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SAT SATURDAY 24 AUGUST 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b038jl8b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b038kqlw (Listen) SAT Operation Massacre, Episode 5 SAT SAT Seven of the condemned men arrested in a house in Buenos SAT Aires have escaped a botched execution. SAT SAT Seriously injured, Livraga has been found wandering down a SAT road and rushed to a clinic by an unsuspecting policeman. SAT Here the nurses bravely try to prevent further harm SAT befalling him. SAT SAT Read by Nigel Anthony SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Nigel Anthony SAT Producer: Jane Marshall SAT Abridger: Jane Marshall SAT Writer: Rodolfo Walsh SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038jl8d (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038jl8g (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038jl8j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b038jl8l (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b038jlbc (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop SAT Joe Aldred. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b038jlbf (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b038jl8n (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b038jl8q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b038hk3d (Listen) SAT Skiffs on Loch Broom SAT SAT The skiff - a four-person, coxed rowing boat - was SAT traditionally a common sight in the seas off Scotland's SAT coastal communities. Changes in the populations of these SAT towns and villages, many losing their traditional links with SAT the sea altogether, has meant, though, that the racing of SAT skiffs was becoming less common - until, that is, the advent SAT of the self-build kit skiff. SAT SAT Named the St. Ayles skiff (in honour of the Scottish SAT Fisheries Museum, where the idea was born and which is built SAT on the site of St. Ayles Chapel in Anstruther), the huge SAT popularity of the kit skiff has taken the coastal rowing SAT world by surprise. Communities up and down the coastline SAT have banded together to buy, build and then share their own SAT skiff, with some villages buying more than one and women SAT particularly well-represented in the sport. SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Ullapool for a trip out on Loch Broom in SAT the Ulla with the village's over-forty women's crew, SAT enjoying the calm before attending the opening of the SAT inaugural St. Ayles Skiff World Championships. Crews from SAT around the world, linked only by the fact that they have all SAT bought and built their own St. Ayles skiff, have come SAT together for a week's racing and a celebration of coastal SAT rowing. All agree that the skiff has brought unexpected SAT bonuses to their communities, uniting people in fundraising, SAT in boatbuilding and then, finally, in getting out onto the SAT water together. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b038wtfp (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Culling badgers - Sybil Ruscoe hears from farmers and SAT protesters preparing for the pilot badger cull in Somerset SAT and Gloucestershire. This week the National Farmer's Union SAT won a wide-ranging injunction aimed at protecting farmers SAT and landowners from intimidation and unlawful protest. SAT However, protestors say that this will not deter them from SAT demonstrating. SAT SAT And on this Bank Holiday weekend Sybil discusses the SAT importance of tourism to the rural economy. SAT SAT Produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill, and presented by SAT Sybil Ruscoe. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b038jl8t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b038wtfr (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b038wtft (Listen) SAT Anna Chancellor; Judie Tzuke SAT SAT Richard Coles and Anita Anand talk to actress Anna SAT Chancellor, sample the delights of Georgian Pleasures with SAT Professor Elaine Chalus, savour the bucolic, car-free life SAT on Sark with restaurateur Elizabeth Perrée, hear the SAT Inheritance Tracks of singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, SAT discover how glove-makers to the Queen, Andrew and Genevieve SAT James, practice their craft, find out what the thing is SAT about the "real" Paddy O'Connell from Skibbereen, County SAT Cork and that other irrepressible Irishman, JP Devlin fields SAT your phone calls and emails and hears your stories. SAT SAT Producer: Dilly Barlow. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b038wtj2 (Listen) SAT Series 6, The Hollinwell Incident SAT SAT Steve Punt turns private investigator to reopen a mysterious SAT case of collapsing children. SAT SAT One summer's day in 1980, at a junior jazz band festival in SAT Nottinghamshire, hundreds of children were suddenly taken SAT ill and fainted. They fell like dominoes; the showground was SAT littered with bodies, the arena like a battlefield. SAT SAT Many of the children feel they never got answers as to what SAT really happened that morning. SAT SAT Steve investigates, to find out if it was food poisoning or SAT something a little more sinister. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Bowen. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b038x1lg (Listen) SAT Fragility SAT SAT Why are some materials and ecosystems easier to break than SAT others? And what gives others better resilience? Joining SAT Bridget Kendall are the celebrated American novelist Barbara SAT Kingsolver, whose latest novel contemplates vulnerability in SAT butterflies and humans; one of world's leading experts on SAT bumblebees, professor David Goulson, who explains why SAT artificially rearing bumblebee nests can paradoxically lead SAT to mass extinction; and Markus Buehler, bio-engineer from SAT the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who studies the SAT molecular basis of strength and weakness in natural SAT materials such as human bones and spider's webs. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b038x1lj (Listen) SAT You Cannot Kill an Idea SAT SAT Correspondents' despatches: the wealthy principality of SAT Liechtenstein is forced to face up to the idea of SAT belt-tightening, Alex Marshall; Alastair Newton Brown SAT strolls through the streets of the Iranian capital, Tehran SAT where he finds people keen to engage with the West; Rajini SAT Vaidyanathan in Washington considers the implications of the SAT jail sentence handed down to secrets leaker Bradley Manning; SAT Justin Rowlatt may have struggled to appreciate traditional SAT Vietnamese music but more and more Vietnamese, he says, are SAT keen to learn it. And Kevin Connolly is in Cairo where he's SAT been hearing members of the Muslim Brotherhood explain why SAT they believe they're a force that's not about to go away. SAT SAT Producer: Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 How You Pay for the City b038x1ll (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT In the final part of the series, David Grossman assesses the SAT impact of Government interventions like Quantitative Easing SAT and Funding for Lending. He looks at their impact on savers SAT and pensioners and asks whether the City has SAT disproportionately benefited from their effects. SAT SAT The programme also investigates the growth of speculation on SAT the price of commodities like oil, a practice that's been SAT fuelled by fears of inflation as a result of QE. Has the SAT rise in the price of consumables in recent years been driven SAT by demand or by the effects of increased speculation? And SAT who ultimately pays for it? SAT SAT 12:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b038jkx6 (Listen) SAT Where Did All the Money Go? SAT SAT Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big SAT contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. SAT Regular panellists Nick Doody, Andy Zaltzman and Kate SAT O'Sullivan are joined this week by Gillian Tett, of the SAT Financial Times and the financial journalist Max Keiser. SAT SAT Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SAT things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then SAT will people laugh at the truth. This deconstructed "quiz" SAT has only one question each week, because that question is so SAT big, there's no time for anything else: expect a mix of SAT stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and SAT incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who SAT really know what they're talking about. SAT SAT This week's question: Where Did All The Money Go? SAT SAT Presenter: Rory Bremner SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SAT A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b038jl8x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b038jl8z (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b038jl16 (Listen) SAT Mark Miodownik, Iain Dale, Peter Kendall, Alison Wolf SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from SAT Broadcasting House, London with scientist Mark Miadownik, SAT economist Alison Wolf, broadcaster and blogger Iain Dale and SAT NFU president Peter Kendall. