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SAT SATURDAY 20 JULY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b036vvzq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b036wdt1 (Listen) SAT Permanent Present Tense, Episode 5 SAT SAT Suzanne Corkin's story of the life and legacy of the man SAT with no memory, Henry Molaison. Today, Henry's final years, SAT and how his brain continues to contribute to memory research SAT and an understanding of who we are. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Debora Weston SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT Author: Suzanne Corkin SAT Abridger: Richard Hamilton SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b036vvzs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b036vvzv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b036vvzx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b036vvzz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b036wj84 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b036wj86 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b036vw01 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b036vw03 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b036w39q (Listen) SAT Herriot Country SAT SAT James Herriot's books about life as a country vet in the SAT 1970s sold 60 million copies worldwide. Later many of the SAT stories were made into feature films and a very popular TV SAT series, 'All Creatures Great and Small'. Herriot's real name SAT was James 'Alf' Wight, and he was known as 'Alf' by local SAT people. He practiced as a vet in Thirsk, a small market town SAT just a few miles from the North York Moors, as did his son, SAT Jim Wight. Felicity Evans visits 'Herriot Country' to meet SAT Jim Wight and talk about his father, the changes there have SAT been in veterinary practice since the 1940s and the legacy SAT 'James Herriot' left both the town and the local farming SAT community. SAT SAT Jim Wight takes Felicity to the old surgery in 23, Kirkgate, SAT Thirsk where Alf served the local community as a vet, SAT initially working with Donald Sinclair, who became Siegfried SAT Farnon in the books. Jim lived here until he was ten and SAT later when he followed his father into the practice, it was SAT also his place of work. Now it's 'The World of James Herriot SAT Museum', where the rooms are lovingly preserved and visitors SAT can see the old dispensary and the veterinary instruments SAT used in the post war era. The visit brings back many SAT memories for Jim including sharing some of the humorous SAT stories that made his father's books so famous. SAT SAT The farming industry has also changed since Alf Wight's time SAT and Felicity visits John Bowes and his son Jonathan, one of SAT the few remaining dairy farmers now left in the area who SAT remember Alf Wight's visits. She also meets the Town's SAT Mayor, Janet Watson who talks of the 'Herriot effect' on SAT business in the town and proudly shows her the newly laid SAT cobblestones in the Market Square and the restored town SAT clock. SAT SAT Felicity ends her visit to Thirsk by observing a veterinary SAT consultation at the Skeldale Veterinary practice. Peter SAT Wright talks about the loss of many family run farms who SAT kept livestock which has given way to a veterinary practice SAT that is now dominated by small animals. Happily both Peter SAT and Jim Wight believe that the changes, particularly in SAT disease control, are very much for the better. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Pitt. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03727gc (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Datshiane SAT Navanayagam. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b036vw05 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0371x1t (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 b03727gf (Listen) SAT Lenny Henry, Cyrille Regis, John McCarthy SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with actor and comedian SAT Lenny Henry, The Inheritance Tracks of former footballer SAT Cyrille Regis, forensic anthropologist Heather Bonney, The SAT Queen of Yorkshire Comedy, Jo Little on Cromer Pier, John SAT McCarthy travels round the Lake District in Mike Hardings SAT camper van and JP Devlin with a crowdscape from Dudley. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Twelve Bar Blues b0372ct1 (Listen) SAT You've heard of the twelve bar - it's time to learn what SAT exactly it is. SAT SAT It is the DNA of popular music. Three chords played in a set SAT sequence over twelve bars. SAT The twelve bar is an American invention. It was originally SAT taken up by rural blues musicians. The first commercial SAT example was W.C. Handy's 'St Louis Blues'. Then it became SAT the staple of the New Orleans jazz repertoire, the big SAT bands, Chicago blues . And in the fifties, just about every SAT other pop song was written around the twelve bar chord SAT sequence. SAT SAT It is also the common ground for musicians who want to get SAT to know each other. You might not know the same songs, but SAT you know a twelve bar, and you jam. It's a musical level SAT playing field. SAT You might not know it but a lot of very familiar songs are SAT twelve bars. Here are twelve: SAT SAT Hound Dog SAT Mustang Sally SAT Can't Buy Me Love SAT Subterranean Homesick Blues SAT Green Onions SAT Making Your Mind Up SAT Folsom Prison Blues SAT Mercy (Duffy) SAT Stormy Monday SAT Money SAT In The Mood SAT Sweet Home Chicago SAT SAT Nick Barraclough has played a few twelve bars in his time. SAT In this programme he talks to bluesologists, a couple of SAT jazzers and a banjo player about why the twelve bar works so SAT well. They illustrate what can be done with this simple SAT sequence and how much fun it can be to mess with it. SAT SAT Producer: John Leonard SAT SAT A Smooth Operation production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0372ct3 (Listen) SAT Steve Richards looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT Angry exchanges in the House of Commons this week over SAT responsibility for excessive mortality rates in hospitals SAT lead to accusations of playing politics with the health SAT service. Is it wise for politicians to argue over who best SAT guards the NHS? Two former health secretaries, Stephen SAT Dorrell and Frank Dobson, give their views on managing SAT expectations in the health service. SAT It was the last Prime Minister's Questions of the session SAT this week, and it was predictably noisy. Do these weekly SAT battles do anything for the stature of the party leaders or SAT do they, as the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow SAT claims, turn people off politics? Two parliamentary sketch SAT writers, Ann Treneman of The Times and Donald McIntyre of SAT the Independent, discuss the merits of political combat. SAT The government suffered 26 defeats in the House of Lords SAT last year. It remains unreformed despite the efforts of the SAT Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, but does it function well SAT nevertheless? Baroness Hollis and Baroness Wheatcroft SAT explain how in their view the Lords best fulfils its remit. SAT And finally what might the political classes read in their SAT summer holidays? Keith Simpson MP, parliamentary aide to the SAT Foreign Secretary William Hague, on what to take to the SAT beach. SAT SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0372ct5 (Listen) SAT Mrs Wong and Mrs Lim Go Shopping SAT SAT Correspondents around the world tell their stories and SAT examine news developments in their region. Presented by Kate SAT Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0377cn9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance with Paul SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b036wg0h (Listen) SAT Series 81, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With panellists Jeremy Hardy, Jon Richardson, Vicki SAT Pepperdine and the Telegraph's Michael Deacon. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b036vw07 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b036vw09 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b036wgjb (Listen) SAT Lord Lawson, Lord Ashdown, Kate Hoey, Baroness Neuberger SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Bridport in Dorset with Lord Ashdown, Kate Hoey MP, SAT Baroness Julia Neuberger and former Chancellor of the SAT Exchequer Lord Lawson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0372ct7 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mny0r (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Killings, The Locked Room SAT SAT by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö SAT Translated by Paul Britten Austin SAT Dramatised by Katie Hims SAT SAT Steven Mackintosh and Neil Pearson star as Martin Beck and SAT Lennart Kollberg in the Swedish detective series that SAT inspired a generation of crime writers. SAT SAT The Locked Room. On his return to work after recuperating SAT from a bullet wound in the chest, Martin Beck's first case SAT is a conundrum: the body of a man who has been shot dead is SAT discovered in a sealed room, but there is is no gun. SAT Meanwhile, Kollberg and Larsson are on the trail of a pair SAT of bank robbers. SAT SAT Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Mary Peate SAT Studio Managers: Caleb Knightley, Graham Harper, Mike SAT Etherden, Alison Craig. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Lesley Sharp SAT Narrator: Nicholas Gleaves SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Gunvald Larsson: Ralph Ineson SAT Einar Rönn: Wayne Foskett SAT Bulldozer Olsson: Michael Maloney SAT Malm: Nicholas Murchie SAT Sten: Rick Warden SAT Police Commissioner: Rick Warden SAT Mauritzon: Ewan Bailey SAT Ake: Ben Crowe SAT Manager: Ben Crowe SAT Doctor: Ben Crowe SAT Monita: Philippa Stanton SAT Clerk: Joanna Brookes SAT Insurance Woman: Joanna Brookes SAT Pathologist: Hannah Wood SAT Ingela: Hannah Wood SAT Gustavsson: David Seddon SAT Rhea: Nadine Marshall SAT Zachrisson: Joe Sims SAT Hjelm: Robert Blythe SAT Warehouse Man - Old: Robert Blythe SAT Warehouse Man - Young: Matthew Watson SAT Detective Sergeant: Matthew Watson SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT Producer: Mary Peate SAT Adaptor: Katie Hims SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b036v094 (Listen) SAT Series 16, Make Me a Channel of Your Peace SAT SAT The hymn 'Make Me a Channel of Your Peace' found its way SAT into weddings, funerals and school assemblies and in this SAT week's 'Soul Music' we hear how it has also embedded itself SAT into the hearts of peace campaigners, charity workers and SAT reformed alcoholics. SAT SAT The simplicity of this hymn often belies the challenges at SAT its heart. Its lyrics call for unconditional love and SAT forgiveness in the toughest situations. The words are based SAT on a poem which has often been attributed to St Francis of SAT Assisi. However, Franciscan Historian, Dr Christian Renoux, SAT suggests it was most likely to have been written by an SAT anonymous French noble women. SAT SAT The poem travelled across the globe with translations SAT published during the first and second world wars, SAT subsequently bringing inspiration to public figures ranging SAT from Mother Theresa to President Roosevelt. SAT SAT In 1967 it caught the eye of South African born musician and SAT 'yogi' Sebastian Temple who put these words to its most SAT famous musical arrangement. It's Sebastian's version that SAT was played at Princess Diana's funeral and that has also SAT touched the hearts of millions worldwide. SAT SAT Mathew Neville of children's charity 'World Vision' recalls SAT his encounter with this hymn in the Democratic Republic of SAT Congo, whilst closer to home Wendy and Colin Parry share SAT their memories of this music and the role it played in SAT remembering their son Tim, who was killed in the 1993 SAT Warrington Bombings. SAT SAT In Minnesota former lawyer Mike Donohue reflects on how this SAT hymn has guided him on a journey through alcohol abuse and SAT dementia and Sarah Hershberg remembers her good friend SAT Sebastian Temple, who first played this simple hymn in her SAT front room before it went on to travel the world. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0372ct9 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Bryony Kimmings; Yvette Cooper; What SAT Women Want SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0372ctc (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b036w3b6 (Listen) SAT Water SAT SAT Water is the world's most precious resource. It's also big SAT business. As climate changes and populations shift, getting SAT water where it needs to be is a huge global challenge. And SAT that's without the added problem of leakage. And how much SAT should consumers pay for something that none of us can live SAT without? SAT Evan Davis and guests discuss an industry which has changed SAT almost beyond recognition in just a few decades - from SAT state-owned water providers to international business SAT players. SAT Guests: SAT Peter Simpson, CEO Anglian Water SAT Bryan Harvey, Vice President CH2M HILL SAT Olivier Bret, CEO Veolia Water UK SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b037gktm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b036vw0h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b036vw0k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0372ctf (Listen) SAT Toby Jones, Nigel Planer, Antony Hegarty, Gruff Rhys, Neon SAT Neon SAT SAT Clive talks Flower Power with star of 'The Young Ones', SAT actor Nigel Planer, who shot to fame as hippie housemate SAT Neil in the student life sitcom. Nigel's currently playing SAT Grandpa Joe in Roald Dahl's deliciously dark tale of young SAT Charlie Bucket and the mysterious confectioner Willy Wonka. SAT 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is at Theatre Royal, SAT London until 31st May 2014. SAT SAT Clive's joined by musician Antony Hegarty, whose band SAT 'Antony and the Johnsons' won the Mercury Prize in 2005 for SAT their album 'I Am A Bird Now'. The band are about to perform SAT 'Swanlights'; an evolution of their third album 'The Crying SAT Light', envisioned as a meditation on light, nature, and SAT femininity. Antony performs 'I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy' SAT on the Loose Ends Steinway. 'Antony and The Johnsons: SAT Swanlights' is on 25th and 26th July at London's Royal Opera SAT House. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi chats to Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys, whose SAT electro pop outfit Neon Neon have collaborated with National SAT Theatre Wales to create an immersive gig, featuring songs SAT from their album 'Praxis Makes Perfect' and imagining the SAT life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli; the millionaire Italian SAT communist at the heart of some of the most extraordinary SAT events of the twentieth century. Neon Neon perform 'Hammer & SAT Sickle' in the studio. 'Praxis Makes Perfect' is at Festival SAT No. 6, Portmeiron from 12th to 15th September. SAT SAT Clive talks to the Infamous actor Toby Jones about playing SAT such characters as Dobby the house elf in the 'Harry Potter' SAT films and Alfred Hitchcock in 'The Girl'. Toby's currently SAT starring in 'Circle Mirror Transformation', about five lost SAT people who come together at a community centre class to try SAT and find some meaning in their lives. It's at the Rose SAT Lipman Building, London until 3rd August. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0372cth (Listen) SAT Samantha Cameron SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles Samantha Cameron. There's been SAT debate this week about the degree to which her views are SAT affecting government policy. Three years into her role as SAT Prime Minister's wife, how is she handling life in Number SAT 10? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0372ctk (Listen) SAT The World's End; A Season in the Congo; Burton and Taylor SAT reimagined on BBC4 SAT SAT Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike star in the film The World's SAT End, the last of the so-called Cornetto Trilogy following SAT Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, directed by Edgar Wright. SAT Can Gary King make it through the pub crawl he failed to SAT finish as a teenager in his home town of Newton Haven? SAT SAT Joe Wright directs Chiwetel Ejiofor in A Season in the Congo SAT at the Young Vic, a powerful political play by Aime Cesaire SAT charting the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba in the early SAT days of Congolese independence. SAT SAT Rachel Joyce's novel Perfect tells the story of Byron, an SAT 11-year-old boy who becomes deeply troubled by the prospect SAT of two seconds needing to be added to time in the year 1972. SAT Can it match the success of her debut novel, The Unlikely SAT Pilgrimage of Harold Fry? SAT SAT A major retrospective and consideration of the ethos of the SAT architect Richard Rogers: Inside Out is at the Royal Academy SAT in Burlington Gardens, London - the title reflects his SAT architectural style, putting the inner workings of a SAT building on the outside, as he did in his collaboration with SAT Renzo Piano on the Centre Pompidou. SAT SAT And Burton and Taylor come to BBC4 - in the shape of Dominic SAT West and Helena Bonham Carter, taking on the roles of the SAT stage and screen superstars over a period in 1983 when they SAT acted together on the New York stage in Coward's Private SAT Lives, shortly before Burton's death. SAT SAT Sarfraz Manzoor is joined by the author Joe Dunthorne, the SAT journalist Maev Kennedy and the cultural commentator Ekow SAT Eshun. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0372ctm (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, Martin Amis SAT SAT From debut novelist to outspoken critic, the writer Martin SAT Amis meets his younger self in the BBC sound archive and SAT discusses his reaction to what he hears with John Wilson. SAT SAT Martin Amis achieved success at a young age. His debut novel SAT "The Rachel Papers", written in his 20s, won the same prize SAT that had been awarded to his father Kingsley Amis. His SAT success as a writer has continued with novels including SAT "Money" and "London Fields" and collections of journalism SAT and essays. SAT SAT But the real life of Martin Amis has prompted as many SAT headlines as his fiction. With stories about his earnings, SAT his teeth, and more recently his views on Islam and elderly SAT people, his name has regularly appeared in the papers and SAT his opinions have often been controversial. SAT SAT In the first of a new series of "Meeting Myself Coming SAT Back", Martin Amis hears clips from key moments in his life SAT and discusses his reaction to them with John Wilson. In an SAT honest and penetrating look back at his career, he discusses SAT his achievements and his mistakes. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 The Stuarts b036tqpv (Listen) SAT This War Without an Enemy SAT SAT by Mike Walker. Charles I's best qualities come to the fore SAT only in defeat, when there are no more decisions to take but SAT only courage and calm to see him through. Only in this SAT moment of perfect stillness can he begin to understand what SAT has brought him here. SAT SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole & Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Sound design by Colin Guthrie SAT SAT Production co-ordinator: Selina Ream SAT Studio managers: Martha Littlehailes, Alison Craig. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT King Charles I: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Strafford: Anton Lesser SAT John Pym: Vincent Franklin SAT Henrietta Maria: Vanessa Kirby SAT Cromwell: Ben Crowe SAT Prince Rupert: Iain Batchelor SAT Hyde: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Thomas: Matthew Watson SAT Hudson: Sean Murray SAT Leven: David Seddon SAT Trooper: Paul Stonehouse SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Producer: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b036vw0m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b036vvrn (Listen) SAT The Morality of Place SAT SAT This week the Moral Maze asks "are mixed communities a moral SAT good?" With the government rolling out its benefits cap and SAT a study claiming that high rents mean a third of Britain is SAT effectively off-limits to lower-income working families, SAT some campaigners are arguing that the less well-off are the SAT victims of social cleansing. It's argued the lack of SAT affordable housing means that large parts of the country, SAT especially London, are being turned in to homogenised gated SAT communities reserved for the well off and where the poor are SAT welcome to work, but not to live. Does that really matter? SAT Should we let the free market solve these problems, or use SAT planning laws to make sure property developers build social SAT housing alongside more expensive homes? Should the tax and SAT benefits system be used not just to make sure that people SAT have a roof over their heads, but also to shape the social SAT make up of our communities and nation? Are pluralist, SAT socially diverse communities inherently better - a sign that SAT we're a healthier, tolerant, more democratic society? Or SAT have we for too long been beguiled by the dream of a melting SAT pot? And not only is it human nature to want to live in a SAT community with people who have the same kind of background, SAT values and aspirations, but those communities also create SAT virtues such as neighbourliness, trust and social SAT solidarity. By trying to create more diverse and integrated SAT communities are we undermining the strong social ties that SAT create truly cohesive communities? Combative, provocative SAT and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael SAT Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Giles Fraser and Matthew Taylor. SAT Witnesses: David Goodhart - Director of think tank Demos, SAT Professor Jane Wills - Department of Geography and The City SAT Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Philip Booth - SAT Editorial and Programme Director at the Institute of SAT Economic Affairs and Ruth Davison - Director of Policy at SAT National Housing Federation. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b036twt1 (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 11 SAT SAT (11/13) SAT Paul Gambaccini hosts the second semi-final of the SAT wide-ranging music quiz, with three more competitors who've SAT come through the heats stage and now stand a chance of SAT gaining a place in the Final at the end of July. SAT SAT This week's semi-finalists are from London, Glasgow and SAT Cardiff, and they'll face questions on the widest possible SAT range of musical styles and performers. From operas based on SAT Classical mythology, to the movie themes of Bernard Herrmann SAT - and plenty of points in between. SAT SAT There are musical extracts to identify, some familiar, some SAT surprising - and no shortage of anecdotes, as Paul SAT Gambaccini welcomes a lively audience to the BBC Radio SAT Theatre in London. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT CONTESTANTS IN SEMI-FINAL 2 SAT SAT WILSON BAIN, a volunteer with the RNIB, from Glasgow; SAT SAT BOB DEL QUIARO, a journalist from South London; SAT SAT GEOFF TRINICK, a retired civil servant from Cardiff. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b036tqpz (Listen) SAT An Ark of Animal Poems SAT SAT Roger McGough takes a new job as Noah at the helm of an ark SAT of animal poems. A back to nature edition of poetry requests SAT with poems from Alice Oswald, Simon Armitage, Michael Symons SAT Roberts and James Lasdun. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Producer: Tim Dee SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 JULY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0371wn5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b014qt0b (Listen) SUN Face It, Confirm/Ignore SUN SUN The third of three short story commissions on the theme of SUN social networking. SUN SUN Confirm/Ignore, by Nikesh Shukla, is a moving story about SUN coping with grief in the age of social media. SUN SUN Read by Nikesh Shukla SUN SUN Produced by Robert Howells SUN SUN Nikesh Shukla is a London-based author and poet. His first SUN book, 'Coconut Unlimited' was shortlisted for the Costa SUN First Book Award 2010. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Nikesh Shukla SUN Reader: Nikesh Shukla SUN Producer: Robert Howells SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0371wn7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0371wn9 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0371wnc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0371wnf (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0372v85 (Listen) SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0372cth (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0371wnh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0372v87 (Listen) SUN Desire SUN SUN Sarah Cuddon reflects on the nature of desire - full of SUN passion, ambition, creativity and, potentially, danger. SUN SUN She draws on the writings of Sharon Olds, Marie Colvin and SUN Gwendolyn Brooks; the music of Edith Piaf, Felix Mendelssohn SUN and Sweet Honey in the Rock and she talks to 90 year old SUN Josephine about the undimmed power of her desires. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0372v89 (Listen) SUN The race is on to harvest the perfect pea. On average, SUN everyone in Britain eats about 9,000 peas a year - and SUN farmers have just 150 minutes to get them from the field to SUN the freezer. SUN SUN At this time of year, the harvesters are working around the SUN clock to make sure no quality is lost between the field SUN fresh vegetable and the frozen pea we buy from the shops SUN months later. SUN SUN In this edition of On Your Farm, Sybil Ruscoe meets the team SUN at Fen Peas in Lincolnshire, a producer organisation growing SUN around 5,200 acres of peas. With their 82 farmers, they have SUN to manage this operation with military precision. SUN SUN Sybil learns about every stage of the process - from the SUN staff pinpointing the exact time the pea is perfect, to the SUN trucks winding their way down rural roads towards the blast SUN freezer at nearby processors in Boston. SUN SUN With just two and half hours, will they make it? Start the SUN clock! SUN SUN Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Angela Frain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0371wnk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0371wnm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0372v8c (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0372v8f (Listen) SUN The Cambodia Trust SUN SUN Chris Moon, motivational speaker, amputee ultra distance SUN athlete and former landmine clearance specialist, SUN presents the Radio 4 Appeal for The Cambodia Trust SUN Reg Charity:1032476 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN The Cambodia Trust. SUN SUN The Cambodia Trust SUN SUN The Cambodia Trust, established as a reaction to the SUN terrible legacy of landmines in Cambodia, is now the world’s SUN leader in the training of Prosthetists (those who fit SUN artificial legs) and Orthotists (those who fit supports and SUN corrective devices). The knowledge and expertise developed SUN in Cambodia is now being applied across the region, in SUN Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Myanmar, to impact the SUN lives of those with disabilities. SUN Working with local partners and Governments, we bring free SUN and functional prosthetic and orthotic services to the SUN Southeast Asia region. We do this through providing SUN professional training schools, quality rehabilitation SUN services, small business support and by facilitating access SUN to education and employment. SUN The work of The Cambodia Trust opens up a whole new world of SUN opportunities for persons with disabilities: Opportunities SUN for education and employment and opportunities to SUN participate in the life of the community. Even more than SUN that, our work restores dignity and hope to people who are SUN often rejected by society. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0371wnp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0371wnt (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b037524k (Listen) SUN The Sound of Salvation SUN SUN Canon Chris Chivers and the Revd Ian Browne explore the SUN power of music to express the sound of salvation in a SUN service during the Organists' course of the Oundle SUN International Festival with the Choir of Jesus College SUN Cambridge and the Festival Chorus directed by Mark Williams SUN and James Lloyd Thomas. Organist: Robert Quinney. Producer: SUN Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b036wgjg (Listen) SUN A Big Day for Bert and Ernie? SUN SUN The recent New Yorker cover showing Sesame Street's Bert and SUN Ernie as a gay couple, delighted by the American Supreme SUN Court ruling that the Defence of Marriage Act is SUN unconstitutional, prompts Sarah Dunant to reflect on the SUN power of cartoons to convey social messages. SUN "Those cartoon characters - or their puppet equivalents - SUN which touch us at our most formative moments of early SUN childhood will become part of the bedrock of our cultural SUN belonging." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b02twnw4 (Listen) SUN Herring Gull SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve SUN Backshall presents the herring gull. SUN SUN Herring gulls now regularly breed inland and that's because SUN of the way we deal with our refuse. Since the Clean Air Acts SUN of 1956 banned the burning of refuse at rubbish tips, the SUN birds have been able to cash in on the food that we reject: SUN And our throwaway society has provided them a varied menu. SUN We've also built reservoirs around our towns on which they SUN roost, and we've provided them with flat roofs which make SUN perfect nest sites. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b037524m (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b037524p (Listen) SUN Lilian hears an unpalatable truth, and Helen's in positive SUN mood. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer: Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Moira: Philippa Stanton SUN Anthea: Joanna Brookes SUN Director: Dawn Coulson SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b037524r (Listen) SUN Russell Brand SUN SUN Russell Brand, comedian & actor, is interviewed by Kirsty SUN Young for Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN Actor, comic, writer, Russell Brand is a compelling cultural SUN phenomenon who in 2006 was, in his own words, "plucked from SUN a life of hard drugs and petty crime and rocketed into the SUN snugly carcinogenic glare of celebrity." SUN SUN Along with an athletic wit and a florid turn of phrase he SUN specialises in going too far - reckless acts of SUN self-destruction and a degree of chaos seem to be his SUN companions along life's winding path. It's been five years SUN since he rocked the foundations of the BBC with what became SUN known as the Ross Brand scandal. He's since gone on to SUN international success with a movie career, best-selling SUN books and all the trappings of life on the "A" list. SUN SUN His most recent notable appearances have included testifying SUN to a Parliamentary Select Committee on the importance of SUN funding for drugs rehabilitation programmes and an SUN appearance as a panellist on Question Time. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b036twt9 (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit SUN to the Winding Wheel Theatre in Chesterfield. Regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Miles Jupp, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN provides piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b037524t (Listen) SUN Rethinking Veganism SUN SUN The word 'vegan' has for the nearly seventy years of its SUN existence - represented a diet and a way of eating that has SUN not captured hearts - or stomachs - beyond a small, SUN dedicated group of people calling themselves vegan. SUN SUN In this edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon hears SUN from two influential and meat-loving food writers, Mark SUN Bittman and Alex Renton, who have found themselves looking SUN again at a vegan plant-based diet. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon joins in at a Vegan Potluck and discovers a SUN new chain of German vegan supermarkets and asks if there is SUN a wider shift in attitudes towards veganism underway. SUN SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0371wnw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b037524w (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 Under Attack: The Threat from Cyberspace b036twth (Listen) SUN Warfare SUN SUN The last of three programmes about the virtual world where SUN they steal, spy and wage war. The British government SUN recently declared that one of the greatest threats to SUN national security emanates from cyberspace. Hostile nation SUN states are conducting a war over the internet, while Western SUN companies face the wholesale plundering of their economic SUN life-blood. There is increasing tension as China and the SUN United States square up to each other, while North Korea and SUN Iran are both thought to have launched attacks. SUN BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera reports from SUN London, Washington and Beijing. He talks to those who are SUN holding the line, including top intelligence officials, SUN political leaders and the heads of some of the world's SUN largest companies which stand to lose millions from the SUN theft of their intellectual property. "Britain is under SUN attack," says Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague. SUN "Most countries are under attack and certainly many SUN industries and businesses are under attack." Who is SUN responsible and where will it end? SUN Producer: Mark Savage. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b036wg05 (Listen) SUN Staffordshire SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts this week's episode of Gardeners' Question SUN Time in Staffordshire. Answering the audience's questions on SUN gardening are panelists Matt Biggs, Christina Walkden and SUN Chris Beardshaw. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b037524y (Listen) SUN Haile Selassie visits Jamaica SUN SUN In 1966, Haile Selassie the Emperor of Ethiopia made his SUN first and only visit to Jamaica - home of the Rastafari SUN movement which revered him. Alex Last has been speaking to SUN two Jamaicans who witnessed his historic arrival. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0375250 (Listen) SUN Desolation Island, Episode 1 SUN SUN 1 / 2. By Patrick O'Brian. August, 1811. Jack Aubrey sets SUN sail for Australia in his new command, HMS Leopard. His SUN mission - to transport a group of convicts to Botany Bay, SUN including a woman, Louisa Wogan, who has been spying for the SUN Americans. Stephen Maturin joins Jack once again as ship's SUN surgeon - but his real mission is to watch Mrs Wogan. When a SUN fever breaks out among the prisoners and crew, Jack decides SUN to head for Recife - but he is pursued through the South SUN Atlantic by a powerful Dutch warship. Dramatised by Roger SUN Danes. SUN SUN Other parts played by the cast. SUN Producer/director: Bruce Young. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jack Aubrey: David Robb SUN Stephen Maturin: Richard Dillane SUN Louisa Wogan: Teresa Gallagher SUN Michael Herapath: Samuel Barnett SUN Lt Pullings: David Holt SUN Barratt Bonden: Sam Dale SUN Preserved Killick: Jon Glover SUN Lt Grant: Jonathan Tafler SUN Byron: Nick Underwood SUN Sir Joseph Blaine: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Peggy Barnes: Hannah Wood SUN Josiah Plaice: Lloyd Thomas SUN Director: Bruce Young SUN Producer: Bruce Young SUN Adaptor: Roger Danes SUN Writer: Patrick O'Brian SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0375252 (Listen) SUN Summer in literature; Rilla Askew on Kind of Kin; David SUN Mitchell SUN SUN Summer in English Literature has appeared in many guises and SUN inspired a multitude of authors in myriad ways, from P.G. SUN Wodehouse's description of a genteel countryside slumbering SUN during a summer afternoon, the promise of a new life and the SUN bounty of the British season in Charles Dickens' Oliver SUN Twist, to the lethargy of an American town in the deep South SUN in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. In this return to our SUN 'writing the seasons' feature Mariella Frostrup discusses SUN how summer has been reflected in literature with novelists SUN Horatio Clare and Justin Cartwright. SUN SUN Novelist Rilla Askew has imagined the everyday impact on SUN small communities and individuals of big events from the SUN Tulsa Race Riots in her American Book Award winning Fire in SUN Beulah to the disaster of the Dustbowl migrations through SUN the eyes of a love-struck young couple in Harpsong. The SUN common denominator in much of Rilla's writing, alongside SUN those themes, is her home state of Oklahoma, the setting for SUN so many tipping points in American history. She explains why SUN she chose the controversial immigration laws of 2007 as the SUN topic of her latest book Kind of Kin. SUN SUN Two times Booker shortlisted novelist David Mitchell, author SUN of the likes of Cloud Atlas and Numbers9Dream is the next SUN author to share with us the book he would never lend. David SUN has turned to early 20th century America for his treasured SUN tome - The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange SUN b0375254 (Listen) SUN Karen Leeder is fascinated by one of the great modernist SUN works of literature of 1922; not James Joyce's 'Ulysses', SUN published in February, nor 'The Waste Land' by T. S. Eliot, SUN but Maria Rainer Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus'. SUN SUN After a lifetime wandering about Europe Rilke was at last SUN able to settle when his patron, Werner Reinhart, bought the SUN Château de Muzot in the Swiss Valais so that he could live SUN there, and write. His aim was to complete his monumental SUN work,'The Duino Elegies'. But this plan was interrupted in SUN February when, 'completely unexpected' the 'Sonnets to SUN Orpheus' broke upon him'. Within three weeks he had SUN completed 55 poems, of great variety, but all sonnets. SUN SUN Rilke didn't like English and never visited Britain. Yet the SUN 'Sonnets to Orpheus' have fascinated English language SUN readers and writers ever since they appeared. There have SUN been translations every decade, the most recent, by Martyn SUN Crucefix, published in last year. Don Paterson's 'Orpheus', SUN which he calls versions, rather than translations of the SUN sonnets, is considered the finest work this very good poet SUN has so far produced. SUN SUN Karen Leeder talks to both writers, and the German scholar SUN and poet Rüdiger Görner, teasing out the major issues they SUN address; death, love and, the creation and role of poetry - SUN for Rilke a song of praise for life, and even death, in a SUN creation without God, through which meaning is accomplished. SUN SUN Karen, who is the Professor of German at Oxford University, SUN and one of the editors of 'The Cambridge Companion to Rilke' SUN visits the Château de Muzot. With Nanni Reinhart, who lives SUN there now, she considers the impact of the place of their SUN composition on the poems. Leading us through the nuances of SUN their meaning, she alerts us to the beauty and power of SUN Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus'. SUN SUN “There upped a tree.” The view from Rilke’s writing desk SUN SUN The Chateau de Muzot where Rilke lived and wrote the SUN ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ SUN SUN Rilke said that after writing he would walk around the SUN tower, stroking it as if it were a live animal SUN SUN Karen Leeder (left) interviewing Nanni Reinhart, of the SUN family which bought Muzot for Rilke, and who lives there now SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b036v9hj (Listen) SUN Tobacco: The Lobbyists SUN SUN Last week, the Government dropped plans to introduce plain SUN packaging for cigarettes in England. It said it wanted to SUN wait and see what happens in Australia where the measure was SUN introduced earlier this year. SUN Labour and health campaigners accused the Government of SUN caving in to the tobacco lobby. A claim it has denied. SUN In Europe, too, MEPs are considering a new law aimed at SUN deterring young people from smoking. The Tobacco Products SUN Directive proposes, among other things, a ban on flavoured SUN cigarettes and increasing the size of health warnings. SUN Jane Deith travels to Brussels and hears claims and SUN counter-claims: of questionable tactics by the tobacco SUN industry and from tobacco lobbyists who say their actions SUN are above board and they have the right to protect their SUN companies' interests. SUN And she also talks to the main players in an alleged SUN corruption scandal which some say could have brought down SUN the European Commission itself. SUN Reporter: Jane Deith SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0372cth (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0371wpb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0371wpf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0371wph (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0375257 (Listen) SUN Shari Vahl's Pick of the Week SUN SUN This week we hear the fascinating and appalling result of SUN total memory loss and how one man's suffering benefitted SUN science. The agonies faced by Central American migrants SUN travelling on a train known for good reason as... the Beast. SUN The humorous bits of heart failure... and why a wee wee SUN could help you say oui...Amongst purring frogs, talking SUN dogs, and lessons on conversing with aliens - we hear a SUN brand new use for duct tape and what you'll need if you want SUN to push a potato out of a cow... SUN SUN Programmes featured this week: SUN SUN A Guide to Garden Wildlife - ponds - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week - Permanent Present Tense ep 2 - Radio 4 SUN When I Lost You - Radio 4 SUN BBC Proms 2013 - Monday - Mahler's 5th Symphony - Radio 3 SUN Richard Tyrone's Big Heart - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - Monday - World Service SUN Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear - Radio 4 SUN Dog Days ep 2 - Flush - Radio 4 SUN The Twelve Bar Blues - Radio 4 SUN PM - Wednesday - Radio 4 SUN Word of Mouth - How do you talk to an alien? - Radio 4 SUN You and Yours - Thursday - Radio 4 SUN Open Country - Radio 4 SUN Heart and Soul - Through the Valley of Death - World Service SUN Private Passions - Lord Sacks - Radio 3 SUN SUN Produced by Louise Clarke. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0375259 (Listen) SUN Kenton's flying high, and Jazzer looks the part. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN SUN 19:15 Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart b037525c (Listen) SUN Of Coke Dealers and Cardioverters SUN SUN Series Title: Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart SUN Programme/episode title: Of Coke Dealers and Cardioverters SUN SUN Richard Tyrone Jones, healthy, gym-going poet, man about SUN town and aspirant womaniser, finds himself, on his thirtieth SUN birthday, stricken by an unexpected present: heart failure. SUN Confined to hospital with a a dilated, literally-big heart, SUN surrounded by old men, stuck on drugs and drips and forced SUN to cope with curious medical procedures and even curiouser SUN fellow patients, will he die, or worse, be doomed to life in SUN a mobility scooter at home with his parents in Dudley? SUN SUN Based on Richard's Wellcome Trust supported solo show each SUN episode illuminates a different aspect of the experience of SUN illness and facing your own mortality. Half-way between a SUN sitcom and real-life storytelling, Richard will explain some SUN of his illness's progression through direct address and his SUN own poems. SUN SUN Richard Tyrone Jones is a poet and writer and director of SUN spoken word at the Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe. SUN SUN It was written by Richard Tyrone Jones SUN With additional material by Michael Mixy Riccardi SUN SUN Studio engineer and editor - Matt Katz SUN SUN Produced by Nick Walker SUN A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Opening Lines b037525f (Listen) SUN Series 15, The Underwater Cathedral SUN SUN A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging SUN short story writers their radio debut. SUN SUN In this beguiling tale about exploration and humankind's SUN desire to conquer the natural world, a young man answers the SUN siren call of the sea and pushes his body to extremes. SUN SUN Read by Stuart McLoughlin SUN Produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN Originally from Sweden, Martin Cathcart Froden has lived in SUN Canada, Israel, Argentina and London and worked as a SUN drummer, avocado picker, sound engineer, greengrocer and SUN magazine editor. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport SUN Prize and longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize. He's SUN about to start a Masters in Creative Writing in Glasgow, SUN where he lives with his wife and two young children. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b036wg0c (Listen) SUN This week the BBC announced that the Today programme is to SUN get a new presenter - a female one. Mishal Husain will join SUN the Today line-up in the Autumn and, along with Sarah SUN Montague, will take the ratio from 1 in 5 female to male SUN presenters, to 2 in 6. Feedback listeners welcome the SUN announcement. SUN SUN But it's not all jubilation. We hear reaction to the BBC's SUN Annual Report. Some of it made for "grim reading" according SUN to the DG Lord Hall. £5 million spent on three separate SUN inquiries into the Jimmy Savile scandal, as well as £25 SUN million paid out in severance payments, and £98 million lost SUN on the failed Digital Media Initiative. SUN SUN Roger Bolton speaks to Lord Hennessy and asks whether his SUN new Radio 4 series 'Reflections' is a bit too soft on his SUN political interviewees. We explore the art of the political SUN interview with a man who's met them all. SUN SUN And as outraged comments about The Archers' Matt and Lilian SUN story that was only broadcast digitally continue to fill our SUN postbag, we ask the boss of Digital Radio UK how easy and SUN widespread digital listening really is. SUN SUN Finally - Operation Drop-out returns! It's time, once again, SUN to call on the good men and women who so diligently wrote to SUN us last year with their examples of interviews where dropped SUN telephone lines, sub-standard digital connections, and SUN woeful mobiles had disrupted their listening pleasure. SUN Listeners spotted some telephonic trouble in the Today SUN studio this week - but are Today the only culprits? We'll be SUN putting questions to the technology department soon so SUN consider yourself conscripted for the cause. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b036wg09 (Listen) SUN A footballer, a Scottish nationalist, painter, an SUN evolutionary theorist, a Liberal activist and a TV producer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Bert Trautmann, the former German prisoner of war who became SUN a celebrated goalkeeper for Manchester City Football Club. SUN He famously broke his neck in the 1956 FA Cup Final, but SUN kept on playing. Bob Wilson pays tribute. SUN SUN Kay Matheson. In 1950 with three others, she took part in a SUN raid on Westminster Abbey to "liberate" the Stone of Scone SUN on which Scottish kings were crowned and take it North of SUN the border. We hear from one of her accomplices. SUN SUN Elaine Morgan whose book "The Descent of Woman" became an SUN important text for the feminist movement. SUN SUN Lord Chitnis who was an effective backroom organiser for the SUN Liberal Party. Lord Steel pays tribute. SUN SUN And Ray Butt the TV comedy producer who made Only Fools and SUN Horses and many other hit shows. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b01smkpw (Listen) SUN Safety on the Line? SUN SUN John Waite investigates how a culture of rule-breaking and SUN corner-cutting has crept into contractors carrying out work SUN for Network Rail. Many contractors now rely on labour SUN agencies for manpower, and railway workers reveal their SUN concerns at the short notice of shifts they often receive SUN and the long distances they sometimes travel before starting SUN work. They describe how they are expected to work without SUN rest breaks, ignore rules on shift length, and why they do SUN not report safety incidents for fear of being blacklisted. SUN John meets the mother of Scott Dobson, a 26 year old railway SUN worker who was killed in an accident near Saxilby in SUN December 2012. He finds evidence that the contractor now SUN under investigation has a history of breaking safety rules SUN and how before the accident it had been warned by the SUN regulator to improve. SUN SUN Presenter: John Waite SUN Producer: Richard Hooper SUN Editor: Andrew Smith. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0372v8f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b036twtk (Listen) SUN Scottish Nationalism: from Protest to Power SUN SUN Just what does the Scottish National Party want? And what SUN could it mean for the UK? SUN SUN Douglas Fraser investigates the SNP's long search for an SUN independence vision that works. He talks to insiders about SUN the party's turbulent past, torn, as one leader put it, SUN between 'Jacobites and Jacobins'. How has the party tried to SUN build a vision of Scottish identity that keeps pace with SUN social change? Does it aim to preserve the old British SUN welfare state, or try something different? What do its plans SUN for continued close links with the rest of the UK mean for SUN its vision of a separate Scotland? SUN SUN Scotland may be diverging more and more from England, SUN whatever happens in next year's independence referendum. SUN With that vote fast approaching, where this debate is SUN heading matters for everyone in the UK. The SNP's journey SUN reveals much about this important change. SUN SUN Presenter: Douglas Fraser SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Innes Bowen. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b037525h (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 b037525k (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b036w39s (Listen) SUN The World's End; Mark Gatiss On the Buses; Breathe In; Hans SUN Zimmer SUN SUN Matthew Sweet talks dangerous nostalgia with Edgar Wright, SUN director of the comedy The World's End. Starring Simon Pegg SUN and Nick Frost, the plot follows the group of friends as SUN they return to their home town to complete a pub crawl from SUN their youth. Their mission is thrown off course by aliens. SUN Edgar Wright reveals an autobiographical bent to the tale. SUN The Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer has written scores SUN for countless films from The Lion King to Driving Miss Daisy SUN to Gladiator. He describes the moment he got his big break, SUN composing the music for Rain Man. SUN Felicity Jones and director Drake Doremus are back with a SUN new film Breathe In, about an English exchange student whose SUN arrival in upstate New York throws the perfect lives of her SUN host family into chaos. The pair previously made Like Crazy SUN together and explain their love of improvisation and SUN risk-taking with performance. SUN Mark Gatiss is also dabbling in nostalgia. As part of his SUN series on 70s sitcom cinema spin offs, he looks back at SUN Holiday On The Buses, a distinctly uncomfortable watch. SUN And on the Film Programme website, White Elephant. Newly SUN released on dvd, this film explores the lives of priests SUN working in the slums of Buenos Aires. The director Pablo SUN Trapero describes working in these areas as a teenager and SUN how this inspired his latest film. Its release proved timely SUN as the new Pope had also worked in the slums and granted the SUN film crew permission to approach the priests there when SUN making this feature. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0372v87 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 JULY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0371wqj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b036vvr8 (Listen) MON Raising Middle-Class Black Children; Neon MON MON Neon - Laurie Taylor discusses a history of the flickering MON light which illuminated the modern world. Professor of MON American Studies, Christoph Ribbat, charts the rise and fall MON of neon. From seedy back alleys to gaudy Las Vegas, its MON blinking presence has electrified the contemporary city. So MON why did the theorist, Theodor Adorno, so despise these MON glowing tubes? How did neon become such a recurrent metaphor MON for modernity in popular culture, ranging from the writings MON of Vladimir Nabokov to the art of Tracy Emin? And why has MON the gas which once lit up our lives begun to fade into MON oblivion? They're joined by the cultural critic, Matthew MON Sweet. MON MON Also, the first dedicated UK study of black Caribbean MON middle-class families, and their strategies and priorities MON in relation to their children's education. The role of MON 'extra-curricular' activities in the process by which black MON middle-class parents seek to raise and develop their MON children. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0372v85 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0371wql (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0371wqn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0371wqq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0371wqs (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03754hm (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03754hp (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0371wqv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02txxkl (Listen) MON Dotterel MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve MON Backshall presents the dotterel. MON MON Dotterels are waders, rather like small plovers with a broad MON white-eye stripe. In the UK, they're almost confined as MON breeding birds to the Scottish Highlands. They don't tend to MON fly away when approached which led our ancestors to believe MON that they are stupid. "Dotterel" derives from the same MON source as "dotard" and this tameness meant that the birds MON were easy prey for Victorian collectors. MON MON 06:00 Today b03754hr (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Privacy Under Pressure b03757ck (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON 2/3 Continuing his series on the state of privacy in Britain MON today, Steve Hewlett looks at whether the UK is becoming MON more and more of a surveillance society, and the questions MON this raises. MON MON We are used to being photographed in public places by the MON many CCTV cameras across the country, for which there is a MON high degree of public support. But how, in future, might MON people feel about being recorded by a tiny camera in MON someone's glasses, or by a drone high up in the sky? MON MON And will technological developments render all these images MON storable, searchable, and even personally identifiable, as MON face recognition technology improves? MON MON What could be the impact of networks of tiny sensors in MON homes and workplaces which are likely to become increasingly MON common, bringing benefits of convenience, but also capable MON of gathering information? MON MON And are the internet giants holding back on details of this MON for fear that the public will feel the technology "is over MON the freaky line"? MON MON Producer: Jane Ashley. MON MON 09:30 A Guide to Garden Wildlife b03757cm (Listen) MON Hedges MON MON Ever wondered what causes the semi-circular holes in your MON rose bushes, and what is it that raids the honeysuckle for MON nectar? Well the answers to these garden mysteries are MON revealed when Brett Westwood is joined by naturalist Phil MON Gates in a garden near Bristol and with the help of MON recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson and MON Geoff Sample, they offer a practical and entertaining guide MON to the wildlife which you're most likely to see and hear in MON a garden hedge. Hedgerows provide food, shelter and nesting MON sites for birds, climbing frames for plants and food for MON insects. Male wrens build multiple nests (often in hedges) MON and the female then selects one in which to lay her eggs. MON Wrens are also notable for their song; it's a very loud MON explosive song for such a small bird "The whole bird seems MON to vibrate". Brett and Phil then turn their attention from MON song to scent; and to the honeysuckle which grows in this MON garden around the porch, but is often entwined in hedges and MON likely to attract the lovely Twenty-plume Moth - so called MON because "their wings look like beautiful Chinese fans ... MON and each wing is divided into what look like little MON feathers", and although its called the Twenty-plume Moth, it MON actually has 24 plumes, six on each of the four wings; a MON really exquisite moth. They also look for signs of MON leafcutter bees, before finally discussing hedgehogs, the MON ardent adventures of one particular male in Phil's garden, MON their extraordinarily noisy courtship, and the importance of MON hedges as highways and corridors between gardens. MON MON PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03757cp (Listen) MON 1913, Episode 1 MON MON In Paris, Proust sets out in search of lost time in a MON sound-proofed study, Stravinsky creates musical mayhem, and MON Duchamp finds a wheel; in Prague, Einstein yearns for Elsa MON and Kafka for Felice; in Munich, Lulu is banned, and Münter MON captures her Klee; in Vienna, Freud falls out with Jung, and MON Stalin and Hitler stroll, and maybe meet, in the grounds of MON a palace. MON MON This is Europe in 1913 - the year before the storm. Florian MON Illies captures a world on the edge of a cataclysm, in which MON armies are enlarged and and nationalistic lines are drawn. MON MON But Illies' snapshots are of a Europe, though laden with MON premonition, that is still vibrant and creative. The MON Futurists, Fauvists and Expressionists are redefining art; MON Proust and Joyce are reshaping literature; Freud and Jung MON are battling their way through the subconscious; Stravinsky MON has tapped a primative nerve in music; and Einstein is, MON well, Einstein. MON MON The anecdotes and observations embrace Picasso, Braque, the MON Mona Lisa (mostly missing), Thomas Mann, Duchamp, Franz MON Ferdinand, Kirchner, Klee, Klimt, Kandinsky, Kafka, MON Wedekind, Einstein, King George V, Stalin, Hitler, Redl, MON Machu Picchu, Münter and many more. MON MON Florian Illies trained as an art historian at Bonn and MON Oxford. He was editor of FAZ's 'Berliner Seiten' and the MON arts section of 'Die Ziet', and he co-founded the arts MON magazine 'Monopol'. He is currently a managing partner at MON the fine art auction house Villa Grisebach in Berlin. 1913: MON The Year Before The Storm has so far sold over 200,000 MON copies in Germany. MON MON Writer: Florian Illies MON Translators: Shaun Whiteside and Jamie Lee Searle MON MON Reader: Michael Maloney MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03757cr (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Online pornography MON MON An update on tackling the availability of pornography MON online. MON MON Osteoporosis MON MON It’s estimated that 3 million people in the UK have MON osteoporosis and there are roughly 300,000 fragility MON fractures a year. But although bone loss occurs naturally in MON everyone as they get older, broken bones MON because of osteoporosis are not an inevitable part of MON ageing. So what can be MON done to prevent and treat them? Jane is joined by Dr MON Richard Keen, consultant rheumatologist and specialist in MON osteoporosis, and by Jean Duggleby, who suffered five MON fractures over ten years before she was diagnosed with the MON condition. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03757ct (Listen) MON Good News, Episode 1 MON MON by Melissa Murray. MON MON Part 1 MON MON The first in a new 5 part series. Following a serious MON misdiagnosis, Adrienne is forced to confront some unexpected MON issues. MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON Credits MON Adrienne: Rosie Cavaliero MON Mal: Neil Dudgeon MON Fred: Aimee-Ffion Edwards MON Louise: Christine Absalom MON Doctor: Nicholas Murchie MON Cashier: Hannah Wood MON Robot: Ben Crowe MON Barman: Michael Shelford MON Mary: Philippa Stanton MON Alan: Robert Blythe MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Producer: Marc Beeby MON Writer: Melissa Murray MON MON 11:00 Postcode Profiling: Winners and Losers b03757cw (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Aasmah Mir looks at how postcode profiling affects our MON lives, by visiting what new profiling research suggests is MON the least affluent place in the UK, and asking local people MON what they think about that. MON MON This is new research from one of the largest providers of MON postcode profiling, which classifies all postcodes into MON neighbourhood types, which can then be used by commercial MON companies for marketing purposes or by the public sector. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b03757cy (Listen) MON Series 2, The X Father MON MON Births, Deaths and Marriages - returning for a second series MON - is the sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office MON where the staff deal with the three greatest events in MON anybody's life. MON MON Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan MON Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a MON stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any MON wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health MON and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? MON He's married thousands of women. MON MON Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been MON parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and MON Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just MON about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit MON in our new age of austerity. MON MON There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried MON he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may MON get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the MON only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. MON MON In the second episode, X-Factor voice-over man Peter Dickson MON comes into the office to register the death of his father. MON But Malcolm's the only one who's never heard of him. Or the MON show. Lorna wants to beat her rivals in Parking in the MON annual talent contest, while everyone else is trying to cope MON with Jackie, the work experience girl from hell. MON MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Writer: David Schneider MON Malcolm: David Schneider MON Lorna: Sarah Hadland MON Anita: Sandy McDade MON Luke: Russell Tovey MON Mary: Sally Bretton MON Himself: Peter Dickson MON Jackie: Melanie Hudson MON Groom: Lewis Macleod MON Old man: Lewis Macleod MON MC: Lewis Macleod MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03757d0 (Listen) MON Jessops stores eight months on, Scottish stamp duty MON scrapped, heatwave winners MON MON Exclusive research by You & Yours reveals what's happened to MON the 187 Jessops stores that closed earlier this year. We MON hear from new lease holders who've opened up in their place MON and look at the stores that are still vacant. MON MON Disabled people are turning in desperation to high-cost MON loans and sometimes illegal lenders to pay bills and make MON ends meet. Stamp duty in Scotland is being replaced by a new MON land tax after the Scottish Parliament take control of more MON of their state finances. MON MON The BBC has confirmed it will stop broadcasting in 3D after MON a 2 year project with the format flopped - what about those MON with 3D TV's? We hear from the O'Boyle family after their MON weekend at the Latitude Festival in Sussex. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Simon Browning. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0371wqx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03757d2 (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 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b0375byp (Listen) MON The Beginnings of the Modern Office MON MON Programme 1: The Beginnings of the Modern Office MON MON Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of MON today's corporate culture MON MON In today's Britain, more of us spend more time at an office MON than ever before. It dominates our lives. It's made more of MON us middle class, transformed the lot of women, raised MON standards in education and been the reason for many MON technological advances. MON MON But the office itself seems to have no history. We accept MON without question the way we work now. We endure the charade MON of the annual appraisal. We gawp at endless PowerPoint MON presentations in interminable meetings. We work in open plan MON offices where we can overhear our colleagues phone calls to MON their plumber. That's how things are done. But why? MON MON For the last twenty years, writer Lucy Kellaway has been an MON observer of the peculiarities of corporate culture in her MON column for the Financial Times. In this series, she looks MON back at the history of office life. How did it end up like MON this? MON MON Part 1 of 10: MON MON Lucy looks at essayist Charles Lamb's account of life at the MON East India Company in the early 1800s. MON MON From its headquarters in Leadenhall street in the city of MON London, the East India Company created a complex bureaucracy MON to enable the governing of empire. Charles Lamb worked there MON for over thirty years and left a rich account of the MON frustrations and consolations of office life. With Huw Bowen MON of Swansea University. MON MON Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry MON Shale MON Historical Consultant: Michael Heller MON MON Producer: Russell Finch MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0375259 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0375byr (Listen) MON Irongate MON MON James Fleet and Emma Fielding star in Nick Warburton's MON two-hander play about love and loss. A woman walks once a MON year along the Thames, from Kew to Tower Bridge. Why? MON MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Nick Warburton MON Laura: Emma Fielding MON Teal: James Fleet MON Producer: Peter Kavanagh MON Director: Peter Kavanagh MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b0375byt (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 12 MON MON Paul Gambaccini welcomes the last of this year's MON Counterpoint semi-finalists to the BBC Radio Theatre, for MON the contest that will decide which of them appears in the MON 2013 Final. MON MON At stake is a real chance to lift the silver trophy as the MON 27th Counterpoint champion. This week's semi-finalists are MON from Cheltenham, Bury St Edmunds and Debden in Essex. MON MON To make it through to the Final they'll have to draw on the MON widest possible musical knowledge, from Wagner and Beethoven MON to Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. As always there are MON plenty of musical extracts to identify, both familiar and MON surprising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b037524t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b0375byw (Listen) MON Hannah Gordon MON MON Actress Hannah Gordon chooses her favourite readings, MON including poems by Joyce Grenfell, Noel Coward and Wendy MON Cope. There's Hannah's party piece, Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 MON 'Shall I compare the to a summer's day?' and a sparkling MON extract from 'Shirley Valentine'. MON MON Recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre with readers Michael MON Pennington and Eleanor Bron. MON MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0375byy (Listen) MON Series 8, Alfred Russel Wallace MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince discuss the life and works of MON Alfred Russel Wallace, the lesser known co-founder of the MON theory of evolution by natural selection. They are joined on MON stage by biologists Steve Jones and Aoife McLysaght and MON comedian Tony Law to ask whether Wallace is the great unsung MON hero of biology and why it was Darwin who seems to have MON walked away with all the glory. MON MON 17:00 PM b0375bz0 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0371wqz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0375d6f (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 4 MON MON The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the MON Winding Wheel Theatre in Chesterfield. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Miles Jupp with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON attempts piano accompaniment. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0375d6h (Listen) MON Jolene has some good news, and Lynda's enjoying the MON responsibility. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Julie Beckett MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0375d6k (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange: former Monty MON Python star Terry Jones nominates Under Milk Wood, Dylan MON Thomas's 'play for voices'. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03757ct (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Bishop and the Bankers b0375d6m (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The financial crash of 2008 has led to the biggest economic MON crisis the country and the world has faced since the 1930s. MON Was this crisis a moral as well as an economic one, and if MON it was, what are the lessons that might be drawn from it? In MON this three part series the Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, MON steps back from the technical analysis of risk and MON derivatives to consider the morality of individuals, MON organisations and the platform on which our economic system MON is built. He is joined by senior bankers, former bankers and MON opinion formers to reflect on why some people behave badly MON while others behave well, how you might build a virtuous MON company, and whether Capitalism encourages or discourages MON the human values that are needed for society to flourish. MON MON The focus of today's programme is on individuals in the MON world of banking and big business, their personal stories, MON the dilemmas they faced, and how they ( and we) make moral MON choices. James hears from former city and Wall street MON traders about the effect on their behaviour of the culture MON of the city; - the long hours and testosterone, the speed of MON trading which leaves no time for reflection, and the MON competitive process during which the human story can be MON lost. MON MON The programme begins in a casino - a metaphor, say some, of MON the mentality that characterised the recent behaviour of the MON bankers. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, tells MON James about the buzz of closing a deal as an oil executive MON and how he found a way to resist the temptations that MON working in the industry offered. James discusses the extent MON to which individuals should take the blame for the crisis MON with Johnny Cameron, former head of RBS's investment MON division, and the chief executive of Barclays Antony MON Jenkins. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0375db5 (Listen) MON The Rule of Law v the Rule of Man MON MON With huge concern over tax avoidance, tax officials are the MON latest to be given increased powers of discretion. They will MON be able to penalise people who have obeyed the letter of the MON law, but who have contravened the spirit of the tax code - MON as determined by the officials themselves, based on certain MON criteria. The use of official discretion is now applying MON across the UK's legal systems, from areas such as tax and MON finance to crime and hate speech. MON MON Philosopher Jamie Whyte asks: is this growth in the Rule of MON Man undermining the Rule of Law? If officials can punish MON you, despite the fact that you followed the rules on the MON books, doesn't that raise the danger of injustice? MON MON Even though few tears are being shed for tax avoiders, MON couldn't the lack of legal clarity lead to uncertainty? MON Would that drive business away from Britain? Jamie unravels MON the methods of sophisticated tax lawyers, and speaks to MON academic thinkers and legislators. He asks if we are we MON creating a culture where it pays to cosy up to officials? MON And he explores the deeper philosophy of the Rule of Law and MON whether its being diminished in our uncertain times. MON MON Producer: Mukul Devichand. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b036v092 (Listen) MON Living with Carnivores MON MON Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at MON the crunch point between human population and the natural MON world. In this week's programme we report from India where MON John Aitchison revels in the sight of two tigers, who MON magnificent though they are, are now in effect in an island MON population, separated from the farmland that surrounds the MON National Park by an electric fence. Lion biologist Craig MON Packer from the University of Minnesota will be speaking to MON Monty about his observations in Tanzania where upward of 100 MON people a year are being killed by lions raiding villages, MON the lions allegedly being driven to switch their prey to MON people by lack of their preferred prey outside the national MON parks. David Macdonald, Professor of Wildlife Conservation MON at Oxford University, will be exploring this area of MON conflict with Monty in the Shared Planet studio. MON MON 21:30 Privacy Under Pressure b03757ck (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0371wr1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0375db7 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0375dl6 (Listen) MON Their Eyes Were Watching God, Episode 6 MON MON by Zora Neale Hurston MON MON Episode 6 MON MON Janie has noticed that Joe is getting older but the older he MON gets the more he criticises her for being middle aged. Then MON one day she turns on him in front of the customers in the MON store and the pride of the Mayor of Eatonville is MON irrevocably damaged. MON MON Read by Adjoa Andoh MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON A 1930s African-American classic which tells Janie's story MON in dazzling Southern prose MON MON This African-American classic was first published in the MON 1930s and is seen as one of the greatest American novels of MON the twentieth century. The author, Zora Neale Hurston, grew MON up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town MON in America. Nearly every black woman writer of significance, MON including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, MON acknowledges Zora Neale Hurston as her literary foremother. MON MON "A rigorous, convincing and dazzling piece of prose, as MON emotionally satisfying as it is impressive." Zadie Smith. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b036v89y (Listen) MON How do you talk to an alien? MON MON For more than fifty years, scientists with radio telescopes MON have been trying to make contact with extra-terrestrial MON intelligence. Nothing has been found, but recent discoveries MON of new solar systems and their planets give the astronomical MON explorers hope. In the first of a new series of Word of MON Mouth, Chris Ledgard examines some of the questions MON surrounding inter-stellar discourse - the response we might MON make if we detect a message, the usefulness of human MON language in this kind of communication, and whether it might MON be wiser to say nothing at all. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0375dl8 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 JULY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0371wrw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03757cp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0371wry (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0371ws0 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0371ws2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0371ws4 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0375p7v (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0375p7x (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 b02ty530 (Listen) TUE Lesser Black-backed Gull TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve TUE Backshall presents the lesser black-backed gull. TUE TUE These smart gulls are charcoal grey on top and white TUE beneath. Like herring gulls, their close relatives LBBs have TUE moved into urban areas and now breed on flat roofs in the TUE centre of cities. It seems almost any flat surface will do. TUE In just three hours, one bird in Gloucester built a nest on TUE a car roof and laid an egg in. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0375p7z (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 Long View b0375p81 (Listen) TUE Tax Avoidance TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland is joined by Margaret Hodge MP to look at TUE controversies surrounding tax avoidance now and in the 8th TUE Century, when the monk the Venerable Bede was similarly TUE exercised by the issue. TUE Historical readings are provided by Sunny Ormonde who plays TUE Lilian Bellamy in the Archers - appropriately, Lilian was TUE herself a tax exile in Guernsey for 10 years. TUE In 734, Bede wrote to his former pupil Egbert to complain TUE that lay people were setting themselves up as monasteries in TUE order to avoid paying taxes - creating the tax havens of TUE their day. Bede's calls for reform came to nothing until a TUE few centuries later when a new system of taxation was TUE brought in order to pay off the Vikings. Even then, though, TUE one Bishop managed to get round the rules - Bishop Wulfstan TUE of Worcester. TUE Jonathan and guests debate the lessons for today. On the TUE panel, Chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts TUE Committee, Margaret Hodge MP, as well as Conservative MP TUE Mark Field, campaigner Andrew Simms of the New Economics TUE Foundation & Global Witness and Ray McCann, former HMRC TUE Inspector, now a partner at Pinsent Masons law firm. TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 09:30 Pop-Up Ideas b0375p83 (Listen) TUE David Kilcullen: Feral Cities TUE TUE One of the world's most influential counter-insurgency TUE experts, David Kilcullen, whose ideas were described by the TUE Washington Post as "revolutionizing military thinking TUE throughout the West", talks about the time-bomb of TUE rapidly-growing coastal mega-cities. TUE TUE "It took all of human history until 1960 for the world to TUE get 3 billion people," he says. "But the latest estimate is TUE that we're going to add the same number of people in just TUE the next thirty years - and they'll all be going into TUE cities, on coastlines, in the developing world". TUE TUE Through the story of a Somali commander he met in Mogadishu, TUE David tells how the urban overstretch that tore Mogadishu TUE apart in the 1990s, with frightening consequences, is TUE happening in cities all over Africa, Asia and Latin America. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b037h02q (Listen) TUE 1913, Episode 2 TUE TUE Writer: Florian Illies TUE Translators: Shaun Whiteside and Jamie Lee Searle TUE TUE Reader: Michael Maloney TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0375p86 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0375qt4 (Listen) TUE Good News, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Melissa Murray. TUE TUE With the discovery that her friend Adrienne is not going to TUE die, fellow teacher Louise tries to come to terms with the TUE good news. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b0375qt6 (Listen) TUE Oil & Wildlife TUE TUE Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that explores TUE the crunch point between human population and the natural TUE world. In this week's programme we have a report from the TUE Arabian Gulf off the coast of Qatar where we witness oil rig TUE legs encrusted with life, pods of dolphins and work TUE monitoring the arrival of migrant whale sharks to the area. TUE With the Deep Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico still TUE fresh in many minds are oil rigs and ocean wildlife in TUE conflict or can oil and wildlife share the same space. David TUE Paterson, Executive Director of the Marine Alliance for TUE Science and Technology for Scotland is in the Shared Planet TUE studio to explore the issues. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b0375qt8 (Listen) TUE Series 16, Don't Leave Me This Way TUE TUE Don't Leave Me This Way was written in the early 1970s by TUE songwriters Huff, Gamble and Gilbert who were the composers TUE behind the famous black American Philadelphia Sound. It was TUE first performed by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, TUE featuring Teddy Pendergrass on lead vocals, and later became TUE a hit for Thelma Houston and the Communards. As the title TUE suggests, the song is all about longing, yearning and loss. TUE Remarkable stories in this edition of Soul Music reflect the TUE pain expressed in this soul classic, including one told by TUE Dr Dan Gottlieb, a quadriplegic therapist who befriended TUE Teddy Pendergrass after he became paralysed in a car TUE accident. Sharon Wachsler recalls dancing to the version TUE made famous by The Communards in 1986 before a devastating TUE illness left her housebound and reliant on her beloved TUE service dog Gadget, who gave her a reason to keep going. TUE When he died, the song was the only way she could express TUE her grief over his loss. The Reverend Richard Coles, TUE formerly of The Communards, talks about the significance of TUE Don't Leave Me This Way as a dancefloor anthem for young gay TUE men in the 1980s that was later to become associated with TUE the AIDS epidemic that took so many of their lives. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0375qtb (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0371ws6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0375qtd (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 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b0375qtg (Listen) TUE Getting a Job: Nepotism or Meritocracy? TUE TUE Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of TUE today's corporate culture. TUE TUE Part 2 of 10: Lucy reveals how hiring the 'best man for the TUE job' wasn't always the way it was done. TUE TUE Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0375d6h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f5lcz (Listen) TUE The People's Passion, Betrayal TUE TUE Cathedrals still dominate our city centres: once symbols of TUE temporal power, of technological wonder, a vital part of our TUE musical health, and more recently the focus of protest and TUE appeals to a new morality - what do they mean to us now? TUE TUE Originally broadcast in Holy Week, The People's Passion TUE explores how our great cathedrals offer an image of the TUE contradictions of faith in twenty-first century Britain. TUE TUE The People's Passion Mass and Easter Anthem, composed TUE specially for the series by Sasha Johnson Manning, with TUE lyrics written by the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, not only TUE features in the programmes, but was made freely available by TUE the BBC, and sung by a hundred and fifty choirs around TUE Britain and across the world, during Easter 2012, including TUE Easter Day Worship on Radio 4, from Manchester Cathedral. TUE TUE 2/5: Betrayal TUE TUE by Nick Warburton TUE TUE Callum has no job and nothing to fill his days, but he loves TUE to sing in the Cathedral's Voluntary choir. With the choir, TUE he is rehearsing the newly commissioned Easter Anthem, to TUE perform on Good Friday. Who would dream of stopping him? But TUE temptation can whisper in all sorts of ears... TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting TUE TUE Original music by Sasha Johnson Manning, with lyrics by TUE Michael Symmons Roberts. TUE TUE Performed by: TUE Manchester Chamber Choir, directed by Christopher Stokes, TUE with Jeffrey Makinson (organ), Rob Shorter (tenor), Rebecca TUE Whettam (cello), Jahan Hunter (trumpet) and Holly Marland TUE (recorder). TUE BBC Singers with Eleanor Gregory (soprano), Margaret Cameron TUE (alto), Chris Bowen (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (bass) and TUE Andrew Earis (piano). TUE Andrew Kirk (organ), and the choir of Saint Mary Redcliffe, TUE Bristol. TUE TUE Credits TUE The Old Man: David Bradley TUE Robert: James Fleet TUE Callum: Harry Livingstone TUE Sonia: Rina Mahoney TUE Paul: Jim Norton TUE Clive: Don Gilet TUE Graham: Kim Wall TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Writer: Nick Warburton TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b0375qtj (Listen) TUE Series 4, Bakewell TUE TUE Jay Rayner and the panel are in Bakewell in Derbyshire for TUE this episode of food panel programme The Kitchen Cabinet. TUE TUE Tackling the audience's culinary concerns about topics TUE including gooseberries, picnics, bananas, cooked breakfasts, TUE ice cream and, of course, Bakewell Pudding, are: writer and TUE restaurateur Henry Dimbleby; Michelin Star chef Angela TUE Hartnett, and 2011 Masterchef-winner, originally from TUE Wisconsin, Tim Anderson. Plus food scientist Peter Barham TUE explains the science behind pastry-making and unusual TUE flavour combinations. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b0375sf9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate: ourselves. Are people led by the TUE head or by the heart? How rational are we? How do we TUE perceive the world and what lies behind the quirks of human TUE behaviour? A curious blend of intriguing experiments to TUE discover our biases and judgements, conversations, TUE explorations and examples taken from what's in the news to TUE what we do in the kitchen, all driven by a large slice of TUE curiosity. TUE TUE The programme will enjoy itself but the content will be TUE rigorous too - avoiding the psychobabble to concentrate on TUE what can be genuinely known about us. Hence the emphasis on TUE human experiments and the evidence we can assemble. The TUE presenter, Michael Blastland, will submit his own thoughts TUE and behaviours to scrutiny and to some devious TUE manipulations, and extend some of these experiments to the TUE audience. We want to know what and how you think too. TUE TUE We'll be guided by the best experts we can find, like Nick TUE Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick TUE University, who will be on hand as guide and experimenter in TUE chief. Together we'll explore and review some of the latest TUE findings in a fast-growing subject in academia and the TUE bookstores. TUE TUE Our thoughts, John Milton said, are a kingdom of infinite TUE space, and they might take us anywhere -whether our subject TUE is writ large, like the behaviours of public figures or the TUE contradictions of politics, or located in the minutiae of TUE everyday life. We can show how what happens on the big stage TUE is our own behaviour writ large, like the old Linda Smith TUE joke about the Iraq-war coalition's failure to find chemical TUE weapons: "I'm the same with the scissors". TUE TUE Presenter: Michael Blastland TUE Producer: Toby Murcott. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b0375sfc (Listen) TUE Babel TUE TUE "...confound their language, that they may not understand TUE one another's speech." The Babel story is one of best known TUE in the Bible, the splintering of one global language into TUE thousands of tongues. Chris Ledgard takes a linguistic look TUE at the first nine verses of Genesis chapter 11, exploring TUE the story itself, the idea of original languages and how we TUE are able to reconstruct them, and the Babel theme of TUE language, division and conflict. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0375sff (Listen) TUE Meera Syal and Stephen Grosz TUE TUE Writer, comedian and actor Meera Syal and psychoanalyst and TUE author Stephen Grosz discuss favourite books with Harriett TUE Gilbert. TUE TUE A Russian romance, a very English murder, and the poverty of TUE India are the themes in books by Chekhov, Agatha Christie TUE and Katherine Boo. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS PROGRAMME TUE TUE The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories (1896-1904) TUE by Anton Chekhov TUE Translated by Ronald Wilks TUE Published by Penguin Classics TUE TUE The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie TUE Published by HarperCollins TUE TUE Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a TUE Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo TUE Published by Portobello Books TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0375sfh (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0371ws8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b0375sfk (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE Justin Moorhouse, Bridget Christie and Ainsley Harriott each TUE nominate someone they know well to answer a series of TUE questions and they than have to second guess how they TUE answered. TUE TUE Host Miles Jupp tests Bridget on how well she knows her best TUE friend Rebecca Sewell, Ainsley his best friend, pitch doctor TUE Paul Boross, and Justin his former radio producer Sean TUE Gibson. TUE TUE What is the one thing that DJ Justin does not like talking TUE about? What is Bridget's worst fear? And who is Ainsley's TUE worst habit? TUE TUE All answers and more will be revealed. TUE TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0375tdc (Listen) TUE Fallon enjoys a gossip, and there's an awkward moment for TUE Rob. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0375tdf (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including news of the longlist for this TUE year's Man Booker Prize for fiction, announced today. TUE TUE Producer Olivia Skinner. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0375qt4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b0375tdh (Listen) TUE The amount of coal burned in Britain's power stations TUE rocketed in 2012 with ministers relying on the fuel to help TUE keep the lights on in the next few years. TUE But coal mining in Britain is now in deep trouble. TUE Two of the UK's major mining firms have collapsed and a TUE third is in trouble following a huge underground fire in TUE February. TUE The fire was at Daw Mill in Warwickshire, one of the few TUE remaining deep mines in the UK. TUE Coming on the back of competition from cheap coal from TUE abroad, the costly fire plunged mine operators UK Coal into TUE financial crisis and has put the pensions of workers at TUE serious risk. TUE As the government negotiates to try to help pick up the TUE pieces Julian O'Halloran discovers UK Coal's problems come TUE on top of heavy penalties imposed in recent years by safety TUE regulators over fatal accidents underground. TUE Meanwhile the collapse of two key operators in Scotland has TUE left a trail of unrestored opencast sites which local people TUE say are blighting their areas. They blame national and local TUE government for failing to force the mining companies to TUE clear up their mess. TUE So what does the future hold for the industry, the miners TUE and local communities. And at what cost to the taxpayer? TUE Producer: Nicola Dowling. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0375tdl (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b0375tdn (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b0375p81 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0371wsb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0375tdq (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0375tdv (Listen) TUE Their Eyes Were Watching God, Episode 7 TUE TUE by Zora Neale Hurston TUE TUE Mayor Joe Starks has died. At the funeral Janie 'starched TUE and ironed her face behind her veil.' Later as she emerges TUE into her mourning white she has a host of admirers in and TUE out of town but she's too busy basking in her new found TUE freedom to take any notice. Then one day a newcomer comes TUE into the store TUE TUE Read by Adjoa Andoh TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0375byy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0375tdx (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 JULY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0371wt5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b037h02q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0371wt7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0371wt9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0371wtc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0371wtf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0375xtw (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0375xty (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill, Produced by Anna Varle. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02ty8nj (Listen) WED Red-necked Phalarope WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve WED Backshall presents the red-necked phalarope. WED WED Red-necked phalaropes are among our rarest waders, small and WED colourful with needle-like bills and they breed in very WED limited numbers on the edges of our islands. There are WED probably only around 20 pairs of these birds in summer in WED the Outer Hebrides or Shetlands. WED WED 06:00 Today b0375xv0 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 What's the Point of ... b0375xv2 (Listen) WED Series 5, The Chief Rabbi WED WED Sir Jonathan Sacks stands down this August after more than WED 20 years in a job that some people have described as tougher WED than the Archbishop of Canterbury's - but with better jokes. WED WED The office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew WED Congregation of the United kingdom and the Commonwealth - to WED give it its full title - has always had close links to the WED political establishment. WED First Edward V11 and now David Cameron have spoken of "My WED Chief Rabbi." A seat in the House of Lords seems to go with WED the territory these days. In September, Ephraim Mirvis will WED become the next Chief Rabbi, with ready access to the stars WED of the Cabinet and the Media. So what does the Chief Rabbi WED do? How much does it cost to run his office? WED WED The full title is important. It's especially important to WED Reform and Liberal Jews who point out that the Chief Rabbi WED (of the United Hebrew Congregation of the United kingdom and WED the Commonwealth) doesn't represent them. In fact, he WED represents only about half of Jews affiliated to a WED synagogue. The fastest growing Jewish denomination is the WED ultra Orthodox - and he doesn't officially lead them either. WED WED So what's the point of the Chief Rabbi? Historian Geoffrey WED Alderman thinks that, if there used to be a point to the WED office, there is no longer; Michael Howard thinks the point WED of the Chief Rabbi is to present a moderate religious voice WED in a world of growing religious extremism, and Vanessa Feltz WED thinks it's so that she has someone - other than herself - WED to argue with. WED WED Producer: Rosie Dawson. WED WED 09:30 Just So Science b01ptbx8 (Listen) WED How the Whale Got His Throat WED WED Vivienne Parry presents the science behind some of Rudyard WED Kipling's Just So Stories, with wondrous tales of how things WED really came to be. WED WED In Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, we're told how the WED leopard got his spots, the camel his hump, the whale his WED throat and so forth. But what does science make of these WED lyrical tales? For the most part, just-so stories are to be WED dismissed as the antithesis of scientific reasoning. They're WED ad hoc fallacies, designed to explain-away a biological or WED behavioural trait, more akin to folklore than the laws of WED science. But on closer inspection, might Kipling's fantasies WED contain a grain of truth? And might the "truth" as science WED understands it, be even more fantastic than fiction? WED WED In Just So Science, Vivienne Parry meets researchers whose WED work on some of Kipling's 'best beloved' creatures is WED helping us to answer a rather inconvenient question: how do WED traits evolve? Why are some animals the way they are? WED Excerpts from five of the Just So Stories are read by Samuel WED West WED 1. How the Whale Got His Throat. How does the largest WED creature that has ever lived feed itself? Howard Roe and WED Nick Pyenson, discuss the wonders of "lunge feeding", said WED to be the largest biomechanical event on Earth. WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b037h08x (Listen) WED 1913, Episode 3 WED WED Writer: Florian Illies WED Translators: Shaun Whiteside and Jamie Lee Searle WED WED Reader: Michael Maloney WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0375xv4 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0375xv6 (Listen) WED Good News, Episode 3 WED WED by Melissa Murray. WED WED Adrienne learns that while she was ill her husband Mal has WED been making plans for a life without her. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 11:00 The Story of the Talmud b0375xv8 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED In the second of two programmes, Rabbi Naftali Brawer delves WED into one of the greatest books ever written which holds the WED key to unlocking Jewish thinking and history. Far from being WED an ancient text written in Hebrew and Aramaic, Naftali WED discovers that today, in orthodox circles, the Talmud is WED causing a Jewish revolution. WED WED He encounters commuters on a train in New York who hold WED Talmud classes in the last carriage every morning on their WED way to work. They claim the wisdom of the Talmud informs the WED decisions they make in business, finance, law and everyday WED social matters. He discovers that the Chinese and South WED Koreans have an obsession with the Talmud, thinking it will WED give them business and financial success. There is even a WED Talmud hotel in Taiwan. Talking to one of the Jewish world's WED leading medical ethicists, Naftali hears how the Talmud WED informs medical decisions from start and end of life matters WED to genetic research. WED WED Whilst in Jerusalem, Rabbi Naftali finds a twist in the tale WED of the Talmud. Previously being denied access to the Talmud, WED a growing number of women are now learning and teaching its WED ancient texts and wisdom. This in turn is bringing a WED challenge to orthodox male interpretation and hegemony. WED Despite being the Jewish Homeland, Israel is facing deep WED political schisms, financial crises and riots over the WED determination of the ultra-orthodox community to study the WED Talmud, and its related literature, rather than enter the WED employment market and take part in National Service. Talking WED to Knesset Member Ruth Calderon and ultra-orthodox students WED from one of Jerusalem's leading yeshivas, Rabbi Naftali WED encounters the intractable nature of this argument which is WED threatening the current Israeli coalition government. WED WED Producer: Mark O'Brien. WED WED 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b0376jjx (Listen) WED Mr Davos Has an Alibi WED WED Part 4 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, WED Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, WED and A Case for Paul Temple. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory WED Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the WED mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. WED WED Episode 4: Mr Davos has an Alibi WED WED Another death - and this time the killer comes very close to WED home. WED WED Paul Temple CRAWFORD LOGAN WED Steve GERDA STEVENSON WED Sir Graham GARETH THOMAS WED Peter Davos RICHARD GREENWOOD WED Insp. Vosper MICHAEL MACKENZIE WED Charlie GREG POWRIE WED Edward Day NICK UNDERWOOD WED Kay Wiseman MEG FRASER WED Sir Donald SIMON DONALDSON WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0376jxt (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b0376jxw (Listen) WED The Marcos Mystery? WED WED John Waite goes on the trail of the woman who, he's told, WED claims to be the daughter of the former President of the WED Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, and is about to inherit his WED missing millions. WED WED She says she is a good Samaritan but her critics disagree. WED Claiming to be on the verge of a huge inheritance she's WED borrowed tens of thousands of pounds from Filipinos in WED London, they say. Claiming to be employed by the Home Office WED she's said to have accepted hundreds of pounds for WED immigration advice. Claiming to be an investment guru it's WED alleged that she has taken hundreds of thousands more from WED Swedish investors, and as a fish trader it's said that she's WED left a trail of out-of-pocket fishmongers at Billingsgate WED Fish Market. They also say she's claimed to be an airline WED pilot and daughter of a former Miss Spain. Never interviewed WED before she tells John why she believes her many critics are WED simply just jealous liars. WED WED Producer: Joe Kent WED Presenter: John Waite. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0371wtk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0376jxy (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b0376jy0 (Listen) WED The Career Ladder WED WED Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of WED today's corporate culture. WED WED Part 3 of 10: Lucy charts the emergence of the career ladder WED as a way to motivate staff. The late 19th century saw a huge WED growth in office clerks. With the increase in staff, came WED the concept of a career ladder as a way to make up for the WED drudgery. Lucy looks at the Scottish banks and their early WED version of the annual appraisal, which often included WED strikingly personal comments. With Alan McKinlay of WED Newcastle University WED WED Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry WED Shale WED Historical Consultant: Michael Heller WED WED Producer: Russell Finch WED A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0375tdc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0376jy2 (Listen) WED Neurotics Anonymous WED WED Iain is a list-ticking, tap-checking, badge-wearing member WED of the OCD Club (not an actual club). When he joins a WED support group, he finds love with leader Anna. But three WED things stand in his way: mother Elsie, group member Beany WED and Iain's inability to drive. A day out brings it all to a WED head in this honest, warm and hilarious comedy written by WED Ben Crompton. WED WED Credits WED Iain: Ben Crompton WED Elsie: Joan Kempson WED Anna: Verity-May Henry WED Beany: Michael Smiley WED Preston: Graeme Hawley WED Graham: John Henshaw WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED Producer: Nadia Molinari WED Writer: Ben Crompton WED WED 15:00 Money Box b0377d7v (Listen) WED The latest news from the world of personal finance with Paul WED Lewis. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b0375tdn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0376ncq (Listen) WED The Bangladesh/India Border WED WED The Bangladesh/India border - As India sets about WED constructing a metal curtain along the full length of its WED border with Bangladesh, Cambridge anthropologist, Delwar WED Hussain travelled to the remote village of Boropani, which WED straddles the frontier, to see how the lives of ordinary WED people are being affected by the tussle between Dhaka and WED its emerging superpower neighbour. He talks to Laurie Taylor WED about the social and intimate lives of the people he met and WED a cross border coal industry that has little respect for the WED past, people or the environment. By focusing on the WED peripheries, his research exposes the promise and danger at WED the heart of the globalised world. WED WED 'Dirty work', emotional labour and the professionalisation WED of nursing - a qualitative study of meal services for older WED people at 4 UK hospital sites. Around 60% of UK patients WED aged 65 or older are at risk of malnutrition while in WED hospital. Ben Heaven discusses timely research into 'food WED work' and feeding assistance on hospital wards. WED WED Producer:Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0376ncs (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 b0376ncv (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0371wtp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Brig Society b0376ncx (Listen) WED King of Scotland 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, he's been volunteered to be the King of Scotland. WED As an Englishmen, Marcus will be going out and about in an WED attempt to understand the arguments for and against WED independence, hopefully without getting himself a kilt. WED WED Helping him chew the fat, and other Scottish delicacies are WED Rufus Jones ("Hunderby", "Holy Flying Circus"), William WED Andrews ("Sorry I've Got No Head") and Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda") WED WED The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by WED Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also WED produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles WED Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy WED Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Another Case Of WED Milton Jones, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, he 3rd Degree, The WED 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active & Bigipedia. WED His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting WED Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Three Fights WED Two Weddings & A Funeral, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino WED Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. WED WED Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, WED Nick Doody, Steve Punt & Tom Neenan WED WED Produced by David Tyler WED WED A Pozzitive production for the BBC. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0376ncz (Listen) WED Anthea keeps Lilian up to the mark, and Tom takes advice on WED board. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0376nd1 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including Cultural Exchange: playwright WED Mark Ravenhill selects Dennis Potter's first TV series, WED Casanova, broadcast in 1971. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0375xv6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0376nd3 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips, Matthew WED Taylor and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Ideas b0375p83 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:00 Does Science Need the People? b01ks52y (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Who should decide on whether funding for things like GM, WED nanotechnology, embryonic stem cell research or particle WED physics goes ahead? At the moment most of the money for WED science lies with the research councils, to whom scientists WED go cap in hand year after year. That's around 3 billion WED pounds of public money. So should the public have more of a WED say? WED WED At the moment, it seems like trust in science is at a WED crossroads. Whilst increasingly we believe in the power of WED science to benefit society, a recent MORI survey suggested WED that over half of us are distrustful of scientists who WED "tamper with nature" and believe that "rules will not stop WED scientists doing what they want behind closed doors". Though WED we face global food and energy shortages and await the next WED mutated animal disease pandemic, barely a third of us WED believe that the benefits of research into things like GM, WED or nuclear power are worth the risk. But are we the people, WED able to best judge what road science should take? WED WED But does this disconnect between science and society matter? WED How important is public opinion to the direction of WED scientific research? Is GM, gene therapy or nuclear power WED simply too important to be derailed by a public that only WED has a very basic understanding of risk? Or should scientists WED not only consult the public about controversial areas of WED research but even allow us to direct it? In the first of two WED programmes, Geoff Watts asks, Does Science need the people? WED WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of ... b0375xv2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0371wtr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0376qls (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0376qlv (Listen) WED Their Eyes Were Watching God, Episode 8 WED WED by Zora Neale Hurston WED WED For the first time in her life Janie has fallen in love and WED she tells her friend Phoeby that she is selling up the store WED and leaving Eatonville to "go and live in Tea Cake's way." WED But Tea Cake has no money and Janie is a wealthy widow some WED years his senior, so the tongues start to wag. WED WED Read by Adjoa Andoh WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4 WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b0376qlx (Listen) WED Kiss Loves You WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. His night, held WED in various venues around New York, was called the Antihoot. WED WED He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff Buckley and many WED others, he discovered and nurtured lots of talent including WED Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches but nobody WED discovered him. Rock and Roll is about many things, but WED first you've got to get out of the house. Lach finds himself WED trying to find common ground with his small, and at times, WED unappreciative audience. What's so complicated about his WED love for four very hairy men? WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED Executive Producer: Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4 WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin. WED WED 23:15 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01hxmxt (Listen) WED Barry WED WED Strap in for fifteen minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever WED Peter bring you a Health & Safety blowdart, a killer whale WED and a soufflé. WED WED Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning WED sketch team get their own Radio 4 show. WED WED From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another WED Case Of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny WED Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of WED tri-coloured jerseys. WED WED "If they don't go very far very soon there is no such thing WED as British justice" - Daily Telegraph WED "A masterclass in original sketch comedy" - Metro WED "Pretty much top of the class" - The Scotsman WED WED Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED & Dominic Stone WED WED Produced & directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0376qlz (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 JULY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0371wvn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b037h08x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0371wvq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0371wvs (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0371wvv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0371wvx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0376x70 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0376x72 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tycf8 (Listen) THU Black-browed Albatross THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve THU Backshall presents the black-browed albatross. THU THU Although they're residents of the Antarctic seas , THU black-browed albatrosses have turned up in the UK many THU times. For a while, Albert-or Albert Ross as he was THU christened by birdwatchers- was one of the most well-known THU birds in the British Isles. He was first spotted in the THU gannet colony on Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth in 1967. THU Sadly he failed to find a mate among the masses of gannets THU there. THU THU 06:00 Today b0376x74 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Reflections b0376x76 (Listen) THU Lord Tebbit THU THU In this series, Peter Hennessy, the leading historian of THU modern Britain, asks senior politicians to reflect on their THU life and times. In each week's conversation, he invites his THU guest to explore what influenced their thinking and THU motivated them to enter politics, their experience of events THU and impressions of people they knew, and their concerns for THU the future. THU Peter's guest in this week's programme is Lord Tebbit THU (Norman Tebbit), the former Conservative Cabinet Minister THU and loyal ally of Margaret Thatcher. He served as Employment THU Secretary in the early 1980s and then became Conservative THU Party Chairman. THU After serving in the RAF and working as an airline pilot, THU Norman Tebbit first entered Parliament in 1970 at the age of THU thirty-nine. His trenchant style of politics provoked THU Michael Foot to describe him as a "semi-house-trained THU polecat". Norman Tebbit was also nicknamed "the Chingford THU skinhead" (he was MP for Chingford) and was caricatured as a THU leather-clad "bovverboy" puppet in TV's 'Spitting Image'. THU In October 1984, Norman Tebbit and his wife were seriously THU injured in the IRA's bomb attack on the Grand Hotel, THU Brighton. After the 1987 election, he left the Cabinet in THU order to ensure that his disabled wife received proper care. THU Norman Tebbit continues to voice his forthright views, THU notably on Britain's relationship with Europe, in the House THU of Lords. THU Next week, in the final programme of the series, Peter THU Hennessy's guest is Lord Kinnock, Neil Kinnock, the former THU Labour Party Leader and European Commissioner. THU Presenter, Peter Hennessy. Producer, Rob Shepherd. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b037h0f9 (Listen) THU 1913, Episode 4 THU THU Writer: Florian Illies THU Translators: Shaun Whiteside and Jamie Lee Searle THU THU Reader: Michael Maloney THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0377069 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037706c (Listen) THU Good News, Episode 4 THU THU by Melissa Murray. THU THU With the discovery that her mother is not terminally ill, THU Fred, Adrienne's indecisive daughter, is forced to reassess THU her life. THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b037706f (Listen) THU Spain: Operation FGM THU THU In Barcelona, a doctor offers reconstructive surgery to THU women who had female genital mutilation when they were THU children. Recorded over 6 months, Linda Pressly hears the THU stories of Rosa and Wenkune - Spanish women of African THU origin. FGM has caused them both a good deal of trauma. Will THU the operation change how they feel about themselves? What THU difference will it make to their intimate relationships? And THU what motivates Dr Barri Soldevila - a busy surgeon in a THU private hospital - to prioritise these procedures and offer THU them free of charge? THU THU Reporting FGM THU THU The police are there to help if you have been a victim of THU Female Genital Mutilation or have any information about this THU crime taking place. They advise that you call Crimestoppers THU on 0800 555 11 or the NSPCC's FGM helpline on 0800 028 3550 THU to report this crime or for help, advice and support. Be THU reassured calls will be dealt with sensitively and you can THU remain anonymous. THU THU 11:30 Playing Ping Pong with Henry Miller b037706h (Listen) THU "Henry Miller, Norman Mailer and Charles Manson, the three THU pillars of misogyny," according to Gore Vidal - yet many THU women writers today cite Miller as an influence. THU Using his time in California as a prism, acclaimed poet Kim THU Addonizio explores how, despite his reputation as a THU pornographic, unredeemed misogynist, Miller's time in Big THU Sur, California, transformed him into a family man and ping THU pong fanatic. THU With an exclusive interview with his son Tony Miller, a THU visit to the Henry Miller Memorial Library, in Big Sur, THU Addonizio hears great stories of epic table tennis THU tournaments during the long winters, struggles to make ends THU meet, as she meets those who remember Miller's time in the THU woods during his 18 year stay. THU She explores the roots of the personal growth movement that THU flourished on the Californian coast, at the time, of which THU Miller became an unexpected exponent of, at the world famous THU Esalen Institute, and tries to find out why he appeals to THU young women readers today. THU THU Producer: Sara Jane Hall. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b037706k (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0371wvz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b037706m (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 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037706p (Listen) THU The Arrival of Women in the Office THU THU Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of THU today's corporate culture. THU THU Part 4 of 10: The Arrival of Women in the Office THU THU Lucy describes how women entered the white-collar workforce THU in the late 19th century. She visits the Bank of England to THU find out the story of their first female employee, Janet THU Hogarth. Such was the concern about women that offices THU featured different male and female entrances, staggered THU starting times, separated lunch areas and cordoned THU workspaces. THU THU Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry THU Shale THU Historical Consultant: Michael Heller THU THU Producer: Russell Finch THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0376ncz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037d18g (Listen) THU Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares! THU THU 1969. Ernest Shepard looks forward to a V&A retrospective of THU his drawings for Winnie-the-Pooh. But then, in an imagined THU meeting with the now grown-up Christopher Robin Milne, some THU painful truths emerge. By Christopher William Hill. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Christopher William Hill THU Ernest Shepard: Oliver Ford Davies THU Norah: Kate Fahy THU Christopher Milne: Simon Treves THU Janet Steen: Harriet Chandler-Judd THU Reynolds: Michael Bertenshaw THU Ensemble: Sean Murray THU Ensemble: Ben Crowe THU Ensemble: Philippa Stanton THU Director: Peter Kavanagh THU Producer: Peter Kavanagh THU THU 15:00 Open Country b037706r (Listen) THU A World in a Woodland THU THU Woodlands are often the setting for fairy stories but also THU for the creation of a new childhood game, a secret adventure THU or a new den and are cherished places. Helen Mark heads to THU Gloucestershire to see how children, large and small, share THU a love for the forest. THU THU In Berkeley she meets children from a 'forest school' where THU lessons are taken outside and children are taught to use THU axes and saws, to identify trees and create and build. While THU the children teach her how to get involved, she hears it's THU not just the children who've changed through freedom outside THU the classroom. THU THU Near Tetbury she meets James Shrives and his wife Debs THU who've crammed 1000 trees into an acre of garden space to THU create their own forest. The dense growth provides a THU sanctuary and draws in wildlife but will the pride they've THU taken in the growth make it heartbreaking to thin down the THU area? THU THU Finally she heads to the edge of Bristol where a THU council-managed forest at Ashton Court provides an escape THU for city-dwellers. She joins a group of friends to see how THU the wild space inspires them and if it can rival their THU computers and meets author Ingrid Skeels whose own THU alternative education led her to create St Cuthbert's Wild THU School for Boys. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0372v8f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0375252 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b037706t (Listen) THU Frances Ha; Birth of a Nation; Porridge; box office trends THU THU Matthew Sweet talks to the writer and star of Frances Ha, THU Greta Gerwig. Directed by Noam Baumbach it tells the story THU of a friendship between two women as their lives begin to THU take different paths. THU The Birth of a Nation was released in 1915 and has been THU controversial ever since, particularly for its depiction of THU race. It's been described as a recruitment tool for the Ku THU Klux Klan. As the film is re released, we discuss the THU influence of the film and how the Klan has been represented THU on the big screen since. THU Analyst Charles Gant and independent cinema owner Kevin THU Markwick chew over the trends, hits, misses and surprises at THU the box office so far this year and look ahead to what the THU rest of 2013 has in store. THU And Mark Gatiss is back with the last of his cinema spin THU offs from 1970s sitcoms. This week it's Porridge. THU THU Producer: Elaine Lester. THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b037706w (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b037706y (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0371ww1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b01n0vhg (Listen) THU Series 3, Attaboy; In the Waiting Room THU THU The multi-award winning American essayist, David Seadris, THU brings more of his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a THU series of audience readings. THU THU Episode 1 (of 6): THU This week childhood discipline in the Sedaris household is THU recalled in "Attaboy" and the perils of agreeing without THU understanding in a foreign country are examined in "In The THU Waiting Room". THU THU Produced by Steve Doherty THU A Boomerang Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0377070 (Listen) THU Ruth has her work cut out, and Lilian changes her mind. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0377072 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. THU THU Producer Olivia Skinner. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037706c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0377074 (Listen) THU Fight Over Falkirk THU THU The Unite trade union has been accused of trying to THU manipulate the process for choosing the Labour Party's THU candidate to be the Falkirk MP in the next general election. THU Police are now investigating allegations that the UK's THU largest trade union signed people up to be members of the THU Labour Party, without their knowledge. In the wake of the THU Falkirk debacle, Labour leader Ed Miliband signalled that THU the historic links with the unions must change. THU THU But what happened in Falkirk? Hannah Barnes travels to the THU Scottish constituency to find out whether the selection THU process was hijacked by outside forces. THU THU Producer: Charlotte McDonald. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0377076 (Listen) THU Investor Relations THU THU The power of investors and their role in changing how THU business functions and is run is the discussion for Evan THU Davis and his guests. What is it like to be voted off the THU board by your shareholders? And is investor activism here to THU stay? And how should a company boss best manage the owners THU of the company? THU THU Guests THU Alison Carnwath, chair Land Securities THU Helena Morrissey, CEO Newton Asset Management THU Nigel Wilson, Group CEO Legal & General THU THU Producers: Rosamund Jones/Lucy Proctor. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b037706w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Reflections b0376x76 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0371ww3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0377078 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037707b (Listen) THU Their Eyes Were Watching God, Episode 9 THU THU by Zora Neale Hurston THU THU Newly married to Tea Cake, Janie is truly happy living and THU working with him on 'the muck' in the Everglades. And in the THU evenings their homestead is the centre of all that's going THU on. Then one night there is a threat that the hurricane is THU coming. THU THU Read by Adjoa Andoh THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4 THU THU 23:00 North by Northamptonshire b00sp454 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU THU Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie THU Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. THU This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small THU town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a THU talent night. It is written by and also stars Katherine THU Jakeways. THU THU Each week we catch up with Rod the local supermarket manager THU (Mackenzie Crook) who shares rather more than is usual about THU his private life over the store's tannoy system. THU THU We get to know recently divorced Jan (Felicity Montagu) THU who's been trying unsuccessfully to 'find herself' with a THU trip abroad to an elephant sanctuary. But it is at home in THU Wadenbrook that she starts to feel happier with herself as THU her friendship blossoms with ex-teacher Mary (Penelope THU Wilton). And, joy of joys, could it be that Jan is going to THU experience a touch of romance at last? THU THU We are introduced to driving instructor and forthright THU self-defence teacher Esther (Katherine Jakeways) and her THU gentle and put-upon Jonathan (Kevin Eldon) as they struggle THU to start a family and we meet possibly the only happy couple THU in town, Ken and Keith, as they attempt to teach their pet THU whippets to dance for the town talent night. THU THU Written by Katherine Jakeways THU Produced by Claire Jones THU THU In this week's episode Mary starts rehearsals for the town THU talent night and is shocked by 12 year old Gregory's slide THU show of Victorian ladies. Meanwhile Esther sends her husband THU Jonathan out to collect money for the Leicestershire THU Infertile Males Project but he ends up at The Bricklayer's THU Arms looking at pictures of elephants with Jan. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Rod: Mackenzie Crook THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Keith: John Biggins THU Landlord: Rufus Wright THU Gregory: Sam Cotton THU Producer: Claire Jones THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b037707d (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 JULY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0371wx5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b037h0f9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0371wx7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0371wx9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0371wxc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0371wxf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03775fm (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03775fp (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 b02tydrm (Listen) FRI Whinchat FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve FRI Backshall presents the whinchat. FRI FRI Whinchats are perky little summer visitors, about the size FRI of a robin and migrate to the UK in spring from their FRI wintering grounds south of the Sahara. They're birds of open FRI country, preferring moors, heaths and rough ground and are FRI often found where gorse bushes grow, which explains their FRI common name, whin being a Scottish word for gorse. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03775fr (Listen) FRI News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday FRI in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b037524r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b037h0g0 (Listen) FRI 1913, Episode 5 FRI FRI Writer: Florian Illies FRI Translators: Shaun Whiteside and Jamie Lee Searle FRI FRI Reader: Michael Maloney FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03775ft (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03775fw (Listen) FRI Good News, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Melissa Murray. FRI FRI With the discovery that she is not ill, Adrienne faces a FRI life-changing dilemma: whether to sink back into old habits FRI or break away from the routines of work and family life. FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 11:00 Klatt's Last Tapes b03775fy (Listen) FRI Dennis Klatt was an American pioneer of text to speech FRI devices, enabling those without the ability to speak to have FRI a voice. Before Klatt died in 1988, he produced the FRI definitive history of speech synthesis, which included FRI recordings he archived charting the progress of the FRI technology in the 20th century. FRI FRI Using Klatt's extensive research as her cornerstone, Lucy FRI Hawking explores the history of synthesizing speech over the FRI last 200 years, up to current research, which suggests FRI people are disturbed by hearing artificial speech which is FRI too human. FRI FRI It was the showman and inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen who FRI built the most celebrated speaking machine, in 1769. At FRI Saarland University, in Germany, they have constructed a FRI replica and Lucy tries her hand at some very basic FRI mechanical speech. FRI FRI In the 1930s, Homer Dudley produced the first electronic FRI device. By the 1980s, Klatt's was producing highly FRI sophisticated speech synthesizers, including the DECtalk FRI system, which is essentially the electronic voice that is FRI used by Lucy's father, Professor Stephen Hawking. FRI FRI We'll hear from Klatt's daughter Laura Fine, who worked with FRI her father, as well as colleagues and researchers in the FRI field of speech synthesis, and we'll raid the archives of FRI the Acoustical Society of America (much of which was FRI archived by Klatt) for recordings of the wonderful and FRI sometimes weird speech synthesizers. FRI FRI Presenter: Lucy Hawking FRI Sound Design: Nick Romero FRI FRI Producer: Julian Mayers FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b03775g0 (Listen) FRI Dangerous Posters FRI FRI New sitcom where Britain's longest serving PCSO and FRI Britain's laziest make quite a pairing. FRI FRI Written by Dave Lamb (voice of Come Dine With Me) and FRI starring Richie Webb (Horrible Histories), Nick Walker and FRI Noddy Holder (yes - that Noddy Holder). FRI FRI This week, the useless officers' crackdown on fly posting FRI leads to the disappearance of "Daddy Warbucks" and the sight FRI of Bernie in a bright red wig. FRI FRI Writer: Dave Lamb FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Geoff: Richie Webb FRI Nigel: Nick Walker FRI The Guv: Sinead Keenan FRI Jermain: Leon Herbert FRI Bernie: Chris Emmett FRI Geoff's Dad: Noddy Holder FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: Dave Lamb FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03775g2 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0371wxl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03775g4 (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 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b03775g6 (Listen) FRI The Telephone and New Office Technology FRI FRI Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of FRI today's corporate culture. FRI FRI Part 5 of 10: The Telephone And New Office Technology FRI FRI New technology including the telephone, telegraph, FRI typewriters, adding machines, and even filing cabinets FRI revolutionized office work in the late 19th century. In FRI particular the telephone was looked on suspiciously in the FRI UK. Britain's chief post office engineer, Sir William FRI Preece, told a House of Commons committee : 'I have one in FRI my office, but more for show. If I want to send a message, I FRI employ a boy to take it.'. Lucy visits the stores of the FRI museum of London to see early examples of office technology, FRI including an early private telephone belonging to the FRI Rothschilds. FRI FRI Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry FRI Shale FRI Historical Consultant: Michael Heller FRI FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0377070 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03775g8 (Listen) FRI Rowena the Wonderful FRI FRI A real-life magician's assistant, Rowena is eleven years FRI old. FRI FRI She can't speak but she wants a voice, so that she can tell FRI her extraordinary story of growing up, celebrity and love. FRI FRI A unique drama-documentary to reflect the life of unique FRI girl by award-winning writer Helen Cross ('My Summer of FRI Love'). Dominique Moore stars in this uplifting, unusual and FRI moving story. FRI FRI Rowena was born with a rare chromosome disorder which means FRI she can't speak. But she can understand the language of FRI looks and the power of stories, of music and the love of her FRI family. FRI FRI She can do magic, and she will make herself heard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Helen Cross FRI Rowena's voice: Dominique Moore FRI Director: Mary Ward-Lowery FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03775gb (Listen) FRI RHS Tatton Flower Show FRI FRI Eric Robson is at the RHS Tatton Flower Show for this week's FRI episode of Gardeners' Question Time. Joining him are FRI gardening experts Chris Beardshaw, Christine Walkden and FRI Pippa Greenwood, who will be tackling the audience's FRI horticultural questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Latido b03775gd (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI Latido is Spanish for heartbeat, and is a leitmotif in these FRI three stories by Louise Stern, commissioned specially and FRI written in Mexico earlier in 2013. Each story features a FRI deaf central character, and each has a Mexican setting. FRI FRI Louise Stern writes: FRI FRI "I have always felt that Mexico is a country where words are FRI flesh ... People there, hearing or deaf, are very FRI comfortable with communicating via gestures. Mexico is the FRI place where I feel the least deaf. Although the incidence of FRI deafness is more or less the same in most of Mexico as in FRI the rest of the world (less than one percent), there is a FRI village in Yucatan state in Mexico where everyone uses sign FRI language as a matter of fact, because there is a genetic FRI quirk that means that more people than usual are deaf. This FRI village is not the setting of these stories written for the FRI BBC, but time spent there has influenced the stories." FRI FRI Latido III FRI FRI Itzel is weighed down with a secret, something all-too-human FRI she witnessed by the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe. FRI FRI Louise Stern grew up in Fremont, California, and is the FRI fourth generation of her family to be born deaf. She now FRI lives and works in London as an artist and writer. FRI 'Chattering', her first collection of short stories, was FRI published in 2010. 'The Electric Box', her first commission FRI for radio, featured in the series 'Where Were You ...' - FRI also produced by Sweet Talk - in 2012. FRI FRI Reader: Louise Brealey FRI Director: Karen Rose FRI Sound Design: Jon Calver FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03775gg (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 b03775gj (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio FRI justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles FRI you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the FRI top. FRI FRI We will also be digging down into the mystery of the FRI programme makers world. Getting an idea of why things turn FRI out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and FRI offer suggestions on the way things are done. FRI FRI So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme FRI anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something FRI could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've FRI heard something brilliant, tell us. FRI FRI We are also interested in your general views about how FRI broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. FRI You can contact us about everything from programme FRI scheduling to management pay. FRI FRI So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI Feedback is a Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03775gl (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0371wxp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03775gn (Listen) FRI Series 81, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Jason Cook, Julia FRI Hartley-Brewer, and Fred MacAulay. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03775gq (Listen) FRI Kathy's worried, and Helen lends a sympathetic ear. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Anthea: Joanna Brookes FRI Meriel: Grace Quigley FRI Guy Mowlam: Chris Jack FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Director: Sue Wilson FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Producer: Vanessa Whitburn FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03775gs (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with the vocal FRI group Naturally 7, as they prepare for their performance at FRI this year's BBC Proms. FRI FRI Producer Ella-mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03775fw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03775gv (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Endellion, Cornwall with Lord Hattersley, writer FRI Jessica Mann, Times columnist Phil Collins and Jacob Rees FRI Mogg MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03775gx (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b03775gz (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of FRI today's corporate culture in an omnibus edition of the first FRI week's episodes. FRI FRI In today's Britain, more of us spend more time at an office FRI than ever before. It dominates our lives. It's made more of FRI us middle class, transformed the lot of women, raised FRI standards in education and been the reason for many FRI technological advances. FRI FRI But the office itself seems to have no history. We accept FRI without question the way we work now. We endure the charade FRI of the annual appraisal. We gawp at endless PowerPoint FRI presentations in interminable meetings. We work in open plan FRI offices where we can overhear our colleagues phone calls to FRI their plumber. That's how things are done. But why? FRI FRI For the last twenty years, writer Lucy Kellaway has been an FRI observer of the peculiarities of corporate culture in her FRI column for the Financial Times. In this series, she looks FRI back at the history of office life. How did it end up like FRI this? FRI FRI Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry FRI Shale FRI Historical Consultant: Michael Heller FRI FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0371wxr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03775h1 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03775h3 (Listen) FRI Their Eyes Were Watching God, Episode 10 FRI FRI by Zora Neale Hurston FRI FRI A hurricane has hit the Everglades and the lake has breached FRI its banks. When Janie got into trouble escaping the floods, FRI Tea Cake came to her aid but he was bitten by a mad dog. Now FRI safely back home he has become ill and Janie has gone to FRI fetch the doctor. FRI FRI Read by Adjoa Andoh FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4 FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b0375sff (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 From Worcester with Love b01ntg53 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Fifty years ago Peter White, at the age of eleven, left home FRI for Worcester College. Then it was a residential school for FRI blind and partially sighted boys. He had a love-hate FRI relationship with it, but freely admits now that it changed FRI his life and gave him the tools to compete in a tough world. FRI Throughout the last academic year, Peter has returned to FRI Worcester, to follow his twenty-first century successors: FRI seven eleven- and twelve-year-olds, who have come to the FRI school from a variety of backgrounds. FRI FRI Much has changed. In the 1960's it was almost universally FRI assumed that blind children would be educated together; now FRI its far more common for them to attend mainstream schools. FRI Worcester, now known as New College, is still residential; FRI but pupils live in small houses, not in the institution FRI itself, where they learn to cook, care for their clothes, FRI and generally look after themselves. Its co-educational, and FRI children go home far more often. Throughout the year, FRI through a mixture of exchanged letters, and frequent visits, FRI Peter and the current year seven pupils have been getting to FRI know each other and comparing their experiences of school. FRI FRI Nothing's been off-limits: the pupils have discussed FRI homesickness, getting lost, bullying, a case of racism; and FRI how the experience of living at New College is changing FRI them. We've not only heard from the pupils; but staff, FRI house-parents, and the children's families. They have proved FRI to be a very varied, and engaging group of youngsters, who FRI have talked very honestly about their experiences: Rufus: FRI self-contained, fascinated by technology and delighted with FRI Peter's tales of bad behaviour back in the sixties; Grace; FRI clever, full of common-sense, but suffering badly from FRI missing home and family. And then there's Zoey, the form FRI all-rounder; bookworm, athlete, and learning to play the FRI organ: Ali, obsessed with rap and the London street life he FRI has left: but not quite as tough as he would like to make FRI out; William, who is struggling to make friends and settle FRI in and Jess, who describes daily dramas as she gets lost, FRI battles with bees and plans mammoth sleep-overs at her FRI London home. FRI FRI From Worcester with Love follows the group through the year, FRI as work gets harder, and the novelty wears off. Listeners FRI will be able to track the engaging ins and outs as Will and FRI Ali attempt to settle their differences and to find out how FRI Angel, who revealed at the beginning of her year that she'd FRI never had real friends before, copes with living away from FRI home. Meanwhile Jess is considering whether to swap the FRI hothouse atmosphere of a residential special school for the FRI familiarities of home and the more Laissez-faire attitude of FRI her local comprehensive. Peter follows what happens and is FRI given pause for thought by an old school friend who actually FRI works at the school today. How have things changed and what FRI might life be like for those starting their secondary FRI education at the blind school which played such an important FRI role in shaping Peter's life. FRI FRI Producer: Susan Mitchell FRI (Repeat). FRI
19 July, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 20/07/2013 - 26/07/2013
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