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SAT SATURDAY 21 JULY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01kt38l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01kq345 (Listen) SAT Burying the Typewriter, Episode 5 SAT SAT Life is becoming untenable for the Bugan family and when a SAT courier is needed, it's Carmen who volunteers. SAT SAT Burying The Typewriter is Carmen Bugan's memoir of growing SAT up in Romania in the 1970s and 1980s when the country was SAT governed by Ceausescu, and his network of agents and SAT informers, the Securitate, exerted a malign influence in SAT every sphere of society. SAT SAT Abridged by Pete Nichols SAT Produced by Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kt38n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kt38q (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kt38s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01kt38v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kt7q1 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh SAT Ibrahim Mogra. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01kt7q3 (Listen) SAT One listener describes feeling like she'd dropped off the SAT planet after the husband she was caring for died. An SAT Englishman in Scotland who wants independence and a SAT Scotswoman in England who wants to remain within the Union SAT share their views. Martha Kearney reads Your News and a SAT brand new song written for Radio 4 'Simply the Pest-on'. SAT Presented by Jennifer Tracey iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01kt38x (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01kt38z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01kt43v (Listen) SAT Hampstead Heath Ponds SAT SAT Jules Hudson explores the waters of Hampstead Heath which SAT have been used for over 200 years by champion swimmers and SAT year round bathers. How and why did they come to be and what SAT stories can they tell? How has the landscape around them SAT changes and what is it about them that still draws over a SAT quarter of a million visitors a year? And what does the SAT future hold for them? SAT Jules Hudson is joined by Caitlin Davies who has swum in the SAT ponds all her life to find out more about these unique SAT ponds. SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer: Lizz Pearson. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01kxzqr (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Developing business opportunities in the countryside. The SAT government says it is investing in rural enterprises with SAT promises of super fast rural broadband. Doing business in SAT the country is more expensive in many ways but there are SAT advantages. SAT Charlotte Smith visits converted barns in Staffordshire to SAT talk to businesses that have moved out of the town and into SAT the country. Sarah Falkingham visits a farm shop that is SAT using a loyalty card scheme to encourage more shoppers. And SAT Anna Hill visits a village pub where the community is taking SAT over the business. SAT SAT The presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Emma SAT Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01kt391 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01kxzqt (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by Justin Webb SAT and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01kxzqw (Listen) SAT Tanni Grey-Thompson; John McCarthy punting in Cambridge; SAT Gary Kemp's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with paralympian Dame Tanni SAT Grey-Thompson; former beautician Georgina Blackwell who took SAT on a local legal battle and has just graduated with a First SAT in Law; Azzy B who is now friends with the boy he used to SAT bully; Peggy Chadwick who secretly took the place of her SAT twin sister in the choir at the closing ceremony of the 1948 SAT Olympics; John McCarthy goes punting in Cambridge; Anne SAT Jones explains why a snuff box is the thing about her; SAT Michael Turner describes how he's travelled the world in the SAT footsteps of Sir Francis Drake; and pop star Gary Kemp SAT shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 SSSHHH! (The Best-Read Office in the World) b01kxzqy (Listen) SAT It's an office in which the telephone rarely rings. But when SAT it does, hundreds turn to stare in collective disapproval, SAT especially when the ringtone is a snatch of Jay-Z. The SAT world's knowledge lives here - although it is to be seen SAT only in tiny glimpses: a pile of books or manuscripts or SAT maps on a desk. Most of these treasures live elsewhere, in SAT the basements that are never seen - which are closely SAT guarded. Who are the people of the stacks, those 600 SAT kilometres of bookshelves that roam 24 metres underground SAT the British Library? What is the secret of the heartbeat of SAT the building, the magnificent George III library that sits, SAT a space within a space, in the centre of building? Who was SAT this building1s architect, and how did he create such an SAT extraordinary environment not just for learning and SAT creativity, but also for social exchange? SAT SAT With its cavernous modern vistas and restaurants, outsiders SAT sometimes compare the British library to a busy airport. But SAT it is not: it is a five star resort for people who read. And SAT like the most popular resorts it has peak holiday seasons SAT when eager readers must arrive early, put their metaphorical SAT towel on a deck chair to guarantee intellectual sunshine SAT that day. Before the doors open at 9.30 the queue outside SAT snakes as far as the perpetual traffic jam that is the SAT Euston Road. There are no seat privileges. SAT SAT Who said the library was an anachronism? SAT SAT Every day thousands of pages of novels and film scripts, SAT doctorates and popular histories, poems and business plans SAT are written here, unknown to anyone but the author. SAT Professors and students commune with books and journals, SAT notebooks and IPads, and, most of all, with the gods and SAT goddesses of creativity, in the fervent hope that the day's SAT writing goes well. SAT SAT Start-up companies learn about intellectual property, SAT novelists travel mentally to conceptualize faraway lands, SAT resting actors work on that novel. Digerati upstairs SAT formulate the library of the future. SAT SAT This is not a university, though there are many students; SAT neither a public library, though it's free to join. It's a SAT brains trust and an intellectual catwalk, a competition in SAT erudition and eccentricity, obscurantism and silent comedy. SAT With the help of Robin Hunt - Reader 170890 - we'll discover SAT the peoples that inhabit the modernist jungle of the British SAT Library. SAT SAT Producer: Vera Frankl SAT A IGA production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01kxzr0 (Listen) SAT As the parliamentary year ends Steve Richards of the SAT Independent talks to Lord Lawson, Jack Straw and Sir Menzies SAT Campbell about the fortunes of their respective parties. SAT James Forsyth of the Spectator and Rachel Sylvester of The SAT Times reflect on what they say, and give their own SAT assessment of the political state of play. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01kxzr2 (Listen) SAT Pascale Harter's testing the mood in Spain in the week SAT hundreds of thousands made clear their disapproval of the SAT Madrid government's austerity measures. SAT SAT In France the new administration of President Francois SAT Hollande wants to restore prosperity without applying too SAT much austerity. But David Chazan says the difficulties are SAT piling up for the new man in the Elysee Palace. SAT SAT The Nigerian economy is leaking millions. Will Ross has been SAT to the Niger Delta to find out how people are helping SAT themselves to the country's most valuable resource, oil. SAT SAT Linda Pressley tells the extraordinary tale of the travels SAT of the corpse of Argentina's most famous First Lady, Eva SAT Peron. SAT SAT While eight thousand miles from Buenos Aires, Mark Bosworth SAT finds a hundred thousand Finns dancing the tango under the SAT midnight sun. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01l94zy (Listen) SAT A special summer edition of Money Box presented by Paul SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01kt7d7 (Listen) SAT Series 37, Episode 7 SAT SAT Olympic Security Buckles Under Pressure: in the week that SAT G4S announced it would not be able to provide security for SAT the Olympic Games, and David Cameron and Nick Clegg SAT relaunched their coalition, Nathan Caton, Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin and Jon Holmes join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis for a SAT look at the week's headlines. Nathan Caton looks at the John SAT Terry acquittal, Jon Holmes watches the Olympic torch go SAT past his street, and Mitch Benn finds the summer rain a SAT drag. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01kt393 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01kt395 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01kt7m6 (Listen) SAT Farnham, Surrey SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from All Hallows Catholic School, Farnham, Surrey SAT with QC and Labour peer, Helena Kennedy; Conservative peer SAT and former Chancellor, Norman Lamont; Independent columnist SAT and writer, Owen Jones and columnist and former Sun editor, SAT Kelvin Mackenzie SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01kxzr4 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01kxzr6 (Listen) SAT From Russia with Love SAT SAT It's 1955 and the Russians plan an act of terrorism. Choice SAT of target? James Bond. To be 'killed with ignominy': a major SAT sex scandal will leave his reputation, and that of MI6, in SAT tatters. SAT SAT Colonel Rosa Klebb of the KGB devises a plan to lure Bond SAT into their trap, using beautiful Corporal Tatiana Romanova SAT as bait - plus a Spektor, the latest Russian decoding SAT device. MI6 learns that Tatiana wants to defect and 'M' SAT orders Bond to Istanbul. When Tatiana makes contact she SAT seems to be in love with him - but is she? Either way, he SAT soon falls for her and they leave Istanbul together, SAT accompanied by larger-than-life Darko Kerim, Head of British SAT Intelligence in Turkey. The climax of the drama includes a SAT surprising confrontation between Bond and the murderous Rosa SAT Klebb. SAT SAT In writer Archie Scottney's brilliantly evocative 'radio SAT screenplay', we see another side to 007. Unsure of his SAT judgement, can he bring the lovely Tatiana safely to SAT England, along with the precious Spektor? Will the Russians SAT succeed in having Bond killed? If so, who is the would-be SAT murderer? SAT SAT This is Jarvis & Ayres' third James Bond dramatization. SAT SAT General/Rene ..... John Sessions SAT Kronsteen ..... Mark Gatiss SAT Major/KGB director/Barman ..... Jon Glover SAT Rosa Klebb ..... Eileen Atkins SAT James Bond ..... Toby Stephens SAT May ..... Aileen Mowat SAT 'M' ...... John Standing SAT Moneypenny ..... Janie Dee SAT 'Q' ..... Julian Sands SAT Kerim .....Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Manager/Conductor ..... Matthew Wolf SAT Tatiana ..... Olga Fedori SAT Announcer ..... Micky Stratford SAT Nash ..... Nathaniel Parker SAT Ian Fleming ..... Martin Jarvis SAT SAT Specially composed music by Mark Holden and Michael Lopez SAT SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01kxzt7 (Listen) SAT Angela Neustatter. Towie. The Only Way Is Essex SAT SAT The Essex teacher fighting back against the"TOWIE" SAT stereotype. Why author Angela Neustatter thinks we need to SAT think again about the value of time spent at home. Advice SAT from experts on how to get that first job once you graduate. SAT Why Turkey is attempting to outlaw elective caesareans. The SAT "extreme choreographer" Elizabeth Streb on what it takes to SAT be one of her "soldiers. Plus is it possible to have a truly SAT feminist wedding? And music from pianist HJ Lim SAT SAT Producer Jane Thurlow SAT Presenter Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01kxzt9 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01kt7q3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01kt397 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01kt399 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kt39c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01kxzy2 (Listen) SAT Danny is sucked into a black hole with the actor, comedian SAT and particle physicist Ben Miller whose book 'It's Not SAT Rocket Science' sets out to explain some of the most SAT fundamental and amazing scientific facts - and "let's do it SAT quickly, while Maths isn't looking". SAT SAT Polishing his halo and scattering fairy dust as he goes, SAT comes John Caudwell. He's a billionaire, entrepreneur and SAT philanthropist. John is 'The Angel' who every week will SAT decide who out of six hopefuls will get a £100,000 SAT investment from his own pocket to realise their business SAT dreams. But this is no Dragon's Den - rather than judging SAT them on their ideas, he will be judging them on their SAT personalities and business acumen. The devil's in the SAT detail. SAT SAT Jo Bunting is transported to the tree-lined boulevards of SAT gay Paris with the romantic novelist and Shakespearean SAT scholar, Eloisa James, whose memoir about her year spent in SAT the French capital 'en famille' is a joyful testament to the SAT joyful pleasures in life. SAT SAT Danny is Upstairs Downstairs with novelist Fay Weldon with SAT her new book 'Habits of the House. The plot follows the SAT fortunes of the Dilberne family in Belgrave Square and is SAT sure to put a spring in the step of any 'Downtown Abbey' SAT aficionado. SAT SAT With music from Lazy Habits - the 8 piece Hip Hop crew whose SAT original sound mixes beats, rhymes and brass - who perform SAT 'Bulletin' from their self-titled debut album. SAT SAT And the temperature will be rising in the Loose Ends studio SAT with the luminous and magnificent Concha Buika, the SAT 'flamenco queen', whose passionate and versatile singing SAT style have made her a huge star in her native Spain and all SAT over Europe. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01kxzy4 (Listen) SAT Series 12, Like Maria SAT SAT In a week when the school year ends, and the government's SAT Troubled Families Team reports on funding for interventions SAT with problem families, the award-winning writer Kate Clanchy SAT imagines one child's last day of term. SAT SAT The Deputy Head ..... Philip Jackson SAT The Teacher ..... Sarah Smart SAT The Teaching Assistant ..... Tina Gray SAT SAT Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting SAT SAT As well as being one of Britain's leading contemporary SAT poets, Kate Clanchy has won the BBC National Short Story SAT Competition, and written ten plays for radio. Her political SAT memoir 'Antigona and Me' was dramatised on radio as 'What Is SAT She Doing Here?', and her novel, 'Meeting The English', will SAT be published in 2013. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01kxzy6 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Kamila Shamsie, SAT historian Dominic Sandbrook and film-maker Carol Morley SAT review the week's cultural highlights including The Dark SAT Knight Rises SAT SAT The Dark Knight Rises is the final film in Christopher SAT Nolan's Batman trilogy. Christian Bale reprises his role as SAT the caped crusader, coming out of seclusion after seven SAT years to save Gotham from another existential threat. SAT SAT Dutch author Herman Koch's novel The Dinner has already SAT become a best-seller across Europe. The book's narrator - SAT Paul - is having dinner at an exclusive restaurant with his SAT brother Serge and their two wives, but the agenda behind the SAT meal is driven by an outrage committed by their respective SAT sons. SAT SAT Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre production of SAT Shakespeare's rarely performed play Timon of Athens stars SAT Simon Russell Beale. Timon is a wealthy businessman whose SAT abundant generosity wins him huge popularity. But when he SAT falls on hard times, his erstwhile friends are not prepared SAT to bail him out and he descends into misanthropy and SAT destitution. SAT SAT The Radio 4 series Amanda Vickery On...Men sees the social SAT historian exploring the way in which modern masculinity has SAT developed from various historical constructs. Each episode SAT deals with a different era and the ideals of male behaviour SAT that arose in it. SAT SAT Tate Modern in London has just opened a new space dedicated SAT to performance and video art. The Tanks were formerly huge SAT oil tanks used when Bankside power station was still SAT operational. The inaugural exhibition comprises work by Sung SAT Hwan Kim, Lis Rhodes and Suzanne Lacy and dance performances SAT by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01kxzy8 (Listen) SAT The Paperback Poets SAT SAT Paul Farley joins other poets to remember and celebrate the SAT Penguin Modern Poets series which started life fifty years SAT ago. The slim volumes - selections from three contemporary SAT poets in each - were familiar on many bookshelves from the SAT 1960s on. They were famously useful as badges of hipsterdom; SAT many a girl or boy was wooed thanks to a paperback leaning SAT from the pocket of a corduroy jacket or produced from the SAT woolly lining of an Afghan coat. But also many a poet was SAT introduced to the reading public in a cheap and accessible SAT format that previously hadn't existed. And in The Mersey SAT Sound - Penguin Modern Poets Number 10, featuring Adrian SAT Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten - the most successful SAT book of poetry ever published in Britain was born. SAT SAT Joining Paul to remember the impact of being included in the SAT series or of reading it are poets Andrew Motion, Jo SAT Shapcott, Michael Longley, Roger McGough, Robin Robertson, SAT and Simon Armitage. Each poet reads a poem of their own and SAT one of their favourites from the series. Tony Lacey SAT editorial director at Penguin remembers joining the firm and SAT trying to revive the series a second time around. And Paul SAT also visits the Penguin Archive at Bristol University SAT Library where he is able to secure a copy of the CV Roger SAT McGough typed out when asked to promote The Mersey Sound and SAT which details his favourite colour - orange - and his SAT favourite food - chicken curry. Would he say the same today? SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01kr7qc (Listen) SAT The Graduate, Episode 1 SAT SAT It's the summer of 1963 in suburban California and Benjamin SAT Braddock has the world at his feet. He's just graduated from SAT university with a teaching scholarship, his dad has bought SAT him a fancy new Italian sports car, and all the Braddocks' SAT friends and neighbours have been invited to a house party to SAT celebrate. There's just one problem. Benjamin refuses to SAT leave his room. He's worried about his future. His parents SAT are perplexed. The stalemate is broken when Ben agrees to SAT give the wife of his father's business partner, Mrs SAT Robinson, a lift home. She's the same age as his mother, SAT fabulously sexy, and bent on seduction. SAT SAT CAST: Benjamin Braddock - Danny Mahoney, Mr Braddock - SAT William Hope, Mrs Braddock - Laura Brook, Elaine - Samantha SAT Dakin, Mrs Robinson - Sian Thomas, Mr Robinson - Michael SAT Crossman, Wendy - Julia Coulter, Carl - David Blackwell, SAT Student - Stella Martin. SAT SAT The Graduate has been adapted from Charles Webb's novel by SAT Polly Thomas. Polly is a Sony award-winning director and SAT producer of radio drama. Her theatre work includes directing SAT for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Royal Exchange Theatre SAT Manchester; and the Manchester Literature Festival launch of SAT Margaret Atwood's new book, The Year of the Flood. SAT SAT A BBC Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01kt39f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01ks9zl (Listen) SAT It's hard to look at pictures of 85 year old Kamba tribesman SAT Paul Nzilli and not feel moved. This frail, slight man in a SAT coat that's a few sizes too big for him, leaning on his SAT walking stick outside the High Court in London is one of SAT three Kenyans who are survivors of Britain's suppression of SAT the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950's. They're fighting for SAT compensation from the UK government, saying they were beaten SAT and tortured - Mr Nzilli says he was castrated, on the SAT orders of British officers who were battling rebellion in SAT what was then still a part of the Empire. Foreign Office SAT lawyers say the events took place too long ago for there to SAT be a fair trial. The issue here is not just about the SAT practicalities of gathering evidence and the frailty of SAT memory. Would we argue for a statute of limitations on SAT Holocaust crimes from WWII? Yet, if this case succeeds it SAT could open the flood gates for thousands of claims from SAT Kenyans and the citizens of other countries who suffered in SAT the turmoil of the dying days of the Empire. Should we SAT really hold the present government accountable in the law SAT courts for the history and morality of the British Empire? SAT Each of the cases may be terrible in their individual SAT detail, but is this process about justice and a proper moral SAT evaluation of the past? Or is it just moralizing about the SAT past by those who have a particular political axe to grind SAT in the present? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Clifford Longley, Anne SAT McElvoy and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT Witnesses: SAT Esther Stanford-Xosei - Community advocate and broadcaster SAT Lawrence James - Historian SAT Lee Jasper - Campaigner for social justice, former Senior SAT Policy Director for Equalities & Policing for London SAT Nick Lloyd - Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, SAT King's College at the Joint Services Command Staff College, SAT Defence Academy of the UK. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01ks2z0 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 13 SAT SAT (13/13) SAT The 2012 series of the music quiz reaches the Final, with SAT Paul Gambaccini asking questions on all varieties of music. SAT The three contestants have come through every stage of the SAT competition so far with flying colours: but the range of SAT their musical knowledge will be rigorously tested in this SAT Final stage. SAT SAT As usual the questions encompass the classics, film music, SAT show tunes, jazz, and six decades of rock and pop. The SAT Finalists, who come from Swindon, London and Chelmsford, SAT will each be hoping they'll be the one to lift the 26th SAT Counterpoint champion's trophy. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poems from the Pennines b01kr7qh (Listen) SAT Poet Simon Armitage takes us on a journey round the Stanza SAT Stones - new poems on a theme of water carved into the SAT Pennine rocks. SAT SAT The poet Simon Armitage has been involved in a project to SAT write six specially commissioned poems and have them carved SAT into six stones along the Watershed of the Pennine moorland SAT from Marsden to Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The area is close SAT to Simon Armitage's heart as he grew up in Marsden and still SAT lives in the Pennine area. The poems take the theme of water SAT in six different states - rain, mist, snow, puddle, dew, and SAT beck and look at our relationship with water and our SAT moorland. SAT SAT Over the last couple of years, the project (commissioned by SAT Ilkley Literature Festival and with money from the 2012 SAT Cultural Olympiad) has taken shape with the help of Land SAT Architect Tom Lonsdale who assessed the rocks and land for SAT suitable sites with Simon. SAT SAT Each stone has been carved by hand by the stone letter SAT carver Pip Hall - a process that has taken two to three SAT weeks per stone. The final stone, the Beck Stone, saw Pip SAT carving while standing knee deep in water, in the middle of SAT a free flowing beck on Ilkley Moor. SAT SAT In this programme, Simon Armitage talks about the creative SAT process of writing the poetry and the challenge of writing SAT poems that may be read on the moors for a thousand years to SAT come. He also reveals the history of people carving words on SAT the rocks on the moors and looks at the nature of our SAT relationship with water. SAT SAT Armitage is not drawn however on the location or title of a SAT seventh stone and poem, hidden somewhere on the Pennine SAT watershed, to be discovered one day by a passing walker. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 JULY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01kxyr1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 In-Flight Entertainment b01ky19x (Listen) SUN In-Flight Entertainment SUN SUN A short story taken from Helen Simpson's collection, SUN In-Flight Entertainment. SUN SUN Alan, on a transatlantic flight, is delighted by an unusual SUN upgrade to a first class seat, but is to find his journey SUN disturbed by portents of doom. SUN SUN Reader: David Shaw-Parker. SUN SUN Abridged and Produced by Joanna Green SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kxyr5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kxyr7 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kxyr9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01kxyrc (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01ky43t (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Nicholas' Church, Leeds, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01ks9zn (Listen) SUN Series 3, Naif Al-Mutawa SUN SUN Naif Al-Mutawa discusses the importance of interpreting and SUN translating between cultures. SUN SUN Naif created The 99, the comic books featuring characters SUN based on Islamic culture and religion, but appealing to SUN universal virtues. In his Four Thought talk, he uses his own SUN experiences running up against extremism and wilful SUN misunderstanding, to meditate on the importance of cultural SUN interpretation. And he argues that art and religion SUN co-existed for centuries, and should be able to do so again. 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 b01kxyrf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01ky43w (Listen) SUN Manners Maketh Man SUN SUN Manners are the optional, unenforced standards of conduct SUN between humans. Like laws, they set down a means of SUN measuring behaviour, though without a policing service - SUN other than an informal 'punishment' of social disapproval. SUN SUN Tom Robinson considers how etiquette, politeness and SUN courtesy can evolve into a genuinely well-mannered empathy SUN that embodies full and proper respect in human relations. SUN SUN With reference to Judith 'Miss Manners' Martin, George SUN Washington and PJ O'Rourke and music by Couperin, David Salt SUN and Aretha Franklin. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01ky43y (Listen) SUN For this week's On Your Farm, Caz Graham explores what it's SUN like to farm land which hosts significant archaeological SUN sites. A survey is currently being carried out across 50 SUN square miles in the North Pennines which is unearthing many SUN historical finds, but how do these finds impact on local SUN farmers? Caz visits what's being called "England's best kept SUN roman secret", a roman fort which lies in the middle of a SUN 1000 acre farm near Alston to find out how one farmer is SUN diversifying to put Whitley Castle on the map. Presented by SUN Caz Graham. Produced by Anna Varle. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01kxyrh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01kxyrk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01ky440 (Listen) SUN The majority of Muslims being physically attacked, harassed SUN or intimidated because of their faith are women, according SUN to interim results from the UK's first ever 'official' SUN anti-Muslim violence helpline, Kevin Bocquet reports. SUN SUN Father Nadim Nasser is the only Syrian priest in the Church SUN of England. He speaks to Edward about the fears of the SUN Christian community in Syria. SUN SUN The Bishop of Durham has been appointed to the Banking SUN Standards Committee. He tells Edward what the cross party SUN enquiry is hoping to achieve. SUN SUN The British Library announced a project to digitise some SUN 25,000 pages of Mediaeval Arabic manuscripts this week. SUN Edward takes a look with the head of the British Library SUN Qatar Project Oliver Urquhart-Irvine. SUN SUN Matthew Kalman talks to Edward from Jerusalem about the SUN withdrawal of Kadima from the coalition government and SUN continuing controversy about Orthodox Jews not paying tax or SUN serving in the Israeli army. SUN SUN Next week the international Aids Conference takes place in SUN Washington. Former health minister Lord Fowler is attending SUN and speaks to Edward from the US capital. SUN SUN The Vatican bank still has a long way to go in terms of SUN financial transparency according to a report from the SUN Council of Europe. David Willey explains the story behind SUN the scandal plagued bank. SUN SUN Trevor Barnes reports from the Salvation Army's Hadleigh SUN Training Centre ahead of the Olympic Games. Hadleigh Farm is SUN the host venue for the mountain biking tournament and has SUN been in Salvation Army hands for 122 years. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01ky442 (Listen) SUN Cord SUN SUN Stefan Gates, food writer and TV presenter of Food Factory, SUN appeals on behalf of peacebuilding charity Cord. SUN Reg Charity: 1070684 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Cord. SUN SUN Cord SUN SUN Cord is an international peacebuilding charity working in SUN the arid deserts of Chad with 99,000 Sudanese living in SUN refugees camps. SUN SUN Life is tough for women in the camps, they are in fear of SUN being attacked and raped when they leave the camps to find SUN scarce firewood just so that they can cook and feed their SUN families. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01kxyrm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01kxyrp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01ky444 (Listen) SUN Stuart Townend, known and respected around the world as one SUN of the leading worship songwriters of his generation leads SUN the music at this year's service from the Keswick SUN Convention. "The race for failures" is the title of the SUN sermon on a text from Hebrews 12:1-2 preached by Simon SUN Manchester, Rector of St Thomas' Anglican Church in Sydney SUN Australia's North Shore. Leader: Peter Maiden. An annual SUN Bible Convention has been held in Keswick, Cumbria since SUN 1875 and this year's theme is 'Going the Distance - living SUN in the light of the future.' Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01kt7m8 (Listen) SUN Keynes' Insights SUN SUN John Gray takes a fresh look at the thinking of John Maynard SUN Keynes and wonders what he would have really thought about SUN the current economic crises and how to solve them. "It's SUN still Keynes from who we have most to learn. Not Keynes, the SUN economic engineer, who is invoked by his disciples today. SUN It's Keynes the sceptic, who understood that markets are as SUN prone to fits of madness as any other human institution and SUN who tried to envision a more intelligent variety of SUN capitalism". SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01ky446 (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 b01ky5gs (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Graham Harvey SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... John Yorke SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Ruairi Donovan ..... George David SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rosa Makepeace ..... Anna Piper SUN Natalie Hollins ..... Maddie Glasbey SUN Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01ky5gv (Listen) SUN Akram Khan SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the dancer and choreographer SUN Akram Khan. SUN SUN A child of Bengali immigrants, he started learning Indian SUN dance almost as soon as he could walk. Talent-spotted in his SUN teens, he went on to spend two years touring the world with SUN Peter Brook's Mahabharata. A keen collaborator, he's worked SUN with everyone from prima ballerina Sylvie Guillem to disco SUN queen Kylie Minogue. SUN SUN He says he was a shy boy and dance allowed him to SUN communicate properly for the first time: "It was like being SUN allowed to speak - and people taking notice of that and SUN that's another problem because then you want people's SUN attention all the time, so, every dinner party we went to, I SUN said, Mum, are they going to ask me to dance? It became an SUN addiction." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01ks3v9 (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 4 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return SUN visit to the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel SUN by Rob Brydon with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN attempts piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01ky5gx (Listen) SUN Can Andrew Lansley change your diet? SUN SUN Can Health Secretary Andrew Lansley change Britain's bad SUN eating habits? Sheila Dillon hears how the debate is shaping SUN up on the "responsibility deals" aimed at changing our diet. SUN SUN With over 60 per cent of the British population now SUN overweight or obese everyone agrees that change is needed in SUN how we eat and what we eat. One part of the government's SUN strategy involve so called responsibility deals, agreements SUN with the food industry based around a series of pledges. SUN SUN A growing number of food manufacturers and retailers have SUN signed up, pledging to reduce calories, remove salt and SUN harmful trans-fats from food. But will it deliver a big SUN enough change in the nation's diet? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon finds out how the Danish government has SUN recently opted to place a tax on nutrients like saturated SUN fat and sugar, meanwhile in New York City, mayor Michael SUN Bloomberg has placed a ban on ingredients like trans-fats SUN and is now placing restrictions on the size of soft drink SUN portions. SUN SUN So, to tax, ban or adopt voluntary agreements on food? SUN Sheila hears how the three different ideas are being SUN developed. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01kxyrr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01ky5gz (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 Securing the Games b01ky5h1 (Listen) SUN BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to the people SUN behind the largest security operation in peacetime, designed SUN to ensure the Olympic Games go ahead without interruption. SUN SUN This is the first time the games have been held in a 'high SUN threat' environment, presenting unprecedented challenges to SUN the police and intelligence services. The cost of security SUN is in the region of one billion pounds, covering the police, SUN the army and private security contractors. As well as the SUN threat of a so-called spectacular attack linked to either Al SUN Qaeda or dissident Irish groups, there are also concerns SUN over public protest, serious organised crime and hoaxes. SUN SUN There will be 10,000 police officers on duty at the Games, SUN in addition to 10,000 on duty for the rest of London. A SUN further 13,000 private security officers will also be SUN deployed. Security checks are going to be as stringent as SUN those at airports: every bag will be X-rayed and there will SUN be a ban on umbrellas, horns, whistles, drums and any other SUN device which might be considered disruptive. SUN SUN The police, the army and the security services have been SUN carrying out high-profile exercises over the months leading SUN up to the games, acting out scenarios on the London SUN Underground and preparing for operations over London's SUN skies. The greatest fear is another event like Munich in SUN 1972, when members of the Palestinian group Black September SUN killed nine Israeli athletes. Recent events have also SUN highlighted the threat of civil disobedience and lone SUN protestors, determined to disrupt individual events. SUN SUN The main Olympic site in Stratford is problematic in itself: SUN intelligence sources say that if you were to ask MI5 to draw SUN a heat map of terrorist suspects one of the hottest patches SUN would be around the East London area - right by the Olympic SUN site. SUN SUN The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera draws on SUN exclusive access and interviews with those charged with SUN making sure the games run smoothly. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Savage. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01krz3z (Listen) SUN RHS Flower Show Tatton Park SUN SUN How do I turn my leaky pond into a beautiful boggy paradise? SUN Eric Robson and panellists Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank SUN and Matthew Biggs advise the attendees of RHS Tatton Park SUN Flower Show. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01ky5h3 (Listen) SUN Life in the Warsaw Ghetto SUN SUN Janina Dawidowicz was a nine-year old girl when World War SUN Two engulfed Poland. As Jews, she and her family were soon SUN driven into the Warsaw Ghetto. Seventy years ago, during the SUN summer of 1942, the Nazis began to send the inhabitants of SUN the Ghetto to their deaths in gas chambers. Janina escaped SUN but her family and friends were killed. Hear her memories of SUN the Ghetto - the sights, the characters, the coping SUN mechanisms that people used to survive. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01ky5h5 (Listen) SUN The Graduate, Episode 2 SUN SUN Now that's he's stopped sleeping with Mrs Robinson, Benjamin SUN has become obsessed with her daughter, Elaine. Now, at last, SUN he understands the purpose of his life. He drives through SUN the night to Berkeley, determined to find Elaine and marry SUN her. Elaine, however, has other plans. 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 The Graduate has been adapted from Charles Webb's novel by SUN Polly Thomas. Polly is a Sony award-winning director and SUN producer of radio drama. Her theatre work includes directing SUN for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Royal Exchange Theatre SUN Manchester; and the Manchester Literature Festival launch of SUN Margaret Atwood's new book, The Year of the Flood. SUN SUN A BBC Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01ky5h7 (Listen) SUN Paul Theroux special SUN SUN Paul Theroux special - the American travel writer and author SUN Paul Theroux discusses his latest novel The Lower River. It SUN charts the return of a 62 year old American clothes salesman SUN to the remote Malawian village where he spent four happy SUN years, post college, working for the Peace Corp, an SUN experience he shares with the author. Yet the Africa he SUN finds on his return is much changed and not, it seems, for SUN the better. SUN SUN Paul Theroux shares his controversial views on aid to Africa SUN as Mariella discusses with him the continent that inspired SUN his writing career and after a very public spat, his renewed SUN relationship with the writer V.S. Naipaul. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Lower River – Paul Theroux SUN Publisher: Hamish Hamilton SUN SUN The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia – Paul SUN Theroux SUN Publisher: Penguin Classics SUN SUN The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas – SUN Paul Theroux SUN Publisher: Penguin Classics SUN SUN The Mosquito Coast – Paul Theroux SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents – SUN Paul Theroux SUN Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd SUN SUN 16:30 The New Group b01ky5h9 (Listen) SUN A wet autumn evening in Belfast's Botanic Avenue and people SUN are mingling in a bookshop, ahead of the launch of a new SUN poetry collection by one of the writers who is emerging on SUN Northern Ireland's literary scene. Eoghan Walls' work is SUN fresh, energetic and dynamic. He and his contemporaries SUN might be described as the 'New Group'. SUN SUN The original so-called 'Group' consisted of Derek Mahon, SUN Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, who got together at SUN Queen's University in Belfast in the mid-1960s. SUN Unsurprisingly there is a link between the old and the new - SUN the place where many of the 'new' generation of poets SUN congregate is the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at SUN Queen's. SUN SUN In The New Group, Ian Sansom, creative writing lecturer at SUN the Seamus Heaney Centre, leads us through Belfast's poetry SUN scene, meeting the men and women who gather each week in SUN cafés, bars and reading groups to share their work. SUN SUN Presenter: Ian Sansom SUN Producer: Claire Burgoyne. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01ks5xt (Listen) SUN European Funding SUN SUN The EU has allocated millions of pounds in grants to help SUN our towns and cities regenerate. So why are some complaining SUN they can't get their hands on the cash? European rules mean SUN Britain has to put up an equal amount of money. But, as SUN Allan Urry reveals, cuts at Westminster and in town halls SUN around the country mean that some projects have either SUN stalled or been abandoned because no "matched funding" is SUN available. Critics of the Government say up to a billion SUN pounds of regeneration money will end up in the Treasury's SUN coffers or being returned to Brussels. Yet, it supposed to SUN be supporting economic development in the English regions SUN which the Government has argued will drive growth. That's SUN what's happened in Germany and other EU countries. Have they SUN made better use of funds from Brussels to help narrow the SUN gap between their rich and poor regions? Now, as Europe SUN struggles with austerity, does the European Commission need SUN to re-think its system for allocating cash, and should the SUN Coalition Government in Britain do more to deliver growth? SUN SUN Producer: Samantha Fenwick. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01kxzy4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01kxyrt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01kxyrw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kxyry (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01ky5hc (Listen) SUN Graham Seed makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN This week's Pick of the Week goes from a market in Romford SUN to Wigan Pier. We dip into the exciting world of James Bond, SUN laugh with the cast from the medieval sitcom The Castle and SUN hear from Cerys Matthews singing about Chardonnay. And even SUN catch John Humphreys off his guard. Join Graham Seed for all SUN this and more on his Pick of the Week. SUN SUN White Stiletto Dreams - Radio 4 SUN The Castle - Radio 4 SUN Book at Bedtime: Ancient Light - Radio 4 SUN From Russia with Love - Radio 4 SUN With Great Pleasure - Radio 4 SUN Hardeep seeks Serenity - Radio 4 SUN The Womb Whisperer - Radio 4 SUN The New Elizabethans - Radio 4 SUN Ulster's Forgotten Darling - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue - Radio 4 SUN Mark Steel's Back in Town - Radio 4 SUN The Proms - Radio 3 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01ky5hf (Listen) SUN Clarrie feels overloaded and Adam reserves judgement. SUN SUN 19:15 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014gmfm (Listen) SUN Series 4, Ian Hislop SUN SUN Ian Hislop is invited to try four totally new experiences by SUN Marcus Brigstocke. SUN SUN Ian Hislop tries on a pair of jeans for the first time. SUN SUN 19:45 8.51 to Brighton b01l7mc3 (Listen) SUN Along the Line SUN SUN A series of short stories written by new writers to radio. SUN Each writer has taken the 8.51 to Brighton and given the SUN journey their own twist, introducing us to characters whose SUN lives have changed by taking that particular train. SUN SUN Episode 1 of 3: Along the Line by Alison Fisher. SUN This is the story of generations following in each others SUN footsteps. How journeys are repeated time after time and SUN extraordinary things happen in unextraordinary ways. The SUN 8.51 to Brighton has meant more to the family in Alison SUN Fisher's story than they will ever know. SUN SUN Read by Deborah Findlay and recorded in front of an audience SUN at The Old Courtroom as part of 2012's Brighton Festival. SUN The stories are introduced by Lynne Truss. SUN SUN Director: Celia De Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01kt7d3 (Listen) SUN The Tour de France and the statistics of cheating SUN SUN Has the Tour cleaned up? SUN SUN The Tour de France reaches its climax this week. Cycling, we SUN are told, has finally cleaned up its act and clamped down on SUN the use of performance-enhancing drugs. But if it has, SUN should we expect today's drug-free riders to be slower than SUN their drug-fuelled forebears? Can statistics tell us whether SUN the Tour de France really is cleaner than it was? SUN SUN Will 90% of us be too fat by 2050? SUN SUN Should companies such as McDonalds and Coca-Cola sponsor the SUN Olympics? Well, who knows? But amid the arguments about the SUN rights and wrongs of promoting burgers and fizzy drinks SUN through sport, some suspicious obesity statistics have been SUN belched into the debate. SUN SUN Deficit update SUN SUN Over the last few weeks government ministers have been SUN repeatedly telling us that they have cut the deficit by a SUN quarter. The government would like us to feel cheerful about SUN this. But how impressed should we be? SUN SUN Does when you retire influence when you die? SUN SUN Every now and again on More or Less we investigate a SUN statistical claim which is repeated again and again by SUN people who can't quite remember where they heard it, but SUN believe it to be true. Here's one: the earlier you retire, SUN the longer you live. Is it true? SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01kt7d1 (Listen) SUN Sir Alastair Burnet, Jon Lord, Yaakov Meidad and Mike SUN Westmacott SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on the ITN newsreader and journalist Sir SUN Alastair Burnet, who presented News At Ten over nearly SUN twenty five years SUN SUN Jon Lord - keyboard player with Deep Purple. We have SUN tributes from the band's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and SUN from Rick Wakeman SUN SUN Yaakov Meidad - a Mossad agent involved in the kidnapping of SUN the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and the murder of the SUN so called Butcher of Riga, Herberts Cukurs. SUN SUN And Mike Westmacott the mountaineer who played a crucial SUN role in the first ascent of Everest in 1953. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b01ks9z0 (Listen) SUN The Stolen Families SUN SUN John Waite investigates the growing number of international SUN child abduction cases where a parent flees abroad with their SUN children to keep custody and evade the law. So does the law SUN need strengthening to protect the rights of the SUN 'left-behind' parent? And how effective is the international SUN convention which is designed to ensure children are returned SUN home quickly? SUN SUN Produced by Joe Kent & Jon Douglas SUN Research by Fiona Napier. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01ky442 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01kt44c (Listen) SUN Euro Peril SUN SUN As the euro struggles for survival, continental businesses SUN are caught up in the maelstrom. Peter Day finds out what SUN they make of their plight and what sort of future they see SUN for the single currency and the euro zone. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01ky5j4 (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 b01ky5j6 (Listen) SUN Episode 113 SUN SUN Anne McElvoy of The Economist analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01kt43x (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Christopher Nolan about The Dark SUN Knight Rises. SUN SUN Nigel Havers recalls Chariots of Fire, while film composer SUN Neil Brand deconstructs that famous Vangelis score. SUN SUN Writer Iain Sinclair and artist Andrew Kotting discuss their SUN pedalo odyssey, Swandown. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01ky43w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 JULY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01kxysy (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01ks9z6 (Listen) MON Builders and Musicians MON MON Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of MON the total labour market in almost every country. We rely on MON them to construct the infrastructure of our societies yet we MON know little about their culture. The sociologist, Darren MON Thiel, talks to Laurie Taylor about his study into their MON every day lives on a London construction site. MON MON Also, drawing on research with musicians in the North East MON of England, Dr Susan Coulson finds that co-operation, MON creativity and entrepreneurship make uneasy bedfellows. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01ky43t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kxyt0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kxyt2 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kxyt4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01kxyt6 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ky5qz (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh MON Ibrahim Mogra. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01ky5r1 (Listen) MON Hundreds of ancient archaeological sites could be under MON threat from farmers' ploughs according to English Heritage. MON Charlotte Smith investigates what can be done to ensure MON history and food production can co-exist in the same earth. MON MON Experts predict the drought in the American mid-West could MON be good news for British dairy farmers as it might help push MON up the cost of cream. And how some of the UK's 'maize mazes' MON might not be as amazing as usual this year, as the lack of MON sunshine means the plants haven't grown tall enough yet. MON MON This programme is presented by Charlotte Smith and produced MON in Birmingham by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01kxyt8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01ky5r3 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin MON Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Long View b01ky5r5 (Listen) MON Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the MON past behind the present. As London prepares for the opening MON ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games he hears the story of the MON first time the capital hosted the Games, in 1908. MON MON All kinds of parallels can be drawn between the two MON Olympics. Sports champions turned Conservative peers brought MON both Games to London and both men had a distinct vision for MON what the Olympics meant for Britain and the world. Whereas MON now the global focus is on the world's fastest man, in 1908 MON the public's imagination was captured by the athlete with MON the most endurance, the marathon winner. From corporate MON advertising to performance enhancing drugs to the destiny of MON the Olympic site after the Games: all important issues now, MON but also in 1908. MON MON 09:30 Capital Justice b01ky5r7 (Listen) MON Episode 3 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 b01ks2yh (Listen) MON Follow the Money, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Steve Boggan. MON MON What might appear to be a whimsical conceit becomes a MON surprisingly poignant and often funny foray into the MON heartland of the ordinary. Having been asked by a newspaper MON editor, several years ago, to pursue a ten pound note MON through a series of transactions in Britain, Steve Boggan MON decides to undertake something more ambitious -to spend 30 MON days following the same ten dollar bill across America MON through every transaction it makes. Surrendering himself to MON the decisions of others and their daily purchases proves to MON be a strangely cathartic experience which also opens his MON eyes to a world of serendipity and unexpected kindness. MON MON Steve decides that he should begin his month long quest at MON the very heart of the country. But of course that in itself MON is a debatable geographic location. MON MON Music by Crash Meadows: an Arkansas local band who welcomed MON the author in Hot Springs. MON MON Read By Ian Redford MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l02j3 (Listen) MON Rumer plays live in the Studio and talks about her new album MON which consists of tracks that were all previously recorded MON by men. The BBC's Director of Sport, Barbara Slater tells us MON what it's like to be responsible for the coverage of the MON Olympics. Thirty-three women have been elected to serve in MON Libya's General National Congress - what impact will they MON they have on women's rights in the new Libya? Figures from MON the Forced Marriage Unit - a joint initiative between the MON Home Office and Foreign Office - show a 26% increase in MON young people seeking its help in the last month alone. We MON look at how to help the young people most at risk. MON Producer Catherine Carr MON Presenter Jane Garvey. MON MON Barbara Slater MON MON With just four days to go until the Olympics opening MON ceremony, Jane speaks to Barabara Slater, the BBC’s Director MON of Sport, who is responsible for the BBC’s exclusive live MON coverage of every sporting event and venue. Broadcasting MON regulator Ofcom predicts that over two thirds of the MON population will be watching – will everything go according MON to plan? MON MON Aftermath of the Libyan elections MON MON Thirty-three women have been elected to serve in Libya’s MON General National Congress – giving women 16.5 per cent MON representation. The first free elections since the fall of MON Muammar Gaddafi also saw huge gains for moderates with the MON centrist National Forces Alliance winning more than double MON the seats of its principal rival, the Muslim Brotherhood's MON Justice and Construction party. So with all parties keen to MON court women voters and field women candidates, as well as MON Islamists failing to make the gains they have elsewhere in MON the region, what are the prospects for women’s rights in the MON new Libya? Jane talks to Rana Jawad, North Africa MON Correspondent for the BBC World Service. MON MON Rumer MON MON Singer-songwriter Rumer found fame two years ago when her MON first album "Seasons of My Soul" came out to huge critical MON acclaim, attracting such influential fans as Elton John and MON Burt Bacharach. She's been compared to Karen Carpenter and MON now she’s back with an equally emotional album, "Boys Don’t MON Cry" – made up entirely of covers of little known tracks MON originally performed by men in the 1970s. She has been MON working on it for years and claims that many of the tracks MON touched on issues she had experienced personally. Rumer MON joins Jane Garvey to perform live in the studio, and to MON explain why she recorded emotional tracks originally sung by MON men, and the personal experiences that have influenced her MON music. MON MON Forced marriages MON MON As the school summer holidays begin, for some girls this MON long vacation can mark the start of a life they don’t want MON to lead. Figures from the Forced Marriage Unit show a 26% MON increase in young people seeking its help in the last month MON alone. Jane talks to Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt, MON Aneeta Prem founder of the Freedom Charity and Ayla, who MON fled from her forced marriage. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01l02j5 (Listen) MON How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON In this the 3rd series of 'How Does That Make You Feel?' MON Martha's clients have made few changes to their MON circumstances. MON MON Richard Fallon MP, (ROGER ALLAM) is still convinced MON promotion to the front bench is being denied him because of MON his obese son and an uncaring wife. MON Caroline, (REBECCA SAIRE) is also evading a life of MON unbearable ordinariness by trying to persuade her 13 years MON old son to prepare to be Prime Minister. MON There's Philip, who insists he isn't facing a crisis since MON his demotion from Good Morning Norfolk to a shopping MON channel. And Howard (TIM McINNERNY) a chef who's finally MON managed to encourage his 33 year old son to move out only to MON discover that his real problem lies with his fantasist wife, MON Helen. MON MON Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of MON Longing' and 'Wasted', recently heard on Radio 4. She is an MON Olivier award winner for her play 'The Memory of Water' and MON won Sony and Writer's Guild awards with her plays 'Darling MON Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. MON She wrote 'Enid' (the life of Enid Blyton) for BBC4 and MON 'Shirley' (the Shirley Bassey story) BBC2 and one episode of MON the mini-series Downtown Abbey. She is currently writing the MON series 'Exiles' for BBC1 and 'Push' a single film for Sky MON Atlantic. MON MON In 'How Does That Make You Feel?' by Shelagh Stephenson MON MON Martha was played by Marcella Riordan MON And Richard Fallon by Roger Allam. MON MON The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 11:00 To Paris with Parsnips b01l02j7 (Listen) MON In a country known for its chauvinism about their food, is MON it the height of madness for two British amateur cooks to MON take over a Paris restaurant and introduce fussy Parisian MON customers to the delights of British food? MON MON Producer: Fiona Cotterill MON A Alfi Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00vrxwt (Listen) MON Series 4, A Tolerable Life De-Happified MON MON In this new series of Mark Evans' Victorian epic, Pip must MON enlist the help of his former nemesis to fight a new evil MON spreading terror and cake-crumbs through the streets of MON London. MON MON Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson MON Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen MON Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head MON Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman MON Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland MON Pippa ..... Susy Kane MON MON Writer ..... Mark Evans MON Producer ..... Gareth Edwards MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01l02jc (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l02jf (Listen) MON Germaine Greer MON MON The New Elizabethans: Germaine Greer. To mark the Diamond MON Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the MON men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its MON character. MON MON James Naughtie considers the provocative Australian born MON feminist and academic who is credited with making feminism MON appealing and accessible for a large audience of both men MON and women. She has said 'The more people we annoy, the more MON we know we're doing it right.' MON MON With the publication of 'The Female Eunuch' in 1970 (which MON has never been out of print since) Greer won international MON fame and set out to transform women's lives. But in 1999 she MON examined the lack of progress that had occurred in society MON since that earlier publication and wrote 'The time has come MON to get angry again.' 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. They were asked to choose: MON 'Men and women whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth MON II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands MON and given the age its character, for better or worse.' MON MON Producer: Kate Howells. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01kxytb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01l02jh (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Unbuilt Britain b01l044n (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In the first in the series. architectural writer and MON historian Jonathan Glancey goes in search of some of the MON most fantastic building projects in Britain which didn't MON make it off the drawing board. In Liverpool, he discovers MON the story of a great cathedral designed by Sir Edwin MON Lutyens. The foundation stone was laid in 1933 for this MON monumental building which would have dominated the city MON skyline, and Jonathan finds that the crypt was actually MON built. MON MON But why wasn't the cathedral ever finished? Jonathan Glancey MON visits Liverpool to find out. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01ky5hf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tjsj5 (Listen) MON Big Pies MON MON Two lonely people, one night school and a lot of lying. A MON romantic comedy. MON MON Ron runs a successful chippy, but when his wife dies, he MON loses his heart and half his custom. Elaine is trapped at MON home caring for her irascible Dad, stuck in Yorkshire when MON she'd much rather be back in Wales. She feels her failure at MON school holds her back, and her dad doesn't exactly help her MON self esteem. Ron is fed up at being nagged by best mate MON Keith about his soggy batter and lack of interest in MON romance. Goaded into action, they both reluctantly sign on MON at local night school. MON MON Meanwhile, Keith and Elaine's Dad are caught up with the MON excitement of local UFO spotters with mysterious crop MON circles. Keith is adamant that if Ron will only absorb a few MON cosmic rays, his love life will be transformed. MON MON One night, during a break, Ron is sneaking a fag near the MON bins round the back when he bumps into Elaine - and sparks MON immediately fly. Neither is prepared to admit why they are MON at night school, so they make up elaborate lies about what MON they are studying. Over the weeks, attracted to each other MON but in denial, their deception involves them in more and MON more complicated situations. When the end of term concert is MON announced, Ron realises he will have to come clean - he is a MON widower but not really a stand up comedian - and Elaine MON isn't really a belly dancer... MON MON Ron .....George Costigan MON Elaine.....Katy Wix MON Dad......Steffan Rhodri MON Keith......Richard Nichols MON Linda......Claire Cage MON MON Director Polly Thomas for BBC Wales Radio Drama. MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b01l04d8 (Listen) MON A new series of Radio 4's popular quotations programme MON 'Quote ... Unquote'. MON MON The show is presented by Nigel Rees, who also devised it, MON and the guests are Samira Ahmed, Simon Jones, Dominic MON Sandbrook and Dominic Lawson. The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01ky5gx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01l04db (Listen) MON John Hegley MON MON Poet and mandolin player, advocate of everyday joys such as MON pets and NHS glasses, John Hegley exuberantly shares his MON most loved poems and novels with an appreciative audience at MON Bristol's Arnolfini. He is helped by the folk singer June MON Tabor and actors Noni Lewis and Alun Raglan. MON MON Producer: Mark Smalley. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01l04l1 (Listen) MON Series 6, Science v Art MON MON Science V Art MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport the cage of infinite MON proportions, to the slightly more confined space of the MON Latitude Comedy Arena. They will be joined on stage by a MON panel of guests, including Al Murray, for a witty, MON irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world MON according to science. Given Latitude's artistic, musical and MON literary credentials, they'll be taking a huge risk by MON staging the ultimate show down, as they pitch Art against MON Science and ask which has more to offer and whether the two MON cultures might ever make a happy union. To help them battle MON it out, and alongside comedian Al Murray, they'll be joined MON by cosmologist Andrew Pontzen, comedian and actor Sara MON Pascoe and CERN scientist Jonathan Butterworth. Let battle MON commence! MON MON 17:00 PM b01l04l3 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kxytd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01l04l5 (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 5 MON MON Long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01l04l7 (Listen) MON Emma calls for back-up and Harry hankers after a holiday. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01l04l9 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on the latest work to be MON created for the vast Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. This year MON Tino Sehgal is the artist who has taken on the challenge. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01l02j5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Evita's Odyssey b01l05dq (Listen) MON 2012 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Eva MON Peron, Argentina's most famous First Lady. When she died her MON body was embalmed. Three years later in 1955, her widower, MON Juan Peron, was deposed in a coup. Evita was the most potent MON symbol of Peronism, and military officers feared her corpse MON could become a rallying point of protest against the new MON government. So they stole it. It probably spent time in a MON van parked in Buenos Aires, the city's waterworks, behind a MON cinema screen, and in the offices of Military Intelligence. MON But wherever it stayed, it is said that candles and flowers MON appeared. Clearly a more long-term solution was required... MON MON In Evita's Odyssey, Linda Pressly, tells the MON stranger-than-fiction tale of what happened to her body over MON the next two decades - in Argentina and Europe. It's an MON extraordinary story - one that takes in more grave-robbing, MON kidnap, murder, a revolutionary guerrilla group, and the MON occult. Through interviews with key players - like the man MON who repaired the damage to Evita's body when it finally MON returned to Argentina in 1974 - this programme provides a MON fascinating glimpse of Argentina before it descended into MON its darkest and bloodiest days of military dictatorship in MON the 1970s. It is a story that will stay with you. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01kt43g (Listen) MON In just three years China's main microblogging site, Sina MON Weibo, has surpassed Twitter's entire global membership. MON More than 300 million Chinese are now tweeting, with MON millions more joining the national conversation every month. MON Shanghai-based journalist Duncan Hewitt finds out how MON microblogging is changing China. MON MON Thanks to social media China is witnessing the emergence of MON a civil society of activists and justice-seekers. These MON 'netizens' are using Sina Weibo and other services to MON publicise miscarriages of justice, instances of corruption MON and environmental issues and force local and central MON government to act. The victim of a horrific attack shows MON Duncan how her desperate plea for redress on Sina Weibo led MON to a nationwide outcry. In Beijing he meets the dogs saved MON from a grisly death in the dog-eating South thanks to MON flashmob rescuers organised on Sina Weibo. And a group of MON mothers who met on Sina Weibo tell him about their campaign MON to promote breastfeeding across China. None of this was MON possible before the internet - but where will it all lead? MON MON While some subjects are banned, Sina Weibo has also given MON Chinese people a new freedom to voice opinions on the news, MON their lives and their country. MON MON Duncan meets the young people of Chengdu in Western China MON who are now part of a small but growing graffiti, hip-hop MON and dance scene. Just 15 years ago there was no way they MON could communicate with fellow fans, never mind the outside MON world. He'll visit Youku, China's YouTube, to watch their MON online X-Factor-style competition as it is filmed. And he'll MON meet the famous cartoonist using animation to ask questions MON about the materialism of the young and the detention of his MON fellow artist and friend, Ai Weiwei. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01kt43z (Listen) MON Researchers have found new evidence that suggests MON Neanderthals may have used medicinal herbs to treat their MON ailments. In northern Spain they have found evidence they MON ate certain plants with no nutritional, but some medicinal, MON benefits. MON MON 99.9% of all creatures that ever roamed the Earth are no MON longer alive today. As a memorial to all species lost since MON the dodo, the project MEMO (Mass Extinction Monitoring MON Observatory) will erect a huge bell-tower on the Isle of MON Portland in Dorset. MON MON Also in Dorset, a science/art collaboration as part of the MON Cultural Olympiad is unveiled next week on and around the MON Jurassic Coast. The producer and earth science advisor to MON "Exlab" discuss what will be seen and also the criticism MON that there was little or no science included in the MON festivities. MON MON We also take a look at "crowd funding" as a new means to MON fund scientific research. Matt Salzberg has set up MON Petridish.org as a means to connect scientists and potential MON donors. Science communicator Alice Bell will join Quentin in MON the studio to discuss implications and potential ethical MON pitfalls. MON MON 21:30 The Long View b01ky5r5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01kxytg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01l05ds (Listen) MON Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01l05dv (Listen) MON Ancient Light, Episode 6 MON MON In today's episode of Ancient Light by John Banville, Dermot MON Crowley continues to reveal an ageing actor's memories - of MON his lost daughter Cass, and his lost first love, Mrs Gray. MON If he cannot bring Cass back, can Alex trace Mrs Gray? 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 Word of Mouth b01ks53d (Listen) MON Asking the Right Question MON MON As Scotland grapples with the wording of a possible MON referendum on independence, Chris Ledgard takes a look at MON the art of asking the right question. Whether in a MON referendum, survey or in a court room, how do you avoid MON writing an incomprehensible question or - perhaps worse - a MON leading question? MON MON Experts in linguistics, law, politics and psychology as well MON as politicians themselves explain the importance of getting MON the wording of a question right. MON MON Producer: Polly Procter. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01l05dx (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 JULY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01kxyvh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01ks2yh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kxyvk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kxyvm (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kxyvp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01kxyvr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01l05k1 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh TUE Ibrahim Mogra. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01l05k3 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01l05ny (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and James TUE Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Stephanomics b01l05p0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second of her discussion programmes looking at the TUE key economic issues of our time, Stephanie Flanders asks TUE where the Chinese and US economies are heading. Conventional TUE wisdom holds that America is set on an historic downward TUE path while the Chinese giant is poised to dominate the TUE global economy. TUE TUE But is this view too simplistic? Although managing only a TUE low growth rate at present, lower energy costs are helping TUE the US reindustrialise its economy. At the same time it TUE continues to enjoy unrivalled advantages in the technology TUE and service sectors. Meanwhile, China's growth is slowing TUE and its economy still quite rigidly planned. It is TUE critically dependent on imported raw materials on the one TUE hand and on exports to the advanced industrialised economies TUE on the other. TUE TUE So what does the future hold for the two global economic TUE giants - and how will Britain be affected? TUE TUE 09:30 Key Matters b00tt5jk (Listen) TUE Series 2, D 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 Ivan talks with violinist, Daniel Hope TUE about the majesty and glory of D major. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01ky3dx (Listen) TUE Follow the Money, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Steve Boggan. TUE TUE Behind the warm welcome that the author receives in Lebanon, TUE Kansas he discovers a community that is desperately trying TUE to renew itself as the population shrinks year by year and TUE farmers sell out to big conglomerates. TUE TUE Read By Ian Redford TUE Abridged and produced By Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l05p2 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01l05p4 (Listen) TUE How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE The maddening Aaron has at last left home, in the dead of TUE the night, leaving a note; 'abducted by aliens'. A stupid TUE prank Howard thinks but not to his credulous wife, Helen, TUE who seems to be determined to make contact with the 'great TUE out there' as a way of re-contacting her ingrate son. TUE TUE In 'How Does That Make You Feel?' by Shelagh Stephenson TUE TUE Martha was played by Marcella Riordan TUE And Howard by Tim McInnerny. TUE TUE The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 11:00 Does Science Need the People? b01l06z0 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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 synthetic biology or nuclear power are worth the risks. But TUE are we the people, able to best judge what road science TUE should take? TUE TUE In the second of two programmes, Geoff Watts looks at some TUE of the role models for engagement, such as the Alzheimer's TUE Society, where patients and carers have helped to direct TUE research into new therapies and explores the argument that TUE many of the paradigm-shifting developments in science were TUE entirely unforeseen and might not have happened if TUE researchers were shackled. TUE TUE Producer: Rami Tzabar. TUE TUE 11:30 Making Tracks b01l06z2 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Cultural commentator Paul Morley explores a history of TUE popular music through some of the iconic recording studios TUE in which classic albums were created. In future programmes TUE he revisits some of the classical masterpieces recorded in TUE the 80 year old Abbey Road Studios and cutting edge pop in TUE Metropolis, the studio complex built when the music industry TUE was at its most bloated peak. But he begins in the rural TUE heart of Monmouthshire - at a studio that grew out of a farm TUE and gave birth to some of rock music's finest recordings - TUE everything from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" to the Stone TUE Roses' eponymous debut album, from Dr. Feelgood's "Down By TUE The Jetty" to Oasis' "(What's The Story) Morning Glory", TUE even from the Waterboys' "Fisherman's Blues" to Adam Ant's TUE "Kings Of THe Wild Frontier". Those trying to explain what TUE part the studio played in creating such musical magic TUE include performers (the veteran Dave Edmunds and the TUE newcomers Iko), technicians (John Leckie and Sean Genockey) TUE and the people who (in some cases, quite literally) built TUE the studio and the business (father and daughter, Kingley TUE and Lisa Ward, and Terry Matthews). As the money flowing TUE through the music industry continues to dry up - Paul also TUE asks what future there may be or the historic recording TUE studios that helped build the industry in the first place? TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01l06z4 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l0csj (Listen) TUE Robert Edwards TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Robert Edwards. To mark the Diamond TUE Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the TUE men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its TUE character. TUE TUE Scientist Robert Edwards who won the Nobel Prize in 2010, TUE was the pioneer of In Vitro Fertilisation alongside his TUE colleague Dr Patrick Steptoe. The pair came to world wide TUE fame in July 1978, after the birth of Louise Brown, who TUE would always be known - memorably, though inaccurately - as TUE the first test tube baby. Today, around the world, the TUE number of people who would never have been born without the TUE IVF treatment developed by Edwards and Steptoe is around 5 TUE million. TUE TUE Producer: Sukey Firth. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01kxyvt (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01l0csl (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 Unbuilt Britain b01l0csn (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second in the series, architectural writer and TUE historian Jonathan Glancey looks at some of the most TUE fantastic building projects of Britain and finds out why TUE they didn't make it off the drawing board. In north London, TUE Primrose Hill is today a park much loved by local residents. TUE But, as Jonathan discovers, plans in the 19th century might TUE have led to a giant pyramid being built, a place of burial TUE for millions of corpses. TUE TUE How could such an extraordinary project ever have been TUE considered for this part of London? Jonathan Glancey looks TUE at the Victorian approach to death and how an Egyptian TUE pyramid might just have fitted with the times. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01l04l7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l0d4n (Listen) TUE Intends to Take Action TUE TUE When Belfast man Hugh Quinn is notified by the police that TUE there is a threat against his life and that a paramilitary TUE organisation 'intends to take action' against him he is TUE forced to uproot his wife Kate and young daughters Emily and TUE Hannah and move them out of the city in order to try and TUE ensure their safety. TUE TUE As the family try to come to terms with their new life away TUE from everyone and everything that is familiar they struggle TUE to fit into their new community and to comply with the TUE safety advice given by the police. Looking over their TUE shoulder at every turn, stress, fear, and suspicion threaten TUE to tear the family apart while Kate struggles to understand TUE what exactly Hugh was involved with that would endanger his TUE life. TUE TUE What is it that Hugh isn't telling his wife and how can he TUE possibly begin to cope with such a threat hanging over him? TUE Unsure of who to trust as his paranoia escalates Hugh's TUE world soon begins to spiral out of control. TUE TUE Hugh Quinn ..... Marty Maguire TUE Kate ..... Bronagh Gallagher TUE Don ..... Nick Dunning TUE Emily ..... Amy Lee Farmer TUE Hannah ..... Martha Gordon TUE Police Handler ..... Patrick O'Kane TUE Wilson ...... Gordon Fulton TUE Paramilitary ..... Michael Liebmann TUE TUE Written by Jimmie Potter & Eoin McNamee TUE Producer/Director Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01l0d4q (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents episode four 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. TUE TUE Recorded in front of a live audience, The Kitchen Cabinet is TUE aimed at anyone who cooks at home, not just the experts. TUE TUE In this programme The Kitchen Cabinet is in Newcastle to tie TUE in with the Eat! Newcastle-Gateshead festival. The team TUE takes questions on ingredients and food traditions in the TUE North East. TUE TUE This week the panel features: Rachel McCormack, the TUE Glaswegian cook who is also an expert on Catalan cooking; TUE Thomasina Miers, the 2005 Masterchef winner and co-founder TUE of Mexican street-food chain Wahaca; Henry Dimbleby, cook, TUE writer, and co-founder of Leon restaurants; and food TUE scientist Peter Barham, who is a consultant for Heston TUE Blumenthal and Noma in Copenhagen (which some consider to be TUE the best restaurant in the world). TUE TUE The show is witty, fast-moving, and irreverent, but packed TUE full of information that may well change the way you think TUE about cooking. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras TUE A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The House I Grew Up In b0132p7j (Listen) TUE Series 5, Terry Waite TUE TUE Terry Waite, who was held hostage in Beirut for nearly five TUE years in the late 1980s, returns to his childhood in the TUE small Cheshire hamlet of Styal. Born in 1939, he remembers TUE the constraints of being the son of the local policeman, TUE where any misdemeanour from a young Terry came under TUE scrutiny. His father Thomas, a highly principled man, was TUE also a disciplinarian, leading to an ambivalent relationship TUE between father and son. His mother Lena worked hard to keep TUE the the family fed, especially at a time of post war TUE rationing. Terry's parents used their large garden to TUE sustain meal times and even sold fruit and vegetables to TUE supplement a policeman's wage. TUE TUE As a child, Terry failed his 11 plus and left school at 16. TUE Being a loner and finding village life too confined, Terry TUE was eager to see more of the world and applied to join the TUE navy, but he was persuaded by his father to stay at home and TUE continue his education through evening classes and college. TUE The Church of England played a big role in his life. As a TUE boy he sang in the church choir and and even learnt large TUE parts of the prayer book by heart and it was the rituals, TUE language and music of his faith which he says nourished and TUE sustained him while in captivity. TUE TUE In the House I Grew Up In, Terry Waite takes Wendy Robbins TUE back to the home and haunts of his childhood. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01l0dp4 (Listen) TUE Talking a Good Game TUE TUE With London 2012 a few days away, Chris Ledgard explores the TUE language of sports psychology. How do sportsmen and women TUE use words to improve their performance? Dr Steve Peters TUE talks about his work with top athletes and why he uses the TUE word "adrenalized." Chris also meets a young squash player TUE who was suffering with poor results and finds out about his TUE work with sports psychologist Phil Johnson. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01l0dp6 (Listen) TUE Kevin Maguire and Lucy Mangan TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by the journalist Kevin Maguire TUE and the columnist Lucy Mangan to discuss their favourite TUE books. TUE Lucy's choice is a warm, witty and provocative memoir about TUE a young woman's journey through adolescence and the TUE education system of 1950s American deep south. Harriett's is TUE also biographical and funny, but in this book the TUE protagonist is a world weary playwright contemplating his TUE past and the deaths of friends and animals amongst the TUE detritus of everyday considerations such as defining his TUE love of the television series, 'Law and Order'. Kevin has a TUE slightly more difficult task of making the case for his TUE choice, which is a complex and intriguing thriller set in TUE the smelly, cut-throat streets of 14th century London, where TUE there are political dark-doings and prophecies from a TUE dubious nun. TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01l0dp8 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kxyvw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Sinha Games b01l0dpb (Listen) TUE In July 2012, for the third time in history, the Olympic TUE Games are coming to London. Is this cause for celebration? TUE Paul Sinha (The Now Show, Fighting Talk, The Sinha Test) TUE weighs up the pros and cons of hosting this 'greatest show TUE on earth'. Can London afford it? Will Britain do well? TUE Should we really care about what is essentially a glorified TUE sports day? TUE TUE For insight, Paul speaks to the Olympic Gold medallist who TUE most influenced Paul as a young man - because he also TUE happened to be a teacher at Paul's school. TUE TUE Using archive material, interviews, jokes and heavy sarcasm, TUE Paul looks through the history of the games, Britain's TUE Olympic track record, the spiralling cost, and the TUE much-vaunted legacy. TUE TUE Last summer's The Sinha Test, about the England/India TUE cricket series, was described as "a splendid programme, with TUE well-observed quips about allegiances, sport, society, TUE families... this is a top Sinha innings" by the Telegraph. TUE TUE Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01l0dpd (Listen) TUE Kenton is in demand. Meanwhile Jazzer is determined to get TUE his own way. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01l0dpg (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01l05p4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01l0fkc (Listen) TUE Thousands of British troops have been deployed to conflict TUE zones since 2001, in the so-called War on Terror. Research TUE is now beginning to confirm what many people have suspected TUE - that a sizeable minority of returning soldiers - one in TUE ten - are displaying increased levels of violence. This is TUE impacting on families through domestic abuse and is raising TUE the risk of people in the wider community becoming victims. TUE With two years to go before frontline troops are pulled out TUE of Afghanistan, is the Army doing enough to make sure TUE returning soldiers are safe? And is the intensity of TUE deployment to active combat zones making matters worse? TUE Presenter: Jane Deith Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01l0fkf (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01l0fkh (Listen) TUE Telehealth - providing health monitoring or advice at a TUE distance using technology - has been heralded as a TUE cost-effective way to better medical care. Is it delivering TUE benefits? TUE TUE 21:30 Stephanomics b01l05p0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01kxyvy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01l0fkk (Listen) TUE Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01l0fkm (Listen) TUE Ancient Light, Episode 7 TUE TUE In today's episode, Alex Cleave returns to Italy, to the TUE coast where his beloved Cass died so mysteriously, and takes TUE Dawn Devonport with him, as we continue John Banville's TUE haunting new novel. 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 b01l04l1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01l0fkp (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 JULY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01kxyws (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01ky3dx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kxywv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kxywx (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kxywz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01kxyx1 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01l0fw2 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh WED Ibrahim Mogra. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01l0fw4 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01l0fw6 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie. WED Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01l0fw8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01ky3jd (Listen) WED Follow the Money, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Steve Boggan WED WED Still following the money, the same ten dollar bill he WED released in Kansas, the author finds himself driving east WED across America and being offered hospitality by a mixed race WED couple who have fought their own battles, in their own way, WED with the world around them. WED WED Read By Ian Redford WED Abridged and produced By Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l0fwb (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01l0fwd (Listen) WED How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Caroline has been thwarted in her attempts at making a WED Screen Idol out of her daughter, so she turns instead to her WED very unworldly 13 year old son Edward whom she is convinced WED has the makings of the next Prime Minister. WED WED Martha was played by Marcella Riordan WED And Caroline by Rebecca Saire. WED WED The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 11:00 Looking for Ruritania b01l4f8h (Listen) WED For a country that doesn't exist, Ruritania crops up a great WED deal. Comedian Tony Hawks goes in search of the truth. He WED finds himself at Angels costumiers being dressed up in gold WED braid and meets historian Jeffrey Richards, who explains WED that Ruritania was invented in 1894 by novelist Anthony Hope WED for his adventure The Prisoner of Zenda. WED WED Tony is plunged into the swashbuckling world of romance WED novels and Ivor Novello operetta. He travels the realms of WED Hollywood for their versions of Ruritania in films such as WED Roman Holiday, Duck Soup and Prince and the Showgirl, WED discovering startling truths behind the fantasies. There was WED a Romanian prince who behaved as badly as Lawrence Olivier's WED character - but was Audrey Hepburn's princess who gives up WED the love of an unsuitable man based on truths closer to WED home? WED WED When it was written, The Prisoner of Zenda captured a middle WED Europe of British imagination - full of inbred rulers, WED florid ceremony, intrigue and threats to democracy. Why did WED these romances become so popular? What do they tell us about WED the Britain that adored them? WED WED Geographical detective work with foreign correspondent Alan WED Little places Ruritania in the Balkans. Belgrade born WED writer, Vesna Goldsworthy joins Tony and Alan in exploring WED how the Ruritanian image has had a demeaning effect on WED political relations with eastern Europe that continues into WED the present. WED WED Tony has his sword, his epaulettes and knows how a WED Ruritanian hero behaves, he's even learnt a Ruritanian song WED but does he still want to go there? WED WED This programme may contain swashbuckling. WED WED Produced by Annie Caulfield and Marilyn Imrie WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b01jjtn3 (Listen) WED Series 4, Boogie Knights 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 and Ingrid Oliver (Watson & Oliver) WED WED The wedding of the decade is almost ruined by 200 tents and WED an over-excited woodpecker. Plus Henry, Duncan and De WED Warenne gatecrash a rather special Hen Night. 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 Kate Puddleton ....... 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 b01l0fwg (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01l0fwj (Listen) WED High Street or High and Dry Street? WED WED The coalition has announced a series of measures designed to WED protect town centres from further decline. Mary Portas WED produced a report into how high streets could be WED rejuvenated, whilst new guidance was issued to councils WED asking them to prioritise town centres. John Waite hears how WED big retailers are still building out of town and why some WED local authorities are letting them do so in exchange for WED so-called "community benefits". Jack Straw, the former WED foreign secretary accuses one of Britain's largest landlords WED - Peel Holdings - of using "legal subterfuge" to develop an WED out of town site in Blackburn, an allegation the company WED denies. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01kxyx3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01l0g3m (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 Unbuilt Britain b01l0g3p (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In the third in the series, architectural writer and WED historian Jonathan Glancey looks at some of the most WED fantastic building projects of Britain and finds out why WED they didn't make it off the drawing board. In Edinburgh, WED Robert Adam planned a marvellous street which would act as WED the gateway to the city for visitors from the south. Called WED 'South Bridge', the project allowed for a street elevated WED over the hilly approach, with rich decorations and elegant WED colonnades. WED WED It might have been a wonderful proposal, but there was a WED price tag attached. Jonathan Glancey finds out more about WED the reputation of Robert Adam in Edinburgh and the reasons WED why the city fathers took against the project. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01l0dpd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l0glw (Listen) WED The Odd Job WED WED William Ash and Andrew Knott's dark comedy about an aspiring WED documentary maker who meets a retired couple with a WED startling secret. WED WED Sheila and Barry are desperately trying to raise funds for a WED sick child; this selfless pursuit has reinvigorated their WED empty lives with purpose. Sensing a career-defining story, WED Clive becomes involved in their money making scheme and is WED soon entrenched in their increasingly perilous world. WED WED SHEILA.....Joan Kempson WED BARRY.....John Henshaw WED CLIVE.....Burn Gorman WED GAZ.....Iain McKee WED CLAIRE.....Samantha Power WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b01l94zy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01l0fkh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01l0gz4 (Listen) WED Olympic Security WED WED Advanced CCTV, security cordons and an £80 million pound WED electric fence: The security impact of the Olympics is WED already being felt in the London Borough of Newham. Security WED procedures are some of the most intense and developed in the WED world, designed to protect not only Olympic visitors but WED also future residents of the 40,000 new homes due to be WED completed by the end of the decade. Newham is one of the WED most impoverished areas in the country and the condition of WED its current residents stands in sharp contrast to the lives WED of people flooding into the borough for the Olympics. Laurie WED Taylor talks to Garry Armstrong about a large scale study of WED security, policing and the impact of the 'Regeneration WED Olympics' on the lives of the residents of Newham. WED Also on the programme, Laurie speaks to Stephen Wagg and WED David Andrews about why East Germany was, for two decades, WED one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter WED Olympics. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01l0kc1 (Listen) WED A topical programme about the fast-changing media world, WED this week with Anne McElvoy. WED WED The producer is Beverley Purcell. WED WED 17:00 PM b01l0kc3 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kxyx5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b01l0kc5 (Listen) WED Series 4, Rhona Cameron 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. In this episode, comedian Rufus Hound WED is joined by Rhona Cameron who revisits her teenage years WED when she struggled to come to terms with her sexuality and WED had to cope with the sudden death of her father. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01l0kc7 (Listen) WED Emma has horrible doubts and Ian begins to lose patience. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01l0kc9 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including news of the longlist for the WED Booker Prize for fiction, announced today. WED WED Producer Erin Riley. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01l0fwd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01l0kcc (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Kenan Malik WED and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01l0kcf (Listen) WED Series 3, Gillian Wheeler WED WED Gillian Wheeler argues that flower design is evolving into WED an art, with tremendous variation in design and even WED sculpture. Flowers can both look and smell beautiful, and WED she says this powerful combination has the power to overcome WED tremendous obstacles. WED WED Cut flowers will first grow, and then eventually die away. WED Gillian believes that this transience, which sees both the WED way they look and smell transformed several times over a WED matter of days, is the most important characteristic, and WED one which marks flowers out from other forms of art. 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 Dr Inkblot b01l0kch (Listen) WED The Rorschach ink blot test is one of the most popular and WED controversial personality tests used by psychologists here WED and abroad. The theory is that we reveal our true selves WED through interpreting ambiguous shapes. It was developed WED nearly a century ago by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann WED Rorschach - a man who worked outside the mainstream and who WED died young. WED WED Jo Fidgen traces the origins, refinement and application of WED Rorschach's test and its subsequent falling from favour. She WED visits the Tavistock Centre in London, where it is still in WED clinical use, and the Hermann Rorschach Museum and Archives WED in Bern, Switzerland. She also talks to psychologists around WED the world - in Japan, where it's more popular than ever, and WED in the US where controversy rages about its reliability and WED validity. And she undertakes the test herself. WED WED With contributions from Dr Michael Drayton, Dr Justine WED McCarthy-Woods, Dr Noriko Nakamura, Dr Scott Lilienfeld, Dr WED Bruce Smith, Professor Anne Andronikof and Rita Signer, WED curator of the Rorschach Archives. WED WED Produced by Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01l0fw8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01kxyx7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01l0kck (Listen) WED Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01l0khj (Listen) WED Ancient Light, Episode 8 WED WED In today's episode of Ancient Light by John Banville, Mrs WED Gray departs for Rossmore and a fortnight by the sea. Left WED behind, young Alex is bereft, and decides on a daring plan. 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 b017cjmx (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 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 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 b01l0khl (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 JULY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01kxyyb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01ky3jd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kxyyd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kxyyg (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kxyyj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01kxyyl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01l0kq6 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh THU Ibrahim Mogra. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01l1djz (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01l1dk1 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, THU Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01l1dk3 (Listen) THU Series 8, Too Old to Donate? THU THU Since losing her husband to a terminal illness, and watching THU his kidneys fail, Pamela has felt a burning desire to try to THU help someone else escape a similar fate. THU THU A year after his death, she writes to her local hospital to THU ask if she can become an 'altruistic' donor, and donate one THU of her kidneys to a stranger. To her horror, she receives a THU letter back saying that she is 'too old'. Undeterred, she THU approaches a transplant surgeon at another hospital, and he THU agrees to see her. THU THU To the surgeon, Pamela appears fit and extremely determined. THU But for a potential donor, she's also rather unusual - she's THU eighty two years old. THU THU Should Pamela be allowed to donate? What are the risks to THU her - both of the operation itself, and of being left with THU only one kidney? And, if the team allow her to donate, who THU should receive such an elderly organ? THU THU Producer: Beth Eastwood. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01ky3sz (Listen) THU Follow the Money, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Steve Boggan. THU THU Hot Springs, Arkansas offers the weary traveller a hot bath THU - but he soon finds himself out of his depth. Meanwhile the THU ten dollar bill is offered in payment at a bar with a THU vibrant music scene. THU THU Read By Ian Redford THU Abridged and produced By Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l1dk5 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01l1dk7 (Listen) THU How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Unexpectedly, Philip drags his ex-wife Rose along to his THU session with Martha. Having sensibly jettisoned his 'foetal' THU girlfriend, Carmen he is now attempting a reconciliation THU with the frankly irreconcilable Rose. THU THU Martha was played by Marcella Riordan THU Rose by Shelagh Stephenson THU And Philip by Tim McInnerny. THU THU The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01l1dk9 (Listen) THU The state-of-the-art Aeropuerto Don Quijote in Ciudad Real THU opened for business at the end of 2008. The vision was to THU create an air hub in the heart of Spain, and its backers THU believed it would bring business, jobs and tourists to this THU underdeveloped region. But just over three years later the THU airport closed - bankruptcy proceedings are on-going. Now it THU lies abandoned and empty, the silence broken only by THU birdsong and the occasional whoosh of a high speed train. THU THU In Crossing Continents, Pascale Harter tells the story of a THU project with its roots in Spain's building boom-years. Was THU the airport doomed by the economic crisis, as its supporters THU claim? Or was it always fanciful to imagine that a region THU with little industry and tourism could sustain an airport THU with a capacity for five million passengers a year? And what THU does the building of the airport tell us about the THU relationship between local business, politicians and the now THU defunct local banks - the Cajas? THU THU 11:30 Raising a Glass to Cheers b01l1dkc (Listen) THU Stephen Merchant tells the story of one of America's THU best-loved and most influential sitcoms. Over the course of THU 11 years and over 270 episodes it told the story of the bar THU 'where everybody knows your name.' In the process the THU audience were introduced to characters like Cliff, the bar THU know-it-all, Carla, the Boston firecracker, and Norm, who THU was as regular a fixture as the wooden Indian by the door. THU THU Where the show was innovative was in its introduction of the THU soap opera to the sitcom format. While the characters were THU well-observed and the jokes consistently excellent, what THU kept the viewers tuning in was the on-again-off-again THU romance between Sam and Diane. As producer Rob long says: THU 'Until that point characters had been single or in a couple, THU but there had never been that sense of two people trying to THU work it out.' THU THU Cheers was not an overnight success though. In its first THU season it constantly bumped along the bottom of the ratings: THU as John Ratzenberger put it, 'if there were 95 shows on, THU we'd have been 97'. But with the goodwill of Grant Tinker, THU the network executive, and a big win at the Emmys, Cheers THU eventually rose the number one slot by the third series. THU They stayed in the top three until for the next 8 years. THU THU In Raising A Glass To Cheers, Stephen Merchant hears from THU the show's producers, writers and stars and listens to some THU of the backstage stories. He hears about John Ratzenberger's THU pre-Cheers career in London, which saw him appear in The THU Empire Strikes Back, Gandhi, two Superman films and A Bridge THU Too Far. Rob Long talks about the hive mind of the writer's THU room and the perils of suggesting a 'sweet-out'. And George THU Wendt explains why he never tires of people shouting 'Norm!' THU at him. THU THU Produced By: James Crawford THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01l1dkf (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l1dkh (Listen) THU Jack Jones THU THU The New Elizabethans: Jack Jones. James Naughtie on the THU trade union leader who as general secretary of the Transport THU and General Workers' Union in the 1970's, exercised more THU power over government economic policy than any other trades THU union leader in British history. THU THU Jones fought to maintain the power of the shop steward, and THU his resistance to sanctions on strike action led to the THU downfall of Harold Wilson's government in 1970. Jones was THU instrumental in the "Social Contract" between the Labour THU party and the unions, and successfully campaigned for higher THU pensions, better health and safety legislation and the THU establishment of the conciliation service ACAS. But Jones' THU refusal to deviate from union power led to the "Winter of THU Discontent" in 1977 and the inevitable public backlash which THU saw Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives sweep to power THU in 1979. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01kxyyn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01l1dkk (Listen) THU National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Unbuilt Britain b01l1dkm (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU In the fourth in the series, architectural writer and THU historian Jonathan Glancey looks at some of the most THU fantastic building projects of Britain and finds out why THU they didn't make it off the drawing board. Imagine a THU sumptuous palace in London that would have taken up most of THU Whitehall. This was exactly what was planned in the time of THU James I of England by the King's ambitious architect, Inigo THU Jones. He had been appointed to the position of Surveyor of THU the King's Works in 1613 and he drew up extensive and THU revolutionary plans for Whitehall. THU THU Jonathan Glancey joins Simon Thurley of English Heritage in THU Inigo Jones's masterpiece, the Banqueting House, to find out THU what happened to the grandiose scheme. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01l0kc7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l1dkp (Listen) THU Atching Tan: A Gypsy Wife THU THU Atching Tan: A Gypsy Wife THU THU Colourful and authentic drama set around the goings-on of THU Long Summer Traveller Site. When young couple Charity and THU Sol arrive on the site, their new neighbours Lovvie and THU Nelius are forced to make some difficult decisions when they THU discover Sol's dark secret. Starring Candis Nergarrd and THU written by Traveller Dan Allum. THU THU LOVVIE ..... Candis Nergaard THU NELIUS ..... Damian Le Bas THU QUEENIE ..... Patricia Keegan THU SOLOMON ..... Danny Dalton THU CHARITY ..... Sian Willett THU THU Written by Dan Allum THU Produced/Directed by Charlotte Riches. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01l1dkr (Listen) THU White Cliffs of Dover THU THU In a year in which the world will be looking in on Britain THU as we celebrate the Diamond Jubilee and host the London THU Olympics, Helen Mark goes in search of the people whose THU lives are inextricably linked with the White Cliffs of THU Dover.We find out about this iconic part of the British THU landscape which has played such an important part in our THU nation's history and discovers why it still holds a special THU place in the nation's heart.Brian Whittaker and Rob Sonnen THU of the National Trust tell us why it is so important that THU landscapes like the White Cliffs are preserved for the THU nation. Jon Iveson from the Dover Museum tells Helen about THU the vital part that Dover and the White Cliffs have played THU in Britain's past and geologist Melanie Wrigley of the White THU Cliffs Countryside Partnership, which was set up to conserve THU and enhance the coast and countryside of Dover and the White THU Cliffs as the gateway to England, takes Helen for a walk on THU Shakespeare Beach in search of fossils. THU Helen also meets Kaimes Beasley of HM Coastguard who tells THU her about the vital role that they play in ensuring the THU safety of the seas around the cliffs over which bluebirds THU have never really flown.....or have they? Finally, Helen THU meets Dame Vera Lynn, whose wartime anthem firmly placed THU this most iconic of British landscapes in the hearts and THU minds of the nation. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01ky442 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01ky5h7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01l1dkt (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01l1dkw (Listen) THU Science programme reporting on developments across the THU disciplines and hearing from scientists about their work. THU THU 17:00 PM b01l1dky (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kxyyq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00zzw1w (Listen) THU Series 4, Foam Wizards THU THU The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with more THU shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, THU courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. THU THU Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli THU 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 THU audience with this series picking up a Writers Guild THU nomination for best comedy in 2011. THU THU This series sees a crop of new shop regulars, and some guest THU appearances along the way from the likes of Mina Anwar and THU Kevin Eldon. THU THU In this opening episode Ramesh and his son Alok go head to THU head as they enter a competition to design a new sweetie THU favourite. Will the old wise head see off the challenge from THU the young pretender to the corner shop crown? THU THU Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kohli THU Dave ....... Donald Mcleary THU Sanjay ....... Omar Raza THU Alok ....... Susheel Kumar THU Mrs Begg ........ Marjory Hogarth THU Keith Futures ....... Greg McHugh THU Hilly ....... Kate Brailsford THU Mrs Armstrong ........ Maureen Carr THU Keenan ........ Max Merrill THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01l1dl2 (Listen) THU Adam gets a fresh perspective. Meanwhile Vicky takes THU offence. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01l1dl4 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including a review of Mark Rylance as he THU returns to the stage as Richard III at Shakespeare's Globe. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01l1dk7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01l1dl6 (Listen) THU Border guards and other Home Office staff are due to strike THU today (July 26th) in protest at staff cuts, pay and THU privatisation. THU The move has been condemned by the government who say the THU action by workers in the Border Force is designed to cause THU maximum disruption on the eve of the Olympics. Around THU 120,000 passengers are expected through Heathrow on Thursday THU alone. THU The Report examines the reasons behind the strike. Unions THU say the drive to ensure no queues at Heathrow has come at a THU cost. They point out the UK Border Agency and Border Force THU has cut a thousand more jobs than planned and staff are THU being drafted in from other areas to ensure immigration THU desks are fully manned. But they complain these staff aren't THU fully trained and security is being jeopardised. THU Adrian Goldberg also investigates concerns that UKBA is not THU doing enough to trace and deport many people who should not THU be in the country. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01l1dl8 (Listen) THU Japan Gone Grey THU THU Japan is ageing faster than anywhere else, and the THU population is shrinking. 2012 is the crunch year as many of THU their baby boomers reach retirement age. How will Japan THU manage an economy where their healthy pensioners might THU survive at least another 20 years and younger citizens don't THU seem to want to have children? So how will Japan cope and THU who will pay the bill? THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01l1dk3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:45 A Life With ... b01dhrms (Listen) THU Series 6, Water Voles THU THU A Life With... Water Voles THU THU Water voles are famous for being Ratty in Wind in the THU Willows, but they are disappearing fast from our waterways. THU Mary Colwell meets a water vole warrior who is determined to THU save them. Darren Tansley fell in love with water voles as a THU boy, messing around on a raft his dad made from an old barn THU door. 40 years later he is still messing about on the river, THU but now he is creating new, protected homes for water voles THU and makes sure their sworn enemies, the mink, don't get THU anywhere near them. THU THU Darren has a fascinating past. Not only has he always been THU monitoring and studying water voles he was a long haired eco THU warrior who played in a rock band and campaigned for THU Greenpeace. When he realised the conservation world didn't THU really listen to amateurs he went back to college to get the THU "proper" qualifications. Now his projects are paying off and THU Darren takes Mary to see water voles that have just returned THU to a water-way in Essex. THU THU First broadcast on 27th March 2012 at 1.54pm. THU THU 21:58 Weather b01kxyyv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01l1dlb (Listen) THU Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01l1dld (Listen) THU Ancient Light, Episode 9 THU THU In today's episode of Ancient Light by John Banville, the THU end of summer heralds more than the turning of the seasons - THU and decades later, Alex Cleave knows that he must leave THU Italy for the answers are not there. 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 b01l1dlg (Listen) THU Episode 3 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 Black Is a Country b018xwcn (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two part series THU exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by THU the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early THU Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare THU THU Black Power - with its symbol of a fist clenched in anger THU and defiance - politicised African American music in ways THU the Civil Rights movement had not. The desire for THU integration gave way to a new, fighting impulse of cultural THU separatism and self-determination. Politics and music became THU explosively attuned. From 1968 The Black Arts Movement - THU 'the cultural and spiritual sister of the Black Power THU concept' - flourished, dedicated to the foundation of an THU authentic Black aesthetic in literature, poetry and music. THU 'The Black Power and Black Arts concept both relate to the THU Afro-American's desire for self-determination and THU nationhood' wrote the African American philosopher Larry THU Neale in 1968,'...a main tenet of Black Power is the THU necessity for Black people to define the world in their own THU terms. The Black artist will make the same point in the THU context of aesthetics.' THU THU The quest for freedom had both a musical and political THU resonance. Musicians opened up new and unexplored worlds of THU musical possibility. Players like Ornette Coleman and Archie THU Shepp pioneered the 'New Thing' - an avant-garde in jazz, THU pushing the limits of harmony and rhythm. Music was THU explicitly pressed into political service: The Black Panther THU Party even produced its own album of underground anthems THU 'Seize the Time' and Black music as a whole became far more THU vocal in its opposition to white mainstream society. THU Poet-musicians like Gill Scott Heron and the Last Poets THU delivered stinging attacks on the political failure of Civil THU Rights and the reality of the black experience in cities THU across America. Meanwhile Africa became as a powerful symbol THU for a younger generation of black American artists, a source THU of political identification, spiritual sustenance and often THU exotic, musical inspiration. THU THU Black Power transformed the way musicians negotiated control THU and ownership of their own music. The club and bar circuit THU gave way to performances in galleries, lofts, community THU halls and public spaces. The Association for the Advancement THU of Creative Musicians was inaugurated in Chicago (and still THU thrives today) and other collectives followed. Radical THU independent labels flourished with very limited vinyl THU release. Many of these records, infused with the Black Power THU ethos, are extremely rare, and are featured throughout the THU series. THU THU Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder THU of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet THU Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole THU of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian THU Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther THU leader and songwriter Elaine Brown. THU THU Presenter: Erykah Badu THU Producer: Simon Hollis THU A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 JULY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01kxyzr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01ky3sz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kxyzt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kxyzw (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kxyzy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01kxz00 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01l1dqk (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh FRI Ibrahim Mogra. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01l1dqm (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01l1dqp (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought FRI for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01ky5gv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01ky3wx (Listen) FRI Follow the Money, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Steve Boggan. FRI FRI After hundreds of miles on the road, and quite a few hours FRI in the bars of Arkansas, Steve Boggan finds himself on the FRI home straight - and yet many of his final hours following FRI the ten dollar bill are spent halfway up a tree trying not FRI to sneeze. FRI FRI Read By Ian Redford FRI Abridged and produced By Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l1g5c (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01l1g5f (Listen) FRI How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI Richard has almost given up trying to find favour on the FRI front bench and it seems preferment of any kind is now FRI beyond his reach. He seeks friendship at a book club, but FRI hasn't bothered reading the books. However, Richard does FRI rediscover something about the immutable nature of true FRI love. And he seems determined to impart what he has FRI discovered to the somewhat alarmed, Martha. FRI FRI Martha was played by Marcella Riordan FRI And Richard Fallon by Roger Allam. FRI FRI The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 11:00 Letters to the Russian Front b01l1g5h (Listen) FRI On her mother's death Chris Kelly inherited a collection of FRI more than 500 letters written between members of her FRI father's family during the Second World War. One of them had FRI remained un-opened. FRI FRI Adolf Winkelbauer had been removed from his post as head of FRI surgery at the General Hospital of Vienna by the Nazis in FRI 1938. He, his aristocratic wife Edina and the family had to FRI adopt a muted existence in Graz. Two of the sons, Leo and FRI Andreas were obliged to join the German army at the outbreak FRI of the war. The sister, Edina, worked as a land girl in FRI Bavaria. Chris' father Rudolf remained in Austria in an air FRI defence unit. FRI d FRI Their mother managed to gather many of the letters they sent FRI to each other during this period. They were written with an FRI awareness of the censorship that was going on, but they FRI still include snatches of the brutality of war. Rudolf, the FRI youngest of the family and aged 17 at the time: FRI "...I feel very sorry for the poor bastards [Russians], who FRI have a terrible time of it. Often we have to look on as some FRI 16 year old Luftwaffenhelfer gives a Russian prisoner of war FRI a kicking. It is stomach turning stuff, and even at that, FRI it's not as bad as it gets..." FRI FRI The over-riding emotion is one of loss, particularly of FRI their idyllic childhood. The loss is all the starker given FRI the harshness of their surroundings as they saw the war FRI turning against them. FRI FRI The programme will hinge on the un-opened letter, sent by FRI Rudolf to his brother Leo in November 1943. He had no way of FRI knowing that Leo was already dead, killed in combat at FRI Melitopol in what is now Ukraine. The letter was sent back FRI to the family home. Rudolf's mother kept it but couldn't FRI face reading it. It was only this year that Chris decided it FRI was time to see what her father, then seventeen years of FRI age, had written to his elder brother. FRI "Time is running away from us like sand through an FRI hourglass. So fine, that you don't even notice it slipping FRI away, and yet it is always disappearing. Our parents are FRI getting older and are getting grey hair and need our help FRI more and more. In time they will put their destinies, with FRI everything that they have and are, into our own hands. For FRI us to protect. And we will look after them with great joy FRI and pride, because we will want to do for them what they did FRI for us. This is tied to the sorrowful realisation that the FRI beautiful world we inhabited as children is no more. FRI But one thing we have from this time; the glorious memories FRI of our enchanted youth. No one will be able to rob us of FRI this, even if times become worse than they are now. FRI Please excuse these ramblings - they are errant thoughts FRI escaped! I was just letting my pen dance across the page, as FRI it wished. FRI See you soon at Christmas. FRI Your brother FRI Rudolf. FRI FRI Rudolf left for America shortly after the war and trained as FRI a Doctor. However he was over here towards the end of last FRI year visiting his daughter and we were able to record him FRI reading his letter for the first time since he wrote it more FRI than sixty years ago. It's a poignant radio moment. FRI FRI In the programme we learn more of the characters of the FRI brothers. Andreas was an artist and the leader figure. He, FRI too, died on the Russian front. Leo was ill-equipped for FRI soldiery. Rudolf knew that well enough and his letters were FRI attempts to raise the spirits of his older brother. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01l1g5k (Listen) FRI Series 2, Under the Same Night Stars FRI FRI Lucy is despairing about the future of the planet - until FRI she meets a cute boy with a moped. But Tom is in a huff with FRI his family and inventing imaginary parents because he is not FRI allowed to see his best friend Freddy. When Freddy runs away FRI it's left to Lucy to save the day. Thank goodness her mum FRI never uses that porcini filled writing shed. FRI FRI Joe ..... Mark Bonnar FRI Mim ..... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ...... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ...... Phoebe Abbott FRI Jenn ..... Emily Bruni FRI Fred ..... Oli Dillon FRI Bob ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Chris ...... Daniel Boyd FRI FRI Written by Marcella Evaristi. FRI FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01l1g5m (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l1g5p (Listen) FRI Roald Dahl FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Roald Dahl. To mark the Diamond FRI Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the FRI men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its FRI character. FRI FRI James Naughtie explores the life Roald Dahl who put his huge FRI success down to conspiring with children against adults in FRI his stories and sharing a child's sense of humour. 'It takes FRI an adult who can still think as a child' he said. 'Children FRI are only half civilised. They are tougher, coarser and they FRI laugh at things that make us squirm.' FRI FRI For three decades, starting with 'James and the Giant Peach' FRI in 1961, Dahl was producing stories for children fizzing FRI with invented language, rude jokes and bad ends for bad FRI adults. He was passionate about drawing in reluctant young FRI readers. 'It's very worthwhile encouraging children to FRI read,' he said. ' The most important thing I can teach them FRI is not to be daunted by books.' FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01kxz02 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01l1g5r (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 Unbuilt Britain b01l1g5t (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In the last in the series, Jonathan Glancey visits the west FRI highland town of Oban to find out why a remarkable landmark FRI building never got finished. High on the hill above Oban is FRI McCaig's Tower, built by John Stewart McCaig. It's an FRI impressive sight, with a shape like the Coliseum in Rome. FRI But McCaig planned to build much more than we can see today, FRI and Jonathan sets out to find out why the plans were never FRI followed through. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01l1dl2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00tptj8 (Listen) FRI Pythonesque FRI FRI The story of Graham Chapman's history with the Monty Python FRI team; how he met and started writing with John Cleese, his FRI rise through the ranks writing The Frost Report, the glory FRI years with the Pythons and his struggle to overcome his FRI considerable drinking demons. And how the collective FRI kindness of Messrs Cleese, Jones, Idle, Palin and Gilliam FRI saved him from oblivion and gave him the lead in the two FRI funniest British films of all time: Monty Python And The FRI Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life Of Brian. FRI FRI Told in a Pythonesque style, apparently Chapman was FRI recruited into the RAF at birth and flew bombing missions FRI over Germany in a pram; Cleese got into the Footlights by FRI doing a rather peculiar walk; Chapman had to take a test to FRI become an alcoholic; Cleese returned to a pet shop to sing FRI the praises of a recently purchased budgie and Chapman FRI discovered on his last day on earth that Death likes Spam FRI and drives a Ford Anglia. FRI FRI Written by Roy Smiles, whose previous work for Radio 4 FRI includes Ying Tong - A Walk With The Goons and Good Evening FRI (about Beyond The Fringe), Pythonesque is an affectionate FRI tribute to a troubled, brilliant, kind man who was part of FRI the funniest comedy team ever. FRI FRI Eric Idle & Terry Gilliam ....... James Lance FRI Terry Jones & Michael Palin ....... Matt Addis FRI John Cleese ....... Mark Oosterveen FRI Graham Chapman ....... Chris Polick FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01l1g5w (Listen) FRI Brixham FRI FRI Peter Gibbs and the team are in Brixham. Matthew Wilson and FRI Bunny Guinness appear alongside guest panellist Toby FRI Buckland FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio. FRI FRI 15:45 Opening Lines b01l1g5y (Listen) FRI Series 14, Cynthia FRI FRI A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging FRI short story writers their radio debut. Jay Barnett's quirky FRI story is about a dog you could set your watch to. FRI FRI Read by Alex Lanipekun. FRI Produced by Robert Howells FRI FRI Jay Barnett writes and reads short stories for his spoken FRI word blog theaftermathofmygreatidea.blogspot.com. His short FRI story 'Boy' was published in Jawbreakers, the first National FRI Flash Fiction Day anthology. He is an editor for Hackney FRI based radio station NTS, and every other Monday hosts the FRI 'Down Your Ward' show on Whipps Cross Hospital Radio. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01l1g62 (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 b01l1g64 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. Presented by Tim FRI Harford. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01l1g66 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kxz04 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b01l1g68 (Listen) FRI Series 8, Jeremy Front talks to Rebecca Front FRI FRI Rebecca Front is interviewed by the man who knows her best, FRI her big Brother Jeremy Front. FRI FRI Producer ..... Carl Cooper FRI FRI "I have a very strong childhood memory of you playing the FRI flute in a concert and falling off stage into a box of FRI fezzes." FRI FRI The Chain starts with star of The Thick Of It, Grandma's FRI House, The Day Today and most other comedies of note over FRI the past twenty years, Rebecca Front, speaking to the man FRI who knows her best, her writing partner and big brother FRI Jeremy Front. FRI FRI They cover childhood teasing and being a woman in comedy, FRI reveal how a cough scuppered Rebecca's chances of working FRI with Mike Leigh and end with Jeremy attempting to maker her FRI re-live an amusing childhood trauma. FRI FRI "I've heard all the anecdotes so I'll probably just read a FRI book." FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01l1g6b (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Graham Harvey FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford FRI Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell FRI Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01l1gg6 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01l1g5f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01l1gg8 (Listen) FRI West Kilbride, Ayrshire FRI FRI Eddie Mair chairs a live discussion of news and politics FRI from West Kilbride Village Hall in Scotland, with panellists FRI Michael Moore, Secretary of State for Scotland and Liberal FRI Democrat MP; Anas Sarwar, deputy leader of the Scottish FRI Labour Party; writer and broadcaster, Lesley Riddoch; and FRI SNP MSP Linda Fabiani FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01l1ggb (Listen) FRI John Gray reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: FRI Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00y2xxy (Listen) FRI Like Minded People FRI FRI by David Eldridge FRI FRI A heady mix of marriage, class and politics as Gillian and FRI Ray attempt to keep their relationship alive over 25 years FRI of social change. FRI FRI Gillian ..... Ruth Wilson FRI Ray ..... Tom Brooke FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI David Eldridge is one of our most exciting young FRI playwrights; From 'Under The Blue Sky', 'A Knot of the FRI Heart' and 'In Basildon' to dramatisations of 'Festen' and FRI 'The Wild Duck' his work has been acclaimed on the London FRI stage. He also has a long relationship with Radio Drama. In FRI 2008 he won the 'Prix Europa' for his play 'The Picture Man' FRI and now he returns with a play that follows the relationship FRI of one couple over 25 years set against a backdrop of FRI political and social change. Starring Ruth Wilson and Tom FRI Brooke. FRI FRI Gillian and Ray meet at University. She's from a privileged FRI background whilst his father works in a hardware shop and FRI his mother's a dinner lady. Despite this disparity they FRI embark on a relationship. A relationship that may well have FRI burnt itself out except for a car accident which binds them FRI together through a mixture of guilt and need. As their lives FRI progress we are given an intimate portrait of the ups and FRI downs of marriage and the political and social changes that FRI help shape our lives. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01kxz06 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01l1ggg (Listen) FRI Round-up of the day's news. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01l1ggj (Listen) FRI Ancient Light, Episode 10 FRI FRI Today Dermot Crowley reads the concluding episode of John FRI Banville's new novel, and Alex Cleave discovers that he was FRI wrong about many things, though not about the power of love. 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 b01l0dp6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Black Is a Country b0196tcy (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two part series FRI exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by FRI the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early FRI Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare. FRI FRI Black Power - with its symbol of a fist clenched in anger FRI and defiance - politicised African American music in ways FRI the Civil Rights movement had not. The desire for FRI integration gave way to a new, fighting impulse of cultural FRI separatism and self-determination. Politics and music became FRI explosively attuned. From 1968 The Black Arts Movement - FRI 'the cultural and spiritual sister of the Black Power FRI concept' - flourished, dedicated to the foundation of an FRI authentic Black aesthetic in literature, poetry and music. FRI 'The Black Power and Black Arts concept both relate to the FRI Afro-American's desire for self-determination and FRI nationhood' wrote the African American philosopher Larry FRI Neale in 1968,'...a main tenet of Black Power is the FRI necessity for Black people to define the world in their own FRI terms. The Black artist will make the same point in the FRI context of aesthetics.' FRI FRI The quest for freedom had both a musical and political FRI resonance. Musicians opened up new and unexplored worlds of FRI musical possibility. Players like Ornette Coleman and Archie FRI Shepp pioneered the 'New Thing' - an avant-garde in jazz, FRI pushing the limits of harmony and rhythm. Music was FRI explicitly pressed into political service: The Black Panther FRI Party even produced its own album of underground anthems FRI 'Seize the Time' and Black music as a whole became far more FRI vocal in its opposition to white mainstream society. FRI Poet-musicians like Gill Scott Heron and the Last Poets FRI delivered stinging attacks on the political failure of Civil FRI Rights and the reality of the black experience in cities FRI across America. Meanwhile Africa became as a powerful symbol FRI for a younger generation of black American artists, a source FRI of political identification, spiritual sustenance and often FRI exotic, musical inspiration. FRI FRI Black Power transformed the way musicians negotiated control FRI and ownership of their own music. The club and bar circuit FRI gave way to performances in galleries, lofts, community FRI halls and public spaces. The Association for the Advancement FRI of Creative Musicians was inaugurated in Chicago (and still FRI thrives today) and other collectives followed. Radical FRI independent labels flourished with very limited vinyl FRI release. Many of these records, infused with the Black Power FRI ethos, are extremely rare, and are featured throughout the FRI series. FRI FRI Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder FRI of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet FRI Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole FRI of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian FRI Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther FRI leader and songwriter Elaine Brown. FRI FRI Presenter: Erykah Badu FRI FRI Producer: Simon Hollis FRI A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
21 July, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 21/07/2012 - 27/07/2012
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