drones, and the TUE government's Justice and Security bill and why Sir Daniel TUE thinks the measures laid out there are necessary. TUE TUE Producer: Wesley Stephenson. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01jhb3n (Listen) TUE Maggie Aderin-Pocock, William Orbit TUE TUE Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock and music producer TUE William Orbit discuss their favourite books with Harriett TUE Gilbert. TUE TUE Maggie's pick is the disturbing sci-fi classic 'Chocky' by TUE John Wyndham, in which a boy develops an unusual TUE relationship with his imaginary friend. TUE TUE Harriett's choice further explores the fragilities of our TUE mental health, with a taut story of a woman perilously close TUE to the edge - 'The Trick is to Keep Breathing' by Janice TUE Galloway. TUE TUE William's book is the Tom Stoppard classic 'Rosencrantz and TUE Guildenstern Are Dead', a play which takes place in the TUE wings of Hamlet. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Maggie Aderin-Pocock's choice: 'Chocky' by John Wyndham TUE Publ. Penguin £7.00 TUE TUE William Orbit's choice: 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are TUE Dead' by Tom Stoppard TUE Publ. Faber and Faber £9.99 TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'Trick Is To Keep Breathing' by TUE Janice Galloway TUE Publ. Vintage £7.99 TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01jhb3q (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jg7r4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b012llrz (Listen) TUE Series 3, Ottery St Mary TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore TUE TUE This week - Martin is a man with a van, Douglas flies a TUE plane with an otter and Carolyn dates a pilot with a problem TUE with sheep. And two mysteries are solved - the name of TUE Carolyn's dog and the rules of "Yellow Car" TUE TUE With special guest Anthony Head TUE TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam TUE Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey .... John Finnemore TUE Capt. Herc Shipwright ..... Anthony Head TUE Mrs. Laurel ..... Flip Webster TUE Mr Hardy ..... Ewan Bailey TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01jhb3s (Listen) TUE Alice undertakes some internet investigations and Nic is in TUE for a disappointment. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01jhb3v (Listen) TUE In an extended interview, Mark Lawson talks to writer Hilary TUE Mantel, who won the Booker Prize with her novel Wolf Hall, TUE and has now written a sequel, Bring Up The Bodies. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jgll7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01jhb3x (Listen) TUE Police Racism TUE TUE Is institutional racism still alive in the police? Black and TUE Asian officers claim discrimination is thwarting progress TUE through the ranks and destroying promising careers. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01jhb3z (Listen) TUE American jazz pianist Marcus Roberts talks to Peter White TUE about his music and the impact his blindness has had on his TUE career. As a child Marcus was encouraged to play the piano TUE by his parents, particularly his mother, who was also very TUE musical. Marcus says one of the things that attracted him to TUE the instrument was the fact that id didn't move and he could TUE feel its size. TUE The legendary musician Wynton Marsalis took Marcus under his TUE wing and gave him his real big break, by inviting him to TUE play in his band. Marsalis described Marcus as a genius TUE musician and Marcus says his own style and writing is TUE influenced by Marsalis. TUE Marcus talks of the frustrations of being blind and how he TUE wishes he could conduct an orchestra. TUE Along with his other band members, he demonstrates some of TUE the tricks and techniques they use when playing together, to TUE know both when to end, and when to begin. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01jhb41 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond talks to Jacopo Annese, director of the San TUE Diego brain observatory about his mission to create what he TUE calls 'a Hubble space telescope for the brain'. He is TUE recruiting people who will be willing to donate their brains TUE to his laboratory. By interviewing them regularly to record TUE their detailed life histories and interests and by doing TUE psychological tests he aims to provide a brain archive for TUE neuroscientists in the future. But what sort of links can be TUE established between brain anatomy and personality and what TUE sort of people are willing to donate their brains to his TUE lab? TUE TUE Producer: Pam Rutherford. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01jgll3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01jg7r6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01jhb43 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with David TUE Eades. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jhb45 (Listen) TUE Jubilee, Episode 7 TUE TUE After receiving threatening letters, Satish wrongly accuses TUE Colette of blackmailing him to go to the Jubilee reunion. TUE When he realises she isn't the culprit and not knowing who TUE knows his secret, he decides he has no alternative but to TUE turn up for the planned photograph. TUE TUE Jubilee is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj Garewal TUE and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions TUE TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Pickerskill Reports b0132k5b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Timothy Spoontz TUE TUE Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. TUE TUE When the new progressive headmaster Mike Poulson Jabby TUE decides to impose an austerity drive in the seventies, the TUE quality of the school's food is compromised as part of the TUE tedious process. But the inventive agricultural talents of TUE young boarder, Timothy Spoontz, helped by his successful TUE father's growing agricultural business, provide the school TUE and Castlereagh House with it's own privately delivered TUE supply of food - until Mike Poulson Jabby gets wind of it. TUE TUE Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid TUE Timothy Spoontz ....... Harry McEntire TUE Mike Poulson Jabby ...... Mike Priest TUE Lefty Rogers ....... Tony Gardner TUE Stanislaw ....... Mike Sarne TUE Stealgroynes ...... Jack Edwards TUE Calman ........ Kris Saddler TUE Moorcroft ...... Joe Cooper TUE Matron ... ... Mia Soteriou TUE TUE Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon TUE A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Jon Ronson On b010t6lf (Listen) TUE Series 6, Spying TUE TUE Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another TUE series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human TUE condition. TUE TUE Jon Ronson talks to comedian Josie Long who found herself in TUE a situation where she had to make a choice on whether to spy TUE on someone's life... did morality step in? Writer Danny TUE Wallace recalls the days when a spy was sent to his home to TUE spy on his father, a leading expert on East German TUE literature. TUE TUE Johnny Howorth, rookie documentary maker, was also in a TUE situation where he was asked by US Marshals to spy on the TUE couple Ed and Elaine Brown who were convicted of tax crimes. TUE As he naively got more deeply involved, he feared another TUE Wako and had to make a difficult decision... John Symonds, a TUE so-called 'romeo spy' also tells his sometimes shocking TUE story. TUE TUE Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs TUE An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 JUNE 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01jg7s1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01jk46d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jg7s3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jg7s5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jg7s7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01jg7s9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01js6st (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon WED Mark Oakley of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01jhdg8 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01jhdgb (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day with WED James Naughtie and Evan Davis. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01jhdgd (Listen) WED Simon Jordan, Samantha Spiro, Robin Millar, Steve Benbow WED WED Simon Jordan made his fortune in the mobile phone industry WED and in 2000, at the age of 32, he bought Crystal Palace WED Football Club. Ten years later the club was in WED administration and Jordan had lost everything. As well as WED recounting his own rise and fall in football, the book lifts WED the lid on how the national game works from the vast sums of WED money paid to footballers to the top-level activities at the WED heart of the sport. 'Be Careful What You Wish For' is WED published by Yellow Jersey Press. WED WED Robin Millar is a record producer and musician. His 1984 WED production of 'Diamond Life' by Sade was named one of the WED best ten albums of the last 30 years at the 2011 Brit WED Awards. Robin has worked with a range of artists including WED Sting, Eric Clapton, Chrissie Hynde and Elvis Costello. He WED was born with retinitis pigmentosa and has been registered WED blind since the age of 16. In March this year Robin WED underwent a 12 hour operation to install a bionic retina in WED his right eye in a clinical trial to help research into WED future treatment for blindness. WED WED Steve Benbow is an urban beekeeper who started his first bee WED hive on the roof of his tower block in south London ten WED years ago. Today he runs 30 sites across the city and his WED bees live on top of Tate Modern and the National Portrait WED Gallery. His book follows a year in his life as a beekeeper. WED 'The Urban Beekeeper A Year of Bees in the City' by Steve WED Benbow is published by Square Peg. WED WED Samantha Spiro is a double Olivier award-winning actor. She WED is playing Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew at WED Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Samantha played WED Barbara Windsor in the play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and WED Dick and Dolly Levi in the Open Air Theatre's production of WED Hello, Dolly! In Regent's Park in 2010. The Taming of the WED Shrew runs from June 23 - October 13 2012. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01jk47w (Listen) WED Strands, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode, Jean discovers an unidentifiable, but WED exquisitely beautiful object at the strandline. WED WED Read by Jean Sprackland WED Abridged by Miranda Davies WED Produced by Emma Harding WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jhdgg (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jhdgj (Listen) WED Chronicles of Ait - The Saxon Stones, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Michael Butt WED WED Chronicles of Ait -The Saxon Stones finds author and WED one-time TV historian Linus Scott returning to the remote WED east coast settlement of Ait to attend the funeral of his WED childhood mentor, Kenrick, a scholar of Old English who had WED rescued the young boy from a problem background. But also WED attending the ceremony is a stranger, Alice Pyper, who, to WED Scott's surprise, appears to have had some connection to the WED deceased man. When Alice begins snooping around Kenrick's WED house, Scott confronts her, and the first door is opened WED onto a labyrinthine mystery that leads deep into the history WED of the Saxon Stones and the ominous myth of Dracamuth. WED WED Linus Scott . . . . . Greg Wise WED Alice Pyper . . . . . Amanda Drew WED Darlene . . . . . Heather Craney WED Thurgis . . . . . Richard Hope WED Irwin . . . . . Christopher James WED Lord Ethel . . . . . Jonathan Keeble WED WED Produced & Directed by John Taylor WED A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 A Straight Question b01jhdgl (Listen) WED Comedian, writer and actress Jackie Clune dated women for 12 WED years before meeting and marrying a man. She talks to those WED who, like her, identified as gay and then had a heterosexual WED relationship. This is a subject that provokes WED misunderstanding and downright anger. Diva voted Jackie 'The WED Most Disappointing Lesbian of The Year.' and people walked WED out of her stand-up act when she mentioned her husband. We WED discuss how sexuality can be fluid and romance can be WED unexpected. Novelist Jake Arnott, who identified WED predominantly as gay, then fell in love with a female fellow WED writer, says 'You don't choose who you fall in love with.' WED Niki, who describes herself as a 'gold star dyke' until a WED man walked into the coffee shop where she worked. That first WED day she realised she would marry him and have his children. WED Although she still identifies herself as a 'lesbian who WED happened to be married to a man.' She says ' He was a freak WED wave who drenched the whole beach.'