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SAT SATURDAY 03 AUGUST 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b037jnn2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b037pw6g (Listen) SAT The Pink Sari Revolution, Episode 5 SAT SAT India's struggle with justice for women in the 21st century SAT is becoming one of the most prominent news stories of the SAT moment. In the last few months, another terrible gang rape SAT hit the headlines. Women's collectives are growing up all SAT over the country and beginning to fight back. The most SAT prominent and potent is the Pink Sari Gang. This is their SAT story. SAT SAT Sampat Devi Pal, raised in India's Uttar Pradesh region, was SAT married off at twelve, had her first child at fifteen, and SAT is essentially illiterate. Yet she has risen to become the SAT fierce and courageous founder and commander in chief of SAT India's Pink Gang, a 20,000-member women's vigilante group SAT fighting for the rights of women in India. SAT SAT In narrating the riveting story of the Pink Gang's work on SAT behalf of a young girl unlawfully imprisoned at the hands of SAT an abusive politician, journalist Amana Fontanella-Khan SAT explores the origins and tactics of a fiery sisterhood that SAT has grown to twice the size of the Irish army. SAT SAT Merging courtroom drama, compelling personal history, and a SAT triumphant portrait of grassroots organisation, Pink Sari SAT Revolution highlights the extraordinary work of women who SAT are shaking things up within their own country. SAT SAT Amana is a Mumbai-based writer of Pakistani and Irish SAT descent. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The SAT Financial Times and the FT magazine. An honorary gulabi SAT member, this is her first book. SAT SAT Episode Five SAT Deploying all the might of the Pink Gang, Sampat wins the SAT day, and Sheelu is released from jail, but it is plain that SAT this is only one battle in a long and ongoing war that SAT Indian women must fight. SAT SAT Read by Meera Syal SAT Written by Amana Fontanella-Khan SAT Abridged by Eileen Horne SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037jnn4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037jnn6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037jnn8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b037jnnb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037jnpq (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented SAT by the Revd Scott McKenna. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b037jnps (Listen) SAT 'Ants have done it for 50million years' - examining research SAT into antibiotic resistance we hear from a barrister who SAT nearly died of TB and visit a lab testing antibacterial SAT products used by leafcutter ants. Also the former Anglican SAT priest who says the Archbishop of Canterbury is 'naive' in SAT his view on credit unions. Your News with Mishal Husain. SAT Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b037jnnd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b037jnng (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b037jfn0 (Listen) SAT Salisbury Plain SAT SAT Felicity Evans visits Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. It SAT boasts the largest expanse of chalk grassland in Europe and SAT is home to over two thousand prehistoric sites, including SAT Britain's most iconic pre-historic Stonehenge. Until SAT recently it was thought that Stonehenge was built as an SAT astronomical calendar or observatory but new theories SAT suggest the site was used for ceremonial cremations. SAT Felicity also discusses plans for its future with a new SAT visitor centre and re-direction of a nearby road, reuniting SAT the Stones with the landscape that surrounds it.The last SAT inhabitants of the village of Imber on Salisbury Plain left SAT in the 1940's when the village was requisitioned by the SAT Army. Now it's at the heart of Army training on the Plain SAT and Felicity finds out why. Many of the original cottages SAT are no longer there but the 13th century St Giles Church at SAT Imber has been restored and is open to the public for a few SAT days each year. The Church has a new set of bells and SAT Felicity gets a chance to ring one of them. She also visits SAT a bee farmer who keeps an apiary behind the church. He also SAT talks about the carpet of wild flowers that thrive on the SAT Plain and provide sources of nectar for the bees, enabling SAT them to produce delicious honey flavoured with wild thyme SAT and wild sage. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b037r5d3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith explores the making of 'proper' Gloucester SAT cheese on a traditional dairy farm. The Smart family have SAT been making single and double Gloucester for 26 years. What SAT started out as a hobby ended up saving their struggling SAT dairy business from ruin. Their artisan product is now being SAT sold in delis and farmers' markets, and from the farm's SAT 'cheese house'. Charlotte meets Diana Smart, the family's SAT first cheesemaker, and son Rod who's inherited his mother's SAT passion for cheese "with a bit of oomph". SAT SAT Charlotte also says hello to the characters behind the SAT cheese - Rod's herd of 70 cows, including a very friendly SAT Brown Swiss. And, of course, she gets to taste some of the SAT finished product. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b037jnnj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b037r5d5 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT Saturday's live page SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b037r5d7 (Listen) SAT Nigel Kennedy SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein with violinist Nigel Kennedy, SAT Lindsey Davis' Inheritance Tracks, cloud spotter Gavin SAT Pretor-Pinney, beatboxer Shlomo and mouth-painter Barry SAT West. Adrenalin junky pensioners Sylvia and Dennis Bloor on SAT their love of rollercoasters and a mum who turned to the SAT Beano to help her daughter's dyslexia. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Sheringham. SAT SAT 10:30 The Gover Way b037r5d9 (Listen) SAT In 1989 the doors closed for the last time at Alf Gover's SAT Cricket School in East Hill, Wandsworth, South London. SAT SAT Writer Charlie Connelly, an alumnus of the legendary SAT coaching venue, explores the extraordinary global legacy of SAT this outwardly charmless but inwardly magical building and SAT the extraordinary man who ran it. SAT SAT Alf Gover enjoyed a distinguished career as a fast bowler SAT for Surrey and England during the 1930s, but it was the SAT cricket school he gave his name to in 1938, and which SAT changed little over the next half century, that made his SAT reputation as, in the words of Wisden, "cricket's Mr Chips". SAT SAT From legends of the game like Viv Richards and Garry Sobers SAT to Sunday afternoon sloggers and uncoordinated schoolboys, SAT Alf Gover would devote exactly the same level of attention SAT to their straight bat and high left elbow. SAT SAT The claustrophobic, gas-lit, draughty south London venue SAT became a mecca to players from all over the world - even SAT Harold Pinter had a picture of himself batting at the Gover SAT school hanging over his desk, while a young John Major would SAT save up his pocket money for lessons from the master. SAT SAT Featuring archive recordings and interviews with Nicholas SAT Parsons, Sir Trevor McDonald and former Surrey captain SAT Mickey Stewart, as well as family members and cricket people SAT from all levels of the game, Charlie argues that Alf Gover SAT deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest English SAT cricket figures of all time. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlie Connelly SAT SAT Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b037r5dc (Listen) SAT The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi SAT SAT Put any prejudices about poisonous toadstools and mould in SAT damp corners out of your mind: this week's Forum explores SAT fungi as an extraordinarily tough and ecologically friendly SAT building substance that could reshape our world. Plus the SAT hundreds of thousands of species of fungi that have yet to SAT be named and studied: some of them may hold vital clues on SAT how to cure diseases or solve environmental problems. SAT Bridget Kendall is joined by fungal ecologist Lynne Boddy, SAT Danish mycologist and photographer Jens Petersen, and San SAT Francisco-based artist, chef and fungal furniture-maker, SAT Phil Ross. Above photo: Hygrocybe Psittacina Photo: © Jens SAT H. Petersen. Below clip photo: Mycelium with Hyphal Strings SAT by Jens H. Petersen SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b037r5df (Listen) SAT The Himalayan Tsunami SAT SAT Indians living in the shadow of the Himalayas are being told SAT they could face further life-threatening weather events -- SAT Jane Dyson tells the story of a man and a mule who were SAT unable to contend with the power of nature. Jake Wallis SAT Simons drinks beer with an Israeli settler who tells him SAT that whatever the outcome of the current John Kerry peace SAT initiative, he and others like him, won't be leaving their SAT settlements. Shaimaa Khalil is in Libya, meeting the founder SAT of a well-known militia group and asking him about al-Qaeda SAT and about the Libyans who've gone to join the fighting in SAT Syria. There's much talk in Latin America about legalising SAT marijuana and liberalising other drug laws - Will Grant in SAT Mexico takes a look at who might make money from the change. SAT And Frederick Dove travels to China to find out if it's true SAT that the Chinese have begun falling in love with the game of SAT cricket. SAT SAT 12:00 How You Pay for the City b037r5dh (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Five years after the crash, City pay is still soaring. SAT SAT In this four-part series, David Grossman investigates how we SAT as savers, investors and consumers pay the salaries and SAT bonuses of bankers and investment managers and asks whether SAT they're worth it. SAT SAT It may seem as if the City creates money out of thin air SAT through the skill of some of the brightest people working in SAT the economy. But all the money that goes into the Square SAT Mile and beyond has to come from the wider economy: from our SAT pensions and investments, from the interest rates we're SAT charged, from the cheap money that we as taxpayers have SAT provided to the banks since 2008 and even from the SAT additional but hidden costs that we pay for consumables like SAT food and fuel. SAT SAT The series begins with an investigation into the companies SAT that manage our investments. David talks to the campaigners SAT trying to force the industry to be more transparent about SAT the true cost of investing and hears from critics who claim SAT the industry has grown to be so large and complex, it's more SAT geared to serving itself than its customers. And he assesses SAT whether there's any evidence that most fund managers are SAT worth the high fees they charge. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b037jn91 (Listen) SAT Series 81, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Justin Moorhouse, Roisin Conaty, SAT and Bob Mills. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b037jnnl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b037jnnn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b037jnl5 (Listen) SAT Lord Howard, Lord Boateng, Owen Jones, Isabel Hardman SAT SAT Nick Robinson presents political debate from Broadcasting SAT House Radio Theatre in London with former Home Secretary SAT Lord Howard, former High Commissioner to South Africa Lord SAT Boateng, Owen Jones from the Independent and Isabel Hardman SAT from the Spectator's Coffee House Blog. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b037r5dk (Listen) SAT Listeners respond to the views aired on Any Questions? by SAT former Conservative leader Lord Howard, former Labour SAT Cabinet Minister Lord Boateng, left commentator Owen Jones SAT and Isabel Hardman from The Spectator. SAT SAT Presenter: Anita Anand SAT Producer: Anna Bailey SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mny1z (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Killings, The Terrorists SAT SAT by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö SAT translated by Joan Tate SAT dramatised by Katie Hims SAT SAT Martin Beck reluctantly takes on a security operation set up SAT to protect a controversial American Senator from a terrorist SAT attack whilst he is in Sweden on an official visit. SAT Meanwhile, a young woman is accused of bank robbery. SAT SAT Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT Adaptor: Katie Hims SAT Narrator: Lesley Sharp SAT Narrator: Nicholas Gleaves SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Larsson: Ralph Ineson SAT Einar Rönn: Wayne Foskett SAT Frederik Melander: Adrian Scarborough SAT Skacke: Sam Alexander SAT Rhea: Nadine Marshall SAT Crasher: Robert Blythe SAT Bulldozer Olsson: Michael Maloney SAT Rebecka Lind: Hannah Wood SAT Malm: Nicholas Murchie SAT Mr Bondesson: Ben Crowe SAT Eric Möller: Ben Crowe SAT American Senator: Ben Crowe SAT National Police Commissioner: Rick Warden SAT Taxi Driver: Rick Warden SAT Kristiansson: Don Gilet SAT Court Official: Matthew Watson SAT Policeman: Matthew Watson SAT Heydt: Alex Lanipekun SAT Airforce Commander: Paul Stonehouse SAT Judge: John Rowe SAT Prime Minister: John Rowe SAT Kirsten: Joanna Brooks SAT Mrs Cosgrove: Joanna Brooks SAT Neighbour: Joanna Brooks SAT Levallois: David Seddon SAT Kvastmo: David Seddon SAT Ruth Salmonsson: Philippa Stanton SAT Gun Kollberg: Sally Orrock SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b037r5dm (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Arianna Huffington; the impact of song SAT lyrics SAT SAT Arianna Huffington on changing the way we think about work SAT and how we define success. John Lewis responds to a SAT listener's complaint about a promotion of their bra SAT measuring service. We hear what teenagers at the Devas Youth SAT Club in South London think about the impact song lyrics SAT might have on relationships and attitudes. And we discuss SAT the wider issue of misogyny and sexist cultural values in SAT society with feminist Joan Smith and Music Psychologist SAT Adrian North of Curtin University in Australia. SAT SAT Does changing your name change your identity? Psychologist SAT Professor Richard Wiseman and author Wendy Perriam discuss. SAT We talk about tutoring over the summer holidays with Carol SAT Vorderman and Sarah Ebner, author of Starting School SAT Survival Guide. Do children really need it to avoid the SAT 'summer slide'? And while there has been a sharp fall in the SAT number of vasectomies performed on the NHS over the past SAT decade our reporter Geoff Bird lets us listen in on his. SAT SAT Producer: Shoku Amirani SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b037r5dp (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b037jnps (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0389s0g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b037jnns (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037jnnv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b037r5dr (Listen) SAT Fazer, Nina Conti, Peter Carlton, Gerald Seymour, Jon SAT Holmes, Vuvuvultures, Flash Pan Hunter SAT SAT Nikki has a gottle o'geer with ventriloquist and comedian SAT Nina Conti, who returns her sell-out show 'Dolly Mixtures' SAT to London's Soho Theatre until 10th August. Nina introduces SAT her daughter, her handyman, her gran and a stray dog in a SAT show that refuses to go as rehearsed and is a thoughtful SAT mediation on love, life and the edge of existence. SAT SAT Nikki chats to Warp Films producer Peter Carlton, whose film SAT credits include 'Four Lions' and 'Tyrannosaur'. His new SAT drama series is set in the sleepy market town of SAT Southcliffe. As dawn breaks, the sound of gunshots ring out SAT and the residents of a tight-knit community wake to discover SAT an inconceivable horror has devastated the town. SAT 'Southcliffe' starts on Sunday 4th August at 21.00 on SAT Channel 4. SAT SAT Jon Holmes is on the front line with former ITN journalist, SAT author and Glory Boy Gerald Seymour. His new book 'The SAT Corporal's Wife' is the story of the Corporal, driver for a SAT Brigadier in the al-Qods Brigade, who is snatched by the SAT Secret Service. Stashed in an eerie in Europe's mountains, SAT the Corporal will not talk. Unless his wife is brought out SAT of Iran to join him. SAT SAT Nikki's in the hood with rapper Fazer, whose hugely SAT succesful hip hop group N-Dubz have won four MOBO awards. SAT Fazer's collaborating with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, SAT performing an 'Urban Classic Prom', combining iconic SAT classical with contemporary urban artists on 10th August at SAT London's Royal Albert Hall. A documentary about the Prom; SAT 'Fazer's Urban Symphony' is on BBC Three in September. SAT SAT With music from offbeat indie pop and rock quartet SAT Vuvuvultures, who perform 'I'll Cut You' from their album SAT 'Push / Pull'. SAT SAT And Brighton boho-blues boy Flash Pan Hunter performs SAT 'Overcome Love With The Devil' from his album 'Quick Way To SAT Enemy'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b037r5f6 (Listen) SAT Haifaa Al-Mansour SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Haifaa Al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia's SAT first female film director. SAT SAT Haifaa Al-Mansour directed the recently-released Wadjda, the SAT first film entirely shot in Saudi Arabia. The film follows SAT the dreams of an 11-year-old girl who is desperate to own a SAT bike, and was partly inspired by Al-Mansour's early years, SAT growing up in a small town near Riyadh. SAT SAT After working for an oil company, Haifaa al-Mansour decided SAT to become a film-maker, using some of her 11 willing SAT siblings to help her with her first short films. Her very SAT first short film, 'Who', was about a serial killer disguised SAT as a woman in a burka. SAT SAT She says she doesn't think women can change things in Saudi SAT Arabia if they are "aggressive", but it's better to "have a SAT career and pursue a dream." SAT SAT Producer: Helena Merriman. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b037r5f8 (Listen) SAT The Guts; Only God Forgives; Southcliffe; Titanic; Mass SAT Observation SAT SAT Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's film Only God SAT Forgives has already divided critics: five stars for some SAT while others booed it at Cannes. Set in Bangkok, it's SAT ultraviolent, awash with red, and has an extraordinary SAT soundscape. It stars Ryan Gosling, Vithaya Pansringarm and SAT Kristin Scott Thomas. SAT SAT Roddy Doyle returns to the territory of the much-loved The SAT Commitments - which will become a musical in the autumn - in SAT his new novel The Guts. Jimmy Rabbitte is now 47 and has SAT just been diagnosed with bowel cancer. He's not dying yet... SAT but his brush with mortality leads him to embrace some of SAT the passions of his youth. SAT SAT Southcliffe is a new Channel 4 drama by Tony Grisoni, SAT starring Rory Kinnear and Shirley Henderson, directed by SAT American Sean Durkin. It's a powerful drama set in a small SAT town in the south east of England where the run-up to a SAT spate of shootings and the terrible grief and consequences SAT of the deaths are played out. SAT SAT Titanic was a musical that ran on Broadway just before James SAT Cameron's film came out. It didn't delight the critics but SAT it did delight the crowds and ran for two years, winning SAT five Tony awards. Its huge set cost millions of dollars; now SAT a chamber version at the Southwark Playhouse does wonders SAT with a set of steps and a couple of pieces of rope. Can it SAT win over crowds and critics alike? SAT SAT Mass Observation: This is Your Photo is a new exhibition at SAT the Photographers' Gallery in London. The Mass Observation SAT movement began in 1937 as a social science experiment SAT cataloguing the lives and tastes of thousands. The material SAT that resulted from its early years is featured alongside SAT reports for the project from more recent years. SAT SAT Sarfraz Manzoor is joined by Deborah Bull, Kerry Shale and SAT Denise Mina. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b037r5fb (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, David Trimble SAT SAT Former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble - now Lord SAT Trimble- meets his younger self in the sound archives and SAT discusses his reaction with John Wilson. SAT SAT From civil servant and law student to one of the key players SAT in the Good Friday Agreement and now a Conservative peer, SAT the career of David Trimble has been hugely eventful. He SAT began his political career as a member of the hardline SAT Vanguard party, backing its leader William Craig. When it SAT disbanded in the 1970s, it seemed as if he might be out in SAT the political wilderness for good. SAT SAT But he joined the Ulster Unionist Party, became an MP and SAT ultimately went on to lead his party. In 1998 he won the SAT Nobel Peace Prize together with the SDLP's John Hume for his SAT attempts to bring stability to Northern Ireland through the SAT historic Good Friday Agreement. SAT SAT But arguments over IRA decommissioning of its weapons SAT threatened the peace process. David Trimble continually SAT faced criticism from within his own party and other SAT Unionists for selling out to the Republicans and in 2005 he SAT lost his Westminster seat. SAT SAT In conversation with John Wilson, Lord Trimble revisits key SAT moments in his career and discusses their significance. We SAT hear his earliest success as a law student, memories of his SAT mentor from the Vanguard party, the machinations that led to SAT the Good Friday Agreement and his thoughts on pursuing SAT peace. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b037gnxr (Listen) SAT Desolation Island, Episode 2 SAT SAT 2 / 2. By Patrick O'Brian. Jack Aubrey is pursued through SAT the South Atlantic by a powerful Dutch warship whose 74 guns SAT threaten to blow HMS Leopard out of the water. As the SAT Leopard tries to out-run the enemy, Jack and Stephen have to SAT contend with a fever that lays waste to the crew and an SAT unexpected childbirth. A confrontation with the Dutch ship SAT leaves Jack seriously wounded - and a dangerous situation SAT turns to disaster when his first officer takes command and SAT runs the Leopard into an iceberg. Dramatised by Roger Danes. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jack Aubrey: David Robb SAT Stephen Maturin: Richard Dillane SAT Louisa Wogan: Teresa Gallagher SAT Michael Herapath: Samuel Barnett SAT Barratt Bonden: Sam Dale SAT Preserved Killick: Jon Glover SAT Lt Grant: Jonathan Tafler SAT Byron: Nick Underwood SAT Jedediah Wilbey: Gerard McDermott SAT Josiah Plaice: Lloyd Thomas SAT Sir Joseph Blaine: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT Adaptor: Roger Danes SAT Writer: Patrick O'Brian SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b037jnnx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b037jbv5 (Listen) SAT Can art be morally contaminating? The anti-semitism of the SAT German composer Richard Wagner still makes him a divisive SAT figure even 200 years after his birth. In a row over a SAT Jewish conductor for a performance of the opera Parsifal, SAT Wagner described the Jews as "the born enemy of pure SAT humanity and everything noble about it". Famously he was SAT said to be Hitler's favourite composer and Wagner's works SAT were used in propaganda by the Third Reich in the SAT Nazification of German culture. There are even claims his SAT operas were played to those held in concentration camps. As SAT recently as last year protestors in Israel forced the SAT cancellation of a concert featuring his work. The SAT anniversary of his death is being marked by major SAT performance at the Proms and the actor Simon Callow will be SAT performing "Inside Wagner's Head" at the Royal Opera House. SAT In an interview Callow says he'll confront the composer's SAT hatred of Jews head on and publicity promises it will be as SAT controversial as Wagner himself. Can we ever separate the SAT beauty of art from the sin of the artist? Should we boycott SAT performances by Wagner, even if they don't contain any SAT anti-semitic views? And if so, why not do the same with the SAT dozens of other 19th and 20th century artists who espoused SAT similar views? Are those people who enjoy and are moved by SAT performances of Wagner morally compromised? When does an SAT image that is racist, anti-semitic or offensive become art? SAT Does the passage of time act as a kind of moral SAT decontaminant? Or is that the worst kind of moral SAT relativism? Combative, provocative and engaging debate SAT chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, SAT Melanie Phillips and Matthew Taylor. Witnesses: Rabbi SAT Yitzchok Adlerstein - Director of Interfaith Affairs at The SAT Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, Jonathan Livny - SAT Founder of the Israeli Wagner Society, Norman Lebrecht - SAT Music critic, author of a dozen books on music, well-known SAT Radio 3 broadcaster and also novelist, Will Self - Novelist, SAT critic, cultural commentator. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b037gyqf (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 13 SAT SAT (13/13) SAT The competitors who have won through the heats and SAT semi-finals of the 2013 Counterpoint series during the past SAT three months finally have their sights on the 27th SAT Counterpoint title, and the handsome silver trophy that goes SAT with it. SAT SAT Their final hurdle is the grand Final at London's Radio SAT Theatre, with Paul Gambaccini quizzing them on every aspect SAT of music, from Cole Porter to Coldplay, from Rossini to the SAT Rolling Stones. SAT SAT The three Finalists are from Glasgow, Bristol and Essex: and SAT the breadth of their knowledge through the series so far SAT points to a tight and thrilling contest. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THE 2013 FINALISTS ARE SAT SAT WILSON BAIN, a volunteer with the RNIB, from Glasgow; SAT SAT ALAN McLEAN, an education consultant from Debden in Essex; SAT SAT MICK QUINN, a retired mental nurse from Bristol. SAT SAT MUSIC IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT 23:30 The Namer of Clouds b037gnxw (Listen) SAT Poet Lavinia Greenlaw composes a tribute to Luke Howard, the SAT amateur meteorologist who in 1802 devised the cloud SAT classification system and inspired the Romantics. SAT SAT Luke Howard, often called "the father of meteorology" was a SAT chemist, whose ideas for cloud classification were stirred SAT when he was a schoolboy. In his late twenties he composed SAT the influential 'Essay on the Modification of Clouds', which SAT was delivered at the Askesian Society, a fortnightly London SAT science meeting. SAT SAT Howard's influence upon art and poetry is as impressive as SAT his meteorological discoveries. His essay became the subject SAT of poems by Goethe and Percy Bysshe Shelley and he is SAT believed to have inspired some of John Constable's SAT landscapes. SAT SAT Before composing a new poem dedicated to Luke Howard, SAT Lavinia goes cloud spotting in Somerset with Gavin SAT Pretor-Pinney, founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society. SAT Richard Hamblyn, Luke Howard's biographer, describes how he SAT gave the Romantics a new scientific language and Constable SAT expert Anne Lyles examines Luke Howard's impact on the SAT visual arts. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Smith SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 AUGUST 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b037qhbv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng b017lfd7 (Listen) SUN The Cabaret Boys SUN SUN Julian Clary plays camp cabaret star, drag artiste and the SUN finest of panto dames, Douglas Byng - who makes a ghostly SUN comeback to entertain his friends at the Pavilion Theatre, SUN Brighton. SUN SUN In today's episode, Byng tells of his first professional SUN engagement as a member of a concert party in Hastings , SUN remembers working at London's Gaiety Theatre during the SUN First World War, and has a thing or two to say about SUN theatrical 'digs'! SUN SUN Douglas Byng (1893 - 1987) was a female impersonator and the SUN most famous cabaret star of his day. Billed as "Bawdy but SUN British", his professional career lasted for over 70 years. SUN This short series traces the journey of the cross-dressing SUN glamour queen from privileged childhood in the 1890s, SUN through concert parties in Hastings, to his emergence as the SUN darling of the society set, entertaining royalty and SUN London's 'Bright Young Things' at the Café de Paris in the SUN 1920s and 30s. SUN SUN Douglas Byng has been dubbed 'the highest priest of camp'. SUN He blazed a trail for others to follow, treading a fine line SUN between sophisticated urbanity and risqué innuendo which SUN presaged more contemporary, boundary-bending comedians such SUN as Kenneth Williams, Danny La Rue, Barry Humphries and...our SUN own Julian Clary. SUN SUN Byng's debonair appearances in revue were described by Noel SUN Coward as "the most refined vulgarity in London"! SUN After the Second World War, Douglas Byng became a familiar SUN stage and film actor and much-loved pantomime dame. His SUN saucy recordings of self-penned songs led to occasional bans SUN by the BBC, but his popularity never diminished. SUN SUN He wrote his autobiography (As You Were - published in 1970) SUN in retirement in Brighton, and this book provides the SUN material for the series. SUN SUN With Julian Clary as Douglas Byng. SUN SUN Compiled by Tony Lidington. SUN Pianist Martin Seager. SUN SUN Producer/Director: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037qhbx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037qhbz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037qhc3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b037qhc5 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b037s0zp (Listen) SUN The bells of Solovetsky Monastery, Russia. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b037r5f6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b037qhc9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b037s0zr (Listen) SUN Heat SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the power of heat, arguably one of the SUN most powerful metaphorical symbols in both religious and SUN secular literature. SUN SUN The source of life, it also has enormous destructive power. SUN A spiritual and physical purifier, it is also a force for SUN retribution and punishment. Commonly used in sacred works as SUN a religious trial, it also symbolises passion, emotion and SUN lust in secular writing. SUN SUN In the middle of summer, as some people yearn for more heat SUN while others try their best to avoid it, Mark Tully SUN investigates these many contradictions in the company of SUN writers as varied as Rudyard Kipling, Frances Bellerby and SUN the contemporary poet Brendan Kennelly. There is music from SUN Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Ella Fitzgerald. SUN SUN The readers are Mark Quartley and Monica Dolan. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b037s0zt (Listen) SUN Glow Worms SUN SUN This week on Living World, presenter Chris Sperring is in SUN Buckinghamshire on the lookout for glow worms. Literature is SUN full of references to these enigmatic little beetles who SUN glow when its dark enough not to be able to differentiate SUN colours. With Chris is Robin Scagell who has been studying SUN glow worms for over 40 years and still gets a sense of SUN excitement seeing one in some long grass by a lake near SUN Little Marlow. SUN SUN Related to fireflies which do not occur in the UK, the glow SUN worm lifecycle is fascinating. After hatching from eggs the SUN larva may take up to 3 years to develop into adults, during SUN which time they will feed on snails and molluscs. When they SUN emerge as adults, neither the winged male or the wingless SUN female have any mouthparts and their sole purpose is now to SUN mate and start the next generation off again as eggs. SUN SUN As Chris learns on a wonderfully warm July night, it is the SUN female in vegetation that glows, it is this glow that the SUN flying male is looking for. Once mated the female then SUN switches off her light and after laying eggs, dies. While SUN recording the programme, Chris witnessed a male come to a SUN female and mate with her. Something that is very rare to see SUN in the wild. SUN SUN Producer: Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b037qhcc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b037qhcf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b037s0zw (Listen) SUN There has been outrage this week at the government's pilot SUN scheme to crack down on illegal immigrants which included a SUN mobile billboard stating 'Go home or face arrest'. Is the SUN campaign ethical? Nick Baines, the Bishop of Bradford and SUN Alan Craig discuss. SUN SUN The UK government has been accused of creating "appalling SUN delays" to the outlawing of caste discrimination. Pratik SUN Dattani from the Alliance of Hindu Organisations and SUN Davindar Prasad from Castewatch UK discuss. SUN SUN Is it ever justifiable to refuse to pay your taxes? Paul SUN Nicholson is an eighty two-year-old retired vicar who says SUN it is and that he is ready to go to prison in protest over SUN changes to the welfare system. SUN SUN Turkey, like the rest of the Muslim world is observing SUN Ramadan. But the holy month is giving no respite to the SUN government which is still facing protests. Dorian Jones SUN reports. SUN SUN David Nirenberg is a historian whose book 'Anti-Judaism: The SUN Western Tradition' uses a different term to that which we SUN are used to. He joins William to explain what the difference SUN between anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism is. SUN SUN In the past week both the Pope and The Archbishop of SUN Canterbury have taken new steps in their approach to SUN homosexuality. Justin Welby says ignoring views on gay SUN marriage is 'foolish' while the Pope states "You should not SUN discriminate against or marginalise [gay] people." Does this SUN signal a change in direction? Trevor Barnes reports. SUN SUN As the Ashes reaches a decisive stage this weekend, William SUN speaks to Canon Max Wigley, the chaplain of Yorkshire County SUN Cricket Club. SUN SUN Credits SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox SUN Producers: Annabel Deas, Carmel Lonergan SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b037s0zy (Listen) SUN Children in Crisis SUN SUN Joanna Lumley presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Children in SUN Crisis. SUN Reg Charity:1020488 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Children in Crisis. SUN SUN Children in Crisis SUN SUN Children in Crisis has been working in conflict-affected SUN countries for the past 20 years. At the heart of our work is SUN the belief that literacy and education improve health and SUN livelihoods, unite communities and build peace. SUN The charity focuses on the hardest-to-reach, forgotten SUN communities where literacy levels amongst adults are low, SUN and schooling for children is severely limited. SUN Children in Crisis is a small team of 14 based in south SUN London, have an office in Kabul, and work in close SUN partnership with local grass-roots organisations who share SUN our aims and ambitions. We are currently assisting children SUN and communities in Afghanistan, the DR Congo, Liberia and SUN Sierra Leone. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b037qhch (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b037qhck (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b037s2rc (Listen) SUN Festival Mass in St John's Church, Buxton sung to Mozart's SUN Missa Brevis in D by the Buxton Madrigal Singers with SUN soloists from the Buxton Festival's Young Artists Programme SUN directed by Michael Williams. The celebrant is the Rector SUN of Buxton, the Revd John Hudghton, and the preacher is SUN Bishop Jack Nicholls. Organist: Ben Morris. Producer: SUN Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN Organ Voluntary: Prelude in C BWV 547 SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b037jnl7 (Listen) SUN Machiavelli's Summer in Tuscany SUN SUN It's exactly 500 years this summer since Niccolo Machiavelli SUN wrote his famous book 'The Prince', on how to gain and SUN retain political power. Sarah Dunant takes us back to the SUN hot Tuscan summer when Machiavelli put down his thoughts, SUN including the view that in politics, virtue must be tempered SUN by expediency. SUN SUN He based his thesis on what he'd witnessed during his career SUN as a diplomat and adviser in Florence, and also on lessons SUN learned from Ancient Greek and Roman historians. SUN SUN While fortune had smiled on him during the fourteen years he SUN served the Florentine Republic, it stopped doing so when the SUN Medicis were restored and he was imprisoned and tortured. SUN Released into exile on his family's estate south of SUN Florence, he started writing the book that became a SUN foundation of political theory. SUN SUN In a further twist of fortune, his exile, far from being his SUN ruin, made his name for posterity. He was never completely SUN rehabilitated in Florence, but ended up writing one of the SUN most provocative and influential political works of all SUN time. SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b02tyfr0 (Listen) SUN Kestrel SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve SUN Backshall presents the kestrel. SUN SUN The kestrel is widely distributed throughout the UK and when SUN hovering is our most recognisable bird of prey. Their SUN chestnut back and wings, and habit of holding themselves SUN stationary in mid-air are a unique combination;mall wonder SUN that an old name for kestrels is windhover. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b037s4f1 (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 b037s4f3 (Listen) SUN Writer ...Joanna Toye SUN Director ... Kate Chapman SUN Editor ... Julie Beckett SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Heather Bell SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson SUN Martyn Gibson ..... Jon Glover SUN Anthea ..... Joanna Brookes. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b037s4f5 (Listen) SUN Eve Stewart SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is BAFTA award-winning production SUN designer, Eve Stewart. SUN SUN Her big screen credits include Les Miserables, The King's SUN Speech and Vera Drake and for TV The Hour, Upstairs SUN Downstairs and Call The Midwife. Responsible for locations, SUN scenery and all the props she is renowned for creating SUN entirely convincing, cohesive worlds that capture a SUN beguiling sense of time, place and spirit. Not even the SUN requirement for nine tons of Scottish seaweed or noiseless SUN rubber rosary beads will defeat her. SUN SUN Her trademark is her relentless attention to detail and she SUN slavishly trawls the archives for visual clues and SUN references. It would seem that the bug bit her early - she SUN says: SUN SUN 'When I was a little girl I used to have lots of doll's SUN houses. Now I have lots of big ones and get to do it on a SUN bigger scale.' SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b037h1y8 (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a first visit to SUN Leicester's De Montfort Hall. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by SUN semi-regular Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin SUN Sell accompanies on the piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b037s8mf (Listen) SUN The Banana - fascinating history, uncertain future SUN SUN Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular SUN fruit, the banana, is uncertain. SUN SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b037qhcm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b037s8mh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Feeding the World: America's New Deal b037s8mk (Listen) SUN Since the end of the war, America's "Food for Peace" SUN programme has shipped American-grown food in sacks across SUN the world to feed the world's starving people. Virtually all SUN experts agree it's an inefficient way to send aid, and the SUN EU stopped doing it decades ago. According to Andrew SUN Natsios, the former head of USAID, "I've watched people die SUN in front of me waiting for food to arrive." SUN SUN Now President Obama wants to reform the system to send more SUN of emergency aid as money, and to buy food locally. But SUN there is opposition to his plans for change and it looks SUN likely the reforms will go nowhere. SUN SUN The BBC's international development correspondent David Loyn SUN travels to Afghanistan, and hears from farmers who say they SUN stopped growing wheat and changed to opium poppies when SUN American wheat flooded the local market during a time of SUN plenty. And he travels to Kenya to look at pioneering SUN efforts to deliver aid in a way that helps the local economy SUN and puts power back in the hands of the poor. SUN SUN Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b037jn8n (Listen) SUN Midlothian SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs this week's episode of Gardeners' SUN Question Time from Midlothian, Scotland with panelists Bob SUN Flowerdew, Carole Baxter and Anne Swithinbank taking SUN questions from an audience of local gardening enthusiasts. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b037s8mm (Listen) SUN Vietnam - US Prisoner of War SUN SUN In August 1964, US Navy pilot, Everett Alvarez, was shot SUN down over the Gulf of Tonkin by communist North Vietnamese SUN forces. He spent more than 8 years in captivity, suffering SUN physical and psychological torture. He is one of the SUN longest-held American POWs ever. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b037s8mp (Listen) SUN Sense and Sensibility, Episode 1 SUN SUN Jane Austen's classic novel dramatised by Helen Edmundson. SUN SUN Forced to leave their beloved family home after the death of SUN their father, Elinor and Marianne try to make a new life for SUN themselves at Barton Cottage. While Marianne unexpectedly SUN meets the dashing Willoughby who sweeps her off her feet, SUN Elinor has a surprise visit from Edward. But with neither SUN fortune nor connections, the prospect of marrying the men SUN they love appears remote. SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari SUN SUN Credits SUN Elinor: Amanda Hale SUN Marianne: Olivia Hallinan SUN Mrs Dashwood: Deborah McAndrew SUN Colonel Brandon: Blake Ritson SUN Willoughby: Ben Lamb SUN Edward: Henry Devas SUN Sir John: Conrad Nelson SUN Lady Middleton: Rosina Carbone SUN Mrs Jennings: Brigit Forsyth SUN Nancy: Victoria Brazier SUN Lucy: Caitlin Thorburn SUN Musician: Emily Hooker SUN Director: Nadia Molinari SUN Producer: Nadia Molinari SUN Adaptor: Helen Edmundson SUN Author: Jane Austen SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b037s8mt (Listen) SUN Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever SUN SUN Deborah Moggach talks about her bestselling novel Tulip SUN Fever, a story of love, greed and betrayal in 17th Century SUN Amsterdam. SUN SUN Artist Jan van Loos falls for his married subject Sophia SUN during 'tulipomania'. Prices for the recently introduced SUN flower reached extraordinarily high levels - one bulb could SUN fetch thousands of pounds - and then suddenly collapsed. SUN SUN James Naughtie and a group of invited readers discuss the SUN story and its resonance with 21st century boom and bust SUN economies, as well as the paintings that inspired Deborah to SUN write the novel. SUN SUN September's Bookclub choice : Dark Star Safari by Paul SUN Theroux SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 TS Eliot's India: Many Gods, Many Voices b037s8mw (Listen) SUN Poet Daljit Nagra explores the often overlooked Indian SUN element to T.S Eliot's poetry. SUN SUN T.S Eliot once wrote that the great philosophers of India SUN "make most of the great European philosophers look like SUN schoolboys". And although he's more often remembered as an SUN establishment figure, somewhat conservative and deeply SUN Christian, Eliot also wrote about and studied Indian SUN philosophy, language and culture. He incorporated it into SUN his most famous poems, and even considered becoming a SUN Buddhist. SUN SUN The poet Daljit Nagra, who grew up in Britain among both SUN Christian and Indian Sikh traditions, became intrigued at SUN school by Eliot's poem The Waste Land, which ends with the SUN Sanskrit mantra "Shantih, shantih, shantih". How did these SUN Indian words find their way into what is, on the face of it, SUN a very western poem? And how does this imagery square with SUN the idea of Eliot the bank clerk in a bowler hat, who SUN converted to High Anglicanism? SUN SUN Daljit discovers that there is a deep, overlooked vein of SUN Indic ideas in Eliot's poetry, right up until his SUN masterpiece Four Quartets, including references to The SUN Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, the Yoga Sutras and Buddhism. SUN But was he merely perpetuating a romantic, exotic image of SUN India, or was Eliot a truly global poet, who found a SUN language to transcend the traditional divisions between SUN eastern and western thought? SUN SUN Featuring interviews with Eliot's nephew, the poets Jeet SUN Thayil and Maitreyabandhu, Daljit uncovers the overlooked SUN Indian imagery in Eliot's work and considers how far, as a SUN poet steeped in Christian and classical traditions, he SUN really understood it. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Wheeler SUN A Brook Lappping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b037hmyw (Listen) SUN A Place of Safety? SUN SUN Psychiatric hospitals have a duty to keep their patients SUN safe, which means taking extra care with patients suffering SUN acute depression who may be at risk of self-harm. SUN SUN So campaigners argue that when a patient commits suicide, it SUN is vital that a thorough investigation should discover any SUN failings by doctors and nurses and any weaknesses in SUN hospital systems of communication or levels of staffing. SUN SUN But, unlike deaths in prison or police custody, fatalities SUN in psychiatric units are not reviewed from the start by a SUN fully independent investigator. Initial reports are usually SUN prepared by staff of the NHS and kept confidential to the SUN health officials and family concerned. Only at the SUN subsequent inquest does an independent inquiry take over. SUN SUN Critics call this 'a recipe for cover-up by the NHS'. SUN SUN File on 4 reports on a series of suicides in one psychiatric SUN unit which have led the local coroner to accuse the NHS of SUN 'a catalogue of failures stemming from an institutional SUN complacency'. SUN SUN Reporter - Gerry Northam SUN Producer - Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b037r5f6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0389s0s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b037qhcr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037qhct (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b037s8n0 (Listen) SUN In Pick Of The week, Gerry Northam hears the emotional final SUN thoughts of a woman dying of bone cancer at the age of 42. SUN There's detailed analysis of the current political turmoil SUN in Turkey and its historical roots in the Ottoman Empire; SUN and the latest archaeological evidence pointing to the SUN origins of Stonehenge as a site of ritual cremations. SUN We also discover TS Eliot's fascination with Eastern SUN mysticism and the role it played in some of his best-loved SUN works, and hear some snappy 21st century endings to other SUN famous lines of poetry. SUN Laughter and tears in Pick Of The Week ... SUN SUN The Gestapo Minutes - Radio 4 SUN Feminine Mystiques - Radio 4 SUN Turkey: The New Ottomans - Radio 4 SUN The Philosopher's Arms - Radio 4 SUN Word of Mouth - Radio 4 SUN Proms: Mozart Piano Concerto No 25 - Radio 3 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4 SUN Book At Bedtime: The Norfolk Mystery - Radio 4 SUN TS Eliot's India: Many Gods, Many Voices - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service SUN Open Country - Radio 4 SUN Advice From The Edge Of Life - Radio Scotland SUN Green on Green - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b037s8n2 (Listen) SUN Helen asks Emma about her birthday plans. Emma thinks it'll SUN probably be a meal with Ed in The Bull. They bump into Ian, SUN who invites Helen to supper on Friday. Emma tells Helen she SUN should be out on the town if she wants to meet someone. SUN Helen insists Henry's the only man for her. SUN SUN 19:15 Jo Caulfield's Speakeasy b037sdys (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Jo Caulfield hosts some of the best writers and comedians in SUN the UK as they take to the stage at The Scottish SUN Storytelling Centre to share a true story with us. SUN SUN Lloyd Langord tells us about his rather unusual first day at SUN work; Nathan Caton has a story about middle-class SUN assumptions and middle-class prejudice; Scottish playwright SUN Keir McAlliser gets the tables turned on him by a young SUN woman dressed in black; Jo tells us how a crossword puzzle SUN nearly started a riot on a train; and there's a SUN life-affirming story about love and hope from Jason Cook. SUN SUN Created by Jo Caulfield and Kevin Anderson SUN SUN Producer: Richard Melvin SUN A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Opening Lines b037sdyz (Listen) SUN Series 15, Princess SUN SUN A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging SUN short story writers their radio debut. SUN SUN A young blade working as a hired hand in a kibbutz kitchen SUN offers friendly advice on love but his motives are far from SUN clear cut. SUN SUN Read by Philip Arditti SUN Produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b037jn8x (Listen) SUN The 119th Proms season is in full swing and in Feedback this SUN week Roger Bolton meets Roger Wright, the Director of the SUN Proms. We put listeners' questions to the Director, behind SUN the scenes at the Royal Albert Hall. SUN SUN Roger Wright is also the Controller of BBC Radio 3. And he SUN might have something to say if his network took one Feedback SUN listener's suggestion seriously. We hear his novel approach SUN to toughening up Breakfast on 3 and toning down Radio 4's SUN Today programme. SUN SUN It's been a good week for the Today programme as it remains SUN the jewel in BBC radio's breakfast crown. The Radio Joint SUN Audience Research (RAJAR) figures published this week show SUN Today has gained more than 200,000 listeners in the last SUN year and that Radio 4's weekly audience is at an all-time SUN high. Digital listening has also leapt up by 3.7 million SUN since last year. But digital dissatisfaction is rife amongst SUN many Feedback listeners. We hear your digital woes. SUN SUN And, is it 'Silly Season' on Radio 4? While you may be SUN listening to Feedback, many people are sunning themselves SUN elsewhere. Indeed many of those who report and make the news SUN also take a break in August, leaving the news bereft of, SUN well, news. We hear from one listener who thinks Radio 4's SUN PM has gone too far in replacing what news there is with SUN flimsy whimsy. SUN SUN Plus, details of how you apply for tickets to join us for SUN our comedy special at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on SUN Friday 23rd August. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b037jn8v (Listen) SUN A sex therapist, an archeologist, a modelling agent, a SUN meditation teacher and a guitarist and songwriter SUN SUN Jane Little on: SUN SUN Virginia Masters, one half of the team that made sex the SUN subject of everyday conversation - and mentionable on Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN The archaeologist Mike Morwood whose discovery of a tiny SUN skeleton in a cave helped transform our understanding of SUN human evolution. SUN SUN John Casablancas, modelling agent and creator of the SUN "supermodel" - who later said he regretted it. SUN SUN Sonia Moriceau, meditation teacher and champion table tennis SUN player. SUN SUN And JJ Cale, guitarist and songwriter whose laid-back style SUN won much admiration and imitation from many fellow SUN musicians. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Northedge SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b037j7m4 (Listen) SUN Sold Down River SUN SUN Our tap water costs less than a tenth of a penny per litre. SUN Most of it comes from rivers. A licensing system designed SUN more than half a century ago means water companies can SUN legally, and easily, extract large quantities of good SUN quality water from water courses to deliver cheaply to the SUN consumer. But, as John Waite reveals, it's the environment SUN that is all too often paying the price for our low water SUN bills. In this week's Face the Facts, we hear why the SUN country's water framework is in desperate need of reform. As SUN climate change and a growing population puts water supplies SUN under increasing pressure, John investigates an outdated SUN licensing system which is depleting many water courses. He SUN hears of the 'lamentable stewardship' of iconic chalk SUN streams, some of which now run completely dry; the missed SUN opportunity in the recent Water Bill to tackle the SUN long-known problem of over abstraction, and the dilemma SUN facing the government and the water companies - put prices SUN up to pay for costly alternatives, or let rivers pay the SUN price? SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b037s0zy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b037sf4c (Listen) SUN North Sea Oil SUN SUN The headlines are full of energy shortages and the potential SUN of UK onshore shale gas discoveries. SUN But what's happening in and under the North Sea where SUN Britain's energy revolution began almost 40 years ago? Peter SUN Day reports from Aberdeen. SUN SUN There's record investment of more than 13 billion pounds SUN this year in the North Sea oil and gas industry but SUN production is down as the oil has become harder to extract. SUN Aberdeen itself is booming: there is virtually no SUN unemployment and it has become a global hub of technical SUN expertise, with international firms specialising in the SUN technology and equipment needed to extract the oil. The big SUN oil companies are moving further away to the West of the SUN Shetland Isles in search of large new fields while smaller SUN entrepreneurial firms are exploring for, and producing, oil SUN from the older fields. Meanwhile national oil companies from SUN Korea and China are buying their way in through take-overs. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b037sf6m (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 b037sf6p (Listen) SUN Tom Newton Dunn, the Sun's political editor, looks at how SUN the newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b037sf6r (Listen) SUN Only God Forgives; The Heat; My Father and the Man in Black SUN SUN Robbie Collin talks to the director Nicolas Winding Refn SUN about his new film Only God Forgives, a violent revenge SUN thriller set in Bangkok, starring Ryan Gosling and Kristen SUN Scott Thomas. As a follow up to the very successful Drive, SUN this film has split the critics with many appalled by the on SUN screen violence. He explains what made him choose such a SUN controversial project just as his career is crossing out of SUN the arthouse and into the mainstream. SUN Bridesmaids director Paul Feig discusses his new cop buddy SUN comedy The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as SUN an unlikely police partnership. He explains why he remains SUN wedded to comedy and wants to see more roles for older women SUN in Hollywood.. SUN As haunted house horror flick The Conjuring beats off the SUN blockbusters like Pacific Rim and The Lone Ranger at the US SUN box offices, film journalists Catherine Bray and Rob SUN Mitchell discuss the economics of the horror film. SUN And Jonathan Holiff explores the life and secrets of his SUN father Saul Holiff, manager of Johnny Cash. Based on a stash SUN of audio tapes he found in storage, he explores the SUN relationship between the two men. The result is an SUN intriguing documentary, My Father and the Man In Black. SUN SUN Producer Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b037s0zr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 AUGUST 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b037qhdr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b037jbts (Listen) MON 'Teddies' and 'Gollies'; Smart-casual dining MON MON Smart/casual dining - Once fine dining meant chandeliers, MON white tablecloths, and suited waiters. Yet today many of us MON will queue up for a seat at a loud, crowded noodle bar or MON eagerly seek out street stalls where the burgers are MON organic. The US food writer, Alison Pearlman, talks to MON Laurie Taylor about the forms and flavours taken by this MON 'foodie' revolution. Through on-the-scene observation and MON interviews with major players and chefs, she explores the MON blurring of boundaries between high and low cuisine. She's MON joined by Alan Warde, Professor of Sociology at the MON University of Manchester. MON MON 'Teddies' and 'Gollies' - US English Professor, Rhoda Zuk, MON talks to Laurie about her historical study into the place MON and meaning of teddy bears and golliwogs in children's lives MON and books, as well as in the 'racist' imagination. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b037s0zp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037qhdt (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037qhdw (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037qhdy (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b037qhf0 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037sj0j (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented MON by the Revd Scott McKenna. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b037sj0l (Listen) MON EU sanctions, backed by the Scottish government, will be MON imposed on the Faroe Islands amid accusations of MON over-fishing. Scottish fishermen claim that the Faroe MON Islands' decision to treble their quota will adversely MON affect both fish stocks and jobs. Charlotte Smith speaks MON directly to the Faroese Prime Minister, who says it's a very MON different story from where he's standing. MON MON And how 'common' is the Common Agricultural Policy? Farming MON Today hears what impact devolved decision-making will have MON on our food supply, the countryside and farmers. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Datshiane MON Navanayagam. MON MON 05:56 Weather b037qhf2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378svz (Listen) MON Wood Pigeon MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Michaela Strachan presents the wood pigeon. One of our most MON widespread birds, you can hear this song all year round; MON just about anywhere. The young are called squabs and along MON with seeds and green foliage, Wood Pigeons feed their chicks MON with "pigeon milk", a secretion from their stomach lining. MON Michaela Strachan's love of birds MON MON 06:00 Today b037sj0n (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin MON Webb. MON MON 09:00 The Sins of Literature b037sj0q (Listen) MON Thou Shalt Not Bore MON MON In the Sins of Literature Robert McCrum casts a seasoned eye MON over the literary mores of our age. MON MON Sarah Waters, Martin Amis, Will Self, Siri Hustvedt, Paul MON Auster, Deborah Moggach and Howard Jacobson talk about their MON literary sins and commandments. MON MON Thou Shalt Not Bore looks at how to avoid writing a boring MON book or, as Elmore Leonard put it, how to avoid writing the MON bits that readers skip. Try to make your characters MON believable, your plot snappy and your sentences taught and MON bright or sinuous and fecund. And if that doesn't work you MON can always insert a juicy sex scene... MON MON In this episode some of our finest novelists tell us how MON they write, give lessons in style, tell of whose work they MON love and argue over what makes a book good. MON MON 09:30 A Guide to Garden Wildlife b037smx8 (Listen) MON Stones MON MON Stones, patios, rockeries and walls may at first seem an MON unlikely habitat for wildlife but that's far from the truth MON as you can hear when Brett Westwood is joined by naturalist MON Phil Gates in a garden near Bristol and, with the help of MON recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, they MON offer a practical and entertaining guide to the wildlife MON which you're most likely to see and hear associated with MON walls and stones in the garden. Many invertebrates like to MON sunbathe on sun-drenched stones whilst others live in the MON cool shade under the stones. Wolf spiders and zebra spiders MON (the latter so called because of their black and white MON markings) can be found sunbathing on patios or house walls. MON "Watch out for their courtship - this is real edge of the MON seat drama " says Phil of the wolf spider as the smaller MON males risk their lives as they approach the female MON signalling to her, often for hours, before he mates, or in MON some cases, is eaten! Stone walls may also harbour slow MON worms, although you can also encourage these into your MON garden with pieces of corrugated iron as Phil explains. MON Turning over some edging stones, Brett and Phil discover MON masses of black garden ants, which milk aphids for their MON sugary honeydew "rather like we milk herds of cattle", MON explains Phil. Snails in the garden are kept in check by MON Song Thrushes which use stones as anvils on which to crack MON the snail shells and extract the contents for a juicy meal. MON Perhaps most valuable of all are ivy-clad walls which offer MON shelter in winter for many species, as well as nesting sites MON for birds, and year round food. And if you have ivy and MON holly in your garden then you could be rewarded with the MON sight of a lovely Holly Blue butterfly which requires both MON to complete its life cycle. MON MON PRODUCER Sarah Blunt. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b037smxb (Listen) MON The Sea Inside, Episode 1 MON MON Over 5 episodes, abridged by Katrin Williams, the author MON Philip Hoare tells us about a lifetime's association with MON the sea. The sea that is local to him and other seas that MON wait in far flung parts of the world. He walks by them, MON dives into them, and is wholly inspired by them: MON MON 1. The family house is now empty and the author uses it as MON his base. Nearby is a 'suburban sea', which lures him every MON day.. MON MON Reader Anthony Calf MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b037smxd (Listen) MON My Partner Abused My Child MON MON My partner sexually abused my child. Two mothers tell how MON their lives were torn apart when they discovered their child MON had been sexually abused by their partner. Victoria MON Derbyshire finds out how they coped with the trauma of the MON disclosure and the lasting impact on their lives. MON MON Whilst the 'telling' can be a huge relief for the child, for MON the mum it is the beginning of a long challenging road MON dealing with social workers, the police and often the court MON system. So how helpful are these professionals at a time of MON great emotional vulnerability for the mother and child? What MON can be done to support them through the difficult process of MON collecting reliable evidence and what could practitioners MON and policy makers do to improve the whole system? MON MON My partner sexually abused my child MON MON If your partner abuses your child, how do you cope? Victoria MON Derbyshire talks to mothers about their own traumatic MON experiences and the impact on their lives. We discuss the MON difficulties in collecting evidence and securing MON prosecutions in child sex abuse cases. Also a look at the MON treatment available to help the non-abusing mother. How MON important is this to enable her to help her child, now and MON in the future? MON MON Producer: Karen Dalziel MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037smxg (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 8, Episode 1 MON MON Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways return as Samuel and MON Elizabeth Pepys in Hattie Naylor's continuing dramatisation MON of the famous diaries. MON MON 1667. On New Year's Day, Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys awake to MON find the Thames covered in ice, while at the same time some MON parts of London still smoulder from last year's Great Fire. MON At Whitehall, Lord Brouncker's clerk is accused of taking MON bribes, and there are rumours that the French will invade. MON Sam, meanwhile, is preoccupied with finding a husband for MON his sister, Pauline, and with visiting various lady friends, MON including Mrs Knipp, Mrs Bagwell and Mrs Lane's sister, MON Doll. MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON Credits MON Samuel Pepys: Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys: Katherine Jakeways MON Will: John Biddle MON Lord Brouncker: Tim McMullan MON Betty: Bethan Walker MON Mrs Bagwell: Bethan Walker MON Mr Mitchell: Matthew Gravelle MON Lord Batten: Richard Mitchley MON Doll Lane: Eiry Thomas MON Director: Kate McAll MON Producer: Kate McAll MON Writer: Hattie Naylor MON MON 11:00 The Homeworker b037smxj (Listen) MON Lucy Mangan explores what the future holds for homeworking. MON Who wins employer or employee? Earlier this year Yahoo's MON CEO, Marissa Meyer made the shock announcement that the MON company was banning homeworking, is she swimming against a MON tide that's taken time of its own to turn and is this trend MON which still holds challenges for employers, now about to go MON in reverse? MON While Sue O'Brien , CEO of Norman Broadbent, a leading MON executive search company, agrees that it does require MON managers to change their mindset, she is adamant that she MON attracts a much higher calibre of employee by offering home MON and flexible working. MON Lucy talks to homeworkers about the benefits and drawbacks MON of not going into the office. On the up side there are, less MON distractions, it can fit around childcare and there are no MON irritating colleagues and tedious meetings. However it can MON be lonely, it certainly lacks the collaborative buzz of a MON busy office and research suggests that out of sight out of MON mind, can hold true when it comes to homeworkers being MON overlooked for promotion. MON Prof Dan Cable of The London Business School explains how MON homeworking has benefitted from new technology's and why he MON believes the economic advantages to employers makes this a MON working model for the future. MON Producer Lucy Lunt. MON MON 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b037smxl (Listen) MON Series 2, The Safe Room MON MON Births, Deaths and Marriages - returning for a second series MON - is the sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office MON where the staff deal with the three greatest events in MON anybody's life. MON MON Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan MON Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a MON stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any MON wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health MON and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? MON He's married thousands of women. MON MON Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been MON parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and MON Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just MON about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit MON in our new age of austerity. MON MON There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried MON he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may MON get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the MON only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. MON MON In the fourth episode, Malcolm's unhappy that a change in MON the law, allowing marriages to take place out of office MON hours, means he has to do a late night Halloween themed MON wedding. Lorna is delighted as it means more business for MON the office and she's also agreed to do a birth registration MON at a charity power walk for her new flat mate. Mary is MON teasing Luke who is being superstitious about Halloween, MON while Anita tries hard to be more decisive. MON MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Writer: David Schneider MON Malcolm: David Schneider MON Lorna: Sarah Hadland MON Anita: Sandy McDade MON Luke: Russell Tovey MON Mary: Sally Bretton MON Emma: Kate O'Sullivan MON Bride: Kate O'Sullivan MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b037smxn (Listen) MON Cola wine, premium theatre and a rise in student loan fraud MON MON A rise in student loan fraud, and cola-flavoured wine in MON France. Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b037qhf4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b037smxq (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 15 by 15 b037smxs (Listen) MON Series 2, Box MON MON Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an MON exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has MON different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along MON the way. MON MON Today's word is'box' and Hardeep joins boxing coach Naomi MON Gibson in the ring. Naomi runs a boxing school for aspiring MON women boxers and, for Hardeep, there is no hiding place. MON MON The word 'box' comes from Greek and Latin roots, and Russell MON Coates is an expert on topiary, running a nursery MON specialising in different shapes made from the slow-growing MON box wood tree. MON MON Susie Dent is on hand to explain phrases like 'box and cox', MON and Hardeep ends his journey at one of the many gigantic MON storage facilities, where Sonia Pirie tells him that a MON considerable part of her job is acting as a therapist for MON people whose relationship breakdowns mean they need to put MON their stuff somewhere fast. MON MON Producer: Richard Bannerman MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b037s8n2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00yj97j (Listen) MON Like an Angel Passing through My Room MON MON This is a story about love. The unconditional love of a MON devoted fan. At a party Christopher Green meets Anni-Frid MON Lyngstad aka Frida from Abba. He is the after dinner MON entertainment. She is a party guest. What starts as a 'I'm MON your biggest fan' conversation turns into a long chat about MON the nature of loving someone you've never met. From Olivier MON award-winning writer Christopher Green. MON MON This is a project several years in the making; what started MON as an upbeat reflection on fame and the notion of being a MON fan, developed into a meditation on the communication MON between two people and coping with the blows life deals. MON Green's partner died shortly after recording the interview MON with Frida, in which they talked about her long recovery MON from the death of her husband in 1999. This play is deeply MON personal and reflective but with a firmly comic sensibility. MON The journey takes in life and death, and some of the MON territory in between, with a heavy emphasis on pop music. MON MON Christopher Green's work is shamelessly entertaining: from MON the political bite of country music icon Tina C (star of MON four Radio 4 comedy series), and Ida Barr (star of Radio 4's MON Artificial Hip Hop) to commissions from the RSC, the British MON Library, the Tate gallery, the V&A, the Science Museum and MON the Barbican. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Christopher Green MON Himself: Christopher Green MON Herself: Anni-Frid Lyngstad MON Actor: Lloyd Thomas MON Acterss: Leah Brotherhead MON Director: Claire Grove MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b037smxv (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects. MON MON This week Nigel is joined by Martin Bell, Viv Groskop, MON Edward Petherbridge and David Schneider. MON MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b037s8mf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b037smxx (Listen) MON Barry Cryer MON MON Comedy guru Barry Cryer, star of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, MON chooses some of his favourite pieces of writing to present MON to an audience, with the help of readers Bernard Cribbins MON and Sheila Steafel. MON It's a funny and personal mix, from books that have both MON given him pleasure and marked significant events over the MON years, including works by JB Priestley, John Betjeman, Alan MON Bennett, Ogden Nash and Phyllis Diller. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b037smxz (Listen) MON Faith and Doubt MON MON Beyond Belief debates the place of religion and faith in MON today's complex world. Ernie Rea is joined by a panel to MON discuss how religious beliefs and traditions affect our MON values and perspectives. MON We live in an age of doubt. We have been taught to question MON everything. But it is the religious traditions which major MON in certainty which are on the increase. Fundamentalism is MON gaining pace, even in an age of science. MON MON In the first of a new series, Ernie Rea discusses the role MON of doubt within religion with Richard Holloway, the former MON Bishop of Edinburgh and author of "Leaving Alexandria - a MON memoir of faith and doubt", Shaykh Shams Ad-duha, Principal MON of Ebrahim College, London, which trains British Imams, and MON the theologian and astro-physicist, the Rev Professor David MON Wilkinson, Principal of St John's College, Durham. MON MON 17:00 PM b037smz8 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037qhf6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b037sz5k (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at Leicester's De Montfort Hall, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by semi-regular Rob Brydon, with MON Jack Dee in the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by MON Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b037snw2 (Listen) MON Helen's tetchy, and Kirsty has some good ideas. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b037snw4 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, who meets Nick Payne, writer of the MON much-acclaimed play Constellations. His new play, The Same MON Deep Water As Me, is set in the offices of a firm of MON personal injury lawyers. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037smxg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Bishop and the Bankers b037snw6 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON St Paul's cathedral - inside and out - has become a focus MON for the national conversation taking place since the MON financial crisis about the kind of people we want to be, the MON kind of society we want to live in and the economic systems MON that can support that. MON The programme continues the discussion about how we build MON virtue into our society. What are the implications of that MON for the model of Capitalism we operate? What are the virtues MON of the market and of Capitalism that we must retain and MON those we must reject? Is the very idea of ethical Capitalism MON an oxymoron? MON Joining James Jones to discuss these issues are Lord MON Skidelsky, Kerry Anne Mendoza, an activist from the Occupy MON movement, and Margaret Thatcher's former economic adviser MON Brian Griffiths. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b037sqm0 (Listen) MON Kermit Gosnell: Doctor and Murderer MON MON Dr Kermit Gosnell had a reputation as the 'abortion doctor MON of last resort' along the East Coast of the United States - MON until his arrest in 2010. He regularly performed abortions MON well past the legal limit of 24 weeks with the help of MON untrained staff. At least two women died because of the MON treatment they received at his Philadelphia clinic. He has MON now been sentenced to three life sentences for the murder of MON three babies born alive. MON But authorities only acted against Gosnell when they MON suspected him of selling prescription medicines. Warnings MON about the dangers to women and children were ignored. The MON gruesome story has renewed the abortion debate across the MON United States. Neal Razzell travels to Philadelphia to find MON out what went wrong and how his case is being used to change MON public policy - in ways, some say, will make women less MON safe. MON This programme contains some extremely disturbing content. MON Produced by Smita Patel. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b037hmx8 (Listen) MON What Is Sustainability? MON MON Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at MON the crunch point between human population and the natural MON world. In this week's programme we have a report from MON Gloucestershire on the waxing and waning of Eel populations. MON Jonathan Porritt, one of the founders of the sustainability MON charity Forum for the Future will be in the Shared Planet MON studio to explore the issues and the wider implication of MON sustainability. MON MON 21:30 The Sins of Literature b037sj0q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b037qhf8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b037sqm2 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037sqm4 (Listen) MON The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 6 MON MON Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The MON Norfolk Mystery. MON MON Sefton and Morley had set out to do field research for MON Morley's latest educational book - a guide to Norfolk. But MON they have been diverted by the death of the vicar in MON Blakeney. Morley is determined to get back on track though, MON so they pay a visit to a Miss Harris, a faded start of light MON opera. She shares with Morley some local myths and folk MON stories. With her regal manner, she 'measures out sentences MON as though she were handing out precious gifts.' She is also MON barely able to contain her disapproval for the late vicar; MON "He wore pullovers". Meanwhile Sefton hears shocking news MON about Hannah, and Lizzie tells him all of the local gossip MON about her and the vicar. MON The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris MON Morgan-Griffiths. MON Produced by: Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b037hmy5 (Listen) MON D is for Dictionary MON MON Since 1879, the Oxford English Dictionary has had only seven MON Chief Editors. As the current incumbent, John Simpson, MON prepares to retire later this year, Chris Ledgard pays him a MON visit. They look back at the challenges and the high points MON of his tenure; the controversies, the characters and the MON great weight of responsibility that the post carries. With MON archive of previous editors and staff, Chris and John MON consider what the future holds for this beloved institution. MON MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 Short Cuts b0213yg5 (Listen) MON Series 3, Taking Flight MON MON Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries in MON which people hurl themselves into the air with the hope of MON taking flight. MON MON We glide through the air, fall into the sea and explore MON grand leaps of the imagination, which cross the border MON between dreaming and reality. MON MON From comedian Holly Walsh's tale of hurtling off the edge of MON a pier in a handmade helicopter, through to the story of a MON trapeze artist balancing on the edge of falling as he casts MON himself upwards. MON MON The items featured in the programme are: MON MON The Fall MON Featuring Charlie Morley MON MON Sky Boy MON Produced by Hana Walker-Brown MON MON Falling for Rambo MON Featuring Holly Walsh MON Produced by Benjamin Partridge MON MON The Dreamers MON Featuring Charlie Morley MON MON Looking Up MON Originally broadcast in 'Space' from Radiolab MON http://www.radiolab.org MON MON Produced by Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 AUGUST 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b037qhg3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b037smxb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037qhg5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037qhg7 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037qhg9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b037qhgd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037t0ly (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented TUE by the Revd Scott McKenna. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b037t0m0 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Emma Campbell and Presented by Caz Graham. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378t34 (Listen) TUE Ringed Plover TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Michaela Strachan presents the ringed plover. Camouflage is TUE crucial to ringed plovers because they lay their eggs among TUE the pebbles and shingle of the open beach. To protect her TUE young from a predator, the Ringed Plover will stumble away TUE from the nest while dragging one wing on the ground. TUE Michaela Strachan's love of birds TUE TUE 06:00 Today b037t0m2 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Turkey: the New Ottomans b037tsw6 (Listen) TUE North Africa and the Middle East TUE TUE Allan Little charts the re-emergence of Turkey as a powerful TUE global force TUE TUE In the second programme of the series Allan delves further TUE into the emerging international influence of Turkey, looking TUE across North Africa and the Middle East. TUE TUE The AKP promoted itself as a model of how a party which has TUE roots in political Islam could govern a democracy and create TUE a dynamic economy. The turmoil of the Arab Spring, the TUE fallout from the Taksim Square demonstrations and, most TUE recently, the ousting of Egypt's Islamist government have TUE now challenged what many saw as an optimistic vision. TUE TUE In recent years Turkey had turned away from ever closer TUE alliances with Israel and the United States towards greater TUE involvement with its Arab neighbours, something that has TUE been greeted with suspicion as well as enthusiasm linked to TUE the legacy of Turkey's Ottoman past. How will this new TUE policy develop in a fast-changing region? TUE TUE Producer: Jane Beresford. TUE TUE 09:30 The Call b01qlkyd (Listen) TUE Series 3, Adoption TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have made and received TUE life-changing phone calls. TUE TUE Today he meets John Askey, the Northamptonshire man who TUE received a phone calls from a sister he didn't know existed. TUE For Rita Holford of Stoke-on-Trent, speaking to John was the TUE end of a long search to find her lost siblings. TUE John and Rita talk to Dominic about the search for the whole TUE truth of their family background, and what it's been like TUE getting to know their long-lost brothers and sisters. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b037t0ss (Listen) TUE The Sea Inside, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2. London has long been shaped by the waters that run TUE through it, and this has produced some amazing stories down TUE the decades. TUE TUE Reader Anthony Calf TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b037t0sv (Listen) TUE Emma Barnett presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037t0sx (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 8, Episode 2 TUE TUE On the 23rd of February, 1667, Sam celebrates the good TUE fortune of reaching his 34th birthday. Scandal rocks TUE Whitehall as Lord Brouncker's Clerk is accused of taking TUE bribes. He in turn accuses Lord Batten of the same, and Sam TUE accepts a series of 'gifts' from Commissioner Pett. Adapted TUE by Hattie Naylor. TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 The Pregnant Brain b037t1rh (Listen) TUE Zoe Williams explores the radical changes that take place in TUE a woman's brain over the course of pregnancy. It's an area TUE of women's health we know surprisingly little about - but TUE psychologists studying the effects of reproduction on the TUE brain are now beginning to make startling discoveries. TUE TUE During pregnancy, a woman's hormone levels rise to more than TUE 100 times those seen during any other naturally occurring TUE life event. The latest research suggests that these powerful TUE chemicals re-programme the mum-to-be in a process labelled TUE "maternal programming". TUE TUE The proponents of the maternal programming theory argue that TUE mothers are "made, not born" and the chemical and structural TUE changes that occur within the pregnant brain optimise a TUE woman's maternal behaviour in order for her to provide the TUE most sensitive and protective care when her child is born. TUE Zoe examines the implications of this theory for fathers and TUE adoptive parents who have not undergone this biological TUE priming. TUE TUE Zoe will also explore the effects of depression and stress TUE during pregnancy, discovering that, while post-natal TUE depression regularly grabs the headlines, ante-natal TUE depression is just as common. Studies suggest that children TUE born to mothers who suffered from clinically significant TUE levels of anxiety and depression during pregnancy are more TUE likely to suffer from a range of psychological and physical TUE problems and are three times more likely to develop TUE depression in later life. But this research has its critics, TUE who argue that women are getting blamed for the health TUE outcomes of their children and that telling women not to get TUE stressed during pregnancy only heightens their levels of TUE anxiety. TUE TUE Presenter: Zoe Williams TUE Producer: Max O'Brien TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 In Search of Nic Jones b037t1rk (Listen) TUE Laura Barton tracks down the legendary lost figure of folk TUE music, Nic Jones. TUE TUE Nic Jones has been hailed as the greatest talent the British TUE folk scene has ever produced. An expert, idiosyncratic TUE guitarist and songwriter, his 1980 album Penguin Eggs is way TUE a high-water mark for British folk music. And it proved to TUE be the last record Nic Jones would ever make. TUE TUE On the way home from a folk club booking in 1982, Nic's car TUE crashed head-on into a fully loaded lorry. His guitar was TUE the one thing that remained unbroken in the crash. In the TUE years that followed the prospect of Nic Jones performing on TUE stage again seems very remote indeed. TUE TUE But recently, thirty years after it seemed like his music TUE career had ended, with his final album hailed as a formative TUE influence on a raft of current artists-from Kate Rusby to TUE Laura Marling- Nic Jones has unexpectedly returned to the TUE stage in a series of - at first tentative - but always TUE emotional concert appearances. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Williams. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b037t1rm (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b037qhgg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b037t1rp (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 15 by 15 b037t1rr (Listen) TUE Series 2, Check TUE TUE Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an TUE exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has TUE different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along TUE the way. TUE TUE Today's word is 'check' and Susie Dent is on hand to explain TUE that all the meanings that 'check' has developed come from TUE the game of chess. TUE TUE Hardeep's other encounters include 9 year old Samuel, a TUE pupil at one of the many schools that takes part in the TUE Chess in Schools initiative, founded by Malcolm Pein. TUE TUE Hardeep stands in the middle of Carnaby Street with fashion TUE lecturer Amber Butchart on the look-out for checks as they TUE pass by, and he encounters the check list with one of the TUE many people who need a 'to do list' to help them organise TUE their lives and check off what they have to do that day. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b037snw2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f6862 (Listen) TUE The People's Passion, Trial TUE TUE Cathedrals still dominate our city centres: once symbols of TUE temporal power, of technological wonder, a vital part of our TUE musical health, and more recently the focus of protest and TUE appeals to a new morality - what do they mean to us now? TUE TUE Originally broadcast during Holy Week, The People's Passion TUE explores how our great cathedrals offer an image of the TUE contradictions of faith in twenty-first century Britain. TUE TUE The People's Passion Mass and Easter Anthem, composed TUE specially for the series by Sasha Johnson Manning, with TUE lyrics written by the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, not only TUE features in the programmes, but was made freely available by TUE the BBC, and sung by a hundred and fifty choirs around TUE Britain and across the world, during Easter 2012, including TUE Easter Day Worship on Radio 4, from Manchester Cathedral. TUE TUE 4/5: Trial TUE TUE by Nick Warburton TUE TUE Who are all the statues in the Cathedral? Who remembers all TUE the people named on the monuments? And why are there empty TUE spaces? When Samir comes to the Cathedral, with a TUE half-formed plan in his head and the means to carry it out TUE in his bag, he finds out why. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting TUE TUE Original music by Sasha Johnson Manning, with lyrics by TUE Michael Symmons Roberts. TUE TUE Performed by: TUE Manchester Chamber Choir, directed by Christopher Stokes, TUE with Jeffrey Makinson (organ), Rob Shorter (tenor), Rebecca TUE Whettam (cello), Jahan Hunter (trumpet) and Holly Marland TUE (recorder). TUE BBC Singers with Eleanor Gregory (soprano), Margaret Cameron TUE (alto), Chris Bowen (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (bass) and TUE Andrew Earis (piano). TUE Andrew Kirk (organ), and the choir of Saint Mary Redcliffe, TUE Bristol. TUE TUE Credits TUE The Old Man: David Bradley TUE Robert: James Fleet TUE James Greenstock: Gerard McDermott TUE Samir: Shane Zaza TUE Hannah: Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Writer: Nick Warburton TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b037tnxf (Listen) TUE Series 4, Southall TUE TUE This week Jay Rayner and his Kitchen Cabinet are in TUE Southall, an area of West London known for its excellent TUE Indian and Pakistani food. They discuss key Punjabi dishes TUE including Sarson da Saag and Paratha, take questions on TUE bitter greens, Tandoori paste and pressure cookers, and TUE debate the surprisingly contentious question of whether TUE yoghurt should be added to curry. TUE TUE On the panel are chefs Angela Malik, Ravinder Bhogal and TUE Rachel McCormack and food writer and restaurateur Tim TUE Hayward. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Philosopher's Arms b037tnxh (Listen) TUE Series 3, Exploitation TUE TUE Pints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Each TUE week Matthew goes to the pub to discuss a knotty conundrum TUE with an audience and a panel of experts. Free will, sex, TUE sexism, blame and shame are just some of the topics to be TUE mulled over in this series of The Philosopher's Arms. TUE TUE What is 'exploitation' - with philosopher Alex Voorhoeve. TUE TUE Producer: David Edmonds. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b037tnxm (Listen) TUE Misophonia, Mondegreens and Miscommunication TUE TUE An exploration of spoken language and communication in the TUE 21st century. Miscommunication, misophonia and mondegreens. TUE TUE Chris Ledgard meets people with a condition that isn't that TUE widely acknowledged by many General Practitioners: TUE misophonia. People who have it suffer extreme adverse TUE reactions to sounds created by other human beings; TUE frequently breathing or eating sounds. Chris asks about the TUE scientific research that is being undertaken, both in the UK TUE and abroad. TUE Stuart Maconie takes a look at mondegreens - aka misheard TUE lyrics - considering classics by Jimi Hendrix and Creedence TUE Clearwater Revival as well as some contemporary musical TUE misunderstandings in a track by the band Hot Chip. TUE Chris Ledgard also looks at communication in times of crisis TUE and disaster. TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b037tnxp (Listen) TUE Series 31, Episode 1 TUE TUE Astrologer and performer Russell Grant chooses one of the TUE greatest screen legends of cinema's early years - Ivor TUE Novello. Born in 1893 in Cardiff, he was also a talented TUE writer and composer, and would dominate both screen and TUE stage with his epic romantic fantasies, until his death in TUE 1951. TUE The son of a Cardiff rent collector and an internationally TUE renowned singing tutor, Novello, born David Ivor Davies, had TUE a musical childhood. He was a gifted choirboy, and composer, TUE but when his voice broke, he did not sing again. His TUE ambitious mother saw his future in classical composition and TUE moved with him to London before the First World War, to TUE pursue his fame. He would live near to London's theatrical TUE heartland, Drury Lane, all of his life. TUE Novello did not have to wait long for recognition. After a TUE brief stint in the Royal Naval Air Service, he burst onto TUE the musical scene in the First World War with the song Keep TUE the Home Fires Burning. This success led to a number of TUE commissions to write for the London stage, with his style TUE more operetta, than musical theatre. TUE In the 1920s, he began his film career, and he starred in TUE both silent films and the first 'talkies', becoming a TUE favourite of Alfred Hitchcock in the film 'The Lodger'. TUE Novello had a magnetic screen presence, and was a box office TUE favourite with men and women a like. His friend Noel Coward TUE said that the two most perfect things in the world were his TUE own wit, and Novello's profile. TUE After a brief spell in Hollywood, where he scripted dialogue TUE for 'Tarzan', Novello returned to Britain and wrote a string TUE of successful numbers for Drury Lane. Theatre-land in the TUE 1930s, was struggling, but each of Novello's romantic TUE operettas proved a huge success. However, his fortunes TUE turned during the Second World War, when he was briefly TUE jailed for the misuse of petrol coupons. The month he spent TUE in Wormwood Scrubs would have a lowering effect on him for TUE the rest of his life. His last West End production was the TUE lavish King's Rhapsody, and he performed up until the night TUE of his death of coronary thrombosis, in 1951. TUE Astrologer and entertainer Russell Grant first came to know TUE Novello's work when he too performed in a version of King's TUE Rhapsody in the 1970s, and he has loved his music ever TUE since. He joins Richard Stirling, author of the stage TUE biography of Novello, 'Love From Ivor', and the adaptor of TUE one of Novello's last productions, Gay's the Word. TUE Produced by Lizz Pearson. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b037tnxr (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037qhgl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b037tnxt (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE TUE What is Masterchef finalist Kirsty Wark's signature dish? TUE What is Andrew Maxwell's best character trait? What is TUE Francis Wheen's greatest fear? TUE TUE All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show TUE hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how TUE well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b037tph9 (Listen) TUE Lilian has some disturbing news, and there are echoes from TUE the past for Kenton and Jolene. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b037tsvy (Listen) TUE With Kirsty Lang, who reviews the latest film version of The TUE Lone Ranger, with Armie Hammer in the title role and Johnny TUE Depp as Tonto. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037t0sx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Science, Right or Left b037tsw0 (Listen) TUE Ehsan Masood looks at how science has increasingly become a TUE political battlefield between Left and Right. From nuclear TUE power and genetically modified crops through to the mother TUE of scientific-political rows over global warming, scientific TUE research has increasingly become the subject of political TUE debate. TUE TUE Masood talks to a range of leading scientists and TUE politicians, including current and former science ministers TUE to examine why this is happening and whether public TUE attitudes to science are being increasingly coloured by TUE politics. TUE TUE He looks at evidence from the United States that there has TUE been a stark shift in attitudes to science across the TUE political spectrum and asks whether scientists themselves TUE are playing a growing role in political debate. TUE TUE Producer: Adam Bowen. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b037tsw2 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Seven Ages of Science b037tsw4 (Listen) TUE Age of Ingenuity TUE TUE In the first of her Seven Ages of Science, Lisa Jardine TUE explores the history of modern science in Britain from its TUE birth in Restoration England. TUE TUE It was an Age of Ingenuity: an age when hundreds of TUE hard-working artisans in the City of London made clocks, TUE watches, microscopes and spectacles; when Robert Hooke TUE revealed an exquisite microscopic world; and when Isaac TUE Newton stood on the shoulders of giants. An Age when, Lisa TUE argues, an ability to make things work was as important as a TUE flair for mathematics.' TUE TUE One giant telescope is now a familiar item on the London TUE skyline: The Monument, built in memory of the Great Fire of TUE London, by Robert Hooke. The ingenious Mr Hooke was a TUE familiar figure on London's streets; helping to rebuild the TUE city whilst bustling between the many of his projects. He TUE worked on devices which are still familiar to us today - the TUE microscope, springs, and Hooke's Joint - a universal joint, TUE which is still used in our car transmissions. TUE TUE Isaac Newton, now remembered as a lone mathematical genius, TUE was very much part of all this ingenuity - although his TUE animosity with Hooke is well-documented. Newton said he TUE stood on the shoulders of giants: those shoulders belonged TUE not to previous generations of philosophers, but rather to a TUE host of ingenious mechanics. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 21:30 Turkey: the New Ottomans b037tsw6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b037qhgn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b037ty8n (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037ty8q (Listen) TUE The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 7 TUE TUE Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The TUE Norfolk Mystery. TUE TUE Morley's investigations are the talk of the town in the TUE village of Blakeney. They are also getting up the nose of TUE the Deputy Detective Chief Inspector for the Norfolk TUE Constabulary. Despite Morley's best efforts to engage the TUE detective in philosophical debate, the detective makes it TUE clear that Morley should keep his distance. So Morley TUE ignores Sefton's plea to investigate the desecration of the TUE statue of the Virgin Mary in the church, and decides instead TUE to visit Reverend Swain in the neighbouring village. TUE TUE The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris TUE Morgan-Griffiths. TUE TUE Produced by: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 23:00 28 Dates Later b037ty8s (Listen) TUE In her first Radio 4 series, London Hughes aka Miss London TUE writes and stars in a sitcom about the tricky world of TUE romance and dating in the capital - does it ever live up to TUE the romantic dreams pedalled by Rom Coms? Shona, played by TUE London works in a cinema with best friend Kristen and is TUE desperately searching for someone to make her life complete TUE but still doesn't get the compromises needed to make love TUE work. TUE With Gráinne Maguire and Humphrey Ker. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: London Hughes TUE Shona: London Hughes TUE Kristen: Grainne Maguire TUE Actor: Humphrey Ker TUE Producer: Jane Berthoud TUE TUE 23:30 Short Cuts b02mxyzc (Listen) TUE Series 3, Split TUE TUE Josie Long presents a series of delightful and adventurous TUE short documentaries, brief encounters, true stories and TUE found sound. TUE TUE We examine rips in the fabric of the universe as Josie Long TUE delves into stories of splits, divisions and tears. From TUE broken hearts to divided personalities. TUE TUE We hear from a woman who was so tired of being in two minds TUE that she surrendered all of her decision making to a piece TUE of string, a mimic who taught herself how to assume TUE alternate personalities and we recover from heartbreak using TUE the 'Automated Relationship Replacement Hotline'. TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE TUE Automated Relationship Replacement Hotline TUE Originally broadcast in WireTap TUE http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/ TUE TUE String TUE Produced by Natalie Kestecher TUE The full version of this story can be found here: TUE http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/string/4010 TUE 28 TUE TUE Split Voices TUE Produced by Sarah Cuddon TUE TUE Other Halves TUE Produced by Dennis Funk TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 AUGUST 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b037qhhm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b037t0ss (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037qhhp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037qhhr (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037qhht (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b037qhhw (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037tysz (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented WED by the Revd Scott McKenna. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b037tyt1 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Anna Jones and Presented by Caz Graham. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378t4y (Listen) WED Great Black-backed Gull WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Michaela Strachan presents the great black-backed gull. WED These gulls are the largest in the world. They are quite WED common around our coasts and you can see them in summer WED perched on a crag watching for any signs of danger or WED potential prey. Although they are scavengers Great WED Black-Backs will attack and kill other birds. WED Michaela Strachan's love of birds WED WED 06:00 Today b037v4f3 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 What's the Point of ... b037v4f5 (Listen) WED Series 5, Lawns WED WED We British are obsessed with our lawns. It's estimated there WED are between 15 and 18 million of them and every year we WED spend hundreds of millions of pounds and dedicate countless WED hours on them in pursuit of the perfect striped manicure. WED The roots of our love affair with lawns go deep in to our WED nation's history. The first record of what we would WED recognise as a lawn was in the 17th century and along with WED our passion for cricket, bowls, football and lawn tennis WED we've spread the art of lawn-making around the world. But at WED what cost? With pesticides, fertilisers, all that water and WED the carbon footprint of hour upon hour of mowing some would WED argue that lawns are anything but green. And with so many WED other things to fill our time, is it really worth all that WED cost and effort to produce mown concrete? What is the point WED of lawns? WED WED 09:30 Just So Science b01pw391 (Listen) WED How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin WED WED Vivienne Parry presents the science behind some of Rudyard WED Kipling's Just So Stories, with wondrous tales of how things WED really came to be. WED WED In Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, we're told how the WED leopard got his spots, the camel his hump, the whale his WED throat and so forth. But what does science make of these WED lyrical tales? For the most part, just-so stories are to be WED dismissed as the antithesis of scientific reasoning. They're WED ad hoc fallacies, designed to explain-away a biological or WED behavioural trait, more akin to folklore than the laws of WED science. But on closer inspection, might Kipling's fantasies WED contain a grain of truth? And might the "truth" as science WED understands it, be even more fantastic than fiction? WED WED In Just So Science, Vivienne Parry meets researchers whose WED work on some of Kipling's 'best beloved' creatures is WED helping us to answer a rather inconvenient question: how do WED traits evolve? Why are some animals the way they are? WED Excerpts from five of the Just So Stories are read by Samuel WED West WED 4. How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. Rhinos and horses have WED much in common. John Hutchinson studies both, but just don't WED ask to look inside his freezer. WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b037v4f9 (Listen) WED The Sea Inside, Episode 3 WED WED 3. Sri Lanka. Crack of dawn. Aboard the Kushan Putha. On the WED glassy surface a sight of fins, then flashes of colour, then WED something magnificent appears.. WED WED Reader Anthony Calf WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b037v4fc (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037v4ff (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 8, Episode 3 WED WED 1667. Samuel has a nightmare about his sick mother, and out WED of respect cancels his stone party, held every year to WED celebrate surviving an operation to remove a bladder stone. WED At work he finds the Navy office in a dismal state, with WED oarsmen and carpenters dying of hunger for lack of pay. He WED visits Jervas, the barber, to try on a new wig but doesn't WED buy it when he finds it's full of nits. Adapted by Hattie WED Naylor. WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 Techno Odyssey b037v4fh (Listen) WED Cash WED WED A new series where the poet Paul Farley re-imagines WED technology we rely on but take for granted, taking the WED listener on unexpected journeys into technological WED environments. WED WED From subsea fibre optics to artificial heart valves to cash WED in transit Paul makes us think again about the less seen but WED vital spaces and systems that make our world tick. In each WED programme he writes a poem, as a response to each WED environment. WED WED 2. Cash WED WED We expect an ATM to immediately serve up our cash, but how WED did that note get there? Where was it last week and where WED will it be tomorrow or the next day? In this Techno Odyssey, WED Paul goes through the hole in the wall and follows the WED secret journey of a ten pound note as it passes through the WED hands of the cash industry. The guide in his poem is the God WED of Money. He gains rare access to one of the capital's cash WED processing centres, hidden in plain sight, which warehouses WED hundreds of millions of pounds and keeps money moving around WED society. He follows the money: from its birthplace on the WED Bank of England's printing press, through our pockets to the WED streets to the counting house and back again until the note WED is withdrawn from circulation and is turned into the most WED valuable compost in the world. WED WED Reader Paul Hilton WED Produced by Neil McCarthy WED Sound Design by Phil Cannell WED WED 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b037v4fk (Listen) WED Concerning Mr Zola WED WED Part 6 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, WED Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, WED and A Case for Paul Temple. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory WED Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the WED mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. WED WED Episode 6: Concerning Mr Zola. WED A lingering scent of perfume may give a vital clue to the WED latest murder. WED WED Credits WED Paul Temple: Crawford Logan WED Steve: Gerda Stevenson WED Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas WED Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie WED Edward Day: Nick Underwood WED Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser WED Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood WED Masidon: Robin Laing WED Zola: Greg Powrie WED Producer: Patrick Rayner WED Writer: Francis Durbridge WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b037v4fm (Listen) WED Consumer news with Aasmah Mir. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b037v4fp (Listen) WED The RSPCA - A law unto itself? WED WED For almost 200 years, the RSPCA has been the nation's WED conscience on animal welfare. The UK's biggest animal WED charity has also been in the forfront when it comes to WED enforcing decent standards of animal care. But more recently WED questions are being asked about how the organisation is WED changing. WED WED There are claims that it is too quick to prosecute WED vulnerable people - the elderly, people with mental health WED issues or mobility problems - rather than advising or WED helping them better look after their pets. Some never get WED over the shock of being raided by the police and RSPCA - WED even if they're later completely cleared of any wrongdoing. WED They suspect that front page coverage of RSPCA raids may be WED at least partly motivated by a desire for donation-boosting WED publicity. And WED WED Vets and lawyers claim to have been unfairly targeted WED because they've given evidence against the RSPCA in court. WED WED Face the Facts investigates how the RSPCA is changing and WED whether it is in danger of losing its way. WED WED Presenter:John Waite WED Producer:Paul Waters WED Editor:Andrew Smith. WED WED 12:57 Weather b037qhhy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b037v4fr (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 15 by 15 b037v4ft (Listen) WED Series 2, Clog WED WED Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an WED exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has WED different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along WED the way. WED WED Today's word is 'clog', and etymologist Susie Dent is on WED hand to explain the origin of the word as a block of wood, WED which came to mean the footwear as well as the notion of WED clogging or blocking anything from arteries to drains. WED WED Hardeep meets Phil Howard, one of the few remaining WED clog-makers in Great Britain, and hears tales of three WED clog-busters who deal with obstructions of all kinds, in WED drains and down manholes. WED WED He also talks to Kate Tattersall who runs the Camden Clog, a WED group of dancers who trace their dances back to the WED Lancashire cotton mills, where the millworkers tapped their WED clogs in time to the machines - a moment of history restaged WED by Sarah Angliss and Caroline Radcliffe. WED WED Producer: Richard Bannerman WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b037tph9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037v4fw (Listen) WED Obey the Wave WED WED By Ed Hime WED WED A fictional documentary. Alec Turin, sci-fi writer and WED creator of cosmic refugee, Lazarus Jones, investigates the WED Boolians, a religious movement 32 of whose members - WED including his parents - disappeared in broad daylight in WED 1973. WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Alec: Justin Salinger WED Duncan: Sam Swann WED Ursula: Joannah Tincey WED Megan: Lisa Diveney WED Lazarus: Sean Murray WED Marie: Amaka Okafor WED Vicky: Philippa Stanton WED Tharg: Michael Bertenshaw WED Ian: David Seddon WED Warwick Nye: Ben Crowe WED Young Alec: Felix Lailey WED Writer: Ed Hime WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED Producer: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 15:00 How You Pay for the City b037r5dh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Seven Ages of Science b037tsw4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b037v4g0 (Listen) WED The Minutemen; 'Lay' Witnesses in Court WED WED The Minutemen - who are they? Laurie Taylor talks to US WED sociologist, Harel Shapira about the right wing activists WED who patrol the US border in search of illegal immigrants. WED How should these men be characterised - as vigilantes, WED patriots or racists? Shapira met men who fought in Vietnam WED and Desert Storm and spoke of an America which no longer WED exists. Living alongside these men, he uncovered narratives WED of lost identity and community as well as extreme political WED convictions. Also, Nigel Fielding observed 65 crown court WED cases in England as part of his study into the effects of WED criminal trial procedures on 'lay' people, including WED victims, witnesses and defendants. His research highlights WED the confusion, anxiety and frustration which is often felt WED by the legally untrained in the face of courtroom WED convention. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b037v4g2 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b037v4g4 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037qhj0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b037v4g6 (Listen) WED Absolutely Special WED WED Following the audience response to classic sketch group WED Absolutely's guest appearance on the second series of Radio WED 4's Sketchorama, this special edition is devoted to the WED reunion performance and features further, previously unheard WED material from the recording held in April 2013 at the Oran WED Mor venue in Glasgow. WED WED The much-loved sketch group - consisting of Pete Baikie, WED Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John WED Sparkes - recorded almost 45 minutes of material so this WED full half-hour show offers the opportunity to hear even more WED from Stoneybridge and Calum Gilhooley, as well as new WED sketches from other Absolutely characters such as Frank WED Hovis and The Old Lady Artist. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie. WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b037v4g8 (Listen) WED It's Brian to the rescue, and things at the golf club aren't WED all they seem. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b037v4gb (Listen) WED Novelist Naomi Alderman reports on the art of translating WED fiction, with writers Ian McEwan, A S Byatt, Ali Smith and WED David Baddiel, while three translators take on the French WED prose of Jules Verne. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037v4ff (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b037v4gd (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Kenan Malik and WED Giles Fraser. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b037v4gg (Listen) WED Series 4, Andrew Graystone WED WED Andrew Graystone speaks from personal experience to argue WED that we're using the wrong language to talk about cancer. WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. Speakers explain their thinking on the WED trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a live WED audience. WED WED 21:00 Land of the Rising Sums b01nkxkv (Listen) WED Alex Bellos visits Japan, on a quest to discover why Asian WED cultures seem so much better at maths and numbers than many WED western countries. He looks at the cultural difference in WED the Japanese approach to numbers and asks whether there is WED something fundamental in Japanese culture that keeps them at WED the upper end of international numeracy league tables. Alex WED explores the language used to describe numbers themselves, WED the songs taught in schools to teach children their times WED tables, and the passion the Japanese still show for the WED ancient but foolproof abacus, even in the computer age. He WED visits the national abacus competition in Kyoto to see the WED incredible mathematical feats achieved by children as young WED as 5 and discovers why abacus users actually use a different WED part of the brain to most people doing mathematical WED problems, and whether this could be the key to their WED superior number skills. WED WED Producer: Alexandra Feachem. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of ... b037v4f5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b037qhj2 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b037v4gj (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037v4gl (Listen) WED The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 8 WED WED Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The WED Norfolk Mystery. Morley is still determined to discover who WED sent the bullet in the post to the vicar. On his visit to WED Reverend Swain from the neighbouring village, he discovered WED that Swain had been good friends with the late vicar for WED years, having met at Oxford. However, Morley's attempts to WED get Swain to speculate on the motivation for the vicar's WED suicide were thwarted. WED Their latest research for their guide to the county of WED Norfolk takes Morley and Sefton to College Park; home to a WED community of artists headed by the enigmatic Juan and his WED muse, Constance. Although Morley is thrilled to annotate the WED steps of their folk dancing, it turns out that the bohemians WED also remain tight lipped to the point of defensiveness when WED it comes to the dead vicar and his housekeeper. Morley WED sniffs something amiss. WED The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris WED Morgan-Griffiths. WED Produced by: Sarah Langan. WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b037v4gn (Listen) WED North Beach, San Francisco WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. WED WED His night, held in various venues around New York, was WED called the Antihoot. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others, discovering and nurturing lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches. WED But nobody discovered him. WED WED This week Lach remembers the time he spent in North Beach, WED San Francisco, hanging out with the beatniks. WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED WED Executive Producer: Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01jhdht (Listen) WED Pedro WED WED Strap in for 15 minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever WED Peter bring you a death plunge, a leap across a ravine and a WED sexy clown. WED WED Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning WED sketch team - get their own Radio 4 show. WED WED From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another WED Case of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny WED Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of WED tri-coloured jerseys. WED WED Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and special guest Catriona Knox WED WED Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and Dominic Stone WED WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Short Cuts b02x7njf (Listen) WED Series 3, Lines of Communication WED WED Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries about WED communication - messages that could break your heart, rescue WED you from a fight or save you from a long stay in jail. WED WED The writer Glenn Patterson explains why sometimes we should WED ignore the writing on the wall, and musician Tom Robinson WED describes the unlikely message he sent at a time when he was WED in a lot of trouble. WED WED Stories of last words, lost love and lights being knocked WED out. WED WED The items featured in the programme are: WED WED Guess Who WED Found sound from the collection of Mark Vernon WED http://www.meagreresource.com/ WED WED L'Esprit De L'Escalier WED Produced by Hana Walker-Brown WED WED Yanto WED Featuring Glenn Patterson WED Produced by Rachel Hooper WED WED Message from Above WED Featuring Tom Robinson WED Produced by Alan Hall WED WED Dear Sophie WED Produced by Sara Parker WED WED Conversations with Nic WED Featuring Esther Baker WED WED Produced by Eleanor McDowall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 AUGUST 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b037qhk6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b037v4f9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037qhk8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037qhkb (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037qhkd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b037qhkg (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037vb37 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented THU by the Revd Scott McKenna. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b037vb39 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Anna Varle and Presented by Caz Graham. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378tjf (Listen) THU Oystercatcher THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the oystercatcher. These black THU and white waders used to be called sea-pies because of their THU pied plumage, which contrasts sharply with their pink legs THU and long red bill. Oystercatchers don't often eat oysters. THU Instead they use their powerful bill to break into mussels THU on rocks or probe for cockles in the mud of estuaries. THU Michaela Strachan's love of birds THU THU 06:00 Today b037vb3c (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b037vb3f (Listen) THU Series 9, Assisted Conception and Disability THU THU Rosemary has battled with severe health problems for many THU years. She has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and, following THU complications of spinal surgery, she is now a full time THU wheelchair user and her breathing is impaired. She receives THU her nutrition via a tube fed directly into her blood stream THU and she empties her bowels into a bag attached to the small THU intestine. THU THU She has always wanted a child and now, aged 36 and in the THU early stages of a relationship, she asks for assisted THU conception. THU THU The fertility doctor refers Rosemary on to various THU specialists at the hospital, who enumerate the risks. If THU Rosemary is to have IVF, she'll need a general anaesthetic THU which would be extremely risky for her. Furthermore, any THU pregnancy could be life threatening to Rosemary and a THU potential fetus, and the team are concerned about the THU welfare of a future child. Also, if Rosemary becomes THU pregnant, her child could inherit Elhers-Danlos Syndrome as THU the condition is genetic. THU THU While hospitals look after women with complex problems who THU are already pregnant, enabling a woman like Rosemary to THU become pregnant is an ethical challenge of a different THU order. But Rosemary herself is adamant she wants to take the THU risk, whatever the potential consequences. THU THU Should the fertility team help Rosemary get pregnant? THU THU Joan Bakewell and a panel of guests discuss this ethical THU issue. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b037v7lp (Listen) THU The Sea Inside, Episode 4 THU THU 4. On a ferry trip to New Zealand's South Island, lazily THU raising the binoculars and looking out THU reveals a huge grey shape - that's not too far away! THU THU Reader Anthony Calf THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b037vb3k (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037vb3m (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 8, Episode 4 THU THU 1667. The Dutch have entered the Thames. Sam sends his wife THU and his father to the country with his gold and tells them THU to bury it at night - then is furious when he finds they've THU done it in daylight. Mrs Lane sends a letter telling Sam THU she's pregnant. Elizabeth complains that Sam is always out THU and she never sees him - he tweaks her nose during a heated THU argument. Peace is made with the Dutch. THU Adapted by Hattie Naylor. THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b037vb3p (Listen) THU Romania, Religion and Riches THU THU Since the fall of Ceaucescu's dictatorship, the Romanian THU Orthodox Church has flourished. It has built thousands of THU new churches across the country and is now constructing a THU huge new cathedral in the capital Bucharest. The Cathedral THU is right next to Ceaucescu's gargantuan "Palace of the THU People" and, when completed, is intended to be taller - a THU physical manifestation of the Church's power and influence. THU Much of the money for the construction of these new churches THU and the cathedral has come from state funds - national, THU regional and local - as well as donations from THU congregations. THU While the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC) argues that the THU churches are needed and wanted by most Romanians, there are THU those who feel that the ROC has too great an influence and THU is costing too much. Tessa Dunlop hears from believers, THU politicians, monks and an Archbishop, about how religious THU the country is, and whether or not the Church is too THU powerful and too rich. THU THU Producer: John Murphy. THU THU 11:30 The Gambaccini Years b037vb3r (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Paul Gambaccini is the only broadcaster who has presented THU regular programmes on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4. This year marks THU his fortieth anniversary in British broadcasting, since his THU arrival at Radio 1 in 1973 from American college radio and THU Rolling Stone magazine. THU THU In a series of special shows, recorded with an audience, THU Paul and invited guests look back at his long career, with THU extracts from some of his all-time favourite interviews. The THU programmes cover interviews with his pop music heroes, as THU well as with major figures from the world of theatre, cinema THU and comedy, conducted during his time as a presenter and THU interviewer on arts programmes such as Kaleidoscope. THU THU Joining Paul in the studio for the first in the series are THU music legends Elton John and Joan Armatrading, lyricist Tim THU Rice, writer and former Python Michael Palin, and fellow THU music broadcaster Bob Harris. THU THU Producer: Paul Bajoria. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b037vb3t (Listen) THU Consumer news with Aasmah Mir. THU THU 12:57 Weather b037qhkj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b037vb3w (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 15 by 15 b037vb3y (Listen) THU Series 2, Jam THU THU Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an THU exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has THU different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along THU the way. THU THU Today's word is'jam', and etymologist Susie Dent is on hand THU to explain the origin of the word as an onomatopoeic sound THU of the jaws 'champing' or chomping away at food. Soon it THU developed the meaning of being squeezed or trapped, and THU first appeared in Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. THU THU Hardeep encounters Russell Holden who reports on traffic THU jams across the UK and, on a more tasty track, he samples THU the preserves of Emmerline Smy, who has been making jams, THU jellies and chutneys for 20 years. THU THU Susie Dent shows how the musical sense of 'jam' came along THU in the 30's, and Hardeep visits the Blues Jam at The Globe THU in Hackney and a Maths jam in Holborn. THU THU Producer: Richard Bannerman THU A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b037v4g8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b036w39n (Listen) THU Bang Up THU THU Bang Up by Sarah Hehir THU THU Winner of the first BBC Writer's Prize. THU THU Emma teaches creative writing in a detention centre . Her THU life is imploding. Her estranged father contacts her with THU news of the birth of a baby . Throwing herself into work THU with the young offenders, new student Lee surprises her with THU the sensitivity of his writing . THU THU Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Sarah Hehir THU Lee: Samuel Holland THU Emma: Gillian Kearney THU Bruce: Simeon Truby THU Patrick: Paul Sockett THU Ray: Matt Sutton THU SEG Guard: Matt Sutton THU Ishan: Faz Shah THU Guard: James Quinn THU Director: Susan Roberts THU THU 15:00 Open Country b037vb40 (Listen) THU Crossing the Forth THU THU The profiles of the two Forth bridges, rail and road, are a THU familiar and much-loved part of the Edinburgh landscape. THU Spanning the Firth of Forth between North and South THU Queensferry, the cantilevers of the rail bridge stand as a THU monument to Victorian ambition and achievement in THU engineering and building. Learning lessons from the great THU Tay Bridge disaster of 1879, its architects took bridge THU building into an entirely new era and the vision and THU physical toil involved in its construction leave present-day THU engineers in awe. A recent ten-year renovation programme has THU left the bridge in line for World Heritage Site status, THU while, as Helen Mark discovers, its importance to the people THU who live and work with it day to day goes far beyond its THU function as a crossing of the firth. Local people tell Helen THU that it serves as a constant reminder of the men who THU laboured to build the bridge and who, in many cases, lost THU their lives in the process. THU THU The road bridge was also a ground-breaker when it was opened THU in 1964, and quickly became an iconic landmark in its own THU right. But it will soon find itself overshadowed by a new THU neighbour, to be named, by public vote, the Queensferry THU Crossing. The bridge's chief engineer takes Helen to admire THU the view from the top of one of the road bridge's towers and THU discusses how it will feel, when the new bridge opens, to THU surrender the title of Bridgemaster. THU THU The murky waters of this stretch of the Firth of Forth will THU soon have three bridges - one from the nineteenth century, THU one from the twentieth and one from the twenty first - and THU for engineers and local people alike, that says something THU very significant about Scotland and its place in engineering THU history. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b037s0zy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b037s8mt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b037vb42 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b037vb44 (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b037vb46 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037qhkl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b01n9whw (Listen) THU Series 3, Memory Lapse; If I Ruled the World THU THU The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his THU wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience THU readings. This week, the stories include childhood memories THU of competitive parenting in "Memory Lapse", and a character THU monologue imagining what life would be like "If I Ruled The THU World!" THU THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b037v9cn (Listen) THU Kenton is full of plans, and the ale is flowing at Lower THU Loxley. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b037vb48 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with writer Roddy THU Doyle, whose new novel The Guts focuses on Jimmy Rabbitte, THU who first appeared in his 1987 novel The Commitments. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037vb3m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b037vb4b (Listen) THU Why can't we catch the athletes who dope? THU THU In the run up to the World Athletics Championships held in THU Moscow next week, Simon Cox asks whether enough is being THU done to combat doping in sport. THU Olympic Legacy THU Olympic Security THU THU 20:30 In Business b037vb4d (Listen) THU Gene Patenting THU THU Ever since the mapping of the human genome was completed 10 THU years ago medical companies have been rushing to patent THU genes that define all of us for their own exclusive use. Now THU the US Supreme Court has ruled against patenting things THU found in nature. Peter Day asks what this means for the THU biotech business.and for the future of healthcare. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b037vb44 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Zeitgeisters b02x58c8 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU As part of Radio 4's Year of Culture initiative, the BBC THU Arts Editor Will Gompertz meets the cultural entrepreneurs THU who are shaping our lives and defining the very spirit of THU our age. THU THU These are not Turner Prize winners or the recipients of THU grants from the Arts Council or the Lottery Fund. These are THU the people behind the scenes, pulling the strings and THU plotting a path of consumer-driven success. They are the THU designers of the latest 'must have' piece of technology or THU clothing, the brains behind an artist's development, and the THU tastemakers that know what will work at the box office and THU what will sell on the high street. Their impact goes beyond THU mere commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. They are the THU Zietgeisters and it's about time we met them. THU THU Over the next four weeks he'll be talking with the visionary THU masterminds plotting a future for education, music and THU television. But the first Zeitgeister is the founding editor THU of Vogue China, Angelica Cheung... the woman who not only THU wants to change the meaning of Made in China, but also THU change China itself. She's been called the most powerful THU woman in fashion today and the gate-keeper of the growth THU hotspot of the world - the market where consumer demand is THU unlimited. THU THU For Angelica Cheung, fashion is not frippery. It's important THU - as a global business worth billions, and as a platform for THU freedom of expression. It allows individuals to be THU individual - it's political. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 21:58 Weather b037qhks (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b037vcx0 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037vcx2 (Listen) THU The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 9 THU THU Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The THU Norfolk Mystery. THU Morley and Sefton are keen to meet the person who painted a THU disturbing and lustful portrait of the maid, Hannah. Their THU next enquiries take them to the local shop where their best THU efforts at discrete enquiry are thwarted by a big man THU wielding a cricket bat. Then, Morley is harangued into THU attending a sherry party hosted by the Thistle Smiths, where THU he is a fish out water. Sefton discovers that the aged Mrs THU Thistle Smith has a teenage son. Meanwhile, the professor THU makes the fatal mistake of ragging Morley. THU The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris THU Morgan-Griffiths. THU Produced by: Sarah Langan. THU THU 23:00 North by Northamptonshire b00sv6fw (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU THU Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie THU Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. THU This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small THU town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a THU talent night. It is written by and also stars Katherine THU Jakeways. THU THU Recently divorced Jan gets two compliments in one day. THU Meanwhile her ex husband Frank performs the most THU embarrassing version of Je T'Aime ever heard, with his new THU love, Angela. THU THU Across town Rod the local supermarket manager (Mackenzie THU Crook) is still sharing rather more than is usual about his THU private life over the store's tannoy system. Could he be THU getting closer to Tanya on till 4? THU THU Written by Katherine Jakeways THU Produced by Claire Jones. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Rod: Mackenzie Crook THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Keith: John Biggins THU Frank: Rufus Wright THU Angela: Lizzie Roper THU Producer: Claire Jones THU THU 23:30 Short Cuts b02ykrdd (Listen) THU Series 3, Lost and Found THU THU Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries with THU stories of loss and discovery. THU THU From being lost in the music to lost love - Josie delves THU into tales of forgotten cassette tapes, voices rediscovered THU and teenage rebellion. THU THU Hide and Seek THU Feat. Steve Colgan THU THU Lost in Music THU Produced by Steve Urquhart THU THU I am Luther Blissett THU Produced by Rosanna Arbon THU THU Fluctuations THU Produced by Phil Smith THU THU Lost Voices THU Feat. Jude Rogers THU THU Looking for Layla THU Produced by Hana Walker-Brown THU THU Producer: Eleanor McDowall THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 AUGUST 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b037qhlp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b037v7lp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037qhlr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037qhlt (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037qhlw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b037qhly (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037v7lr (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, presented FRI by the Revd Scott McKenna. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b037v7lt (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Emma Campbell and Presented by Caz Graham. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378tmb (Listen) FRI Long-Tailed Tit FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Michaela Strachan presents the long-tailed tit. They are FRI sociable birds and family ties are vital. They even roost FRI together at night, huddled in lines on a branch, and this FRI behaviour saves lives in very cold winter weather. The nest FRI of the Long-Tailed Tit is one of the most elaborate of any FRI UK bird, a ball of interwoven moss, lichen, animal hair, FRI spider's webs and feathers. FRI Michaela Strachan's love of birds FRI Michaela Strachan's love of birds FRI FRI 06:00 Today b037v8vn (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b037s4f5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b037v8vq (Listen) FRI The Sea Inside, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5. Travelling the world, seeing all things aquatic, yet it FRI is the FRI 'suburban sea' of childhood and the sound of the blackbird FRI that draws the author home... FRI FRI Reader Anthony Calf FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b037v8vs (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037v8vv (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 8, Episode 5 FRI FRI 1667. Now that peace has been declared with the Dutch, Sam FRI goes to the country, with his wife and father, and Will to FRI dig up his gold at the dead of night. Unfortunately, they FRI can't quite remember where they put it. There's a threat of FRI an enquiry into the recent skirmish with the Dutch and Sam FRI fears that the blame will land at his door. The year ends FRI with mince pies and harmony in the Pepys household. FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Ecce! Fife! or Rediscovering the Lost Latin of Fife FRI b037v8vx (Listen) FRI In Fife in Scotland, schoolchildren are learning Latin FRI through a project run by St Andrews University and the FRI charity IRIS. But as Natalie Haynes discovers, Fife has a FRI lost Latin heritage, and one which scholars are working to FRI bring back into the light. FRI FRI 11:30 With Nobbs On b01j0zzj (Listen) FRI From Badger to Frost FRI FRI Written and presented by David Nobbs. FRI FRI David Nobbs is the comic genius behind Reggie Perrin, The FRI Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Radio 4's The FRI Maltby Collection. In With Nobbs On he presents a three-part FRI series of entertaining, joke-laden, insider observations on FRI his comedy career to a studio audience - along with guest FRI readings, archive material and unpredictable delights. FRI FRI Episode 1 - From Badgers to Frost FRI A young David realizes there's more to writing a novel than FRI just the title, and TV fame beckons when cabs are sent to FRI collect David's sketches for an iconic, groundbreaking FRI satirical show. FRI FRI Featuring Martin Trenaman and Mia Soteriou FRI FRI Produced by Andrew McGibbon FRI A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b037v8vz (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Aasmah Mir. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b037qhm0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b037v9c9 (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 15 by 15 b037v9ch (Listen) FRI Series 2, Hip FRI FRI Hardeep Singh Kohli chooses a word and sets off on an FRI exploration into its origins, meeting people for whom it has FRI different associations. He hopes to learn 15 things along FRI the way. FRI FRI Today's word is'Hip', which shoots off in various directions FRI from different roots. FRI FRI Susie Dent is on hand to trace the origins of the different FRI meanings, from the anatomical sense to the essence of FRI 'cool'. FRI FRI Hardeep tests Amber Butchart on who is 'hip' and who is not, FRI talks to orthopaedic surgeon Adrian O'Gorman about the FRI sharper points of hip replacements, and gets his FRI come-uppance from salsa teacher Douglas Gomes as he tries to FRI make Hardeep's hips move to the Latin-American beat. FRI FRI And there are shorter excursions into the origins of hip hip FRI hooray and hip hop. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b037v9cn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037v9cr (Listen) FRI Red Star Newport FRI FRI By Paul Jenkins FRI FRI A satirical drama about greed and the beautiful game. FRI FRI Footballer Damon Bowen always dreamed of winning the FRI Champions League, but facing the prospect of ending his FRI career at lowly Newport City, things haven't turned out FRI quite how he hoped. Newport are on the verge of financial FRI ruin and any prospect of promotion into the Premiership FRI seems implausible. But Damon's Manager, Harry Hughes, has a FRI plan to change all that. FRI FRI As football becomes increasingly dominated by record FRI transfer fees and oligarch owners, Red Star Newport imagines FRI what it would mean to set up the first co-operative football FRI club. Initially fuelled by solidarity and a new sense of FRI team spirit, Newport go from strength to strength. But FRI before long the dream sours as it's decided that some FRI players are more equal than others. FRI FRI Directed by James Robinson FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Damon: Matthew Gravelle FRI Harry: Phylip Harries FRI Alex: Aleksandar Mikic FRI Ash: Lloyd Thomas FRI Tudor-Jones: Richard Elfyn FRI Connor: Paul Jenkins FRI Doctor: Paul Jenkins FRI Interviewer: Jessica Dyas FRI Writer: Paul Jenkins FRI Director: James Robinson FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b037v9cv (Listen) FRI Upminster FRI FRI Chaired by Eric Robson, the Gardeners' Question Time team is FRI in Upminster. Gardening experts Matthew Biggs, Anne FRI Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew attempt to solve the local FRI audience's horticultural queries. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Feminine Mystiques b037v9jl (Listen) FRI What to Expect FRI FRI By Aminatta Forna FRI Read by Doon MacKichan FRI FRI Fifty years since the first publication of Betty Friedan's FRI seminal feminist work The Feminine Mystique, three leading FRI writers to celebrate her influence in new short stories FRI exploring the contemporary feminist landscape. FRI FRI Doon MacKichan reads Aminatta Forna's surreal and wryly FRI funny contemporary story. A young woman rebels against the FRI weight of expectation and the minute daily constraints of FRI appropriate behaviour. A story with an unexpected and FRI humourous twist. FRI FRI Aminatta Forna is winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize FRI and judge of the Man Booker International Prize. She is the FRI autor of Ancestor Stones and The Hired Man FRI FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b037v9jn (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b037v9jq (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 is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio FRI justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles FRI you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the FRI top. FRI FRI We will also be digging down into the mystery of the FRI programme makers world. Getting an idea of why things turn FRI out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and FRI offer suggestions on the way things are done. FRI FRI So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme FRI anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something FRI could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've FRI heard something brilliant, tell us. FRI FRI We are also interested in your general views about how FRI broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. FRI You can contact us about everything from programme FRI scheduling to management pay. FRI FRI Email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b037v9js (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037qhm2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b037v9l5 (Listen) FRI Series 81, Episode 7 FRI FRI Special Edinburgh edition of the topical comedy show FRI recorded at the Fringe and hosted by Sandi Toksvig. With FRI panellists Susan Calman, Jeremy Hardy and Matt Forde. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b037v9l7 (Listen) FRI Brenda's in touch and Oliver is looking forward to a FRI holiday. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Director: Sue Wilson FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Anthea: Joanna Brookes FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b037vb11 (Listen) FRI John Wilson reflects on the career of The Clash, with band FRI members Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Nicky 'Topper' Headon, FRI and John's archive interview with the late Joe Strummer. FRI FRI Producer John Goudie. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037v8vv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b037vb13 (Listen) FRI Nick Robinson presents political debate and discussion from FRI Broadcasting House, London with Professor Sir Hugh FRI Pennington Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at Aberdeen FRI University, poet Benjamin Zephaniah and Martin Lewis the FRI founder of moneysavingexpert.com. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b037vb15 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01j2bmz (Listen) FRI The Haunted Hotel FRI FRI The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins; dramatised by Rod FRI Beacham. FRI FRI Wilkie Collins' gothic horror tale is a powerful combination FRI of ghost story and detective mystery. In 1860, the FRI formidable Countess Narona marries a rich young aristocrat FRI in London - but shortly after travelling to Venice her FRI husband dies, apparently of natural causes, leaving the FRI Countess a rich woman. Years later, guests in a Venetian FRI hotel encounter the terrifying apparition of a murder victim FRI seeking revenge. FRI FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Wilkie Collins FRI Adaptor: Rod Beacham FRI Henry Westwick: Harry Lloyd FRI Agnes Lockwood: Jasmine Hyde FRI Countess Narona: Adjoa Andoh FRI Francis Westwick: Simon Bubb FRI Suzannah Westwick: Katherine Igoe FRI Emily Ferrari: Alex Rivers FRI Megan: Josie Kidd FRI Doctor Wybrow: Gerard McDermott FRI Carstairs: James Lailey FRI Doctor Bruno: Rod Beacham FRI Director: Bruce Young FRI Producer: Bruce Young FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b037qhm4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b037vb17 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037vflr (Listen) FRI The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 10 FRI FRI Julian Rhind-Tutt reads the final part of Ian Sansom's new FRI comic thriller, The Norfolk Mystery. FRI FRI Swanton Morley and his assistant Stephen Sefton had set out FRI in rural Norfolk to conduct field research for Morley's FRI latest set of guidebooks. However their attentions have been FRI diverted by the deaths of the local vicar and his maid, FRI Hannah. In the pursuit of their enquiries, they have bumped FRI into several local characters; the formidable Miss Harris, FRI the parsimonious Reverend Swain, the free spirited Juan and FRI Constance, the curmudgeonly detective and of course Mrs FRI Thistle Smith and her husband, Morley's nemesis, the FRI Professor. All gather today in the church to hear a shocking FRI revelation. FRI FRI The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris FRI Morgan-Griffiths. FRI Produced by: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b037tnxp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Short Cuts b0367sld (Listen) FRI Series 3, Escape FRI FRI Josie Long presents a showcase for delightful and FRI adventurous short documentaries and makes her escape as we FRI hear stories of running away, flight and car chases. FRI FRI From breaking away to disappearing into escapism - we hear FRI the tale of a narrow escape as three young Australian men FRI desperately try to manoeuvre themselves out of trouble, FRI alongside the story of a 93 year old wing walker getting FRI lost in the clouds. FRI FRI The items featured in the programme are: FRI FRI Swimming in Snafu FRI Produced by Meagan Perry FRI FRI River Guard FRI Feat. Laura Barton FRI FRI Drive for Portugal FRI Produced by Leo Hornak FRI FRI Head in the Clouds FRI Produced by Sara Parker FRI FRI Road Warriors FRI Produced by Bob Carlson FRI Originally featured in Unfictional FRI http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/uf/uf111202the_road_warrior FRI FRI Producer: Eleanor McDowall FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
05 August, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 03/08/2013 - 09/08/2013
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