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SAT SATURDAY 22 JUNE 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b02x9f8w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b02xf6ps (Listen) SAT Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra, Episode 5 SAT SAT When Peter Stothard, former editor of The Times and now SAT editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself in SAT Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South SAT Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation SAT on the brink of revolution. SAT SAT Accompanied by two native Egyptians, Mohammed and Socratis, SAT whose eagerness to spend time with him is never really SAT explained, Stothard traces his lifelong interest in the SAT history of Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the SAT book about her that he has started so many times. SAT SAT Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria filters the SAT life of a classics scholar turned journalist through the SAT prism of Cleopatra's turbulent history - while all around SAT the author, the cracks begin to appear in Hosni Mubarak's SAT own empire. SAT SAT Episode 5 (of 5): SAT The author recalls seeing Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film SAT Cleopatra. In the meantime the Arab Spring begins. SAT SAT Read by Kenneth Cranham SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Kenneth Cranham SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Writer: Peter Stothard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02x9f8y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02x9f90 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02x9f92 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b02x9f94 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02x9fvn (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Frank Sellar. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b02x9fvq (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b02x9f96 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b02x9f98 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b02x98ff (Listen) SAT Series 24, West Highland Way from Balmaha SAT SAT Clare Balding walks a section of the West Highland Way, SAT north from Balmaha, with twin sisters Pauline Walker and SAT Fiona Rennie. SAT SAT Pauline and Fiona are both 'ultra runners' and they haven't, SAT before, walked the West Highland Way. However they have run SAT the entire route, non-stop, several times. It's one of their SAT favourite challenges on the ultra-runner calendar; running SAT through the night, dealing with hallucinations, and pushing SAT themselves to the limit is all part of the experience. SAT SAT Clare hears about their adventures, their close and SAT supportive relationship, and Fiona's recent battle with SAT mouth cancer as they slow to an unfamiliar pace to enjoy the SAT beautiful scenery north of Balmaha. SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Pauline Walker SAT Interviewed Guest: Fiona Rennie SAT Producer: Karen Gregor SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b02xxvbl (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b02x9f9b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b02xxvbr (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 b02xxvbt (Listen) SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with writer Viv Groskop. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Zeitgeisters b02xxvbz (Listen) SAT Martin Mills 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 Programme 2. Martin Mills - who, as the co-founder and SAT co-owner of the Beggar's Group, has been at the forefront of SAT British independent music since the the 1970s. The Group's SAT labels include XL Recordings, 4AD, Matador and Rough Trade SAT and the artists who have graced their books range from Adele SAT to Radiohead, from the Lurkers to the Savages, from the SAT White Stripes to Gary Numan, and from Dizzee Rascall to The SAT xx. Having grown Beggars into what is now possibly the SAT world's most influential independent music group, Martin SAT Mills is less a Zeitgeister (of the moment) and more a true SAT survivor (at the forefront of decades of moments). But what SAT exactly makes this shy and thoughtful man - more tortoise SAT than hare - tick? How does he maintain his hold over this SAT organisation and what drives him on, as his influence on the SAT industry continues to grow. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b02xxvc8 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Andrew Pierce. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b02xxvcc (Listen) SAT A Seat With a View SAT SAT Air travel may be not quite the glamorous, magical SAT experience it once was but our frequent flier Peter Day, SAT sitting bolt upright in economy class, says there can still SAT be something magnificent about it. For Shaiima Khalil, it's SAT a long hot overnight train journey to Upper Egypt to find SAT out how the revolution's playing out far from the big cities SAT of the north. Chris Morris, covering the anti-government SAT demonstrations in Turkey, hears the prime minister Mr SAT Erdogan promise better days ahead. Fergal Keane tells of SAT past and future colliding on a beach near the southern tip SAT of Africa. And Stephen Smith, deep in a vault in London, SAT gets his hands on some of the glittering riches of the SAT Russian Tsars. SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b02xxvch (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b02x9f5h (Listen) SAT Series 40, Episode 6 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Laura SAT Shavin, Marcus Brigstocke and Pippa Evans for a comic SAT scramble through the week's news. Producer: Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b02x9f9d (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b02x9f9g (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b02x9f5p (Listen) SAT Alistair Burt, Oona King, Bronwen Maddox, Joan Smith SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents live political debate and SAT discussion from Purley in Croydon. SAT SAT The panel are Labour peer Baroness Oona King; editor of SAT Prospect magazine Bronwen Maddox, Foreign and Commonwealth SAT minister Alistair Burt and the novelist, journalist and SAT human rights activist Joan Smith. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b02xxvcn (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b02xxvcv (Listen) SAT Suspicion for 10 Voices SAT SAT Written by Mark Lawson. SAT SAT During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, England was a SAT protestant country standing alone against formidable SAT European and papal enemies. Fear of a Roman Catholic fifth SAT column was rife. But when William Byrd, Elizabeth's SAT favourite composer, is arrested and charged with placing SAT secret papist messages within the music of the Chapel Royal, SAT the court is shocked and panic takes hold among the recusant SAT community. SAT SAT Byrd's dense polyphony is dissected and decoded and it seems SAT sedition is undeniable. But the composer has a powerful SAT protector - one whom not even Walsingham dare countermand. SAT SAT Starring Simon Russell Beale as Byrd and Anton Lesser as SAT Walsingham. SAT SAT Musical Director: Neil Brand SAT Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan SAT SAT A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Mark Lawson SAT William Byrd: Simon Russell Beale SAT Juliana Byrd: Rebecca Saire SAT Sir Francis Walsingham: Anton Lesser SAT Thomas Philippes: Gerard Murphy SAT Thomas Tallis: Jon Glover SAT Fr. Rodrigues: Neil Brand SAT Richard the boy singer: Joseph Hancock SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b02x7j74 (Listen) SAT Series 9, George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad SAT SAT Frances Fyfield visits two locations in today's Tales from SAT the Stave as she continues her forensic musical enquiries in SAT search of the life and work of George Butterworth. She SAT begins at Eton College where Butterworth was a pupil. He SAT donated the manuscript of his song settings of A 'Shropshire SAT Lad' to the library and Michael Meredith shows Frances and SAT baritone Roderick Williams the manuscript and some rather SAT special editions of A.E. Houseman's poems. They are joined SAT by the conductor, Adrian Davis and handwriting expert, Ruth SAT Rostron. SAT SAT They continue the Butterworth trail to Oxford where SAT Butterworth was a student. Bodleian librarian Martin Holmes SAT and Peter Ward Jones then show Frances, Adrian, Roderick and SAT Ruth the orchestral manuscript of Butterworth's Orchestral SAT Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad. Alongside the manuscript there SAT is also a chance to look at the scrapbook which SAT Butterworth's father compiled after his son's untimely SAT death, serving as a soldier in World War 1. SAT SAT Butterworth was at the forefront of folk music collecting SAT and was admired by those around him. Contained in the SAT scrapbook are letters from Ralph Vaughan Williams, written SAT from his posting in France 1916, to Butterworth senior, SAT expressing his sadness upon hearing the news of his son's SAT death. George Butterworth was only 31 years old when he was SAT killed by a sniper's bullet. Who knows what else he may have SAT gone on to compose. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b02xxvcx (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 17:00 PM b02xy3cy (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b02x98fw (Listen) SAT Food SAT SAT The food industry is increasingly in the spotlight as SAT consumers and government worry about obesity, sustainability SAT and safety. SAT SAT Evan Davis finds out from three very different food SAT companies about how their supply chains work and how much SAT oversight any company leader can have. Guests discuss how to SAT create an efficient and cost effective system that delivers SAT on quality and safety. Do consumers elsewhere in Europe and SAT the world demand the same level of locally-sourced SAT credentials as the British now do and are these ideals SAT worthwhile? SAT SAT Guests: SAT Alastair Storey, CEO, WSH SAT Perween Warsi, CEO, S&A Foods SAT Gavin Darby, CEO, Premier Foods SAT SAT Producer: Lucy Proctor. SAT SAT Evan Davis SAT SAT Presenter of The Bottom Line SAT SAT Alastair Story SAT CEO WSH SAT SAT Perween Warsi SAT CEO S&A Foods SAT SAT Gavin Darby SAT CEO Premier Foods SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b02x9f9j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b02x9f9l (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02x9f9n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b02xyl3x (Listen) SAT Grayson Perry, Simon Russell Beale, Ruth Goodman, Jen SAT Brister, Scottee, Tom Odell, JP Cooper SAT SAT Clive enjoys A Dance to the Music of Time with award-winning SAT actor Simon Russell Beale, currently starring in Harold SAT Pinter's 'The Hothouse'. It's Christmas Day in a state-run SAT mental institution where inmates are subjected to a tirade SAT of mindless cruelty. A maniacal leader breeds a contagion of SAT hierarchical savagery amongst his staff, who thrive on a SAT noxious diet of delusion and deceit. It's at London's SAT Trafalgar Studios until Saturday 3rd August. SAT We step back in time with Ruth Goodman, whose new book 'How SAT To Be A Victorian' gets under the skin of 19th century life. SAT How did it feel to drink beer for breakfast and clean your SAT teeth with cuttlefish? Ruth charts the gritty details, the SAT small necessities and tricks of living. SAT Scottee also turns back time with stand-up comedian Jen SAT Brister, who learnt from Radio 4's Woman's Hour that before SAT you can look into the future you must go back into the past. SAT The result is 'Jen Brister: Now & Then' - a hilarious series SAT of anecdotes, from her childhood to the present. It's at SAT Soho Theatre, Upstairs on Saturday 22nd June at 19.15. SAT Clive enjoys life's rich tapestry with Turner Prize-winning SAT artist Grayson Perry, whose latest work explores his SAT fascination with taste and the visual story it tells of our SAT interior lives, in a series of tapestries. Grayson goes on a SAT safari amongst the taste tribes of Britain, literally SAT weaving the characters he meets into a narrative. Grayson SAT Perry's 'The Vanity of Small Differences' is on display in SAT Sunderland Museum from Friday 28th June to Sunday 29th SAT September. SAT With a musical love-in from rising star Tom Odell, who SAT performs 'Another Love' from his album 'Long Way Down'. SAT And from soulful singer-songwriter JP Cooper, who performs SAT 'Oh The Water' from 'EP3' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b02xyl3z (Listen) SAT Series 14, Something to Declare SAT SAT In the week when world leaders at the G8 pledged to make SAT international tax affairs more transparent, poets Kate Fox SAT and Salena Godden take a satirical look at that stuff which SAT makes the world go around. SAT SAT Kate Fox is a Northern poet and performer who is used to SAT speedy turnarounds for commissions. She's about to be online SAT Poet in Residence for the Glastonbury Festival and has also SAT been Poet in Residence for the Great North Run and regularly SAT for Radio 4's Saturday Live since 2007. Her one woman comedy SAT "Good Breeding" about the choice not to have children will SAT be at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer. She's performed SAT previous one woman shows about the news, autism and running, SAT at events including South Bank's Imagine Festival, Ilkley SAT Literature Festival and the National Autistic Society SAT Professional Conference. Her work has been commissioned by SAT Radio 3's The Verb, BBC 2's Daily Politics Show, Radio 2's SAT Grimm Up North and many others. Her new and selected poetry SAT collection "Fox Populi" was published earlier this year by SAT Smokestack Books. She originally trained as a radio SAT journalist and her first story to be broadcast nationally SAT involved a dead frog found trapped in a bag of lettuce in SAT Whitley Bay... SAT SAT Salena Godden is described as 'The doyenne of the spoken SAT word scene' (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3's The Verb); 'The Mae SAT West madam of the salon' (The Sunday Times) and as SAT 'everything the Daily Mail is terrified of' (Kerrang! SAT Magazine). She writes and performs poetry, fiction, memoir, SAT radio drama and lyrics. Her most recent book of poems, SAT "Under the Pier", was published by Nasty Little Press in SAT 2011. She's also known as The General of The Book Club SAT Boutique, London's louchest literary salon, and as lead SAT singer and lyricist of SaltPeter, alongside composer Peter SAT Coyte. SAT She has appeared on radio as a guest on Woman's Hour, The SAT Verb, Bespoken Word and resident poet on R4's Saturday Live. SAT Most recently she wrote and presented a documentary, "Stir SAT it Up! - 50 Years of Writing Jamaica" for BBC Radio 4 in SAT 2012 with award-winning producer Rebecca Maxted. This SAT programme included excerpts from Salena's literary memoir SAT "Springfield Road", which is being published by Unbound SAT (it's crowd funded publishing, please visit unbound.co.uk). SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Kate Fox SAT Writer: Salena Godden SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b02xyl41 (Listen) SAT Conor McPherson's play The Night Alive; new film Before SAT Midnight SAT SAT Conor McPherson's new play The Night Alive opens at the SAT Donmar Warehouse, months after his extraordinarily SAT successful work The Weir - written when he was only 26 - was SAT revived there. The play reunites McPherson with Jim Norton SAT and Ciarán Hinds. SAT SAT Before Midnight is the latest in Richard Linklater's SAT sequence of films charting the relationship between Jesse SAT and Celine - in the form of Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. SAT Formerly it's been will they-won't they; now they have, but SAT can their relationship survive for the long term? And do we SAT stay with them on the emotional ride through their lives? SAT SAT Memory Palace is an exhibition at the V&A of artists' work SAT inspired by a novella by Hari Kunzru. It imagines a SAT dystopian future in which one man tries desperately to piece SAT together what he remembers before it is lost. SAT SAT Phil Spector is a television film scripted and directed by SAT David Mamet which describes itself as a work of fiction, but SAT includes many characters and events from the real-life trial SAT of the music producer. Al Pacino and Helen Mirren star. SAT SAT Evie Wyld's first book won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; SAT her second, All the Birds, Singing, is a tense and SAT powerfully descriptive account of one woman's attempts to SAT keep one step ahead of her past. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha, Patrick Gale and SAT Stephanie Merritt. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b02xyl43 (Listen) SAT Writers and Radio SAT SAT This is the last era of radio-age writers. Authors born in SAT the Forties and the early Fifties grew up with radio not TV; SAT the BBC for them was a thing of sounds and voices, rather SAT than of pictures. Susannah Clapp, of that generation, asks SAT them what they heard and presents an archive essay talking SAT to writers and listening, via the archive, to what they SAT listened to and exploring the effect it had on their work. SAT SAT With Richard Holmes, Andrew Motion, Alan Hollingshurst, Posy SAT Simmonds and others. