15 June, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 16/06/2012 - 22/06/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 16 JUNE 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01jrlxj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01jsw4q (Listen) SAT Dear Lupin, Episode 5 SAT SAT David Horovitch and Nicky Henson conclude their reading from SAT the collected correspondence of a long-suffering father to SAT his wayward son. SAT SAT "My Dear Lupin, How are things going with you? Are you (a) SAT On the verge of becoming a millionaire? (b) On the brink of SAT insolvency? (c) The subject of investigation by the Fraud SAT Squad?" or (d) Cruising along like me, in genteel poverty? SAT SAT Abridged and Produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jrlxl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jrlxn (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jrlxq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01jrlxs (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jrrjs (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ranjit SAT Singh Dhanda. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01jrrjv (Listen) SAT 'I grew up in a factory making explosives' A listener SAT remembers wartime munitions work, as her co-workers are SAT granted the right to walk past the Cenotaph on Remembrance SAT Sunday. And BBC Political Correspondent Ben Wright reads SAT Your News. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01jrlxv (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01jrlxx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01jrlff (Listen) SAT Series 21, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire SAT SAT Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) SAT throughout this series of Ramblings. SAT SAT Prog 4: Larkhall, South Lanarkshire. SAT SAT This week Clare Balding travels to Larkhall in South SAT Lanarkshire to meet Scott Cunningham. A veteran of some of SAT Britain's long-distance walks (including the West Highland SAT Way, the Pennine Way and the Southern Upland Way) as well as SAT the bagger of multiple Munros, he never walks without the SAT dog, he describes as his 'best-mate', Travis. SAT SAT On this walk around the Larkhall area, he describes the SAT intensity of their relationship and the joy of his SAT companionship. This will be a particularly moving walk for SAT Scott, as Travis - who is a guide-dog - is retiring the SAT following day, and a new dog, Milo, will take over. SAT SAT Scott was awarded an MBE last year for his achievements, SAT which include raising over �150,000 for Guide Dogs for the SAT Blind. SAT SAT Producer Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01jwcm4 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The SAT presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Angela SAT Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01jrlxz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01jwd5m (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin SAT Webb. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01jwd5p (Listen) SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles with classicist and comedian SAT Natalie Haynes; Mark Lawson and JP Devlin breakfast in SAT Dublin for Bloomsday; Julie Wassmer who discovered the SAT daughter she'd given up for adoption by quite extraordinary SAT coincidence; Dominic Walker, The Bishop of Monmouth, who SAT conducts exorcisms; Susan Richards who was inspired by a SAT damp June village fete to send a million books to Russia; SAT there's a Dublin Crowdscape and former Chancellor Norman SAT Lamont's Inheritance Tracks. Plus the first three parts of SAT the landmark Radio 4 dramatization of James Joyce's Ulysses. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 09:10 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jxwkk (Listen) SAT Part 1a: On the Martello Tower SAT SAT 'Stately plump' Buck Mulligan calls Stephen Dedalus to the SAT top of the Martello tower overlooking Dublin Bay - and so SAT begins James Joyce's celebrated account of the 16th June SAT 1904. The combined stories of Stephen and Leopold Bloom as SAT they meander through the city. In a landmark project a new SAT dramatisation of Ulysses is broadcast across one day - SAT morning, afternoon and evening. With live commentary from SAT Mark Lawson, broadcasting from Dublin. Dramatised by Robin SAT Brooks. SAT SAT Narrator...Stephen Rea SAT Stephen Dedalus...Andrew Scott SAT Malachi 'Buck' Mulligan...Kevin Trainor SAT Haines...Harry Livingstone SAT Mary Dedalus...Janet Moran SAT Young Man...Ronan Raftery SAT Singer Daire Halpin SAT Pianist Colin Guthrie SAT Produced and Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT Executive Producer Claire Grove SAT SAT (Ulysses chapter 'Telemachus'). SAT SAT 09:30 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jxwkm (Listen) SAT Part 1b: The Martello Tower SAT SAT 8.15 am and Stephen Dedalus breakfasts with Mulligan and the SAT Englishman Haines before walking out along the strand to the SAT swimming place at Forty Foot hole. Dramatised by Robin SAT Brooks. SAT SAT (Ulysses chapter 'Telemachus'). SAT SAT 10:15 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jxwkp (Listen) SAT Part 1c: At School SAT SAT Stephen Dedalus collects his wages from Headmaster Deasy, SAT who wants Stephen to deliver a letter about the recent SAT outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease to the editor of the SAT Evening Telegraph. Dramatised by Robin Brooks. SAT SAT Narrator...Stephen Rea SAT Stephen Dedalus... Andrew Scott SAT Mr Deasy...Jim Norton SAT Sargent...Joshua Ellershaw SAT Usher...Aidan Dunlop SAT SAT (Ulysses chapter 'Nestor'). SAT SAT 10:30 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jwd5r (Listen) SAT Part 2: From Bloom's House, through the Morning Streets, to SAT a Funeral SAT SAT 7 Eccles Street, Dublin. The home of Leopold and Marion SAT (Molly) Bloom. Bloom, we are told, 'eats with relish the SAT inner organs of beasts and fowls' and cooks himself a pork SAT kidney for breakfast. While Molly receives a letter from her SAT concert promoter Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan who has arranged to SAT visit her later in the day. Bloom prepares to attend Paddy SAT Dignam's funeral at Glasnevin cemetery. Dramatised by Robin SAT Brooks. SAT Narrator...Stephen Rea SAT Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman SAT Molly Bloom...Niamh Cusack SAT Milly Bloom...Grainne Keenan SAT Martin Cunningham...Stephen Hogan SAT Simon Dedalus...Des McAleer SAT Martha Clifford... Christine Absalom SAT With Pip Donaghy, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Hamilton Dyer SAT Gerard McDermott, John Rogan SAT SAT (Ulysses chapters 'Calypso' 'Lotus Eaters', and 'Hades'). SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01jwd5t (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of the Independent reflects on this week's SAT star cast at the Leveson Inquiry with the former SAT Conservative leader Michael Howard and Labour's Nick Brown, SAT a close ally of Gordon Brown SAT SAT He looks at the merits of a referendum on the EU with the SAT Tory MP and referendum-supporter Douglas Carswell and the SAT Professor of Government Philip Norton who opposes SAT referendums in principle. SAT SAT Evan Harris and Stephen Gilbert, both Liberal Democrats, SAT help assess the mood of the Lib Dems after this week's mass SAT abstention in a Commons vote. SAT SAT And two football fans, Labour's Steve Pound and the Tory, SAT Tracey Crouch, ponder the political impact of national SAT sporting triumphs. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01jwd5w (Listen) SAT All of Europe is watching the Greek elections this weekend. SAT Chris Morris says they could have a profound effect on the SAT Euro and on the future of the European Union. SAT SAT The child miners of Madagascar. They break stones. All day SAT every day. It earns them just a few coins. And, as Luke SAT Freeman finds out, there's no question of them ever going to SAT school. SAT SAT He was one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes. The funeral of SAT boxer Teofilo Stevenson has just taken place in Havana. SAT Sarah Rainsford was there and later talked to some of the SAT Cuban athletes trying to emulate his Olympic success at this SAT year's Games in London. SAT SAT Jackie Bird has been to Korea with some of the Britons who SAT fought in the war there sixty years ago. It's a conflict SAT which few in Britain commemorate. But there, the soldiers SAT were applauded and thanked. SAT SAT Fuchsia Dunlop dons her dancing shoes and heads out into SAT Shanghai to get a glimpse of what this Chinese city must SAT have been like during the glittering, decadent pre-war SAT years. SAT SAT 12:00 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jwd5y (Listen) SAT Part 3: From the Beach, to a Newspaper Office, into Davy SAT Byrne's Pub SAT SAT 11.00 am Stephen walks on Sandymount Strand before visiting SAT the offices of the Evening Telegraph, where he catches a SAT glimpse of advertising salesman Leopold Bloom. Stephen takes SAT the Editor out for a drink, while Bloom slips into Davy SAT Byrne's pub for a cheese sandwich. Dramatised by Robin SAT Brooks. SAT SAT Narrator...Stephen Rea SAT Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman SAT Molly Bloom...Niamh Cusack SAT Stephen Dedalus...Andrew Scott SAT Simon Dedalus...Des McAleer SAT Miles Crawford...Jonathan Forbes SAT Dilly Dedalus...Bronagh Taggart SAT Blazes Boylan...Sean Campion SAT Josie Breen...Grainne Keenan SAT Bantam Lyons...John Rogan SAT With Christine Absalom, Pip Donaghy, Aidan Dunlop, Peter SAT Hamilton Dyer, SAT Stephen Hogan, Gerard McDermott, Ronan Raftery SAT SAT (Ulysses chapters 'Proteus' 'Aeolus' and 'Lestrygonians'). SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01jrqrt (Listen) SAT Series 37, Episode 2 SAT SAT The Never-Ending Stories: Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis look at SAT the stories that haven't left the news for weeks, including SAT the Leveson Enquiry, the Euro crisis, and education reform. SAT They're joined by Ava Vidal, who tackles racism in football, SAT Mitch Benn who explains why three gigs is too many for some, SAT and Jon Holmes with the lowdown on some very saucy penguins. SAT With additional voices from Laura Shavin. SAT SAT The Now Show is written by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, with SAT additional material from Rhodri Crooks, Jon Hunter, Juliet SAT Meyers, Jack Bernhardt, Tom Neenan and Annie Burchill. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01jrly3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01jrqs0 (Listen) SAT Bishop's Stortford SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Bishop's Stortford High School, Hertfordshire, SAT with panellists John Whittingdale, Conservative MP and SAT chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee; SAT Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty; Shadow Financial SAT Secretary to the Treasury, Chris Leslie; and editor of the SAT Independent, Chris Blackhurst. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01jwdk0 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jwdk2 (Listen) SAT Part 4: The Library, through the Lunchtime Streets, to the SAT Ormond Hotel SAT SAT Stephen tries to get commissioned for an article at the SAT National Library, while Leopold Bloom takes lunch at the SAT Ormond Hotel and listens to Simon Dedalus and Benjamin SAT Dollard sing at the piano. It is mid-afternoon and Hugh SAT 'Blazes' Boylan is on his way to his adulterous assignation SAT with Molly Bloom in Eccles Street. Dramatised by Robin SAT Brooks. SAT SAT Narrator...Stephen Rea SAT Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman SAT Stephen Dedalus...Andrew Scott SAT Molly Bloom...Niamh Cusack SAT Simon Dedalus...Des McAleer SAT Richard Best...John Rogan SAT John Eglinton...Peter Hamilton Dyer SAT Malachi Mulligan...Kevin Trainor SAT Patrick Dignam...Joshua Ellershaw SAT Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan...Sean Campion SAT Lenehan...Lorcan Cranitch SAT Benjamin Dollard...Gerard McDermott SAT Martin Cunningham...Stephen Hogan SAT Miss Kennedy...Denise Gough SAT Miss Douce...Bronagh Taggart SAT With Aidan Dunlop, Peter Hamilton Dyer, SAT Jonathan Forbes, Grainne Keenan, SAT Harry Livingstone SAT Produced and Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT (Ulysses chapters 'Scylla and Charybdis', 'Wandering Rocks' SAT and 'The Sirens'). SAT SAT 15:30 Cerys Matthews' Blue Horizon b01jqjl7 (Listen) SAT Among Cerys Matthews' landmark musical memories is a very SAT sunny summer Sunday afternoon in 2009. It was the day that, SAT browsing albums in Portobello Market, she parted with �70 SAT and took home a rare copy of Fleetwood Mac's Sweet Pious SAT Bird of Youth. She played it over and over again. She was SAT hooked. SAT SAT Since that day Cerys has fed her addiction to Blue Horizon SAT records and has sought out and amassed a valuable collection SAT of her own. She is passionately enthusiastic about these SAT gems of recordings that are almost too precious to play. SAT SAT The Blue Horizon record label linked the roots of the blues SAT in the US with the UK blues scene of the 60s. It was the SAT home of American blues artists Champion Jack Dupree, Bukka SAT White, Mississippi Joe Callicot and Furry Lewis, Eddie Boyd, SAT Otis Spann, Ainsley Dunbar, Elmore James but also of the SAT British blues artists Chickenshack and Fleetwood Mac. SAT SAT Label founder Mike Vernon also invented the blues sound we SAT still hear today. In 1966, he produced the Blues Breakers SAT with Eric Clapton, considered one of the most influential SAT British blues recordings. It was notable for its driving SAT rhythms and Clapton's rapid blues licks with a full SAT distorted sound derived from a Gibson Les Paul and a SAT Marshall amp. This became something of a classic combination SAT for British blues guitarists. SAT SAT In the programme, Cerys talks to Mike Vernon about his SAT passion for the blues and how he left the old-school Decca SAT Record company to strike out on his own. Artists from Blue SAT Horizon's roster, including former members of The Yardbirds, SAT Fleetwood Mac and Chickenshack reflect on the part Blue SAT Horizon played in their careers and establishing the SAT credibility of Britain as a home for the blues. SAT SAT Producer: Nick Barraclough SAT A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01jwdk4 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Jackie Kay and lesbian writers SAT SAT Being brought up by dad. Joy Larkcom - the woman credited SAT with introducing the mixed salad bag to consumers - shares SAT her passion for salad. The Australian sex worker Rachel SAT Wooton - whose clients include people with disabilities - on SAT why she's fighting for the rights of disabled people. The SAT campaign for stillborn babies to get birth and death SAT certificates. Novelist and poet Jackie Kay talks about her SAT latest project Manchester lines and why she's so in love SAT with the City, but where are all the lesbian writers? The SAT women who've won Gold at the Olympics on the impact it's had SAT on their lives. Plus Alex Scott the footballer who hopes to SAT represent team GB in London. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01jwdk6 (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports SAT headlines. SAT SAT 17:26 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jwdw9 (Listen) SAT Part 5: In Barney Kiernan's Pub SAT SAT Bloom gets into an argument with the 'Citizen' which SAT climaxes in mock-heroic battle, when Bloom makes a dignified SAT retreat and his opponent flings a biscuit tin after him. SAT This episode is narrated by an anonymous crony of the SAT 'Citizen', an anti-Semitic Nationalist bigot. Repulsive as SAT he is, he provides an opportunity for Bloom to show his true SAT heroism by arguing against prejudice and preaching a SAT doctrine of love and understanding. Dramatised by Robin SAT Brooks. SAT SAT Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman SAT Citizen...Pip Donaghy SAT Unnamed Narrator...Jim Norton SAT Joe Hynes...John Rogan SAT Terry O'Ryan, Martin Cunningham...Stephen Hogan SAT Alf Bergan...Ronan Raftery SAT Lenehan...Lorcan Cranitch SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting SAT Produced by Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT (Ulysses chapter 'Cyclops'). SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01jrly5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01jrly7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jrly9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01jwdwc (Listen) SAT Simon Le Bon, Niamh Cusack, Jaime Winstone and Tony Hawks SAT SAT Clive celebrates the work of James Joyce with actress Niamh SAT Cusack, who has graced our screens in 'Heartbeat' and will SAT grace the airwaves as Molly Bloom in Radio 4' dramatisation SAT of 'Ulysses'. First published in 1922, 'Ulysses' traces the SAT progress of Leopold Bloom, making his way through Dublin on SAT an ordinary day - 16th June 1904, now known as Bloomsday. SAT 'Ulysses' broadcasts throughout Saturday 16th June from SAT 09.00 SAT SAT Clive's Dead Set to talk to actress Jaime Winstone about SAT starring in Dominic Savage's 'True Love'; five powerful and SAT overlapping love stories set in the same town. Love is in SAT the air for Jaime, who recently starred alongside her father SAT Ray in 'Elfie Hopkins'. 