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b038x1ln (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00vv0n7 (Listen) SAT And Then There Were None SAT SAT Agatha Christie's famous detective story without a SAT detective, adapted by Joy Wilkinson. SAT SAT Ten guests are separately invited to an island by a person SAT none of them knows very well, if at-all. When they arrive, SAT it seems they have all been invited for different reasons. SAT Nothing quite adds up. SAT SAT An anonymous voice accuses each of them of having murdered SAT someone. By the end of the first night, one of the guests is SAT dead. Stranded by a violent storm and tormented by the SAT nursery rhyme 'Ten Little Soldier Boys', the ten guests fear SAT for their lives. Who is the killer? Is it one of them? SAT SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT Credits SAT Vera Claythorne: Lyndsey Marshal SAT Cyril: Harry Child SAT Captain Lombard: Alex Wyndham SAT Emily Brent: Joanna Monro SAT Dr Armstrong: Sean Baker SAT Mr Justice Wargrave: Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Anthony Marston: Lloyd Thomas SAT Mr Blore: Sam Dale SAT Narracott: Adeel Akhtar SAT General MacArthur: John Rowe SAT Mr Rogers: Wayne Foskett SAT Mrs Rogers: Sally Orrock SAT Hugo: Henry Devas SAT Gramophone Voice: Jude Akuwudike SAT Writer: Agatha Christie SAT Adaptor: Joy Wilkinson SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b038x1lq (Listen) SAT Marks and Spencer; Radio 3 World Routes Academy Fidan SAT Hajiyeva SAT SAT Fidan Hajiyeva - the youngest protégée of BBC Radio 3's SAT World Routes Academy talks about how her father encouraged SAT her interest in Azeri music. Is writing about books a matter SAT of jobs for the boys? What's the matter with the f-word? SAT Marks and Spencer's' marketing chief describes its new high SAT profile women's wear campaign as womanist as opposed to SAT feminist - why? The campaign to include boys in the HPV SAT vaccination programme. Plus it's festival season and those SAT with something to celebrate after GCSE will be hoping for a SAT wild time this Bank Holiday Weekend - are they old enough to SAT go alone? Plus the power of female friendships and just what SAT should you really store in your fridge. SAT SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT Producer: Rebecca Wood SAT SAT 17:00 PM b038x1ls (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b038jlbf (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b039hk5r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b038jl93 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038jl95 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b038x1lv (Listen) SAT Danny Wallace, Will Young, Paul Daniels, Laura Wilson, SAT Miranda Sawyer, Nadine Shah, Jeffrey Lewis and The Rain SAT SAT Danny talks All That Jazz with singer, actor and Pop Idol SAT Will Young, who's about to make his West End debut and tour SAT the UK as the Emcee in hit musical 'Cabaret'. Set in SAT Berlin's seedy Kit Kat Klub in 1931, nineteen year old SAT cabaret performer Sally Bowles romances two men while the SAT Nazi Party rises to power around them. 'Cabaret' is on tour SAT from 28th August to Sunday 8th December. SAT SAT Miranda Sawyer talks to alt-folk chanteuse Nadine Shah, who, SAT following the release of her debut album 'Love Your Dum And SAT Mad', has been described as the imagined union of PJ Harvey SAT and Nick Cave. Nadine performs 'Runaway' in the studio. SAT SAT Danny tells A Thousand Lies to crime-writer Laura Wilson, SAT whose new book 'The Riot' is set in 1958 in London's Notting SAT Hill, where DI Stratton has just been posted. Stratton's new SAT manor is dirt poor and rife with racial tension and is soon SAT to be the scene of the worst racial violence England has SAT ever known. 'The Riot' is published by Quercus on 29th SAT August. SAT SAT Miranda also talks to anti-folk singer songwriter and comic SAT book artist Jeffrey Lewis. He tells her about his music, art SAT and an illustration he did for the book 'Let's Start A Pussy SAT Riot'. Jeffrey and his band The Rain perform 'WWPRD' from SAT their EP of the same name. SAT SAT Danny pulls a rabbit out of a hat with Paul Daniels, who's SAT packing up his box of tricks for his magically mammoth SAT national 'first farewell' tour. Paul's new show is full of SAT his old favourite magic tricks and a number of new tricks SAT never performed in public before. Abracadabra! 'Paul SAT Daniels: The First Farewell Tour - From Legend To Leg End!' SAT starts on 6th September until 23rd December. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b038x1lx (Listen) SAT General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles the Commander of Egypt's Armed SAT Forces, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, now the most powerful SAT man in Egypt. SAT General al-Sisi was appointed Defence Minister and Head of SAT the Army by President Morsi in August 2012, and he was SAT thought by many to be sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood. SAT SAT But he was instrumental in Morsi's downfall in July and SAT oversaw the subsequent violent suppression of Muslim SAT Brotherhood supporters. SAT SAT His former teacher from the US Army War College is among SAT those who tell us more about this elusive former military SAT intelligence chief. SAT SAT Producer: Helena Merriman. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b038x1lz (Listen) SAT Edinburgh Festival special - artist Peter Doig, our pick of SAT The Fringe, Coriolanus in Mandarin and new film Elysium SAT SAT Saturday Review from the Edinburgh Festival SAT SAT Theatre: Leaving Planet Earth. Old Earth has nothing left SAT for us, so it's time for a new beginning. The audience is SAT transported to a New Earth for this site-specific 'out of SAT this world' theatre production by the award winning theatre SAT company Grid Iron. Following the story of humanities first SAT migration into space, it asks questions about our connection SAT to this planet. Should we leave this world, and if so, who SAT will endure and at what cost? SAT SAT The film Elysium also explores humans leaving planet Earth, SAT this time the rich, who leave for the luxurious Elysium, a SAT vast space station orbiting the planet, with technology to SAT treat all diseases, while the rest are left behind to fend SAT angst a harsh and unjust regime in an over populated society SAT and can only dream of a new life amongst the stars. Matt SAT Damon is Max, a man determined to be cured on the satellite SAT and Jodie Foster is Elysium's Secretary Delacourt, the SAT hard-line protector of the mega wealthy colony. SAT SAT The internationally renowned artist Peter Doig is known for SAT his inventive style and huge vibrant canvases. For the first SAT time, the Scottish National Gallery is mounting a major SAT exhibition of his work in the country of his birth. Called SAT No Foreign Land, it showcases works created since 2000, a SAT time Doig has spent in Trinidad, and shows how this tropical SAT island has inspired his work. SAT SAT The Tragedy of Coriolanus tells the story of General Caius SAT Martius who returns to Rome a hero. Having conquered the SAT city of Corioles he is named Coriolanus and runs for Consul. SAT But too proud, and rejected by the people, he seeks revenge SAT on the city. Director Lin Zhaohua's production for the SAT Beijing People's Art Theatre includes two heavy metal bands SAT and Pu Cunxin, one of China's most famous actors. SAT SAT And guests David Schneider, Gail Tolley and Peggy Hughes SAT discuss the favourite moments from the Edinburgh Fringe. SAT SAT Producer: Andrea Kidd. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b038x1m1 (Listen) SAT This Train Rides Again SAT SAT In 1963, the legendary American broadcaster, Studs Terkel, SAT presented a radio programme, 'This Train,' in which he SAT followed African Americans travelling on a train from SAT Chicago to Washington. They were part of the March on SAT Washington, which culminated in Martin Luther King's "I Have SAT a Dream" speech. The thousands who took part wanted to SAT achieve jobs and freedom for black Americans. One woman on SAT the train spoke of her hopes for a better future for her SAT relatives, "after I am gone." SAT SAT Afro Caribbean dramatist Kwame Kwei-Armah revisits the SAT original broadcast speaking to some of those who made that SAT journey including the 95 year old organiser of the march, SAT himself a descendant of a slave and the civil rights SAT activist the Reverend Jess Jackson. He hears about the hopes SAT with which they set out fifty years ago, and whether they SAT feel that King's Dream has been realised in today's United SAT States. He recreates Studs' journey riding a modern day SAT train from Chicago to Washington meeting passengers and SAT staff including the colourful character Lou, a sleeping car SAT porter, to discover how present day dreams and aspirations SAT compare with 50 years ago. SAT SAT He discovers many people have not only forgotten the March SAT on Washington but those who do tend wrongly to assume it was SAT only about racial integration. He hears how the job aspect SAT of the march has been overlooked and how economic SAT opportunities are still unequal. SAT SAT On arrival in Washington he meets the only surviving March SAT on Washington speaker John Lewis and others involved in the SAT organisation of the actual day. The programme combines these SAT contemporary interviews with extracts from Studs Terkel's SAT programme. In this rich soundscape of modern America and its SAT railroad we tell the story of the legacy of Martin Luther SAT King and his words. SAT SAT Producer: Kati Whitaker SAT A Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Martin Luther King Collection SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b038bmlv (Listen) SAT The Aeneid, Episode 1 SAT SAT 1/2. Aeneas is a faithful husband, a loving father, and a SAT devoted son. He's a good soldier too, and when the city of SAT Troy is threatened, all he wants to do is to defend his SAT home. For ten long years he fights against the invading SAT Greeks. Then one day the ghost of a long-dead comrade SAT appears to him on the battlefield, telling him to stop SAT fighting and run. The future of the Trojan people lies SAT elsewhere, and if Aeneas is to lead them, he must survive. SAT So, with his frail father on his back, and his son in his SAT arms, Aeneas abandons Troy and sets out on his quest. Caught SAT between love, duty and fate, he'll travel across SAT storm-tossed oceans, have a passionate but doomed affair, SAT and suffer terrible personal loss, as he ventures to the SAT very depths of Hell to discover his glorious destiny. SAT SAT This brand new adaptation of Virgil's epic poem, by SAT award-winning writer Hattie Naylor, uses Robert Fagles' SAT translation. SAT SAT The music was composed by Will Gregory, arranged by Ian SAT Gardiner, and performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by SAT Matthew Hamilton. The soloist is Cherith Milburn-Fryer. SAT Percussion by Joby Burgess. SAT SAT Production Coordinator: Scott Handcock SAT Sound design: Nigel Lewis SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, produced and directed by Kate SAT McAll. SAT SAT Credits SAT The Storyteller: Daniel Morden SAT Aeneas: Richard Harrington SAT Anchises: Robert Pugh SAT Creusa: Sara McGaughey SAT The Sibyl: Fiona Shaw SAT Aeolus: Matthew Gravelle SAT Achates: Matthew Gravelle SAT Ilioneus: Matthew Gravelle SAT Hector: Matthew Gravelle SAT Sinon: Matthew Gravelle SAT Laocoon: Ben Crowe SAT Mercury: Ben Crowe SAT Cyprian: Ben Crowe SAT King Priam: Ben Crowe SAT Panthus: Ben Crowe SAT Queen Hecuba: Eiry Thomas SAT Jove: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Laocoon: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Juno: Rachel Atkins SAT Venus: Annette Badland SAT Dido: Daphne Alexander SAT Anna: Amita Dhiri SAT Elissa: Ayesha Antoine SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT Producer: Kate McAll SAT Adaptor: Hattie Naylor SAT Author: Virgil SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b038jl97 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b038hhs7 (Listen) SAT Series 9, Genetic Testing in Children SAT SAT Alan is in his late thirties when he is diagnosed with lung SAT cancer. A genetic test reveals that he has Li Fraumeni SAT Syndrome, a fault in a gene which predisposes him to cancer. SAT SAT Alan starts chemotherapy but the treatment takes its toll. SAT He and his wife Rachel try to resume family life - they have SAT three children and Rachel is pregnant. But over the coming SAT months Alan's health deteriorates further and eventually SAT Alan dies. SAT SAT Soon after his death, Rachel gives birth to their baby. Over SAT the next eighteen months she's increasingly unnerved by the SAT pattern that's now emerging in Alan's extended family. Two SAT of his siblings have died from cancer and there are tumours SAT developing in other siblings, and in some of their children. SAT Rachel is extremely worried that some of her own children, SAT aged 2 to 12 years, may also carry the genetic fault. SAT SAT Rachel visits a genetics service and asks them to test her SAT four children for Li Fraumeni Syndrome. The genetic SAT counsellor explains that children are not usually tested for SAT this condition as there is little benefit in knowing - while SAT there's a high risk of cancers developing in affected SAT children, there is no reliable way of detecting these SAT cancers early. Rachel remains committed - she wants to know SAT if any of her children carry the faulty gene. SAT SAT Should the genetic team allow her to have her children SAT tested? SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b038c0f2 (Listen) SAT The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he SAT quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and SAT asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they SAT have personally collected on a variety of subjects, SAT including quotations they wish they'd said and family SAT sayings they have grown up with. SAT SAT This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, SAT News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David Wood SAT and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. SAT SAT Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Carl Cooper. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry of Gold and Angels b038bpn8 (Listen) SAT San Francisco SAT SAT San Francisco is a place where a thousand stories meet - a SAT port city where many cultures and races mix, the birthplace SAT of counterculture and political ideologies, and now home to SAT the high-tech revolution. Kim Shuck, poet, educator and SAT weaver was born in the city and has Tsalagi, Sauk and Fox SAT and Polish ancester's. She takes us on a tour of her San SAT Francisco including North Beach and China Town and discusses SAT how poets have been inspired by the city. We hear so much SAT about The Beat poets in San Francisco, but the city's poetry SAT scene is so much more than the Beats. This is a chance to SAT hear some of the other poems coming out of the city. SAT SAT During the programme we talk to poets such as Devorah Major SAT who was Poet Laureate of San Francisco and who takes us to SAT Marcus Books, the oldest Black book shop in America. We also SAT hear from Jack Hirschman, part of the Beat generation and SAT social activist, about how music and jazz have influenced SAT the city's poetic voice. Other poets in the programme SAT include Genny Lim, David Brazil, Micah Ballard and David SAT Buuck. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b038ngsr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Under the Skin b01cj384 (Listen) SUN Another Life SUN SUN Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South SUN Asian Literature Festival, which is staged in London and SUN across the United Kingdom. The relationship between the SUN English language, its literary tradition and writers from SUN South Asia has become an exciting and enduring part of SUN British literary life. The Festival celebrates writers from SUN South Asia and British Asian writing, equally, reflecting SUN the diversity of themes, subjects and literary forms that SUN constitute South Asian writing in 2012. SUN SUN Under the Skin features three stories by British Asian SUN writers. Resma Ruia's Another Life focuses on the SUN restlessness of an Asian businessman who visited Manchester SUN as a young man on his way to America - but never left. SUN SUN Lyndam Gregory, Deni Francis and Najma Khan are the readers. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038ngst (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038ngsw (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038ngsy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b038ngt0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b038x32n (Listen) SUN The bells of St Bartholomew's Church, Sutton cum Lound, SUN Nottinghamshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b038x1lx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b038ngt2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b038x32q (Listen) SUN Anger SUN SUN Classicist Llewellyn Morgan confesses that he is what SUN Aristotle called an 'orgilos', a naturally irascible man! SUN SUN In this edition of Something Understood, he draws upon the SUN reflections and experiences of writers including James SUN Lasdun, Dorianne Laux and Timothy Steele to explore an SUN emotion that isn't always as negative as it might at first SUN appear. With music by Elvis Costello, Monteverdi and Arvo SUN Part. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b038x32s (Listen) SUN Bovine TB led to the slaughter of more than 28,000 cows in SUN England last year. It costs the taxpayer £100 million a year SUN and it's the reason for the Government's decision to carry SUN out two controversial pilot culls in Gloucestershire and SUN Somerset. But what is it like to be the one who has to carry SUN out the tests on cattle, and deliver the bad news to the SUN farmer if their animals are found to be infected? For this SUN week's On Your Farm, we look at this disease through a vet's SUN eyes. The South West is one of the worst hit regions in the SUN country for Bovine TB. Sybil Ruscoe visits the South Hams in SUN Devon to follow vet, Richard Walters, on his rounds for the SUN day, as he deals with bovine TB and meets the farmers SUN affected by it. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b038ngt4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b038ngt6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b038x32v (Listen) SUN In an exclusive interview Edward talks to Lord Sacks as he SUN steps down as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations SUN of the Commonwealth after 22 years in the post. Fifty years SUN ago, on August 28 1963, some half a million black and white SUN people from all over the United States gathered for a SUN gigantic civil rights demonstration in the nation's capital. SUN The march however was also, arguably, one of the most SUN important events in recent American faith history signalling SUN a new direction for the black Church. Kati Whitaker reports. SUN Kevin Bocquet takes a closer look at the proposed Lobby Bill SUN and the impact it may have on Faith based charities. Plus an SUN interview with Daniel Trilling the soon to be Editor of the SUN New Humanist, who calls for a new approach to religion. SUN Author Tracy Borman talks about her new book 'Witches: A SUN tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction' which tells the SUN story of one particular case of three "flower" women who SUN were accused and found guilty of witchcraft in the SUN seventeenth century and we reflect on events in the past SUN week in Syria SUN SUN Credits SUN Carmel Lonergan - Producer SUN Jill Collins - Producer SUN Christine Morgan - Series Porucer SUN SUN Contributors SUN Lord Sacks The Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew SUN Congregations of the Commonwealth SUN Daniel Trilling SUN Tracy Borman. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b038x32x (Listen) SUN Tree Aid SUN SUN Zoë Wanamaker presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Tree Aid. SUN Reg Charity:1135156. SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Tree Aid. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Tree Aid SUN SUN TREE AID is an international development charity that was SUN founded in 1987 by a group of foresters in response to the SUN African famine of the same year. Its aim is simple: to SUN provide long-term solutions to the challenges of poverty and SUN environmental decline across the drylands of Africa. This is SUN achieved using one of the greatest natural resources on SUN earth, trees. SUN SUN TREE AID works in the region south of the Sahara called the SUN Sahel. This is an arid region, heavily affected by drought SUN and desertification linked to climate change and SUN over-exploitation of the land. These harsh conditions make SUN life very difficult for the 325 million people who live SUN there. SUN SUN Crops often fail and with little income from anything else SUN adults and children face malnutrition and months without SUN food. SUN SUN They are forced to further exploit the land by chopping down SUN trees to sell as firewood just so they can eat. TREE AID SUN help villagers unlock the potential of trees to break this SUN cycle of poverty by establishing additional food supplies SUN and income from tree fruits and non-wood tree produce – SUN building a greater understanding of how best to manage SUN natural resources to benefit people and the environment. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b038ngt8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b038ngtb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b038x32z (Listen) SUN I Have a Dream SUN SUN Live from Edington Priory, Wiltshire during the 2013 SUN Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy. SUN SUN 50 years after Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' civil SUN rights speech and 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln SUN proclaimed the emancipation of slaves in the United States SUN of America, the Revd Dr Cally Hammond and hymn-writer John SUN Barnard lead a service reflecting on the cry for freedom SUN exclaimed by God's people from the earliest Biblical time. SUN SUN Music Directors: Matthew Martin, Peter Stevens and Jeremy SUN Summerly. SUN Organist: Peter Stevens. SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b038jl18 (Listen) SUN Of the People, by the People SUN SUN Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature SUN and limits of democracy. This week he argues that nations SUN should be defined by language and territory rather than by SUN party or faith. And, looking at examples across the Middle SUN East and in particular in Egypt, he explains why - in his SUN view - a modern state cannot be governed by Islamic law. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xcd (Listen) SUN Icterine Warbler SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Michaela Strachan presents the icterine warbler. Icterine SUN Warblers are fluent mimics and include phrases of other SUN species in their song. Their name, icterine, is derived from SUN ikteros, the ancient Greek word for jaundice and describes SUN the bird's spring plumage...yellowish beneath and olive SUN brown on top. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b038x331 (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 b038x333 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. 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 The Reunion b038x4wv (Listen) SUN Lib Lab Pact SUN SUN The 1970s are still remembered as a tremendously difficult SUN time for Britain - rocketing inflation, crippling industrial SUN unrest, record unemployment, IRA bombings and fuel SUN shortages. SUN SUN In 1976, Harold Wilson's shock resignation put Jim Callaghan SUN at the helm of a Labour Government doggedly holding on to SUN power with a tiny majority. Deaths, defections and SUN disappearances quickly turned that thin majority into a SUN minority. SUN SUN The Government was on the brink of being uprooted by a Vote SUN of No Confidence, tabled by an eager leader of the SUN opposition, Margaret Thatcher. The equally eager and SUN ambitious new leader of the Liberals was David Steel. When SUN he offered the Government the support of his tiny band, SUN Callaghan was forced to accept. SUN SUN The result was the Lib Lab Pact which, its architects and SUN supporters claimed, helped stabilise the Government and the SUN country. But critics say the deal split both parties. Close SUN aids of Steel were shocked at how he had capitulated to SUN Callaghan's lack of commitment on key issues like electoral SUN reform. And Tony Benn was instructed to resign after SUN whipping up dissent among disgruntled Labour colleagues. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites some of the key people involved in SUN the deal: David Steel then the new leader of a Liberal Party SUN still reeling from the Jeremy Thorpe scandal; Tom McNally, SUN one of Callaghan's closest aids; Michael White, now deputy SUN editor of The Guardian, then a political sketch writer; Roy SUN Hattersley, then a Labour Cabinet minister; and Alan Beith, SUN then a Liberal Party whip. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b038c0fb (Listen) SUN Series 67, Episode 2 SUN SUN Paul Merton, Greg Proops, Joe Lycett and Sue Perkins play SUN the devious linguistic game at the Edinburgh Fringe SUN Festival. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b038x4wx (Listen) SUN In Praise of Bacon SUN SUN An Ode To The Bacon Butty. Hardeep Singh Kohli's personal SUN plea to the nation to reflect on a food of wonder: bacon. SUN Hardeep goes on a roadtrip around Scotland meeting bacon SUN eaters, makers, regalers and producers. SUN SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b038ngtd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b038x4wz (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 Playing Ping Pong with Henry Miller b037706h (Listen) SUN "Henry Miller, Norman Mailer and Charles Manson, the three SUN pillars of misogyny," according to Gore Vidal - yet many SUN women writers today cite Miller as an influence. SUN Using his time in California as a prism, acclaimed poet Kim SUN Addonizio explores how, despite his reputation as a SUN pornographic, unredeemed misogynist, Miller's time in Big SUN Sur, California, transformed him into a family man and ping SUN pong fanatic. SUN With an exclusive interview with his son Tony Miller, a SUN visit to the Henry Miller Memorial Library, in Big Sur, SUN Addonizio hears great stories of epic table tennis SUN tournaments during the long winters, struggles to make ends SUN meet, as she meets those who remember Miller's time in the SUN woods during his 18 year stay. SUN She explores the roots of the personal growth movement that SUN flourished on the Californian coast, at the time, of which SUN Miller became an unexpected exponent of, at the world famous SUN Esalen Institute, and tries to find out why he appeals to SUN young women readers today. SUN SUN Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b038jk71 (Listen) SUN Norfolk SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this week's episode of Gardeners' SUN Question Time in Norfolk. Joining him to tackle the SUN audience's gardening concerns are panellists Bob Flowerdew, SUN Matthew Wilson and Chris Beardshaw. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b038x4x1 (Listen) SUN The Ballerina and the Coup SUN SUN In 1959, Dame Margot Fonteyn became involved in a bizarre SUN plot to overthrow the government of Panama. The Royal SUN Ballet's prima ballerina was briefly arrested and then SUN deported from the Central American country, after the SUN intervention of British officials. Mike Lanchin speaks to SUN Judy Tatham, a former friend of Dame Margot's, who took part SUN in the failed conspiracy. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b038x4x3 (Listen) SUN The Aeneid, Episode 2 SUN SUN Episode 2 of Hattie Naylor's adaptation of Virgil, from the SUN translation by Robert Fagles. SUN SUN Unaware that Dido is dead, Aeneas leaves Carthage and sails SUN to Sicily, where he meets the Cumaean Sibyl. She leads him SUN down to the Underworld, where he sees the terrible SUN punishments meted out to the wicked, has a shocking SUN encounter in the Fields of Mourning, and learns more about SUN the future from his father's ghost. SUN SUN The music was composed by Will Gregory, arranged by Ian SUN Gardiner, and performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by SUN Matthew Hamilton. The soloist was Cherith Milburn-Fryer. SUN Percussion was by Joby Burgess. SUN SUN Production Coordinator: Scott Handcock SUN SUN Sound design: Nigel Lewis SUN SUN A BBC/Cymru Wales production, produced and directed by Kate SUN McAll. SUN SUN Credits SUN The Storyteller: Daniel Morden SUN Aeneas: Richard Harrington SUN Anchises: Robert Pugh SUN The Sibyl: Fiona Shaw SUN Achates: Matthew Gravelle SUN Acestes: Matthew Gravelle SUN Latinus: Matthew Gravelle SUN Charon: Matthew Gravelle SUN Phlegyas: Ben Crowe SUN Faunus: Ben Crowe SUN Evander: Ben Crowe SUN Turnus: Ben Crowe SUN Proserpina: Eiry Thomas SUN Amata: Eiry Thomas SUN Jove: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Juno: Rachel Atkins SUN Venus: Annette Badland SUN Rhea: Annette Badland SUN Lavinia: Ayesha Antoine SUN Cymodoce: Ayesha Antoine SUN Allecto: Ayesha Antoine SUN Pallas: Arthur Hughes SUN Director: Kate McAll SUN Producer: Kate McAll SUN Adaptor: Hattie Naylor SUN Author: Virgil SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b038x4x5 (Listen) SUN Literary Landscapes - Belfast with Glenn Patterson SUN SUN Open Book's summer series on Literary Landscapes concludes SUN with one of the most ubiquitous yet little understood cities SUN in the United Kingdom, Belfast. A byword for sectarian SUN violence, Belfast is sandwiched between encroaching SUN mountains and the sea, the city is built on mud-flats and SUN has inspired countless poets and authors. SUN SUN Open Book's literary guide to this multi faced and SUN complicated city is author Glenn Patterson, described as SUN Northern Ireland's prose laureate. Born in Belfast, Glenn SUN has been writing about the city since the 1980s. His first SUN novel 'Burning Your Own' won the Betty Trask prize. He still SUN lives in Belfast and his work reflects with its ever SUN changing nature. SUN SUN Glenn takes Mariella to the setting of his latest novel to SUN where the old Belfast docks began in the footsteps of SUN Anthony Trollope, to the foot of the surrounding hills which SUN inspired Jonathan Swift and to the last independent bookshop SUN in the city. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry of Gold and Angels b038x4x7 (Listen) SUN Los Angeles SUN SUN Poet and Lyricist Stephen J. Kalinich takes us on a poetic SUN tour of Los Angeles for this 2 part series on Californian SUN poetry. SUN SUN Los Angeles poet and lyricist Stephen J. Kalinich looks to SUN find the real poetic voice of the city - a voice he believes SUN is to be found in the poetry of the streets. SUN SUN Stephen worked with the Beach Boys as a lyricist in the '60s SUN and also recorded a poetry album with Brian Wilson, 'A World SUN of Peace Must Come' inspired by Vietnam. Indeed peace has SUN been his major theme as a writer. He recently recited poetry SUN at a concert of 'Sugarman' Sixto Rodrigez. As well as SUN reciting some of his own work, Stephen is on a quest to SUN discover the true poetry of LA. SUN SUN On his journey round the city, he encounters poets such as SUN S.A. Griffin, from the poetry group Carma Bums who talks SUN about his work also to promote peace with his tour of a SUN 'poetry bomb' - a real bomb filled with poems. He also talks SUN about the harshness of living in a town dominated by the SUN movie industry and a desire to be famous from his experience SUN of working as an actor. SUN SUN We also visit acclaimed song writer P.F. Sloan who talks SUN about his latest work on a musical and the difference SUN between writing lyrics and poetry. He also explains how SUN living in L.A. can sometimes seem like being at a party, SUN being really hungry and the fruit in the fruit bowl is SUN plastic. SUN SUN Other poets we meet include Gingee, a poet and DJ from the SUN Filipino community who talks about the issues she has SUN encountered and why she needs to represent her community in SUN her work. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Patently Absurd b038c8s4 (Listen) SUN The patent system in the USA is so distorted it's now more SUN lucrative for companies known as 'patent trolls' to sue SUN manufacturers rather than actually make anything. The SUN problem's so serious that President Obama has got involved SUN -- and British companies are targeted if they do business in SUN the US. Rory Cellan-Jones investigates and finds one of the SUN world's biggest trolls in his lair in Dallas. SUN SUN For centuries patents have helped stimulate innovation by SUN rewarding inventors. But in recent years millions of US SUN patents have gone to minor developments often in terms so SUN general they seem to cover whole technologies like SUN podcasting or wi-fi. SUN SUN Major corporations are amassing huge 'war-chests' of patents SUN to defend and sue each other. Around 250,000 patents affect SUN smartphones alone; such 'patent thickets' make it almost SUN impossible for new companies to compete without risking SUN ruinous lawsuits. SUN SUN But worst of all are 'trolls' - companies that buy up SUN patents simply to extract 'license fees' from businesses SUN that actually make products. Faced with defending a lawsuit SUN at a cost of at least $1 million, or settling for a smaller SUN license fee, most pay up even if they're not infringing any SUN patents. SUN SUN Last year the majority of US patent cases were filed by SUN 'troll' companies at an estimated cost to technology SUN businesses of $29 billion a year. But it's all legal and the SUN companies say they're simply monetising a 'property right' SUN and raising money for small inventors. SUN SUN Strangely many of these cases are filed in a small town in SUN rural Texas. Cellan-Jones reports from Marshall, once the SUN home of 'boogie-woogie' but now more famous for 'the rocket SUN docket' - patent cases that go to trial in a fraction of the SUN time they take elsewhere in the US. SUN SUN Producer: Mike Hally SUN A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b038x1lx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b039hk62 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b038ngtj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038ngtl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b038x4x9 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay's Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Pick of the Week this week comes to you via the Rainforests SUN of Borneo, the UK's first city of culture and the Edinburgh SUN Festival. Political heavyweights of the 1970s Lib Lab pact SUN recall their battles, comedians recall their dying moments SUN and Ken Livingstone recalls a bout of dysentery.... So join SUN Liz Barclay for a feast of music, comedy and drama. SUN SUN Programme choices: SUN SUN My Teenage Diary - Ken Livingstone - Radio 4 SUN The Reunion - Lib Lab Pact - Radio 4 SUN When Greed Becomes Hunger - part 1 - Radio 4 SUN The I T Girls - Radio 4 SUN Four Thought - Yasmin Hai - Radio 4 SUN The Story of Naughty Boy - 1Xtra/Asian Network SUN Great Lives - Rabindranath Tagore - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Rainforest World Festival 2013 - Radio 3 SUN One to One - Frank Gardner and Dr Stuart Butchart - Radio 4 SUN Letting the Walls Speak - Radio 4 SUN Comic Fringes - Radio 4 SUN I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down - Radio 4 SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b038x4xf (Listen) SUN Fallon makes a stand, and Kenton and Jolene have difficult SUN decisions to make. SUN SUN 19:15 Jo Caulfield's Speakeasy b038x4xh (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN Comedian Jo Caulfield invites authors, comedians and SUN producers to tell true stories from their lives. SUN SUN The results are revealing, hilarious and hugely SUN entertaining. The performers are all recorded live at the SUN historic Scottish Story Telling centre in Edinburgh. SUN SUN Among the stories this week Phil Jupitus remembers a time he SUN was on tour with Madness, Richard Melvin tells us about a SUN works night our that went a bit wrong, there's hip hop from SUN Dave Hook and Josie Long shares an encounter on a bus. SUN SUN Richard Melvin SUN A Dabster production Ltd. SUN SUN 19:45 Cries of London b038x4xk (Listen) SUN On Apollonion Shores SUN SUN A pair of historical tales set in the heart of the capital. SUN SUN On Apollonian Shores SUN London in the 1830s. Matthew Hathersedge first attempt to SUN drown himself was an embarrassing failure. This time - SUN following some very, very bad reviews for his latest volume SUN of poetry - he is determined to leave nothing to chance. SUN SUN Katy Darby studied English Literature at Somerville College, SUN Oxford and took her MA in Creative Writing at the University SUN of East Anglia, where she won the David Higham Award. Her SUN first novel, 'The Unpierced Heart' was published in 2012. SUN She teaches creative writing at City University and co-runs SUN the monthly live fiction event Liars' League. 'Cries Of SUN London' are her first stories for BBC Radio 4. Katy lives in SUN London. SUN SUN Reader: David Bamber SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b038jktq (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio SUN justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles SUN you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the SUN top. SUN SUN We will also be digging down into the mystery of the SUN programme makers world. Getting an idea of why things turn SUN out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and SUN offer suggestions on the way things are done. SUN SUN So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme SUN anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something SUN could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've SUN heard something brilliant, tell us. SUN SUN We are also interested in your general views about how SUN broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. SUN You can contact us about everything from programme SUN scheduling to management pay. SUN SUN So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN Feedback is a Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b038jkrc (Listen) SUN A writer, a lawyer, a motor racing team owner, an actress SUN and an entrepreneur SUN SUN Aasmah Mir on SUN SUN Crime writer Elmore Leonard, whose pulp fiction inspired SUN films like Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown. SUN SUN Rosalia Mera, co-founder of the Zara clothing chain and the SUN richest self-made woman in the world. SUN SUN Controversial French lawyer Jacques Vergès, who famously SUN defended Carlos the Jackal and Klaus Barbie. SUN SUN John Coombs - the last of the gentlemen racecar owners and SUN the man who nurtured future champions like Sir Jackie SUN Stewart. SUN SUN And actor Margaret Pellegrini who played a Munchkin in SUN Wizard Of Oz. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b038hfr4 (Listen) SUN The Defiance of Science SUN SUN Face the Facts investigates a commonly used medicine, SUN licensed for use since the 1980s, that may have caused SUN thousands of unnecessary deaths in UK hospitals until its SUN suspension 2 months ago. It's one of the most common sights SUN in a hospital - a drip hanging from a stand by a patient's SUN bed. We hear from doctors who have been calling for a ban on SUN one type of starch-based drip since the late nineties and SUN how their concerns were drowned out by supporters of the SUN drug including a German doctor, who, we now know, falsified SUN scientific research to support the use of the drug. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b038x32x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b038hkl7 (Listen) SUN Design Thinking SUN SUN There's a certain magic when a product you've bought just SUN simply works, when a company's customer service satisfies SUN instead of frustrates, or when a website gives you exactly SUN the right information you need, exactly when you need it. SUN But these seemingly serendipitous moments might actually be SUN the result of exact planning and customer research. The SUN technical term is 'design thinking' and with the help of SUN designers eager to break out of the lab and into the real SUN world, it's a movement that's catching on in all sorts of SUN unlikely places. SUN This week Peter Day talks to the people behind an SUN award-winning government website, agencies that are creating SUN whole companies from scratch, and finds out about other ways SUN that innovative designers are intruding into the real world SUN like never before. SUN Producer: Mike Wendling. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b038x5t2 (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 b038x5tc (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b038hk3g (Listen) SUN Matt Damon on Hollywood ageism; Can Lovelace take porn SUN mainstream? SUN SUN Hollywood heavyweight talks to Francine Stock about his new SUN sci-fi film Elysium and laments that 'grown up' movies are SUN no longer properly funded or made for the over 35's. SUN SUN Physics professor James Kakalios is an unlikely star but SUN consults big budget superhero adventures on the science of SUN being superhuman. He explains how his love of comic books SUN led him down this unlikely path. SUN SUN With the biopic of 70's porn star Linda Lovelace released SUN this week, Julian Petley and Anna Smith discuss the pitfalls SUN of trying to bring the story of porn to a mainstream SUN audience. SUN SUN Author and film buff Scott Jordan Harris discusses the SUN importance of iconic objects on the big screen and how they SUN have seeped in to every moviegoer's consciousness. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson. SUN Editor: Fiona Couper SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b038x32q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 AUGUST 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b038prgd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b038hg73 (Listen) MON Michel Foucault MON MON Michel Foucault - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme MON on the life and work of the iconoclastic French philosopher MON and theorist. He's joined by Professor Stephen Shapiro, MON Professor Vikki Bell and Professor Lois McNay. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b038x32n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038prgg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038prgj (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038prgl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b038prgn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039sp3w (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop MON Joe Aldred. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b038xmbk (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Emma Campbell, and Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. MON MON 05:56 Weather b038prgq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xsn (Listen) MON Common Gull MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Michaela Strachan presents the common gull. In spite of MON their name Common Gulls aren't as common or widespread as MON some of our other gulls. Most of the breeding colonies in MON the UK are in Scotland. In North America their alternative MON name is Mew gull because of their mewing cat-like cries. MON MON 06:00 Today b038xmbz (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b038xmc5 (Listen) MON Series 6, Rhetoric Rehabilitated MON MON It's a 2500 year old system of public speaking, a system of MON spoken language designed to persuade. It was the bedrock of MON democracy, widely admired and studied until fairly recently. MON Now though, "rhetoric" is usually considered the language of MON wily politicians and overblown dictators - it's not to be MON trusted, it's misleading, it's a posh word for spin. MON MON In this programme, the first of a new series of Fry's MON English Delight, Stephen Fry outlines the history of MON rhetoric, and argues that we should try and restore its MON original noble meaning. MON MON He's helped by Professor Jennifer Richards and Sam Leith, MON both rhetoric fans, who use rhetoric to dismember three MON speeches: a backslapping post-Olympic one by Boris Johnson; MON a chillingly explicit one by Colonel Tim Collins to his MON battalion at the beginning of the 2003 Iraq war, and a MON moving one by US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. She was MON the victim of an attempted assassination, yet two years MON later she overcame her injuries to deliver an impassioned MON speech to the US Senate. It was simple and to the point, yet MON our experts conclude she was still using rhetorical devices. MON MON Stephen Fry and Sam Leith concede there's an element of MON "geekery" in rhetoric. They enjoy a bout of "figure MON spotting" - revelling in terms like "antanaclasis" and MON "dialysis". MON MON What emerges is that patterns of public speech (the power of MON three, for example) may have been set down in ancient times MON - but they still work. Speechwriting trainer Alan Barker and MON members of the Cambridge Union Debating Society demonstrate MON how standards of oratory and debate are key to our MON civilisation. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Wow! How Did They Do That? b038xmcc (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Roger Law goes in search of the entrepreneurs who are behind MON some of the Britain's best designs and inventions. MON MON Chris Wise is one of the most outstanding engineers of his MON generation. Responsible for the Stockton-on-Tees Infinity MON Bridge and the revamp of the Barcelona bullring, these were MON complicated projects resolved by Wise in a cool and stylish MON way. His best known work is the Velodrome for the London MON Olympics, a place where Roger's second guest also made his MON mark. Piers Shepperd is the man who made sure the opening MON ceremony went with a bang. As chimneys reached for the sky MON whilst the world held its breath, Shepperd was behind the MON scenes making sure the technology performed with his MON stopwatch. MON MON Roger Law meets these two hugely talented backroom boys to MON find out how it was all done. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b038xmch (Listen) MON Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter, Episode 1 MON MON Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' MON "favorite group," and yet no figure in popular music is as MON much of a paradox as Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a MON time when stadium rock was in its infancy and huge concerts MON and festivals were becoming the norm, Nilsson's instrument MON was the studio, his stage the dubbing booth, his greatest MON technical triumphs were masterful examples of studio craft, MON and he studiously avoided live performance. MON MON He was a gifted composer of songs for a wide variety of MON performers, having created vivid flights of imagination for MON the Ronettes, the Yardbirds and the Monkees, yet Nilsson's MON own biggest hits were almost all written, ironically, by MON other composers and lyricists. He won two Grammies, had two MON top ten singles, and numerous album successes. Once MON described by his producer Richard Perry as "the finest white MON male singer on the planet," near the end of his life, his MON career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse. MON MON Kerry Shale reads extracts from this first ever full-length MON biography of Nilsson, in which author Alyn Shipton traces MON Nilsson's life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los MON Angeles adolescence, and charts his gradual move into the MON spotlight as a talented songwriter. With interviews from MON Nilsson's friends, family and associates, and material drawn MON from an unfinished draft autobiography Nilsson was writing MON prior to his death, Shipton probes beneath the enigma and MON the paradox to discover the real Harry Nilsson, and reveals MON one of the most creative talents in 20th century popular MON music. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Kerry Shale MON Producer: Joanna Green MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Author: Alyn Shipton MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b038xmct (Listen) MON Internet Dating MON MON How has today's online dating changed the way we live and MON love? How does the experience of dating online differ for MON men and women? Today, in a special broadcast, Woman's Hour MON and Men's Hour have made a date to look at the world of MON online dating. Online dating novice Jane Garvey is joined by MON Tim Samuels who says while he's had plenty of dates, he's MON ready-to-embrace-commitment. We discuss the sexual politics MON and different experiences of online dating with listeners, MON dating advisors, experts and serial dating bloggers. MON 5 tips to survive the modern first date MON MON The Art of Profile Writing MON MON Every man and his dog are on online dating sites these days MON – don’t knock pet dating… Some nine million Brits are said MON to have used dating sites. The stigma is well and truly MON gone, but the competition is steep. How do you stand out MON against millions of other daters – and the odd dog? MON Half-decent photos – preferably taken in the last decade MON help – but can the profile’s text swing it? Is there an art MON to writing the perfect pitch? Dating guru and online profile MON writer, Alex Chubb, might well know… MON MON Looking for Love MON MON So you’ve perfected your profile, you’ve made that initial MON email contact, you’ve texted even. Now you’re all ready for MON that first date. But what’s it like meeting entirely new MON love interests out on the dating scene? Tim and Jane go out MON to meet some other lonely hearts at a London speed dating MON event - a wine speed dating event for that extra little bit MON of Dutch courage. MON MON Producer: Emma Wallace MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038xmcz (Listen) MON The True Story of Bonnie Parker, Episode 1 MON MON by Beatrice Colin MON MON A new look at the story of Bonnie and Clyde. The True Story MON of Bonnie Parker uses historical sources to illustrate how a MON series of often disastrous decisions led the former waitress MON from Cement City to end up as one of America's most wanted MON criminals. It reveals how the press first celebrated and MON then reviled Bonnie Parker as her notoriety grew. Even MON during their lifetimes, the depiction of the couple in the MON press was at considerable odds with the reality of their MON life on the road. But most of all, this is about a doomed MON love affair, a twentieth century Romeo and Juliet, with MON guns. MON MON Having dropped out of high school and married at 16, the MON young Bonnie Parker is working as a waitress. Her life is MON about to change-when she meets Clyde Barrow. MON MON Other parts played by Liam Brennan, James Anthony Pearson MON and Rosalind Sydney. MON MON Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON Credits MON Bonnie: Melody Grove MON Clyde: Finn den Hertog MON Mr Dove: Robin Laing MON Actor: Liam Brennan MON Actor: James Anthony Pearson MON