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT 21:00 Dangerous Visions b02x5j6k (Listen) SAT The Drowned World SAT SAT As part of Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season, Graham SAT White's adaptation shows a future in which the earth's SAT atmosphere is destroyed. As a scientific mission surveys SAT England's drowned capitals before their final abandonment, SAT two lovers find themselves reverting to a primitive state of SAT consciousness. SAT SAT In a future in which solar flares have wreaked havoc with SAT the earth's atmosphere, Dr Robert Kerans is part of a SAT scientific mission to survey the drowned cities of what was SAT once the temperate zone before they are abandoned for good. SAT SAT The de-evolution that the ecological crisis has provoked SAT seems to have affected the expedition's crew. Kerans, SAT alongside his enigmatic lover Beatrice, whom he is trying to SAT persuade to leave, attempts to make sense of the SAT disappearance of a crew member who has succumbed to the lure SAT of the emerging new water world. SAT SAT Kerans and Beatrice also start to embrace the breakdown they SAT see around them, until an encounter with the maverick SAT scavenger Strangman and his piratical crew forces them to SAT face what de-evolution may really mean, as he drains the SAT drowned city in search of the powers of civilization it may SAT once have held. Ballard's vivid futurescape imagines the SAT surreal results of Darwin's theories going into reverse. SAT SAT Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the SAT present reflected in the glass SAT of an uneasy future. SAT SAT Credits SAT Beatrice: Hattie Morahan SAT Kerans: James D'Arcy SAT Strangman: Tim McInnerny SAT Colonel Riggs: Robert Blythe SAT Dr Alan Bryant: Paul Stonehouse SAT Lieutenant Hardman: Ben Crowe SAT Daley: Matthew Watson SAT Caesar: Don Gilet SAT Producer: Peter Kavanagh SAT Writer: J.G. Ballard SAT Adaptor: Graham White SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b02x9f9q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b02x93dv (Listen) SAT Pornography and the Internet SAT SAT The statistics on internet porn are eye-popping enough - SAT it's claimed that 36% of internet content is pornography, SAT with one in four queries to search engines being SAT porn-related the online porn industry makes more than $3,000 SAT a second. But if that isn't enough to convince you that SAT pornography has long since abandoned the seedy confines of SAT the top shelves and colonised mainstream media, then perhaps SAT the fact that porn is to get an academic journal devoted to SAT the study of the genre might. Concerns about the volume, SAT nature and easy availability of porn have been growing for SAT some time, but the recent trials of Stuart Hazell, convicted SAT for killing 12-year-old Tia Sharp, and Mark Bridger for SAT killing five year old April Jones have brought the issue in SAT to sharp focus. Both men were found to have violent SAT pornography on their computers and one of them was watching SAT it just hours before he carried out the murder. This week SAT the Culture Secretary Maria Millar and charities held a SAT summit meeting with internet service providers demanding SAT that they do something to reduce access to obscene images, SAT especially by children. The "ban porn/don't ban porn" SAT argument has raged, perhaps ever since the Lady Chatterley SAT trail. Of course there are the issues of freedom of speech SAT and censorship, but has technology changed so rapidly in SAT recent years that the moral framework of the debate needs to SAT be changed? Do we have the moral language to balance the SAT right of consenting adults to watch other consenting adults SAT having sex against the fact that such hardcore porn is so SAT easily available and consumed, especially by adolescent SAT boys? Is it the job of the state to police what goes online, SAT or should parents be taking more care what their children SAT are doing online? Is the normalisation of porn culture SAT subtly damaging us all by commodifying and brutalising SAT relationships - reducing them to animalistic couplings? Or SAT is that being hopelessly romantic? Combative, provocative SAT and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Claire SAT Fox, Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor and Giles Fraser. SAT Witnesses: Jerry Barnett - Former Chairman of the Adult SAT Industry Trade Association, Reg Bailey, Chief Executive of SAT Mothers' Union, Myles Jackman - Solicitor. Sexual freedom SAT and obscenity specialist, Eleanor Mills - Sunday Times SAT campaigning reporter. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b02x66zq (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 7 SAT SAT (7/13) SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the seventh heat in the SAT 2013 series of Counterpoint, this week coming from the BBC's SAT studios at Maida Vale. SAT SAT The questions and musical extracts cover territory as SAT diverse as Wagner, Lionel Bart, Handel and Culture Club. As SAT ever, the contestant who can demonstrate the widest range of SAT musical knowledge stands to win a place in the semi-finals, SAT which begin in a few weeks' time. SAT SAT This week's competitors are from London, Woodstock in SAT Oxfordshire and Romsey in Hampshire. A full list of the SAT music played will be posted on the Counterpoint website SAT after the broadcast. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT CONTESTANTS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT STEVEN BLISS, a semi-retired accountant from Woodstock in SAT Oxfordshire; SAT SAT BOB DEL QUIARO, a journalist from South London; SAT SAT ROLAND MATTHEWS, a writer and translator from Romsey in SAT Hampshire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b02x5l4j (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents poems to make you glad to be awake, SAT alive and not in prison. SAT SAT Listeners requests include the moving and uplifting poem SAT 'Things I didn't know i Loved' by Nazim Hikmet; 'The Land of SAT Mists' by the South Korean poet Kim Kwang-kyu; and an SAT extraordinary poem contemplating the kind of miracle Polish SAT poet Piotr Kniecicki would wish for if he could: 'Not Quite SAT Convinced.' SAT SAT There are also two poems by A E Housman and Slam Poetry SAT champion Hollie McNish performs 'British National SAT Breakfast'. SAT SAT Roger is joined by readers Alex Lanipekun and Mark Meadows. SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 JUNE 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b02xcc18 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b010m9t6 (Listen) SUN The Crystal Fountain, Strange Music SUN SUN Martin Jarvis directs Moira Quirk in Malachi Whitaker's SUN moving short story of a young girl's visit to a dance hall SUN on a rainy night with her friend. But why does Cora send SUN Joyce though to the dance-floor alone. Why does she remain SUN outside? Is she waiting for someone? Then the young man SUN she's come to see is standing in front of her. SUN SUN It's Danny Dunne, the band leader. He tells her she SUN shouldn't have come. She tells him urgently that she wants SUN to see him again. 'I want us to be alone again together,' SUN she says. 'You know what I want.' He nervous, telling her SUN he's got to be careful. But what is the real story between SUN these two? Does Cora have a hidden agenda? And is there more SUN to diffident Danny than there seems? SUN SUN Malachi Whitaker was prolific in the 1920s and '30, writing SUN with compassion and perception about ordinary folk, SUN invariably setting the stories in her native Yorkshire. She SUN became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' because of her SUN sympathetic observation of the minutiae of human beings and SUN their (often comic) behaviour. SUN SUN Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Malachi Whitaker SUN Actor: Moira Quirk SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN Producer: Martin Jarvis SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02xcc1b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02xcc1d (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02xcc1g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b02xcc1j (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b02xz4pt (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Leonard's Church, Hythe, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b02x93dx (Listen) SUN Series 4, Judith Shapiro SUN SUN Economist Judith Shapiro argues that the next steps towards SUN equality for women will be far harder than those which went SUN before. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of thought-provoking talks which SUN combine personal stories with ideas of contemporary SUN relevance. Speakers air their thinking in front of a live SUN audience, hosted by David Baddiel. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b02xcc1l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b02y0wkx (Listen) SUN Vanishing Point SUN SUN Writer and broadcaster Jude Rogers explores the desire to SUN run away and disappear. From tumbling down the rabbit hole SUN to riding a train to nowhere, why do we sometimes feel the SUN urge to vanish? SUN SUN Jude reflects on how removing yourself from the world of SUN other people can offer a certain type of freedom. SUN SUN Featuring music by Grouper, Radiohead and Tindersticks, SUN alongside the words of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and SUN John Updike. SUN SUN Producer: Eleanor McDowell SUN SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b02y0wl1 (Listen) SUN Sarah Swadling visits Croatia where small family farms make SUN up the social and economic fabric of the countryside. EU SUN accession on 1st July means they will have to face the SUN rigours of European regulations and the threat of cheaper SUN food imports from more efficient farms elsewhere in the SUN Union. Sarah meets a young family running a cheese business SUN with an 11 cow dairy herd, and a former accountant wondering SUN how she's going to pay off the borrowing on the new dairy SUN farm her family has set up. We hear how making the Croatian SUN speciality Kulun sausage could secure the future of a SUN traditional pig farm. And, a winemaker tells Sarah how the SUN vineyards she planted, with her husband, to the sound of SUN grenade explosions during the Balkan conflict will soon be SUN sold in more European countries. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b02xcc1n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b02xcc1q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b02y0wlj (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b02y0wlt (Listen) SUN Send a Cow SUN SUN Michaela Strachan presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Send a Cow SUN Reg Charity:299717 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Send a Cow. SUN SUN Send a Cow SUN SUN Send a Cow transforms the lives of Africa’s poorest SUN families. Over the past 25 years we have helped over a SUN million men, women and children rejuvenate their land, grow SUN an abundance of crops and vegetables, generate a regular SUN income and improve their communities. SUN SUN  SUN Our impact is fast, within weeks of training mothers are SUN able to harvest nutritious food to feed their children, and SUN within 3 – 5 years, families are happier and healthier, SUN children are educated and homes are improved. Families are SUN in control of their futures. And it doesn’t stop there...the SUN families we work with commit to ‘pass-on’ training, skills, SUN seeds or livestock to another needy family, and so on - SUN transforming generations to come. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b02xcc1s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b02xcc1v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b02yycgk (Listen) SUN His Story: Our Story - Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, SUN Trafalgar Square. The Revd Richard Carter explores the way SUN his own vocation - in its various forms - has been shaped by SUN Jesus' story. SUN Leader: The Revd Sam Wells; Director of Music: Andrew Earis. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b02x9f5t (Listen) SUN A Midsummer Daydream SUN SUN In Britain many of our holidays and festivals are rather SUN dull - bank holidays for example. Tom Shakespeare, SUN presenting the third of his four essays, says that when he SUN looks at other cultures he feels a strong sense of festival SUN envy. He wants Britain to have better festivals. To start SUN with, shouldn't we celebrate Midsummer? SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Tom Shakespeare SUN Producer: Dave Edmonds SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b020tq6h (Listen) SUN Great Skua 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 Great Skua. Great skuas SUN are often known as bonxies - their local name in Shetland SUN where most of the UK's population breeds. Almost two thirds SUN of the world's great skuas nest here or on Orkney. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b02y0wmw (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b02y0wn0 (Listen) SUN Helen goes kite flying, and Matt demands his pound of flesh. SUN Ambridge takes umbrage! SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer: Colin Skipp SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Grace Morgan: Jenny Johns SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Writer: Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b02y0wn6 (Listen) SUN Hugh Laurie SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor, Hugh Laurie. SUN SUN If life were straightforward he'd be marooned on the island SUN because of his achievements as an Olympic rower. But his SUN early promise on the water was scuppered by a bout of SUN glandular fever - so he's had to make do instead with life SUN as a worldwide entertainment superstar. SUN SUN Very British comedy, very big budget movies, very successful SUN syndicated TV drama - his 30 year career has taken him from SUN A Little Bit of Fry & Laurie to a big bit of broadcasting SUN history: his role in the U.S. show House ran for 8 series SUN and had a global audience of 81 million. So why now does he SUN feel the need to risk his stellar reputation by making music SUN too? SUN SUN He says, "as soon as I acknowledge to myself that something SUN is frightening and carries the risk of public humiliation I SUN feel like I have to do it." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b02x66zz (Listen) SUN Series 66, Episode 5 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation with panellists; Tony Hawks, Roy Walker, Fred SUN MacAulay and Gyles Brandreth. This edition comes from the SUN City of Culture Derry, Londonderry. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b02y0wnm (Listen) SUN Food, game changers and career movers SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the award winners who are leaving SUN high flying careers to follow their passions and dreams in SUN food production SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN BBC Food & Farming Awards - An Update! SUN SUN George Casey with Sheila Dillon SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b02xcc1x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b02y0wnx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Crying Game b01qnv2h (Listen) SUN Geoff Watts investigates why we cry and the peculiar purpose SUN of tears. Although many animal species cry vocally, the SUN production of tears in response to emotion, both happy or SUN sad, is a trait unique to humans. So why do we cry, and what SUN could the evolutionary advantage be to producing tears in SUN response to joy or despair? The science on this topic has SUN been surprisingly sparse until very recently, but now new SUN research seems to be shedding some light on some common SUN preconceptions about the effect and consequences of our SUN tears. Does having a good cry make you feel better, for SUN example, or do women really cry more than men? Researchers SUN in Israel have even discovered that our tears may contain SUN hidden messages triggering surprising responses in those who SUN come into contact with them. Geoff Watts gets the tissues SUN ready as he investigates everything you ever wanted to know SUN about weeping. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b02x9f53 (Listen) SUN Post Bag Edition SUN SUN This week the team visits Matt Biggs' garden to tackle SUN listeners' questions as Eric Robson hosts a postbag edition SUN of Gardeners' Question Time. Eric and Matt are joined by SUN Pippa Greenwood and Bunny Guinness. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b02y0wpb (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about dealing with SUN leukaemia and about living as a transgender woman, SUN surprising listeners with the unexpected turn each SUN conversation takes, in this Sunday Edition of Radio 4's SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Dangerous Visions b02y0wpp (Listen) SUN Concrete Island SUN SUN By J.G. Ballard SUN Adapted by Graham White SUN SUN Driving home one Friday rush hour, a cocky young architect SUN crashes down a motorway embankment. At first he seems bound SUN to be rescued, but as he fails to make the passing commuters SUN notice him, he finds himself trapped on a strange, neglected SUN island between the highways. Can this modern day Crusoe SUN survive in a strange new world? SUN SUN Directed by Mary Peate SUN SUN Radio 4's Dangerous Visions Season: SUN SUN The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's SUN fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. SUN Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died SUN four years ago, his vision of what our future might become SUN feels as relevant, satirical and as scary as ever. Radio 4's SUN Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore SUN contemporary takes on future dystopias. Dramatisations of SUN Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, SUN straddle the season, and we have asked five leading radio SUN writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, SUN Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to imagine what life might SUN be like in the near future if everything goes wrong - and SUN their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: SUN clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might SUN happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning SUN becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable SUN of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South SUN London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice SUN becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part SUN dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel SUN The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author SUN SUN Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the SUN present reflected in the glass SUN of an uneasy future. SUN Dangerous Visions SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: J.G. Ballard SUN Adaptor: Graham White SUN Maitland: Andrew Scott SUN Jane: Georgia Groome SUN Proctor: Ben Crowe SUN Catherine: Joanna Brookes SUN Helen: Philippa Stanton SUN David: Matthew Watson SUN Director: Mary Peate SUN Producer: Mary Peate SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b02y0wq3 (Listen) SUN Neil Gaiman Special SUN SUN Neil Gaiman talks to Mariella Frostrup about his hugely SUN popular Science fiction/ fantasy works for both adults and SUN children alike and why he continues to be inspired by the SUN thing lurking just out of sight in the shadows. SUN SUN Author of the successful Coraline, The Graveyard Book and SUN American Gods, Gaiman is a prolific writer and this year is SUN no exception - so far he's published Chu's Day for younger SUN readers, had Neverwhere, his novel set in the dark and dirty SUN world of London Below, adapted on Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra, SUN seen his second episode of Dr Who, Nightmare in Silver SUN aired, published the book of a keynote speech he made in the SUN US and edited a selection of short stories called Unnatural SUN Creatures. SUN SUN September sees publication of another children's title SUN Fortunately the Milk, a fast paced story with a dinosaur who SUN has invented a floaty ball person carrier (a hot air SUN balloon), sparkly coloured ponies, vampires, pirates and SUN globby green aliens and he has just published his first SUN adult novel in eight years, The Ocean at the end of the SUN Lane. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of The Ocean at the End of the Lane SUN by Neil Gaiman SUN Chapter 1: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman SUN SUN Get Ahead with Mariella's next book: All the Birds Singing SUN by Evie Wyld SUN Find Chapter 1 of All the Birds Singing by Evie Wyld SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Neil Gaiman SUN The Ocean at the End of the Lane SUN Publisher: Headline SUN SUN Make Good Art SUN Publisher: Headline SUN SUN Unnatural Creatures SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury and SUN SUN Chu’s Day SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN SUN Fortunately the Milk SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN SUN American Gods SUN Publisher: Headline SUN SUN Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and SUN Tales by Roger Lancelyn Green SUN Publisher: Puffin Classics (Paperback] SUN SUN Tales of Ancient Egypt by SUN Roger Lancelyn Green SUN Publisher: Puffin Classics (Paperback) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Gaiman SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b02yjbww (Listen) SUN Words for weddings and other celebrations SUN SUN Roger McGough finds words for weddings and other SUN celebrations in poems requested by listeners. With readers SUN Juliet Aubrey, Mark Meadows and Harry Livingstone. SUN SUN Carol Ann Duffy says that 'Britain has many countries and SUN one of them is poetry." Today's programme is all about where SUN we go when we want words to mark a celebration and take us SUN somewhere memorable and extraordinary, with an emphasis on SUN weddings. SUN Roger includes two 'wedding' sonnets by Shakespeare, 116 and SUN 8; 'Sunrise' by Mary Oliver; 'Poem for a North London SUN Wedding' by Tobias Hill and Christopher Marlowe's beautiful SUN pastoral poem: 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'. SUN Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b02x8znm (Listen) SUN Council Asset Sales SUN SUN Local authorities across the UK are facing tough decisions SUN as they try to balance their books in the face of SUN unprecedented funding cuts - with many opting to sell land SUN and buildings to reduce spending and bring in much needed SUN capital. SUN SUN But, one person's white elephant is another's much loved SUN local facility, so the choice of what goes on the market SUN often causes great public resentment. SUN SUN Jenny Chryss visits four local authorities where SUN announcements about asset sales have caused serious SUN questions to be asked. She finds allegations of decisions SUN taken behind closed doors, sums that don't stack up and SUN property that could end up being mothballed for years to SUN come. SUN SUN So are councils getting value for money for their tax SUN payers? Or are they out of their depth when they negotiate SUN with the private sector, especially in one of the harshest SUN property markets for years? SUN SUN And with a major shift in the way councils are audited, is SUN there a danger that mistakes could go unnoticed and SUN unchallenged? SUN SUN Producer: Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b02xyl3z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03688j6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b02xcc21 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02xcc23 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b02yjbwy (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon's Pick of the Week SUN This week the quietest room in the world swiftly followed by SUN the noisiest band whilst writer AL Kennedy just wants SUN somewhere peaceful to work. Maybe best not to join the SUN aspiring writers bedding down amongst the non fiction in a SUN Parisian book store then. Meanwhile the oldest book in SUN Europe makes its way back to its spiritual home in the North SUN East. And the moving story of a mother who rings the mobile SUN of her dead son - just to hear his voice. SUN SUN Sheila chose: SUN SUN Shakespeare and Company - Radio 4 SUN Sunday Feature - The Gospels Come Home - Radio 3 SUN Dangerous Visions: Death Duty - Radio 4 SUN Drama on 3 - Babbage - Radio 3 SUN The Life Scientific - David Spiegelhalter - Radio 4 SUN Lucy Beaumont - To Hull and Back - Radio 4 SUN Home Sweet Home - Radio 4 SUN Radio 1 Stories - Loudness Wars - Radio 1 SUN Lord of the Flies - 4Extra SUN Archive on Four - Writers and Radio - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 (Monday edition) SUN Words and Music - Three - Radio 3 SUN SUN Produced by Louise Clarke. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b02yjbx0 (Listen) SUN Tom feels out of things, and Bethany's the centre of SUN attention. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN SUN 19:15 Down the Line b02yjbx2 (Listen) SUN Olympic Legacy Special SUN SUN Radio 4's flagship (actually, more of an aircraft carrier) SUN phone-in programme returns for a one off special looking SUN back at last year's very special summer of sport, stove pipe SUN hats and bouncing nurses. SUN SUN Now that a year has passed, award winning talk show host SUN Gary Bellamy will be asking the nation, "What is the legacy SUN of the Olympics? Have we all taken up running, jumping, SUN swimming, cycling, dressage and modern pentathlon? Are we SUN all enthused by Mo Farah with his signature 'Bop' and Paul SUN McCartney singing out of tune?" SUN SUN Starring Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy. SUN With Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Lucy SUN Montgomery, Felix Dexter and special guests as the great SUN British public. SUN SUN Producers: Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson SUN A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Actor: Paul Whitehouse SUN Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas SUN Actor: Amelia Bullmore SUN Actor: Charlie Higson SUN Actor: Simon Day SUN Actor: Lucy Montgomery SUN Producer: Charlie Higson SUN Producer: Paul Whitehouse SUN SUN 19:45 New American Shorts b02yjbx4 (Listen) SUN Thief SUN SUN A series of newly published stories that reflect on everyday SUN lives across the water. SUN SUN Set in the author's hometown of Spokane this sharply SUN observed story by Jess Walter features a troubled father who SUN frets about being a good parent as he sets a trap to catch a SUN thief. SUN SUN Read by John Schwab SUN Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN Thief is taken from Jess Walter's debut short story SUN collection, We Live In Water. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: John Schwab SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN Abridger: Gemma Jenkins SUN Author: Jess Walter SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b02x9f59 (Listen) SUN This week Quentin Cooper presented his last edition of Radio SUN 4's long-running science programme Material World. The SUN Editor of BBC Radio Science, Deborah Cohen tells Roger why SUN it was time for a change. SUN SUN In the wake of our interview with BBC Trustee Richard Ayre SUN about the BBC's loss of £98.2 million, we air your views on SUN the decision to bring in outside investigators at further SUN cost. SUN SUN There was another story about BBC finances this week. But SUN you might not have heard it. Listeners were surprised that SUN the BBC did not report on revelations that it paid out £28 SUN million of licence-fee payer money in payoffs over the last SUN eight years. SUN SUN Plus, OFCOM comes down on the side of listeners who SUN complained about the use of a derogatory and discriminatory SUN word during a Today programme interview. SUN SUN Our reporter Karen Pirie mingles with the crowds at the SUN Royal Cornwall Show to hear how BBC Cornwall interacts with SUN its listeners. SUN SUN Let sleeping dogs lie -the strange effect that Feedback has SUN on listeners of particularly sensitive hearing. SUN SUN And the moment you've all been waiting for...the SUN announcement of our Tweet of the Week. We've been asking SUN our loyal twitter followers on @BBCR4Feedback to tweet us SUN their reviews of BBC Radio programmes that have caught their SUN ear this week. If you hear something you loved or loathed SUN tweet us your very best poetry and prose reviews and you SUN could win: our gratitude; admiration; and the coveted title SUN of 'Tweet of the Week' during next week's Feedback. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b02x9f57 (Listen) SUN An actor, a youth worker, a ballet dancer, a poet and a SUN local radio presenter SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The American actor James Gandolfini - best known for playing SUN the mafia boss Tony Soprano. SUN SUN The youth worker Elizabeth Braund who transformed the lives SUN of thousands of inner city children by inviting them to her SUN working Dartmoor farm. SUN SUN The former principal dancer at the Royal Ballet David Wall - SUN Deborah Bull pays tribute. SUN SUN The poet Oliver Bernard, last survivor of the Bohemian days SUN of Soho. SUN SUN And Mark Turnbull - the blind presenter on BBC Tees, loved SUN by his listeners but not always by his local managers, he SUN became the President of the National Union of Journalists. SUN SUN James Gandolfini SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Matt Zoller Seitz, SUN SUN Elizabeth Braund MBE SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Robert Musgrave who worked with Elizabeth SUN at The Providence House Trust, and with Phil Dorman who as a SUN teenager benefitted from going to Providence House. SUN SUN Born 17 June 1921; died 20 May 2013 aged 91. SUN SUN David Wall (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to fellow dancers Deborah Bull and Margaret SUN Barbieri. SUN SUN Born 15 March 1946; died 18 June 2013 aged 67. SUN SUN Oliver Bernard SUN SUN The poet Alan Brownjohn pays tribute. SUN SUN Born 6 December 1925; died 1 June 2013 aged 87. SUN SUN Mark Turnbull SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his friend and former colleague, Paul SUN Anderson and to his friend, the Paralympian Baroness Tanni SUN Grey-Thompson. SUN SUN Born 22 May 1963; died 8 June 2013 aged 50. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b02xxvch (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b02y0wlt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b02x6707 (Listen) SUN Predistribution SUN SUN Predistribution is Labour's new policy buzzword, used by SUN leader Ed Miliband in a keynote speech. The US thinker who SUN coined the phrase tells Edward Stourton what it means. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b02yjbx6 (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 b02yjbx8 (Listen) SUN Patrick O'Flynn of The Express analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b02x98fh (Listen) SUN Before Midnight; World War Z; Like Someone in Love; The Sea SUN SUN Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and the director Richard Linklater SUN reunite after almost a decade for Before Midnight, the third SUN part of the Jessie and Celine story. In Before Sunrise, they SUN meet on a train and spend all night together exploring SUN Vienna. In Before Sunset, they meet again in Paris and SUN wonder if they can re kindle their initial spark. Before SUN Midnight explores their relationship as they hit their 40s. SUN They talk to Francine Stock about their extraordinary SUN collaboration. SUN As Brad Pitt's troubled project World War Z finally hits the SUN big screen, the film critic Nigel Floyd assesses whether it SUN can escape its torturous genesis to make a decent SUN zombie-style film about a world-wide epidemic. Or has Pitt's SUN production company over-reached itself? SUN Renowned Iranian film maker Abbas Kiarostami is back with SUN another 'international' film, set this time in Japan. Like SUN Someone in Love explores the life of a young university SUN student who goes on paid dates while fending off a jealous SUN fiance. Fari Bradley discusses its take on sex and morality. SUN And director Stephen Brown on how he persuaded the writer SUN John Banville to give him the rights of the Booker Prize SUN winning book The Sea. SUN Archive: Jack Black on Richard Linklater's Bernie SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Ethan Hawke SUN Interviewed Guest: Julie Delpy SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Linklater SUN Producer: Elaine Lester SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b02y0wkx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 JUNE 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b02xcc33 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b02x93dg (Listen) MON Remembering Diana MON MON Remembering Diana - did Princess Diana's death lead to a MON major shift in British culture? Professor of Sociology, Vic MON Seidler, talks to Laurie Taylor about his new book which MON analyses the repercussions of Diana, Princess of Wales', MON death in 1997. He argues that the public outpourings of MON grief and displays of emotion prompted new kinds of MON identification and belonging in which communities came MON together regardless of race, class, gender and sexuality and MON helped to make visible changes in what might be called 'New' MON or 'post-traditional' Britain. Did her unexpected death see MON a challenge to 'stiff upper lip' reserve and to the typical MON split made in modernity between reason and emotion? MON The writer, Bea Campbell, who has also written about the MON Diana 'phenomenon', joins the discussion. Also, the MON anthropologist, Henrietta Moore discusses the history and MON significance of Ethnographic research. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b02xz4pt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02xcc35 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02xcc37 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02xcc39 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b02xcc3c (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0368wxw (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Frank Sellar. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b02yjf11 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b02xcc3f (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020vp4h (Listen) MON Little Egret 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 Little Egret. The MON colonisation of the UK by these small brilliant-white herons MON with black bills and yellow feet, has astonished MON ornithologists because of its speed. MON MON 06:00 Today b02yjf13 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b02yjf15 (Listen) MON Zadie Smith on social mobility MON MON On Start the Week Stephanie Flanders discusses social MON mobility. Zadie Smith's novel NW is a portrait of modern MON urban life in which characters try, but mostly fail, to MON escape their past. The Conservative Minister David Willetts MON and the columnist Owen Jones discuss what meritocracy and MON opportunity mean in today's society. And the social MON historian David Kynaston looks to the end of the 1950s when MON meritocracy became the buzz word of the day. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Stephanie Flanders MON Interviewed Guest: Zadie Smith MON Interviewed Guest: David Willetts MON Interviewed Guest: David Kynaston MON Interviewed Guest: Owen Jones MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b02yjf17 (Listen) MON The Reason I Jump, Episode 1 MON MON By Naoki Higashida MON Translated by David Mitchell and K.A. Yoshida and introduced MON by David Mitchell MON Read by Kasper Hilton-Hille MON MON When the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas David Mitchell, MON whose own son has autism, discovered this extraordinary MON book, he felt that for the first time his own son was MON talking to him about what was going on inside his head, MON through the words of the young author. MON MON Naoki Higashida was born in 1992 and wrote the book when he MON was still only thirteen years old. His autism is so severe MON that he finds it difficult to hold a conversation, and he MON wrote the book using a Japanese Alphabet Grid - a low tech MON table of Japanese hiragana syllables, on which he spells out MON his words painstakingly, character by character. MON MON David and his Japanese wife originally began a translation MON for their personal use and that of their son's other carers MON and tutors, and eventually it grew into this book. The MON Reason I Jump pushes beyond the notion of autism as a MON disability, and reveals it as simply a different way of MON being, and of seeing. Naoki Higashida shines a light on the MON autistic landscape from the inside. MON MON Abridged and Produced by Allegra McIlroy. MON Radio 4 Blog: Award-winning author David Mitchell introduces MON 'The Reason I Jump' MON MON Credits MON Reader: Kasper Hilton-Hille MON Producer: Allegra McIlroy MON Adaptor: David Mitchell MON Abridger: Allegra McIlroy MON Writer: Naoki Higashida MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b02yjf19 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON The Sexual Politics of Giving and Receiving Compliments MON MON Is it ever ok to comment on a female co-workers appearance? MON Does it diminish their professional accomplishments? Alice MON Revel, Founder and Editor in Chief of women online magazine MON ‘Running in Heels’ and Patricia Hind, an Organisational MON Behaviour specialist, both join Jane Garvey to discuss their MON experiences and thoughts on compliments. MON MON Gail Rebuck MON Chosen as one of the 100 most powerful women on the Woman’s MON Hour Power List, Gail Rebuck has been chair and chief MON executive of the Random House Group, one of the largest MON general book publishing companies in the UK. This year MON Random House won the Publisher of the Year accolade at the MON Industry Awards following a record breaking year.  