. WED WED 11:30 A Month of June b01jhdgn (Listen) WED Spray the Grass Green WED WED A Month of June: Spray the Grass Green WED by Andy Merriman and Peter Morfoot WED WED The first of four comedies written for the many voices of WED legendary actor June Whitfield. WED WED It's 1939 and when fading Hollywood star Lana Garfield hears WED that studio boss Al Seltzer wants to end her contract WED English ghost writer George Creighton is spurred to organise WED an appropriate revenge. WED WED Lana Garfield ..... June Whitfield WED George Creighton ..... David Haig WED Al Seltzer ..... Patrick Brennan WED Betty Stevens ..... Tracy Wiles WED Harry Harcourt-Jones ..... Robert Blythe WED Edna Harper ..... Amaka Okafor WED Boris Karloff ..... Peter Morfoot WED WED Director: David Hunter WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01jhdgq (Listen) WED Challenging medical records, National Citizen Service, WED gaming consoles WED WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. How to challenge your WED medical records, is the National Citizen Service value for WED money, and the latest on gaming consoles from geekdad. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01jg7sc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01jhdgs (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Martha WED Kearney. Listeners can share their views via email: WED wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle WED b01jhdgv (Listen) WED Vacating Heaven WED WED In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers WED the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 WED years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard WED Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he WED takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, WED through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in WED subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and WED writers, up to the present day. WED WED In today's programme Richard Holloway discusses how the WED great leaps forward in scientific thought, particularly the WED new understanding that the Earth was not the centre of the WED universe, influenced the way leading 17th century thinkers WED reconsidered the relationship of mankind to God. Holloway WED talks about such great figures as Isaac Newton, Descartes WED and Pascal, with contributors including author Sir Anthony WED Kenny, Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck WED College and Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at WED Oxford University. WED WED Producer: Olivia Landsberg WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01jhb3s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jhdgx (Listen) WED Take a (Virtual) Girl Like You WED WED By Nicholas Pierpan WED WED Alex Tilly is a radio psychiatrist who cures people of cyber WED addiction. But he's prepared to sacrifice his scruples to WED get his own TV show, and begins moonlighting for a firm that WED manufactures virtual girlfriends. Alex's assignment is to WED make their digital creations as addictive as possible but he WED soon realises that the virtual world has very real WED consequences. WED WED Alex . . . . . Sam Alexander WED Dawn . . . . . Jemima Rooper WED Julie . . . . . Susie Riddell WED Dr Lark . . . . . Gerard McDermott WED Beth . . . . . Tracy Wiles WED Vanessa . . . . . Christine Absalom WED George . . . . . Harry Livingstone WED DJ . . . . . Peter Hamilton Dyer WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED Production Co-ordinator: Jessica Brown WED Studio Managers: Peter Ringrose, Jenni Burnett. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01jhdgz (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and experts take your calls on annuities. WED WED People planning to buy an annuity to provide an income in WED retirement have had more bad news as rates have fallen WED again. While guaranteed annuities are traditionally thought WED best for those with small pension pots, some retired WED investors with bigger funds are questioning whether it is WED sensible to invest all their savings in a guaranteed annuity WED - with locked-in low returns for the rest of their life. WED WED Some investors have turned to pension drawdown where a WED proportion of the fund is still invested. But recent stock WED market volatility means those people are exposed to more WED financial risk. WED WED So what should those people coming up to retirement do? WED How do I know which is the best type of annuity to buy? WED What information should I tell annuity providers when WED shopping around for a good deal? WED How much savings do I need to consider doing income WED drawdown? WED If I have a serious illness, what type of annuity might be WED suitable for me? WED How will the rules coming into force in December this year WED change the way annuities are calculated for men and women? WED WED Joining Vincent Duggleby to answer your questions will be: WED WED Billy Burrows, Director, Better Retirement Group WED Tom McPhail, Head of Pensions Research, Hargreaves Lansdown WED Katherine Oxenham, annuities expert. LV's Business WED Development Direct. WED WED You can call Money Box Live.on 03700 100 444. Lines open at WED 1pm, Wednesday. Or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Producer: lesley McAlpine. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01jhb41 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01jhdh1 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor talks to speakers at the British Sociological WED Association conference 2012 WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01jhdh3 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01jhdh5 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jg7sf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jhdh7 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show devoted to the WED art of being wrong, with leading comics and entertainers WED competing to give the best in wrong answers. WED WED So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie challenge the panel's WED creativity and asks them to reveal their finest embarrassing WED stories from their lives. This week the worst experiences at WED a party and terrible ideas for a series of children's books WED are just two of the challenges faced by the panel. Will WED anyone beat Isy Suttie's suggestion for a 'wrong' children's WED book - the paperwork-themed 'Morris The Admin Mouse'? WED WED The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also WED writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series WED Newswipe and Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's You Have Been WED Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards WED 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press WED Awards for his newspaper columns. WED WED Produced by Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01jhdh9 (Listen) WED Josh is feeing under surveillance. Meanwhile Oliver is keen WED to press on. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01jhdhc (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who meets the acclaimed American novelist WED Richard Ford. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jhdgj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01jhdhf (Listen) WED Press regulation WED WED The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on WED the process by which controversial decisions are reached WED behind closed doors in Whitehall. WED WED In this final programme in the current series, he and his WED panel examine regulating the press. Have British newspapers WED so abused their power that they've lost the right to be free WED of regulations imposed on them by Parliament? Or is the WED freedom of the press so valuable that politicians should WED resist at all costs setting rules for those whose job is, in WED part, to hold the powerful to account? WED WED This series examines issues which could face any government, WED of any political colour, at this time and looks at how any WED decision might or might not make its way through the WED corridors of power. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01jhdhh (Listen) WED Series 3, Kamin Mohammadi WED WED Kamin Mohammadi uses her own and her family's history in WED Iran to argue that life - particularly private life - under WED an authoritarian regime is lived more creatively. WED WED She describes the complicated and sometimes intricate WED behaviour which is required to navigate - creatively - WED around restrictions on private lives. And she explains how WED everything from the newest technology to shared taxis are WED called in aid of young people wishing to sit close and steal WED caresses. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01jhdhk (Listen) WED Engineering Flu WED WED Two teams of virologists found themselves at the heart of WED bioterrorism maelstrom late last year when their studies on WED mutant bird flu were suppressed by US authorities. While WED security experts feared the reports were recipes for WED bioweapons of mass destruction, the researchers argued they WED held important lessons for the threat of natural flu WED pandemics developing in the wild. WED WED Now the authorities have backed down and the reports have WED been released, Kevin Fong hears how tiny variations in the WED genes of bird flu can completely change the behaviour of the WED pathogens. And whether deliberate genetic manipulation in WED the lab can replicate the natural genetic variations WED occurring in farms around the world. WED WED In 2009, the new strain of H1N1 flu emerged from a few WED villages in Mexico to infect the world in weeks. What WED experts fear is that a simple genetic change to H5N1 bird WED flu could allow it to spread as fast, but with far deadlier WED consequences. They argue that by identifying dangerous WED variants in the lab first, we'd be better prepared with WED vaccines ahead of the danger. WED WED Producer Roland Pease. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01jhdgd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01jg7sh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01jhdhm (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jhdhp (Listen) WED Jubilee, Episode 8 WED WED Worried by her husband's behaviour, Maya tries to get Satish WED to tell her what's wrong but he can't bring himself to admit WED the trouble he is in, even to his wife. And still the WED memories of the Jubilee street party in Cherry Gardens, 30 WED years ago, haunt his thoughts. WED WED Jubilee is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj WED Garewal, and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED Productions WED WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 It Is Rocket Science b01jhdhr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Comedy taking a quirky look at the science and history of WED space travel. WED WED Clip WED Dinosaurs In Space! WED WED 23:15 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01jhdht (Listen) WED Pedro WED WED Strap in for 15 minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever WED Peter bring you a death plunge, a leap across a ravine and a WED sexy clown. WED WED Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning WED sketch team - get their own Radio 4 show. WED WED From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another WED Case of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny WED Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of WED tri-coloured jerseys. WED WED Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and special guest Catriona Knox WED WED Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and Dominic Stone WED WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Jon Ronson On b010y002 (Listen) WED Series 6, The Fine Line Between Good and Bad WED WED Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another WED series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human WED condition. WED WED Recorded on location in Fremont, New Hampshire, Jon meets WED the sisters who were part of the girl group from the 1960s WED 'The Shaggs'. Created by their father, the sisters were home WED schooled and made to practice every day. Their album, WED Philosophy of the World was ridiculed and a flop, but WED remarkably many years later they were re-discovered and WED hailed as way ahead of their time and a major contribution WED to music. The other story in this programme is told by Simon WED Hollis who recalls the time he worked as a designer in WED Calvin Klein's New York flag ship store and made a major WED mistake with too many red candles. WED WED Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs WED An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 JUNE 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01jg7tn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01jk47w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jg7tq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jg7ts (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jg7tv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01jg7tx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01js6t4 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon THU Mark Oakley of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01jhjc3 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Angela THU Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01jhjc5 (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01jhjc7 (Listen) THU King Solomon THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the biblical king THU Solomon, celebrated in the Old Testament for his wisdom and THU as the architect of the First Temple in Jerusalem. An THU important figure in all the Abrahamic faiths, Solomon is THU also associated with the tradition of wisdom literature - THU and many legends have become associated with his name. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01jk49f (Listen) THU Strands, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode, Jean contemplates the mysterious lives THU of starfish and brittle stars. THU THU Read by Jean Sprackland THU Abridged by Miranda Davies THU Produced by Emma Harding THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jhjc9 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jhjcc (Listen) THU Chronicles of Ait - The Saxon Stones, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Michael Butt THU THU Chronicles of Ait -The Saxon Stones finds author and THU one-time TV historian Linus Scott returning to the remote THU east coast settlement of Ait to attend the funeral of his THU childhood mentor, Kenrick, a scholar of Old English who had THU rescued the young boy from a problem background. But also THU attending the ceremony is a stranger, Alice Pyper, who, to THU Scott's surprise, appears to have had some connection to the THU deceased man. When Alice begins snooping around Kenrick's THU house, Scott confronts her, and the first door is opened THU onto a labyrinthine mystery that leads deep into the history THU of the Saxon Stones and the ominous myth of Dracamuth. THU THU Linus Scott . . . . . Greg Wise THU Alice Pyper . . . . . Amanda Drew THU Darlene . . . . . Heather Craney THU Irwin . . . . . Christopher James THU Lord Ethel/Aidan . . . . . Jonathan Keeble THU Child Linus . . . . . James Foster THU THU Produced & Directed by John Taylor THU A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01jhjcf (Listen) THU Correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the THU headlines. THU THU 11:30 Pump Up the Volume b012wjcn (Listen) THU The Foo Fighters did it for Chris Hoy in Beijing, Elton THU John's Rocket man helped Andy Flintoff in the 2005 Ashes and THU Kenny Rogers' Gambler inspired the England 2007 Rugby world THU cup team. John Wilson talks to athletes and coaches about THU the role pop music plays in their training. Technology has THU transformed the relationship between athletics and the role THU of music. THU THU The advent of the MP3 player has enabled athletes and their THU coaches to build distinct playlists for specific areas of THU their training. When Victoria Pendleton is training for THU Gold, she listens to her Prodigy playlist with its 136 beats THU per minute a perfect tempo for her cycling. THU THU John Wilson discovers why many people call music sport's THU "legal drug". In some research studies, it's been shown as THU increasing performance by 20 per cent while reducing an THU athlete's perception of effort by 10 per cent. Music blocks THU out fatigue-related symptoms such as the burning lungs, the THU beating heart and the lactic acid in the muscles enabling THU athletes to train harder and longer. Coaches and athletes THU will also talk about how even when you're training at the THU highest level, certain music tracks will enable you to carry THU on even up to the point of exhaustion. Besides the science THU involved with the relationship between music and THU performance, we will muse on what types of music deliver the THU best results. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01jhjch (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01jg7tz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01jhjck (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle THU b01jhjcm (Listen) THU Paying the Price THU THU In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers THU the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 THU years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard THU Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he THU takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, THU through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in THU subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and THU writers, up to the present day. THU THU In today's programme, Richard Holloway discusses how THU religion dealt with those who paraded their doubts. THU Following the new ideas that sprang up during the THU Reformation, those who rethought their relationship to the THU Bible and to God were vulnerable to the inquisition and THU excommunication. One such thinker was Spinoza, the 17th THU century Dutch-Jewish philosopher whose radical views caused THU him to be expelled by Jewish religious leaders and his books THU placed on the Papal Index of Forbidden Books. Insight into THU the workings of the process comes from an eyewitness account THU of Spinoza's excommunication. THU THU With contributions from Susan James, Professor of Philosophy THU at Birkbeck College, and Nina Power, lecturer in Philosophy THU at Roehampton University. THU THU Producer: Olivia Landsberg THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01jhdh9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jhjcp (Listen) THU Belarus THU THU Philip Meade, 35, (Jonathan Firth) is a parish priest at a THU Roman Catholic church in suburban London. Unlike some fellow THU priests in the metropolis, Philip is a traditionalist - he THU approves of the conservative policies of Pope Benedict XVI. THU In the eyes of his oldest friend Claire, (Jane Slavin) a GP, THU this makes him a reactionary. In his own eyes he is simply THU being true to the faith he preaches. THU THU Philip is being quietly groomed for higher things by THU Monsignor Gardiner, (Paul Freeman) , a senior administrator THU of the diocese. A secondment to Rome, where theological THU skills would be honed and connections made, is in the THU pipeline. But Philip is not some Machiavellian careerist. He THU likes the immediacy and intimacy of parish work and has THU doubts about giving it up. THU THU Philip is approached by one of his parishioners, Maria, (Lia THU Williams) from Belarus. She tells him about her father, Max, THU (David Calder) who has been imprisoned in Minsk. Max took THU part in demonstrations in late 2010 against the rigged THU elections that returned Belarusian leader Alexander THU Lukashenko to power. Like hundreds of others, he has been THU detained without charge or trial. The family have heard THU nothing of him for months. THU THU Shocked both by Max's plight and by his own ignorance of THU these events going on within Europe, Philip resolves to THU inform his superiors. If the church can be persuaded to THU speak out it might shame Lukashenko into releasing some of THU those held. But Philip's good intentions are about to lead THU him into a world of smoke and mirrors... THU THU Fr. Philip Meade was played by Jonathan Firth THU And Maria by Lia Williams THU Max Blin was David Calder THU Claire ..... Jane Slavin THU Tom ..... Jonathan Tafler THU Monsignor Gardiner ..... Paul Freeman THU And Peter Meade..... Jon Glover THU THU 'Belarus' was produced in Belfast THU The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01jhjrv (Listen) THU Series 21, Alnmouth, Northumberland THU THU Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in THU this series of Ramblings. THU THU Programme 3: Alnmouth, Northumberland THU THU If you go walking with a dog, something extraordinary THU happens: complete strangers will talk to you. Sometimes this THU doesn't go any further than a regular 'good morning' but THU occasionally strong friendships are formed. THU THU On this week's Ramblings Clare Balding goes walking in rural THU Northumberland with Kelly Smith and her friend Carolyn Ryan. THU They met while dog-walking and struck up a close friendship THU which is mirrored by the incredibly strong connection THU between their dogs: Mel the Border Terrier and Kizzy the THU Lurcher. THU THU The walk begins in Kelly's kitchen, where her partner (the THU author Val McDermid) explains why a Border Terrier was such THU an obvious choice of dog for this neck of the woods. Then THU (leaving Val behind to make bacon sandwiches for their THU return), Clare, Kelly and Carolyn head down to the beach for THU a bracing, uplifting walk. Kelly and Carolyn explain how THU their friendship works, and how - despite an initially THU difficult start their dogs are now inseparable. THU THU Producer Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01jg8qy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01jgb94 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01jhjrx (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01jhjrz (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 like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b01jhjs1 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jg7v1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b01jhjs3 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at THU The Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, THU self-doubt and the new owner's vision for the theatre's THU future. THU This week popular, Fast Show favourite Billy Bleach returns THU to The Mallard, the theatre that last series gave him his THU first big break. THU Billy Bleach ..... Simon Day THU Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter THU Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01jhjs5 (Listen) THU Amy goes too far and Jennifer enters into a heated debate. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01jhjs7 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Claire Bartleet. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jhjcc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01jhb3l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01jhjs9 (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Father of the Big Bang b01jmtxt (Listen) THU Few theories could claim to have a more fundamental status THU than Big Bang Theory. This is now humanity's best attempt at THU explaining how we got here: A Theory of Everything. This THU much is widely known and Big Bang Theory is now one of the THU most recognisable scientific brands in the world. What's THU less well known is that the man who first proposed the THU theory was not only an accomplished physicist, he was also a THU Catholic priest. Father Georges Lemaitre wore his clerical THU collar while teaching physics, and not at Oxford, Cambridge THU or MIT but at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. THU It was this unassuming Catholic priest in an academic THU backwater who has changed the way we look at the origins of THU the universe. His story also challenges the assumption that THU science and religion are always in conflict. William Crawley THU introduces us to the "Father" of the Big Bang. THU THU Producer: Mark McCleary. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01jhjc7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01jg7v5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01jhjsc (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Ritula THU Shah. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jhjsf (Listen) THU Jubilee, Episode 9 THU THU Haunted by his memories, Satish has upped his dose but it is THU dangerously affecting his work in the operating theatre. THU THU And finally he confronts the events of the day of the street THU party thirty years ago. THU THU Jubilee is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj Garewal THU and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions THU THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Stop/Start b01jhjsh (Listen) THU by Jack Docherty THU THU A new sitcom about love, marriage and putting up with each THU other. Stop/Start follows three couples as they do their THU best to get on with their lives. When things get tricky, the THU characters are able to stop the action, explain themselves THU to the audience and start it all up again. THU THU Barney ..... Jack Docherty THU Cathy ..... Kerry Godliman THU Fiona ..... Fiona Allen THU David ..... Charlie Higson THU Evan ..... Steve Edge THU Alice ..... Katherine Parkinson THU THU Producer ..... Steven Canny THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b0112g4w (Listen) THU Series 6, Witch Hunts THU THU Jon Ronson considers the moment when we follow the herd and THU make accusations. Jon talks to Meredith Maran who at one THU time believed she was abused by her father. Her beliefs THU wrecked her family's relationships. Years later she was to THU question her memory, and ask whether she had been caught up THU in a wave of accusations that swept America at the same time THU which was based on false memory syndrome. But what were the THU consequences of her doubts on her family and her father? THU THU Music writer David Quantick brings a lighter note to the THU programme with his stories of his time as entertainment THU officer at the student union where he took part in an THU evening of humiliation towards the rock society. He is still THU left with feelings of guilt around his actions. THU THU Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs THU An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 JUNE 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01jg7w4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01jk49f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jg7w6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jg7w8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jg7wb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01jg7wd (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01js6tg (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon FRI Mark Oakley of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01jhnxz (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Clare FRI Freeman. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01jhny1 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01jgb8t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01jk4dd (Listen) FRI Strands, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode, Jean experiences a very physical brush FRI with the past, when she places her feet in the prehistoric FRI footprints of humans from the Late Mesolithic to FRI mid-Neolithic period, which are revealed briefly by the FRI tide. FRI FRI Read by Jean Sprackland FRI Abridged by Miranda Davies FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jhny9 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jhnyc (Listen) FRI Chronicles of Ait - The Saxon Stones, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Michael Butt FRI FRI Chronicles of Ait -The Saxon Stones finds author and FRI one-time TV historian Linus Scott returning to the remote FRI east coast settlement of Ait to attend the funeral of his FRI childhood mentor, Kenrick, a scholar of Old English who had FRI rescued the young boy from a problem background. But also FRI attending the ceremony is a stranger, Alice Pyper, who, to FRI Scott's surprise, appears to have had some connection to the FRI deceased man. When Alice begins snooping around Kenrick's FRI house, Scott confronts her, and the first door is opened FRI onto a labyrinthine mystery that leads deep into the history FRI of the Saxon Stones and the ominous myth of Dracamuth. FRI FRI Linus Scott . . . . . Greg Wise FRI Alice Pyper . . . . . Amanda Drew FRI Darlene . . . . . Heather Craney FRI Thurgis . . . . . Richard Hope FRI Irwin . . . . . Christopher James FRI Lord Ethel . . . . . Jonathan Keeble FRI Child Linus . . . . . James Foster FRI FRI Produced & Directed by John Taylor FRI A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The Man Who Saves Life Stories b01jhnyf (Listen) FRI Irving Finkel collects ordinary people's lives. He hoards FRI their life stories in diary form and has amassed a FRI collection of hundreds of handwritten volumes. But Irving FRI has a problem. What should he do with them? The diaries are FRI crammed onto shelves and piled up in corners of his small FRI office. Irving's day job is Assistant Keeper in the FRI Department of the Middle East at the British Museum. FRI FRI With a couple of trusty recruits, Polly North and Laura FRI Barnicoat, Irving sets out to find a home for his collection FRI and turn it into a 'proper' archive. The plan is to create a FRI repository for unwanted private diaries written by ordinary FRI people. FRI FRI As the project takes shape, the diarist's life stories take FRI over. There's Godfrey, a retired JP who kept chickens and FRI made an entry in his diary every day for 76 years. There's FRI an unnamed catastrophist, who notes only deaths, diseases FRI and disasters. Whilst Laura's grandmother, at 18, shows a FRI flair for bagging boyfriends and wonderful prose. FRI FRI And finally, there's a mystery. Why did a war time school FRI girl write in code? FRI FRI Producer: Tamsin Hughes FRI A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jhnyh (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' is a brand new sitcom set in FRI a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with FRI the three greatest events in anybody's life. FRI FRI Written by David Schneider ('The Day Today', 'I'm Alan FRI Partridge'), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is FRI a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any FRI wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health FRI and safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's FRI married thousands of women. FRI FRI Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been FRI parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and FRI Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her marriage isn't just FRI about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit FRI in our new age of austerity. FRI FRI There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried FRI he'll end up like Malcolm one day while ditzy Anita may get FRI her words and names mixed up occasionally but as the only FRI parent in the office, she's a mother to them all. FRI FRI In this episode, Malcolm is distracted by a breast feeding FRI mother during a birth registration, causing Lorna to suspect FRI he might have made his first ever mistake... FRI FRI Malcolm ...... David Schneider FRI Lorna ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Anita ...... Sandy McDade FRI Luke ...... Russell Tovey FRI Mary ...... Sally Bretton FRI Mr Carrick ...... Andrew Brooke FRI Mrs Carrick ...... Kerry Godliman FRI Mrs Ferguson/Mrs Goldring/ Mrs Smith ..... Jane Whittenshaw FRI FRI Producer: Simon Jacobs FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01jhnyk (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01jhnz0 (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today......... FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01jg7wg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01jhnz2 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Shaun Ley. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle FRI b01jhnz4 (Listen) FRI Caught in the Middle FRI FRI In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers FRI the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 FRI years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard FRI Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he FRI takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, FRI through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in FRI subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and FRI writers, up to the present day. FRI FRI In today's programme, Richard Holloway discusses what is FRI meant by free will and takes Ridley Scott's film of the FRI science-fiction novel 'Blade Runner' as an analogy - in FRI particular the character of Rachel, a manufactured FRI 'replicant' who believes she is human. From that FRI starting-point he engages with the ideas of Spinoza, FRI Schopenhauer and Freud and how they grappled with the FRI concept. FRI FRI Taking part in today's programme are Nina Power, Senior FRI Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University, and Chris FRI Janaway, Professor of Philosophy at Southampton University. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01jhjs5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jhnzl (Listen) FRI People Don't Do Such Things FRI FRI It is 1979. Britain is in recession, the dustmen and FRI gravediggers on strike and rubbish is piling up on the FRI streets. FRI FRI For Arthur, a middle-aged, middle-of-the-road accountant in FRI a small firm, life is a little dull and predictable - but he FRI is happy with his lot. He assumes his wife Gwen is too. But FRI when a new client, the charming and successful writer Reeve FRI Baker, steps into their lives offering a tantalising glimpse FRI of another world, Arthur and Gwen's domestic bliss begins to FRI crumble. FRI FRI Dramatised by Mike Walker from a short story by Ruth FRI Rendell. FRI FRI Arthur ...... Reece Shearsmith FRI Gwen ...... Laura Pyper FRI Reeve ...... Michael Maloney FRI Other parts are played by Rachel Atkins and David Holt FRI FRI Sound Design: Steve Bond FRI Directed by John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01jhnzn (Listen) FRI Scampston, North Yorkshire FRI FRI Matthew Biggs, Christine Walkden and local gardener Alison FRI Pringle answer horticultural questions at Scampston Gardens. FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood gives the lowdown on using nematodes as FRI bio-controls. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Are You Inexperienced? b01jhnzq (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Novelist and stand-up performer AL Kennedy relates some of FRI the hapless events that befell her whilst trying to complete FRI her latest book in the USA. Secreted away in a wooden cabin FRI in deepest Connecticut, she finds that she has to contend FRI with noisy woodpeckers that mistake her temporary home for a FRI tasty tree. Later, upon returning to the States from Canada FRI by train, she encounters suspicious US immigration officials FRI who struggle to grasp the fact that she doesn't fly, and FRI arrived in the States by boat. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01jhnzv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01jhnzx (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01jhp09 (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today......... FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01jhp0c (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's FRI news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jg7wj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01jhp0f (Listen) FRI Series 37, Episode 1 FRI FRI Jon Holmes, John Finnemore, Mitch Benn and Pippa Evans join FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis to dissect the week's news in FRI their own indomitable style. FRI FRI It's the 37th series of The Now Show. And this, in many ways FRI their Jubilee year, sees them joined by a range of guests FRI from the world of comedy - from stalwarts Marcus Brigstocke FRI and Jon Holmes, to newcomers Susan Calman and Nathan Caton. FRI Join them for the pageant of the year. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01jhp0y (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Graham Harvey FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer .....Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesborough FRI Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Will Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress FRI Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley FRI Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur FRI Hattie Marshall ..... Maya Barcot FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron FRI Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01jhp10 (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with the Canadian FRI singer-songwriter Neil Young. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jhnyc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01jhp1q (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Aldborough Northern Festival, North Yorkshire, FRI with former Labour cabinet minister, Alan Johnson. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01jhp1s (Listen) FRI Adam Gopnik reflects on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle - FRI Omnibus b01jhp1v (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers FRI the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 FRI years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard FRI Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he FRI takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, FRI through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in FRI subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and FRI writers, up to the present day. FRI FRI In today's omnibus edition, Richard Holloway shows how doubt FRI challenged prevailing religious thought, particularly in the FRI person of the 16th century German monk and priest Martin FRI Luther. Luther's radical ideas launched the Reformation and, FRI as Holloway argues "lit the fuse that blew Christendom FRI apart". As a result, the late 16th and early 17th century FRI saw a proliferation of sects and non conformists in Europe, FRI many of whom were seeking a more personal and less mediated FRI relationship with God. Holloway looks at the internal FRI struggles of two such believers - English poet John Donne FRI and writer John Bunyan. FRI FRI Meanwhile, early Enlightenment thinkers were grappling with FRI the philosophical nature of God as Holloway's journey takes FRI him to 17th century France in the figures of Descartes and FRI Pascal. Holloway discusses the ideas of Spinoza whose FRI radical idea that God and Nature were essentially the same FRI thing threatened the religious establishment. He was FRI excommunicated at just 23 years old, though his view of free FRI will would go on to influence a wide variety of thinkers FRI including the 20th century pioneer of psychoanalysis Sigmund FRI Freud. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01jg7wl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01jhp1x (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jhp1z (Listen) FRI Jubilee, Episode 10 FRI FRI The day of the reunion arrives and Satish returns to Cherry FRI Gardens. The bunting and the celebratory table look just the FRI same and, although the children have all grown up, he sees FRI that many of their preoccupations are just the same. FRI Nevertheless he lays the ghost of the day that has haunted FRI him for half a lifetime. FRI FRI Jubilee is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj FRI Garewal, and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI Productions. FRI FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01jhb3n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Jon Ronson On b011c0wc (Listen) FRI Series 6, Aiming Low FRI FRI Jon Ronson talks to Stewart Lee about why we are all so FRI caught up in competitive lives. They discuss how choosing to FRI aim low in a conscious way is the way forward. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs FRI An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01jhp27 (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today......... FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI
01 June, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 02/06/2012 - 08/06/2012
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