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SAT SATURDAY 04 AUGUST 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01l8qcq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01l3049 (Listen) SAT Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 5 SAT SAT "One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality SAT I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own SAT version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich SAT SAT Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist SAT Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the SAT slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, SAT Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a SAT makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering SAT luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through SAT the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it SAT takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, SAT unequal cities. SAT SAT Today: while some slum dwellers are forging their way up SAT into the overcity, others are fighting for their lives back SAT in the slum. SAT SAT Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist SAT who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is SAT her first book. SAT SAT Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director SAT of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and SAT playwright. SAT SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones SAT SAT Producer: Justine Willett. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l8qcs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l8qcv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l8qcx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01l8qcz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01l8s4h (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with SAT Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of The Oxford Centre for Hindu SAT Studies. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01l8s4k (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01l8qd1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01l8qd3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01l8n79 (Listen) SAT Urban Wildlife SAT SAT From Dover to Dundee, London to Leeds and Cardiff to SAT Cambridge, there is much more to our towns and cities than SAT concrete and cars. Take the time to listen and look and a SAT world of wildlife is there just waiting to be spotted. As SAT Britain's largest city London is alive with wildlife and SAT Jules Hudson takes a journey across West London in search of SAT just a few of the feathered, furry and winged residents that SAT call the city home. SAT SAT As the day begins, Jules meets David Lindo, aka The Urban SAT Birder, who takes Jules for a walk across Wormwood Scrubs, SAT the 183 acres of open land close to the prison of the same SAT name. This is David's patch, his 'garden' where he says he SAT has had the privilege of seeing Meadow Pipits, Woodpeckers, SAT passing Northern Wheatears, Honey Buzzards and even nesting SAT Skylarks. Leaving David doing what he does best, looking up SAT to the skies, Jules joins Jan Hewlett at the Gunnersbury SAT Triangle Nature Reserve. Cut off from the surrounding area SAT by railway tracks in the late nineteenth century, this SAT reserve in a corner of Chiswick has developed into a lively SAT ecological community which became one of London Wildlife SAT Trust's first reserves when it was saved from development by SAT a local campaign. Jan takes Jules on a walk through the SAT woodland of the reserve, which is home to an array of SAT birdlife, butterflies and bats, as well as hedgehogs and SAT field voles, to the pond to discover what creatures thrive SAT there. SAT SAT Leaving Jan taking in the peace of the Triangle, Jules SAT continues his journey to the home of Kelly Gray where he SAT finds some surprising residents in her back garden. Longing SAT for the rural lifestyle, Kelly has brought the countryside SAT and the idea of life on the farm to Brentford. Introducing SAT Jules to Rosie and Jim, the pigs that share her back garden SAT with the ducks and chickens she also has, Kelly explains why SAT she took such such a huge decision to bring the countryside SAT in to her West London garden. SAT SAT No urban wildlife story would be complete without the SAT gardener's best friend, the hedgehog. Jules rounds off his SAT journey with a visit to the home of Sue Kidger in Twickenham SAT from where she runs her hedgehog hospital, caring for SAT orphaned and injured hedgehogs with the aim of releasing SAT them once again to secure gardens. With Sue is Hugh Warwick, SAT self-confessed hedgehog obsessive who tells Jules about an SAT initiative to safeguard the future of hedgehogs whose SAT numbers have been declining rapidly in recent years. As Hugh SAT says, a hedgehog friendly garden is a wildlife friendly SAT garden. SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01ld15s (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The SAT presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Clare Freeman. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01l8qd5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01ld15v (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys SAT and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather and SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01ld15x (Listen) SAT Gerald Seymour, James Partridge, Ming Campbell's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles live from the Olympics with SAT newsman turned novelist Gerald Seymour, and James Partridge SAT who founded of the disfigurement charity Changing Faces; JP SAT Devlin mingles with the Olympic crowds; archer Tony George SAT sets us aquiver with his Sound Sculpture; listener Arnold SAT Gordon tells the tale of singing along to Over The Rainbow SAT with Judy Garland in a bar during the Tokyo Olympics; John SAT McCarthy gets out his bucket and spade in Weymouth; and SAT Olympic athlete turned politician Ming Campbell shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 The Hobbit, the Musical b01ld15z (Listen) SAT Actor Billy Boyd, who played a hobbit in the films of The SAT Lord Of The Rings, narrates the story of the first ever SAT stage production of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Hobbit, at New SAT College School in Oxford in 1967. It was written by Humphrey SAT Carpenter, with music by composer, Paul Drayton, then music SAT teacher at the school. We hear from the boys who performed SAT it, who were choristers at the time and who are now eminent SAT in the musical world: Choral conductor Simon Halsey, Martin SAT Pickard Head of Music at Opera North, artist's agent Stephen SAT Lumsden and composer Howard Goodall- who watched his older SAT brother Ashley, now a marketing professional, perform. They SAT talk about their memories and about Tolkien's presence in SAT the audience on the last night. SAT The present-day Chamber choir at New College School sing SAT some of the original songs, and we also play a never before SAT broadcast recording of the production as it happened in SAT 1967. SAT Producer: Sara Conkey. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01ld161 (Listen) SAT Death SAT SAT Bridget Kendall's guests consider the best way to think SAT about our own death. What is the best way to prepare for it? SAT SAT After a life as a literary editor, Diana Athill has become SAT well known for her frank and eloquent memoirs and thoughts SAT on her impending death. Now at the age of 94, she has come SAT to relish life in an old people's home. SAT SAT Pauline Chen has to deal with life and death in her daily SAT work as a liver transplant and cancer surgeon. She thinks SAT doctors could benefit from thinking more about the way we SAT handle death and the emotional impact it has on the SAT patient's family. She has written about the subject both as SAT a book and as an online column for the New York Times. SAT SAT And the poet Paul Muldoon from Northern Ireland shares his SAT personal experiences of dealing with the death of his SAT sister, as well, as his latest work based on the verses of SAT The Bible's Book of Lamentations. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01ldg5s (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Fixing Broken Banking b01ldg5v (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Big British banks are now widely accused of damaging the SAT economy by failing to support their customers. SAT SAT In this 4-part series, Michael Robinson examines what went SAT wrong and how it might be put right. SAT SAT The series opens by showing how the once close relationship SAT between bank managers and customers has broken down. It SAT charts how the introduction of computer systems from the SAT 1980s replaced local decision-making with centralised SAT lending controls. At the same time, pressure on front-line SAT branch staff to sell highly profitable financial products SAT such as Payment Protection Insurance increased massively. SAT With testimony from industry insiders, this programme shows SAT how PPI became one of the big banks' major sources of SAT income. It reveals why early attempts to blow the whistle on SAT industry malpractice failed and how the scandal of PPI SAT mis-selling ended up increasing distrust in what had started SAT out as a good financial product. As a result, many who would SAT benefit from such insurance now shun it, putting themselves SAT at greater risk. The programme shows how PPI became a SAT touchstone for what has happened to British banking and the SAT widespread cynicism with which it's now regarded. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b01l8rbv (Listen) SAT Series 8, Rebecca Front talks to Chris Addison SAT SAT Rebecca Front talks to her Thick Of It co-star and fellow SAT Nude-a-phobe, comedian Chris Addison about working with SAT Armando Iannucci and embracing his middle-classness through SAT stand-up SAT SAT Producer ..... Carl Cooper SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01l8qd9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01l8qdc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01l8rbz (Listen) SAT Clevedon, North Somerset SAT SAT Shaun Ley chairs a live discussion of news and politics from SAT Clevedon Community Cinema, Somerset, with author, journalist SAT and chairman of the National Trust, Simon Jenkins; Labour SAT Peer, Angela Billingham, cross-bench peer and businessman, SAT Digby Jones and author Harriet Sergeant. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Eaton. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01ldg5x (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00tnb15 (Listen) SAT Spitfire! SAT SAT A moving drama by Mike Walker about the most famous British SAT fighter aircraft in history, first broadcast in September SAT 2010 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. SAT Framed by recollections from veteran SAT Geoffrey Wellum, the drama features specially made SAT recordings of RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight SAT Spitfires, including the only Spitfire still flying today to SAT have fought in the Battle. SAT SAT Inspired by real people and real events, the drama traces RJ SAT Mitchell's design from creation to legend and the fortunes SAT of two young pilots who join a frontline Spitfire squadron SAT just as the Battle of Britain begins. SAT It stars Samuel West, Samuel Barnett, Rory Kinnear and Ruth SAT Wilson. SAT SAT Many factors were important in the Battle, but it was the SAT excellence of the Spitfire which most famously evened the SAT odds in the fight against the Luftwaffe. Mike Walker's drama SAT takes us close to this magnificent aircraft SAT and gives us a feeling of what it was like to fly the SAT legendary plane which became, in test pilot Jeffrey Quill's SAT words, 'a symbol of defiance and victory'. SAT SAT Technical Advisor: Patrick Bishop SAT Original music and sound design: David Chilton SAT SAT Producer/Director: Amber Barnfather SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Making Tracks b01l8x2n (Listen) SAT London's Abbey Road SAT SAT Cultural commentator Paul Morley explores a history of SAT popular music through some of the iconic recording studios SAT in which classic albums were created. SAT SAT Without them music as we know it would simply not exist. SAT There'd be no technology to capture the sounds envisaged by SAT the musicians and created and enhanced by the engineers and SAT producers... and there'd be no music for the record SAT companies to market and distribute. But more than that, the SAT studios actually played a crucial part in the structure and SAT fabric of the music recorded there - the sounds enhanced by SAT the studio space itself... the potential and shortcomings of SAT the equipment and technology housed in the cubicles... and SAT the ability and 'vision' of the engineers and producers SAT operating it all to find the new sound that makes the SAT recordings sound different and fresh. SAT SAT Today he visits the world's first purpose built recording SAT studio, and possibly the most famous: the one at No 3, Abbey SAT Road, a stone's throw from a much photographed zebra SAT crossing in London's St John's Wood. Opened by Sir Edward SAT Elgar conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in a SAT recording of "Land Of Hope And Glory", the studios went on SAT to record everyone from Adam Ant, The Bolshoi and Nick SAT Cave... to XTC, Diana Yakawa and the Zombies - to say SAT nothing of Pink Floyd and the Beatles. SAT SAT But that's not what's drawn Paul Morley to these historic SAT recording rooms - it's the continuing work in capturing the SAT sound of orchestras that is put under the spotlight in this SAT programme. With the help of engineers and producers, SAT composers and those that keep the studios running on a day SAT to day basis, Paul explores how the relationship classical SAT music has with the recording studio differs from the one SAT that pop music enjoys. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01ldg5z (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week including the author SAT Shirley Conran reflecting on her novel "Lace" and on whether SAT it's okay to stuff a mushroom. What's it like to watch a SAT member of your family taking part in the Olympics? The joys SAT - and possible exploitations - of volunteering. A chance to SAT hear more of the special interview that Maeve Binchy gave to SAT Woman's Hour at her home three years ago. And the shape and SAT size of female genitalia: just what is "normal"? Presented SAT by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01ldg61 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01l8s4k (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01l8qdf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01l8qdh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l8qdk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01ldg63 (Listen) SAT Peggy Seeger, Tim Piggott-Smith, Robert Llewellyn and Kayvan SAT Novak SAT SAT Clive is cast away to Prospero's magical isle with the SAT award-winning actor, Tim Pigott-Smith, who stars as the SAT marooned Duke of Milan in Adrian Noble's production of 'The SAT Tempest' at the Theatre Royal Bath later this month. It's a SAT world of spirits and monsters, mistaken identity and sweet SAT romance - but where does the reality end and fantasy begin? SAT After all, ''We are such stuff as dreams are made on". SAT SAT Clive navigates his way to calmer waters and dry land where SAT he meets The Man in the Rubber Mask, otherwise known as SAT Robert Llewellyn or Kryten from Red Dwarf. Robert's novel, SAT 'News from Gardenia', presents a utopian vision of Great SAT Britain in the future, as seen through the eyes of a man SAT from the present. SAT SAT Nikki dials up 'Fonejacker' Kayvan Novak in his alter-ego SAT role of Terry Tibbs, the used car salesman. Terry's now got SAT his own prime time chat show, 'Verry Terry', which sees him SAT interviewing a variety of celebrity guests. First up for the SAT Terry treatment are all round tough guy, Mickey Rourke, and SAT TV presenter, Anthea Turner. 