'True Love' starts on Sunday 17th at SAT 22.25 on BBC One and runs on consecutive nights until SAT Wednesday 20th June. SAT SAT Girl On Film Emma Freud talks to Wild Boy Simon Le Bon about SAT life as lead singer of one of the most successful bands of SAT the 20th Century. Simon being one of the 'prettiest boys in SAT rock' tells us about Duran Duran's recent 'Diamond In The SAT Mind' concert recording and how they're gearing up to SAT perform at the Olympic Opening Ceremony Celebration Concert SAT in London's Hyde Park on Friday 27th July. SAT SAT Clive volleys with comedian and author Tony Hawks who will SAT clearly do anything to win a bet. Not content with SAT travelling round Ireland with a fridge, Tony challenged the SAT entire Moldovan football team to a game of tennis! He'll be SAT introducing 'Playing The Moldovans At Tennis' at selected SAT cinema's around the country and the film is out on DVD on 22 SAT June. SAT SAT Music comes from Gabby Young & Other Animals who perform 'In SAT Your Head' from their album 'The Band Called Out For More'. SAT SAT And mischief makers Scoundrels perform 'Sexy Weekend' from SAT their EP of the same name. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01jwdwf (Listen) SAT Series 12, Heroes SAT SAT By Eoin McNamee SAT SAT In a week that has seen clashes both on and off the pitch in SAT the Euro 2012 championship, Northern Irish novelist and SAT screenwriter Eoin McNamee creates a dramatic response to the SAT news in this week's From Fact to Fiction. SAT SAT Two men and a campervan: Matt and Maciek are on the football SAT trail in Poland. While Matt is following the fortunes of the SAT Irish boys in green, football is the last thing on Maciek's SAT mind. Their friendship is about to be tested as past deeds SAT and present enmities collide in a clash as charged as any SAT football match. SAT SAT Matt ..... Lalor Roddy SAT Maciek ..... William Brand SAT Lukasz ..... Rafael Ferenc SAT SAT Producer/Director Heather Larmour. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01jwdwh (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Linda Grant and Adam SAT Mars Jones and writer Bidisha review the week's cultural SAT highlights including David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis. SAT SAT GATZ is Elevator Repair Service's stage adaptation of The SAT Great Gatsby in which every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald's SAT novel is read and acted by the occupants of a drab American SAT office. Scott Shepherd plays a man who, arriving at his desk SAT and finding his computer unresponsive, picks up a paperback SAT copy of the book and starts reading it aloud. SAT SAT David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis is an adaptation of Don SAT DeLillo's 2003 novel and stars Robert Pattinson as Eric SAT Packer - a billionaire financial whiz-kid who is travelling SAT across Manhattan to get a haircut in the stretch limo he SAT uses as an office. However, a presidential visit to the SAT city, a rapper's funeral and a threat to Packer's life mean SAT that the journey is far from straightforward. SAT SAT Indelible Ink by Australian author Fiona McGregor is a novel SAT about Marie King - a 59 year old divorcee facing large SAT changes in her life, including having to sell her beautiful SAT Sydney Harbour home and the garden she has spent years SAT creating. One afternoon, on a drunken impulse, she gets a SAT tattoo and - despite the disapproval of her three children - SAT she goes on to have her skin covered in more and more SAT elaborate designs. SAT SAT Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 - 2012 at the Hayward SAT Gallery in London explores the rich history of intangible SAT art including film of Yves Klein showing the viewer around SAT the blank walls of an empty gallery, Andy Warhol's Invisible SAT Sculpture (comprising a plinth that he once stood next to) SAT and Air by Teresa Margolles - a space cooled by two SAT air-conditioners filled with water previously used to wash SAT murder victims in a Mexican morgue. SAT SAT Dominic Savage's new drama series for BBC1 - True Love - SAT consists of five short films, all of them set in Margate and SAT all of them created by a process of improvisation. Among the SAT actors creating their own dialogue are David Tennant, Ashley SAT Walters, Billie Piper and David Morrissey. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT Gatz continues at the Noel Coward Theatre, London until 15th SAT July 2012. SAT SAT Cosmospolis is on general release now certificate 15. SAT SAT Nancy Holt exhibition continues at the Hayward Gallery in SAT the Southbank Centre until Sunday 5 August 2012. Admission SAT is �8 with the usual concessions. SAT SAT True Love begins on BBC 1 on Sunday 17th June at 22:25pm. SAT SAT Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor is published by Atlantic SAT Books. SAT SAT 20:00 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jwdyk (Listen) SAT Part 6: From Sandymount Beach at Evening, to the Maternity SAT Hospital, and into Nighttown SAT SAT Bloom cannot go home. For he knows that Molly has an SAT adulterous appointment with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan. So he SAT stands on the beach at nightfall watching Gerty MacDowell SAT enjoy the fireworks. Meanwhile, at the maternity hospital in SAT Holles Street, Mina Purefoy is still struggling - after SAT three days - to give birth. Near the ward, Stephen Dedalus SAT joins a raucous group of medical students and Bloom joins SAT the party, which then moves off to Bella Cohen's brothel. SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks. Contains strong language. SAT SAT Narrator...Stephen Rea SAT Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman SAT Stephen Dedalus...Andrew Scott SAT Molly Bloom...Niamh Cusack SAT Bella Cohen...Frances Barber SAT Gerty MacDowell...Denise Gough SAT Cissy Caffrey, Nurse Callan...Bronagh Taggart SAT Edy Boardman...Grainne Keenan SAT Tommy...Aidan Dunlop SAT Lenehan...Lorcan Cranitch SAT Malachi Mulligan...Kevin Trainor SAT Private Compton...Peter Hamilton Dyer SAT Private Carr...Ronan Raftery SAT Rudolph Bloom... Pip Donaghy SAT Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan... Sean Campion SAT Zoe... Susie Riddell SAT With Christine Absalom, Aidan Dunlop, SAT Jonathan Forbes, Stephen Hogan SAT John Rogan, Harry Livingstone, SAT Gerard McDermott, Janet Moran SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jonquil Panting SAT Produced by Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT (Ulysses chapters 'Nausicaa', The Oxen of the Sun', 'Circe', SAT 'Eumaeus'). SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01jrlyc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Ulysses Today b01jzqnl (Listen) SAT Mark Lawson chairs a discussion about the powerful influence SAT of Ulysses today and in the years since its publication in SAT 1922, with guests including Anne Fogarty, Professor of James SAT Joyce Studies at UCD, Declan Kiberd, author of Ulysses and SAT Us. SAT SAT Producer: Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 23:00 James Joyce's Ulysses b01jwf9h (Listen) SAT Part 7: From a Cabman's Shelter, to Eccles Street and Home SAT SAT Bloom takes Stephen home, and gives him a cup of cocoa. They SAT talk, relieve themselves in the garden, and go their SAT separate ways. Bloom joins Molly in bed, home at last. In SAT her bed, Molly Bloom lies and muses, reliving the SAT afternoon's sexual encounter with Blazes Boylan, and winding SAT up all the threads and themes of the day. Dramatised by SAT Robin Brooks. Contains very strong language. SAT SAT Narrator...Stephen Rea SAT Leopold Bloom...Henry Goodman SAT Stephen Dedalus...Andrew Scott SAT Molly Bloom...Niamh Cusack SAT Dilly Dedalus...Bronagh Taggart SAT Sinbad...Pip Donaghy SAT With Peter Hamilton Dyer, Stephen Hogan SAT Gerard McDermott, Ronan Raftery SAT Singer Daire Halpin SAT Pianist Colin Guthrie SAT Produced and Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT Executive Producer Claire Grove SAT SAT (Ulysses chapters 'Eumaeus', 'Ithaca', and 'Penelope'). SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 JUNE 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01jvcvs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Platform 3 b01jwfpd (Listen) SUN Union Station SUN SUN A young man visits his cousin Neil and his wife Lou before SUN setting off to continue his tour of the American Mid-West. SUN He remembers Union Station as 'one of the oldest and most SUN significant stations in the country, on the historic, SUN transcontinental railroad, the first to span the continent SUN from coast to coast.' But when he gets as far as the SUN bus-station, the locals find it hard to give him SUN directions... SUN SUN Written by Gerard Woodward, and read by Patrick Kennedy. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jvcvv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jvcvx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jvcvz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01jvcw1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01jwfpg (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary and St Chad, Brewood in Staffordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01jrkn9 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Sir Terry Farrell SUN SUN Sir Terry Farrell explains why architects are uniquely SUN placed to solve the problems of Britain's public spaces - SUN and why doing the work for free is crucial to its success. SUN SUN Sir Terry explains how working pro bono can bring together SUN businesses, councils and community groups who would SUN otherwise find it hard to work together, and how these SUN architectural schemes or 'masterplans' can transform the SUN public spaces we all share. And he describes some of the SUN schemes he has worked on - and how, even though it sometimes SUN takes years, the benefits are clear to see. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front SUN of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the SUN stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, SUN interests and passions that affect our culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01jvcw3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01jwfpj (Listen) SUN The Spirit of Jazz SUN SUN Mark Tully improvises on the theme of spirituality in jazz, SUN one of his favourite forms of music. He is joined by SUN trumpeter, Ian Smith who evangelizes about the links between SUN jazz and faith. SUN SUN Together Mark and Ian identify the roots of jazz, deep in SUN the church and in religious experience, as well as in the SUN lives of ordinary black Americans in the first half of the SUN 20th Century. Ian maintains that jazz provided the only SUN forum in American public life where black creative artists SUN could be respected and could articulate a culture specific SUN to their own experiences. More than that, he maintains that SUN jazz, "is a meditative form which circles around certain SUN fundamental truths without pretending that the limited human SUN personal experience can solve them." SUN SUN Mark Tully also celebrates the sheer joy of jazz with SUN readings and music which lift the heart. He is even given SUN permission by Ian to enjoy some of his favourite jazz pieces SUN by musicians who are sometimes regarded by jazz buffs as not SUN quite the genuine article. SUN SUN The readers are Frank Stirling, Emma Fielding and Peter SUN Guinness. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01jwfpl (Listen) SUN Hundreds of farmers across the UK will be keeping their SUN fingers crossed that the weather improves, as they prepare SUN to welcome visitors on Open Farm Sunday, 17th June. Almost a SUN million people have spent the day on a working farm since SUN the event began in 2006. Ian Pigott, who first came up with SUN the idea and Charlotte Smith talks to him as he prepares to SUN open his farm in Hertfordshire. He tells her how inspiration SUN struck: "The countryside was gagging to find out more about SUN what farmers were up to. For years and years we'd kept SUN everything a trade secret...so the media told people what SUN they thought was going on, and that wasn't always a good SUN thing." SUN SUN Presenter: Charlotte Smith SUN Producer: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01jvcw5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01jvcw7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01jwfpn (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01jwfpq (Listen) SUN Place2Be SUN SUN Matt Dickson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Place2Be SUN Reg Charity: 1040756 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Place2Be. SUN SUN Place2Be SUN SUN Place2Be is the leading UK provider of school-based SUN emotional and mental health services. It effectively removes SUN the emotional barriers to learning and prevents the downward SUN spiral that can lead to low aspirations, poor educational SUN achievement, truancy and exclusion from school. It helps SUN improve children�s classroom learning and academic progress SUN and builds their resilience, providing them with brighter SUN prospects and hopeful futures. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01jvcw9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01jvcwc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01jwfps (Listen) SUN A Mass celebrating the new Leeds Cathedral Choir School, the SUN country's first state primary choir school. Celebrant: SUN Monsignor Philip Moger, Dean of Leeds Cathedral; Preacher: SUN Monsignor Michael McQuinn; Directors of Music: Ben Saunders SUN and Sally Egan with musicians from the Leeds College of SUN Music. SUN Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01jrqs2 (Listen) SUN Beatle Time SUN SUN "There is something eerie, fated, cosmic about the Beatles" SUN writes Adam Gopnik. "They appear in public as a unit on SUN August 22nd 1969 and disappear as a unit, Mary Poppins like, SUN exactly seven years later". SUN SUN In this talk, he ponders exactly what it is that makes their SUN music endure. Why is it, he asks, that one of the things SUN people never say is "I don't like the Beatles". For his SUN children, he says, "the Beatles are as uncontroversial as SUN the moon. Just there, shining on". SUN SUN To underline how strange this is, he points out that had the SUN same thing been true for his generation, then the pop music SUN of his childhood would have dated from before the First SUN World War. And that, he says "would have been more than SUN bizarre". SUN SUN Gopnik concludes that the reason their music lasts is that SUN it was a perfect collaboration of opposites. SUN SUN Producer: SUN Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01jwfpv (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Kevin SUN Connolly. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01jwfpx (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ... John Yorke SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Rosa Makepeace..... Anna Piper. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01jwfpz (Listen) SUN Ahdaf Soueif SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Egyptian writer and SUN commentator Ahdaf Soueif. SUN SUN She was the first Muslim woman to be shortlisted for the SUN Booker Prize and, from an early age, her life has been SUN divided between Egypt and Britain. She was among the crowds SUN in Tahrir Square last year, witnessing the uprising at first SUN hand, and describing events for the world's media. SUN SUN She says: "Every once in a while there would be a surge of a SUN few meters forward, as your friends, who were being killed SUN at the front, gained you those three metres and your job, as SUN the masses, was to move forward and hold the three metres." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01jqfkd (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 5 SUN SUN Graham Norton, Alun Cochrane, Gyles Brandreth & Paul Merton SUN join Nicholas Parsons to play the devious panel game. SUN SUN Can the panellists talk on a subject that Nicholas gives SUN them for one minute without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation? SUN SUN The subjects today include: 'If I Was a Fairy Godmother', SUN 'Shopping in Charity Shops', 'Decorating' and 'Things You SUN Should Never Do In Public'. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01jwfq1 (Listen) SUN The Best in Food & Farming SUN SUN In this special programme Sheila Dillon launches the search SUN for this year's winners of the BBC Food & Farming Awards. SUN SUN Sheila is joined by Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett to SUN catch up with some of the recent winners and nominees. With SUN insights from last year's winners of the Best Food Producer SUN award - Loch Arthur Creamery - to the Best Market - Bolton - SUN we hear why the awards make a real difference. SUN SUN Valentine Warner and Pete Brown, both new to the judging SUN team this year, give their take on the Drinks Producer and SUN Market categories, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, also a SUN winner in 2011, explains why these awards really do matter. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01jvcwf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01jwfq3 (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 Miles Jupp in a Locked Room b01hw6h8 (Listen) SUN There's a fresh corpse! But that room hasn't been opened for SUN years! Locked Room Mysteries astonished and delighted crime SUN fans in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. But as Miles SUN Jupp discovers, the Locked Room continues to infuriate and SUN delight, inspiring writers in Japan and France. But how many SUN ingenious solutions can be wrung out of a body, a sealed SUN chamber, and the imagination of a dedicated writer? You'll SUN be surprised... SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01jrqrc (Listen) SUN South Gloucestershire SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are garden trouble-shooting in SUN South Gloucestershire. The panellists are: Bunny Guinness, SUN Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw. SUN SUN This week we revisit two listeners' gardens, in Nottingham SUN and Shrewsbury, as part of an ongoing series. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Amy Racs SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01jwfq5 (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 former Olympic athlete Mark, who remembers his SUN experiences in Moscow and Los Angeles for his daughter SUN Sophie, and civil partners, Nick and Philip from Scotland, SUN who reflect on how attitudes to homosexuality have changed. SUN Jonny Robinson explains how the British Library is saving SUN such conversations for posterity. 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 15:00 Classic Serial b01jwfwv (Listen) SUN Songs and Lamentations, Episode 1 SUN SUN Songs and Lamentations by Michael Symmons Roberts SUN interweaving new translations of two of the most powerful SUN books of the Hebrew Bible: the 'Song of Songs' - the most SUN sensual biblical love poetry; and the 'Book of Lamentations' SUN - its most searing poetry of violence and vengeance. SUN SUN Through a fresh contemporary translation working with SUN Biblical historians, the reverberations in these texts throw SUN an interesting light on current events in the same part of SUN the world. SUN SUN Jeremiah Peter Hamilton-Dyer SUN Rachel Gillian Kearney SUN Pashur Russell Dixon SUN Nathan Tom Ferguson SUN Zedekiah David Seddon SUN Thomas Henry Devas SUN Samuel Patrick Lally SUN Ana Deborah McAndrew SUN SUN A powerful story of the horrific destruction of a once great SUN city, and the love story of a couple who find hope and SUN solace in each other offering two very different SUN perspectives on the days leading up to the destruction of SUN Jerusalem by the Babylonian armies in 587 BC. SUN SUN Set in the middle east, this poetry of violence, heat, SUN passion and vengeance has clear resonance with the SUN intractable cycle of violence - and the survival of love - SUN in that same part of the world 2500 years on. The themes and SUN wisdom of 'Song of Songs' and 'Lamentations' have never been SUN more current or more apposite. SUN SUN The two episodes mesh together to form a single drama SUN looking at the same last days of Jerusalem from two very SUN different perspectives. SUN SUN Seen through the eyes of Jeremiah, the troubled prophet. SUN Crippled by poverty and oppression, Jerusalem's streets are SUN buzzing with talk of revolution. King Zedekiah needs a grand SUN gesture to hold on to power. His advisers are urging him to SUN raise an army to overthrow the Babylonians, but there is one SUN siren voice against an uprising - Jeremiah. So Zedekiah has SUN him arrested. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01jwfwx (Listen) SUN Literary London Special SUN SUN Literary London Special. How London has inspired writing and SUN writers across the centuries. SUN SUN Recorded in A Room for London, the creative / living space SUN in the shape of a boat on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on SUN the South Bank of the Thames, Open Book explores the impact SUN the city has had on literature - from Chaucer and Dickens to SUN Martin Amis and Peter Ackroyd; the themes it evokes and why SUN it creates such a diverse backdrop to novels. Mariella SUN Frostrup is joined by novelists who've all been charmed by SUN London - Will Self, Amanda Craig, Dreda Say Mitchell and Ben SUN Aaronovitch. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01jwfwz (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests, including SUN readings of poems both old and new by the Irish poet Paul SUN Durcan - one of which is in celebration of fathers. SUN SUN Also, Lucy Black reads poems by Charlotte Mew, John Donne, SUN Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, John Keats, Emily Bronte, SUN George Byron and John Freeman. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01jqsys (Listen) SUN NHS Queues SUN SUN Hospital waiting times are a key measure of success for the SUN NHS. But do the official figures accurately reflect the SUN reality for patients across the UK? SUN SUN In Scotland the waiting time data has been called into SUN question after a hospital trust was exposed for manipulating SUN the figures in order to hit its targets. There's now an SUN investigation to see if the practice has become widespread. SUN SUN In England the Health Secretary has hailed latest statistics SUN showing a fall in the number of people waiting for treatment SUN as a great achievement. However there's evidence which SUN suggests the pressure to meet waiting list targets is SUN leading to gaming of the system. SUN SUN Jane Deith investigates. SUN SUN Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01jwdwf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01jvcwh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01jvcwk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jvcwm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01jwfx1 (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN On Pick of the Week this week we have Honest Doubt, Richard SUN Holloway's excellent series about religion and faith. Katie SUN Derham treads her past and some water as she visits SUN synchronised swimmers. And we hear the most astonishing SUN interview from a murderer in One to One. All that and a SUN sentence including the words "Swedish", "dwarf" and "gun". SUN Yes, yes. SUN SUN Honest Doubt - Radio 4 SUN One To One - Radio 4 SUN Ramblings - Radio 4 SUN The Essay: What is a Nation - Radio 3 SUN Kicking The Air - Radio 4 SUN The New Elizabethans: - Radio 4 SUN The Synchro Girls- Radio 4 SUN The Now Show - Radio 4 SUN The Digital Human - Radio 4 SUN Don't Log Off - Radio 4 SUN Drama on 3: Henceforward - Radio 3 SUN The World Tonight - Radio 4 SUN Slippered Pantaloons - Radio 4 SUN Barbara Windsor's Clubland - Radio 2 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01jwfx3 (Listen) SUN Open Farm Sunday goes with a bang. Meanwhile Neil cannot SUN contain his curiosity. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01b1nk7 (Listen) SUN Daniel Defoe SUN SUN Daniel Defoe is the Author of the Week this episode - a man SUN who both helped establish modern journalism and modern SUN espionage, as well as being the creator of such literary SUN classics as "Moll Flanders" and "Robinson Crusoe", a book SUN that, the Bible excepted, has been translated into more SUN languages than any other. SUN SUN Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by SUN journalist, Jane Thynne, and creator of the DI Thorne SUN novels, Mark Billingham. SUN SUN For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine SUN Robinson Crusoe's observations were he to be marooned on an SUN island today...the Isle of Dogs or Ibiza, for example. SUN SUN 19:45 Sailors' Knots b01jwfx5 (Listen) SUN Keeping Up Appearances SUN SUN Written by W.W. Jacobs. SUN SUN Published in 1909, Sailors' Knots is an anthology of comic SUN stories set around London and the Thames Estuary at the turn SUN of the last century. The 'knots' are the various mix-ups SUN that occur between sailors on shore leave and the local SUN residents. The tales are great fun, full of entertaining SUN characters (with names like Silas Winch, Sam Small and SUN Ginger Dick) and often deal with marital spats, SUN misunderstandings, and rascals getting their just rewards. SUN SUN In this second episode, Mark Williams reads the story of SUN Bill Buttenshaw, who is put off drink for life by the SUN terrifying ghost of an old shipmate. SUN SUN W.W. Jacobs is best known for his horror story, The Monkey's SUN Paw (1902), but the majority of his writing is comic. He was SUN born in Wapping in 1863, where his father was wharf manager SUN at the South Devon Wharf at Lower East Smithfield, and his SUN early observation of merchant ships and the behaviour of SUN their crews informed his many humorous tales. SUN SUN Mark Williams is well-known as one of the stars of BBC TV's SUN The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role of Ron SUN Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. SUN SUN Abridged by Roy Apps SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01jrqrm (Listen) SUN Do you ever sing along to the radio? Many listeners to BBC SUN Radio 3's Choral evensong confess they love to join in with SUN the hymns - but recently they have suddenly found themselves SUN singing solo. The programme has disappeared off the air SUN without warning on no less than four occasions. Roger Bolton SUN asks Christine Morgan, Head of Radio for Religion and SUN Ethics, to explain what went wrong. Could it happen again? SUN SUN Roger is granted an audience with the golden-throated SUN denizens of Continuity, and puts your questions to announcer SUN Corrie Corfield. What does the job involve? What do they do SUN if something goes wrong? And do they fight to the death for SUN the chance to read the clips on the News Quiz? SUN SUN And after BBC Radio 4's World at One accidentally SUN misattributed an archive clip to Richard Dimbleby, one SUN sharp-eared listener calls Roger to reveal just who the SUN mystery voice is. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01jrqrh (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Lady Jean McFarlane who transformed the way nurses are SUN trained in the UK; SUN SUN Philip Tobias, the South African paleoanthropologist who SUN carried out pioneering research into the evolution of human SUN beings - and fought apartheid; SUN SUN The North African diva Warda Al-Jazairia SUN SUN The Booker prize winning historical novelist Barry Unsworth SUN SUN And the influential American TV producer Lee Rich. His SUN Lorimar Company brought us the Waltons and Dallas. SUN SUN 21:00 In Business b01k6cyb (Listen) SUN Diaspora Bonds SUN SUN Developing countries need all kinds of facilities that most SUN cannot afford, facilities that meet absolutely basic human SUN needs: roads, bridges, railways, water supplies, power, SUN sewerage, street lighting. SUN SUN Many of them have little of the cash it needs to get big SUN public investment programmes started. Overseas aid can help, SUN and so can official borrowing from the big international SUN institutions such as the World Bank. SUN SUN But there's another pool of potential investment money that SUN has so far been used mainly informally and only in very SUN limited circumstances. Peter Day reports how developing SUN governments, mostly in Africa, are waking up to the SUN investment possibilities of the money diaspora send back to SUN their own countries. SUN Producer: Richard Berenger. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01jwfpq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01jqhly (Listen) SUN Wasted Youth SUN SUN Many young school leavers have struggled to find work for SUN years. Now the economic crisis has made things worse. Paul SUN Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies investigates the SUN roots of the problem. He discusses the challenge faced by SUN those - particularly boys - who dislike classroom learning, SUN and the often chaotic transition from school to the world SUN beyond. And he hears about the key importance of work SUN experience at the earliest stage to enable young people to SUN acquire the skills and attitudes employers want. But how SUN much can be changed as employers hold onto their older SUN workers during the downturn, leaving youngsters even further SUN behind? SUN SUN Interviewees include the youth unemployment and vocational SUN education specialists Alison Wolf and Paul Gregg, employers SUN and specialist trainers in Wiltshire, and the new Scottish SUN minister for youth employment. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01jwfz5 (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 b01jwfz7 (Listen) SUN Episode 108 SUN SUN Andrew Grice of The Independent analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01jrlfh (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with David Cronenberg to discuss his SUN latest Cosmopolis, starring Robert Pattinson. SUN SUN The man behind Chariots of Fire, director Hugh Hudson, on SUN his ill-fated film from 1985 - Revolution, starring Al SUN Pacino. SUN SUN Director Regan Hall and dramatist Roy Williams on Fast SUN Girls, a film about four girls vying for medal glory on the SUN running track. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01jwfpj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 JUNE 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01jvcxk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01jrjg3 (Listen) MON Kinship MON MON Kinship is a key term in Anthropology. It describes the MON genealogical and biological ties which bind human beings to MON each other. The French anthropologist, Maurice Godelier, MON tells Laurie Taylor about his groundbreaking study into the MON evolution of kinship as a reality, as well as a concept. He MON disputes the idea that it constitutes the original building MON block of society; arguing instead that political and MON religious allegiances cut across family groups. He also MON suggests that traditional ideas of 'kinship' are complicated MON by the modern day transformation in family forms. The MON celebrated British anthropologists, Henrietta Moore and Adam MON Kuper, join the debate. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01jwfpg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jvcxm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jvcxp (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jvcxr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01jvcxt (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jwjvm (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01jwjvp (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith launches the search for BBC Farmer Of The MON Year 2012. As nominations open for the 13th BBC Food and MON Farming Awards we want to celebrate the best of British food MON and those companies and individuals who grow, make and MON supply it. Judges Adam Henson and Christine Tacon tell MON Charlotte what they are looking for in this year's MON nominations. MON MON Next week there will be a judicial review into the MON Government's decision to allow badgers to be culled in MON England to halt the spread of TB in cattle. Jack Reedy from MON The Badger Trust explains why he thinks that the animals MON should be vaccinated instead. Meanwhile, Andrew Biggs, MON former president of the British Cattle Veterinary MON Association, tells Charlotte why the disease is such a MON problem for farmers. MON MON And..... Clare Freeman goes tractor pulling in Warwickshire. MON MON You can submit nominations for the Food and Farming Awards MON 2012 at www.bbc.co.uk/foodawards MON MON The presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Emma MON Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01jvcxw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01jwk64 (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01jwjvr (Listen) MON Science and Politics: Professor David Nutt and David MON Blunkett MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr asks how far scientific MON evidence can influence the political agenda. Professor David MON Nutt is a respected researcher working in the field of MON drugs, but is best known as the government advisor who was MON sacked by the Home Secretary for comparing the risks of MON horse-riding with taking ecstasy. He argues for a rational MON debate on drugs policy based on objective evidence. Mark MON Henderson despairs that this will never happen while only MON one of our 650 MPs is a scientist. But the former Labour MON minister, David Blunkett, defends his profession, arguing MON that even evidence-based policy must take into account MON public opinion and perception. And for former No. 10 advisor MON Jill Rutter evaluates the evidence for and against. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01jwjvt (Listen) MON Beauty and the Inferno, From Scampia to Cannes MON MON Essays by Roberto Saviano. Translated by Oonagh Stransky. MON MON Italian journalist Roberto Saviano describes the effects of MON writing his successful Mafia expose' Gomorrah on his life MON and work. In this episode, he is given a rare release from MON enforced hiding, to take a trip to the Cannes Film Festival MON for the opening of the film version of his explosive book, MON which dramatises his insights going undercover in Naples to MON reveal the scale and brutality of the modern Mafia operation MON in Italy and beyond. He is accompanied to Cannes by the MON youthful stars of the film, ordinary kids from the streets MON of Naples who play wannabe gangsters, all of whom who have MON grown up, as Saviano did, in the shadow of violent organised MON crime. MON MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Reader: Nicholas Murchie MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jwjvw (Listen) MON Fashion style in the rain - and it's not all about wellies; MON the documentary maker who's focussing on Ukraine's forgotten MON children; The Archers but not as you know it - how an MON everyday tale of Afghan folk came to the airwaves; one nanny MON who cared for more than 100 children before retiring at 80; MON what future awaits women who are made homeless? MON Producer: Sarah Crawley MON Presenter: Jane Garvey. MON MON Ukraine�s Forgotten Children MON MON Ten times as many children are in institutional care in MON Ukraine as in the England. Most children are called �social MON orphans�, given to the state to look after by parents who MON feel they cannot cope. Many have mental or physical MON disabilities or severe illness. At the end of childhood, MON they may be placed in other institutions: some go to MON psychiatric or geriatric homes, while others are labeled MON �incapacitated�. Jane talks to documentary maker Kate MON Blewett whose film 'Ukraine�s Forgotten Children' goes out MON tonight on BBC4 at 9pm. MON MON 'An Everyday Tale of Afghan Folk' MON MON The Archers format has been exported to radio soaps around MON the world: now one of its own is coming back. 'An Everyday MON Tale of Afghan Folk' is a slice of domestic life set in a MON village in the untamed, mountainous tribal lands of the MON Pashtun people where the only law is tribal law. The MON five-part drama is based on a daily radio soap, Da Pulay MON Poray (�Across the Borders�), made by PACT Radio by and for MON Pashtoons. Liz Rigbey, former edior of The Archers, has MON rewritten the soap for a British audience, using the soap�s MON original story lines to provide a window into the lives of MON ordinary people on the Pak-Afghan border. Jane is joined by MON Liz Rigbey to discuss the challenges and aims behind the MON project. MON MON Brenda Ashford � Norland Nanny MON MON Brenda Ashford is a real life Mary Poppins, who spent 62 MON years as a nanny, caring for more than 100 children. She MON trained with the prestigious Norland Institute whose motto MON was �Love Never Faileth�, in 1939 and didn�t retire until MON she was 80. Brenda, or Nana, as she was known to her MON charges, looked after Susannah from birth to fifteen, and MON then returned to help with Susannah�s children when they MON came along. Jane went to Brenda�s home in Milton Keynes to MON talk to them both. MON MON Women and Homelessness MON MON The number of homeless people in the UK has risen sharply, MON and a quarter of them are women. A leading homeless charity, MON St Mungo's, says the reasons that women become homeless are MON complex and different to men. Jane talks to Alexia Murphy, MON director of St Mungos about a new campaign to deal with the MON problem. MON MON Rainy day fashion MON MON As it continues to pour down this summer - what to wear when MON it won't stop raining? Jane talks to style writer Hannah MON Betts and to BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood about MON dressing to impress in the rain. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jwjvy (Listen) MON An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 1 MON MON A slice of daily life in a village in the wild, mountainous MON Pak-Afghan borders where the only law is tribal law and MON there is no road, no electricity and no mobile phone signal. MON An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is based on PACT Radio's MON existing daily soap, made by and for the Pashtun people of MON this untamed area. MON MON In episode 1 we meet the wealthy, landowning family of Akbar MON Khan. A criminal and warlord, Akbar Khan welcomes his son's MON friend to his household. His good wife, Shah Bibi, fears MON that the lad is on the run and has asked for refuge. She MON hopes the visitor will keep his hands clean while he is MON staying but Akbar Khan is pleased to find someone who will MON help his criminal activities. Akbar Khan's elder son, Wisal, MON shares his mother's opinion of the guest. But he has other MON things on his mind - like the pretty young girl from the MON poorest family in the village who works in their household. MON MON Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt MON Music by Olivia Thomas MON An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Habana: The Children of the Spanish Civil War MON b01jwjw0 (Listen) MON This year marks the 75th anniversary of the evacuation by MON sea of 4,000 child refugees from the port of Bilbao during MON the Spanish Civil War. MON MON A great and heart-warming story of how British people MON welcomed the Spanish children, and strived to make a MON difference during that conflict, told through the MON experiences of the refugees and their own children living in MON the UK today. MON MON On May 21st 1937, 4,000 child refugees were evacuated to the MON UK on the ship Habana to escape the bombs and fighting MON around Bilbao. After much shameful prevarication by a MON British Government keen to appease burgeoning fascist powers MON in Europe, action was secured by pressure from British MON Socialists and other groups following the criminal carpet MON bombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion. MON MON However, parents were not allowed to travel with their MON children and in consoling their departing children, mothers MON on the quayside told them it was 'solo por tres meses' - MON 'only for three months'. For some it was actually ten years; MON others never returned to Spain. Around 400 remained in the MON UK, largely because the authorities could find no trace of MON any living relatives back home. MON MON The refugees who stayed in the UK, and their families, MON remain a tightly knit group. Many married within their own MON community or married other Spaniards. The way they brought MON their children up was heavily influenced by their own trauma MON of being sent away at such a young age. Through continuing MON close contact, they kept their identity and memories of the MON Spanish Civil War very much alive. MON MON Producer: Amanda Bruckshaw MON Exec Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b0184rgq (Listen) MON Series 3, Holyhead MON MON Episode 2 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the MON residents of Holyhead in Anglesey, where he talks about MON sinking ships, fishy foot nibbling, the town's newest MON locals, Kate and Wills, and a mayor whose eccentricity puts MON Boris to shame... MON MON Written by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete MON Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01jwjw2 (Listen) MON Pain relief, food and farming awards and a water supply with MON no bills MON MON It's the launch of the Oscars of the food world. You and MON Yours and the Food and Farming Awards are on the hunt for MON Britain's Best Local Retailer. But we need your nominations. MON MON We'll also hear about a man who was denied pain relief MON because his dementia meant he couldn't say how he was MON feeling. How should nurses deal with patients who can't MON speak for themselves? MON MON And - if you're sick of paying water rates and don't want a MON water meter - you could have your own bore hole. We'll find MON out how to do it and if it's worth it? MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jwjw4 (Listen) MON Francis Crick MON MON The New Elizabethans: Francis Crick. To mark the Diamond MON Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the MON men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its MON character. MON MON James Naughtie peers down the microscope at the talkative MON and incisive Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist who MON helped discover the structure of DNA. As the principal MON author of the 1953 paper in the journal Nature, Crick, MON alongside Jim Watson, established how messages might be MON carried by DNA, the memory system in our genes. His "central MON dogma" was that genetic information flows one-way in cells, MON from DNA to RNA to protein. Later he developed an interest MON in neuroscience and the problem of consciousness. The MON Francis Crick Institute due to open in London in 2015 will MON be the biggest centre for biomedical research and innovation MON in Europe. MON MON The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading MON historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of MON London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic MON Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, MON Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. MON MON They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions MON during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant MON impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its MON character, for better or worse." MON Producer: Clare Walker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01jvcxy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01jwjw6 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle MON b01jwjw8 (Listen) MON On the Edge MON MON In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers MON the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 MON years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard MON Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he MON takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, MON through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in MON subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and MON writers, up to the present day. MON MON In exploring the 'riddle of existence', Richard Holloway MON uses the American poet Emily Dickinson as a bridge between MON 19th and 20th Century thinking. He draws from her poem MON sequence 'The World is Not Conclusion' to suggest that there MON is no objective 'point of view from which we can observe the MON whole mystery of the universe'. MON MON He talks to Sir Anthony Kenny, literary executor and MON biographer of the 20th Century philosopher Ludwig MON Wittgenstein, about Wittgenstein's view that 'even when all MON possible scientific questions are answered, the problems of MON life have still not been touched at all'. In response, Kenny MON offers a rare poem by Wittgenstein. MON MON The debate between the 'unbelieving' and the 'believing' MON continues into our age as Holloway cites the ideas of MON evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and philosopher Roger MON Scruton. MON MON Producer: Olivia Landsberg MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01jwfx3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jwk66 (Listen) MON Tiny MON MON This is the story of a legend in the making. MON MON A nervous young man lives at the dead end of a dead-end MON town. On his eighteenth birthday he comes into his MON inheritance. With a little help from an old teacher, he MON finds it equips him to broadcast over the internet. MON MON Living in a house where rolling news is a constant presence, MON he does what comes naturally - he fires up his computer and MON presents the news. But his news is different. It puts a MON spring in its audience's step. That is, until his grandma MON starts to grow suspicious about what this boy is getting up MON to, nightly in his bedroom, and tries to put a stop to the MON broadcasts completely. MON MON A quirky comedy about a teenager who becomes an internet MON phenomenon by Ben Lewis. MON MON Boy..........Joshua Jenkins MON Grandma.......Julia McKenzie MON Sir.......Mark Heap MON Grandad......Peter Marinker MON Newsreader...Alison Pettitt MON MON Director: Kirsty Williams. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01jwk68 (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 9 MON MON (9/13) MON Which opera features the aria known in English as the 'Jewel MON song'? And which American poet and singer published a MON prize-winning memoir entitled 'Just Kids'? MON MON Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the last of the heats in MON the current series of the wide-ranging music quiz. MON Contestants from Lancashire, Staffordshire and County Down MON compete at Media City in Salford, for the one remaining MON place in the 2012 semi-finals. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01jwfq1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Forced Entertainment b01k12qv (Listen) MON Recorded over several months, this programme follows the MON creative process of the Sheffield-based, experimental MON performance group, Forced Entertainment, during a period in MON which they invent, develop, and rehearse their next big MON production, The Coming Storm. For the last 28 years, Forced MON Entertainment has built its shows around the same core group MON of six actors, working together under the guidance of MON artistic director, writer and visual artist Tim Etchells. MON Their productions are unconventional - somewhere between MON performance art, drama and dark comedy. 2010's The Thrill of MON It All, for instance, included deranged dancing girls, MON derelict comedians, and a soundtrack of Japanese lounge MON music, whereas another recent production Void Story, is a MON combination of radio play and graphic novel. Since the MON company started out in post-punk 1980s Sheffield, they have MON regularly impressed critics and audiences. And unusually for MON a British theatre company, they are also popular and MON recognised critically in Europe, partly because of their MON visceral, physical humour, and partly because of their MON risk-taking strategies. As the programme reveals, Forced MON Entertainment "evolve" a script by improvising it over a MON long series of workshop sessions, which the group have MON agreed to us recording. In this programme, Dickinson also MON follows the company to their co-producing venue, PACT MON Zollverein at Essen in Germany, where The Coming Storm MON receives its world premiere, prior to its first UK showing MON on June 19 at Battersea Arts Centre, as part of LIFT 2012 MON and London 2012 Festival. Creative intensity combined with a MON busy timetable, will make for an exciting and funny MON programme. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01jwk6b (Listen) MON Series 6, Oceans: The Last Great Unexplored Frontier? MON MON Oceans: the last great unexplored frontier? MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince return for a new series of the MON award-winning science/comedy show, as they take a witty, MON irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world MON according to science. In today's programme they'll be MON looking down rather than up as they consider the great MON mysteries that still remain uncovered in the watery depths MON of our oceans and asking whether they are truly the last MON unexplored frontiers for science. It has often be said that MON we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about MON much of what lies beneath the ocean waves, so how come we MON know so little about the vast majority of our own planet? MON They'll be joined on stage by comedian Dave Gorman, British MON Antarctic Survey scientist Lloyd Peck and Bramley Murton MON from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. MON MON Future guests in upcoming programmes include Marcus MON Brigstocke, Al Murray, Andy Hamilton and comic book legend MON Alan Moore. MON MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b01jwk6d (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jvcy0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01jwk6g (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 6 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition & deviation? Regulars Jenny Eclair MON and Tony Hawks welcome relative newcomers Richard Herring MON and Paul Sinha to try. As ever, Nicholas Parsons chairs this MON popular comedy panel show. Last in series. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01jwk6j (Listen) MON Jill has her say and Darrell begins to worry. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01jwk6l (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, who reports on a major exhibition of art MON and films by Yoko Ono, which includes a photo-booth in which MON you're invited to record your smile. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jwjvy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b01jwk7k (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 4 MON MON Through the story of a German night fighter captured in MON Suffolk, Michael Portillo remembers the crucial electronic MON war waged between the Axis and the Allies. MON MON In July 1944 the crew of a Junkers JU88 night fighter, lost MON and without fuel, emergency landed their plane on an RAF MON airfield in Suffolk. This gift from the skies provided MON British Air Intelligence with the latest German radar MON secrets. Throughout the war a technological see-saw had been MON underway with each side trying to gain the the advantage in MON radar detection and evasion equipment. The radar technology MON in this particular night fighter explained why large numbers MON of British bombers were being shot down from the rear and MON the RAF aircraft were quickly modified as a result. MON MON Alongside distinguished historians and veterans of RAF MON Bomber Command Michael pieces together the story of that MON fateful night. He also explores how it illuminates the vital MON - yet lesser known - battle front of electronic warfare. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01jwk7m (Listen) MON Cameron's Swede Dreams MON MON What's so great about Sweden? The British left has long been MON obsessed with Sweden. Now the Conservatives are too. Little MON wonder: the country always tops the global charts for MON happiness and social cohesion; its economy is dynamic and MON its deficit is low. MON MON In this week's Analysis, Jo Fidgen investigates the "Swedish MON model" and the British obsession with it. She finds the MON country is more conservative than people think, with its MON centre-right government's generous welfare state depending MON on very traditional notions of trust and social cohesion. At MON the root of Swedish conservativism is what the experts call MON a "Swedish theory of love" - in which the state is seen as MON the defender of the individual. Could this idea ever work MON for Britain? Sweden has provided a blue-print for David MON Cameron's Conservatives and their "Big Society" reforms, but MON many in Sweden argue that they are being misunderstood by MON Britain's Tories. Jo also looks at how, as Sweden struggles MON to become more multicultural, the "Swedish model" itself may MON in fact be unravelling. MON MON Producer: Mukul Devichand. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01jrlfk (Listen) MON This month sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of MON British mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing. MON Lauded by many as one of the founding fathers of information MON technology, his visionary ideas and theories are at the MON heart of our digital age. Yet until relatively recently he MON was forgotten, his achievements ignored. We discuss his MON legacy with Dr Tilly Blyth, curator if computing and MON information at London's science museum and Dr Peter Bentley, MON reader in computer science at University College London and MON the author of the recently published 'digitized' in which he MON compares the work of Alan Turing with other computer age MON pioneers. MON MON Just ahead of the finals in Cheltenham, we catch up with two MON of our 'So You Want to Be a Scientist?' finalists. William MON Rudling can finally shed some light on whether people who MON look similar also have similar voices. And we hear from Dara MON Djavan Khoshdel if people's emotional response to an artwork MON is a good predictor of the monetary value of that artwork. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01jwjvr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01jvcy2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01jxrh2 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jxrh4 (Listen) MON Salvage the Bones, Episode 6 MON MON By Jesmyn Ward. MON MON Skeetah and Manny's cousin Rico organise a savage dog fight MON in the woods. It is watched by Esch and their friends. If MON Rico wins, Skeetah must give up one of China's puppies, MON something he will avoid at all costs. MON MON It is 2005. Fifteen-year-old Esch is the narrator of the MON novel. She lives in poverty with her brothers and her father MON in the Mississippi woods near the small town of Bois MON Sauvage. Skeetah's beloved pit-bull China is a fighting dog MON and her puppies will be trained to fight too, if they MON survive. Esch's mother died giving birth to her youngest MON brother Junior. The only other people in Esch's world are MON her father, her older brother Randall and her brother's MON friends. They include Manny, who she worships and gives MON herself to freely without getting any love or respect in MON return. The story takes place against the backdrop of MON Hurricane Katrina forming out at sea, then descending on the MON country with terrifying force. MON MON Salvage The Bones won the 2011 National Book Award in MON America. It is Jesmyn Ward's second novel and is based on MON her own experience of Hurricane Katrina and growing up black MON and in a poor family in rural Mississippi. She is currently MON the Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of MON Mississippi. MON MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON Read by Cush Jumbo MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b01jqsyd (Listen) MON What It Says on the Tin MON MON There is a well known advert for woodstain with the modest MON boast, "It does what it says on the tin." This is the theme MON for our trio of writers - actor Michael Simkins, MON psychologist Dr Funke Baffour, and journalist Tom MON Mitchelson. Truth and lies in everyday life, and how honest MON are we with those we love, including ourselves. MON Tom Mitchelson reveals a sideline as an investigative MON journalist - infiltrating a male bonding cult, posing as a MON playboy, pretending to be a foreign language teacher - to MON get at a higher truth. "I find it exhilarating," he MON confesses. Not everything is as it seems in Off The Page, MON presented by Dominic Arkwright. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jxrh6 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 JUNE 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01jvcyz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01jwjvt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jvcz1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jvcz3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jvcz5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01jvcz7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jwjwj (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01jwjwl (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01jwjwn (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b01jmx0p (Listen) TUE Niall Ferguson: The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012, The TUE Human Hive TUE TUE The eminent economic historian Professor Niall Ferguson TUE argues that institutions determine the success or failure of TUE nations. In a lecture delivered at the London School of TUE Economics and Political Science, he says that a society TUE governed by abstract, impersonal rules will become richer TUE than one ruled by personal relationships. The rule of law is TUE crucial to the creation of a modern economy and its early TUE adoption is the reason why Western nations grew so powerful TUE in the modern age. TUE TUE But are the institutions of the West now degenerating? TUE Professor Ferguson asks whether the democratic system has a TUE fatal flaw at its heart. In the West young people are TUE confronting the fact that they must live with the huge TUE financial debt generated by their parents, something they TUE had no control over despite the fact that they were born TUE into a democracy. Is there a way of restoring the compact TUE between different generations? TUE TUE Producer: Jane Beresford. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01k04ng (Listen) TUE Beauty and the Inferno, Brittle Bones TUE TUE Essays by Roberto Saviano. Translated by Oonagh Stransky. TUE TUE Italian journalist Saviano pays tribute to the great jazz TUE pianist Michel Petrucciani, in a triumphant tale of the TUE man's music and his indomitable spirit, despite being TUE crippled by brittle bone disease. TUE TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Reader: Nicholas Murchie TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jwk39 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k06vk (Listen) TUE An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 2 TUE TUE A slice of daily life in a village in the wild, mountainous TUE Pak-Afghan borders where the only law is tribal law and TUE there is no road, no electricity and no mobile phone signal. TUE An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is based on PACT Radio's TUE existing daily soap, made by and for the Pashtun people of TUE this untamed area. TUE TUE In episode 2 we meet the poorest family in the village. Mewa TUE Gul scrapes a living by farming the fields of the wealthy TUE Akbar Khan - but he is always in debt to his landlord. When TUE Mewa Gul and his son Taza Gul witness a murder, they know TUE they risk losing everything if they reveal what they saw. TUE TUE Mewa Gul's daughter has problems of her own. She works for TUE Akbar Khan's family and is falling for his son, Wisal. And TUE if she's old enough to fall in love, then she's too old to TUE be working in someone else's house. Her mother Bakhtawara TUE tries to take the situation in hand. TUE TUE Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt TUE Music by Olivia Thomas TUE An Above theTitle production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Sniffing Out Danger b01jwk3c (Listen) TUE Breathe deeply - what can you smell? We live in a landscape TUE of scents - but unlike sniffer dogs, we don't have the TUE ability to identify and read them. Until now. Scientists are TUE training not just dogs, but bees, mice and electronic noses TUE to sniff out security threats by odour alone. Amber Marks TUE explores the growth of olfactory surveillance, finding out TUE about the challenges of harnessing and mimicking nature, and TUE asking about the implications of harnessing this world of TUE scents. TUE TUE 11:30 The Songs of Milne b01jwk3f (Listen) TUE 'Christopher Robin is saying his prayers....', 'They're TUE changing guard at Buckingham Palace....': familiar verses by TUE A.A. Milne from the 1920s, but who wrote the original music? TUE In their day the songs were as much a part of the Milne TUE success as the famous E.H. Shepard illustrations. Time, TUE Disney and changing fashions have seen to it that the TUE majority of these pieces have been all but forgotten, along TUE with the man who set them to music. There are sixty-seven TUE songs in all, from the verses in When We Were Very Young and TUE Now We Are Six, and The Hums of Pooh are from the TUE Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Their composer was Harold TUE Fraser-Simson, whose reputation was made by a hit West End TUE musical in 1917 called The Maid of the Mountains, though he TUE was partly chosen by Milne because he lived across the TUE street in Chelsea and belonged to the Garrick Club. TUE When pianist John Kember first found the music on a friend's TUE piano, he was so struck with it that he scoured the world TUE for the scores to gather in all of the songs, which haven't TUE yet been compiled into a full collection. With baritone TUE Richard Burkhard John performs his favourites, follows the TUE fortunes of some of the songs and hopes that the time might TUE be ripe for another revival. TUE Presenter: John Kember TUE Producer: Kate Howells. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01jwk5b (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jwk5d (Listen) TUE Doris Lessing TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Doris Lessing. A spirited, TUE straight-talking Nobel laureate who has been praised for her TUE ability to inhabit different fictional worlds. TUE TUE Radicalised in colonial Africa, her first novel The Grass is TUE Singing is set in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where she TUE grew up. The government there would later accuse her of TUE "subversive activities" and she was labelled a prohibitive TUE immigrant. Most famous as author of The Golden Notebook, she TUE has resisted the way in which feminists have claimed the TUE book as an inspiration and has been critical of the TUE "rubbishing of men". TUE TUE Awarded The Nobel Prize by the Swedish Academy in 2007, she TUE was described as "That epicist of the female experience, who TUE with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a TUE divided civilisation to scrutiny". TUE TUE Producer: Clare Walker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01jvczc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01jwk5g (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE TUE 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle TUE b01jwk5j (Listen) TUE Saving Doubt TUE TUE In today's programme, Richard Holloway explores the theme of TUE doubt and disloyalty with the help of three great 20th TUE Century writers - James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh and Graham TUE Greene. Holloway suggests that doubt and disloyalty help TUE 'keep our most cherished institutions open to change and TUE renewal'. It's a view supported by Joyce and Greene who TUE challenged the Catholic notion of Hell and its 'eternal TUE repetition'. But for Waugh, it was the very idea of TUE changelessness and stability that attracted him to TUE Catholicism. Holloway talks to Revd. Prof. David Jasper from TUE Glasgow University about how this theme plays out in Waugh's TUE work, while Graham Greene tells us himself why doubt and TUE disloyalty are essential roles for the writer. TUE TUE Producer: Olivia Landsberg TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01jwk6j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jwk6z (Listen) TUE Flying Backwards TUE TUE A new drama by Jack Klaff set in Cape Town, starring Alice TUE Krige and Jack Klaff. TUE Johnnie's back in Cape Town to record his new radio play - TUE his first in his home town after many years abroad in TUE London. In the cast, to Johnnie's surprise, is Vicki. Vicki TUE and Johnnie had an all-consuming affair, decades ago. He was TUE 22, she was 30. Then, prejudices about politics, age and TUE gender shattered a deep and passionate love. Johnnie left TUE for England, shunning Apartheid and, candidly, furthering TUE his career. Now - crying, laughing, raging, teasing - they TUE revisit their earlier lives and their unrecognisable city in TUE a country, South Africa, with its own unfinished story. TUE TUE Johnnie's decision to leave came at a time when the troubles TUE had deeply affected his own family - his father was TUE murdered. Was it a selfish decision to further his career or TUE born out of desperation at the state of his country? TUE TUE The drama is unflinching in its examination of a young man's TUE dreams and choices. It's also forgiving but honest about a TUE beloved woman and a beautiful land. While in Cape Town TUE Johnnie visits no go areas and places from his past. TUE Confronting his own memories and demons. Meeting after so TUE long, Johnnie and Vicki are forced to consider what they've TUE made of themselves. They are also nudged into thinking about TUE their own responses and actions during extremely dark times. TUE TUE Vicki/Maureen........................ALICE KRIGE TUE Johnnie.................................JACK KLAFF TUE Ma.......................................DOREEN MANTLE TUE Deon/Andrew/Bruce.................VINCENT EBRAHIM TUE Tyrone...................................DON MCCORKINDALE TUE Michelle/Lizzie........................HELEN SZYMCZAK TUE TUE Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01jwk71 (Listen) TUE Historian Tom Holland presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Join in by contacting the programme: TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE Join the conversation on our Facebook page or find out more TUE from the Radio 4 website - TUE www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/makinghistory TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b01jwk7r (Listen) TUE Bone Idle TUE TUE As politicians seem to endlessly bang on about their passion TUE for protecting 'hard working' families, Dominic Arkwright TUE discusses the merits of idleness with Hardeep Singh Kohli, TUE Stephanie Calman and Oliver Burkeman. TUE Every week there seems to be a new report about how lazy TUE we're becoming. Recent headlines have included "Lazy Brits TUE Spend 36 Years sitting on their bottoms," and "Teenagers are TUE too lazy to babysit." As Dominic wonders who has the time to TUE know all of this, Hardeep Singh Kohli tells us how he's not TUE had a week off in over ten years, Stephanie Calman extols TUE the joys of being a slattern and Oliver Burkeman tells us TUE why it's really important for us to step back and just stop. TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01jwkh8 (Listen) TUE The Future of the Legal Professions TUE TUE As the lines blur between the work of solicitors and TUE barristers , Joshua Rozenberg asks whether a cheaper service TUE provides better value for money or is it leading to poor TUE advocacy and ultimately miscarriages of justice? Joshua TUE Rozenberg looks at where the legal professions are going and TUE how best to make sure that future legal advocates are up to TUE scratch. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01jxrd5 (Listen) TUE Ian Marchant and Larry Lamb TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's guests are the actor Larry Lamb, best TUE known for his recent roles in EastEnders and the comedy TUE Gavin and Stacey, and the novelist, travel writer and TUE broadcaster Ian Marchant. TUE TUE Ian's choice is How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA TUE Cup, a gentle satire on football and fame and English rural TUE life in the 1970s. TUE TUE Larry's choice, Dirt Music by Tim Winton, is a gripping TUE triangular love story, of a sort, set against the TUE unforgiving backdrop of Western Australia. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is by the prize-winning African writer TUE Alain Mabanckou, whose tough story of a small-time Congolese TUE crook aspiring to fame through becoming a serial killer has TUE divided opinion since it was published in 2007. Will TUE Harriet's guests enjoy it? TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Larry Lamb's choice: �Dirt Music� by Tim Winton TUE Publ. Picador �7.99 TUE TUE Ian Marchant's choice: �How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won TUE the FA Cup� by JL Carr TUE Publ. Quince Tree Press �6.99 TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: �African Psycho� by Alain TUE Mabanckou. TUE Publ. Serpent's Tail �7.99 TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01jxrd7 (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jvczf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b012x12f (Listen) TUE Series 3, St Petersburg TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE Some vodka and an unwary bird could spell the end of the TUE line for MJN Air and when Carolyn meets her ex-husband the TUE atmosphere turns even icier. TUE TUE With special guest Timothy West TUE TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam TUE Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore TUE Gordon Shappey ..... Timothy West TUE Tommo ..... Paul Shearer TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for the BBC. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01jxrd9 (Listen) TUE Amy makes a bold move. Meanwhile Brian tries to keep Adam on TUE track. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01jxrdc (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including the announcement of the winner TUE of the Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k06vk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01jxrdf (Listen) TUE Secret Justice TUE TUE Ministers want to extend secret hearings to Britain's civil TUE courts - so judges can deal with the increasing number of TUE cases involving the intelligence services. TUE TUE Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says it is the only way that TUE judges can hear the testimony of spies working for MI5, MI6 TUE or GCHQ. Getting them to give evidence in open court is not TUE an option, he says. TUE TUE A small number of courts already hold secret sessions to TUE consider appeals from individuals facing deportation on TUE evidence compiled by the security services. But how well TUE does the system work? File on 4 hears evidence from lawyers TUE who are concerned about the quality of some of the testimony TUE given behind closed doors. TUE TUE And the programme has learned of a growing number of closed TUE justice cases being heard in Employment Tribunals where TUE people are claiming they were sacked because they pose a TUE risk to national security. Because the Tribunals are hearing TUE evidence in secret, the claimants are unable to get further TUE details of why they were dismissed. TUE TUE Gerry Northam explores the operation of secret justice in TUE British courts and asks whether its extension to more cases TUE would be in the national interest. TUE Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01jxrdh (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01jxrdk (Listen) TUE The well respected mental health campaigner, Janey Antoniou, TUE died in hospital last year, while detained under the Mental TUE Health Act. Her husband, Dr Michael Antoniou, talks TUE exclusively to All in the Mind's Claudia Hammond, about the TUE circumstances of his wife's death, and why he believes it's TUE wrong that hospitals, when a patient dies, can investigate TUE themselves. TUE TUE 21:30 In Living Memory b013fj17 (Listen) TUE Series 14, Episode 4 TUE TUE In 1974 an provincial orchestra sold out the Albert Hall. TUE But this was no ordinary band - it was the Portsmouth TUE Sinfonia, billed as the "world's worst orchestra". In its TUE ranks were some distinguished musicians, including Brian TUE Eno, Michael Nyman and the composer Gavin Bryars. But under TUE the rules of the orchestra they had to play an instrument TUE they were unfamiliar with. Alongside them were amateurs with TUE no musical ability whatsoever. The conductor knew nothing of TUE conducting but had studied pictures of Herbert von Karajan. TUE TUE The Portsmouth Sinfonia played light classics and rock TUE arrangements, and the familiar tunes were just discernable TUE through the miasma of wrong notes and unforced errors. It TUE enraged some in the musical establishment who felt they were TUE murdering good music, but got huge national attention, TUE appearing regularly on TV programmes and in the newspapers, TUE thanks in part to the fact that the orchestra signed a deal TUE with a record company with a flair for publicity. Brian Eno TUE was the producer of its first records. TUE TUE The orchestra had been founded by Gavin Bryars while he was TUE a lecturer at the Portsmouth College of Art, and most of the TUE original members were art students. So was it all an art TUE school prank? By no means, say former members. It was an TUE important contribution to the experimental music scene. TUE Michael Nyman says it was hugely influential on his own TUE work. Some people have claimed that the orchestra was a TUE precursor of the punk movement. Others say that's nonsense. TUE TUE The orchestra never formally disbanded but stopped live TUE performances in 1979. Portsmouth Sinfonia's recordings have TUE never been re-released on CD and the vinyl recordings are TUE collectors' items. In this programme Jolyon Jenkins talks to TUE key former members of the orchestra, gives listeners the TUE chance to savour those classic recordings, and tries to work TUE out whether the Portsmouth Sinfonia had any artistic merit TUE whatsoever. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01jvczh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01jxrdm (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Alistair TUE Burnett and Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jxrdp (Listen) TUE Salvage the Bones, Episode 7 TUE TUE By Jesmyn Ward. As Esch's father recovers from his hand TUE injury, Esch and her brothers prepare the house as best they TUE can for the onset of Hurricane Katrina. Esch tells Manny he TUE is the father of her baby - can Manny respond with the love TUE that Esch so desperately wants? TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE Read by Cush Jumbo TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01jwk6b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jxrf0 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01jvd0b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01k04ng (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jvd0d (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jvd0g (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jvd0j (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01jvd0l (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k889l (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01jxrmk (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01jxrmm (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan WED Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01jxrmp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01k078g (Listen) WED Beauty and the Inferno, Playing It All WED WED Essays by Roberto Saviano. Translated by Oonagh Stransky. WED WED Roberto Saviano describes meeting his hero, the great Lionel WED Messi, Barcelona FC's star player, and another courageous WED fighter whose life embodies the title of the book - the WED transcendent beauty of his sporting skills matched only by WED the infernal battle it took for him to reach the top of his WED game. WED WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Reader: Nicholas Murchie WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jxrmr (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k078j (Listen) WED An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 3 WED WED A slice of daily life in a village in the wild, mountainous WED Pak-Afghan borders where the only law is tribal law and WED there is no road, no electricity and no mobile phone signal. WED An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is based on PACT Radio's WED existing daily soap, made by and for the Pashtun people of WED this untamed area. WED WED In episode 3 we share the tribulations of Sardar Aka, WED village shopkeeper, who after many years of marriage to WED Gulnara has taken a second wife, the young Sakina. It is WED clear to both women that Sakina is his preferred wife and WED Gulnara's resulting jealousy can make home unbearable. When WED a gold bangle goes missing, relations reach breaking point. WED But Sardar Aka is busy outside the home too - as a member of WED the jirga, the village justice committee, he is determined WED to find out who is responsible for last night's murder. WED WED Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt WED Music by Olivia Thomas WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b01jxrmt (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world on a series of late night WED excursions via Facebook and Skype, discovering the real life WED dramas behind the online profiles. WED WED Among those he connects with are Bryan, whose relationship WED with his Russian girlfriend has been conducted entirely WED through Google Translate, and Bill, who stood in a phone WED box, holding a gun to his head as he came out to his wife. WED WED Alan also catches up with Amir, who in the last series was WED trying to leave Iran, and finds out why he was so keen to WED go. WED WED Producer: Sarah Bowen. WED WED 11:30 A Month of June b01jxrmw (Listen) WED Now You See Me, Now You Don't WED WED A Month of June: Now You See Me, Now You Don't WED by Andy Merriman and Peter Morfoot WED WED The third of four comedies written for the many voices of WED legendary actor June Whitfield. There's skulduggery afoot in WED Mrs. Ramsbottom's safe house for refugees from the WED Sorcerers' Circle. WED WED Debra Cadabra ..... June Whitfield WED Kitty French ..... Barbara Windsor WED Harry Halliday ..... Robert Blythe WED Billy .... Joe Sims WED Fred ..... Patrick Brennan WED Mrs Ramsbottom ..... Christine Absalom WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01jxrmy (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jxrn0 (Listen) WED Alan Sainsbury WED WED The New Elizabethans: Alan Sainsbury. To mark the Diamond WED Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the WED men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its WED character. WED WED Alan Sainsbury's grandparents, John and Mary, established a WED grocer's in 1869 which became the British supermarket chain WED Sainsbury's. When Alan Sainsbury retired as chairman nearly WED 100 years later in 1967, his business was established as the WED market leader - and it was he who'd presided over and WED championed the move to self-service. Alan Sainsbury was also WED heavily involved in politics, campaigned for the Republican WED side in the Spanish civil war, making common cause with WED conservatives and Communists in the process, and became a WED committed member of the Liberal Party (he'd joined Labour in WED 1945 and be a founding member of the SDP in the 1980s. WED WED The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading WED historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of WED London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic WED Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, WED Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. WED They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions WED during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant WED impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its WED character, for better or worse." WED WED producer Sarah Taylor. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01jvd0n (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01jxrtf (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents 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 b01jxrth (Listen) WED Darkness Made Visible WED WED In today's programme, Richard Holloway explores one of the WED biggest questions in the story of doubt: How can we WED reconcile the idea of God when there's so much suffering in WED the world? He cites the 18th century philosopher David Hume WED who formulated the eternal questions about God and the WED presence of evil: "Is he willing to prevent evil, but not WED able? Then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then WED is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then WED is evil?" WED WED Holloway continues into the 20th Century, focussing on the WED work of the Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan, WED and the French Resistance writer Andre Schwartz-Bart. David WED Jasper, Professor of Literature and Theology at Glasgow WED University, discusses how these writers attempted to 'say WED the unsayable'. WED WED Producer: Olivia Landsberg WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01jxrd9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jxrtk (Listen) WED Talking to Zeus WED WED by Don Shaw WED WED Inspired by the book Talking To Zeus, by Jane Shaw; Greek, WED green, fresh and vivid, this is based on a true story set in WED the world renowned environmental gardens called Helikion. WED Perched on a steep hillside, thirty miles from Athens, Jane WED starts work as an intern in the Gardens which are managed by WED the elderly, feisty, eccentric, garden fanatic Joy. Helikion WED is at the forefront of the battle against global warming. WED World scientists come to observe and take note. When WED suddenly the Gardens are under threat of closure we see how WED Jane, Joy and the local Greek volunteers combine forces to WED fight the proposed demise of the Garden. WED WED Joy ..... Brigit Forsyth WED Jane ..... Verity May Henry WED Pavlos ..... Andonis James Anthony WED Tom ..... Conrad Nelson WED Debbie ..... Deborah McAndrew. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01jxrtm (Listen) WED Join Vincent Duggleby and guests to get advice about saving WED and investing. WED WED Economic troubles in the Eurozone and stock market WED turbulence have made it a worrying time for people who want WED to invest for the long term. But experts say there are WED opportunities for people to snap up undervalued shares and WED to invest in well capitalised companies that pay good WED dividends. For people who want to keep their money in cash, WED it is just as much of a challenge to get a good return. The WED Bank Of England base rate at 0.5% is not expected to rise WED for some time. You may also have concerns about the safety WED of your money with some Eurozone banks struggling and their WED credit rating downgraded. WED Whether you're keen to save, new to investing or experienced WED in the stock market, you may have a question for our panel WED of experts. WED Which savings accounts pay the best rate of interest? WED How are your savings and investments protected? WED What type of equity investments are available? WED Which sectors should you choose? WED How much should you pay in fees and charges? WED How do you assess risk and choose a fund? WED WED Vincent Duggleby will be joined by: WED WED Christine Ross, SG Hambros WED Kevin Mountford, Moneysupermarket.com WED Gavin Oldham, The Share Centre. WED WED The number to ring - Ring 03 700 100 444. Lines open at 1pm. WED Or e mail: moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Producer: lesley McAlpine. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01jxrdk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01jxrtp (Listen) WED Annawadi is a makeshift slum in the shadow of luxury hotels WED near Mumbai's international airport. The Pulitzer prize WED winning writer, Katherine Boo, spent 3 years hearing the WED stories of those Indians who stand little chance of joining WED the 'new' middle class. She talks to Laurie Taylor about WED life, death and hope in a Mumbai slum. Also, the WED sociologist, Jeff Kidder, highlights new research which WED analyses why so many Americans are morally opposed to WED taxation. They're joined by British sociologist, Peter WED Taylor Gooby, who's researched British attitudes to tax. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01jxrtr (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 b01jxrtt (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jvd0q (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jxrtw (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 6 WED WED Presented by Charlie Brooker, So Wrong It's Right is a WED competitive game of wrongness where coming up with terrible WED ideas is the right thing to do. WED WED Over a series of rounds, Charlie asks his guests to trawl WED through their lives for comic calmites and to pitch WED inappropriate ideas. WED WED In this episode - the last in the current series - the WED guests joining him to try and out-wrong each other are WED comedians Susan Calman and Rob Beckett and Pointless star WED Richard Osman. WED WED Produced by Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01jxrty (Listen) WED Kenton does some quick thinking. Meanwhile Jill is WED preoccupied. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01jxryj (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on Julie Walters' return to WED the stage, in a new play, The Last of the Haussmans, at the WED National Theatre. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k078j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01jxryl (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Matthew Taylor and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01jxryn (Listen) WED Series 3, Mitu Khandaker WED WED Computer games present a wonderful opportunity to know WED ourselves - a slow bombardment of opportunities for WED self-reflective thought - says Mitu Khandaker. WED WED She argues that to look beyond the violent and mindless WED games of popular caricature is to see a new medium which WED represents the culmination of all our previous artistic WED forms - literature, film, painting, music. Parts of all of WED these, she says, can coalesce in games. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01jxs8q (Listen) WED Gene therapy - repairing malfunctioning cells by mending WED their DNA - offers an elegant solution to diseases, such as WED cystic fibrosis, caused by a single flawed gene. It's a very WED simple concept to describe - cut out the bad gene and insert WED a 'normal' gene - but it's this process that's proving to be WED so difficult and time consuming. Since the first human study WED began in 1990 the field has struggled with various technical WED challenges and set-backs. But over a decade on, researchers WED are beginning to report successes in treating several WED devastating diseases. Geoff Watts finds out some of the new WED techniques for gene therapy, and discovers how these are now WED being used in a trial of a new method of gene therapy for WED cystic fibrosis. WED WED Producer: Fiona Roberts. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01jxrmp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01jvd0s (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01jxs8s (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jxs8v (Listen) WED Salvage the Bones, Episode 8 WED WED By Jesmyn Ward. Hurricane Katrina unleashes its full fury. WED Esch's family huddle together in the living room; they have WED never experienced a hurricane like it. Will Esch's family be WED safe in the house? WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Read by Cush Jumbo WED Produced by Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bird Island b01jxslg (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED On one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antarctica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED WED EPISODE TWO: WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non audience comedy. WED Ben and Graham are short on food supplies and can't radio WED main base. Tensions rise as they are forced to survive on WED porridge. WED WED Ben ..... Reece Shearsmith WED Graham ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED D'Angelo..... Jot Davies WED WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b01jxslj (Listen) WED Series 3, Election Fever WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st Century Wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated 2000 WED year-old Scottish sorcerer with enough power in his small WED finger to destroy a town, yet insufficient clout to get a WED speed bump installed outside his cave by the local council. WED Even for such a skilful sorcerer, modern life is rubbish! WED WED In this episode, Mordrin (David Kay) finally gets an WED opportunity to get a seat on the Wizard Council. The Golden WED Phoenix has flown down the chimney at the Wizard Chambers WED signifying the start of the election process, which only WED happens every 150 years, and Mordrin has been called to WED stand. It's a brilliant chance for Mordrin to finally get WED some clout in the Wizard community, the only downside is WED that failure to win at the ballot box will result in certain WED fiery death under the Golden Phoenix. Mordrin decides to WED call upon Bernard (Jack Docherty) to be his campaign WED manager. WED WED Mordrin ....... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ....... Jack Docherty WED Geoff ...... Gordon Kennedy WED Wilma The White ........ Karen Dunbar WED Leprechaun Leader ........ Michael Smiley. WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jxtwk (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 JUNE 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01jvd1r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01k078g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jvd1t (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jvd1w (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jvd1y (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01jvd20 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k889x (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01jxtd3 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Angela THU Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01jxtd5 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and THU Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01jxtd7 (Listen) THU Annie Besant THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of the THU campaigner and writer Annie Besant. A radical political THU voice, Besant was involved in the 1888 matchgirls' strike at THU the Bryant and May factory, which brought the appalling THU working conditions of many factory workers to greater public THU attention. Later she campaigned for self-rule in India, and THU was a prominent member of the mystical Theosophical Society. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01k07kb (Listen) THU Beauty and the Inferno, The Man Who Was Donnie Brasco THU THU Essays by Roberto Saviano. Translated by Oonagh Stransky. THU THU Roberto Saviano dines out his American counterpart, Joe THU Pistone, an FBI agent who went undercover inside New York THU Mafia, just as Saviano went undercover with the Naples THU Camorra. Immortalised in the cinema by Johnny Depp, the THU real-life Joe offers his insights into the changing face of THU organized crime in America and in Italy, and the challenges THU he and Saviano share, living their lives under constant THU threat. THU THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Reader: Nicholas Murchie THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jxtd9 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k07kd (Listen) THU An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 4 THU THU A slice of daily life in a village in the wild, mountainous THU Pak-Afghan borders where the only law is tribal law and THU there is no road, no electricity and no mobile phone signal. THU An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk is based on PACT Radio's THU existing daily soap, made by and for the Pashtun people of THU this untamed area. THU THU In episode 4 we agonise with the village's poorest farmer, THU Mewa Gul, and his son, Taza Gul, over what to do with their THU knowledge of the recent murder. There's only one place for a THU good Muslim to take his problems, and that's the mosque. THU THU Sardar Aka, the village shopkeeper, has his share of trouble THU too. The quarrel between his two wives reaches hideous THU proportions when the three of them decide to search for a THU missing bangle. THU THU Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt THU Music by Olivia Thomas THU An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01jxtdc (Listen) THU Correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the THU headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Staff No Fee: The Other Life of Brian b01jxtdf (Listen) THU Barry Johnston explores the forgotten work of his father THU Brian to reveal a remarkable broadcasting career long before THU he became affectionately known as 'Johnners'. THU THU Today, the name Brian Johnston is largely remembered for THU Test Match Special and Down your Way. However as both of THU these programmes happened after he retired as a BBC staff THU member in 1972 they have overshadowed a fascinating THU television and radio career starting in the late forties. THU THU In those early years Brian's BBC contract was marked 'SNF' - THU 'Staff No Fee'. This meant he could be booked by any BBC THU radio or TV programme for no extra fee because he was on a THU salary. It is these fascinating engagements which will be THU explored in this programme. THU THU On In Town Tonight he rode bareback on a circus horse, was THU attacked by a police dog, busked in the street, was shaved THU onstage by the Crazy Gang and hid inside a pillar box. He THU commentated on King George VI's funeral, the Coronation, the THU Boat Race, the Festival of Britain and the Monte Carlo Rally THU - as well as appearing on Hancock's Half Hour, quizzes, THU children's TV and much more. THU THU Brian's interview list includes such names as Field Marshall THU Montgomery, Bernard Delfont, Donald Campbell, Donald THU Bradman, Bobby Charlton and Henry Cooper. THU THU His son and presenter of this programme Barry Johnston has THU been collecting and preserving archive clips along with his THU father's own scrapbooks and press cuttings and we will hear THU recordings from the great man himself along with gaining a THU unique insight into a slice of broadcasting history. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01jxtdh (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jxtdk (Listen) THU Alfred Hitchcock THU THU The New Elizabethans: Alfred Hitchcock. To mark the Diamond THU Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the THU men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its THU character. THU THU Alfred Hitchcock dealt in terror, obsession, and above all, THU suspense. He directed the first British talkie, fittingly THU called Blackmail, and in a career spanning half a century THU developed an unmistakeable cinematic style, often copied but THU seldom equalled. He is without doubt one of the most THU influential British film directors and his voyeuristic use THU of the camera and the screams of his vulnerable blonde THU heroines have resonated with film goers down the ages. THU Psycho is probably his most famous work, and a strong THU contender for best known horror film of all time but he also THU made Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest, the 39 Steps and THU The Birds. THU THU The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading THU historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of THU London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic THU Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, THU Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. THU THU Producer: James Cook. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01jvd22 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01jxtdm (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents 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 b01jxtdp (Listen) THU On Presence and Absence THU THU In today's programme, Richard Holloway focuses on an THU enduring paradox in the story of doubt: that God can be THU experienced both as present and absent at the same time. He THU explores the idea with the help of three post-war poets - THU Philip Larkin, John Betjeman and RS Thomas. THU THU He talks to Larkin's friend and literary executor, Sir THU Andrew Motion, about Larkin's complex attitude to religion THU and reads from Larkin's seminal poem 'Aubade'. Larkin THU himself introduces his poem, 'Churchgoing', which expresses THU the nostalgia of what we lose when we lose our faith. THU THU John Betjeman's religious struggle is discussed with THU Betjeman's biographer AN Wilson. And for the Welsh priest THU poet RS Thomas, the theme of God's absence and presence is THU compared to finding a dead hare on the hillside - 'we find THU the place still warm with his presence, but he is absent'. THU THU Producer: Olivia Landsberg THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01jxrty (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jxtdr (Listen) THU Katie-Ann's Blog THU THU Written by Colin Bytheway. THU THU Katie-Ann is 11 and dying of leukaemia. But she is the THU bravest of souls. She journals her pain, her hopes and THU dreams online in her blog. She talks of the treatments she THU endures, the daily indignities, but always remains positive. THU THU Vic is 79 and also has leukaemia, but unlike Katie-Ann THU no-one cares about him. He is old. He and his illness are THU not picturesque and he rails at life and impending death THU alone. THU THU Aspiring, ambitious writer Rob grows interested in the THU popularity of Katie-Ann's Blog. He is determined to find her THU and bring her story to a wider audience. Maybe even broker a THU book deal and enhance his own career. But instead of THU Katie-Ann, Rob meets Vic and it is a meeting that changes THU both their lives. THU THU Vic ....... Roy Hudd THU Rob ....... Carl Prekopp THU Katie-Ann ....... Ella Dale THU Lisa ....... Jaimi Barbakoff THU Sandra ....... Jenny Funnell THU THU Director: Celia De Wolff THU A Pier Production For BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01kdpwl (Listen) THU Series 21, Pen Farthing on Dartmoor THU THU Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) THU throughout this series of Ramblings. THU THU Prog 5: Pen Farthing on Dartmoor THU THU Pen Farthing is a former Royal Marine. While serving in THU Afghanistan he rescued an Afghan fighting dog, which he THU named NowZad after the village where his unit was based. He THU brought NowZad back to the UK and when he left the Marines THU started a charity which runs shelters in Afghanistan for THU stray and abandoned animals. Pen lives in Tiverton in Devon THU and, for this edition of Ramblings, he takes Clare Balding THU on a wild walk across Dartmoor. Accompanying them will be THU Patchdog (a massive Afghan Koochi); Tali (short for Taliban) THU and Maxchap (rescued from Iraq). Sadly Nowzad is a little THU old for such a long walk, but his story is central. THU THU Producer Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01jwfpq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01jwfwx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01jxtdw (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01jxtdy (Listen) THU The culmination of the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. THU Adam Rutherford presents the finals of 'So You Want to Be a THU Scientist?' recorded in front of an audience at the THU Cheltenham Science Festival. THU THU This year's finalists are: THU THU - Izzy Thomlinson, an 18 year old student from Shropshire, THU is trying to find out why sounds like nails scratching a THU blackboard make some people squirm THU THU - Dara Djavan Khoshdel, a 25 year old mature student from THU Bournemouth, has been measuring whether our emotional THU reaction to art is correlated to its financial value THU THU - Val Watham, a 53 year old management consultant from THU Berkshire, has designed a study to investigate whether THU horizontal or vertical stripes are more flattering to wear THU THU - William Rudling, a 69 year old caricaturist from Leeds, THU wants to know whether people who look the same also sound THU the same THU THU The four finalists present their results to a panel of THU judges - solar scientist Dr Lucie Green from UCL, THU evolutionary biologist Dr Yan Wong from Bang Goes the Theory THU and science journalist Mark Henderson. THU THU After deliberating the merits of each experiment in terms of THU design, methodology and conclusion, the judges will choose THU the person they think deserves to become the next BBC THU Amateur Scientist of the Year. THU THU Producer: Michelle Martin. THU THU 17:00 PM b01jxtf0 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jvd24 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b01jxtf2 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at THU The Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, THU self-doubt and the new owner's vision for the theatre's THU future. THU THU This week reformed violent offender Tony Becton returns to THU The Mallard Theatre with stories of his rehabilitation and THU new life in a park. THU THU Tony Becton ..... Simon Day THU Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter THU Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks THU Ron Bone / Wozak ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01jxtf4 (Listen) THU David loses his cool and Amy tries to get things in THU perspective. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01jxtf6 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k07kd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01jwkh8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01jxtfb (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 Sniffing Out Danger b01jwk3c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01jxtd7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01jvd26 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01jxtvv (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jxtvx (Listen) THU Salvage the Bones, Episode 9 THU THU By Jesmyn Ward. As the hurricane rages, Esch's family are THU forced out of their flooded home and must attempt a THU dangerous journey to higher ground where they will be safe. THU This is not the best time for Esch's father to discover that THU his daughter is pregnant. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU Read by Cush Jumbo THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Living the Dream b01jxtvz (Listen) THU Pilot sitcom about two young women trying to live THU sustainably on a canal boat, featuring guerrilla gardening, THU dumpster diving and home-brewed gin. Written by Madeleine THU Brettingham. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jxtw1 (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 JUNE 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01jvd31 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01k07kb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jvd33 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jvd35 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jvd37 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01jvd39 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k88b9 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01jxvnn (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Clare FRI Freeman. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01jxvnq (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and FRI Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01jwfpz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01k0b0y (Listen) FRI Beauty and the Inferno, The Ghosts of Nobel FRI FRI Essays by Roberto Saviano. Translated by Oonagh Stransky. FRI FRI Saviano visits the Swedish Academy, where he has been asked FRI to speak alongside Salman Rushdie, a fellow victim of FRI threats to his literary freedom, about their common FRI situation and their writing. He draws inspiration not only FRI from Rushdie but from the many authors who have stood in the FRI same place, defending the power of the written word. FRI FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Reader: Nicholas Murchie FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jxvnv (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k0b10 (Listen) FRI An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk, Episode 5 FRI FRI A slice of daily life in a village in the wild, mountainous FRI Pak-Afghan borders, based on PACT Radio's existing daily FRI soap, made by and for the Pashtun people. FRI FRI In the final episode Akbar Khan lends money to his son to FRI bet on their own dog Lucifer in a dogfight. Akbar Khan's FRI other son, Wisal, is disappointed to learn that young FRI Zarlakhta is being withdrawn from the household because she FRI is too mature to work where there are young men. FRI FRI Finally, there is a knock at the door. The jirga is here in FRI pursuit of justice. They have questions for Akbar Khan about FRI the recent murder in the village. FRI FRI English listeners must leave An Everyday Story of Afghan FRI Folk on this cliffhanger. But the programme is ongoing in FRI Pashtun. FRI FRI Based on a PACT Radio production led by John Butt FRI Written and directed in the UK by Liz Rigbey FRI Music by Olivia Thomas FRI FRI Producer: Anne-Marie Cole FRI An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 United Irishmen b01jxvnx (Listen) FRI Tim Brannigan was the only black son in a family of five FRI boys, the only black kid in his school and, for many years, FRI in his world. Born in West Belfast, the result of an affair FRI his mother had with an African doctor, Tim fought hard to FRI blend in. FRI FRI Northern Ireland may have a history of 'us and them' but in FRI this case it wasn't catholic or protestant - it was Tim in a FRI class of his own. FRI FRI Brought up in a republican family on the Falls Road his FRI credentials as an Irishman are solid, yet he is constantly FRI asked where he is from. When he says Belfast, he is FRI invariably asked where he is REALLY from. FRI FRI The conflict of the last 40 years means some social changes FRI that took place in the rest of the UK simply didn't happen FRI in Northern Ireland. As different ethnic groups moved in to FRI England and parts of Scotland and Wales, few moved over the FRI Irish sea and those who did mostly went south of the border. FRI FRI In the 2001 census Northern Ireland's population was 99.15% FRI white. The expectation is that that figure will change quite FRI radically in the 2011 results. Northern Ireland already FRI looks very different. But what kind of reception is it FRI offering? FRI FRI Tim talks to Joseph and Lisa. Both are black and have made FRI Northern Ireland their home for decades, but not without FRI some struggle. Lisa has four boys with her Northern Irish FRI husband. What identity will they be allowed to choose for FRI themselves? FRI FRI There's a lot of talk about a 'shared society' but Tim FRI considers the reality in Northern Ireland is that housing FRI and schooling are still segregated along catholic and FRI protestant lines. Anyone outside those two confines exists FRI in a kind of social limbo. Tim and others like him are a FRI challenge to these boundaries. FRI FRI Producer: Rachel Hooper FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jxvnz (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In this episode, Malcolm loses his registrar mojo when his FRI ex-girlfriend Emma comes into the office to register her FRI marriage while Lorna tries to introduce themed weddings. FRI FRI 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' is a brand new sitcom set in FRI a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with FRI the three greatest events in anybody's life. FRI FRI Written by David Schneider ('The Day Today', 'I'm Alan FRI Partridge'), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is FRI a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any FRI wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health FRI and safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's FRI married thousands of women. FRI FRI Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been FRI parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and FRI Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her marriage isn't just FRI about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit FRI in our new age of austerity. FRI FRI There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried FRI he'll end up like Malcolm one day while ditzy Anita may get FRI her words and names mixed up occasionally but as the only FRI parent in the office, she's a mother to them all. FRI FRI Malcolm ....... David Schneider FRI Lorna ....... Sarah Hadland FRI Anita ....... Sandy McDade FRI Luke ...... Russell Tovey FRI Mary ...... Sally Bretton FRI Richard, Male Dalek Voice, Bride's father .......Simon FRI Greenall FRI Emma, Mrs Crawley ....... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Bride, female guest ....... Gina Peach FRI FRI Producer: Simon Jacobs FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01jxvp1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jxvp3 (Listen) FRI Laurence Olivier FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Laurence Olivier. To mark the Diamond FRI Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the FRI men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its FRI character. FRI FRI Laurence Olivier is considered by many to be Britain's most FRI important and revered actor of the 20th century. Most famous FRI for his classical roles, as a Shakespearean actor of breadth FRI and panache, and as the driving force behind the development FRI of the National Theatre, his later film career included FRI roles such as the sadistic Nazi dentist in Marathon Man, FRI with Dustin Hoffman, and in Sleuth with Michael Caine. FRI FRI Olivier's private life and his three marriages were equally FRI fascinating to his audiences, and particularly the great FRI romance played out in public with Vivien Leigh, who he FRI directed in many films and co-starred with in others. FRI Olivier is one of only a handful of actors whose final FRI resting place is Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London. FRI FRI The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading FRI historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of FRI London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic FRI Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, FRI Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. FRI FRI Producer: James Cook. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01jvd3c (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01jxvp5 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents 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 b01jxvp7 (Listen) FRI Tears in the Rain FRI FRI In the final programme in his series of personal essays, FRI Richard Holloway concludes his reflections on the tensions FRI between faith and doubt over the last 3000 years. Author and FRI former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway focuses on the FRI Judeo-Christian tradition as he takes the listener from the FRI birth of religious thinking, through the Old and New FRI Testaments, to the developments in subsequent centuries and FRI their influence on thinkers and writers, up to the present FRI day. FRI FRI Summing up the journey he has undertaken over the previous FRI four weeks, Richard describes the 'human animal' as 'a FRI riddle': 'Whence came our creations, our amazing FRI discoveries? How did all this meaning, all this purpose, all FRI this beauty, emerge from the void?' He concedes that there FRI are 'neither negative nor positive conclusions about the FRI mystery that besets us' but accepts that our moments will be FRI lost 'like tears in the rain'. FRI FRI Talking to him about that mystery are the writer and FRI psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, the theologian and author FRI Professor Don Cupitt, and the poet Sir Andrew Motion. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01jxtf4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jxw4j (Listen) FRI Amours de Voyage FRI FRI A new play by Mike Walker updating Arthur Hugh Clough's FRI Victorian poem sequence of missed opportunities and moving FRI the action from the Rome of 1848 to Egypt last year. Claude FRI is a cynical travel writer unimpressed by everything he FRI sees. Merry is an American on a modern version of the Grand FRI Tour, visiting the great sights of Egypt with her parents. FRI Circumstances throw them together and both surprise FRI themselves by discovering that despite the worlds that FRI separate them they might have growing feelings for each FRI other. Meanwhile the streets of Cairo are erupting into FRI angry life with protestors and government troops clashing. FRI Claude is resolutely disengaged until he find himself caught FRI in the crowd. The things he sees makes him realise he has FRI stood on the sidelines of life for too long. But is it too FRI late to do anything about it. FRI FRI Claude: Stephen Noonan FRI Merry: Fenella Woolgar FRI Dan: Peter Marinker FRI Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01jxw4l (Listen) FRI Postbag Edition FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel are in the potting shed at FRI Sparsholt College, answering the questions you've sent in by FRI post and email. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Are You Inexperienced? b01jxw4n (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI For many people, California's Chateau Marmont is a byword FRI for luxury. But when the writer and stand-up performer AL FRI Kennedy visits, in the course of desperately trying to FRI finish her latest novel, she's all too aware of the great FRI and the good who've undone themselves there, from Jim FRI Belushi to Jim Morrison and Helmut Newton. For her, it's FRI more akin to the Overlook Hotel in Kubrick's horror film, FRI The Shining. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01jxw4q (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 b01jxw4s (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 b01jxw4v (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today......... FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01jxw4x (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's FRI news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jvd3f (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01jxw4z (Listen) FRI Series 37, Episode 3 FRI FRI Marcus Brigstocke, Lloyd Langford, Mitch Benn and Laura FRI Shavin join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, as they dissect the FRI week in their indomitable style. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01jxw51 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Director ..... Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer .....Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesborough FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress FRI Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Caller ..... Joe Sims FRI Bernie ..... Laurence Saunders FRI Carl Lawrence ..... Nicholas Bailey. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01jxw53 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k0b10 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01jxw55 (Listen) FRI Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a live discussion of news and FRI politics from the Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, London. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01jxw57 (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 b01jxw59 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway FRI concludes his series in which he considers the tensions FRI between faith and doubt over the last 3000 years. In the FRI final omnibus edition, he focuses on writers and thinkers of FRI the 20th and 21st Centuries. FRI FRI He talks to Sir Anthony Kenny, literary executor and FRI biographer of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, FRI about Wittgenstein's view that 'even when all possible FRI scientific questions are answered, the problems of life have FRI still not been touched at all'. In response, Kenny offers a FRI rare poem by Wittgenstein, and Holloway charts the debate to FRI the present day citing the ideas of Richard Dawkins and FRI Roger Scruton. FRI FRI He explores the work of three inter-war writers - James FRI Joyce, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene and their contrasting FRI views on the role of doubt and disloyalty before moving on FRI to the literature of the Holocaust which aims to 'say the FRI unsayable' and throw light on one of the biggest questions FRI in the story of doubt: how can we reconcile the idea of God FRI when there's so much suffering in the world? FRI FRI Holloway tackles the paradox that God can be experienced as FRI both a presence and an absence, discussing the work of three FRI post-war poets - Philip Larkin, John Betjeman and RS Thomas FRI - with the help of Larkin's friend and literary executor, FRI Sir Andrew Motion, Betjeman's biographer AN Wilson and an FRI archive recording of R S Thomas himself. Holloway concludes FRI that we 'can reach neither negative nor positive conclusions FRI about the mystery that besets us.' FRI FRI With further contributions from theologian and author FRI Professor Don Cupitt, author and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips FRI and Revd. Professor David Jasper from Glasgow University. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01jvd3h (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01jxw5c (Listen) FRI Robin Lustig presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jxw5f (Listen) FRI Salvage the Bones, Episode 10 FRI FRI By Jesmyn Ward. Esch and her friends survey the devastation FRI wrought by Hurricane Katrina while Skeetah searches for FRI China. Big Henry gives Esch hope for her baby's future. She FRI will not be alone. FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Read by Cush Jumbo FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01jxrd5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jxw5h (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01jxw5k (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today......... FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI