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SAT SATURDAY 25 AUGUST 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01m19r9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01m451j (Listen) SAT Thinking in Numbers, The Art of Maths SAT SAT Written by Daniel Tammet. SAT SAT Read by James Anthony Pearson. SAT SAT Daniel Tammet's essay, taken from his new collection, SAT explores how beauty and creativity inform the work of SAT mathematicians. SAT SAT Daniel Tammet is hailed the world over for his unique SAT intelligence shaped by high-functioning autistic savant SAT syndrome. His idiosyncratic world view provides new SAT perspectives on the universal questions of what it is to be SAT human and how we make meaning in our lives. SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m19rc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m19rh (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m19rk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01m19rm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m19xj (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from SAT Wales with the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01m19xl (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners, presented by SAT Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01m19rp (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01m19rr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01m1837 (Listen) SAT Gwent Levels SAT SAT Helen Mark explores the Gwent Levels, an extensive low lying SAT area on the north side of the Severn Estuary in South Wales SAT registered as a Historic Landscape of Outstanding Interest. SAT The area has a rich archaelogical past and tell a SAT fascinating story of the recent social history of Wales and SAT the battle between man and river, as well as being home to SAT Magor Marsh, the last fenland on the Levels. SAT SAT Helen meets Kevin Dupe, Reserve Manager of the Newport SAT Wetlands to find out how the Reserve fits into the history SAT of the area and Chris Hurn who gives Helen a sense of the SAT interaction between man and wildlife, a sense of change, and SAT an idea of the friendships had on the Levels. Artist, Jill SAT Hobbs, tells Helen how she uses her love of this landscape SAT to create her own representations of it and Helen also SAT climbs the tower at Redwick Church with Rick Turner for a SAT birds eye view of this landscape. Archaeologist, Nigel SAT Nayling, gives Helen a sense of the ancient history of the SAT area and gamekeeper, Paul Cawley explains the importance of SAT conservation for such an important area. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Elizabeth Pearson. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01m473q (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Clare Freeman. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01m19rt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01m47d9 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by Evan Davis and SAT Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for SAT the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01m47f0 (Listen) SAT Neil Oliver, Anne Marie Ward, Spitfire pilots, face SAT blindness, Emma Thompson's Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams & John McCarthy with archaeologist and SAT broadcaster Neil Oliver; Anthony Weir tells the story of his SAT failed attempt to live with a pygmy tribe; open-water SAT swimmer Anne Marie Ward reveals her plans to swim the Bering SAT Straits; Alison Pape describes her experience of living with SAT face-blindness; Jackie Palmer explains why she loves the SAT sound of a telephone exchange; a group of former Spitfire SAT pilots share their wartime memories, and actress Emma SAT Thompson shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 In Praise of the Lido b01m47q3 (Listen) SAT The lapping of warm water...the giggle of childish SAT laughter...the squelch of sun lotion and splash! - a SAT sweltering city-dweller cools off in his favourite summer SAT oasis, the lido! SAT SAT To the strains of 'Lido Shuffle', Stephen Smith is dipping SAT his toe in the waters of this great national institution, SAT alas now in jeopardy. SAT SAT On a morning swim, comedian Arthur Smith confides, "These SAT will be the early ones - the ones who actually have swum two SAT miles before they've even had a croissant". "Unthinkable", SAT Arthur laughs. SAT SAT Lidos were dreamt up in the 30s as a poor man's Riviera: the SAT rich were going to the South of France for the summer, but SAT on a good day at the Lido, you could almost believe that you SAT were on the Croisette at Cannes rather than Tooting Bec; SAT that it was caviar in your hand rather than a bloater paste SAT sandwich. SAT SAT In their heyday, thousands would turn out for the SAT entertainment there....the early beauty contests brought SAT people in their droves. Design guru and lido lizard, Stephen SAT Bayley, says this country had never seen anything like it. SAT "We regard them with fastidious distaste nowadays but they SAT must have been unbelievably exciting in 1957". SAT SAT John Ling - now in his 70s - remembers it well. He grew up SAT in Ipswich near the Broomhill lido. "The air was electric", SAT he tells Steve. He was a lifeguard at the lido, dated at the SAT lido, and when he got married bought a house just opposite SAT the lido! SAT SAT The pools were nearly killed off by the advent of the SAT package holiday in the 1960s and 70s, which meant that SAT ordinary people could finally go to the real Med for SAT themselves; suddenly, the lido looked very homespun and even SAT naff. But many have survived and have a devoted following. SAT SAT Former Labour spin doctor, Alastair Campbell, is one of SAT those devotees. He confesses he found time to go to his SAT local lido in Parliament Hill during his number 10 SAT days....and that he made phone calls from the pool. SAT "Who to?" Steve asks. "If I told you I'd have to kill you!" SAT Campbell teases. SAT SAT We hear of the routine of a lido....the man who will only SAT put his clothes in one cubicle - the no 10. He's been doing SAT it for years. "I don't know how it happened...it's an even SAT number thing", he laughs. SAT SAT "I'm slightly obsessive compulsive about stroke counting" SAT says another. SAT SAT It's all in the life of a lido.... SAT SAT Producer: Adele Armstrong. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01m47x8 (Listen) SAT Memory SAT SAT Exploring the mysterious realm of memory, Bridget Kendall SAT discusses with her three guests how and why memories are SAT formed, and what impact they have. SAT SAT Dorothy Bohm is one of Britain's most important documentary SAT photographers of the twentieth century. Now aged 88, she SAT sees her photos as a way of capturing time and holding it. SAT SAT So what is memory? Raymond Tallis is a professor of SAT geriatric medicine and a former researcher in clinical SAT neuroscience, who now writes about science from a SAT philosophical point of view. He says that memory is a SAT profoundly mysterious experience and it is impossible to SAT give a neurological account of how memories are formed. SAT SAT The Russian-born writer and broadcaster Zinovy Zinik SAT contributes some memories of his own, including his SAT experience of unravelling his family history, which formed SAT the backbone of his most recent book, "History Thieves". SAT SAT Dorothy Bohm SAT Dorothy Bohm doesn’t like to waste a single frame, so she SAT waits patiently until the picture is perfect and only then SAT releases the shutter. Even though we usually have no idea SAT who the people or places in her photographs are, they still SAT bring memories flooding in. What’s the secret? And how much SAT can photography act as a ‘limit to forgetfulness’? SAT SAT Raymond Tallis SAT Polymath Raymond Tallis starts his exploration of memory SAT from a paradox: a memory is a ‘presence of something that’s SAT no longer present’. How is that possible? And what is the SAT relationship between individual and pooled memories, such as SAT history? SAT SAT Zinovy Zinik SAT The inspiration for Zinovy’s book 'History Thieves' came SAT from remembering an unsual dream: he dreamt of a large, old, SAT somewhat ramshackle, red brick house which – naturally – he SAT assumed to be somewhere in England. Imagine his surprise SAT when, a few months later and fully awake, he saw this very SAT house standing …. in Berlin. He’d never been to Berlin SAT before. How to explain this? SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01m47xb (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Fixing Broken Banking b01m47xd (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT Big British banks are now widely accused of damaging the SAT economy by failing to support their customers. SAT SAT In the final programme in this series, Michael Robinson asks SAT what went wrong with Britain's banks and assesses what the SAT future holds for the industry in the wake of the rate-fixing SAT scandal. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b01m19nz (Listen) SAT Series 8, Tim Minchin talks to Caitlin Moran SAT SAT Comedian and musician Tim Minchin is not well but still has SAT a great time putting the world to rights in his attempt to SAT interview journalist and author, Caitlin Moran, despite SAT having no questions and no voice. SAT SAT Producer ..... Carl Cooper SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01m19rw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01m19ry (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01m19p5 (Listen) SAT Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from the Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse SAT with writer and human rights activist, Joan Smith; police SAT historian and former Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, SAT Timothy Brain; author and commentator, James Delingpole; and SAT Rector of St James's Piccadilly, The Revd Lucy Winkett. SAT SAT Producer: Kirsten Lass. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01m48vw (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00csq07 (Listen) SAT These Are the Times, Age of Reason SAT SAT The second and final part of Trevor Griffiths' two-part life SAT of Thomas Paine, These are the Times. SAT SAT In Part 2, Age of Reason, Paine is again embroiled in a SAT revolutionary situation. This time it's in France, where the SAT struggle and outcome are totally different from his American SAT experience. SAT SAT All his high hopes for change, and his work for a new SAT Constitution and the rule of Law are swept away by the SAT Terror. He is attacked as a dangerous influence in England, SAT imprisoned in France and makes it back to America - but to SAT an unexpected reception. SAT SAT Music by John Tams SAT SAT Director: Clive Brill SAT Producer: Ann Scott SAT A Greenpoint production in association with Richard SAT Attenborough for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01m495b (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Post-Natal Psychosis SAT SAT Post-natal psychosis with Jo Lyall who was diagonsed after SAT the birth of her second son and Alain Gregoire, consultant SAT in peri-natal psychiatry at Winchester Mother and Baby Unit; SAT interview with Victoria Vardy who was abandoned by her SAT mother as a baby; interview with Nina Bawden, who died this SAT week, recorded in 1994; discussion with Dr James Boys and SAT Jay Kleinberg on why Ayn Rand has become the darling of SAT America's political right; listeners' feedback on SAT infidelity; interview with writer Naomi Alderman on her new SAT book, The Liar's Gospel; interview with food writer Anna del SAT Conte on summer Italian food. Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01m495d (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01m19xl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01m19s0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01m19s2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m19s4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01m499v (Listen) SAT Seth MacFarlane, Delilah, Nikki Bedi, Dom Joly, Adil Ray and SAT Amy Shindler SAT SAT Nikki chats to Family Guy and masterful crooner, Seth SAT MacFarlane; the multi-talented comedy writer and performer SAT who is not only singing with the John Wilson Orchestra at SAT the Proms on August 27th but also has a new album out on the SAT same day - 'Music is Better Than Words'. But is it? Nikki SAT finds out. SAT SAT The Loose Ends studio steams up with the writer and actress, SAT Amy Shindler. Perhaps most well-known to Radio 4 listeners SAT for her role as Brenda Tucker in 'The Archers', Amy is also SAT a co-author of a spin-off of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' - 'Fifty SAT Shelves of Grey' - a brilliantly funny collection of SAT literary classics, artfully condensed and erotically SAT remastered. 'Jane Eyre' will never be the same again... SAT SAT Jon is introduced to the comedian and presenter, Adil Ray, SAT otherwise known as Mr Khan - the self-appointed Muslim SAT community leader and star of a new BBC One sitcom, 'Citizen SAT Khan'. Set in the capital of British Pakistan, Sparkhill, SAT Birmingham, the series follows the trials and tribulations SAT of Mr Khan and his long-suffering family. The first episode SAT is broadcast on Monday 27th August at 10.20pm. SAT SAT Does the Abominable Snowman really exist? Nikki meets SAT comedian turned professional Monster Hunter, Dom Joly, to SAT talk about his new book 'Scary Monsters and Super Creeps', SAT the product of months of outlandish expeditions across the SAT globe in search of such elusive creatures as the Hibagon in SAT Japan and the Ogopogo in Canada. SAT SAT With music from the trip-hop inspired soulful pop princess, SAT Delilah, who sings her new single 'Shades of Grey' from her SAT Top 5 debut album 'From The Roots Up'. SAT SAT And five-piece London folk-rock group 'Dry The River' SAT perform 'Bible Belt' from their recently released debut SAT album 'Shallow Bed'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:02 Profile b01m499x (Listen) SAT Lee Pearson SAT SAT If nine-times gold medal winner Lee Pearson adds a further SAT three golds to his collection at the London 2012 SAT Paralympics, he could surpass Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson's SAT record haul of 11. SAT SAT Dressage champion Pearson was born with a condition called SAT arthogryposis which twisted his limbs. SAT SAT He won a Children of Courage medal in 1980 aged six, with SAT Margaret Thatcher insisting on carrying him up the stairs of SAT number 10. SAT SAT An outspoken character on various issues, including the SAT levels of funding in disabled sport and the recognition that SAT goes with it, Pearson has a 100% record in his field, having SAT won gold in every event at every Games he has ever competed SAT in. SAT SAT So what drives him? And how will he cope with the pressure SAT knowing that if he continues his winning streak in London in SAT the coming weeks, he will be one of the most successful SAT Paralympians in history? SAT SAT Presenter: Gerry Northam SAT Producer: Kate O'Hara. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01m49cd (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Sweet Tooth SAT Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan is published by Jonathan Cape. SAT SAT Soul Sister SAT Soul Sister is on at The Savoy Theatre, London, until 29th SAT September. SAT It then begins a UK tour, there will be performances in SAT theatres in York, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Coventry, High SAT Wycombe, Southampton, Darlington and Edinburgh. SAT SAT Tango with Me SAT Tango with Me is released in key cities now, certificate 15. SAT SAT Walking SAT Robert Wilson’s Walking takes place in Holkham, Norfolk SAT until 2nd September 2012. Tickets are £15 or £5 concession. SAT SAT Murder SAT Murder: Joint Enterprise is on BBC Two this Sunday 26th SAT September at 9pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01m49vh (Listen) SAT Your Starter for Ten: 50 Years of University Challenge SAT SAT Fifty years after episode one was shown on ITV, the geek SAT fest that is University Challenge has not only survived but SAT also flourished. SAT SAT In this Archive on 4, former Radio 4 controller now Master SAT of St Peter's college Oxford, Mark Damazer, pays tribute to SAT his favourite quiz. SAT SAT Delving into its history he uncovers a programme that began SAT against the backdrop of a shake up in Britain's university SAT system and came from the entrepreneurial spirit of SAT Manchester's Granada studios. SAT SAT Mark meets former contestants like Gail Trimble, Sean SAT Blanchflower and Luke Pitcher who have all won the coveted SAT University Challenge title. Through personal anecdotes from SAT the archives from Bamber Gascoigne and in a new interview SAT with Jeremy Paxman, Mark discovers how competing students SAT have, across the decades, delighted its hosts. SAT SAT BBC Director General Mark Thompson and ITV's John Whiston SAT debate how University Challenge works as piece of television SAT and why it has endured for half a century. SAT SAT The show has ever been controversial. In a protest about SAT Oxbridge being allowed to enter so many college teams, SAT Manchester University, which included future broadcaster SAT David Aaronovitch, answered most of the questions with silly SAT answers. David tells Mark why he regretted taking his place SAT on the team. Quentin Smith, now a lawyer, was the man behind SAT the Manchester University controversy and tells his version SAT of the story for the first time. SAT SAT There are also plenty of starters for ten: What sort of SAT brain do you need to be good at it? Has it got deliberately SAT easier or harder? And how do you put together the best team? SAT Answers will be revealed in this loving homage to one of SAT Britain's most admired television shows. SAT SAT Produced by: Jo Meek SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01m0f2b (Listen) SAT Buddenbrooks, Episode 2 SAT SAT Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico SAT Muhly. SAT SAT Michael Maloney, Barbara Flynn. Joseph Millson and Clare SAT Corbett star in this story of an old Hanseatic merchant SAT family fighting to keep their commercial supremacy in the SAT changing world of 1840s Europe. SAT SAT Four generations of Buddenbrooks try to sustain their SAT inheritance - a once highly successful trading company in SAT the port of Lubeck on the Baltic Sea - in a world where the SAT old ways no longer seem to work. It's 1848, and the SAT revolutionary tide running through Europe has finally SAT reached Lubeck. Will the old merchant families hold on to SAT power? Of the Buddenbrook children, only Tom remains to SAT learn the business. Toni is in Hamburg married to Herr SAT Grunlich, and Christian has gone to England but would rather SAT be in Valparaiso. SAT SAT Harmonium and Flute by Rick Juckes SAT Technical Presentation by David Fleming Williams SAT SAT Directed by Chris Wallis SAT An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01m19s6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Education Debates b01m1721 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT In the first of three debates to mark the most dramatic SAT reforms in education in decades, John Humphrys asks leading SAT education thinkers what we should teach. SAT SAT Whether it's to get to university, to launch a fulfilling SAT career, or to be a useful member of society, what our SAT children learn at school today will profoundly shape their SAT lives, the society we live in and the health of our economy SAT in the 21st Century. SAT SAT The web gives today's schoolchildren access to previously SAT unimaginable amounts of knowledge - and yet across Europe SAT there has been social unrest among young people who are SAT angry and terrified that what they know will be meaningless SAT in a future with no jobs. SAT SAT At home, Government reforms have led to big changes in the SAT national curriculum, increased university fees and parents SAT running their own schools. SAT SAT Has there ever been a more important time to come back to SAT the fundamental questions of education? In this first SAT programme, leading educationalists including Anthony Seldon, SAT Estelle Morris and Rachel Wolf debate what we should teach. SAT SAT In programme two, John Humphrys asks a panel including union SAT leader Mary Bousted, cognitive scientist Prof Guy Claxton SAT and inspections expert Roy Blatchford how we should teach. SAT SAT And in the final debate, Shadow Education Secretary Stephen SAT Twigg, Neil O'Brien of Policy Exchange and Prof James SAT Tooley, an expert on private schools for poor children, SAT discuss who should teach. SAT SAT Produced by Karen Pirie SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b01m0lgj (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 The Seafarer b01m0f2g (Listen) SAT 'There I heard nothing but the roaring sea SAT and ice-cold wave SAT SAT At times birdsong was my only comfort SAT gannet's cackle and curlew's cry' SAT SAT The Seafarer is one of the oldest poems in the English SAT language, yet it still has power over our imaginations. Poet SAT Simon Armitage immerses himself in its watery landscape to SAT discover why it still holds us in its grip. SAT SAT Last year, The Seafarer was brought to life in the bowels of SAT the Royal Festival Hall. Here in this eerie, ship-like SAT space, cellist Oliver Coates (artist-in-residence at the SAT Southbank Centre), director/designer Netia Jones and sound SAT designer David Shepherd created an extraordinary setting for SAT the poem. Visitors were invited below decks to experience SAT The Seafarer through sound, film and the words of a new SAT translation by Amy Kate Riach. SAT SAT This programme offers a chance to hear the translation once SAT again - dramatically rendered by the actor Kenneth Cranham. SAT Accompanied by sound effects and music from The Seafarer SAT installation, the poem is delivered orally just as it would SAT have been by the poet (or poets) who first fashioned it. SAT SAT It's hard to be sure how Anglo-Saxon poets would have SAT worked, but Simon Armitage speaks to academics (Professor SAT North and Eric Lacey of University College London; Dr SAT Jennifer Neville of Royal Holloway) and writer Kevin SAT Crossley-Holland to find out what we know of the poets of SAT this period. SAT SAT It's likely that The Seafarer was composed by an early SAT Christian poet (its second half is strongly Christian in SAT tone), but the poem is remarkable for its ability to speak SAT to readers who do not share the poet's faith. The programme SAT explores the universal draw of one of the first sea poems in SAT our island's literature. SAT SAT Producer: Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 AUGUST 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01m464m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00sm5bj (Listen) SUN If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, If I Loved You SUN SUN 'If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This' is the debut SUN collection by US author Robin Black, whose work has drawn SUN comparisons with that of Lorrie Moore and Alice Munroe. This SUN week's selection of stories of loss, love and redemption SUN chart the very everyday lives of suburban American families SUN with wisdom, humour and humanity. SUN SUN A woman struggles to make sense of the insensitivities of a SUN new neighbour, while she tries to come to terms with her SUN own, very imminent demise. SUN SUN Robin Black's stories and essays have appeared in numerous SUN US magazines and newspapers, where she has also won several SUN awards, but this is her first published collection. She is SUN currently teaching creative writing at Bryn Mawr College, SUN Pennsylvania, and lives with her family in Philadelphia. SUN SUN Reader: Debora Weston SUN Abridger: Richard Hamilton SUN Producer: Justine Willett. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m464p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m464r (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m464t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01m464w (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01m4bty (Listen) SUN The bells of St.Mary's Church, Lymm, Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01m499x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:02 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01m464y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01m4bvq (Listen) SUN Intimations of Mortality SUN SUN Death is a subject we are often reluctant to discuss. It is SUN often considered morbid to do so. It has commonly been SUN described as the last taboo. However, some argue that a SUN sense of our own mortality plays a vital part in our SUN understanding of life. Further, that demystifying the SUN process of death can be essential to getting the most out of SUN life. SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the advantages of being open to the SUN intimations of mortality which we may come across daily. SUN SUN In conversation with Baroness Rabbi Julia Neuberger he SUN discusses attitudes to risk, memento mori and living SUN legacies. With readings from Virginia Woolf, Kabir and music SUN by Nitin Sawnhay and Gustav Mahler, he asks whether being SUN open to intimations of mortality can bring more to life. SUN SUN The readers are Helen Ryan and Kenneth Cranham. SUN SUN Produced by: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01m4bvs (Listen) SUN Orchid Meadow has one of the biggest milking sheep flocks in SUN the UK, near Shaftesbury in Dorset. SUN SUN Sarah Swadling meets John Ryrie, the shepherd who runs the SUN farm, and Crispin Tweddell, who owns it. Crispin's day job SUN is running a private equity firm which has backed businesses SUN like the Pitcher and Piano bar chain and the clothing SUN company Boden. SUN SUN Sarah finds out what led him to start farming, and why he SUN chose sheep milking rather than a more mainstream SUN enterprise. John has also made a career switch,swapping SUN Scotland and a job with the pharmaceutical company behind SUN Dolly the Sheep for about a thousand organic Friesland ewes. SUN SUN This programme is presented and produced by Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01m4650 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01m4652 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01m4bwc (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01m4bwf (Listen) SUN Dementia UK SUN SUN Jim Broadbent presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Dementia UK SUN Reg Charity: 1039404 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Dementia UK. SUN SUN Dementia UK SUN Provided by Dementia UK, Admiral Nurses are expert dementia SUN nurses, who focus on the needs of the family carer. They SUN are an invaluable source of contact and support for families SUN at particular points of difficulty in the dementia journey, SUN including diagnosis, when the condition advances, or when SUN tough decisions need to be made such as moving a loved one SUN into residential care. They help people live well with the SUN Dementia and develop skills to improve communication and SUN maintain relationships. Admiral Nurses also work SUN compassionately and sensitively to help families cope with SUN feelings of loss and bereavement as the condition SUN deteriorates. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01m4654 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01m4656 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01m4c1p (Listen) SUN Perspectives of Paradise SUN SUN As thousands gather at Cheltenham Racecourse for the annual SUN creative celebration and exploration of faith, ethics and SUN the arts, this service reflects on three biblical SUN perspectives of paradise through the very distinct SUN atmosphere of the Greenbelt Bank Holiday weekend. SUN With Brian Draper of the London Institute for Contemporary SUN Christianity, Paula Gooder, Canon Theologian of Birmingham SUN and Guildford Cathedrals, the Rev Dr Kate Coleman, Chair of SUN the Evangelical Alliance Council, the Rev Richard Coles, and SUN performance poet El Gruer. SUN Music directors: Ewan King and Peter Gunstone. Producer: SUN Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01m19p7 (Listen) SUN The trouble with 'freedom' SUN SUN "We like to tell ourselves an uplifting story in which SUN freedom expands whenever tyranny is overthrown" writes John SUN Gray. "We believe that...when a dictator is toppled the SUN result is not only a more accountable type of government but SUN also greater liberty throughout society". SUN SUN But Gray believes otherwise. Using the nineteenth century SUN liberal John Stuart Mill and his god-son Bertrand Russell, SUN he advances his argument that liberty is one thing, SUN democracy another. SUN SUN "The reality" he says "is that when a tyrant is toppled we SUN can't know what will come next". SUN SUN Producer: SUN Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01m4c1r (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 b01m4c1t (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Simon Frith SUN Director ..... Jenny Stephens SUN Editors ..... John Yorke & Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Wayne Foley ..... Ian Brooker SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Midwife ..... Stephanie Racine SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Rosa Makepeace ..... Anna Piper SUN Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves SUN Joyce Walter ..... Ann Beach. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b01m4c1w (Listen) SUN Ugandan Asians SUN SUN Sue MacGregor gathers together a group of Asians who were SUN forced to flee from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972. SUN SUN Manzoor Moghal was a businessman and a prominent member of SUN the Asian community when he was forced to leave; Tahera SUN Aanchawan was training to become a physiotherapist; SUN Councillor Ravi Govindia, now leader of Wandsworth Council, SUN was completing his A levels; Chandrika Joshi, now a dentist, SUN was 14 years old when her family were expelled; and the SUN writer and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was a young SUN student at the time. SUN SUN Asians had first arrived in Uganda in the late 19th century SUN under British colonial rule. They prospered in trade, SUN business and the professions and, by 1972, they were at the SUN centre of the Ugandan economy. But when Amin came to power SUN he declared they were "bloodsuckers." He claimed he'd had a SUN dream in which God had ordered him to expel all the Asians SUN from Uganda. He stated Britain should take responsibility SUN for any Asian with British citizenship and gave them 90 days SUN to leave. SUN SUN As the Asians made urgent plans, stories emerged of looting SUN and attacks by Amin's army. Houses and shops were abandoned. SUN Each family was allowed to take just £50 in cash and two SUN suitcases with them. SUN SUN British Prime Minister Edward Heath agreed Britain should SUN accept all those with British passports. A resettlement SUN board was set up to help the Asians find accommodation, but SUN many faced hostility from those supporting Enoch Powell's SUN anti-immigration campaign. Despite often high levels of SUN education, they were forced to take whatever work they could SUN find. Many took factory jobs and others started their own SUN businesses but, in the next few years, the Ugandan Asians SUN changed the face of urban Britain. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01m0lgq (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 3 SUN SUN Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the granddaddy of all SUN panel games. SUN SUN This week panellists Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Janey SUN Godley & Hannibal Buress join Nicholas at the Edinburgh SUN Fringe Festival. SUN SUN Nicholas asks the team to talk for 60 seconds without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation - a task much more SUN difficult than it sounds. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01m4c33 (Listen) SUN A Guide to Spice, part 2: Vanilla SUN SUN Do you know how vanilla beans are hand pollinated? Do you SUN know why harvested vanilla pods are wrapped in hot blankets? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon reveals all as she continues her exploration SUN of the modern spice world by looking at vanilla. SUN SUN Reporter Vanessa Kimbell travels to Uganda to meet Lulu SUN Sturdy, a British furniture designer who inherited a run SUN down estate in Uganda, and within a decade has turned it SUN into an influential source of quality vanilla beans. She SUN follows this year's harvest and hears the incredible effort SUN involved during the careful processing of the pods. SUN SUN Chef Jeremy Lee and Niki Segnit, author of The Flavour SUN Thesaurus provide a guide to flavour combinations and SUN cooking techniques with vanilla. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01m4658 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01m4c3r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with Shaun Ley, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b01m4c77 (Listen) SUN When Margaret Maughan won Britain's first-ever gold medal in SUN the Paralympics, there was no crowd, no podium, and almost SUN no Margaret! They had to drag her off the coach going back SUN to the rudimentary Olympic village. As no one was keeping SUN the score in the archery competition, she had no idea she'd SUN won, let alone the fact that there was a ceremony. SUN SUN The incident was typical of the first Paralympics which took SUN place in Rome in nineteen sixty. Paralympic villages these SUN days are fully wheelchair accessible, each athlete has an SUN assistant to help with any special needs, and athletes can SUN get advice about anything from diet to the very latest SUN equipment. In Margaret's first games the accommodation was SUN on stilts, and they had to be carried in and out by SUN soldiers. Undignified it might have been, but Margaret SUN didn't seem to mind! It was typical of the times, and in No SUN Triumph, No Tragedy, Margaret, now eighty-five, tells her SUN story with the laconic acceptance of her generation. SUN SUN It had been typical of her treatment since a road accident SUN in Malawi only a year earlier left her paralysed and in a SUN wheelchair. After being flown home, she was taken to Stoke SUN Mandeville Hospital, then more or less just a row of huts, SUN though offering what was at the time the most sophisticated SUN treatment around for those with spinal injuries. It was run SUN by Ludwig Guttmann, who Margaret clearly greatly admired, SUN even though he ran the place a bit like an army camp. SUN Discipline was tough; trips to the local pub which got out SUN of hand were greeted with a firm dressing-down, and threats SUN that you might have to leave. SUN SUN He would put up with no feeling sorry for yourself, and it SUN was Guttman who decreed that sport was therapy, and turned SUN what began as sports days into the start of an international SUN phenomenon--the Paralympics. A few hundred competitors went SUN to the first games: now it's around four thousand. Then, SUN hardly anyone noticed them go; now, there are hour upon hour SUN of television coverage. Then, they begged time off work, if SUN they were lucky enough to have a job; now people like Oscar SUN Pistorius and our own Tanni Gray Thompson are household SUN names. SUN SUN But Margaret's story shows how these rudimentary games were SUN symptomatic of attitudes back in the fifties and sixties. SUN She might have got a gold medal in Rome, but when they put SUN her on the train back to her home town in Preston, she and SUN her wheelchair had to travel in the guard's van. Although SUN she was a qualified teacher, it was assumed that no way SUN could she control a class: she was offered a job stamping SUN cards; there were no benefits, and no anti-discrimination SUN legislation; but Margaret Maughan wonders on the programme SUN whether present generations had the same get up and go as SUN she and her friends. She's delighted that the Paralympics is SUN now a major international festival, but she speculates SUN whether some of the camaraderie has been lost along the way. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01m19nn (Listen) SUN South Devon SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the GQT team tackle gardening questions in SUN South Devon. The panellists are Anne Swithinbank, Matthew SUN Wilson and Bunny Guinness. In addition, Toby Buckland goes SUN in search of miniature plants at Babbacombe Model Village, SUN whilst Anne Swithinbank goes in search of the largest Torbay SUN Palm. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01m4c8y (Listen) SUN The Suicide of Yukio Mishima SUN SUN Yukio Mishima, the celebrated Japanese author, killed SUN himself in very public circumstances in Tokyo in 1970. SUN Henry Scott Stokes was working as a foreign correspondent in SUN Japan at the time and knew the great writer well. He SUN remembers the day of Mishima's death, and his long-standing SUN interest in ritual suicide. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01m4c90 (Listen) SUN Buddenbrooks, Episode 3 SUN SUN Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico SUN Muhly. SUN SUN The final part of Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning story of SUN a 19th Century merchant family struggling to keep pace with SUN changing times. J Thomas and Gerda's son Hanno shows no SUN aptitude for business, but may make a great musician. SUN SUN Technical presentation by David Fleming Williams SUN SUN Produced and directed by Chris Wallis SUN An Autolycus Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01m4c92 (Listen) SUN Dreda Say Mitchell presents a special on Tartan Noir SUN SUN Dreda Say Mitchell presents a special on Tartan Noir, SUN exploring the appeal of the Scottish crime novel SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN The End of the Wasp Season - Denise Mina SUN Publisher: Orion SUN SUN Gods and Beasts - Denise Mina SUN Publisher: Orion SUN SUN Slammer - Allan Guthrie SUN Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited SUN SUN Kiss Her Goodbye - Allan Guthrie SUN Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited SUN SUN Birthdays for the Dead - Stuart MacBride SUN Publisher: Harper SUN SUN Cold Granite - Stuart MacBride SUN Publisher: HarperCollins SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01m5d2r (Listen) SUN Roger McGough challenges the notion that 'Happiness writes SUN white' as he begins a new series with a cheering selection SUN of poetry. SUN There are poems celebrating a sense of freedom in summertime SUN by Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Frost. There's a delicate SUN poem by Norman MacCaig about the beauty of rain and a SUN selection of poems about weddings including a moving and SUN joyful one that Ted Hughes wrote about the day he married SUN Sylvia Plath. With Plath in her pink woollen knitted dress SUN and Hughes beside her in his thrice dyed corduroy jacket, he SUN talks of being subjected to a strange tense: that of the SUN spellbound future. SUN Even poets not known for their cheeriness, Emily Dickinson SUN and Charles Bukowski have happiness pouring out of them. SUN There are also poems about the joys of gardens by Kipling SUN and the ancient Chinese poet Po Chu-i, and a beautiful SUN Ethiopian tribal love poem. SUN The readers are Pippa Haywood, Patrick Romer and Harry SUN Livingstone. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The Future Is Halal b01m0pq2 (Listen) SUN You've heard of halal meat, but what about halal SUN paintbrushes, halal perfume or halal holiday resorts? SUN SUN A recent report by The Economist proclaimed to businesses: SUN ignore the Sharia-conscious consumer at your peril. The SUN global Muslim population is now 1.8 billion and rising fast; SUN it's predicted that Muslims will account for 30% of the SUN world's population by 2025. More than half are under 25 and SUN many are tech-savvy, brand-conscious and increasingly SUN flexing their consumer muscle. In response, there's been an SUN explosion of goods and services aimed at Muslims. SUN SUN While Britain has been slow to wake up to this new consumer SUN trend, other countries are already reaping the economic SUN rewards of serving Muslim needs. Malaysia has become the SUN leader in halal certification and in promoting the global SUN halal industry. Each year Kuala Lumpur hosts World Halal SUN Week, bringing together a remarkable array of Islamic SUN scholars, scientists, producers of halal products and SUN services and big multinational companies. Malaysia is also SUN home to the first international university to teach Islamic SUN finance. SUN SUN There are many concerns about how to ensure credible halal SUN certification. Nonetheless, this new drive to meet Muslim SUN consumer demand beyond halal food is bringing together SUN religion and business in an unprecedented way - and giving SUN Islam a new identity in the 21st century. SUN SUN But is this burgeoning international industry simply driven SUN by the desire for business profit or is it really supporting SUN Muslim values? And how far will these halal products and SUN services cross-over to non-Muslim consumers? Navid Akhtar SUN investigates. SUN SUN Producer Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01m499x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:02 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01m465b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01m465d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m465g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01m5d8b (Listen) SUN Some fascinating facts on BBC radio this week: The pop star SUN Rihanna will only be truly empowered when she buys herself a SUN ' nice cardigan', ballet music might be more enjoyable SUN without the er, ballet. Halal isn't just meat, it's a SUN holiday, and when pop and classical music collide it forms SUN an unholy alliance. Join Miriam O'Reilly for her Pick of the SUN Week. SUN SUN Rock n Roll in Four Movements - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes - Ballet and Musicians - Radio 3 SUN Book of the Week - Thinking in Numbers - Radio 4 SUN Archive on Four - Your Starter for Ten - 50 Years of SUN University Challenge - Radio 4 SUN The Alien Birds Have Landed - Radio 4 SUN Political Animals - Radio 4 SUN The Future is Halal - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service SUN Chain Reaction - Radio 4 SUN Fry's English Delight - Radio 4 SUN Stevenson in Love - Radio 4 SUN What's the Point of Pubs? - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01m5d8d (Listen) SUN Hayley tries to keep the peace. It's a busy day at The SUN Stables. SUN SUN 19:15 Tonight b01m183t (Listen) SUN Edinburgh Special SUN SUN Rory Bremner and the team return for a one-off episode of SUN Tonight, coming from the Ed Fringe festival. It's the SUN topical satire show that digs that bit deeper into national, SUN international and, for this episode, particularly Scottish SUN politics. Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make SUN sense out of things as it is to make fun of them. In this SUN Braveheart of satirical comedy shows, Rory Bremner leads the SUN charge, with satirist Nick Doody, guest comedian Susan SUN Morrison and impressionist Lewis MacLeod bringing up the SUN rear. Veteran satirist and Tonight performer Andy Zaltzman SUN also plays his part, but from the safety of his holiday in SUN France. SUN SUN This is half an hour of stand-up, sketches, and SUN investigative satire. And at the core of the show is Rory's SUN interview with Joyce McMillan of The Scotsman and Iain SUN MacWhirter of The Herald, two of the most informed guest SUN commentators on the Scottish political scene. More global SUN crises, more political scandal, more brilliant SUN impressions...and some devolution thrown in: a shot in the SUN arm for satire lovers everywhere. SUN SUN Presenter: Rory Bremner SUN Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b01m5ddy (Listen) SUN 'Sorry for Your Loss' SUN SUN Recorded live last week in front of an audience at this SUN year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, James Acaster is the SUN second of three literary comedians specially commissioned by SUN BBC Radio 4 to write and perform their own short stories. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01m19nv (Listen) SUN Do you know which Hitchcock film features a scene set at the SUN very top of the statue of Liberty? No? Well, according to SUN several listeners the producers of Radio 4's landmark series SUN The New Elizabethans don't either. Listeners think they have SUN spotted a clutch of factual inaccuracies in the series. SUN SUN In the first of the new series of Feedback, Roger asks the SUN editor Andrew Smith if they are right. He also discusses the SUN reservations of one listener who actually featured in the SUN series, the New Elizabethan Professor Stuart Hall. SUN SUN How is the BBC performing in the marathon that is this SUN summer of sport? In the brief lull between the Olympics and SUN Paralympic Games we hear your verdict on the coverage. And SUN why were listeners abroad unable to hear many Radio 4 SUN programmes when the Games began? SUN SUN Plus the latest instalment of Operation Drop Out, and SUN Feedback wants to have its very own jingle. All musical (and SUN non-musical) styles accepted. Please send us your magnum SUN opuses. Or should that be magna opera? SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Produced by Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01m19ns (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The writer Nina Bawden, author of Carrie's War, The SUN Peppermint Pig and many other acclaimed books for children SUN and adults. Michael Morpurgo pays tribute. SUN SUN The movie director Tony Scott, best known for action SUN thrillers like Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Man on Fire. SUN SUN The campaigner Eileen Beasley who refused to pay her rates SUN until the bill was printed in the Welsh language. She was SUN taken to court fourteen times and had her furniture SUN confiscated. SUN SUN And the singer Scott McKenzie who, in the sixties, urged us SUN all to go to San Francisco with flowers in our hair. SUN SUN 21:00 Fixing Broken Banking b01m47xd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01m4bwf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01m183p (Listen) SUN Join the Crowd SUN SUN Short of cash to start a business? Instead of going to the SUN bank for a loan, asking for cash from friends or family, or SUN meeting with venture capitalists, how about asking hundreds SUN or thousands of strangers on the internet to buy your SUN product or a share in your company? SUN It's called crowdfunding, and it's a strategy that was first SUN adopted by filmmakers and musicians. Now more and more SUN businesses are using crowdfunding websites to raise capital. SUN Peter Day meets some of the businesses turning to this SUN innovative form of fundraising as well as some of the SUN founders of high-tech companies matching up entrepreneurs SUN with investors. SUN He also finds out more about the potential risks and asks SUN whether crowdfunding will remain a niche business tool or an SUN idea that will transform the way entrepreneurs raise money. SUN Producer: Mike Wendling SUN Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01m5dj1 (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 b01m5dj3 (Listen) SUN Episode 118 SUN SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the papers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01m1839 (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet meets with director James Marsh to discuss his SUN IRA drama Shadow Dancer, starring Clive Owen and Andrea SUN Riseborough. SUN SUN Northern Ireland correspondent for the Independent newspaper SUN David Mckittrick looks at the portrayal of the IRA on film. SUN SUN Mark Gatiss continues his selection of biopics - this week, SUN Carey Grant as Cole Porter in Night and Day. SUN SUN Director Bart Layton on his compelling drama-doc The SUN Imposter, which tells the story of a Frenchman who convinces SUN a Texan family he is their son who has been missing for SUN several years. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01m4bvq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 AUGUST 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01m466f (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01m171n (Listen) MON Italian Family 1: Milan MON MON Italy, home to the Pope and the Holy See, perhaps the most MON Catholic of all countries, is undergoing a peculiarly MON un-Catholic crisis; it now has one of the lowest birth rates MON in the world. There are so few children being born that if MON the current trend persists, traditional Italians are at risk MON of dying out in just a handful of generations. How can the MON nation famed for Romanticism, for enormous affectionate MON families, for Mamma Mia and for an enviable certainty that MON all you need is good food, good wine and your family around MON you, be the same nation that no longer gives birth? Laurie MON travels to Milan to unpick the tangled interactions between MON the individual, the family, the church and the state and MON discovers why Italians are delaying parenthood and in many MON cases rejecting having a family altogether. MON The first of three special editions on the crisis of the MON Italian family. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01m4bty (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m466h (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m466k (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m466m (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01m466p (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m5dvw (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from MON Wales with the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01m5dvy (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01m466r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01m5dw0 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and MON Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01m5dw2 (Listen) MON The Sailor MON MON Amanda Vickery explores the history of masculinity through MON six different archetypes of the ideal man. This week: the MON Sailor. MON MON From the defeat of the Armada to the Battle of Trafalgar, MON the sailor was the most virile poster boy of British MON manhood. Any boy worth his salt wanted to run away to sea. MON National wealth rested on maritime trade and it was the MON sailor who ensured that Britain ruled the waves. The bravest MON were lionised and none more so than Horatio Nelson. MON MON Professor Vickery begins on location in Nelson's flagship MON HMS Victory, with Quintin Colville, curator of naval history MON at the National Maritime Museum. She explores how it was MON that Nelson became a symbol of the nation, with historian MON Kathleen Wilson. And there is new research from David MON Turner, author of a history of disability, about what MON happened to less famous sailors who were disabled by war. MON Were they still men? MON MON Sources include songs, 19th century romantic novels, and MON cinematic representations of Nelson. MON MON Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen MON Mary, University of London. She has made several series in MON creative collaboration with producer Elizabeth Burke, the MON most recent of which was Voices from the Old Bailey. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Head to Head b01m5dw4 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 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 Perhaps better known as a novelist, Iris Murdoch was also a MON recognised philosopher. By 1972 when she encountered fellow MON Oxford thinker David Pears for the film Logic Lane, she had MON already written 14 novels and made valuable contributions to MON moral philosophy. The dominant school up until that time had MON used a logic of language to help distinguish right from MON wrong, almost turning morality into a science. However, a MON new wave of European thought was bringing the debate away MON from prescribing meta-ideas and back down to individual MON choice. MON MON At the heart of the debate was the issue of freedom of MON action. Could humans actually control their behaviour or MON were we pre-programmed to act in particular ways in certain MON situations? In this debate, Pears brings up the age-old MON debate of determinism versus free will - but further to that MON was a belief that, through self-knowledge, we could reclaim MON some control over our actions and therefore act in morally MON good ways. MON MON So to what extent should we know ourselves in order to MON become better people - in a deep Freudian sense or simply by MON noticing our thoughts and reactions? By considering the MON practical concerns of everyday people and life, and what MON constitutes a good life, can this knowledge inform a new MON moral philosophy? Murdoch's ideas are as relevant today as MON ever. MON MON In the studio dissecting the debate are Galen Strawson, MON Professor of Philosophy at Reading University, and Justin MON Broackes, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brown MON University in the United States. MON MON Producer: Dom Byrne MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01m5dw6 (Listen) MON Leonardo and the Last Supper, Episode 1 MON MON Leonardo and the Last Supper tells the fascinating story of MON what went on behind the scenes when Leonardo da Vinci was MON commissioned to paint what became one of history's greatest MON masterpieces. MON MON Working as pictor et ingeniarius ducalis (duke's painter and MON engineer) for Lodovico Sforza, the de facto ruler of Milan, MON Leonardo was engrossed with a commission to create a MON monumental equestrian statue. But with unrest at home and MON abroad Lodovico had another use for the seventy five tons of MON bronze that his artist required. MON MON Read by Nigel Anthony and abridged and produced by Jane MON Marshall Productions. MON MON Producer: Jane Marshall. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01m5dw8 (Listen) MON Woman's Hour and Men's Hour: A Secrets Special MON MON People reveal the secrets they've been keeping from their MON partners, family and friends in this joint Woman's Hour and MON Men's Hour special programme. Presenters Jane Garvey and Tim MON Samuels team up to hear the perspectives of men and women MON from around the UK - and explore the motivations for and MON impact of keeping secrets. Listeners share their experiences MON from finding out they were adopted to discovering there had MON been a murder in their family. Professor Carol Smart talks MON about secrets within families, and the author Jill Dawson MON discusses secrets as a plot device in fiction. Plus not MON being open about your sexuality and hiding problems with MON gambling or debt. The show will be jointly broadcast on MON Radio 4 and 5 live - a radio first for the two programmes. MON MON Producer Louise Corley. MON Presenters Jane Garvey and Tim Samuels. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m5dwb (Listen) MON Craven, Episode 1 MON MON The police drama by Amelia Bullmore, starring Maxine Peake, MON returns for a new series - with a strange case that is set MON to get more bizarre as the week unfolds. MON MON "You have to be careful of the bizarre, because one man's MON odd is another man's system." MON MON The episode begins when the body is found of a strangled MON man, with a missing finger and an extra front tooth. For MON Craven, alarm bells ring and she suspects the trade mark MON maiming of criminal mastermind Tony Lau. MON The trail leads the team to a domestic address that has been MON converted into a cannabis factory. MON MON This popular series is created by an all female production MON crew in Manchester and stars Maxine Peake as DCI Sue Craven. MON MON Produced by Justine Potter MON A Red Production Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 The Summerland Story b01m5dwd (Listen) MON Stephen Smith travels to the Isle of Man to find out about MON the little-discussed entertainment innovation Summerland, MON the prosperity it brought to the Island for three summers MON and the terrible fire that destroyed it in 1973, killing 50 MON people. MON MON Summerland was the brainchild of local architect James MON Phillips Lomas and hoped to reverse the decline in the Manx MON tourist trade in the late 1960s. The complex was spread out MON over seven levels, rising 96 ft above sea level and covering MON 3.5 acres of the Douglas seafront. The use of futuristic MON materials, like bronze tinted acrylic Oroglas, to clad the MON building gave the impression of sunshine indoors all year MON round - and offered an appealing alternative to the cheap MON Mediterranean package holidays that were becoming available. MON MON Summerland opened to the public in 1971 and soon became the MON entertainment hub of the island, for both tourists and MON locals. It was celebrated from a civic perspective and MON brought a new lease of life to the tourist trade until it MON came to an untimely end two years later. MON MON On 2nd August 1973, a fire was started just outside the MON building and quickly spread. Within minutes the building was MON engulfed in flames and all floors above the entrance level MON were destroyed. There were an estimated 3000 people inside MON Summerland that night - of which 50 lost their lives. MON MON A 49 day public hearing on the island found that there were MON "No villains" in the disaster and as such no-one was held to MON account. MON MON Forty years since the peak of its prosperity, Stephen Smith MON finds out what the building meant to the island, how the MON events of that tragic night unfolded and why such an MON important event is rarely spoken about. MON MON Produced by Jenny Clarke MON A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00wlgnn (Listen) MON Series 4, A Life Destroyed Then Repaired and Rehappied MON MON Volume 4, Chapter 6: "A life destroyed, and then repaired MON and re-happied." MON MON Pip in the company of Pippa, the Reverend Fecund and Harry MON Biscuit, now just a brain in a jar, have tracked Mister MON Benevolent to the heart of the vast Russian Empire. But when MON they find him he is at the head of a mighty army. Who will MON triumph in the final battle between good and evil? Will MON Harry get a new body? Will Mister Benevolent detonate his MON infamous cheese bomb? And what is the correct way to spell MON Czar? As fate decides these crucial questions it seems there MON are a few surprises in store for Pip. 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 Reverend Godly Fecund ..... David Mitchell MON MON Writer ..... Mark Evans MON Producer ..... Gareth Edwards. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01m5dwg (Listen) MON Family special MON MON Today - the books young people read, the games they play and MON the programmes they watch. MON MON We hear about a new social media platform for four-year-olds MON and the magazine aimed at turning teenagers into MON entrepreneurs. MON MON And, Fifty Shades of Grey has been accused of normalising MON erotica but would you be happy to let your 13 year-old read MON it? Films, video games and even music carry ratings or age MON guidance these days, but not books. Should there be a MON similar ratings system for literature? MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01m5fnh (Listen) MON John Hume/David Trimble MON MON Jim Naughtie on John Hume and David Trimble who shared the MON Nobel Peace Prize after the Good Friday Agreement and whose MON lives help to illuminate the complex politics of Northern MON Ireland. 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 b01m466t (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01m5fnk (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners MON can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on MON twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Poetic Justice b01m5fnm (Listen) MON Treadmill MON MON It may be surprising to discover that writing poetry is a MON popular activity among prisoners. MON MON Prison is a place where men and women are forced to look MON into themselves, where they have the time and the solitude MON to reflect on their lives and the consequences of their MON actions. Often this introspection finds an outlet through MON poetry. MON MON Each day this week, performance poet Mr Gee visits former MON prisoners, young people who are considered to be at risk of MON offending, and those currently held in custody. MON MON In each episode, Mr Gee facilitates a poetry-writing MON workshop. Through the deeply personal discussions that take MON place during the creative process, and through the poetry MON produced, we discover moving and powerful accounts of how MON the participants have been affected by the wounds they have MON both sustained and inflicted on others. MON MON The goal is to help the participants avoid trouble in the MON future, helping them understand the roots of their offending MON behaviour and hopefully reducing the number of potential MON victims. MON MON Episode 1, Treadmill is recorded inside HMP Brixton, a busy MON South London prison for adult males. Prisoners write poems MON to their younger selves and to those who may be at risk MON entering the vicious circle of crime and incarceration. MON MON Produced by Andrew Wilkie and Adam Fowler MON A Prison Radio Association production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01m5d8d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b012fts1 (Listen) MON The Day We Caught the Train MON MON By Nick Payne. MON MON It's a big day for Sally, and she's been planning it for MON weeks. But when her mystery man finally arrives, she's left MON hopelessly unprepared. Intimate drama by award-winning MON playwright. MON MON Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko MON MON Production Team: MON MON Studio Managers: Caleb Knightley and Keith Graham MON Editor: Anne Bunting MON Production Co-Ordinators: Nicole Fitzpatrick and Matthew MON Mills. MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b01m5fnp (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 broadcaster Samira Ahmed, MON actor Simon Jones, historian Dominic Sandbrook, and MON journalist Dominic Lawson. The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01m4c33 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Lewis's Return Home b01m5fnr (Listen) MON Get Carter, starring Michael Caine, has been voted the best MON British film of all time in some recent polls, but its MON author, Ted Lewis, and his novel, Jack's Return Home - on MON which the film is based - are all but forgotten. MON MON In the 30th anniversary of Lewis's untimely death, and as MON Radio Four broadcasts a new adaptation of the novel, the MON poet and critic Sean O'Brien traces the life-story and MON legacy of the multi-talented Ted Lewis. MON MON Lewis's widow, Jo, and daughters, Sally and Nancy - who have MON never spoken about him in public before - recall his MON meteoric rise to fame as well as his later struggles. His MON agent, Toby Eady, old art-school friend, Ron Burnett, MON biographer Nick Triplow, and novelist Nicholas Blincoe MON contribute their thoughts and memories. MON MON Sean O'Brien, who himself grew up in Hull, re-locates Lewis MON back in his own landscape on either bank of the river MON Humber, as he attempts to locate Lewis, in the literary MON sphere, as far more than a writer of tough genre fiction. MON MON Just as Jack's Return Home describes a journey from 1960s MON gangland London home to Scunthorpe, so Sean traces Lewis's MON life-story. He follows the journey from Lewis's grammar MON school in isolated Barton on Humber to his art college in MON Hull, then on to success in swinging sixties London - as an MON animator on the Beatles's Yellow Submarine as well as a MON novelist and writer for Dr Who and Z Cars - culminating in MON his final return to unfashionable Scunthorpe back in the MON Lincolnshire wolds. MON MON As Sean O'Brien concludes his journey, he reflects on the MON fact that most of Lewis's nine novels are currently MON unavailable, and hopes that this anniversary might be the MON beginning of a whole new era in the afterlife of a talented MON British artist and writer. MON MON Producer Beaty Rubens. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01m5hjz (Listen) MON Baptists MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by three prominent Baptists: Dianne MON Tidball, Ruth Gouldbourne and Peter Morden to discuss the MON history of the Baptist Church and its significance today. MON This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first Baptist MON congregation in England and Baptists form the biggest MON Protestant denomination in the world but what do they stand MON for? Ernie's guests discuss the often bloody history of the MON Baptists from their origins as a persecuted dissenting MON movement in the seventeenth century. And they consider what MON Baptists contribute to Britain today. Are they still a voice MON of protest, speaking out for justice and for religious MON freedom? MON MON 17:00 PM b01m5hk1 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m466w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01m5hk3 (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 4 MON MON Nicholas Parsons presents the long-running panel game. Just MON how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01m5hk5 (Listen) MON Lilian's suspicions are aroused. Meanwhile Fallon is getting MON ambitious. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01m5hk7 (Listen) MON Adrian Lester takes questions from young actors MON MON In a special edition recorded at the Radio 1 Academy in MON Hackney, Mark Lawson talks to Adrian Lester, star of the BBC MON TV drama Hustle, who also answers questions from an audience MON of young actors. MON MON Adrian Lester reflects on his career so far, which includes MON Rosalind in an all-male production of As You Like It, along MON with leading roles in musicals, television and film. MON MON He also offers advice to young people hoping to follow in MON his footsteps. Their questions cover topics such as how to MON make a living as an actor, the experience of going to drama MON school, and what you can learn from sharing a stage with MON Hollywood stars. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m5dwb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The F-Word: A History of Federalism b01m5hk9 (Listen) MON The euro zone crisis boils along like a tea kettle left MON screaming on the stove. But once this situation is resolved, MON the fundamental problem of the euro will remain; it's a MON single currency serving 17 countries - with 17 different MON governments, operating on 17 different electoral timetables, MON setting 17 different tax policies. Can 17 into 1 ever go? MON MON Some have suggested Europe's single currency needs an MON independent central bank, a single fiscal policy, and a MON single democratically elected government to oversee the MON economy it serves. MON MON There's a word for this arrangement among states. Former MON British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher knew it well: MON Federalism. Federalism was fine for America but she was dead MON set against it for Europe. MON MON That was more than twenty years ago. Now the F-word is MON resurfacing in the euro debate. Jorg Asmussen, the German MON representative on the board of the European Central Bank, MON recently gave a speech in Berlin calling for greater MON federalism to strengthen the euro. MON MON Presenter Michael Goldfarb looks at the history of MON federalism, the intellectual theories behind it and its MON successes and failures. MON MON From the Act of Union between England and Scotland, arguably MON the first act of federalism in history, to the debates MON surrounding the creation of the American Constitution, MON Michael interviews not just British and American historians, MON but also contemporary European politicians and policy MON makers. How relevant is federalism in the euro-zone crisis? MON And how could a federal United States of Europe work? MON MON Presented by Michael Goldfarb MON Producer: Julia Hayball MON A Wise Buddah Creative Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01m182v (Listen) MON Bulgaria's Criminal Football MON MON No fewer than 15 football club bosses have been murdered in MON Bulgaria's top football league in the last decade alone. In MON this edition of Crossing Continents Margot Dunne MON investigates reports that many have been deeply involved in MON mafia businesses. MON MON There are continuing reports that the game is riddled with MON corrupt practices including match-fixing and the illegal MON procurement of European Union passports for overseas MON players. MON MON Crossing Continents examines these claims, attending a match MON which has allegedly been fixed in advance and speaks to a MON player who says he was offered money to throw a match. MON MON The programme also meets Todor Batkov, chairman of one of MON the country's best known football clubs, Levski Sofia, who MON accepts that corruption in the national game is as deep MON rooted as ever. MON MON Producer: Ed Butler. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01m183c (Listen) MON As public interest in the red planet reaches a peak and MON NASA's Rover Curiosity begins tentatively to roll across the MON Martian surface, their next lander - called InSight - is MON announced to some fanfare. Based on an older, simpler, MON static probe, InSight will look for "Marsquakes" and teach MON us about the deep seismic structure of Mars. But as the MON former head of Science and Robotic Missions at the European MON Space Agency, now President of the Royal Astronomical MON Society, Prof David Southwood tells Quentin, there is some MON disappointment for planetary scientists, and fears that with MON budgetary cuts jeopardising many planned missions, Curiosity MON could be the last hurrah for this golden age of Martian MON exploration. MON MON A global challenge to invent a new toilet that doesn't need MON water, electricity or a septic system, doesn't pollute and MON costs less than five cents a day is being worked on by MON scientists around the world. Professor Sohail Khan from MON Loughborough University is one of the winners of the MON "Reinvent the Toilet" competition run by the Gates MON Foundation. His team's design is based on hydrothermal MON carbonisation - a sort of pressure cooker which converts MON waste into something that looks and smells like coffee. MON MON When a bomb explodes in a warzone, it produces a blast wave MON and then a thermal heat wave that can reach temperatures of MON over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists in the USA have MON developed a camouflage make-up designed to protect exposed MON skin for 15 seconds - and in some cases up to a minute - MON from this intense heat. Professor Robert Lochhead and a team MON at the University of Southern Mississippi were commissioned MON by the Department of Defence to develop the make-up. It MON protects soldiers from the searing heat of roadside MON Improvised Explosive Devices as well as providing MON traditional camouflage. Field trials are now underway. The MON team used silicones, which absorb radiation at wavelengths MON outside the intense heat spectrum, instead of the MON traditional hydrocarbon ingredients used in cosmetics. MON MON Age-related hearing loss is inevitable and irreversible, but MON now British birdwatchers are worried it could be affecting MON their ability to record and survey, accurately, bird species MON with higher-pitched song. Eminent birder, Richard Porter, MON put the peregrine among the pigeons when he admitted his MON inability to hear certain species' birdsong in an article in MON British Birds magazine. At the RSPB's annual British Bird MON Fair, he tells Quentin that he's concerned that higher range MON hearing loss could be distorting the all-important surveys MON of British birds. Acknowledging the possibility of an "age MON hearing" effect on the data, Andy Clements, Director of the MON British Trust for Ornithology, outlines new research, MON planned for the Autumn, to measure volunteers' hearing MON abilities and cross reference this with known bird MON populations. MON MON 21:30 Amanda Vickery on... Men b01m5dw2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01m466y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01m5hkc (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01m5hkf (Listen) MON Pure, Episode 6 MON MON By Andrew Miller MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON Read by John Sessions. MON MON It's Paris in 1785. The cemetery of Les Innocents is the MON oldest in the city, but it is overflowing and can no longer MON hold on to its dead. Newcomers to the quarter are MON overpowered by the smell. It taints the breath and food of MON the locals. And some believe it can even taint the mind. MON MON By order of the King, the church and cemetery are to be MON destroyed and every last bone rehoused. The place is to be MON made sweet again. It shall be made pure. MON MON Charged with the task, Jean-Baptiste Baratte - a young MON engineer from Normandy - arrives in Paris. And thus begins MON "A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of ... MON chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of MON friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other MON he has lived." MON MON Episode 6 of 10: The first spades cut the ground of the MON cemetery, but the miners' digging disturbs more than the MON earth. MON MON Andrew Miller was born in Bristol. He studied Creative MON Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1991 and MON finished a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster MON University in 1995. He lives in Somerset. MON MON His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published in 1997 and MON won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His MON third, Oxygen (2001), was shortlisted for both the Booker MON Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award. One Morning Like A Bird MON (2008) was also produced by Sweet Talk for Book At Bedtime MON on BBC Radio 4. MON MON Pure is Andrew Miller's sixth novel and won the Costa Book MON Of The Year award in 2011. MON MON Produced by Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01m0ppt (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard examines how we hear speech through background MON sound, and discovers that his own inability to hear voices MON in a crowd may be due to a little-known condition called MON King-Kopetzky syndrome. MON MON Beginning with bar staff in Cardiff who use earplugs on a MON busy night, Chris discovers that we humans are surprisingly MON adept at grabbing small lumps of speech and filling in the MON gaps. He also discovers how room acoustics contribute to MON what scientists call the "cocktail party problem"; asks if MON exposure to aircraft noise can affect schooling, and MON discovers how the right mood music can make a policemans MON life easier on a Saturday night in Brighton. MON MON 23:30 4 Extra Comedy Club b01mgnk8 (Listen) MON Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?, Episode 3 MON MON The cockney comedian charts his life story during the 1990s MON - returning to education and becoming a teacher. Part of MON Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast on Radio 4 MON in June 2010. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 AUGUST 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01m467s (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01m5dw6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m467v (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m467x (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m467z (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01m4681 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m5gn6 (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from TUE Wales with the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01m5gn8 (Listen) TUE Following recent protests by UK dairy farmers over the price TUE they are paid for milk, the UK Government is encouraging TUE farmers to join together to form cooperatives and producer TUE groups. The systems are used widely across Europe. In this TUE special programme, Charlotte Smith visits the Netherlands TUE where over 85% of dairy farmers are in co-operatives TUE compared to around 30% in the UK. TUE TUE She talks to the Chairman of Friesland Campina, Piet Boer, TUE on his dairy farm to find out how the system enables it to TUE pay their 14,000 farmers more than European average. Since TUE it was set up, it has become multi-national with a global TUE turnover of 10 billion euros a year. She asks if British TUE farmers could see similar success if more of them worked TUE together. TUE TUE This programme is presented by Charlotte Smith and recorded TUE on location the Netherlands by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01m5grw (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01m5gth (Listen) TUE Dame Ann Dowling TUE TUE A world in which planes are silent may sound like a pipe TUE dream; but University of Cambridge engineer, Dame Ann TUE Dowling, and her team proved it is possible to build an TUE aircraft that barely makes any noise. A brilliant TUE mathematician and a keen pilot, Ann now heads of one of the TUE largest engineering departments in Europe. Her design for a TUE silent aircraft could improve the quality of life for TUE millions of people living near airports worldwide: so does TUE she mind that it never got off the ground? Jim talks to Ann TUE Dowling about mathematics, engines and how she always wanted TUE to do something useful. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01m5gy0 (Listen) TUE Paddy O'Connell has taken over the One to One interviewer's TUE microphone to explore a subject that reflects his own TUE experience: the effect of great emotional upheaval on family TUE life. When Paddy was 11 his father died which, of course, TUE meant that his mother was widowed. TUE TUE In the first of three programmes, Paddy meets Chantal who TUE was widowed in 1995 and left to bring up three children TUE alone. They discuss the initial reactions; the process of TUE gradually moving on with your life; when - if ever - is it TUE the right time to remove your wedding rings; and - if you do TUE meet someone new - what role does the memory of your first TUE partner play in your new relationship. TUE TUE Next week Paddy meets the former Children's Commissioner, TUE Sir Al Aynsley-Green, whose decision to become a doctor was TUE directly linked to the experience, at the age of 10, of TUE losing his father. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01m5gyw (Listen) TUE Leonardo and the Last Supper, Episode 2 TUE TUE Despite his reputation in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci had TUE reached his forties without having created a public TUE masterpiece proportionate to his talents. His frustration at TUE his lack of achievement was compounded when the seventy five TUE tons of bronze he needed to complete a monumental equestrian TUE statue, was requisitioned to be turned into weapons. And TUE then Lodovico Sforza commissioned him to paint a wall in a TUE Dominican refectory. TUE TUE Nigel Anthony reads from Leonardo and the Last Supper by TUE Ross King. TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions TUE TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01m5hhr (Listen) TUE Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson TUE TUE We look ahead to the Paralympic with Dame Tanni TUE Grey-Thompson. Sandi Toksvig on her new novel Valentine TUE Grey. Imogen Heap talks about the everyday sounds that TUE provide the inspiration for her music. And Is Independent TUE living - the right path for mothers with learning TUE disabilities? TUE TUE Presenter Jane Garvey. TUE Producer Lucinda Montefiore. TUE TUE Paralympics preview TUE The London 2012 Paralympics begin tomorrow with the prospect TUE of hours of elite female sports to look forward to. The TUE Olympics were dubbed the “equality games” – so can we look TUE forward to the more of the same over the next fortnight. TUE Jane talks to Paralympian and Radio Five Live commentator, TUE Tanni Grey-Thompson about the women to watch out for. TUE TUE Imogen Heap at the Proms TUE British singer and composer Imogen Heap is renowned for her TUE ground breaking electronic music working with every day TUE sounds such as frying pans, dripping taps and slamming TUE doors. The Grammy award winner is back at the Proms tomorrow TUE evening with a new composition which features body TUE percussion and sound suggestions from her fans. She talks to TUE Jane about ‘Listening Chair’ which looks at Imogen’s life TUE from childhood to adulthood. TUE TUE Sandi Toksvig TUE How far should you go to fulfil the calling of a passionate TUE heart? Writer, broadcaster and comedian, Sandi Toksvig TUE explores this issue in her latest novel, Valentine Grey. Its TUE eponymous heroine jettisons the corsets and correctness of TUE Victorian England and, disguised as man, goes off to fight TUE in the Boer War. Sandi joins Jane to talk about Valentine’s TUE exploits and her national tour. TUE TUE Mothers with learning disabilities TUE An increasing number of adults with learning disabilities TUE are becoming parents. However, a high percentage of children TUE are removed usually as a result of concerns for their TUE well-being and or absence of appropriate support. So are TUE parents with learning disabilities and their children given TUE a fair chance to stay together as a family? Lisa, who has a TUE mild learning disability is living independently with her TUE baby daughter as a result of the support from Shared Lives TUE South West. To discuss Jane is joined by Philipa Bragman, TUE Director of Change, and Dr Sandra Baum, consultant clinical TUE psychologist with East London NHS Foundation Trust and TUE Andrew Webb, Vice President of Association of Directors of TUE Children’s Services. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m5hht (Listen) TUE Craven, Episode 2 TUE TUE Starring Maxine Peake. TUE TUE The case involving a cannabis farm and a strangled, maimed TUE South East Asian man's body is getting more and more bizarre TUE as there are indications of serious organised crime at its TUE heart. TUE TUE The web of crime is getting ever more tangled, with more TUE severed fingers than bodies and the hopeful shrines left in TUE the Cannabis factories suggest desperate people in need of TUE help and hope. TUE TUE And then there's Craven's regular irregular love life with TUE ex colleague Macca, which is about to hit serious problems TUE when their unusual set up is challenged. TUE TUE Producer: Justine Potter TUE A Red Production Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Helping Hamlet: Can Science Cure Procrastination? TUE b01m5hhw (Listen) TUE Scientists estimate that up to 20 per cent of the world's TUE population are chronic procrastinators who put off TUE completing tasks to the last minute and damage their wealth, TUE health and happiness in the process. Can chronic TUE procrastinator Rowan Pelling find a solution to her problem TUE by talking to experts and fellow sufferers? TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01m5hhy (Listen) TUE Series 14, Episode 1 TUE TUE While for many, it will be always associated with brown TUE bread, the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony is an TUE enduring a piece that never fails to move and inspire. We TUE hear from the anti- apartheid campaigner Albie Sachs, who TUE explains that through whistling the theme while in solitary TUE confinement, he was able to make contact with the wider TUE world and kept his spirit and hope alive. TUE Margaret Caldicott recalls the important role the piece TUE played in her mother's life while in a Japanese prisoner of TUE war camp. TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01m5hj0 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01m5hkm (Listen) TUE Doreen Lawrence TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Doreen Lawrence. Jim Naughtie TUE considers the achievement of the mother of murdered TUE teenager, Stephen Lawrence, whose campaign for justice TUE revealed uncomfortable truths about British society. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01m4683 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01m5hnl (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 Poetic Justice b01m5hnn (Listen) TUE Hope TUE TUE Episode 2: Hope TUE Recorded inside HMP Styal, a women's prison near Manchester, TUE where Mr Gee hears about the despair of imprisonment and the TUE importance of family bonds from a group of women who find TUE reason to be optimistic about their time in prison. TUE TUE Produced by Andrew Wilkie and Adam Fowler TUE A Prison Radio Association production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01m5hk5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01m5jpg (Listen) TUE Brief Lives, Episode 3 TUE TUE Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. TUE Another story from the Manchester paralegal team. Declan TUE investigates why a father wants his estranged daughter TUE arrested for defrauding him out of hundreds of pounds worth TUE of gifts and a sad Frank visits his ailing father figure. TUE TUE Producer/Director Gary Brown TUE Original music by Carl Harms. TUE TUE 15:00 The Philosopher's Arms b01m5jkl (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 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 Producer: David Edmonds TUE Editor: Jeremy Skeet TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01m5jlk (Listen) TUE Britain's Wilderness TUE TUE The first attempt in England to turn a landscape back into a TUE wilderness is 10 years old this year. TUE TUE In this week's Costing The Earth, Miranda Krestovnikoff TUE visits Ennerdale Valley, on the Western edge of the Lake TUE District, to find out how the scheme is progressing. TUE TUE Rewilding, as the scheme has become known, allows natural TUE processes to take place, in order to return the habitat to TUE as natural an environment as possible. The landscape has TUE been managed in such a way that natural flora and fauna have TUE been encouraged back to the valley. Miranda meets those TUE involved in returning the valley to a wilderness. TUE TUE In order for the project to be be a success, the major land TUE owners in the valley: the National Trust, the Forestry TUE Commission, Natural England and United Utilities have all TUE been working together. TUE TUE Miranda discovers how successful the rewilding project has TUE been and whether or not schemes of this type are worth TUE attempting elsewhere in the UK: a country that has very TUE little wilderness that has been untouched by human hands. TUE She also finds out the vital role visitors to the area play TUE in keeping the landscape alive. TUE TUE Presenter: Miranda Krestovnikoff TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01m5jth (Listen) TUE Reading aloud TUE TUE How to stand and hold your head, what to do with your hands TUE and how to make appropriate facial expressions - these were TUE skills studied by people who read aloud to their friends at TUE home in the 18th century. Chris Ledgard discusses domestic TUE reading in the great age of elocution with Oxford TUE University's Abigail Williams and explores the instruction TUE manuals which helped people mimic the great readers of their TUE time. Chris meets modern families who read to each other and TUE visits a primary school to brush up on his own reading TUE skills. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01m5jtk (Listen) TUE Series 28, Juvenal TUE TUE Matthew Parris invites writer and comic Natalie Haynes to TUE explain why her nomination for a Great Life is a Roman poet TUE about whose life we know very little. Dr Llewelyn Morgan of TUE Brasenose College Oxford helps her explain the enduring TUE appeal of this scurrilous writer. TUE TUE On the face of it, Juvenal's life is hard to defend as a TUE Great one. In the first place - as Dr Llewelyn Morgan, TUE lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford, TUE confirms - we know very little about his life. He may have TUE been a first-generation Roman from a Spanish family; he may TUE have served in army; he may have been sent into exile. None TUE of this can be confirmed. What we do know is that he uses TUE his Satires to rant and rail against women, foreigners, gays TUE and the upstarts who are all ruining Rome - which might make TUE him hard to love. But Natalie Haynes, veteran of the TUE stand-up circuit and now a writer and critic, finds Juvenal TUE an indispensable part of her life and is very happy to TUE explain why. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01m5jvl (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Includes TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m4685 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Isy Suttie: Pearl and Dave b0196rpc (Listen) TUE Isy Suttie ('Dobby' from Channel 4's 'Peep Show' & double TUE British Comedy Award nominee.) recounts a moving love story TUE involving a socially awkward childhood neighbour (her first TUE pen pal) and a 'well-bred' girl from Surrey - the titular TUE Pearl and Dave. She interweaves the narrative with her own TUE tales of failed relationships, internet dating and eventual TUE happiness, much of which is told through song. Adapted from TUE her sell out Edinburgh 2011 Edinburgh show of the same name. TUE From BBC Radio Comedy. TUE TUE "I'm overjoyed to be doing my Edinburgh show on Radio 4. TUE Having spent a month playing to audiences who'd been rained TUE on all day, some of them dashing in late, I advise listeners TUE to wrap up warm, eat a hearty meal and leave enough time for TUE the journey from the sofa to the radio." Isy Suttie Nov TUE 2011. TUE TUE The Producer is John Pocock. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01m5jw1 (Listen) TUE Matt plays the innocent and George makes life difficult. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01m5jw7 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the American TUE writer Joyce Carol Oates. TUE TUE Producer Ella-mai Robey. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m5hht (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Lifecycle of a Bullet b01m5k37 (Listen) TUE A deadly weapon and an economic cornerstone, the impact of a TUE bullet spreads far and wide. In this documentary BBC Defence TUE Correspondent Caroline Wyatt takes an extraordinary journey TUE through the defence industry as she tracks the fate of a TUE bullet. From manufacture to gun barrel, Caroline tracks her TUE bullet from the docks where the explosive propellant are TUE imported, through the Cheshire factory where it is machined, TUE to testing and out to its final destination - war. TUE With its deep historical roots, its reliance of raw TUE materials from all over the world and its central role in TUE the economy this most basic of military equipment involves a TUE huge cross-section of British society, all working for a war TUE effort that sees millions of rounds produced every week of TUE the year. By the time she sees the shot fired, Caroline will TUE have met the huge variety of people employed in its TUE creation. TUE As she tracks the bullet's journey, Caroline will ask what TUE would happen to our economy if peace bloomed in Iraq and TUE Afghanistan, and how people feel about making products that TUE are designed to kill. TUE Producer: Lucy Proctor. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01m5k39 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01m5k3c (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes to Hull to watch botox being used on a TUE patient who suffers from severe chronic migraine. Plus, why TUE GPs should allow patients to see their own notes. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01m5gth (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01m4687 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01m5k3f (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01m5k3h (Listen) TUE Pure, Episode 7 TUE TUE By Andrew Miller TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE Read by John Sessions. TUE TUE Episode 7 of 10: Still recovering from the attack in his TUE bedroom, Baratte starts to make some changes. TUE TUE Produced by Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Jack's Return Home b01m5k3k (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE It's 1970 and Jack Carter, a gangland enforcer, has returned TUE to his hometown of Scunthorpe to investigate the suspicious TUE death of his brother Frank in a car crash. Ted Lewis's TUE British crime classic became famous as the cult movie Get TUE Carter. A new version for radio by Nick Perry. TUE TUE Jack Carter . . . . . Hugo Speer TUE Margaret . . . . . Katherine Dow Blyton TUE Doreen . . . . . Laura Molyneux TUE Mrs Garfoot . . . . . Tracy Wiles TUE Eric . . . . . Ben Crowe TUE Keith . . . . . Joe Sims TUE Other parts played by Sam Alexander and Patrick Brennan TUE TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE TUE Studio Managers: Anne Bunting, Keith Graham, Alison Craig. TUE Editor: Anne Bunting. TUE Production Co-ordinator: Lucy Collingwood. TUE TUE 23:30 4 Extra Comedy Club b01mgnvw (Listen) TUE Ross Noble Goes Global, Episode 3 TUE TUE Travelling from rainy Sligo to busy Dublin - the comedian TUE learns to play the penny whistle - badly. Part of Radio 4 TUE Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast on Radio 4 in TUE April 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01m4693 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01m5gyw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m4695 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m4697 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m4699 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01m469c (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m5lqp (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from WED Wales with the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01m5lqr (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Georgina Windsor and produced by Sarah WED Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01m5lqt (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01m5n7j (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01m7sbp (Listen) WED Leonardo and the Last Supper, Episode 3 WED WED By the time he was commissioned to paint his 'Last Supper' WED in the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, WED Leonardo da Vinci would have seen many representations of WED this famous scene in Florence and Milan. But he was never an WED artist to follow in others' footsteps and, typically, his WED approach to capturing one of the most dramatic passages in WED the Bible was unique. WED WED Nigel Anthony reads from Leonardo and the Last Supper by WED Ross King. WED Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions WED WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01m5n7l (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m5n7n (Listen) WED Craven, Episode 3 WED WED Starring Maxine Peake. WED WED Craven's new boss is unlikely to give her any slack and the WED discovery of the "Green Tsunami" of Cannabis factories in WED Manchester seems to be throwing up an ever increasing list WED of missing people. WED WED An illegally trafficked Vietnamese immigrant who was caught WED gardening the crop at a Cannabis factory is not helping, and WED Craven can't concentrate because her regular irregular lover WED Macca has finally called the shots and their relationship WED appears to be over. WED WED Not one of Craven's best days. WED WED Producer: Justine Potter WED A Red Production Company Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 The Island b01m5n7q (Listen) WED "The Island" is what everyone calls it. The Isle of Sheppey WED is a forgotten corner of Kent, an island 11 miles long WED tucked behind London at the mouth of the Thames and the WED Medway. The harbourmaster looks out from her high-tech tower WED within a Napoleonic era fortress over thousands of craft who WED plough the strait heading for the port of Sheerness, laden WED with bananas and cars. At the far end of the island from the WED port, vast acreages of caravans and dumpy chalets spread in WED serried rows from the sea's edge, ready to house East-End WED families for the long summer break. In between, WED birdsong-filled marshland fringes the water and the wind WED ceaselessly tears through the high-standing reeds. Sheppey WED boasts three prisons and once housed glass factories ('the WED Bottleworks') and Royal Doulton ceramics ('the Potteries'). WED The steelworks recently closed and now only Sheerness port, WED with its huge inflow and outpouring of motor vehicles and WED soft fruit, timber and wood-pulp keep industrial wheels WED turning. Unemployment is high, and prospects are low. WED WED A modern road bridge now connects the island with the rest WED of Kent, which many regret; yet Sheppey remains a lonely WED place and not easy to reach; special, they say; strange, WED other. WED WED Jean, Glenn, Ray and the rest of their large extended family WED have lived almost all their lives on Sheppey - they tell a WED tale of hard lives, tough times, and of a place they love, WED that has shaped their lives and that they'd not leave WED willingly. WED WED Reporter: Sara Parker WED Producer: Simon Elmes. WED WED 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01m5n7s (Listen) WED Series 2, Gravinia & Plumpf WED WED by Dan Tetsell 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. This week Brian relives his adventures in WED Gravinia, a land where the military are revered above WED everything. WED WED Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson WED Rachel Gulliver..... Mariah Gale WED Fillick ..... Marcus Brigstocke WED Chaplain ..... Adrian Scarborough WED Guest ..... Tracy Wiles WED Host..... Patrick Brennan WED Stegga ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Barista..... Harry Livingstone WED Dragit ..... Nick Mohammed WED Glugas Hold ..... Dan Tetsell WED WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01m5n7v (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01m5n7x (Listen) WED Tim Berners-Lee WED WED The New Elizabethans: Jim Naughtie on Tim Berners-Lee, WED inventor of the World Wide Web and unlikely hero of the WED Olympic opening ceremony. Berners-Lee is a key figure in the WED digital revolution that has re-fashioned social lives, WED working practices and the flow of information around the WED globe. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01m469h (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01m5n7z (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Poetic Justice b01m7sbr (Listen) WED Crosswords WED WED Episode 3: Crossroads WED Recorded inside HMP YOI Brinsford, a Young Offenders' WED establishment in the West Midlands. Mr Gee encourages a WED group of young men to listen to the advice of older men WED serving long term prison sentences, talking about the WED disastrous decisions they made as youngsters. He encourages WED the teenagers to write to their families and loved ones in WED poetry. WED WED Produced by Andrew Wilkie and Adam Fowler WED A Prison Radio Association production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01m5jw1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01m5nlq (Listen) WED Do You Know Who Wrote This? WED WED by Jonathan Myerson WED WED The BBC's Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones stars WED as himself in this wicked comedy about internet fakery by WED the creator of Number 10. WED WED When stay-at-home mum Ali finds herself lampooned on a WED mothers' chat site by 'BumsTooBig' and 'BubblyMummly', she WED can't help wishing she knew the real identity of her WED tormentors. But when her wish comes true, she finds she's WED unleashed an unstoppable global revolution. WED WED Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 15:00 Fixing Broken Banking b01m47xd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01m5k3c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01m5nls (Listen) WED Italian Family 2: Naples WED WED Italy, home to the Pope and the Holy See, perhaps the most WED Catholic of all countries, is undergoing a peculiarly WED un-Catholic crisis; it now has one of the lowest birth rates WED in the world. There are so few children being born that if WED the current trend persists, traditional Italians are at risk WED of dying out in just a handful of generations. How can the WED nation famed for Romanticism, for enormous affectionate WED families, for Mamma Mia and for an enviable certainty that WED all you need is good food, good wine and your family around WED you, be the same nation that no longer gives birth? Laurie WED travels to the South of Italy and visits the sole-remaining WED glove maker in Naples, in an attempt to discover whether the WED Italian family business is heading for extinction. He also WED explores whether organised crime is a distortion of Italian WED family values - or their logical extension. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01m6n45 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01m5nlv (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m469k (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 When the Dog Dies b013229w (Listen) WED Series 2, Temptation WED WED Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit TV WED comedy 'Sorry', Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, in the WED second series of their Radio 4 sitcom. WED WED Episode Three - Temptation WED Generous Sandy splashes out just a little - with his WED sponsorship of son-in-law Blake's noble efforts in a charity WED marathon. Too late, he discovers he's splashed out a whole WED lot. But the promise is signed, his generosity even WED announced on the net. Is there a way round this? Listeners WED should have a pencil and paper handy. WED WED Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett WED Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck WED Mrs Pompom ..... Sally Grace WED Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh WED Blake ..... Jonathan Aris WED Damon ..... Stephen Critchlow WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01m5nqk (Listen) WED There's news at last for Vicky. Harry bids farewell. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01m5nqm (Listen) WED Mark Lawson chairs a debate on whether e-books and digital WED distribution represent a terminal threat or a new chance for WED authors, traditional publishers, agents and bookshops, in a WED session recorded at the Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. WED WED Producer Ekene Akalawu. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m5n7n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 The Education Debates b01m5nqp (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED How should we teach? Why are we obsessed with testing? Are WED we really exploiting the benefits of the internet and WED technology? And to what extent can young people teach WED themselves? WED WED Britain's education system is going through a period of huge WED upheaval. A new curriculum comes in next year, the way WED children are tested is being revamped, and academies and WED free schools now have new freedoms to teach what and how WED they want. WED WED The internet means children can access untold amounts of WED knowledge and new ways of learning - as well as interact WED with each other and their teachers in ways that were WED unimaginable just ten years ago. So how are schools and WED pupils responding to these dramatic advances? WED WED John Humphrys chairs a panel of leading education experts WED including cognitive scientist Professor Guy Claxton and WED union leader Mary Bousted to ask how we should teach. WED WED Producer: Karen Pirie WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01m5nqr (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 21 WED WED Talks with a personal dimension, presented by Misha Glenny. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01m5jlk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01m5n7j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01m469m (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01m5nqt (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis, with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01m5nqw (Listen) WED Pure, Episode 8 WED WED By Andrew Miller WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Read by John Sessions. WED WED Episode 8 of 10: To the consternation of those around him, WED Baratte asks Heloise Godard to move in with him. WED WED Produced by Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Political Animals b01m5nt0 (Listen) WED Sybil WED WED by Tony Bagley. WED WED The third in a series of four scurrilous talks given by WED well-known, if unreliable, Downing Street cats, relating WED their trials and tribulations under four different Prime WED Ministers. WED WED Sybil, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office 2007 to 2008, WED reflects on her troubled life with Gordon and Alistair. WED WED Sybil ..... Tracy Wiles WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 23:15 Before They Were Famous b01m5nt2 (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 4 Extra Comedy Club b01mgp34 (Listen) WED That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Episode 3 WED WED Who will succeed Zorro? Can pensioners understand the WED futures trade? Stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Part of WED Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast in WED September 2009. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 AUGUST 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01m46bg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01m7sbp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m46bj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m46bl (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m46bn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01m46bq (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m67yp (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from THU Wales with the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01m67yr (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b01m67yt (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan THU Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Fry's English Delight b01m67yw (Listen) THU Series 5, Conversation THU THU Stephen Fry explores the many facets of human conversation, THU from banter and gossip to drama and debate. THU THU He hears how the art of conversation has been interpreted THU over the decades and how rare it is today to find time for THU lingering conversation. We visit a nursery to hear budding THU pre-school conversationalists and the School of Life where THU people can take classes in how to improve conversational THU skills. One student says, "So many of our daily THU conversations are superficial. I want to learn how to make THU conversation an adventure." THU THU Broadcaster Fi Glover joins Stephen in the studio to discuss THU her experience of conversation on air. She explains how a THU broadcast interview can also be a conversation and warns THU that the word "because" can be a conversation-stopper. THU THU Philosopher Theodore Zeldin has spent a lifetime discussing THU conversation. He's also the thinker behind an idea known as THU the Menu of Conversation where strangers are encouraged to THU share intimate and thought provoking talk over a menu of THU discussion points. He says, "People are mysterious THU creatures. In my mind a good conversation doesn't get going THU for at least an hour." THU THU We also hear from Paul Abbott, screen writer and creator of THU the TV series Shameless, about conversation from the THU dramatist's view point. "Conversation is at the centre of my THU life. I've become a genius at tracking multiple THU conversations. I'm constantly listening out for the patterns THU behind the way people talk to each other." THU THU And food writer Claudia Roden describes the marriage that is THU food and conversation, from the intimacy of the kitchen to THU the open forum of the dinner table. THU THU Producer: Sarah Cuddon THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Twin Nation b01460f1 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Nicholas and Michael Rotgans are identical twins, in fact THU their genes are so similar its beyond science to tell them THU apart. Yet Nicholas is gay and Michael isn't. THU THU Edi stark asks the twins what its like to have such a major THU difference between and finds out what it can tell the rest THU of us about how sexual identity is determined. THU THU Producer: Peter McManus. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01m7nqd (Listen) THU Leonardo and the Last Supper, Episode 4 THU THU Whilst he was painting The Last Supper, Leonardo was living THU in the Corte Vecchia in Milan and, typically for this THU restless artist, he found many distractions from the job in THU hand. Surrounded by assistants and with a patron who had THU many other entertaining tasks for his 'pictor et THU ingeniarius' to complete, progress on his masterpiece was THU slow and more than a little experimental. THU THU Nigel Anthony reads from Leonardo and the Last Supper by THU Ross King. THU Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions THU THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01m68v3 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m68v5 (Listen) THU Craven, Episode 4 THU THU Starring Maxine Peake. THU THU The statistics across the globe for modern day slavery are THU around 27 million and Craven is fast discovering that the THU trade is still very much alive and well in Manchester. THU THU The Cannabis factory discoveries have revealed the tip of THU the iceberg of illegally trafficked Vietnamese children and THU adults, brought in to work as gardeners in a serious case of THU organised crime. THU THU On top of that there's a "blobby gingernut" on the loose who THU escaped from a factory where his accomplice was left with a THU hammer in his head, more bodies to account for...... and THU then there's a phone call. What Craven really doesn't need THU is this news from her mother. But when did her relationship THU with her mother ever feel convenient? And where is Craven's THU on-off relationship with Macca now? THU THU Producer: Justine Potter THU A Red Production Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01m68v7 (Listen) THU Gold and Governance in Romania THU THU Tessa Dunlop travels to Romania to investigate why a THU proposed open-cast gold mine has caused the longest-lasting THU political storm in the country since the end of Communism. THU THU The mine, in the rural community of Rosia Montana in the THU Transylvanian mountains in western Romania, would be THU Europe's largest. Its supporters, including most locals, say THU it would bring much-needed jobs to the area, which has THU suffered very high unemployment since the last mine closed THU there a few years ago, after two millennia of gold mining. THU THU But opponents, ranging from local shopkeepers to NGOs in THU Bucharest and abroad, argue that the project would destroy THU what they see as the area's only chance for more sustainable THU development: turning the 2000-year old Roman mines located THU in those same mountains into tourist attractions, perhaps as THU a UNESCO World Heritage site. THU THU The mining company admits that many of the Roman galleries THU would be destroyed by the open-cast mine, but they are THU largely inaccessible anyway. As a quid pro quo, the company THU is already restoring those galleries that will be protected, THU to make them accessible and a tourism destination. THU THU Is the destruction of the majority of the Roman mines a THU price worth paying for the restoration of a few? Or is the THU conflict about something else entirely? THU THU Some campaigners admit that their real fight is not with the THU company, but with the government, because they suspect THU official corruption. Meanwhile politicians say it is easier THU to cut public salaries than to give the go-ahead to a big THU project like this, precisely because of the ensuing THU suspicion of sleaze. THU THU The project is seen as a test case for prosperity, THU transparency and good governance for Romania. THU THU Producer: Arlene Gregorius. THU THU 11:30 The Floating World of Hokusai b01m68v9 (Listen) THU Author Audrey Niffenegger catches Hokusai's 'Great Wave' to THU trace the ripple effect of the self-proclaimed 'Old Man Mad THU About Painting'. Frenetic, eccentric and possessed by his THU talent, Hokusai's words and images have caught the THU imagination of a new generation of artists and thinkers, THU 200-years after his earliest successes. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01m68vc (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01m68vh (Listen) THU Diana, Princess of Wales THU THU The New Elizabethans: Jim Naughtie on Diana, Princess of THU Wales whose glamorous life and untimely death touched the THU lives of million, shook the nation and changed the Royal THU Family forever. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01m46bs (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01m68vk (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Poetic Justice b01m7nqg (Listen) THU Reflection THU THU Episode 4: Reflection THU Recorded in Surrey with former prisoners. A remarkable group THU of people come together to pass on - in poetry - the result THU of many years of contemplation on events and decisions which THU led them in to trouble and out of it again. THU THU Produced by Andrew Wilkie and Adam Fowler THU A Prison Radio Association production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01m5nqk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b015p86d (Listen) THU The Artist Is Thinking THU THU In an intriguing murder mystery in the art world, Mark THU Lawson pursues a theme which for him holds particular THU fascination; the desire of the artist to remain illusive and THU anonymous behind work which is heavily codified and THU seemingly impenetrable. THU THU When a brilliant young art historian flies in the face of THU the received wisdom regarding the work of the reclusive THU Anderson Perrine, the artist feels a distinct invasion of THU his privacy. He sets about laying a series of false trails THU but her pursuit of him is unrelenting and he is obliged to THU take radically evasive action. THU THU 'THE ARTIST IS THINKING' by Mark Lawson THU THU THE ARTIST IS THINKING is directed by Eoin O'Callaghan and THU produced in Belfast for Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01m68vm (Listen) THU Jules Hudson is in North Yorkshire to find out about the THU history of the landscape around Richmond Castle and the THU surrounding Dales. Founded by the Normans around 1070, just THU a few years after the Battle of Hastings, Richmond Castle THU was a formidable addition to the landscape and firmly THU stamped its authority on the people and the surrounding THU land. The town of Richmond slowly grew up around it and the THU castle still sits imposingly above the River Swale. During THU the First World War, the prison cells at Richmond Castle THU were used to hold the Richmond 16. The graffiti that THU survives on the walls of these cells includes that written THU by these conscientious objectors, sixteen men who were among THU the first in this country to refuse to fight on moral or THU religious grounds. THU Jules also hears about the landscape history of the Dales THU around Richmond and the ways in which people down centuries THU have used the land, including the rich heritage of the lead THU mining industry. THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01m4bwf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01m4c92 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01m68vp (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01m68vr (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 17:00 PM b01m68vt (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m46bw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010y376 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 6 THU THU In this episode Dave and the boys are busily organising a THU surprise 50th birthday party for Ramesh, but will Sanjay THU manage to keep his trap closed long enough without spilling THU the beans before the big day. THU THU Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli THU Dave ..... Donald Mcleary THU Sanjay ..... Omar Raza THU Alok ..... Susheel Kumar THU Dr Southwell ..... Kevin Eldon THU Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth THU Mrs Armstrong ..... Maureen Carr THU Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo THU Bra Jeff ..... Steven McNicol THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01m68vw (Listen) THU David and Ruth make plans. Meanwhile Mike needs some THU answers. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01m68vy (Listen) THU John Wilson profiles soul music survivor Bobby Womack, THU talking to Womack himself, Damon Albarn who produced his THU most recent album and biographer Peter Guralnick. THU THU Producer John Goudie. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m68v5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01m68w2 (Listen) THU The Report investigates the state of the forensic science THU industry in the UK. Earlier this year the national forensic THU science service (FSS) closed, leaving the UK as the only THU European country without a national service to analyse THU evidence for criminal investigations. How has the THU privatisation of the industry impacted our criminal justice THU system? A whistleblower from within the Metropolitan THU Police's forensic lab tells us of her worries about the THU fragmentation of the industry and about substandard THU processes happening within the police. We hear from top THU barristers and forensic scientists who are concerned that THU the system is now skewed against the defendants, and speak THU to innocent people who have spent time in jail because of THU DNA mix-ups in private labs. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01m68w4 (Listen) THU Face the Music THU THU Public spending cuts are putting a big squeeze on orchestras THU all over the world. Peter Day hears how musicians are trying THU to find new ways of ensuring that the bands play on. THU THU Presenter: Peter Day THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU 21:00 Helping Hamlet: Can Science Cure Procrastination? THU b01m5hhw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 Fry's English Delight b01m67yw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01m46by (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01m68w6 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis, with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01m68w8 (Listen) THU Pure, Episode 9 THU THU By Andrew Miller THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU Read by John Sessions. THU THU Episode 9 of 10: Following the rape, Lecoeur is hiding in THU the charnels of Les Innocents. He Has a pistol. Armed with THU only a spade, Baratte goes looking for him. THU THU Produced by Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b0137yqf (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 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 deluded teenager to a nonagenarian Diva. THU Lucy is a rare and multifaceted performer her intelligence THU and Barry Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a THU smart and 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, Fay Rusling, Abigail Burdess, Suk Pannu, THU Andy Wolton and Joseph Morpurgo. THU THU Script Editor; Dan Tetsell THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 23:30 4 Extra Comedy Club b01mgprr (Listen) THU Cowards, Episode 3 THU THU Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key THU and Lloyd Woolf. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 AUGUST 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01m46cv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01m7nqd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01m46cx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01m46cz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01m46d1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01m46d3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01m6b25 (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from FRI Wales with the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01m6b27 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01m6b29 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan FRI Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b01m4c1w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01m7p7g (Listen) FRI Leonardo and the Last Supper, Episode 5 FRI FRI An eyewitness records the fitful progress that Leonardo was FRI making on his masterpiece and the frustration of the prior FRI of Santa Maria delle Grazie at the artist's capricious FRI regime. But when his Last Supper was finally finished, the FRI world came to wonder at this new marvel. FRI FRI Nigel Anthony reads from Leonardo and the Last Supper by FRI Ross King. FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions FRI FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01m6b50 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01m6b52 (Listen) FRI Craven, Episode 5 FRI FRI Starring Maxine Peake. FRI FRI The case is looking too big to solve and the body count is FRI rising. Craven and Macca may finally get to talk, if her mum FRI doesn't get in the way - but Craven's priorities are exposed FRI when work, family and love life collide. FRI FRI Craven must find La Thu Huyen if she has any chance of FRI solving this case. And she must work out a strategy to deal FRI with her mother and her lover at home. FRI FRI This case concludes - Craven returns as an Afternoon Drama FRI on Radio 4 on Monday 3rd September. FRI FRI Producer: Justine Potter FRI A Red Production Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Missing, Presumed... b01m6cr6 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI We've all heard of Madeleine McCann, the missing child who FRI continues to stare out from the pages of the British press - FRI her face frozen in time from the moment she went missing. FRI Yet Madeleine is just one of around 220,000 British children FRI who disappear each year. Although the majority of children FRI who go missing are found in the first 48 hours, some are FRI not. FRI FRI From abducted children to teenage runaways, these children FRI become the concern of the Missing Persons' Bureau. Many of FRI them are teenagers running away from home to become FRI vulnerable 'sofa surfers' who can fall into harm's way. FRI FRI Reporter Penny Marshall goes into the Missing Persons' FRI Bureau to understand what happens when missing children fade FRI from the headlines, yet remain unfound. She meets the FRI intelligence officers trying to find the missing, and the FRI family members who are 'living in limbo' - families like the FRI Gosdens, whose 14-year-old son Andrew went missing in 2007 FRI and has never been found. FRI FRI Presented by Penny Marshall FRI Producer: Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Beauty of Britain b01m6cr8 (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Broad Fit Footglove FRI FRI Series 3 Episode 3 FRI The Broad Fit Footglove FRI FRI Beauty looks after Ray an ex-footballer who is young at FRI heart. Or is it Beauty who is aging up from spending so much FRI time with the elderly? Beauty becomes protective of Ray when FRI a long lost relative appears out of the blue. FRI FRI Comedy about a Southern African carer who looks after the FRI elderly written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. FRI FRI Jocelyn Jee Esien ..... Beauty FRI Duncan Preston ..... Ray FRI Janine Duvitski ..... Linda FRI Felicity Montagu ..... Sally FRI Nicola Sanderson ..... Karen FRI Phaldut Sharma ..... Anil FRI Indira Joshi ..... Mrs. Gupte FRI Don Gilet .... Shawn, Bouncer FRI Rachel Atkins ..... Yvonne FRI Christopher Douglas ..... Neil FRI FRI Written by ..... Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson FRI Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01m6crb (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01m6crd (Listen) FRI Alex Salmond FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Alex Salmond FRI FRI Jim Naughtie considers the influence of Alex Salmond, one of FRI the leading Scottish politicians of the Second Elizabethan FRI age. Salmond's passion for an independent Scotland has FRI changed the political geography of the British Isles and may FRI yet change it even more radically. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01m46d5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01m6crg (Listen) FRI National and international news with James Robbins. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Poetic Justice b01m7qqx (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5: Boundaries FRI Featuring young people in Edinburgh at risk of offending, FRI who give Mr Gee a tour of the local areas where allegiances FRI provide both a sense of community and a source of rivalry FRI and conflict. FRI FRI Produced by Andrew Wilkie and Adam Fowler FRI A Prison Radio Association production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01m68vw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b017x5zh (Listen) FRI The Benefit of Time FRI FRI Debbie Green is dull. Debbie Green is plain. Debbie Green FRI works in Human Resources, where she has few friends, and FRI lives a very mundane existence. That is, until she starts FRI going to visit a hypnotist, who claims to be able to explore FRI people's past lives. And guess what? Debbie, apparently, has FRI had a very eventful past life - she was once Anne Boleyn. Or FRI so Donald Cruikshank her hypnotist excitedly confirms. He FRI is, of course, a charlatan, and he's gulling her. Or is he? FRI Is she gulling him? As the sessions progress, and Debbie FRI starts doing an office round-robin e-mail of her FRI experiences, her popularity at work increases dramatically, FRI as do her career prospects. FRI FRI In our celebrity-fixated world, what better celebrity to FRI conjure up - and then actually be - than a famous figure of FRI history? And as Debbie climbs that greasy pole to success FRI and high status, she leaves a trail of human devastation in FRI her wake. FRI FRI Original Music composed by David Chilton FRI FRI Produced by Gordon House FRI A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01m6crj (Listen) FRI Norfolk FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team join gardeners in Norfolk. Bob FRI Flowerdew, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness are on the FRI panel. In addition, Matthew Biggs runs in the defence of a FRI garden thug. FRI FRI Produced by Robert Abel FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Europe b01m6crl (Listen) FRI How to See Europe by the Skin of your Teeth FRI FRI Read by Mark Little. FRI FRI The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe was the book most often FRI stolen from British libraries in the 1970s. Mark Little FRI reads from the young travellers' bible that nestled in every FRI student rucksack forty years ago as they set off to explore FRI Europe on £10 a week. Australian Ken Welsh was the hitcher FRI who inspired thousands to follow "the infinite miles of FRI tarmac and pot-holes which criss-cross the world, the magic FRI ribbon which can lead to a thousand other worlds." FRI FRI With a great deal of humour, some common sense and a spirit FRI of recklessness lost to today's youngsters, Welsh's book FRI covered everything from How To Hitch ("Providing a driver FRI isn't obviously bombed out of his mind, my rule is to take FRI any car that stops which has its bonnet pointed even vaguely FRI in the direction I want to go...") to tips on How To Survive FRI ("If you make the mistake of getting in with a fast driver FRI who won't stop, make sounds which suggest you're about to FRI throw up all over his upholstery...") FRI FRI Re-reading it forty years on it's surprising what a FRI different world it was then for the young traveller. There FRI seemed to be more trust around (hitch-hikers are a rarity FRI nowadays), and no real worries about roughing it far from FRI home without the comfort of a mobile phone and by relying on FRI the black markets, pawn shops or even blood banks when cash FRI machines were simply not an option. FRI FRI Produced by Neil Cargill FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01m6crn (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01m6crq (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01m6crs (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01m46d7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b01m6crv (Listen) FRI Series 8, Caitlin Moran talks to Jennifer Saunders FRI FRI Last week's interviewee, Caitlin Moran returns to interview FRI her comedy hero, Jennifer Saunders. They talk shoes, FRI Bananarama and women in comedy. Last in the series. FRI FRI Producer .... Carl Cooper FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01m6d06 (Listen) FRI Writer .....Keri Davies FRI Director .....Rosemary Watts FRI Editor .....John Yorke & Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd .....Judy Bennett FRI David Archer .....Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer .....Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter .....Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter .....Jack Firth FRI Lily Pargetter .....Georgie Feller FRI Adam Macy .....Andrew Wincott FRI Matt Crawford .....Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy .....Sunny Ormonde FRI Fallon Rogers .....Joanna Van Kampen 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 Roy Tucker .....Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker .....Lorraine Coady FRI Lynda Snell .....Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary .....Ryan Kelly FRI Harry Mason .....Michael Shelford FRI Elona Makepeace .....Eri Shuka FRI Darrell Makepeace .....Dan Hagley FRI Rhys Williams .....Scott Arthur FRI Mr Chalmers .....Anton Lesser FRI Arthur Walters .....David Hargreaves FRI Joyce Walter .....Ann Beach. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01m6d08 (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with singer Alfie FRI Boe, as he publishes an autobiography. FRI FRI Producer Ella-mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01m6b52 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01m6d0b (Listen) FRI Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Hebden Bridge FRI FRI Producer: Isobel Eaton. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01m6d0d (Listen) FRI The alchemy of memory FRI FRI John Gray explores the role of memory in giving meaning to FRI our lives. Through the writings of J.G. Ballard, he reflects FRI on how we struggle to preserve our past but at the same time FRI sometimes long to leave it behind. FRI FRI Gray praises the power of Ballard's imagination - and his FRI enchanting fables - to make good all this. FRI FRI His conclusion is upbeat. "Through the alchemy of memory the FRI leaden buildings in which [Ballard] wandered as a boy became FRI the golden vistas of his fiction, and the traumas of his FRI childhood were transmuted into images of fulfilment". FRI FRI Producer: FRI Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01m6d0g (Listen) FRI Freud: The Case Histories, The Wolf Man FRI FRI Deborah Levy's dramatisation of Sigmund Freud's iconic case FRI study 'The Wolf Man- The History of an Infantile Neurosis' FRI translated by Louise Adey Huish. FRI FRI It is 1910 when the depressed son of a wealthy Russian FRI landowner arrives in Vienna. Sergei Pankejeff, 24 years old, FRI is suffering from debilitating fears and phobias. Freud's FRI treatment of Pankejeff is centred around an enigmatic dream FRI his patient had as a very young child; a dream of white FRI wolves. Freud invites Sergei to return to his childhood as a FRI means of understanding his current depression. Analysing the FRI child inside the man Freud unlocks the meaning of the wolves FRI that haunt Sergei's dreams FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01m46d9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01m6d33 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01m7qr1 (Listen) FRI Pure, Episode 10 FRI FRI By Andrew Miller FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Read by John Sessions. FRI FRI Episode 10 of 10: The miners have built a pyre for their FRI dead comrade and hold a vigil in the ruins of the church. FRI FRI Produced by Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01m5jtk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 4 Extra Comedy Club b01mgpss (Listen) FRI On the Hour, Episode 3 FRI FRI Ireland hits the headlines, as the programme celebrates its FRI 33rd birthday. Chris Morris fronts the news satire. Part of FRI Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast on Radio 4 FRI in May 1992. FRI
24 August, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 25/08/2012 - 31/08/2012
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