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SAT SATURDAY 14 JULY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01kkspq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01l39qk (Listen) SAT The Ecstasy of Influence, Micropsia and What Remains of My SAT Plan SAT SAT In this essay from his book The Ecstasy Of Influence, the SAT American writer Jonathan Lethem on the ghosts who sit at the SAT writer's table. SAT SAT Jonathan Lethem is one of the most idiosyncratic voices in SAT US literature. Before he became a published writer the New SAT Yorker spent 15 years working in secondhand bookshops. His SAT first published works were science fiction stories; before SAT moving on to novels. His interests are eclectic: ranging SAT from Bob Dylan to Marvel comics; Philip K. Dick to cyber SAT culture. SAT SAT The Ecstasy Of Influence is a collection of previously SAT published pieces and new essays and is a provocative array SAT of the writer's talent. SAT SAT "One of the most emotionally engaging and intellectually SAT nimble of contemporary novelists" SAT The Guardian SAT SAT Reader: Kerry Shale SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kksps (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kkspv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kkspx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01kkspz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kktpx (Listen) SAT A spiritual reflection and prayer to begin the day, SAT presented by The Revd Johnston McKay. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01kktpz (Listen) SAT "I'll be remembered as the second man to swear on the BBC." SAT Listener Sir Peregrine Worsthorne remembers how his mother SAT tamed Lord Reith's foul temper; how his father ran the Bank SAT of England with little understanding of economics; and how SAT he himself created a scandal by using a four-letter world on SAT the BBC. Also, Charlotte Green reads Your News. With Eddie SAT Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01kksq1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01kksq3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01kkr4l (Listen) SAT As the excitement mounts around London 2012 Helen Mark SAT visits Much Wenlock, the birthplace of the modern Olympics, SAT and explores the landscape around Wenlock Edge. SAT In the small market town of Much Wenlock in rural SAT Shropshire, Dr William Penny Brookes came up with an SAT inspirational way to promote healthy living to local people SAT by devising an annual Games event which led to the rebirth SAT of the Olympics at its classis home in Athens. The Wenlock SAT Olympian Society has continued with the games which are SAT still a unique annual attraction to this day. SAT Helen Mark hears from some of the people taking part in, and SAT involved with, the Games and also explores the 'living SAT entity' that is Wenlock Edge. This wooded, limestone SAT escarpment stretches for around 17 miles from Craven Arms to SAT Much Wenlock and finds out more about the history, SAT archaeology and wildlife of this incredible landscape. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01ksb2k (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 b01kksq5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01kr71b (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by Justin Webb SAT and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday in Parliament, SAT Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01kr71d (Listen) SAT Grayson Perry; Ruth Ellis' nephew; revolutionary France; SAT John Carlos' Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with artist Grayson Perry; SAT John McCarthy in revolutionary France; Ruth Ellis' nephew SAT Mick Shepherd; JP Devlin meets naturist Emma James; Chris SAT Tribe's Sound Sculpture of a hand-plane; Sylvie Dare's story SAT of being rescued from a plane crash as a baby; Olympic Black SAT Power athlete John Carlos' Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b01kr71g (Listen) SAT Series 5, Vision On SAT SAT As children's TV wave goodbye to BBC1, heading off to their SAT own dedicated channel, Paul Jackson takes a lingering look SAT back at a cult show from the golden era of children's TV. SAT "Vision On" was one of the most successful, funny and SAT anarchic programmes ever to grace the little grey box in the SAT corner; it's 'Gallery' theme music still a trip down memory SAT lane for viewers of a certain age. SAT Created in 1964 to replace the prosaic "For Deaf Children", SAT Pat Keysall and Tony Hart fronted a programme that aimed SAT squarely at the funny bone. Art, animation, clowning and SAT dangerous stunts - long before "Health and Safety" became a SAT dirty word. "Vision On" was aimed at all children, but SAT worked hard not to exclude the hard of hearing. SAT Rather than creating a worthy line up, producer Patrick SAT Dowling cultivated the silly, the extraordinary and the SAT dramatic, using new technology to create effects and giving SAT breaks to a wealth of creative talent, acting and technical. SAT David Sproxton, creator of Aardman Animations, fondly SAT recalls creating his very first short film for Vision On, SAT while Sylvester McCoy who went on to became Dr Who, and is SAT currently filming The Hobbit with Peter Jackson, recalls SAT close encounters of an explosive kind with the fabulous SAT creations of Wilf Lunn, another graduate of the Ken Campbell SAT school of fearlessness. SAT "Britain In A Box" explores the role of disability SAT programming with past and present BBC children's SAT controllers; Edward Barnes and Joe Godwin, and talks to SAT Susan Daniels from the National Deaf Children's Society SAT about how TV can be accessible to all - something "Vision SAT On" pioneered with style. SAT Remembered that gallery theme music yet? SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01kr71j (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01kr71l (Listen) SAT As speculation continues about who's won the election in SAT Libya, Rana Jawad in Tripoli hears how "Libyan women face SAT five problems: the father, the son, the husband, the brother SAT and the working man!" SAT SAT Deep in the hills of Honduras Stephen Sackur's been talking SAT to a man who's trying to escape the country's drugs and gang SAT culture but fears he won't be allowed to succeed. SAT SAT In the week China released figures showing how its economy SAT has slowed down, Michael Bristow leaves the country in, as SAT he puts it, the midst of an unfinished revolution. SAT SAT Alan Johnston descends below ground level in Rome to learn a SAT little more about the fears which beset Benito Mussolini in SAT the final years of his dictatorship. SAT SAT And did you know bird spit can be big business? It is in SAT Malaysia. Jenifer Pak's been finding out how the market's SAT now being flooded by counterfeiters. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01kr71n (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis and a round up of the week's personal finance SAT news. SAT SAT Anger is mounting over the government's plans to reform SAT social care in England, which were set out this week in its SAT Care and Support White Paper. The government has said it SAT agrees in principle with the idea of capping how much people SAT have to pay but it will not explain how or when this will SAT happen. And it proposed a scheme whereby councils will loan SAT individuals money to pay for care costs which exists in part SAT already. We hear from Lisa Morgan, a partner at Hugh James SAT solicitors and an expert in care costs about what the SAT proposals mean in practise. And we have a discussion between SAT Dot Gibson of the National Pensioners Convention and Gus SAT Hanton , Co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation SAT about who should pick up the cost of care - the State or the SAT individual? SAT SAT The administrators of the Farepak Christmas club announced SAT this week that the 114,000 victims of the collapse of the SAT club in 2008 would get a total of around 50p for every pound SAT they lost. They have already had 17.5p and another 32p is SAT now due to be paid after LloydsTSB agreed to put 8 million SAT pounds into the fund following fierce criticism form a judge SAT in a court case. A good result for the former Farepak savers SAT but questions are being asked about why the administrator SAT and liquidator have earned so much money. We hear from SAT Louise McDaid, a Farepak creditor who's been campaigning on SAT behalf of other people who lost money and Mike Dailly from SAT the Govan Law Centre. SAT SAT This year it feels as if a months-worth of rain falls almost SAT every day somewhere in the UK. So we look at flood SAT insurance. A deal between the insurance industry and the SAT Government to make sure everyone can at least get insurance SAT at some price runs out in June 2013. How ill that affect SAT the premiums we all pay in future? We hear from a Radio 4 SAT listener who lives at a top of a hill but still can't get SAT reasonable flood insurance. SAT SAT And RBS finally gives some more details of the compensation SAT scheme for customers and non-customers affected by its SAT computer breakdown which began on 20 June. RBS and NatWest SAT are now said to be back to normal. But Ulster Bank customers SAT are still struggling. RBS's Susan Allen says sorry. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01kktml (Listen) SAT Series 37, Episode 6 SAT SAT Reformation: in a week of Lord's reform, and mooted changes SAT to benefits for pensioners, Susan Calman, Mitch Benn and SAT Laura Shavin join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis to examine the SAT stories making the news this week. Susan Calman inquires SAT into the process of inquiries; Gareth Gwynn sets out the SAT mammoth task ahead of the new BBC Director General; and SAT Mitch Benn plays tribute to 50 years of the Rolling Stones. SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01kksq7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01kksq9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01kktms (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics SAT from one of the winners of the BBC's nationwide Schools' SAT Questions and Answers challenge, Uckfield Community SAT Technology College, East Sussex, with panellists: Jeremy SAT Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Sport and the SAT Olympics; Liz Kendall, Shadow Minister for Care and Older SAT People; Liberal Democrat peer, Matthew Oakeshott; and SAT historian, David Starkey SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01kr71q (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01kr71s (Listen) SAT Betrayal SAT SAT Harold Pinter's acclaimed drama about a love affair and the SAT intricate nature of deceit which is told in reverse time SAT from its poignant ending to its thrilling first kiss. SAT SAT Emma ..... Olivia Colman SAT Jerry ..... Andrew Scott SAT Robert ..... Charles Edwards SAT Waiter ..... Gerard McDermott SAT SAT Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane SAT SAT 15:45 Cricket Cabaret b01l04nh (Listen) SAT In Japan, there is a long tradition of listening to the SAT sounds produced by crickets which stretches back to the 18th SAT century, and in China, this culture began in the Tang SAT Dynasty. Crickets were traditionally kept in small cages SAT made of bamboo hung from a ceiling or a tree or carried SAT around in the pocket.The tradition still continues today, SAT although the finely crafted bamboo cages are generally SAT replaced with clear plastic terrariums with ventilated lids. SAT SAT The name 'cricket' comes from the French, 'criquer', which SAT means 'little creaker'. The most famous 'little creaker' is SAT the Japanese Suzumushi bell cricket which, as its name SAT suggests, produces bell-like sounds. In Tokyo, huge numbers SAT of these bell crickets are raised in Bell Cricket Temple. SAT People visit the temple to meditate whilst listening to the SAT sounds of the crickets, which are believed to signify the SAT voice of the Buddha. SAT SAT Crickets produce sounds by rubbing together structures on SAT their wings in a process called stridulation. Generally it's SAT only the male crickets which sing or stridulate, to attract SAT a mate, and different species produce different songs. To SAT help radiate his song, the Mole Cricket sings from a burrow SAT in the soil, with an entrance shaped like a horn to amplify SAT the sound. SAT SAT Cricket Cabaret is a celebration of the songs of crickets; a SAT creative sound-rich composition using field recordings of SAT crickets, as well as electronically treated recordings (by SAT sound recordist Chris Watson), music and human voices to SAT create a musical homage to an ancient tradition; a SAT celebration of the sounds of crickets. SAT SAT Sound recordist; Chris Watson. Contributors; Henry Bennet- SAT Clark, Fernando Montealegre, Bob Pemberton, Sophie Anton and SAT Paul Evans. Producer: Sarah Blunt. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01kr71v (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Melinda Gates, Marks and Spencer SAT SAT Melinda Gates on empowering women in the developing world. A SAT leading think tank says women still carry the bulk of the SAT domestic burden - who's to blame and why's it matter? Why SAT some women within the Church of England feel there's no SAT point in having women bishops at any price. Marks and SAT Spencer report its worst sales figures in years, what can SAT they do to get customers back through their doors. Plus how SAT can we educate women about HIV? And Suzanne Lacy's Crystal SAT Quilt project. SAT SAT Producer Emma Wallace SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01kr71x (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01kkr53 (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 Evan and his executive panel discuss the business of SAT building and running infrastructure - how good is the UK at SAT developing and delivering it? They also swap thoughts on the SAT pros and cons of media training. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Steve Holliday, chief SAT executive of international electricity and gas company SAT National Grid plc; Nicola Shaw, chief executive of High SAT Speed One, the Channel Tunnel high-speed rail line; Philip SAT Dilley, chairman of global design, engineering and SAT consulting company Arup Group. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01kksqc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01kksqf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kksqh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01kr71z (Listen) SAT Jimmy Cliff, Michel Roux Jr, AA Gill and Steve Boggan SAT SAT Clive helps TV critic, traveller and restaurant critic A.A SAT Gill untangle the myths and contradictions of American life SAT in his new book, 'The Golden Door', a collection of SAT brilliantly insightful essays about the good ol' U.S of A. SAT How can a country that has produced so many first-class SAT minds, talents and innovations be so commonly dismissed as SAT stupid, arrogant and introspective? SAT SAT Could a quarter-pounder and fries be a winning entry for The SAT Roux Scholarship? Clive talks champagne sauce and salmon SAT mousse with the Michelin-starred chef Michel Roux Jr whose SAT quest for a new culinary talent is the focus of the SAT hour-long documentary special on the Good Food channel on SAT Sunday 15th July at 8pm. SAT SAT Picking up on the Stars and Stripes theme, writer and SAT traveller Steve Boggan shows Nikki Bedi where the money is SAT in his latest book, 'Follow the Money - A Month in the Life SAT of a Ten-Dollar Bill'. SAT SAT Living legend Jimmy Cliff explains to Clive how you can get SAT it if you really want and performs the track 'One More' SAT which will be the first single from his new album 'Rebirth'. SAT SAT More musical spice comes from the unique "folk-step" sound SAT of Alt-J who will perform their new single 'Tessellate' from SAT their album 'An Awesome Wave. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01kr721 (Listen) SAT Series 12, Episode 7 SAT SAT Poets W N Herbert and Clare Pollard react in verse to a SAT recent story, as part of the series in which writers create SAT a fictional response to the week's news. SAT SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01kr723 (Listen) SAT Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests writers Louise Doughty and SAT Natalie Haynes and actor Kerry Shale review the week's SAT cultural highlights including Magic Mike. SAT SAT Steven Soderbergh's latest film is set in the world of male SAT strippers. It follows Magic Mike, a seasoned performer who SAT mentors a novice and schools him in the fine arts of SAT partying, picking up women and making easy money. SAT SAT There's a new adaptation of the classic play A Doll's House SAT by Henrik Ibsen. It centres on a seemingly typical housewife SAT Nora, played by Hattie Morahan, who gets into debt and SAT becomes disillusioned and dissatisfied with her SAT condescending husband. SAT SAT The artist Julian Opie has a new exhibition of his work SAT which employs modern media to depict new subjects in SAT previously unexplored mediums. The exhibition includes a SAT striking series of walking figures and a series of digitally SAT animated landscapes, with audio, on LCD screens. SAT SAT A first novel by Jonas Jonasson has become an international SAT bestseller. The title reveals the story, The SAT Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and SAT Disappeared. Escaping on his hundredth birthday from an old SAT people's home Allan begins an unlikely journey involving SAT criminals, several murders and a suitcase full of cash. And SAT as his escapades unfold, we also learn about his SAT extraordinary former life. SAT SAT Suburgatory is a new TV series from the US is which teenager SAT Tessa who is forced to relocate from the city to the SAT suburbs, after her father discovers a packet of condoms in SAT her bedroom. She finds herself slowly trying to come to SAT terms with her new twisted world of perfection. SAT SAT Producer: Anne-Marie Cole. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01kr725 (Listen) SAT Woody at 100 SAT SAT The folk-singer and radical song-writer Woody Guthrie was SAT born 100 years ago today - July 14th 1912. His biographer SAT Joe Klein celebrates the centenary with a road trip, SAT listening along the way to a few of Woody's 1,000 songs, to SAT his recorded interviews and to the voices of his friends and SAT family. SAT SAT Joe Klein is also the author of 'Primary Colours' and a SAT correspondent for Time Magazine, so he's taking the SAT political temperature in some of the battleground states as SAT the 2012 Presidential election campaign warms up. SAT SAT In a journey that takes him from his Washington bureau to SAT Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston West Virginia and SAT beyond, Joe listens to the concerns of the voters. He SAT discovers that Woody's messages to America, written and sung SAT during the depression and World War 2, can still cut to the SAT bone. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01kjlhf (Listen) SAT The Diary of a Nobody, Episode 2 SAT SAT Johnny Vegas and Katherine Parkinson play Mr and Mrs Pooter SAT in Andrew Lynch's adaptation of the Grossmith brothers' SAT comic novel of 1892. SAT SAT The story is a social vignette of Charles, the SAT self-important but highly likeable clerk, his loving wife SAT Carrie and their son William (played by Andrew Gower). SAT SAT Much of the action takes place in the house that the Pooters SAT share with their maid Sarah...and the noisy sound of passing SAT trains. The Laurels in Brickfield Terrace is frequently SAT visited by colourful and amusing characters, not least SAT Gowing and Cummings, Pooter's 'trusty' fair-weather friends. SAT SAT This full dramatisation has a Victorian sit-com feel and SAT stays true to the book - with a couple of twists of Lynch's SAT own - capturing a kind of lower-middle-class aspiration that SAT still has a tangible familiarity in 2012. SAT SAT In Episode Two, Lupin's lifestyle upsets the measured SAT balance of everyday life, Carrie hosts a seance with Mrs SAT James, while Mr and Mrs Pooter dine with Franching in SAT Peckham and meet a Mr Hardfur Huttle. SAT SAT Charles Pooter ....... Johnny Vegas SAT Carrie Pooter ....... Katherine Parkinson SAT William / Lupin ...... Andrew Gower SAT Sarah ....... Sinead Matthews SAT Cummings (and Horwin) ....... Adrian Scarborough SAT Gowing (and Borset) ....... Stephen Critchlow SAT Mrs James ....... Jo Neary SAT Hardfur Huttle ....... John Guerrasio SAT Murray Posh ........ Joe Ransom SAT Frank Mutlar ....... Adam Gillen SAT Lillie Girl / Daisy Mutlar ...... Sarah Sweeney SAT SAT Other parts were played by members of the cast. SAT SAT Adapted by Andrew Lynch, from the original by George and SAT Weedon Grossmith. SAT SAT Produced by Sally Harrison SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01kksqk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:05 The Reith Lectures b01jmxsk (Listen) SAT Niall Ferguson: The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012, Civil SAT and Uncivil Societies SAT SAT The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside SAT the political, economic and legal realms, whose primary SAT purpose is to preserve and transmit particular knowledge and SAT values. In a lecture delivered at the Royal Society of SAT Edinburgh, he asks if the modern state is quietly killing SAT civil society in the Western world? And what can non-Western SAT societies do to build a vibrant civil society? SAT SAT Producer: Jane Beresford. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01kjs12 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 12 SAT SAT (12/13) SAT Which classic British film of 1945 was made into an opera in SAT 2009, with music by Andre Previn? And which was the first SAT Beatles album to feature nothing but Beatles compositions? SAT SAT If you can answer these questions you might be able to give SAT the contestants in Counterpoint a run for their money. Paul SAT Gambaccini is in the chair for the third and last of this SAT series' semi-finals - with the one remaining place in the SAT 2012 Final at stake. The competitors are from Worksop, SAT Stafford and Swindon. SAT SAT As ever, they'll need to display musical knowledge across a SAT wide spectrum, from the classics to jazz, show tunes, film SAT music, and six decades of rock and pop. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01kjlhk (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces an intriguing range of poems SAT requested by listeners that juxtapose man's machine world SAT with the natural one, and the ocean in particular. We'll SAT hear works by JRR Tolkien, Michael Donaghy, Elizabeth SAT Barrett Browning, and others. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 JULY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01kpxyn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 In-Flight Entertainment b01kr7nc (Listen) SUN Squirrel SUN SUN Three short stories taken from Helen Simpson's new SUN collection, In-Flight Entertainment. SUN SUN A family discussion over the fate of a trapped squirrel SUN veers unexpectedly close to revealing a shocking truth SUN SUN Reader: Sian Thomas. SUN Abridged and Produced by Joanna Green. SUN This is a Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kpxyq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kpxys (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kpxyv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01kpxyx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01kr7nf (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Olave's Church, City of London. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01kkp5s (Listen) SUN Series 3, Leisa Rea SUN SUN With the pressure on for victory at the Olympics, comedian SUN Leisa Rea ponders the delights of losing. SUN SUN She ponders late development, the terror of being asked SUN 'what is it that you do', and reveals what happened when she SUN told a group of school children that she would only be SUN rewarding them for appalling work which fell way below the SUN expected standard. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front SUN of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the SUN stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, SUN interests and passions that affect our culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01kpxyz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01kr7nh (Listen) SUN Rain SUN SUN St. Swithun's day is arguably the most British of all Saints SUN days, associated as it is with one of the nations most SUN popular topics of conversation: the weather. More SUN specifically of course, it's associated with rain as the SUN saint is most commonly prayed to in times of drought and SUN tradition has it that, if it rains on St Swithun's day, it SUN will rain solidly for the next forty days. SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the emotional impact rain has upon us SUN in a summer that has already seen its fair share of it. An SUN edition of Something Understood to splash about in, with SUN readings provided by Longfellow, Tagore and Langston Hughes SUN and a range of evocative music from Chopin and Debussy to SUN Ella Fitzgerald and the Portuguese Fado singer Mariza. SUN SUN Why go out in the rain, when you can stay inside and listen SUN to it on the radio? SUN SUN The readers are Philip Franks and Grainne Keenan. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01kr7nt (Listen) SUN Getting into farming is becoming increasingly difficult, SUN with the high price of land and the costs involved. But for SUN this week's On Your Farm, we are in Dorset to find out how SUN two young farmers have found a way to get into dairy farming SUN without all the costs involved - and it's all down to mobile SUN milking. For the last 6 months, Tom Foot and Neil Grigg have SUN been using a mobile milking parlour to milk their cows. And SUN it's not just the milking parlour which is mobile. SUN Everything they own from the offices to the water troughs SUN can be moved on wheels. Presented by Sarah Swadling. SUN Produced by Anna Varle. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01kpxz1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01kpxz3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01kr7nw (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01kr7ny (Listen) SUN Storybook Dads SUN SUN Michael Morpurgo appeals on behalf of Storybook Dads SUN Reg Charity: 1101208 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Storybook Dads. SUN SUN Storybook Dads SUN SUN In the UK, over 160,000 children suffer the trauma of the SUN imprisonment of a parent. Many of these imprisoned parents SUN lose contact with their families making them more likely to SUN reoffend. The Storybook Dads charity works in over SUN 100 UK prisons helping imprisoned parents to keep in touch SUN with their children by recording them reading bedtime SUN stories and messages onto CD and DVD. As well as helping SUN to maintain family ties, the CDs bring comfort to both SUN parent and child and encourage an interest in reading. SUN The stories are edited and produced by specially trained SUN prisoners who learn useful skills and can gain SUN qualifications in audio and video production. In 2011, SUN Storybook Dads reached over 20,200 beneficiaries. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01kpxz5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01kpxz7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01kr7p0 (Listen) SUN Each year, the annual Buxton Festival of Music and the Arts SUN on the edge of Derbyshire's Peak District is graced with SUN three Festival Masses sung in St John's Church. Today's SUN service is Mozart's 'Sparrow' Mass K.220 sung by the Buxton SUN Madrigal Singers with soloists from the Festival Opera SUN Company directed by Michael Williams. The celebrant is the SUN Rector of Buxton, the Revd John Hudghton, and the preacher SUN is the Rt Revd Humphrey Southern, Bishop of Repton. The SUN organist is Stephen Barlow and the producer is Stephen SUN Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01kktmx (Listen) SUN Why humans are violent SUN SUN John Gray reflects on the nature of violence which he sees SUN as an inevitable part of the human condition. He analyses SUN the impulses which drive us to fight one another and takes SUN issue with the philosopher Hobbes' view that violence can be SUN tamed principally by the use of reason. "The vast industrial SUN style wars of the last century may have been left behind, SUN but they have been followed by other forms of human SUN conflict, in their way no less destructive". SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01kr7px (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 b01kr7pz (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Editor ... John Yorke SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett 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 Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly SUN Tracey Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01kr7q1 (Listen) SUN Simon McBurney SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, writer and director SUN Simon McBurney. SUN SUN It's 30 years since he set up the ground-breaking theatre SUN company Complicite. It brought extraordinary physical SUN deftness to the stage and its productions won every plaudit SUN going - from an armful of Olivier awards to the Perrier SUN prize for comedy. SUN SUN His mainstream credits range from TV roles in the Vicar of SUN Dibley and Rev, to screen credits for The Last King of SUN Scotland and Harry Potter. On stage, he's directed Katie SUN Holmes and Al Pacino to critical acclaim in New York. SUN SUN Of his unconventional directing style, he admits: "Some SUN people have said, it's a bit like going into the jungle with SUN some mad explorer - who everybody knows doesn't have any SUN idea where he's going - but somehow he gives people some SUN sort of confidence to keep on going." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01kjs1b (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a SUN first-time visit to the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Regulars SUN Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined SUN on the panel by Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the chair. SUN Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon SUN Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01kr7q3 (Listen) SUN Martha Payne and School Dinners SUN SUN Martha Payne, nine year old blogger, explains how she SUN triggered a worldwide debate on school food. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN 12:57 Weather b01kpxz9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01kr7q5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Goodbye to Bush House b01kr7q7 (Listen) SUN For over 70 years the BBC World Service has been based in SUN Bush House, in the Strand in central London. On Thursday 12 SUN July at midday, the last news bulletin will be broadcast SUN from Bush House. At precisely 1206 that day, the SUN transmitters on the roof of the building will shut down, and SUN the doors to Bush House will close behind the World Service SUN as it moves to join the rest of BBC News in Broadcasting SUN House. To mark this historic occasion, the former managing SUN director of the World Service, John Tusa, listens to the SUN memories and stories of producers, reporters and presenters SUN who've worked in the building over the years. From De SUN Gaulle's broadcasts to the Free French during World War II, SUN through to the Cold War, decolonisation, the Iranian SUN Revolution, the Falklands War, Perestroika, Tiananmen SUN Square, two Gulf Wars and into the new Millennium, the World SUN Service has reported on world events twenty four hours a SUN day, at its peak in over 40 languages from Bush House. John SUN Tusa examines the key World Service values of impartiality, SUN adherence to the truth and public service - did the BBC SUN always live up to its own standards when reporting the SUN world? When did it fall down and why? And what was it like SUN to work in Bush House, with its grand exterior of huge SUN columns and arches, marble floors and staircases, masking a SUN confusing rabbit warren of offices and studios behind? SUN That's Goodbye to Bush House, with John Tusa. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01kksrd (Listen) SUN North Yorkshire SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team meet gardeners from North SUN Yorkshire. Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and Matthew SUN Biggs form the panel. In addition, Pippa Greenwood reports SUN on human allergies to plants. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Grass pollen is one of the many allergens associated with SUN summer. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01kr7q9 (Listen) SUN Bay of Pigs Invasion SUN SUN In 1961 Alfredo Duran was part of a group of CIA-trained SUN Cuban exiles who invaded the island to try to overthrow SUN Fidel Castro's revolutionary government. SUN SUN He tells Witness how the scheme went badly wrong, and how SUN the promise of help from the Americans never came. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01kr7qc (Listen) SUN The Graduate, Episode 1 SUN SUN It's the summer of 1963 in suburban California and Benjamin SUN Braddock has the world at his feet. He's just graduated from SUN university with a teaching scholarship, his dad has bought SUN him a fancy new Italian sports car, and all the Braddocks' SUN friends and neighbours have been invited to a house party to SUN celebrate. There's just one problem. Benjamin refuses to SUN leave his room. He's worried about his future. His parents SUN are perplexed. The stalemate is broken when Ben agrees to SUN give the wife of his father's business partner, Mrs SUN Robinson, a lift home. She's the same age as his mother, SUN fabulously sexy, and bent on seduction. SUN SUN CAST: Benjamin Braddock - Danny Mahoney, Mr Braddock - SUN William Hope, Mrs Braddock - Laura Brook, Elaine - Samantha SUN Dakin, Mrs Robinson - Sian Thomas, Mr Robinson - Michael SUN Crossman, Wendy - Julia Coulter, Carl - David Blackwell, SUN Student - Stella Martin. SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01kr7qf (Listen) SUN Ben Fountain on his satirical Iraq war novel Billy Lynn's SUN Long Halftime Walk SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Ben Fountain and discusses his SUN satirical Iraq War novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk SUN which takes a wry look at America's relationship with the SUN Iraq war, as told through the eyes of a young soldier Billy SUN Lynn and his Bravo platoon. Proclaimed heroes when a battle SUN against insurgents, in which one of their comrades dies and SUN another is seriously injured, is captured on film by a news SUN network, the platoon are returned home for a Victory tour of SUN the US. The novel takes place over one day as the young men SUN arrive at the iconic Texas Stadium, home to the Dallas SUN Cowboys. SUN SUN Siri Hustvedt is the internationally bestselling author of SUN What I Loved and The Summer without Men. She is also an SUN acclaimed essayist, who writes about her own life, her SUN relationship with art and artists and the exploration of SUN memory, emotion and imagination. SUN In her latest book she brings together six years worth of SUN such musings, grouping them into three sections, which give SUN the book its title - Living, Thinking, Looking. SUN SUN At the end of last month Amazon announced that Fifty Shades SUN of Grey by EL James had become the first e-book to sell more SUN than one million copies on Kindle. Curiously, such SUN accounting of e-book sales is rare, sales of digital books SUN aren't commonly released and therefore aren't included with SUN print books on best seller lists. Tom Tivnan, Features and SUN Supplements Editor for The Bookseller, explains the world of SUN internet book sales. SUN SUN And we continue our series exploring how writers have been SUN inspired by the landscape. Jamie Andrews, lead curator of SUN the British Library's Writing Britain: Wastelands to SUN Wonderlands exhibition discusses how the country's wild SUN places have been the source of inspiration for many great SUN classics SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poems from the Pennines b01kr7qh (Listen) SUN Poet Simon Armitage takes us on a journey round the Stanza SUN Stones - new poems on a theme of water carved into the SUN Pennine rocks. SUN SUN The poet Simon Armitage has been involved in a project to SUN write six specially commissioned poems and have them carved SUN into six stones along the Watershed of the Pennine moorland SUN from Marsden to Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The area is close SUN to Simon Armitage's heart as he grew up in Marsden and still SUN lives in the Pennine area. The poems take the theme of water SUN in six different states - rain, mist, snow, puddle, dew, and SUN beck and look at our relationship with water and our SUN moorland. SUN SUN Over the last couple of years, the project (commissioned by SUN Ilkley Literature Festival and with money from the 2012 SUN Cultural Olympiad) has taken shape with the help of Land SUN Architect Tom Lonsdale who assessed the rocks and land for SUN suitable sites with Simon. SUN SUN Each stone has been carved by hand by he stone letter carver SUN Pip Hall - a process that has taken two to three weeks per SUN stone. The final stone, the Beck Stone, saw Pip carving SUN while standing knee deep in water, in the middle of a free SUN flowing beck on Ilkley Moor. SUN SUN In this programme, Simon Armitage talks about the creative SUN process of writing the poetry and the challenge of writing SUN poems that may be read on the moors for a thousand years to SUN come. He also reveals the history of people carving words on SUN the rocks on the moors and looks at the nature of our SUN relationship with water. SUN SUN Armitage is not drawn however on the location or title of a SUN seventh stone and poem, hidden somewhere on the Pennine SUN watershed, to be discovered one day by a passing walker. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01kjtf0 (Listen) SUN Abuse in Sport SUN SUN It was the Paul Hickson scandal in the mid 90s which first SUN brought the issue of sexual abuse in sport to the public SUN eye. The Olympic swimming coach was jailed for 17 years for SUN raping and sexually abusing young girls he trained. The case SUN led to the setting up of the Child Protection in Sport Unit SUN and the introduction of safeguarding measures in most SUN sports. SUN SUN But, more than a decade on, the problem hasn't gone away and SUN this edition of File on 4 reveals new figures which show how SUN many allegations of sexual and physical abuse were made SUN across most major sports last year. SUN SUN The programme also examines concerns about the way SUN information about coaches who have disciplined or banned, is SUN shared with parents and other sports bodies, primarily SUN because of data protection laws. It reveals how some coaches SUN accused of sexual misconduct are able to move between SUN sporting organisations and carry on coaching SUN . SUN Reporter Chris Buckler also hears calls from families and SUN child welfare charities for a change in the law to make it SUN illegal for coaches to have a sex with athletes aged 16 or SUN 17 which would bring them in line with teachers and others SUN who have close contact with young people SUN SUN Presenter: Chris Buckler SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01kr721 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01kpxzc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01kpxzf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kpxzh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01kr7qk (Listen) SUN James Walton makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN This week we've got not one but two big musical SUN anniversaries, a celebration of Bush House only slightly SUN undermined by the ever grumpy VS Naipaul and we've got some SUN bad news for middle-aged men from the insect world. And SUN there's also a clip from perhaps the most reliably moving SUN programme on radio: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. SUN SUN Archive on 4 - Radio 4 SUN Rolling With The Stones - Radio 2 SUN Witness - World Service SUN Old Harry's Game - Radio 4 SUN Ballads of the Games - Radio 2 SUN Goodbye to Bush House - Radio 4 SUN World service Writers -Radio 4 SUN Betrayal - Radio 4 SUN Alices Wunderland - Radio 4 SUN Old Photograph's Fever - Radio 4 SUN The Long View - Radio 4 SUN Cricket Cabaret - Radio 4 SUN Siberian Stories - Radio 4 SUN Sunday Feature: Think Negative - Radio 3 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01kr7qm (Listen) SUN Emma goes out on a limb. Meanwhile tensions are in evidence SUN at Home Farm. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01c7wx4 (Listen) SUN HG Wells SUN SUN This week the teams look at the life and work of one of the SUN father's of Science Fiction and creator of such famous works SUN as "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds", H.G. Wells. SUN SUN Team captains, Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh, are helped SUN out by journalist and critic, Alex Clark and comedy writer, SUN John O'Farrell as they are set more literary challenges by SUN host, James Walton. SUN SUN For the finale, the teams must also put themselves in Wells' SUN shoes (he was famous for making predictions about the SUN future, some prescient, some very much not so) and make SUN their own prophesies for 2012. SUN SUN 19:45 The Food of Love b01kr7qp (Listen) SUN Scotch Broth SUN SUN In this series of monologues exploring the link between food SUN and memory, powerful domestic dramas gradually unfold SUN through the preparation of a special recipe. SUN SUN In the final story in the series, by Aminatta Forna, a man SUN struggles to cook for a young child, after a terrible SUN loss... SUN SUN Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow, raised in Sierra Leone SUN and Britain and also spent periods of her childhood in Iran, SUN Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of two SUN novels: 'The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones', and a SUN memoir 'The Devil that Danced on the Water'. SUN SUN Read by: Hugh Quarshie SUN Producer: Justine Willett. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01kktmg (Listen) SUN Who are the Libor losers? SUN SUN In this week's programme: SUN SUN Libor losers SUN SUN How much damage did messing with Libor really do to the SUN financial system? After all, most financial trades are two SUN way bets - and for every winner, there is a loser. Did the SUN banks really pick our pockets as they manipulated Libor? Or SUN were they just picking each others'? SUN SUN A million starving children? SUN SUN We investigate the claim made by a leading charity that a SUN million British children are "starving". SUN SUN Challenge Yan SUN SUN Yan Wong from "Bang Goes the Theory" offers to answer any SUN question More or Less listeners can throw at him. SUN SUN Crunching the census SUN SUN Late last March, you may remember filling in a form for the SUN 2011 census. Whatever happened to that? Well, the first SUN results for England, Wales and Northern Ireland are coming SUN out next week. We find out what we'll be finding out. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01kktmd (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Craggy film and tv character actor Ernest Borgnine - best SUN known for playing baddies in a host of war and western SUN movies.. SUN SUN The Nobel prize winning political scientist Elinor Ostrom, SUN whose theories influenced policy on the management of common SUN resources SUN SUN The avant garde film maker and artist Jeff Keen SUN SUN And the jazz saxophonist Andy Hamilton, an immigrant from SUN the West Indies who worked to improve community relations in SUN the West Midlands. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b01kmjj6 (Listen) SUN Open for Tourist Business? SUN SUN The tourist industry says it is losing millions of pounds in SUN revenue because of the lengthy and laborious visa system. SUN The demand from new markets in China, India and the Far East SUN is growing rapidly and tourists from these countries are SUN among the highest spending visitors to the UK. However many SUN are put off by a visa system which requires them to fill out SUN lengthy forms, submit biometric data including finger prints SUN and a retina scan and once granted only gives entry to the SUN UK and Ireland. Alternatively visitors to Europe can apply SUN for a three page Schengen visa which is not only cheaper but SUN gives access to 27 countries in the Schengen zone. Could SUN this explain why France welcomes eight times more Chinese SUN visitors than the UK? The Prime Minister has urged the SUN tourist industry to do better but what can be done to turn SUN around the image of 'Fortress UK'? SUN SUN Presenter:John Waite Producer:Steven Williams. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01kr7ny (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01kjs1l (Listen) SUN China's Battle of Ideas SUN SUN As China changes leadership, Mukul Devichand probes SUN Beijing's hidden battle of ideas. Unlike the messy democracy SUN of elections in the US or Europe, the Communist Party's SUN "changing of the guard" this autumn is set to be a sombre, SUN orderly and very Chinese affair. But the dramatic sacking of SUN a top Party boss over the alleged murder of an Englishman SUN earlier this year was about more than just a personal power SUN struggle. These events provide a window into a deeper, more SUN ideological battle for the future of the world's new SUN superpower. SUN SUN This week, Mukul Devichand travels to the People's Republic SUN of China for a unique look at the social and ideological SUN faultlines in the country. Radio 4's Analysis programme has SUN a 40-year history of looking at the deeper ideas and trends SUN shaping politics -- and this week's programme takes that SUN approach on the road to a rising superpower whose policy SUN debates are largely misunderstood in the West, despite the SUN profound implications of China's future direction for our SUN own. SUN SUN Recent years have seen large-scale social experiments in SUN China and the emergence of a "New Left" school of thought to SUN rival the pro-market "New Right" in Chinese intellectual SUN life. Mukul Devichand looks at what these scholars and SUN officials are reading, and the ideas that shape their vision SUN of the world. He looks at how these schools of ideas have SUN created their own showcase provinces and cities -- Chongqing SUN vs Guangdong -- and looks at recent events for clues about SUN where China will go next. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01kr7qy (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 b01kr7r0 (Listen) SUN Episode 112 SUN SUN George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01kkr4n (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Steven Soderbergh about his latest SUN film, Magic Mike, starring Channing Tatum and Matthew SUN McConaughey, as male strippers in Miami. He also discusses SUN the reasons why he's quitting the film business. SUN SUN Three generations of film critics - Peter Bradshaw of the SUN Guardian, blogger Charlie Lyne, and student Hattie Soper - SUN discuss the changing nature of their work. SUN SUN The film Margaret, starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Mark SUN Ruffalo, received rave reviews upon its release last year, SUN but only played at one cinema in central London. As it's SUN released on DVD, the director Kenneth Lonnergan talks about SUN the difficulties in making the film, and why it received SUN such a limited run. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01kr7nh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 JULY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01kpy0f (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01kknzh (Listen) MON Immortality; Evil MON MON From Victorian seances to schemes which upload our minds MON into cyberspace, there are myriad ways in which human beings MON have sought to conquer mortality. The philosopher, John MON Gray, discusses his book "The Immortalisation Commission: MON Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death" with Laurie MON Taylor. The cultural historian Marina Warner joins the MON debate. Also, listeners' response to Thinking Allowed's MON recent discussion on the sociology of 'evil'. Professor MON Barry Smith, the director of the Institute of Philosophy, MON explores contrasting analyses of 'evil' within modern MON thought. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01kr7nf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kpy0h (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kpy0k (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kpy0m (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01kpy0p (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01krz1f (Listen) MON A spiritual reflection and prayer to begin the day, MON presented by The Revd Johnston McKay. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01krz1h (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The MON presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Emma MON Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01kpy0r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01krz8r (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and MON Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Long View b01ks2yc (Listen) MON Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of LIBOR and rate MON fixing by comparing recent events at Barclays to the 13th MON century scandal of financier Richard Lyons. Like Bob MON Diamond, Lyons was hauled before parliament to explain the MON dubious financial practices he'd used to get around the MON prohibition of Usury. All against a back drop of economic MON crisis and rising suspicion of high finance and its MON influence on politics. MON MON Jonathan is joined by Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who MON brought down Barings Bank; former Deputy Governor of the MON Bank of England, Sir John Gieve; financial historian Adrian MON Bell, John Coggan of the Economist and Performance poet, MON Attila the Stockbroker. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 09:30 Capital Justice b01ks2yf (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Helena Kennedy QC presents a new series uncovering the MON profound and powerful relationship between our financial and MON legal systems, between capitalism and the law, between MON freedom and justice. MON MON The great British system of common law - judge made, ever MON evolving and adaptable - flourished in the 19th century MON under the growing dynamism of markets and new ideas of MON individual freedom. And market capitalism was given legal MON security and freedom to flourish in turn. MON MON For centuries our financial and legal systems have been MON profoundly intertwined, a close arrangement of 'spontaneous MON order' that travelled to America and then around the world. MON So how has this dynamic really shaped the course of our MON history, and what have been its deepest moral and political MON consequences? The economist Adam Smith championed both free MON commerce and the rule of law, but feared a moral vacuum MON growing up between the two in society. Now, after years of MON deregulation, what happens when we turn to the law to set MON limits, both legal and moral, on what can be done in the MON name of market freedoms and the pursuit of profit? Can MON justice have any meaning in these terms? MON MON This reflective series mixes the historical and contemporary MON with Helena Kennedy's sharp legal insight, exploring the MON connectedness between capitalism and the law that, beneath MON the surface, has so profoundly shaped our modern life. MON MON Contributors include Naomi Klein, John Lanchester, John MON Grey, Julian Assange, Gillian Tett, Matt Ridley, Peter MON Oborne and Lord Neuberger, Master of the Rolls (and second MON most senior judge in England and Wales). MON MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01kjqzn (Listen) MON Burying the Typewriter, Episode 1 MON MON On March 10th, 1983 when her mother was away from home, MON Carmen Bugan's father Ion put on his best suit and drove his MON Dacia into Bucharest to display placards and distribute MON leaflets, demanding freedom from oppression. It was a MON display of defiance that would change forever his life and MON the life of his family. MON MON Burying The Typewriter is Carmen Bugan's memoir of growing MON up in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s when the country was MON governed by Ceausescu, and his network of agents and MON informers, the Securitate, exerted a malign influence in MON every sphere of society. MON MON Carmen Bugan was educated at the University of Michigan (Ann MON Arbor) and Balliol College, Oxford, where she was awarded a MON doctorate. Her first book of poetry, Crossing The MON Carpathians, was published by Oxford Poets/Carcanet in 2004. MON MON Reader: Anamaria Marinca MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Produced by Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ks2yk (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ks2ym (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 5, Episode 1 MON MON It's 1664 and Sam starts the year with a family visit to a MON coffee house. As time progresses, however, his trips around MON London have a more salacious purpose, as his thoughts turn MON increasingly towards the ladies in his life. The MON neighbourhood, meanwhile, suffers some serious crimes: a MON local criminal mastermind is caught and hanged. Sam goes to MON the hanging, and balances on a cartwheel to get a good view MON - but is sorry to see it. Sam hears of a rape which is MON hushed up because the perpetrators are attendants to the MON Queen Mother. Then other news arrives - that Sam's brother MON Tom has been taken seriously ill. MON MON Cast: Samuel Pepys - Kris Marshall, Elizabeth Pepys - MON Katherine Jakeways, Uncle Wight - Ewan Bailey, Aunty Wight - MON Manon Edwards, Will - John Biddle, Bessie - Sarah Ovens, MON Colonel Turner - Matthew Gravelle, Tom Pepys - Gareth MON Pierce. MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While You May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 11:00 Over the Boundary b01ks2yp (Listen) MON Kevin O Brien's century for Ireland against England in the MON 2011 World Cup was the fastest of all time. Irish cricket MON fans had waited at least a hundred years to celebrate such a MON victory. MON MON Before the game there had been precious few victories, but MON also precious few supporters and players to celebrate them. MON But after the match cricket fans in Ireland slowly started a MON whispering chorus of texts, tweets and emails, as the MON enormity of their team's achievement spread from the few who MON understood, to the masses who didn't. MON MON On the state broadcaster RTE's main tea time show, their MON chief political correspondent finished a very serious report MON about the ongoing coalition talks and suddenly broke into an MON impassioned monologue to listeners: MON MON 'I don't know if you remember the Norwegian commentator the MON night when Norway beat England? He started shouting 'are you MON listening Maggie Thatcher?'. Well -.are you listening MON Geoffrey Boycott? Are you listening Mick Jagger? Are you MON listening Oliver Cromwell? Our boys just thrashed you at MON cricket!' MON MON It was an extraordinary moment. Cricket had crashed into the MON national consciousness. MON MON Ireland may have the third oldest cricket club in the world MON - Phoenix cricket club in Dublin - but in the centuries MON since it was established, there have been concerted efforts MON to ban it and relegate it to the bottom of Ireland's MON sporting fixtures. Viewed as unpatriotic and a colonial MON imposition, the GAA - the national sporting association - MON banned its members from playing or watching 'foreign MON sports'. Playing cricket became a political decision. MON MON In Over the Boundary, Kevin Connolly tells the story of how MON cricket batted its way into Ireland's sporting arena. MON MON Producer: Rachel Hooper MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b0194mxx (Listen) MON Series 3, Wigan MON MON Episode 6 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the MON residents of Wigan, where he talks about entering pie eating MON competitions, living under floorboards, and the radicalism MON of George Formby. MON MON Written and performed by Mark Steel with additional material MON by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01ks2yr (Listen) MON The right to walk away from your mobile phone contract MON MON When it comes to mobile phone contracts, what does "fixed" MON really mean? As customers complain of unexpected price MON rises, should we have the right to walk away from a contract MON without penalty if the provider alters the rates? MON MON Also, the disabled man who never knows whether or not the MON driver will let him board the bus. On 28 occasions he says MON he has been refused access. We speak to him and the bus MON companies and authorities involved. MON MON And - it may seem like common sense, but there's very little MON actual evidence of a link between car parking prices and the MON success of local shops... Until now. As councils across the MON country try a host of different approaches, we find out what MON might work. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01ks2yt (Listen) MON Enoch Powell MON MON No political figure in our time has risen to such heights of MON fame and influence on such a brief, fragmentary career in MON office as Enoch Powell. For more than half his Parliamentary MON career he was defined in the minds of many people by one MON speech about immigration made at a Birmingham hotel in 1968. MON He was sacked the next day by the Conservative party leader, MON Edward Heath and spent the rest of his political career on MON the back benches of the Conservative party, then later with MON the Ulster Unionists. MON MON Asked as he was about to turn 80 how he would like to be MON remembered, he replied "I should like to have been killed in MON the war". MON MON The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading MON historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of MON London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic MON Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, MON Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. MON MON They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions MON during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant MON impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its MON character, for better or worse." MON MON Producer; Sarah Taylor. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01kpy0t (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01ks2yw (Listen) MON National and international news by BBC Radio 4. Forty-five MON minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To MON share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Hardeep Seeks Serenity b01ks2yy (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli is seeking MON serenity each day this week. He'll be meeting five people - MON from a stand-up comic to a foster carer - to find out how MON they bring peace and stillness into their lives. MON MON In the first programme he travels to Suffolk to meet Simon MON Barnes. Simon is the chief sportswriter of The Times as well MON as its wildlife correspondent. Together they sit down to MON watch the Premier League clash between Manchester City and MON Manchester United. With the two teams' strident fans and MON pumped up players, it's about as far from serenity as they MON can get. MON MON But early next morning, very early the next morning, at 4.00 MON am Hardeep is up and meeting Simon Barnes to go with him to MON Darsham Marsh. Simon, author of 'Bird Watching With Your MON Eyes Closed', introduces Hardeep to the sounds of the dawn. MON Nightingales, larks, blackbirds, robins, even a rare cuckoo, MON all make their appearance as they squelch their way to a MON remote spot. MON MON Hardeep admits to experiencing a 'magical morning'. Has he MON found one kind of serenity? MON MON Producer: Richard Bannerman MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01kr7qm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00vcpbh (Listen) MON My Own Private Gondolier MON MON In Bethan Roberts' first play for radio, Peggy Guggenheim's MON troubled daughter, Pegeen, leaves her three children behind MON when she travels to Venice to spend the summer with her MON mother. Pegeen is in retreat from a marriage that has MON failed. She is determined to be an artist, and she shuts MON herself up in the dank basement, trying to paint. MON Meanwhile, her mother, Peggy, is much more concerned with MON the English sculptor who has come to visit; she wants a MON piece of his work to add to her collection and will use MON everything at her disposal to achieve her aim. She'll even MON try to inveigle her daughter into the plan if she thinks it MON will get her what she wants. Peggy is well known as a MON collector of men, as well as art. As the summer progresses, MON and the strains between mother and daughter grow, it's only MON Gianni, Peggy's personal Gondolier, who can provide a MON welcome diversion. MON MON Peggy Guggenheim..Fiona Shaw MON Pegeen H�lion.........Hattie Morahan MON Jack Vernon............Brendan Charleson MON Gianni.....................Francois Pandolfo MON Nurse......................Laurel Lefkow MON MON The music is Vedro con mio diletto from Vivaldi's Giustino, MON sung by Philippe Jaroussky. MON MON Producer: Kate McAll, BBC Cymru Wales. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01ks2z0 (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 13 MON MON (13/13) MON The 2012 series of the music quiz reaches the Final, with MON Paul Gambaccini asking questions on all varieties of music. MON The three contestants have come through every stage of the MON competition so far with flying colours: but the range of MON their musical knowledge will be rigorously tested in this MON Final stage. MON MON As usual the questions encompass the classics, film music, MON show tunes, jazz, and six decades of rock and pop. The MON Finalists, who come from Swindon, London and Chelmsford, MON will each be hoping they'll be the one to lift the 26th MON Counterpoint champion's trophy. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01kr7q3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01ks3v3 (Listen) MON Cerys Matthews MON MON Cerys Matthews, singer and broadcaster, shares some of the MON poetry and music which she finds inspirational - and it's a MON very eclectic and exhilarating selection, woven together by MON Cerys in her own inimitable style. With her on stage at the MON More than Words Festival at Bristol are the poet John MON Siddique and the cellist Julia Kent. MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01ks3v5 (Listen) MON Series 6, Parallel Universes MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince stretch the cage of infinite MON proportions this week to encompass not just our own MON universe, but any others that might be lurking out there as MON well. They'll be joined by QI creator John Lloyd, the MON Astronomer Royal, Professor Sir Martin Rees, and solar MON scientist Dr Lucie Green to talk about one of the most MON tantalising ideas of cosmology, that of parallel universes. MON Are we inhabiting a universe that is just one of a possibly MON infinite number of others and how would we ever know? Is MON this an idea that is destined to remain one of the great MON scientific thought experiments, and a staple of science MON fiction, or will science ever progress enough to truly put MON the idea of multiverses to the test. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b01ks3v7 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kpy0w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01ks3v9 (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 4 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return MON visit to the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Rob Brydon with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON attempts piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01ks3vc (Listen) MON Lynda acts as agony aunt and David has a driving disaster. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01ks3vf (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Batman's return MON in The Dark Knight Rises, directed by Christopher Nolan, in MON which The Caped Crusader has to battle a masked terrorist. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ks2ym (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Advantage Home b01ks3vh (Listen) MON Matthew Syed explores the puzzling but powerful phenomenon MON of home advantage in sport. MON MON Home advantage is a widespread and long-standing aspect of MON many sports, in the UK and internationally - but how MON important is it and what is the basis for it? MON MON Matthew Syed, a former champion table tennis player who is MON now a sports journalist, investigates the extent and causes MON of home advantage. MON MON He explores a range of competing explanations that have been MON proposed - travel, familiarity with the venue, the impact of MON the crowd, referee bias, player confidence, and MON territoriality based on our evolutionary history. MON MON He talks to experts in sports psychology and to leading MON sportspeople, including the rubgy coach Sir Clive Woodward, MON footballer Joey Barton, tennis player Tim Henman, and MON American sprinter Michael Johnson. MON MON Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01kkr48 (Listen) MON Writer and broadcaster Maria Margaronis follows the route MON taken by migrants fleeing war or poverty who are risking MON their lives to reach the Europe Union. It is estimated that MON around 75 thousand people are attempting to make the MON perilous journey each year in the hands of unscrupulous MON traffickers. They are fleeing from war-torn countries like MON Afghanistan and Somalia or simply in search of a better life MON where their economic prospects aren't so bleak. Some of them MON never make it, suffocating in the back of a crowded lorry or MON drowning in the fast flowing river that marks the border MON between Turkey and Greece. MON MON The programme meets up with migrants in Istanbul, on the MON narrow Bosphorus Strait, which has served as the crossroads MON of the world for thousands of years. There are children MON making the journey on their own and one man who has lost his MON fingers and toes to frostbite on a perilous journey over the MON mountains from Iran. Two of his companions died. The Turkish MON authorities confess to being overwhelmed by the numbers MON which are estimated to be up to 250 people a day. Illegal MON migrants are detained but seldom, it seems, sent back to the MON countries they came from. There has been an attempt to clamp MON down on the people traffickers but there are huge profits to MON be made. MON MON The most dangerous part of the trip is along Turkey's border MON with Greece. The Greeks are supposed to be building an eight MON mile fence but that still leaves a river which is 125 miles MON long. Traffickers put their charges into cheap inflatable MON boats and push them across, regardless of whether they are MON able to handle a boat or to swim. Many of them can't. MON MON For those that do make it, there is no Promised Land but an MON economic crisis and yet more troubles ahead. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01kkr4q (Listen) MON With the Olympics only weeks away, airport security has been MON high on the government's agenda. Recent long queues and the MON time taken to clear security at Heathrow in particular has MON been criticised by MPs. MON MON In this week's programme Angela Saini visits the Farnborough MON International air show to find out how technology might MON speed up the airport security process. David Smith from FLIR MON demonstrates a mock-up of a future passenger check-in, where MON hidden radioactivity detectors can spot suspicious isotopes MON before those carrying them know they've been scanned. And MON with the European Union keen to allow bottles of water to be MON carried again onto planes next year, he demonstrates a MON scanner which should be able to detect liquid explosives. MON MON Angela also speaks to Oliver B�cking and Mark Stevens, of MON start-up company DNA-Tracker, about how their technology MON could track mobile phones to check for suspicious behaviour MON as passengers move around the terminal. MON MON Angela also discusses with Civil Engineer Peter Budd how MON good airport design can make visiting airports a positive MON experience. MON MON And we hear from Designer Bill Walmsley about synthetic MON sandbag technology, now used to defend many of our airports MON from car bombs. MON MON 21:30 The Long View b01ks2yc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01kpy0y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01ks4cf (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ks4ks (Listen) MON Ancient Light, Episode 1 MON MON Man Booker winner John Banville's new novel, Ancient Light, MON is a story of an unlikely first love affair interwoven with MON darker memories of a lost daughter. MON MON Alexander Cleave is an actor of a certain age, surprised to MON be plucked from relative obscurity for his first film role, MON to play a man of some mystery, Axel Vander. As he prepares MON for the role, he recollects the passion of his first love MON affair, when he was fifteen and 'Billy Gray was my best MON friend and I fell in love with his mother.' Alongside these MON memories circle more painful ones, of his beloved only MON daughter, who died in strange circumstances a decade ago. MON MON Written with Banville's masterful command of language and MON dazzling prose, Ancient Light captures the intensity of MON first love and the intimate details of an illicit affair in MON rural Ireland in the fifties. Snatched assignations in a MON battered station wagon and the ruined Cotter's house are MON vividly evoked with perfect precision, as are the joy and MON absurdity, the selfishness and obsession of young love. MON Funny, seductive and moving, Banville skilfully weaves the MON past and the present together as he reveals the nature and MON unreliability of memory. MON MON John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is MON the author of fourteen previous novels, including The Sea, MON which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He was recently awarded MON the Franz Kafka Prize. MON MON The reader is Dermot Crowley. MON The abridger is Sally Marmion. MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b01kjt7w (Listen) MON The Dark Side MON MON Dominic Arkwright and guests wrangle with inner demons and MON consider the benefits of embracing The Dark Side. MON The novelist and film critic Kim Newman tells how the MON nightmares that beset him through childhood were alleviated MON when he began to watch horror films. The psychologist Linda MON Blair considers whether people who embrace their dark side MON are more likely to be creative, and the writer Ian Marchant MON tells us how the dark forces of punk enlightened him. MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ks4kv (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 JULY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01kpy1s (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01kjqzn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kpy1v (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kpy1x (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kpy1z (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01kpy21 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ks52k (Listen) TUE A spiritual reflection and prayer to begin the day, TUE presented by The Revd Johnston McKay. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01ks52m (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01ks52p (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in TUE Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Stephanomics b01ks52r (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE In the first of a new series of her award-winning programme TUE on the economics of our times, the BBC's Economics Editor TUE Stephanie Flanders discusses with leading thinkers what can TUE pull us out of today's crisis. In the 1930s Britain returned TUE to growth first through a housing boom in the private sector TUE and then through a world war. Eighty years later, what is TUE going to do it this time? TUE TUE Among those joining Stephanie are the leading economic TUE historian, Nicholas Crafts. TUE TUE 09:30 Key Matters b00tt5jh (Listen) TUE Series 2, F Major TUE TUE Ivan Hewett explores the question of why certain musical TUE keys have become associated with particular moods. For TUE example, why is A major almost always employed by composers TUE to write optimistic, even ecstatic music? And how has E TUE minor become the key of choice for portraying menace and TUE tragedy? TUE TUE In this programme, French horn player ,Roger Montgomery TUE explains why F major is traditionally associated with TUE pastoral and hunting sounds. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01kq2l9 (Listen) TUE Burying the Typewriter, Episode 2 TUE TUE Shortages at her father's shop show Carmen a different side TUE to the villagers. At home, her father excites the children TUE by bringing the family a typewriter. TUE TUE Reader: Anamaria Marinca TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Produced by Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ks52t (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ks52w (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 5, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sam's younger brother, Tom, falls desperately ill but the TUE doctors disagree about the diagnosis. Meanwhile, the maid TUE reveals some secrets about how Tom has been living. Sam and TUE Elizabeth have an enormous row which continues when she TUE follows him to the office 'like a vixen with a look of TUE rancour'. When Tom dies even more surprising secrets are TUE revealed. TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Does Science Need the People? b01ks52y (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Who should decide on whether funding for things like GM, TUE nanotechnology, embryonic stem cell research or particle TUE physics goes ahead? At the moment most of the money for TUE science lies with the research councils, to whom scientists TUE go cap in hand year after year. That's around 3 billion TUE pounds of public money. So should the public have more of a TUE say? TUE TUE At the moment, it seems like trust in science is at a TUE crossroads. Whilst increasingly we believe in the power of TUE science to benefit society, a recent MORI survey suggested TUE that over half of us are distrustful of scientists who TUE "tamper with nature" and believe that "rules will not stop TUE scientists doing what they want behind closed doors". Though TUE we face global food and energy shortages and await the next TUE mutated animal disease pandemic, barely a third of us TUE believe that the benefits of research into things like GM, TUE or nuclear power are worth the risk. But are we the people, TUE able to best judge what road science should take? TUE TUE But does this disconnect between science and society matter? TUE How important is public opinion to the direction of TUE scientific research? Is GM, gene therapy or nuclear power TUE simply too important to be derailed by a public that only TUE has a very basic understanding of risk? Or should scientists TUE not only consult the public about controversial areas of TUE research but even allow us to direct it? In the first of two TUE programmes, Geoff Watts asks, Does Science need the people? TUE TUE Producer: Rami Tzabar. TUE TUE 11:30 Madam Mao's Golden Oldies b01ks530 (Listen) TUE As a child, comedian Anna Chen was often taken by her TUE Communist parents to the Chinese Legation in London to watch TUE the latest propaganda films of the Cultural Revolution. TUE TUE These had intriguing titles such as Taking Tiger Mountain by TUE Strategy and The White Haired Girl and were invariably TUE melodramatic stories of heroic peasants overthrowing TUE despotic landlords or other enemies of the Revolution. TUE TUE During the years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) when TUE all other theatrical and musical performances were TUE prohibited or tightly controlled, these eight Model Operas TUE became the principal entertainment available to the entire TUE population of China. Novelist Anchee Min describes how they TUE became the soundtrack to her childhood in Shanghai: 'They TUE were on the radio, the only movies in the theatre, on the TUE street megaphone. For ten years I listened to the operas TUE when I ate, walked and slept. I sang the operas wherever I TUE went.' TUE TUE The Model Operas were created by Jiang Ching, wife of TUE Chairman Mao. Her mission was to destroy all traditional art TUE forms that served the bourgeois elite. Instead she wanted TUE art that reflected the lives of the masses and which would TUE rekindle their fervour for the class struggle. But she was a TUE huge fan of Western classical music and Hollywood films and TUE ensured these were harnessed to make her Model Operas more TUE powerful and memorable. TUE TUE When the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976, Madam Mao was TUE put in prison, and the Model Operas were banned. But they TUE are now undergoing an unexpected revival. The songs are TUE often sung in karaoke bars and on television. They are TUE staged throughout China and abroad. No longer propaganda, TUE they seem to have become just good nostalgic entertainment. TUE TUE Producer: Mukti Jain Campion TUE A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01ks532 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01ks534 (Listen) TUE Cicely Saunders TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of TUE the modern hospice movement who revolutionised palliative TUE care and helped people to die with dignity, free from fear TUE and pain. TUE TUE Cicely Saunders was inspired to build St Christopher's TUE Hospice in south London by two Polish patients with whom she TUE developed very close friendships. She raised the money TUE through charitable donations and the doors opened in 1967. TUE By the time of her death at the first St Christopher's in TUE 2005, there was a network of them across the country and TUE 50,000 health professionals had been given medical training TUE in end of life care. TUE TUE Her thesis was simple. "You matter because you are you, and TUE you matter until the last moment of your life. We will do TUE all we can to help you, not only to die peacefully, but to TUE live until you die." TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01kpy23 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01ks536 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Hardeep Seeks Serenity b01kt7wg (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's programme, Hardeep travels to the National Sports TUE Centre at Lilleshall, near Telford, to talk to Kay Lucas. TUE Kay is the reigning para-archery world champion in her TUE discipline, having won gold at the 2010 games in France. She TUE also represented Britain at the Beijing Paralympics, and TUE takes part in national and international events. TUE TUE She talks about the moment where she experiences a feeling TUE of concentrated serenity, as she places the arrow on the TUE bow, and looses it at the target. It's a serenity that has TUE been hard won, since Kay was injured in a car accident in TUE 1995 and was then subjected to a violent physical assault TUE that left her disabled. She talks to Hardeep about those TUE events, and also about her new-found faith which offers her TUE a further kind of serenity. TUE TUE She and her trainer-husband Kim allow Hardeep the chance to TUE experience the serenity of the archer for himself, as he TUE removes an arrow from its quiver, and places it on the TUE bowstring. He agrees that, as he breathes in, holds his TUE breath and fires, there is a strange moment when the outside TUE world disappears. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01ks3vc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ks538 (Listen) TUE The Gift TUE TUE by Jane Thornton. TUE TUE Stephen Tompkinson stars in an extraordinary story inspired TUE by real events, about how far a father is prepared to go to TUE make his child happy. TUE TUE When Dan and Lori adopted Amber as a baby, Dan knew he'd TUE never stop loving her. Now he's pulling out all the stops TUE for her 18th birthday. But then he discovers a box of TUE reel-to-reel recordings made by Lori's Dad Charlie which TUE might make him change his mind. TUE TUE Charlie was a blues man, always on tour either playing or TUE roady-ing. Lori adored her Dad, even though he was away so TUE much when she was a child. Dan thought she'd want to listen TUE to the tapes he made as a record of his life on the road, TUE but she says it would be too painful now that Charlie's TUE dead: Dan should just throw them away. But Dan wants to find TUE some material for his speech for Amber's party so he starts TUE listening to the tapes when Lori's not around. At first it's TUE funny to hear Charlie describing his rock n' roll life - so TUE different from Dan's - then it's addictive. And then he TUE finds out some things he'd rather not know. TUE TUE Dan...Stephen Tompkinson TUE Lori...Jacqueline Roberts TUE Charlie...Dicken Ashworth TUE Amber...Martha Godber TUE Young Lori...Sydney Wade TUE TUE Guitar...Eddie Tatton TUE TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01ks53b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents episode three in the series of BBC Radio TUE 4's food panel show. Each week the programme travels around TUE the country to visit interesting culinary locations, and TUE answer questions from local food-loving people. Recorded in TUE front of a live audience, The Kitchen Cabinet is aimed at TUE anyone who cooks at home, not just the experts. TUE TUE In this programme The Kitchen Cabinet is at Latitude TUE Festival where, as well as discussing the ins and outs of TUE foraging for food, the team takes questions on all aspects TUE of eating and drinking. TUE TUE This week the panel features; Angela Malik the TUE Scottish-Indian fusion chef and entrepreneur, Tim Hayward - TUE acclaimed food critic, writer, and broadcaster, Allegra TUE McEvedy; chef, food writer and regular on Radio 4's Loose TUE Ends, and Miles Irving; the internationally renowned forager TUE who has recently supplied goods for Noma in Copenhagen TUE (which some consider to be the best restaurant in the TUE world). TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras. TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The House I Grew Up In b012wzf8 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Shirley Williams TUE TUE Shirley Williams, now Baroness Williams, returns to her TUE childhood homes in London's Chelsea and the New Forest. Her TUE mother was the writer, Vera Brittain, whose most famous TUE novel - Testament of Youth - was a best-seller when Shirley TUE was a child in the 1930s. Her father, George Catlin, was an TUE academic and and an instinctive feminist whose own mother TUE had been an early suffragette, ostracised by Victorian TUE society. He was a frustrated politician who stood for TUE parliament a number of times but was never elected. But TUE these were not the only nurturing adults in her young life. TUE Also hugely significant was her mother's best friend, TUE Winifred Holtby, and the housekeeper and her husband, Amy & TUE Charlie Burnett - a bright, under-educated working class TUE couple whom Shirley adored. TUE TUE The conversations in her childhood home centred on world TUE events - the Spanish civil war and the rise of Hitler. Vera TUE Brittain was a pacifist and, as such, found herself and her TUE husband on the Nazis' blacklist. Had the Germans invaded in TUE 1940, Shirley's parents would likely have been eliminated. TUE Fearful of this, soon after war broke out and with the TUE battle of the Atlantic raging, they put Shirley and her TUE brother on a ship and evacuated them to the USA. TUE TUE The programme focuses on the relationships she forged with TUE the adults in her early life and what she learned from them TUE all. She credits her father with giving her the confidence TUE to pursue a life in politics, Amy with imbuing in her a TUE practical understanding of the constraints of a class-bound TUE society, her mother with a vision of nobility and Winifred? TUE Winifred was simply fun. TUE TUE Wendy Robbins accompanies Shirley Williams as she revisits TUE the homes and haunts of her childhood. TUE Producer : Rosamund Jones. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01ks53d (Listen) TUE Asking the Right Question TUE TUE As Scotland grapples with the wording of a possible TUE referendum on independence, Chris Ledgard takes a look at TUE the art of asking the right question. Whether in a TUE referendum, survey or in a court room, how do you avoid TUE writing an incomprehensible question or - perhaps worse - a TUE leading question? TUE TUE Experts in linguistics, law, politics and psychology as well TUE as politicians themselves explain the importance of getting TUE the wording of a question right. TUE TUE Producer: Polly Procter. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01ks53g (Listen) TUE Tim Coates, Jon Plowman TUE TUE Comedy producer Jon Plowman, publisher Tim Coates and TUE presenter Harriett Gilbert discuss their favourite books. TUE "Dear Miss Landau" by James Christie is the story of one TUE man's quest to meet a television starlet; "The Sisters TUE Brothers" is a powerful western noir, and Tobias Wolff's TUE "Old School" is a tale of youthful literary ambition. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01ks53j (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kpy25 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sketchorama b01ks53l (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Award-winning character comedian and doyen of sketch comedy TUE Humphrey Ker presents the pick of the best live sketch TUE groups currently performing on the UK comedy circuit in this TUE brand new showcase - with character, improv, broken and TUE musical sketch comedy. TUE TUE The sketch groups featured in episode four of Sketchorama TUE are: TUE TUE How Do I Get Up There? Scotland's fastest rising sketch TUE group heralding a new era for Scottish comedy. In 2010, the TUE boys made the final of the "Take The Mic" competition at the TUE Edinburgh Festival, and in 2011 enjoyed their Fringe debut TUE show. They also progressed to the finals of the prestigious TUE New Act of The Year competition at the Barbican in London. TUE TUE The Ginge, The Geordie and The Geek. Since making their TUE debut in 2009, this group featuring Graeme Rooney, Paul TUE Charlton and Kevin O'Loughlin have established themselves as TUE Fringe favourites and sold 10,000 tickets for their 2011 TUE show. TUE TUE Pappy's. A multi award winning sketch team consisting of TUE comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry. TUE Established in 2004, Pappy's are firm favourites on the UK TUE live comedy circuit with their hyper-energetic, gag filled TUE monster of a stage presence. TUE TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01ks5xp (Listen) TUE There's an uninvited guest at Brookfield. Meanwhile has TUE Jamie finally met his match? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01ks5xr (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ks52w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01ks5xt (Listen) TUE European Funding: Missing a Match TUE TUE The EU has allocated millions of pounds in grants to help TUE our towns and cities regenerate. So why are some complaining TUE they can't get their hands on the cash? European rules mean TUE Britain has to put up an equal amount of money. But, as TUE Allan Urry reveals, cuts at Westminster and in town halls TUE around the country mean that some projects have either TUE stalled or been abandoned because no "matched funding" is TUE available. Critics of the Government say up to a billion TUE pounds of regeneration money will end up in the Treasury's TUE coffers or being returned to Brussels. Yet, it supposed to TUE be supporting economic development in the English regions TUE which the Government has argued will drive growth. That's TUE what's happened in Germany and other EU countries. Have they TUE made better use of funds from Brussels to help narrow the TUE gap between their rich and poor regions? Now, as Europe TUE struggles with austerity, does the European Commission need TUE to re-think its system for allocating cash, and should the TUE Coalition Government in Britain do more to deliver growth? TUE TUE Producer: Samantha Fenwick. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01ks5xw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01ks5xy (Listen) TUE Following the recent high profile cases of elite TUE sportspeople collapsing with undiagnosed heart conditions, TUE Dr Mark Porter asks if screening should be made available to TUE amateurs. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Lacey. TUE TUE 21:30 Stephanomics b01ks52r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01kpy27 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01ks5y0 (Listen) TUE Round-up of the day's news, with Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ks5y2 (Listen) TUE Ancient Light, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode of Ancient Light, by John Banville, TUE Alexander Cleave remembers his 'first encounter' with his TUE best friend's mother, Mrs Gray, 'on a watercolour April day TUE of gusts and sudden rain and vast, rinsed skies.' TUE TUE The reader is Dermot Crowley. TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion. TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01ks3v5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ks5y4 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 JULY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01kpy32 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01kq2l9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kpy34 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kpy36 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kpy38 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01kpy3b (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ks64x (Listen) WED A spiritual reflection and prayer to begin the day, WED presented by The Revd Johnston McKay. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01ks64z (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Anna Varle. WED WED 06:00 Today b01ks651 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01ks653 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01kq2m6 (Listen) WED Burying the Typewriter, Episode 3 WED WED With his wife and his youngest daughter away from home, Ion WED Bugan decides it's time to make his statement. Carmen knows WED that she cannot dissuade him. WED WED Reader: Anamaria Marinca WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Produced by Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ks655 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ks8v5 (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 5, Episode 3 WED WED Sam's old jealousy returns. At home with a cold, he stops WED Elizabeth going to Church alone in case she sees her old WED dancing master, Mr Pembleton. The moment he's better, of WED course, he's out looking for his mistress, Mrs Lane. WED Elizabeth finally discovers why Sam's uncle has been so WED interested in her - and Sam is severely embarrassed when he WED walks in on Lady Sandwich using the chamber pot. WED WED Sound by Nigel Lewis WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 White Stiletto Dreams b01ks8v7 (Listen) WED Romford Market was vibrant in the 1980s. Now it is WED struggling to survive - a victim of supermarkets and WED cut-price stores. WED WED Presenter Cathy FitzGerald bought her first - and last - WED pair of white stilettos in the market as a teenager. David WED Eldridge worked on the shoe stall. He's now one of Britain's WED leading playwrights, with credits that include In Basildon WED at the Royal Court and Market Boy, a play about Romford that WED premiered at the National Theatre. Selling espadrilles isn't WED obvious training for a playwright, but in the 1980s the WED market was a stage. WED WED There were the characters (the Fruit & Veg Man, the Leather WED Boys, and the Lampshade Man) and the dialogue - bantering WED with the customers was rude, funny, and definitely an art. WED Cathy and David return to Romford to weigh up what's been WED lost - and see if the stiletto still fits. WED WED Producers: Cathy FitzGerald and Matt Thompson WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b01j8gyl (Listen) WED Series 4, Highlights & Twilights WED WED Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet (The Vicar Of Dibley), Neil Dudgeon WED (Life Of Riley), Martha Howe-Douglas (Horrible Histories) & WED Ingrid Oliver (Watson and Oliver) WED WED The village of Woodstock receives two mysterious visitors - WED one deathly pale and one deathly orange. Meanwhile, Lady WED Anne meets the love that dare not speak its name and Sir WED John meets the love that can speak its name but can't WED pronounce it properly. WED WED Sir John Woodstock ...... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ....... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ....... Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan ....... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ....... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ..... Steven Kynman WED Bates ..... Lewis Macleod WED WED With special guest: WED Amy De Childs ....... Jess Robinson WED WED Written by Kim Fuller and Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01ks8v9 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01ks9z0 (Listen) WED The Stolen Families WED WED John Waite investigates the growing number of international WED child abduction cases where a parent flees abroad with their WED children to keep custody and evade the law. WED WED Produced by Joe Kent & Jon Douglas WED Additional research by Fiona Napier. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01kpy3d (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01ks9z2 (Listen) WED National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Hardeep Seeks Serenity b01kt7z9 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In today's programme, Hardeep meets the stand-up comic Chris WED Dangerfield. Chris appears at comedy nights in a range of WED venues, and will be making a return visit to the Edinburgh WED Fringe in August. His comedy is raw and confrontational, but WED in his conversation with Hardeep he talks about how, after WED years spent on drugs, he managed to find a serenity of mind WED that gave him the strength to kick his addiction. WED WED Producer: Richard Bannerman WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01ks5xp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tg1c7 (Listen) WED Miss Balcombe's Orchard WED WED A drama-documentary by Jonathan Davidson set and recorded in WED an apple orchard. Miss Balcombe is getting on but she is WED determined to keep her apple trees. Her workers don't much WED care but there is a trespasser among her russets. WED WED With Susan Engel as Miss Balcombe, Richard Bremmer as Claud, WED Sonia Ritter as Barbara, and Hayley Doherty as Sophie; and WED featuring Barrie Juniper, author of The Story of the Apple. WED Recorded on location in Oxfordshire. Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01ks9z4 (Listen) WED The financial consequences of flooding can be devastating WED for victims, with homes and businesses badly damaged. Paul WED Lewis and a panel of guests take your calls on flood related WED issues as a result of the last two months of heavy rain. WED WED People who live in areas liable to flooding are facing huge WED increases in their home insurance premiums - so how do you WED find the best deal? How can you get a reasonable insurance WED quote if you live in a postal area which is prone to WED flooding but you live on higher ground and have never WED suffered water damage? WED WED You might also be unsure about whether you can claim your WED money back if an event or holiday booking has been cancelled WED because of the unusually bad weather? Will your credit or WED debit card that you used to make your booking help you WED obtain a refund? WED WED Guests: WED Mary Dhonau, Chief Executive of Know Your Flood Risk WED Matt Cullen of the Association of British Insurers WED Alonso Ercilla, Trading Standards Institute WED WED The lines open at 1pm on Wednesday - the number to ring WED 03700 100 444. WED Or e mail: moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01ks5xy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01ks9z6 (Listen) WED Builders and Musicians WED WED Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of WED the total labour market in almost every country. We rely on WED them to construct the infrastructure of our societies yet we WED know little about their culture. The sociologist, Darren WED Thiel, talks to Laurie Taylor about his study into their WED every day lives on a London construction site. WED WED Also, drawing on research with musicians in the North East WED of England, Dr Susan Coulson finds that co-operation, WED creativity and entrepreneurship make uneasy bedfellows. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01ks9z8 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01ks9zb (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kpy3g (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b01ks9zd (Listen) WED Series 4, Toby Young WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. WED WED In this fourth programme in the series, comedian Rufus Hound WED is joined by writer Toby Young who revisits his teenage WED years, when he had a lot of fun playing knock down ginger, WED shooting pea shooters, and skateboarding - but let his WED academic work suffer. WED WED He reflects on his mis-spent youth and talks about how it WED has changed his perceptions of young offenders today. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01ks9zg (Listen) WED Eddie aims for monster profits and Brian tackles a crisis. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01ks9zj (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on a new National Theatre WED staging of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, a tale of greed WED and debt, with Simon Russell Beale in the title role. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ks8v5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01ks9zl (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Clifford Longley, Anne WED McElvoy and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01ks9zn (Listen) WED Series 3, Naif Al-Mutawa WED WED Naif Al-Mutawa discusses the importance of interpreting and WED translating between cultures. WED WED Naif created The 99, the comic books featuring characters WED based on Islamic culture and religion, but appealing to WED universal virtues. In his Four Thought talk, he uses his own WED experiences running up against extremism and wilful WED misunderstanding, to meditate on the importance of cultural WED interpretation. And he argues that art and religion WED co-existed for centuries, and should be able to do so again. 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 Beyond Bolt: The Human Limits b01ks9zq (Listen) WED The motto of the modern Olympic Games is citius, altius, WED fortius; translated as fast-er, high-er, strong-er. We WED continually want and expect records to be broken and human WED sporting performance to improve year-on-year. But can we WED really expect athletes to improve forever? Jonathan Edwards, WED who still holds the world Triple Jump record 17 years after WED setting it, explores when and more importantly why, we'll WED get to the limits of human endeavour? WED WED Sporting performance seems to be down to biology, hard WED training and the occasional technological intervention- but WED some unexpected societal forces have an influence on what WED makes the perfect athlete: population mixing and growth; WED world wars; globalization and even the cycle of the Olympics WED themselves. WED WED Even something as simple as population size has an WED influence. A researcher at Stanford University, California WED has compared thoroughbred horses, greyhounds and humans. WED Both greyhounds and horses speeds have plateaued - for WED horses there has been no improvements in race times since WED the 1940s possibly because they have been bred from a small WED population of Arabian stallions in the 18th century. And WED while humans still have a growing population, according to WED his research humans are rapidly approaching their plateau WED with times, distances, heights and speeds just level off? WED His analysis says we are getting close to that point and WED that no man will ever run faster than 9.48 seconds in the WED 100m. Will that man be Usain Bolt and will he do it in 2012? WED WED Jonathan uncovers new research by scientists who've found WED data from races going back 120 years to the original modern WED Olympics in 1896 and finds out about why war, globalization WED and even the Olympics are influencing our ability to perform WED in unexpected ways. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01ks653 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01kpy3j (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01ks9zs (Listen) WED Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ks9zv (Listen) WED Ancient Light, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode of Ancient Light by John Banville, actor WED Alexander Cleave recalls both the joys and the damp of the WED secret place of rendezvous that Mrs Gray and he made their WED own, that long lost summer. WED And the new script arrives. WED WED The reader is Dermot Crowley. WED The abridger is Sally Marmion. WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Listen Against b01752w7 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED WED Listen Against is the comedy that takes the back off your WED radio and television, fiddles round with the programmes WED inside and then puts them all back the wrong way round. WED WED Using "beautifully crafted, scalpel sharp" (Gillian WED Reynolds) mash-ups of current and archive programmes Listen WED Against creates a "sly, sharp, smart, surreal, satirical" WED world (Sunday Telegraph) where Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes WED look back in amplitude of at a week's worth of broadcasting WED like a media tapeworm going through a dog. WED WED Like "the mischievous offspring of Points of View and The WED Day Today" (Observer) fictional listeners bombard Listen WED Against with fictional letters and emails complaining about WED half-fictional programmes while fictional guests and real WED life presenters (this series includes Melvyn Bragg, Jeremy WED Vine and Vanessa Feltz) argue with each other in "a gem of a WED satirical swoop at radio and television." (Guardian). WED WED Written and created by Jon Holmes WED Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes WED WED Cast: WED Kevin Eldon (Brass Eye, Big Train) WED Justin Edwards (The Thick of It) WED Sarah Hadland (Miranda) WED James Bachman (Mitchell & Webb) WED Kim Wall (Big Train , IT Crowd) WED David Mara (RSC & Donmar Warehouse) WED WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01ks9zx (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 JULY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01kpy4c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01kq2m6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kpy4f (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kpy4h (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kpy4k (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01kpy4m (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ksbm0 (Listen) THU A spiritual reflection and prayer to begin the day, THU presented by The Revd Johnston McKay. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01ksbm2 (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 b01ksc38 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01ksc3b (Listen) THU Series 8, Restraining Patients in Intensive Care THU THU Monty has double pneumonia and is in intensive care. A THU ventilator is breathing for him and he's sedated so that he THU can tolerate a breathing tube in his throat. Given the risks THU associated with being intubated in this way, the team are THU keen to get him off the ventilator as soon as possible, so THU that he can start breathing for himself. THU THU After several days of antibiotics, Monty improves. So they THU stop the sedation, wake him up, and remove the breathing THU tube. The plan is for Monty to wear a mask to support his THU breathing until he is strong enough to breathe for himself. THU THU But Monty is autistic, and as soon as the mask is placed on THU his face, he pushes it away. The nurses put it back on, but THU again he bats it off. The nurses persist, but Monty THU struggles and lashes out at them. Exhausted, he starts going THU blue. Fearing for Monty's life, the team re-sedate him and THU put him back on the ventilator. THU THU As his life hangs in the balance, what lengths should the THU medical team go to to get Monty to accept the life-saving THU treatment he is struggling against? Should they physically THU restrain him? THU THU Joan Bakewell chairs the discussion between medical and THU ethical experts. THU THU Producer: Beth Eastwood. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01kq31r (Listen) THU Burying the Typewriter, Episode 4 THU THU The consequences of her father's actions are soon brought THU home to Carmen, who discovers the insidious methods of the THU state first-hand. THU THU Reader: Anamaria Marinca THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Produced by Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ksc5v (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ksc5x (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 5, Episode 4 THU THU Sam's affair with Mrs Lane continues, even after he is THU introduced to her husband. On the way home he is tempted by THU the whores on Fleet Street but manages to resist. He visits THU Llewellyn who has a new baby and Sam's childlessness is THU discussed by the ladies present - they offer various THU remedies from lying upside down in bed and eating toast, to THU drinking sage juice. THU THU Sound by Nigel Lewis THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01kt43g (Listen) THU In just three years China's main microblogging site, Sina THU Weibo, has surpassed Twitter's entire global membership. THU More than 300 million Chinese are now tweeting, with THU millions more joining the national conversation every month. THU Shanghai-based journalist Duncan Hewitt finds out how THU microblogging is changing China. THU THU Thanks to social media China is witnessing the emergence of THU a civil society of activists and justice-seekers. These THU 'netizens' are using Sina Weibo and other services to THU publicise miscarriages of justice, instances of corruption THU and environmental issues and force local and central THU government to act. The victim of a horrific attack shows THU Duncan how her desperate plea for redress on Sina Weibo led THU to a nationwide outcry. In Beijing he meets the dogs saved THU from a grisly death in the dog-eating South thanks to THU flashmob rescuers organised on Sina Weibo. And a group of THU mothers who met on Sina Weibo tell him about their campaign THU to promote breastfeeding across China. None of this was THU possible before the internet - but where will it all lead? THU THU While some subjects are banned, Sina Weibo has also given THU Chinese people a new freedom to voice opinions on the news, THU their lives and their country. THU THU Duncan meets the young people of Chengdu in Western China THU who are now part of a small but growing graffiti, hip-hop THU and dance scene. Just 15 years ago there was no way they THU could communicate with fellow fans, never mind the outside THU world. He'll visit Youku, China's YouTube, to watch their THU online X-Factor-style competition as it is filmed. And he'll THU meet the famous cartoonist using animation to ask questions THU about the materialism of the young and the detention of his THU fellow artist and friend, Ai Weiwei. THU THU 11:30 Ulster's Forgotten Darling b01kt43j (Listen) THU Helen Waddell was a medieval scholar, writer and poet. Born THU in Japan in 1889, she was the youngest child of a THU Presbyterian missionary from the Co Down area of Northern THU Ireland. THU THU At the age of eleven she returned to Ireland and lived the THU next twenty years with her step-mother in Belfast. Moving THU from Victoria College for girls to Queen's University in THU 1908, she quickly earned a reputation as a bright and THU brilliant student. In 1911 she graduated with a first class THU honours in English, followed by a Masters degree the next THU year. But by now Helen Waddell was at the start of a lost THU decade. Obliged to remain in Belfast as a companion to her THU step-mother, it would be a considerable number of years THU before she could pursue her academic and literary career as THU she moved from Somerville College, Oxford to London. THU THU From 1913, with the publication of her first book of poems THU "Lyrics from the Chinese" at the tender age of 19, to her THU height of her success in the late 1920s and 30s, Helen THU Waddell was to become a dominant figure in medieval THU scholarship and creative writing. With her books read by THU everyone from Queen Mary to factory workers, she cut a THU swathe across all social groups and was feted in the highest THU echelons of society. However, for a woman who felt deeply THU and wrote sensitively success mattered little, her passion THU was the imagination. THU THU Sadly Helen Waddell slipped quickly from the public THU consciousness as her career, which began so late in life, THU was cut short by illness. However, with a new revival of her THU work, Waddell is being rediscovered as a significant writer THU and a path breaker in her area of expertise. THU THU Fionola Meredith goes in search of the life and works of THU Helen Waddell. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01kt43l (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01kt43n (Listen) THU Basil D'Oliveira THU THU The New Elizabethans: Basil d'Oliveira. To mark the Diamond THU Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the THU men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its THU character. THU THU James Naughtie remembers the South African cricketer who THU became a British citizen. The D'Oliveira affair was a THU landmark in the South African story. Peter Hain, a young THU South African still in his twenties who was then leading THU protests against apartheid, said afterwards that Nelson THU Mandela - in prison on Robben Island at the time - told him THU later that the episode (South Africa's refusal to welcome an THU English Test cricket team that included a non-white player) THU was "decisive" in the fight against apartheid. THU THU Producer: Sukey Firth. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01kpy4p (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01kt43q (Listen) THU National and international news by BBC Radio 4. Forty-five THU minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To THU share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Hardeep Seeks Serenity b01kt7zw (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU In today's programme, Hardeep meets Maria Mansari, a THU foster-parent in Bristol. With two grown-up boys she's THU currently engaged in the long-term foster care of a THU teenager. One of the most challenging of jobs, often dealing THU with disturbed children, she talks to Hardeep about how she THU manages to let a bit of peace and serenity into her life - THU much of it coming from the reward she receives from the THU changes she witnesses in the children. THU THU Producer: Richard Bannerman THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01ks9zg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01kt43s (Listen) THU The Womb-Whisperer THU THU by Charlotte Bogard Macleod THU THU Until the rights of children are met, the Unborn choose to THU die in the womb. The Unborn choose to die in incubators. The THU world is ending. Only Martha can help. She is pregnant and THU persuasive. She is the Womb-Whisperer. THU THU Martha ..... Juliet Aubrey THU Ed ..... Shaun Dooley THU Riot ..... Ryan Watson THU Adela ..... Francine Chamberlain THU Sean ..... Rikki Lawton THU Sonographer ..... Adjoa Andoh THU THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01kt43v (Listen) THU Hampstead Heath Ponds THU THU Jules Hudson explores the waters of Hampstead Heath which THU have been used for over 200 years by champion swimmers and THU year round bathers. How and why did they come to be and what THU stories can they tell? How has the landscape around them THU changes and what is it about them that still draws over a THU quarter of a million visitors a year? And what does the THU future hold for them? THU Jules Hudson is joined by Caitlin Davies who has swum in the THU ponds all her life to find out more about these unique THU ponds. THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Lizz Pearson. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01kr7ny (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01kr7qf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01kt43x (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01kt43z (Listen) THU Science programme reporting on developments across the THU disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, THU conveying the excitement they feel for their research THU projects. THU THU 17:00 PM b01kt441 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kpy4r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b01kt443 (Listen) THU Olympic Special, Episode 2 THU THU The sitcom set in hell returns with a two part special. Six THU years ago London won the right to host the biggest sporting THU event in the world and with typical modesty the Brits have THU barely mentioned it ever since. Well now the news has THU reached Satan in Hell and he decides to have a little look THU into this sporting event. THU THU In part one he finds out how it all began by going back to THU ancient Greece - a time when Greece had great philosophers, THU big ideas and a bit of cash. THU THU In part two he transports historian Edith from the chaos of THU Hell up to London in two thousand and twelve so she can THU appreciate real chaos. THU THU Written by and starring Andy Hamilton as Satan and also THU starring Annette Crosbie as Edith. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01kt445 (Listen) THU Tracy has a bone to pick with Emma. Meanwhile Ruairi shows THU his entrepreneurial spirit. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01kt447 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who reports on Something From Nothing, a THU documentary about the art of rap, directed by musician and THU performer Ice-T. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ksc5x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01kt449 (Listen) THU As investigations continue into claims the Libor interest THU rate was manipulated, Simon Cox examines allegations of THU collusion between banks and asks who has lost out. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01kt44c (Listen) THU Euro Peril THU THU As the euro struggles for survival, continental businesses THU are caught up in the maelstrom. Peter Day finds out what THU they make of their plight and what sort of future they see THU for the single currency and the euro zone. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01ksc3b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:45 Cricket Cabaret b01l04nh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Saturday] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01kpy4t (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01kt4cf (Listen) THU Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01kt4ch (Listen) THU Ancient Light, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode of Ancient Light by John Banville, THU Alexander Cleave enters the strange new world of film and THU discovers that the man he is to play is shrouded in mystery. THU Memories of Mrs Gray continue to haunt him. THU THU The reader is Dermot Crowley. THU The abridger is Sally Marmion. THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b01kt4ck (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. THU It's a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it THU in the slightest. Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, THU wigshops and witches, murderous pensioners and squirrels of THU this delightful land as they go about their bizarre THU business. THU THU A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe. THU THU Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel THU Stubbings, Clare Thompson and Marcia Warren. THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01kt4cm (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 JULY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01kpy5n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01kq31r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kpy5q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kpy5s (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kpy5v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01kpy5x (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kt6qk (Listen) FRI A spiritual reflection and prayer to begin the day, FRI presented by The Revd Johnston McKay. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01kt6qm (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 b01kt6qp (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01kr7q1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01kq345 (Listen) FRI Burying the Typewriter, Episode 5 FRI FRI Life is becoming untenable for the Bugan family and when a FRI courier is needed, it's Carmen who volunteers. FRI FRI Reader: Anamaria Marinca FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Produced by Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01kt6qr (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Sheila McClennon. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01kt6qt (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 5, Episode 5 FRI FRI Pepys and his household rise early to go and see the King FRI launch the Royal Catherine. Sam begins another affair and FRI his current mistress, Mrs Lane, begs for his help. The year FRI ends badly when Sam and Elizabeth have a bitter row that FRI ends in violence. FRI FRI Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Laptop Library b01kt6qw (Listen) FRI One-time librarian Laurie Taylor visits arguably the world's FRI most comprehensive newspaper archive, at Colindale in North FRI London, which is scheduled for closure. FRI FRI This British Library outpost is both unprepossessing and yet FRI unfailingly valuable to the researchers from around the FRI world who have used it over the past century - from FRI distinguished historians to ordinary members of the public FRI exploring family history or a local football club's history. FRI FRI Colindale boasts an archive of some 52,000 local, regional, FRI national and international titles, but time marches on. FRI Space is limited, and many of the original newspapers FRI require up-to-date climate control care if they are to FRI survive. These will find their way to a new purpose-built FRI facility at Boston Spa in Yorkshire, while new provision FRI will be made at the British Library's St Pancras site for FRI readers of original material and the vast stock of FRI newspapers on microfilm. Parallel to these developments is FRI the British Library's ongoing Newspaper Archive project, FRI which is making 40 million digitised newspaper pages FRI available online on a fee-paying basis. FRI FRI Laptop Library is in part a requiem for the much-loved FRI Colindale, with the memories of those who have found often FRI unlikely uses for archive newspapers - from a seismological FRI consultant to a poster historian. FRI FRI But the programme also looks forward to the new online FRI opportunities for anyone to explore ' the first draft of FRI history' - not only from the British Library but also from FRI other archives in the UK and around the world, such as the FRI Trove online newspaper library in Australia. FRI FRI What though may be lost in the move from leafing through FRI real newspaper pages to clicking a mouse? FRI FRI Producer: Andrew Green FRI An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01kt6qy (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI FRI Mark Bonnar and Sarah Alexander star in Marcella Evaristi's FRI comedy of shared parenting. FRI FRI Mimi and Joe are determined to be the best kind of divorced FRI parents, supportive and as good as any traditional set up. FRI Mimi has even salvaged her ex's best suit from the charity FRI shop where it was meanly dumped by Joe's most recent FRI ex-wife. But Joe keeps getting misdirected post from the FRI fetish shop across the road and Mimi cannot keep her prying FRI fingers away from a big fat intriguing parcel. FRI FRI Meanwhile their daughter Lucy has discovered an ethical way FRI of eating that does not involve putting Quorn in her mouth - FRI because her hero Mark Zuckerberg has said eating meat is not FRI immoral if you catch your own dinner. So Lucy is going to FRI steal a chicken. From a back garden in Highgate. It's a FRI brilliant plan, especially since she has told her brother FRI Tom he is saving the chicken bound for a battery farm. FRI FRI But what are all those funny handcuffs doing on her dad's FRI sitting room floor? FRI FRI Joe ...... Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi ....... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ...... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ...... Phoebe Abbott FRI Jennifer ...... Emily Bruni FRI Freddie ...... Oli Dillon FRI FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01kt7cq (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01kt7cs (Listen) FRI George Best FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: George Best. FRI FRI James Naughtie considers the life and achievements of the FRI footballer from Northern Ireland, whose exceptional talent FRI was harnessed by Manchester United in the 1960's, where he FRI rose rapidly to the top of the game. FRI FRI Success gave him the whole world at his feet, and while he FRI is admired as one of the greatest ever footballers, Best FRI came to represent a playboy figure and was arguably better FRI known for performances off the pitch - his love life and FRI lavish alcohol fuelled lifestyle - than on it. FRI FRI Producer: Alison Hughes. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01kpy5z (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01kt7cv (Listen) FRI National and international news presented by Shaun Ley. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Hardeep Seeks Serenity b01kt80j (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final programme of the series, Hardeep Singh Kohli FRI talks to the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan, who is FRI currently preparing for his part in the opening ceremony for FRI the Olympics. He talks to Hardeep between rehearsals. FRI FRI One of the country's leading dance artists, winner of the FRI Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production this year, Akram FRI Khan has dazzled audiences since he founded his Company FRI twelve years ago. With a technique that began with his study FRI of Indian Kathak dance, and was followed by his work in FRI contemporary dance styles, his productions and performances FRI are a unique blend of influences. FRI FRI The words 'speed', 'energy', 'stillness' and 'serenity' are FRI used to describe the impact he has on audiences, and he FRI talks to Hardeep about that aspect of his art and approach FRI to life. Indian classical dance forms are based on nine FRI emotions, including shanta (serenity). Khan talks about the FRI spiritual side of his art, and his belief that dance offers FRI a brief moment to dream. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01kt445 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01kt7cx (Listen) FRI Zola FRI FRI by Richard Monks. FRI FRI The story behind barefoot runner Zola Budd's attempt to win FRI gold at the 1984 Olympics. FRI FRI Zola Budd ..... Jessica Sian FRI Denis Howell ..... David Calder FRI Frank Budd ..... Jack Klaff FRI Brian Vine ..... Don Gilet FRI Sir David English ..... Patrick Brennan FRI Pieter Labuschagne ..... Harry Livingstone FRI Geoffrey Howe ..... Robert Blythe FRI Andrew Landen ..... Sam Alexander FRI Mrs. Darbo ..... Amaka Okafor FRI Reporter ..... Joe Sims FRI FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01krz3z (Listen) FRI RHS Flower Show Tatton Park FRI FRI Eric Robson and panellists Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank FRI and Matthew Biggs welcome GQT listeners to the RHS Flower FRI Show Tatton. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Opening Lines b01kt7cz (Listen) FRI Series 14, The Wild FRI FRI A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging FRI short story writers their radio debut. FRI FRI Unspoken tensions between a husband and wife escalate during FRI a harsh Alaskan winter in this emotionally charged tale by FRI Gerri Brightwell. FRI FRI Read by Trevor White FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01kt7d1 (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 More or Less b01kt7d3 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. Presented by Tim FRI Harford. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01kt7d5 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kpy61 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01kt7d7 (Listen) FRI Series 37, Episode 7 FRI FRI Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes join Steve Punt and FRI Hugh Dennis for a look at the week's headlines. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01kt7m2 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Graham Harvey FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Ruairi Donovan ..... George David FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Rosa Makepeace ..... Anna Piper FRI Natalie Hollins ..... Maddie Glasbey FRI Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly FRI Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01kt7m4 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01kt6qt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01kt7m6 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from All Hallows Catholic School, Farnham, Surrey FRI with QC and Labour peer, Helena Kennedy; Conservative peer FRI and former Chancellor, Norman Lamont; blogger, Owen Jones FRI and columnist and former Sun editor, Kelvin Mackenzie FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01kt7m8 (Listen) FRI John Gray reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01l0j9f (Listen) FRI Leverage FRI FRI By Simon Passmore. FRI FRI A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the FRI funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly FRI questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention FRI computer files, or give her anything as a keepsake? Helen's FRI suspicions mount as she retraces his last movements. Her FRI discoveries put her in the firing line. A fast-paced, FRI psychological thriller. FRI FRI Helen . . . . . Claire Foy FRI David . . . . . Blake Ritson FRI Mark . . . . . Charlie Cox FRI Kendra . . . . . Sally Orrock FRI Clare . . . . . Joanna Monro FRI Jamie . . . . . Nyasha Hatendi FRI Ray . . . . . Sean Baker FRI FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01kpy63 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01kt7mb (Listen) FRI Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01kt7md (Listen) FRI Ancient Light, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode of Ancient Light by John Banville, FRI Alexander Cleave remembers the risks Mrs Gray and he took in FRI that intoxicating summer, and learns that his co-star, the FRI glamorous Dawn Devonport, has also suffered a bereavement. FRI FRI The reader is Dermot Crowley. FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion. FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01ks53g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Under Jacques Demy's Umbrella b012fcyc (Listen) FRI For many cinema-goers, it's not the music of The Beatles but FRI the films of Jacques Demy that define the '60s. The poet FRI Sarah Cuddon's love for them developed a generation later. FRI FRI In collaboration with the composer Michel Legrand, Demy FRI re-invented musical-cinema, and introduced whimsical ideas FRI such as having all the dialogue sung and the design FRI colour-coded in pastel pinks, blues and yellows.' FRI FRI The heart-breaking romance 'Les Parapluies de Cherbourg' FRI starred Catherine Deneuve and its more playful sequel, 'Les FRI Desmoiselles de Rochefort', paired her with her sister FRI Francoise Dorleac, as well as George Chakiris and Gene FRI Kelly. These films were described as being 'en couleurs et FRI en chante'. And their tales of love lost and found retain FRI the power enchant still. FRI FRI Will Gregory, one half of the pop duo Goldfrapp, is a huge FRI fan, as is the poet Sean Street who was living in Paris when FRI 'Les Desmoiselles' was released in the summer of 1967 FRI shortly after Dorleac's tragic death in a car crash. Geoff FRI Andrew of the British Film Institute places these films in FRI context and Sarah Cuddon evokes Demy's bringing of Hollywood FRI to these French Atlantic resorts. FRI FRI The programme also includes contributions from archive by FRI Catherine Deneuve, Michel Legrand and the late Jacques Demy FRI himself. FRI FRI Producer: Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
13 July, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 14/07/2012 - 20/07/2012
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