Gail MON Rebuck is also one of the prime movers behind the merger MON taking place between Random House and Penguin which will MON make them the largest book publisher in the world.  MON Eighteen months ago, Gail Rebuck’s husband, Lord (Philip) MON Gould, died after four years of living with cancer. He MON chose to be very open about his cancer and his impending MON death. As part of our Power list interviews, Jane went to MON the Random House headquarters to talk to Gail about her MON professional and personal life. MON MON Teenage Mental Health MON More than half a million young people across the UK are MON being treated for some kind of mental illness, and over MON 3,500 teenagers pass through inpatient units each year. On MON Monday’s programme, Jane will discuss why this figure is so MON high and what help is available for children and teenagers. MON Her guests will be Dr Andrew Rogers, a consultant clinical MON psychologist at the McGuinness Unit in Manchester and a MON mother whose daughter has mental health problems, including MON hallucinations and self-harming. We'll also look ahead to a MON new three-part series called “Don’t Call Me Crazy†which MON starts on BBC 3 at 9pm on Monday night. MON MON Bombing of Women’s University Bus in Pakistan MON The education of girls and women in Pakistan became MON worldwide news last year after Malala Yousafzai, 14 years MON old at the time, was shot in the head coming home from MON school; a target because of her call for access to education MON for women in Pakistan. And then last Saturday the issue was MON again brought to global attention when a MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b02yjf1c (Listen) MON Writing the Century: Vera 'Jack' Holme, Episode 1 MON MON Vera 'Jack' Holme MON MON 1918-1921. Louise Ironside dramatises the diaries of Vera MON 'Jack' Holme. A former cross-dressing actress and MON suffragette, Vera spent the war years as a member of the MON Scottish Women's Hospital in Serbia. At the end of the war MON Vera - known as 'Jack' - was busy finding a role for herself MON both in love and duty. Estranged from her long term partner, MON Evelina Haverfield, Vera spends much of 1918 fundraising for MON relief work in Serbia - a country she longs to return to. MON Vera's fundraising tour brings her into the orbit of MON Edinburgh artist Dorothy Johnstone and the pair soon become MON close. But the spectre of Evalina is never far away and MON Vera's friendship with Dorothy becomes strained when Evalina MON issues an invitation that Vera cannot refuse. MON MON Other parts played by members of the cast. MON Additional research by Jane Mackelworth MON Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. MON MON Credits MON Vera 'Jack' Holme: Irene MacDougall MON Eve Haverfield: Carol Ann Crawford MON Spook: Kim Gerard MON Curly: Kim Gerard MON Dorothy 'Dodo' Johnstone: Rosalind Sydney MON Natalia: Lesley Hart MON Margaret K: Lesley Hart MON Col Popovitch: Matthew Zajac MON Gen Balguy: Matthew Zajac MON Cheddo: Finn den Hertog MON Director: David Neville MON Producer: David Neville MON Writer: Louise Ironside MON MON 11:00 Recycled Radio b02yk8rm (Listen) MON Class MON MON It is almost fifty years now since a famous sketch first MON appeared on TV. It skewered the British class system like a MON well done kebab. Now Recycled Radio picks up John Cleese, MON Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker and runs headlong into the MON slicing, dicing and splicing of the edit machine before MON emerging afresh. Gerald Scarfe introduces, while vocal MON talent is provided by Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries, Caitlin MON Moran, Laurie Taylor, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Fry, John MON Lennon, Marcus Brigstocke, Grayson Perry and Attila the MON Stockbroker. Intellectual backbone from the eminent MON sociologist A H Halsey, music from AC / DC. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b01p71gl (Listen) MON Series 5, A Writerly Life Made Dreadfully Different MON MON by Mark Evans MON MON Episode Four: 'A Writerly Life Made Dreadfully Different' MON MON The Victorian comedy adventure sees a novel writing showdown MON between Pip and Charles Dickens to find out who is the MON greatest writer in Britain. 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 Lily: Sarah Hadland MON Pippa: Susy Kane MON The Real Charles Dickens: Mark Evans MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b02yk8rq (Listen) MON Affordable flood insurance, censorship of online videos, MON wigs for men MON MON The cost of insurance in areas which are regularly flooded MON can be prohibitively high, with some people finding they MON can't afford to get the cover they need. The government MON has been working with the insurance industry to resolve the MON problem, but so far there has been no agreement. The MON elderly woman who was sold six warranties for a TV satellite MON system she doesn't even own. There is little censorship of MON films and videos on the internet, but could film-makers MON themselves be effective at certifying their own work? The MON fraud which targeted a supermarket loyalty card scheme and MON is still causing problems, months after it was first MON discovered. Why aren't wigs and hair pieces more popular MON with men? MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b02xcc3h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b02yk9fb (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 Found b01rl759 (Listen) MON The Two Sisters MON MON A five part series of stories following family members who MON are reunited after separation through family circumstance, MON tragedy or conflict. MON MON As well as hearing the emotional stories of people who have MON been searching for others for many years, we also hear the MON stories of the organisations who help them - including the MON Red Cross, Salvation Army and Missing Person's Bureau. MON MON The internet has increased the possibility of finding people MON through social networking and other websites - such as a MON site set up recently by Missing Person's Bureau and MON featuring details of unidentified bodies. MON MON The stories have a range of outcomes, not always happy. MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): The Two Sisters MON Jan and Evie were reunited through Facebook after sixty MON years. They had spent most of their adult lives trying to MON trace each other after Jan was adopted and moved to Canada MON with her new family. Their story is one of co-incidences, MON heartache and injustice when their mother, who left the MON family home pregnant with Evie after abuse by their father, MON had very little say in what happened to her other two MON children. MON MON Producer: Sara Parker MON MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b02yjbx0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01h7cdt (Listen) MON Mrs Lowry and Son MON MON Mrs Lowry and Son MON Written by Martyn Hesford MON MON Artist L. S. Lowry lived all his life with his over-bearing MON mother Elizabeth. Bed-ridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively MON tried to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his MON artistic ambitions, whilst never failing to voice her MON opinion at what a disappointment he is to her. This powerful MON drama imagines the impact this obsessive mother and son MON relationship had on the great artist. MON MON Directed by Gary Brown MON Produced by Charlotte Riches. MON MON Mrs Lowry and Son MON L.S. Lowry was in his early fifties when his singular vision MON of industrial life in the north of England met with critical MON and commercial success. For the artist himself, true success MON was rooted closer to home in the opinions of his mother MON Elizabeth Lowry; a formidable woman whose life was blighted MON by disappointment, and whose disapproval of her son MON irrevocably shaped his future. MON MON Having dreamt of becoming a concert pianist, marriage and MON pregnancy led Elizabeth to the sedentary existence of MON private piano tutor and socially-aspiring housewife. When MON Lowry was born in 1887 she was horrified to discover it was MON a boy instead of the girl she had hoped to raise in her MON image. As her clumsy son reached maturity, he demonstrated a MON talent for drawing that Elizabeth dismissed as a hobby. When MON Lowry left school, he followed his father Robert into the MON property business. MON MON Middle class stability ultimately eluded the family when MON Robert's firm overlooked him for promotion. Unable to afford MON the genteel Manchester suburb of Victoria Park, the Lowrys MON reluctantly moved to less auspicious accomodation in MON industrial Salford. It was here that Lowry, attending MON evening classes at art school, developed a fascination with MON the mills and factories he immortalised in his work. MON Elizabeth, bemused by the grimy subject matter, viewed it as MON evidence of her son's ineptitude. 'It's bad enough we have MON to live amongst it,' she remonstrated, 'without you bringing MON it into the house'. MON MON Robert died in 1932 leaving substantial debts. Unmarried and MON approaching middle-age, Lowry collected rent during the day, MON nursed his now bed-bound mother in the evening and painted MON into the early hours of the morning - accompanied by MON gramophone records of the classical music he and Elizabeth MON shared a passion for. Beset by domestic claustrophobia, and MON with national recognition for his work looming, all that MON remained for Lowry was the challenge of convincing his MON sternest critic that he was not a failure as an artist or as MON a son. MON MON - Richard English, Lowry Galleries Interpreter MON MON Credits MON Writer: Martyn Hesford MON LS Lowry: Reece Dinsdale MON Elizabeth Lowry: Lynda Baron MON Director: Gary Brown MON Producer: Charlotte Riches MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b02yk9fg (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 8 MON MON (8/13) MON MON Do you know which novelty dance became popular after Charles MON Lindberg's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927? Or which singer MON made the most successful recording of the soul standard 'The MON Shoop Shoop Song'? MON MON If so, you may be able to match the contestants in today's MON quiz. Paul Gambaccini asks these and many other questions in MON the wide-ranging music quiz, this week featuring contestants MON from Brighton, Bristol and Cheltenham. The one who can MON demonstrate the broadest general musical knowledge will win MON through to the 2013 semi-finals, which start in a MON fortnight's time. MON MON There are extracts to suit all tastes, and plenty of musical MON trivia and anecdotes. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b02y0wnm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Lowry Revisited b02yk9fj (Listen) MON Few artists have divided opinion as strongly as Laurence MON Stephen Lowry. He's loved by millions of the general public, MON but many among the art establishment have accused him of MON amateurism - a 'Sunday Painter', extremely limited in the MON scope of his artistic ambition. MON MON In the past, Lowry fans have accused the Tate of failing to MON adequately represent him on their gallery walls because of a MON Metropolitan and anti-Northern bias. MON MON Now though, The Tate is set to launch the biggest Lowry MON exhibition since his death in 1976. The curators argue that, MON for too long, the north/south argument and the endless MON debate over whether he was too sentimental has overshadowed MON a fuller appreciation of the L S Lowry's worth - which comes MON through recognition of his connections with other MON traditions, particularly those from France. MON MON Michael Symmons Roberts grew up in Manchester with Lowry MON paintings on the wall and he sets out to explore whether it MON is possible to get a fresh perspective on this most MON troublesome figure, questioning whether northerners MON themselves have stood in the way of fuller recognition of MON Lowry's qualities through being too defensive, too chippy MON over his legacy. Along the way Michael meets people who knew MON the artist well, and who worked alongside him in documenting MON the north-west landscape. MON MON He asks the current crop of metropolitan art critics how MON they feel about the Tate being taken over by the rent MON collector from the north, and also talks to the curators of MON the exhibition about their desire to get past the old MON arguments and concentrate on what they regard as the MON outstanding quality of the artwork itself. MON MON Producer: Geoff Bird MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b02ykcwh (Listen) MON Series 8, What Is Death? MON MON "What Is Death?" MON MON In the first of a new series of the award winning MON science/comedy series, Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined MON on stage by comedian Katy Brand, biochemist Nick Lane and MON forensic anthropologist Sue Black to discuss why death is MON such an inevitable feature of a living planet. As well as MON revisiting such weighty scientific issues, such as when can MON a strawberry, be truly declared to be dead, they'll also MON explore the scientific process of death, its evolutionary MON purpose and whether it is scientifically possibly to avoid MON it all together. MON MON 17:00 PM b02ykcwl (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02xcc3k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b02ykcwr (Listen) MON Series 66, Episode 6 MON MON Nicholas Parsons puts Gyles Brandreth, Russell Kane, Richard MON Herring and Paul Merton through their linguistic paces. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Russell Kane MON Panellist: Richard Herring MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b02ykfzw (Listen) MON Clarrie's a woman on a mission, and it's all systems go for MON Tony. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Julie Beckett MON MON 19:15 Front Row b02ykg3h (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on a major new exhibition of L MON S Lowry's urban and industrial scenes, which opens this week MON at Tate Britain. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mark Lawson MON Producer: Nicki Paxman MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b02yjf1c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Damascus Diary b02ykg3k (Listen) MON Lina Sinjab has reported for the BBC from Damascus as the MON Syrian conflict has come ever closer. But how has it changed MON her home city - and how has it changed her? In this MON intimate, revealing programme, she combines dramatic scenes MON and interview material with a personal audio diary as she MON discusses her thoughts, feelings and encounters. MON She meets a 14-year-old boy who has volunteered to become a MON medical worker: she sees a young boy hitting a doll which MON he's named after an opposition leader: she watches black MON smoke from explosions bloom across the city from the window MON of her apartment. She has flashbacks of an old man killed by MON a sniper and seeks refuge in listening to her favourite MON music: she joins a bizarre rooftop barbecue, as friends MON party and try to push the thoughts of conflict away: and MON finally she leaves her beloved country, with thoughts of her MON friends and family who she has left behind echoing in her MON mind. "Every minute will stay in my mind and heart," she MON concludes. "I'm not sure if and when I'll be back." MON MON Producer: Nina Robinson. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b02ykg3m (Listen) MON Pornography: what do we know? MON MON What do we really know about the effects of pornography? MON MON Public debate has become increasingly dominated by an MON emotive, polarised argument between those who say it is MON harmful and those who say it can be liberating. Jo Fidgen MON puts the moral positions to one side and investigates what MON the evidence tells us. She explores the limitations of the MON research that's been carried out and asks whether we need to MON update our understanding of pornography. She hears from MON users of pornography about how and why they use it and MON researchers reveal what they have learnt about our private MON pornographic habits. MON MON With pornography becoming increasingly easy to access MON online, and as policy-makers, parents and teachers discuss MON how to deal with this, it's a debate that will have MON far-reaching implications on education and how we use the MON internet. MON MON Producer: Helena Merriman. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b02x7h17 (Listen) MON Can We Save It All? MON MON A giant hamster in Alsace provides Monty with a puzzling MON dilemma, how do we decide what to conserve? With so many MON pressures on so many creatures and habitats how to decide MON where to put our energy and money is difficult. Monty Don MON explores the issues, do we save the creatures that appeal to MON us or those that are most useful? Is a beetle better to save MON than a hamster? Shared Planet explores the crunch point MON where the natural world and human population meet. Monty Don MON presents the series and invites a field report each week MON from around the world where people and wildlife are MON negotiating the same space: different stories, different MON outcomes, and different issues. How is the Giant Hamster MON negotiating it's bit of the planet in the Alsace region with MON land owners who need its home for crops. Should we try to MON save everything? MON MON Professor Simon Stuart MON MON Dr Simon Stuart has been Chair of the Species Survival MON Commission of the International Union for Conservation of MON Nature (IUCN) since October 2008. He is also a visiting MON professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at MON the University of Bath. Prior to this, he was the Senior MON Species Scientist for both IUCN and Conservation MON International. In 2004 he completed the Global Amphibian MON Assessment which highlighted the global phenomenon of MON amphibian declines and extinctions. Simon has undergraduate MON and doctoral degrees in conservation biology from the MON University of Cambridge, and has undertaken fieldwork in MON Tanzania and Cameroon. MON MON Dr Fiona Mathews MON MON Dr Fiona Mathews is a lecturer in Mammalian Biology at MON Exeter University. Dr Mathews’ work investigates how modern MON challenges, ranging from urban expansion and human MON population increases, to exposure to wind turbines, light MON pollution, mobile telephones, and nutritional inadequacies, MON affect population dynamics. Using an integrated ecological MON and epidemiological approach, she studies species ranging MON from humans to wildlife. She is a member of the Environment MON and Evolution research group and is based at the Streatham MON Campus in Exeter. MON MON MON Giant Hamsters MON MON The European Hamster or 'giant hamster' (Cricetus cricetus) MON is significantly larger than the Syrian hamster or dwarf MON hamster - which are commonly kept as pets in the UK. It has MON brown dorsal fur, a black chest and white patches under MON their ears. It is typically found in low-lying farmland MON with soft loam or loess soils. It is found in Belgium to MON Alsace in the west, to Russia in the east, and Romania in MON the south. The animal is widely considered a farmland pest MON but in many individual European countries it is considered MON critically endangered. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b02yjf15 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b02xcc3m (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b02ykg3p (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02ykg3r (Listen) MON The Professor of Truth, Episode 1 MON MON The new novel by leading Scottish author James Robertson is MON a powerful work of fiction inspired by some of the aspects MON and events surrounding the Lockerbie bombing. It's a MON delicate reinvention of one of the most painful incidents of MON recent times in Scotland. MON MON Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered MON in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a MON university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what MON really happened on that terrible night. Obsessed by the MON details of what he has come to call 'The Case', he is sure MON that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible, MON and that he himself has thus been deprived not only of MON justice but also of any chance of escape from his enduring MON grief. MON MON When an American intelligence officer, apparently terminally MON ill and determined to settle his own accounts before death, MON arrives on his doorstep with information about a key witness MON in the trial, a fateful sequence of events is set in motion. MON MON James Robertson is the author of "The Fanatic", "Joseph MON Knight" and "The Testament of Gideon Mack". His previous MON novel, "And the Land Lay Still", a majestic telling of the MON past sixty years of Scotland's history, won the Saltire Book MON of the Year Award 2010. MON MON The reader is Peter Firth. MON MON Written and abridged by James Robertson. MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Peter Firth MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON Author: James Robertson MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b02ykg3t (Listen) MON Series 2, Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet MON (A-Side) MON MON John Wilson concludes the second series of Mastertapes, in MON which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about MON the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front MON of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. MON Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially MON quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, MON in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both MON editions feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 5. "True" with Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley MON MON Thirty years ago Spandau Ballet released their third album MON 'True'. It became a worldwide smash hit featuring tracks MON such as 'Gold', ''Pleasure', 'Communication' and the title MON track, which spent 4 weeks at the top of the charts. Singer MON Tony Hadley and Gary Kemp, the man who wrote all of these MON songs, both came to the BBC Maida Vale studios to discuss MON their inspiration and influence. MON MON Released in 1983 'True' became one of the stand out albums MON of the New Romantic movement. Recorded at the legendary MON Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas, Producers Steve Jolley MON and Tony Swain gave the band a slicker, more R&B sound aimed MON at squarely at the charts. 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 b02ykg3w (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 JUNE 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b02xcc4p (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b02yjf17 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02xcc4r (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02xcc4t (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02xcc4w (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b02xcc4y (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0368wz2 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Frank Sellar. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b02ykg4r (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020vp98 (Listen) TUE Common Sandpiper 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 Common Sandpiper. This TUE bird can look slightly pot-bellied as it bobs nervously on TUE the edge of an upland lake or on a midstream boulder. Get TUE too close though and it will be off - flickering low over TUE the surface on bowed wings. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b02ykg4t (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 b02ykg4w (Listen) TUE Elizabeth Stokoe TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Elizabeth Stokoe. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b02ykg4y (Listen) TUE Owen Bennett Jones talks to Jake Wood 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 Jake Wood knows the real story of war. As a member of the TUE Territorial Army, Jake completed 3 tours of Iraq and TUE Afghanistan over a five-year period. In the second of two TUE programmes for 'One To One' about the reality of war, Owen TUE asks him about his final tour in Southern Afghanistan and TUE about one day in particular: the 11 August 2007. TUE TUE Jake was at Forward Operating Base Inkerman - a camp with TUE mud walls in the Sangin Valley - when the Taliban attacked. TUE TUE Presenter: Owen Bennett-Jones. TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b02ykg50 (Listen) TUE The Reason I Jump, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Naoki Higashida TUE Translated by David Mitchell and K.A. Yoshida and introduced TUE by David Mitchell TUE Read by Kasper Hilton-Hille TUE TUE With astonishing detail and insight, thirteen year old Naoki TUE Higashida shares his experience of the world, explaining how TUE his autism can separate him from those around him. He TUE reveals the slippery nature of time for a person with TUE autism, the way that noises can shake his entire landscape, TUE and the joy he experiences when playing with words and TUE rhythm. TUE TUE Naoki's autism is so severe that he finds it difficult to TUE hold a conversation, and he wrote the book painstakingly, TUE using an 'Alphabet Grid', Japanese character by character. TUE TUE When the award-winning author David Mitchell, whose own son TUE has autism, discovered this extraordinary book, he felt that TUE for the first time his own son was talking to him about what TUE was going on inside his head, through the words of the young TUE author. TUE TUE Abridged and Produced by Allegra McIlroy. TUE Radio 4 Blog: Award-winning author David Mitchell introduces TUE 'The Reason I Jump' TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Kasper Hilton-Hille TUE Producer: Allegra McIlroy TUE Adaptor: David Mitchell TUE Abridger: Allegra McIlroy TUE Writer: Naoki Higashida TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b02ykg52 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b02yks7v (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: Vera 'Jack' Holme, Episode 2 TUE TUE Vera 'Jack' Holme TUE TUE 1918-1921. Louise Ironside dramatises the diaries of Vera TUE 'Jack' Holme A former cross dressing actress and TUE suffragette, Vera had spent the war years as a member of the TUE Women's Volunteer Reserve serving with the Scottish Women's TUE Hospitals on the Eastern Front. At the end of the war Vera - TUE known as 'Jack' - was busy finding a role for herself both TUE in love and duty. Estranged from her long term partner, TUE Evelina Haverfield, Vera spends much of 1918 fundraising for TUE relief work in Serbia. But in 1919 Vera finds herself back TUE in the country she loves when Evalina invites her to help TUE with the establishment of an orphanage for the children of TUE the Serbian war dead. But while Evelina is delighted to be TUE working with Vera again, their relationship is not what it TUE once was. While Evalina charges ahead with new challenges TUE and projects, Vera is left alone in Belgrade. Fortunately TUE she finds a new friend in local relief worker Natalia. TUE TUE Dramatised by Louise Ironside TUE TUE Other parts played by members of the cast. TUE TUE Additional research by Jane Mackelworth TUE TUE Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE Credits TUE Vera 'Jack' Holme: Irene MacDougall TUE Eve Haverfield: Carol Ann Crawford TUE Spook: Kim Gerard TUE Curly: Kim Gerard TUE Dorothy 'Dodo' Johnstone: Rosalind Sydney TUE Natalia: Lesley Hart TUE Margaret K: Lesley Hart TUE Col Popovitch: Matthew Zajac TUE Gen Balguy: Matthew Zajac TUE Cheddo: Finn den Hertog TUE Director: David Neville TUE Producer: David Neville TUE Writer: Louise Ironside TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b02ykrd1 (Listen) TUE Global Collapse TUE TUE Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series explores the TUE crunch point between human population and the natural world. TUE In this weeks programme we have a report from Northern Kenya TUE about the Grevy's Zebra, the worlds most stripy Zebra and a TUE species in decline for many different reasons, all of which TUE appear to be attributed with human activity. Monty Don TUE examines the wider issues of species abundance and people TUE and interviews one of the authors of a recent paper " Can a TUE Collapse of Civilisation be Avoided" published by The TUE Proceedings of The Royal Society with one of its authors TUE Professor Paul Ehrlich from Stanford University. Also in the TUE programme Dr Joe Smith from The Open University, an expert TUE in environment and the media, exploring how the media should TUE keep up with such apocalyptic headlines. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales from the Stave b02ykrd3 (Listen) TUE Series 9, Porgy and Bess TUE TUE In the last of the current series of Tales from the Stave TUE Frances Fyfield returns to the Library of Congress in TUE Washington to see one of their most treasured possessions. TUE George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess still provokes debate TUE today from those uneasy at the work of three white men, TUE George, his brother Ira and the lyricist Dubose Heyward, in TUE depicting the world of what amounts to a black Ghetto in TUE early 20th century South Carolina. However, the brilliance TUE of the music, and the complexity and craft of Gershwin's TUE score is beyond dispute. TUE Frances is joined by the conductor and writer Nigel Simeone, TUE the library's expert Raymond White and most important of all TUE by Solomon Howard of the Washington National Opera. Solomon, TUE who's sung the role of Porgy and has himself experienced TUE life at the bottom end of American society, is given the TUE chance to perform from Gershwin's original manuscript. In TUE doing so he finds small but vital changes from the texts TUE he's used to, as well as evidence of the detailed but vital TUE changes George Gershwin made to the lyrics delivered to him TUE by Heyward - lyrics including famous hits like 'Summertime'. TUE As well as a full orchestral score there are also the TUE fragments and sketches Gershwin made while living in TUE Carolina where he sought inspiration for this, his most TUE ambitious work. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b02ykrd5 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b02xcc50 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b02ykrd8 (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 Found b01rqpk7 (Listen) TUE The Missing Brother TUE TUE A five part series of stories following family members who TUE are reunited after separation through family circumstance, TUE tragedy or conflict. TUE TUE As well as hearing the emotional stories of people who have TUE been searching for others for many years, we also hear the TUE stories of the organisations who help them - including the TUE Red Cross, Salvation Army and Missing Person's Bureau. TUE TUE The internet has increased the possibility of finding people TUE through social networking and other websites - such as a TUE site set up recently by Missing Person's Bureau and TUE featuring details of unidentified bodies. TUE TUE The stories have a range of outcomes, not always happy. TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 5): TUE Michael went missing 23 years ago. He was very depressed and TUE had attempted suicide several times, so his sister Ann TUE feared the worst but always hoped that he might still be TUE alive. This is a story of the use of DNA to identify him TUE more than two decades after his body was washed up 80 miles TUE from his Grimsby home on a Norfolk beach. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Parker TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b02ykfzw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b02ykrdb (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, Terma TUE TUE By Alastair Jessiman. The psychic detective returns in the TUE first of two new cases (the second is tomorrow afternoon). A TUE journalist goes missing after building up a dossier on a TUE powerful crime family. Thomas is brought in by police to TUE investigate his disappearance. TUE TUE Other parts are played by the cast. TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas Soutar: Robin Laing TUE DI Crawford: Simon Tait TUE DS Gilhoolie: David Ireland TUE DCI Waller: Lewis Howden TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Tyler: Alasdair Hankinson TUE Liz: Lucy Hollis TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b02ykrdd (Listen) TUE Series 3, Lost and Found TUE TUE Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries with TUE stories of loss and discovery. TUE TUE From being lost in the music to lost love - Josie delves TUE into tales of forgotten cassette tapes, voices rediscovered TUE and teenage rebellion. TUE TUE Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b02ykrdg (Listen) TUE Series 2, Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet TUE (B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson concludes the series in which he talks to TUE leading performers and songwriters about the album that made TUE them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience TUE at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition TUE includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the TUE artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, TUE the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature TUE exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 5, the B-side. Having discussed the making of TUE Spandau Ballet's international hit album 'True' (in the TUE A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday 24th June and TUE available online), Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley responds to TUE questions from the audience and performs live versions of TUE some of the songs from the album, which was made 30 years TUE ago. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Lennard. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b02ykrdy (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b02ykrf0 (Listen) TUE Colin Murray & Bob Mills TUE TUE Sports presenter Colin Murray and comedian Bob Mills argue TUE about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Colin Murray's choice is in Watermelon Sugar by Richard TUE Brautigan, a beautiful book that is very hard to describe, TUE but has quite an effect on its readers. TUE TUE Bob Mills perhaps surprisingly turns out to be a devotee of TUE Georgette Heyer, and nominates These Old Shades. TUE TUE And Harriett Gilbert enthuses over An Artist of the Floating TUE World by Kazuo Ishiguro - but the others do not share her TUE enthusiasm.. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b02ykrf2 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02xcc52 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Castle b01jrt6b (Listen) TUE Series 4, Give Me the Flaming Torch 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 and Ingrid Oliver. TUE TUE The Olympics are coming to Woodstock, so what better time TUE for Sir William to go on a go-slow and for Henry to hunt TUE dragons? Meanwhile, Sir John tries to get fit and Charlotte TUE tries to get into her beach volleyball costume. 