27 July, 2013

Radio 4 Listings for 27/07/2013 - 02/08/2013

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SAT SATURDAY 27 JULY 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03770r9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b037h0g0 (Listen) SAT 1913, Episode 5 SAT SAT In Paris, Proust sets out in search of lost time in a SAT sound-proofed study, Stravinsky creates musical mayhem, and SAT Duchamp finds a wheel; in Prague, Einstein yearns for Elsa SAT and Kafka for Felice; in Munich, Lulu is banned, and Münter SAT captures her Klee; in Vienna, Freud falls out with Jung, and SAT Stalin and Hitler stroll, and maybe meet, in the grounds of SAT a palace. SAT SAT This is Europe in 1913 - the year before the storm. Florian SAT Illies captures a world on the edge of a cataclysm, in which SAT armies are enlarged and and nationalistic lines are drawn. SAT SAT But Illies' snapshots are of a Europe, though laden with SAT premonition, that is still vibrant and creative. The SAT Futurists, Fauvists and Expressionists are redefining art; SAT Proust and Joyce are reshaping literature; Freud and Jung SAT are battling their way through the subconscious; Stravinsky SAT has tapped a primitive nerve in music; and Einstein is, SAT well, Einstein. SAT SAT The anecdotes and observations embrace Picasso, Braque, the SAT Mona Lisa (mostly missing), Thomas Mann, Duchamp, Franz SAT Ferdinand, Kirchner, Klee, Klimt, Kandinsky, Kafka, SAT Wedekind, Einstein, King George V, Stalin, Hitler, Redl, SAT Machu Picchu, Münter and many more. SAT SAT Florian Illies trained as an art historian at Bonn and SAT Oxford. He was editor of FAZ's 'Berliner Seiten' and the SAT arts section of 'Die Ziet', and he co-founded the arts SAT magazine 'Monopol'. He is currently a managing partner at SAT the fine art auction house Villa Grisebach in Berlin. 1913: SAT The Year Before The Storm has so far sold over 200,000 SAT copies in Germany. SAT SAT Writer: Florian Illies SAT Translators: Shaun Whiteside and Jamie Lee Searle SAT SAT Reader: Michael Maloney SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Michael Maloney SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT Abridger: Peter Nichols SAT Author: Florian Illies SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03770rc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03770rf (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03770rh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03770rk (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0377bm0 (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd SAT Edwin Counsell. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0377bm2 (Listen) SAT Serious squeezebox - why the accordion should not be treated SAT as a joke instrument. Interviews with folk singer Steve SAT Turner about his concertina and accordion queen Karen Tweed. SAT Music also from Lau, Spiers and Boden, and the No.1 Ladies SAT Accordion Orchestra. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer SAT Tracey. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03770rs (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03770s5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b037706r (Listen) SAT A World in a Woodland SAT SAT Woodlands are often the setting for fairy stories but also SAT for the creation of a new childhood game, a secret adventure SAT or a new den and are cherished places. Helen Mark heads to SAT Gloucestershire to see how children, large and small, share SAT a love for the forest. SAT SAT In Berkeley she meets children from a 'forest school' where SAT lessons are taken outside and children are taught to use SAT axes and saws, to identify trees and create and build. While SAT the children teach her how to get involved, she hears it's SAT not just the children who've changed through freedom outside SAT the classroom. SAT SAT Near Tetbury she meets James Shrives and his wife Debs SAT who've crammed 1000 trees into an acre of garden space to SAT create their own forest. The dense growth provides a SAT sanctuary and draws in wildlife but will the pride they've SAT taken in the growth make it heartbreaking to thin down the SAT area? SAT SAT Finally she heads to the edge of Bristol where a SAT council-managed forest at Ashton Court provides an escape SAT for city-dwellers. She joins a group of friends to see how SAT the wild space inspires them and if it can rival their SAT computers and meets author Ingrid Skeels whose own SAT alternative education led her to create St Cuthbert's Wild SAT School for Boys. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b037dxyh (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03770sr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b037dxyk (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b037dxym (Listen) SAT Charles Saumarez Smith of the Royal Academy of Arts SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles meet Charles Saumarez Smith SAT of the Royal Academy of Arts. SAT SAT 10:30 Pomp, Pageantry and Parade b037dxyp (Listen) SAT Marching to a different beat SAT SAT Courtney Pine talks to the Guards bandsmen who play at SAT events like Trooping the Colour, former head of the Army SAT General Sir Mike Jackson, and to young musicians planning to SAT join up. SAT SAT Their enthusiasm and the quality of the music they create is SAT undeniable. But Guardian analyst Simon Jenkins argues that SAT state ceremonial could be done just as well by civilians and SAT that £100m a year for military music is "a ludicrous sum". SAT SAT Producer: Llinus Jones SAT A Terrier Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b037dxyr (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian reviews the past year at SAT Westminster in the company of fellow Week In Westminster SAT presenters Steve Richards, Peter Oborne, George Parker and SAT Sue Cameron. They look at the state of the coalition, how SAT the parties are positioning themselves for the next SAT election, and what might crop up between now and polling day SAT to change political fortunes. SAT The Week In Westminster will be back on air when Parliament SAT returns in September. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b037dxyt (Listen) SAT The Albanian Riviera SAT SAT Albania, not so long ago a redoubt of hardline Communism, is SAT now hoping for EU membership. Julia Langdon's been assessing SAT its chances during a visit to the seaside there. Emma Jane SAT Kirby's visiting a company which makes men's pants in SAT France. She's looking into claims that it's harder than ever SAT to make business prosper in France. Wyre Davies is reporting SAT on the papal visit to Brazil - gauging the impact it's SAT making in a country buoyed up by economic optimism but SAT still, in many places, very poor. Prashant Rao tells us SAT about a favourite supermarket in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, SAT and how its luck finally ran out when it was targeted by SAT bombers. And John Pickford, in the kingdom of Tonga, finds SAT Chinese aid to this archipelago in the Pacific plentiful but SAT sometimes, a mixed blessing. SAT Tony Grant produces From Our Own Correspondent. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b037dxyw (Listen) SAT Housing Special SAT SAT On this week's Money Box with Ruth Alexander, the programme SAT tackles the housing market and offers tips to minimise the SAT damage to your wallet when you're moving - whether you're SAT renting or buying. SAT SAT The programmes investigates how some estate agents are SAT putting undue pressure on customers to use their in-house SAT financial services. We'll be asking the National Association SAT of Estate Agents why its members are breaking the rules, and SAT asking the Property Ombudsman what action they'll take. SAT SAT An MPs' report has exposed the hidden and unreasonable fees SAT being charged to tenants and landlords by some letting SAT agents. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has SAT described the lettings sector, which is unregulated, as "the SAT property industry's wild west." We'll be asking what SAT constitutes a fair price for services, and finding out how SAT you can challenge an agent if you think you've been SAT overcharged. SAT SAT Earlier this week, the Chancellor announced more information SAT about the second phase of Help to Buy, the government's SAT mortgage guarantee scheme which will be available from SAT January next year. We'll be going through the details with SAT mortgage expert Ray Boulger from brokers John Charcol. SAT SAT And finally, with interest rates as low as they are, it can SAT make sense to make overpayments on your mortgage, if your SAT deal allows you to. But we'll be hearing from Money Box SAT listeners, who have found out their extra payments haven't SAT been paying off either the interest or capital. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03775gn (Listen) SAT Series 81, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Jason Cook, Julia SAT Hartley-Brewer, and Fred MacAulay. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03770sy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03770t0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03775gv (Listen) SAT Lord Hattersley, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jessica Mann, Philip SAT Collins SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Endellion, Cornwall with Lord Hattersley, writer SAT Jessica Mann, Times columnist Phil Collins and Jacob Rees SAT Mogg MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b037ghws (Listen) SAT Anita Anand presents listeners' calls and emails in response SAT to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mny1l (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Killings, Cop Killer SAT SAT Cop Killer SAT by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö SAT Translated by Thomas Teal SAT Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth SAT SAT The murder of a woman in a small village outside Malmö in SAT Southern Sweden wouldn't normally warrant the attentions of SAT Detective Inspector Martin Beck and his team. But this woman SAT lived next door to a man who has already killed once, and SAT the press are taking a lot of interest in the case. Beck and SAT Kollberg aren't getting anywhere when a teenage shootout SAT between two teenage boys and the police not far away starts SAT a series of events that eventually leads them to the killer, SAT and sets the seal on a significant decision for Lennart SAT Kollberg. SAT SAT Original Music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Sara Davies. 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 Hergot Allwright: Howard Coggins SAT Einar Ronn: Wayne Foskett SAT Malm: Nicholas Murchie SAT Folke Bengtsson: John Mackay SAT Bertil Mard: Kenneth Collard SAT Caspar: Fraser Burrows SAT Christer: Will Howard SAT The Breadman: Paul Mundell SAT Clark Sundström: Ben Crowe SAT Maggie: Jenny Harrold SAT Mrs Sundström: Philippa Stanton SAT Sigbrit Mard: Joanna Brookes SAT Radio Reporter: Will Glennon SAT Actor: Sara Davies SAT Adaptor: Jennifer Howarth SAT Author: Maj Sjowall SAT Author: Per Wahloo SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b0375qt8 (Listen) SAT Series 16, Don't Leave Me This Way SAT SAT Don't Leave Me This Way was written in the early 1970s by SAT songwriters Huff, Gamble and Gilbert who were the composers SAT behind the famous black American Philadelphia Sound. It was SAT first performed by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, SAT featuring Teddy Pendergrass on lead vocals, and later became SAT a hit for Thelma Houston and the Communards. As the title SAT suggests, the song is all about longing, yearning and loss. SAT Remarkable stories in this edition of Soul Music reflect the SAT pain expressed in this soul classic, including one told by SAT Dr Dan Gottlieb, a quadriplegic therapist who befriended SAT Teddy Pendergrass after he became paralysed in a car SAT accident. Sharon Wachsler recalls dancing to the version SAT made famous by The Communards in 1986 before a devastating SAT illness left her housebound and reliant on her beloved SAT service dog Gadget, who gave her a reason to keep going. SAT When he died, the song was the only way she could express SAT her grief over his loss. The Reverend Richard Coles, SAT formerly of The Communards, talks about the significance of SAT Don't Leave Me This Way as a dancefloor anthem for young gay SAT men in the 1980s that was later to become associated with SAT the AIDS epidemic that took so many of their lives. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b037ghwv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: David Cameron, Kim Cattrall SAT SAT Prime Minister David Cameron on tackling online porn; SAT Osteoporosis, what can you do to protect your bones? Dame SAT Stephanie "Steve" Shirley - philanthropist and Woman's Hour SAT Powerlister talks about her life and the joy of helping SAT others. How do you know if your child's speech is developing SAT at the rate and what you can do to if you're worried. The SAT Derbyshire teacher who's so convinced that getting the right SAT bra is so important she's set up classes on breast health at SAT her school. Plus how the suffragettes spread the word back SAT in 1913. Actress Kim Cattrall on her latest role in SAT Tennessee William's Sweet Bird of Youth. And musician SAT Gabrielle Aplin performs her latest single Home. SAT SAT Producer: Beverley Purcell SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b037ghwx (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b0377076 (Listen) SAT Investor Relations SAT SAT The power of investors and their role in changing how SAT business functions and is run is the discussion for Evan SAT Davis and his guests. What is it like to be voted off the SAT board by your shareholders? And is investor activism here to SAT stay? And how should a company boss best manage the owners SAT of the company? SAT SAT Guests SAT Alison Carnwath, chair Land Securities SAT Helena Morrissey, CEO Newton Asset Management SAT Nigel Wilson, Group CEO Legal & General SAT SAT Producers: Rosamund Jones/Lucy Proctor. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03770t3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03770t5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03770t7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b037ghwz (Listen) SAT Peter Gabriel, Gilberto Gil, Keith Allen, Arthur Smith, SAT Roopa Panesar, Malawi Mouse Boys, Carminho SAT SAT Nikki's Shaking The Tree with musician Peter Gabriel, SAT without whom, there would be no WOMAD. With several SAT like-minded souls, Peter started the festival back in 1982. SAT Since then, WOMAD has gone from strength to strength - as SAT has Real World, the record label he set up to give exposure SAT to great world music artists. SAT SAT Activist turned Brazilian minister Gilberto Gil recently SAT took to the stage in Egypt and is now at WOMAD. He tells SAT Nikki about his 50 year quest to marry music and politics. SAT SAT Nikki digs a Shallow Grave for actor, broadcaster and SAT seasoned festival lover Keith Allen, who'll be sharing his SAT thoughts on world music and what attracts him to a festival SAT as eclectic as WOMAD. SAT SAT And watch out - Arthur Smith's on the loose, sampling some SAT of the delights that the festival has to offer. SAT SAT Nikki plucks a string or two with musician Roopa Panesar, SAT who is regarded as one of the finest Sitar players to emerge SAT on the UK Indian music scene. As well as performing, Roopa SAT also teaches the sitar and works to inspire the next SAT generation of Indian classical musicians. SAT SAT We have music from The Malawi Mouse Boys; a group of SAT villagers who have been writing and playing music together SAT since they were children. When not strumming on rudimentary SAT guitars made from recycled scrap-metal parts, these young SAT musicians make a living selling the local delicacy - mice on SAT sticks as snacks for passing travellers - hence their name. SAT They perform 'Palibe' and 'Kunvera' from their album 'He is SAT #1'. SAT SAT And on the stage with them is Portugal's brightest new Fado SAT star, Carminho, who, after attending university and SAT travelling the globe, realised that singing the music of her SAT homeland was her calling in life. She performs 'Escrevi Teu SAT Nome No Vento' from her album 'Alma'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b037ghx1 (Listen) SAT Andre Geim SAT SAT Helen Grady profiles Professor Sir Andre Geim who has been SAT awarded the Copley Medal, believed to be the world's oldest SAT science prize. SAT SAT It is not the only prize Geim has won - some more SAT prestigious than others. In the year 2000, Geim shared the SAT Ig Nobel Prize for improbable research for using magnets to SAT levitate a frog. Ten years later, however, he was jointly SAT awarded the real Nobel Prize in Physics for his SAT ground-breaking experiments using graphene, thought by many SAT to be the miracle material of the 21st century. SAT SAT Graphene sheets are the building blocks of graphite, a SAT material found in the lead of ordinary pencils. It looks SAT like chicken wire but is only one atom thick. A hammock made SAT of one square metre of graphene is strong enough to bear the SAT weight of a cat but weighs less than a milligram - the SAT weight of a cat's whisker. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b037ghx3 (Listen) SAT Cameron Mackintosh takes on Barnum; new film Frances Ha SAT SAT Chichester Festival Theatre's main stage is currently SAT undergoing building works so a large temporary tent-like SAT structure has been built outside - surely the perfect SAT setting for a production of Barnum. Cameron Mackintosh SAT co-produces the story of the extraordinary American showman. SAT SAT Frances Ha is a new film co-scripted by its star, Greta SAT Gerwig, and directed by Noah Baumbach. It's a funny and SAT touching coming-of-age story for Frances, a 27-year-old SAT living in New York who can't quite bring herself to do SAT anything or leave anywhere. SAT SAT Alissa Nutting's debut novel Tampa has attracted attention SAT for its explicit description of a relationship between a SAT female teacher and her 14-year-old pupil. Based on a true SAT story, does it offer an insightful take on what happens when SAT a woman does such a thing? SAT SAT The Mill is a new drama set in the Industrial Revolution by SAT John Fay aiming to bring the history of Cheshire's Quarry SAT Mill to life. It's on Channel 4 and takes true stories of SAT some of the children who worked there and the writer hopes SAT it will be "the English Roots - with laughs". SAT SAT And The Queen's Coronation 1953 is a special exhibition to SAT mark 60 years since the event, taking place as part of the SAT Summer Opening of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The SAT Queen's Coronation Dress designed by Norman Hartnell and the SAT invitation to Prince Charles to attend are among the objects SAT on display. SAT SAT Presenter Sarfraz Manzoor is joined by Dame Liz Forgan, SAT Deborah Moggach and Antonia Quirke. SAT SAT Produced by Sarah Johnson. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b037ghx5 (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, Esther Rantzen SAT SAT From "That's Life" to ChildLine and beyond, broadcaster SAT Esther Rantzen examines her younger self in the BBC Sound SAT archives and discusses her reaction with John Wilson. SAT SAT Esther Rantzen became a fixture on people's televisions as SAT the face of "That's Life", the consumer journalism SAT television programme which ran for over 20 years. But she SAT began her career in the BBC doing spot effects for drama SAT productions and gained gradual on-screen exposure on SAT "Braden's Week" and "Nationwide". She made several landmark SAT films examining stillbirth and dying and her campaigns for SAT victims of child abuse led to the formation of ChildLine. SAT SAT Among the clips that she hears from the archives are an SAT early written sketch from "That Was the Week That Was", one SAT of her first reports from "Nationwide", the very first SAT edition of "That's Life" and an extract from a little-known SAT encounter with the sculptor Fiore de Henriquez who made a SAT sculpture of the head of Esther and her new baby Emily. SAT SAT Esther also discusses her relationship with her late husband SAT Desmond Wilcox, the formation of ChildLine and her decision SAT to stand as an independent MP. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0375250 (Listen) SAT Desolation Island, Episode 1 SAT SAT 1 / 2. By Patrick O'Brian. August, 1811. Jack Aubrey sets SAT sail for Australia in his new command, HMS Leopard. His SAT mission - to transport a group of convicts to Botany Bay, SAT including a woman, Louisa Wogan, who has been spying for the SAT Americans. Stephen Maturin joins Jack once again as ship's SAT surgeon - but his real mission is to watch Mrs Wogan. When a SAT fever breaks out among the prisoners and crew, Jack decides SAT to head for Recife - but he is pursued through the South SAT Atlantic by a powerful Dutch warship. Dramatised by Roger SAT Danes. SAT SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jack Aubrey: David Robb SAT Stephen Maturin: Richard Dillane SAT Louisa Wogan: Teresa Gallagher SAT Michael Herapath: Samuel Barnett SAT Lt Pullings: David Holt SAT Barratt Bonden: Sam Dale SAT Preserved Killick: Jon Glover SAT Lt Grant: Jonathan Tafler SAT Byron: Nick Underwood SAT Sir Joseph Blaine: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Peggy Barnes: Hannah Wood SAT Josiah Plaice: Lloyd Thomas SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT Adaptor: Roger Danes SAT Writer: Patrick O'Brian SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03770t9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0376nd3 (Listen) SAT Meritocracy and Privilege SAT SAT Around 14,000 babies will be born in the UK this week, but SAT it's almost certain that none of them will have the same SAT privileged start in life as the new royal baby. We're all SAT born equal; some, of course, are more equal than others. But SAT does it matter? And what should we do about it? Today SAT politicians of all shades have signed up very publicly to SAT the principle of equality of opportunity, but the reality is SAT that our nation is as divided as ever. It's claimed that the SAT richest 10% of the UK are more than 100 times as wealthy as SAT the poorest 10%. For some the answer is not just to level SAT the playing field, but to tip it in favour of the most SAT disadvantaged; in the name of equality, positively to SAT discriminate in favour of those who have been denied their SAT chance in life by an accident of birth. Can you ever impose SAT equality, or is the only just and fair answer to allow SAT people to rise or fall on their own merit? If we really SAT believed that inequality was unjust and morally SAT indefensible, wouldn't we be doing something to redistribute SAT incomes and opportunity? Or is the real moral problem the SAT fact that most people - and certainly, most middle class SAT people - sign up to the principles of egalitarianism, but SAT only want "equal chances" for everyone else's children? When SAT it comes to their own they'll do everything they can to SAT ensure they get a head start. Combative, provocative and SAT engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, SAT Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor and Anne McElvoy. SAT Witnesses: PROFESSOR PETER SAUNDERS - Professor of Sociology SAT at the University of Sussex, JOHN CLARKE - Historian and SAT writer, ANDREW LILICO - Economist with "Europe Economics" SAT who writes for the Daily Telegraph, PROFESSOR JONATHAN WOLFF SAT - Professor of Philosophy at University College London. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b0375byt (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 12 SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini welcomes the last of this year's SAT Counterpoint semi-finalists to the BBC Radio Theatre, for SAT the contest that will decide which of them appears in the SAT 2013 Final. SAT SAT At stake is a real chance to lift the silver trophy as the SAT 27th Counterpoint champion. This week's semi-finalists are SAT from Cheltenham, Bury St Edmunds and Debden in Essex. SAT SAT To make it through to the Final they'll have to draw on the SAT widest possible musical knowledge, from Wagner and Beethoven SAT to Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. As always there are SAT plenty of musical extracts to identify, both familiar and SAT surprising. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT CONTESTANTS IN SEMI-FINAL 3 SAT SAT PAUL BURGESS, a civil servant from Cheltenham; SAT SAT ADAM HARVEY, a music hire librarian from Bury St Edmunds; SAT SAT ALAN McLEAN, an educational consultant from Debden in Essex. SAT SAT 23:30 Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange SAT b0375254 (Listen) SAT Karen Leeder is fascinated by one of the great modernist SAT works of literature of 1922; not James Joyce's 'Ulysses', SAT published in February, nor 'The Waste Land' by T. S. Eliot, SAT but Maria Rainer Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus'. SAT SAT After a lifetime wandering about Europe Rilke was at last SAT able to settle when his patron, Werner Reinhart, bought the SAT Château de Muzot in the Swiss Valais so that he could live SAT there, and write. His aim was to complete his monumental SAT work,'The Duino Elegies'. But this plan was interrupted in SAT February when, 'completely unexpected' the 'Sonnets to SAT Orpheus' broke upon him'. Within three weeks he had SAT completed 55 poems, of great variety, but all sonnets. SAT SAT Rilke didn't like English and never visited Britain. Yet the SAT 'Sonnets to Orpheus' have fascinated English language SAT readers and writers ever since they appeared. There have SAT been translations every decade, the most recent, and SAT brilliant, by Martyn Crucefix, published just last year. Don SAT Paterson's 'Orpheus', which he calls versions, rather than SAT translations of the sonnets, is considered his finest work. SAT SAT Karen Leeder talks to both writers, and the Greman scholar SAT and poet Rüdiger Görner, teasing out the major issues they SAT address; death, love and, the creation and role of poetry - SAT for Rilke a song of praise for life, and even death, in a SAT creation without God, through which meaning is accomplished. SAT SAT Karen, who is the Professor of German at Oxford University, SAT and one of the editors of 'The Cambridge Companion to Rilke' SAT visits the Château de Muzot. With Nanni Reinhart, who lives SAT there now, she considers the impact of the place of their SAT composition on the poems. Leading us through the nuances of SAT their meaning, she alerts us to the beauty and power of SAT Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus'. SAT SAT “There upped a tree.” The view from Rilke’s writing desk SAT SAT The Chateau de Muzot where Rilke lived and wrote the SAT ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ SAT SAT Rilke said that after writing he would walk around the SAT tower, stroking it as if it were a live animal SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 JULY 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b037ddsm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng b017c9pr (Listen) SUN A Naughty Victorian Lady SUN SUN In today's episode, Byng reminisces about his early SUN childhood as the son of a Nottingham bank manager, and his SUN first job as a theatrical costume designer in Soho. He also SUN performs two of his songs: I'm One of the Queens of England SUN and Naughty Victorian Days. SUN SUN Douglas Byng (1893 - 1987) was a female impersonator and the SUN most famous cabaret star of his day. Billed as "Bawdy but SUN British", his professional career lasted for over 70 years. SUN This short series traces the journey of the cross-dressing SUN glamour queen from privileged childhood in the 1890s, SUN through concert parties in Hastings, to his emergence as the SUN darling of the society set, entertaining royalty and SUN London's 'Bright Young Things' at the Café de Paris in the SUN 1920s and 30s. SUN SUN Douglas Byng has been dubbed 'the highest priest of camp'. SUN He blazed a trail for others to follow, treading a fine line SUN between sophisticated urbanity and risqué innuendo which SUN presaged more contemporary, boundary-bending comedians such SUN as Kenneth Williams, Danny La Rue, Barry Humphries and...our SUN own Julian Clary. SUN SUN Byng's debonair appearances in revue were described by Noel SUN Coward as "the most refined vulgarity in London"! SUN After the Second World War, Douglas Byng became a familiar SUN stage and film actor and much-loved pantomime dame. His SUN saucy recordings of self-penned songs led to occasional bans SUN by the BBC, but his popularity never diminished. SUN SUN He wrote his autobiography (As You Were - published in 1970) SUN in retirement in Brighton, and this book provides the SUN material for the series. SUN SUN With Julian Clary as Douglas Byng. SUN SUN Compiled by Tony Lidington. SUN Pianist: Martin Seager SUN SUN Producer/Director: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037ddsp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037ddsr (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037ddst (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b037ddsw (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b037glt5 (Listen) SUN The bells of St.Mary's Church, Barnes, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b037ghx1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b037ddsy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b037glt7 (Listen) SUN Stewardship SUN SUN "The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it", according SUN to the Psalms. SUN SUN There is an argument that we hold the world in divine trust SUN in many faiths. Contemporary ecological movements, religious SUN or not, would argue that we have a responsibility to future SUN generations. Do traditional concepts of stewardship have SUN something to teach us? SUN SUN Mark Tully discusses the idea of stewardship in conversation SUN with philosopher Roger Scruton. With readings from John SUN Mortimer, poet Arthur Guiterman and environmentalist Aldo SUN Leopold - and music by Woodie Guthrie, Joni Mitchell and SUN Bach. SUN SUN The readers are Gerard Murphy and Toby Jones. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b037glt9 (Listen) SUN Coquet Terns SUN SUN This week on Living World, presenter Trai Anfield is on home SUN ground and heading off to Coquet Island, just a mile off the SUN Northumberland coast at Amble. Coquet Island is now the last SUN breeding colony in Britain for the roseate tern, a SUN charismatic seabird sharing the island with 40,000 other SUN seabirds. SUN SUN This is a rare privilege for Trai as during the roseate tern SUN breeding season no landings are allowed on the island, nor SUN are boats allowed close by. However guiding her through the SUN natural history of this declining bird is RSPB's Paul SUN Morrison, who manages the island, and BTO's Tom SUN Cadwallander, the only person in the UK able to ring roseate SUN terns. Even for this programme, Paul is not able to land on SUN the island but he skilfully manoeuvres the boat just a few SUN feet away from the nest boxes the RSPB install to assist the SUN roseate terns to breed. SUN SUN As Tom explains at the time of recording, there were only 71 SUN breeding pairs of roseate terns on the island, making up SUN about 99% of the UK population. The nearest large colony is SUN in Ireland where around 1000 pairs breed at Rockabill. On SUN Coquet Island the roseate terns share space with 3 other SUN tern species, the sandwich, arctic and common. SUN SUN Even though Trai cannot step onto the island, the spectacle SUN of all these seabirds just feet from the shore is something SUN she revels in while learning just a little more about this SUN birds natural history. SUN SUN Producer: Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b037ddt0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b037ddt2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b037gltc (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b037gltf (Listen) SUN The Lorna Young Foundation SUN SUN Joanne Harris presents the Radio 4 Appeal for The Lorna SUN Young Foundation. SUN Reg Charity:1112895 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'LYF Farmer Radio'. SUN SUN The Lorna Young Foundation SUN SUN The Lorna Young Foundation (LYF) is a ‘Local And Global’ SUN trade justice charity. SUN SUN We partner with poor producers overseas - helping them to SUN access independent business information and empowering them SUN to engage on a fairer footing within markets, to gain more SUN control within the supply chain and to achieve desperately SUN needed income. SUN SUN Our most recent initiative ‘Farmer Radio,’ SUN provides smallholders in Africa with crucial information SUN about their crops via local radio. Working with coffee SUN farmers in Kenya and Ethiopia and now with women cocoa SUN growers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) we want to SUN replicate its success throughout the developing world. SUN SUN We also work to create trade justice partnerships between SUN local marginalised groups in the UK and with producers SUN overseas. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b037ddt4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b037ddt6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b037gm17 (Listen) SUN Stuart Townend, known and respected around the world as one SUN of the leading worship songwriters of his generation, leads SUN the music at this year's service from the Keswick SUN Convention. SUN SUN 'The Transforming Trinity' is the theme of this year's SUN Convention, an annual Bible gathering which has been held in SUN the Cumbrian town since 1875. In this service, preacher SUN Rico Tice, Associate Minister at All Souls Church, Langham SUN Place in London, explores the desire to 'Follow Jesus, the SUN Son'. SUN SUN Leader: John Risbridger SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03775gx (Listen) SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b02txxkl (Listen) SUN Dotterel 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 dotterel. SUN SUN Dotterels are waders, rather like small plovers with a broad SUN white-eye stripe. In the UK, they're almost confined as SUN breeding birds to the Scottish Highlands. They don't tend to SUN fly away when approached which led our ancestors to believe SUN that they are stupid. "Dotterel" derives from the same SUN source as "dotard" and this tameness meant that the birds SUN were easy prey for Victorian collectors. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b037gm19 (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 b037gm1c (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN Kenton's wild times SUN Brenda Tucker - past, present and future 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 b037gm1f (Listen) SUN Mary Robinson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Robinson, former President SUN of Ireland and ex-UN Commissioner for Human Rights. SUN SUN Her professional life has been defined by public service at SUN the very highest level and she appears the epitome of the SUN cool-headed pragmatist. And yet she is also something of an SUN enigma: a committed Catholic who fought hard to legalise SUN contraception and divorce; an elected head of state with SUN both a noble bearing and a common touch. SUN SUN As a lawyer she lead from the front championing SUN controversial causes at home in Ireland and fiercely SUN defending human rights at the UN. She also has a habit of SUN making history - she was Ireland's first female president SUN and the first Irish Head of state to meet Her Majesty the SUN Queen at Buckingham Palace. SUN SUN She says of her life and work "over the years I have given SUN many talks and taken part in many discussions on leadership: SUN women's leadership, political leadership, business SUN leadership, grass roots leadership. But the element of SUN leadership that really fascinates me is moral leadership." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0375d6f (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 4 SUN SUN The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the SUN Winding Wheel Theatre in Chesterfield. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel SUN by Miles Jupp with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN attempts piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b037gnxk (Listen) SUN Skint Foodies SUN SUN Sheila Dillon meets the cooks specialising in great food on SUN small budgets, part of a world of food blogging influenced SUN by life of benefits, periods of homelessness and shopping SUN budgets that can be as little as ten pounds a week. SUN SUN One of the highest profile blogs is "A Girl called Jack", SUN written by Jack Monroe, a single mum who lives in SUN Southend-On-Sea. Out of work, having complications with SUN benefits and reduced to feeding her small boy Weetabix SUN mashed with water, she went online to share her experience SUN and started writing about food. SUN SUN What followed was a record of some of the most savvy SUN shopping tips to be found anywhere, from dishes that can be SUN cooked for 27p a portion, through to a forensic guide to SUN every supermarket shelf, freezer cabinet and fresh produce SUN aisle. SUN SUN In a recent report by Oxfam, the numbers of people now using SUN food banks has reached 500,000, linked, charities say, to SUN recent reforms of the benefits system. The government SUN disputes this link, but food insecurity is increasingly SUN found in every region of the UK. SUN SUN Others who have taken to writing about their efforts to cook SUN and eat well on low budgets include SUN Belfast born, now London based, Miss South who along with SUN her brother, who lives in Manchester, Mr North, share SUN recipes and pictures of the food they enjoy. Miss South SUN recently came out as being "properly poor" in a blog posted SUN last November and her writing has inspired others who need SUN to cook on food budgets hovering between £15 and £20 a week. SUN SUN The third blogger in the programme is Tony, aka Skint SUN Foodie. Once a high flying, restaurant going professional, SUN his writing documents a determination to eat well despite SUN losing everything to alcoholism. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b037ddt8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b037gnxm (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 Parkinson's Law Revisited b02x6705 (Listen) SUN Does work expand to fill the time available for its SUN completion? Do bureaucracies bloat of their own accord? SUN These are some of the insights offered by Cyril Northcote SUN Parkinson whose essay "Parkinson's Law" made him a famous SUN commentator on organisational structures in the 1950s. But SUN Parkinson's Law might have more to offer us in a world where SUN bureaucracies are being slimmed down, as Matthew Sweet SUN discovers. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03775gb (Listen) SUN RHS Tatton Flower Show SUN SUN Eric Robson is at the RHS Tatton Flower Show for this week's SUN episode of Gardeners' Question Time. Joining him are SUN gardening experts Chris Beardshaw, Christine Walkden and SUN Pippa Greenwood, who will be tackling the audience's SUN horticultural questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b037gnxp (Listen) SUN The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis SUN SUN On July 30th 1945 a US warship was torpedoed by a Japanese SUN submarine in the Pacific. The sailors who survived the SUN attack spent 4 days adrift in shark-infested waters. Out of SUN 1197 men on board just 317 made it out of the water alive. SUN The horror of their ordeal was made famous by the film SUN 'Jaws'. Loel Dean Cox is one of the last remaining SUN survivors. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b037gnxr (Listen) SUN Desolation Island, Episode 2 SUN SUN 2 / 2. By Patrick O'Brian. Jack Aubrey is pursued through SUN the South Atlantic by a powerful Dutch warship whose 74 guns SUN threaten to blow HMS Leopard out of the water. As the SUN Leopard tries to out-run the enemy, Jack and Stephen have to SUN contend with a fever that lays waste to the crew and an SUN unexpected childbirth. A confrontation with the Dutch ship SUN leaves Jack seriously wounded - and a dangerous situation SUN turns to disaster when his first officer takes command and SUN runs the Leopard into an iceberg. Dramatised by Roger Danes. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jack Aubrey: David Robb SUN Stephen Maturin: Richard Dillane SUN Louisa Wogan: Teresa Gallagher SUN Michael Herapath: Samuel Barnett SUN Barratt Bonden: Sam Dale SUN Preserved Killick: Jon Glover SUN Lt Grant: Jonathan Tafler SUN Byron: Nick Underwood SUN Jedediah Wilbey: Gerard McDermott SUN Josiah Plaice: Lloyd Thomas SUN Sir Joseph Blaine: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Director: Bruce Young SUN Producer: Bruce Young SUN Adaptor: Roger Danes SUN Writer: Patrick O'Brian SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b037gnxt (Listen) SUN Alcohol's influence on literature; James Runcie; Grace SUN McCleen SUN SUN Olivia Laing discusses alcohol's influence on literature SUN with Mariella Frostrup SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 The Namer of Clouds b037gnxw (Listen) SUN Poet Lavinia Greenlaw composes a tribute to Luke Howard, the SUN amateur meteorologist who in 1802 devised the cloud SUN classification system and inspired the Romantics. SUN SUN Luke Howard, often called "the father of meteorology" was a SUN chemist, whose ideas for cloud classification were stirred SUN when he was a schoolboy. In his late twenties he composed SUN the influential 'Essay on the Modification of Clouds', which SUN was delivered at the Askesian Society, a fortnightly London SUN science meeting. SUN SUN Howard's influence upon art and poetry is as impressive as SUN his meteorological discoveries. His essay became the subject SUN of poems by Goethe and Percy Bysshe Shelley and he is SUN believed to have inspired some of John Constable's SUN landscapes. SUN SUN Before composing a new poem dedicated to Luke Howard, SUN Lavinia goes cloud spotting in Somerset with Gavin SUN Pretor-Pinney, founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society. SUN Richard Hamblyn, Luke Howard's biographer, describes how he SUN gave the Romantics a new scientific language and Constable SUN expert Anne Lyles examines Luke Howard's impact on the SUN visual arts. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Smith SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b0375tdh (Listen) SUN Coal Comfort? SUN SUN The amount of coal burned in Britain's power stations SUN rocketed in 2012 with ministers relying on the fuel to help SUN keep the lights on in the next few years. SUN But coal mining in Britain is now in deep trouble. SUN Two of the UK's major mining firms have collapsed and a SUN third is in trouble following a huge underground fire in SUN February. SUN The fire was at Daw Mill in Warwickshire, one of the few SUN remaining deep mines in the UK. SUN Coming on the back of competition from cheap coal from SUN abroad, the costly fire plunged mine operators UK Coal into SUN financial crisis and has put the pensions of workers at SUN serious risk. SUN As the government negotiates to try to help pick up the SUN pieces Julian O'Halloran discovers UK Coal's problems come SUN on top of heavy penalties imposed in recent years by safety SUN regulators over fatal accidents underground. SUN Meanwhile the collapse of two key operators in Scotland has SUN left a trail of unrestored opencast sites which local people SUN say are blighting their areas. They blame national and local SUN government for failing to force the mining companies to SUN clear up their mess. SUN So what does the future hold for the industry, the miners SUN and local communities. And at what cost to the taxpayer? SUN Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b037ghx1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b037ddtb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b037ddtd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037ddtg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b037gt5p (Listen) SUN Stewart Henderson's Pick of the Week SUN Produced by Louise Clarke. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b037gt5t (Listen) SUN David's impressed, and Pip arrives unexpectedly. SUN Kenton's wild times SUN SUN 19:15 Richard Tyrone Jones's Big Heart b037gt60 (Listen) SUN UnCrank 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 Can he pull through, with the help of Poetry, cod SUN philosophy, and friends - nihilistic Sophia, who tries to SUN cheer his spirits with books by Houellebecq and Lovecraft, SUN and his dour Welsh publisher / solicitor Jacob, who is in SUN charge of his will, but might actually sell more books if he SUN dies? And will having a Big Heart shrink his romantic SUN possibilities? SUN SUN Based on Richard's Wellcome Trust supported solo show, which SUN toured in 2012, each episode illuminates a different aspect SUN of the experience of illness and facing your own mortality SUN with a sense of humour. SUN SUN Richard Tyrone Jones is a poet and writer and director of SUN 'Utter!" spoken word, and director of spoken word at the SUN Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe. SUN SUN It was written by Richard Tyrone Jones SUN With additional material by Richard Sandling 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 Credits SUN Writer: Richard Tyrone Jones SUN Writer: Richard Sandling SUN Jacob: Nigel Barrett SUN Sophia: Katie Bonna SUN Richard: Richard Tyrone Jones SUN Professor Hu: Lobo Chan SUN Mariana: Nina Ludovica Smith SUN Poetry Night MC: Richard Sandling SUN Producer: Nick Walker SUN SUN 19:45 Opening Lines b037gt62 (Listen) SUN Series 15, Looking Sadly out of Windows SUN SUN A precocious young girl trying to find her place in the SUN world decides to adopt John the Baptist as her role model. SUN SUN Sarah Courtauld is a writer, performer and author of SUN children's books. She studied English at Trinity College SUN Dublin, and is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers SUN programme. She is one of the winners of the BAFTA-run SUN competition to find the UK's most promising comedy SUN television writers with her play, The Slush Pile. SUN SUN Reader: Daisy Haggard SUN SUN Producer: Robert Howells. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03775gj (Listen) SUN George Alexander Louis is not yet a week old and already his SUN name is known around the world, thanks in no small part to SUN the BBC's coverage of the royal birth. But was it all a bit SUN too much? Many of you think the BBC went baby mad. SUN SUN Operation Dropout mobilises as Roger Bolton meets the man SUN who looks into those awkward silences caused by SUN technological failure - the BBC's Technology Controller for SUN Journalism, Andy Bocking. SUN SUN And while the controller sits on-high, we meet one of those SUN on the front line - senior studio manager Bob Nettles. SUN Feedback spends the day with Bob and puts listeners' audio SUN queries to one of the best pairs of ears in the business. SUN SUN Also, the emotional power of radio drama. We hear from the SUN listener who was left dumbfounded by Nick Warburton's SUN afternoon drama Irongate. SUN SUN And we're looking for your questions, comments, and queries SUN about this year's Proms. We'll be talking to the Director of SUN the Proms, Roger Wright, who is also the Controller of BBC SUN Radio 3, in a future edition of Feedback. So do send us your SUN thoughts. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03775gg (Listen) SUN A comedian, a technology guru, a White House journalist, an SUN artist and a blues musician. SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The tough talking White House correspondent Helen Thomas. SUN She asked hard questions of Presidents from Kennedy to Bush. SUN General Colin Powell pays tribute. SUN SUN The Northern painter William Turner - who only achieved fame SUN in his eighties. SUN SUN The comedian and director Mel Smith: Stephen Poliakoff and SUN Mary Kenny celebrate his acting talent. SUN SUN Dr James Martin - the technologist and philanthropist who SUN predicted the rise of the internet. SUN SUN And the rackety life of bluesman T Model Ford - who fathered SUN 26 children and served ten years in prison for a killing. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b0376jxw (Listen) SUN The Marcos Mystery? SUN SUN John Waite goes on the trail of the woman who, he's told, SUN claims to be the daughter of the former President of the SUN Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, and is about to inherit his SUN missing millions. SUN SUN She says she is a good Samaritan but her critics disagree. SUN Claiming to be on the verge of a huge inheritance she's SUN borrowed tens of thousands of pounds from Filipinos in SUN London, they say. Claiming to be employed by the Home Office SUN she's said to have accepted hundreds of pounds for SUN immigration advice. Claiming to be an investment guru it's SUN alleged that she has taken hundreds of thousands more from SUN Swedish investors, and as a fish trader it's said that she's SUN left a trail of out-of-pocket fishmongers at Billingsgate SUN Fish Market. They also say she's claimed to be an airline SUN pilot and daughter of a former Miss Spain. Never interviewed SUN before she tells John why she believes her many critics are SUN simply just jealous liars. SUN SUN Producer: Joe Kent SUN Presenter: John Waite. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b037gltf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0375db5 (Listen) SUN The Rule of Law v the Rule of Man SUN SUN With huge concern over tax avoidance, tax officials are the SUN latest to be given increased powers of discretion. They will SUN be able to penalise people who have obeyed the letter of the SUN law, but who have contravened the spirit of the tax code - SUN as determined by the officials themselves, based on certain SUN criteria. The use of official discretion is now applying SUN across the UK's legal systems, from areas such as tax and SUN finance to crime and hate speech. SUN SUN Philosopher Jamie Whyte asks: is this growth in the Rule of SUN Man undermining the Rule of Law? If officials can punish SUN you, despite the fact that you followed the rules on the SUN books, doesn't that raise the danger of injustice? SUN SUN Even though few tears are being shed for tax avoiders, SUN couldn't the lack of legal clarity lead to uncertainty? SUN Would that drive business away from Britain? Jamie unravels SUN the methods of sophisticated tax lawyers, and speaks to SUN academic thinkers and legislators. He asks if we are we SUN creating a culture where it pays to cosy up to officials. SUN And he explores the deeper philosophy of the Rule of Law and SUN whether it is being diminished in our uncertain times. SUN SUN Producer: Mukul Devichand. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b037gv2h (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 b037gv2k (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Reith Lectures b0076xry (Listen) SUN Daniel Barenboim: In the Beginning Was Sound SUN SUN Daniel Barenboim considers the difference between power and SUN strength in music and in life. Producer: Tony Phillips. SUN SUN 23:45 Witness b037gnxp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b037ddvg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Something Understood b037glt7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b037glt5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037ddvj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037ddvl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037ddvn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b037ddvq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037vzbw (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd MON Edwin Counsell. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b037gxwv (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Datshiane MON Navanayagam. MON MON 05:56 Weather b037ddvs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tyfr0 (Listen) MON Kestrel 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 kestrel. MON MON The kestrel is widely distributed throughout the UK and when MON hovering is our most recognisable bird of prey. Their MON chestnut back and wings, and habit of holding themselves MON stationary in mid-air are a unique combination;mall wonder MON that an old name for kestrels is windhover. MON MON 06:00 Today b037gxx1 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Privacy Under Pressure b037gxx5 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON 3/3 Concluding his series about the state of privacy in MON Britain today, Steve Hewlett is joined by a panel of guests MON who discuss the significance of recent erosion of privacy. MON They explore the trade offs of loss of privacy against other MON benefits, how the new transparency might impact on the way MON we live our lives, and how we should respond as individuals MON and society. Members of the panel are: MON MON Shami Chakrabarti. Director of Liberty MON Simon Jenkins, former editor of The Times and newspaper MON columnist MON Jeff Jarvis, American journalist, professor and author MON Lord Carlile, former independent reviewer of Britain's MON terror laws MON MON Producer: Jane Ashley. MON MON 09:30 A Guide to Garden Wildlife b037gxxb (Listen) MON Trees and Shrubs MON MON If you want to take a closer look at the wildlife in your MON garden trees and shrubs, then you need an umbrella! The MON reason why becomes clear, when Brett Westwood is joined by MON naturalist Phil Gates in a garden near Bristol and with the MON help of recordings by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson MON they offer a practical and entertaining guide to the MON wildlife which you're most likely to see and hear in garden MON trees and shrubs. MON Storied vegetation creates the most diverse habitat for MON birds in gardens, mimicking the woodland edge. Willow MON Warblers, Blue Tits and Great Tits all use trees as a MON caterpillar food source and song posts. With the help of the MON umbrella, Brett and Phil discover looper caterpillars MON (larvae of Geometrid moths) and a staple diet of many MON nesting tits and warblers. They get their name from the way MON in they loop their body up and then stretch out. They are MON sometimes called 'measurers' or 'inch worms' as they appear MON to measure out an inch at a time! Phil then produces a MON strange looking object "It reminds me of dish mop" he MON laughs. It turns out to be Rose bedeguar gall (Robin's MON pin-cushion) and Phil explains how these and other galls are MON produced in a fascinating process in which insects, (a wasp MON in the case of the Bedeguar gall) reprogramme plant tissue MON development. Brett and Phil then move into the back garden MON to compare notes on the ideal tree for a small garden before MON finally discussing the value of old trees and dead wood in MON the garden; including feeding sites for birds like MON Nuthatches and sounding boards for drumming woodpeckers! MON MON PRODUCER: Sarah Blunt. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b037gxxg (Listen) MON The Pink Sari Revolution, Episode 1 MON MON India's struggle with justice for women in the 21st century MON is becoming one of the most prominent news stories of the MON moment. In the last few months, another terrible gang rape MON hit the headlines. Women's collectives are growing up all MON over the country and beginning to fight back. The most MON prominent and potent is the Pink Sari Gang. This is their MON story. MON MON Sampat Devi Pal, raised in India's Uttar Pradesh region, was MON married off at twelve, had her first child at fifteen, and MON is essentially illiterate. Yet she has risen to become the MON fierce and courageous founder and commander in chief of MON India's Pink Gang, a 20,000-member women's vigilante group MON fighting for the rights of women in India. MON MON In narrating the riveting story of the Pink Gang's work on MON behalf of a young girl unlawfully imprisoned at the hands of MON an abusive politician, journalist Amana Fontanella-Khan MON explores the origins and tactics of a fiery sisterhood that MON has grown to twice the size of the Irish army. MON MON Merging courtroom drama, compelling personal history, and a MON triumphant portrait of grassroots organisation, Pink Sari MON Revolution highlights the extraordinary work of women who MON are shaking things up within their own country. MON MON Amana is a Mumbai-based writer of Pakistani and Irish MON descent. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The MON Financial Times and the FT magazine. An honorary gulabi MON member, this is her first book. MON MON Episode 1 MON Sampat Pal, grassroots crusader for women's rights, takes on MON a new case of injustice against women in rural India. MON MON Read by Meera Syal MON Written by Amana Fontanella-Khan MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b037gxxq (Listen) MON Andrea Catherwood presents the programme that offers a MON female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037gxxv (Listen) MON Chronicles of Ait - The Lotos Effect, Episode 1 MON MON In The Lotos Effect, Linus Scott is a General Practitioner MON dealing with the normal range of ailments when he is called MON to the home of a young woman struggling with a recurring MON nightmare. But after a second teenager independently reports MON the same dream, something happens which moves events into a MON more sinister dimension. MON MON A man called Linus Scott, a woman called Alice Pyper and a MON remote East Coast village called Ait - these are the only MON ingredients of this returning series which remain constant. MON In all other respects, each story from the Chronicles of Ait MON is discrete from the others, though the prevailing mood is MON always one of mystery. MON MON Cast: MON Linus Scott...............Greg Wise MON Alice Pyper................Amanda Drew MON Maggie.....................Susan Wooldridge MON Mrs Wright...............Suzanne Burden MON Stella Wright............Gina Abolins MON Mrs Warren/Sue.......Poppy Miller MON Charlene Warren.....India Harl MON Matt.........................Joe Claflin MON Len/Paul..................Richard Hope MON MON Written by Michael Butt MON MON Produced and Directed by John Taylor MON A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Letting out the Light b037gxxy (Listen) MON Through interviews with gemstone cutters as they work, MON dealers at markets and through poetry, prose, stories and MON legends about them, 'Letting out the Light' reveals what has MON made mankind treasure gemstones throughout history. MON MON Stephen Gill is a Sony Award-winning radio writer - and a MON gemmologist. His belief is that the processing of gems - MON cutting, grinding and polishing- is not to impose a MON beautiful shape but to 'let out the light' of the stone. MON MON He has travelled from Japan to Sri Lanka and the United MON States listening to gem dealers and stone cutters, gathering MON their stories and the sounds of their work. Michael Dyber MON recalls working with a crystal weighing 26 kilos; we hear MON the history of the Chhatrapati Ruby, first documented in MON 380Ad; Nimal Pathirana tells the story of the sapphire in MON Princess Diana's engagement ring. MON MON At the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, the largest in the MON world, dealers and cutters praise their favourite stones: MON Zarin Gul, from the Swat valley, and Yoko Okubo, from Tokyo, MON love topaz; for Falk Burger it is aquamarine; for Wang MON Huiping, mountain quartz. At the gem auction in Ratnapura MON there is frenzied bidding for garnets, topz and moonstone MON MON We hear poems inspired by gems, legends of their origin and MON cool scientific analysis - what aquamarine actually is, how MON iron lends hessonite its orange hue, why a crystal bowl MON sings. MON MON Michael Dyber and Bernd Munsteiner, among the finest MON gemcutters in the world, saw, grind and polish. We hear how MON they let out the light, and we hear this happen. MON MON Stephen Gill has gathered sounds, interviews, poems and MON stories, but, like a jeweller, does not himself appear in MON 'Letting Out the Light', a programme in which the elements, MON all different, are linked like a string of aural jewels. MON MON 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b037gypc (Listen) MON Series 2, The Uncivil Partnership MON MON 'Births, Deaths and Marriages - returning for a second MON series - is the sitcom set in a Local Authority Register MON Office where the staff deal with the three greatest events MON in 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 third episode, Lorna is freaking out because her MON ex-husband Jonathan is attending a wedding in the office MON with his new partner, James. Malcolm falls in love with a MON woman registering the death of her third deceased husband MON and Anita's in a panic because the hamster she borrowed from MON her daughter's school has died. 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 Suzie: Kate O'Sullivan MON Grant: Michael Shaeffer MON Jonathan: Jonah Russell MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b037gypf (Listen) MON Energy market, the age of cinema-goers, rising water bills MON MON "Prices, Profits and Poverty" - MPs give their view of the MON energy market and what kind of deal consumers are getting. MON MON What if your webcam could monitor your emotional reactions MON to everything you view on line? How advertisers are using MON new technology to gauge your reaction to their work. MON MON Why people with learning difficulties are being denied MON access to the justice system due to the lack of knowledge MON and experience amongst many lawyers. MON MON Plus why your water bill might be about to rise. MON MON And the changing demographics of cinema goers. Veteran MON reviewer Barry Norman and an award winning seventeen year MON old critic share their views. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Joe Kent. MON MON 12:57 Weather b037ddvv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b037gyph (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 b037gypk (Listen) MON The Invention of the Manager MON MON Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of MON today's corporate culture. MON MON Part 6 of 10: The Invention Of The Manager MON MON Before the 20th century the manager had a rather shady MON reputation with writers like Adam Smith voicing their MON suspicions. At the turn of the 20th century, American MON engineer Frederick Taylor attempted to use science to MON systematize the principles of management. Taylorist ideas MON began to be applied to offices, making them 'factories of MON administration'. MON MON Meanwhile the numbers of managers were increasing in large MON corporations. But by the fifties, there was dissatisfaction MON with the plight of the 'organisation man'. Lucy speaks to MON Alex Werner of the Museum of London and Chris Grey of Royal MON Holloway, University of London. 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 Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b037gt5t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037gypm (Listen) MON Rhapsody MON MON In his early seventies, Sir Frederick Ashton, the celebrated MON dancer and choreographer, had for some time been living with MON the mercurial Martyn Thomas. It was a volatile relationship MON in which Ashton, by many years the older partner, had become MON increasingly insecure, adding to his fairly constant MON anxieties about maintaining the success of his glittering MON career, and making enough money to live on. MON MON Over the years, Ashton had become fairly well connected to MON royalty and was an accustomed visitor to courtly bashes, MON where his fearless ability to entertain made him welcome. MON But it was the Queen Mother with whom he established a MON particular friendship, inspiring Princess Margaret to ask MON Ashton to commission a new ballet for her mother's 80th MON birthday. Ashton decided to use the music from Rachmaninov's MON Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, with Leslie Collier and MON Mikhail Baryshnikov in the principal roles. MON MON Christopher William Hill's poignant comedy, based on these MON events, imagines Ashton's struggles with a challenging MON commission and, simultaneously, his increasing difficulties MON in managing a fragmenting love affair. MON MON Cast: MON The Queen Mother.......................Phyllida Law MON Sir Frederick Ashton.....................Jeremy Clyde MON Martyn Thomas............................William Beck MON William Chappell............................Benjamin Whitrow MON Baryshnikov/Roberts....................Gunnar Cauthery MON Ruth Fermoy/Interviewer..............Marlene Sidaway MON Nicholls/Reporter .........................Kim Wall MON Leslie Collier..................................Madeline MON Clements MON Pianist...........................................Catherine MON Herriott MON MON Written by Christopher William Hill MON MON Produced and Directed by John Taylor MON A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b037gyqf (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 13 MON MON (13/13) MON The competitors who have won through the heats and MON semi-finals of the 2013 Counterpoint series during the past MON three months finally have their sights on the 27th MON Counterpoint title, and the handsome silver trophy that goes MON with it. MON MON Their final hurdle is the grand Final at London's Radio MON Theatre, with Paul Gambaccini quizzing them on every aspect MON of music, from Cole Porter to Coldplay, from Rossini to the MON Rolling Stones. MON MON The three Finalists are from Glasgow, Bristol and Essex: and MON the breadth of their knowledge through the series so far MON points to a tight and thrilling contest. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b037gnxk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b037h0vc (Listen) MON Hardeep Singh Kohli MON MON Hardeep Singh Kohli, broadcaster and comedian, shares the MON pieces of writing, music and comedy that he loves with an MON audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. His choices include a MON specially-recorded version of his favourite song by Elbow, MON performed by Guy Garvey and Craig Potter, and Billy MON Connolly's memorable first appearance on TV. MON MON Bill Paterson reads a passionate and provocative Burns poem MON and also helps Hardeep to fulfil his lifelong dream of MON playing Gregory in Gregory's Girl... MON MON And Rebecca Johnson reads from The Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald MON Dahl and A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. MON MON The programme closes with Hardeep talking about his love of MON Scotland, and reading the lyrics to Caledonia by Dougie MON MacLean. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b037h0vf (Listen) MON Series 8, Science Museum MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport their infinite cage to MON the more finite proportions of London's Science Museum to MON discuss wonder in science, and why children seem to have it, MON but too many of us lose it as adults. Joining them on stage MON are comedian Josie Long, US astrophysicist and science MON communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Science MON Museum Ian Blatchford and author and historian Richard MON Holmes. There's also a special performance by comedian and MON rap artist Doc Brown, in tribute to his childhood hero. MON MON 17:00 PM b037h1y4 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037ddvx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b037h1y8 (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a first visit to MON Leicester's De Montfort Hall. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme MON Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by MON semi-regular Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin MON Sell accompanies on the piano. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b037h1yb (Listen) MON Martyn's putting the pressure on, and Helen's at sixes and MON sevens. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b037h1yd (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including architect Richard Rogers, who MON nominates a favourite public space for Cultural Exchange, in MON which leading creative minds share a cultural passion. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037gxxv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Bishop and the Bankers b037h1yg (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON The focus of the second programme is on big business MON corporations and how they can become "virtuous." The MON programme begins in the church of the Square Mile with a MON look at "The rules for the conduct of life" - written in MON 1740 and still given to every freeman of the city of London MON about how to conduct trade. Today, Big Business is asking MON how it can build virtue into its staff and into its MON structures. MON As part of this programme, James talks to Anthony Jenkins MON ,chief executive from Barclays, about how he is seeking to MON change the banks culture. James also explores the role of MON Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes with the CEO of MON KPMG, Simon Collins. How do companies make sure that these MON are consonant with their core purpose and not mere PR window MON dressing? And how does this commitment to a Good and Fair MON Society square with their work as tax advisors to big MON business? MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b037706f (Listen) MON Spain: Operation FGM MON MON In Barcelona, a doctor offers reconstructive surgery to MON women who had female genital mutilation when they were MON children. Recorded over 6 months, Linda Pressly hears the MON stories of Rosa and Wenkune - Spanish women of African MON origin. FGM has caused them both a good deal of trauma. Will MON the operation change how they feel about themselves? What MON difference will it make to their intimate relationships? And MON what motivates Dr Barri Soldevila - a busy surgeon in a MON private hospital - to prioritise these procedures and offer MON them free of charge? MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b0375qt6 (Listen) MON Oil & Wildlife MON MON Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that explores MON the crunch point between human population and the natural MON world. In this week's programme we have a report from the MON Arabian Gulf off the coast of Qatar where we witness oil rig MON legs encrusted with life, pods of dolphins and work MON monitoring the arrival of migrant whale sharks to the area. MON With the Deep Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico still MON fresh in many minds are oil rigs and ocean wildlife in MON conflict or can oil and wildlife share the same space. David MON Paterson, Executive Director of the Marine Alliance for MON Science and Technology for Scotland is in the Shared Planet MON studio to explore the issues. MON MON 21:30 Privacy Under Pressure b037gxx5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b037ddvz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b037h1yj (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037h1yl (Listen) MON The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 1 MON MON Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The MON Norfolk Mystery. MON MON It's 1937 and Stephen Sefton is drifting. Just a year MON earlier, he'd left London in a fever of idealism to fight in MON the Spanish Civil War. Now he is back, injured both mentally MON and physically. He has turned into a seething mass of self- MON pity. He's at rock bottom and penniless. So when he sees an MON advert for an assistant to a writer, he applies. His MON interviewer is the People's Professor; Swanton Morley - MON whose type of learning is the sort scorned by academia but MON loved by the masses, who lap up his books with titles like MON 'Morley's Art for All' and 'Morley's Old Wild West.' MON MON His latest project is to be called The County Guides. It's a MON typically ambitious plan to celebrate the best of England MON county by county, from the wheelwrights of Devon to the shoe MON makers of Northampton, and covering sport, natural history MON and every other conceivable subject in between. They're MON starting in Norfolk, but they're going to be distracted by a MON dark discovery and a host of eccentric characters - not all MON of whom react well to Morley's manner, his pedigree or his MON un-flinching quest to reveal the truth. MON MON The book is abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. MON MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b0375sfc (Listen) MON Babel MON MON "...confound their language, that they may not understand MON one another's speech." The Babel story is one of best known MON in the Bible, the splintering of one global language into MON thousands of tongues. Chris Ledgard takes a linguistic look MON at the first nine verses of Genesis chapter 11, exploring MON the story itself, the idea of original languages and how we MON are able to reconstruct them, and the Babel theme of MON language, division and conflict. MON MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b037h1yn (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 JULY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b037ddwt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b037gxxg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037ddww (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037ddwy (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037ddx0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b037ddx2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037wr0w (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd TUE Edwin Counsell. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b037hf0n (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Dave Howard, Produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tyk25 (Listen) TUE Little Tern 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 little tern. TUE TUE Little terns are our smallest terns. You can pick them out TUE from our other terns by their smaller size, white forehead TUE and yellow bill with a black tip. They look flimsy and TUE delicate but move too close to one of their colonies, and TUE you'll unleash a tirade of grating shrieks as they try to TUE intimidate you out of their territory. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b037hf0q (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Turkey: the New Ottomans b037hmwk (Listen) TUE The AKP and the Republic TUE TUE In a three part series Allan Little charts the re-emergence TUE of Turkey as a powerful global force. TUE TUE Until very recently Turkey's story seemed an entirely TUE positive one. Two decades of sustained economic growth TUE continued to transform the country. The ruling AKP TUE government had, at last, seemingly achieved a balance long TUE sought by a large proportion of the Turkish population: the TUE synthesis between modernity and traditional values TUE respecting Islam. TUE TUE The initially reforming AKP leadership addressed the TUE complaints of minorities and those who felt excluded in the TUE secular Republic. It successfully removed the army from TUE political life. When negotiations to join the European Union TUE stalled in 2005, it sought to invigorate co-operation and TUE trade with neighbouring countries in the Balkans, North TUE Africa and the Middle East. TUE TUE Then an environmental protest in Istanbul's Gezi Park turned TUE into nationwide demonstrations against a government that TUE many found increasingly autocratic, constantly justifying TUE its actions by the ballot box, claiming that its fifty per TUE cent majority gave its policies a democratic mandate. Allan TUE Little analyses the rise of the AKP and the Republican TUE tradition they so successfully challenged. TUE TUE Producer: Jane Beresford. TUE TUE 09:30 Pop-Up Ideas b037hmwr (Listen) TUE Common Tragedy TUE TUE Tim Harford presents the last in the series, 'Pop-up Ideas'. TUE TUE Tim explores the concept of 'The Tragedy of the Commons' - a TUE term coined by the American ecologist Garrett Hardin in a TUE hugely influential 1968 essay. TUE TUE He compares Hardin's work to that of the American political TUE economist Elinor Ostrom, to reflect on the impact of mankind TUE on the world around us. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b037pv9j (Listen) TUE The Pink Sari Revolution, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sampat Pal confronts the local police in her quest to find TUE justice for the wrongly accused Sheelu. TUE TUE Read by Meera Syal TUE Written by Amana Fontanella-Khan TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b037hmx4 (Listen) TUE Andrea Catherwood presents the programme that offers a TUE female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037jpc2 (Listen) TUE Chronicles of Ait - The Lotos Effect, Episode 2 TUE TUE Linus Scott begins to investigate the circumstances TUE surrounding Charlene's mysterious death. TUE TUE Written by Michael Butt TUE TUE Produced and Directed by John Taylor TUE A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b037hmx8 (Listen) TUE What Is Sustainability? TUE TUE Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at TUE the crunch point between human population and the natural TUE world. In this week's programme we have a report from TUE Gloucestershire on the waxing and waning of Eel populations. TUE Jonathan Porritt, one of the founders of the sustainability TUE charity Forum for the Future will be in the Shared Planet TUE studio to explore the issues and the wider implication of TUE sustainability. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b037hmxd (Listen) TUE Series 16, The Dream of Gerontius TUE TUE How the choral work The Dream of Gerontius, by Elgar, has TUE touched and changed people's lives. Singer Catherine TUE Wyn-Rogers explains how Elgar's music helped her come to TUE terms with the loss of her parents. Robin Self recalls a TUE life-changing performance of this piece, which enabled him TUE to grieve for his son. And Stephen Johnson describes how TUE Elgar's own fragile emotional state is written into the TUE music, which describes the journey taken by a dying man. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b037hmxj (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b037ddx4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b037hmxq (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 b037hmxy (Listen) TUE Sex and the Office TUE TUE Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of TUE today's corporate culture. TUE TUE Part 7 of 10: Lucy charts the changes in workplace attitudes TUE to sex. In the thirties and forties, secretaries were TUE popularly seen as 'office wives' fulfilling similar duties TUE to the wife in the domestic sphere. In the early sixties, TUE the American writer Helen Gurley Brown argued for more TUE equality with her controversial book Sex and The Single TUE Girl. By the seventies, feminism brought new criticisms of TUE the role of women in the office. Lucy talks to Julie TUE Berebitsky of Sewanee, University of the South. TUE TUE Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry TUE Shale TUE Historical Consultant: Michael Heller TUE TUE Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b037h1yb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01f65wk (Listen) TUE The People's Passion, Last Supper TUE TUE Cathedrals still dominate our city centres: once symbols of TUE temporal power, of technological wonder, a vital part of our TUE musical health, and more recently the focus of protest and TUE appeals to a new morality - what do they mean to us now? TUE TUE Originally broadcast during Holy Week, The People's Passion TUE explores how our great cathedrals offer an image of the TUE contradictions of faith in twenty-first century Britain. TUE TUE The People's Passion Mass and Easter Anthem, composed TUE specially for the series by Sasha Johnson Manning, with TUE lyrics written by the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, not only TUE features in the programmes, but was made freely available by TUE the BBC, and sung by a hundred and fifty choirs around TUE Britain and across the world, during Easter 2012, including TUE Easter Day Worship on Radio 4, from Manchester Cathedral. TUE TUE 3/5: Last Supper TUE TUE by Nick Warburton TUE TUE When Clive, the Cathedral's Vice Dean, invites his TUE girlfriend Jo to tea; and Graham, one of the vergers, is TUE bullied into feeding a troublesome visitor... neither man TUE knows quite what's in store for him. 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 Jo: Tracy Wiles TUE Clive: Don Gilet TUE Paul: Jim Norton TUE Graham: Kim Wall TUE Hannah: Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Actor: Adjoa Andoh TUE Actor: James Lailey TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Writer: Nick Warburton TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b037hmy1 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Winchester TUE TUE Jay Rayner and the panel are in Winchester in Hampshire for TUE this episode of food panel programme. Food scientist Peter TUE Barham demystifies microwaves and theorises why strawberries TUE may not taste as good as they used to. TUE TUE Our chefs, Angela Malik, Rachel McCormack and Angela TUE Hartnett, answer questions on chilled soup and trout amongst TUE other things, as well as speculating about the point of TUE celery. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Philosopher's Arms b037hmy3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Free Riders TUE TUE Pints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Each TUE week Matthew goes to the pub to discuss a knotty conundrum TUE with an audience and a panel of experts. Free will, TUE exploitation, sex, sexism, blame and shame are just some of TUE the topics to be mulled over in this series of The TUE Philosopher's Arms. TUE TUE We look at the issue of 'free-riding', with Oxford TUE philosopher Roger Crisp. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b037hmy5 (Listen) TUE D is for Dictionary TUE TUE Since 1879, the Oxford English Dictionary has had only seven TUE Chief Editors. As the current incumbent, John Simpson, TUE prepares to retire later this year, Chris Ledgard pays him a TUE visit. They look back at the challenges and the high points TUE of his tenure; the controversies, the characters and the TUE great weight of responsibility that the post carries. With TUE archive of previous editors and staff, Chris and John TUE consider what the future holds for this beloved institution. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b037hmy7 (Listen) TUE Lynne Truss and Diran Adebayo TUE TUE Writers Lynne Truss and Diran Adebayo discuss their book TUE choices with Harriett Gilbert. TUE A literary friendship, a piano-playing polecat in Sri Lanka TUE and violent crime in London are the themes of books by Paul TUE Theroux, Michael Ondaatje and Nick Barlay. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THIS BROADCAST TUE TUE Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje TUE Published by Bloomsbury TUE TUE Hooky Gear by Nick Barlay TUE Published by Sceptre TUE TUE Sir Vidia’s Shadow by Paul Theroux TUE Published by Penguin TUE TUE Producer: Sue Fry TUE TUE 17:00 PM b037hmy9 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037ddx6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b037hmyc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE Who is Nick Helm's all time hero? What is the most TUE embarrassing thing Isy Suttie's mum ever did? Who would play TUE Dougie Anderson in the film of his life? TUE TUE All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show TUE hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how TUE well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b037hmyf (Listen) TUE Things are looking up for Lilian, and there's a new addition TUE to the Grundy household. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b037hmyl (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including violinist Nicola Benedetti, who TUE nominates a favourite concerto for Cultural Exchange, in TUE which leading creative minds share an artistic passion. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037jpc2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b037hmyw (Listen) TUE A Place of Safety? TUE TUE Psychiatric hospitals have a duty to keep their patients TUE safe, which means taking extra care with patients suffering TUE acute depression who may be at risk of self-harm. TUE TUE So campaigners argue that when a patient commits suicide, it TUE is vital that a thorough investigation should discover any TUE failings by doctors and nurses and any weaknesses in TUE hospital systems of communication or levels of staffing. TUE TUE But, unlike deaths in prison or police custody, fatalities TUE in psychiatric units are not reviewed from the start by a TUE fully independent investigator. Initial reports are usually TUE prepared by staff of the NHS and kept confidential to the TUE health officials and family concerned. Only at the TUE subsequent inquest does an independent inquiry take over. TUE TUE Critics call this 'a recipe for cover-up by the NHS'. TUE TUE File on 4 reports on a series of suicides in one psychiatric TUE unit which have led the local coroner to accuse the NHS of TUE 'a catalogue of failures stemming from an institutional TUE complacency'. TUE TUE Reporter - Gerry Northam TUE Producer - Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b037hmz5 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b037hmzm (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 Turkey: the New Ottomans b037hmwk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b037ddx8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b037hn00 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037jpwt (Listen) TUE The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 2 TUE TUE Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The TUE Norfolk Mystery. TUE The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris TUE Morgan-Griffiths. TUE TUE Produced by: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b037h0vf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b037hn0c (Listen) TUE Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 31 JULY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b037ddy7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b037pv9j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037ddy9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037ddyc (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037ddyf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b037ddyh (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037wx65 (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd WED Edwin Counsell. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b037j0h6 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Dave Howard, Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tym17 (Listen) WED Red-backed Shrike 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-backed shrike. WED WED Red-backed shrikes were once regular summer visitors to WED scrubby hillsides and heathery commons and are handsome WED birds; males have a grey head, reddish-brown back, black and WED white tail and a black bandit-mask. They were known as WED butcher birds from their habit of storing prey by impaling WED it on a thorn or a barbed-wire fence. Now they're one of our WED rarest breeding birds. WED WED 06:00 Today b037j0h8 (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 ... b037j0hb (Listen) WED Series 5, The Tate WED WED This year Tate Liverpool celebrated it's 25th birthday. WED Together with Tate St Ives they represent Tate's attempt to WED make available to a wider public the national collection of WED british and international art held at Tate Britain and Tate WED Modern. When Henry Tate donated his collection of modern art WED to the nation at the end of the 19th century he could not WED have envisaged how Tate would grow into multi-million pound WED institution with almost 7 million visitors a year to its WED London galleries. But in an age of austerity with public WED funding of the arts being squeezed, Quentin Letts asks how WED much does Britain benefit from a national collection of art WED and who should pay for it? In fact what is the point of WED Tate? WED WED Producer: Amanda Hancox. WED WED 09:30 Just So Science b01pthk9 (Listen) WED How the Leopard Got His Spots 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 2. How the Leopard Got His Spots. Chemist Andrea Sella and WED biologist Buzz Baum explain why a leopard could change its WED spots, thanks to mathematician Alan Turing. WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b037pvjm (Listen) WED The Pink Sari Revolution, Episode 3 WED WED Sampat continues to investigate the case of Sheelu, whose WED harrowing story has now emerged. WED WED Read by Meera Syal WED Written by Amana Fontanella-Khan WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b037j27n (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037jbtg (Listen) WED Chronicles of Ait - The Lotos Effect, Episode 3 WED WED After Len's son Matt appears to have had the same nightmare WED as the dead Charlene, Linus makes a disturbing discovery WED about Alice Pyper. WED WED Written by Michael Butt WED WED Produced and Directed by John Taylor WED A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Techno Odyssey b037j27s (Listen) WED Deepwater Light WED WED In a new series, the poet Paul Farley re-imagines technology WED we rely on but take for granted, taking the listener on WED unexpected journeys into technological environments. WED WED Story WED WED From subsea fibre optics to heart valve surgery to cash in WED transit Paul makes us think again about the less seen but WED vital places and systems that make our world tick. Within WED these places, often hidden in plain sight, he meets the WED people who tend them and listens to the humming, buzzing and WED hissing reality of their technological lives. In each WED programme he writes a poem, as a response to each WED environment. WED WED 1. Deepwater Light WED We all use the internet, but where exactly is it? Is it the WED cloud, is it wireless, is it satellite? First and foremost WED it's fibre optic cables that criss-cross the globe over land WED and especially under sea, joining up the continents. Paul WED slows down the lightspeed journey of an email, imagining it WED travelling from New York to London circling wrecks and deep WED sea abysses, pleasure beaches and roundabouts. Along the way WED he hears from the lighthouse keepers that maintain the WED connections, the cable layers on the high seas and the WED engineers who decode the light back into information. WED WED 2. Cashflow WED We expect an ATM to immediately serve up our cash, but how WED did that note get there? Where was it last week and where WED will it be tomorrow or the next day? Paul follows the life WED cycle of a ten pound note from its birthplace on the Bank of WED England's printing press, gains rare access to one of the WED cash processing centres hidden from sight in our cities WED which warehouse hundreds of millions of pounds. He follows WED the money as it's distributed to ATMs and retailers, to our WED pocket and back again until the note is withdrawn from WED circulation and is turned into the most valuable compost in WED the world. WED WED 3. Opening the Valve WED In an odyssey of a different kind, Paul follows the journey WED of a heart valve from its manufacturers in Milan to a WED patient in the UK. One in twenty of us will suffer from WED valve complications in later life and that figure is rising WED as the population ages. Paul explores the technology behind WED artificial heart valves and the sophisticated surgery WED involved when they are replaced. It's exactly 500 years WED since Leonardo da Vinci devised the first prosthetic heart WED valve, also in Milan, and Paul reflects on the story of this WED miraculous piece of technology which can give people a WED second life. WED WED Produced by Neil McCarthy. WED WED 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b037j7m0 (Listen) WED Virginia van Cleeve WED WED Part 5 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 5: Virginia van Cleeve WED WED A sinister shop in the East End may hold a vital clue. WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in WED Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most WED successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his WED day. WED WED Credits WED Paul Temple: Crawford Logan WED Steve: Gerda Stevenson WED Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas WED Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie WED Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson WED Zola: Greg Powrie WED Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood WED Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser WED Virginia van Cleeve: Francesca Dymond WED Miss Marcia: Eliza Langland WED Lanny Knight: Nick Underwood WED Producer: Patrick Rayner WED Writer: Francis Durbridge WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b037j7m2 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b037j7m4 (Listen) WED Sold Down River WED WED Our tap water costs less than a tenth of a penny per litre. WED Most of it comes from rivers. A licensing system designed WED more than half a century ago means water companies can WED legally, and easily, extract large quantities of good WED quality water from water courses to deliver cheaply to the WED consumer. But, as John Waite reveals, it's the environment WED that is all too often paying the price for our low water WED bills. In this week's Face the Facts, we hear why the WED country's water framework is in desperate need of reform. As WED climate change and a growing population puts water supplies WED under increasing pressure, John investigates an outdated WED licensing system which is despoiling many water courses. He WED hears of the 'lamentable stewardship' of iconic chalk WED streams, some of which now run completely dry; the missed WED opportunity in the recent Water Bill to tackle the WED long-known problem of over abstraction, and the dilemma WED facing the government and the water companies - put prices WED up to pay for costly alternatives, or let rivers pay the WED price? WED WED 12:57 Weather b037ddyk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b037jbtj (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 b037jbtl (Listen) WED Designing Office Space WED WED Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of WED today's corporate culture. WED WED Part 8 of 10: Designing Office Space WED WED Lucy looks at changes in office layout. WED WED The architect Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered open plan office WED space with the Larkin building in 1904. One result was that WED the open plan office began to resemble a factory, allowing WED easier supervision of staff by managers. WED WED By the Sixties offices were made to appear more democratic WED with the development of 'office landscaping' in Germany and WED the Action Office in America. Lucy talks to Jeremy Myerson WED professor of design at the Royal College of Art. 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 BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b037hmyf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037jbtn (Listen) WED The Gestapo Minutes WED WED A new play by Adam Ganz WED starring Ed Stoppard, Julian Rhind-Tutt and featuring Robin WED Lustig. WED WED Under the Nazis, Michel Oppenheim, lawyer, patriot and WED porcelain collector is made head of the jewish community in WED Mainz. The minutes of his regular meetings with Gestapo WED functionary Schwoerer survive. Civilly, they discuss the WED pettiest details of Nazi terror, and arrangements for the WED deportations east. Thanks to his non-Jewish wife Oppenheim WED survives. Once the war ends the tables are turned. Schwoerer WED begs Oppenheim for a testimonial, which could save him from WED US war crimes trial and execution. Oppenheimer must decide WED whether to help the man who sat across the table during the WED past six years of horror and humiliation. WED WED Directed by Catherine Bailey WED A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Adam Ganz WED Michel Oppenheim: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Gerhard Schwoerer: Ed Stoppard WED Gerda Oppenheim: Tamzin Griffin WED Speaker: Robin Lustig WED Director: Catherine Bailey WED Producer: Catherine Bailey WED WED 15:00 Money Box b037dxyw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b037hmzm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b037jbts (Listen) WED Smart/Casual Dining; Teddies and Gollies WED WED Smart/casual dining - Once fine dining meant chandeliers, WED white tablecloths, and suited waiters. Yet today many of us WED will queue up for a seat at a loud, crowded noodle bar or WED eagerly seek out street stalls where the burgers are WED organic. The US food writer, Alison Pearlman, talks to WED Laurie Taylor about the forms and flavours taken by this WED 'foodie' revolution. Through on-the-scene observation and WED interviews with major players and chefs, she explores the WED blurring of boundaries between high and low cuisine. She's WED joined by Alan Warde, Professor of Sociology at the WED University of Manchester. WED WED 'Teddies' and 'Gollies' - US English Professor, Rhoda Zuk, WED talks to Laurie about her historical study into the place WED and meaning of teddy bears and golliwogs in children's lives WED and books, as well as in the 'racist' imagination. WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b037jbtv (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 b037jbtx (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037ddym (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Brig Society b037jbtz (Listen) WED Railway WED WED Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! WED Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of WED a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British Fashion, WED a prison - and each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it WED can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - WED turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who WED knew...?" WED WED This week, Marcus has been given his own railway franchise WED to run. Please note, this programme may be running late; WED change at Tiverton Parkway for The Archers WED WED Travelling with him in the Noisy Coach are Rufus Jones WED ("Hunderby", "Holy Flying Circus"), William Andrews ("Sorry WED I've Got No Head") and Margaret 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 Dinner Ladies. WED WED Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, WED Nick Doody, Steve Punt & Tom Neenan WED WED Produced by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b037jbv1 (Listen) WED Jill's supportive, and everyone thinks they know better than WED Nic. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b037jbv3 (Listen) WED With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with comedian WED Milton Jones, as he prepares for the Edinburgh fringe and a WED national tour. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037jbtg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b037jbv5 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Melanie WED Phillips and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Ideas b037hmwr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:00 Does Science Need the People? b01l06z0 (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 synthetic biology or nuclear power are worth the risks. But WED are we the people, able to best judge what road science WED should take? WED WED In the second of two programmes, Geoff Watts looks at some WED of the role models for engagement, such as the Alzheimer's WED Society, where patients and carers have helped to direct WED research into new therapies and explores the argument that WED many of the paradigm-shifting developments in science were WED entirely unforeseen and might not have happened if WED researchers were shackled. WED WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of ... b037j0hb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b037ddyp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b037jbv7 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037jcjr (Listen) WED The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 3 WED WED Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The WED Norfolk Mystery. WED Sefton and Morley (the People's Professor) set off in rural WED Norfolk to do field research for the first of The County WED Guides. With typical ambition and zealous eye for detail, WED Morley is keen to capture as much of the local flavour as WED possible, dictating to Sefton on everything from the history WED of flint knapping to the local names for birds. But they are WED soon diverted from their enquiries by an altogether more WED sinister discovery. WED WED The abridgement is by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED The producer is Sarah Langan. WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b037jcjt (Listen) WED Rock and Roll Nation WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. WED WED His night, held in various venues around New York, was WED called the Antihoot. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others; he discovered and nurtured lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches WED - but nobody discovered him. WED WED This week we find Lach reminiscing about his influences and WED he shares his thoughts on Jim Morrison, Batman and Tom WED Petty. WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED WED Producer: Richard Melvin WED WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01j5nxw (Listen) WED Douglas WED WED Strap in for fifteen minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever WED Peter bring you a swimming rat, a talking fly and a Mexican WED stand-off 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 Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED and special guest Catriona Knox WED WED Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley WED & Dominic Stone WED WED Produced & directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Bernard Who? b01s0qms (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED This year, the actor Bernard Cribbins celebrates his 85th WED birthday and more than 70 years in showbusiness. In this WED revealing two-part series he talks to his friend and WED producer Martin Jenkins about his extraordinary career, and WED a cast of friends share their memories of working with WED Bernard, including David Tennant, Barbara Windsor, Barry WED Cryer and the late Richard Briers. WED WED He's been directed by Hitchcock, starred alongside a galaxy WED of screen legends including Peter Sellers and Kenneth WED Williams, is good mates with David Tennant, and has WED performed with Barbara Windsor wearing nothing but a bikini. WED WED Somehow Bernard Cribbins has earned a special place in the WED hearts of every generation; whether you're a fan of the WED Carry On films or his 1960s chart hits Right Said Fred and WED Hole in the Ground, grew up watching The Railway Children or WED listened to him read more than 100 classic tales on WED Jackanory. And he has continued to wow younger audiences as WED Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who, and most recently as the WED storytelling sailor Old Jack in the new BBC children's WED television series on CBeebies. WED WED In this, the first of two programmes, Bernard looks back at WED his early career at Oldham Rep, where he started as an actor WED and assistant stage manager aged 13, on his national service WED with the parachute regiment in Palestine, and the big break WED that took him to London's West End, and from there to the WED Carry On films. Barry Cryer, Barbara Windsor, the playwright WED Ray Cooney and Richard Briers, recorded shortly before his WED death, share their memories of Bernard the man and the WED performer, and we hear Bernard's personal recollections of WED working with the legendary Peter Sellers, Alfred Hitchcock WED and Peter Cushing. WED WED Producer: Eve Streeter WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 AUGUST 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b037ddzj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b037pvjm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037ddzl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037ddzn (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037ddzq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b037ddzs (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037xjrz (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd THU Edwin Counsell. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b037jd70 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Datshiane THU Navanayagam. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378sqk (Listen) THU Stonechat THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the Stonechat. Stonechats are THU well named: their call sounds just like two pebbles being THU struck together. The males are striking birds with a black THU head, white collar and orange chest and are about the size THU of a plump robin. THU THU 06:00 Today b037jd72 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Reflections b037jfmg (Listen) THU Lord Kinnock 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 Kinnock (Neil THU Kinnock), the former Labour Party Leader and European THU Commissioner. Neil Kinnock was born in Tredegar, Wales, and THU was first elected to Parliament at the age of twenty-eight THU in 1970. He quickly established a reputation as one of the THU best orators in the Commons and became Labour Party Leader THU in 1983, when Michael Foot resigned in the wake of Labour's THU heaviest election defeat since the 1930s. THU Kinnock set about modernising his party and trying to make THU it electable again, but faced a fierce battle with some on THU the party's 'hard' left. His attack on the Militant Tendency THU in October 1985 for their conduct on Liverpool council is THU one of the most memorable conference speeches in modern THU times. "I'll tell you what happens with impossible THU promises'" he declared, as he launched a scathing attack on THU Militant's tactics and told them, "you can't play politics THU with people's jobs and people's services." THU Although Kinnock led Labour to defeat in 1987, his THU modernisation continued to improve the party's image and THU prospects. Yet despite Labour's recovery Kinnock failed to THU defeat John Major's Conservatives in 1992. He then resigned THU after more than eight years as Leader of the Opposition. In THU 1995, Kinnock became a European Commissioner, and later THU served as Vice-President of the European Commission THU (1999-2004). THU Presenter, Peter Hennessy. Producer, Rob Shepherd. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b037pvs4 (Listen) THU The Pink Sari Revolution, Episode 4 THU THU As the legislator steps up his threats against both Sheelu's THU family and Sampat herself, Sampat enlists the accused girl's THU terrified father to help in her quest for justice. THU THU Read by Meera Syal THU Written by Amana Fontanella-Khan THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b037jfmj (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037jfml (Listen) THU Chronicles of Ait - The Lotos Effect, Episode 4 THU THU Linus finds that Alice and young Stella have become THU inexplicably close, and old Maggie Sandlin is the source of THU new revelations. THU THU Written by Michael Butt THU THU Produced and Directed by John Taylor THU A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 UK Confidential b037jfmn (Listen) THU 1983 THU THU Martha Kearney uncovers the secrets within the government THU files of 1983 - who said what in Cabinet, and what did the THU Prime Minister really think about the issues of the day? THU THU It was the year that Compact Discs and £1 coins were first THU sold in Britain. The country was introduced to the joys of THU wheel clamps and breakfast television, and Shergar - the THU most valuable racehorse in the world - was stolen, never to THU be seen again. THU THU It was an election year, and Prime Minister Margaret THU Thatcher was riding high on the Falklands victory of the THU year before. Peace campaigners were demonstrating outside THU Greenham Common as the American nuclear missiles arrived, THU and Britain entered talks with China over the future of Hong THU Kong. THU THU As the official Cabinet papers of 1983 are opened to the THU public for the first time, Martha Kearney discovers what the THU big stories were inside Government that year. With access to THU the Prime Minister's personal correspondence, minutes of top THU secret meetings and telephone calls, and confidential policy THU advice, Martha can now offer fresh insights into history. THU THU There are the secret messages between Margaret Thatcher and THU Ronald Reagan, the Prime Minister's highly colourful THU comments on points of view she disagreed with, and THU entertaining messages between staff at Number 10. Martha is THU joined by key insiders from the time to help her interpret THU the papers and give their own impressions of the revelations THU within them. THU THU Producer: Deborah Dudgeon THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b037jfmr (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b037ddzv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b037jfmt (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 b037jfmw (Listen) THU Whatever Happened to the Paperless Office? THU THU Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of THU today's corporate culture. THU THU Part 9 of 10: Whatever Happened To The Paperless Office? THU THU Computers have changed our working lives so thoroughly it is THU hard to remember what office life was like beforehand. THU THU The first office computer however was not developed in San THU Francisco but in fifties Britain by the teashop company THU Lyons. THU THU From those humble beginnings, Lucy charts the development of THU word processing and desktop computing. With Lin Jones of the THU National Museum of Computing. 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 b037jbv1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037jfmy (Listen) THU Miss You Still THU THU Lenny Henry plays Charlie, a Midlands bus driver, who has THU shut himself off from the world. Joyce, who works at the bus THU garage, is a newly appointed lay preacher. She sends Charlie THU her feisty teenage daughter to help him clean up his life. THU Joyce's daughter is a wannabe-singer with a gym-obsessed THU boyfriend. The last thing she wants on her hands is a smelly THU old man who hears voices. THU THU Directed by Claire Grove THU THU Lenny Henry stars in his second original play for Radio 4. THU Set in the Midlands Miss You still is a ghost story and a THU love story. It's about facing the truth. Only by admitting THU responsibility for the past can Charlie begin to deal with THU the present. There are four vibrant characters: Charlie, the THU reclusive bus driver, Joyce, a lay-preacher who works in THU admin at the bus depot, Roxanne, Joyce's feisty 16 year old THU daughter and Kulvinder, Roxanne's gym-obsessed boyfriend. THU THU Lenny Henry is currently starring in Fences in the West End, THU Clare Perkins is Ava Hartman in EastEnders, Bunmi Mojekwu is THU in Romeo and Juliet at the National Theatre, and Amit Shah THU is currently filming The Smoke for Sky 1. This is thirteen THU year old Tranae Sinclair's radio debut and she is also in THU Fences in the West End. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Lenny Henry THU Charlie: Lenny Henry THU Joyce: Clare Perkins THU Roxanne: Bunmi Mojekwu THU Kulvinder: Amit Shah THU Uncle Lloyd: Alex Lanipekun THU Nora: Tranae Sinclair THU Director: Claire Grove THU Producer: Claire Grove THU THU 15:00 Open Country b037jfn0 (Listen) THU Salisbury Plain THU THU Felicity Evans visits Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. It THU boasts the largest expanse of chalk grassland in Europe and THU is home to over two thousand prehistoric sites, including THU Britain's most iconic pre-historic Stonehenge. Until THU recently it was thought that Stonehenge was built as an THU astronomical calendar or observatory but new theories THU suggest the site was used for ceremonial cremations. THU Felicity also discusses plans for its future with a new THU visitor centre and re-direction of a nearby road, reuniting THU the Stones with the landscape that surrounds it.The last THU inhabitants of the village of Imber on Salisbury Plain left THU in the 1940's when the village was requisitioned by the THU Army. Now it's at the heart of Army training on the Plain THU and Felicity finds out why. Many of the original cottages THU are no longer there but the 13th century St Giles Church at THU Imber has been restored and is open to the public for a few THU days each year. The Church has a new set of bells and THU Felicity gets a chance to ring one of them. She also visits THU a bee farmer who keeps an apiary behind the church. He also THU talks about the carpet of wild flowers that thrive on the THU Plain and provide sources of nectar for the bees, enabling THU them to produce delicious honey flavoured with wild thyme THU and wild sage. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b037gltf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b037gnxt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b037sf6r (Listen) THU Only God Forgives; The Heat; My Father and the Man in Black THU THU Robbie Collin talks to the director Nicolas Winding Refn THU about his new film Only God Forgives, a violent revenge THU thriller set in Bangkok, starring Ryan Gosling and Kristen THU Scott Thomas. It's a film that has split the critics so far. THU Bridesmaids director Paul Feig discusses his new cop comedy THU The Heat, with Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as an THU unlikely police partnership. THU And Jonathan Holiff explores the life and secrets of his THU father Saul Holiff, manager of Johnny Cash. Based on a stash THU of audio tapes he found in storage, he explores the THU relationship between the two men. The result is an THU intriguing documentary, My Father and the Man In Black. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b037jgll (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 b037jgln (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037ddzx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b01n60m2 (Listen) THU Series 3, Author Author; Front Row Centre with Thaddeus THU Bristol THU THU The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his THU wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience THU readings. THU THU This week David gives his observations of life as an author THU on tour in "Author, Author", makes a satirical swipe at THU critics in "Front Row Centre with Thaddeus Bristol", and THU reads some extracts from his diaries. THU THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b037jglq (Listen) THU Kathy's caught out, and Tony speaks his mind. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b037jgls (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the acclaimed THU Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov, whose books include Death THU and the Penguin and The Milkman in the Night. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037jfml (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b037jhcz (Listen) THU Following the death of two reservists, Adam Fleming THU investigates whether deaths and injuries like these can be THU avoided. THU THU 20:30 In Business b037sf4c (Listen) THU North Sea Oil THU THU The headlines are full of energy shortages and the potential THU of UK onshore shale gas discoveries. THU But what's happening in and under the North Sea where THU Britain's energy revolution began almost 40 years ago? Peter THU Day reports from Aberdeen. THU THU There's record investment of more than 13 billion pounds THU this year in the North Sea oil and gas industry but THU production is down as the oil has become harder to extract. THU Aberdeen itself is booming: there is virtually no THU unemployment and it has become a global hub of technical THU expertise, with international firms specialising in the THU technology and equipment needed to extract the oil. The big THU oil companies are moving further away to the West of the THU Shetland Isles in search of large new fields while smaller THU entrepreneurial firms are exploring for, and producing, oil THU from the older fields. Meanwhile national oil companies from THU Korea and China are buying their way in through take-overs. THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b037jgll (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Reflections b037jfmg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b037ddzz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b037jhd3 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037jhd5 (Listen) THU The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 4 THU THU Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The THU Norfolk Mystery. The parishioners of Blakeney are reeling THU from the discovery of the reverend's body; Mrs Snatchfold is THU particularly distressed. The police arrive, and Sefton gets THU to know the troubled housekeeper, Hannah. A local retired THU professor by the name of Thistle-Smith is also recruited to THU help, but he and Morley lock horns immediately. THU The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris THU Morgan-Griffiths. THU Produced by: Sarah Langan. THU THU 23:00 North by Northamptonshire b00ss2cq (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 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 Rehearsals for the town talent night are well underway, with THU some of the worst acts ever seen on stage. THU THU Recently divorced Jan has a surprise visit from neighbour THU and ex-teacher Mary and finds they have more than an untidy THU hedge in common. THU THU Jan's ex, Frank, thinks his new love Angela may be eating THU too many peanuts. THU THU Esther knocks Jan to the floor in her self-defence class but THU wait - could this be Jonathan coming to Jan's rescue? THU THU And meanwhile supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) gets THU trapped in an upturned shopping trolley. THU THU Written by Katherine Jakeways THU Produced by Claire Jones. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Rod: Mackenzie Crook THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Keith: John Biggins THU Frank: Rufus Wright THU Angela: Lizzie Roper THU Producer: Claire Jones THU THU 23:30 Bernard Who? b01s4rj7 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU This year, the actor Bernard Cribbins celebrates his 85th THU birthday and more than 70 years in showbusiness. In this THU revealing two-part series he talks to his friend and THU producer Martin Jenkins about his extraordinary career, and THU a cast of friends share their memories of working with THU Bernard, including David Tennant, Barbara Windsor, Barry THU Cryer and the late Richard Briers. THU He's been directed by Hitchcock, starred alongside a galaxy THU of screen legends including Peter Sellers and Kenneth THU Williams, is good mates with David Tennant, and has THU performed with Barbara Windsor wearing nothing but a bikini. THU THU In this second programme, the legendary Beatles producer THU George Martin recalls working with Bernard on the 1962 THU chart-toppers Right Said Fred and Hole in the Ground. THU Bernard reveals the secret to his storytelling magic on THU Jackanory, which captured the hearts and imaginations of a THU generation of children - including David Tennant. We hear THU how Bernard found the voices for Uncle Bulgaria and Tomsk in THU The Wombles and Jenny Agutter, his co-star in The Railway THU Children, discloses what she believes to be the secret of THU Bernard's eternal youth. THU THU David Tennant and the writer Russell T Davis give their THU insights on working with Bernard on Dr Who, and the joy of THU reminding the viewing public what an exceptional actor he THU is. "He can break your heart with a single line," says THU Russell T Davis. THU THU This is Bernard's own intimate retrospective of his career, THU told in conversation with his friend for more than 50 years, THU the acclaimed radio drama producer Martin Jenkins. THU THU Producer: Eve Streeter THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 AUGUST 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b037df0t (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b037pvs4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b037df0w (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b037df0y (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b037df10 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b037df12 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b037xjnk (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev'd FRI Edwin Counsell. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b037jjfn (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith, Produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378srp (Listen) FRI House Sparrow FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Michaela Strachan presents the house sparrow. These birds FRI are more commonly found living alongside us than any other FRI British bird. Perhaps the most enterprising birds were the FRI House Sparrows which bred below ground in a working mine at FRI Frickley Colliery in Yorkshire. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b037jjfq (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b037gm1f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b037pw6g (Listen) FRI The Pink Sari Revolution, Episode 5 FRI FRI Deploying all the might of the Pink Gang, Sampat wins the FRI day, and Sheelu is released from jail, but it is plain that FRI this is only one battle in a long and ongoing war that FRI Indian women must fight. FRI FRI Read by Meera Syal FRI Written by Amana Fontanella-Khan FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b037jjfs (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b037jn88 (Listen) FRI Chronicles of Ait - The Lotos Effect, Episode 5 FRI FRI Linus's fears for Alice's safety become intense when, after FRI Charlene's funeral, he is unable to find her. FRI FRI Written by Michael Butt FRI FRI Produced and Directed by John Taylor FRI A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Teacher Versus Tutor b037jn8b (Listen) FRI No longer just for the rich, tutoring is booming in Britain. FRI Last year parents spent over £1bn on tutors for their FRI children. From traditional entrance exam tutoring to the FRI latest online services, there are thousands of companies to FRI choose from. FRI FRI But it's an unregulated industry. Some even lack Disclosure FRI and Barring Service (formerly Criminal Records Bureau) FRI checks. FRI FRI Visiting tutoring centres, schools and families, Sushma Puri FRI investigates the factors behind the tutoring boom. She asks FRI whether tutoring works and whether it is worth the money. FRI Emerita Professor Judy Ireson from the Institute of FRI Education reveals some research results which may surprise FRI many. FRI FRI With the introduction of tutoring in state schools, she FRI examines the roles of teachers and tutors. Can tutors FRI complement classroom teachers or are they on a collision FRI course? FRI FRI Meanwhile one expert believes 'the Wild West of education' FRI is in urgent need of regulation. FRI FRI Producer: Hilary Thomson FRI A Tigereye production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Hobby Bobbies b037jn8d (Listen) FRI Dangerous Dogs 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. FRI FRI This week, our heroes are dispatched to investigate a FRI nuisance caller and her dangerous dog - but stumble into the FRI local drugs racket. FRI 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 Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: Dave Lamb FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b037jn8g (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b037df14 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b037jn8j (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 b037jn8l (Listen) FRI The Office Is Where We Are FRI FRI Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of FRI today's corporate culture. FRI FRI Part 10 of 10: The Office Is Where We Are FRI FRI Lucy describes the increasingly blurred boundaries between FRI the office and home, looking at the arrival of email, FRI dress-down policies and homeworking. FRI FRI Once the office was an imposing skyscraper, now it has FRI shrunk to the palm of our hand in the form of a smartphone. FRI We can do office work anywhere, so can we ever truly leave FRI it behind? FRI FRI With Chris Grey of Royal Holloway, University of London and FRI Gideon Haigh author of The Office a Hardworking History. 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 b037jglq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00y8yjd (Listen) FRI The Continuity Man FRI FRI Starring EastEnders' Nitin Ganatra as himself. FRI FRI A new comedy by Stephen Keyworth. FRI FRI Nitin Ganatra is fed up with playing the 'good family man' FRI Masood. He feels there is more to him as an actor than FRI playing the nice guy, the good husband. On the advice of his FRI agent, Crawford Bunch, he sets about making his profile a FRI little more 'edgy' in order to convince Hollywood producers FRI that he really has what it takes to play the baddie. FRI FRI But unfortunately Nitin is just too nice. And he get's more FRI than he bargained for when he finds himself head to head FRI with 'The Continuity Man'. FRI FRI A comedy about getting yourself into deep water and trying FRI to find your way out again. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Stephen Keyworth FRI Nitin: Nitin Ganatra FRI Oliver: Ben Lewis FRI Amy: Julia Innocenti FRI Crawford: Karl Johnson FRI Sally: Sally Orrock FRI Director: Lu Kemp FRI Producer: Lu Kemp FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b037jn8n (Listen) FRI Midlothian FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs this week's episode of Gardeners' FRI Question Time from Midlothian, Scotland with panellists Bob FRI Flowerdew, Carole Baxter and Anne Swithinbank, who will be FRI taking questions from the audience of local gardening FRI enthusiasts. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Feminine Mystiques b037jn8q (Listen) FRI Mink FRI FRI By Marina Warner FRI Read by Emma Fielding FRI FRI Fifty years since the first publication of Betty Friedan's FRI seminal feminist work The Feminine Mystique, Radio 4 has FRI commissioned three leading writers to celebrate her FRI influence in new short stories exploring the contemporary FRI feminist landscape. FRI FRI Emma Fielding reads the first story in this series, by award FRI winning writer and mythographer Marina Warner. Just as some FRI of Angela Carter's short stories from The Bloody Chamber FRI were first published in high fashion magazine Vogue, and FRI Carter's retelling of fable and myth turned on the original FRI meaning of 'glamour' as a spell, Marina Warner explores FRI feminine mystique through a housewife in the 1950s who FRI weaves hope and freedom into her longing for a mink coat. FRI FRI Marina Warner has written novels, short stories and FRI non-fiction centering around women and the imagery and FRI iconography they conjure for more than thirty years. FRI FRI The other writers in the series are British-Sierra Leonean FRI novelist Aminatta Forna, winner of the Commonwealth Writers FRI Prize and judge of the Man Booker International Prize, with FRI a surreal and wryly humourous contemporary story read by FRI Doon MacKichan, and Sarah Hall, one of Granta's Best Young FRI British Novelists 2013, who brings us a story set in a FRI dystopian near future, read by Francesca Dymond. FRI FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b037jn8v (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 b037jn8x (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio FRI justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles FRI you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the FRI top. FRI FRI We will also be digging down into the mystery of the FRI programme makers world. Getting an idea of why things turn FRI out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and FRI offer suggestions on the way things are done. FRI FRI So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme FRI anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something FRI could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've FRI heard something brilliant, tell us. FRI FRI We are also interested in your general views about how FRI broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. FRI You can contact us about everything from programme FRI scheduling to management pay. FRI FRI Email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b037jn8z (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b037df16 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b037jn91 (Listen) FRI Series 81, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With Justin Moorhouse, Roisin Conaty, and Daniel FRI Finkelstein. FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b037jn93 (Listen) FRI Jolene's on a learning curve, and Freddie has an offer he FRI can refuse. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Helen Monks FRI Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth FRI Lily Pargetter: Georgie Feller FRI Tony Archer: Colin Skipp 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 Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI William Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Anthea: Joanna Brookes FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Kate Chapman FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b037jnl3 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who meets the novelist Louis de Bernieres, FRI author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, as he publishes a book FRI of verse inspired by the Greek poet C P Cavafy. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b037jn88 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b037jnl5 (Listen) FRI Nick Robinson presents political debate from Broadcasting FRI House Radio Theatre in London with former Home Secretary FRI Lord Howard, former High Commissioner to South Africa Lord FRI Boateng, Owen Jones from the Independent and Isabel Hardman FRI from the Spectator's Coffee House Blog. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b037jnl7 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037jnl9 (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Episode 2 FRI FRI Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of FRI today's corporate culture in an omnibus edition of the FRI second 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 b037df18 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b037jnlc (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b037jnlf (Listen) FRI The Norfolk Mystery, Episode 5 FRI FRI Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Ian Sansom's new comic thriller, The FRI Norfolk Mystery. Morley and Sefton retire to the public bar FRI to discuss the mystery of the reverend's death. But Morley FRI sticks out like a sore thumb; his fondness for tongue FRI twisters and quotations, his expansive gesticulation and the FRI ordering of water don't help. While Sefton squirms with FRI embarrassment, Sefton ponders (loudly) on the motivation for FRI the reverend's apparent suicide. Later, Sefton has another FRI assignation with the mysterious Hannah. FRI The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom is abridged by Lauris FRI Morgan-Griffiths. FRI Produced by: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b037hmy7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 From Worcester with Love b01nxvq8 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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