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SAT SATURDAY 26 MAY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01hxvqh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01j6qz4 (Listen) SAT Hedge Britannia, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Hugh Barker. Read by Tim Key. SAT SAT Hugh Barker, a hedge enthusiast, has journeyed across SAT Britain to explore its remarkable variety of hedgerows. SAT SAT Hedge People - from those who created the extravagantly SAT absurd hedges of stately homes to those who campaign today SAT for the preservation of our living margins. SAT SAT Over the course of his travels he discovers how hedges are SAT amongst our most ancient monuments, meets hedgelaying SAT champions and topiary fanatics, and sees the lengths to SAT which some people will go to annoy the neighbours. Along the SAT way he tells how a connection between paradise and the SAT garden hedge grew up, why the British Army planted a barrier SAT hedge hundreds of miles long in India, and how the notorious SAT enclosures during the Industrial Revolution turned the SAT country upside-down. SAT SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01hxvqk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01hxvqm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01hxvqp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01hxvqr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01hxvsy (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from SAT Wales with singer and broadcaster Beverley Humphreys. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01hxvt0 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01hxvqt (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01hxvqw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01hxpxy (Listen) SAT Series 21, Flamborough Head to Bridlington SAT SAT Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in SAT this new series of Ramblings. SAT SAT Programme 1: Flamborough Head to Bridlington with Stuart SAT Jessup, Kate Atkin and Poppy the springer spaniel. SAT SAT Stuart Jessup and his springer spaniel, Poppy, started an 8 SAT month, 2,500 mile walk around the English coast in October SAT 2011. Occasionally joined by Stuart's wife, Kate, Stuart is SAT walking as part of a campaign to reduce the stigma SAT associated with mental illness, and to raise money for Sane SAT and Anxiety UK. Clare Balding joined Stuart, Kate and Poppy SAT for a stretch of the walk from Flamborough Head to SAT Bridlington on the Yorkshire Coast, to hear more about his SAT adventures. Poppy has been central to the success of the SAT walk; her friendliness encourages conversations between SAT Stuart and other walkers, who often reveal their own SAT problems with depression - both parties leaving the SAT encounter enriched. SAT Producer Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01j29bk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith meets Gold medal winners at the Chelsea SAT Flower Show and asks whether winning makes a difference to SAT growers and their business. SAT SAT From lilies, roses and orchids to this year's Plant of the SAT Year Digitalis 'Illumination Pink', Charlotte sees and SAT smells a collection of the best and brightest British plants SAT and flowers. SAT SAT Penny Riley won a Gold medal for her display of British SAT fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, salad and herbs. And Johnny SAT Walkers of Walkers Bulbs makes a miraculous turnaround to SAT save his 400 varieties of daffodils after the weather nearly SAT prevented him winning his 25th consecutive Gold medal. SAT SAT The Horticultural Trade Association says, thanks to the SAT weird weather, it's been a difficult start to this year's SAT season. Sales are down 42% this April compared to last year. SAT SAT When only a quarter of those in the horticulture industry SAT currently make a profit, Farming Today ask how crucial SAT showing is for the survival of many businesses? SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Clare Freeman in SAT Birmingham. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01hxvqy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01j29bm (Listen) SAT Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01j2bml (Listen) SAT Bamber Gascoigne; Angel of Mostar; real-life Billy Elliot; SAT John McCarthy in Beirut; Sugar Ray Leonard's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with writer and broadcaster SAT Bamber Gascoigne, a woman dubbed 'The Angel of Mostar' who SAT was reunited via Facebook with the baby she saved 20 years SAT before, the funeral director decorated for his service to SAT fallen soldiers, a real life Billy Elliot from Warrington SAT who's off to the Bolshoi ballet school, John McCarthy SAT returns to Beirut, a Thing About Me feature about a chopper SAT bike, and boxer Sugar Ray Leonard's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 The Barlow-Morgenstern Method b01j2bmn (Listen) SAT Comedian and songwriter Tony Hawks discovers an unusual SAT reference work, Harold Barlow and Sam Morgenstern's SAT Dictionary of Musical Themes, which takes him on an SAT unexpected journey into the complex world of musical SAT plagiarism. SAT SAT Along the way he talks to the country's top musicologist, a SAT West End musical director, composer Debbie Wiseman MBE and SAT Neil Innes, who not only won a plagiarism case, but also SAT wrote the Beatles parody The Rutles. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Williams SAT A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01j2bmq (Listen) SAT Anne McElvoy of The Economist looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01j2bms (Listen) SAT Jeremy Bowen in Beirut says the Middle East is certainly SAT changing. But the dominoes won't tumble as quickly as some SAT thought last year. Instead, the way ahead will be long and SAT hard. SAT SAT Will Ross in Lagos on the fuel subsidy scandal and why for SAT Nigerians the price of their petrol is a constant SAT preoccupation. SAT SAT Jonny Dymond takes to the skies over Arizona with a man SAT determined to do his bit to reduce the flow of illegal SAT immigrants into the US. SAT SAT The campest show of them all, Eurovision, has come to Baku SAT in Azerbaijan. And Steve Rosenberg, who's there, says it's SAT attended by awkward questions about human rights. SAT SAT And she was invited to a seaside tasting of some of Italy's SAT finest fare. So what could possibly go wrong for Dany SAT Mitzman? SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01j2bmv (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01hxtmw (Listen) SAT Series 77, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and Ed Byrne. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01hxvr0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01hxvr2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01hxtn4 (Listen) SAT Rugby SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents the panel discussion of news and SAT politics from Rugby High School, one of the winning schools SAT in the BBC's nationwide Schools Questions and Answers SAT challenge. The students will be helping Jonathan put the SAT programme together and will be involved in the production SAT from start to finish. SAT SAT His guests, schools minister Nick Gibb; shadow work and SAT pensions secretary Liam Byrne; Times columnist Camilla SAT Cavendish; and chief executive of the Association of Chief SAT Executives of Voluntary Organisations, Sir Stephen Bubb. SAT SAT So join Jonathan and the panel for tonight's special edition SAT of Any Questions? from Rugby High School. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01j2bmx (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01j2bmz (Listen) SAT The Haunted Hotel SAT SAT The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins; dramatised by Rod SAT Beacham. SAT SAT Wilkie Collins' gothic horror tale is a powerful combination SAT of ghost story and detective mystery. In 1860, the SAT formidable Countess Narona marries a rich young aristocrat SAT in London - but shortly after travelling to Venice her SAT husband dies, apparently of natural causes, leaving the SAT Countess a rich woman. Years later, guests in a Venetian SAT hotel encounter the terrifying apparition of a murder victim SAT seeking revenge. SAT SAT Henry Westwick ............. HARRY LLOYD SAT Agnes Lockwood ............ JASMINE HYDE SAT Countess Narona............ ADJOA ANDOH SAT Francis Westwick ........... SIMON BUBB SAT Suzannah Westwick....... KATHERINE IGOE SAT Emily Ferrari .................. ALEX RIVERS SAT Megan ................... ........JOSIE KIDD SAT Doctor Wybrow........ ......GERARD McDERMOTT SAT Carstairs ....................... JAMES LAILEY SAT Doctor Bruno............... ...ROD BEACHAM SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b01hwfnd (Listen) SAT Series 8, Hummel's Trumpet Concerto SAT SAT Johann Hummel was a hugely important figure in the musical SAT landscape of the early 19th century. He worked alongside SAT Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, had a love-hate relationship with SAT Beethoven. He taught and inspired the likes of Felix SAT Mendelssohn and was both a celebrated pianist and composer. SAT But today he's best known for composing one of the two great SAT trumpet concertos of the Classical age. Along with the SAT Haydn, composed a couple of years earlier in 1801, Hummel's SAT Trumpet concerto was a response to the new technology being SAT pioneered by the instrument designer and player Anton SAT Weidinger. SAT SAT There are many challenges throughout the modern trumpet SAT repertoire but the Hummel is still a proving ground and SAT Alison Balsom is one of those to have mastered it. She joins SAT Frances Fyfield and the musicologist Thomas Schmidt to find SAT out how the original manuscript differs from the version SAT performed today which benefits from the later development of SAT the valved, rather than the keyed, trumpet. SAT SAT Nicolas Bell of the British Library reveals how Hummel's SAT concerto came to be housed here and, with her trumpet on SAT hand to illustrate, Alison Balsom explains the finer points SAT of 'double-tonguing' a technique vital to the performance of SAT the concerto's dazzling third movement. SAT SAT Above all else the easy, dancing music Hummel created for SAT the newly versatile Trumpet of the 19th century is given a SAT welcome celebration. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01j2bn1 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Dragons Den's Hilary Devey SAT SAT Shirley Manson, the Scottish lead singer of US alternative SAT rock band Garbage, gives her frank views on the ups and SAT downs of life as a woman in the global music industry. Plus SAT Tony Parsons on why he believes men are hardwired to want to SAT earn more than their wives; Hilary Devey of Dragon's Den on SAT making her life as a powerful businesswoman in the male SAT haulage industry; and a US brothel owner joins Julie Bindell SAT to debate the legalisation of brothels. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Producer Emma Wallace SAT Editor Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01j2bn3 (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports SAT headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01hxvt0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01hxvr4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01hxvr6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01hxvr8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01j2bzk (Listen) SAT Bard of Salford John Cooper Clarke brings Snap, Crackle & SAT Bop into the studio and talks to Clive about penning and SAT performing such punk poetry as 'Evidently Chickentown' and SAT touring with world famous punk bands. A celebration of SAT John's life and work is part of the 'Punk Britannia' season SAT on BBC Four. 'Evidently..... John Cooper Clarke' is on SAT Wednesday 30th May at 22.00. SAT SAT Clive spends The Day Today with actor and comedian David SAT Schneider, who writes and stars as chief registrar Malcolm SAT Fox in a new Radio 4 sitcom 'Births, Deaths and Marriages'. SAT A stickler for rules and regulations, Malcolm and his SAT colleagues deal with the three greatest events in anybody's SAT life. The second episode is on Friday 2nd June at 11.30 am. SAT SAT Arthur Smith has a Brass Eye on writer and broadcaster David SAT Quantick, whose career as a rock journalist also turned to SAT spoof news like Radio 4's 'On The Hour' and writing the SAT biographies of musicians and comedians. David pays tribute SAT to absurdist playwright and surrealist N.F Simpson at SAT London's Royal Court on Sunday 27th May at 5pm. SAT SAT Clive has Happy Go Lucky actor Eddie Marsan on a tight leash SAT and talks to him about his career playing a variety of SAT psychopaths and inadequates. Eddie's about to star in a new SAT comedy drama based on real events, as down-on-his-luck SAT Michael Fagan, who broke into the Queen's bedroom in 1982. SAT 'Playhouse Presents...Walking the Dogs' is on Sky Arts 1 on SAT Thursday 31st May at 21.00. SAT SAT With music from Thea Gilmore who's staying up late to SAT perform 'Goodnight' from her album 'Don't Stop Singing'. SAT And Buena Vista Social Club prodigy and Havana Cultura star SAT Roberto Fonseca performs '80s' from his album 'Yo'. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01j2bzm (Listen) SAT Engelbert Humperdinck SAT SAT Pascale Harter looks at the life and career of the singer SAT Engelbert Humperdinck. SAT Producers: SAT Arlene Gregorius, Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01j2bzp (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Lionel Shriver and SAT Andrew O' Hagan and theatre writer David Benedict review the SAT week's cultural highlights including Moonrise Kingdom. SAT SAT Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom is set on a remote New SAT England island and features two precocious 12 year olds - SAT Sam and Suzy (Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) - who run away SAT from scout camp and home respectively to be with each other. SAT The film also stars Bill Murray and Frances McDormand as SAT Suzy's parents, Bruce Willis as the island's police chief SAT and Edward Norton as the scout leader. SAT SAT The Deadman's Pedal - like most of Alan Warner's novels - is SAT set in Oban on the west coast of Scotland. It's 1973 and 15 SAT year old Simon Crimmons has broken up from school for the SAT summer and doesn't intend to go back. Over the course of the SAT next year he loses his virginity, gets a job as a trainee SAT train driver and meets the mysteriously bohemian son and SAT daughter of the local laird. SAT SAT Right-wing think tank The New Culture Forum has published SAT Igor Toronyi-Lalic's report What's That Thing? which SAT suggests that the recent proliferation of public art in the SAT UK and the way in which it is commissioned has resulted in SAT many mediocre pieces cluttering up the built environment. SAT The solutions that Toronyi-Lalic puts forward include SAT reducing the amount of public art that is commissioned and SAT decommissioning the art that has demonstrably failed. SAT SAT Matthew Dunster's play Children's Children, which has opened SAT at the Almeida Theatre in London, focuses on the changing SAT fortunes of TV star Michael Stewart (Darrell D'Silva) and SAT his old actor friends Gordon (Trevor Fox) and Sally (Sally SAT Rogers). Michael's fame and fortune come to an abrupt end SAT shortly after he lends Gordon a substantial sum of money. SAT SAT Universe of Sound is an installation at the Science Museum SAT in London which allows visitors to wander around the members SAT of the Philharmonia Orchestra - conducted by Esa-Pekka SAT Salonen - while they perform The Planets by Holst. The SAT different sections of the orchestra are projected onto SAT screens in separate areas where live muscians also SAT periodically play along. There is also the opportunity to SAT conduct the orchestra in interactive booths. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT Moonrise Kingdom is on general release, certificate 12A. SAT SAT The Deadman’s Pedal by Alan Warner is published by Jonathan SAT Cape. SAT SAT Children’s Children is at the Almeida Theatre in London SAT until the 30 June. SAT SAT Universe of Sound is at the Science Museum in London until SAT the 8 July and admission is free. SAT SAT What’s That Thing? A Report on Public Art by Igor SAT Toronyi-Lalic is published by The New Culture Forum. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01j2bzr (Listen) SAT Houses v Fields SAT SAT Which is a better use of our land? A beautiful green field, SAT or a human home? We have long tied ourselves in knots trying SAT to answer this question. Anne McElvoy ploughs the BBC SAT archive to unearth the tangled roots of one this country's SAT great, eternal inner conflicts. SAT SAT Anne listens to a stinging mid-century polemic against new SAT 'ribbon developments'. And she finds out which writer was so SAT incensed at suburban sprawl that she burned cardboard models SAT of suburbs in her garden. SAT SAT But she also hears interviews with those who had managed to SAT flee the slums and who were enraptured by the fresh air on SAT new estates. One ex-EastEnder is agog simply at the fact SAT that she has running water upstairs. SAT SAT In this new, planning-friendly world, Prime Minister Winston SAT Churchill broadcast to the nation on the virtues of the new SAT emergency pre-fabricated houses - complete with "excellent SAT baths". He expresses impatience with those who would "plan SAT every acre" to ensure the landscape was not spoiled. SAT SAT But she also hears the rough reception that greeted the SAT Minister who ventured to Stevenage to extol the virtues of SAT the coming new town. SAT SAT This opposition to new building on ancient fields came to a SAT new crisis in the 1980s when the boom in the south east led SAT to extraordinary tensions. Environment Secretary Nicholas SAT Ridley backed plans to build new settlements in the Home SAT Counties. Protestors burned him in effigy in a Hampshire SAT field. SAT SAT And with the Coalition Government now introducing fresh SAT plans to encourage development while empowering local SAT communities, Anne asks Planning Minister Greg Clark how he SAT is trying to resolve the struggle between houses and fields. SAT SAT With John Carey, Greg Clark, Juliet Gardiner, Tristram Hunt, SAT Roger Scruton, Christine Whitehead SAT SAT Producer: Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01hw63c (Listen) SAT Mrs Dalloway, From Breakfast to Luncheon SAT SAT Dramatised by Michelene Wandor SAT SAT Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. SAT Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa SAT Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important SAT party. SAT SAT 1 of 2: From breakfast to luncheon SAT SAT Mrs Dalloway ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT Richard ..... Sam Dale SAT Septimus ..... Paul Ready SAT Rezia ..... Susie Riddell SAT Peter ..... Scott Handy SAT Sally ..... Liza Sadovy SAT Elizabeth ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Lucy ..... Amaka Okafor SAT Hugh ..... Patrick Brennan, SAT Dr Holmes ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer, SAT Miss Brush ..... Christine Absalom SAT Miss Pym ..... Tracy Wiles SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01hxvrb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b01hxmx1 (Listen) SAT The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on SAT the process by which controversial decisions are reached SAT behind closed doors in Whitehall. SAT SAT This week, he and his panel consider how to avoid a war in SAT the Middle East - a war which could follow an Israeli attack SAT on Iran's nuclear facilities designed to stop any plans they SAT might have to develop a nuclear bomb. How real is the SAT prospect, and how can Britain and America work to avoid it, SAT with all the incalculable consequences. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01hw6gk (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 5 SAT SAT (5/13) SAT Which major Russian composer's music was performed at the SAT BBC Proms last summer alongside music by his British-born SAT grandson? SAT SAT Which performer has most recently won the Mercury Music SAT Prize, becoming the first person to do so twice? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini welcomes competitors from London and Reading SAT to the BBC Radio Theatre for the latest heat of the SAT wide-ranging music quiz. They'll be asked these musical SAT teasers and many others besides - with plenty of musical SAT extracts to identify, both familiar and obscure. Today's SAT winner will take another of the places in this summer's SAT semi-finals, and thus be a step closer to the title of SAT Counterpoint champion 2012. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01hw63h (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry SAT requests read by Seán Gleeson, Barbara Barnes and Samuel SAT West. SAT Roger kicks things off with a salute to Edward Lear, marking SAT two hundred years since his birth. The poem is 'How Pleasant SAT to Know Mr. Lear'. It was written by Lear himself and SAT describes the poet's visage as hideous and his body as SAT 'perfectly spherical'. Roger makes a plea for requests for SAT Lear poems for a special bicentennial edition planned for SAT later in the year. SAT The poet Anna Crowe also joins the programme to read her SAT poem 'Punk With Dulcimer' about an unusual encounter with a SAT stranger on a train. A poem by Elizabeth Bishop in honour of SAT her mentor, Marianne Moore, conjures up images of the poet SAT flying over the New York skyline with a 'black capeful of SAT butterfly wings and bon-mots' to offer poetic inspiration to SAT her young protégé. There are also some bird poems, with SAT works by Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin and perhaps the most SAT famous poem about a bird ever written; Samuel West reads Ode SAT to a Nightingale by Keats. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 MAY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01j2dnh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Danish Noir b01j2fd7 (Listen) SUN The Wailing Girl SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi SUN Amsinck, Denmark is a mysterious place of twilight and SUN shadows: a mysterious place where strange and sometimes dark SUN things happen. SUN SUN At the castle at Amalieholm, legend has it that you can hear SUN a girl crying at night, supposedly the ghost of a young maid SUN who was drowned in the moat by a nobleman after giving birth SUN to his child. Magnus, the castle guide, doesn't believe in SUN ghosts, but wonders what would happen if the castle owner, SUN 95-year-old Baroness Feltenborg, could be made to believe in SUN the wailing girl? SUN SUN Written by Heidi Amsinck SUN Read by Tim McInnerny SUN SUN Producer: Ros Ward SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01j2dnk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01j2dnm (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01j2dnp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01j2dnr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01j2fd9 (Listen) SUN The bells of Coventry Cathedral, Warwickshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01j2bzm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01j2dnt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01j2fdc (Listen) SUN Saying Sorry SUN SUN Mark Tully asks why we find it so difficult to apologise and SUN considers some of the benefits of doing so. But what of the SUN false, or half-hearted apology? Should saying sorry always SUN lead to forgiveness? SUN SUN From politicians to journalists, poets to criminals, and SUN from entire countries to intimate lovers, Mark looks at SUN those who have transgressed but cannot find it in themselves SUN to acknowledge the fact and make amends. Just what benefits SUN to individuals, races and nations would flow if an SUN unwarranted act of war or aggression, or just simple SUN inconsideration, was owned up to? What can we do to make the SUN act of apology easier, and how should we respond to those SUN who do manage to say that hardest word of all? SUN SUN Who better than a politician to ask about the nature of SUN heartfelt apologies, the ways we find to avoid them, and how SUN we arrive at mealy-mouth substitutions. Mark speaks to Mani SUN Shankar Aiyar, a member of India's ruling Congress Party and SUN an expert on the political - with a small and large 'p' - SUN apology. There are times, he admits, when an out-and-out SUN admission of guilt, acceptance of responsibility and an SUN unqualified and genuine apology is in order - but only when SUN the game is up. SUN SUN With music from Franz Liszt, Frank Sinatra and Nusrat Fateh SUN Ali Khan, and words by Somerset Maugham, Thomas Hardy, SUN Desmond Tutu and Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mark considers the right SUN and wrong time to seek redemption from those you have hurt, SUN and the appropriate way to respond to the repentance of SUN others who have done you wrong. SUN SUN The readers are Peter Guinness, Emma Fielding and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01j2fdf (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith goes behind bars to visit a farm within a SUN prison at HMP North Sea Camp. Inmates at the end of long SUN sentences learn agricultural skills to prepare them for life SUN outside. SUN SUN Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01j2dnw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01j2dny (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01j2fdh (Listen) SUN The Catholic Church in the United States has launched a SUN legal assault on President Obama's health reforms. Edward SUN speaks with Jane Little in Washington. SUN SUN A bell which has been on a pilgrimage around Ireland and to SUN Rome and Lourdes, makes a small detour to Media City for SUN this weekend's Sunday programme. Edward talks to Pilgrimage SUN Coordinator Tommy Burns. SUN SUN Services aimed at drawing indigenous Catholics in Australia SUN back to Mass have started in Sydney's inner city where the SUN church is including special liturgies, hymns and prayers SUN written by Aboriginal people, and smoking or water SUN ceremonies to serve as penitential rites. Phil Mercer SUN reports. SUN SUN We may never know what happened to 49 bodies found in Mexico SUN earlier in May - another grim revelation in the countries SUN spiralling drug war. But a tattoo found on a number of the SUN bodies leaves a clue to their beliefs. Author Andrew Chesnut SUN tells Edward about the place of folk saint 'Sante Muerte.' SUN SUN The saga of women bishops in the Church of England continued SUN this week when the House of Bishops added two amendments to SUN the proposed legislation. Robert Pigott tells Edward how SUN this likely to play at the General Synod. SUN SUN Was it wrong for a GCSE exam board to have a question asking SUN pupils to explain why some people are prejudiced against SUN Jews? Edward discusses with Rabbi Jonathan Romain. SUN SUN A Church Urban Fund report naming the poorest areas in SUN England showed that nine out of the top ten are in the SUN Northwest. Kevin Bocquet reports from the south shore in SUN Blackpool which had the lowest male life expectancy in the SUN country. SUN SUN The Crown Nominations Committee met for the first time this SUN week to consider candidates to succeed Rowan Williams. Ruth SUN Gledhill and Stephen Bates discuss who is in the running for SUN the Anglican Communion's top job. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01j2fdk (Listen) SUN The Mango Tree SUN SUN From Kenya, Calvince Odoyo, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on SUN behalf of The Mango Tree, the charity that helped him and SUN his brothers when they were orphaned. SUN Donate: SUN Call: 0800 404 8144 SUN Send a cheque to The Mango Tree to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal. SUN SUN The Mango Tree SUN SUN Clinton: “My Mothers last words were: ‘take care of your SUN brothers and be generous with what you have. The world is SUN at your disposal.’ It is a sad fact that when parents die SUN in Africa, their children’s futures usually die with them. SUN But my brothers and I should now achieve our ambitions. We SUN would all have been destitute, if it was not for the Mango SUN Tree.†SUN SUN The Mango Tree Orphan Support Programme was established in SUN 2002 to provide practical support to HIV/AIDS orphans in SUN East Africa. The Mango Tree currently supports 12,393 SUN orphans and vulnerable children in Kyela District, Southern SUN Tanzania and Rachuonyo District, Western Kenya. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01j2dp0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01j2dp2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01j2fdm (Listen) SUN Marking Pentecost, live from St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. SUN Led by The Revd Karen Campbell. Preacher: The Very Revd SUN Gilleasbuig Macmillan. With the Cathedral Choir directed by SUN Michael Harris. Organist: Peter Backhouse. Producer: Mo SUN McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01hxvnk (Listen) SUN A right loyal toast SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the historical tradition of the Loyal SUN Toast. A week before the Jubilee celebrations get underway, SUN he muses on where deference is properly due. SUN SUN "I have never risen for the Loyal Toast, and unless some SUN apoplectic patriot holds a gun to my head I doubt I ever SUN will" he writes. SUN SUN He suggests we should turn our thoughts to who else we might SUN raise a toast to....personally, he believes it should be his SUN postwoman. In that case, he says "I'd be on my hind legs SUN before you could scream 'Treason!'" SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01j2fdp (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paul Mason. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01j2fdr (Listen) SUN Editor.....Vanessa Whitburn & John Yorke SUN Writer..... Nawal Gadalla SUN Director..... Rosemary Watts SUN SUN Jill Archer..... Patricia Greene SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer..... Tom Graham SUN Adam Macy..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Clarrie Grundy..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy..... Becky Wright SUN Christopher Carter..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter..... Hollie Chapman SUN Oliver Sterling..... Michael Cochrane SUN Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry..... Eric Allan SUN Alan Franks..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks..... Jennifer Daley SUN Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur SUN Tracy Horrobin..... Susie Riddell SUN Keith Horrobin..... Sean Connolly SUN Elona Makepeace..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace.....Dan Hagley SUN Caller.....Joe Sims SUN Iftikar Shah.....Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01j2fdt (Listen) SUN Denise Robertson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the agony aunt and writer Denise SUN Robertson. SUN SUN She is, she says, one of life's survivors -- yet she seems SUN to have had more than her fair share of tragedy; she's been SUN widowed twice, dealt with financial hardship and lost a SUN child to cancer. She's written dozens of novels and for more SUN than forty years been an agony aunt on local radio, papers SUN and television. SUN SUN She says: "There have been times when I've thought, just as SUN I get things right, fate steps in and kicks the steps from SUN under me. But then you pick yourself up again. When I SUN started out, there used to be a joke, that one day I'd open SUN a letter without saying, 'Oh I remember when that happened SUN to me'." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01hw75p (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 2 SUN SUN Graham Norton, Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth and Alun SUN Cochrane join Nicholas Parsons who asks them to speak on a SUN subject for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation. SUN SUN This week Graham Norton describes his Favourite Smells; Alun SUN Cochrane talks about Graffiti; Gyles Brandreth declaims on SUN the subject of Wales and Paul Merton explains The Importance SUN of Eyebrows. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01j2fdw (Listen) SUN Breakfast SUN SUN Tim Hayward offers his reflections on the past, present and SUN future of the British breakfast. Has the first meal of the SUN day become a problem to solve rather than a pleasure? SUN SUN Joined by food writer and breakfast historian Seb Emina, Tim SUN finds out how the great British breakfast became the envy of SUN the world. With its origins dating back to aristocratic SUN Edwardian country houses, the cooked breakfast spread SUN through the chop houses of working class London and beyond. SUN SUN But with the huge amount of breakfast choices now available SUN and our increasingly busy lives, eating breakfast has become SUN an increasingly diverse and fragmented food experience. SUN SUN For some breakfast is an exercise in "grab-and-go" and SUN indulging in more of a "desk-fast" than a meal, but there SUN are some other interesting trends underway; sales of the big SUN name cereal brands have been falling, porridge sales have SUN been making something of a comeback. For an insight into SUN this trend, Tim meets Nick Barnard of Rude Health, one of SUN the more recent players on the breakfast scene competing for SUN our morning appetite. SUN SUN With the help of food writer Anna Berrill, Tim finds out SUN how, for some, the traditional breakfast is becoming more of SUN a whole social occasion. Writer and comedian Chris Neill SUN explains his own personal problem with breakfast and we SUN learn how the so called "third wave" coffee scene is a SUN growing influence on our mornings. SUN SUN Producer: George Casey. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01j2dp4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01j2fdy (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Reading between the Lines b01hxh6w (Listen) SUN Easy as ABC? SUN SUN Michael Morpurgo explores how the seminal experience of SUN learning to read has changed over the last 70 years. SUN SUN In June 2012, all Year One children in English primary SUN schools will sit a compulsory new "Phonics Screening Check". SUN SUN Meanwhile, authoritative studies show British ten year olds SUN performing less well and expressing less enthusiasm for SUN reading than many of their international peers. SUN SUN Michael Morpurgo - hugely popular children's author, former SUN Children's Laureate and passionate advocate for children's SUN reading - explores how the experience of learning to read SUN has changed since the 1944 Butler Education Act. Michael's SUN starting point is a passionate interest in the subject, SUN forged over decades as a father, grandfather, teacher and SUN writer. SUN SUN 1. Easy as ABC? SUN SUN In the first of two programmes, Michael finds out just what SUN Systematic Synthetic Phonics are and why some, not least SUN Nick Gibb, the Minister for Schools in the Coalition SUN Government, are so keen on them - while others, in the SUN educational establishment and the world of children's books, SUN are less enthusiastic. SUN SUN He talks to the Minister, and to phonics expert Ruth Miskin, SUN and hears from writers Philip Pullman, Michael Rosen and SUN Julia Donaldson. He visits a primary school in South London, SUN rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted, which has embraced the new SUN system, and talks with pupils and teachers. SUN SUN Ultimately, Michael Morpurgo tries to square the circle SUN between getting children reading and getting them to love SUN reading - not only because this is a widely recognised SUN prerequisite for success in secondary education, but also SUN because of the pleasure and fulfilment it brings children SUN everywhere. SUN SUN Producer : Beaty Rubens. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01hxtmh (Listen) SUN RHS Chelsea Flower Show SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the programme from the biggest gardening SUN event of the year - The Chelsea Flower Show. Joining him on SUN the panel are Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Bob SUN Flowerdew. SUN SUN Questions addressed in the programme include the problem of SUN plane fuel ending up in your water butt, what to do with SUN tulips after flowering and fitting hanging baskets to a SUN trampoline! SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01j2ff0 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series SUN capturing the nation in conversation: in today's programme, SUN we meet Jasmit and Jaswant from Lincolnshire, who prove, SUN after 34 years of happy marriage, that arranged marriage can SUN work. From Scotland a painful conversation between mother SUN and son, Lily and Francis, about Francis' addiction to SUN heroin and its terrible consequences. But it ends with a SUN message of hope. And from Berkshire the dilemma facing dairy SUN farmers; Michael and Don on whether or not to sell their SUN herds. Also, a chance to hear an excerpt from the first User SUN Generated Content to be uploaded to The Listening Project: SUN Sophie wanted to ask her brother Oscar about his experience SUN of living with autism. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that SUN aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which SUN people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with SUN someone close to them about a subject they've never SUN discussed intimately before. The conversations are being SUN gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and SUN national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every SUN conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an SUN important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then SUN edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN participants. Many of the long conversations are being SUN archived by the British Library which they will use to build SUN up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the SUN UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload SUN your own conversations or just learn more about The SUN Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01j2ff2 (Listen) SUN Mrs Dalloway, From Afternoon to Nightfall SUN SUN Dramatised by Michelene Wandor SUN SUN Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. SUN As Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an SUN important party, Septimus visits another doctor and becomes SUN increasingly troubled. SUN SUN 2 of 2: From afternoon to nightfall SUN SUN Mrs Dalloway ..... Fenella Woolgar SUN Richard ..... Sam Dale SUN Septimus ..... Paul Ready SUN Rezia ..... Susie Riddell SUN Peter ..... Scott Handy SUN Sally ..... Liza Sadovy SUN Elizabeth ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Lucy ..... Amaka Okafor SUN Sir William ..... Patrick Brennan, SUN Miss Kilman ..... Christine Absalom SUN Dr Holmes ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer, SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01j9mm2 (Listen) SUN David Hewson on his novel adaptation of The Killing SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to author David Hewson, who explains SUN how he's transported the cult Danish TV series The Killing SUN into novel form and why readers should expect a twist in the SUN tale SUN SUN To mark the 25th anniversary of the Commonwealth Writers' SUN Prize last year, they had a re-launch - changing its focus SUN from more established to emerging writers. They've made SUN self-published books eligible, introduced a new category, SUN the Short Story prize, for unpublished work of between 2000 SUN - 5000 words and renamed the entire event The Commonwealth SUN Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Mariella SUN explores the state of publishing and the experiences of SUN writers across the region with Jeremy Pointing, Managing SUN Editor of Peepal Tree Press and Lucy Hannah who runs the SUN culture programme at the Commonwealth Foundation SUN SUN This month the award winning short story writer Helen SUN Simpson publishes A Bunch of Fives, her selection of her SUN much loved tales dating back over 25 years. She muses for SUN Open Book on how rereading and choosing from this treasure SUN trove has made her think about the short story-form all over SUN again SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01j2ld1 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents two classic works and readings. SUN First, the opening section of Under Milk Wood by Dylan SUN Thomas recorded in 1954. It's hard to resist Richard Burton SUN inviting us to hush and 'come closer'. SUN Then, Paul Scofield reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' tormented SUN cry The Wreck of the Deutschland. Composed after the SUN foundering of a German boat in the Thames, it was also SUN Hopkins first poem written since his conversion to SUN Catholicism and becoming a Jesuit priest. As Hopkins said SUN himself, it's a poem to be read by the ears, and there is no SUN finer rendition than this 1975 gem from the archives. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The End of Drug Discovery b01hxh76 (Listen) SUN We are in desperate need of new medicines for the major SUN diseases facing us in the 21st century such as Alzheimer's SUN and obesity. And we are running out of antibiotics that are SUN effective against bacteria that are now resistant to many SUN old varieties. As bringing new and improved drugs to SUN patients becomes more difficult and more expensive - it can SUN take twenty years and around $1 billion to bring a medicine SUN to market - Geoff Watts asks what's gone wrong and what can SUN be done to get new pharmaceutical treatments to patients. SUN SUN Geoff talks to a number of researchers who have worked both SUN within the pharmaceutical industry and publicly funded SUN laboratories to get their views on why the source of drugs SUN has dried up. These include Dr Patrick Vallance, of global SUN pharmaceutical giant GSK, Professor Paul Workman of the SUN Institute of Cancer Research, Professor Chas Bountra of SUN Oxford University's Structural Genomics Consortium, and Dr SUN Mike Dawson of biotech company Novacta Biosystems. SUN They argue that the age of the blockbuster drug which can SUN treat millions of patients is over and that we don't know SUN enough science to be able to find treatments for conditions SUN like Alzheimer's disease. The industry is risk averse and SUN regulations to ensure that drugs are safe and effective are SUN burdensome. Tilli Tansey, Professor of the History of Modern SUN Medical Science at Queen Mary University in London puts the SUN state of drug discovery in its historical context. SUN SUN Geoff finds out that these experts believe that there needs SUN to be a fundamental change in the drug development process, SUN and the key ingredient is collaboration - between industry SUN and academia and between different drug companies. He also SUN discovers that the medical charity, the Wellcome Trust, is SUN putting money into the development of antibiotics, a field SUN not of interest to many pharmaceutical companies. SUN SUN Editor: Deborah Cohen. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01j2bzm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01j2dp6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01j2dp8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01j2dpb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01j2ld3 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN On Pick of the Week, Liz Barclay discovers how Richard SUN Wilson became the reluctant owner of a pair of miner's SUN boots, how David Nobbs survived life in the army, and why SUN the French and Japanese are thrilled by locked room murder SUN mysteries. Camels figure strongly, as does our daily bread, SUN and Dame Judi Dench is moved to tears by Shakespeare. All SUN that and much more on Pick of the Week .. SUN SUN Believe it! - Radio 4 SUN Miles Jupp in a Locked Room - Radio 4 SUN Reading Between The Lines - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Follow Up Albums - Radio 4 SUN The Barlow and Morganstern Method - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: The Grudge - Radio 4 SUN Pm -Radio 4 SUN Four Thought - Radio 4 SUN From Abba to Azerbaijan - Radio 2 SUN Our Daily Bread - Radio 4 SUN With Nobbs On - Radio 4 SUN Camel Country - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - 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 b01j2ld5 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b01hxr12 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN SUN Rory Bremner and the team return for another series of SUN Tonight, the topical satire show that digs that bit deeper SUN into national and international politics. SUN SUN Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SUN things as it is to make fun of them. With a team that SUN includes veteran satirists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody and SUN versatile impressionist and character comedian Kate SUN O'Sullivan, Tonight promises to do both. This is half an SUN hour of stand-up, sketches, and investigative satire. And at SUN the core of the show are Rory's incisively funny interviews SUN with the most informed guest commentators on the current SUN political scene. SUN SUN More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with SUN the word fiscal in them - and some truly brilliant SUN impressions: a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. SUN SUN Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Copenhagen Confidential b01j2ld7 (Listen) SUN The Last Tenant SUN SUN Written by Heidi Amsinck SUN Read by: Jack Klaff SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi SUN Amsinck, Copenhagen and its surrounds are places of twilight SUN and shadows: mysterious places where strange, occasionally SUN bad things happen. SUN SUN The Last Tenant SUN Jan Vettegren is convinced that the office building he's SUN bought is a steal - once you get past the wear-and-tear, SUN creaks and strange recurring smells. But none of his SUN colleagues are happy to work alone there. SUN SUN Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, SUN has covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992, SUN including a spell as London Correspondent for the broadsheet SUN daily Jyllands-Posten. Heidi has written numerous short SUN stories for radio including, most recently, the three story SUN set Danish Noir (2010), which was also produced by Sweet SUN Talk for BBC Radio 4. A graduate of the MA in Creative SUN Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, Heidi lives in SUN Surrey with her husband and two young sons. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01hxtmp (Listen) SUN Would firing staff 'at will' boost the economy? SUN SUN In this week's programme: SUN SUN Fire "at will"? SUN The Beecroft Report has been stirring up controversy all SUN week. But is there any evidence that the economy would be SUN boosted if employers could fire their staff "at will", as SUN Adrian Beecroft recommends? Professor John Van Reenan - SUN director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the SUN London School of Economics - can't find much. SUN SUN Hard-working Greeks SUN One version of the Euro crisis story has it that SUN hard-working Germans are bailing out lazy Greeks. But in SUN fact Greek workers put in far longer hours than their German SUN counterparts. SUN SUN The maths of infidelity SUN It's a very commonly-held belief that men are less faithful SUN than women. But it takes two to tango. So can this be SUN mathematically possible? SUN SUN Publication bias SUN If we on More or Less were only to report statistical SUN errors, and never statistical triumphs, you could be SUN forgiven for concluding that the world is full of numerical SUN lies. That's "publication bias" - and it's a big problem in SUN science, as Ben Goldacre explains. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01hxtmm (Listen) SUN Robin Gibb, Eric James, Alan Oakley, David Ellis and Eugene SUN Polley SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees who, with his brothers Barry and SUN Maurice, created scores of hit records. We hear about his SUN rivalry with Barry for the lead vocal spot and his obsession SUN with the Titanic. SUN SUN Also: the left wing Anglican Canon Eric James, a regular on SUN Radio 4's Thought For The Day, SUN SUN Alan Oakley who invented the Chopper bicycle, much coveted SUN by schoolboys of the seventies, SUN SUN David Ellis - the dancer and doctor who married into the SUN Ballet Rambert and played a leading role in the company's SUN development. SUN SUN And Eugene Polley who launched a million couch potatoes by SUN pioneering the TV remote control. Elvis McGonagall pays SUN tribute in verse from his sofa. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01j2bmv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01j2fdk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01hxpyg (Listen) SUN Called to Account SUN SUN The global Big Four accountancy groups are under sharp SUN scrutiny from the authorities in Britain, Europe and the SUN USA. Peter Day finds out why they are getting such close SUN official attention..and why it matters to the rest of us. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01j2lhb (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 b01j2lhd (Listen) SUN Episode 105 SUN SUN John Harris of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01hxpy0 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock reports from the 65th Cannes Film Festival, SUN speaking to jury member Alexander Payne, director of SUN Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson, and Ken Loach whose latest, SUN The Angels' Share, is his 11th film in competition for The SUN Palme d'Or. In this updated repeat of Thursday's programme, SUN we hear about the winners of the much coveted prizes. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01j2fdc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 MAY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01j2dq8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01hxmwh (Listen) MON Wine tasting; US philanthropy MON MON Philanthropy is most often associated with the fight against MON poverty and disease. But a new book claims that the MON philanthropic foundations established by the major American MON industrialists - Rockefeller, Carnegie and Ford - have also MON promoted American values across the world. From Chile to MON Indonesia, they've invested in the creation of intellectual MON elites with a neo liberal agenda. And, it's claimed, they've MON had a significant role on the international stage, MON transforming America from a parochial nation into a global MON leader. Professor Inderjeet Parmar explores the power of US MON philanthropy with Laurie Taylor. Also, what does the MON language of wine tell us about civilisation? Professor MON Steven Shapin charts the cultural and chemical evolution of MON wine tasting. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01j2fd9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01j2dqb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01j2dqd (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01j2dqg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01j2dqj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01j5fvt (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from MON Wales with singer and broadcaster Beverley Humphreys. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01j5fvw (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01j2dql (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01j5fvy (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01j5fw0 (Listen) MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr goes in search of ancient MON landscapes with the writer Robert Macfarlane. With a mix of MON geology, cartography and natural history, Macfarlane MON journeys on foot to explore ideas of pilgrimage, trespass MON and ancient pathways. Jonathan Meades is equally preoccupied MON with a sense of place, but turns his attention to its MON architecture and the futility of landmark buildings. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01j5fw2 (Listen) MON Midnight in Peking, Episode 1 MON MON By Paul French. MON MON Read by Crawford Logan. MON MON On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of MON colonial Peking, the body of a young woman was found in the MON shadows of a haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the MON daughter of the city's former British consul Edward Werner. MON MON A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela's killer but MON the police investigation drew a blank and the case was MON forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion. Only MON Pamela's father carried on, employing a network of private MON investigators to follow the murder trail into Peking's MON notorious Badlands and back to the gilded hotels of the MON colonial Quarter. MON MON Seventy-five years later, deep in the Scotland Yard MON archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came MON across the lost case file prepared by Edward Werner and, MON through his fresh eyes, uncovered the killer's identity. MON MON An evocative account of the end of an era, the book spent MON seven weeks in the South China Morning Post's Top 10 MON bestsellers list. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01j5fw4 (Listen) MON Queens who've ruled England: the bloody reign of Mary Tudor, MON women who are denied asylum, Moscow-born singer songwriter MON Regina Spektor, The Thick of It's Rebecca Front stars in MON Woman's Hour's spoof drama. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Produced by Catherine Carr. MON MON Rebecca Front MON MON Rebecca Front returns to the Woman’s Hour drama with a new MON run of the spoof interview series ‘Incredible Women’. Since MON the last series she has been notching up credits in 'Just MON William', 'Horrid Henry', 'Grandma’s House' and 'Lewis' – to MON name but a few. And this Autumn she will reprise her role as MON Nicola Murray MP to send up the coalition when ‘The Thick Of MON It’ returns to TV. Jane is joined by Rebecca Front to MON discuss her latest work. MON MON Women and asylum MON MON While women may claim asylum for the same reasons as men, MON their experiences of persecution are often different. Women MON are more likely to flee from gender-specific forms of MON persecution, such as sexual violence, domestic violence, MON female genital mutilation, forced prostitution and honour MON crimes. Women for Refugee Women are launching a new report MON based on interviews with over 70 women who have sought MON asylum in the UK. The results are striking: nearly half the MON women had experienced rape as part of their persecution and MON almost all the women had been refused asylum. MON Felicity Finch talks to one woman who fled Ethiopia after MON she was imprisoned and raped. She was initially refused MON asylum, but has now been given leave to remain. MON Jane is joined by Natasha Walter, co-author of the report MON and Director of Women for Refugee Women to discuss the MON findings. MON MON Ruling Queens – Mary Tudor MON MON In the first of a series on England’s Ruling Queens, Jane MON talks to the historian Alison Weir about Queen Mary Tudor – MON also known as ‘Bloody Mary’ for her persecution of MON Protestants during her brief sixteenth century reign. Mary’s MON wrestling of the throne from the Lady Jane Grey in July 1553 MON marked the first time that a woman had ever held the English MON crown in her own right. This was never supposed to happen, MON and she had to fight off plots against her reign from the MON very start. Alison discusses Mary’s excessive burning of MON heretics, her phantom pregnancies and her disastrous MON marriage. MON MON Regina Spektor MON MON Singer and songwriter Regina Spektor was born in Moscow and MON studied classical piano from an early age. Like many Russian MON Jews, she left the Soviet Union with her family in 1989. MON They were admitted to the United States as refugees and MON settled in the Bronx. Regina drifted into writing her own MON songs and performing in the anti-folk scene in downtown New MON York City. She is about to release her sixth album, 'What We MON Saw from the Cheap Seats'. Jane caught up with Regina when MON she was in the UK. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01j5fw6 (Listen) MON Incredible Women - Series 2, Nicky Markham MON MON Rebecca Front (The Thick of It, Nighty Night, The Day Today, MON Just William, Grandma's House) stars in this series about MON five extraordinary and unforgettable characters in MON Incredible Women. MON MON In each programme less-than-intrepid interviewer Jeremy MON spends one night in the home of each of his interviewees. On MON their territory, he asks about their personal histories, MON plus we discover some very odd things about the way they MON live their daily lives. MON MON In the first episode, Jeremy meets medium Nicky Markham who MON sells out huge theatres with her shows in which she claims MON to speak to your loved ones who have passed to the other MON side. MON MON Jeremy admires her as an entertainer but she won't budge on MON his questioning of how she does it. But the sceptical Jeremy MON experiences something he can't explain when he stays at her MON house overnight. MON MON Featuring Rebecca Front, Jeremy Front, Richard Wiseman, MON Tilly Clymer and Gerard McDermott. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 11:00 Outfoxed: The Story of Hunting in Britain b01j9myg (Listen) MON It is seven years since the fox hunting ban, yet the sport MON is still flourishing. Social Historian Emma Griffin visits MON three very different hunts to find out why. Along the way, MON she tells the story of how hunting has evolved over time and MON changed from being a pursuit mainly for the privileged and MON wealthy into something more universal, just when the hunting MON debate was becoming 'class' focused. MON MON Dr. Griffin visits the oldest hunt in Britain: the Duke of MON Beaufort's in Gloucestershire; as well as the Blencathra MON foot pack of the Lake District and the Banwen Miners' hunt MON of South Wales, where she discovers that hunting has some MON enthusiasts who differ from the usually assumed stereotype. MON MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 With Nobbs On b01j5fw8 (Listen) MON From Howerd's End to Pebble Mill MON MON Episode 2 - From Howerd's end to Pebble Mill MON MON Written and presented by David Nobbs MON MON With Nobbs On sees David Nobbs, the comic genius behind MON Reggie Perrin, The Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd MON and R4's The Maltby Collection, presenting a three-part MON series of entertaining, joke-laden, insider observations on MON his comedy career to a studio audience along with guest MON readings, archive material and unpredictable delights. MON MON David has trouble explaining why he's impersonating Frankie MON Howerd in a public place to the police. Meanwhile Pebble MON Mill reject a short story about a man battling with his MON identity as a successful middle class, middle management MON manager, called Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. MON MON Featuring Martin Trenaman and Mia Soteriou MON MON Produced by Andrew McGibbon MON A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01j5fwb (Listen) MON Radio 4's consumer affairs programme with Julian Worricker. MON How do we know whether a food is good or bad for us? The MON government is considering how our food should be labelled. MON Heard of crowdfunding? We'll be hearing from one company MON that uses other people's money to buy houses and why MON investors should be cautious. And the businesses enjoying a MON revival thanks to the Queen's Jubilee. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01j2dqn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01j5fwd (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle MON b01j5fwg (Listen) MON Prologue MON MON Richard Holloway, the writer and the former Bishop of MON Edinburgh, begins a series of 20 personal essays in which he MON explores the relationship between faith and doubt over the MON last 3000 years. He takes the listener from the birth of MON religious thinking, through the Old and New Testaments, to MON the developments in subsequent centuries and their influence MON on thinkers and writers, up to the present-day. MON MON As the former head of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Richard MON Holloway's main focus is on the history of doubt in the MON Judeo-Christian tradition. But as he says, he is 'first and MON foremost a human being' and so he also addresses some of the MON universal questions about our existence and the meaning of MON life, considering how some of humanity's best thinkers and MON most creative writers have approached these 'literally life MON and death questions'. MON MON In today's programme he takes the painting by Paul Gauguin MON which poses the questions 'Where Do We Come From? What Are MON We? Where Are We Going?' as his starting point, and quotes MON the writer George Steiner, and poets Robert Browning, Walter MON de la Mare, as well as Tennyson, from whose poem "In MON Memoriam" comes "Honest Doubt", the title of the series. MON MON Holloway describes the tension between faith and doubt as MON two sides of the same coin or, as he says, 'Another way into MON the tension is to think of a piece of music. If faith is the MON melody, doubt is the descant. Each adds texture and depth to MON the other and, if we're lucky, a sense of harmony.' MON MON Producer: Olivia Landsberg MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01j2ld5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01j5fwj (Listen) MON Cry for Me: The Battle of Goose Green MON MON By Adrian Bean. To mark the 30th anniversary of the Battle MON of Goose Green, this drama-documentary looks at the events MON of the 28th - 29th May 1982 from the Argentinian MON perspective. The drama tells the story of two fictional MON Argentine conscripts. MON MON Luis is looking forward to graduating and becoming a famous MON writer. Diego is praying for a swift Argentine victory (in MON the forthcoming World Cup). Neither chose to live under a MON military dictatorship. Nor did they choose to become MON soldiers. And they certainly didn't choose to take on the MON might of the British army for the sake of 'the Malvinas'. MON MON Luis .... Thomas Brodie-Sangster MON Diego .... Michael Socha MON Sergeant Hernandez .... Alun Raglan MON Piaggi .... Sam Dale MON Narrator .... Eiry Thomas MON MON Directed by James Robinson MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01j5fwl (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 6 MON MON (6/13) MON Would you be able to name the two earlier composers whose MON names provided the title of an 1898 opera by Rimsky MON Korsakov? MON MON And which colourful character did the singer and bandleader MON Cab Calloway describe as 'a red hot hoochie-coocher'? MON MON These are among the musical teasers Paul Gambaccini will be MON putting to the contestants in this week's heat of MON Counterpoint. They'll have to prove the breadth of their MON knowledge across a range of musical styles if they're to MON stand a chance of winning through to the semi-finals of this MON year's competition. MON MON There'll be plenty of musical extracts to identify, both MON familiar and surprising - and as always, the contestants MON will have to answer specialist questions on a musical topic MON for which they're completely unprepared. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01j2fdw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 It's Fun, but Is It Theatre? b01j5fwn (Listen) MON Sarah Hemming, theatre critic for The Financial Times takes MON a ride on the popular new, more interactive theatre trend MON that has been taking bums off seats over the past decade. MON MON You may find yourself conducting a bank robbery, being MON dragged into a dark corner by an opera singer, feel the MON tickle of cobwebs run over your face in the dark, or stand MON two feet away from a woman who has just been raped. MON Immersive, site specific, site-responsive, installation - MON but definitely not for the faint-hearted - the interactive MON trend in the 21st century theatrical scene has been MON gathering pace and popularity. MON MON Companies such as Punchdrunk, YouMeBumBumTrain, MON dreamthinkspeak, Sound and Fury and Artichoke have wowed MON audiences, selling out tickets, or filling city centres with MON spectators, wherever they have popped up, and in some cases MON that means in warehouses, streets or abandoned basements. MON MON Sarah Hemming, theatre critic for the Financial Times screws MON her courage to the sticking point and embarks on a series of MON theatrical experiences, to help you decide whether you too MON might enjoy this type of theatre trip: the sort that doesn't MON involve a stage, a programme, an ice cream at the interval - MON oh, or a seat. Experiences can range from Lucien Bourjeily's MON re- enactment of imprisonment in a Syrian detention centre - MON "we promise you will be released at the end" ,to a magical MON storytelling moment by a cosy library fireplace - but is it MON theatre? MON Talking to Felix Barrett, creator of Punchdrunk; Tristan MON Sharps of dreamthinkspeak; Nicky Webb from Artichoke; Sound MON and Fury's Dan Jones, and experiencing the full force of the MON improvisation medley that is YouMeBumBumTrain, Sarah boldly MON goes beyond the fourth wall. MON MON Appearing for the defence, Guardian critic, Lyn Gardner, and MON for the prosecution Whatsonstage critic Michael Coveney. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 16:30 The Digital Human b01j5fwq (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON MON Episode 5: Crush MON Join Aleks Krotoski as she explores love in the digital MON world. Can love be love when we're deprived of the sensory MON connections of face-to-face interaction? Love online doesn't MON need to be as wayward or incidental as it is in real life. MON In fact, Aleks will be hearing from those who think that MON love in the digital age leads to far deeper connections than MON we might imagine. MON MON 17:00 PM b01j5fws (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01j2dqq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01j5fwv (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 3 MON MON Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary & Greg Proops join MON Nicholas Parsons for the game in which panellists have to MON talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition & MON deviation. MON MON Today Sue Perkins talks on the subject of The Worst Night of MON my Life, Julian Clary teaches us all about The Vikings, Paul MON Merton explains How he would Describe his Personality and MON Greg Proops enlightens us on the subject of Why the MON Dinosaurs Died Out. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01j5fwx (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01j5g2p (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer James MON Sallis, whose book Drive was the source for the film MON starring Ryan Gosling. And singer Rumer discusses her album MON of songs originally by male artists. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01j5fw6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b01j5h4z (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 1 MON MON The barons who created Magna Carta are 'noble defenders of MON English liberty'. But they aided a massive French invasion MON of England to be stopped by unsung hero, William Marshall. MON MON The Magna Carta could be just another inglorious tale of the MON rich evading tax, were it not for the little known invasion MON of England in 1216 which, had it succeeded, would have MON changed the map of Europe forever. The English would now be MON French and the Magna Carta would be an obscure, forgotten MON document, of little interest to anyone. MON MON King John had been the enemy of the barons, the man they MON forced to seal the Magna Carta. When that didn't stop King MON John taxing them and taking their lands they sided with the MON "real" enemy of England, the future king of France, Prince MON Louis. He decided to invade England, making various promises MON to the Barons if they joined him. MON MON But things did not go as planned for Louis; King John died MON from dysentery - brought on by eating too many peaches - and MON with the taxing King John gone some of the Barons changed MON sides once again, fighting alongside a grand old Knight MON William Marshal, England's real, but forgotten hero. The MON invasion failed at the battle of Lincoln and England was MON safely back in the hands of the English, under the nine year MON old King Henry III. MON MON The remaining Barons came over to the young King, The Magna MON Carta was redrafted - without clause 61 which was MON unfavourable to the monarchy - and as we now know became one MON of the most important documents in the Western World. MON However, the 2nd French invasion, thwarted by Marshall, has MON long been forgotten and, ironically, the duplicitous Barons MON are remembered for all the wrong reasons. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01jb6vz (Listen) MON Middle East: Too Soon for Democracy? MON MON Edward Stourton explores the prospects for post-revolution MON government, following the Arab Spring. Elections are being MON held, but can voters be sure autocratic rule is in the past? MON MON Producer: Ruth Alexander. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01hxpy2 (Listen) MON In this week's programme Angela Saini asks whether the UK MON government's plans for future energy provisions live up to MON public expectations. New research shows the public generally MON favour renewable technologies over fossil fuels, but can the MON reality of our energy needs be squared with the public's MON wishes? We discuss this with public perception and energy MON policy experts Professors Nick Pidgeon from Cardiff MON University and Jim Watson from Sussex University. MON MON We also look at how street lighting is affecting micro MON environments. Insects and arachnids seem to grow and MON multiply under new whiter brighter street lights. We discuss MON the consequences of this with researcher Thomas Davies from MON Exeter University. MON MON Silicon chips are a key component of computers, but now a MON new type of chip with moveable silicon offers the chance of MON much faster operation and the preservation of huge amounts MON of data without the need to power the chips. Tony Kenyon MON form the University College London's Photonic Materials lab MON heads the team behind the new invention. MON MON We also look at earthquake prediction and ask why it is MON currently impossible so say exactly when and where MON earthquakes will occur. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01j5fw0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01j2dqs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01j5h53 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j5h55 (Listen) MON Jubilee, Episode 1 MON MON Satish was at the centre of an iconic photo of a Jubilee MON street party taken in 1977 but thirty years on he dreads a MON reunion. Even though he is now a successful paediatric MON cardiologist and happily married with two children of his MON own, the events of that fateful day are seared on his MON memory. MON MON 'Jubilee' is Shelley Harris's first novel. It is read by MON Sartaj Garewal and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON Productions. MON MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00rt9rf (Listen) MON In this week's edition of Word of Mouth Michael Rosen MON explores the language of the natural world asking if words MON are up to the job of conveying the complexities of nature. MON He also finds out how some British birds got their names and MON hears the story of a mushroom whose hallucinogenic qualities MON are used to capture flies. So join Word of Mouth, gathered MON around the nature table, this afternoon at four o'clock. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01j5h57 (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 MAY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01j2drm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01j5fw2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01j2drp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01j2drr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01j2drt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01j2drw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jggpj (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from TUE Wales with singer and broadcaster Beverley Humphreys. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01j5h9d (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presenter is Anna Hill. Producer is Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01j5h9g (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01j5j24 (Listen) TUE Barbara Sahakian TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili meets neuroscientist Barbara Sahakian. TUE Neurotransmitters are chemicals in the brain which effect TUE our memory and understanding, and neuropharmacology is the TUE study of drugs which can be used in conditions like TUE Alzheimer's disease or depression. But can new treatments TUE improve the performance of surgeons or pilots and could they TUE even be used to make us more entrepreneurial? TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01j5j26 (Listen) TUE Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Chantelle Taylor TUE TUE One to One allows journalists the chance to pursue their own TUE passions by talking to the people who interest them most. TUE Mary Ann Sieghart takes over the chair for the next three TUE weeks talking to those who've killed another person. She TUE says; TUE "Killing another person is humanity's greatest taboo. Most TUE of us, thankfully, will go through life without having taken TUE someone else's. And it's precisely because I'll never know TUE at first hand what it's like (I hope) that I'm so curious to TUE get inside the mind of a killer. Whether it's someone who is TUE sanctioned to kill, like a soldier; someone who kills TUE accidentally, like a dangerous driver; or someone who does TUE it on purpose, like a murderer, I want to know the answers TUE to all sorts of fascinating questions. What goes through TUE their mind at the time? How did it happen? How do they feel TUE afterwards? And are they haunted by the event for the rest TUE of their life?" TUE In this first programme she talks to Chantelle Taylor, an TUE army medic who shot a Taliban fighter when caught in an TUE ambush in Afghanistan. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01jlkh8 (Listen) TUE Midnight in Peking, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Crawford Logan. TUE TUE Author Paul French reveals the true-crime "cold case" that TUE haunted the last days of old Peking. TUE TUE January, 1937. As invading Japanese troops move into the TUE countryside around Peking, two policemen try desperately to TUE discover who was behind the brutal murder of a young British TUE woman, Pamela Werner. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01j5j28 (Listen) TUE What do parents really want from their children's schools? TUE Extended hours or wraparound care so they can work? Better TUE exam results - or an end to the exam treadmill? Freedom from TUE the National Curriculum or freedom to set up their own TUE schools? Well-rounded, happy young people with buckets of TUE A*s, grade 8 French Horn, fluent in French and Mandarin, and TUE good at sports to boot? Can parents really expect schools to TUE provide it all? And can kids cope with all these TUE expectations? TUE TUE On a special Woman's Hour dedicated to answering some of TUE these questions about schools, Jane Garvey's guests include TUE the educational campaigner Fiona Millar, the Director of the TUE New Schools Network Rachel Wolf, Professor of Education Iram TUE Siraj-Blatchford and the headmistress Sue Street. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jckwj (Listen) TUE Incredible Women - Series 2, Lucy Winterton TUE TUE Today he meets Lucy Winterton, rent-a-gob journalist. She TUE churns out bestsellers, loosely based on her long-suffering TUE husband Rollo, saying all men are useless. She has TUE discovered a technique of punning in interviews which is TUE handy in the world of headline-grabbing but which clearly TUE drives interviewers, including Jeremy Paxman, absolutely TUE mad. When Jeremy visits her home, Rollo drops a bombshell - TUE but does Lucy react in the way one TUE would predict? TUE TUE Featuring Jeremy Paxman, David Morrissey, Janet TUE Street-Porter, Rebecca Front and Jeremy Front. TUE TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 11:00 Extinct! b01j5j2b (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Adam Rutherford looks at the extinction of humans in the TUE distant past. He examines the fate of the first and TUE longest-surviving of human species, Homo erectus. This early TUE human wandered the Earth for 2 million years before TUE disappearing. TUE TUE Adam also investigates the theories put forward to explain TUE the extinction of the Neanderthals who died out about 30 000 TUE years ago. Did our species have a hand in their demise? Did TUE we will kill them off? Did we absorb them through TUE inter-species breeding? Or were they just victims of bad TUE luck? TUE TUE Whatever the causes behind the extinction of other human TUE species, we have been living in unprecedented times for the TUE past 20,000 years in that there has been only one species of TUE person on Earth - our own. 50 000 years ago, there were five TUE including ourselves. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b01j5j2d (Listen) TUE Series 8, Vivaldi's Flute Concerto TUE TUE In a special edition of Tales from the Stave Frances Fyfield TUE heads to Edinburgh to tell the story of what was thought to TUE be a lost Vivaldi Flute Concerto. TUE TUE It's a rare and thrilling moment for a classical music TUE researcher to unearth a manuscript that has been hidden for TUE centuries. But that was the lot of Andrew Woolley when he TUE found, nestling in the Marquesses of Lothian's family papers TUE at the National archives in Edinburgh, a Flute concerto by TUE Antonio Vivaldi. TUE TUE In this Tales from the Stave Special, Frances follows the TUE research, cross checking and confirmation that followed TUE Andrew's discovery and lead, very quickly, to the first TUE recording and first recorded performance of the concerto TUE known as Il Gran Mogol. TUE TUE The manuscript, copied out from a lost original and probably TUE sold to Lord Robert Kerr during a continental journey, tells TUE the story of Vivaldi's composing methods and the cross TUE fertilization of Southern European creativity and the TUE Scottish Enlightenment. Andrew Woolley and the Vivaldi TUE scholar Michael Talbot help tell the concerto's story. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01j5j2g (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01j2dry (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01j5j2j (Listen) TUE Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle TUE b01j5j2l (Listen) TUE In the Beginning TUE TUE Richard Holloway, the writer and the former Bishop of TUE Edinburgh, continues his series of 20 personal essays in TUE which he explores the relationship between faith and doubt TUE over the last 3000 years. He takes the listener from the TUE birth of religious thinking, through the Old and New TUE Testaments, to the developments in subsequent centuries and TUE their influence on thinkers and writers, up to the TUE present-day. TUE TUE In today's programme Richard Holloway asks when the TUE religious mind was born and looks at one of religion's TUE earliest doubters. TUE TUE When did religious thinking emerge and what was the first TUE religious theory in Judeo-Christianity? Was it a way of TUE explaining the ways of the world or a defence mechanism TUE against the terrors of nature and human suffering? And who TUE was among the first to challenge God? TUE TUE With contributions from psychiatrist and poet Professor TUE Norman Kreitman, American poet and historian Jennifer TUE Michael Hecht and author and former Anglican priest TUE Professor Don Cupitt, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. TUE TUE Producer: Olivia Landsberg TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01j5fwx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01j5j2n (Listen) TUE Homeowners TUE TUE Written by Kellie Smith TUE TUE Wrapped up in the excitement of moving into their first TUE home, Kate and Mark receive the shock of their lives when TUE they discover that the house's previous owners have TUE neglected to move out. Their dream home suddenly turns into TUE a nightmare. A dark, unsettling thriller starring Frances TUE Barber. TUE TUE Kate ... Rebecca Callard TUE Mark ... Graeme Hawley TUE Penny ... Frances Barber TUE Derek ... Russell Richardson TUE TUE Produced by Pauline Harris TUE Directed by Charlotte Riches. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01j5j2q (Listen) TUE Historian Helen Castor presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b01j5j2s (Listen) TUE No Country for Old Men TUE TUE "That is no country for old men," wrote Yeats in the opening TUE line of his poem Sailing to Byzantium. "I am trying to write TUE about the state of my soul," he later explained. Since when TUE the phrase has been picked up in a novel by Cormac McCarthy, TUE and a Coen brothers film based on the same book. But are we TUE any closer to understanding what this phrase means, beyond TUE realising something poignant is at work ? TUE TUE Tibor Fischer, Katharine Whitehorn and Guy Browning all TUE approach the subject with three very different columns about TUE age, experience, and youth. For Guy Browing this is no TUE longer a country for old men because they've decided that TUE staying young is more to their taste. Katharine Whitehorn, TUE agony aunt at Saga, argues for the creation of a fourth age TUE of man, while Tibor Fischer worries about what has changed TUE more, his world or him. TUE Dominic Arkwright presents. TUE TUE 16:00 Reading between the Lines b01j5j2v (Listen) TUE Beyond the Reading Wars TUE TUE Michael Morpurgo - former Children's Laureate, writer, TUE father, grandfather and ardent advocate for children's TUE reading - explores how the seminal experience of learning to TUE read has changed over the last 70 years. It is a subject TUE close to his heart and one which he approaches with his TUE customary curiosity and passionate engagement. TUE TUE In June 2012, all Year One children in English primary TUE schools will sit a compulsory new 'Phonics Screening Check'. TUE TUE Meanwhile, authoritative studies show British ten year olds TUE performing less well and expressing less enthusiasm for TUE reading than many of their international peers. TUE TUE In the first programme, Michael tried to square the circle TUE between getting children reading and getting them to love TUE reading. TUE TUE 2.Beyond the Reading Wars TUE TUE In this second programme, Michael Morpurgo explores how the TUE contemporary debate has been informed by teaching methods of TUE the recent past- and is, in some ways, a reaction to them. TUE TUE He hears from the influential teacher and author, Margaret TUE Meek, now in her eighties, about her belief in letting TUE children learn to read from "real books", and he challenges TUE Julia Eccleshare, Children's Books Editor of The Guardian TUE newspaper, on whether this method really worked for her own TUE children. TUE TUE He explores why learning to read has traditionally been a TUE weather vane for wider classroom philosophies with the help TUE of fellow children's author Michael Rosen. TUE TUE Finally, he hears from the distinguished Cambridge TUE neuroscientist, Usha Goswami, about how her research on TUE dyslexia might help us understand what goes on in children's TUE minds when they learn to read - and might even bring an end TUE to the so-called 'Reading Wars'. TUE TUE Producer : Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01j5my9 (Listen) TUE Steve Backshall; Geraldine Bedell TUE TUE Deadly 60 presenter Steve Backshall and Editor of Gransnet TUE Geraldine Bedell discuss their favourite books with Harriet TUE Gilbert. TUE TUE Geraldine picks 'The Idea of Perfection' by Kate Grenville, TUE a touching romance between two people in the eccentric TUE little backwater of Karakarook, Australia. TUE TUE Steve opts for a chilling ghost-story set around a TUE scientific expedition to the Arctic Circle in 1937 - 'Dark TUE Matter' by Michelle Paver. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is 'In the Country of Men' by Hisham TUE Matar, a tender coming-of-age story about nine-year-old TUE Suleiman who becomes the man of the house when his father TUE goes away on business. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Steve Backshall's choice: 'Dark Matter' by Michelle Paver TUE TUE Geraldine Bedell's choice: 'The Idea of Perfection' by Kate TUE Grenville TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'In the Country of Men' by Hisham TUE Matar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01j5myc (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01j2ds0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b012ftrs (Listen) TUE Series 3, Newcastle TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE In this show, love is in the air, but also unfortunately in TUE a small airport in Birmingham - and Martin has to choose TUE between career, romance and fixing a very small tail-light. TUE Carolyn meets a rather dashing pilot whilst Arthur meets a TUE rather boring board game. TUE TUE With special guests Anthony Head and Mark Williams TUE TUE Starring TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam TUE Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore TUE Capt. Herc Shipwright ..... Anthony Head TUE Eddie ..... Mark Williams TUE 1st Officer Linda Fairburn ..... Anna Crilly TUE TUE Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01j5fzy (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01j5myf (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with musician and TUE writer Patti Smith, whose new album features a song in TUE memory of Amy Winehouse. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jckwj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Summit Fever b01j5myh (Listen) TUE Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff, TUE discusses what happens at intergovernmental summits. There TUE are now more summits than ever before, and world leaders TUE often see more of each other than they do of their cabinet TUE colleagues back home. How have they emerged as the decision TUE making forum of our era and could they ever be replaced by TUE skype or teleconferencing? Powell's interviewees include TUE Tony Blair, Lord Carrington, Lord Hurd, David Milliband, and TUE Lord Robertson. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01j5myk (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01j5mym (Listen) TUE Exploring the limits and potential of the human mind. TUE Presented by Claudia Hammond. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01j5j24 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01j2ds2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01j5myp (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j8mq2 (Listen) TUE Jubilee, Episode 2 TUE TUE Satish remembers waking in Cherry Gardens on the morning of TUE the Jubilee in 1977. And as preparations for the party get TUE underway, Mandy comes to see him and so sets in motion a TUE train of events that haunt him to this day. TUE TUE 'Jubilee' is Shelley Harris's first novel. It is read by TUE Sartaj Garewal and abridged and Produced by Jane Marshall TUE Productions. TUE TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Pickerskill Reports b012wxxr (Listen) TUE Series 2, Patrick Trumball TUE TUE Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. TUE TUE Patrick Trumball's strange fascination for thunderstorms, TUE lightening and other epic forces of nature appear to mark TUE him out as an unusual, otherworldly child confirmed by TUE Pickerskill when he discovers that the boy also possesses a TUE perfect photographic memory. TUE TUE Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid TUE Fintan Grice ....... Toby Longworth TUE Patrick Trumball ....... Louis Williams TUE A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne TUE Stealgroynes ........ Jack Edwards TUE Calman .......Kris Saddler TUE Moorcroft ...... Joe Cooper TUE Matron ....... Mia Soteriou TUE TUE Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon TUE A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jsy2l (Listen) TUE News from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 MAY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01j2dsx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01jlkh8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01j2dsz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01j2dt1 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01j2dt3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01j2dt5 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01j5nvt (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from WED Wales with singer and broadcaster Beverley Humphreys. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01j5nvw (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presenter is Anna Hill. Producer is Clare Freeman. WED WED 06:00 Today b01j5nvy (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01j5nw0 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01jlkhj (Listen) WED Midnight in Peking, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Crawford Logan. WED WED Author Paul French reveals the true-crime "cold case" that WED haunted the last days of old Peking. WED WED January, 1937. As invading Japanese troops move into the WED countryside around Peking, two policemen try desperately to WED discover who was behind the brutal murder of a young British WED woman, Pamela Werner. WED WED In today's episode, D.C.I. Dennis finally makes a WED breakthrough in the case, when he discovers blood-spattered WED clothing belonging to one of the main suspects. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01j5nw2 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jcm5r (Listen) WED Incredible Women - Series 2, Marion Perez WED WED Today he meets Professor Marion Perez, a world-renowned WED Californian scientist who claims to have created 'the WED perfection gene'. On arrival in America, Professor Perez's WED faithful assistant Dr Wong takes Jeremy to her James WED Bond-style science pod where he is blinded by science. WED WED Armed with sceptical questions provided by Professor Robert WED Winston, Jeremy attempts to probe Professor Perez's claims WED but in doing so creates pandemonium and is sent home early. WED WED Featuring Professor Robert Winston, James Dreyfus, Gerard WED McDermott, Rebecca Front and Jeremy Front. WED WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED 11:00 The French East End b01j5nw4 (Listen) WED On a head count, the British capital has long been the sixth WED biggest French city, boasting more French people than WED Nantes, Strasbourg or Bordeaux. Today London's French WED community is racially and culturally diverse. It has grown WED far beyond the bourgeois confines of 'Frog Valley' in WED well-heeled South Kensington. Lucy Ash meets some of the new WED Gallic Eastenders and asks what their stories can tells us WED about the current state of France and her former colonies. WED WED The East End's French connection goes back to the 17th WED Century when Charles II offered sanctuary to tens of WED thousands of persecuted French Protestants. Lucy visits WED Spitalfields, where many of the Huguenots settled, and at WED the Denis Severs House museum hears the story of one silk WED merchant who lived there in the 1680s. She meets the French WED owner of a nearby wine bar with a lunch menu inspired by the WED hardworking Huguenots who once walked the streets now filled WED with sari shops and Bangladeshi restaurants. WED WED The Huguenots came to the UK to escape prejudice at home - WED so are there any modern day parallels? One unlikely Gallic WED outpost is New VIc in Newham, London's biggest 6th form WED college. It can't really compete with the Lycee Charles de WED Gaulle in Kensington but it does have a high number of WED Francophone pupils and the demographics are very different. WED These are mainly non-white students from France's Overseas WED Departments or former colonies, places like Reunion, WED Guadeloupe and Algeria. They have crossed the channel partly WED because they hope learning English will improve their WED chances of getting a job and partly because of perceived WED racial prejudices in the French system. WED WED The head teacher Eddie Playfair is a pragmatic Brit with a WED background in Corsica. He says that finding a job in France WED is often tough, as payroll taxes and bureaucracy make WED employers wary of taking on new staff. For non-white WED applicants it is even worse. CVs are reputedly routinely WED thrown in the bin for having the wrong postcode or a North WED African surname. Unemployment among children and WED grandchildren of immigrants in the outskirts of French WED cities runs at around 60%. WED WED We meet, Hamid Senni, a young businessman with Moroccan WED roots who wrote a book called De la Cité (the French term WED for a council estate) à La City. When he told his first boss WED in France that he wanted to become a manager, he was laughed WED at and thrown out of his office. Now he runs a lucrative WED consultancy company in Mayfair. Cleo Soazandry also feels WED there is far less discrimination here in London. A former WED Miss Madagascar, turned TV presenter and businesswoman, she WED once lived in the Parisian suburbs but decided to cross the WED channel in her early teens. She shows Lucy her secret French WED London - a night spot popular with the African Francophone WED community. WED WED Lucy discovers another group of young French people in WED Hackney. Most of them are designers, artists or work in WED cutting edge digital media outfits. Malika Favre, who has WED just done a cover for the Penguin edition of the Kama Sutra, WED says she finds London a more creative environment and she WED find English 'hypocrisy' is good for business. WED WED 11:30 Believe It! b01j5nw6 (Listen) WED Power WED WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. WED Based on glimmers of truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, WED bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity WED radiography of Richard Wilson. WED WED He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised WED scenes from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily WED exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national WED treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, WED theatre and Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant WED of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a WED drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, WED monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for WED governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery (not true). WED All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are WED wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery. WED (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference to his famous catchphrase.) WED Richard is supported by a small core cast viz: WED David Tennant WED John Sessions WED Lewis Macleod WED Arabella Weir WED And Jane Slavin WED Who play anyone and everyone! WED WED Ghost written by Jon Canter WED Produced by: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01j5nw8 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01j2dt7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01j5nwb (Listen) WED Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle WED b01j5nwd (Listen) WED Casting Out Idols WED WED Richard Holloway, the writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh, WED continues his series of 20 personal essays in which he WED explores the relationship between faith and doubt over the WED last 3000 years. He takes the listener from the birth of WED religious thinking, through the Old and New Testaments, to WED the developments in subsequent centuries and their influence WED on thinkers and writers, up to the present-day. WED WED Richard Holloway's main focus is on the history of doubt in WED the Judeo-Christian tradition, and in today's programme he WED looks at idolatry. He reflects on the story of the Golden WED Calf from Exodus in the Old Testament and says, "Worshipping WED idols, idolatry, and destroying idols, iconoclasm , are WED recurring themes in our story of doubt and I want to examine WED how they played out in the ancient world." WED WED He goes on to discuss a group of remarkable doubters from WED eight centuries before Christ, who challenged the way in WED which God was worshipped. And why did an article entitled WED 'Our Image of God Must Go' in 1963 by the then Bishop of WED Woolwich, John Robinson, cause such a controversy? WED WED With contributions from author and philosopher Sir Anthony WED Kenny, historian of religions Karen Armstrong, American WED theologian Harvey Cox, Emeritus Professor of Divinity at WED Harvard University and author AN Wilson. WED WED Producer: Olivia Landsberg WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01j5fzy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01j5nwg (Listen) WED One Hot Summer WED WED by Juliet Gilkes - Romero WED WED Liverpool 1919. In desperate times, with high poverty levels WED and spiralling unemployment, tensions are rising between the WED different ethnic groups in the city, and for Jamaican WED soldiers Johnson and Charlie and their mixed race British WED friend, Sam, life is getting much harder. WED WED Based on real events, One Hot Summer tells the story of the WED race riots which occured in Liverpool in 1919, when WED desperate times caused divisions across ethnic lines which WED exploded into full-blown riots with tragic consequences. WED WED The forgotten piece of British history dramatised in this WED play has been carefully researched by playwright and WED journalist Juliet Gilkes-Romero and includes verbatim WED newspaper reports from the time. WED WED Sam ..... Lloyd Thomas WED Johnson ..... Ben Bennett WED Ibrahim ..... Don Gilet WED Charlie ..... Richie Campbell WED Rose .... Susie Riddell WED Ahmed ..... George Long WED Liverpool Courier/ Rioter ..... Patrick Brennan WED Liverpool Echo/ Drunk ..... Joe Sims WED Evening Express/ Barman ..... Robert Blythe WED Drunk/ Rioter ..... Harry Livingstone WED WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01j5nwj (Listen) WED Paying for care: With the UK's ageing population, the annual WED cost of long-term care is expected to rise to £38 billion WED by 2025, according to research by the insurer, Liverpool WED Victoria. That would amount to £33,000 per person, per WED year. But who pays? Currently, in England, if you have more WED than £23, 250 in savings, including your home, you must pay WED the full cost of your own care. A government-commissoned WED report last year recommended the assets' threshold should be WED raised to £100,000 and the total amount you pay in your WED life should be capped at £35,000. This summer, the WED government is due to publish new plans for social care, WED including how it will be funded in the future. But what can WED you do now to plan for the years ahead? WED If you'd like advice on how you get assessed or where to WED look for help, you can call Money Box Live. Paul Lewis and a WED panel of experts will answer your calls and emails on paying WED for care. Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444. WED Lines open at 1pm, Wednesday. WED Producer, Sally Abrahams. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01j5mym (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01j5nwl (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED Produced by Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01j5nwn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01j5nwq (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01j2dt9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b01j5nws (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong WED side of life. Guests Father Ted and IT Crowd writer Graham WED Linehan, comedian Matthew Crosby and Sony-award winning WED podcaster Helen Zaltzman compete to suggest the best in bad WED ideas. WED WED So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask three guests a number WED of questions testing their powers of creativity and WED revealing the best embarrassing stories from their lives. WED This week, the panel's worst experiences with a stranger and WED the best ideas for the worst new gadget are just two of the WED challenges faced by the panel. WED WED Can anyone top Helen's nomination for most annoying modern WED irritant, 'constructed reality TV'? And will anyone beat WED Graham Linehan's suggestion for a terrible new gadget, the WED 'exciting ladder'? WED WED The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also WED presents BBC4s acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series, and WED is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also won WED Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. WED WED Produced by Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01j5g00 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01j5nwv (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with novelist John WED Irving, whose new book In One Person is the story of a WED bisexual writer, and focuses on the effects of the HIV WED virus. WED WED Producer Erin Riley. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jcm5r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b01j5nwx (Listen) WED The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on WED the process by which controversial decisions are reached WED behind closed doors in Whitehall. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01j5nwz (Listen) WED Series 3, Paddy Docherty WED WED Entrepreneur Paddy Docherty says business is best placed to WED bring prosperity to impoverished and post conflict nations, WED arguing that only the commercial sector can supply the scale WED and dynamism needed to make a lasting impact on development. WED Four Thought is a series of talks with a personal viewpoint WED recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01j5nx1 (Listen) WED Transit of Venus WED WED First of another series of programmes looking at new WED frontiers of scientific discovery. Astronomer Marek Kukula WED from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich explores the WED scientific implications of the forthcoming transit of Venus WED across the face of the Sun, a rare astronomical event that WED will not occur again until 2117. Previous transits have WED helped establish fundamental facts about our solar system, WED including the distance and relative positions of all the WED planets that orbit our sun. But now, the forthcoming transit WED in June 2012, the last this century, will help planet WED hunters searching for other worlds across the galaxy WED (exo-planets). As Marek discovers, technology now makes it WED possible to pinpoint not only a planet's mass, size, and WED distance from its star but we can also establish whether it WED has an atmosphere and what that atmosphere might consist of WED and therefore whether it could theoretically support life. WED Thanks to the next transit event, the search for another WED Earth has taken a bold step forward. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01j5nw0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01j2dtc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01j5nxr (Listen) WED Carolyn Quinn presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j8ms2 (Listen) WED Jubilee, Episode 3 WED WED In spite of the dangers to his health, his career and his WED reputation, Satish has started to self-medicate to keep his WED anxiety under control. And the pressure to take part in the WED reunion photograph to mark the 30th anniversary of the WED Queen's Silver Jubilee, is only adding to his distress. WED WED 'Jubilee' is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj WED Garewal and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED Productions WED WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 It Is Rocket Science b01j5nxt (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane star in the WED funny but true history of space exploration. WED WED This week, given that on a rocket ever ounce of saved weight WED is crucial, an astronaut who weighs 15% less and breathes WED less oxygen should have a tremendous advantage. So where WED were all of NASA's female astronauts? The story of Soviet WED pioneer Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, who WED at one time logged more hours in orbit than all the male WED American astronauts put together makes a thought-provoking WED contrast to the marginalised female astronauts of the USA, WED the so called Mercury 13, none of whom ever got to go into WED space. WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:15 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01j5nxw (Listen) WED Douglas WED WED Strap in for 15 minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever WED Peter bring you a swimming rat, a talking fly and a Mexican WED stand-off. WED WED Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning WED sketch team - get their own Radio 4 show. WED WED From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another WED Case of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny WED Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of WED tri-coloured jerseys. WED WED Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and special guest Catriona Knox WED WED Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and Dominic Stone WED WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 What's So Great About ...? b011j2fn (Listen) WED Series 3, Snooker WED WED Lenny Henry returns to the fray with the first of three WED further attempts to get to grips with things that he's WED always found mystifying. This week, he travels to the WED Crucible in Sheffield to meet the stars of the game of WED Snooker. With the 2011 World Championships as his WED introduction to the reality of the green baize table, Lenny WED poses the question What's So Great About...Snooker? to Steve WED Davis, Stephen Hendry, Dennis Taylor, John Virgo, John WED Parrott and Terry Griffiths... What is the lure of this WED sport that back in 1985 it held 18 million TV viewers WED captivated past midnight when an emotional Taylor overcame WED the legendary Davis to win the World Championships on the WED last black? WED WED Stephen Hendry gives Lenny a quick masterclass in the WED mystique of cue action and John Virgo unpicks some of the WED sport's arcane and sometimes incomprehensible language WED ("that thick kiss on the pink has got him needing WED snookers...") So can this glittering line-up manage to WED convince Lenny out of his lifelong aversion to the game of WED coloured balls...? WED WED Producer: Simon Elmes. WED WED THU THURSDAY 31 MAY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01j2dv8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01jlkhj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01j2dvb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01j2dvd (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01j2dvg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01j2dvj (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jggtc (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from THU Wales with singer and broadcaster Beverley Humphreys. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01j6srg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01j6srj (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01j6srl (Listen) THU The Trojan War THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Trojan War. The THU conflict is one of the central events of Ancient Greek THU mythology, and features especially in the work of Homer. For THU centuries it was believed to be a purely mythical event - THU but evidence uncovered since a major discovery in 1870 THU suggests it may have had some grounding in reality. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01jlkjc (Listen) THU Midnight in Peking, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Crawford Logan. THU THU Author Paul French reveals the true-crime "cold case" that THU haunted the last days of old Peking. THU THU Spring, 1937. As invading Japanese troops move into the THU countryside around Peking, two policemen try desperately to THU discover who was behind the brutal murder of a young British THU woman, Pamela Werner. THU THU A prime suspect is found for Pamela's murder, but is there THU enough evidence to arrest him? And will continuing THU interference from the British consul jeopardise progress in THU the case? THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01j6srn (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jcm7r (Listen) THU Incredible Women - Series 2, Paddy Jones THU THU Today he meets Paddy Jones, photographer and former 60s wild THU child whose photographic projects included the Vietnam war THU and many rock stars. Too crazy for the wildest of rock stars THU though, she had a penchant for smuggling grenades home in THU her suitcase and using them in her next photo shoot. THU THU Featuring Rick Wakeman, 60s photographer David Steen, THU Rebecca Front and Jeremy Front. THU THU Producer: Clarie Jones. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01j6srq (Listen) THU Correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the THU headlines. THU THU 11:30 Follow-Up Albums b01j6srs (Listen) THU Suede - Dog Man Star THU THU Music critic Pete Paphides tells the story behind three THU 'follow-up' albums - from Dexys Midnight Runners, Fleetwood THU Mac and Suede - with tales of musical pressure, creative THU differences, personal politics and mixed results. THU THU Programme 3: Suede - Dog Man Star THU THU In 1991, Suede was named "the best new band in Britain", THU with a string of hit singles and a universally acclaimed THU debut album, 'Suede'. Flamboyant singer Brett Anderson and THU incendiary guitarist Bernard Butler became feted as THU song-writers. David Bowie was amongst their fans. THU THU The scrutiny that followed took its toll on their THU relationship. Determined to write a dissolute conceptual THU masterpiece, Anderson exiled himself in a gothic pile in THU North London while Butler questioned the paraphernalia that THU came with pop stardom. THU THU Bereavement and clashes over the album's producer heightened THU the tension and, with just one part to complete on the THU album, Butler walked out for good. Suddenly, having blazed THU the trail for Britpop, they returned with an album deemed THU out of step with its sunny positivism. THU THU But almost two decades on, Suede's second album Dog Man Star THU reappeared to a plethora of 5 star reviews. THU THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A White Pebble Media Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01j6srv (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01j2dvl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01jbqr4 (Listen) THU Shaun Ley presents the national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle THU b01j6srx (Listen) THU Revelation and Its Limits THU THU In a series of personal essays Richard Holloway considers THU the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 THU years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard THU Holloway, focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he THU takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, THU through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in THU subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and THU writers, up to the present-day. THU THU In today's programme Richard Holloway explores the idea of THU revelation: "The claim is that the God who is beyond our THU ability to reach unaided makes himself available to our THU senses, sometimes through sight, sometimes through sound. THU Inevitably, we can only capture the human side of this THU transaction, so how can we decide whether it's really God THU who's at the other end? That's the big question before us." THU THU In this programme he talks to the writer Karen Armstrong, to THU the American poet Jennifer Hecht, and to Harvey Cox, THU Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Harvard. THU THU Producer: Olivia Landsberg THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01j5g00 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00td7f4 (Listen) THU The Patience of Mr Job THU THU Mr Job is an African farmer with an unshakeable faith in the THU benevolence of the West. There's a flurry of excitement in THU the village. Mr Kismet, from the World Development Agency, THU has sent a letter offering rich rewards if the region sells THU its timber and moves to cut-flower production. Mr Job obeys THU the WDA scrupulously, even when the instructions prove THU extremely inconvenient, but as they wait for Mr Kismet's THU arrival, a series of disasters strike. A satire about THU globalisation and climate change. THU THU Mr Job ..... Jude Akuwudike THU Mrs Job ..... Adjoa Andoh THU Mr Eliphaz ..... Danny Sapani THU Mr Bildad ..... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith THU Mr Achebe ..... Lloyd Thomas THU Mr Lucy ..... Paul Courtney Hyu THU THU Directed by Claire Grove THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01j6t0g (Listen) THU Series 21, Dartmoor THU THU Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in THU this new series of Ramblings. THU THU Prog 5: Dartmoor with Alex Lyons who is a search and rescue THU dog handler. THU THU Alex Lyons is a dog handler with the Tavistock-Dartmoor THU Search and Rescue Team. He and several members of his team - THU and their dogs - take Clare for a wild, wet and windy walk THU on Dartmoor. Clare sees how the rescue dogs work, and asks THU why anyone would want to spend their leisure time doing a THU voluntary job which is exhausting and occasionally THU upsetting. The answer? A sense of fulfilment, the THU opportunity to spend time in beautiful and remote THU countryside, and - of course - the joy of working with THU highly trained and intelligent dogs (who make their presence THU felt, and heard, throughout the programme). THU THU Producer Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01j2fdk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01j9mm2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01j6t0l (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01j6t0n (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b01j6t0q (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01j2dvn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b01j6t0s (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Simon Day and his characters once again welcome listeners to THU The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at THU The Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, THU self-doubt and the new owner's vision for the theatre's THU future. THU This week popular, blazered entertainer Tommy Cockles THU arrives at the theatre to find it transformed. There's a new THU Nigerian owner, soundman Goose has been replaced by an THU authoritarian ex-copper and receptionist Catherine has THU disappeared off to India to find herself. THU THU Tommy Cockles ..... Simon Day THU Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter THU Pat Bennet ..... Morwenna Banks THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01j5g03 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01j6t1r (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on Jodie Whittaker and THU Christopher Eccleston in a new National Theatre production THU of Antigone by Sophocles. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jcm7r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01j6t1t (Listen) THU Grooming: Who Cares? THU THU Why are vulnerable girls living in children's homes falling THU victim to grooming and sexual abuse? THU THU The recent convictions of nine men at the centre of a child THU sex ring in Rochdale documented the tactics of the THU perpetrators. But the investigation also revealed shocking THU failures in the care system and its inability to protect THU residents of their children's homes. THU THU One of the victims, resident in a privately run residential THU home, was abused by 25 men in one night. New figures suggest THU hundreds more may have suffered similar exploitation. THU THU Many local authorities no longer run residential THU establishments but send children to other parts of the THU country, often to single occupancy 'homes'. Simon Cox THU examines how the referral system works and asks why THU professionals are failing to protect the most vulnerable THU children in our society. THU THU Michael Gove recently called for new safeguards to protect THU teenagers in care, but why are existing guidelines and THU procedures not being followed? THU THU Former victims speak out to describe the devastating impact THU on their lives and why - for them - any new measures will be THU too late. THU THU Producer: Gail Champion. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01j6t47 (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Extinct! b01j5j2b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01j6srl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01j2dvq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01j6t49 (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j8mt8 (Listen) THU Jubilee, Episode 4 THU THU When Satish's wife tells his father there are plans for a THU reunion Silver Jubilee photograph, he is delighted that the THU world will see what has become of his son. But he doesn't THU know what happened at the street party 30 years ago, nor THU does he realise how badly it has affected his son. THU THU 'Jubilee' is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj THU Garewal and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU Productions THU THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Tonight b01j6t4c (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Rory Bremner and the team return for another series of THU Tonight, the topical satire show that digs that bit deeper THU into national and international politics. THU THU Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of THU things as it is to make fun of them. With a team that THU includes veteran satirists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody and THU versatile impressionist and character comedian Kate THU O'Sullivan, Tonight promises to do both. This is half an THU hour of stand-up, sketches, and investigative satire. And at THU the core of the show are Rory's incisively funny interviews THU with the most informed guest commentators on the current THU political scene. THU THU More global crises, more political scandal, more jokes with THU the word fiscal in them - and some truly brilliant THU impressions: a shot in the arm for satire lovers everywhere. THU THU Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 What's So Great About ...? b011msk8 (Listen) THU Series 3, The Pogues THU THU Lenny Henry never quite got The Pogues. From the fist time THU he saw the band on the TV in the 80's, with the singer THU banging a tray on his head during a drunken reverie, they THU have mystified this Luther Vandross fan. He goes on a THU journey of enlightenment through Poguedom speaking to THU musicians, the former manager, music critics and die hard THU fans to gain a better appreciation of this unmissable London THU Irish band. He explores the romantic and brutally realistic THU poetry of Shane McGowan and summons up the raw energy of THU their live performances as he asks - what's so great about THU The Pogues? THU THU Producer Neil McCarthy. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 JUNE 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01j2dwk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01jlkjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01j2dwm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01j2dwp (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01j2dwr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01j2dwt (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jggz4 (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from FRI Wales with singer and broadcaster Beverley Humphreys. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01j6wgl (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presenter is Charlotte Smith. Producer is Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01j6wgn (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01j2fdt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01jlkjk (Listen) FRI Midnight in Peking, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Crawford Logan. FRI FRI Author Paul French reveals the true-crime "cold case" that FRI haunted the last days of old Peking. FRI FRI Summer, 1937. Pamela Werner's unsolved murder is forgotten FRI amidst the violence and chaos of the Japanese invasion of FRI China. But Pamela's father presses on with his own, FRI unofficial, investigation and makes some shocking FRI discoveries. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01j6wgq (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jcmbg (Listen) FRI Incredible Women - Series 2, Andrea Wickham FRI FRI Today he meets Andrea Wickham, the renowned opera diva who FRI has been making a lot of money recently with CDs of her FRI versions of popular songs. He joins her on the eve of her FRI latest project in which she has enlisted many A-listers to FRI sing on a charity CD with her. But there is a 99 per cent FRI drop out rate when they find out more about her chosen FRI charity. FRI FRI Featuring Sophie Ellis Bextor, Philip Pope, Brian Conley, FRI Rebecca Front and Jeremy Front. FRI FRI Producer: Claire Jones. FRI FRI 11:00 The DJ Derek: A Local Legend b01j6wgs (Listen) FRI Poet Miles Chambers presents the story of the legendary FRI reggae DJ who M.C.s in Jamaican patois, and who also happens FRI to be a white, bespectacled 70 year old ex-accountant. FRI In the 1960s, a managerial career with the accounts FRI department at Cadbury's seemed to be mapped out for a young, FRI ambitious Bristolian called Derek Serpell-Morris. Thirty FRI years later the same Derek was spinning the discs for FRI hundreds of thousands of revellers at a festival in Spain. FRI He's had sets at Glastonbury, the Big Chill, released his FRI own compilation album on the Trojan record label and even FRI appeared in a Dizzee Rascal video. FRI Derek's transformation began against a backdrop of racial FRI pressure in Bristol; from the 1963 bus dispute when the FRI Bristol Omnibus company refused to employ black people, to FRI the riots of 1980, Derek has slowly but surely established FRI himself as a fixture of the local scene before branching out FRI nationally to become the 'legend' that he is today. FRI Miles speaks to the people who have witnessed and crucially, FRI supported, this remarkable metamorphosis; his neighbours, FRI fans, family and of course to Derek himself. There are many FRI pretenders who have taken his name, but this is the story of FRI the original DJ Derek. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01j6wgv (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI In this episode, the team are horrified that the media have FRI been invited to one of Malcolm's citizenship ceremonies, FRI Anita's got problems with childcare and Luke's having a FRI 'quarter life' crisis. FRI FRI Births, Deaths and Marriages is a brand new sitcom set in a FRI Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with FRI the three greatest events in anybody's life. FRI FRI Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan FRI Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a FRI stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any FRI wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health FRI and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? FRI He's married thousands of women. FRI FRI Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been FRI parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and FRI Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just FRI about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit FRI in our new age of austerity. FRI FRI There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried FRI he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may FRI get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the FRI only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. FRI FRI Malcolm ...... David Schneider FRI Lorna ....... Sarah Hadland FRI Anita ........ Sandy McDade FRI Luke ....... Russell Tovey FRI Mary ....... Sally Bretton FRI Mr. Arnold/Peter Stephenson ...... Andrew Brooke FRI Bereaved woman/New Citizen/Mum ...... Jane Whittenshaw FRI FRI Producer: Simon Jacobs FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01j6wgx (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01j6wgz (Listen) FRI Betty and Elaine: Family Life with Ten Children FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today, mother and daughter Betty and Elaine FRI from Hull, reflect on homelife and making do when you have FRI ten children. Daughter Elaine is a cleaner; Betty is a FRI retired cook who brought up her ten children with love and FRI fortitude. Theirs was a tough working class life, where FRI Betty would often go without to feed the children. All these FRI years on, with Betty now in her 90s, the love still shines FRI through. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Mohini Patel. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01j2dww (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01j6wh1 (Listen) FRI James Robbins presents the national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle FRI b01j6wh3 (Listen) FRI Mysteries Not Problems FRI FRI Richard Holloway, the writer and former Bishop of Edinburgh, FRI continues his series of 20 personal essays in which he FRI explores the relationship between faith and doubt over the FRI last 3000 years. With his main focus on the Judeo-Christian FRI tradition, he takes the listener from the birth of religious FRI thinking, through the Old and New Testaments, to the FRI developments in subsequent centuries and their influence on FRI thinkers and writers, up to the present-day. FRI FRI In today's programme Richard Holloway discusses the meaning FRI of the word 'mystery'. He says "Words like mystery and FRI mystical don't suggest a problem to be cleared out of the FRI way but a reality that is veiled or concealed. In talking FRI about them, we're talking about experiences in which we're FRI involved but which we're unable fully to comprehend." FRI FRI In discussing the medieval mystics he suggests that, unlike FRI the shallow end of a swimming pool where all the noise is, FRI it's at 'the deep end of the pool, the silent end' that the FRI mystics operate. FRI FRI He looks at the work and inner conflict of three leading FRI mediaeval mystics. Two are from the Christian tradition - FRI Meister Eckhart, a radical fourteenth century Dominican FRI preacher and Hildegard of Bingen, a thirteenth century FRI German abbess, ecologist, poet and composer. The third FRI mystic is from the Sufi tradition - Al Ghazzali, a writer FRI and legal scholar and one of Islam's greatest theologians. FRI FRI With contributions from historian Karen Armstrong; Revd FRI David Jasper, Professor of Theology and Literature at FRI Glasgow University and author of The Sacred Desert, and FRI Carole Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic Studies at FRI Edinburgh University. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01j5g03 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00t4vjz (Listen) FRI Depth Charge FRI FRI by Fiona Mackie FRI FRI Den ..... David Calder FRI Irene ..... Susan Brown FRI Joe ..... Ben Crowe FRI Shiner ..... Sam Dale FRI Funeral Plan Agent ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Director ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI Den, a retired submariner, is short on cash and short on FRI dreams until Joe enters his life and promises him the chance FRI to breathe again. David Calder stars in Fiona Mackie's play. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01j6wh5 (Listen) FRI South Oxhey, Herts FRI FRI Peter Gibbs and the panel are guests of the Dig Deep FRI Community Project in South Oxhey. FRI We also report from the brand new Chelsea Fringe show. FRI FRI Produced by Robert Abel FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Half-Light b01j6wh7 (Listen) FRI Henry Drake Goes Home FRI FRI By Neil M. Gunn, first published in 1941. FRI FRI Read by Robert Jack. FRI FRI After three decades living in the north of Scotland, the FRI outbreak of World War Two moves an elderly man to return to FRI his home county of Devon. FRI FRI Short story by Neil M. Gunn, one of Scotland's finest FRI writers who is best known for his novel The Silver Darlings. FRI Gunn was born in 1891, in the coastal village of Dunbeath, FRI in Caithness, and wrote prolifically over a period that FRI spanned the recession of the 1920s through to the aftermath FRI of the Second World War. He died in 1973. FRI FRI The stories in this series are taken from Half-Light, a new FRI collection of Gunn's short fiction compiled by his nephew FRI Dairmid Gunn and published by Caithness-based Whittles FRI Publishing. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01j6wh9 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01j6whc (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01j6whf (Listen) FRI Catherine and Liz: When Dad and Mum were Priest and Nun FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today Catherine and Liz, friends who met at an FRI exhibition of religious art, their interest - and friendship FRI - inspired by both growing up in strongly religious FRI families. Liz's father had spent time in a seminary before FRI he married; Catherine's father and mother were a Catholic FRI priest and nun when they met. The friends discuss the impact FRI this had on Catherine's upbringing and her current FRI relationship with the Catholic church. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Mohini Patel. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01j6whh (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01j2dwy (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01j6whk (Listen) FRI Series 77, Episode 9 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Rebecca Front and FRI Susan Calman. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01j5g1g (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01j6wsv (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jcmbg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01j6wsx (Listen) FRI Belfast FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Methodist College, Belfast. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01j6wsz (Listen) FRI Adam Gopnik reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: FRI Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle - FRI Omnibus b01j6wt1 (Listen) FRI In the Beginning FRI FRI Richard Holloway, the writer and the former Bishop of FRI Edinburgh, begins a series of 20 personal essays in which he FRI explores the relationship between faith and doubt over the FRI last 3000 years. He takes the listener from the birth of FRI religious thinking, through the Old and New Testaments, to FRI the developments in subsequent centuries and their influence FRI on thinkers and writers, up to the present-day. FRI FRI As the former head of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Richard FRI Holloway's main focus is on the history of doubt in the FRI Judeo-Christian tradition. But as he says, he is 'first and FRI foremost a human being' and so he also addresses some of the FRI universal questions about our existence and the meaning of FRI life, considering how some of humanity's best thinkers and FRI most creative writers have approached these 'literally life FRI and death questions'. FRI FRI In today's programme he takes the painting by Paul Gauguin FRI which poses the questions 'Where Do We Come From? What Are FRI We? Where Are We Going?' as his starting point, and quotes FRI the writer George Steiner, and poets Robert Browning, Walter FRI de la Mare, as well as Tennyson, from whose poem "In FRI Memoriam" comes "Honest Doubt", the title of the series. FRI FRI Holloway describes the tension between faith and doubt as FRI two sides of the same coin or, as he says, 'Another way into FRI the tension is to think of a piece of music. If faith is the FRI melody, doubt is the descant. Each adds texture and depth to FRI the other and, if we're lucky, a sense of harmony.' FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01j2dx0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01j6wt3 (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01j8mt2 (Listen) FRI Jubilee, Episode 5 FRI FRI At the hospital, caring for his patients, Satish usually FRI feels in control of his life. But still haunted by his FRI memories of the Silver Jubilee, his anxiety has begun to FRI encroach even on this safe haven. And somebody has noticed FRI that there are irregularities in the drug cupboard. FRI FRI 'Jubilee' is written by Shelley Harris, read by Sartaj FRI Garewal and abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI Productions FRI FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01j5my9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 What's So Great About ...? b011ttf7 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Chaucer FRI FRI In the last of the present series in which he challenges the FRI totemic value of people and works that are widely admired, FRI Lenny Henry asks What's So Great About...Chaucer? Written FRI over 600 years ago, Chaucer's masterpiece the Canterbury FRI Tales is acclaimed as one of the greatest works of English FRI literature. Adapted thirty years ago as a hit West End FRI musical, inspiration to numerous writers and dramatists FRI who've used its tale-telling format to spin their own FRI contemporary yarns, the Tales have iconic status in the FRI literary world. Whether it's for the poetry or the ribaldry, FRI or as many admire, their apparent real-life depiction of FRI medieval England, the work of Geoffrey Chaucer is widely FRI admired. FRI FRI But is it really that good? Despite his recent embracing of FRI Shakespeare, iconoclast Lenny Henry has never been able FRI quite to swallow the acclaim accorded to Chaucer. FRI Challenging his scepticism today are Chaucer biographer and FRI eminent scholar Ardis Butterfield, playwright Mike Poulton FRI who adapted the Canterbury Tales for the Royal Shakespeare FRI Company and ex-Python and ardent Chaucerian and medievalist FRI Terry Jones. FRI FRI Producer: Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01j6wt5 (Listen) FRI Anne and Steve: Support through Adversity FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today Anne and Steve from Bristol reflect on a FRI friendship throughout which they've provided support for FRI each other. Steve was there when Anne's husband died; Anne FRI was there when Steve's despair pitched him close to suicide, FRI as he came to terms with the horrific abuse he suffered as a FRI child, both in his family home and in the children's homes FRI he was sent to. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Mohini Patel. FRI
25 May, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 26/05/2012 - 01/06/2012
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