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 Writer: Kim Fuller TUE Writer: Paul Alexander TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b02ykrf4 (Listen) TUE Caroline's working hard, and Helen wants everything to go TUE well. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Julie Beckett TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b02yks7s (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports on an exhibition which focuses TUE on the portrayal of music in the paintings of Vermeer and TUE his contemporaries. TUE TUE Producer Olivia Skinner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Mark Lawson TUE Producer: Olivia Skinner TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b02yks7v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b02yks7x (Listen) TUE Petrol Prices TUE TUE The way in which oil is traded on commodities markets is TUE coming under close scrutiny. Last month, officers of the TUE European Commission raided the London offices of BP and TUE Shell along with Norway's Statoil company and the leading TUE price reporting agency Platts. They said they were TUE investigating claims of collusion to manipulate the prices TUE of oil and biofuels on the international markets. TUE TUE A leading city insider tells File On 4 that the TUE price-reporting mechanism for oil is 'wide open to abuse' TUE TUE So are petrol prices being kept artificially high by hidden TUE forces beyond the normal workings of supply and demand ? TUE TUE Gerry Northam investigates and asks whether British TUE regulators are proving slow to recognise the potential TUE problem. TUE TUE Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b02yks7z (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b02yks81 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b02ykg4w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b02xcc54 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b02yks83 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02yks85 (Listen) TUE The Professor of Truth, Episode 2 TUE TUE Peter Firth reads from the new novel by leading Scottish TUE author James Robertson. It's a powerful work of fiction TUE inspired by some of the aspects and events surrounding the TUE Lockerbie bombing. TUE TUE Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered TUE in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a TUE university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what TUE really happened that night. Obsessed by the details of what TUE he has come to call 'The Case', he is sure that the man TUE convicted of the atrocity was not responsible. TUE TUE The visit from a former CIA man - who claims to have key TUE information to impart - has triggered painful memories for TUE Alan of the aftermath of the bombing. TUE TUE Reader: Peter Firth. TUE TUE Writer & abridger: James Robertson. TUE TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Peter Firth TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Author: James Robertson TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b02ykcwh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b02yks87 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b02xcc61 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b02ykg50 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02xcc63 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02xcc65 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02xcc67 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b02xcc69 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0368x5g (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Frank Sellar. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b02yksnn (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020xv0f (Listen) WED Savi's Warbler 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 Krestovnikoff presents the Savi's Warbler. Count WED yourself very lucky if you hear the buzzing song of a Savi's WED Warbler, these are very rare birds indeed, especially WED breeding pairs and the nests are almost impossible to find, WED so their song is the best clue that they're about. WED WED 06:00 Today b02yksnq (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 b02yksns (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b02yksnv (Listen) WED The Reason I Jump, Episode 3 WED WED By Naoki Higashida WED Translated by David Mitchell and K.A. Yoshida and introduced WED by David Mitchell WED Read by Kasper Hilton-Hille WED WED Thirteen year old Naoki Higashida reveals how his perception WED of the world is so alien to those without autism that he is WED often completely misunderstood. With delicate and moving WED descriptions he invites us into his world. WED WED He explains how he can be immersed in the beauty of light WED filtered through his fingertips, or lost in the intricate WED world of memory and imagination. WED WED Naoki's autism is so severe that he finds it difficult to WED hold a conversation, and he wrote the book painstakingly, WED using an 'Alphabet Grid', Japanese character by character. WED WED When the author David Mitchell, whose own son has autism, WED discovered this extraordinary book, he felt that for the WED first time his own son was talking to him about what was WED going on inside his head, through the words of the young WED author. WED WED Abridged and Produced by Allegra McIlroy. WED Radio 4 Blog: Award-winning author David Mitchell introduces WED 'The Reason I Jump' WED WED Credits WED Reader: Kasper Hilton-Hille WED Producer: Allegra McIlroy WED Adaptor: David Mitchell WED Writer: Naoki Higashida WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b02yksnx (Listen) WED Billie Jean King WED WED Billie Jean King on how women's tennis has changed over the WED last 40 years. Jenni Murray presents the programme that WED offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED Interviewed Guest: Billie Jean King WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b02yksnz (Listen) WED Writing the Century: Vera 'Jack' Holme, Episode 3 WED WED Vera 'Jack' Holme WED WED 1918-1921. Louise Ironside dramatises the diaries of Vera WED 'Jack' Holme A former cross-dressing actress and WED suffragette, Vera had spent the war years as a member of the WED Women's Volunteer Reserve serving with the Scottish Women's WED Hospital in Serbia. At the end of the war Vera - known as WED 'Jack' - was busy finding a role for herself both in love WED and duty. Estranged from her long term partner, Evelina WED Haverfield, Vera spends much of 1918 fundraising for relief WED work in Serbia. But Vera is drawn back to the country she WED loves when Eve invites her to help establish an orphanage WED for the children of the Serbian war dead. With the orphanage WED now up and running Vera does her best to work hard and forge WED new friendships. But Vera's hardest time approaches as Eve WED becomes gravely ill. WED WED Dramatised by Louise Ironside WED WED Other parts played by members of the cast. WED Additional research by Jane Mackelworth WED Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. WED WED Credits WED Vera 'Jack' Holme: Irene MacDougall WED Eve Haverfield: Carol Ann Crawford WED Spook: Kim Gerard WED Curly: Kim Gerard WED Dorothy 'Dodo' Johnstone: Rosalind Sydney WED Natalia: Lesley Hart WED Margaret K: Lesley Hart WED Col Popovitch: Matthew Zajac WED Gen Balguy: Matthew Zajac WED Cheddo: Finn den Hertog WED Director: David Neville WED Producer: David Neville WED Writer: Louise Ironside WED WED 11:00 Mabey in the Wild b02qd1s3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED In the first of two programmes about British trees, Richard WED Mabey is in Hampshire to tell the natural and the cultural WED history of the Yew, the Beech and the Elm. WED WED His journey takes him from Gilbert White's village of WED Selborne down into the New Forest. He gives an account of WED these favourite British trees not only in terms of what they WED have contributed to the landscape but what their uses have WED been and what part they have played in human history, WED mythology and religion. WED WED From the 3000 year old Yew to the recent resurgence of young WED elm after the devastation of Dutch Elm disease, this is also WED a fascinating glimpse of the tenacity and resilience of WED trees in the wild. WED WED Producer: Susan Marling WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 House on Fire b02ykyg0 (Listen) WED Series 3, Birthday WED WED A final visit in the current series to Matt and Vicky, the WED two flatmates who love to hate to love each other - with the WED usual mixture of somewhat hapless situations brought about WED by their inability to live in the real world, or indeed with WED 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 It's Vicky's birthday and she plans a celebratory dinner WED with a few close friends. But the final guest list doesn't WED go as planned. WED WED With Special Guest, Henry Goodman, as Gerald. 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 Secretary: Anna Morris WED Gerald: Henry Goodman WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Writer: Dan Hine WED Writer: Chris Sussman WED WED 12:00 Spending Review 2013 b033h6x8 (Listen) WED Shaun Ley and Winifred Robinson present live coverage of WED chancellor George Osborne's Spending Review statement in the WED House of Commons, with analysis and reaction. WED WED 13:57 Weather b02xcc6c (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b02ykrf4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b02ykyg6 (Listen) WED The Sensitive, Black Island WED WED By Alastair Jessiman. In the second of two new cases for the WED psychic detective, Thomas and Kat go on holiday to the WED Western Isles. But Thomas is soon drawn into a dangerous WED game with a celebrated actor. WED WED Other parts are played by the cast. WED WED Producer/director: Bruce Young. WED WED Credits WED Thomas Soutar: Robin Laing WED Kat: Julie Duncanson WED Richie: Steven McNicoll WED Guy: Laurie Brown WED DI Crawford: Simon Tait WED Cameron: Haris Young WED Director: Bruce Young WED Producer: Bruce Young WED Writer: Alastair Jessiman WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b02ykyg8 (Listen) WED Consumer Rights WED WED Know your Consumer Rights? For advice about faulty goods, WED poor service or shopping online call 03700 100 444 from 1pm WED to 3.30pm or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b02yks81 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b02ykygb (Listen) WED Crime in the Armed Forces WED WED Crime in the Armed Forces - Laurie Taylor talks to Emeritus WED Professor of History, Clive Emsley, about his pioneering, WED historical study into criminal offending by members of WED British armed forces both during and immediately after the WED two world wars of the 20th century, and concluding in the WED present day. WED WED For a quarter of the 20th century, the UK had large WED conscripted armed forces and it is these services, and in WED particular the Army, that are the principal focus of this WED study. Emsley argues that the forces "reflect the society WED from which they come, both the good and the bad", pointing WED out that it's predominantly made up of younger men, the WED social group that commits the most crime. He also examines WED two popular assumptions about crime and war; namely, that WED crime decreases when wars begin as young men - those WED likeliest to commit crimes - are swept up into the forces; WED and that crime goes up at the end of war as men brutalised WED by combat returned to the civilian world but, unable to cope WED with 'peacetime', engage in crime and violence. Dr Deirdre WED MacManus, from King's College, joins the discussion, having WED recently completed a study into the the relationship between WED combat experience and violent crime amongst British soldiers WED returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. WED WED Also, Ruth Patrick's research into the lived experiences of WED welfare reform. She's interviewed a range of out of work WED benefits claimants between 2011 and 2013. Talking to single WED parents being moved from Income Support onto Jobseeker's WED Allowance, disabled people waiting to be migrated off WED Incapacity Benefit and onto Employment and Support WED Allowance, and young jobseekers experiencing the new WED Jobcentre/Work Programme and sanctions regime, her study WED gives a unique insight into the impact of a revolution in WED 'welfare' provision on 'real' people. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b02ykygd (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 b02ykygg (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02xcc6f (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Brig Society b02ykygj (Listen) WED Fashion WED WED Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! WED Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of WED a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British fashion, WED a prison. And each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it WED can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - WED turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who WED knew...?" WED WED This week, Marcus has volunteered to be the face of British WED fashion, which is a feather in his cap - coincidentally WED making his very first fashion mistake there. But as well as WED promoting the corduroy cagoule and inadvertently releasing WED his own fragrance, Marcus will be examining the WED light-hearted topics of Size Zero models and child labour as WED well as pondering the inexorable rise of the Ugg boot. WED WED Helping him fail to find the answers will be Rufus Jones WED (Hunderby, Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've WED Got No Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda) WED WED The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice, WED David Tyler, who also produces Marcus appearances as the WED inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg. WED WED Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, WED Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Tom Neenan WED WED Produced by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke WED Ensemble: Rufus Jones WED Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Ensemble: William Andrews WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Marcus Brigstocke WED Writer: Jeremy Salsby WED Writer: Toby Davies WED Writer: Nick Doody WED Writer: Steve Punt WED Writer: Tom Neenan WED WED 19:00 The Archers b02ykygl (Listen) WED The big day arrives at Bridge Farm, and Rob's making WED friends. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Julie Beckett WED WED 19:15 Front Row b02ykygn (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reviews the new stage musical Charlie WED and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, and WED starring Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Mark Lawson WED Producer: Nicki Paxman WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b02yksnz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b02ykygq (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Anne McElvoy, Giles Fraser, Matthew WED Taylor and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b02ykygs (Listen) WED Series 4, Jamie Tehrani WED WED Social anthropologist Jamie Tehrani sees our obsession with WED celebrity culture as a result of our maladapted brains. 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 21:00 Frontiers b02ykygv (Listen) WED Whatever happened to biofuels? They were seen as the WED replacement for fossil fuels until it was realised they were WED being grown on land that should have been used for food WED crops. But now there is serious research into new ways of WED producing biofuels, from waste materials, from algae and WED from bacteria. WED WED Gaia Vince takes to the water of Strangford Lough in WED Northern Ireland to see an experiment in growing algae that WED can be turned into fuel. And she talks to the researchers WED who are manipulating bacteria to make petrol. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b02yksns (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b02xcc6h (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b02ykygx (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02ykygz (Listen) WED The Professor of Truth, Episode 3 WED WED Peter Firth reads from James Robertson's powerful new novel WED which is inspired by some of the aspects and events WED surrounding the Lockerbie bombing. WED WED Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered WED in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a WED university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what WED really happened that night. Obsessed by the details of what WED he has come to call 'The Case', he is sure that the man WED convicted of the atrocity was not responsible. WED WED A mysterious American, apparently a secret service agent, WED has arrived at Alan Tealing's door. Terminally ill, and keen WED to salve his conscience, he claims to have vital information WED about the flawed investigation and hints that there was a WED cover-up. WED WED Read by Peter Firth. WED WED Written and abridged by James Robertson. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Peter Firth WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED Author: James Robertson WED WED 23:00 Living with Mother b01nxw2s (Listen) WED Series 2, Four Little Words WED WED Owen is a TV addict and overweight. Since he's reached the WED age of forty, Allison thinks it's about time he did WED something about it. WED WED Drawing on her days as a fitness fanatic, Allison draws up a WED fitness regime and puts a reluctant Owen through his paces. WED Frustrated at his bone-idleness, she hatches a plan. But a WED greedy man is a cunning man, and it's not long until Owen WED devises a plan of his own - with a little help from his WED friend. 