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SAT SATURDAY 15 JUNE 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b02qsb6f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b02x5qpx (Listen) SAT An Englishman Aboard, Episode 5 SAT SAT Charles Timoney is an English writer, with a French wife, SAT living in France. SAT SAT After showing a group of friends the rowing boat he has SAT spent the last six months building, Charles - possibly SAT unwisely - accepts a challenge to travel the entire length SAT of the River Seine from source to the sea, using the boat SAT where he can, to discover the true France. SAT SAT But it proves rather more difficult than he imagined. Not SAT all of the Seine is navigable by rowing boat, so he sets SAT sail into an unvarnished France on a variety of craft, SAT hitching lifts in everything from a converted Parisian SAT tourist boat to a sailing boat with no mast. He even tries SAT out an amphibious vehicle. SAT SAT Along the way he encounters Stèphane (a carp fisherman with SAT a very strange habit), grapples with rapids and stubborn SAT cattle, rescues a couple when their sailing dinghy capsizes, SAT and discovers that rowing in the dark is more frightening SAT than he first thought. SAT SAT Written by Charles Timoney SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT SAT Reader: Mark Heap SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Mark Heap SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Writer: Charles Timoney SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02qsb6h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02qsb6k (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02qsb6n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b02qsb6s (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02qt7y4 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Andrew Martlew. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b02qt7y6 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b02qsb71 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b02qsb75 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b02qnk88 (Listen) SAT Series 24, In Search of the Old Ways SAT SAT Clare Balding walks with the celebrated author and academic, SAT Robert Macfarlane who takes her from his home in Cambridge SAT out onto the Icknield Way. For a man known to love SAT mountains, Robert explains how he's slowly come to love the SAT tame lowlands of Cambridgeshire and how he now relies on SAT climbing trees to give him height and views. While Clare is SAT not tempted to join him at the top of an accommodating beech SAT tree, she's happy to admire the graffiti left on the bark. SAT Walking out in the summer sunshine Robert shares his SAT fascination for the ancient tracks, drove-roads and sea SAT paths that criss-cross the British Countryside. SAT Producer Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Robert Macfarlane SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b02x58c2 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b02qsb7k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b02x58c4 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b02x58c6 (Listen) SAT Festival director James Runcie and George Benson's SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with festival director and SAT writer James Runcie, a visit to the Birmingham Model SAT Engineering Society, the secret life of Yvette Fielding, The SAT Inheritance Tracks of George Benson, Adrian Laing on growing SAT up with a famous father, psychiatrist R.D. Laing, the award SAT winning wildlife cameraman and photographer Doug Allan on SAT the pleasures of adventure travel and diving with his son SAT Liam and 16 year old scientist Jack Andraka, who's invented SAT a landmark new test for pancreatic cancer. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Zeitgeisters b02x58c8 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT As part of Radio 4's Year of Culture initiative, the BBC SAT Arts Editor Will Gompertz meets the cultural entrepreneurs SAT who are shaping our lives and defining the very spirit of SAT our age. SAT SAT These are not Turner Prize winners or the recipients of SAT grants from the Arts Council or the Lottery Fund. These are SAT the people behind the scenes, pulling the strings and SAT plotting a path of consumer-driven success. They are the SAT designers of the latest 'must have' piece of technology or SAT clothing, the brains behind an artist's development, and the SAT tastemakers that know what will work at the box office and SAT what will sell on the high street. Their impact goes beyond SAT mere commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. They are the SAT Zeitgeisters and it's about time we met them. SAT SAT Over the next four weeks he'll be talking with the visionary SAT masterminds plotting a future for education, music and SAT television. But the first Zeitgeister is the founding editor SAT of Vogue China, Angelica Cheung... the woman who not only SAT wants to change the meaning of Made in China, but also SAT change China itself. She's been called the most powerful SAT woman in fashion today and the gate-keeper of the growth SAT hotspot of the world - the market where consumer demand is SAT unlimited. SAT SAT For Angelica Cheung, fashion is not frippery. It's important SAT - as a global business worth billions, and as a platform for SAT freedom of expression. It allows individuals to be SAT individual - it's political. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b02x58cd (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b02x58cg (Listen) SAT A Demo a Day SAT SAT A passion for protest. Street demonstrations, rarely SAT permitted in the days of President Mubarak, have become SAT common in Cairo and Egypt's other cities; Aleem Maqbool sets SAT out to see if he can find a demo a day. Phil Goodwin on how SAT war has changed Syria from a hospitable, friendly place into SAT one that's brutal, paranoid and vicious. A meeting critical SAT to the future of Detroit - Jonny Dymond on a great American SAT city poised on the edge of bankruptcy. Peter Meanwell meets SAT cross-dressing musicians in Equatorial Guinea and tucks into SAT crocodile in chocolate sauce. And a snake guarding a pot of SAT gold? Jane Dyson says it's one of the less alarming ghosts SAT many believe reside in the forests of the Himalayas. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b02x58cj (Listen) SAT PROMISES, PROMISES SAT P & O is accused of failing to keep a 'price promise' made SAT to encourage customers to book in advance. Buy now and if SAT the price comes down we'll refund the difference, it says. SAT So why did two Money Box listeners find themselves in cabins SAT next to other passengers who had paid half the price but SAT still could not get a refund? Paul talks to Simon Calder, SAT Travel Editor of the Independent SAT SAT PENSIONS BILL SAT Women who are a year or so too old to get the new SAT single-tier state pension that is due to begin in April 2016 SAT say they are being discriminated against because men of the SAT same age will get it. We'll hear from one of those affected, SAT Cathe Rikby, with her solution to the problem. We'll find SAT out why another group - married women, widows and divorcĂ©es SAT - will get less from the flat-rate pension. And why half a SAT million pensioners who live abroad want MPs to reject Clause SAT 20 of the Pensions Bill when it comes before Parliament on SAT Monday. Paul talks to John Markham and Sally West from Age SAT UK SAT SAT COMPARISON WEBSITES SAT Are comparison websites now fixing prices rather than just SAT reporting them? Insurance sites in particular like to SAT guarantee the best prices. But many of them do not cover the SAT whole market. And they impose conditions on the insurers SAT they allow onto their sites which can lead to a lack of SAT competition rather than more of it. That's the accusation. SAT Oh, and did you know that many comparison websites are owned SAT by one of the insurance firms whose products they list? SAT Money Box hears from Kevin Paterson, Managing Director of SAT Source Insurance, Chris Walters, OFT's Chief Economist and SAT Sarah Pennells, Founder and Editor of savvywoman.co.uk SAT SAT RATES CUT SAT National Savings & Investments is cutting the rates on three SAT of its most popular savings products after discovering, to SAT its horror, that they are at the top of best buy tables or SAT close to it. Retail Director John Prout explains why he SAT doesn't want to be top of the table as his cash ISA falls SAT down below the top 20. And we find out just where the best SAT rates on savings can be found with Damien Fahy, Editor of SAT moneytothemasses.com. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b02qt7wd (Listen) SAT Series 40, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Marcus SAT Brigstocke, Mitch Benn and Pippa Evans for a comic romp SAT through the week's news. Producer: Colin Anderson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Jon Holmes SAT Performer: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Performer: Mitch Benn SAT Performer: Pippa Evans SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b02qsb7z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b02qsb84 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b02qt7wl (Listen) SAT Don Foster, Mary Creagh, Daniel Hannan, Mehdi Hasan SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Great Yarmouth Racecourse in Norfolk with Daniel Hannan SAT MEP, commentator Mehdi Hasan, Communities and Local SAT Government Minister Don Foster MP and Shadow Secretary of SAT State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mary SAT Creagh MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b02x58cl (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Dangerous Visions b02v25nw (Listen) SAT The Sleeper SAT SAT A fable for our times. In The Sleeper by Michael Symmons SAT Roberts we see our own society as it is today but with one SAT familiar element removed. This is a Britain in which, SAT decades ago, human beings gradually lost the gift of sleep. SAT SAT The Sleeper is a new verse drama by Michael Symmons Roberts SAT with music by the WNO and youth chorus from Irish composer SAT Stephen Deazley, adapted to create a soundtrack mixing SAT speech, poetry and chorus. SAT SAT Society is strained to breaking point by 24-hour SAT wakefulness. The government has cracked down on subversive SAT images of sleep. People work around the clock. Hotels are SAT for private meetings and illicit sex. Shops never close. SAT SAT Into this paranoid world, a teenage girl emerges, a girl who SAT can sleep. Protected by her friends, she goes on the run SAT from the authorities who are keen to control and study her SAT gift. The group ends up living in a city centre squat, SAT surviving as a group by shoplifting and begging. SAT SAT The group grows increasingly anxious and fractious, with SAT Ellah (the sleeper)'s boyfriend Jamie lapsing into cultish SAT beliefs in the 'old gods', in which lullabies are chanted as SAT prayers, worshipping sleep. Some of the other group members SAT join in these rituals. Keller, the level-headed natural SAT leader of the group, is struggling to keep the peace. SAT SAT Hungry, scared and sick of being pursued, the group receives SAT an offer of help from a wealthy man - known by the nickname SAT Hypnos - who says he will protect them. But what does he SAT want in return? Desperate, and running out of options, they SAT go to him. SAT SAT When they reach the man's hideout they find a spectacular, SAT illegal private 'archive of sleep' - films, paintings, SAT music, books - and an eerie film-set centred on a four SAT poster bed. The price for his protection is a movie. He SAT wants to film the 'sleeper' sleeping. SAT SAT Why? Well, it transpires that he is the son of the last ever SAT sleeper. In fact, as a young child he woke his mother up SAT from that last sleep. He plays the group a film of that SAT fateful event, a home movie taken by his father of his SAT mother's rare and last sleep, ending with Hypnos - as a boy SAT - waking her. After that, no-one slept again. The guilt of SAT waking his mother has never left him, and the only cure is SAT to film this newly discovered sleeper peacefully asleep. SAT SAT With music created from the original WNO Youth commission by SAT the composer Stephen Deazley, and performed by members of SAT the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Youth Opera SAT SAT Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts SAT SAT Michael Symmons Roberts is an award winning poet and SAT experienced radio writer. His latest projects for Radio 4 SAT include Crimes of Mancunia, A Man in Pieces and the award SAT winning Soldiers in the Sun. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Michael Symmons Roberts SAT Keller: Matthew Beard SAT Ella: Sarah Churm SAT Jamie: Henry Devas SAT Sara: Rachel Austin SAT Davis: Jason Done SAT Harper: Maxine Peake SAT Somnos: Danielle Henry SAT Hypnos: Kevin Doyle SAT Director: Susan Roberts SAT Composer: Stephen Deazley SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b02mxyy1 (Listen) SAT Series 9, Appalachian Spring SAT SAT Frances Fyfield is back with a new series of Tales from the SAT Stave which begins in the Library of Congress in Washington SAT DC. The manuscript being examined is Aaron Copland's SAT "Appalachian Spring" - written for the Martha Graham Dance SAT company during the Second World War. The Ballet was first SAT performed in the Library itself, and joining Frances is the SAT current Martha Graham Company director of music Aaron SAT Sherber, the former dancer and now Director of the Martha SAT Graham center of Contemporary Dance Janet Eilber and the SAT Library of Congress librarian Loras Schissel. SAT As well as Copland's beautifully presented pencil-written SAT sketches and score, including the famous shaker tune 'A gift SAT to be simple' there are also the letters written to Copland SAT by Martha Graham in which she outlined her initial ideas SAT about a ballet that has become an American classic. And SAT while charting a close partnership between choreographer and SAT composer, the score also reveals performance secrets such as SAT the changes made to incorporate the desires of a guest SAT performer - Rudolf Nureyev. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b02x5b4f (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b02x5b4h (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b02qr6wl (Listen) SAT Travel SAT SAT Travel companies have recently had to weather the storms of SAT recession for their customers and major upheaval at popular SAT holiday destinations around the world. SAT SAT Evan Davis finds out how airlines and tour companies plan SAT for their seasonal business in light of economic crisis in SAT Greece and political unrest in Egypt and North Africa - SAT getting it wrong could lead to financial disaster. And SAT guests will discuss the future for Greece, where tourism is SAT seen as the biggest hope for reviving the economy. SAT SAT Guests: SAT Peter Long, CEO TUI Travel SAT Carolyn McCall, CEO Easyjet SAT Andreas Andreadis, CEO SANI Resort SAT SAT Producer: Lucy Proctor. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b02qsb8v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b02qsb91 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02qsb99 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b02x5b6s (Listen) SAT Julie Felix, Ben Fogle, Hari Dhillon, Ned Boulting, Robin SAT Ince, Sarah Gillespie SAT SAT Heaven is Here, in the form of 'Britain's First Lady of SAT Folk', singer- songwriter and peace protester Julie Felix, SAT who was resident singer on 'The Frost Report', hosted her SAT own show 'Once More With Felix' and has toured worldwide for SAT over fifty years. Julie talks to Clive about her 75th SAT birthday. 'Life is the Song' is at Leicester Square Theatre, SAT London on Saturday 15th June. Julie also performs 'Tiger SAT Eyes'. SAT SAT Clive drops the anchor with intrepid adventurer and original SAT 'Castaway' Ben Fogle, whose new ITV series focuses on SAT Dorset. Home to one of Britain's most dramatic coastlines SAT with its craggy cliffs and miles of stunning sandy beaches, SAT Ben explores the millionaires' playground of Sandbanks and SAT the trawlers in the harbour, to find out what makes it SAT unique. The second episode of 'Harbour Lives' is on Friday SAT 21st June at 20.00. SAT SAT Robin Ince saddles up with sports journalist and cycling nut SAT Ned Boulting, whose new book 'On the Road Bike: The Search SAT For a Nation's Cycling Soul' asks how Britain became so SAT obsessed with cycling. His search puts him in contact with SAT some of the wonderful and wonderfully idiosyncratic people SAT who have contributed to this nation's two-wheeled history. SAT SAT Clive talks to actor Hari Dhillon. Well known for playing SAT Michael Spence in Holby City, Hari's currently starring as SAT corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor, who is happy, in love and SAT about to land a promotion.. Amir and his wife host a dinner SAT party and what starts out as a friendly conversation soon SAT escalates into something far more damaging. 'Disgraced' is SAT at London's Bush Theatre until Saturday 22nd June. SAT SAT And a second serving of folk from the glorious Sarah SAT Gillespie, who performs 'Signal Failure' from her album SAT 'Glory Days'. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b02x5c9v (Listen) SAT Series 14, Nothing to Fear SAT SAT Is there a spy in your laptop? Edson Burton's thriller SAT explores how national security agencies and terrorists might SAT exploit an information system like Prism. SAT SAT Credits SAT Olly: Alex Lanipekun SAT Jas: Renu Brindle SAT Amber: Alex Tregear SAT Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery SAT Writer: Edson Burton SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b02x5c9x (Listen) SAT Much Ado About Nothing; The White Queen SAT SAT The Amen Corner starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste has been SAT lifting the roof off the National Theatre according to early SAT audiences, thanks partly to the participation of the London SAT Community Gospel Choir. An early James Baldwin play, Rufus SAT Norris' production looks at the lives of men and women SAT trapped in poverty and lack of opportunity, and extracts SAT powerful drama from it. SAT SAT Joss Whedon had a week off at the end of shooting The SAT Avengers - rather than have a break, he made another film SAT with a group of friends. The result is Much Ado About SAT Nothing - does its sparky charm capture the flavour of SAT classic romantic comedies, as the director hopes? SAT SAT Neil Gaiman has a huge international following and is well SAT known to the Radio 4 audience thanks to the recent SAT dramatisation of Neverwhere. Now he has a new adult novel SAT out, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which he says is a SAT story of childhood, memory, magic and the power of stories. SAT SAT The Hayward Gallery in London is offering an Alternative SAT Guide to the Universe - an art exhibition featuring work SAT envisaging other worlds and extraordinary takes on this one SAT - much of it created by untrained artists. SAT SAT And the colourful history of the Plantagenets comes to SAT television as Philippa Gregory's The White Queen begins on SAT BBC1. Starring Rebecca Ferguson and Max Irons, will the SAT screen version capture the drama of the real life events? SAT SAT The writers Gillian Slovo, Dreda Say Mitchell and Kamila SAT Shamsie join Tom Sutcliffe. SAT SAT Producer Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b02x5c9z (Listen) SAT Very British Dystopias SAT SAT Beneath the calm surface of British politics, lurking in the SAT imaginations of some of our leading writers, terrible things SAT have happened. Professor Steven Fielding examines these SAT dystopian visions which have gripped creative and public SAT imaginations in novels and dramas since the end of the SAT second world war. SAT SAT British democracy has come under threat time and again in SAT fictions from 1984 to V for Vendetta, by way of Dr Who, The SAT Prisoner, A Very British Coup, Edge of Darkness and others. SAT SAT Britons have been oppressed by authoritarian governments, SAT suffered alien subjugation, been threatened by extremist SAT nationalists in Scotland, endured American-backed coups and SAT faced Soviet attempts to install a Marxist-Leninist Prime SAT Minister. The intelligence services have gone from hero to SAT zero and back again, while more recently elected politicians SAT themselves have threatened democracy. SAT SAT Some of these stories have left a lasting legacy on our SAT politics: references to 1984 have become part of our SAT culture, and the iconic Guy Fawkes mask from the film V for SAT Vendetta is worn as a symbol of resistance by protestors SAT around the world. But why? And wherein lies the appeal of SAT these visions of politics gone bad? Steven Fielding asks SAT what the authors intended, and whether these visions make a SAT useful contribution to the political process. SAT SAT He shows how these imagined futures were rooted in the real SAT concerns of times in which they were imagined. And at a time SAT when the politics of Westminster is seen as increasingly SAT irrelevant by many people, he asks what can dystopian SAT visions achieve now? SAT SAT Interviewees include authors Douglas Hurd, Chris Mullin, SAT Frederick Forsyth and David Hare. SAT SAT Steven Fielding is Professor of Political History at the SAT University of Nottingham. SAT SAT The producer is Jane Ashley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b02lwc5t (Listen) SAT The Radetzky March, Episode 2 SAT SAT by Joseph Roth. SAT Dramatised by Gregory Evans SAT SAT Part 2 of 2. SAT SAT Carl Joseph has been posted to a remote outpost of the SAT Austro-Hungarian near the Russian border where his life, and SAT the life of the Empire, is about to take a turn for the SAT worse. A dramatisation of Joseph Roth's most celebrated SAT novel. SAT SAT Piano and Trumpet played by Peter Ringrose SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Joseph Roth: Henry Goodman SAT Carl Joseph: Paul Ready SAT Franz Von Trotta: Sam Dale SAT Chojnicki: David Schofield SAT Zoglauer: Gunnar Cauthery SAT Emperor Franz Joseph: John Rowe SAT Valli: Joannah Tincey SAT Onufrij: Ben Crowe SAT Brodnitzer: Chris Pavlo SAT Wagner: David Seddon SAT Hirschwitz: Philippa Stanton SAT Skowronneck: Robert Blythe SAT Sgt Slama: Paul Stonehouse SAT Musician: Peter Ringrose SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Author: Joseph Roth SAT Adaptor: Gregory Evans SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b02qsb9l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b02qm2s1 (Listen) SAT Spying and Surveillance SAT SAT Clive Anderson and guests explore the extent to which the SAT law protects our right to privacy in the face of increasing SAT use of covert surveillance by MI5, police, local authorities SAT and other public bodies and commercial organisations. SAT SAT Clive's guests, all with wide knowledge of the world of SAT spying and surveillance, warn that the threat to our privacy SAT comes not just from Big Brother, but also from Little SAT Brother and Big Brother PLC. And they argue that the law SAT controlling surveillance is largely inadequate and widely SAT misinterpreted. SAT SAT Barrister Eric Metcalfe says a very wide range of bodies SAT have the power to spy on us - from intercepting telephone SAT calls, emails or letters, to carrying out covert SAT surveillance in private premises and public places or SAT accessing electronic data and private passwords. Some of SAT these powers are utilised by local authorities to combat SAT such crimes as allowing pets to foul footpaths, fly-tipping SAT and breaches of the smoking ban. SAT SAT Eric Metcalfe says only a tiny percentage of the millions of SAT applications made for surveillance warrants in the past ten SAT years have been subject to any kind of judicial oversight. SAT SAT The programme also considers the possible revival of SAT Government's proposals for what has been condemned as a SAT "snoopers' charter" - legislation which would make it SAT possible to track everyone's email, internet and mobile text SAT use. SAT SAT Produced by Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b02m7g03 (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 6 SAT SAT (6/13) SAT SAT Do you know which hit comedy film of the 1980s featured the SAT theme tune 'Axel F'? And in Berlioz's opera based on SAT Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, which two characters SAT are named in the title? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the latest heat of the SAT music quiz Counterpoint, this week coming from Media City in SAT Salford and featuring competitors from Glasgow, Chester and SAT Malvern in Worcestershire. SAT SAT One of them will win a place in the semi-finals later in the SAT summer, and may be in with a real chance of becoming the SAT 27th Counterpoint champion. SAT SAT There's music to suit all tastes, and plenty of surprising SAT facts and anecdotes. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT MILES ARNOT, a retired finance manager from Chester; SAT SAT WILSON BAIN, an RNIB volunteer from Glasgow; SAT SAT PHILIP HOLLAND, a schoolteacher from Malvern in SAT Worcestershire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b02lyb06 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough encounters a mango for the first time, meets SAT the Queen of Sheba and hears how spoken word artist Steven SAT Duncan is inspired by his grandma's wise words. SAT SAT Listeners have requested a poem from his play 'The Mother' SAT that got Bertolt Brecht into hot water with the House SAT Committee on Un-American Activities, and another by the SAT champion of Jamaican patois, Louise Bennett-Coverley SAT 'Colonization in Reverse'. SAT SAT With readers Alex Lanipekun, Hannah Wood and Nadia Williams. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b02x52fn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b010mv4r (Listen) SUN The Crystal Fountain, Landlord of the Crystal Fountain SUN SUN Martin Jarvis directs Imelda Staunton in Malachi Whitaker's SUN moving story, written in the 1930s. Attractive red-headed SUN teacher, Brenda Millgate, meets five jolly men on a train SUN from King's Cross going north. What happens to her on the SUN journey is a life-changing experience. They're very friendly SUN and helpful. All northerners. Where have they been? Who are SUN they? Eventually it's revealed that they're all landlords. SUN SUN Brenda, unhappy in London away from her northern roots, is SUN beguiled by their talk, their humour and their courtesy. SUN Then one of them says something which changes her whole SUN life. SUN SUN Malachi Whitaker was a prolific writer in the 1920s and SUN '30s, writing with great perception and care about ordinary SUN folk, invariably setting the stories in her native SUN Yorkshire. She became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' SUN because of her sympathetic observation of the minutiae of SUN human beings and their (often comic and surprising) SUN behaviour. SUN SUN Imelda Staunton biography: Oscar nominated and Bafta SUN award-winning for her title role performance in 'Vera SUN Drake'. She has had a long and distinguished career in the SUN theatre, RNT and West End, performing A Man for all Seasons, SUN Mack & Mabel, Side by Side, and Elektra. Also BBC TV Series: SUN Cranford. SUN SUN Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Imelda Staunton SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN Producer: Martin Jarvis SUN Writer: Malachi Whitaker SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02x52fq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02x52fs (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02x52fv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b02x52fx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b02x5g0y (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Eadburgha's Church, Ebrington, SUN Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b02qm2s7 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Dick Moore SUN SUN Dick Moore calls for urgent action to tackle the problems of SUN adolescent mental health. Driven by personal experience, he SUN sees a growing need for society to provide young people with SUN more emotional support. SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas SUN and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking SUN on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a SUN live audience. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b02x52fz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b02x5g10 (Listen) SUN Holding Hands SUN SUN John McCarthy reflects on the significance of holding hands SUN as an act of trust, commitment, unity and love between SUN fellow human beings. SUN SUN John interviews retired academic physician Professor Tony SUN Pinching who had major involvement with HIV/AIDS and CFS/ME SUN patients. Tony talks about the significance of the first SUN handshake when a doctor meets a patient for the first time, SUN and also about the special place holding hands can have at SUN the end of a patient's life. SUN SUN Ambassador Mart Tarmak describes the peaceful protest of SUN 1989, which became known as the Baltic Way, when around two SUN million people joined hands to form a human chain spanning SUN 600 kilometres across the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia SUN and Lithuania. As the people held hands, they sang. These SUN countries were granted their independence from the Soviet SUN Union shortly afterwards. SUN SUN The programme includes readings of poetry by Sarah Kay and SUN Adrian Mitchell, and Sharon Olds' poem True Love. There's SUN music from Stream of Sound, Ray Charles and Nina Simone, and SUN John Martyn sings May you Never. SUN SUN Readers: Rachel Atkins and George Irving SUN SUN Produced by Rosie Boulton SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b02x5g12 (Listen) SUN The Blant family have lived and breathed pig farming for 43 SUN years, but after making a loss of £55,000 last year they SUN have decided to leave the industry. Charlotte Smith meets SUN them as the last pigs leave and silence descends over their SUN Nottinghamshire farm. Their decision reflects the continuing SUN contraction in UK pig farming, over the last 15 years the UK SUN breeding herd has halved. Richard and Julia Blant share how SUN pig farming has shaped their lives, and their son Simon SUN tells Charlotte about his future business plans. SUN SUN Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b02x52g1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b02x52g3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b02x5g14 (Listen) SUN G8 summit; Bishops on museum cuts; Huddlestone show SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b02x5g16 (Listen) SUN The Prison Phoenix Trust SUN SUN Erwin James, a former prisoner, presents the Radio 4 Appeal SUN for The Prison Phoenix Trust SUN Reg Charity:327907 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN The Prison Phoenix Trust. SUN SUN The Prison Phoenix Trust SUN SUN The Prison Phoenix Trust supports prisoners in their SUN spiritual lives through meditation, yoga, silence and the SUN breath. It recommends breath-focussed stretches and SUN meditation sensitively tailored to students’ needs. SUN This practice offers students peace of mind. SUN SUN The PPT encourages prisoners and prison staff in their yoga SUN practice through correspondence, books, CDs, newsletters, SUN free taster workshops and weekly classes. The Trust receives SUN no statutory funding and is completely reliant on the SUN generosity of people who believe in our work. SUN SUN Prison staff yoga lesson SUN A prison officer holds a strong standing posture during a SUN staff lunch-hour yoga lesson SUN SUN How yoga works SUN Supporting each other and finding balance SUN SUN Yoga and meditation: the benefits SUN Finding peace in relaxation at the end of a class SUN SUN Join our Facebook Community SUN SUN The place where you can find out more about the charities SUN you support and ask them how they are spending your SUN donations. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b02x52g5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b02x52g7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b02x5g18 (Listen) SUN On the eve of the G8 Summit in County Fermanagh in Northern SUN Ireland, Sunday Worship comes from St Macartin's Cathedral, SUN Enniskillen. Led by the Very Rev Kenneth Hall, Dean of SUN Clogher. Preacher: The Right Rev John McDowell, Bishop of SUN Clogher. SUN SUN 1 Kings 21:1-10, 15-21; Luke 7:36-8.3 SUN SUN Organist: Glenn Moore SUN Jayne Haslett. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b02qt7wq (Listen) SUN Fly, Fish, Mouse and Worm SUN SUN "When I was a child, one of my favourite books was Bear, SUN Mouse and Water Beetle," says Tom Shakespeare. "Today, I SUN want to tell you a contemporary story, which you could call SUN Fly, Fish, Mouse and Worm." SUN SUN These 'model animals' help scientists to understand the SUN basic processes common to all living creatures. But while SUN model animals epitomize the success of the scientific SUN strategy of reductionism, they may also illustrate the SUN downside. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Richard Knight SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp7c (Listen) SUN Barn Owl SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Barn Owl. Barn owls are SUN mainly nocturnal hunters. They are ghostly creatures, with SUN rounded wings and a large head which acts as a reflector SUN funnelling the slightest sound from their prey towards their SUN large ear openings. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b02x5gky (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b02x5gl0 (Listen) SUN Jazzer's got some good news, and Helen has an unexpected SUN invitation. SUN 'OMG MY HEAD IS EXPLODING!' SUN SUN Credits 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 Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Elona Makepeace: Eri Shuka SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mikey: Matthew Watson SUN Rick (Designer): Will Howard SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN Director: Vanessa Whitburn SUN Director: Dawn Coulson SUN Writer: Carolyn Jones SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b02x5j67 (Listen) SUN Alexandra Shulman SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the editor of British SUN Vogue, Alexandra Shulman. SUN SUN In spite of being in charge of one of our leading 'style SUN bibles' for more than 20 years, her reputation is that of SUN someone rather down to earth. She thinks designers cut SUN clothes too small, refuses to let superstars have photo and SUN copy approval and when she was first appointed editor, she'd SUN never even been on a fashion shoot. During her tenure SUN Vogue's circulation has increased. SUN SUN Her first job as editor was with the men's magazine GQ and SUN she's had spells at Tatler, the Sunday Telegraph and writing SUN a weekly column for the Daily Mail. SUN SUN She says, "Vogue is not my personal taste, really. I think SUN of it more as a kind of newspaper, reporting on what's out SUN there." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Alexandra Shulman SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b02mfzq3 (Listen) SUN Series 66, Episode 4 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the vocabularious panel show from the SUN BBC Radio Theatre with panellists; Graham Norton, Kevin SUN Eldon, Pam Ayres and Paul Merton. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b02x5j69 (Listen) SUN The chocolate world of Mott Green SUN SUN The story of Mott Green, cocoa farmer and chocolate maker, SUN who was changing the industry one bar at a time. SUN SUN Born in New York, this gifted engineer and mathematician SUN left Manhattan in his twenties to explore the Caribbean. He SUN ended up in Grenada, fell in love with cocoa and with a SUN local drink, "cocoa tea". SUN SUN Despite this chocolate tradition and Grenada having some of SUN the finest cocoa trees in the world, farmers were leaving SUN the land and abandoning their crop because of low prices. SUN Mott Green took it upon himself to change that. SUN SUN By using hand built machines and creating a co-operative, SUN Mott managed to build a chocolate factory in a tropical SUN climate, the first time this had been done. Sales of his SUN quality bars grew and cocoa farming on the island once again SUN became profitable. SUN SUN His success was documented in a film, Nothing Like SUN Chocolate, and he was celebrated in Grenada as someone who SUN had not only made a big impact on the island's economy but SUN also changed thinking about chocolate around the world. SUN SUN Tragically, shortly after the Food Programme recorded with SUN Mott Green he was killed in an accident as he was repairing SUN some equipment. The programme follows him through the SUN chocolate making process and as he embarked on a three month SUN voyage transporting his bars across the Atlantic using only SUN wind and solar power. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b02x52g9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b02x5j6f (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 Foot Notes b01rgm9s (Listen) SUN Writer, journalist and passionate shoe collector Rowan SUN Pelling takes us on a journey through her personal shoe SUN collection to tell us the extraordinary story that lies SUN behind footwear. SUN SUN She discovers that, far from being simple functional objects SUN that we put on our feet, shoes can communicate our sexual SUN desire, aesthetic sense, social status and personality. They SUN not only reflect social history and changing fashions, but SUN are also a personal record of our lives - a touchstone that SUN evokes a time, a place and an emotion. SUN SUN In language and throughout literature, they can be magical SUN as in The Red Shoes, transform lives as in Cinderella, and SUN used as punishment in the Twelve Dancing Princesses. SUN SUN Shoes have been made from jewels, can cost thousands and are SUN often bought in the wrong size - just because we love them. SUN SUN Fancy shoes, comfy shoes, old shoes, new shoes - they can SUN change an attitude and define a generation and mean SUN something different to us all. SUN SUN Presenter: Rowan Pelling SUN Producer: Angela Hind SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b02qt7w0 (Listen) SUN Penicuik SUN SUN Chaired by Eric Robson, the GQT team is in Penicuik for this SUN week's episode of Gardeners' Question Time. Taking the SUN audience's questions are panelists Bob Flowerdew and Anne SUN Swithinbank, along with guest panelist Carole Baxter. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Dangerous Visionaries b02xgngc (Listen) SUN As Radio 4 begins its new season of Dystopic Dramas, SUN Dangerous Visions, the playwright and poet Michael Symmons SUN Roberts wonders how close the gap between imagining and SUN living in dystopia actually is. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Burman. SUN SUN 15:00 Dangerous Visions b02x5j6k (Listen) SUN The Drowned World SUN SUN As part of Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season, Graham SUN White's adaptation shows a future in which the earth's SUN atmosphere is destroyed. As a scientific mission surveys SUN England's drowned capitals before their final abandonment, SUN two lovers find themselves reverting to a primitive state of SUN consciousness. SUN SUN In a future in which solar flares have wreaked havoc with SUN the earth's atmosphere, Dr Robert Kerans is part of a SUN scientific mission to survey the drowned cities of what was SUN once the temperate zone before they are abandoned for good. SUN SUN The de-evolution that the ecological crisis has provoked SUN seems to have affected the expedition's crew. Kerans, SUN alongside his enigmatic lover Beatrice, whom he is trying to SUN persuade to leave, attempts to make sense of the SUN disappearance of a crew member who has succumbed to the lure SUN of the emerging new water world. SUN SUN Kerans and Beatrice also start to embrace the breakdown they SUN see around them, until an encounter with the maverick SUN scavenger Strangman and his piratical crew forces them to SUN face what de-evolution may really mean, as he drains the SUN drowned city in search of the powers of civilization it may SUN once have held. Ballard's vivid futurescape imagines the SUN surreal results of Darwin's theories going into reverse. SUN SUN Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the SUN present reflected in the glass SUN of an uneasy future. SUN SUN Credits SUN Beatrice: Hattie Morahan SUN Kerans: James D'Arcy SUN Strangman: Tim McInnerny SUN Colonel Riggs: Robert Blythe SUN Dr Alan Bryant: Paul Stonehouse SUN Lieutenant Hardman: Ben Crowe SUN Daley: Matthew Watson SUN Caesar: Don Gilet SUN Producer: Peter Kavanagh SUN Writer: J.G. Ballard SUN Adaptor: Graham White SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b02x5l4g (Listen) SUN Louise Doughty on her novel Apple Tree Yard SUN SUN Louise Doughty talks to Mariella Frostrup about her SUN psychological thriller Apple Tree Yard. When a successful SUN middle aged woman has her first and only affair, she becomes SUN aware of the importance of the decisions we make SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of Apple Tree Yard by Louise SUN Doughty SUN Chapter 1: Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty SUN SUN Get ahead with Mariella's next book: The Ocean at the End of SUN the Lane by Neil Gaiman SUN Find Chapter 1 of The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil SUN Gaiman SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN SUN Chernobyl Strawberries by Vesna Goldsworthy SUN Publisher: Atlantic SUN SUN Inventing Ruritania by Vesna Goldsworthy SUN Publisher: Hurst SUN SUN The Bridge on the River Drina by Ivo Andric SUN SUN Birth Certificate – Biography of Danilo Kis by Mark Thompson SUN Publisher: Cornell University Press SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Louise Doughty SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b02x5l4j (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents poems to make you glad to be awake, SUN alive and not in prison. SUN SUN Listeners requests include the moving and uplifting poem SUN 'Things I didn't know i Loved' by Nazim Hikmet; 'The Land of SUN Mists' by the South Korean poet Kim Kwang-kyu; and an SUN extraordinary poem contemplating the kind of miracle Polish SUN poet Piotr Kniecicki would wish for if he could: 'Not Quite SUN Convinced.' SUN SUN There are also two poems by A E Housman and Slam Poetry SUN champion Hollie McNish performs 'British National SUN Breakfast'. SUN SUN Roger is joined by readers Alex Lanipekun and Mark Meadows. SUN Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Alex Lanipekun SUN Reader: Mark Meadows SUN Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b02q78p4 (Listen) SUN Grooming: A Life Sentence? SUN SUN In the latest high profile grooming trial, 7 men from Oxford SUN will be sentenced later this month for sexually exploiting SUN and raping 6 schoolgirls. Police said the girls - some as SUN young as 12 - were 'abused to the point of torture' for SUN years. One girl was injected with heroin. Another was forced SUN to have a backstreet abortion. SUN SUN The police praised the young women for finding the strength SUN to give evidence against the gang and protect other girls. SUN SUN But, after the legal process ends, what support is there for SUN victims? SUN SUN After a string of such abuse cases around the country, Jane SUN Deith finds there are many young women who say they've been SUN let down by the authorities and are struggling, alone, with SUN mental health problems and difficulties with education and SUN housing. SUN SUN More victims of grooming are being rescued. But does being SUN sexually exploited as a child mean a life sentence? SUN SUN Reporter: Jane Deith Producer: Sally Chesworth. SUN Rochdale Abuse: Failed Victims? SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b02x5c9v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b02xgs36 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b02x52gf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02x52gh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b02x5l4l (Listen) SUN Pick of the week crosses continents to hear about potting SUN sheds, prisons, and two prostitutes in Amsterdam who SUN recently retired in their seventies. We also join a ceilidh SUN on the ferry to the island of Yell in the Shetlands and play SUN you another tune which you'll have trouble getting out of SUN your head... presented by Martin Wainwright. SUN SUN Programmes chosen this week: SUN SUN The Archers - Monday 10 June - at 2 pm - Radio 4 SUN Today - Michael Buchanan feature - Monday 10 June - Radio 4 SUN Start the Week - Radio 4 SUN Today - Max Hastings interview - Monday 10 June - Radio 4 SUN 1913 - The Year Before - Radio 4 SUN Book At Bedtime - A Commonplace Killing - Radio 4 SUN London's Oldest Prison - Radio 4 SUN The Truth About Mental Health - Solitary - World Service SUN The Potting Shed - Dartmoor Diary - Radio Devon SUN Oblique Strategies - Radio 4 SUN Zeitgeisters - Radio 4 SUN Saturday Drama - The Sleeper - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - Fokken sisters interview - World Service SUN World Routes - Shetland Folk Festival - Radio 3 SUN SUN Producer: Louise Clarke. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b02x5l4n (Listen) SUN Clarrie's getting up to speed, and Pip's back on course. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b02x5l4q (Listen) SUN Ian Fleming SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests SUN Mark Billingham and Natalie Haynes. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 New American Shorts b02x5l4s (Listen) SUN First Sale SUN SUN A series of newly published stories that examine SUN contemporary life across the water. SUN SUN Jessica Francis Kane's new story is next in the series and a SUN yard sale becomes fraught with unspoken tensions for a young SUN boy as he wonders where his father is. SUN SUN Read by Kelly Burke SUN Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN First Sale is taken from Jessica Francis Kane's new short SUN story collection, This Close, which has been longlisted for SUN the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Kelly Burke SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN Abridger: Gemma Jenkins SUN Author: Jessica Francis Kane SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b02qt7w6 (Listen) SUN It's a year since the BBC introduced an improved complaints SUN procedure. And the BBC Trust, which exists to protect the SUN licence fee payers' interests, has just reported back on the SUN new system. Their public consultation shows that most people SUN now think the system is working well. But some Feedback SUN listeners still think there's room for improvement. Roger SUN Bolton speaks to BBC Trustee Richard Ayre, who is in charge SUN of reviewing the complaints procedure. SUN SUN And Richard Ayre gives the BBC Trust's view on the BBC's SUN failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI). While we were SUN off-air, the BBC announced that it was scrapping DMI after SUN spending £98 million pounds on the five-year digital SUN archiving project, a sum amounting to almost 700,000 licence SUN fees. SUN SUN Plus, which programme is sending feline Feedback listeners SUN into a frenzy? Roger speaks to renowned wildlife sound SUN recordist Chris Watson about this pressing issue. SUN SUN And could you be our Tweet of the Week? We know you're the SUN best radio reviewers around so we'd like you to tweet us on SUN @bbcr4feedback with your most poetic, heartfelt, heated, and SUN inventive reviews of BBC Radio, programmes and policies in SUN 140 characters. If yours is selected as a Tweet of the Week SUN you will win.absolutely nothing, except the undoubted SUN admiration of other listeners, and our undying gratitude of SUN course. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Feedback Returns! SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b02qt7w4 (Listen) SUN A novelist, a racehorse trainer, a swimmer and film star, a SUN key figure in the Warsaw Pact and 'the fastest granny on SUN water' SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Scottish novelist Iain Banks - author of The Wasp SUN Factory and The Crow Road - who also wrote science fiction SUN SUN Sir Henry Cecil - one of the most successful flat racing SUN trainers of recent times. Willie Carson pays tribute. SUN SUN Hollywood's swimming superstar Esther Williams, SUN SUN Marshall Viktor Kulikov - one of the last of the Soviet SUN military commanders. He played a key role in the crisis that SUN led to martial law being imposed in Poland. SUN SUN And the Countess of Arran - a powerboat racer known as the SUN fastest woman on water. She reached 103 miles per hour in a SUN rocket-like boat on Lake Windermere in 1980. SUN SUN Iain Banks SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the playwright Maxton Walker and live in SUN the studio to Nick Barley, Director of Edinburgh SUN International Book Festival. SUN SUN Born 16 February 1954; died 9 June 2013 aged 58. SUN SUN Sir Henry Cecil SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the former jockey Willie Carson and to the SUN BBC’s horse racing correspondent, Cornelius Lysaght. SUN SUN Born 11 January 1943; died 11 June 2013 aged 70. SUN SUN Esther Williams SUN SUN Film writer Karen Krizanovich pays tribute. SUN SUN Born 8 August 1921; died 6 June 2013 aged 91. SUN SUN Viktor Kulikov SUN SUN Matthew spoke to The Independent’s former Moscow SUN correspondent Rupert Cornwell. SUN SUN Born 5 July 1921; died Moscow 28 May 2013 aged 91. SUN SUN The Countess of Arran SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her son, the Earl of Arran and to power SUN boat expert John Puddifoot. SUN SUN Born 20 July 1918; died 16 May 2013 aged 94. SUN SUN Rory Morrison SUN SUN Born 5 August 1964; died 11 June 2013 aged 48. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b02x58cj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b02x5g16 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b02mfzrw (Listen) SUN The Quantified Self: Can Life Be Measured? SUN SUN Self knowledge through numbers is the motto of the SUN "quantified self" movement. Calories consumed, energy SUN expended, work done, places visited or how you feel. By SUN recording the data of your daily life online, the SUN life-loggers claim, you get to know who you really are. SUN SUN So far this type of self-tracking is the obsession of a SUN geeky minority. But through our smartphones and social SUN networking sites more and more of us being drawn into this SUN world by stealth. Frances Stonor Saunders asks what it means SUN for our ideas about privacy and sense of self. SUN SUN Producer: Fiona Leach. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b02x5l4v (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 b02x5l4x (Listen) SUN Miranda Green of The Day analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b02qp1s2 (Listen) SUN Zack Snyder on Man of Steel; Neil Brand on superhero SUN soundtracks; Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Zack Snyder, director of the latest SUN Superman film, Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill, Amy SUN Adams, Russell Crowe and Kevin Costner. A young boy learns SUN that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. SUN As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from SUN and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must SUN emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and SUN become the symbol of hope for all mankind. SUN SUN Hans Zimmer - whose credits include the Batman trilogy - SUN provides Man of Steel's musical score, but how has superhero SUN music evolved over the decades? Film composer Neil Brand SUN tracks the evolution of the superhero soundtrack from the SUN 'positive' Superman of John Williams, to the 'dark' Man of SUN Steel of Hans Zimmer, by way of Poledorous's Robocop and SUN Kamen's X-Men. SUN SUN Moo Man is a low budget British documentary following a year SUN in the life of maverick dairy farmer Steve Hook - and the SUN first British film to be kickstarter funded. If they reach SUN their target, film making duo Andy Heathcote and Heike SUN Bachelier will be able to secure Moo Man the marketing SUN budget it needs to reach a wider audience. SUN SUN Austrian film director Ulrich Seidl's films appeal to a SUN particular kind of indie, European art cinema fan base. SUN Critics Sandra Hebron and Ryan Gilbey discuss his latest SUN offering, the Paradise trilogy, about three women in one SUN family who take three very different vacations; from SUN searching for love, and more, on a Kenyan beach, to working SUN as a Catholic missionary to going on a diet camp for SUN teenagers. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Zack Snyder SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Producer: Fiona Couper SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b02x5g10 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b02x52hf (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b02qd1vy (Listen) MON Scottish nationalism and identity; Austerity MON MON Does Austerity Kill? Laurie Taylor talks to political MON economist, David Stuckler, about the human costs of the MON financial crisis as documented in his book 'The Body MON Economic' (co-authored with Sanju Basu) -the culmination of MON ten years research. They're joined by David Smith, Economics MON Editor of the Sunday Times. MON MON We're well aware of the extreme costs of banking crisis in MON terms of the wealth of nations, but much less idea of how MON they affect one of the most central issues of all: our MON physical and mental health. Why has health in Iceland MON actually got better whilst it's deteriorated in Greece? From MON the Great Depression of the 1930s to post communist Russia MON and the US foreclosure scandal; Dr Stuckler study examines MON the surprising, seemingly contradictory nature of economic MON disasters' role in public health. They are joined by David MON Smith Economic Editor of the Sunday Times. MON MON Also, Nasar Meer discusses his study into ethnic minority MON Scots' relationship to Scottish Nationalism and identity MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b02x5g0y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02x52hh (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02x52hk (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02x52hm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b02x52hp (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02ynj41 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Andrew Martlew. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b02x62sm (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b02x52hr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tq6h (Listen) MON Great Skua 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 Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Great Skua. Great skuas MON are often known as bonxies - their local name in Shetland MON where most of the UK's population breeds. Almost two thirds MON of the world's great skuas nest here or on Orkney. MON MON 06:00 Today b02x62sp (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b02x62sr (Listen) MON Hari Kunzru and Dystopia MON MON On Start the Week Jonathan Freedland talks to Hari Kunzru MON about his dystopian vision, where books and the act of MON remembering have been banned. Jane Rogers explains how her MON apocalyptic tale may be set in the future but points to MON today's abuse of scientific knowledge and the heroism of MON youth. Past real events are at the heart of James MON Robertson's latest novel which explores grief, justice and MON the truth. And the photographer Adam Broomberg asks how far MON images of war capture the truth. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jonathan Freedland MON Interviewed Guest: Hari Kunzru MON Interviewed Guest: Jane Rogers MON Interviewed Guest: James Robertson MON Interviewed Guest: Adam Broomberg MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b02x62st (Listen) MON Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, Episode 1 MON MON When Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times and now MON editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself in MON Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South MON Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation MON on the brink of revolution. MON MON Accompanied by two native Egyptians, Mohammed and Socratis, MON whose eagerness to spend time with him is never really MON explained, Stothard traces his lifelong interest in the MON history of Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the MON book about her that he has started so many times. MON MON Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria filters the MON life of a classics scholar turned journalist through the MON prism of Cleopatra's turbulent history - while all around MON the author, the cracks begin to appear in Hosni Mubarak's MON own empire. MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): MON Pieces of paper, sketches and maps on a hotel room bed and MON the remarkable story behind the only fragment of parchment MON to bear Cleopatra's signature - a political gesture MON sanctioning a tax break. MON MON Read by Kenneth Cranham MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Kenneth Cranham MON Producer: Jill Waters MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Writer: Peter Stothard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b02x62sw (Listen) MON Cameron's Cabinet; Kids online; Kishwar Desai; Feminist MON Fiction MON MON Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Will the Prime Minister Promote More Women? MON MON A government reshuffle is expected in the next few weeks. MON Earlier this year David Cameron admitted that “there aren’t MON nearly enough women around the Cabinet table” – so will this MON effort come any closer to addressing that. Jenni talks to MON Isabel Hardman, Editor of the MON MON Internet Censorship: Keeping Children Safe Online MON MON The Culture Secretary Maria Miller is meeting the big MON internet companies tomorrow to discuss what can be done to MON prevent easy access to pornographic and extremist material MON on the web. But what can you do now if you want to prevent MON children from viewing legal websites that may contain MON offensive or potentially harmful websites? How many parents MON really know what tools are available and how to use them? MON And can you really be sure that children won’t just find a MON way round them altogether? Jenni discusses the issues with MON The Conservative MP Claire Perry and Laura Higgin, Phoneline MON Manager, The UK Safer Internet Centre. MON MON Kishwar Desai on "The Sea of Innocence" MON MON Forty-something Simran Singh is an unconventional part-time MON investigator. She is an unmarried social worker who finds MON herself compelled to track down a missing teenager in Goa, MON India. Author Kishwar Desai joins Jenni to talk about her MON third detective novel “The Sea of Innocence,” and its MON motivation - the serious social problem of rape and violence MON against women in India. MON MON Has Feminist Writing Lost its Edge? MON MON Feminist Activism is enjoying a renaissance, but when it MON comes to feminist writing – some detect a less MON confrontational tone. Writing in MON MON Putting Your Foot In It MON MON Most of us have done it at some time or another .. some of MON us are more prone to it than others … Sue Elliot Nicholls MON looks at the debatable art of “Putting your foot in it”. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jenni Murray MON MON 10:45 Dangerous Visions b02x62sy (Listen) MON The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 1 MON MON Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel set in a MON future where an act of biological terrorism has spread a MON deadly virus across the world. Maternal Death Syndrome is MON claiming the lives of millions of women and panic is rising. MON As her world collapses, teenager Jessie Lamb, decides that MON if the human race is to survive, it's up to her. MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari MON MON Dangerous Visions Season: MON The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's MON fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. MON Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died MON four years ago, his vision of MON what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical MON and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a MON season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future MON dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, MON Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and MON we have asked five leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed MON Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip MON Palmer - to imagine what life might be like in the near MON future if everything goes wrong - MON and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: MON clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might MON happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning MON becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable MON of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South MON London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice MON becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part MON dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel MON The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. MON Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the MON present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. MON MON Credits MON Jessie: Holliday Grainger MON Joe: Mark Jordon MON Cath: Joanne Mitchell MON Mandy: Kate Coogan MON Sal: Rebecca Ryan MON Baz: Oliver Lee MON Lisa: Nisa Cole MON Iain: Will Finlason MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON Author: Jane Rogers MON MON 11:00 Recycled Radio b02x62t0 (Listen) MON Blood MON MON At the end of May 2013, Gerald Scarfe's weekly illustration MON in the Sunday Times was a meat cleaver wedged into a pool of MON blood. Underneath he had scrawled 'Political Debate'. MON Recycled Radio has taken this as the inspiration for a MON programme about blood - from Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood MON in 1968 to the horrific scenes in Woolwich in 2013. MON MON Slicing, dicing and splicing words from Tony Blair, Margaret MON Thatcher and Enoch Powell, the programme offers its own MON typically unpredictable response to this emotive word. MON Following on from editions about Power and Money, Blood MON descends into a world of violence and hate. Red blood, blue MON blood, mixed blood, bad blood. Also featuring the voices of MON Harry Allen, Louis Farrakhan, Melvyn Bragg and Pauline MON Black, with music from Willie King and the Liberators. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b01p41hd (Listen) MON Series 5, An Alrightish Life Savagely Frozen to Bits MON MON by Mark Evans MON MON Episode Three: An Alrightish Life Savagely Frozen To Bits MON MON The Victorian comedy adventure continues as Pip races to MON Antarctica to thwart another fiendish plot by his evil MON ex-guardian, Mr Gently Benevolent. MON MON Produced by Gareth Edwards. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Mark Evans MON Sir Philip: Richard Johnson MON Young Pip Bin: Tom Allen MON Gently Benevolent: Anthony Head MON Harry Biscuit: James Bachman MON Clampvulture: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Ripely: Sarah Hadland MON Pippa: Susy Kane MON Explorer: Mark Evans MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b02x64yz (Listen) MON Celebrity wine, group-buying of insurance, live events at MON the cinema MON MON Buying gas and electricity as a group has led to reduced MON bills for some people, but could the same approach work when MON buying insurance? A company which brings together people MON to buy their cover collectively claims to have secured real MON savings for its customers. How successful is it compared MON with a conventional price-comparison website? High protein MON drinks have long been popular with body builders, but now MON they are being marketed to everyone. So what is the appeal? MON The famous names who promote wines. Would a celebrity MON endorsement encourage you to choose a particular bottle? MON Jellyfish numbers are increasing in the Mediterranean, MON should we think twice before wading into the water? MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b02x52hy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b02x64z1 (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 1913: The Year Before b02x64z3 (Listen) MON Labour Relations & the Triple Alliance MON MON The one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First MON World war looms on the horizon. 1914 is a date forged into MON the British consciousness, just as it's carved into MON monuments the length and breadth of the UK and many places MON beyond. With that awareness comes an understanding that it MON was the war to end all wars, shocking the culture, politics, MON and societies of Europe, but particularly Britain, out of MON their comfortable progress and reshaping everything. MON But in this series Michael Portillo challenges that notion. MON Looking at a series of themes, the suffrage movement, the MON Irish question, the decline of the liberal party and the MON arts, he argues that to a large extent Britain was already MON in a state of flux by 1913 and many of the developments we MON think of as emanating from or being catalysed by the war, MON were actually in full flow. MON MON Michael starts today's programme at the Railway station in MON Llanelli, scene of a riot in 1911. It was provoked by MON industrial unrest on the railways and resulted in the MON shooting of two men by the armed forces. The familiar MON high-water mark of Industrial unrest in Britain is usually MON understood to be the General Strike of 1926. In fact the ten MON year period leading up to the First World War saw a wave of MON industrial strife with thousands of days labour lost and a MON growing feeling, on the part of the workers, that their MON voice could and would be heard. Ships were built, railways MON run and the Empire supplied, but not by a quiescent work MON force. MON MON Producer: Tom Alban. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b02x5l4n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Dangerous Visions b02x66zn (Listen) MON Billions MON MON One of a season of dramas exploring contemporary takes on MON future dystopias. MON MON Mark's wife Donna has an accident and ends up in a MON life-threatening coma. But when he comes home from hospital, MON Donna is in the kitchen. Not Donna, in fact, but a MON near-perfect replica provided by her insurance company. MON MON Award-winning writer Ed Harris tells a wickedly twisted tale MON of love - and adjustments. MON MON Producer/Director ... Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Ed Harris MON Mark: Blake Ritson MON Donna: Raquel Cassidy MON Charlie: Lizzy Watts MON Natalie: Clare Corbett MON Luke: Will Howard MON Kay: Philippa Stanton MON Mr Willis: Robert Blythe MON Scott: Michael Shelford MON Sandra: Amaka Okafor MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b02x66zq (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 7 MON MON (7/13) MON MON Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the seventh heat in the MON 2013 series of Counterpoint, this week coming from the BBC's MON studios at Maida Vale. MON MON The questions and musical extracts cover territory as MON diverse as Wagner, Lionel Bart, Handel and Culture Club. As MON ever, the contestant who can demonstrate the widest range of MON musical knowledge stands to win a place in the semi-finals, MON which begin in a few weeks' time. MON MON This week's competitors are from London, Woodstock in MON Oxfordshire and Romsey in Hampshire. A full list of the MON music played will be posted on the Counterpoint website MON after the broadcast. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b02x5j69 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Derek Tangye: The Cornish Gardener b02x66zs (Listen) MON John McCarthy explores the fascinating life of British MON author Derek Tangye and reveals a remarkable and enigmatic MON portrait of this influential writer. MON MON From his home in the West Country popular writer Derek MON Tangye penned a score of books collectively known as 'The MON Minack Chronicles'. MON MON The stories illustrate the anomalous lives Derek and his MON wife Jeannie led when, in the 1950's, they abandoned their MON sophisticated metropolitan lifestyle to live in isolation MON working a cliff top daffodil farm with their beloved animals MON in the farthest reaches of Cornwall. MON MON As McCarthy travels to the area surrounding Minack, the main MON inspiration for Tangye' work, he explores the world of a MON writer whose literary triumphs mask a mysterious and complex MON life. His descriptions in the books of the 'glorious anthem' MON of a cat's purr and the 'sweet moment when a long-awaited MON harvest awakes' provide an atmospheric backdrop to the MON captivating discoveries and secrets of his life. MON MON Derek Tangye was educated at Harrow and subsequently worked MON as a journalist. During the war he was a member of MI5 and MON throughout his days at Minack was a neighbour of novelist MON John Le Carre. MON MON Tangye died in 1996 and a few years later a national MON newspaper ran a story suggesting dubious activities during MON his secret service days. MON MON An audio project produced for Tangye’s centenary and notes MON for a final book allow a useful insight into his life and MON work and provide interesting theories into the couple’s MON motivation to discard glamour to live in a neglected MON cottage. MON MON Speaking with the Tangye's inner circle, his followers and MON experts in spy history, McCarthy attempts to uncover some of MON the mysteries and unanswered questions surrounding the MON author. MON MON After recent renewed interest in the anthologies he will MON discuss the impact and merits of the Minack Chronicles and MON review their contribution to literature. MON MON Readings by David Kay, Chris Chambers from Another Way MON Theatre, and Stephen Garner. MON MON Written and Produced in Salford by Stephen Garner MON MON John McCarthy with violinist Sue Aston at The Minack Theatre MON Violinist Sue Aston discusses her appreciation of Tangye's MON work and plays her composition "The Homecoming" at The MON Minack Theatre. Some of her other recordings are featured in MON the programme. MON MON A Gull On The Roof MON Published 1961 MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b02x66zv (Listen) MON Religion & Politics MON MON Margaret Thatcher's funeral in St Paul's Cathedral was MON attended by thousands of world leaders and watched by MON millions more around the world. In death, as in life, MON Margaret Thatcher shaped the occasion: she dictated the MON order of service and chose the hymns and readings. She was MON probably the most overtly Christian Prime Minister of the MON twentieth century up to the time of her leaving office. So MON where did those Christian influences come from? How did her MON religious conviction shape her politics? And what is her MON legacy in terms of the relationship between religion and MON politics in a multi cultural Britain? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea are Dr Eliza Filby, Lecturer in Modern MON British History at King's College London, whose book, "God MON and Mrs Thatcher: The Battle for Britain's Soul", is MON published later this year; Edwina Currie, Parliamentary MON Under Secretary of State for Health under Margaret Thatcher MON and MP for South Derbyshire between 1983 and 1997 and Canon MON Dr Alan Billings, Deputy Leader of Sheffield City Council MON under David Blunkett when Margaret Thatcher came to power, MON and former Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at MON Lancaster University. MON MON 17:00 PM b02x66zx (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02x52j0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b02x66zz (Listen) MON Series 66, Episode 5 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts without hesitation, repetition or MON deviation with panellists; Tony Hawks, Roy Walker, Fred MON MacAulay and Gyles Brandreth. This edition comes from the MON City of Culture Derry, Londonderry. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b02x6701 (Listen) MON Eddie has a disturbed night, and Matt demands his pound of MON flesh. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Vanessa Whitburn MON MON 19:15 Front Row b02x6703 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange with scientist MON Brian Cox, who selects a favourite art-work. MON MON Producer Ella-mai Robey. MON MON Credits MON Editor: John Goudie MON MON 19:45 Dangerous Visions b02x62sy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Parkinson's Law Revisited b02x6705 (Listen) MON Does work expand to fill the time available for its MON completion? Do bureaucracies bloat of their own accord? MON These are some of the insights offered by Cyril Northcote MON Parkinson whose essay "Parkinson's Law" made him a famous MON commentator on organisational structures in the 1950s. But MON Parkinson's Law might have more to offer us in a world where MON bureaucracies are being slimmed down, as Matthew Sweet MON discovers. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b02x6707 (Listen) MON Predistribution MON MON Predistribution is Labour's new policy buzzword, used by MON leader Ed Miliband in a keynote speech. The US thinker who MON coined the phrase tells Edward Stourton what it means. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b02mqmqc (Listen) MON The Problem of Population 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 programme Howard Stableford reports from MON Connecticut on the complex decline of the once very MON ubiquitous Chimney Swift, a story Monty Don believes is the MON paradigm for the series. The wider issues of human MON population and nature are explored in the studio with Lord MON May, past president of The Royal Society and from Vienna, MON Professor Wolfgang Lutz, a specialist in human population MON dynamics. MON MON Professor Lord Robert May MON Robert, Lord May of Oxford, OM AC Kt FRS, holds a MON Professorship at Oxford University and is a Fellow of Merton MON College, Oxford. He was until recently President of The MON Royal Society (2000-2005), and before that Chief Scientific MON Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the UK Office of MON Science and Technology (1995-2000). He is also, amongst MON others things, a member of the UK Government’s Climate MON Change Committee (an independent body established by the MON Climate Change Bill, to advise on targets and means of MON achieving them), a Non-Executive Director of the UK Defense MON Science & Technology Laboratories and until recently Chaired MON the Trustees of the Natural History Museum. MON MON Professor Wolfgang Lutz MON MON Professor Wolfgang Lutz is the founder and director of the MON Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, MON which was founded in 2011, based on the Wittgenstein Prize MON 2010 and created as a collaboration between IIASA MON (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), MON Vienna Institute of Demography and the Vienna University of MON Economics and Business. He is also the director of the MON Vienna Institute of Demography; leader of the World MON Population Program in Laxenburg, Austria, and Professor for MON Social and Economic Statistics at the Vienna University of MON Economics and Business Administration. MON MON Chimney Swifts MON MON Chimney Swifts are aerial Insectivores, specifically hunting MON airborne insects. They resemble other species of species of MON swifts, martins and swallows although as their common name MON suggests, they have a relationship with chimneys. Today MON they live east of the Rockies in North America, mainly in MON the north eastern states like Connecticut and they use MON chimneys as a place to communally roost. MON Chimney Swifts are in rapid decline, with the population MON reduced by over 50% in the last 40 years. They are MON migrants, spending the winter in South America and DDT has MON been implicated in their decline. Although DDT is no MON longer used in North America that is not the case in some MON South American countries. DDT reduces the airborne insect MON abundance, the Chimney Swift’s staple diet. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b02x62sr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b02x52j2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b02x6709 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02x7r7s (Listen) MON A Commonplace Killing, Episode 6 MON MON Harriet Walter reads Episode Six of a dark and mysterious MON thriller by Sian Busby. MON MON The discovery of an ID card leads DDI Cooper to Walter MON Frobisher, who is clearly hiding something. MON Cooper takes an instant dislike to Frobisher and he allows MON Inspector Lucas ask the questions to start so that he can MON stand back and observe. He notices that this ostensibly MON pathetic looking man is seething with rage, and a lie is MON revealed. MON MON A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby is abridged by Lauris MON Morgan Griffiths and produced by Sarah Langan. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Robert Glenister MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Author: Sarah Dunant MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b02x7r7v (Listen) MON Series 2, Eliza and Martin Carthy (A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with the second series of Mastertapes, MON in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters MON about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in MON front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale MON Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John MON initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, MON and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. MON Both editions feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 1, A-side. "Anglicana" with Eliza Carthy and her MON father Martin Carthy. MON MON Together Eliza Carthy and her parents Martin Carthy and MON Norma Waterson have consistently breathed new life and MON vitality into English folk music. Martin Carthy MBE has MON influenced the likes of Bob Dylan and Paul Simon with his MON interpretations of the traditional music of these shores. MON His guitar playing continues to inspire artists in all MON genres and he continues to tour and record on his own, and MON when working with wife Norma Waterson and daughter Eliza MON Carthy as Waterson:Carthy. MON MON Eliza Carthy has continued to expand the legacy of her MON parents work, reinterpreting and reinvigorating English folk MON in her own unique style. Her fiddle playing is in a class of MON its own and throughout her career she has experimented with MON unusual musical collaborations, including the hugely MON successful Imagined Village project. "Anglicana" was MON released in 2002 and gained Eliza her second Mercury MON nomination. It features both Martin Carthy and her mother MON Norma Waterson and was hailed as a new definition of what it MON means to be English in the 21st Century. MON MON Eliza and Martin Carthy, came to the BBC Maida Vale studios MON to discuss the making of "Anglicana", their constantly MON evolving interpretations of traditional folk songs and their MON work together with Norma Waterson as Waterson:Carthy. MON . MON MON The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the MON audience to ask the questions, can be heard tomorrow at MON 3.30pm MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the MON Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be downloaded MON and other musical goodies accessed. MON MON Producer: Helen Lennard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b02x7r7x (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 JUNE 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b02x52k1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b02x62st (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02x52k3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02x52k5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02x52k7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b02x52k9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02ynl0z (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Andrew Martlew. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b02x7h0v (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tqcb (Listen) TUE Golden Oriole 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 Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Golden Oriole. Golden TUE orioles look as exotic as they sound. The male is bright TUE yellow with black wings and a reddish bill. The female is TUE more greenish, but both are very hard to see among the TUE fluttering leaves. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b02x7h0x (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b02x7h0z (Listen) TUE David Spiegelhalter TUE TUE Is it more reckless to eat a bacon sandwich everyday or to TUE go skydiving? What's the chance that all children in the TUE same family have exactly the same birthday? Jim Al-Khalili TUE talks to Professor David Spiegelhalter about risk, TUE uncertainty and the real odds behind everyday life. TUE TUE As one of the world's leading statisticians, he is regularly TUE called upon to help answer questions in high profile TUE inquiries - like the one into the Harold Shipman murders, TUE infant heart surgery at Bristol Royal Infirmary and the PiP TUE breast implant scandal. TUE TUE Jim finds out more about the Life Scientific of the man who TUE despite winning many awards and his research papers being TUE some of the most cited in his field David Spiegelhalter says TUE he isn't really that good at maths. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b02x7h11 (Listen) TUE Owen Bennett Jones talks to Mick Flynn TUE TUE Owen Bennett-Jones has spent most of his BBC career TUE reporting on armed conflict around the world. On March 2003 TUE he was in Kuwait as the US forces began their invasion of TUE Iraq. While talking to the American writer PJ O'Rourke, Owen TUE said how frightened the soldiers heading into Iraq must be, TUE but O'Rourke replied: "Well, they are off to do the most TUE exciting thing ever known to man: going to war". TUE TUE It was a striking remark. Was he glorifying war? Or just TUE telling a truth? Since humans first started to communicate, TUE they have been telling - and listening to - war stories. TUE And, alongside the empathy and fellow feeling for victims, TUE the accounts of bravery, suffering and cheating death are TUE compelling and perhaps vicariously thrilling. TUE TUE Mick Flynn has many war stories. He is the most decorated TUE serving soldier in the British army. He has served in TUE Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq and Bosnia and has had TUE three tours of Afghanistan. In the first of a two part TUE series of 'One to One', Owen hears from Mick about one TUE particular day of fighting in Iraq. TUE TUE Presenter: Owen Bennett-Jones. TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b02xcz3c (Listen) TUE Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, Episode 2 TUE TUE When Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times and now TUE editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself in TUE Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South TUE Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation TUE on the brink of revolution. TUE TUE Accompanied by two native Egyptians, Mohammed and Socratis, TUE whose eagerness to spend time with him is never really TUE explained, Stothard traces his lifelong interest in the TUE history of Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the TUE book about her that he has started so many times. TUE TUE Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria filters the TUE life of a classics scholar turned journalist through the TUE prism of Cleopatra's turbulent history - while all around TUE the author, the cracks begin to appear in Hosni Mubarak's TUE own empire. TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 5): TUE Peter Stothard was a bookish child who began his only work TUE of fiction, featuring Cleopatra, aged 9. The new library in TUE Alexandria is the obvious place to visit, and his own name TUE the obvious one to look up in its vast catalogues of TUE published work. TUE TUE Read by Kenneth Cranham TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Kenneth Cranham TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Writer: Peter Stothard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b02x7h13 (Listen) TUE Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jenni Murray TUE TUE 10:45 Dangerous Visions b02x7h15 (Listen) TUE The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 2 TUE TUE Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel. Society is TUE splintering, apocalyptic sects with fundamentalist, TUE ecological or anti-scientific beliefs are springing up. TUE Panic, chaos and fear reign. When Jessie's own world begins TUE to fall apart and her best friend Sal experiences a shocking TUE act of violence, Jessie realises it is time to take action. TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari TUE TUE Dangerous Visions Season: TUE The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's TUE fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. TUE Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died TUE four years ago, his vision of TUE what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical TUE and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a TUE season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future TUE dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, TUE Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and TUE we have asked five leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed TUE Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip TUE Palmer - to imagine what life might be like in the near TUE future if everything goes wrong - TUE and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: TUE clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might TUE happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning TUE becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable TUE of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South TUE London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice TUE becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part TUE dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel TUE The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. TUE Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the TUE present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jessie: Holliday Grainger TUE Joe: Mark Jordon TUE Cath: Joanne Mitchell TUE Sal: Rebecca Ryan TUE Baz: Oliver Lee TUE Lisa: Nisa Cole TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE Author: Jane Rogers TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b02x7h17 (Listen) TUE Can We Save It All? TUE TUE A giant hamster in Alsace provides Monty with a puzzling TUE dilemma, how do we decide what to conserve? With so many TUE pressures on so many creatures and habitats how to decide TUE where to put our energy and money is difficult. Monty Don TUE explores the issues, do we save the creatures that appeal to TUE us or those that are most useful? Is a beetle better to save TUE than a hamster? Shared Planet explores the crunch point TUE where the natural world and human population meet. Monty Don TUE presents the series and invites a field report each week TUE from around the world where people and wildlife are TUE negotiating the same space: different stories, different TUE outcomes, and different issues. How is the Giant Hamster TUE negotiating it's bit of the planet in the Alsace region with TUE land owners who need its home for crops. Should we try to TUE save everything? TUE TUE Professor Simon Stuart TUE TUE Dr Simon Stuart has been Chair of the Species Survival TUE Commission of the International Union for Conservation of TUE Nature (IUCN) since October 2008. He is also a visiting TUE professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at TUE the University of Bath. Prior to this, he was the Senior TUE Species Scientist for both IUCN and Conservation TUE International. In 2004 he completed the Global Amphibian TUE Assessment which highlighted the global phenomenon of TUE amphibian declines and extinctions. Simon has undergraduate TUE and doctoral degrees in conservation biology from the TUE University of Cambridge, and has undertaken fieldwork in TUE Tanzania and Cameroon. TUE TUE Dr Fiona Mathews TUE TUE Dr Fiona Mathews is a lecturer in Mammalian Biology at TUE Exeter University. Dr Mathews’ work investigates how modern TUE challenges, ranging from urban expansion and human TUE population increases, to exposure to wind turbines, light TUE pollution, mobile telephones, and nutritional inadequacies, TUE affect population dynamics. Using an integrated ecological TUE and epidemiological approach, she studies species ranging TUE from humans to wildlife. She is a member of the Environment TUE and Evolution research group and is based at the Streatham TUE Campus in Exeter. TUE TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b02x7j74 (Listen) TUE Series 9, George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad TUE TUE Frances Fyfield visits two locations in today's Tales from TUE the Stave as she continues her forensic musical enquiries in TUE search of the life and work of George Butterworth. She TUE begins at Eton College where Butterworth was a pupil. He TUE donated the manuscript of his song settings of A 'Shropshire TUE Lad' to the library and Michael Meredith shows Frances and TUE baritone Roderick Williams the manuscript and some rather TUE special editions of A.E. Houseman's poems. They are joined TUE by the conductor, Adrian Davis and handwriting expert, Ruth TUE Rostron. TUE TUE They continue the Butterworth trail to Oxford where TUE Butterworth was a student. Bodleian librarian Martin Holmes TUE and Peter Ward Jones then show Frances, Adrian, Roderick and TUE Ruth the orchestral manuscript of Butterworth's Orchestral TUE Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad. Alongside the manuscript there TUE is also a chance to look at the scrapbook which TUE Butterworth's father compiled after his son's untimely TUE death, serving as a soldier in World War 1. TUE TUE Butterworth was at the forefront of folk music collecting TUE and was admired by those around him. Contained in the TUE scrapbook are letters from Ralph Vaughan Williams, written TUE from his posting in France 1916, to Butterworth senior, TUE expressing his sadness upon hearing the news of his son's TUE death. George Butterworth was only 31 years old when he was TUE killed by a sniper's bullet. Who knows what else he may have TUE gone on to compose. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b02x7mx2 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b02x52kc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b02x7mx4 (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 1913: The Year Before b02x7mx6 (Listen) TUE Poverty TUE TUE The one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First TUE World war looms on the horizon. 1914 is a date forged into TUE the British consciousness, just as it's carved into TUE monuments the length and breadth of the UK and many places TUE beyond. With that awareness comes an understanding that it TUE was the war to end all wars, shocking the culture, politics, TUE and societies of Europe, but particularly Britain, out of TUE their comfortable progress and reshaping everything. TUE But in this series Michael Portillo challenges that notion. TUE Looking at a series of themes, the suffrage movement, the TUE Irish question, the decline of the liberal party and the TUE arts, he argues that to a large extent Britain was already TUE in a state of flux by 1913 and many of the developments we TUE think of as emanating from or being catalysed by the war, TUE were actually in full flow. TUE TUE In the seventh programme in the series Michael explores the TUE pre-war attitudes to poverty, both in town and country. On TUE the strength of forensic reporting by the likes of Seebohm TUE Rowntree in York senior figures in the Liberal party were TUE seeking to do something about wage rates, living standards TUE and the damaging gap between rich and poor. Their reforming TUE zeal lead to a series of compromises, not least over Irish TUE Home Rule, but rather than an era content with its Edwardian TUE lot, this was one of the most politically dynamic TUE governments of the century. Michael argues that the passing TUE of a National Insurance Act, which came into effect in TUE January 1913, does not deserve to be lost in the memory of TUE the War that followed. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b02x6701 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Dangerous Visions b02x7mx8 (Listen) TUE Invasion TUE TUE 30 years from now, Astronaut Kadian Giametti becomes the TUE first human to walk on Mars. But on his return to Earth he TUE wakes up in a quarantine cell from which he's not allowed to TUE leave. Slowly Kadian learns the truth about what's happened TUE on Earth while he's been away, and what he's brought back TUE with him. TUE TUE A claustrophobic two-hander from science fiction writer TUE Philip Palmer. Part of the Dangerous Visions season. TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production TUE TUE Dangerous Visions: The adjective Ballardian refers to the TUE writer 'JG Ballard's fearful imaginings of what the near TUE future might be like. Even though the master creator of TUE dystopian futures died four years ago, his vision of what TUE our future might become feels as relevant, satirical and as TUE scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a season of TUE dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. TUE Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and TUE Concrete Island, straddle the season, and we have asked five TUE leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael TUE Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to TUE imagine what life might be like in the near future if TUE everything goes wrong - and their Dangerous Visions form the TUE bedrock of the series: clever, imaginative and disturbing TUE takes on just what might happen. What happens if sleep is TUE outlawed? If cloning becomes a matter of course, and your TUE loved ones are capable of being cloned? If North London TUE declares UDI on South London, which has become a wasteland? TUE If human sacrifice becomes a part of society? We are also TUE running a 5 part dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning TUE terrifying novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by TUE the author. Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you TUE see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. TUE TUE Credits TUE Kadian: Edward Hogg TUE Jenna: Amita Dhiri TUE Writer: Philip Palmer TUE Director: James Robinson TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b02x7njf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Lines of Communication TUE TUE Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries about TUE communication - messages that could break your heart, rescue TUE you from a fight or save you from a long stay in jail. TUE TUE The writer Glenn Patterson explains why sometimes we should TUE ignore the writing on the wall, and musician Tom Robinson TUE describes the unlikely message he sent at a time when he was TUE in a lot of trouble. TUE TUE Stories of last words, lost love and lights being knocked TUE out. TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE TUE Guess Who TUE Found sound from the collection of Mark Vernon TUE http://www.meagreresource.com/ TUE TUE L'Esprit De L'Escalier TUE Produced by Hana Walker-Brown TUE TUE Yanto TUE Featuring Glenn Patterson TUE Produced by Rachel Hooper TUE TUE Message from Above TUE Featuring Tom Robinson TUE Produced by Alan Hall TUE TUE Dear Sophie TUE Produced by Sara Parker TUE TUE Conversations with Nic TUE Featuring Esther Baker TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b02x7t3t (Listen) TUE Series 2, Eliza and Martin Carthy (B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with the second series of Mastertapes, TUE in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters TUE about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in TUE front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale TUE Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John TUE initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, TUE and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. TUE Both editions feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 4 (the B-side). Having discussed the making of TUE Eliza's award winning 2004 album, "Anglicana" (in the A-side TUE of the programme, broadcast on Monday 17th June and TUE available online), Eliza Carthy and her father Martin Carthy TUE respond to questions from the audience and perform live TUE versions of some of the songs from the album, as well as TUE discussing their work together with Norma Waterson as TUE Waterson:Carthy. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b02x7t3w (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b02x7t3y (Listen) TUE Antonia Quirke & Kerry Shale TUE TUE Film critic Antonia Quirke and actor Kerry Shale talk to TUE Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books, which are TUE wildly varied: a graphic novel, a travel book and a TUE collection of short poems. TUE TUE Kerry Shale talks about Blankets, a poignant memoir drawn TUE and written by Craig Thompson. TUE TUE Antonia's choice is a less well-known book by the author of TUE Ring of Bright Water. It's A Reed Shaken by the Wind: TUE Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Maxwell. TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's recommendation is Short and Sweet: 101 TUE Very Short Poems, edited by Simon Armitage. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS PROGRAMME TUE TUE Short and Sweet: 101 Very Short Poems TUE TUE Edited by Simon Armitage TUE TUE Published by Faber and Faber TUE TUE TUE TUE Blankets by Craig Thompson TUE TUE Published by Top Shelf Productions TUE TUE A Reed Shaken By The Wind: Travels Among The Marsh Arabs of TUE Iraq TUE TUE by Gavin Maxwell TUE TUE Published by Eland TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke TUE Interviewed Guest: Kerry Shale TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b02x7t40 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02x52kf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Castle b01j8gyl (Listen) TUE Series 4, Highlights and Twilights TUE TUE Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, TUE starring James Fleet (The Vicar Of Dibley), Neil Dudgeon TUE (Life Of Riley), Martha Howe-Douglas (Horrible Histories) & TUE Ingrid Oliver (Watson and Oliver) TUE TUE The village of Woodstock receives two mysterious visitors - TUE one deathly pale and one deathly orange. Meanwhile, Lady TUE Anne meets the love that dare not speak its name and Sir TUE John meets the love that can speak its name but can't TUE pronounce it properly. TUE TUE Written by Kim Fuller and Paul Alexander TUE Music by Guy Jackson TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sir John Woodstock: James Fleet TUE Sir William De Warenne: Neil Dudgeon TUE Lady Anne Woodstock: Martha Howe-Douglas TUE Cardinal Duncan: Jonathan Kydd TUE Lady Charlotte: Ingrid Oliver TUE Master Henry Woodstock: Steven Kynman TUE Bates: Lewis Macleod TUE Amy De Childs: Jess Robinson TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE Writer: Kim Fuller TUE Writer: Paul Alexander TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b02x8znh (Listen) TUE Tom fills Brian in, and Brenda's having a tough time. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Vanessa Whitburn TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b02x8znk (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Brad Pitt trying TUE to save the planet from zombies in the film World War Z. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Mark Lawson TUE Producer: Stephen Hughes TUE Editor: John Goudie TUE TUE 19:45 Dangerous Visions b02x7h15 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b02x8znm (Listen) TUE Local authorities across the UK are facing tough decisions TUE as they try to balance their books in the face of TUE unprecedented funding cuts - with many opting to sell land TUE and buildings to reduce spending and bring in much needed TUE capital. TUE TUE But, one person's white elephant is another's much loved TUE local facility, so the choice of what goes on the market TUE often causes great public resentment. TUE TUE Jenny Chryss visits four local authorities where TUE announcements about asset sales have caused serious TUE questions to be asked. She finds allegations of decisions TUE taken behind closed doors, sums that don't stack up and TUE property that could end up being mothballed for years to TUE come. TUE TUE So are councils getting value for money for their tax TUE payers? Or are they out of their depth when they negotiate TUE with the private sector, especially in one of the harshest TUE property markets for years? TUE TUE And with a major shift in the way councils are audited, is TUE there a danger that mistakes could go unnoticed and TUE unchallenged? TUE TUE Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b02x8znp (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b02x8znr (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b02x7h0z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b02x52kh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b02x8znt (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02x8znw (Listen) TUE A Commonplace Killing, Episode 7 TUE TUE DDI Cooper's suspicions about Walter Frobisher increase as TUE he pays him an unexpected visit. TUE Frobisher has admitted that he rowed with Lillian before she TUE left - she had even thrown her wedding ring at him in anger, TUE and he tells Cooper that he thought she would have gone off TUE to visit her sister in Jaywick. A conversation with their TUE son Douglas brings some clarity, and Evelyn, under pressure TUE reveals some interesting information that opens up a new TUE line of enquiry. TUE A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby is abridged by Lauris TUE Morgan Griffiths and produced by Sarah Langan. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Robert Glenister TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Author: Sarah Dunant TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE TUE 23:00 Lucy Beaumont: To Hull and Back b02x8zny (Listen) TUE Radio 4 comedy. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b02x8zp0 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 JUNE 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b02x52lb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b02xcz3c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02x52ld (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02x52lg (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02x52lj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b02x52ll (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02ynln0 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Andrew Martlew. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b02x93cp (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tqln (Listen) WED Lesser Whitethroat WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Miranda Kresovnikoff presents the Lesser Whitethroat. A loud WED rattling song from a roadside hedge announces that Lesser WED whitethroats are back from their African winter homes. WED WED 06:00 Today b02x93cr (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b02x93ct (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b02xczk7 (Listen) WED Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, Episode 3 WED WED When Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times and now WED editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself in WED Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South WED Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation WED on the brink of revolution. WED WED Accompanied by two native Egyptians, Mohammed and Socratis, WED whose eagerness to spend time with him is never really WED explained, Stothard traces his lifelong interest in the WED history of Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the WED book about her that he has started so many times. WED WED Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria filters the WED life of a classics scholar turned journalist through the WED prism of Cleopatra's turbulent history - while all around WED the author, the cracks begin to appear in Hosni Mubarak's WED own empire. WED WED Episode 3 (of 5): WED A meal with the author's two newly acquired friends, Mahmoud WED and Socratis, takes a bizarre conversational turn. WED WED Read by Kenneth Cranham WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Kenneth Cranham WED Producer: Jill Waters WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Writer: Peter Stothard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b02x93cw (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:45 Dangerous Visions b02x93cy (Listen) WED The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 3 WED WED Jane Rogers dramatises her award winning novel. With the WED death toll from Maternal Death Syndrome rising daily and the WED world on the brink of disaster, Jessie becomes convinced WED that she must take action. Her act of heroism could save the WED human race but will those closest to her offer their WED support? WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari WED WED Dangerous Visions Season: The adjective Ballardian refers to WED the writer 'JG Ballard's fearful imaginings of what the near WED future might be like. Even though the master creator of WED dystopian futures died four years ago, his vision of what WED our future might become feels as relevant, satirical and as WED scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a season of WED dramas that explore contemporary takes on future dystopias. WED Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and WED Concrete Island, straddle the season, and we have asked five WED leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael WED Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to WED imagine what life might be like in the near future if WED everything goes wrong - and their Dangerous Visions form the WED bedrock of the series: clever, imaginative and disturbing WED takes on just what might happen. What happens if sleep is WED outlawed? If cloning becomes a matter of course, and your WED loved ones are capable of being cloned? If North London WED declares UDI on South London, which has become a wasteland? WED If human sacrifice becomes a part of society? We are also WED running a 5 part dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning WED terrifying novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by WED the author. Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you WED see the present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. WED WED Credits WED Jessie: Holliday Grainger WED Joe: Mark Jordon WED Cath: Joanne Mitchell WED Mandy: Kate Coogan WED Baz: Oliver Lee WED Lisa: Nisa Cole WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED Author: Jane Rogers WED WED 11:00 London's Oldest Prison: A History of Criminal Justice WED b02x93d0 (Listen) WED The Experiment WED WED Through the prism of HMP Brixton, BBC Radio 4 traces WED changing attitudes to crime and punishment during 19th WED century industrialisation, urbanisation, and national debate WED about how prisons should be run, who should run them and WED whether they exist to punish, deter or reform. WED WED In 1852, overcrowded and with a reputation for brutality, WED Brixton was closed as a local prison for the south of WED London. Its notorious treadwheels were dismantled and the WED land and buildings sold at auction. But, at the eleventh WED hour, it was saved. WED WED The end of transportation to Australia in the 1850s meant WED Britain suddenly had to find prison accommodation for WED thousands of serious offenders. The government made a WED compulsory purchase of Brixton and converted it into a WED prison solely for female convicts - the first of its kind in WED the country. WED WED In the second programme of this series, award-winning WED historian Jerry White investigates how both prisoners and WED staff dealt with this new regime. WED WED Long-term imprisonment on a large scale was an unknown WED quantity. We hear the reaction of current prisoners - as the WED current chaplain reads out the first sermon ever delivered WED in the chapel. And we discover a remarkable connection WED between the woman put in charge of Brixton in the 1850s and WED a member of staff of today. WED WED Jerry also examines cases of so-called 'breakings out' - WED where women would tear up their bedding, strip naked and WED smash windows in apparent outbursts of frenzy. And how WED public concerns about the mollycoddling of prisoners WED eventually led to Brixton's closure for a second time. WED WED Producer: Chris Impey WED A PRA production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 House on Fire b02x93d2 (Listen) WED Series 3, Baby WED WED A new series with Matt and Vicky, the two flatmates who love WED to hate to love each other - with the usual mixture of WED somewhat hapless situations brought about by their inability WED to live in the real world, or indeed with each other. WED WED They are aided and abused as ever by their less than loving WED parents, who can always be relied upon to wash their hands WED of any responsibility. WED WED After Matt agrees to look after his mate's baby, Vicky WED decides to borrow it to become a "single mother". She's WED certain it will help with her up-coming pay review. WED WED Written by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Vicky: Emma Pierson WED Matt: Jody Latham WED Peter: Philip Jackson WED Julie: Janine Duvitski WED Colonel Bill: Rupert Vansittart WED Steve: Stephen Mangan WED Natalie: Kellie Shirley WED Waitress: Anna Morris WED Shopkeeper: Fergus Craig WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Writer: Dan Hine WED Writer: Chris Sussman WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b02x93d4 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b02x52ln (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b02x93d6 (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 1913: The Year Before b02x93d8 (Listen) WED Politics and the Tory Gamble WED WED The one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First WED World war looms on the horizon. 1914 is a date forged into WED the British consciousness, just as it's carved into WED monuments the length and breadth of the UK and many places WED beyond. With that awareness comes an understanding that it WED was the war to end all wars, shocking the culture, politics, WED and societies of Europe, but particularly Britain, out of WED their comfortable progress and reshaping everything. WED But in this series Michael Portillo challenges that notion. WED Looking at a series of themes, the suffrage movement, the WED Irish question, the decline of the liberal party and the WED arts, he argues that to a large extent Britain was already WED in a state of flux by 1913 and many of the developments we WED think of as emanating from or being catalysed by the war, WED were actually in full flow. WED WED If pre-war politics is remembered for anything it's the WED dying days of the Liberal party as a dominant force in WED British politics. But Michael turns his attention to the WED Tories of the day, the party that appeared to be dicing with WED political death as tensions over Home Rule in Ireland turned WED from potential to reality. The ambitions and manoeuvring of WED their leader Andrew Bonar Law make sobering reading for a WED former Tory politician. WED WED Producer: Tom Alban. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b02x8znh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Dangerous Visions b02x93db (Listen) WED London Bridge WED WED By Nick Perry WED WED In the future, London is divided in two. North of the river WED is a virtual police state and the South is a lawless no-go WED area ruled by criminal gangs. When the body of young boy WED washes up on the banks of the Thames, a police detective WED crosses the dangerous divide in the search for his killers. WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED Production Co-ordinators: Jessica Brown, Selina Ream WED Editor: Colin Guthrie WED Studio Managers: Cal Knightley, Keith Graham WED WED The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer JG Ballard's WED fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. WED Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died WED four years ago, his vision of what our future might become WED feels as relevant, satirical and as scary as ever. Radio 4's WED Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore WED contemporary takes on future dystopias. Dramatisations of WED Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, WED straddle the season, and we have asked five leading radio WED writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, WED Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to imagine what life might WED be like in the near future if everything goes wrong - and WED their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: WED clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might WED happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning WED becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable WED of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South WED London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice WED becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5-part WED dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel WED The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. WED Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the WED present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. WED WED Credits WED Preston: Justin Salinger WED Ellis: Tim McMullan WED Amory: Robert Blythe WED Mrs Roberts: Gabrielle Reidy WED Paul Roberts: Jerome Holder WED Archer: Nicholas Murchie WED Smith: Michael Shelford WED Hajee: Will Howard WED Pathologist: Joanna Brookes WED Medic: Hannah Wood WED Martha: Philippa Stanton WED Christopher: Isaac Andrews WED Security Guard: Ben Crowe WED Writer: Nick Perry WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Editor: Colin Guthrie WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b02x93dd (Listen) WED Disability and Carers' Benefits WED WED Disability and Carers' benefits are changing. Are you WED affected? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday WED or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED If you, your child or somebody you care for has a disability WED you may be claiming benefits which are being phased out. WED WED Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is being replaced by a WED Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and six others including WED Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Income-related WED Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Housing WED Benefit and Working and Child Tax Credit will merge into a WED monthly payment called Universal Credit. WED WED Charities are concerned that around 600,000 fewer disabled WED people will receive support by the time DLA reforms are WED complete and that 10,000 fewer carers will receive Carer's WED Allowance because the person they care for will not have WED entitlement to support under the new system. WED WED If you want to know if you'll be affected call Paul Lewis on WED Wednesday. To answer your questions, presenter Paul Lewis WED will be joined by: WED WED Jean French, Head of Advice and Information. Carers UK WED Derek Sinclair, Welfare Rights Advisor, Contact a Family WED Robbie Spence, Advisor, Disability Rights UK WED WED Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday. WED Calls cost the same as 01 and 02 numbers, calls from mobiles WED may be higher. Or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b02x8znr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b02x93dg (Listen) WED Remembering Diana WED WED Remembering Diana - did Princess Diana's death lead to a WED major shift in British culture? Professor of Sociology, Vic WED Seidler, talks to Laurie Taylor about his new book which WED analyses the repercussions of Diana, Princess of Wales', WED death in 1997. He argues that the public outpourings of WED grief and displays of emotion prompted new kinds of WED identification and belonging in which communities came WED together regardless of race, class, gender and sexuality and WED helped to make visible changes in what might be called 'New' WED or 'post-traditional' Britain. Did her unexpected death see WED a challenge to 'stiff upper lip' reserve and to the typical WED split made in modernity between reason and emotion? WED The writer, Bea Campbell, who has also written about the WED Diana 'phenomenon', joins the discussion. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b02x93dj (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 b02x93dl (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02x52lq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b01sjj11 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Thom Tuck presents the pick of the new sketch groups WED currently performing live on the UK comedy circuit - with WED character, improv, broken and musical sketch comedy. WED WED This final episode of the second series is in Glasgow and WED also features a special one-off reunion performance from WED classic sketch group Absolutely. WED WED The sketch groups featured in episode four of Sketchorama WED are: WED WED ENDEMIC WED Endemic came together in 2009 as a loose collective of WED performers who just wanted to make new, funny stuff. This WED diverse bunch of experienced comedians, musicians, writers, WED actors and film-makers have since produced a variety of WED comedic offerings - music videos, online sketches and live WED shows, including a run at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. WED Their fan-base is growing, and now includes some of their WED own friends and family. WED WED ABSOLUTELY WED Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch WED show Absolutely reunited for a special, one-off radio WED appearance as part of this second series of Sketchorama. WED Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy WED and John Sparkes recorded the show at The Oran Mor in WED Glasgow and performed new and classic material from some of WED the show's favourite characters - including Calum Gilhooley, WED Denzil and Gwynedd, The Little Girl and the Stoneybridge WED Town Council. WED WED Absolutely WED WED Endemic WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Thom Tuck WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED WED 19:00 The Archers b02x93dn (Listen) WED Jamie's finding it hard work, and Jolene has some good WED advice. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Vanessa Whitburn WED WED 19:15 Front Row b02x93dq (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED Producer: Jerome Weatherald WED Editor: John Goudie WED WED 19:45 Dangerous Visions b02x93cy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b02x93dv (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips, Matthew WED Taylor and Giles Fraser. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b02x93dx (Listen) WED Series 4, Judith Shapiro WED WED Economist Judith Shapiro argues that the next steps towards WED equality for women will be far harder than those which went WED before. WED WED Four Thought is a series of thought-provoking talks which WED combine personal stories with ideas of contemporary WED relevance. Speakers air their thinking in front of a live WED audience, hosted by David Baddiel. WED WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b02x93f1 (Listen) WED England's chief medical officer recently warned that within WED twenty years, the spread of antibiotic resistance may have WED returned us to an almost 19th century state of medicine. WED Infections following routine operations will be untreatable WED and fatal because so many common bacteria will have acquired WED immunity to all the available antibiotic drugs. WED WED The vast majority of the antibiotics we rely upon today were WED developed between the 1940s and 1970s. There has been no new WED class of antibiotic for 25 years. WED WED A radically different approach to dealing with bacteria WED would be stop them from communicating and coordinating their WED attacks, rather than trying to kill them. The bugs would be WED rendered harmless and much less likely to develop drug WED resistance. WED WED This is the hope of researchers who are working on an aspect WED of bacterial life known as Quorum Sensing. WED Bacteria may just be single-celled organisms but WED microbiologists now realise they have a kind of social life. WED They need to cooperate and coordinate their attacks on the WED bodies they infect. WED WED Many kinds of bacteria only become dangerous to us when they WED sense that their numbers are high enough. Only when they WED 'know' that there are enough of them to overwhelm human WED defences, do they release their toxins and cause illness and WED death. WED WED They monitor the number of their fellow bugs by sensing the WED concentration of a message molecule which they all WED manufacture and secrete into the environment. It's a WED rudimentary form of communication which many bacteria use to WED synchronise their activities. WED WED In Frontiers, Geoff Watts talks to scientist and doctors who WED are exploring this phenomenon in disease-causing bacteria, WED and trying to devise ways of interfering with the microbial WED communications. One line of thinking is the development of WED drugs which stop the microbes from either 'talking' or WED 'hearing' the chemical messages. WED WED Another more radical idea is to treat infected patients with WED doses of the kind of bacteria causing the illness - except WED that the 'medicinal' bugs would be ones that would subvert WED the communication system and bring the infection to an end. WED At least, that is the theory. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b02x93ct (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b02x52ls (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b02x93f3 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02x93f5 (Listen) WED A Commonplace Killing, Episode 8 WED WED Harriet Walter reads Episode Eight of a dark and mysterious WED thriller by Sian Busby. The investigation follows a new WED twist. WED WED The sham of The Frobishers' marriage is now out in the open. WED The couple had been trying to make a go of things since WED Walter came back from the war 'for the sake of their son', WED but Walter has admitted that he knew that his wife had WED affairs, and finally Lillian had become aware of Walter's WED deceit too. Evelyn's revelation that Lillian had met a spiv WED called Dennis in a cafĂ© has sent the enquiry off in a new WED direction and Cooper is now armed with an artists' WED impression of him. Bright eyed Policewoman Tring has made WED some interesting discoveries and reveals, to Cooper's WED devastation, that she wants to join CID. WED WED A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby is abridged by Lauris WED Morgan Griffiths and produced by Sarah Langan. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Harriet Walter WED Producer: Sarah Langan WED Author: Sian Busby WED Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED WED 23:00 Living with Mother b01nq4j3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Told You I Was Ill WED WED Lisa is a hypochondriac and worries about everything. She WED can't accept the fact that her son has grown up and isn't a WED baby anymore. WED WED Luke wants to leave home and move in with his girlfriend but WED he dare not break the news to his Mum. He hasn't actually WED told her that he's been going out with someone for the past WED year. The girlfriend gives Luke an ultimatum and he WED eventually plucks up the courage to tell his mother about WED her and that she is coming over for tea. Lisa seems OK with WED it all - but we soon discover that she has a plan. WED WED Writing about the first series of Living with Mother, Radio WED Times described it as "Alexander Kirk's astutely-observed WED comedy series...underpinning each of these tales is a WED bittersweet poignancy, a moment when the easy laughs are WED replaced with a lip-trembling insight into the WED vulnerability, lack of self-confidence and interdependency". WED WED Cast: WED Luke ..... Daniel Mays WED Lisa ..... Linda Robson WED WED Written by: Alexander Kirk WED WED Producer: Anna Madley WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Luke: Daniel Mays WED Lisa: Linda Robson WED Producer: Anna Madley WED Writer: Alexander Kirk WED WED 23:15 Dreaming the City b02x93ry (Listen) WED Raising the Bones WED WED Four journeys into the dark, recurring dreams of the city. WED In each episode, leading writers collaborate with WED documentary-makers Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta to WED uncover the unsaid obsessions of city life. WED WED Episode 3: Raising the Bones by Naomi Alderman WED WED A heart-broken girl returns to the Roman ruins of WED Silchester, where she once spent the perfect day with a lost WED love. But on her return, she discovers it has been WED transformed into a bustling city - the city that could have WED been but never was. WED WED These experimental radio features blend archive, fiction and WED documentary footage. What's real and what's fiction becomes WED unclear, just like in the city. WED WED A city isn't just a location on the map, it's a place we WED imagine, dream about, invent. A place to love, to endure or WED to resent. A place where you can find anything - but it WED always has a price. WED WED You don't need to live in a city - it's part of the WED universal imagination. But the way we think of it has common WED dark undertones, recurring dreams that come round again and WED again. These late night woozy dreamscapes uncover those WED unsaid obsessions, each taking a different theme, and WED question why these ideas seem to keep coming back in the way WED we imagine urban living. WED WED With thanks to English Heritage. WED WED Producers: Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Russell Finch WED Producer: Francesca Panetta WED Writer: Naomi Alderman WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b02x93s0 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 JUNE 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b02x52mp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b02xczk7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02x52mr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02x52mt (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02x52mw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b02x52my (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02ynmsm (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Andrew Martlew. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b02x97k2 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Jones. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tr6m (Listen) THU Cormorant THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Cormorant. Although THU cormorants are common on rocky and estuarine shores, THU increasingly they are breeding inland in tree colonies - THU where branches whitened by their droppings are a giveaway in THU summer. THU THU 06:00 Today b02x97k4 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b02x97k6 (Listen) THU The Physiocrats THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, an THU important group of economic thinkers in eighteenth-century THU France. The Physiocrats believed that the land was the THU ultimate source of all wealth, and crucially that markets THU should not be constrained by governments. Their ideas were THU important not just to economists but to the course of THU politics in France. Later they influenced the work of Adam THU Smith, who called Physiocracy "perhaps the nearest THU approximation to the truth that has yet been published upon THU the subject of political economy." THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b02xf60h (Listen) THU Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, Episode 4 THU THU When Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times and now THU editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself in THU Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South THU Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation THU on the brink of revolution. THU THU Accompanied by two native Egyptians, Mohammed and Socratis, THU whose eagerness to spend time with him is never really THU explained, Stothard traces his lifelong interest in the THU history of Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the THU book about her that he has started so many times. THU THU Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria filters the THU life of a classics scholar turned journalist through the THU prism of Cleopatra's turbulent history - while all around THU the author, the cracks begin to appear in Hosni Mubarak's THU own empire. THU THU Episode 4 (of 5): THU A visit to a carpet shop and a history lesson: ancient and THU modern. THU THU Read by Kenneth Cranham THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Kenneth Cranham THU Producer: Jill Waters THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Writer: Peter Stothard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b02x97k8 (Listen) THU Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jane Garvey THU THU 10:45 Dangerous Visions b02x97kb (Listen) THU The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 4 THU THU Jane Rogers dramatises her dystopian novel: winner of the THU Arthur C Clarke Award 2012. THU THU Maternal Death Syndrome is spreading rapidly and Jessie's THU world is still in crisis. Her aunt Mandy is desperately ill, THU boyfriend Baz is planning drastic action and her father is THU adamant that Jessie should not volunteer to be a Sleeping THU Beauty. Can Jessie be swayed from her path? THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari THU THU Dangerous Visions Season: THU THU The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's THU fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. THU Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died THU four years ago, his vision of what our future might become THU feels as relevant, satirical and as scary as ever. Radio 4's THU Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore THU contemporary takes on future dystopias. Dramatisations of THU Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, THU straddle the season, and we have asked five leading radio THU writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, THU Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to imagine what life might THU be like in the near future if everything goes wrong - and THU their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: THU clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might THU happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning THU becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable THU of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South THU London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice THU becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part THU dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel THU The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. THU Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the THU present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. THU THU Credits THU Jessie: Holliday Grainger THU Joe: Mark Jordon THU Baz: Oliver Lee THU Lisa: Nisa Cole THU Iain: Will Finlason THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Author: Jane Rogers THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b02x97kd (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell their stories and THU examine news developments in their region. Presented by Kate THU Adie. THU THU 11:30 Shakespeare and Company b02x97kg (Listen) THU Stuart Maconie travels to the Shakespeare and Company THU bookshop in a bid to understand how a winding, twisting, THU bohemian bookstore in Paris has become a draw for THU generations of writers. THU THU Since its beginnings in 1919, Shakespeare and Company has THU played host to an extraordinary range of authors. James THU Joyce and the Lost Generation of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott THU Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein communed, borrowed THU books and exchanged ideas in the original shop founded by THU Sylvia Beach. THU THU A bookshop dedicated to empowering writers, it was Sylvia THU Beach who first published James Joyce's Ulysses. George THU Whitman took up this mantle in 1951 and attracted the THU writers of the Beat Generation including Allen Ginsberg, THU William S Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Anais Nin, THU and Henry Miller. In a rare interview, Beat poet Lawrence THU Ferlinghetti speaks to Stuart Maconie about his relationship THU with George Whitman. THU THU It was not just these famous authors who worked, slept, ate THU and loved in this "socialist utopia masquerading as a THU bookstore". Stuart Maconie meets with Sylvia Whitman, THU daughter of the former owner, to discover the lives of the THU 30,000 aspiring writers called Tumbleweeds who have found THU shelter among the books. THU THU Professor Andrew Hussey OBE discusses the bookshop's THU contemporary cultural contribution. In a literary landscape THU dominated by digital downloads, Stuart Maconie investigates THU if this labyrinth of bookish treasures can remain culturally THU relevant or if it has become a museum to its past. THU THU The programme also includes contemporary authors such as THU former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo, poet Kate THU Tempest, author Sarah Hall and musician Olivia Chaney. THU THU Producers: John Leonard and Ruth Fitzsimons THU A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b02x97kj (Listen) THU Consumer news with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b02x52n0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b02x97kl (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 1913: The Year Before b02x97kn (Listen) THU The Empire THU THU The one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First THU World war looms on the horizon. 1914 is a date forged into THU the British consciousness, just as it's carved into THU monuments the length and breadth of the UK and many places THU beyond. With that awareness comes an understanding that it THU was the war to end all wars, shocking the culture, politics, THU and societies of Europe, but particularly Britain, out of THU their comfortable progress and reshaping everything. THU But in this series Michael Portillo challenges that notion. THU Looking at a series of themes, the suffrage movement, the THU Irish question, the decline of the liberal party and the THU arts, he argues that to a large extent Britain was already THU in a state of flux by 1913 and many of the developments we THU think of as emanating from or being catalysed by the war, THU were actually in full flow. THU THU In today's programme Michael turns his attention to The THU Empire. There's now a vivid understanding of the price in THU war dead, paid by India, Canada, Australia and South Africa THU amongst others. It clearly put a huge strain on relations THU with the mother country. But as Michael discovers, the THU tensions were already well matured by 1913, in spite of the THU flag waving of Empire Day and the spectacular celebrations THU of the Delhi Durbar in 1911. THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b02x93dn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Dangerous Visions b02x98fc (Listen) THU Death Duty THU THU By Michael Butt THU THU In a desperate bid for water, a city-state plagued by THU drought has instituted a system of so-called Gifts, a weekly THU lottery that leads to the sacrifice of its young men. But THU the Gifts aren't working, and when the man in charge of the THU system sees his son's number called up, his faith is sorely THU tested. THU THU Producer, Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Michael Butt THU Edmund: Nicholas Jones THU Kenny: Will Howard THU Marianne: Christine Absalom THU Shelley: Tracy Wiles THU Lucy: Amaka Okafor THU Minister: Sean Murray THU Mr Greene: Paul Stonehouse THU Mrs Greene: Philippa Stanton THU Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b02x98ff (Listen) THU Series 24, West Highland Way from Balmaha THU THU Clare Balding walks a section of the West Highland Way, THU north from Balmaha, with twin sisters Pauline Walker and THU Fiona Rennie. THU THU Pauline and Fiona are both 'ultra runners' and they haven't, THU before, walked the West Highland Way. However they have run THU the entire route, non-stop, several times. It's one of their THU favourite challenges on the ultra-runner calendar; running THU through the night, dealing with hallucinations, and pushing THU themselves to the limit is all part of the experience. THU THU Clare hears about their adventures, their close and THU supportive relationship, and Fiona's recent battle with THU mouth cancer as they slow to an unfamiliar pace to enjoy the THU beautiful scenery north of Balmaha. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Pauline Walker THU Interviewed Guest: Fiona Rennie THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b02x5g16 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b02x5l4g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b02x98fh (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Material World b02x98fk (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b02x98fm (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02x52n2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Heresy b02x98fp (Listen) THU Series 9, Episode 6 THU THU Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show THU which dares to commit heresy . THU THU Her guests this week are comedians Miles Jupp, Sue Perkins THU and television presenter Richard Osman. THU THU Producers: Victoria Coren Mitchell and Daisy Knight THU An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Victoria Coren THU Panellist: Katy Brand THU Panellist: David Baddiel THU Panellist: Richard Osman THU Producer: Victoria Coren THU Producer: Daisy Knight THU THU 19:00 The Archers b02x98fr (Listen) THU Helen goes kite flying, and Pip's back on track. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Vanessa Whitburn THU THU 19:15 Front Row b02x98ft (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who interviews dramatist David Edgar, THU whose new play If Only is inspired by the coalition THU government. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Mark Lawson THU Producer: Stephen Hughes THU Interviewed Guest: David Edgar THU Editor: John Goudie THU THU 19:45 Dangerous Visions b02x97kb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b02x7t3w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b02x98fw (Listen) THU Food THU THU The food industry is increasingly in the spotlight as THU consumers and government worry about obesity, sustainability THU and safety. THU THU Evan Davis finds out from three very different food THU companies about how their supply chains work and how much THU oversight any company leader can have. Guests discuss how to THU create an efficient and cost effective system that delivers THU on quality and safety. Do consumers elsewhere in Europe and THU the world demand the same level of locally-sourced THU credentials as the British now do and are these ideals THU worthwhile? THU THU Guests: THU Alastair Storey, CEO, WSH THU Perween Warsi, CEO, S&A Foods THU Gavin Darby, CEO, Premier Foods THU THU Producer: Lucy Proctor. THU THU 21:00 Material World b02x98fk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b02x97k6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b02x52n4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b02x9985 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02x9987 (Listen) THU A Commonplace Killing, Episode 9 THU THU Harriet Walter reads Episode Nine of a dark and mysterious THU thriller by Sian Busby. DDI Cooper wants to find the spiv THU called Dennis. THU THU Cooper is distracted temporarily from the case by a raid on THU a packaging factory. One of the apprehended villains though THU happens to be in possession of something that he hopes may THU lead him to the spiv that Evelyn said Lillian went off with. THU So next on his list of people to talk to is a barber called THU Manny Cohen, who it's said can fence anything from a THU cigarette to an elephant. THU THU Meanwhile, Dennis has had one of his dreams again - the one THU that always ended with him flying through the air with the THU feeling that the bit that of his brain that had been blasted THU out of him in the war, was gone forever. THU THU A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby is abridged by Lauris THU Morgan Griffiths and produced by Sarah Langan. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Harriet Walter THU Producer: Sarah Langan THU Author: Sian Busby THU Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU THU 23:00 Listen Against b00txhld (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU The programme that looks back at a week's worth of radio and THU TV that never happened. A disaster on the island from Desert THU Island Discs, and BBC presenters go commercial. THU THU Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes. THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant and Jon Holmes. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b02x9cmj (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 JUNE 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b02x52p7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b02xf60h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02x52p9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02x52pc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02x52pf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b02x52ph (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02ynpsv (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Andrew Martlew. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b02x9f4g (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020trjh (Listen) FRI Wryneck FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Wryneck. These strange FRI birds - with feathers intricately barred and blotched in FRI browns, blacks, fawns and creams - are so-called because of FRI their habit of writhing their heads round at seemingly FRI impossible angles. FRI FRI FRI 06:00 Today b02x9f4j (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b02x5j67 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b02xf6ps (Listen) FRI Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, Episode 5 FRI FRI When Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times and now FRI editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself in FRI Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South FRI Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation FRI on the brink of revolution. FRI FRI Accompanied by two native Egyptians, Mohammed and Socratis, FRI whose eagerness to spend time with him is never really FRI explained, Stothard traces his lifelong interest in the FRI history of Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the FRI book about her that he has started so many times. FRI FRI Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria filters the FRI life of a classics scholar turned journalist through the FRI prism of Cleopatra's turbulent history - while all around FRI the author, the cracks begin to appear in Hosni Mubarak's FRI own empire. FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 5): FRI The author recalls seeing Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film FRI Cleopatra. In the meantime the Arab Spring begins. FRI FRI Read by Kenneth Cranham FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Kenneth Cranham FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Writer: Peter Stothard FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b02x9f4l (Listen) FRI Woman's Hour Special with the BBC Philharmonic FRI FRI Live from MediaCity UK in Salford, Jenni Murray is joined by FRI the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Jessica Cottis for a FRI celebration of women and music. Featured composers include FRI Elena Kats-Chernin, Anna Meredith and Alice Mary Smith. FRI Jenni will also be having a go at conducting the orchestra. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 Dangerous Visions b02x9f4n (Listen) FRI The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Episode 5 FRI FRI Jane Rogers won the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2012 with her FRI novel set in a future where a deadly virus causing pregnant FRI women to die in their millions. Jessie becomes increasingly FRI certain that sacrificing her own life for a healthy baby is FRI the most important thing she can do. But her plan to become FRI a Sleeping Beauty hits an obstacle. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari FRI FRI Dangerous Visions Season: FRI The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's FRI fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. FRI Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died FRI four years ago, his vision of FRI what our future might become feels as relevant, satirical FRI and as scary as ever. Radio 4's Dangerous Visions is a FRI season of dramas that explore contemporary takes on future FRI dystopias. Dramatisations of Ballard's seminal works, FRI Drowned World and Concrete Island, straddle the season, and FRI we have asked five leading radio writers - Nick Perry, Ed FRI Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, Michael Butt and Philip FRI Palmer - to imagine what life might be like in the near FRI future if everything goes wrong - FRI and their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: FRI clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might FRI happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning FRI becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable FRI of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South FRI London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice FRI becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part FRI dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel FRI The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author. FRI Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the FRI present reflected in the glass of an uneasy future. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jessie: Holliday Grainger FRI Joe: Mark Jordon FRI Cath: Joanne Mitchell FRI Sal: Rebecca Ryan FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Author: Jane Rogers FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b02x9f4q (Listen) FRI Series 13, New School: Under Construction FRI FRI To kick off the new series of Lives in a Landscape, Alan FRI Dein presents a two part special following a year in the FRI life of a new primary school just outside Peterborough - FRI from initial construction to the end of the third term. FRI FRI For headteacher Jackie Ashley, the opening of St Michael's FRI Church School will be the culmination of her life in FRI teaching and probably her last role before retirement. She's FRI keen to see the school grow to its full capacity of 210 FRI pupils under her leadership. FRI FRI But as building work continues, there are concerns it may FRI not open its doors on time and Jackie only has five children FRI confirmed to start in September. FRI FRI Producer: Laurence Grissell. FRI FRI 11:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00y92mb (Listen) FRI Series 1, Utilities Companies FRI FRI Through the medium of four open letters, the comedian Tom FRI Wrigglesworth investigates the myriad examples of corporate FRI lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain. FRI FRI In this series his subjects range from traffic wardens to FRI estate agents, with Tom recalling his own funny and FRI ridiculous experiences as well as recounting the absurd FRI encounters of others. FRI FRI Tom finds himself bemused by the peculiar practices of FRI utilities companies. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b02x9f4s (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b02x9f4v (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b02x52pk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b02x9f4x (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 1913: The Year Before b02x9f4z (Listen) FRI The Great Change FRI FRI The one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First FRI World war looms on the horizon. 1914 is a date forged into FRI the British consciousness, just as it's carved into FRI monuments the length and breadth of the UK and many places FRI beyond. With that awareness comes an understanding that it FRI was the war to end all wars, shocking the culture, politics, FRI and societies of Europe, but particularly Britain, out of FRI their comfortable progress and reshaping everything. FRI But in this series Michael Portillo challenges that notion. FRI Looking at a series of themes, the suffrage movement, the FRI Irish question, the decline of the liberal party and the FRI arts, he argues that to a large extent Britain was already FRI in a state of flux by 1913 and many of the developments we FRI think of as emanating from or being catalysed by the war, FRI were actually in full flow. FRI FRI In the final programme Michael talks to a number of FRI Historians about the turmoil of the pre-war years, why FRI they've been painted as innocent and untroubled and what it FRI was that created the tensions running in almost every walk FRI of British life. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b02x98fr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b02x9f51 (Listen) FRI Mind Hackers FRI FRI A new drama by Lou Stein inspired by the phone hacking FRI scandal. FRI FRI Jessica Brown-Findlay (Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey) stars as FRI ambitious media lawyer Hayley Schaffer. When she begins to FRI suspect that a daily newspaper is illegally obtaining FRI information about one of her clients, she pushes the FRI boundaries of legality to defend her client and advance her FRI career. She locks horns with her former lover and mentor, FRI newspaper lawyer Paul Madsen (played by Anthony Head), in an FRI effort to uncover the truth behind the scandal. But Paul has FRI reasons of his own to encourage her to ditch her evidence. FRI FRI The office of Rex Kingsley, the publicity agent whom Hayley FRI represents (played by actor/comedian Owen Brenman) is the FRI circus-like backdrop to the psychological battle which FRI ensues between Hayley and Paul. He is the wizard behind the FRI gamesmanship of lawyers, newspaper hacks, and celebrity FRI clients. FRI FRI Olivier-Award winning actress Marcia Warren also stars as FRI Hayley's wily and dry-humoured grandmother. FRI FRI Written and Directed by Lou Stein FRI FRI Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown FRI Sound Editor: David Chilton FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Lou Stein FRI Hayley Schaffer: Jessica Brown Findlay FRI Paul Madsen: Anthony Head FRI Rex Kingsley: Owen Brenman FRI Grandmother: Marcia Warren FRI Colin Maitley: Sean Baker FRI Angela: Alison Pettitt FRI Vicki: Alison Pettitt FRI Trish: Katy Daghorn FRI First Waitress: Katy Daghorn FRI Lorraine: Claudia Elmhirst FRI Second Waitress: Claudia Elmhirst FRI Luvvy: Nicholas Boulton FRI Tom Batchley: Nicholas Boulton FRI Director: Lou Stein FRI Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b02x9f53 (Listen) FRI Post Bag Edition FRI FRI This week the team visits Matt Biggs' garden to tackle FRI listeners' questions as Eric Robson hosts a postbag edition FRI of GQT. Eric and Matt are joined by Pippa Greenwood and FRI Bunny Guinness. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Home Sweet Home b02x9f55 (Listen) FRI A Room of One's Own FRI FRI 1/3. A Room of One's Own. FRI FRI Writer and standup AL Kennedy has upped sticks and left FRI Glasgow for London, but English conveyancing law and her FRI solicitor's concern about sewage pipes leaves her bewildered FRI and confused. FRI FRI She misses her old, familiar writing room back home, and FRI criss-crosses the capital looking for a new place to call FRI her own. Meanwhile, her favourite black writing chair FRI beckons - but it's boxed up in a storage warehouse somewhere FRI near Heathrow. It's a writer's life... FRI FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b02x9f57 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b02x9f59 (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. If you hear FRI something that riles you, let us know and we will take your FRI opinions right to the top. FRI FRI We will also be digging down into the mystery of the FRI programme maker's 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 So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b02x9f5c (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b02x9f5f (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02x52pm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b02x9f5h (Listen) FRI Series 40, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Laura FRI Shavin, Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn for a comic FRI scramble through the week's news. Producer: Colin Anderson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Performer: Jon Holmes FRI Performer: Laura Shavin FRI Performer: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Performer: Mitch Benn FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b02x9f5k (Listen) FRI Darrell's looking for work, and Vicky's looking forward to FRI Bethany's christening. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough FRI Tony Archer: Colin Skipp FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler FRI Jazzer Mccreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Grace Morgan: Jenny Johns FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Writer: Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b02x9f5m (Listen) FRI John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Wilson FRI Producer: Jerome Weatherald FRI Editor: John Goudie FRI FRI 19:45 Dangerous Visions b02x9f4n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b02x9f5p (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Croydon with Moneysavingexpert founder Martin Lewis and FRI Labour peer Baroness Oona King. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b02x9f5t (Listen) FRI Tom Shakespeare presents the third of his four essays. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Tom Shakespeare FRI FRI 21:00 1913: The Year Before b02x9f5w (Listen) FRI 1913: The Year Before - Omnibus, Omnibus Week Two FRI FRI The one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First FRI World war looms on the horizon. 1914 is a date forged into FRI the British consciousness, just as it's carved into FRI monuments the length and breadth of the UK and many places FRI beyond. With that awareness comes an understanding that it FRI was the war to end all wars, shocking the culture, politics, FRI and societies of Europe, but particularly Britain, out of FRI their comfortable progress and reshaping everything. FRI But in this series Michael Portillo challenges that notion. FRI Looking at a series of themes, the suffrage movement, the FRI Irish question, the decline of the liberal party and the FRI arts, he argues that to a large extent Britain was already FRI in a state of flux by 1913 and many of the developments we FRI think of as emanating from or being catalysed by the war, FRI were actually in full flow. FRI FRI Michael starts today's programme at the Railway station in FRI Llanelli, scene of a riot in 1911. It was provoked by FRI industrial unrest on the railways and resulted in the FRI shooting of two men by the armed forces. The familiar FRI high-water mark of Industrial unrest in Britain is usually FRI understood to be the General Strike of 1926. In fact the ten FRI year period leading up to the First World War saw a wave of FRI industrial strife with thousands of days labour lost and a FRI growing feeling, on the part of the workers, that their FRI voice could and would be heard. Ships were built, railways FRI run and the Empire supplied, but not by a quiescent work FRI force. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b02x52pp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b02x9f5y (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02x9f60 (Listen) FRI A Commonplace Killing, Episode 10 FRI FRI Lillian was sick and tired of her life. The drudgery, the FRI scrimping, and Walter's pathetic ways. She longed for some FRI sophistication; for nice dresses, and for cocktails at FRI Quaglino's. She had been looking for an excuse for whatever FRI it was she felt she might just do, and discovering her FRI husband's deceit with Evelyn was just the thing. FRI Dennis has woken from another one of his episodes, but this FRI time something was different. Since the crack on the head FRI he'd had whilst in action, he always suffered blanks when he FRI had drunk too much, and he had definitely been drinking gin FRI with Nesta in The Feathers. As the memories come back to him FRI in fractured pieces, he realises that Nesta has made away FRI with all of his money. His plea for help leads DDI Cooper to FRI the devastating and heart rending conclusion of the case. FRI FRI A Commonplace Killing by Sian Busby is abridged by Lauris FRI Morgan Griffiths. FRI Produced by Sarah Langan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Harriet Walter FRI Producer: Sarah Langan FRI Author: Sian Busby FRI Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b02x7t3y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b02x9f62 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b02x9fmj (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
14 June, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 15/06/2013 - 21/06/2013
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