'Verry Terry' is part of SAT Channel 4's 'Funny Fortnight' on Thursday 16th August at SAT 10pm. SAT SAT American folk legend and grande dame, Peggy Seeger, talks to SAT Clive about her new album 'Folksploitation', which sees her SAT in an unlikely collaboration with the experimental dance SAT music producer Broadcaster. She will also perform the SAT original acoustic version of 'First Time Ever I Saw Your SAT Face' - the song her husband Ewan McColl wrote for her when SAT they first met in 1957. SAT SAT Further musical entertainment comes from the soulful pop SAT sensation Eugene McGuinness who plays 'Shotgun' from his new SAT album 'The Invitation to the Voyage'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01ldg65 (Listen) SAT With his trademark blonde hair and a reputation for SAT colourful antics, Boris Johnson has had a seemingly SAT unstoppable rise through the ranks of UK politics. After SAT seizing a second term as London mayor earlier this year and SAT thanks to the Olympic games coming to London, he's become SAT firmly associated with the city on the world stage. SAT SAT But alongside his various careers as mayor, journalist, SAT author and quiz show panellist, it seems his political SAT prospects within the ranks of the Tory party also remain SAT strong. Recent polls suggest a groundswell of support for SAT him as a potential future leader of the party. James Silver SAT charts the rise and rise of a unique politician. SAT SAT Producer - Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01ldg67 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Adam Mars Jones and SAT writers Lisa Appignanesi and Ekow Eshun review the week's SAT cultural highlights including Seth MacFarlane's film Ted. SAT SAT THEATRE The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - SAT National Theatre SAT FILM Ted SAT TV Funny Fortnight - C4 SAT BOOK The Daylight Gate - Jeanette Winterson SAT EXHIBITION William Morris Gallery reopening SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0103zpt (Listen) SAT How to Archive Yourself SAT SAT In October 1998 Gordon Bell went paperless. This is Gordon SAT Bell, of Microsoft, who has been described as "the Frank SAT Lloyd Wright of computers". He has archived everything he SAT has written and now records the minutiae of his life SAT digitally as part of a project called MyLifeBits, an SAT experiment designed to assist and maybe even supersede SAT memory. But now that we can record so much of our lives are SAT we missing out on the living of them? SAT SAT The wealth, range and affordability of devices to record SAT your own life - from the 'basic' camera phone, hand-held SAT internet connection, and even biological and genetic SAT sequencing, has expanded exponentially over recent years. SAT Take a look at the next event you are enjoying - viewing the SAT Mona Lisa, watching David Byrne at the Royal Festival Hall, SAT enjoying a friend's birthday cake candles being blown out - SAT and count how many people are watching and how many are SAT recording the moment. SAT But what is all this for? Why are we doing it? And is an SAT archive an archive if it is not structured, indexed, given SAT meaning? Talking to passionate archivist Robert Fripp, from SAT King Crimson, dispassionate archivist Geoff Dyer, and Sue SAT Aldworth, an artists whose whole house is her archive, SAT presenter and self-archivist Toby Amies argues that the SAT virtual moment has now become a vital part of the moment, SAT not a dilution of it and that by being part of this new SAT explosion of archiving we are playing our part in a shift of SAT consciousness. He believes that the virtual is becoming as SAT important, or as real, as the real and that this is part of SAT the slow move into a future where technology and humans SAT intersect in a different way. SAT He examines the explosion in the archiving of human SAT existence, wondering whether we are in the age of the super SAT diary or at a launching point for the transference of our SAT consciousness into the digital universe, for good. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01l5qc7 (Listen) SAT The Chrysalids, Episode 1 SAT SAT John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic SAT dramatised by Jane Rogers. SAT SAT Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the emergent SAT bleak, primitive society, any deviation is seen as the work SAT of the devil, ruthlessly hunted out and destroyed. In law SAT abiding, God-respecting Waknuk anyone who does not conform SAT to the 'norm' must keep their deviation secret or face the SAT consequences of discovery. SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari SAT SAT Written in 1955 Wyndham's novel explores the dangers SAT inherent in discrimination and the threats posed by SAT religious fundamentalism. The 'Old People' who caused the SAT apocalypse are depressingly like us: ' They were shut off by SAT different languages and different beliefs. They created vast SAT problems then buried their heads in the sands of idle SAT faith.' The children of the future (the Chrysalids) are able SAT to 'think-together' and so can rise above the selfish SAT violence and conflicting religions of the past. Wyndham's SAT story of a group of persecuted teenagers is more timely than SAT ever in our post-Fukushima, war-riven, genetically SAT engineered and religiously divided world. Jane Rogers is a SAT playwright and novelist, her latest novel The Testament of SAT Jessie Lamb won the Arthur C Clarke Award this year. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01l8qdm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01l7wtw (Listen) SAT The Moral Value of Sport SAT SAT The Olympics - you can hardly miss them. They're said to SAT have cost more than government cuts in the welfare budget SAT and with the rows over security, Zil lanes, empty seats and SAT the ruthless protection of the Olympic brand it's perhaps SAT too easy to forget that the purpose of all this is the SAT essentially trivial pursuit of sport. Have we come to demand SAT so much from modern sport that we've forgotten its true SAT purpose and value? As the cost of major sporting events like SAT the Olympics has escalated we demand and expect more of SAT them; to make us better, healthier people, to promote social SAT inclusion, contribute to the economy and even peace among SAT nations. That all may sound farfetched from the comfort our SAT or sofas and our ever expanding waistlines, but it's worth SAT recalling that morality is at the core of the spread of SAT modern sport around the world. Pierre De Coubertin, founder SAT of the Olympic Movement, was one of many who thought sport SAT was morally improving - a way of shaping character, SAT transmitting values and challenging anti-social behaviour. SAT "Play up and play the game" feels a long way from the mores SAT of the modern professional footballer, but even here, can we SAT still see the faintly beating heart of the morality play SAT that makes sport so compelling - with its themes of SAT challenge, defeat and redemption? Or in the era of SAT professional corporatized sport is that a hopelessly SAT romantic notion that has fallen victim to the win at all SAT cost Nietzschean Ubermensch? What exactly is the moral value SAT of sport? SAT SAT Witnesses: SAT Mihir Bose - Sports journalist & writer, author of 'The SAT Spirit Of The Game', on the ethics & politics of sport SAT Matthew Syed - Former Olympic table tennis player, now SAT sports & feature writer for The Times SAT Jenny Price - Chief Executive, Sport England SAT Sam Tomlin - Sports ThinkTank and go author of a report with SAT Theos "Give Us our Ball Back" SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Matthew Taylor SAT and Melanie Phillips. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b01l7mq0 (Listen) SAT Another edition of the 48th series of Quote... Unquote, the SAT popular quotations programme presented and devised by Nigel SAT Rees. The guests this week are Charlie Higson, Martin SAT Kelner, Nat Luurtsema and Stephanie Merritt. The reader is SAT Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT Producer: Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry 2012 - the Power of the Poem b01l7lsm (Listen) SAT Poetry 2012 - the Power of the Poem SAT SAT In celebration of London 2012, the BBC and The Scottish SAT Poetry library have created Poetry 2012, a wonderfully SAT ambitious and inspiring collaboration, taking a poem from SAT each country competing in this year's Olympics and asking SAT someone from each nation now living in the UK to read and SAT reflect. SAT SAT In this programme, Jamaican poet Kei Miller and Robyn SAT Marsack, Director of the Scottish Poetry library, explore SAT the recurring themes of family, loss, love, and landscape, SAT bringing together some of the most memorable poems and SAT readers from Poetry 2012, who were profoundly moved and SAT affected by the experience, and they share just how SAT impactful and poignant reading the poem was and the SAT unexpected emotional journey it sent them on. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 AUGUST 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01ldgtr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00lyf65 (Listen) SUN We Are Stardust, We Are Golden, Dreams of Milk and Honey SUN SUN Read by Mark Bazeley SUN SUN These three short stories were commissioned by Radio 4 to SUN mark the 40th anniversary of the famous Woodstock Music SUN Festival. With different themes reflecting that momentous SUN time, We Are Stardust We Are Golden begins with Dreams of SUN Milk and Honey by Patrick Neate. SUN SUN The narrator, Tommy, is a child of Woodstock whose parents' SUN relationship blossomed during the festival. On his way to SUN visit his rather remarkable mother, still in some ways a SUN child of the 60's, he has to break some news to her about SUN his personal life and finds himself contemplating how she SUN will take it. But it is not at all as he had imagined. SUN SUN Producer: Cherry Cookson SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ldgtt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ldgtw (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ldgty (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01ldgv0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01lh966 (Listen) SUN The bells of Solovsky Monastery, Russia. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01ldg65 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01ldgv2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01lh968 (Listen) SUN The Instinct for Meaning SUN SUN Writer Jake Arnott believes narrative is a powerful force. SUN In this week's Something Understood, he explores the idea SUN that the instinct to create stories is innate within us all, SUN and is vital to our understanding of the world and our own SUN lives. After all, without a narrative to join everything SUN together, our time on earth becomes little more than a SUN series of random, unconnected events. SUN SUN As a novelist, stories are Jake's stock in trade, it's his SUN job to engage with them. But he thinks the desire to do so SUN is universal - since our earliest evolution humans have been SUN telling tales. Fairy stories in particular, passed down SUN through an oral tradition, echo across time and across SUN cultures. EM Forster described story as a 'low atavistic SUN form'. Atavistic, yes, and deeply engrained, but Jake argues SUN that Forster's insistence that story is mere causality is SUN wrong. Story occurs without anything having had to happen, SUN it's not just an order of events. Beckett's 'Waiting for SUN Godot' is a play in which nothing much happens, and yet it SUN resonates with a powerful sense of story. SUN SUN Jake speaks to Jane Davis, founder of The Reader SUN Organisation. Jane's charity invites people to come together SUN and read aloud, using narratives from books to engage with SUN their own life stories. Through her work and her own SUN personal experiences, she has found that stories can SUN transform lives. And the telling of our own life story can SUN be a powerful tool. SUN SUN Readings from Jeanette Winterson and Joan Didion, and music SUN including the Beatles' Eleanor Rigby and Schumann's SUN Fairytale Pictures, help Jake to unravel the potent energy SUN of narrative. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Coombs SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01lh96b (Listen) SUN The UK's Rarest Frog SUN SUN The UK's rarest frog is the pool frog and just 60 of them SUN live in ponds at a secret location in Norfolk. Although the SUN last native English pool frogs died out over a decade ago, SUN they were reintroduced here from Sweden in 2005-2008. The SUN Swedish pool frogs are most similar in colour and size to SUN the original British pool frogs and are mottled dark brown SUN with a bright lime-green stripe down their backs. In Living SUN World Joanna Pinnock meets John Baker, a consultant SUN specialising in reptiles and amphibians, who is monitoring SUN pool frog numbers. Male pool frogs have a loud quacking call SUN and so to count them in the breeding season John plays frog SUN recordings to which the males respond by ballooning out SUN white air-sacs at the corners of their mouths. SUN SUN Pool frogs are related to European marsh and edible frogs, SUN and like them, enjoy basking in warm sunshine. Extrovert SUN behaviour like this makes them vulnerable to predators SUN though and many frogs have been eaten by herons, grass SUN snakes and even otters. Joanna comes face to face with a SUN couple of grass snakes on site and encounters their very SUN smelly defence strategy! SUN SUN For the frogs, conservation efforts will aim to protect this SUN slowly growing population and perhaps extend the range of SUN pool frogs in East Anglia to ensure the return of this SUN native. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01ldgv4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01ldgv6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01lh96d (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01lh96g (Listen) SUN Health Poverty Action SUN SUN Felicity Finch presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Health Poverty Action SUN Reg Charity: 290535 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Health Poverty Action. SUN SUN Health Poverty Action SUN SUN Health Poverty Action believes that everyone should enjoy a SUN life free from poverty and ill health and delivers SUN life-saving healthcare in places where poverty, oppression SUN and conflict are denying people their health and welfare. SUN SUN Health Poverty Action sees health and poverty as SUN inseparable. By taking action on health and poverty SUN together, a negative cycle of disease and deprivation can be SUN turned into a positive cycle of good health and hope for the SUN future. The charity works in partnership with the world�s SUN poorest people to grow local expertise in health services SUN and disease prevention so that communities can survive and SUN thrive. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01ldgv8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01ldgvb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01lh96j (Listen) SUN Bishop Stephen Oliver explores Celtic spirituality on the SUN Holy Island of Lindisfarne and its impact on English SUN Christianity. Meeting local islanders and experiencing the SUN bleak landscape Bishop Stephen finds out what has drawn SUN pilgrims to the island for over 1300 years. With music SUN recorded in the island's parish church of St Mary the Virgin SUN by the Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Director SUN of music: Andrew Earis. Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN Islands have about them a particular mystique. Maybe that is SUN why many of them have a long history of being home to SUN religious communities. The islands of Iona, Lindisfarne and SUN Caldey all have ancient monastic roots yet each island SUN continues to be a place of contemporary spirituality. They SUN are all very different and yet whilst each of them is a SUN place of distinctive prayer and quiet reflection they are SUN visited by thousands of tourists and pilgrims in the course SUN of a year and particularly in the summer months. SUN Lindisfarne (Holy Island) is where St. Aidan arrived from SUN Iona. It is where the famous Illuminated Gospels were SUN inscribed in the early eighth century. Today the monastery SUN is a ruin but it is still a place of pilgrimage and for many SUN represents the resurgence of a particular Celtic SUN spirituality. Twice a day Lindisfarne is cut off by the sea. SUN It's this sense of isolation and of being 'beyond' that SUN gives it its unique spiritual atmosphere and draws walkers SUN from all over Britain for the famous Holy Cross pilgrimage SUN every Easter. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01l8rc1 (Listen) SUN Price of a Postage Stamp SUN SUN The philosopher John Gray wonders what bulk buying of stamps SUN ahead of the price rise tells us about economic gloom. "The SUN relative security that many people enjoyed in the recent SUN past is fading from memory". SUN Producer: SUN Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01lh96l (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 b01lh96n (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... John Yorke SUN Editor ..... John Yorke SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski SUN Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01lh96q (Listen) SUN Baroness Campbell SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Baroness Jane SUN Campbell. SUN SUN She was born with a degenerative condition and her parents SUN were told she would not survive infancy. Now in her SUN mid-fifties and a cross-bench peer, she's spent her adult SUN life campaigning for equality for disabled people and was SUN one of the leading voices behind the Disability SUN Discrimination Act of 1995. SUN SUN She recalls: "I found myself sitting in the middle of SUN Westminster Bridge bringing the traffic to a standstill. The SUN police didn't know what to do with us - whether to pat us on SUN the head or, you know, put handcuffs on us. They were quite SUN confused." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01l7qxc (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at the Rose Theatre in SUN Kingston-upon-Thames, regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden SUN and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Ross Noble, SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided SUN by Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01lh96s (Listen) SUN Camping Food SUN SUN For most people, the idea of camping food is not an SUN appetising one. You'll not find food-loving Tim Hayward SUN under canvas unless it's in the big tent of a food festival. SUN SUN Tim has got wind of a man who is throwing all of his energy SUN into changing forever how people see (and taste) camping SUN food. Setting off on an arduous voyage to meet Josh Sutton - SUN aka The Guyrope Gourmet - our intrepid presenter learns SUN about tribal caches, a pioneering outdoorsman with a love of SUN Italian cuisine, as well as a whole new way to experience SUN 'local food'. SUN SUN Tim Hayward is joined by Matthew de Abaitua, author of 'The SUN Art of Camping'. SUN SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01ldgvd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01lh96v (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 Stepping Stones of Islamic Spain b01lh96x (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN The 750 year Muslim rule of Spain left a complex social, SUN religious and cultural legacy. SUN SUN Great buildings, such as The Alhambra Palace and the SUN Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba, link us to much of this past SUN and are stepping stones in Michael's journey. Along the way, SUN he asks why there are so few mosques in Spain, despite its SUN many Muslims, and he digs into the Reconquista - the SUN expulsion of Muslims and their forced conversion to SUN Christianity. SUN SUN The construction of places of worship was, and still is, a SUN strong indication of the vitality of a religion. So in the SUN centuries of fluctuating power struggle between Islam and SUN Christianity churches became mosques, which turned back into SUN churches. SUN SUN Michael starts his trip in Badalona - a bustling city in SUN Catalonia. The region has around 280,000 Muslims in 100 SUN registered communities, yet there is not one purpose built SUN Mosque for them to use. Each Friday, Muslims have been SUN conducting their prayers on a sports pitch, but now the SUN local Mayor has ruled that even this cannot continue. SUN SUN He tells Michael 'those who don't make an effort to SUN integrate into the community, well I don't want them to feel SUN too comfortable in Badalona....I would like them to leave - SUN to another city or go back to their home country'. SUN SUN Michael says 'Spain is a self-consciously Christian country, SUN despite and because of its years of Islamic rule and its SUN border with Muslim North Africa. Many of its own Muslims SUN struggle to fit in, yet the fabric of the country is SUN interwoven with Islam - enormous Cathedrals, tiny chapels, SUN grand mosques, daunting castles and even ordinary backstreet SUN houses show the influence of Islamic architecture, SUN philosophy and engineering.' SUN SUN Producer: David Morley. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01l8nv8 (Listen) SUN Fishbourne Roman Palace, Chichester SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team answer gardening questions in SUN Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens. In addition, Bob SUN Flowerdew asks "what did the Romans ever do for British SUN gardeners!" SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01lh96z (Listen) SUN Water polo and the Hungarian uprising in 1956 SUN SUN In November 1956 the Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule SUN was quickly quashed. Tanks were sent into the capital SUN Budapest and rebels were rounded up. But the Olympics in SUN Melbourne later that month, gave the country's water polo SUN team one last chance to stand up to the USSR. Before his SUN death in April this year, Hungarian water polo player Ervin SUN Zador, spoke to Witness about the clash which became known SUN as the 'blood in the water match'. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01lh971 (Listen) SUN The Chrysalids, Episode 2 SUN SUN John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic SUN dramatised by Jane Rogers. SUN SUN Genetic mutation has devastated the world. Any deviation is SUN seen as the work of the devil, ruthlessly hunted out and SUN destroyed. David Strorm is one of a group of young people SUN who can communicate by transferring thought-shapes. In God SUN fearing, law abiding Waknuk, David and his friends would be SUN classed as Mutants. Will David be forced to flee to the SUN Fringes, the lawless territory inhabited by mutants or risk SUN discovery? SUN SUN DAVID.....Matthew Beard SUN ROSALIND.....Verity-May Henry SUN PETRA.....Sydney Wade SUN MICHAEL/FRINGE DWELLER.....Henry Devas SUN SOPHIE/SALLY.....Carla Henry SUN RACHEL/ZEALANDER.....Emma Cunniffe SUN GORDON.....Conrad Nelson SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01lh973 (Listen) SUN Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient SUN SUN Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje talks to James Naughtie and SUN readers about his 1992 Booker prize-winning novel The SUN English Patient. SUN SUN The novel tells the story of the entanglement of four SUN damaged lives in an Italian villa as the Second World War SUN ends. The exhausted nurse Hana, the maimed thief Caravaggio, SUN the bomb disposal expert Kip who are each haunted by the SUN riddle of the English patient, the nameless burns victim who SUN lies in an upstairs room. SUN SUN As well as the mystery of the patient, the novel weaves two SUN love stories - one from the past in pre-war Cairo, the other SUN in the Italian villa. SUN SUN Noted for his lyrical prose, Michael Ondaatje talks about SUN his love of poetry, how the characters of Hana and SUN Caravaggio haunted him so much from a previous novel - In SUN the Skin of a Lion - that he brought them back to appear in SUN The English Patient. He also describes his painstaking SUN method of writing a novel - by longhand in notebooks. SUN SUN September's Bookclub choice : The Island by Victoria Hislop SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 My Heart Is in the East b01lh975 (Listen) SUN Medieval historian Miri Rubin explores the rich history of SUN the most famous of Hebrew poems. SUN SUN My Heart is in the East is probably the best-known poem in SUN the Hebrew language. It was written in the twelfth-century SUN by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, the finest Hebrew poet of the Middle SUN Ages. Though he had lived his entire life in Spain, it SUN describes his deep yearning for his spiritual home, SUN Jerusalem. SUN SUN This longing could have remained a poetic preoccupation but, SUN in his sixties, this successful doctor, renowned philosopher SUN and poet, took the extraordinary decision to try and make SUN his way to the Holy Land, crossing the Mediterranean by ship SUN to Alexandria in 1140. The journey was a perilous one and he SUN must have known he would not be welcome in Jerusalem. Since SUN the Christian conquest during the First Crusade in 1099, SUN Muslims and Jews were banned from living in the city. SUN SUN What happened next to Halevi remained unknown for centuries SUN and became the stuff of legend. But thanks to the discovery SUN of the Cairo Genizah in 1896, remarkable documentary SUN evidence of Halevi's epic journey has emerged. Letters SUN preserved in the Genizah enable historians to trace much of SUN Halevi's route and also reveal the fame and stature he had SUN acquired as a poet and philosopher around the Mediterranean SUN region. SUN SUN Long after Halevi's death, My Heart is in the East still SUN resonates with new audiences. His poetry was revived by SUN romantic and early Zionist poets in nineteenth century SUN Europe, and has continued to influence Israeli poets and SUN singers to this day. SUN SUN Contributors: Dr Tamar Drukker, Professor Nicholas de Lange SUN and Dr Ben Outhwaite. SUN SUN Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01l7sq4 (Listen) SUN Tuberculosis SUN SUN Figures released this month reveal almost 9000 new SUN tuberculosis cases in the United Kingdom last year, the SUN highest level since the 1970s. The disease has risen by more SUN than a third in the past decade. In parts of London, SUN Birmingham and other cities it is already at the level of SUN high-risk countries in the developing world. SUN SUN Yet in most of the rest of Europe TB rates have been SUN steadily falling in recent years. Health experts have found SUN that cases of TB remain static among people of all SUN ethnicities who were born in Britain. They attribute the SUN national rise in cases to migration from some former British SUN colonies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent. SUN SUN Airport screening of migrants, using a chest x-ray, SUN identifies only active cases of the disease in the lungs. It SUN misses the much more numerous cases of latent TB which can SUN progress to become active at any time. An estimated 10,000 SUN cases of latent TB arrive undetected in the UK each year. SUN SUN A nationwide survey of NHS blood-test screening programmes SUN shows that the areas with populations most at risk are also SUN those with least effort put into screening for latent SUN disease. Patients' groups also question the level of GPs' SUN awareness of the many manifestations of tuberculosis, citing SUN cases of repeated missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis which SUN have left patients suffering as the disease advances with SUN sometimes fatal consequences. SUN SUN Gerry Northam investigates the resurgence of a condition SUN once thought to be all-but eliminated from the UK and asks SUN if the NHS is failing to tackle it. SUN SUN Producer: Gail Champion SUN Reporter: Gerry Northam. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01ldg65 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01ldgvg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01ldgvj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ldgvl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01lh977 (Listen) SUN Martin Wainwright makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN Find out who put the 'admin' into Badminton this week, and SUN how the birds of Wormwood Scrubs set one prisoner on the SUN path to a new life. We hear from the cast of York Mystery SUN plays, the voice of the Sixties Don McLean and a warrior and SUN an elf in Mosley Bog, deep in the suburbs of Birmingham. SUN That and the radio pirate who survived for a fortnight on SUN salad cream mixed with instant coffee grounds SUN SUN Pm - Radio 4 SUN The Now Show 2012 Live - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives: Henry Cooper - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory - Radio 4 SUN A Long Long Time Ago: Don McLean Story - Radio 2 SUN Tolkien in Love - Radio 4 SUN The Hobbit: The Musical - Radio 4 SUN Making Tracks - Radio 4 SUN Whatever Happened to the Chemistry Set? - Radio 4 SUN Word of Mouth -Radio 4 SUN Open Country - Radio 4 SUN Radio York SUN 1948 Olympics: London's Austerity Games - Radio 2 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01lh979 (Listen) SUN It's the morning after the night before. Meanwhile Hayley SUN uncovers the truth. SUN SUN 19:15 I've Never Seen Star Wars b015fkl4 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Kathy Burke SUN SUN Actress Kathy Burke tries five things she has never done SUN before. SUN SUN 19:45 8.51 to Brighton b01lh97c (Listen) SUN Housekeeping SUN SUN A series of short stories written by new writers to radio. SUN Each writer has taken the 8.51 to Brighton and given the SUN journey their own twist, introducing us to characters whose SUN lives have changed by taking that particular train. SUN SUN Episode 3 of 3: Housekeeping by Vanessa Gebbie SUN Everyone is a stranger on a train. But none more strange SUN than the heroine in Vanessa Gebbie's wonderfully unnerving SUN tale Housekeeping. Who is this woman and why is she SUN following this man? Surely it's a strange way for a SUN housekeeper to behave? SUN SUN Read by Lesley Sharp. SUN SUN Recorded in front of an audience at The Old Courtroom as SUN part of 2012's Brighton Festival. SUN SUN The stories are introduced by Lynne Truss. SUN SUN Director: Celia De Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01l8rbq (Listen) SUN How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? SUN SUN In this week's programme: SUN SUN How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? SUN SUN There was controversy this week after Ye Shiwen, a young SUN Chinese swimmer, won the 400 metre individual medley in fine SUN style. A US swimming coach called the performance SUN "disturbing", implying that she may have cheated. More or SUN Less investigates the numbers and finds there's no SUN statistical smoking gun. SUN SUN Homelessness SUN SUN Does the news that homelessness has risen by 25% mean that SUN homelessness has risen by 25%? The simple answer is yes. But SUN that word "homeless"; in the words of the great Inigo SUN Montoya, I do not think it means what you think it means. SUN SUN How many songs could ever be written? SUN SUN TV's Yan Wong answers this listener's question: "I'm always SUN amazed by the number of songs one can recognise on hearing SUN the first second or two of music. Is it possible to SUN calculate the total number of potential opening bars? Surely SUN it must be finite?" SUN SUN The crime capital of television SUN SUN We look for the most dangerous place in TV crime drama. Why? SUN Because we can. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01l8rbn (Listen) SUN Maeve Binchy, Gore Vidal, Ann Atkinson and Geoffrey Hughes SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, who SUN sold forty million books around the world and didn't include SUN sex scenes because she said she didn't have enough first SUN hand experience SUN SUN The wit, commentator and writer Gore Vidal, admired for his SUN elegant prose and poise, but involved in many a public feud SUN SUN The poet laureate of the Peak District Ann Atkinson - SUN Barnsley's own Ian McMillan will be here with a tribute SUN SUN And the actor Geoffrey Hughes, best known for playing SUN lovable rogues like Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street, Twiggy SUN in the Royle Family and Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances. SUN Patricia Routledge - Hyacinth Bucket herself - shares her SUN memories. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b01l7wq5 (Listen) SUN Today on Face the Facts we reveal how scores of people with SUN learning disabilities are ending up in illegal forced SUN marriages. SUN SUN It ranges from immigration scams, right through to well SUN meaning relatives who hand pick a sometimes unwitting SUN spouse, as a carer for the disabled person. SUN SUN It predominantly, but not exclusively, involves South Asian SUN families. It has also happens in some East European , SUN African, Mediterranean and traveller families. SUN SUN The key issue is to do with consent. If someone does not SUN have mental capacity they can't consent to marriage, and no SUN one else can consent on their behalf. SUN SUN However, many families do not know about the Mental Capacity SUN Act, and presume they are simply 'arranging' a marriage, SUN which they have done for generations, and which is perfectly SUN legal. SUN SUN John Waite speaks to families of people with learning SUN disabilities who have ended up in a forced marriage. We hear SUN from a mother who is planning her disabled son's wedding for SUN the end of the year. SUN SUN We report about a couple who say their marriage is happy, SUN even though experts agree the husband does not appear to SUN have capacity to consent, and the wife is acting as his SUN carer. SUN SUN Plus we hear from a woman who was unwittingly married to a SUN man who turned out to have learning disabilities and who has SUN described how they are both victims. SUN SUN The Government's recent announcement to criminalise Forced SUN Marriage in general has been welcomed by some campaign SUN groups, but opposed by others who say it will only push the SUN practice underground. SUN SUN For those working with people with learning disabilities, SUN they view the reported cases of forced marriage involving SUN people with learning disabilities as only the 'tip of the SUN iceberg'. SUN SUN Producer;Carolyn Atkinson. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01lh96g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01l8n7y (Listen) SUN New Gateway SUN SUN Britain is getting a new port on the Thames, the first for SUN many years. When London Gateway opens next year, it will be SUN able to handle several million containers a year. SUN Peter Day asks what impact this vast undertaking is likely SUN to have on the way the country works and on the port's SUN competitors. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley SUN Editor Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01lh97f (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 b01lh97h (Listen) SUN Episode 115 SUN SUN Hugo Rifkind of The Times analyse how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01l8n7f (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the film career of SUN Ivor Novello, one of the most popular British entertainers SUN of the 20th century. With contributions from actor Simon SUN Callow, composer Neil Brand, academic Lawrence Napper, and SUN former criminal Frankie Fraser. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN Downhill SUN SUN The BFI, London will be showing a newly restored version of SUN Downhill co-written and starring Ivor Novello, with a live SUN score by beatboxer, Shlomo on Thursday 20th September 2012, SUN certificate U. SUN SUN The Lodger SUN SUN The Lodger starring Ivor Novello is on release in select UK SUN cinemas from Friday 10th August 2012, certificate PG. SUN SUN Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello SUN SUN Sir Mark Elder conducts a late night Prom of music by the SUN great British musicals composer; Ivor Novello on Thursday 9 SUN August from 10.15pm, live on BBC Radio 3 and shown again on SUN BBC Two at 8pm on Saturday 11 August. Simon Callow will be SUN narrating and featured soloists are Sophie Bevan and Toby SUN Spence. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01lh968 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 AUGUST 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01ldgwj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01l7wqh (Listen) MON Jobs for the Boys MON MON 'Jobs for the Boys?' New research presented at the British MON Sociological Association's 2012 conference claimed that MON middle class people hoard job opportunities in the UK TV and MON film industry. In a pre- recorded interview from the MON conference, Professor Irena Grugulis, suggests to Laurie MON Taylor that working class people don't get these jobs MON because they don't have the right accents, clothes, MON backgrounds or friends. Indeed, it's hard to find an area of MON the economy where connections and contacts are more MON significant. But is this mainly due to structural changes in MON the industry rather than to class based prejudice? The media MON expert, Sir Peter Bazalgette and Professor of Sociology, MON Mike Savage, respond to this research and explore nepotism, MON networking and discrimination in the media world and beyond. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01lh966 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ldgwl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ldgwn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ldgwq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01ldgws (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lhbfr (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with MON Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of The Oxford Centre for Hindu MON Studies. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01lhbft (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The MON presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01ldgwv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01lhbfw (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 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01lhbfy (Listen) MON The Knight MON MON Amanda Vickery explores the history of masculinity through MON six different archetypes of the ideal man, archetypes which MON still have an echo today. MON MON The history of men and masculinity is now at the cutting MON edge of scholarship. In conversation with historians, MON Professor Vickery asks: Where did these ideals of how men MON should behave come from? How influential were they on the MON lives and careers of real men? And what did women make of MON them? MON MON The series begins in the Middle Ages and ends in the 1950s. MON It explores The Knight, The Gentleman, The Lover, The MON Sailor, The Explorer, and The Suit. MON MON This first programme, The Knight, begins on location in MON Pembroke Castle with crusader historian Tom Asbridge. He MON reveals how the man who built it, William Marshal, came to MON be seen as the perfect knight, an example men tried to MON emulate for centuries. Marshal is fascinating to historians MON because he is the first ordinary man to have had a biography MON written about him - but the cold ruthless warrior the MON biography reveals is at odds with our Hollywood idea of MON chivalry. MON MON Knights were the professional footballers of their day. They MON could rise socially and accumulate princely wealth through MON lithe horsemanship and prowess in the joust, but they also MON composed love songs and sang the blues. MON MON Cultural historian Bill Burgwinkle introduces some revealing MON songs which suggest there was a strong homosexual subculture MON among knights. And medieval historian Helen Castor uncovers MON manuscript evidence of the struggle (personal and financial) MON ordinary gentlemen faced to live up to the exacting ideal. MON MON Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen MON Mary, University of London. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Capital Justice b01lhbg0 (Listen) MON Episode 5 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 b01ljxt4 (Listen) MON Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Andrew Blum. MON MON You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand MON miles away. How did that happen? MON MON In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived MON Armenia of its Internet access when she sliced through a MON buried cable with her garden spade. That January, Egyptian MON authorities simply switched off 70% of the country's MON Internet connections in an attempt to quell a revolution. In MON 2009, a squirrel chewed through a wire in Andrew Blum's MON backyard, slowing his broadband to a trickle and catapulting MON him on a quest to find out what this so-called 'Internet' MON actually is. MON MON This is the Internet as you've never seen it before. It's MON not a concept. It's not a culture. It's most certainly not a MON cloud. It's a mass of tubes. MON MON But what tubes! Hundreds of thousands of miles of MON fibre-optic cable, criss-crossing the globe, pulsing with MON trillions of photons of light, linking us via anonymous MON exchanges in secretive locations with vast data-warehouses MON where our online selves are stored in banks of spinning MON hard-drives. MON MON In Tubes, Andrew Blum takes us behind the scenes of this MON hidden world and introduces us to the remarkable clan of MON insiders and eccentrics who design and run it everyday. He MON explains where it is, how it got there, what it looks like, MON how it works - and what happens when it breaks. MON MON Reader: John Schwab MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lhbg4 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Aasmah Mir. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01lhbg6 (Listen) MON The Little Ottleys, Episode 1 MON MON Series Three (5 episodes) MON Episode One MON It is the Summer of 1916 and the Little Ottleys, MON as that tall, fine-looking couple had been known, MON are a couple no longer ... MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale MON MON Bruce, who headed off to the States with Madame Frabelle, MON has found life with her less than idyllic, and he returns to MON England (without her) in quick time. However, Edith is all MON ready to marry Aylmer. The divorce papers are drawn up and MON marriage plans are being made. MON MON When Bruce returns, Edith quickly realises that the poor man MON can't manage if he's left to his own idiotic devices. She MON doesn't love him. Aylmer is the love of her life and she is MON looking forward to making a new life with him but Bruce's MON hopelessness arouses pity and concern in her, as well as MON extreme frustration, and she allows him back into the spare MON room in the concise house in Knightsbridge. But when is she MON going to tell Aylmer? MON MON Vincy Wenham Vincy - friend and confidant to Bruce, Edith MON and Aylmer (mentioned in Series 1 and 2, but never given his MON voice) - finds himself in the impossible position of keeping MON secrets from all three of them, and offering advice to them MON at the same time. MON MON The Writer MON Martyn Wade is a skilled and talented radio writer and MON dramatist. He has a sure and dry comic touch which is ideal MON for continuing the stories created by Ada Leverson, a MON contemporary and friend of Oscar Wilde. MON MON Music Used MON "Forgotten Dreams" - Max Jaffa with the Palm Court MON Orchestra. MON MON 11:00 Mysteries from the Past b01lhbg8 (Listen) MON Last Thursday a new outdoor production of the medieval York MON Cycle of Mystery Plays opened in the city starring Ferdinand MON Kingsley as Jesus, Graeme Hawley as the devil and a MON community cast and crew of over 500 people. MON MON The revival of these plays first took place as part of the MON Festival of Britain in 1951 and were staged, like the 2012 MON production, against the backdrop of the ruined St Mary's MON Abbey in the Museum Gardens. The York Mystery Plays are the MON most complete cycle telling stories from the bible in 48 MON separate plays each one originally performed by one of the MON city's medieval guilds. Staged on the back of wagons at MON various locations around the city the plays were performed MON on Corpus Christi Day from around 1390 until 1575 and took MON all day to perform. Since 1951 the plays have been staged MON every three or four years until 2000 when the last MON full-scale production took place in York Minster directed by MON the RSC's Gregory Doran. MON MON In Mysteries from the Past the playwright John Godber takes MON to the medieval streets of York to look back at how these MON 'modern-day' performances relate to the original ideas MON behind the plays of communicating bible stories to the MON illiterate masses. Examining archive material including MON medieval manuscripts and recordings of the some of the MON productions he talks to experts in medieval drama and some MON of the people involved in past productions which have MON launched the careers of actors Judi Dench, David Bradley and MON Mary Ure. The productions have not been without controversy MON - such as casting a women as God or having Hindu actor, MON Victor Banerjee, playing Christ - guaranteeing publicity for MON these adventures in major community theatre production. MON MON Producer: Andy Cartwright MON A Soundscape Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00w2282 (Listen) MON Series 4, A Wretched Life Made Much, Much Sadder MON MON "A wretched life made much much sadder" Volume Four, Chapter MON three of the Victorian comic epic by Mark Evans. After an MON embarrassing disaster involving a bridge and a train full of MON puppies and orphans Pip and Harry travel to America on the MON SS Massive Britain, where Pip begins a reading tour. But all MON is not as it seems and Mister Benevolent lures our hero into MON a gunfight at the "All Right I Suppose Corral" MON MON Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson MON Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen MON Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head MON Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman MON Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland MON Pippa ..... Susy Kane MON MON Writer ..... Mark Evans MON Producer ..... Gareth Edwards. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01lhbgb (Listen) MON Can patients with private medical insurance still choose MON their doctor? MON MON BUPA, Britain's biggest supplier of private medical MON insurance, is changing the way it reimburses private doctors MON for carrying out operations. If a patient chooses to go to a MON doctor who isn't on BUPA's approved list, they may have to MON pay extra. We hear from a listener who had to pay more to MON keep seeing the same specialist and ask BUPA why they are MON changing their policy. MON MON The US lingerie giant Victoria's Secret is opening its MON flagship UK store on London's up-market Bond Street. Despite MON the recession, the market for women's lingerie is buoyant. MON Is there a gap in the UK market for posh pants without a MON high price tag? MON MON There are "X-Factor Style" contests for engineers, MON scientists and computer coders and competitions to solve MON problems including climate change and the financial crisis. MON Are competitions the best way to encourage innovation and MON nurture talent? MON MON We hear from a disabled mother who was blocked from using MON Lufthansa's family service. We ask just how helpful airport MON services are for parents with disabilities? MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01lhbgd (Listen) MON Vivienne Westwood MON MON She's worked in a factory and was a primary school teacher MON for a while. But it's her career as a fashion designer which MON has brought her fame. She's been designing clothes and shoes MON which have seized the headlines since the late 70s. MON MON Dame Vivenne Westwood has won British Designer of the year MON three times and has influenced young designers in the UK and MON around the world with her particular take on fashion: MON subversive, funny and quirky. 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 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: Sukey Firth. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01ldgwx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01lhbgg (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 A War of Words b01lhbgj (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON On 17th July 1936, an uprising began in Spanish Morocco that MON was to lead to nearly three years of civil war and the MON deaths of tens of thousands of Spaniards. It was a struggle MON fundamentally of Right versus Left, and Spain was to become MON a rehearsal for the World War to come. MON MON From all over the world a host of men and women came to MON Spain, prepared to fight and die for one cause or the other. MON Some followed Franco's armies - Americans such as William P MON Carney and Hubert Knickerbocker and Brits such as Sefton MON Delmer and Harold Cardozo. But it was the left-wing MON Republican side that attracted the many famous literary MON names - George Orwell, Laurie Lee, W.H. Auden, Stephen MON Spender and Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway went there as a MON journalist, reporting for the North American Newspaper MON Alliance, alongside his wife-to-be Martha Gellhorn who was MON writing for the American magazine Collier's Weekly. MON MON These five programmes tell the stories of the correspondents MON who risked their lives to report on the Spanish war. The MON resulting journalism was in some cases extraordinary: the MON unemotional prose of Steer reporting on the horrific MON destruction of Guernica; the poignant writing of Gellhorn as MON she observed the gruesome effects of Franco's bombardments MON of Madrid; the fabrications of writers pre-empting Rebel MON victories. MON MON In episode one, John Simpson explores some of the great MON pieces of journalism that were to come out of the Spanish MON Civil War from Times correspondent George Steer, The Nation MON writer Louis Fischer and Collier's contributor and MON Hemingway's wife-to-be Martha Gellhorn. MON MON Producer: Neil Rosser MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01lh979 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01lhbgl (Listen) MON Higher - Series 4, Privatisation, the Final Battle MON MON Higher by Joyce Bryant. Privatisation the Final Battle. MON MON The free market winds of change are blowing through the MON breezeblock corridors of Hayborough University. What will MON the old stalwarts do? Embrace the new? Or resist and fight MON for academic freedom? Or will they hide and hope it will all MON just go away? MON MON Producer/Director Gary Brown. MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b01lhbgn (Listen) MON Another edition of the 48th series of Quote... Unquote, the MON popular quotations programme presented and devised by Nigel MON Rees. The guests this week are author Louise Doughty, writer MON and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, newsreader Nicholas Owen and MON columnist Hugo Rifkind. The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01lh96s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01lhbgq (Listen) MON John Sessions MON MON The actor John Sessions introduces a selection of his MON favourite prose and poetry to an audience at the BBC Maida MON Vale studios. The readers are Roger Allam and Amanda Root. MON There are pieces that reflect on spirituality, including MON work by the metaphysical poets, like and John Donne's moving MON poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Lighter choices MON spring from John's childhood with extracts from Three Men in MON a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and a history lesson from 1066 And MON All That by Sellar and Yeatman. There's also Larkin's MON stunning poem 'Aubade', and a surprise archive appearance by MON the legendary blues man John Lee Hooker. MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01lhbgs (Listen) MON Fear MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by sociologist Frank Furedi and MON theologians David Thomas and Simon Podmore to discuss the MON significance of fear in religious traditions. The programme MON will consider the theology of fear and explore how religions MON have made use of fear and responded to it throughout the MON ages. It will also look at how our fears have changed in the MON modern world and whether religions have played down their MON teachings about hell and damnation in recent years. And how MON does fear affect morality? Are we responsible for crimes MON committed under the threat of reprisals? And are we to be MON congratulated for good deeds performed only as a response to MON the fear of negative consequences for ourselves if we don't MON behave? MON MON 17:00 PM b01lhbgv (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ldgwz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01lhbgx (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 1 MON MON Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the first of a new MON series of the granddaddy of all panel games. MON MON Panellists Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and Graham MON Norton join Nicholas this week for the verbal equivalent of MON the Olympics. It's an energetic game this week - but who MON will win gold medal for the greatest gift of the gab? MON MON This week Paul talks about The Biggest Fib he Ever Told, Sue MON Perkins divulges a lot of information about her Famous MON Friends, Liza Tarbuck speaks knowledgably on the subject of MON Fake Tan and Graham Norton gives his tips on How To Annoy MON The Audience. MON MON This series sees the programme recording in London, Evesham MON and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Panellists will MON include: Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck, Graham MON Norton, Pam Ayres, Charles Collingwood and Miles Jupp. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01lhbgz (Listen) MON Mike is in thoughtful mood. Lilian offers advice. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01lhbh1 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including a review of Brave, the latest MON animation from Pixar. It's the tale of Merida, a young MON archer in 10th century Scotland. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01lhbg6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Greening the Military b01lhbh3 (Listen) MON In 'Greening the Military' Angus Crawford finds out how MON British armed forces are increasingly having to take account MON of the environmental impact of their activities. But given MON the fact that war zones are highly hazardous locations, MON subject to extreme and enduring destruction, the thought of MON Britain's armed forces caring for the natural world can MON strike many as an extraordinary paradox. Nonetheless their MON activities are increasingly answerable to European MON environmental legislation, and battalions in the field are MON having to think carefully about their carbon footprints and MON carbon-dependency. MON MON We hear how each new weapon system receives an environmental MON audit before it is deployed, and because of noise abatement MON measures, Eurofighter planes have to do full combat training MON exercises over the North Sea rather than over mainland MON Europe. MON MON Angus Crawford asks whether the armed forces can do their MON job whilst also respecting the environment. Speaking to MON serving infantry officers fresh back from Helmand Province, MON he also visits a Swedish arms factory that prides itself on MON making environmentally-friendly lead-free bullets that don't MON pollute the water table. We also hear about so-called green MON fuel initiatives being deployed by British and American MON armed forces in order to reduce their reliance on diesel. MON This, we hear, is in response to the high human and MON financial cost of delivering fuel to remote theatres of war, MON such as Helmand. And, as one of Britain's largest MON landowners, we hear how the MoD's firing ranges have become MON a refuge for many rare species of wildlife that are no MON longer found in rural areas that are farmed in the MON conventional way. MON MON Producer: Mark Smalley. MON MON 20:30 Bookclub b00d8h6r (Listen) MON Gore Vidal MON MON James Naughtie talks to one of the great American men of MON letters - novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, MON raconteur and notorious wit Gore Vidal. Now in his eighties MON but with his acerbity still intact, Vidal joins an audience MON of readers to discuss his memoir Point to Point Navigation. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01ljl5n (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper reports on the latest surface rover mission MON to Mars - NASA's Curiosity - twice as long, twice the MON science, and five times as heavy as its famous forebears. MON Producer: Alex Mansfield. MON MON 21:30 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01lhbfy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01ldgx1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01lhbkh (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis, presented by MON Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01lhbkk (Listen) MON Duty Free, Episode 5 MON MON Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre MON by Meera Syal. MON MON In today's episode; the clock is ticking, wedding season is MON upon us, and in downtown Lahore, it's time to check out MON Bride Number Two...but is this a set-up by false friend MON Mulloo? MON MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b01lhbkm (Listen) MON The Now Show 2012 - Live!, Episode 4 MON MON A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you MON abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted MON by Punt and Holmes with Alex Horne and The Horne Section, MON stand-up Jason Cook and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. MON MON 23:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b01k9wpp (Listen) MON Series 2, Bristol MON MON Jay Rayner presents the first programme in the new series of MON BBC Radio 4's food panel show, recorded in front of a live MON audience, aimed at anyone who cooks at home, not just the MON experts. Each week the programme travels around the country MON to visit interesting culinary locations and answer questions MON from local food-loving people. MON MON In this programme, The Kitchen Cabinet are in Bristol ahead MON of the city's annual Grillstock festival, which finds MON barbeque enthusiasts from around the world flocking to the MON West Country. As well as discussing the science behind what MON makes the perfect barbeque, the panellists field questions MON on all aspects of grilling and cooking on an open flame. MON MON The panel this week features: Rachel McCormack, a Glaswegian MON cook who is now successfully spreading the word on all MON things Spanish, not least by teaching authentic Catalan MON cookery; Peter Barham the food scientist who has worked with MON Heston Blumenthal; Allegra McEvedy the chef, food writer and MON regular on Loose Ends; and Tim Hayward - acclaimed food MON critic, writer, and broadcaster. MON MON The show is witty, fast-moving, and irreverent, but packed MON full of information that may well change the way you think MON about cooking. MON MON Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. MON Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras MON A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 AUGUST 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01ldgy4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01ljxt4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ldgy6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ldgy8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ldgyb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01ldgyd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lsmvk (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with TUE Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of The Oxford Centre for Hindu TUE Studies. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01lhfs1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside TUE Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01lhfs3 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01lhfs5 (Listen) TUE Steve Jones TUE TUE Professor Steve Jones is a geneticist who says he lives life TUE in the slow lane, studying snails. His work shows how TUE animals adapt to the environment they live in. He is also a TUE prolific writer of science books who wrote his first book, TUE "The Language of the Genes" as a response to unsuccessful TUE grant applications. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01lhfs7 (Listen) TUE Razia Iqbal talks to Hanif Qadir TUE TUE Razia Iqbal takes the One to One chair for the next three TUE weeks to try to discover what it means to be a Muslim in TUE Europe in the 21st century. She talks to three people, in TUE three countries, about their identity as Muslims where they TUE live against a context of prejudice and misunderstandings TUE about their faith. TUE This week she talks to Hanif Qadir who decided to reject TUE fighting in Afghanistan on the side of the Taliban and chose TUE to help young people in the UK who were in danger of TUE becoming radicalised. In Walthamstow, East London, he set up TUE the Active Change Foundation to encourage young people to a TUE positive future. He explains to Razia about what motivated TUE him to become involved with the Taliban and why he TUE ultimately chose to turn his back on them. TUE Razia says, 'There are fifteen million Muslims in Europe. TUE The continent looks completely different now compared to how TUE it looked two decades ago. I want to talk to people for whom TUE navigating that change is almost a daily challenge' TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01ljxw2 (Listen) TUE Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Andrew Blum. TUE TUE The author journeys to Silicon Valley to meet the men behind TUE one of the internet's most important locations, past and TUE present. TUE TUE Reader: John Schwab TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lhfs9 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljk6c (Listen) TUE The Little Ottleys, Episode 2 TUE TUE Series Three (5 episodes) TUE Episode Two TUE Edith had been so happy. Divorced from the TUE impossible Bruce, and anticipating marriage TUE to Aylmer Ross, the man she adores. But TUE Bruce is back home, albeit in the spare TUE room, and Aylmer still doesn't know ... TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01lhfsc (Listen) TUE Series 7, Quest for the World's Largest Butterfly TUE TUE Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the world's largest butterfly TUE with a wingspan of 30 cm. Despite its enormous size, it is TUE hard to find and is almost restricted to a remote plateau in TUE the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. TUE TUE Travel writer and naturalist Mark Stratton has been itching TUE to see this gargantuan insect for years and in this special TUE edition of "Nature" he sets off on a quest to find out more TUE about this striking and elusive creature which would dwarf TUE British robins or wrens. His journey takes him to the remote TUE Manangalas Plateau in the mountains north of the capital TUE city, Port Moresby. TUE TUE Here in the dense and humid rainforest he discovers a TUE dedicated conservation scheme to grow the butterfly's TUE food-plants, rear caterpillars and protect its habitat. In TUE the face of general decline and the destruction of TUE rainforest for oil-palm and cocoa plantations, it seems that TUE the butterfly has staunch allies among the local TUE tribes-people and conservation groups, but still its future TUE is far from secure and Mark learns that in common with other TUE rare and threatened animals, the world's biggest butterfly TUE may need to pay its way in order to survive. TUE TUE 11:30 Making Tracks b01lhgw0 (Listen) TUE Metropolis TUE TUE Cultural commentator Paul Morley explores a history of TUE popular music through some of the iconic recording studios TUE in which classic albums were created. TUE TUE Without them music as we know it would simply not exist. At TUE its most basic, there'd be no technology to capture the TUE sounds envisaged by the musicians and created and enhanced TUE by the engineers and producers... and there'd be no music TUE for the record companies to market and distribute. But more TUE than that, the studios actually played a crucial part in the TUE structure and fabric of the music recorded there - the TUE sounds enhanced by the studio space itself... the potential TUE and shortcomings of the equipment and technology housed in TUE the cubicles... and the ability and 'vision' of the TUE engineers and producers operating it all to find the new TUE sound that makes the recordings sound different and fresh. TUE TUE In the final programme of the series Paul Morley ventures to TUE West London and one of the last major studio complexes to be TUE built in the heyday of the music industry. But without an TUE exalted musical history to fall back on and decades of TUE experience to help run it, how do you go about creating a TUE world-class facility frequented by the likes of Amy TUE Winehouse, Mick Jagger and Rihanna... and how do you keep it TUE going when all around you are closing their doors? TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01lhgw2 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01lhgw4 (Listen) TUE Jayaben Desai TUE TUE Jayaben Desai, defied stereotyping all her life. "A person TUE like me, I am never scared of anybody," she told managers at TUE the Grunwick film processing plant in Willesden, London TUE shortly before she led a walkout in August 1976. Desai and TUE her co workers were dubbed "strikers in saris" by the media TUE but she went on to lead a campaign which eventually led to a TUE respect for immigrant workers and a recognition of the very TUE long hours and low wages they were prepared to tolerate. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01ldgyg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01lhgw6 (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 A War of Words b01ljxw4 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In the second episode John Simpson examines one of the TUE knotty problems faced by foreign correspondents in wartime - TUE how, or whether, to be objective. Chicago Daily Tribune Jay TUE Allen is in the spotlight and John focuses on Allen's famous TUE interview with General Franco. TUE TUE Producer: Neil Rosser TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01lhbgz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ljylg (Listen) TUE The Third Eye and the Private Eye TUE TUE by David Lemon and Mark Eccleston. TUE Based on real events, this is the story of one of TUE literature's greatest and most long-lived hoaxes, featuring TUE yetis, owls and talking cats. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby TUE TUE This is the remarkable story of one of literature's greatest TUE hoaxes; a tale of auras and astral projection; of jealous TUE rivals and embarrassed publishers. TUE According to his bestselling 1956 autobiography 'The Third TUE Eye', Tuesday Lobsang Rampa was born into Tibetan TUE aristocracy and chosen as a boy to become a Lama. According TUE to others, including the private detective employed to delve TUE into his background, he was somebody else entirely... TUE Lobsang Rampa's books are still in print and have sold TUE millions of copies. TUE TUE 15:00 The Philosopher's Arms b01lhgw8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Theseus' Ship TUE TUE Welcome to the Philosopher's Arms - a place where TUE philosophical ideas, logical dilemmas and the real world TUE meet for a chat and a drink. TUE TUE Each week presenter Matthew Sweet takes a puzzle with TUE philosophical pedigree and asks why it matters in the TUE everyday world. En route we'll learn about the thinking of TUE such luminaries as Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, John TUE Stuart Mill and Wittgenstein. All recorded in a pub with an TUE audience, who'll have their own contributions to make - but TUE whose assumptions and intuitions will be challenged and, TUE perhaps, undermined. TUE TUE Propping up the bar this year will be philosophers such as TUE Julian Baggini and Nigel Warburton, and academic experts on TUE memory, the law, art and computers. We'll be meeting bald TUE men, a woman who used to be a man, and a woman who can't TUE remember being a girl. Plus music from The Drifters - a far TUE more philosophical group than you'd ever imagine. TUE TUE 15:30 The House I Grew Up In b00t8qy9 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Kay Mellor TUE TUE Television screenwriter Kay Mellor was born into a working TUE class Leeds household in the 1950s and brought up TUE single-handedly by her mother from the age of three. Her TUE mother re-married when Kay was 10. She remembers a secure TUE childhood. But money was tight, she did badly at school and TUE was married, with a child, at just sixteen. The marriage has TUE endured the intervening decades and the success she TUE eventually found. She talks to Wendy Robbins about the TUE loneliness of teenage motherhood, her uphill struggle to TUE educate herself and her writing life which has always been TUE inspired by the Yorkshire people she still lives amongst. TUE Producer: Smita Patel. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01lhgwb (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard visits Brussels, a melting pot of European TUE languages. He meets interpreters, language planners and TUE voice coaches to discover how the European Commission TUE operates "interpreting on an industrial scale." We find out TUE why officials fear a looming shortage of interpreters, and TUE we meet the man who teaches people how to speak and behave TUE in a multilingual setting. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01lhgwd (Listen) TUE Series 28, Josephine Bonaparte TUE TUE "I get to Milan," wrote Napoleon. "I fling myself into your TUE room. I have left everything in order to see you, to clasp TUE you in my arms .... you were not there." The tale of TUE Napoleon and Josephine is one of history's great love TUE affairs, and while she did not win the battles he fought, TUE she was both present, and perhaps influential, at a great TUE moment in Europe's past. Her own life before then was TUE equally extraordinary - born in Martinique, her first TUE husband was executed and she was in jail too, expecting the TUE madame guillotine at any time. TUE TUE Reporter Janine di Giovanni champions Josephine with the TUE expert help of her biographer Andrea Stuart, who makes no TUE apology for the methods Josephine employed to ensure her TUE survival and rise. An astonishing life, though presenter TUE Matthew Parris remains unconvinced that she was truly great. TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01lhgwg (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ldgyj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr Blue Sky b01h5xcs (Listen) TUE Series 2, You're Leaving TUE TUE This week, Harvey's racist mum, Lou, moves in while she TUE grieves for her plumber boyfriend and drives Jax out of the TUE house, but will she give her blessing to Charlie and TUE Kill-R's wedding when they fix a date? TUE TUE Harvey Easter ..... Mark Benton TUE Jacqui Easter ..... Claire Skinner TUE Charlie Easter ..... Rosamund Hanson TUE Robbie Easter ..... Tyger Drew Honey TUE Kill-R ..... Javone Prince TUE Lou Easter ..... Sorcha Cusack TUE Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry TUE Sean Calhoun ..... Michael Legge TUE TUE Written by Andrew Collins TUE Title Music Arrangement by Jim Bob TUE Producer/Director: Anna Madley TUE Editor: Rich Evans TUE An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01lhgyj (Listen) TUE Vicky can't resist. Meanwhile Jennifer is concerned with TUE family matters. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01lhgyl (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with Tony Gilroy, TUE the director and co-writer of the film The Bourne Legacy, TUE the latest adventure in the espionage franchise. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljk6c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01lhgyn (Listen) TUE World health chiefs have branded diesel exhaust emissions a TUE major cause of cancer. Despite the efforts of car-makers to TUE filter out the most noxious substances, these fumes still TUE play a big part in causing air pollution. TUE Britain has the second worst respiratory death rates in TUE Europe and has long been under notice from Brussels to clean TUE up its act. So why are most UK areas in breach of legal TUE limits? TUE And do ministers have any clear plan to reduce the huge TUE annual total of resulting deaths? TUE Julian O'Halloran investigates. TUE Producer : Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01lhgyq (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01lhgys (Listen) TUE For the best chance of good recovery from strokes patients TUE need to be treated within a few hours. In the Lake District TUE new technology is helping stroke patients in rural areas. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01lhfs5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01ldgyl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01lhgzh (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis, presented by TUE Robin Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01lhgzk (Listen) TUE Duty Free, Episode 6 TUE TUE Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre TUE by Meera Syal. TUE TUE In today's episode; with sectarian violence hampering the TUE social season, how's a girl to concentrate on matchmaking? TUE And now the terrorist threat comes very close to home... TUE TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b01lhgzm (Listen) TUE Hooter TUE TUE Comedy's best kept secret ingredient gets his own sketch TUE show. Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, TUE some messin' about, you know... TUE TUE In this episode, a fly, a fruitbowl and the Hallelujah TUE Chorus. Obviously. Plus maverick street-artist Banksy's TUE first-ever in-depth interview. Oh, did we mention the TUE fruitbowl? Yep. TUE TUE Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually TUE every major comedy show in the last fifteen years. But not TUE content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve TUE Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, TUE Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally TUE decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now... TUE TUE Appearing in this episode are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan TUE Partridge, Scott and Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), TUE Rosie Cavaliero (Peep Show), Paul Putner (Little Britain), TUE Justin Edwards (The Consultants) and David Reed (The Penny TUE Dreadfuls) with special guest Phil Cornwell as a man TUE shouting "Wisbeach". TUE TUE Written by Kevin Eldon TUE with additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris TUE (Flight Of The Conchords, That Mitchell and Webb Sound). TUE TUE Original music by Martin Bird. TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b01kjt7t (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 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 Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras TUE A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 AUGUST 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01ldh00 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01ljxw2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ldh02 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ldh04 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ldh06 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01ldh08 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lsmzf (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with WED Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of The Oxford Centre for Hindu WED Studies. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01lhj0j (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Clare Freeman. WED WED 06:00 Today b01lhj0l (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and WED Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 What's the Point of ... b01lhj0n (Listen) WED Series 4, Lord Lieutenants WED WED Quentin Letts returns with another series offering a witty WED and thought-provoking look at some of Britain's cherished WED institutions. Over the next three weeks he casts a quizzical WED eye over universities, pubs and in the first programme, WED Lord-Lieutenants. WED WED The office of Lord-Lieutenant was created by Henry VIII in WED 1547. They were the eyes and the ears of the monarch in the WED shires when there was a real prospect of sedition and WED rebellion. They also had the job of raising a militia when WED the country was under threat. The military functions of WED Lord-Lieutenants have long gone and their main duties now WED are to organise official Royal visits to their county. With WED Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee this year Lord-Lieutenants WED have perhaps never been busier, or had such a high profile. WED But how many could name the Lord-Lieutenant in their area, WED or could even explain what their job is, or how they're WED appointed? In an era where democratic accountability and WED transparency are increasingly important, what's the point of WED Lord-Lieutenants? WED WED 09:30 The Listening Project b01g4ksc (Listen) WED Omnibus WED WED Fi Glover presents an Omnibus edition of Radio 4's series WED capturing the nation in conversation: today Mike talks to WED his adoptive son about how he rescued him as a baby from WED South Vietnam; Jayne talks to her mother Sally in Liverpool WED about their life together and the father she never knew; WED from London, Jamaican-born Monica discusses with her gay son WED Rikki how coming out as gay was difficult for her too; and WED in Stoke on Trent Marc discusses with his foster dad Colin WED about how he's managed to turn his life round after a very WED difficult beginning. WED WED The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that WED aims to offer a sort of snapshot of contemporary Britain in WED which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation WED with someone close to them about a subject they've never WED discussed intimately before. The conversations are being WED gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and WED national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every WED conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an WED important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then WED edited to extract the key moment of connection between the WED participants. Many of the long conversations are being WED archived by the British Library which they will use to build WED up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the WED UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload WED your own conversations or just learn more about The WED Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer Simon Elmes WED WED (Repeat). WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01ljx8m (Listen) WED Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Andrew Blum. WED WED The author learns about the biggest threats to the WED internet's security and meets members of the curiously named WED 'peering' community. WED WED Reader: John Schwab WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lhj0q (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljk4p (Listen) WED The Little Ottleys, Episode 3 WED WED Series Three (5 episodes) WED Episode Three WED WED Edith has kept Bruce's return a secret WED from Aylmer for reasons of diplomacy WED and in the hope that Bruce might go away WED again soon but can she count on Vincy WED remaining silent too? WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01lhj0s (Listen) WED Series 16, Episode 2 WED WED In 2003, a waste disposal firm in Hartlepool got a contract WED to dismantle 13 elderly American naval ships that had been WED rusting away in a river in Virginia. The ships had asbestos WED on them, as well as PCBs. When local environmental groups WED heard of the plan there was uproar. The vessels were dubbed WED the "ghost ships" and described as "toxic timebombs". It WED turned out that the Hartlepool firm did not have the WED required planning permission to dismantle them, and the WED Environment Agency told the American government not to send WED the ships. But four of them set off across the Atlantic WED anyway. They arrived in Hartlepool where they were WED eventually dismantled. A decade on, feelings still run high WED in the area. Should the ships have been sent back? Should WED American toxic waste end up in a Hartlepool landfill site? WED Or was it better for the ships to be broken up here than in WED a developing country with little environmental regulation? WED Jolyon Jenkins reports. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b01jyq99 (Listen) WED Series 4, A Term for the Worse 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 WED WED Anne's off to Cambridge but Charlotte doesn't know the WED meaning of the word "thick". Literally. Is this the end of a WED beautiful friendship? And what will Sir Warenne do? 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 b01lhj0v (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01lhj0x (Listen) WED Pardon for the Disowned Army WED WED The thousands of Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to WED fight with the British against Hitler went on to suffer WED years of persecution on their return home John Waite's first WED investigation into their plight, which was broadcast earlier WED this year, generated huge interest from listeners and was WED debated in the Irish Parliament. WED This was the first broadcast to highlight the injustice they WED suffered and to hear from them about the on-going WED repercussions and their continued fight for a pardon. WED The programme led directly to the Irish Minister for WED Justice, Alan Shatter, undertaking an urgent review and, WED just six months after the broadcast, he announced an WED official pardon. WED As John Waite now hears, one of those relieved by the news WED is 92-year-old Phil Farrington, took part in the D-Day WED landings and helped liberate the German death camp at WED Bergen-Belsen. Up until now he has had to wear his service WED medals in secret after having spent time in a military WED prison in Cork for deserting the Irish army. He returned to WED a British unit on his release but has had nightmares that he WED would be re-arrested by the authorities and punished again WED for his wartime service. WED "They would come and get me, yes they would," he said in a WED frail voice at his home in the docks area of Dublin. Mr WED Farrington was one of about 4,500 Irish soldiers who WED deserted their own neutral army to join the war against WED fascism and who were brutally punished on their return home WED as a result. They were formally dismissed from the Irish WED army, stripped of all pay and pension rights, and prevented WED from finding work by being banned for seven years from any WED employment paid for by state or government funds. WED A special "list" was drawn up containing their names and WED addresses, and circulated to every government department, WED town hall and railway station - anywhere the men might look WED for a job. It was referred to in the Irish parliament - the WED Dail - at the time as a "starvation order", and for many of WED their families the phrase became painfully close to the WED truth. WED John Stout served with the Irish Guards armoured division WED which raced to Arnhem to capture a key bridge. He also WED fought in the Battle of the Bulge, ending the war as a WED commando. On his return home to Cork, however, he was WED treated as a pariah. "What they did to us was wrong. I know WED that in my heart. They cold-shouldered you. They didn't WED speak to you. WED It was only 20 years since Ireland had won its independence WED after many years of rule from London, and the Irish list of WED grievances against Britain was long - as Gerald Morgan, at WED Trinity College, Dublin, explains. "The uprisings, the civil WED war, all sorts of reneged promises - I'd estimate that 60% WED of the population expected or indeed hoped the Germans would WED win. To prevent civil unrest, Eamon de Valera had to do WED something. Hence the starvation order and the list." WED Today, thanks largely to this BBC investigation, those Irish WED servicemen have at last been recognised for the part they WED played in helping defeat fascism. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01ldh0b (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01ljgv0 (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 A War of Words b01ljx8v (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In the third episode, John looks at the right wing WED journalists who followed the Rebel armies, in particular WED Sefton Delmer of the Daily Express and Hubert Knickerbocker WED of the Hearst press. WED WED Producer: Neil Rosser WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01lhgyj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ljgv2 (Listen) WED Eight Hundred and Thirty Seven Point Nine WED WED Conor left Ireland at eighteen. He's lived in England ever WED since, much to the annoyance of his brother Gareth who still WED lives back in Newry. It's been a year since Gareth and WED Conor's younger sister died. Gareth's been talking about WED doing something to raise some money for a cancer charity in WED her honour for most of that year. But that's just what WED Gareth does - talk. WED WED So when he turns up on Conor's doorstep and tells him he is WED going to cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats and he needs WED his brother driving behind him to carry his stuff, he WED doesn't believe him at first. But as the two brothers set WED off on the journey with only the AA route finder to guide WED them the eight hundred and thirty seven point nine miles, WED Conor realises that this time his brother might not be just WED talking. WED WED A story of family, endurance and the power of loss. As the WED two brothers, devoid of a valid driving licence, any real WED cash or actual planning, make the journey across the country WED they are forced to confront their own relationship and the WED times they have missed together as they have grown up apart. WED WED Kenneth Emson is a first time writer for radio. He won the WED Old Vic US/UK Exchange in 2009 for his play Sonderkommando, WED won the Adopt a Playwright Award in 2010, and took part in WED the Royal Court Supergroup attachment where he developed his WED new play White. WED WED Written by Kenneth Emson WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Fixing Broken Banking b01ldg5v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01lhgys (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01ljk4r (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01ljk4t (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01ljk4w (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ldh0d (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 When the Dog Dies b012r7k7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Catchment if You Can WED WED Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom WED Sorry, Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. Sorry ran for seven WED series on BBC 1 and was number one in the UK ratings. WED WED In the second series of their Radio 4 sitcom, Ronnie plays WED Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along with his dog WED Henry. His grown up children - both married to people Sandy WED doesn't approve of at all - would like him to move out of WED the family home so they can get their hands on their money WED earlier. WED WED But Sandy's not having this. He's not moving until the dog WED dies. And not just that, how can he move if he's got a WED lodger? His daughter is convinced that his too attractive WED lodger Dolores (Liza Tarbuck) is after Sandy and his money. WED WED Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a WED friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help WED a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together WED face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make WED it more so. WED WED Sandy's quiet life is shattered by the need to make himself WED scarce while his daughter Ellie and his son-in-law Blake WED pretend, for reasons of social mobility and educational WED opportunity, that his address is their address. Hiding in WED the shed doesn't seem right for someone who dreams of being WED a hero. Not in the world's eye, perhaps - but certainly in WED his grandson Tyson's. WED WED Ronnie Corbett ..... Sandy WED Liza Tarbuck ...... Dolores WED Sally Grace ..... Mrs Pompom WED Tilly Vosburgh ..... Ellie WED Jonathan Aris ...... Blake WED Daniel Bridle .....Tyson WED Stephen Critchlow ...... Mr Mountjoy WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01ljk4y (Listen) WED Jennifer makes a heartfelt plea and Shula's plans are thrown WED into disarray. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01ljk50 (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with the singer, WED songwriter and actress Alanis Morissette. WED WED Producer Erin Riley. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljk4p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 The Europe Debate b01ljk52 (Listen) WED With the crisis continuing in the eurozone, recent polls WED suggest that the vast majority of the British electorate WED would be in favour of a referendum on Britain's membership WED of the European Union. WED WED In the current climate the voices of those in favour of the WED European project have been noticeable by their absence. WED WED Evan Davis chairs a debate at the London School of Economics WED on the motion "Britain should stay in the European Union." WED WED Sir Stephen Wall, the former diplomat and EU adviser to Tony WED Blair, speaks in favour of the motion, arguing his position WED against a panel who want Britain out. WED WED The Panel: WED Roger Helmer - UKIP MEP for the East Midlands WED Dr Helen Szamuely - Head of research for the Bruges Group WED and blogger on Your Freedom and Ours WED Mark Reckless - Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood WED George Eustice - Conservative MP for Camborne and Redruth WED WED Producer: Hannah Barnes. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01ljk54 (Listen) WED Series 3, Ali Mangera WED WED Architect Ali Mangera discusses the closely-connected WED futures of cities and shopping. WED WED He describes how the retail industry is coming to terms with WED the major challenges it faces: from internet shopping to WED increasing demands for a local and sustainable experience. WED And, through the prism of his own experience working between WED Barcelona and London, he shares his vision for the future of WED shopping. WED WED Ali argues that the two sides to the current retail WED experience - need, and hedonism - will be much more closely WED intertwined in future, with shopping being as much about WED entertainment and even education as it is about filling our WED bellies or clothing ourselves. 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 Darwin's Tunes b01ljk56 (Listen) WED Is our taste in music, and how it's changed over the WED centuries, governed by creative genius or simply by survival WED of the fittest sounds, chosen by us the consumer? Does WED Darwin's theory of natural selection apply to more than just WED life on the planet? The idea of survival of the fittest and WED cultural evolution can be applied to many aspects of our WED lives; from fashion to the naming of our children. In a WED world of digital sampling evolutionary biologist, Professor WED Armand Leroi of Imperial College and his colleagues have WED designed an experiment to see if they can create the perfect WED song by asking individuals to choose which tunes survive and WED reproduce to create new tunes and which ones die out. If WED they can do this, where does that leave today's musical WED producers and composers? Do we still need a trained mind to WED compose truly amazing music? Armand Leroi discusses the idea WED that music evolves with evolutionary biologists Dr Luke WED Rendell of St Andrews University and Professor Mark Pagel of WED Reading University, composer Dr Martin Parker of Edinburgh WED University, and composer Aphrodite Raickopoulou. WED WED Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of ... b01lhj0n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01ldh0g (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01ljk58 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis, presented by WED Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ljk5b (Listen) WED Duty Free, Episode 7 WED WED Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre WED by Meera Syal. WED WED In today's episode; a near-death experience gives our WED heroine a moment of fame...And with time running out, Bride WED Number One's mother is pressing for a decision about her WED daughter, while the prospective groom has some big news... WED WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Now Show b01ljk5d (Listen) WED The Now Show 2012 - Live!, Episode 5 WED WED A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you WED abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted WED by Punt and Dennis with Nathan Caton, Paul Sinha, Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith and Mitch Benn. WED WED 23:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b01ks53b (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED In this programme The Kitchen Cabinet is at Latitude WED Festival where, as well as discussing the ins and outs of WED foraging for food, the team takes questions on all aspects WED of eating and drinking. WED WED Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras. WED Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. WED A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 AUGUST 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01ldh19 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01ljx8m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ldh1c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ldh1f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ldh1h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01ldh1k (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lsnpq (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with THU Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of The Oxford Centre for Hindu THU Studies. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01ljl4t (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b01ljl4w (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and THU Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01ljl4y (Listen) THU Series 8, Ventilation in Children THU THU Ayisha and Ben both have life-limiting degenerative THU conditions which means their muscles are getting weaker over THU time. Both are taken to intensive care when their conditions THU get to the point where they can't breathe unaided. Efforts THU to get vital oxygen to them mean they both end up sedated THU with a tube put down their throat. THU THU Ayisha is less than a year old, Ben just two and a half. How THU much treatment should be given to keep them alive? Both THU could have a procedure where a tube is inserted directly THU into the neck which would allow them to come off sedation THU and be monitored at home. THU THU Ayisha's condition is more severe than Ben's with a worse THU prognosis, does this make a difference when deciding what THU should be done? And if treatment is given how do their THU parents and medical team decide when is the right time to THU withdraw life saving treatment as their health declines? THU THU Joan Bakewell discusses the ethical issues raised with a THU panel of expert guests. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01lhbg2 (Listen) THU Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Andrew Blum. THU THU The author travels to Docklands and Cornwall on his journey THU behind the scenes. THU THU Reader: John Schwab THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ljl50 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljl52 (Listen) THU The Little Ottleys, Episode 4 THU THU Series Three (5 episodes) THU Episode Four THU The Ottley residence is out of bounds THU to Aylmer. As a result, he suspects THU the worst. Meanwhile, Bruce tries to THU keep his meetings with Miss Flummerfelt THU a secret from Edith. THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01ljl54 (Listen) THU Cold Turkey in Karachi THU THU Karachi is facing a drugs epidemic. Pakistan's sprawling THU port city has an estimated half a million chronic heroin THU addicts. The drug is cheap and easily available as it comes THU across the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, before being shipped THU to Europe and the US. Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity THU is trying to help addicts and their families. THU THU An NGO called the Edhi Foundation operates what is thought THU to be the world's largest drug rehabilitation centre. It's THU here that Mobeen meets brothers Yusaf and Husein who have THU checked themselves in. Patients who volunteer for treatment THU like this can leave whenever they feel ready. But the THU majority of patients, like 24-year-old Saqandar, are brought THU in by their desperate relatives, and according to Edhi THU rules, only the family can decide when they will be THU released. THU THU The centre offers heroin users food and painkillers to ease THU the physical symptoms of withdrawal - but conventional THU treatment like methadone is not available. So does enforced THU cold turkey really work? THU THU Mobeen follows the stories of three heroin addicts and finds THU out how the stress of their addiction takes its toll on them THU and their families. THU THU Presenter: Mobeen Azhar THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU 11:30 The Best of Everything b01ljl56 (Listen) THU The Best of Everything was written by Rona Jaffe in 1958 and THU became an instant best seller. It was a novel about the THU travails of four working girls in the early 50s. The book THU was devoured by the Mad Men generation of women entering the THU world of work for the first time. They worked in publishing THU houses and for advertising agencies. They dreamed of leaving THU the typing pool behind and rising to the rank of copyist or THU editor. Jaffe crystallized the contradictions of this THU generation; ambitious and independent, yet constrained by THU their own traditional notions of femininity - desperate to THU marry, not to be 'left on the shelf, yet yearning for THU opportunity and independence. Jaffe's heroines reflected the THU real lives of these proto feminist American women. This THU programme looks at the importance of the 'Best of THU Everything' - reissued after Mad Men's lotharia Don Draper THU was spotted reading it in bed. Why did it speak so clearly THU to this generation? What of Jaffe herself - she never THU married - rejecting the road that so repulsed, yet beguiled THU her heroines. The Best of Everything is presented by the THU writer Vivien Goldman, who read the book as a girl in THU England. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01ljl58 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01ljl5b (Listen) THU Stuart Hall THU THU The New Elizabethans: Stuart Hall. To mark the Diamond THU Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the THU men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its THU character. THU THU Stuart Hall is a leading thinker on British culture, race THU and identity. Born and educated in in Jamaica, Hall won a THU Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University and arrived in THU Britain in 1951, three years after the Empire Windrush THU carried the first generation of post-war West Indian THU immigrants to the UK. He went on to become a founding figure THU in cultural studies through his work at Birmingham THU University with Richard Hoggart. His writing and ideas have THU influenced politics and public debate across the Second THU Elizabethan Age. THU THU Producer: James Cook. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01ldh1m (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01ljl5d (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners THU can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on THU twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 A War of Words b01ljxrz (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU On the 17th of July 1936 an uprising began in Spanish THU Morocco that was to lead to nearly three years of civil war THU and the deaths of tens of thousands of Spaniards. It was a THU struggle fundamentally of Right versus Left, and Spain was THU to become a rehearsal for the World War to come. THU THU Having heard in yesterday's programme that some of the right THU wing journalists fabricated reports of Republican losses, in THU this fourth episode John Simpson turns his attention to the THU left wing promulgation of untruth by Communist THU correspondent, Claud Cockburn. THU THU Producer: Neil Rosser THU A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01ljk4y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ljl5g (Listen) THU Like a Daughter THU THU An afternoon drama by award-winning writer Lucy Flannery. THU THU Home help Ruth cares for Harry above and beyond the call of THU duty. She fetches his shopping, brings him meals, makes THU sense of his paperwork. All in all, she's like a daughter to THU him. THU THU When his health begins to decline, Ruth tries to discover THU friends or family to care for him but Harry insists there is THU no one, he's all alone in the world. She becomes even more THU concerned when a chance discovery reveals a sizable sum of THU money languishing in his bank account. THU THU When Harry collapses and is given only days to live, Ruth THU faces a moral dilemma. Should she do nothing and allow a THU faceless state to benefit from Harry's death, or should she THU claim some of it as her own bequest? THU Supported by friends, criticised by those in authority, THU Ruth's decision forces both her and others to examine their THU own moral compass and to penetrate the mystery of the THU inheritance itself. Her actions reveal the legacy of the THU dysfunctional dynamic of thirty years ago, still resonating THU and impacting upon the present day. THU THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01ljl5j (Listen) THU The festival of Lughnasa (pronounced Loon-asa) is an ancient THU Celtic celebration of the harvest, with its roots in County THU Meath in Ireland. The god Lugh is said to have established THU the festival in honour of his foster mother Tailtiu, who had THU exhausted herself by clearing forest land for agriculture. THU Helen Mark visits Teltown in Meath, which is said to have THU taken its name from that of Tailtiu, to see how Lughnasa is THU celebrated there today. THU THU Presenter : Helen Mark THU Producer : Moira Hickey. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01lh96g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01lh973 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01ljl5l (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01ljl5n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday] THU THU 17:00 PM b01ljl5q (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ldh1p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010dhcy (Listen) THU Series 4, The Bewerdine Spectrum THU THU Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli THU 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 THU audience with this series picking up a Writers' Guild THU nomination for best comedy in 2011. THU THU In this episode Sanjay goes on work experience at the local THU paper, The Lenzie Trumpet, and ends up writing the problem THU page which spells disaster for Ramesh and his loyal THU customers. THU THU Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli THU Dave ..... Donald Mcleary THU Sanjay ..... Omar Raza THU Alok ...... Susheel Kumar THU Keith Futures ...... Greg McHugh THU Hilly ..... Kate Brailsford THU Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo THU Mutton Jeff ..... Sean Scanlan THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01ljl5s (Listen) THU Clarrie puts her foot down. Mike has a man to man chat. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01ljl5v (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including a report on whether the next THU great international orchestras will come from South America THU and Asia. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljl52 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01ljl5x (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. Simon Cox THU investigates the economic legacy of hosting the Olympic THU Games. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01ljl5z (Listen) THU The Fizz Biz THU THU There's a new boom in English sparkling wine. It is taking THU on Champagne and (sometimes) beating it. But what's behind THU the bubbles? Peter Day finds out from some of the top THU English growers ... and a select group of world wine experts THU on a pioneering trip into unknown territory. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal THU Editor: Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01ljl4y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:45 A Life With ... b01dht25 (Listen) THU Series 6, Corals THU THU A Life With... Corals THU THU Corals? In Devon? Believe it or not there are lots of corals THU around the British coastline. Mary Colwell meets a man who THU has spent his life finding out about them. Keith Hiscock was THU inspired to find out about the hidden life of the British THU seas as a child when he read books by the Victorian THU naturalist, Philip Henry Gosse. Keith began to retrace his THU steps, described in detail in his books, and re-discovered THU many of the treasures Gosse found in the 19th Century. Years THU later he became a marine scientist, discovering new species THU and helping protect the marine life of Britain. THU THU On a warm September day Keith took Mary to one of Gosse's THU favourite beaches, Tunnels Beach in Devon, to find a THU treasure that many pirates would covet - the Scarlet and THU Gold Star Coral. You don't have to go to the Barrier Reef to THU see beautiful sea life, it is right on our doorstep, THU although it has to be said, the sea is a lot colder! THU THU First broadcast on 28th March 2012 at 1.45pm. THU THU 21:58 Weather b01ldh1r (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01ljl61 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis, presented by THU Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ljl63 (Listen) THU Duty Free, Episode 8 THU THU Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre THU by Meera Syal. THU THU In today's episode; it's time to go and meet bride Number THU Three, but this time the groom is doing the choosing - a THU radical idea for his bossy cousin to take on board... THU THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b012qtv1 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing THU the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. THU THU Starring: Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie THU Walter and Waen Shepherd. THU THU Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve THU Burge, Jon Hunter, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Fay Rusling. THU THU Script Editor ..... Dan Tetsell THU Producer ..... Katie Tyrrell THU THU 23:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b01l0d4q (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU In this programme The Kitchen Cabinet is in Newcastle to tie THU in with the Eat! Newcastle-Gateshead festival. The team THU takes questions on ingredients and food traditions in the THU North East. THU THU Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras THU A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 AUGUST 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01ldh2n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01lhbg2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ldh2q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ldh2s (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ldh2v (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01ldh2x (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lsnvv (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with FRI Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of The Oxford Centre for Hindu FRI Studies. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01ljwls (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01ljwlv (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and FRI Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01lh96q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01ljwlx (Listen) FRI Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Andrew Blum. FRI FRI The author discovers how our data is stored, what a 'cloud' FRI really is and pays a visit to the headquarters of Google and FRI Facebook. FRI FRI Reader: John Schwab FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01ljwlz (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljwm2 (Listen) FRI The Little Ottleys, Episode 5 FRI FRI Series Three (5 episodes) FRI Episode Five FRI Vincy has been allowed to reveal one FRI secret to Edith and feels so much better FRI but he and Edith now have to decide what's FRI to be done about Bruce. FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI 11:00 The 'arse that Jack Built b01ljwm4 (Listen) FRI Ian McMillan goes on a quest to find one of Britain's FRI strangest linguistic features. Somewhere between Sheffield FRI and Chesterfield, people stop saying house and say something FRI that sounds a lot more like 'arse. It's an isogloss, a kind FRI of linguistic boundary line where accent and dialect FRI changes. Ian calls it the house / arse interface, and with FRI his friend the musician Ray Hearne and linguist Kate Burland FRI in tow, he sets out to track it down. But can it really be FRI as simple as crossing a line on a map? FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01ljwm8 (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Next Story FRI FRI Tom and Lucy are furious they are not allowed a dog. Their FRI parents say that when kids go between two households it's FRI too complicated. But their mum and dad's love lives are even FRI more tangled. After all, Tom has seen his parents kissing. FRI So where does that leave their mum's new third husband, and FRI the unstable pet shop owner their dad has been secretly FRI dating? FRI FRI Joe ....... Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi ....... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ..... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ...... Phoebe Abbott FRI Bobby ........ Stephen Critchlow FRI Vicky ....... Doon Mackichan FRI Harry ..... Guy Paul FRI FRI Written by Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01ljwmb (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01ljwmd (Listen) FRI David Attenborough FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: David Attenborough Britain's FRI well-known broadcaster and naturalist whose landmark Life FRI series changed the way we watched TV and attracted record FRI audiences. He received more public votes to be a New FRI Elizabethan than anyone else. FRI FRI Starting as a trainee producer at the BBC in 1952 making FRI shows like 'Animal, Vegetable, Mineral' and 'Zoo Quest' he FRI became Controller of BBC 2 in 1965. There he shook up the FRI schedule, commissioning programmes such as 'Man Alive', FRI 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and 'Civilization'. FRI FRI But despite being promoted to Director of Programmes for BBC FRI 1 and 2 in 1969, Attenborough's heart lay in FRI programme-making and he resigned from the BBC to present and FRI write Life on Earth. This was the first in the Life series FRI with unforgettable scenes such as Attenborough encountering FRI Dian Fossey's mountain gorillas in Rwanda. FRI FRI Since then, Attenborough's films have pushed the boundaries FRI of wildlife film-making and his hushed tones enthusing about FRI the natural world have earned him the title "greatest living FRI national treasure". FRI FRI Producer: Clare Walker. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01ldh2z (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01llg17 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 A War of Words b01ljwmj (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI The final episode returns to Martha Gellhorn and Ernest FRI Hemingway. John also explores some of the recordings in the FRI Imperial War Museum and assesses the importance of another FRI female journalist, Virginia Cowles, and Republican censor FRI Constancia de la Mora. FRI FRI Producer: Neil Rosser FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01ljl5s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01ljwmm (Listen) FRI Loveness and Me FRI FRI A sequel to the much acclaimed Radio 4 drama Boniface and FRI Me, this play is based on a true story. FRI FRI Nell Porter (Harriet Walter) decides to see whether paying FRI school fees for just one child, Loveness Matakuro, in FRI poverty-stricken rural Zimbabwe will make a difference. FRI FRI Loveness dreams of playing netball for her country. She has FRI been inspired by her crippled mother who tells her stories FRI about how she used to play netball when she was younger, and FRI how it was their love of sport that brought her and FRI Loveness' late father together. FRI FRI Loveness and her sister Rutendo form a village team, with FRI their mother as coach, and are supported by headmaster, FRI Godfrey Rubaya, who insists that if she wants to form a FRI school team and play matches, all the girls will have to pay FRI school fees and attend. This is the story of how Loveness FRI realises her dream and, against unimaginable odds, takes her FRI team to represent Zimbabwe in an International Tournament in FRI Zambia. FRI FRI Director: Catherine Bailey FRI A Catherine Bailey Limited production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ljwmp (Listen) FRI Thetford FRI FRI Eric Robson, Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob FRI Flowerdew and the team are guests of Thetford Garden and FRI Allotment Club. FRI FRI Peter Gibbs delves into the RHS Wisley weather records to FRI learn a lesson from previous bad summers. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Gotta Dance! b01ljwmr (Listen) FRI Just a Tango FRI FRI The legendary Gene Kelly was born a hundred years ago this FRI year. FRI FRI These three newly commissioned stories celebrate the world FRI of dance and its power to inspire and attract. FRI 'Just a Tango' by Kapka Kassabova. In this heady tale we FRI delve into the exotic world of tango and the tango addict. FRI Will they find what they are looking for? FRI FRI Read by Anita Vettesse. FRI Producer: Patricia Hitchcock FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01ljwmv (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 b01ljwmx (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. Presented by Tim FRI Harford. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01ljwn1 (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ldh31 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b01ljwn3 (Listen) FRI Series 8, Chris Addison talks to Derren Brown FRI FRI Comedian Chris Addison gets the rare chance to talk to the FRI amazing Derren Brown about magic, comedy, art, faith and FRI Hitler. FRI FRI Comedy interview series. FRI FRI Producer ..... Carl Cooper FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01ljwn5 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Tim Stimpson FRI Director ..... Jenny Stephens FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka FRI Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01ljwsj (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01ljwm2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01ljwsl (Listen) FRI Media City, Salford FRI FRI Eddie Mair presents a panel discussion of news and politics FRI from the BBC Philharmonic studio, Salford, Manchester. FRI FRI Producer: Miles Warde. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01ljwsn (Listen) FRI John Gray reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01lwdx3 (Listen) FRI The White Man's Burden FRI FRI A radio adaptation of Paul Theroux's stage play about the FRI young Rudyard Kipling's humiliating final months as an FRI American resident. The great English writer plans to settle FRI in Vermont with his American wife, but a clash with his FRI brother-in-law results in death threats, a court case and FRI public scandal. Will Kipling manage to keep his head when FRI all about are losing theirs? FRI FRI Written by Paul Theroux FRI Adapted and directed by Emma Harding. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01ldh33 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01ljwsq (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis, presented by FRI Ritula Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ljwss (Listen) FRI Duty Free, Episode 9 FRI FRI Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre FRI by Meera Syal. FRI FRI In today's episode; can a happy ending really be in store FRI for Jonkers at the eleventh hour, in spite of his furious FRI mother? FRI FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 The Now Show b01ljwsv (Listen) FRI The Now Show 2012 - Live!, Last in series of live Now Shows, FRI as comedians reflect the highs and lows of the Olympics. FRI FRI A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you FRI abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted FRI by Punt and Dennis with Jon Holmes and Margaret FRI Cabourn-Smith. FRI FRI 23:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b01l7sft (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI In this programme the team are in Cumbria discussing FRI damsons, salt marsh lamb, and Morecambe Bay Shrimps as well FRI as taking questions on all aspects of cooking and eating. FRI FRI Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
03 August, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 04/08/2012 - 10/08/2012
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