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 Written by Alexander Kirk WED WED Produced by Anna Madley WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Allison: Brigit Forsyth WED Owen: Greg Hemphill WED Producer: Anna Madley WED Writer: Alexander Kirk WED WED 23:15 Dreaming the City b02ykyh1 (Listen) WED Below the Wagga Moon 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 4: Wagga Moon by Michael Smith WED The writer returns to his hometown of Hartlepool for a WED glimpse into the historic port's collective imagination. On WED a solitary walk back from the pub he peers into the shadows WED of the dark, deserted seafront. 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 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: Michael Smith WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b02ykyh3 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 JUNE 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b02xcc7v (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b02yksnv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02xcc7x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02xcc7z (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02xcc81 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b02xcc83 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0368x7g (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Frank Sellar. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b02ykzh3 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Emma Weatherill. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020xvlw (Listen) THU Marsh Warbler 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 Marsh Warbler. Marsh THU warblers are astonishing mimics and when you hear one THU singing you could be forgiven for thinking that there's a THU flock of different species in the bush. THU THU 06:00 Today b02ykzh5 (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 b02ykzh7 (Listen) THU Romance of the Three Kingdoms THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Romance of the Three THU Kingdoms, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of THU Chinese literature. Written 600 years ago, it is an THU historical novel that tells the story of a tumultuous period THU in Chinese history, the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Partly THU historical and partly legend, it recounts the fighting and THU scheming of the feudal lords and the three states which came THU to power as the Han Dynasty collapsed. The influence of THU Romance of the Three Kingdoms in East Asia has been likened THU to that of Homer in the West, and this warfare epic remains THU popular in China today. THU THU With: THU THU Frances Wood THU Former Lead Curator of Chinese Collections at the British THU Library THU THU Craig Clunas THU Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford THU THU Margaret Hillenbrand THU University Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature at the THU University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College THU THU Producer: Victoria Brignell. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Frances Wood THU Interviewed Guest: Craig Clunas THU Interviewed Guest: Margaret Hillenbrand THU Producer: Victoria Brignell THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b02ykzh1 (Listen) THU The Reason I Jump, Episode 4 THU THU By Naoki Higashida THU Translated by David Mitchell and K.A. Yoshida and introduced THU by David Mitchell THU Read by Kasper Hilton-Hille THU THU Thirteen year old Naoki Higashida explores how he THU experiences the world as a child with autism. He describes THU how going for a walk can melt him into nature and out of THU time, his feeling that the touch of another person might THU make his thoughts visible, and the pleasure of numbers and THU lines. Most movingly, he explains that because he struggles THU to have a conversation with another person, he can find THU himself desperately lonely and aching for company. THU THU When novelist David Mitchell, whose own son has autism, THU discovered this extraordinary book, he felt that for the THU first time his own son was talking to him about what was THU going on inside his head, through the words of the young THU author. THU THU Abridged and Produced by Allegra McIlroy. THU Radio 4 Blog: Award-winning author David Mitchell introduces THU 'The Reason I Jump' THU THU Credits THU Reader: Kasper Hilton-Hille THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy THU Adaptor: David Mitchell THU Abridger: Allegra McIlroy THU Writer: Naoki Higashida THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b02yl2fr (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b02yl2ft (Listen) THU Writing the Century: Vera 'Jack' Holme, Episode 4 THU THU Vera 'Jack' Holme THU THU 1918-1921. Louise Ironside dramatises the diaries of Vera THU 'Jack' Holme A former actress and suffragette, Vera had THU spent the war years as a member of the Women's Volunteer THU Reserve serving with the Scottish Women's Hospital in THU Serbia. At the end of the war Vera - known as 'Jack' - was THU busy finding a role for herself both in love and duty. THU Estranged from her long term partner, Evalina Haverfield, THU Vera spends much of 1918 fundraising for relief work in THU Serbia. But Vera is drawn back to the country she loves when THU Eve invites her to help establish an orphanage for the THU children of the Serbian war dead. But Vera's delight at THU being back in Serbia with Eve is shattered when Eve dies of THU pneumonia. In the aftermath of the unexpected death Vera THU must cope with mounting responsibilities at the orphanage as THU well as her own grief. THU THU Dramatised by Louise Ironside THU THU Other parts played by members of the cast. THU Additional research by Jane Mackelworth THU Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. THU THU Credits THU Vera 'Jack' Holme: Irene MacDougall THU Eve Haverfield: Carol Ann Crawford THU Spook: Kim Gerard THU Curly: Kim Gerard THU Dorothy 'Dodo' Johnstone: Rosalind Sydney THU Natalia: Lesley Hart THU Margaret K: Lesley Hart THU Col Popovitch: Matthew Zajac THU Gen Balguy: Matthew Zajac THU Cheddo: Finn den Hertog THU Director: David Neville THU Producer: David Neville THU Writer: Louise Ironside THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b02yl46k (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 Stuart: A Face Backwards b01k2df5 (Listen) THU Stuart Freeborn's face launched a thousand space ships, his THU hands fashioned the Dawn of Man. Freeborn, who died in THU February 2013, was the self made genius of British make-up. THU A career that began in the Denham dream factory of Alexander THU Korda in the late 1930's culminated in the creation of Yoda THU for the original Star Wars Trilogy. THU THU Freeborn, desperate to escape the humdrum fate of City THU clerking, longed to emulate his hero Jack Pierce. The man THU who transformed Karloff into Frankenstein's monster. Despite THU the almost total lack of information available he devised THU increasingly elaborate make-up's in his bedroom. He would THU leap out & terrify unsuspecting neighbours with monstrous THU visages. But his efforts to enter professional film-making THU seemed doomed until a chance opening at Alexander Korda's THU new dream factory of Denham. THU THU From the very beginning Freeborn was an innovator, THU experimenting with new plastics and later engineering and THU early radio control, experience gained during war work. He THU created the controversial Fagin makeup for Alec Guinness in THU Lean's Oliver Twist, the many faces of Peter Sellars in THU Kubrick's Dr Strangelove and the near impossible design of THU the ape families for the Dawn of Man sequence in 2001: A THU Space Odyssey. His is a career littered with achievement THU with the creation of Yoda for George Lucas in 1979 drawing THU on all his skill and experience and taking make-up into a THU new age. THU THU Long before Freeborn's collection of ape masks, Wookie teeth THU and talking horses was sold off he spent days detailing his THU years of craft and invention to Mark Burman. From the green THU skinned genius of Yoda, based in part on his own face to the THU oldest man in the Universe- the history of a face backwards. THU THU Presenter & Producer Mark Burman. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b02yl2fw (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b02xcc85 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b02yl46m (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 Found b01s09yx (Listen) THU A Brother's Tale THU THU A five part series of stories following family members who THU are reunited after separation through family circumstance, THU tragedy or conflict. THU THU As well as hearing the emotional stories of people who have THU been searching for others for many years, we also hear the THU stories of the organisations who help them - including the THU Red Cross, Salvation Army and Missing Person's Bureau. THU THU The internet has increased the possibility of finding people THU through social networking and other websites - such as a THU site set up recently by Missing Person's Bureau and THU featuring details of unidentified bodies. THU THU The stories have a range of outcomes, not always happy. THU THU Episode 4 (of 5): A Brother's Tale THU Richard found his mother through the Salvation Army's THU tracing service only to discover he had a brother he never THU knew existed. When he was only 7, Richard's parents THU separated after a row on holiday. His Dad left with Richard THU and, after that, he had no contact with his mother and THU sister for 38 years - and no idea where they were. THU THU Producer: Sara Parker THU A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b02ykygl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b02yl46p (Listen) THU The Means to an End THU THU by Sarah Cartwright THU THU When Barney's dog is run over he wonders if life is worth THU living but then fate in the shape of a Spanish veterinary THU nurse and a parrot called mittens intervenes. THU THU Barney hates everything about his life. Everything, but his THU dog. THU His dog doesn't care that he's an awkward loser. That he's THU 36, single and broke. That he sweats when he's nervous. That THU he's been stuck in the same job for seven years and three THU months and still doesn't know how to work the cappuccino THU machine. That he's scared of his pubescent boss, and lusts THU after a girl who doesn't know he exists. THU So when his dog is run over, Barney realises he's got THU nothing left to lose, but then a motivational talk from his THU boss is the beginning of a series of apparently THU life-changing events. THU THU Bafta award winning Daniel Rigby stars as Barney and Oona THU Chaplin (The Hour) as Carla. THU THU This is Sarah Cartwright's first play for radio. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Sarah Cartwright THU Barney: Daniel Rigby THU Carla: Oona Chaplin THU Dustin: Henry Lloyd-Hughes THU Mia: Fiona Button THU Leanne: Philippa Stanton THU Barney's Father: Paul Stonehouse THU Thug: Ben Crowe THU Customer: Joanna Brookes THU Director: Sally Avens THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b02yl46r (Listen) THU Series 24, Tara Bariana recalls his long walk home to India THU THU Clare Balding walks on Cannock Chase with Tara Bariana who THU recalls his extraordinary walk home to India. THU THU Tara Bariana was born in Punjab, and at the age of 13 came THU to the UK with his mother. His father and older brother had THU arrived four years earlier, in 1958. THU THU In 1995 Tara decided he needed an adventure and made the THU decision to walk from the Midlands - where he'd grown up, THU married and settled - back to his home village in India. THU THU He walked to Southampton where he caught the ferry to THU Cherbourg. There he realised he didn't speak any French, he THU couldn't even say 'bonjour'... but, despite being hit by the THU reality of what he'd decided to do, he couldn't turn back. THU THU Nineteen months later, of almost non-stop walking, he THU arrived in his home village to a very emotional homecoming. THU His wife, Beryl, had flown to meet him, garlands of flowers THU awaited his arrival. THU THU However instead of returning home, Tara stayed on for a THU further 18 months... touring the local area on a bike, THU immersed in exploration. THU THU Eventually he realised he had to return to the UK, but when THU he came home for the final time, there was no one waiting at THU the airport and he realised his life had completely changed. THU THU Join Clare Balding as she walks with Tara Bariana, to hear THU of his adventures and what happened next. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Tara Bariana THU Producer: Karen Gregor THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b02y0wlt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b02y0wq3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b02yl46t (Listen) THU This Is the End; The Act of Killing; Stories We Tell THU THU Director Evan Goldberg talks to Francine Stock about This Is THU The End, an apocalypse comedy with a diverse range of THU celebrities playing versions of themselves including James THU Franco, Rihanna and Jonah Hill as well as co director Seth THU Rogen. THU Plus discussion of the ethics of documentary making with THU Sarah Polley who describes turning the camera on her family THU secrets while Joshua Oppenheimer records Indonesian THU paramilitaries re-enacting the massacres they committed in THU 1960s. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Evan Goldberg THU Interviewed Guest: Sarah Polley THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Material World b02yl46w (Listen) THU Gareth Mitchell 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 b02yl46y (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02xcc87 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 My First Planet b01fjt0g (Listen) THU The Landing Has Landed THU THU Day 1 on the colony and they've lost the food, the air, the THU Commander and the Mood Music. Meanwhile, Chief Physician THU Lillian makes a terrible discovery about Project Adam... THU THU A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question THU - if humankind were to colonize space, is it destined to THU succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the THU way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) THU THU Welcome to the colony. We're aware that having been in deep THU cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some THU supplementary information. THU THU Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on THU the voyage, so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is THU now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, THU and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly THU meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian THU (Vicki Pepperdine - "Getting On"), who'd really rather THU everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and THU saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, THU the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born THU baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this THU purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about THU being a couple, just to get on the trip. THU THU Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and THU also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an THU "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer THU the question - if humankind were to colonize space, is it THU destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and THU infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) THU THU Written by Phil Whelans THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Brian: Nicholas Lyndhurst THU Lillian: Vicki Pepperdine THU Mason: Tom Goodman-Hill THU Archer: Phil Whelans THU Carol: Cariad Lloyd THU Richard: John Dorney THU Writer: Phil Whelans THU Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 19:00 The Archers b02yl4wj (Listen) THU Pip has some news, and Roy's feeling the pressure. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Julie Beckett THU THU 19:15 Front Row b02yl4wl (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Wilson THU Producer: Rebecca Nicholson THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b02yl2ft (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b02ykrdy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b02yl4wn (Listen) THU Water THU THU Water is the world's most precious resource. It's also big THU business. As climate changes and populations shift, getting THU water where it needs to be is a huge global challenge. And THU that's without the added problem of leakage. In some THU countries nearly as much water is lost as used. And how much THU should consumers pay for something that none of us can live THU without? THU THU Evan Davis and guests discuss an industry which has changed THU almost beyond recognition in just a few decades - from THU state-owned water providers to international business THU players. THU THU Guests: THU THU Peter Simpson, CEO Anglian Water THU Bryan Harvey, Vice President CH2M HILL THU Olivier Bret, CEO Veolia Water UK THU THU Producer : Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 Material World b02yl46w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b02ykzh7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b02xcc89 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b02yl4wq (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02yl4ws (Listen) THU The Professor of Truth, Episode 4 THU THU Peter Firth reads from James Robertson's powerful work of THU fiction inspired by some of the aspects and events THU surrounding the Lockerbie bombing. THU THU Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered THU in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a THU university lecturer, still does not know the truth of what THU really happened that night. THU THU Tealing has received a visit from a former CIA agent called THU Ted Nilsen. Terminally ill, and keen to salve his THU conscience, Nilsen claims to have vital information about THU the flawed investigation. When Tealing loses his patience THU with the prevaricating American, Nilsen finally reveals the THU true purpose of his visit. THU THU Read by Peter Firth. THU THU Written and abridged by James Robertson. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Peter Firth THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU Author: James Robertson THU THU 23:00 The Show What You Wrote b01r52xj (Listen) THU Sci-Fi and Fantasy THU THU The Show What You Wrote is a brand new sketch show, which is THU made up entirely from sketches sent in by the public. THU Recorded in Manchester in front of a live audience, and THU starring John Thomson, Helen Moon, Fiona Clarke and Gavin THU Webster, with a special appearance by Gyles Brandreth. THU THU We've picked the best sketches from thousands of submissions THU to make each show, and every week we'll be covering a THU different theme, from kitchen sink drama, to suspense heavy THU thrillers. This week's episode is Sci Fi and Fantasy. THU THU Script editor ...... Jon Hunter THU Producers ..... Carl Cooper and Alexandra Smith THU Written by..... Jack Bernhardt, Elise Bramich, Peter Brush, THU Alex Buchanan, Simon Carter, Andy Flood, Robert Frimston & THU Edward Rowett, Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch, Peter Jump, Adam THU Perrott, Melissa Phillips, Eddie Robson, Paul Solomons, THU Jimmy Weeks & Jess Bunch, and Ash Williamson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b02yl842 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b02xcc94 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b02ykzh1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b02xcc96 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b02xcc98 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b02xcc9b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b02xcc9d (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0368x8b (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Frank Sellar. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b02ymgvx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020xvgf (Listen) FRI Reed Warbler 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 Reed Warbler. Reed FRI warblers are summer visitors from Africa, one of the few FRI long-distance migrants that are faring well in northern FRI Europe - possibly because we're creating more gravel pits FRI and conservation reedbeds. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b02ymgw6 (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 b02y0wn6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b02ymgwl (Listen) FRI The Reason I Jump, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Naoki Higashida FRI Translated by David Mitchell and K.A. Yoshida and introduced FRI by David Mitchell FRI Read by Kasper Hilton-Hille FRI FRI Thirteen year old Naoki Higashida invites us into his world, FRI an intimate astonishing insight into the perceptions and FRI feelings of a child with autism. He explains his simple FRI delight in spinning objects, and his own pleasure in FRI movement, which is deeply calming for him and stems from a FRI feeling that in stillness his very soul might detach itself FRI from his body. FRI FRI Naoki's autism is so severe that he finds it difficult to FRI hold a conversation, and he wrote the book painstakingly, FRI using an 'Alphabet Grid', Japanese character by character. FRI His writing reveals a young teenager sensitive to the FRI feelings and perceptions of others but often isolated from FRI those he loves. FRI FRI When the author David Mitchell, whose own son has autism, FRI discovered this extraordinary book, he felt that for the FRI first time his own son was talking to him about what was FRI going on inside his head, through the words of the young FRI author. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI Radio 4 Blog: Award-winning author David Mitchell introduces FRI 'The Reason I Jump' FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Kasper Hilton-Hille FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy FRI Adaptor: David Mitchell FRI Abridger: Allegra McIlroy FRI Writer: Naoki Higashida FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b02ymgx1 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b02ymgx6 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: Vera 'Jack' Holme, Episode 5 FRI FRI Vera 'Jack' Holme FRI FRI 1918-1921. Louise Ironside dramatises the diaries of Vera FRI 'Jack' Holme A former actress and suffragette, Vera had FRI spent the war years as a member of the Women's Volunteer FRI Reserve serving with the Scottish Women's Hospital in FRI Serbia. At the end of the war Vera - known as 'Jack' - was FRI busy finding a role for herself both in love and duty. FRI Estranged from her long term partner, Evelina Haverfield, FRI Vera spends much of 1918 fundraising for relief work in FRI Serbia. . But Vera is drawn back to the country she loves FRI when Eve invites her to help establish an orphanage for the FRI children of the Serbian war dead. But Vera's delight at FRI being back in Serbia with Eve is shattered when Eve dies of FRI pneumonia. In the aftermath of the unexpected death Vera FRI must cope with mounting responsibilities at the orphanage as FRI well as her own grief. Now as her time in Serbia draws to a FRI close Vera is faced with shaping a new life for herself - FRI but where, and with who? FRI FRI Dramatised by Louise Ironside FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the cast. FRI Additional research by Jane Mackelworth FRI Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI Credits FRI Vera 'Jack' Holme: Irene MacDougall FRI Eve Haverfield: Carol Ann Crawford FRI Spook: Kim Gerard FRI Curly: Kim Gerard FRI Dorothy 'Dodo' Johnstone: Rosalind Sydney FRI Natalia: Lesley Hart FRI Margaret K: Lesley Hart FRI Col Popovitch: Matthew Zajac FRI Gen Balguy: Matthew Zajac FRI Cheddo: Finn den Hertog FRI Director: David Neville FRI Producer: David Neville FRI Writer: Louise Ironside FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b02ymxrs (Listen) FRI Series 13, New School: The First Year FRI FRI In the second of two programmes, Alan Dein follows the mixed FRI fortunes of a new primary school on a housing estate just FRI outside Peterborough over the course of a year. FRI FRI As the school opens its doors, the school is still FRI struggling to attract the number of children headteacher FRI Jackie Ashley hopes for. She leaflets the entire estate in FRI the hope of boosting numbers. FRI FRI Alan speaks to parents and joins the school at key moments FRI in its first year from the Christmas play to the end of year FRI disco. FRI FRI Producer: Laurence Grissell. FRI FRI 11:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00yjs4c (Listen) FRI Series 1, Bankers 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 wonders how the bankers keep getting away with it. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b02ymxs4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b02ymxs8 (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 b02xcc9j (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b02ynfq3 (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 Found b01s4g6y (Listen) FRI The Parents' Choice FRI FRI A five part series of stories following family members who FRI are reunited after separation through family circumstance, FRI tragedy or conflict. FRI FRI As well as hearing the emotional stories of people who have FRI been searching for others for many years, we also hear the FRI stories of the organisations who help them - including the FRI Red Cross, Salvation Army and Missing Person's Bureau. FRI FRI The internet has increased the possibility of finding people FRI through social networking and other websites - such as a FRI site set up recently by Missing Person's Bureau and FRI featuring details of unidentified bodies. FRI FRI The stories have a range of outcomes, not always happy. FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 5): Haiti Family FRI As poor subsistence farmers in Haiti, parents Carnise and FRI Dieuseul couldn't afford to look after their children FRI properly. So they made the difficult decision to send them FRI away to an orphanage with promises of a good education and FRI better life. Little did they know their children would be FRI mistreated and exploited by a pastor who has since been FRI jailed for child trafficking and slavery. Their situation FRI was further worsened by the 2010 Haiti earthquake - after FRI which neither the children nor the parents knew each other's FRI fate for two years. Now reunited, the family are just one FRI case of many helped by the International Rescue Committee FRI throughout the world. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Parker FRI A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b02yl4wj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b02ynfq9 (Listen) FRI Birthday Shoes FRI FRI By Pat Davis FRI When Kate finds a little pair of red shoes FRI hidden in her Mum's linen cupboard, she FRI remembers the day of her sixth birthday FRI as if it were yesterday... FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI The Story: FRI FRI On the eve of her 40th birthday Kate keeps a vigil at the FRI hospital bedside of her mother Maisie. Although Maisie FRI treated her badly as a child, favouring her younger sister FRI Sarah, it is Kate who is seeing her through this last FRI illness. FRI FRI While searching Maisie's linen cupboard for another FRI nightdress, Kate is shocked to find a box containing a pair FRI of red shoes. They were the beautiful shoes Kate was given FRI for her sixth birthday but her "happiness soon cracked FRI across" when her mother took the shoes away from her in a FRI burst of anger because Kate had come back from the shops FRI with scuffed shoes. The opening of the shoebox triggers FRI childhood memories for Kate and she is determined to FRI confront her mother with the red shoes that have been hidden FRI away for thirty-four years. FRI FRI When Sarah finally arrives back from America, too late to FRI say her goodbye to her mother, she is full of remorse for FRI not having being around more. Kate tells her that she let FRI Maisie believe she was Sarah and so allowed Maisie to die FRI content believing "her little angel" had returned in time. FRI The sisters talk of the past and Sarah tells Kate how hard FRI it was to be the favourite and see her sister suffer at FRI their Mother's hands. The air is cleared and when Kate tells FRI Sarah she is pregnant her sister is overjoyed. As one life FRI has ebbed away another has begun to grow and Kate finds FRI herself able to forgive Maisie and let the past go too. FRI FRI The Writer: FRI FRI Pat Davis has written another beautiful play in BIRTHDAY FRI SHOES. This story is told with poignancy, humour and shows FRI how complex relationships can be healed through forgiveness. FRI Pat has had seven plays broadcast on Radio Four, five on RTE FRI and her play SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE was awarded a Sony Silver in FRI 2002. She has also had two stage plays performed at the FRI King's Head. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kate: Jasmine Hyde FRI Sarah: Bethan Walker FRI Maisie: Kate Binchy FRI Nurse: Joanna Brookes FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI Producer: Tracey Neale FRI Writer: Pat Davis FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b02yqh70 (Listen) FRI Glenarm Castle FRI FRI The GQT team visit Glenarm Castle in Northern Ireland, with FRI Eric Robson in the chair. Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew FRI are on the panel taking the audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Home Sweet Home b02yqh75 (Listen) FRI On the Road FRI FRI 2/3. On the Road. Writer and stand-up performer AL Kennedy FRI wonders if it's so important to her, then why does she spend FRI so little time there? FRI FRI After all, a writer these days is seldom at home. There are FRI therefore, she muses, all manner of things to be learned FRI about your accommodation options: avoid rooms over pubs FRI where the new day's clean linen is dumped on the carpet FRI outside every door; try and insist on running water, maybe FRI of two different temperatures and only from the taps. How to FRI deal with posh room service, dodgy room service, in-room FRI picnics and the lack of kettles across Europe. FRI FRI Is it, she wonders, worth learning conversational breakfast FRI phrases in other languages? FRI FRI Perils to avoid: noise, light, the crazy people next door, FRI the people having sex next door, the lift FRI doing TARDIS impersonations all night, free-floating FRI despair, the ventilator that funnels smoke into your FRI bathroom, the mayhem that breaks out in the streets at 3am, FRI wildlife, health difficulties and the FRI almost universally insane people who run B&B's. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b02yqh78 (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 b02yqh7f (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 b02yqh7m (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 b02yqh7r (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b02xcc9l (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b02yqh7y (Listen) FRI Series 81, Episode 1 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Andrew Maxwell, Rebecca Front FRI and Francis Wheen. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Andrew Maxwell FRI Panellist: Sue Perkins FRI Panellist: Francis Wheen FRI Producer: Sam Michell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b02yqh85 (Listen) FRI Nic can't believe her eyes, and Jazzer's trying to keep a FRI low profile. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Helen Monks FRI Tony Archer: Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Alec Murray: Rick Warden FRI Writer: Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Director: Sue Wilson FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b02yqh89 (Listen) FRI John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Olivia Skinner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Wilson FRI Producer: Olivia Skinner FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b02ymgx6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b02yqh8g (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Titchfield in Hampshire with John Denham MP, Bernard FRI Jenkin MP who's chair of the Public Administration Select FRI Committee, Moira McGowan the Chair of the Bar Council and FRI writer Matthew Parris. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b02yqh8l (Listen) FRI Anyone for Art? FRI FRI Isn't it time to democratize art? Shouldn't we, the public, FRI be allowed to borrow works of art from our national FRI collections? That way we could have an affair with art, FRI rather than a one-night stand. Tom Shakespeare presents the FRI last of his four essays. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Tom Shakespeare FRI Photographer: Richard Knight FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b02yqqd9 (Listen) FRI The Forbidden FRI FRI A run down housing estate fizzes with supernatural forces. FRI FRI The Forbidden is a chilling, urban horror dramatised for FRI radio by Duncan MacMillan. It's adapted from Clive Barker's FRI original novella, first published in 1985 and the FRI inspiration for the cult 1992 horror film, Candyman. FRI FRI The film was set in America, but the original short story FRI was located in Britain, on a dilapidated council estate. FRI This radio dramatisation takes it back to its roots: the FRI story has been modernised, but set in a post-riot Britain, FRI where materialism and greed are increasingly prevalent in FRI all spheres of society. FRI FRI Helen and her husband Trevor have recently moved into a FRI gated community in the area where she originally grew up. FRI She is becoming more and more disturbed by a nightmare, FRI where she finds herself in a basement on her old estate and FRI knows someone else is there. But who? And what do they want FRI from her? FRI FRI As Helen insists on exploring the old estate, meeting an old FRI friend and encountering mysterious, frightened teenagers, FRI her home life is affected badly. As she grows increasingly FRI suspicious that Trevor is being unfaithful, she returns to FRI the basement which now haunts her sleep. What she discovers FRI there is both a horrific shock and a sense of coming home, FRI at last. FRI FRI Recorded on location in London, with an original score from FRI composer John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized). FRI FRI Music composed by John Coxon, recorded and mixed by Rupert FRI Clervaux and John Coxon. FRI Sound design by Eloise Whitmore. FRI FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI Executive Producer: Joby Waldman FRI FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Author: Clive Barker FRI Adaptor: Doug MacMillan FRI Helen: Nadine Marshall FRI Trevor: Michael Begley FRI Bernadette: Fenella Woolgar FRI Anne Marie: Fenella Woolgar FRI Archie: Danny Lee Wynter FRI Kerry: Adam Rojko FRI Candyman: David Judge FRI Young Helen: Annie Ackermann FRI Composer: John Coxon FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b02xcc9n (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b02yqqdz (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02yqqfh (Listen) FRI The Professor of Truth, Episode 5 FRI FRI Peter Firth reads from James Robertson's powerful new novel FRI inspired by some of the aspects and events surrounding the FRI Lockerbie bombing. FRI FRI Alan Tealing has spent two decades conducting his own FRI investigation into the bombing of the airplane in which his FRI wife and daughter were killed. After an enlightening visit FRI from a former CIA man, Tealing must decide whether to trust FRI the information he's been given and travel to Australia to FRI confront the trial's key witness face-to-face. FRI FRI Read by Peter Firth. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Author: James Robertson FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b02ykrf0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b02yqqg2 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b02yqqgg (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
21 June, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 22/06/2013 - 28/06/2013
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