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SAT SATURDAY 11 AUGUST 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01ljrjl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01ljwlx (Listen) SAT Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Andrew Blum. SAT SAT The author discovers how our data is stored, what a 'cloud' SAT really is and pays a visit to the headquarters of Google and SAT Facebook. SAT SAT You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand SAT miles away. How did that happen? SAT SAT In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived SAT Armenia of its Internet access when she sliced through a SAT buried cable with her garden spade. That January, Egyptian SAT authorities simply switched off 70% of the country's SAT Internet connections in an attempt to quell a revolution. In SAT 2009, a squirrel chewed through a wire in Andrew Blum's SAT backyard, slowing his broadband to a trickle and catapulting SAT him on a quest to find out what this so-called 'Internet' SAT actually is. SAT SAT This is the Internet as you've never seen it before. It's SAT not a concept. It's not a culture. It's most certainly not a SAT cloud. It's a mass of tubes. SAT SAT But what tubes! Hundreds of thousands of miles of SAT fibre-optic cable, criss-crossing the globe, pulsing with SAT trillions of photons of light, linking us via anonymous SAT exchanges in secretive locations with vast data-warehouses SAT where our online selves are stored in banks of spinning SAT hard-drives. SAT SAT In Tubes, Andrew Blum takes us behind the scenes of this SAT hidden world and introduces us to the remarkable clan of SAT insiders and eccentrics who design and run it everyday. He SAT explains where it is, how it got there, what it looks like, SAT how it works - and what happens when it breaks. SAT SAT Reader: John Schwab SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ljrjn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ljrjq (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ljrk2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01ljrl2 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01ljwty (Listen) SAT Short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01ljwv0 (Listen) SAT 'I know that God thinks differently'. Reverend David Page SAT and his partner Howard discuss their feelings after David SAT was forbidden to preach in his local church by the Church of SAT England, because he is gay. We also hear from 16-year-old SAT Ayesha Fihosy, an aspiring Olympic fencer, about the SAT sacrifices she has made for her sport. Plus Andy Swiss reads SAT a bulletin of listeners' news. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer SAT Tracey. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01ljrmg (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01ljrmw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01ljl5j (Listen) SAT Lughnasa Festival SAT SAT The festival of Lughnasa (pronounced Loon-asa) is an ancient SAT Celtic celebration of the harvest, with its roots in County SAT Meath in Ireland. The god Lugh is said to have established SAT the festival in honour of his foster mother Tailtiu, who had SAT exhausted herself by clearing forest land for agriculture. SAT Helen Mark visits Teltown in Meath, which is said to have SAT taken its name from that of Tailtiu, to see how Lughnasa is SAT celebrated there today. SAT SAT Presenter : Helen Mark SAT Producer : Moira Hickey. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01lsqk0 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Angela Frain and SAT Rich Ward. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01ljrmy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01lsqk2 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie SAT and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01lsqk4 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles & John McCarthy with broadcaster Joan SAT Bakewell; listener Kirsteen Steel who turned detective to SAT recover her father's stolen submarine bell; Jeremy Marks who SAT in the 1980s ran a course to help gay people suppress their SAT sexuality; moon rock investigator Joe Gutheinz; Olympic SAT cycling pace setter Peter Deary; JP Devlin talks to the last SAT surviving crew member of the Enola Gay which dropped the SAT atomic bomb on Hiroshima; there's a poem from the Edinburgh SAT Festival; and agony aunt and author Virginia Ironside shares SAT her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 The Bricklayer's Lament b01lsqk6 (Listen) SAT Back in December 1958, German musician and humorist Gerard SAT Hoffnung was asked to speak at the Oxford Union in a debate SAT entitled "This House Believes Life Begins At 38". Luckily, SAT the BBC was on hand to record the debate and they managed to SAT capture Gerard giving a hilarious comic speech, which SAT included the now legendary Bricklayer's Lament story. SAT SAT This half hour documentary, narrated by Jack Dee, tells the SAT story of the speech and how The Bricklayer's Lament really SAT came about. It includes contributions from Ian Hislop, who SAT was a fan from an early age, and Inspector Morse creator SAT Colin Dexter, who was taught by Gerard during the Second SAT World War. SAT SAT The programme will reveal how an early incarnation of the R4 SAT comedy panel show Just a Minute was to play a pivotal role SAT in the eventual success of The Bricklayer's Lament. SAT SAT The programme also features many classic clips of Gerard SAT Hoffnung speaking at the Oxford Union debate, as well as SAT other recordings he made in the fifties. These include SAT snippets of the hilarious interviews he gave to the Canadian SAT broadcaster Charles Richardson. SAT SAT Also included are revealing interviews with Gerard's widow, SAT Annetta, who shares her memories of this amazingly talented SAT man. SAT SAT The Bricklayer's Lament is a fascinating insight into how SAT this recording came about and a loving tribute to a unique SAT personality who entertained so many generations. SAT SAT Produced by Paul Russell SAT An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01lsqk8 (Listen) SAT Night SAT Three specialists in the dark hours take Bridget Kendall on SAT a trip through the night. SAT SAT First, the Oxford Professor of Circadian Rhythms, Russell SAT Foster, who thinks that our biological clock, which measures SAT the 24-hour cycle, is embedded in our genes, making night SAT shift work particularly challenging. SAT SAT The German photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg refuses to keep SAT regular hours and takes most of her photos at night, using a SAT long exposure to find colour in the dark. SAT SAT And giving some context, the historian Craig Koslovsky, from SAT the University of Illinois, traces how the people of early SAT modern Europe first took over the night by illuminating the SAT streets and their buildings, enabling them to eat, drink, SAT work and socialise in very different ways. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01lsqkb (Listen) SAT Chris Stewart is in Spain where some farmers are reporting SAT that young people, unable to find employment in the cities SAT in these austere times, are returning to work in the SAT countryside. SAT SAT The agricultural sector's been holding up reasonably well as SAT parts of the US economy take a hammering. But Paul Adams has SAT been finding out that in the corn fields of Nebraska, SAT drought is the main threat. And farmers there fear they are SAT losing their battle with the elements. SAT SAT Kate McGeown in the Philippines has been learning that the SAT government in Manila is trying to bring home Filipina SAT domestic workers in Syria who've been caught up in the civil SAT war there. She's been talking to one group who have made it SAT home and have hair-raising tales to tell. SAT SAT Peter Biles has been to the First World War battlefields of SAT Gallipoli. He wanted to discover more about the place where SAT his grandfather was killed as Allied forces spent months SAT engaged in deadly trench warfare against Turkish troops. SAT SAT And we hear why they say August in Paris is like a month of SAT Sundays! Joanna Robertson talks of a special atmosphere on SAT the streets of the French capital during the weeks when up SAT to half of its residents are off on holiday. Could it be SAT true what some say: the air there in August is so fresh it's SAT like breathing in the Swiss mountains!? SAT SAT 12:00 Fixing Broken Banking b01lsqkd (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Michael Robinson examines what went wrong with Britain's SAT banks. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b01ljwn3 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Chris Addison talks to Derren Brown SAT SAT Comedian Chris Addison gets the rare chance to talk to the SAT amazing Derren Brown about magic, comedy, art, faith and SAT Hitler. SAT SAT Comedy interview series. SAT SAT Producer ..... Carl Cooper SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01ljrnd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01ljrpj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01ljwsl (Listen) SAT Media City, Salford SAT SAT Eddie Mair chairs a live discussion of news and politics SAT from the BBC Philarmonic studio in Salford, Manchester, SAT with panellists Maajid Nawaz of the counter extremism think SAT tank Quilliam; novelist A L Kennedy; Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, SAT founder of the Black Farmer sausage range; and Father SAT Christopher Jamison of the Catholic church's National Office SAT for Vocation. SAT Producer: Miles Warde. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01lsqkg (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00t0wf5 (Listen) SAT The Moscow Prodigal SAT SAT Vasily returns to Moscow after ten years in England. His SAT attempts to build a new life there have not been a success - SAT he has been eking out an existence as a minicab driver. At SAT the airport he is met by his childhood friend, Andrei, who SAT now works for the Minister of the Interior. Andrei's SAT expansive manner and expensive air of money and power seem SAT to hint at a more thuggish way of climbing the ladder. SAT SAT Back at his mother's flat Vasily embraces his brother, but SAT there is little brotherly love. Whilst their ailing mother SAT celebrates her eldest son's return Vasily begins to SAT calculate the value of her central Moscow flat. His brother SAT Sasha simmers with resentment at the way he has been left to SAT care for their mother, but he still has scruples when Vasily SAT explains his plans to profit from the sale of the flat. Soon SAT Vasily is drawn into the world of new money and old power SAT struggles which his friend Andrei is all too keen to SAT introduce him to. SAT SAT "The Moscow Prodigal" strips away contemporary Russia's SAT veneer of newly acquired wealth to expose the brutal SAT networks of self-interest where ties of friendship and SAT family are all too easily broken by the lure of easy SAT dollars. SAT SAT This is the first of three plays in the mini-season "Russia SAT Actualnyi" which sets out to explore life in Russia now. SAT SAT Written by Michael Butt based on an original idea by Vitaly SAT Yerenkov. SAT Technical production by Scott Lehrer, Grammy winner and Tony SAT winner for Broadway theatre sound design; Music specially SAT composed by Gene Pritzker. SAT SAT Directed by Judith Kampfner SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Vasily SAT Yasen Peyankov SAT Olga SAT Anne Bobby SAT Irina SAT Angelique Doudnikova SAT Marco SAT Michael Levi Harris SAT Sasha SAT Stass Klassen SAT Andrei SAT Moti Margolin SAT Anna SAT Nicole Rosengurt SAT Gryzlov SAT Peter von Berg SAT Mama SAT Tatyana Zbirovskaya SAT Director SAT Judith Kampfner SAT Writer SAT Michael Butt SAT SAT 15:30 Making Tracks b01lhgw0 (Listen) SAT Metropolis 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. At SAT its most basic, there'd be no technology to capture the SAT sounds envisaged by the musicians and created and enhanced SAT by the engineers and producers... and there'd be no music SAT for the record companies to market and distribute. But more SAT than that, the studios actually played a crucial part in the SAT structure and fabric of the music recorded there - the SAT sounds enhanced by the studio space itself... the potential SAT and shortcomings of the equipment and technology housed in SAT the cubicles... and the ability and 'vision' of the SAT engineers and producers operating it all to find the new SAT sound that makes the recordings sound different and fresh. SAT SAT In the final programme of the series Paul Morley ventures to SAT West London and one of the last major studio complexes to be SAT built in the heyday of the music industry. But without an SAT exalted musical history to fall back on and decades of SAT experience to help run it, how do you go about creating a SAT world-class facility frequented by the likes of Amy SAT Winehouse, Mick Jagger and Rihanna... and how do you keep it SAT going when all around you are closing their doors? SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01lsqkj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Today: what does the SAT departure of Louise Mensch mean for women in parliament? SAT Edwina Currie comments. The family secrets of the postwar SAT generation. How well represented are women in the police SAT force? The pick of crime fiction for summer reads. Is SAT "underparenting" the best way to occupy a child? Lorraine SAT Candy comments. What's it like to grow up as a British Asian SAT man sometimes juggling different sets of expectations? And SAT how to cook the perfect tiramisu with restaurateur Russell SAT Norman. Presented by Jenni Murray. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01lsqkl (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01ljwv0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01ljrpl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01ljrpn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ljrpq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01lsqkn (Listen) SAT DOOM, Adjoa Andoh, Andy Hamilton, Anneka Rice and Jonathan SAT Harvey SAT SAT The Dead Donkey makes the headlines this week as Clive chats SAT to Andy Hamilton about his new comedy, 'Just Around the SAT Corner', co-written with Guy Jenkin, and part of Channel 4's SAT Funny Fortnight. It's the story of a suburban family set in SAT the flooded, warm and bank-free future - a kind of "Mad Max SAT meets The Good Life". SAT SAT From one dog-eat-dog world to another - Clive finds himself SAT in the Roman Capital with actress Anjoa Andoh who is SAT currently playing the part of Portia in Shakespeare's SAT 'Julius Caesar' at the Noel Coward Theatre in London. It's a SAT famliar story of power politics, bloody murder, corruption SAT and treachery in this spectacular RSC production transposed SAT to an African setting. SAT SAT Jo Bunting meets Beautiful Thing Jonathan Harvey whose debut SAT novel 'All She Wants' introduces us to loveable Liverpudlian SAT girl, Jodie McGee - the girl next door who becomes 'the girl SAT off the telly'. In Jodie's words: 'This is my story. It's SAT dead tragic. You have been warned.'. SAT SAT And it's Challenge Clive as he pulls on his jumpsuit and SAT races to meet golden girl Anneka Rice to find about her new SAT BBC1 series, 'The Flowerpot Gang'. Alongside Phil Tufnell SAT and Joe Swift, their goal is to transform neglected outdoor SAT plots of land into inspiring and life-changing spaces for SAT communities across Britain. SAT SAT Music comes from the masked hip-hop maverick, DOOM whose SAT album, JJ Doom 'Key to the Kuffs', features Beth Gibbons and SAT Damon Albarn. JJ comes from the initals of collaborator SAT producer / vocalist Jneiro Jarel. This is DOOM's debut radio SAT performance, perhaps after it, he'll call himself LE DOOM? SAT And he plays 'Winter Blues'. SAT SAT And Scottish folk musician, James Yorkston, plays 'Border SAT Song' from his new album, 'I Was A Cat From A Book' SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01lsqkq (Listen) SAT Ruth Alexander profiles Dave Brailsford, performance SAT director of British Cycling. SAT Producer Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01lsqks (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Brave SAT SAT Brave is on general release from 13th August, certificate SAT PG. SAT SAT Appointment with the Wicker Man SAT SAT Appointment with the Wicker Man is on at The Assembly Rooms SAT in Edinburgh until 26th August 2012. SAT SAT Morning SAT SAT Morning is at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh until 19th SAT August 2012. It is then on at the Lyric Hammersmith from 5th SAT September to 22nd September 2012. SAT SAT Illicit Happiness of Other People SAT SAT Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu is published on SAT Thursday 16 August 2012 by WW Norton & Co. SAT SAT Exhibition: Harry Hill - My Hobby SAT SAT Harry Hill - My Hobby is at the White Stuff, Edinburgh until SAT 2nd September 2012. Free admission. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01lsr14 (Listen) SAT Inner Voices - The Burton Diaries SAT SAT The archive of Richard Burton is a rich treasure. The SAT performances are by common consent amongst the most SAT compelling of any age, given in a voice that many have felt SAT to be an aural equivalent of heaven. Hamlet, Under Milk SAT Wood, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Equus stand out, SAT and then there are the blockbusters: Wild Geese, Where SAT Eagles Dare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Night of the Iguana and SAT The Robe. Add to that the poetry readings - Dylan Thomas of SAT course but also Shakespeare and the English Classics. It is SAT a feast for the ears. SAT SAT Yet it is a remarkable testament to the man and to his life SAT that, just as magnetic as the body of work, is another SAT collection. Through several periods of his life, most SAT notably from the mid-1960s to the early '70s (his 'superstar SAT years') he kept a diary, sometimes handwritten, mostly typed SAT out and assembled in thick notebooks. The diaries provide a SAT unique view of the world in which he moved, among actors and SAT directors, writers and poets, millionaires and royalty. They SAT also give an insight into his approach to acting, his SAT insecurities, his drinking and his volatile relationship SAT with Elizabeth Taylor at a time when they were the most SAT famous couple in the world. SAT SAT Twenty-five years ago, shortly after Burton's death, Melvyn SAT Bragg was given access to the diaries to write his SAT definitive biography of Burton, Rich. Now, to mark the SAT publication of the complete diaries, Bragg presents an SAT Archive on 4 which examines Burton's life through broadcast SAT interviews and the previously inaccessible lens of his SAT diaries. Bragg returns to Burton to reassesses the man in SAT the light of his own experience and in the light of the SAT private and confessional thoughts that Burton wrote, alone, SAT throughout his life. SAT SAT Burton was the gifted son of a Welsh miner. He met a SAT remarkable teacher and made the journey to Oxford and on to SAT superstardom - but he was seldom really happy. He was a SAT hellraiser who often behaved appallingly and was accused of SAT squandering an extraordinary talent on drinking and bad SAT movies. If that was all he was then he'd be just a footnote SAT in 20th century culture. But Burton was also a man of SAT wonderful erudition, passion, insight and self- knowledge. SAT He fought his way through life through force of will, love, SAT and voracious reading. It is this side of the man that makes SAT him such a remarkable presence. It is also a side of him SAT captured in a rich vein of BBC archive and interviews. SAT SAT The diaries show him on top of the world, in love, in SAT despair, and fighting the alcoholism that had killed his SAT father and he knew was killing him. This programme puts the SAT flesh and the voice back into our collective understanding SAT of one of the great cultural figures of the 20th century. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01lh971 (Listen) SAT The Chrysalids, Episode 2 SAT SAT John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic SAT dramatised by Jane Rogers. SAT SAT Genetic mutation has devastated the world. Any deviation is SAT seen as the work of the devil, ruthlessly hunted out and SAT destroyed. David Strorm is one of a group of young people SAT who can communicate by transferring thought-shapes. In God SAT fearing, law abiding Waknuk, David and his friends would be SAT classed as Mutants. Will David be forced to flee to the SAT Fringes, the lawless territory inhabited by mutants or risk SAT discovery? SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari SAT SAT Credits SAT David SAT Matthew Beard SAT Rosalind SAT Verity-May Henry SAT Petra SAT Sydney Wade SAT Michael SAT Henry Devas SAT Fringe dweller SAT Henry Devas SAT Sophie SAT Carla Henry SAT Sally SAT Carla Henry SAT Rachel SAT Emma Cunniffe SAT Zealander SAT Emma Cunniffe SAT Gordon SAT Conrad Nelson SAT Director SAT Nadia Molinari SAT Writer SAT John Wyndham SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01ljrqk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The EU Debate b01ljk52 (Listen) SAT With the crisis continuing in the eurozone, recent polls SAT suggest that the vast majority of the British electorate SAT would be in favour of a referendum on Britain's membership SAT of the European Union. SAT SAT In the current climate the voices of those in favour of the SAT European project have been noticeable by their absence. SAT SAT Evan Davis chairs a debate at the London School of Economics SAT on the motion "Britain should stay in the European Union." SAT SAT Sir Stephen Wall, the former diplomat and EU adviser to Tony SAT Blair, speaks in favour of the motion, arguing his position SAT against a panel who want Britain out. SAT SAT The Panel: SAT Roger Helmer - UKIP MEP for the East Midlands SAT Dr Helen Szamuely - Head of research for the Bruges Group SAT and blogger on Your Freedom and Ours SAT Mark Reckless - Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood SAT George Eustice - Conservative MP for Camborne and Redruth SAT SAT Producer: Hannah Barnes. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b01lhbgn (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 author Louise Doughty, writer SAT and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, newsreader Nicholas Owen and SAT columnist Hugo Rifkind. The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT Producer: Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 23:30 My Heart Is in the East b01lh975 (Listen) SAT Medieval historian Miri Rubin explores the rich history of SAT the most famous of Hebrew poems. SAT SAT My Heart is in the East is probably the best-known poem in SAT the Hebrew language. It was written in the twelfth-century SAT by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, the finest Hebrew poet of the Middle SAT Ages. Though he had lived his entire life in Spain, it SAT describes his deep yearning for his spiritual home, SAT Jerusalem. SAT SAT This longing could have remained a poetic preoccupation but, SAT in his sixties, this successful doctor, renowned philosopher SAT and poet, took the extraordinary decision to try and make SAT his way to the Holy Land, crossing the Mediterranean by ship SAT to Alexandria in 1140. The journey was a perilous one and he SAT must have known he would not be welcome in Jerusalem. Since SAT the Christian conquest during the First Crusade in 1099, SAT Muslims and Jews were banned from living in the city. SAT SAT What happened next to Halevi remained unknown for centuries SAT and became the stuff of legend. But thanks to the discovery SAT of the Cairo Genizah in 1896, remarkable documentary SAT evidence of Halevi's epic journey has emerged. Letters SAT preserved in the Genizah enable historians to trace much of SAT Halevi's route and also reveal the fame and stature he had SAT acquired as a poet and philosopher around the Mediterranean SAT region. SAT SAT Long after Halevi's death, My Heart is in the East still SAT resonates with new audiences. His poetry was revived by SAT romantic and early Zionist poets in nineteenth century SAT Europe, and has continued to influence Israeli poets and SAT singers to this day. SAT SAT Contributors: Dr Tamar Drukker, Professor Nicholas de Lange SAT and Dr Ben Outhwaite. SAT SAT Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SAT A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 AUGUST 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01ln9gy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00lyf67 (Listen) SUN We Are Stardust, We Are Golden, Arnold in a Purple Haze SUN SUN Read by Conleth Hill 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, which reflect that SUN momentous time, We Are Stardust We Are Golden continues with SUN Arnold in a Purple Haze by Nick Walker. SUN SUN Still damaged by his Vietnam experiences, Arnold is trying SUN to arrange transport for a band due to perform at the SUN Woodstock Festival. But the sounds of the city and the noise SUN of the helicopters begin to unbalance him and blur things in SUN his mind. SUN SUN Producer: Cherry Cookson SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ln9h0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ln9h2 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ln9h4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01ln9h6 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01lstrj (Listen) SUN The bells of St.Mary's Church, Lamberhurst, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01lsqkq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01ln9h8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01lstrl (Listen) SUN Most of us like a practical joke, but can it do us good SUN while it's making us laugh? In the week of the Festival of SUN Janasthami, celebrating the birth of Krishna, the Hindu SUN Deity known amongst other things for his practical jokes, SUN Mark Tully discusses the spirituality of the Prankster. SUN SUN Like it or not, practical jokes and pranks play an intrinsic SUN and important part of life. And our reactions to them can be SUN revealing. A joke played and taken in good part can be an SUN affirmation of friendship. Many initiation rites have pranks SUN at their core. Some religious teachers have used them to SUN make a memorable point. SUN SUN Yet a delicate balance has to be struck. There must be SUN countless examples of pranks tipping over into cruelty, or SUN friendships being ruined by a misplaced trick. At the same SUN time we can delight in being the butt of an inventive prank SUN and we certainly love to see them played on others. SUN SUN With the help of Professor Dacher Keltner a psychologist SUN from University College, Berkeley and with music from Dudley SUN Moore, Haydn and the musical "Matilda", Mark Tully SUN investigates the cultural importance of joke playing. SUN SUN The readers are Helen Ryan and Kenneth Cranham. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01lstrn (Listen) SUN Ouzels of the Moor SUN SUN Ring ouzels are birds of wild upland country, migrant SUN thrushes rather like blackbirds with a bold white bib .In SUN fact, ouzel, is an old word for blackbird or thrush. SUN SUN Unlike blackbirds, these are shy creatures which winter in SUN North Africa and breed in remote craggy places in Wales, the SUN north of England and Scotland, but are nowhere common. In SUN southern England their decline has been sharp, with just a SUN handful of pairs remaining on Dartmoor. SUN SUN For The Living World, Miranda Krestovnikoff tracks down SUN these elusive birds with the help of naturalist Nick Baker SUN who's been studying the Dartmoor ouzels for the RSPB in an SUN attempt to find out why the birds are in decline. SUN SUN By late June, some birds have already fledged, but near SUN other nests, the male birds are still singing and both SUN parents are visiting the young. Although singing birds are SUN easy to locate, proving that birds have bred at any SUN particular site is a different matter as Nick admits, and SUN this season has already provided him with some surprises. SUN SUN Miranda learns that while the birds are declining across the SUN whole of the UK, ornithologists are still uncertain about SUN the reasons. Climate change may be drying up their mountain SUN grasslands, or disturbance and nest predation may be the SUN reasons, but the mysteries surrounding this stunning bird SUN remain to challenge the dedicated teams striving to save it. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01ln9hb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01ln9hd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01lstrq (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01lstrs (Listen) SUN The Salvation Army SUN Rhidian Brook presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity The Salvation Army SUN Reg Charity: 214779 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN The Salvation Army. SUN SUN The Salvation Army International Development UK (SAID UK) SUN SUN The Salvation Army is working in 124 countries around the SUN world responding to the needs of the community. SAID UK work SUN to resource, empower and support developing communities to SUN defeat poverty and injustice, enabling them to build a SUN better life and future. SUN SUN The charity's Anti-Child Trafficking Centre in Mchinji, on SUN the Western Border of Malawi, is providing care, support and SUN rehabilitation to children who have been rescued from SUN trafficking. Most of them have been trafficked away from SUN their homes to work as herd boys or house girls. SUN SUN The money raised through the Radio 4 Appeal will help the SUN centre continue its great work of providing up to 120 SUN children a year with a safe and caring environment to SUN recover from their ordeal. SUN SUN � �5 will feed a child for a week SUN � �10 will buy clothes, bedding and a school bag SUN � and �25 will pay for school fees and supplies SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01ln9hg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01ln9hj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01lstrv (Listen) SUN Kindled with the Flame of God's Love SUN SUN As the Olympic flame begins its journey from this country to SUN Brazil, this morning's service reflects on fire and flame as SUN a symbol of God's love handed on to others. SUN The College of St Hild and St Bede at Durham University SUN hosts singers from the Eton Choral Course directed by Ralph SUN Allwood. SUN Led by the Rev'd Fr Jonathan Lawson, chaplain for the SUN College SUN Preacher: the Rev'd Dr Calvin Samuel, Director of the Wesley SUN Study Centre in Durham SUN Organist: Alex Hodgkinson SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01ljwsn (Listen) SUN Climate for Culture SUN SUN John Gray reflects on a topical issue. SUN Producer: SUN Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01lstrx (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 b01lstrz (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Tim Stimpson SUN Director ..... Jenny Stephens SUN Editor ..... John Yorke SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams 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 Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01lsts1 (Listen) SUN Craig Brown SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the critic and satirist Craig SUN Brown. SUN SUN A prolific writer, he's lampooned everyone from DH Lawrence SUN to Victoria Beckham and, earlier this year, he became the SUN first journalist to win three separate prizes at the British SUN Press Awards. He showed early promise - when he was 14 he SUN started writing spoofs of Harold Pinter plays, and his SUN characters have their own entries in Who's Who. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01lhbgx (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 1 SUN SUN Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the first of a new SUN series of the granddaddy of all panel games. SUN SUN Panellists Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and Graham SUN Norton join Nicholas this week for the verbal equivalent of SUN the Olympics. It's an energetic game this week - but who SUN will win gold medal for the greatest gift of the gab? SUN SUN This week Paul talks about The Biggest Fib he Ever Told, Sue SUN Perkins divulges a lot of information about her Famous SUN Friends, Liza Tarbuck speaks knowledgably on the subject of SUN Fake Tan and Graham Norton gives his tips on How To Annoy SUN The Audience. SUN SUN This series sees the programme recording in London, Evesham SUN and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Panellists will SUN include: Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck, Graham SUN Norton, Pam Ayres, Charles Collingwood and Miles Jupp. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01lsts3 (Listen) SUN The Science of Taste SUN SUN Can changing our dining utensils change the flavour of food? SUN Simon Parkes investigates. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01ln9hl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01lsts5 (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 The Songs of Milne b01jwk3f (Listen) SUN 'Christopher Robin is saying his prayers....', 'They're SUN changing guard at Buckingham Palace....': familiar verses by SUN A.A. Milne from the 1920s, but who wrote the original music? SUN In their day the songs were as much a part of the Milne SUN success as the famous E.H. Shepard illustrations. Time, SUN Disney and changing fashions have seen to it that the SUN majority of these pieces have been all but forgotten, along SUN with the man who set them to music. There are sixty-seven SUN songs in all, from the verses in When We Were Very Young and SUN Now We Are Six, and The Hums of Pooh are from the SUN Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Their composer was Harold SUN Fraser-Simson, whose reputation was made by a hit West End SUN musical in 1917 called The Maid of the Mountains, though he SUN was partly chosen by Milne because he lived across the SUN street in Chelsea and belonged to the Garrick Club. SUN When pianist John Kember first found the music on a friend's SUN piano, he was so struck with it that he scoured the world SUN for the scores to gather in all of the songs, which haven't SUN yet been compiled into a full collection. With baritone SUN Richard Burkhard John performs his favourites, follows the SUN fortunes of some of the songs and hopes that the time might SUN be ripe for another revival. SUN Presenter: John Kember SUN Producer: Kate Howells. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01ljwmp (Listen) SUN Thetford SUN SUN Eric Robson, Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob SUN Flowerdew and the team are guests of Thetford Garden and SUN Allotment Club. SUN SUN Peter Gibbs delves into the RHS Wisley weather records to SUN learn a lesson from previous bad summers. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01lsts7 (Listen) SUN The battle for Mount Longdon SUN SUN It is 30 years since the end of the Falklands War. Hear two SUN very different views of the conflict from an Argentine SUN veteran and a British veteran. Miguel Savage was a 19 SUN year-old student conscript. He had never wanted to join the SUN army but ended up a reluctant member of Argentina's SUN Falklands invasion force nonetheless. Quintin Wright was a SUN well-trained member of the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute SUN Regiment. He had joined-up voluntarily, and was excited at SUN the thought of action. They both fought in one of the SUN decisive encounters at the end of the war - the battle for SUN Mount Longdon. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01lsts9 (Listen) SUN Buddenbrooks, Episode 1 SUN SUN Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico SUN Muhly. SUN SUN Michael Maloney and Barbara Flynn star in this story of an SUN old Hanseatic merchant family fighting to keep their SUN commercial supremacy in the changing world of 1840s Europe. SUN SUN Four generations of Buddenbrooks try to sustain their SUN inheritance - a once highly successful trading company in SUN the port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea - in a world where the SUN old ways no longer work. SUN SUN Harmonium and Flute by Rick Juckes. SUN Technical Presentation by David Fleming Williams. SUN SUN Produced by Chris Wallis SUN A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Narrator Count Molln SUN Pip Carter SUN Johann Buddenbrook SUN Kenneth Cranham SUN Antoinette Buddenbrook SUN Ann Beach SUN Jean Buddenbrook SUN Michael Maloney SUN Elizabet Buddenbrook SUN Barbara Flynn SUN Toni Buddenbrook SUN Clare Corbett SUN Young Toni SUN Rosa Calcraft SUN Clara SUN Rosa Calcraft SUN Thomas Buddenbrook SUN Angus Imrie SUN Young Thomas SUN Thiago Los SUN Christian Buddenbrook SUN Scott Smith SUN Young Christian SUN Gene Goodman SUN Ida Jungmann SUN Alison Pettit SUN Herr Hoffstede SUN Shaun Prendergast SUN Dr Grabow SUN Stephen Critchlow SUN Herr Grunlich SUN Ben Crowe SUN Pilot Schwarzkopf SUN Peter Marinker SUN Morten Schwarzkopf SUN Carl Prekopp SUN Anton SUN Andrew Cullimore SUN Anna SUN Millie Binks SUN Armgard Von Schillink SUN Karolina Cybulski SUN Gerda Arnoldson SUN Serena Lamble SUN Julchen Hagenstrom SUN Priyanka Patel SUN Herman Hagenstrom SUN Spike White SUN Producer SUN Chris Wallis SUN Writer SUN Thomas Mann SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01lstsc (Listen) SUN Comedian and author Russell Kane presents Open Book SUN SUN Comedian and author Russell Kane talks to Enid Shomer about SUN her novel The Twelve Rooms of the Nile in which she SUN fictionalises a meeting between the sex obsessed young SUN French writer Gustave Flaubert and the naive 29 year old SUN Florence Nightingale. Both historically in Egypt at the same SUN time, Flaubert was despondent from the bad reception an SUN unpublished novel received, while Nightingale was trying to SUN find a role for herself, away from the constraints of her SUN class and her parents who didn't believe nursing was a SUN suitable occupation for their daughter. Seven years later SUN they would both be famous - she as the lady with the lamp at SUN the Crimea and he for his controversial modern novel Madame SUN Bovary SUN SUN Does it really matter how we get our literary fix? Is SUN reading a book definitively better than listening to it SUN being read to you? Despite the continued popularity of SUN talking books over the past 75 years since they were first SUN sent out by the Royal National Institute of the Blind, as SUN well as the current prevalence of portable devices and SUN downloads, Russell feels that there is still a stigma to SUN this form of 'reading.' To discuss the place of the audio SUN book Russell is joined by the audiobook critic Christina SUN Hardyment, the literary agent Carole Blake and Professor SUN Sophie Scott from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. SUN SUN It's been fifty years since Ursula Andress sexily emerged SUN from the Caribbean Sea and 007 foiled the evil plans of Dr SUN No. To mark this milestone in cinema history, Vintage SUN Classics are releasing new editions of all fourteen of the SUN Ian Fleming novels. Tom Rob Smith discusses the continuing SUN appeal of these original books and how they depict a SUN different side to Britain's most successful and best loved SUN spy. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Twelve Rooms of the Nile - Enid Shomer SUN Publisher: Simon & Schuster SUN SUN The Red House (Unabridged) [Audio Download] - Mark Haddon SUN (Author), Nathaniel Parker (Narrator) SUN Publisher: AudioGO Ltd SUN SUN 007 Reloaded the James Bond Collection - Ian Fleming SUN Publisher: AudioGO Ltd SUN SUN James Bond books reissued - Ian Fleming SUN Publishers: Vintage and Vintage Classics SUN SUN 16:30 An Outcast of the Islands: Lady Grange b01lstsf (Listen) SUN While making 'A Requiem for St Kilda' for Radio 4 (which won SUN the Sony Feature Award), writer Kenneth Steven and producer SUN Julian May came across the extraordinary story of Rachel, SUN Lady Grange. The wife of James Erskine, Lord Justice Clerk SUN of Scotland, she enjoyed a fashionable life in C18th SUN Edinburgh. Their relationship soured - Grange kept a SUN mistress in London - and they separated. Rachel, desperate SUN to see her children, began accost her husband in the street. SUN She had incriminating information, that Erskine had held SUN meetings with Jacobite sympathisers at their house. Times SUN were dangerous, so Erskine had his wife abducted. SUN SUN She was dragged through the Highlands, and shipped to St SUN Kilda. She spoke no Gaelic, the St Kildans no English. After SUN seven years she smuggled messages to her solicitor in SUN Edinburgh. They arrived two years after she wrote them and SUN provoked a scandal. Her lawyer sent a ship, the Arabella, to SUN rescue her - an early example of sending a gunboat. But SUN Erskine (who had already held her funeral) had Rachel SUN spirited away again. She was taken from island to island, SUN and at last to Skye, where she died in 1745 - the very year SUN when Prince Charlie landed. SUN SUN Kenneth Steven visits the Special Collections Department of SUN Edinburgh University Library, where, amazingly, one of Lady SUN Grange's letters from St Kilda survives, describing in great SUN detail the brutality of her abduction, and naming names. SUN SUN He meets Margaret Macaulay, author of 'The Prisoner of St SUN Kilda', who spent 7 years researching the story. He retraces SUN her journey from Edinburgh to her final resting place in the SUN far north of the Isle of Skye. SUN SUN Siobhan Redmond reads from Lady Grange's letters, and SUN Kenneth responds to her story with a series of new short SUN lyric poems. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01lhgyn (Listen) SUN World health chiefs have branded diesel exhaust emissions a SUN major cause of cancer. Despite the efforts of car-makers to SUN filter out the most noxious substances, these fumes still SUN play a big part in causing air pollution. SUN Britain has the second worst respiratory death rates in SUN Europe and has long been under notice from Brussels to clean SUN up its act. So why are most UK areas in breach of legal SUN limits? SUN And do ministers have any clear plan to reduce the huge SUN annual total of resulting deaths? SUN Julian O'Halloran investigates. SUN Producer : Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01lsqkq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01ln9hn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01ln9hq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ln9hs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01lstsh (Listen) SUN Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN He was a brooding, beaten Hamlet, a besotted Marc Anthony SUN and a supreme verse speaker. But who was Richard Burton, the SUN man? His soon to be published private diaries are heard for SUN the first time. SUN The story of Irish soldiers who joined the British army SUN during the Second World War, and were subsequently denied SUN employment and benefits in their homeland, is told. SUN There's also a tale of tango addiction, that's the dance not SUN the drink, smouldering across an Argentinian dance floor. SUN And poet Daljit Nagra recalls his 1970's childhood in the SUN suspicious suburbs of West London. SUN SUN The 'Arse' That Jack Built - Radio 4 SUN What's the Point of Lord Lieutenants? - Radio 4 SUN Amanda Vickery on Men - Radio 4 SUN Leap of Faith - Radio 2 SUN Face the Facts - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes: Telling Me of Elsewhere - Radio 3 SUN Indian Britain - Radio 2 SUN The Bricklayer's Lament - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: Inner Voices The Burton Diaries - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: Like A daughter - Radio 4 SUN Gotta Dance: Just a Tango -Radio 4 SUN Front Row -Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01lstsk (Listen) SUN Mike receives an unexpected delivery. Adam eats humble pie. SUN SUN 19:15 Wondermentalist Cabaret b01lstsm (Listen) SUN Edinburgh Special SUN SUN Comedy, bonhomie, poetry, music and audience creativity in SUN the company of Matt Harvey and guests. SUN SUN BBC Radio 4's Edinburgh Festival edition of the slightly SUN interactive, comedy-infused poetry cabaret includes Matt SUN Harvey's peerless poetry, his side-kick and one man house SUN band Jerri Hart, and guest poets Kate Fox and Elvis SUN McGonagall. SUN SUN Kate Fox is the poet with Northern vowels and a love of SUN puns, buns and rhymes, while Elvis McGonagall, stand-up poet SUN and armchair revolutionary will join us on remand from The SUN Graceland Caravan Park, near Dundee. SUN SUN Like luxury muesli, Wondermentalist contains multigrain of SUN truth, wit, wisdom and laughter. SUN SUN 19:45 Original Shorts b00vhg8x (Listen) SUN Series 4, Episode 3 SUN SUN Martin Jarvis reads Christopher Matthew's specially written SUN story of old school rivalry. Why should John Small pretend SUN he was at school with Tim Slingsby? And why are Slingsby and SUN Tony Fobbing so keen that Small should attend the Old SUN Melburian's Dinner? Are there old scores to settle? And who, SUN actually, will be settling them? SUN SUN Christopher Matthew's witty take on what could happen when SUN so-called old school friends meet in later life. Can we ever SUN leave our schooldays totally behind? There's a possible SUN answer in the story's surprising climax. SUN SUN Producer: : Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis and Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01ljwmx (Listen) SUN How to lose money, fast SUN SUN High frequency trading SUN SUN Last week Knight Capital lost a lot of money very quickly. SUN It was the latest chapter in the story of something called SUN 'high frequency trading'. Investors have always valued being SUN the first with the news. But high frequency trading is SUN different: algorithms execute automatic trades, conducted by SUN computers, at astonishing speeds. We ask: is the rapid SUN growth of high frequency trading progress, or - as some SUN think - a threat to the stability of the entire financial SUN system? SUN SUN Medalling with the Olympics SUN SUN While the Olympic medal table puts all UK successes SUN together, some people have been tempted to peer under the SUN surface. Scotland has been pronounced superior to England SUN per head of population, while Yorkshire has been hailed as SUN the number one county, beating Australia in the medals SUN table. We check the sums. SUN SUN Trumptonomics SUN SUN A year after Trumptonshire's Treasurer (Con. T Harford) SUN embarked on a round of public spending cuts which included SUN sacking Fireman Dibble, we return to Trumpton to find out SUN what happened next to the county's economy - and to poor old SUN Dibble. SUN SUN The geeks are coming SUN SUN Mark Henderson discusses his new book, The Geek Manifesto, SUN which argues for more scientific thinking in public life. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01ljwmv (Listen) SUN Robert Hughes, Sir Bernard Lovell, Lakshmi Sehgal, Sir John SUN Keegan and Franz West SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN the pugnacious Australian art critic Robert Hughes, who SUN presented the acclaimed TV series Shock of The New. SUN SUN The astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell who led the building of SUN the enormous radio telescope at Jodrell Bank SUN SUN Doctor Lakshmi Sehgal, the Indian independence campaigner SUN who raised a regiment of women to fight against the British SUN during the second world war SUN SUN The military historian and Reith Lecturer Sir John Keegan SUN SUN And the controversial Austrian artist Franz West who built SUN giant colourful sculptures and invited the public to climb SUN on them. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b01lhj0x (Listen) SUN Pardon for the Disowned Army SUN SUN The thousands of Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to SUN fight with the British against Hitler went on to suffer SUN years of persecution on their return home John Waite's first SUN investigation into their plight, which was broadcast earlier SUN this year, generated huge interest from listeners and was SUN debated in the Irish Parliament. SUN This was the first broadcast to highlight the injustice they SUN suffered and to hear from them about the on-going SUN repercussions and their continued fight for a pardon. SUN The programme led directly to the Irish Minister for SUN Justice, Alan Shatter, undertaking an urgent review and, SUN just six months after the broadcast, he announced an SUN official pardon. SUN As John Waite now hears, one of those relieved by the news SUN is 92-year-old Phil Farrington, took part in the D-Day SUN landings and helped liberate the German death camp at SUN Bergen-Belsen. Up until now he has had to wear his service SUN medals in secret after having spent time in a military SUN prison in Cork for deserting the Irish army. He returned to SUN a British unit on his release but has had nightmares that he SUN would be re-arrested by the authorities and punished again SUN for his wartime service. SUN "They would come and get me, yes they would," he said in a SUN frail voice at his home in the docks area of Dublin. Mr SUN Farrington was one of about 4,500 Irish soldiers who SUN deserted their own neutral army to join the war against SUN fascism and who were brutally punished on their return home SUN as a result. They were formally dismissed from the Irish SUN army, stripped of all pay and pension rights, and prevented SUN from finding work by being banned for seven years from any SUN employment paid for by state or government funds. SUN A special "list" was drawn up containing their names and SUN addresses, and circulated to every government department, SUN town hall and railway station - anywhere the men might look SUN for a job. It was referred to in the Irish parliament - the SUN Dail - at the time as a "starvation order", and for many of SUN their families the phrase became painfully close to the SUN truth. SUN John Stout served with the Irish Guards armoured division SUN which raced to Arnhem to capture a key bridge. He also SUN fought in the Battle of the Bulge, ending the war as a SUN commando. On his return home to Cork, however, he was SUN treated as a pariah. "What they did to us was wrong. I know SUN that in my heart. They cold-shouldered you. They didn't SUN speak to you. SUN It was only 20 years since Ireland had won its independence SUN after many years of rule from London, and the Irish list of SUN grievances against Britain was long - as Gerald Morgan, at SUN Trinity College, Dublin, explains. "The uprisings, the civil SUN war, all sorts of reneged promises - I'd estimate that 60% SUN of the population expected or indeed hoped the Germans would SUN win. To prevent civil unrest, Eamon de Valera had to do SUN something. Hence the starvation order and the list." SUN Today, thanks largely to this BBC investigation, those Irish SUN servicemen have at last been recognised for the part they SUN played in helping defeat fascism. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01lstrs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01ljl5z (Listen) SUN The Fizz Biz SUN SUN There's a new boom in English sparkling wine. It is taking SUN on Champagne and (sometimes) beating it. But what's behind SUN the bubbles? Peter Day finds out from some of the top SUN English growers ... and a select group of world wine experts SUN on a pioneering trip into unknown territory. You can also SUN watch a special video with Peter Day, by following the link SUN on the In Business webpage, via the Radio 4 website. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal SUN Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01lstsp (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 b01lstsr (Listen) SUN Episode 116 SUN SUN Miranda Green of The Day analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01ljl5l (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet meets with Jeremy Renner to discuss his role SUN as the lead in The Bourne Legacy. SUN SUN We take a trip back in time with Austin Vince from The SUN Adventure Travel Film Festival. SUN SUN Academic Melanie Williams champions an early kitchen sink SUN drama from 1957, Woman in a Dressing Gown. SUN SUN And Mark Gatiss is back for the summer to pick 4 of his SUN favourite biopics - first up, Lewis Gilbert's Carve Her Name SUN With Pride, starring Virginia Mckenna. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01lstrl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01ln9k0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01ljk4r (Listen) MON Social capital; gentrification MON MON What happens when middle class white people move into MON vibrant, ethnically diverse and challenging areas in inner MON city London? Emma Jackson talks to Laurie about the MON developing attitudes of the 'gentrifiers' in Peckham and in MON Brixton. MON Also, Irena Grugulis, author of Jobs for the Boys returns to MON the programme: She address points raised by listeners on her MON study of networking in the media and discusses the concept MON of 'social capital'. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01lstrj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ln9k2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ln9k4 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ln9k6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01ln9k8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lstvy (Listen) MON Short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01lstw0 (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith asks if a commercial crop of MON blight-resistant GM potatoes could be the answer to weather MON conditions like this year's. And the Potato Council say, MON thanks to the weather, shoppers should expect smaller MON home-grown potatoes this year. MON MON The US Department of Agriculture has further reduced its MON expectations for this year's maize and soyabean harvest, in MON response to ongoing drought across the Mid-West. Now, there MON are warnings from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation MON that food prices are rising across the world. Charlotte asks MON whether this could lead to the similar food shortages of MON 2007/8? MON MON And Sarah Swadling visits the Farming Today cow, Bradley MON Cora 289, for the final time to recap a year in the life of MON a dairy cow. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Clare Freeman MON in BBC Birmingham. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01ln9kb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01lstw2 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah MON Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01lswch (Listen) MON The Gentleman MON MON Amanda Vickery examines the history of masculinity through MON six different archetypes of the ideal man, archetypes which MON still have an echo today. MON MON In this second programme of the series she explores the MON Gentleman, an ideal of refinement and culture which has its MON roots in Renaissance Italy. The programme begins in the MON Palace of Urbino, Northern Italy, where the courtier MON Castiglione wrote a book of advice for men which became a MON best-seller throughout Europe. In England its influence MON lasted for hundreds of years, and it spawned a whole genre MON of manuals for men. The advice about how to behave is MON comprehensive and endless: how to dress, dance, bring up MON children, play tennis, compose music, and even how to fish. MON MON The cumulative message is that masculinity is something MON that's made not born. It involved hard work, relentless MON practice and rigid self-control. The programme includes a MON moving description of the ceremony in which a young child MON became a boy by being dressed in breeches for the first time MON at the age of six. By the 17th century it was no longer MON enough for a man to be a warrior knight; he had to be MON cultured and graceful as well. Above all, he had to MON cultivate charisma. MON MON Of course the mask of the gentleman often slipped. Rigid MON self-control was not universal among real men, nor were the MON all-important charisma and confidence given to all. For MON every cool courtier or accomplished clergyman there was a MON rowdy drunk - sometimes they were the same person! MON MON Contributing scholars include Luca Mola, Lawrence Klein and MON Alexandra Sheppard. 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 Head to Head b01lswck (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON MON Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from MON the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind MON them, and echoes of the arguments today. MON MON When Correlli Barnett, the military historian, came to BBC MON studios in 1974 to record this debate, Britain was in dire MON straits. Like many at the time, he wondered why, just a MON century before, Britain had been the world's most powerful MON nation in terms of both military and economic strength. For MON the most part, Barnett blamed the ruling elites for MON Britain's demise - for creating a political culture that was MON overly liberal and lacking technological know-how. Had a MON romantic idealism set in and industrial development been MON neglected? And where did the roots of the problem reside - MON in our education system, the empire? MON MON His adversary was historian and journalist Paul Johnson, who MON agreed that Britain was sick but offered a different MON diagnosis. Was the collapsing empire a symptom of Britain's MON decline or was it the cause? Having won two world wars, was MON Britain's military might real or merely a delusion of MON grandeur? And what was wrong with our leaders and their MON schooling? MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate is Will Hutton, who has MON worked in journalism as an editor, a broadcaster and a MON commentator. He is author of "The State We're In" and MON currently the Principal of Hertford College at Oxford MON University. Joining him is David Edgerton, who is Hans MON Rausing Professor at the Centre for the History of Science, MON Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London. He is MON also author of "Britain's War Machine". MON MON Producer: Dom Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01lswcm (Listen) MON Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Episode 1 MON MON "The judges were presented with a singular case on Monday 14 MON June, a month after they had heard their first divorce suit. MON Henry Oliver Robinson, a civil engineer, was petitioning for MON the dissolution of his marriage on the grounds that his MON wife, Isabella, had committed adultery, and he submitted as MON evidence a diary in her hand." MON MON These bare facts - the angry husband and the incriminating MON words - are, in the author's hands, shaped to tell a MON riveting story, that says much about the individuals MON involved and the social world they moved in... MON MON One day Isabella Robinson makes the acquaintance of Mr MON Robert Lane and this inspires the writing of MON a diary which, when unearthed, will have astounding MON consequences for both parties... MON MON Abridged in five parts by Katrin Williams and read by Emma MON Fielding. MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lswcp (Listen) MON Olympic legacy, going for big money, and abuse in teen MON relationships MON MON What Olympic success means for women's sport; physical and MON emotional abuse in teenage relationships; women at work and MON why we undervalue what we do; Scottish poet Jen Hadfield on MON the inspiration of the Shetlands. MON Presenter: Jenni Murray MON Producer: Ruth Watts. MON MON Women and the Olympics MON British women have won more gold medals at this Olympics MON than any other, and female success has very much been a MON feature of London 2012. We discuss women's Olympic Success, MON from Britain’s first medal, when Lizzie Armitstead won MON silver in the women’s road race, to Team GB’s first gold MON from Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the rowing. So MON what will be the legacy of London 2012 for women’s sport? MON Will the many British women we’ve seen on the medal podium MON inspire other younger women to take up sport? And will the MON delighted reports of female winners lead to more media MON coverage of women’s sport? Jenni is joined by Baroness Sue MON Campbell, the Chair of UK Sport, and by Laura Williamson, MON Sports Writer with the Daily Mail. MON MON Women Writers in Scotland – Jen Hadfield MON Over the last week we’ve been in Scotland, as the MON Edinburgh Festival gets underway, hearing from women writers MON in Scotland at different stages in their writing lives. The MON Scottish Book Trust commissioned each of the authors to MON write about ‘My Favourite Place’. Our reporter, Liz MON Leonard, has been finding out how and where they gain their MON inspiration and to hear extracts from their writing. For the MON last in our series, Liz headed to the most Northern point in MON the British Isles – the Shetland Islands - to meet poet MON Jen Hadfield. MON MON Abusive Teenage Relationships MON When we think about domestic violence we commonly think of MON adult perpetrators, but domestic violence in teenage MON relationships is a growing but often hidden abuse. Tonight MON on Radio 1 a new documentary called Bruising Silence will MON highlight the problem to its younger listeners. According to MON the first official study of its kind into young abusive MON relationships, commissioned by the NSPCC, 25 per cent of MON girls and 18 per cent of boys have been physically abused in MON a young relationship, and 75 per cent of girls and 50 per MON cent of boys have suffered emotional abuse. Radio 1 MON presenter Gemma Cairney spoke to victims, perpetrators, and MON carers for the programme, and joins Jenni Murray to share MON what she leant about this ‘hidden world’, along with MON Lisa Harker of the NSPCC. MON MON Pay - Why Are Women Undervaluing Themselves? MON On Woman’s Hour last week we heard how a management job in MON computing only attracted women applicants when the salary MON was lowered. There is anecdotal evidence to show that women MON are not applying for well paid jobs or not negotiating MON better salaries for themselves. Why is this? To discuss the MON issues are Organisational Psychologist Mary Sherry, and MON Heather McGregor, author of Mrs Moneypenny’s Careers MON Advice for Ambitious Women and a columnist for the Financial MON Times. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01lswcr (Listen) MON The Other One, Episode 1 MON MON By Oliver Emanuel. MON MON A tense and moving drama, inspired by a set of exceptional MON true events, that explores the nature of identity and the MON notion of family. MON MON A twelve-year- old girl's world turns upside down when she's MON told an unbelievable truth. MON MON Director: Kirsty Williams. MON MON 11:00 Asian Weddings: Something Gold, Nothing Borrowed, MON Everything New b01h2c3n (Listen) MON Big fat gypsy weddings might have hit the headlines, but the MON traditional British Asian wedding has always been big. Often MON including several separate ceremonies and events spread over MON a week or more, the cost of the average Asian wedding in the MON UK is frequently well over �30,000. With the significance of MON marriage or 'shaadi' being huge in south Asian culture, MON weddings are a serious business. From the lavish designer MON outfits and the elaborate cakes to the grand stages where MON the bride and groom sit on their thrones, complete with a MON lighting and sound system to rival a TV talent show, this is MON an industry worth a reported �300 million a year in the UK MON alone. MON MON Yasmeen Khan explores the glamorous world of British Asian MON weddings. She takes in an Asian wedding exhibition in the MON UK, meeting the clothes designers, wedding planners, MON toastmasters, food suppliers, chefs, videographers and MON 'yellow gold' jewellers making their fortunes as the second MON and third generation tie the knot, all of them keen to help MON the families show off their wealth. She learns about the MON different cultural aspects of a Muslim, Sikh and Hindu MON wedding. She visits a couple's big day and explore the MON meaning behind cultural traditions, such as the confiscating MON of the groom's shoes by the bride's sisters and cousins - MON finding out what he must do to get them back. MON MON Yasmin also delves into the politics of the guest list at an MON Asian wedding, many of which are huge affairs with hundreds MON and sometimes thousands of guests! And she discovers just MON how much family relations are tested as an increasing number MON of couples pay for something that has traditionally been MON paid for by the bride's family. MON MON Produced by: Yasmeen Khan & Neil Rosser MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00w7dnw (Listen) MON Series 4, A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled MON MON Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic sees Pip and Harry put to MON sea with Captain Beehab in a bid to thwart a sea-going MON Mister Benevolent and rescue Ripely. But fate has other MON plans and they are shipwrecked. Pip soon finds himself on a MON desert island that holds many surprising secrets. 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 Producer: Gareth Edwards MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01lswcw (Listen) MON Pay for a day, free entry all year MON MON Pay for a day: free entry all year. Who really wins from MON tourist attractions offering 'free' annual passes? MON MON The neighbours who were secretly offered tens of thousands MON of pounds by a developer to support plans for a new MON supermarket next to their homes. MON MON And we're live at Heathrow airport where a temporary MON terminal's been set up to cope with athletes leaving London MON 2012. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Jon Douglas. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01lswcy (Listen) MON Margaret Thatcher MON James Naughtie considers the lasting influence of Margaret MON Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th MON Century and the only woman to hold the post. Her MON uncompromising policies and leadership style earned her the MON enduring nickname "The Iron Lady". MON MON Among her initiatives were the deregulation of the financial MON sector, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and the MON reduction of the power and influence of trade unions, MON policies that have become known as "Thatcherism". MON MON The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading MON historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of MON London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic MON Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, MON Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. MON MON They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions MON during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant MON impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its MON character, for better or worse.". MON MON 12:57 Weather b01ln9kd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01lswd0 (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Generation E b01lswtw (Listen) MON Series 2, Germany's Eldorado MON As the economic crisis deepens and schisms emerge, Lucy Ash MON travels across Europe to meet the continent's next MON generation, who face an uncertain future. She explores the MON challenges they face and the ways in which they are meeting MON them. MON In this programme Lucy travels to the southern German town MON of Schwabisch Hall which, after a publicity drive, was MON inundated with job requests from Portugal; dozens simply MON pitched up, asking for a job. MON When the economic crisis hit, Latvia introduced some of the MON strictest austerity measures to be found anywhere in Europe. MON Its GDP fell by 25 per cent. Now it is trumpeted by the IMF MON as a great success story. But Lucy Ash discovers that life MON for young people is still extremely tough. She speaks to MON those who have lost their homes but still owe the banks huge MON debts, while others have simply left the country. MON In Italy she meets Milan's youngest city councillor, who MON says he is trying to change the corrupt politics of his MON country and argues that it is Italy's - and his - last MON chance. MON The new Hungarian government has introduced a raft of new MON laws, which critics argue are increasingly authoritarian MON and, in some cases, break EU laws. Lucy hears how sleeping MON rough on the streets is punishable by a fine or prison MON sentence; and about how some students who receive a MON government grant are required to sign an agreement saying MON they won't leave the country for ten years. MON In Poland she visits a re-opened coal mine which is MON attracting young workers in an area of high unemployment; MON and she speaks to young entrepreneurs who are resorting to MON illegal means because they say the country's taxes are MON crippling them. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01lstsk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00t7knw (Listen) MON Tetherdown MON MON The place: London. MON The threat of terrorism - imported and home-grown - hangs in MON the air. A recession bites. Fresh crimes of violence are MON reported daily, with Londoners torn between fascination and MON fear, and the police struggling to retain the confidence of MON the public. MON The year: 1896. MON In the well-heeled suburb of Muswell Hill, Henry Smith, a MON retired engineer, is found tied-up and beaten to death in MON his own home. Scotland Yard detectives are on the scene MON within the hour, but their investigations are hampered by MON judges and politicians, who refuse to recognise the latest MON breakthrough in forensic science: fingerprints. "The British MON policeman," says a high court judge," must depend on his MON customary tenacity and ingenuity." MON As the detectives identify suspects, and launch a nationwide MON manhunt, news of the crimes goes global, with reports in MON newspapers as far apart as the USA and New Zealand. MON Tetherdown (the name of the road where the murder took MON place) is a fast-moving play by Scott Cherry and Gregory MON Evans which views these tragic events of over a century ago MON through the prism of the 20th century. Every character is MON based on a real person connected to the case. MON MON Nicholas Woodeson (Great Expectations; Conspiracy; Red MON Riding) stars as Detective Constable Burrell. MON MON Director: Marion Nancarrow. MON MON Credits MON DC Burrell MON Nicholas Woodeson MON Inspector Marshall MON Sean Baker MON Nutkins MON Ben Crowe MON Emily MON Alison Pettit MON Milsom MON Tony Bell MON Fowler MON Jude Akuwudike MON Judge MON Ian Masters MON Director MON Marion Nancarrow MON Producer MON Marion Nancarrow MON Writer MON Scott Cherry MON Writer MON Gregory Evans MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b01lswv0 (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 the author and actor Charlie MON Higson, radio presenter Martin Kelner, comedian Nat MON Luurtsema and critic Stephanie Merritt. The reader is Peter MON Jefferson. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01lsts3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01lswv2 (Listen) MON Dr Phil Hammond MON MON Dr Phil Hammond's interests in comedy, journalism and the MON world of medicine are reflected in his choice of literature MON in this edition of With Great Pleasure. We hear from the man MON who was his mentor in the world of comedy, Miles Kington; MON there are extracts from the journalistic writings of Clive MON James and Martha Gellhorn; and from the preface of The MON Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw comes a salutary MON lesson for contemporary medicine that was written over one MON hundred years ago. MON Producer Paul Dodgson. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01lswv4 (Listen) MON Syria MON MON With escalating conflict in Syria and increasing concerns MON about the role of Muslim fundamentalism in the future of the MON country; Ernie Rea is joined by Syrian businessman Ammar MON Waqqaf, historian Emma Loosely and Lecturer in Islamic MON Studies Mustafa Baig to discuss the role of religion in MON Syria. Whilst the majority of the country's population are MON Sunni Muslims, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is MON Alawite, a secretive branch of Shi'a Islam. So what has it MON meant for Syria to be governed by an elite religious MON minority? How are Syria's other minorities religions such as MON Christians, Druze and Sufis treated? How will religion MON affect the current crisis in Syria and what kind of society MON might Syria be once it is over? MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 17:00 PM b01lswv6 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ln9kg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01lswv8 (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 2 MON MON Join Nicholas Parsons and friends in Evesham, Worcestershire MON for a truly heightened episode of Just A Minute. MON MON Panellists Paul Merton, Pam Ayres, Charles Collingwood & MON Miles Jupp join Nicholas this week at The Regal Cinema in MON Evesham. MON MON This week, on a very high stage and fighting feelings of MON vertigo, Paul Merton talks about What You Should Do in the MON Back Row of the Cinema; Pam Ayres describes her Teens; Miles MON Jupp divulges his rather strange ideas of The Perfect Packed MON Lunch and Charles Collingwood talks for a whole minute on MON the subject of Hip Hop. 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, Miles Jupp, Gyles MON Brandreth, Tim Vine, Hannibal Buress, Jason Byrne and Janey MON Godley. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01lswvb (Listen) MON Pawel makes himself at home. Meanwhile Pip takes charge. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01lswvd (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01lswcr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Octavia b01lswvg (Listen) MON MON Historian Tristram Hunt MP considers the remarkable legacy MON of Octavia Hill, one hundred years after her death. MON MON Octavia was a social reformer who pioneered housing schemes MON and open spaces for the poor and went on to co-found the MON National Trust. For many years she has been consigned to MON relative obscurity, but now there's a new appreciation of MON her radicalism, her localism and her insistence on the MON importance of beauty and space in people's lives, chiming MON loudly with current social pre-occupations. Octavia is newly MON claimed as a heroine by those on the left and right of MON politics. MON MON The programme includes evidence of how the National Trust is MON reconnecting with its founder - through awards schemes, MON scholarly essays and plans to make land and properties much MON more accessible to the less well-off. MON MON We hear about Octavia's vital friendship with John Ruskin MON whose ideas about the social purpose of art and nature she MON absorbed. MON MON The programme visits Wisbech in Cambridgeshire where Octavia MON was born, Red Cross gardens - her model dwellings and MON gardens in South London, and Toys Hill in Kent - the MON precious area of land she and her family saved for the Trust MON and where she is now buried. MON MON Contributors include Fiona Reynolds, Gillian Darley, Robert MON Hewison, Kathryn Hughes, Peter Clayton and Octavia's MON descendant, Clare Armstrong. MON MON Produced by Susan Marling MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01ljl54 (Listen) MON Cold Turkey in Karachi MON MON Karachi is facing a drugs epidemic. Pakistan's sprawling MON port city has an estimated half a million chronic heroin MON addicts. The drug is cheap and easily available as it comes MON across the Pakistan/Afghanistan border, before being shipped MON to Europe and the US. Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity MON is trying to help addicts and their families. MON MON An NGO called the Edhi Foundation operates what is thought MON to be the world's largest drug rehabilitation centre. It's MON here that Mobeen meets brothers Yusaf and Husein who have MON checked themselves in. Patients who volunteer for treatment MON like this can leave whenever they feel ready. But the MON majority of patients, like 24-year-old Saqandar, are brought MON in by their desperate relatives, and according to Edhi MON rules, only the family can decide when they will be MON released. MON MON The centre offers heroin users food and painkillers to ease MON the physical symptoms of withdrawal - but conventional MON treatment like methadone is not available. So does enforced MON cold turkey really work? MON MON Mobeen follows the stories of three heroin addicts and finds MON out how the stress of their addiction takes its toll on them MON and their families. MON MON Presenter: Mobeen Azhar MON Producer: Ben Crighton. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01l8n7k (Listen) MON While school children are enjoying a well-deserved holiday, MON Quentin Cooper discusses the use of phonics to teach MON children to read and looks at the extent to which MON neuroscience can help inform education policy. He is joined MON from Cambridge by Usha Goswami and from York by Charles MON Hulme. MON MON Quentin also finds out how a mathematical approach can help MON elucidate the historical basis of some of our oldest MON classical texts. Padraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna, join MON him from Coventry University. MON MON And Alex Kacelnik joins Quentin from Oxford to discuss the MON question as to whether or not animals have empathy. MON MON children in a phonics lesson - to what extent can MON neuroscience inform education policy? MON MON can a mathematical approach elucidate the historical basis MON of Shakespeare? MON MON Do animals have empathy? Badger did... MON MON 21:30 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01lswch (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01ln9kk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01lswvj (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis, presented by MON Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01lswvl (Listen) MON The Greatcoat, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5 A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore set during and MON after the Second World War, about the power of the past to MON imprint itself on the present, and possess it. In 1952, MON Isabel Carey and her husband Philip, a doctor, are beginning MON their married life together in a small flat in a Yorkshire MON town. MON MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. MON Reader: Jasmine Hyde MON Producer: Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01lhgwb (Listen) MON Brussels - A Language Story MON MON Chris Ledgard visits Brussels, a melting pot of European MON languages. He meets interpreters, language planners and MON voice coaches to discover how the European Commission MON operates "interpreting on an industrial scale." We find out MON why officials fear a looming shortage of interpreters, and MON we meet the man who teaches people how to speak and behave MON in a multilingual setting. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00sg13d (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Cockney geezer Micky Flanagan regales us with the story of MON his journey from tabloid to broadsheet; from the street MON party to the dinner party; from apples and pears to stocks MON and shares... Well you've got the idea. MON MON Each week's episode focuses on a different decade of Micky's MON life. Micky regales us with stories from his life told MON through stand up comedy. In between, the programmes goes MON 'behind the scenes' with short interviews that give an MON insight into the stand up. MON MON In this opening episode Micky talks about growing up in the MON East End in the 1970's. He chats to his school friends about MON their shared experiences of leaving with no qualifications MON to work at Billingsgate Fish Market. He also interviews MON Sociology Professor Paul Willis about his research on MON working class boys in a 1970's school. MON MON Micky's transition from the mean streets of the East End, MON working as a Billingsgate Fish Porter to an entertainer MON living in the leafy lanes of Dulwich is a fascinating story, MON all the better for being told through jokes. The issue of MON class is a crucial theme in Micky's stand up. However it is MON framed less as "Do we now have a classless society?" and MON more as "Is it ok to ask for Tomato sauce in a fancy French MON restaurant?" MON MON The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. MON The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 AUGUST 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01ln9lg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01lswcm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ln9lj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ln9ll (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ln9ln (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01ln9lq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m40xt (Listen) TUE Short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01lsyj2 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside TUE Presented by Ella McSweeney , Produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01lsyj4 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01lsyj6 (Listen) TUE Pat Wolseley TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to botanist, Pat Wolseley about her TUE obsession with lichen and the environmental secrets it TUE holds. This humble and ancient organism contains a wealth of TUE information about the quality of air we breathe. Certain TUE species thrive on road traffic pollution: others prefer acid TUE rain. And, for the last five years, thousands of people TUE throughout the UK have been gathering scientific data on TUE different lichen populations in their local area and using TUE it to monitor air pollution. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01lsyj8 (Listen) TUE Razia Iqbal talks to Hilal Sezgin TUE TUE Razia Iqbal explores what it means to be a Muslim in modern TUE Europe. Here she talks to the German writer and journalist, TUE Hilal Sezgin, at her small farm just outside Hamburg. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01lsyjb (Listen) TUE Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Episode 2 TUE TUE Isabella cements her friendship with Edward Lane, but in her TUE dairy their time together is recounted in more TUE passionate detail. What to believe? TUE TUE Read by Emma Fielding. TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lsyjd (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2fgm (Listen) TUE The Other One, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Oliver Emanuel. TUE TUE Following a DNA test to establish paternity, a mother and TUE father have discovered that Laura, their twelve-year-old TUE daughter, isn't biologically related to either of them. TUE TUE Now in the knowledge that the life she's been living should TUE have belonged to someone else, Laura visits the detective TUE investigating how this could have happened. TUE TUE Director: Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 11:00 James and the Giant Eagle b010fc06 (Listen) TUE Like most small boys James Aldred loved climbing trees and TUE now he has grown up, he's still climbing trees; helping TUE scientists and film crews up into the canopy. When he was TUE invited to help a wildlife team film one of the world's TUE largest eagles in Southern Brazil, it was an offer he TUE couldn't refuse. But what happened next was a nerve-wracking TUE and painful encounter with one of the world's most powerful TUE birds. Harpy Eagles have a body length of over 3ft, a TUE wingspan of over 6ft and weigh 10-12 pounds. Their hind TUE talons can grow up to the size of grizzly bear claws, and TUE are used to strike their prey; monkeys, sloths and possums, TUE which they then carry aloft. When James was asked to climb a TUE tree, to assist with moving a camera on an eagle's nest, he TUE found out exactly why these birds have such an awesome TUE reputation. TUE TUE Harpy Eagles are found in tropical lowland forests from TUE southeast Mexico to northern Argentina and southern Brazil. TUE Their name is derived from the Harpies in Greek Mythology, TUE which were ferocious winged creatures with sharp claws, a TUE woman's face and a vulture's body. TUE TUE Harpy Eagles are successful predators, owing primarily to TUE their size and strength. They are also highly manoeuvrable TUE fliers. They have excellent eyesight and good hearing, and TUE are acutely observant and opportunistic birds. Taken TUE together these attributes make for a highly impressive TUE predator. Recordings made by James Aldred on location are TUE combined with interviews with ornithologist Ian Newton and TUE field biologist, Marta Curti (who has spent many years TUE working with Harpy Eagles with The Peregrine Fund) in a TUE programme which explores the behaviour and ecology of Harpy TUE Eagles and what happens when a female tries to protect her TUE young. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 A Sound British Adventure b01lsyjg (Listen) TUE Comedian Stewart Lee is passionate about electronic music TUE and he take us on a remarkable musical journey. We discover TUE how, after the Second World War, a small group of electronic TUE pioneers began tinkering with their army surplus kit to TUE create new sounds and music. TUE TUE Tristram Cary started the first electronic music studio in TUE Britain but, while France, Germany, Italy and the USA had TUE lavishly funded research centres, British electronic music TUE remained the preserve of boffins on a budget. TUE TUE As the programme reveals, this make do and mend approach TUE prevailed long after austerity Britain had given way to the TUE swinging 60s, with Peter Zinovieff developing EMS TUE synthesizers from a shed at the bottom of his garden in TUE Putney. (Paul McCartney put on his wellies and took a look). TUE Zinovieff is interviewed about his experiments in sound. TUE TUE Unsurprisingly, the electronic community in Britain was a TUE small, intimate group and joining Cary and Zinovieff was TUE Daphne Oram, who devoted decades to developing a 'drawn TUE sound' electronic composition system that never really quite TUE worked. TUE TUE Brian Hodgson tells us about 1960s experimental and TUE electronic festivals, including The Million Volt Light and TUE Sound Rave (1967) at which The Beatles' electronic piece TUE Carnival Of Light had its only public airing. We shall also TUE hear how the radiophonic workshop broke new musical ground TUE with Dr. Who. TUE TUE Experts in the history of electronic music, including author TUE and musician Mark Ayers and Goldsmith College lecturer in TUE computer studies Dr. Michael Griegson give the boffins' view TUE and Portishead's Adrian Utley explains why the early forays TUE in electronics are still relevant today. TUE TUE Produced by John Sugar TUE A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01lsyjj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01lsyjl (Listen) TUE David Hockney TUE TUE Born in Bradford, artist David Hockney's work has been shown TUE around the globe. Now 75, his recent exhibition at London's TUE Royal Academy, 'The Bigger Picture' had people queuing round TUE the block to look at his latest collection of Yorkshire TUE landscapes - epic in scale and ambition. Accompanying his TUE paintings, were a collection of pictures he'd drawn on an TUE I-pad - still experimenting in his eighth decade. TUE TUE He launched on to the British Pop art scene in the sixties, TUE left London to live in America and he enjoys a creative TUE career which has seen him at the forefront on art and TUE artistic technology. TUE TUE The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading TUE historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of TUE London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic TUE Sandbrook, Bamber Gasgoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan AGar, TUE Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. TUE TUE They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions TUE during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant TUE impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its TUE character, for better or worse". TUE TUE Producer Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01ln9ls (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01lsyr9 (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 Generation E b01lsyrc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Loans for Life in Latvia TUE TUE As the economic crisis deepens and schisms emerge, Lucy Ash TUE travels across Europe to meet the continent's next TUE generation, who face an uncertain future. She explores the TUE challenges they face and the ways in which they are meeting TUE them. TUE In this programme she travels to Latvia. When the economic TUE crisis hit, Latvia introduced some of the strictest TUE austerity measures to be found anywhere in Europe. Its GDP TUE fell by 25 per cent. Now it is trumpeted by the IMF as a TUE great success story. But Lucy Ash discovers that life for TUE young people is still extremely tough. She speaks to those TUE who have lost their homes but still owe the banks huge TUE debts, while others have simply left the country. TUE In Italy she meets Milan's youngest city councilor, who says TUE he is trying to change the corrupt politics of his country TUE and argues that it is Italy's - and his - last chance. TUE The new Hungarian government has introduced a raft of new TUE laws, which critics argue are increasingly authoritarian TUE and, in some cases, break EU laws. Lucy hears how sleeping TUE rough on the streets is punishable by a fine or prison TUE sentence; and about how some students who receive a TUE government grant are required to sign an agreement saying TUE they won't leave the country for ten years. TUE In Poland she visits a re-opened coal mine which is TUE attracting young workers in an area of high unemployment; TUE and she speaks to young entrepreneurs who are resorting to TUE illegal means because they say the country's taxes are TUE crippling them. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01lswvb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01lsyrf (Listen) TUE Brief Lives, Episode 1 TUE TUE Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. TUE Return of the popular series about Frank Twist, Sarah Gold TUE and their team of paralegal advisors. A community TUE interpreter's girlfriend is arrested for assaulting a police TUE officer. Sarah investigates, but all is not what it seems. TUE TUE Producer/Director Gary Brown TUE Original Music by Carl Harms. TUE TUE Credits TUE Frank TUE David Schofield TUE Sarah TUE Kathryn Hunt TUE Declan TUE Kerr Logan TUE Nina TUE Tahira Dar TUE Jay TUE Jonas Khan TUE PC Mellor TUE Andrew Westfield TUE PC Neslon TUE Roy Carruthers TUE Director TUE Gary Brown TUE Producer TUE Gary Brown TUE Writer TUE Tom Fry TUE Writer TUE Sharon Kelly TUE TUE 15:00 The Philosopher's Arms b01lsyrh (Listen) TUE Series 2, What Makes a Fake a Fake? 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 Costing the Earth b01lsyrk (Listen) TUE Britain in 2060: The Land TUE TUE According to the latest predictions on global warming, TUE Britain in 2060 is going to look very much like Madeira. In TUE the first of a two-part investigation into the impact of TUE climate change Tom Heap visits the island 350 miles from the TUE coast of Morrocco to find out how we might be living in TUE fifty years. TUE TUE With a climate dominated by the Atlantic, a wet, mountainous TUE north and a warm, dry, over-populated south, Madeira already TUE resembles Britain in minature. The settlers who arrived TUE from Portugal in the 15th century developed a complex TUE farming system that found a niche for dozens of crops, from TUE olives and oranges to wheat and sweet potatoes. Should TUE British farmers prepare for a less predictable climate by TUE studying the delicate agricultural arts of the Madeirans? TUE TUE Irrigation systems bring water from the wet north of Madeira TUE to the parched south where 90% of the population live and TUE most tourists visit. Should Britain accept the inevitable TUE and invest in the water pipes that could keep the South-East TUE of England hydrated with Scottish and Northumbrian water? TUE TUE Tom will also be studying the island's wildlife. Can TUE Britain expect semi-tropical insects and reptiles to invade TUE the south as our mountain hares and ptarmigan die out in the TUE north? Or does Madeira's broad range of species offer hope TUE of something subtly different but just as fascinating for TUE 2060? TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01lsz29 (Listen) TUE Preaching TUE TUE Chris Ledgard listens to the way different preachers use TUE words and the power of language to move their followers. Has TUE it changed over time in the Church of England and which TUE approaches are proving the most successful? We visit an TUE evangelical church and talk to an imam at a mosque to find TUE out which words are used and which avoided. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01lt2f3 (Listen) TUE Series 28, Walter Scott TUE TUE Tory MP author and adventurer Rory Stewart champions the TUE life of Sir Walter Scott. Presenter Matthew Parris is joined TUE by Scott's biographer Stuart Kelly. Scott arguably invented TUE the idea of Scottishness and marketed it to the world. But TUE now he is virtually unread and he stands accused of saddling TUE Scotland with tartan tat and Highland kitsch. Rory Stewart TUE argues that Scott's version of Scottish identity represents TUE a valid alternative to today's Scottish nationalism. TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01lt2f5 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ln9lv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr Blue Sky b01hf12z (Listen) TUE Series 2, On Your Wedding Day TUE TUE Written by Andrew Collins. TUE TUE Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal TUE optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the TUE silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every TUE bit of bad news. TUE TUE This however is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass is TUE always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his wife TUE of 19 years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows all TUE too well. Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter family a TUE series of sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the positive side. TUE It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees it, instead of TUE dealing with the problems of their marriage and their TUE teenage kids, Harvey's optimism is actually his way of TUE avoiding engagement with the big issues. TUE TUE Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in TUE moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with TUE someone who has his head in the clouds. TUE TUE It's the day before Charlie and Kill-R's wedding day. While TUE Rakesh makes Jax an unexpected offer and the bride gets cold TUE feet, Harvey's plan to write his speech is interrupted by a TUE distress call from the groom at Gatwick. 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 Dr Ray Marsh ..... Justin Edwards TUE Sean Calhoun ..... Michael Legge TUE Registrar ..... Simon Day TUE Custom's Official ..... Greg Davies TUE TUE Produced by: Anna Madley TUE An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01lt2f7 (Listen) TUE Jamie expects the worst and Emma comes to the rescue. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01lt2vg (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2fgm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Game Changer: 20 Years of the Premier League TUE b01lt2vj (Listen) TUE Big business or community concern, club or corporation? TUE Journalist Jim White reports on the first 20 years of TUE England's Premier League when it has established itself as TUE the most marketable and valuable domestic football TUE competition in the world. But with new overseas players, TUE managers and owners, has the sport become divorced from the TUE communities it came from? Or is it accurately reflecting TUE modern Britain? TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01lt2vl (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01lt2vn (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter finds out that some medical conditions are TUE over-diagnosed and therefore over-treated, because of the TUE results of certain tests. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01lsyj6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01ln9lx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01lt2vq (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis, presented by TUE Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01lt2vs (Listen) TUE The Greatcoat, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5 A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore set during and TUE after the Second World War, about the power of the past to TUE imprint itself on the present, and possess it. In 1952, TUE newly-married Isabel Carey and her husband Philip come to TUE live in a small town close to a wartime bomber station. One TUE night, when Philip is out on call, Isabel finds an RAF TUE officer's greatcoat in a cupboard, and spreads it on the bed TUE to keep her warm. In the middle of her dreams, she hears a TUE knocking on the window. When she gets out of bed and goes to TUE look outside, there is an RAF officer wearing the greatcoat, TUE mouthing her name. Isabel's quiet life is about to change in TUE strange ways. TUE TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. TUE Reader: Jasmine Hyde TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 23:00 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b01lt2vv (Listen) TUE Guest Week - With Guests 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 It's guest week and, to celebrate, Kevin Eldon will be TUE talking to his guests who include a stupid man, Apollo 11 TUE mission commander Neil Armstrong and sadly, a hypnotist. 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. TUE TUE Written by Kevin Eldon. TUE With additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris TUE (Flight Of The Conchords, That Mitchell & Webb Sound) and TUE Toby Davies. TUE TUE Original music by Martin Bird. TUE Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global b0076778 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE TUE Teeming with spittoons and parks packed with people, the TUE comedian visits the bustling city of Shanghai. Part of Radio TUE 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast on Radio 4 in TUE April 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 AUGUST 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01ln9mv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01lsyjb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ln9mx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ln9n1 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ln9n3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01ln9n5 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m40y6 (Listen) WED Short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01lt45f (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside WED Presented by Ella McSweeney, Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01lt45h (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and WED Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 What's the Point of ... b01lt45k (Listen) WED Series 4, University WED WED "The noblest task of a university is to encourage its WED students in the disinterested and relentless search for WED truth" - so said the Archbishop of York in 1953. But the WED search for truth doesn't necessarily lead to a job and could WED land today's students in debt until their fifties, so what WED is the point of university in double-dip Britain? WED As students in England anticipate their A' level results WED tomorrow, Quentin Letts canvasses the views of people within WED and beyond the ivory towers about the value of a university WED education. Is it becoming purely a means to an economic WED goal, a route to a better job, or is it an end in itself, WED learning for learning's sake, the true benefits of which WED cannot be appreciated in advance? WED WED 09:30 The Listening Project b01gnjgt (Listen) WED Omnibus WED WED Fi Glover presents an omnibus edition of Radio 4's series WED capturing the nation in conversation: in today's programme, WED we meet Ciaron and Brendan, Irish brothers whose fraternal WED bond was tested to the limit when Brendan fell ill; from WED Radio Berkshire, the story of Jim and John who touchingly WED remember the biscuity pleasures of working at the Huntley WED and Palmers factory in Reading which closed in the 1970s, WED while from Stoke on Trent, the agonising tale of Stevie, the WED brother to Chris and son to Norman, who vanished while on WED holiday in Crete. And there's a chance too to hear just how WED the magic of these Listening Project encounters actually WED works from one of the team gathering the interviews across WED Britain. 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 (Repeat). WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01lt45m (Listen) WED Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Episode 3 WED WED Isabella continues to see Edward Lane, but her feelings are WED not returned by him. Still, there is WED also Eugene Le Petit to enjoy the company of... WED WED Reader Emma Fielding WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lt45p (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2fmk (Listen) WED The Other One, Episode 3 WED WED By Oliver Emanuel. WED WED Director: Kirsty Williams. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01lt4b6 (Listen) WED Series 16, Co-education WED WED Chris Ledgard visits schools in North Tyneside and Somerset WED to re-trace their journeys from single sex to mixed WED education. The stories take us back to September 1969 and WED the height of the co-education movement. In the South West WED of England, Wells Cathedral School has a charismatic head WED teacher with three daughters to educate and a convent WED closing down the road. Against the advice of some veteran WED school masters, he decides to admit girls in order to WED safeguard his school's future. Meanwhile, in the North East, WED the local education authority issues a blanket edict as part WED of the switch to comprehensive education. So the wall WED between the boys and girls at Marden High School has to come WED down. WED WED 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01lz1cj (Listen) WED Series 2, Chamanoa WED WED by Bill Dare WED WED Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel WED documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit WED after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre WED adventures. WED WED This week Brian relives his experiences in Chamanoa, a land WED where naturites battle nurturites, where genetics is pitted WED against education. WED WED Brian Gulliver & Thake ..... Neil Pearson WED Rachel Gulliver..... Mariah Gale WED Kath & Hendl ..... Lisa Dillon WED Bordle ..... Toby Longworth WED Violinist ..... Amy Butterworth WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01lt4b8 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01lt4bb (Listen) WED Billy Connolly WED WED James Naughtie considers the Scottish comedian Billy WED Connolly, who went from from the Clyde shipyards to being WED one of the UK's most popular and enduring stand up WED comedians. WED WED Connolly began as a folk singer in The Humblebums but WED realising his gift for humour, he changed direction to WED concentrate on comedy. He came to wide public attention with WED his first appearance on Parkinson in 1975 with the "bike WED joke", and never looked back. He's cited as one of the most WED influential stand up comedians of the era, has had much WED success in television as well as making his mark in WED Hollywood, and is often considered a Scottish national WED treasure. WED WED Producer: Alison Hughes. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01ln9n9 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01lt4bl (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 Generation E b01lv26g (Listen) WED Series 2, Italy's Five Star Idealist WED WED As the economic crisis deepens and schisms emerge, Lucy Ash WED travels across Europe to meet the continent's next WED generation, who face an uncertain future. She explores the WED challenges they face and the ways in which they are meeting WED them. WED In this programme Lucy is in Italy where she meets Milan's WED youngest city councillor, who says he is trying to change WED the corrupt politics of his country and argues that it is WED Italy's - and his - last chance. WED The new Hungarian government has introduced a raft of new WED laws, which critics argue are increasingly authoritarian WED and, in some cases, break EU laws. Lucy hears how sleeping WED rough on the streets is punishable by a fine or prison WED sentence; and about how some students who receive a WED government grant are required to sign an agreement saying WED they won't leave the country for ten years. WED In Poland she visits a re-opened coal mine which is WED attracting young workers in an area of high unemployment; WED and she speaks to young entrepreneurs who are resorting to WED illegal means because they say the country's taxes are WED crippling them. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01lt2f7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b012r6v6 (Listen) WED The Other Simenon, In Case of Emergency WED WED Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of WED other novels, often tough, gripping and WED psychologically-penetrating dissections of small lives WED confounded by fate. Ronald Frame dramatises three of these WED stories beginning with the obsessive affair between a lawyer WED and a jewel thief. When her plan to rob a jeweller's shop WED goes wrong, Yvette - young, beautiful and dangerously WED impulsive - asks middle-aged lawyer, Lucien, to defend her WED in court. When he wins the case they begin an affair but he WED discovers that Yvette has a boyfriend who has no intention WED of giving her up. WED WED Other parts played by the cast. WED Producer/director Bruce Young. WED WED Credits WED Lucien WED Jimmy Chisholm WED Yvette WED Lisa Gardner WED Viviane WED Sarah Collier WED Jeanine WED Laura Smales WED Secretary WED Laura Smales WED Mazetti WED Kenny Blyth WED Inspector WED Kenny Blyth WED Director WED Bruce Young WED Producer WED Bruce Young WED Writer WED Georges Simenon WED WED 15:00 Fixing Broken Banking b01lsqkd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01lt2vn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01lv26j (Listen) WED The Women of Wall St WED WED The women of Wall St. Laurie Taylor considers an in depth WED study of the working lives of the women at the heart of WED America's financial centre. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01lv26l (Listen) WED Local TV WED WED Why does Birmingham Alabama have eight local TV stations WED when Birmingham in the UK - four times the size - has none? WED Join Steve Hewlett and his guests in the West Midland to WED find out why that could all be about to change. WED WED Presenter Steve Hewlett WED Producer Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01lv26n (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ln9nd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 When the Dog Dies b012xpym (Listen) WED Series 2, Knock Down Ginger 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. But Sandy's not having this. He's not moving until WED the dog dies. WED WED Dolores, Sandy's lodger, has a moment of revelation - she WED really does feel guilty for always being behind with the WED rent and is going to leave and be a housekeeper to Mr WED McAhmed in Edinburgh. Sandy bows to the inevitable - and WED thus gets everything completely wrong. Will he have enough WED wit to pull the communication cord? Do they still have them? WED WED Ronnie Corbett ..... Sandy WED Liza Tarbuck ..... Dolores WED Sally Grace ..... Mrs Pompom WED Tilly Vosburgh ...... Ellie WED Jonathan Aris ..... Blake WED Philip Bird ..... Lance WED Stephen Critchlow ..... Mr De Vere Smith WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01lv26q (Listen) WED Lynda is reassuring and Matt makes his feelings clear. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01lv26s (Listen) WED Mark Lawson reports from Edinburgh's Festival and Fringe, in WED a programme recorded in front of an audience, with guests, WED opinion and performance. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2fmk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 In Pursuit of Dignity b01lv26v (Listen) WED Edward Stourton chairs a debate from the "Understanding WED Human Dignity" conference organised by the Catholic Bishops WED Conference of England and Wales and Queen's Belfast. What is WED the relationship between human dignity and human rights? How WED do you define human dignity in the context of issues WED surrounding assisted dying, sexuality or freedom? To discuss WED these issues are Fr David Hollenbach a Jesuit and Professor WED of Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College WED in the United States; Denise Reaume, Professor of Law at WED Toronto University; Chris McCrudden, Professor of Human WED Rights and Equality Law at Queen's Belfast and Jeremy WED Waldron who teaches legal philosophy at New York University WED and is also Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at WED Oxford. WED WED Producer: Mark O'Brien. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01lv38j (Listen) WED Series 3, Katarina Skoberne WED WED Does history repeat itself? Katarina Skoberne describes how WED in her family's case it did, and discusses the WED thought-provoking lessons it taught her. WED WED Katarina's great-grandfather was an admiral in the Russian WED imperial navy. His life was often interrupted by disaster, WED and he twice lost everything and was forced to start again. WED But Katarina recently discovered some of his writing, and WED more than 100 years later found interesting parallels to her WED own life and experiences. 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 Costing the Earth b01lsyrk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of ... b01lt45k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01ln9ng (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01lv38l (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis, presented by WED Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01lv38n (Listen) WED The Greatcoat, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5 A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore set during and WED after the Second World War, about the power of the past to WED imprint itself on the present, and possess it. In 1952, WED newly-married Isabel Carey and her husband Philip come to WED live in a small town close to a wartime bomber station. One WED night, when Philip is out on call, Isabel finds an RAF WED officer's greatcoat in a cupboard, and spreads it on the bed WED to keep her warm. In the middle of her dreams, she hears a WED knocking on the window, and when she gets out of bed and WED goes to look outside, there is an RAF officer wearing the WED greatcoat, and mouthing her name. When he comes to her door WED the next day, she finds herself slipping into another world WED of sexual passion in which she and Alec, the RAF officer, WED know each other intimately, and outside the war is still WED going on. WED WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. WED Reader: Jasmine Hyde WED Producer: Beth O'Dea. WED WED 23:00 Political Animals b01lv38q (Listen) WED Wilberforce WED WED by Tony Bagley. WED WED The first in a series of four monologues by well-known WED Downing Street cats relating their trials and tribulations WED under four different Prime Ministers WED WED Part 1 WED Wilberforce, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 1973-1987, WED reflects on his life with Margaret Thatcher. WED WED Wilberforce ..... Clive Swift WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 23:15 Before They Were Famous b01lv38v (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Ian Leslie presents a new Radio 4 comedy show which brings WED to light the often surprising first literary attempts of WED some of the world's best known writers. A project of WED literary archaeology, Leslie has found evidence in the most WED unlikely of places - within the archives of newspapers, WED periodicals, corporations and universities - showcasing the WED early examples of work by writers such as Jilly Cooper WED during her brief and unfortunately unsuccessful foray into WED the world of war reporting, and Hunter S Thompson in his WED sadly short-lived phase working in the customer relations WED department for a major American Airline. WED WED These are the newspaper articles, advertising copy, company WED correspondence and gardening manuals that allow us a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best loved literary voices - people we know today for their WED novels or poems but who, at the time, were just people with WED a dream...and a rent bill looming at the end of the month. WED WED Produced by Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00m6bhh (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED WED How to talk to an emperor and inventing Saturday night TV WED shows. Stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Part of Radio 4 WED Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast in August 2009. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 AUGUST 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01ln9pq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01lt45m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ln9ps (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ln9pv (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ln9px (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01ln9pz (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m40yh (Listen) THU Short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01lv4n8 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b01lv4nd (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and THU Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 Fry's English Delight b01lv4ng (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 1 THU THU David Hockney rightly observes to Stephen Fry that it feels THU odd to be making a programme about colour on the radio. In a THU way, that's the point. Colour is subjective and emotive. The THU very phrase "colourful language" is a metaphor for THU vividness. But, until quite recently, we've been confused THU about how colour language developed. A discovery by THU statesman William Gladstone, who was also a Homer expert, THU led to a staggeringly wrongheaded theory. Gladstone helped THU show that most ancient cultures didn't have a word for blue. THU As a result, it was concluded that the ancients had THU under-developed colour vision. The reality was that they had THU under-developed vocabularies. THU THU We meet a man who sees no colour but hears it electronically THU and can "name" colours with audio signals. We also hear from THU the head of colour marketing at Dulux paints whose job it is THU to find new words for new colours. And a bilingual woman THU says she might think differently about colour depending on THU which language she's using. The conclusion - how we see THU colour and how we describe it can shed light onto how THU language works. THU THU Produced by Nick Baker THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Twin Nation b01457pz (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Edi Stark asks if the bond between twins ever be rivalled by THU another relationship? THU THU Helen and Morna Mulgray now in their early 70s have never THU spent more than a fortnight apart. Having retired from THU teaching they've turned their uniquely close relationship THU into a successful recipe for writing crime fiction. But THU they've never married or even had a serious relationship THU outside of their twin. Edi asks if their relationship is too THU close or have these sisters found in each other the meeting THU of minds that the rest of us can only dream of in our life THU long companions. THU THU Producer: Peter McManus. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01lv4nk (Listen) THU Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Episode 4 THU THU High drama, as the diaries of Mrs Isabella Robinson are THU discovered and taken away. THU By no less a person than her opportunistic husband... THU THU Reader Emma Fielding THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lv4nm (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2fy5 (Listen) THU The Other One, Episode 4 THU THU By Oliver Emanuel. THU THU In the knowledge that the life she's been living should have THU belonged to someone else, Laura has run away from home to THU find the answer to who she is. THU THU Today she tracks down the woman she believes is her THU biological mother and discovers what her life could have THU been like. THU THU Director: Kirsty Williams. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01lv4np (Listen) THU Korea Host Bars THU THU South Korean women, tradition says, are hard-working, THU respectful to family, and know their place in Korea's THU Confucian hierarchies. But the country's rapid economic THU development has meant some startling changes below the THU surface of that conservative social structure. Perhaps the THU most controversial is the advent of Host Bars - all night THU drinking rooms where female customers can select and pay for THU male companions, sometimes at a cost of thousands of dollars THU a night. Originally set up to cater to off-duty 'hostesses' THU and female escorts, they're now proving popular with many THU other women too. The growth of the industry is throwing up THU new questions for South Korea's sociologists and politicians THU as they struggle to reconcile the country's traditional THU values with the effects of its rapid development. The BBC's THU Seoul correspondent Lucy Williamson reports. THU THU 11:30 Steptoe and Son... and Sons b01lv4ns (Listen) THU Fifty years ago a certain 'dirty old man' and his thwarted THU 37 year old son first appeared on our screen. THU THU In the company of the show's creators, Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson, Paul Jackson assesses the impact and legacy of what THU some argue is Britain's most ground-breaking sit-com. THU Indeed, the creators of Red Dwarf, Birds of a Feather, Our THU Friends In The North, the New Statesman and George Gently THU join them to reveal how much they were entertained, and THU influenced, by Albert and 'Arold and their familial THU squabbles that continued over 57 episodes, 8 series and 13 THU years. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01lv4nv (Listen) THU Consumer news with Julian Worricker. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01lv4nz (Listen) THU Ralph Robins THU THU James Naughtie on one of the foremost industrialists of the THU second Elizabethan age, Ralph Robins, who is credited with THU turning around the fortunes of Rolls-Royce. THU THU In 1971 Rolls-Royce was nationalised by Edward Heath's THU government in order to save the ailing company. Their THU fortunes improved and under the leadership and long term THU strategies of Ralph Robins, Rolls-Royce was privatised again THU and is now a hugely successful power systems company again THU and the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01ln9q2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01lv4p1 (Listen) THU National and international news presented by Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Generation E b01lv4p4 (Listen) THU Series 2, Hungary's Graduates - Trapped by the State THU THU As the economic crisis deepens and schisms emerge, Lucy Ash THU travels across Europe to meet the continent's next THU generation, who face an uncertain future. She explores the THU challenges they face and the ways in which they are meeting THU them. THU THU In this programme Lucy is in Hungary. During their last year THU at high school, tens of thousands of young Hungarians got a THU nasty surprise - they will have to pay to go to university. THU As for the lucky students, exempted from tuition fees, they THU will have to stay in their country for up to a decade after THU graduation. Desperate to avoid a brain drain, the Hungarian THU government says that is only fair but many claim the new law THU violates freedom of movement within the European Union. THU The final programme in the series, tomorrow, comes from THU Poland where young people are going underground, literally THU down re-opened coal mines; and Lucy also speaks to young THU entrepreneurs who are resorting to illegal means because THU they say the country's taxes are crippling them. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01lv26q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b012wxy2 (Listen) THU The Other Simenon, The Little Man from Archangel THU THU Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of THU other novels, often tough, gripping and THU psychologically-penetrating stories like this tragic tale of THU a bookseller whose wife goes missing. When Gina fails to THU come home one night, Jonas Milk tells his inquisitive THU neighbours that she's visiting a friend. But the gossips in THU this small country town know Gina has been having flagrant THU affairs and when it becomes clear that she's disappeared the THU bookseller is drawn into a nightmare of police enquiries and THU painful discoveries. Dramatised by Ronald Frame. THU THU Other parts played by the cast. THU Producer/director Bruce Young. THU THU Credits THU Jonas THU Steven McNicoll THU Supt Devaux THU Crawford Logan THU Gina THU Francesca Dymond THU Fredo THU Kenny Blyth THU Le Bouc THU Kenny Blyth THU Angele THU Eliza Langland THU Berthe THU Eliza Langland THU Louis THU Gavin Kean THU Pepito THU Gavin Kean THU Director THU Bruce Young THU Producer THU Bruce Young THU Writer THU Georges Simenon THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01lv4p6 (Listen) THU Ireland - Peat THU THU The peat bogs of Ireland's midlands have become a THU battlefield, with opinions divided on how they should best THU be managed in the future. Helen Mark looks beyond the THU present-day arguments and travels to Counties Longford, THU Roscommon and Offaly to find out how attitudes to the bog THU have evolved over centuries. From the Iron Age Corlea THU trackway, an oak road discovered just a few years ago, THU perfectly preserved in peat, to startling evidence of early THU Christian links with Africa and memories of childhood days THU spent peat cutting , Helen explores what the bog has to tell THU us - and what it might have in store for the future. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Moira Hickey. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01lstrs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01lstsc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01lv5tz (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01lv5v1 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Fiona Hill. THU THU 17:00 PM b01lv5v3 (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ln9q4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010m2f6 (Listen) THU Series 4, Evil Narbara THU THU In this episode a rowdy party shop run by an unfriendly sort THU causes havoc amongst the local traders association after a THU number of undesirables descend on the town. THU THU Ramesh: Sanjeev Kolhi THU Dave: Donald McLeary THU Sanjay: Omar Raza THU Alok: Susheel Kumar THU Peggy: Kate Donnelly THU Mrs Begg: Marj Hogarth THU Hilly: Kate Brailsford THU Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo THU Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan THU Bra Jeff: Steven McNicol THU THU Producer/Director: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01lv5v5 (Listen) THU Rosa offers a shoulder to cry on. Meanwhile Adam makes his THU choice. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01lv5v7 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Jeanette THU Winterson, as she publishes a short novel inspired by the THU Pendle witch trials, which took place in Lancashire 400 THU years ago. THU THU Producer Ella-mai Robey. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2fy5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01lv5v9 (Listen) THU Childhood Obesity THU THU This week's Report investigates the cases of children who THU are so overweight that their health is at risk. As childhood THU obesity becomes more common, some experts are asking whether THU severely overweight children should be removed from their THU parents. Social workers, family lawyers and health workers THU tell reporter Helen Grady about cases where obesity has been THU a significant factor prompting local authorities to step in THU and take children into care. THU Producer: Emma Rippon. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01lv5vc (Listen) THU Coal Comfort THU THU Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel, and the dirtiest. THU With reserves of well over 100 years worth left, which is THU much more than for oil and gas, it's here to stay. THU In the US, almost half of all electricity comes from coal, THU about double the rate of the UK. With China and India THU fuelling their economic growth with coal, demand will stay THU high. So, will we have to live with the environmental THU consequences or can coal become green? Peter Day visits the THU US and China to find out. THU THU In North Dakota coal is mined in a modern, open pit THU operation using electric draglines. THU One of the biggest hopes for minimising the impact of coal THU burning on climate change is to capture and store the THU resulting carbon dioxide. Peter Day visits the Great Plains THU Synfuels plant in North Dakota which burns coal to turn it THU into synthetic natural gas and captures about half of the THU resulting CO2 to pipeline it to Canada for underground THU storage in a depleted oil field. Adjacent to the Synfuels THU plant is a coal-fuelled electricity power station, Antelope THU Valley. Unlike their neighbours, Antelope Valley decided THU against carbon capture and storage as they could not do it THU in an economically viable way. If CCS can't be made THU economically viable, what chance is there for other THU coal-burning power plants? THU THU This is where China comes in. China produces three times THU more coal than the US, a staggering 3.5bn tonnes a year, no THU small motivation for researching new ways of reducing their THU greenhouse gas emissions. Peter Day visits a pilot project THU that uses micro-algae and sunlight to consume the CO2. Can THU this ever work at a big enough scale even when the sun THU doesn't shine? THU THU While coal remains king, its status is being challenged not THU just by those concerned about climate change, but also by THU other fossil fuels such as shale gas and new oil fields. How THU will coal fight back? Or does it not need to, as the world THU cannot do without it anyway? THU THU 21:00 James and the Giant Eagle b010fc06 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 Fry's English Delight b01lv4ng (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01ln9q6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01lv5vf (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis, presented by THU Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01lv5vh (Listen) THU The Greatcoat, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5 A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore set during and THU after the Second World War, about the power of the past to THU imprint itself on the present, and possess it. In 1952, THU newly-married Isabel Carey and her husband Philip come to THU live in a small town close to a wartime bomber station. One THU night, when Philip is out on call, Isabel finds an RAF THU officer's greatcoat in a cupboard, and spreads it on the bed THU to keep her warm. In the middle of her dreams, she hears a THU knocking on the window, and outside is an RAF officer THU wearing the greatcoat, mouthing her name. When he comes to THU her door next day she finds herself slipping into another THU world, in which she and Alec, the RAF officer, know each THU other intimately, and the war is still going on outside. THU Alec takes her to the local airfield from which he flies a THU bomber in dangerous nightly raids over Germany, and it THU becomes clear that Isabel's hostile landlady knows more THU about what is going on, and what went on in the past, than THU she is willing to admit. THU THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. THU Reader: Jasmine Hyde THU Producer: Beth O'Dea. THU THU 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b012wjd5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing THU the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. Lucy is a true THU chameleon who can embrace any character with uncanny THU accuracy, from a non-stop chattering public school girl to a THU decrepit and self-abasing charwoman. Lucy is a rare and THU multifaceted performer her intelligence and Barry THU Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a smart and THU distinctive edge. THU THU Like all big stars, Lucy's worked hard to earn her tilt at THU the windmill of fame. In her ten years since Footlights THU she's honed her talents on Radio 4 shows as diverse as the THU Sony Gold winning Down the Line, The Museum of Everything, THU The Department, Another Case of Milton Jones, Mastering the THU Universe, Torchwood, The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook THU and The Way We Live Right Now. On television she has made THU her mark on BBC THREE's TittyBangBang, BBC ONE's Armstrong THU and Miller and BBC TWO's - Bellamy's People. 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 Cowards b00fbkz5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU Sketch show with a comic slant on human frailties. With Tom THU Basden, Stefan Golaszewski and Tim Key. Part of Radio 4 THU Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast on Radio 4 in THU November 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 AUGUST 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01ln9r1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01lv4nk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01ln9r3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01ln9r5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01ln9r7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01ln9r9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m40ys (Listen) FRI Short reflection and prayer with Richard Hill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01lv7xr (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01lv7xt (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and FRI Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for FRI the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01lsts1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01lv7xw (Listen) FRI Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Episode 5 FRI FRI The revealing of Isabella's diaries has caused much ado, and FRI forced what will be an unforgettable trial FRI in a sweltering summer in London. FRI FRI Reader Emma Fielding FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01lv7xy (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2g5v (Listen) FRI The Other One, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Oliver Emanuel. FRI FRI Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 11:00 I'm Suzy and I'm a Phobic b01lv7y0 (Listen) FRI Suzy Klein is highly phobic and she wants it to stop. She FRI won't go in lifts, no matter how many steps she has to FRI climb, and she hasn't been on the underground for twenty FRI years. Suzy has been phobic of spiders (now recovered) and FRI didn't go on a plane for three years (but now flies). Yet FRI every time she beats a phobia, another one takes hold. FRI FRI At the moment she has claustrophobia and, in this programme, FRI Suzy attempts to conquer her fear, culminating in a trip on FRI the London Underground. Along the way she'll meet fellow FRI phobics and discover the impact the fear has on their FRI everyday lives and behaviour. FRI FRI As a fly on the wall in her therapy sessions, we hear FRI Professor Paul Salkovskis attempt to help Suzy overcome her FRI claustrophobia through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - or FRI CBT. FRI FRI Other contributors include Dr James Lefanu of the Daily FRI Telegraph, who warns Suzy that CBT is only successful in FRI around 30% of cases and she will have to be "desensitised" FRI by confronting her fear. Suzy also meets up with FRI arachnophobic Phill Jupitus to discuss where fears come FRI from. FRI FRI Produced by David Morley FRI A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Beauty of Britain b01lv7y2 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Come Stay with Me FRI FRI The outspoken care worker takes on her toughest job since FRI coming to Britain when her mum comes to stay. Mrs Olonga is FRI impressed by the UK's charity shops and her first ever FRI butternut squash risotto but embarrasses her daughter with a FRI headline-grabbing attack on elder care in the NHS. Can FRI Beauty cope with being overshadowed, overworked and FRI overdrawn? FRI FRI Jocelyn Esien ..... Beauty FRI Cecilia Noble ..... Mrs. Olonga FRI Felicity Montagu ..... Sally FRI Nicola Sanderson ..... Karen, Rt Hon. Susie FRI Catherine Shepherd ..... DOCTOR Wansborough-Jones FRI Margaret Cabourn-Smith ..... Various FRI Christopher Douglas ..... Security, News Anchor FRI FRI Written by ..... Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson FRI Produced by ... Tilusha Ghelani FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01lv7y4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01lv7y6 (Listen) FRI Amartya Sen FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Amartya Sen the Nobel-winning laureate FRI known as the Mother Theresa of economics for his work FRI understanding and fighting the causes of poverty. FRI FRI Best known for his work on the causes of famine, his book FRI Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and FRI Deprivation, argued that famine occurs not only from a lack FRI of food, but from inequalities built into mechanisms for FRI distributing food. Sen also helped to create the United FRI Nations Human Development Index which is used to rank FRI countries by standard of living or quality of life. FRI FRI Now working as Professor of Economics and Philosophy at FRI Harvard University, he began at the tender age of FRI twenty-three by setting up a new economics department at FRI Jadavpur University in Calcutta, but he has also held FRI professorships at Delhi University, the London School of FRI Economics and the University of Oxford. FRI FRI When in 1998 he was appointed Master of Trinity College, FRI Cambridge, he became the first Asian academic to head an FRI Oxbridge college. In the same year he received the Nobel FRI Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in welfare FRI economics. FRI FRI The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading FRI historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of FRI London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic FRI Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, FRI Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. FRI FRI They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions FRI during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant FRI impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its FRI character, for better or worse." FRI FRI Producer: Clare Walker. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01ln9rc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01lv7y8 (Listen) FRI National and international news presented by Shaun Ley. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Generation E b01lv7yb (Listen) FRI Series 2, Poland's Underground Economy FRI FRI As the economic crisis deepens and schisms emerge, Lucy Ash FRI travels across Europe to meet the continent's next FRI generation, who face an uncertain future. She explores the FRI challenges they face and the ways in which they are meeting FRI them. FRI FRI In the final programme of the series, Lucy Ash visits FRI Katowice, in south east Poland, where young people are going FRI underground, literally down re-opened coal mines because FRI there are few other jobs available, and legally, as Lucy FRI discovers when she speaks to young entrepreneurs who are FRI resorting to illicit means because they say the country's FRI taxes are crippling them. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01lv5v5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0132l72 (Listen) FRI The Other Simenon, The Cat FRI FRI Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of FRI other novels, often tough, gripping and FRI psychologically-penetrating stories like this black comedy FRI about a couple whose marriage has foundered. Conversation FRI between Emile and Marguerite has given way to a mute FRI exchange of vicious notes, a shared life to separate beds FRI and separate larders. Meanwhile the sudden deaths of two FRI cherished family pets - a poisoned cat and a murdered parrot FRI - block all attempts at reconciliation. Emile, at the end of FRI his tether, packs his bags and chooses freedom - but he FRI quickly makes a discovery that, even when affection has FRI gone, a powerful bond still unites a man and his wife. FRI Dramatised by Ronald Frame. FRI FRI Producer/director Bruce Young. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adaptor FRI Ronald Frame FRI Emile FRI Christian Rodska FRI Marguerite FRI Joanna Tope FRI Nelly FRI Irene Allan FRI Madame Martin FRI Carol Ann Crawford FRI Nurse FRI Carol Ann Crawford FRI Patron FRI Mark McDonnell FRI Professor FRI Mark McDonnell FRI Director FRI Bruce Young FRI Producer FRI Bruce Young FRI Writer FRI Georges Simenon FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01lv7yg (Listen) FRI Hazlemere FRI FRI Eric Robson, Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew FRI Biggs are garden troubleshooting in Hazlemere. FRI FRI Produced by Amy Racs & Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Gotta Dance! b01lv7yj (Listen) FRI The Wheeled Platform FRI FRI The legendary Gene Kelly was born a hundred years ago this FRI year. FRI To mark this anniversary, these stories celebrate the world FRI of dance and its power to inspire and attract. FRI FRI 'The Wheeled Platform' by Hannah McGill. FRI In this tale, the lure of dance proves impossible to ignore FRI for one woman who seems to have it all. FRI FRI Read by Gabriel Quigley. FRI Produced by Patricia Hitchcock. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01lv7yl (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 b01lv7yn (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. Presented by Tim FRI Harford. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01lv7yq (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01ln9rf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b01lv7ys (Listen) FRI Series 8, Derren Brown talks to Tim Minchin FRI FRI Last week's interviewee, Illusionist Derren Brown, dispenses FRI with the trickery and gets inside the mind of Tim Minchin by FRI cleverly asking him some questions then listening to the FRI answers. They talk beliefs, magic, music and Minchin. FRI FRI Producer ..... Carl Cooper FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01lv7yv (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Simon Frith FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI 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 Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Natalie Hollins ..... Maddie Glasbey FRI Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Rosa Makepeace ..... Anna Piper FRI Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves FRI Joyce Walters..... Ann Beach. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01lv7yx (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who meets Philippa Gregory, whose new book FRI focuses on the daughters of Richard Neville, Earl of FRI Warwick, known as the powerful Kingmaker in 15th century FRI England. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m2g5v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01lv7yz (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley chairs a live discussion of news and politics from FRI Bourne End, Buckinghamshire FRI FRI Producer: Miles Warde. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01lv7z1 (Listen) FRI Sherlock Holmes and the Romance of Reason FRI FRI John Gray reflects on the enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes FRI at a time when we've lost confidence in the power of reason FRI alone to solve problems. "Seeming to find order in the chaos FRI of events by using purely rational methods, he actually FRI demonstrates the enduring power of magic." FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01m0jc5 (Listen) FRI Marnie FRI FRI It's 1961 and blonde and stunning Marnie Elmer poses as a FRI secretary in order to steal from her employers and fund her FRI mother's existence in Torquay. But she's yet to meet FRI handsome company director, Mark Rutland, whose pursuit of FRI her will ultimately lead to her downfall. FRI FRI Winston Graham is probably best known for his "Poldark" FRI series, but also wrote a number of taut thrillers, of which FRI "Marnie" (written in 1961) may be the best remembered - FRI having been filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in the early 1960s. FRI This radio adaptation returns to the heart of the book FRI itself. FRI FRI Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI Credits FRI Adaptor FRI Shaun McKenna FRI Marnie FRI Jade Williams FRI Mark FRI Patrick Kennedy FRI Terry FRI Carl Prekopp FRI Edie FRI Elaine Claxton FRI Lucy FRI Joanna Monro FRI Roman FRI Brian Bowles FRI Dawn FRI Susie Riddell FRI Director FRI Marion Nancarrow FRI Writer FRI Winston Graham FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01ln9rh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01lv87j (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01lv87l (Listen) FRI The Greatcoat, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/5 A new ghost story from Helen Dunmore set during and FRI after the Second World War, about the power of the past to FRI imprint itself on the present, and possess it. In 1952, FRI newly-married Isabel Carey and her husband Philip come to FRI live in a small town close to a wartime bomber station. One FRI night, when Philip is out on call, Isabel finds an RAF FRI officer's greatcoat in a cupboard, and spreads it on the bed FRI to keep her warm. In the middle of her dreams, she hears a FRI knocking on the window. Outside is an RAF officer wearing FRI the greatcoat, and mouthing her name. When he comes to her FRI door next day she finds herself slipping into another world, FRI in which she and Alec, the RAF officer, know each other FRI intimately, and the war is still going on outside. Alec FRI takes her to the local airfield from which he flies a bomber FRI in dangerous nightly raids over Germany. It becomes clear FRI that Isabel's hostile landlady knows more about what is FRI going on, and what went on in the past, than she is willing FRI to admit. Secrets are revealed in a shattering conclusion as FRI past and present collide. FRI FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. FRI Reader: Jasmine Hyde FRI Producer: Beth O'Dea. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01lt2f3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 On the Hour b007jmnp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI FRI The Tube system goes berserk, an earthquake in Corinth and FRI the anniversary of space. Chris Morris fronts the news FRI satire. Part of Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally FRI broadcast on Radio 4 in May 1992. FRI
10 August, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 11/08/2012 - 17/08/2012
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