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SAT SATURDAY 07 JULY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01kblsb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01kbltc (Listen) SAT The Old Ways, Episode 5 SAT SAT "Humans are like animals and like all animals we leave SAT tracks as we walk. Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, SAT corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, sarns, snickets, SAT holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways, lichways, ridings, SAT halterpaths, cartways, carneys, causeways, herepaths." SAT SAT Author Robert Macfarlane follows some ancient routes in the SAT UK and overseas. As well as having adventures on the way - SAT as you do on foot - he ponders the creation of old paths, SAT the people who trod them, and how they resonate in today's SAT landscapes. SAT SAT After various journeys, it's back to the chalk paths for SAT Robert Macfarlane SAT and a ghostly encounter is in store.. SAT SAT Reader Dan Stevens. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kblsd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kblsg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kblsj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01kblsl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kbm3p (Listen) SAT With the Rev. Peter Baker. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01kbm3r (Listen) SAT 'The idea of fighting the class war seems remote'. One SAT listener, a Welfare Rights Adviser and self-described 'poor SAT person's accountant' explains why he thinks the benefits SAT debate is all wrong, and why he supports Jimmy Carr's tax SAT arrangements. Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's Economics SAT Editor, takes a break from explaining quantitative easing to SAT read our bulletin of listeners' news. Presented by Eddie SAT Mair and Jennifer Tracey iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01kblsn (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01kblsq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01kblcs (Listen) SAT Eels SAT SAT Helen Mark is in Gloucestershire to find out more about one SAT of our most fascinating creatures, the eel, and hear why SAT efforts are being made to save this endangered species. SAT When eels arrive in the UK as tiny babies, called elvers, SAT they do so at the end of an exhausting 4,000-mile marathon SAT swim from the Sargasso Sea where they have spawned. For SAT generations, their arrival was greeted with much SAT anticipation by fishermen on the Rivers Severn and Wye where SAT they were caught at night and often used in dishes and SAT delicacies. SAT But the eel is in trouble and has been placed on the Red SAT List of Fish to Avoid by the Marine Conservation Society who SAT class it as critically endangered. However, others believe SAT that the decline in the number of eels is not just a result SAT of over-fishing but is also due to the way in which rivers SAT are managed and flood defences are erected, so blocking the SAT eels migratory route, and that by leaving them to their own SAT defences the eels' fate will be sealed. SAT Helen Mark meets some of the people involved with trying to SAT save this precious and mysterious creature including SAT fisherman Richard Cook who has a life-long passion for eels SAT and who is now taking tanks of eels into schools to teach SAT the children who look after them for a few weeks about the SAT importance of the fish, our rivers and the environment . SAT Eventually, the children will release the eels back into the SAT river as part of a restocking project. SAT Helen also hears from Bernadette Clarke of the Marine SAT Conservation Society about the reasons why they felt it was SAT important that eels should be classed as critically SAT endangered and placed on the Red List. And Helen meets SAT Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eel Group which is working to SAT devise a recovery plan to protect and preserve the eel. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01kjgnq (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith asks if landowners are cashing in on SAT Britain's forests and woodlands. SAT Whilst 18% of England's forests are publicly owned, they SAT make up 60% of total timber production. And as only half of SAT privately owned woodlands are managed, could landowners be SAT missing out on a multimillion pound investment? SAT Charlotte meets one farmer in Staffordshire who's bucked the SAT trend by leaving dairy farming for a career in managing SAT woodlands. SAT SAT Following the report and huge public outcry, the government SAT has confirmed its u-turn on the decision not to sell off SAT public owned forests. But how difficult is it to manage SAT public access, using woodlands for leisure and commercial SAT activities? And is the government planning to invest and SAT offer more financial support to potential foresters? SAT SAT Farming Today speak to Caroline Spelman, Environment SAT Secretary and Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Reverend James SAT Jones on their recommendations for the future of forestry. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Clare Freeman in SAT Birmingham. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01kblss (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01kjgns (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by Sarah SAT Montague. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01kjgnv (Listen) SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles with commentator and SAT classicist Mary Beard; Namira Salim who's set to be one of SAT the world's first space tourists; Phillippa Yaa De Villiers SAT who was born mixed-race but brought up as white in apartheid SAT South Africa; listener Owen Ephraim who worked with Alan SAT Turing at Bletchley Park; John McCarthy goes biking with SAT travel writer Ted Simon; JP Devlin meets cave collector Jim SAT Gardner; listener Sally Townsend explains why a red fox fur SAT coat is the thing about her; and actress and singer Olivia SAT Newton John shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b01kjgnx (Listen) SAT Series 5, Grandstand SAT SAT Paul Jackson presents a further edition of the show that not SAT only celebrates classic television programmes, but also uses SAT them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and SAT social history. SAT SAT Programme 2. Grandstand - the show that for nearly 50 years SAT changed our relationship to sport, brought constant SAT innovation to live TV coverage, and gave us not only David SAT Coleman and Frank Bought but also Des Lynam. SAT SAT And with the help of the said Lynam, as well as former BBC 1 SAT controllers Sir Paul Fox and Alan Hart, former and current SAT Heads of Sport Jonathan Martin and Barbara Slater, Paul SAT Jackson not only traces the development of Grandstand but SAT also assesses it's legacy and asks whether the BBC is in SAT danger of taking its eye off the sporting ball. SAT SAT Producers: Oliver Julian & Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01kjgnz (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT David Cameron made his views on Europe plain this week but SAT was accused of pandering to Eurosceptic backbenchers, like SAT Andrea Leadsom a leading light in the Conservative Fresh SAT Start group who want to re-negotiate parts of the EU treaty. SAT She talks to Hannes Swoboda leader of the Socialist group in SAT the European parliament opposed to the idea. SAT Liberal Democrat MP David Laws an ex banker, and Lord Levene SAT a former Mayor of the City of London, consider the SAT implications of the Barclays Libor scandal. SAT And what parliamentary tactics will be used by opponents of SAT the House of Lords Reform Bill? Bernard Jenkin a former SAT Maastricht rebel, Lord Foulkes, and champion filibusterer SAT Andrew Dismore give examples. SAT SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01kjgp3 (Listen) SAT Natasha Breed on how the population of Kenya's expanding SAT fast, urban areas are eating up the countryside. And it's SAT proving disastrous and sometimes fatal for the country's SAT wildlife. SAT SAT A weird fungus which grows out of the heads of caterpillars SAT is being harvested in parts of the Himalayas. Craig Jeffrey, SAT who's been investigating, says it's proving a valuable cash SAT crop for some of the mountain villagers. SAT SAT Latvia has the fastest-growing economy in Europe. Damien SAT McGuinness has been to the capital Riga to see how they've SAT made austerity cool. SAT SAT The Nigerian president's been speaking of the importance of SAT family planning. The BBC's Jane Dreaper's been to a part of SAT his country where having seven children is far from unusual. SAT SAT And Anna Horsbrugh Porter is one of the BBC World Service SAT staff who're leaving their headquarters in London, Bush SAT House in the Strand. She's been talking to colleagues about SAT a much-loved broadcasting institution. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01kjgp5 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01kbm11 (Listen) SAT Series 37, Episode 5 SAT SAT A Week of Splits: in the week that David Cameron suggested SAT he might have a referendum on whether the UK should break SAT from Europe, Katie Holmes announced her split from Tom SAT Cruise, and scientists at CERN announced the discovery of a SAT Higgs-like Boson, Jon Holmes, Holly Walsh, Mitch Benn and SAT Pippa Evans join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis for a sideways SAT glance at this week's big stories. Produced by Victoria SAT Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01kblsv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01kblsx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01kbm17 (Listen) SAT Darton, South Yorkshire SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Darton College, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. SAT On the panel this week: Conservative MEP for the South East SAT of England DANIEL HANNAN; Shadow Health Minister, DIANE SAT ABBOTT; Director of Policy Exchange, NEIL O'BRIEN and SAT Priest-in-charge at St Mary's Newington, south London and SAT former canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, GILES SAT FRASER. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01kjgp7 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01kjgp9 (Listen) SAT The Hound of the Baskervilles SAT SAT When Sherlock Holmes hears the strange tale of the Hound of SAT the Baskervilles, he despatches Watson to Dartmoor to begin SAT solving the mystery. Hostile yokels, alarming acquaintances, SAT an escaped murderer and the deadly Grimpen Mire conspire to SAT make Watson more baffled than ever, until Holmes turns up in SAT disguise to take over the investigation. SAT SAT Peepolykus Theatre Company play fast and loose with Conan SAT Doyle, including a Spanish Holmes, in a comic take on this SAT classic yarn, recorded in front of a live audience in SAT Bristol earlier this year. SAT SAT Sherlock Holmes .... Javier Marzan SAT Dr Watson .... John Nicholson SAT Sir Henry Baskerville .... Jason Thorpe SAT Stapleton / Barrymore .... Richard Nichols SAT Cecile / Mrs Barrymore .... Hayley Carmichael SAT SAT Adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original story by SAT Steven Canny & John Nicholson SAT Directed by Alison Hindell SAT SAT Recorded at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School Theatre, SAT Bristol, for Radio 4's More Than Words Festival. SAT Peepolykus Theatre Company's previous stage productions SAT include The Hound of the Baskervilles, Spyski and, for Radio SAT 4, Marley Was Dead. SAT SAT 15:30 Changing My Voice b01k9vh0 (Listen) SAT Christopher Gabbitas asks why singers sometimes have to SAT change the pitch of their voice. How do they learn to SAT perform in another register and what effect does the change SAT have? SAT SAT Christopher Gabbitas is a member of the vocal group the SAT King's Singers. He originally began his career as a bass, SAT able to sing the lowest notes with ease. But when he SAT auditioned for the group,the vacancy was for the higher SAT baritone voice and he had to learn to sing in that new SAT range. SAT SAT Some classical singers have to change their voice because of SAT the effects of ageing. If they've been a high soprano SAT perhaps they now have problems hitting the top notes and may SAT decide to pursue a career in the lower mezzo range. Men, as SAT in the recent case of the celebrated tenor Pl�cido Domingo, SAT may decide to move from being a tenor to singing baritone. SAT SAT Other singers discover that, although they may have begun in SAT one register, they are more suited to another. The opera SAT singer Grace Bumbry began her career as a low soprano but SAT discovered that she was able to sing higher and changed - to SAT huge critical acclaim. SAT SAT And there are cases of injury to the vocal chords, which can SAT also cause a singer to have to change register. SAT SAT But it's not easy to change your voice. Although it can SAT prolong a singer's performing life, changing pitch can be an SAT unnerving process. There are new techniques to learn. The SAT ear has literally to be retuned and the brain rewired to SAT adapt to a new vocal range. And the way performers often SAT think of themselves in stereotypes- a romantic tenor for SAT example, or a coloratura soprano- has to be revised. SAT SAT In this feature, Christopher goes on a personal exploration SAT of the art of voice changing. He examines his own SAT experiences and talks to other singers who have switched SAT ranges, to see how fundamental such shifts can be. SAT Interviewees include the singers Grace Bumbry and Rosalind SAT Plowright. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01kjgpc (Listen) SAT Julie Walters. Mitch Winehouse. Fifty Shades of Grey SAT SAT Julie Walters back on stage at the National Theatre. The SAT publishing phenomena Fifty Shades of Grey. Mitch Winehouse SAT on Amy his daughter. Where are all the lesbians? asks the SAT cover of this month's Tatler magazine. SAT Would a woman at the helm of Barclays make it less risk SAT averse? Your stories of what you did on the day your ex SAT husband married someone else. Plus music from Mary Chapin SAT Carpenter SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Editor Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01kjgpf (Listen) SAT The day's top news stories, with sports headlines with Paddy SAT O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01kbld9 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Evan and his executive guests discuss the evolution and SAT hierarchy of brands. Who has the upper hand in the many SAT battles being fought between big consumer brands and shops' SAT own-labels? They also consider consumer tastes - do their SAT own customers have good taste, or do they just buy what SAT they're given? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Justin King, chief executive SAT of supermarket chain Sainsbury's; Cecile Bonnefond, chief SAT executive of French champagne house Piper-Heidsieck; Geoff SAT Cooper, chief executive of builders merchant Travis Perkins. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01kblsz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01kblt1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kblt3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01kjgpl (Listen) SAT Neil Sedaka, Helena Kennedy QC, Sharon Horgan and Luke Goss SAT SAT Clive finds his way to Amarillo with Grammy award-winning SAT singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka. For over 50 years, he has SAT written, performed and produced countless songs, both for SAT himself and other artists. Clive talks to Neil about what SAT inspired him to pen such hits as 'Breaking Up Is Hard To SAT Do'and his plans for a UK tour in October. SAT SAT Clive cross examines one of Britain's most distinguished SAT lawyers, Helena Kennedy QC, about her career championing SAT civil liberties and promoting human rights. Helena's Radio 4 SAT series 'Capital Justice' examines the profound and powerful SAT relationship between our financial and legal systems; SAT capital and the law; freedom and justice. 'Capital Justice' SAT starts Monday 9th July at 09.30. SAT SAT Bonafide 'Brosette' Emma Freud talks to actor Luke Goss SAT about finding fame with twin brother Matt in 80's pop trio SAT Bros. Luke swapped pop hits for movie hits, starring in SAT action-packed blockbusters such as 'Hellboy 2'. In his SAT latest film he stars as ruthless Romanian assassin Victor SAT who, betrayed by gangsters, escapes to London where he's SAT embroiled in a gangland power struggle. 'Interview With A SAT Hitman' opens in cinemas on Friday 17th August. SAT SAT Clive's Pulling comic, actress, screenwriter and Free Agent SAT Sharon Horgan, writer and star of BBC 3's 'Dead Boss'. SAT Sharon plays Helen Stephens, a woman falsely imprisoned for SAT murdering her boss. Whilst Helen's sure it's only a matter SAT of time before the mistake is rectified, it appears others SAT are conspiring to keep her behind bars. The final part of SAT 'Dead Boss' is on Thursday 12 July at 22.30. SAT SAT Music from Cardiff-based singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon, who SAT performs 'Fold The Cloth' from her album 'CYRK'. And rising SAT star Lianne La Havas performs 'Gone' from her album 'Is Your SAT Love Big Enough?' SAT SAT Producer Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01kjgx7 (Listen) SAT Series 12, A Delicate Lie SAT SAT A Delicate Lie SAT by Lemn Sissay SAT SAT One of the Official Poets at the London Olympics and SAT Associate Artist at the South Bank centre, Lemn Sissay SAT writes this week's short drama. Set during a tennis match at SAT Wimbledon two Bankers want to enjoy a day out at Centre SAT Court and forget the recent troubles. One banker is SAT determined not to talk shop, but underneath the seething SAT tension of their predicament boils. SAT SAT Cast SAT SAT Jonathan Keeble SAT Conrad Nelson SAT Charlie De'Ath SAT SAT PRODUCER Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01kjgx9 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Susan Jeffreys and Alex SAT Preston and historian Kathryn Hughes review the week's SAT cultural highlights. SAT SAT Samantha Spiro stars as Katherina and Simon Paisley Day is SAT Petruchio in Toby Frow's exuberant production of The Taming SAT of the Shrew at the Globe Theatre in London. SAT SAT If This Is Home is Stuart Evers' first novel and centres SAT around Mark - a young man desperate to get out of the small SAT Cheshire town he grew up in. He moves to the US and adopts a SAT completely new identity, but feels impelled to return 12 SAT years later to try to make sense of what happened just SAT before he left. SAT SAT Daniel Nettheim's film The Hunter stars Willem Dafoe as a SAT mercenary who is hired by a bio-tech company to hunt down a SAT Tasmanian tiger - a marsupial presumed to be extinct - in SAT the mountains of the Australian island state. SAT SAT West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin returns to television after SAT the success of his film The Social Network with a new series SAT - The Newsroom. Jeff Daniels plays Will McAvoy - a celebrity SAT news anchor in trouble after an intemperate outburst. SAT Mackenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) is hired to produce his SAT new show and has a strong streak of idealism - but the two SAT have some history. SAT SAT Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style at the Barbican SAT Gallery in London celebrates the behind-the-scenes talent SAT that has made the Bond films such a popular and good-looking SAT franchise for half a century. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01kjgxc (Listen) SAT The Night of the Long Knives SAT SAT Fifty years ago, Harold Macmillan instigated a purge that SAT shocked British politics to its core. It was the most SAT dramatic government reshuffle in modern history. In one SAT evening he sacked seven members of his Cabinet including his SAT Chancellor of the Exchequer, Selwyn Lloyd. It was meant to SAT be a show of strength but to everyone else, it was a SAT catastrophic admission of weakness signalling the beginning SAT of the end of his premiership and Tory party leadership. SAT SAT In the late 50s, Macmillan had earned the nickname Supermac SAT for rescuing the country from the wake of Suez and ushering SAT in a period of unrivalled affluence. But Local Elections had SAT gone badly and the by-elections worse. The government's SAT tight economic policies, thanks to Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd, SAT were unpopular with the voters. Selwyn Lloyd's attempts to SAT keep both inflation and wages under control had led to SAT public sector wages being frozen. Nurses and teacher were SAT getting poorer while the rich were getting richer. The SAT public was furious, and Macmillan was feeling the pressure. SAT The Cabinet was fractious and there were complaints of a SAT lack of leadership. He had to make an example of his SAT Chancellor. The Night of the Long Knives had begun. SAT SAT In modern politics these events have become shorthand for a SAT botched reshuffle. The scale of the event has never been SAT repeated since, but the tension between a PM and the SAT Chancellor remains. SAT SAT Through a combination of archive material and original SAT interviews with historians and eyewitnesses such as Jonathan SAT Aitken who, as private secretary to Selwyn Lloyd, captured SAT the drama of that night in his hitherto unknown diary. SAT SAT Producer: Kati Whitaker SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01k9npd (Listen) SAT The Diary of a Nobody, Episode 1 SAT SAT Johnny Vegas and Katherine Parkinson play Mr and Mrs Pooter SAT in Andrew Lynch's adaptation of the Grossmith brothers' SAT comic novel of 1892. SAT SAT The story is a social vignette of Charles, the SAT self-important but highly likeable clerk, his loving wife SAT Carrie and their son William (played by Andrew Gower). SAT SAT Much of the action takes place in the house that the Pooters SAT share with their maid Sarah...and the noisy sound of passing SAT trains. The Laurels in Brickfield Terrace is frequently SAT visited by colourful and amusing characters, not least SAT Gowing and Cummings, Pooter's 'trusty' fairweather friends. SAT SAT This full dramatisation has a Victorian sit-com feel and SAT stays true to the book - with a couple of twists of Lynch's SAT own - capturing a kind of lower-middle-class aspiration that SAT still has a tangible familiarity in 2012. SAT SAT In Episode One, the Pooters move in to The Laurels. Charles SAT and Carrie attend The Mansion House Ball and Willie arrives SAT home from the bank in Oldham. SAT SAT Charles Pooter ...... Johnny Vegas SAT Carrie Pooter ...... Katherine Parkinson SAT William / Lupin ...... Andrew Gower SAT Sarah ....... Sinead Matthews SAT Cummings (and Horwin) ...... Adrian Scarborough SAT Gowing (and Borset) ....... Stephen Critchlow SAT Farmerson ...... Joe Ransom SAT Trillip ...... Adam Gillen SAT Daisy Mutlar ...... Sarah Sweeney SAT SAT Other parts were played by members of the cast. SAT SAT Adapted by Andrew Lynch, from the original by George and SAT Weedon Grossmith. SAT SAT Produced by Sally Harrison SAT Directed by Marilyn Imrie SAT A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01kblt5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b01jmxrx (Listen) SAT Niall Ferguson: The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012, The SAT Landscape of the Law SAT SAT The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture at Gresham SAT College in the heart of legal London, addressing the SAT relationship between the nature of law and economic success. SAT He examines the rule of law in comparative terms, asking how SAT far the common law's claims to superiority over other SAT systems are credible. Are we living through a time of SAT creeping legal degeneration in the English-speaking world? SAT SAT Producer: Jane Beresford. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01k9q73 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 11 SAT SAT (11/13) SAT Can you remember at whose court Rigoletto is a jester, in SAT the Verdi opera? Or which American trade journal published SAT the first ever music chart based on record sales? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini has the answers in this week's edition of SAT Counterpoint, the general knowledge music quiz - which has SAT reached the second semi-final of the current series. This SAT week's competitors, who've all won their respective heats, SAT are from Chelmsford, Tunbridge Wells and Nottingham. One of SAT them will take another of the places in the Final, and SAT compete for the title of 26th Counterpoint champion. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01k9n89 (Listen) SAT It sounds like Hollywood - the poet who wakes up to learn SAT that his newly published verse has made his name and his SAT fortune. But that's precisely what happened to the young SAT Lord Byron 200 years ago when his epic 'Childe Harold' was SAT published. Roger McGough introduces requests for the poem SAT that features the first 'Byronic hero'. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT The poem featured in this programme: SAT SAT Extracts from Childe Harold�s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron SAT Taken from The Poetical Works of Lord Byron SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 JULY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01kjfbx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Midsummer Tales b01kjjng (Listen) SUN The Longest Day SUN SUN By Alison Miller. Jan has returned home to Orkney after SUN decades in Glasgow. Surprised by loneliness, she seeks SUN diversion in a blind date. Read by Tracy Wiles. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kjfbz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kjfc1 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kjfc5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01kjfc7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01kjjnj (Listen) SUN The bells of Westminster Abbey. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01kbj39 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Alice Bell SUN SUN Alice Bell argues that better engagement by scientists, SUN rather than lessons in 'scientific literacy', is the SUN solution to the lack of public understanding of science. SUN SUN She is frustrated how often this apparent panacea is rolled SUN out as the solution to the problem. But on some SUN controversial subjects the scientific evidence does not SUN point in a single direction, she says. More than that, the SUN specific bit of science needed to understand the subject at SUN hand varies from issue to issue. SUN SUN Instead, scientists should work to provide structures where SUN non-experts can learn about science as and when they become SUN important to them. 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 b01kjfc9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01kjjnl (Listen) SUN Being Good SUN SUN Some recent studies have shown that modern obituaries are SUN unlikely to comment on a person's goodness. The phrase, "she SUN or he was a good man or a good woman" is found less often SUN than it used to be. In an edition of Something Understood SUN called 'Being Good', Mark Tully considers why this should be SUN so. Does it mean that we are no longer concerned about SUN personal goodness and, if so, what are we concerned about SUN when we judge a person's achievements in life? Do we SUN undervalue the idea of being good? And is goodness enough on SUN its own? Nelson Mandela has said, "A good head and good SUN heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add SUN to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something SUN very special." This programme explores the values of a moral SUN approach to life and the importance of valuing the good in SUN others. SUN SUN Mark draws on the expertise of Professor Simon Blackburn, SUN Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, and SUN author of the ethical study "Being Good". The programme is SUN also illustrated by readings from the works of Samuel Taylor SUN Coleridge, E.V. Lucas and Yi Fu Tuan with music ranging from SUN Edward Elgar and Wladislaw Szpilman to the Canadian band SUN Emerson Drive. SUN SUN The Readers are Philip Franks and Grainne Keenan. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01kjjnn (Listen) SUN Deborah Meaden investigates one of her passions and business SUN interests, wool. SUN The British wool industry is the strongest it's been in SUN years. Farmers are seeing prices rise for the 4th year in a SUN row and production is increasing. In 2009, Deborah Meaden SUN saved a Somerset mill which has been weaving wool for the SUN last 200 years. In this programme, Deborah explores the SUN current state of the industry and the top end of the market. SUN As well as visiting the mill she owns which uses the finest SUN cloth to make suits for Saville Row, she also meets a farmer SUN who produces merino wool from the only pure bred fully SUN traceable Bowmont flock in the country. SUN SUN With Deborah's passion in wool - we take a look at the SUN current state of the industry. We visit a mill which has SUN been weaving wool for the last 200 years. Fox Brothers was SUN struggling before Deborah and Douglas Cordeaux took it on SUN and now it's breaking even. The cloth maker uses only the SUN finest British wool to make cloth for the likes of Saville SUN Row. SUN SUN We then visit a farmer who produces such merino wool from SUN the only pure bred fully traceable Bowmont flock in the SUN country to find out her story. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01kjfcc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01kjfcf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01kjjnq (Listen) SUN On the eve of the Church of England's historic vote on women SUN Bishops, Edward Stourton presents a special programme from SUN the Church's General Synod in York. SUN SUN From the debating chambers to the tea rooms, Trevor Barnes SUN reports on the final hurdles faced by the women Bishop's SUN legislation before it reaches Monday's historic vote. SUN SUN "Being an Anglican can feel like being driven at 55 miles an SUN hour down the middle lane of the M4. Traffic zooms past, SUN both sides". Quentin Letts offers a view from the pews. SUN SUN Is Synod democratic? Or in its quest to be inclusive does it SUN end up satisfying no one? Kevin Bocquet reports. SUN SUN A private members motion being debated at Synod calls for SUN the church to support the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme SUN in Palestine and Israel. If passed the Chief Rabbi says it SUN would do serious damage to Jewish-Christian relations. SUN Edward debates the issues with Dr John Dinnen and Jonathan SUN Arkush. SUN SUN 24 hours before the start of the final debate Edward asks is SUN the Church still too riven with division for the women SUN Bishops legislation to pass? Joining the debate are: Bishop SUN Pete Broadbent, Rev Miranda Threlfall-Holmes and Alison SUN Ruoff. SUN SUN Also in the news... SUN SUN Where do British Muslims fit in the Army of 2020? One senior SUN officer says they are planning to recruit more ethnic SUN minority soldiers in the future. We ask how much of a SUN challenge that is going to be in practice. SUN SUN And one year on from the birth of South Sudan, Christian SUN Aid's Rocco Blume describes the on-going challenges facing SUN the world's newest country. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01kjjns (Listen) SUN Sound Seekers SUN SUN Annette Crosbie appeals on behalf of Sound Seekers SUN Reg Charity: 1013870. SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Sound Seekers. SUN SUN Sound Seekers SUN SUN Sound Seekers has worked for over 50 years to improve the SUN lives of deaf and hearing-impaired children in the poorest SUN countries of the world. We do this by building and SUN sustaining local capacity, so that professionals have the SUN skills and tools they need to help deaf children themselves. SUN This means we provide equipment and training so local health SUN workers can diagnose and treat hearing loss, fit hearing SUN aids, and provide an effective referral service. We provide SUN support for schools for deaf children, so teachers are SUN better able to provide a quality education. And we work to SUN improve people�s understanding of the needs of deaf people � SUN especially important in cultures where disability can be SUN considered taboo. Currently we have active medical and/or SUN educational projects in The Gambia, Ghana, India, Kenya, SUN Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01kjfch (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01kjfck (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01kjjnv (Listen) SUN Holy Islands SUN SUN Holy Islands: Bishop Stephen Oliver visits Iona in the first SUN of three summer services exploring the spirituality of SUN islands on Britain's coastline. The founder of the Iona SUN Community, George MacLeod, described Iona as a 'thin' place SUN where only a tissue paper separates heaven and earth. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01kbm19 (Listen) SUN The curse of a ridiculous name SUN SUN "I have a funny name. I know it," Adam Gopnik starts out. SUN "Don't say it isn't or try to make me feel better about SUN it...If I ever google myself, I find myself as often as not SUN as Adam Gropnik." SUN SUN He explains its unglamorous origins and it's contemporary SUN Russian connotations of meaning "a drunken hooligan". SUN SUN But the trouble is, he says "like every writer, I would like SUN my writing to last". Little chance of that with a name like SUN Gopnik, he believes. He bemoans why he hasn't a name like SUN Jane Austen or Anthony Trollope. SUN SUN Writers are, he believes, condemned to greatness or SUN otherwise, by their names. The great exception is William SUN Shakespeare, whose ridiculous surname - much mocked in his SUN day - is now part of everyday speech. SUN SUN Via a detour through name history, he reaches the conclusion SUN that his fate is fixed. "I shall remain and say goodbye -- SUN and then vanish as a, and A., Gopnik". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01kjjnx (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01kjjnz (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carolyn Sally Jones SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... John Yorke SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Judge ..... Sara Perrin SUN Pawel Jasinski..... Max Krupski. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01kjjp1 (Listen) SUN Martina Navratilova SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the legendary tennis player, SUN Martina Navratilova. SUN SUN In an extraordinary career she's won 59 Grand Slam titles - SUN her last just a few weeks short of her fiftieth birthday. SUN Her life off the court has been equally eventful - she grew SUN up in communist Czechoslovakia and, as a teenager, threw SUN rocks as Soviet tanks rolled in; tennis offered a way to see SUN the world and she defected to the US when she was 18 years SUN old. After thirty years at the top of her profession she SUN retired - and says she finally found time for the rest of SUN her life: "Tennis really was a total commitment, you didn't SUN have much time for anything else. So, when I quit, I was SUN going through something emotionally that most people go SUN through when they're 18, 20 years old. Really having the SUN time for personal relationships, developing friendships and SUN taking the time with everybody. I think I've caught up by SUN now." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01k9qc1 (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 57th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a SUN return visit to the Warwick Arts Centre. Regulars Barry SUN Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the SUN panel by Tony Hawks and Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the SUN chair. Regular listeners will know to expect inspired SUN nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01kjjtc (Listen) SUN Can Food Save the High Street? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon asks if food is the key to reviving Britain's SUN declining high streets. Food expert ,Henrietta Green visits SUN Croydon town centre which has just been awarded a grant by SUN retail guru,Mary Portas to see if a radical food future is SUN possible and asks what are the barriers to bringing quality SUN food back to our high streets. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01kjfcm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01kjjtf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Crouching Low, Hidden Camera - Life as a P.I. SUN b01k9wpt (Listen) SUN As controversy flows over the role of private investigators SUN in the phone hacking scandal and breaches of privacy, and SUN the debate continues over whether the industry should be SUN tightly regulated, Jake Wallis Simons examines the murky SUN world of private detectives. SUN SUN He explores the nature of the work of those who operate in SUN this shadowy field, from investigating marital infidelities SUN and company theft to countering money laundering and SUN recovering stolen art. He talks to a range of investigators, SUN from retired police detectives with a background of 30 years SUN in the force to a twenty-year-old new recruit two weeks into SUN the job. SUN SUN And he finds out the best way to conceal a hidden camera in SUN a cardboard takeaway coffee cup or a pizza box. SUN SUN Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01kbm0q (Listen) SUN Eric Robson and the panel invite GQT listeners to pose their SUN gardening questions at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew form the SUN panel. SUN In addition, rising star, Jack Dunckley gives his personal SUN take on designing for large flower shows. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01kjlhc (Listen) SUN In prison with Nelson Mandela SUN SUN Ahmed Kathrada was one of the ANC activists accused of SUN conspiring to overthrow Apartheid at the Rivonia Trial in SUN South Africa in 1964. He was jailed on Robben Island SUN alongside Nelson Mandela and spent almost as long in prison. SUN In this edition of Witness he talks to Alan Johnston about SUN his time in prison: the petty distinctions that Apartheid SUN imposed on the prisoners according to their race, how they SUN filled their time, and what they missed most. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01kjlhf (Listen) SUN The Diary of a Nobody, Episode 2 SUN SUN Johnny Vegas and Katherine Parkinson play Mr and Mrs Pooter SUN in Andrew Lynch's adaptation of the Grossmith brothers' SUN comic novel of 1892. SUN SUN The story is a social vignette of Charles, the SUN self-important but highly likeable clerk, his loving wife SUN Carrie and their son William (played by Andrew Gower). SUN SUN Much of the action takes place in the house that the Pooters SUN share with their maid Sarah...and the noisy sound of passing SUN trains. The Laurels in Brickfield Terrace is frequently SUN visited by colourful and amusing characters, not least SUN Gowing and Cummings, Pooter's 'trusty' fair-weather friends. SUN SUN This full dramatisation has a Victorian sit-com feel and SUN stays true to the book - with a couple of twists of Lynch's SUN own - capturing a kind of lower-middle-class aspiration that SUN still has a tangible familiarity in 2012. SUN SUN In Episode Two, Lupin's lifestyle upsets the measured SUN balance of everyday life, Carrie hosts a seance with Mrs SUN James, while Mr and Mrs Pooter dine with Franching in SUN Peckham and meet a Mr Hardfur Huttle. SUN SUN Charles Pooter ....... Johnny Vegas SUN Carrie Pooter ....... Katherine Parkinson SUN William / Lupin ...... Andrew Gower SUN Sarah ....... Sinead Matthews SUN Cummings (and Horwin) ....... Adrian Scarborough SUN Gowing (and Borset) ....... Stephen Critchlow SUN Mrs James ....... Jo Neary SUN Hardfur Huttle ....... John Guerrasio SUN Murray Posh ........ Joe Ransom SUN Frank Mutlar ....... Adam Gillen SUN Lillie Girl / Daisy Mutlar ...... Sarah Sweeney SUN SUN Other parts were played by members of the cast. SUN SUN Adapted by Andrew Lynch, from the original by George and SUN Weedon Grossmith. SUN SUN Produced by Sally Harrison SUN Directed by Marilyn Imrie SUN A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01kjlhh (Listen) SUN Michael Palin on his novel The Truth SUN SUN Michael Palin discusses his second novel in seventeen years, SUN The Truth, the story of a failed journalist and would be SUN novelist Keith Mabbut, who's suddenly been offered big bucks SUN to write the biography of a heroic but maverick SUN environmental campaigner. SUN SUN Kitty Aldridge, whose latest novel is A Trick I Learned from SUN Dead Men, and Professor John Mullan discuss the wit and SUN pathos in the depiction of funerals in literature and the SUN rich tradition of novelists who've used funerals and death SUN to explore the lives and exploits of the living. SUN SUN As fans gather in Oxford to celebrate the 150th anniversary SUN of Alice Day, when The Reverend Charles Dodgson, better SUN known by his pen name Lewis Carroll first told the story of SUN a young girl's escapades down the magical rabbit hole to his SUN muse Alice Liddell on a boat ride on the Thames, we'll be SUN assessing the enduring appeal of Alice's Adventures in SUN Wonderland and the on-going debates surrounding Carroll's SUN relationship with the young girl. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Truth � Michael Palin SUN Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson SUN SUN A Trick I Learned from Dead Men � Kitty Aldridge SUN Publisher: Jonathan Cape SUN SUN What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved SUN � John Mullan SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN SUN After Such Kindness � Gaynor Arnold SUN Publisher: Tindal Street Press SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01kjlhk (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces an intriguing range of poems SUN requested by listeners that juxtapose man's machine world SUN with the natural one, and the ocean in particular. We'll SUN hear works by JRR Tolkien, Michael Donaghy, Elizabeth SUN Barrett Browning, and others. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01kbg86 (Listen) SUN Asset Returns SUN SUN The Arab world's newest governments are desperate to SUN retrieve billions banked in Britain by despots including SUN Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. SUN SUN The money, they say, was stolen from their people and is SUN needed to rebuild shattered economies. SUN SUN In 'File on 4' Jenny Cuffe reports on the Arab nations' SUN mounting impatience at the lengthy and costly process of SUN investigation demanded to prove that assets were illicitly SUN obtained by the now deposed leaders, their families and SUN associates. SUN SUN Already Egypt has gone to court to demand more information SUN from the British Treasury about where their lost billions SUN are stashed. SUN SUN And campaigners in Tunisia - the first of the Arab Spring SUN nations - complain Britain is dragging its feet. They SUN contrast slow progress in London with a more helpful SUN response from the country once renowned as the most SUN impenetrable of banking fortresses: Switzerland. SUN Producer: Andy Denwood SUN Presenter: Jenny Cuffe. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01kjgx7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01kjfcp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01kjfcr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kjfct (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01kjlhm (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN It's a real trip down memory lane this week with stories of SUN past Olympic glories and injustices, a glimpse behind the SUN scenes of the dark and dingy home of Ulster Punk, an amble SUN through the dusty collections of Chinese Museums and a flick SUN through the pages of the diary of a 13 year old - SUN about-to-be-published novelist with a crush on Sarah SUN Ferguson! . oh, and Private Godfrey as you've never heard SUN him before. SUN SUN Excusing Private Godfrey - Radio 4 SUN Ballads of the Games - Radio 2 SUN The Sad Story of Jim Thorpe - Radio 4 SUN Dad's Last Tape - Radio 4 SUN Changing My Voice - Radio 4 SUN Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities - Radio 4 SUN Elizabeth Taylor Short Stories - Radio 4 SUN Food of Love - Radio 4 SUN My Teenage Diary - Radio 4 SUN World at One - Radio 4 SUN The Godfather of Ulster Punk -Radio 4 SUN The New Elizabethans: Paul Foot - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Radio 3 SUN News Hour - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01kjlhp (Listen) SUN Roy is up in arms and there is disappointment for Josh. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01by9l4 (Listen) SUN Jackie Collins SUN SUN Author of the Week this episode is million-selling author SUN and steadfast purveyor of "bonkbusters", Jackie Collins. 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 as they attempt to answer questions SUN based on her life and work. SUN SUN For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine SUN Jackie Collins' version of a literary classic, such as SUN Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre. SUN SUN 19:45 The Food of Love b01kjlhr (Listen) SUN The Lovely Miss What's-Her-Face SUN SUN In this series of monologues exploring the link between food SUN and memory, poignant domestic dramas gradually unfold SUN through the preparation of a special recipe. SUN SUN In this story, 'The Lovely Miss What's-Her-Face' by Kevin SUN Barry, winner of the 2012 Sunday Times short story award, an SUN insurance clerk of a certain age recreates the exotic SUN spaghetti bolognese he cooked for the lass in the typing SUN pool, on his last romantic date - some 30 years before... SUN SUN Kevin Barry's first novel, 'City of Bohane', was shortlisted SUN for the Costa first novel award, and a previous short story SUN collection, 'There Are Little Kingdoms', won the Rooney SUN prize for Irish Literature. SUN SUN Read by: David Schofield SUN Producer: Justine Willett. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01kbm0x (Listen) SUN Are sensational storylines ruining The Archers? Some SUN listeners think familiar characters are acting out of SUN character, simply to crank up the tension. Roger Bolton SUN meets Acting Editor John Yorke and longstanding Archers' SUN writer Keri Davies, to ask at what point does the dramatic SUN veer into the unbelievable? SUN SUN With only three weeks to go until the Olympic and Paralympic SUN Games, Roger talks to 5 Live's Controller Adrian Van SUN Klaveren about the network's preparations for covering the SUN world's biggest sporting event. He also puts other listener SUN questions to 5 Live's boss. Is the network over-infatuated SUN with Richard Bacon? And is the station alienating its older SUN listeners? SUN SUN Finally, what is it with the Today programme presenters and SUN telling the time? Why so many slip ups? Feedback visits SUN Justin Webb at the Today studios to investigate and ensure SUN the correct time-telling instruments are present and SUN correct. SUN SUN This is the last in the current series of Feedback, but the SUN team are still keen to hear from you over the break, so do SUN get in touch. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01kbm0v (Listen) SUN John Wilson explores Eric Sykes' comic talents on screen, SUN stage and golf course and Eric is remembered by friends and SUN fellow entertainers Bruce Forsyth, Jimmy Tarbuck and Ken SUN Dodd along with TV producer Beryl Vertue. John also examines SUN the life of Yitzhak Shamir, long-serving Israeli prime SUN minister who took a hardline stance against Palestinian SUN nationhood. Diplomat Sir Michael Palliser who, as permanent SUN under-secretary at the Foreign Office, helped negotiate SUN Britain's entry to the EEC and radio producer Gillian Hush, SUN who was awarded an MBE for over 30 years work bringing SUN documentaries and stories to the airwaves. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01kjgp5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01kjjns (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01k9qd8 (Listen) SUN The Gold Standard SUN SUN As banks collapse and governments run out of money, the SUN popular solution is to print more and more and expand bank SUN balance sheets. But is there another way of fixing our SUN economy? Would the financial system be more stable if each SUN pound in our pocket was backed by gold? The Today SUN programme's business presenter Simon Jack meets the SUN so-called 'gold bugs' who predict the collapse of the paper SUN system as well as those who argue that a return to the gold SUN standard would be a huge mistake. Which makes more sense - SUN placing your faith in a yellow metal or in money created at SUN the push of a button? SUN SUN Producer: Helen Grady. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01kjlht (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 b01kjlhw (Listen) SUN Episode 111 SUN SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01kblcv (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, who SUN explains why he's adopted an English accent for his role as SUN the villain in The Amazing Spiderman. SUN SUN As the Wellcome Trust and the BFI launch a scheme to SUN encourage more scripts set in the world of biology and SUN medicine, critic Tim Robey and script editor Katy Leys SUN discuss the scientist in film. SUN SUN Director Bobcat Goldthwait on what's eating America in his SUN new film, God Bless America. SUN SUN Actor Willem Dafoe discusses his role in The Hunter, as a SUN mercenary searching for the Tasmanian Tiger. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01kjjnl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 JULY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01kjfdt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01kbhk6 (Listen) MON Urban Protest MON MON From the Paris Commune to the 'Right to the City', cities MON have long been the centre of utopian dreams and protests. MON They have generated riches, destitution, celebration and MON organised and often violent protest. Professor David Harvey, MON the acclaimed social geographer, talks to Laurie Taylor MON about the urban roots of the contemporary capitalist crisis MON and the vision of a city for all. They're joined by the MON sociologist, Sophie Watson. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01kjjnj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kjfdw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kjfdy (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kjff0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01kjff2 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kjp44 (Listen) MON With the Rev. Peter Baker. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01kjp46 (Listen) MON The WI throws its weight behind the consumer campaign MON against milk price cuts. UK scientists are starting to map MON the midge genome, a key to fighting diseases like MON Schmallenberg and Bluetongue. There are 1500 species of MON midge , so the project leader, Dr Mark Fife, tells Charlotte MON mapping the genome is a tall order. And we visit the MON European Young Shepherd of the Year competition in MON Worcestershire. MON MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith MON Producer: Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01kjff4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01kjp48 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and MON Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 The Long View b01kjqzl (Listen) MON Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the MON past behind the present. MON MON 09:30 Capital Justice b01hf135 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Helena Kennedy QC presents a new series uncovering the MON profound and powerful relationship between our financial and MON legal systems, between capitalism and the law, between MON freedom and justice. MON MON The great British system of common law - judge made, ever MON evolving and adaptable - flourished in the 19th century MON under the growing dynamism of markets and new ideas of MON individual freedom. And market capitalism was given legal MON security and freedom to flourish in turn. MON MON For centuries our financial and legal systems have been MON profoundly intertwined, a close arrangement of 'spontaneous MON order' that travelled to America and then around the world. MON So how has this dynamic really shaped the course of our MON history, and what have been its deepest moral and political MON consequences? The economist Adam Smith championed both free MON commerce and the rule of law, but feared a moral vacuum MON growing up between the two in society. Now, after years of MON deregulation, what happens when we turn to the law to set MON limits, both legal and moral, on what can be done in the MON name of market freedoms and the pursuit of profit? Can MON justice have any meaning in these terms? MON MON This reflective series mixes the historical and contemporary MON with Helena Kennedy's sharp legal insight, exploring the MON connectedness between capitalism and the law that, beneath MON the surface, has so profoundly shaped our modern life. MON MON Contributors include Naomi Klein, John Lanchester, John MON Grey, Julian Assange, Gillian Tett, Matt Ridley, Peter MON Oborne and Lord Neuberger, Master of the Rolls (and second MON most senior judge in England and Wales). MON MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01l348t (Listen) MON The Ecstasy of Influence, Going Under in Wendover MON MON In the opening essay from his book The Ecstasy Of Influence, MON the American writer Jonathan Lethem recalls an unnerving MON journey hitch-hiking in the USA. MON MON Jonathan Lethem is one of the most idiosyncratic voices in MON US literature. Before he became a published writer the New MON Yorker spent 15 years working in secondhand bookshops. His MON first published works were science fiction stories; before MON moving on to novels. His interests are eclectic: ranging MON from Bob Dylan to Marvel comics; Philip K. Dick to cyber MON culture. MON MON The Ecstasy Of Influence is a collection of previously MON published pieces and new essays and is a provocative array MON of the writer's talent. MON MON "One of the most emotionally engaging and intellectually MON nimble of contemporary novelists" MON The Guardian MON MON Reader: Kerry Shale MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01kjqzq (Listen) MON Women Bishops, Housework, Living with HIV MON MON Housework and why it still divides the genders. As the MON Church of England's Synod prepares to vote on plans to allow MON women to become bishops, we look at the implications of what MON would be the biggest development since the ordination of MON women was approved 18 years ago. HIV and why it's no longer MON a barrier to becoming a mother. We hear from the artist MON behind a public art project involving more than 400 women MON and talk about its installation at Tate Modern. MON Producer: Catherine Carr MON Presenter: Jane Garvey. MON MON Housework Week MON MON From washing up the casserole pot to cleaning the loo, who MON does the housework in your house, and how much? Jane is MON joined by Tess Lanning, research fellow at the IPPR, to find MON out what we know about who does what, and why it seems the MON domestic dividing lines are still drawn on the grounds of MON gender. MON MON Women in Greek Myth � Jocasta and Phedre MON MON The women of Ancient Greek myth still have a powerful hold MON on our imagination. Freud�s first cultural reference point MON when thinking about his mother was Jocasta, mother of MON Oedipus. And those looking for a mother more in tune with MON our reconstituted families need look no further than Phedre. MON In the next in our series on the women of Greek myth, MON Professor Edith Hall looks at the two fearful maternal MON figures � Jocasta and Phedre. MON MON Women and HIV MON MON It�s 30 years ago this month since the death of Terrence MON Higgins - the first person in the UK to be publically MON identified as having AIDS. During that time there have been MON many developments and new approaches to treatment which mean MON that living with HIV is no longer a 'gay issue', no longer a MON death sentence if diagnosed early, and no longer a barrier MON to parenthood. Jane talks to Amanda, who was diagnosed with MON HIV in 2010 and is now pregnant, to hear about her personal MON experience. And Jane also discusses the improvements in MON testing, treatments, and life-expectancy, and the obstacles MON that are still to be overcome, together with Genevieve MON Edwards, Executive Director of Communications and Health MON Improvement at the Terrence Higgins Trust, and with Dr MON Michael Brady, HIV specialist and doctor at King's College MON Hospital. MON MON Suzanne Lacy MON MON This summer Tate Modern opens The Tanks - the new galleries MON that have been created using the former power plant�s MON disused oil tanks. One of their first acquisitions for the MON new space is Suzanne Lacy�s filmed performance The Crystal MON Quilt - a public art project and performance that now exists MON in the form of a video, documentary, quilt, photographs, and MON sound piece. The project took place over three years, MON culminating in a huge performance event in 1987 - 430 women MON over 60 years of age talking about their lives, whilst MON sitting round tables with red, yellow and black tablecloths, MON creating the visual effect of a quilting pattern. Jane MON Garvey met Suzanne Lacy ahead of the opening at Tate Modern MON to hear about the original project and performance, as well MON as Suzanne�s plan to create a happening to complement the MON Crystal Quilt later in the summer at the gallery. Any older MON women interested in taking part can contact Tate at MON action.lacy@tate.org.uk. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01kjqzs (Listen) MON Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Episode 6 MON MON Maria Semple's brilliantly comic debut novel about misplaced MON genius and mother-daughter love, starring Miranda MON Richardson, Lydia Wilson, Richard Laing and Madeleine MON Potter. MON MON When 15 year old Bee wins perfect grades, she calls in her MON parents' promise of a graduation present of 'anything she MON wants'. This turns out to be a family trip to Antarctica - a MON prospect that will challenge her mother Bernadette's deep MON dislike of travel and of dealing with other people. But MON first Bernadette needs to take on some of the other mothers MON at Bee's school, or as she calls them - 'the Galer Street MON gnats'. MON MON In today's episode, Elgin confronts Bernadette about the MON mudslide incident. MON MON Adapted by Miranda Davies MON Produced/ directed by Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 In His Element b01kjr7t (Listen) MON Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson says every country is MON facing the same economic challenge - "how do we educate MON people to find work and create wealth in a world that is MON changing faster than ever?" Sir Ken suggests that by MON enabling young people - and indeed older people - to MON discover their true talents you are preparing them for a MON better working life. MON MON Sir Ken has plenty of experience in this area. In 1998 he MON led a government advisory committee, looking at creativity MON in education - this concluded with the All Our Futures MON report. He went on to work on another report in Northern MON Ireland entitled Unlocking Creativity. MON MON A Liverpudlian, Sir Ken Robinson now lives in Los Angeles. MON He is much in demand. His expertise is sought by MON organisations throughout the world. He spends a lot of the MON year travelling to deliver lectures and talks. His MON entertaining TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) talks MON have become an internet phenomenon and his book The Element: MON How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything has been MON translated into sixteen languages. MON MON In this documentary Ruth McDonald meets Sir Ken Robinson on MON a return visit to Northern Ireland, where he's supporting MON Derry~Londonderry's plans as the first UK City of Culture in MON 2013. MON MON Plagued over years by violence, unemployment and mass MON emigration, Derry is a complex city. The organisers of the MON City of Culture see the year-long event as an opportunity to MON 'tell a new story' but already there have been bomb attacks MON by dissident terrorists. MON MON Sir Ken Robinson sees 2013 as a golden opportunity for Derry MON to become a 'creative city'. Ruth discovers how his ideas MON are being received. MON MON Presenter: Ruth McDonald MON Producer: Claire Burgoyne. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b018xs8f (Listen) MON Series 3, Bungay, Suffolk MON MON Episode 5 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the MON residents of Bungay in Suffolk, where he talks about MON non-existent castles, haunted pubs and chicken roundabouts. MON MON Written and performed by Mark Steel with additional material MON by Pete Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01kjr7w (Listen) MON Nick Hewer on working at 75, Lesley Joseph on carers and the MON UK's first hand transplant MON MON We ask Nick Hewer from The Apprentice and Countdown whether MON older people can still cut it in the world of work? In his MON programme 'The town that wouldn't retire' - part of the BBC MON One Ageing season - Nick follows fifteen retired pensioners MON back to work. With today's newborns having to work until MON they're 77, how do bosses, fellow workers and the public MON react to a more mature workforce? MON MON Also - Lesley Joseph is famous for playing Dorien in Birds MON of a Feather. She'll be talking about pressures on carers. MON She's been spending time with a couple where caring for her MON husband is putting the wife's health at risk. MON MON The Citizen Advice Bureau will reveal a massive rise in MON people having problems with the new Employment and Support MON Allowance. And we'll also be finding out about the UK's MON first hand transplant. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01kjr7y (Listen) MON John Lennon/Paul McCartney MON MON The New Elizabethans: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. To MON mark the Diamond Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives MON and impact of the men and women who have given the second MON Elizabethan age its character. MON MON John Lennon and Paul McCartney were two young men from MON Liverpool whose dazzling talent created first a band, then a MON cultural phenomenon and finally became a short hand for vast MON social change. MON MON The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading MON historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of MON London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic MON Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, MON Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. MON MON They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions MON during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant MON impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its MON character, for better or worse." MON MON Producer: James Cook. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01kjff6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01kjr80 (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 Siberian Stories b01kjs0y (Listen) MON Old Believers MON MON Five sketches of life on the move in the wild Siberian MON borderlands. Cicely Fell follows the upper reaches of the MON Yenisei river to nomadic and religious communities on the MON southern edge of Russia. MON MON Life is changing for two Russian Old Believer villages on a MON remote branch of the Yenisei in the republic of Tuva. The MON Old Believers fled to this hidden corner of the taiga forest MON to escape religious persecution. But, as Cicely discovers MON when she visits the community during hay-gathering season, MON today they are facing competition from outsiders for the MON land that has provided their livelihood for generations. MON MON Producer: Cicely Fell MON An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01kjlhp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01kjs10 (Listen) MON Caterpillars MON MON by Laura Bridgeman and Charles Lambert. MON MON Comedy heist drama set in Edinburgh. Disinherited by her MON stepmother, Amber Buchanan determines to honour the memory MON of her father by entering into the family trade. Crime. MON MON Amber ..... Claire Knight MON Sasha ..... Laurie Brown MON Karen ..... Rosalind Sydney MON Rhona ..... Gemma McElhinney MON Piers Logan ..... Jimmy Chisholm MON Sean ..... Simon Donaldson MON Mary ..... Monica Gibb MON Child ..... Sean Graham MON MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01kjs12 (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 12 MON MON (12/13) MON Which classic British film of 1945 was made into an opera in MON 2009, with music by Andre Previn? And which was the first MON Beatles album to feature nothing but Beatles compositions? MON MON If you can answer these questions you might be able to give MON the contestants in Counterpoint a run for their money. Paul MON Gambaccini is in the chair for the third and last of this MON series' semi-finals - with the one remaining place in the MON 2012 Final at stake. The competitors are from Worksop, MON Stafford and Swindon. MON MON As ever, they'll need to display musical knowledge across a MON wide spectrum, from the classics to jazz, show tunes, film MON music, and six decades of rock and pop. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01kjjtc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Ann Widdecombe's Hell Hounds and Night Hags b01kjs14 (Listen) MON ...and Night Hags: Documentary. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01kjs16 (Listen) MON Series 6, The Science of Symmetry MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by mathematician Marcus MON Du Sautoy, science journalist Adam Rutherford and comic book MON legend Alan Moore to discuss why symmetry seems such a MON pervasive phenomenon throughout our universe, and possibly MON beyond. The world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of MON subatomic particles to the structure of the natural world, MON through to the molecules that make up life itself. They'll MON be asking why symmetry seems so ubiquitous and whether the MON key to Brian's large female fanbase is down to his more than MON usually symmetrical face. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b01kjs18 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kjff8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01kjs1b (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a MON first-time visit to the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Regulars MON Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined MON on the panel by Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the chair. MON Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon MON Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01kjs1d (Listen) MON Hayley tries to put on a brave face. Meanwhile Annabelle has MON her ear to the ground. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01kjs1g (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the winner of MON the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger award, MON for the best crime novel translated into English. MON MON Producer Ella-Mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01kjqzs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Through Persian Eyes b01kjs1j (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Many in the west have described Iran as a rogue state. Yet MON this so-called rogue state has a recorded history that MON tracks back more than 3000 years. It is a civilization that MON has given rise to philosophies and religions, to science and MON medicine, to architecture and the arts. MON MON By the end of the 18th century Iran was emerging from nearly MON a century of political and economic turmoil. Imperial MON frontiers were in disarray and under threat; while its MON population and economy had suffered the depredations of war. MON The state was a shadow of its former self. MON MON Professor Alli Ansari begins part three with the story of a MON very peculiar despot, Agha Mohammad Khan, the founder of the MON Qajar dynasty. Castrated at the age of 6 - an act of mercy MON we are told since the alternative was death - Agha Mohammad MON Khan grew into a very angry young man, determined to secure MON the throne at all costs. With a combination of ruthlessness MON and political agility he succeeded in restoring Iranian MON greatness. MON MON But within a short period Iran faced the new challenge of MON European imperialism from both north and south as the MON Russian and British empires competed for dominance. The MON modern age had arrived and the Iranian response was MON typically diverse: resistance, rebellion, revolution and MON modernisation as despots and democrats fought for the soul MON of modern Iran. That is a struggle that in the 20th century MON brought in two great revolutions, one in 1906 was MON constitutional and the second with Ayatollah Khomeini in MON 1979 was theocratic. And that struggle between MON constitutional and theocratic revolutions continues today. MON MON Professor Ansari is one of the world's leading experts on MON Iran and its history. Professor Ansari's books include MON Confronting Iran and The Politics of Nationalism in Modern MON Iran. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01kjs1l (Listen) MON China's Battle of Ideas MON MON As China changes leadership, Mukul Devichand probes MON Beijing's hidden battle of ideas. Unlike the messy democracy MON of elections in the US or Europe, the Communist Party's MON "changing of the guard" this autumn is set to be a sombre, MON orderly and very Chinese affair. But the dramatic sacking of MON a top Party boss over the alleged murder of an Englishman MON earlier this year was about more than just a personal power MON struggle. These events provide a window into a deeper, more MON ideological battle for the future of the world's new MON superpower. MON MON This week, Mukul Devichand travels to the People's Republic MON of China for a unique look at the social and ideological MON fault lines in the country. Radio 4's Analysis programme has MON a 40-year history of looking at the deeper ideas and trends MON shaping politics -- and this week's programme takes that MON approach on the road to a rising superpower whose policy MON debates are largely misunderstood in the West, despite the MON profound implications of China's future direction for our MON own. MON MON Recent years have seen large-scale social experiments in MON China and the emergence of a "New Left" school of thought to MON rival the pro-market "New Right" in Chinese intellectual MON life. Mukul Devichand looks at what these scholars and MON officials are reading, and the ideas that shape their vision MON of the world. He looks at how these schools of ideas have MON created their own showcase provinces and cities -- Chongqing MON vs Guangdong -- and looks at recent events for clues about MON where China will go next. MON MON Producer: Lucy Proctor. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01kblcx (Listen) MON This week scientists at CERN in Geneva have discovered a MON sub-atomic particle they think might be the long-sought MON Higgs Boson particle. Quentin talks to leading CERN MON scientists Professor Jim Virdee and his colleague at MON Imperial College, Professor Gavin Davies, about the MON implications of this finding. MON MON Also in today's programme, Quentin visits the annual Summer MON Science Exhibition at the Royal Society. Dr Phil Manning MON explains how particle physics does not just allow scientists MON to find Higgs, but can also tell us about the colour of MON dinosaurs. His group uses a particle accelerator to 'read' MON fossils. At another stand, Dr Gianluca Memoli and Ian MON Butterworth from the National Physical Laboratory tell MON Quentin why the sound of bubbles can have interesting MON medical applications. And Dr Stephen Leslie maps the genetic MON make-up of the different peoples in the UK. Quentin finds MON out he is actually more of a soft Southerner than the tough MON Northerner he fancied himself to be ... MON MON 21:30 The Long View b01kjqzl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01kjffb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01kjs1n (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01kjs1q (Listen) MON The Truth, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Michael Palin. MON MON Melville rescues Mabbut from his captors and takes him to MON his camp. But Melville is no fool. He knows Keith isn't just MON a tourist who strayed off the beaten track. MON MON Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is MON offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to write the MON biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly MON influential activist and humanitarian - he seizes the chance MON to write something meaningful. MON MON His search to find out the real story behind the legend MON takes Mabbut to the lush landscapes and environmental MON hotspots of India. The more he discovers about Melville, the MON more he admires him - and the more he connects with an MON idealist who wanted to make a difference. But is his quarry MON genuinely who he claims to be? Is he really a Gandhi-like MON leader of the people, a political mover and shaker, an MON enigma? These are the question Keith must ask himself. But MON as he soon discovers, the truth can be whatever we make it. MON MON Read by Alex Jennings MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b01k9wpr (Listen) MON Bohemians MON MON Bohemians - love them or loathe them, we've all met them. MON Dominic Arkwright and guests discuss avant-garde free MON spirits, or pretentious, posing pseudo-intellectuals, MON depending on your point of view. MON Dominic is joined by an original free spirit; the writer MON Hanja Kochansky,writer and critic Cosmo Landesman, whose MON parents' eccentric behaviour caused the young Cosmo much MON embarrassment; and by the journalist who declares in his MON blog that he is 'right about everything', James Delingpole. MON Has the British bohemian spirit - if there ever was one - MON disappeared? Now boho is mainstream, desirable even, what is MON there to rebel against? MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01kjs1s (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 JULY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01kjfg7 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01l348t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kjfg9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kjfgc (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kjfgf (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01kjfgh (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kpv16 (Listen) TUE With the Rev. Peter Baker. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01kjsfv (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01kjsfx (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and TUE James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in TUE Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b01jmxsk (Listen) TUE Niall Ferguson: The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012, Civil TUE and Uncivil Societies TUE TUE The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside TUE the political, economic and legal realms, whose primary TUE purpose is to preserve and transmit particular knowledge and TUE values. In a lecture delivered at the Royal Society of TUE Edinburgh, he asks if the modern state is quietly killing TUE civil society in the Western world? And what can non-Western TUE societies do to build a vibrant civil society? TUE TUE Producer: Jane Beresford. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01kjsfz (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01kjsg1 (Listen) TUE Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Episode 7 TUE TUE In today's episode, Elgin is paid a visit by an agent from TUE the FBI, who makes a shocking revelation about Bernadette's TUE life online. TUE TUE Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies TUE Produced/Directed by Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Attila the Hen b00zsdsb (Listen) TUE Writer Natalie Haynes, who has heard some dark rumours about TUE the true habits of the hen, meets some of the people and TUE poultry involved in the fashion for keeping urban chickens. TUE Her own chicken knowledge being limited entirely to their TUE lives in Ancient Rome, she seeks information from chicken TUE breeders and keepers; but perhaps the most keen insight is TUE from ornithologist Mark Cocker, who explains how things look TUE from the chickens' own perspective. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 11:30 Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned b01kjt7h (Listen) TUE The most notorious 'lost work' in classical music: TUE rediscovered? Peggy Reynolds tells the story of Jean TUE Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new TUE musical fragments discovered last year, performed TUE exclusively for the programme. TUE TUE Jean Sibelius thought he'd burned his last symphony forever. TUE For two decades, he had struggled in the forest fastness of TUE his home in the countryside, Ainola, north of Helsinki. Born TUE in 1865, he was Finland's greatest artistic hero: a composer TUE whose music had once articulated an entire nation's dreams TUE of independence. Finlandia, the Karelia Suite, The Second TUE Symphony - all flowed from his pen...and made him an icon. TUE TUE Now, in the 1930s and 40s, he was an old man of the Romantic TUE era - an artist alive long after his time. Loved by concert TUE audiences but pilloried and mocked by the new winds of TUE musical modernism, now he felt ancient, irrelevant, unable TUE to speak. TUE TUE For the last 25 years of his long life, he didn't publish a TUE single note of music. How could he? Here was an artist truly TUE adrift between old and new. The year Sibelius was born, TUE 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The year he died, TUE 1957, the Russians sent Sputnik into space. TUE TUE And so, one morning in 1945, Jean Sibelius took the pages of TUE a symphony that had taken him to the brink of despair...and TUE burned it all: destroying it before it destroyed him. TUE TUE His Eighth Symphony became the most notorious 'lost work' in TUE classical music. Audiences dreamed of hearing just a snatch TUE of what had played inside the old man's head; critics TUE wondered if this 'irrelevance' had been forging secret, TUE daringly original new musical ground. TUE TUE For decades not a single note could be traced. And then, TUE last year, three short fragments of music were revealed - TUE the culmination of years of painstaking research through TUE piles upon piles of manuscript sketches. The only evidence TUE of any orchestral work by Sibelius during the infamous TUE 'silence of Ainola'. And almost certainly the only TUE tantalising glimpse we may ever get at his fabled Eighth TUE Symphony. TUE TUE Writer and broadcaster Peggy Reynolds visits Sibelius's home TUE near Helsinki to fully unpick - for the first time - the TUE riddle of Sibelius's Eighth Symphony, with contributions TUE from the great British conductor and Sibelius expert Sir TUE Mark Elder. She presents a performance of newly-discovered TUE musical fragments, performed exclusively for the programme TUE by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under John TUE Storgards...after eight decades, the closest we may ever get TUE of experiencing the most infamous lost work in 20th century TUE music. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01kjt7k (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: Working when I'm 65 TUE TUE As part of the BBC's Ageing Season, 'When I'm 65', Call You TUE and Yours looks at working beyond the traditional retirement TUE age to find out who benefits most. Is it the individual, the TUE company or the economy? TUE TUE We want to hear your experience. Do you want to work or do TUE you feel forced to work to keep financially afloat in the TUE current economic climate? And how easy is it to get a job - TUE or keep a job - later in life? TUE TUE If you are happy to keep working beyond 60 or 65, why? Does TUE your job give you a sense of satisfaction and purpose? Do TUE you enjoy the social contact and routine that employment TUE brings? TUE TUE The Office for National Statistics found there were 1.4 TUE million people working beyond the state pension age last TUE year compared to 753,000 in 1993. So how does this affect TUE the labour market? Is there any truth in the accusation that TUE so called 'job hogging' by older workers prevents young TUE people entering the work force? TUE TUE Call us on 03700-100-400 before ten, 03700 100444 after ten, TUE or email us via our website at TUE www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours ; leave us a message or a TUE name and number where we can call you back. TUE TUE Presented by Julian Worricker TUE Produced by Karen Dalziel. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01kjt7m (Listen) TUE Margot Fonteyn TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Margot Fonteyn. TUE TUE James Naughtie considers the life and legacy of Dame Margot TUE Fonteyn, widely considered to be one of the greatest TUE classical dancers of the 20th century. She spent her whole TUE career with the Royal Ballet and was appointed prima TUE ballerina absoluta by The Queen. TUE TUE Her greatest artistic work was with the Russian star Rudolf TUE Nureyev. Beginning in the 1960's when she was 42, he 24 - TUE they formed an on and off stage partnership that lasted TUE until her retirement in 1979. They debuted Kenneth TUE MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, and Frederick Ashton TUE choreographed Margeurite and Armand for them, a role which TUE wasn't performed by any other artists until the 21st TUE century. TUE TUE Producer: Alison Hughes. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01kjfgk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01kjt7p (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Siberian Stories b01kmjg6 (Listen) TUE Autumn Migration TUE TUE Five sketches of life on the move in the wild Siberian TUE borderlands. Cicely Fell follows the upper reaches of the TUE Yenisei river to nomadic and religious communities on the TUE southern edge of Russia. TUE TUE The Khemchik valley in western Tuva is a wild frontier land TUE of derelict villages, where extreme poverty is driving many TUE families to return to traditional nomadic herding as a way TUE to survive. TUE TUE Cicely joins the Mongush family as they set out on their TUE autumn migration. The journey takes them over remote TUE mountains along the Russian-Mongolian border, from the taiga TUE forest to the grassland steppe. A nomadic way of life TUE re-emerging from the wake of the collapse of the Soviet TUE Union. TUE TUE Producer: Cicely Fell TUE An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01kjs1d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01kjt7r (Listen) TUE Cordite for Breakfast TUE TUE By Ben Ockrent. TUE TUE In the world of Napoleonic-era battle re-enactments, the TUE King's Brigade are what are known as 'hard-liners'. Every TUE stitch is crossed just so and every button a perfect match TUE for the original. Martin is Major General of the King's TUE Brigade and his daughter Amy has become increasingly worried TUE that his hobby is harming her parents' marriage. So on the TUE most important weekend of his calendar - the Battle of TUE Waterloo - Amy adopts the disguise of a male soldier, TUE crosses enemy lines and stages an almighty intervention. TUE TUE Amy . . . . . Rose Leslie TUE Martin . . . . . Mark Heap TUE Tilly . . . . . Aimee-Ffion Edwards TUE Celine . . . . . Christine Absalom TUE Liam . . . . . Brian Fenton TUE Phil . . . . . Patrick Brennan TUE Soldiers . . . . . Joe Sims, Sam Alexander, Robert Blythe, TUE Harry Livingstone. TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Production co-ordinator: Selina Ream TUE Studio Managers: Peter Ringrose, Keith Graham, Martha TUE Littlehailes TUE Editor: Peter Ringrose. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01kjt7t (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents episode two in the series of BBC Radio TUE 4's food panel show. Each week, the programme travels around TUE the country to visit interesting culinary locations and TUE answer questions from local food-loving people. Recorded in TUE front of a live audience, The Kitchen Cabinet is aimed at TUE anyone who cooks at home, not just the experts. TUE TUE In this programme, The Kitchen Cabinet is in Brighton. As TUE well as talking about ice cream beyond the seaside cone, the TUE team takes questions on all aspects of cooking. TUE TUE The panel this week features: Angela Malik, the TUE Scottish-Indian fusion chef and entrepreneur; Henry Dimbleby TUE - cook, writer, and co-founder of Leon restaurants; Peter TUE Barham, the food scientist who has worked with Heston TUE Blumenthal; and Thomasina Miers - 2005 Masterchef winner and TUE co-founder of Mexican street-food chain Wahaca. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras TUE A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b01kjt7w (Listen) TUE The Dark Side TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright and guests wrangle with inner demons and TUE consider the benefits of embracing The Dark Side. TUE The novelist and film critic Kim Newman tells how the TUE nightmares that beset him through childhood were alleviated TUE when he began to watch horror films. The psychologist Linda TUE Blair considers whether people who embrace their dark side TUE are more likely to be creative, and the writer Ian Marchant TUE tells us how the dark forces of punk enlightened him. TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:00 No Extremists Please - We're British! b01kjt7y (Listen) TUE As austerity measures begin to bite, extremist parties TUE across Europe have made significant electoral gains. In TUE Greece, Golden Dawn, which advocates the forced repatriation TUE of immigrants, won 18 seats in parliament; the anti-Islamist TUE PVV is the third largest party in the Netherlands while in TUE France the Front National under the leadership of Marine Le TUE Pen has established itself as a major political force. Yet TUE here in the UK the most prominent extremist party, the BNP, TUE is facing political meltdown after a disastrous result in TUE May's local elections. TUE TUE In No Extremists Please- We're British! Trevor Phillips, the TUE chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, conducts TUE a personal investigation into why extremist parties have TUE never gained a significant electoral foothold in Britain; he TUE asks whether there's something inherent in the mindset of TUE the white working class voter that makes us as a nation TUE immune to the appeal of extremist politics; or is it just a TUE question of time before what's happening in Europe happens TUE here? TUE TUE In the course of his investigation he talks to politicians, TUE academics and voters, here and in Europe - including a TUE face-to-face interview with Marine Le Pen. TUE TUE Producer: Will Yates TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01kjt88 (Listen) TUE Sophi Tranchell, Alison Graham TUE TUE The Henning Mankell thriller "The Man From Beijing", TUE Jonathan Coe's family tragedy "The Rain Before It Falls" and TUE Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana" are the book choices of TUE Fairtrade entrepreneur Sophi Tranchell, Radio Times TUE television critic Alison Graham, and presenter Harriett TUE Gilbert. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01kjt9f (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kjfgm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sketchorama b01kjt9h (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE The sketch groups featured in episode three of Sketchorama TUE are: TUE TUE How Do I Get Up There? Scotland's fastest rising sketch TUE group heralding a new era for Scottish comedy. In 2010, the TUE boys made the final of the "Take The Mic" competition at the TUE Edinburgh Festival, and in 2011 enjoyed their Fringe debut TUE show. They also progressed to the finals of the prestigious TUE New Act of The Year competition at the Barbican in London. TUE TUE The Ginge, The Geordie and The Geek. Since making their TUE debut in 2009, this group featuring Graeme Rooney, Paul TUE Charlton and Kevin O'Loughlin have established themselves as TUE Fringe favourites and sold 10,000 tickets for their 2011 TUE show. TUE TUE Pappy's. A multi award winning sketch team consisting of TUE comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry. TUE Established in 2004, Pappy's are firm favourites on the UK TUE live comedy circuit with their hyper-energetic, gag filled TUE monster of a stage presence. TUE TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01kjsm2 (Listen) TUE The competition hots up between Kenton and Lynda. Meanwhile TUE Darrell voices his concerns. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01kjtdy (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including a review of Steven Soderbergh's TUE new film Magic Mike, the tale of a male stripper who acts as TUE a mentor for a new young performer. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01kjsg1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01kjtf0 (Listen) TUE It was the Paul Hickson scandal in the mid 90s which first TUE brought the issue of sexual abuse in sport to the public TUE eye. The Olympic swimming coach was jailed for 17 years for TUE raping and sexually abusing young girls he trained. The case TUE led to the setting up of the Child Protection in Sport Unit TUE and the introduction of safeguarding measures in most TUE sports. TUE TUE But, more than a decade on, the problem hasn't gone away and TUE this edition of File on 4 reveals new figures which show how TUE many allegations of sexual and physical abuse were made TUE across most major sports last year. TUE TUE The programme also examines concerns about the way TUE information about coaches who have disciplined or banned, is TUE shared with parents and other sports bodies, primarily TUE because of data protection laws. It reveals how some coaches TUE accused of sexual misconduct are able to move between TUE sporting organisations and carry on coaching TUE . TUE Reporter Chris Buckler also hears calls from families and TUE child welfare charities for a change in the law to make it TUE illegal for coaches to have a sex with athletes aged 16 or TUE 17 which would bring them in line with teachers and others TUE who have close contact with young people TUE TUE Presenter: Chris Buckler TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01kjtfg (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01kjtkq (Listen) TUE We are all encouraged to become fit for the benefit of our TUE health. Dr Mark Porter asks what we can learn from the TUE health of those who are the fittest, the elite athletes. TUE TUE Producer: Erika Wright. TUE TUE 21:30 In Living Memory b01c7rgs (Listen) TUE Series 15, Kung Fu TUE TUE In 1973, the martial arts classic movie Enter the Dragon TUE premiered in New York and around the world. In the UK, the TUE films release marked the beginning of an explosion in demand TUE for martial arts classes. Jolyon Jenkins meets those caught TUE up in the kung fu craze of the mid-1970's and discovers that TUE not everyone was looking for Shaolin self-control and TUE spiritual enlightenment. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01kjfgp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01kjtgp (Listen) TUE Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01kjtgr (Listen) TUE The Truth, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Michael Palin. TUE TUE Mabbut feels he's getting to know Melville and understand TUE the elusive anthropologist's principles. And Kumar takes him TUE on a trip to see the destruction caused by the Astramex TUE Corporation. TUE TUE Read by Alex Jennings TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01kjs16 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01kjtks (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 JULY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01kjfhj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 One to One b01cjwtg (Listen) WED Yasmin Alibhai-Brown with Louis de Bernieres WED WED For personal reasons, the journalist and broadcaster Yasmin WED Alibhai-Brown, has chosen to explore the impact of family WED breakdown for 'One to One'. WED WED Yasmin divorced over twenty years ago, and - although WED happily re-married - often contemplates the fall-out of WED divorce, and the resulting emotional ripples which WED inevitably reach further than the separating couple. In WED these programmes she's hearing the stories of a grandparent, WED a parent and a young person who have all lived through a WED family break-up. WED WED Last week Yasmin spoke to a grandmother who hasn't seen her WED granddaughter for four years, and this week she speaks to WED the author Louis de Bernieres. He talks from the position he WED holds as patron of the charity Families Need Fathers, but WED also from the very personal point of view of a father of two WED children, who has now separated from their mother. WED WED Producer: Karen Gregor. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kjfhl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kjfhn (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kjfhq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01kjfhs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kpv1s (Listen) WED With the Rev. Peter Baker. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01kknt0 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Angela Frain. WED WED 06:00 Today b01kknt2 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys. WED Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and WED Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01kknt4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01l39px (Listen) WED The Ecstasy of Influence, Dancing about Architecture or WED Fifth Beatle WED WED In the second essay from his book The Ecstasy Of Influence, WED the American writer Jonathan Lethem on dancing, writing and WED rock stars. WED WED Reader: Kerry Shale WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01kknt6 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01kknt8 (Listen) WED Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Episode 8 WED WED In today's episode, a frantic Elgin travels to Argentina in WED an attempt to find his wife. WED WED Adapted and directed by Emma Harding WED WED 11:00 Old Photographs Fever - The Search for China's WED Pictured Past b01kkntb (Listen) WED 'Old Photos Fever' is sweeping China, where people are WED encountering their photographic history for the first time, WED piecing together a past destroyed in Mao's Cultural WED Revolution. WED WED A new and intense appetite for images of the country's past WED has resulted in a publishing phenomenon: sales of books and WED magazines filled with historical photographs have rocketed. WED China's turbulent history in the twentieth century meant WED that archives of all kinds were destroyed: in warfare and WED revolutions. During the Cultural Revolution of 1966-9, the WED process was continued by the Red Guard. People also WED destroyed their own - now dangerously bourgeois - family WED albums. Nearly a century of photographic history was erased. WED WED The photographs that do survive were mostly taken by WED foreigners, living in or visiting China, who took them out WED of the country to safety. Professor Robert Bickers at the WED University of Bristol is leading the search to collect and WED digitise these photographs in order to restore a historical WED vision of China which is unfamiliar and fascinating to its WED citizens now. The online collection is extraordinary in its WED range and reflects all aspects of life in China. There are WED studio portraits, gruesome police photos, industrial and WED rural landscapes, tourist snaps and family albums. WED WED One of the jewels in the collection is the work of Fu WED Bingchang, a senior Chinese diplomat, whose access to the WED elite of Chinese society in the first half of the twentieth WED century and whose talent as a photographer make for a unique WED and beautiful set of images. The photos were given by Fu's WED son Foo Chung Hung (Johnny) and his granddaughter Yee Wah, WED who recall finding them in twelve leather trunks of WED possessions which were smuggled out of China. WED WED The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 prompted Chinese WED politicians to pursue an ambitious policy of historical WED education, to counteract a perceived lack of knowledge in WED young people about China's past. New museums are now huge WED tourist attractions in China and the desire for photographs WED has arisen from this resurgence of interest in the nation's WED history. WED WED This fascinating documentary brings a new and surprising WED insight into China's past and present. It will be WED accompanied by an online exhibition. WED WED http://hpc.vcea.net/Collection/Introduction WED WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b01hxzx3 (Listen) WED Series 4, The Only Way Is Ethics WED WED Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet (The Vicar Of Dibley), Neil Dudgeon WED (Life Of Riley), Martha Howe-Douglas (Horrible Histories) WED and Ingrid Oliver (Watson & Oliver). WED WED Someone - or something - is hacking into peoples' private WED conversations and Master Henry could end up in jail. WED Meanwhile, Lady Anne has taken to nuzzling De Warenne's WED trusty War Horse. WED WED Sir John Woodstock ...... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ...... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ....... Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan ....... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ....... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ....... Steven Kynman WED Bates ...... Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01kknvz (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01kmjj6 (Listen) WED The tourist industry says it is losing millions of pounds in WED revenue because of the lengthy and laborious visa system. WED The demand from new markets in China, India and the Far East WED is growing rapidly and tourists from these countries are WED among the highest spending visitors to the UK. However many WED are put off by a visa system which requires them to fill out WED lengthy forms, submit biometric data including finger prints WED and a retina scan and once granted only gives entry to the WED UK and Ireland. Alternatively visitors to Europe can apply WED for a three page Schengen visa which is not only cheaper but WED gives access to 27 countries in the Schengen zone. Could WED this explain why France welcomes eight times more Chinese WED visitors than the UK? The Prime Minister has urged the WED tourist industry to do better but what can be done to turn WED around the image of 'Fortress UK'? WED WED Presenter:John Waite Producer:Steven Williams. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01kjfhv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01kknzc (Listen) WED National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Siberian Stories b01kmjp5 (Listen) WED The Shaman's Drum WED WED Five sketches of life on the move in the wild Siberian WED borderlands. Cicely Fell follows the upper reaches of the WED Yenisei river to nomadic and religious communities on the WED southern edge of Russia. WED WED Tuva's remote and impenetrable mountain landscape enabled WED the survival of shamanic clan lines despite the Soviet WED repressions. The region has remained one of the strongholds WED of Siberian shamanism and is an important centre for its WED revival. Today, in Tuva's capital Kyzyl, associations of WED shamans and walk-in clinics compete for customers seeking WED healing or divination. WED WED From a shamanic ritual to a drum-maker's workshop, Cicely WED Fell traces shamanism in Tuva and Khakassia. Chochigar WED Kes-Kam, a hereditary Tuvan shaman, performs a ritual to WED seek a blessing from the spirits for his young apprentice. A WED story of repression and revival, told through the shaman's WED drum. WED WED Producer: Cicely Fell WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01kjsm2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00sx8nj (Listen) WED Mr Anwar's Farewell to Stornoway WED WED By Iain Finlay MacLeod. WED WED Mr Anwar has lived for four decades on the Isle of Lewis, in WED the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Indian by birth, and a WED tailor to trade, he came to the UK to make his fortune. WED Heading north, away from London's cramped confines, he built WED a successful clothing business from scratch: selling men's WED trousers and ladies underwear from two suitcases balanced on WED the back of a bicycle. WED WED The suitcases were soon exchanged for a busy shop in WED Stornoway. He brought his wife to the island and the pair WED raised their family in the community. And yet, across the WED decades, Mr Anwar clung onto a fervid dream of his youth: to WED make a fortune and retire in style to India. WED WED Now, five months into retirement, things are not going quite WED as he had planned. Distraction appears in the form of his WED taciturn neighbour, Tormod, who asks Mr Anwar to tailor a WED jacket for him. As the pair get the measure of each other, WED some difficult questions are asked and hard truths WED confronted. WED WED Mr Anwar ... Vincent Ebrahim WED Nadia ... Shelley King WED Tormod ... Matthew Zajac WED Isobel ... Anne Lacey WED WED Mr Anwar's pipe tune composed and performed by Iain WED MacInnes. WED WED Directed by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01kknzf (Listen) WED Credit reports WED WED Credit reports: If you need a loan, a mortgage or even a WED mobile 'phone contract, your credit history will be an WED important factor in establishing how responsible you are as WED a borrower. Maybe you pay off your credit card in full every WED month but have missed a payment because of the recent WED computer problems at NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank. How will WED that affect your credit rating? Or perhaps you're one of WED seven million adults who have never taken out any form of WED credit. What problems might that cause in later life, if you WED need financial help to buy a property or set up a business? WED How can you build up a credit history? What can you do if WED you're refused credit? How easy is it to access your credit WED score? If you'd like advice on any aspect of credit rating, WED you can contact Money Box Live. Paul Lewis and a panel of WED experts will answer your queries. Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED or call 03700 100 444. Lines open at 1pm, Wednesday. WED Producer, Lesley McAlpine. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01kjtkq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01kknzh (Listen) WED Immortality WED WED From Victorian seances to schemes which upload our minds WED into cyberspace. The ways in which human beings have sought WED to refuse mortality. The philosopher, John Gray, discusses WED his latest book "The Immortality Commission: Science and the WED Strange Quest to Cheat Death" with Laurie Taylor. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01kknzk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01kknzm (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kjfhx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b01kknzp (Listen) WED Series 4, Jackie Kay WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. WED WED Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by poet Jackie Kay who WED revisits her politically active student years in the early WED eighties, when she went on every demo she possibly could. WED She shares some of her early poetry, and talks about what a WED revelation it was to finally meet and make friends with WED other black women when she was at university. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01kkp5l (Listen) WED The campaign of terror escalates further. Meanwhile there's WED a rowdy night out for the Horrobin lads. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01kkp5n (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Stephen Hughes. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01kknt8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01kkp5q (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Clifford Longley, WED Claire Fox and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01kkp5s (Listen) WED Series 3, Leisa Rea WED WED With the pressure on for victory at the Olympics, comedian WED Leisa Rea ponders the delights of losing. WED WED She ponders late development, the terror of being asked WED 'what is it that you do', and reveals what happened when she WED told a group of school children that she would only be WED rewarding them for appalling work which fell way below the WED expected standard. 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 Reclaiming the Sceptic b01kkp5v (Listen) WED All scientists are sceptics, doubting both their own and WED others' research, and weighing the evidence carefully to WED produce the most robust conclusion. Scepticism runs through WED the culture of science like the word Blackpool through a WED stick of rock. WED WED The way scientists apply this concept is usually very WED specific, even-handed and based on a prior understanding of WED the principles behind the work under consideration. But in WED recent years there have been increasing examples of WED scepticism applied in a very different way to science, often WED based on ideology or political viewpoint. Examples include WED scepticism of nanotechnology, the safety of mobile phones WED and genetically modified crops. WED WED Professor Philip Stott explores how scientists use WED scepticism and doubt in their work and how the proper WED application of these tools helps produce reliable and WED valuable information. He talks to working scientists as well WED as philosophers and sociologists of science, exploring the WED importance of this fundamental scientific principle. WED WED He also discovers how the scepticism of science differs from WED the scepticism within science - and how the principle of WED scepticism can be abused by those who wish to undermine an WED area of science, applying the principle unevenly to doubt WED what they don't like yet remaining uncritical of that which WED matches their personal prejudices. This presents a challenge WED to science itself, one that researchers of the future will WED need to understand and work alongside. WED WED Producer: Toby Murcott WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01kknt4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01kjfhz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01kkp5x (Listen) WED Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01kkp5z (Listen) WED The Truth, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Michael Palin. WED WED Melville agrees to collaborate with Mabbut on his book. But WED despite the fact that Melville has disappeared again, Keith WED returns to London to begin writing. WED WED Read by Alex Jennings WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Listen Against b016ljj6 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED WED Listen Against is the comedy that takes the back off your WED radio and television, fiddles round with the programmes WED inside and then puts them all back the wrong way round. WED WED Using "beautifully crafted, scalpel sharp" (Gillian WED Reynolds) mash-ups of current and archive programmes Listen WED Against creates a "sly, sharp, smart, surreal, satirical" WED world (Sunday Telegraph) where Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes WED look back in amplitude of at a week's worth of broadcasting WED like a media tapeworm going through a dog. WED WED Like "the mischievous offspring of Points of View and The WED Day Today" (Observer) fictional listeners bombard Listen WED Against with fictional letters and emails complaining about WED half-fictional programmes while fictional guests and real WED life presenters (this series includes Melvyn Bragg, Jeremy WED Vine and Vanessa Feltz) argue with each other in "a gem of a WED satirical swoop at radio and television." (Guardian). WED WED Written and created by Jon Holmes WED Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes WED WED Cast: WED Kevin Eldon (Brass Eye, Big Train) WED Justin Edwards (The Thick of It) WED Sarah Hadland (Miranda) WED James Bachman (Mitchell & Webb) WED Kim Wall (Big Train , IT Crowd) WED David Mara (RSC & Donmar Warehouse) WED WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01kkpn1 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 JULY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01kjfjw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01l39px (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kjfjy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kjfk0 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kjfk2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01kjfk4 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kpv2h (Listen) THU With the Rev. Peter Baker. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01ks61n (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Clare THU Freeman. THU THU 06:00 Today b01kkr40 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb. Including THU Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought THU for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01kkr42 (Listen) THU Hadrian's Wall THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hadrian's Wall, the THU impressive structure built in the second century AD on the THU orders of the Roman emperor Hadrian. More than seventy miles THU long, the wall runs from Tyneside to the Solway Firth, and THU large sections survive today, almost 1900 years after it was THU built. Archaeological discoveries from this huge historical THU site are shedding new light on the wall's purpose, THU construction and later use. THU THU Producer: Victoria Brignell. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01l39qc (Listen) THU The Ecstasy of Influence, Zelig of Notoriety THU THU In the third essay from his book The Ecstasy Of Influence, THU the American writer Jonathan Lethem ruminates on famous THU schoolfriends. THU THU Reader: Kerry Shale THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01kkr44 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01kkr46 (Listen) THU Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Episode 9 THU THU In today's episode, Bee and her father Elgin travel to THU Antarctica on Bernadette's trail. THU THU Adapted and directed by Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01kkr48 (Listen) THU Writer and broadcaster Maria Margaronis follows the route THU taken by migrants fleeing war or poverty who are risking THU their lives to reach the Europe Union. It is estimated that THU around 75 thousand people are attempting to make the THU perilous journey each year in the hands of unscrupulous THU traffickers. They are fleeing from war-torn countries like THU Afghanistan and Somalia or simply in search of a better life THU where their economic prospects aren't so bleak. Some of them THU never make it, suffocating in the back of a crowded lorry or THU drowning in the fast flowing river that marks the border THU between Turkey and Greece. THU THU The programme meets up with migrants in Istanbul, on the THU narrow Bosphorus Strait, which has served as the crossroads THU of the world for thousands of years. There are children THU making the journey on their own and one man who has lost his THU fingers and toes to frostbite on a perilous journey over the THU mountains from Iran. Two of his companions died. The Turkish THU authorities confess to being overwhelmed by the numbers THU which are estimated to be up to 250 people a day. Illegal THU migrants are detained but seldom, it seems, sent back to the THU countries they came from. There has been an attempt to clamp THU down on the people traffickers but there are huge profits to THU be made. THU THU The most dangerous part of the trip is along Turkey's border THU with Greece. The Greeks are supposed to be building an eight THU mile fence but that still leaves a river which is 125 miles THU long. Traffickers put their charges into cheap inflatable THU boats and push them across, regardless of whether they are THU able to handle a boat or to swim. Many of them can't. THU THU For those that do make it, there is no Promised Land but an THU economic crisis and yet more troubles ahead. THU THU 11:30 World Service Writers b01kkr4b (Listen) THU As the BBC World Service leaves Bush House for a new home, THU Razia Iqbal takes a look at the writers who have worked THU there. From the 1940s, when George Orwell and V.S. Naipaul THU were radio producers, to the death of Georgi Markov and the THU prize winning novels of Mohammed Hanif and Mirza Waheed, the THU list of authors who have also made radio programmes for the THU BBC to broadcast to the rest of the world is long and THU distinguished. Amongst their number are dissidents, THU political exiles and presenters who are massively popular in THU their home countries but are completely unknown in the UK. THU So, what was it about Bush House that created and nurtured THU such talents and how was their writing influenced by their THU work for the BBC? Razi Iqbal talks to a a variety of Bush THU House writers including Annabel Dilke, the widow of Georgi THU Markov, Bush House writer in residence Hamid Ismailov, and THU Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01kkr4d (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01kkr4g (Listen) THU Peter Hall THU THU The New Elizabethans: To mark the Diamond Jubilee, James THU Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the men and women THU who have given the second Elizabethan age its character. THU THU Today James Naughtie considers Peter Hall, colossus of 20th THU Century English theatre, who was responsible for the THU development, success and longevity of both the RSC and The THU National Theatre. THU THU Producer: Sukey Firth. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01kjfk6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01kkr4j (Listen) THU National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Siberian Stories b01kn8k0 (Listen) THU Khakassian Horsemen THU THU Five sketches of life on the move in the wild Siberian THU borderlands. Cicely Fell follows the upper reaches of the THU Yenisei river to nomadic and religious communities on the THU southern edge of Russia. THU THU The horse is at the heart of Khakassia's ancient yet fragile THU culture. Cicely Fell camps out with a group of horsemen who THU have returned to a nomadic form of horse herding since the THU collapse of the local Soviet state farm. THU THU The valley where their herds graze is scattered with ancient THU rock carvings of horses, traces of a horse culture going THU back four thousand years. But today, as Cicely discovers, THU the Khakassian horsemen are struggling to protect their THU herds from a rare species of red wolf. THU THU Producer: Cicely Fell THU An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01kkp5l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00sv6g0 (Listen) THU Boom Boom THU THU A car crash. A middle aged woman falls for a younger man. THU What's the connection? THU THU Emily Steel is a new Welsh radio writer, currently under THU commission to the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. In her first THU radio play, developed through BBC writersroom, she takes an THU unusual approach to romance in later life and the THU consequences of passion. THU THU Unhappily married Nicola whose reclusive writer husband has THU little time for her or her work has settled into her THU existence as a caf� cum gallery owner. David is a teenager THU whom she hires as a summer help. Little by little, she finds THU herself drawn to him, and they become friends. When he falls THU in love with a girl his own age, she finds to her horror THU that she is jealous - friendship is in fact love. THU THU As we follow the development of their relationship, we flash THU back and forth to an apparently unrelated car crash, caused THU by teenage Adam, driving his dad's car, after an illicit THU night out with a girl. When Nicola finally tells Stephen THU about her feelings for David, there are dramatic THU consequences. THU THU The play brings together Nicola and Adam's stories, two THU seemingly unrelated incidents, to a powerful conclusion. THU THU Nicola ..... Sara MacGaughey THU Stephen ..... Steffan Rhodri THU David ..... Gareth Aled THU Jess ..... Anya Murphy THU Adam ..... Scott Arthur THU Paramedic ..... Gareth Pierce THU Policewoman ..... Lynne Seymour. THU THU A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Polly Thomas. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01kkr4l (Listen) THU As the excitement mounts around London 2012 Helen Mark THU visits Much Wenlock, the birthplace of the modern Olympics, THU and explores the landscape around Wenlock Edge. THU In the small market town of Much Wenlock in rural THU Shropshire, Dr William Penny Brookes came up with an THU inspirational way to promote healthy living to local people THU by devising an annual Games event which led to the rebirth THU of the Olympics at its classis home in Athens. The Wenlock THU Olympian Society has continued with the games which are THU still a unique annual attraction to this day. THU Helen Mark hears from some of the people taking part in, and THU involved with, the Games and also explores the 'living THU entity' that is Wenlock Edge. This wooded, limestone THU escarpment stretches for around 17 miles from Craven Arms to THU Much Wenlock and finds out more about the history, THU archaeology and wildlife of this incredible landscape. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01kjjns (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01kjlhh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01kkr4n (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01kkr4q (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week THU and speaks to scientists who are making headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b01kkr4s (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kjfk8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b01kkr4v (Listen) THU Olympic Special, Episode 1 THU THU The sitcom set in hell returns with a two part special. Six THU years ago London won the right to host the biggest sporting THU event in the world and with typical modesty the Brits have THU barely mentioned it ever since. Well now the news has THU reached Satan in Hell and he decides to have a little look THU into this sporting event. THU THU In part one he finds out how it all began by going back to THU ancient Greece - a time when Greece had great philosophers, THU big ideas and a bit of cash. THU THU In part two he transports historian Edith from the chaos of THU Hell up to London in two thousand and twelve so she can THU appreciate real chaos. THU THU Written by and starring Andy Hamilton as Satan and also THU starring Annette Crosbie as Edith. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01kkr4x (Listen) THU The nightmare at Brookfield continues. Emma and Ruth are THU desperate with worry. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01kkr4z (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the writer THU Nicola Barker, whose new novel The Yips features a golfer THU whose career is on the slide. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01kkr46 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01kkr51 (Listen) THU NHS Trust Going Bust THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01kkr53 (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 Attila the Hen b00zsdsb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01kkr42 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01kjfkb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01kkr55 (Listen) THU Round-up of the day's news, with Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01kkr57 (Listen) THU The Truth, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Michael Palin. THU THU Mabbut submits the manuscript of his book on the elusive THU Hamish Melville but the publisher isn't happy. And daughter THU Jay asks Keith for money to help her boyfriend's family back THU home. THU THU Read by Alex Jennings THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Now Show b01kkr59 (Listen) THU Alice's Wunderland, Episode 1 THU THU A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. THU It's a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it THU in the slightest. Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, THU wigshops and witches, murderous pensioners and squirrels of THU this delightful land as they go about their bizarre THU business. THU THU A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe. THU THU Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel THU Stubbings, Clare Thompson and Marcia Warren. THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01kkr5c (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 JULY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01kjfl9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01l39qc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01kjflc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01kjflf (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01kjflk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01kjflm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kksqp (Listen) FRI With the Rev. Peter Baker. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01kksqr (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Emma FRI Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01kksqt (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01kjjp1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01l39qk (Listen) FRI The Ecstasy of Influence, Micropsia and What Remains of My FRI Plan FRI FRI In this essay from his book The Ecstasy Of Influence, the FRI American writer Jonathan Lethem on the ghosts who sit at the FRI writer's table. FRI FRI Reader: Kerry Shale FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01kksqw (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Susan Calman. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01kksqy (Listen) FRI Where'd You Go Bernadette?, Episode 10 FRI FRI In today's episode, Bee and Elgin continue their search for FRI the missing Bernadette on the forbidding continent of FRI Antarctica. FRI FRI Bernadette ..... Miranda Richardson FRI Bee .... Lydia Wilson FRI Elgin .... Richard Laing FRI Audrey .... Madeleine Potter FRI Soo Lin .... Laurel Lefkow FRI Marcus Strang .... Don Gilet FRI Ollie-O/ Jacob .... Sam Alexander FRI Paul Jellinek .... Patrick Brennan FRI Helen/ Gwen Goodyear .... Susie Riddell FRI Dr Kurtz .... Christine Absalom FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the company. FRI Adapted and directed by Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Hobson-Jobson: A Very English Enterprise b01kksr0 (Listen) FRI Poet Daljit Nagra revels in the extraordinary word horde of FRI Hobson-Jobson, the legendary dictionary of British India. FRI FRI Hobson-Jobson has resulted in more English words of Indian FRI origin entering the OED than of any other country - dinghy, FRI bungalow and shampoo to name a few. Since its first FRI publication in 1886, Hobson-Jobson has been continuously in FRI print for 140 years and has amused, inspired and seduced FRI generations of writers from Rudyard Kipling to Salman FRI Rushdie. FRI FRI Dr Kate Teltscher of Roehampton University is producing a FRI new edition for publication later this year as part of the FRI Oxford World Classics series and she is entranced. She says FRI it breaks all the rules about dictionaries. It's madly FRI scholarly yet hugely idiosyncratic and fun. FRI FRI Hobson-Jobson was compiled by two extraordinary polymaths FRI Henry Yule and Arthur Burnell, who corresponded with FRI scholars, diplomats, missionaries, intelligence officers and FRI army personnel across the globe to produce their 1000 page FRI lexicon. FRI FRI In this programme, actor Tim Pigott-Smith reads entertaining FRI and intriguing entries from Hobson-Jobson, and playwright FRI Tom Stoppard describes how it inspired a famous scene in his FRI play Indian Ink. FRI FRI Professor Javed Majeed highlights the ambivalent British FRI attitudes towards India evident in Hobson-Jobson, while FRI novelist Amitav Ghosh remarks on the prudishness of the FRI compilers, and poet Daljit Nagra shows how Hobson-Jobson has FRI become his 'word horde', offering exciting pathways to FRI create new poems such as This Be The Pukka Verse. FRI FRI An entertaining etymological adventure into the long and FRI complex relationship between Britain and Asia. FRI FRI Producer: Mukti Jain Campion FRI A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01kl20n (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI FRI Mark Bonnar and Sarah Alexander star as the exes determined FRI to be double- not single-parents and bring their kids up FRI together apart. FRI FRI But Lucy has noticed the difference between her affluent FRI mum, a children's fiction writer, and her broke dad who has FRI just started a new job with Your Pets Painted in the FRI Afterlife.com. She figures her dad he needs a proper FRI Father's Day present, and her tuba has served it's purpose FRI of getting her into that good state school where she doesn't FRI get bricks thrown at her head. So why not take a visit to FRI the pawn shop? FRI FRI Her mum Mimi's young life was blighted by a no-show actor FRI dad but she has fibbed to her kids, telling them her missing FRI magical dad suffered from Dramnesia. When Tom discovers his FRI grandad is starring in a stool-softening advert he invites FRI him to visit. Won't his mum be delighted? FRI FRI Joe ...... Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi ....... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ....... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ...... Phoebe Abbott FRI William ....... Nicky Henson FRI FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01kksr4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01kksr6 (Listen) FRI Terence Conran FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Terence Conran. 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 Terence Conran has changed the way Britain looks and FRI introduced the concept of good taste and design to the FRI living room in post war Britain. Still working at 80, his FRI career spans a revolution in the restaurant world, the FRI founding of the Design Museum, his home retail and style FRI makeover with the Habitat and Conran stores together with FRI his many books on food and lifestyle. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Taylor. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01kjflp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01kksr8 (Listen) FRI National and international news presented by Shaun Ley. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Siberian Stories b01knbgg (Listen) FRI Reindeer People FRI FRI Five sketches of life on the move in the wild Siberian FRI borderlands. Cicely Fell follows the upper reaches of the FRI Yenisei river to nomadic and religious communities on the FRI southern edge of Russia. FRI FRI The Tozhu reindeer people live in the remote taiga forests FRI of eastern Tuva, on Russia's border with Mongolia. For FRI thousands of years, these nomadic hunters have kept small FRI herds of reindeer as pack and riding animals and for milk. FRI FRI Today, with the construction of the first railway into Tuva FRI and the arrival of Russian and Chinese mining giants in the FRI taiga, the Tozhu's traditional lands are under threat. Fewer FRI than twenty reindeer herding families remain active in Tuva FRI and the number of reindeer has fallen to around 1,000. FRI FRI Cicely travels to the Kyrganai family's summer encampment in FRI the high mountain taiga, a week's ride from the nearest FRI village. The disappearance of Soviet subsidies and FRI transportation has split the reindeer herding families FRI between their camps in the taiga and the villages. Today FRI they have no income and no access to provisions or FRI medicines. Economic hardships and the depletion of wild game FRI stocks by commercial hunters are driving the Tozhu to sell FRI their reindeer for meat, using nearby mines as trading FRI posts. FRI FRI Producer: Cicely Fell FRI An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01kkr4x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01kksrb (Listen) FRI Sensationomics FRI FRI by Philip de Gouveia FRI FRI At the end of a long hard day, all a steel-nosed City trader FRI wants to do is to get home. What he hasn't banked on is the FRI tale his eccentric cab driver is keen to tell. About a young FRI African girl sent by her struggling mother to live in the FRI UK, in search of a better life. But what on earth does it FRI have to do with him? FRI FRI Lacey.....Sharon D Clarke FRI Gloria.....Amaka Okafor FRI Mother.....Gbemisola Ikumelo FRI Murphy.....Trevor White FRI Passenger.....Piers Wehner FRI Martha.....Tracy Wiles FRI Ted.....Sam Alexander FRI Quentin.....Don Gilet FRI FRI Economic Advisor Paul Mason FRI Producer/Director Marion Nancarrow. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01kksrd (Listen) FRI North Yorkshire FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team meet gardeners from North FRI Yorkshire. Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden and Matthew FRI Biggs form the panel. Pippa Greenwood reports on human FRI allergies to plants. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Elizabeth Taylor Short Stories b01kksrg (Listen) FRI The Blush FRI FRI Acclaimed short story writer and novelist Elizabeth Taylor FRI was known for her witty and powerful explorations of the FRI bitter frustrations and passions which lurk beneath the FRI civilised veneer of middle class life. FRI FRI In The Blush, the peaceful but empty existence of a FRI childless housewife implodes when she realises that the FRI influence of her cleaning lady is far more wide-reaching FRI than she had ever imagined. FRI FRI Produced by Amanda Hargreaves. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01kktmd (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01kktmg (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. Presented by Tim FRI Harford. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01kktmj (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01kjflt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01kktml (Listen) FRI Series 37, Episode 6 FRI FRI Susan Calman, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin join Steve Punt FRI and Hugh Dennis as they tiptoe through the stories making FRI the news this week. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01kktmn (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Joanna Toye FRI Editor ... John Yorke FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly FRI Tracey Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01kktmq (Listen) FRI John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Erin Riley. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01kksqy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01kktms (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics FRI from one of the winners of the BBC's nationwide Schools' FRI Questions and Answers challenge, Uckfield Community FRI Technology College, East Sussex. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01kktmx (Listen) FRI John Gray reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: FRI Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01kktmz (Listen) FRI Landfall FRI FRI Five misfits travel to a mysterious planet to recover ore FRI left by a mining operation and encounter a truly FRI extraordinary intelligence. An original Science Fiction FRI adventure by Mike Walker. FRI FRI Cally ... Nicola Miles-Wilden FRI Intaba ... Cyril Nri FRI Hudson ... Clare Perkins FRI JD ... Alex Tregear FRI Hussam ... Adeel Akhtar FRI FRI Sound design by Pete Ringrose and Colin Guthrie FRI FRI The director is Marc Beeby FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01kjflw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01kktn1 (Listen) FRI Round-up of the day's news, with Ritula Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01kktn3 (Listen) FRI The Truth, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Michael Palin. FRI FRI Publisher Ron Latham tells Mabbut that he's missed the real FRI story of Melville and directs him to a man called Trickett FRI to hear the truth. And Jay's boyfriend Shiraj disappears FRI with Mabbut's money. FRI FRI Read by Alex Jennings FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01kjt88 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01kktny (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
07 July, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 07/07/2012 - 13/07/2012
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