Actor: Rosalind Sydney MON Director: Gaynor MacFarlane MON Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane MON Writer: Beatrice Colin MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b038xmd1 (Listen) MON Series 14, The Longest Walk MON MON It's rambling, but not as we know it. Every year the Long MON Distance Walkers' Association organises a 100 mile walk. It MON has to be completed in 48 hours, which for most people means MON walking through two nights with no sleep. By the end, MON hallucination is common, and many of the 500 who started out MON drop out or by the time they finish can barely walk any MON more. MON MON Lives in a Landscape follows two participants in this year's MON walk, from Wadebridge in Cornwall to Teignmouth in Devon. MON One, George Foot, is 76, and has done 24 100-mile walks MON already. The other, Josh Wainwright, is 18. This is his MON first 100. Will either of them complete the walk, or will MON they have to "retire" early? MON MON As George walks, he talks to presenter Alan Dein about his MON long-dead father - a distinguished public school headmaster. MON It becomes clear that George has spent much of his life in MON his father's shadow, feeling that he was a permanent MON disappointment to him. As a child, George was told by his MON father that he was "a bad walker". Now, completing the 100 MON mile walk is a way of redeeming himself in his father's MON eyes. MON MON Josh, on the other hand, is walking the 100 miles with his MON father, Dave, a 21st century parent. Will Dave be more MON forgiving of failure, and more willing to praise success? An MON exploration not just of the challenges of walking and MON endurance, but of the changing nature of fatherhood. MON MON Producer: Jolyon Jenkins MON Presenter: Alan Dein. MON MON 11:30 Just William - Live! b01pfrrc (Listen) MON William Holds the Stage MON MON Last May, as part of Winchester's Best of British Festival MON in celebration of the Jubilee, Martin Jarvis performed the MON first of two of Richmal Crompton's comic classics, live MON on-stage. MON MON In William Holds the Stage, when an old boy of the school MON gives a lecture on Hamlet, William gets a somewhat confused MON idea that Shakespeare's plays were written by a man called MON Ham, and that Shakespeare poisoned Ham, and stole the plays MON and pretended he had written them. Then a man called Bacon MON got involved and possibly someone called Eggs as well. MON MON When it's announced that the class will perform a scene from MON Hamlet in front of a live audience, William decides that, MON despite being cast as an attendant, he'd prefer to play the MON leading role himself. But things don't go entirely to plan. MON MON A packed house at the Theatre Royal rocks with laughter as MON Jarvis performs William's hilariously inventive version of MON Shakespeare's masterpiece. Just William as 'stand-up'. MON MON Performed by Martin Jarvis MON Director: Rosalind Ayres. MON A Jarvis and Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b038xmd3 (Listen) MON Cashback, loyalty bonuses, golden 'hello' payments MON MON Cashback, loyalty bonuses and golden 'hello' payments. If MON you've noticed that banks are desperate to get your custom MON at the moment, it might have something to do with new rules MON making it easier than ever to leave them. We'll assess what MON it means for you and take a look at the bast deals. We're MON looking at the future of personal banking and the increasing MON pressure to do away with cash, MON We're using less energy at home than in recent years, but MON paying more for it. The energy companies explain why. Plus, MON the average CD costs eight pounds. Who gets a share of it MON and how much to they get? Musicians, producers, songwriters MON and managers are just a few. It goes in lots of directions. MON We'll trace them with, among others, Pink Floyd's Nick Mason MON and Robbie Williams' manager. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON Producer: John Neal. MON MON 12:57 Weather b038prgs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b038xmd5 (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y28tm (Listen) MON The Five Ages of Brandreth, 1950s MON MON Gyles Brandreth recalls Five Ages from his life from his MON extensive diaries. This first programme is on the 1950s and MON early 60s. In 1959 he stood as a Liberal in his school's MON mock General Election. He lost badly. In the real election, MON Harold Macmillan was returned to Number Ten with a big MON majority. Gyles ordered a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover -- MON his housemaster confiscated it. It was the time of the first MON satellite, Sputnik, President John F Kennedy, and the Cuban MON missile crisis. Gyles records them all. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b038x4xf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038xmd7 (Listen) MON His Father's Wife MON MON His Father's Wife by Mike Harris, based on an idea by Robert MON Louis Stevenson MON In 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson claimed that his stories MON came to him fully formed in dreams. He wrote down the MON outline of one such story from memory. This drama is based MON on that outline, and is therefore the world premiere of a MON story that Robert Louis Stevenson never wrote. It is a dark MON tale of love and filial hate set in nineteenth century MON Scotland. MON MON Director/Producer Gary Brown. MON MON Credits MON Benedict: Robin Laing MON Milly: Fiona Clarke MON Garth: Seamus O'Neill MON Hannah: Natalie Grady MON Ben's mother: Natalie Grady MON Native servant: Chris Jack MON Director: Gary Brown MON Producer: Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b038xmd9 (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects. We find MON out their least favourite quotes, and discover the most MON quotable people they have ever met. MON MON This week Nigel is joined by veteran broadcast war reporter MON and former independent politician - Martin Bell; arts MON journalist - Viv Groskop; actor, writer and artist - Edward MON Petherbridge and actor, comedian and writer David Schneider. MON MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b038x4wx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Queer Tangier b038xmdl (Listen) MON During much of the first part of the twentieth century, MON Tangier was an International Zone, controlled not by Morocco MON but instead by a number of foreign powers. During that MON period - and for some years afterwards - it became a magnet MON to scores of writers and artists, many of whom were gay. MON Paul Bowles arrived in the nineteen thirties, leading the MON way for some of the biggest names in literature of the time, MON including William Burroughs, Truman Capote, Andre Gide, MON Patricia Highsmith and Tennessee Williams. In Tangier they MON enjoyed a much greater degree of freedom, whether that be to MON take drugs or simply to conduct homosexual relationships, MON than would have been possible in their home countries at the MON time. The place also provided Professor Andrew Hussey with MON his first encounter with the Arab world, and set him on a MON course of exploration and intellectual discovery over the MON last thirty years, during which time he's been back many MON times. Now he returns again to not only tell the story of MON 'Queer Tangier' as it became known, including the dark side MON of that period in the form of sex tourism, but also witness MON how the city has by now become a confident, bustling MON Moroccan city in its own right. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b038xmds (Listen) MON Martin Luther King MON MON Beyond Belief debates the place of religion and faith in MON today's complex world. Ernie Rea is joined by a panel to MON discuss how religious beliefs and traditions affect our MON values and perspectives. MON MON Its fifty years since Martin Luther King addressed an MON immense crowd in Washington and told the world that "I have MON a dream." His words galvanised black people across America MON and paved the way for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of MON 1964. Out of deep Christian conviction King wanted to fight MON against ingrained injustice using exclusively non-violent MON means. In this programme Ernie Rea explores the religious MON influences and ideas of Martin Luther King and asks, half a MON century on, whether we have sanitised the tough message of MON that speech. MON MON To discuss the life and work of Martin Luther King Ernie Rea MON is joined by Rev Dr Cheryl Sanders, Professor of Christian MON Ethics at the Howard University School of Divinity in MON Washington D.C.; MON Israel Dresner, Emeritus Rabbi of Temple Beth Tikvah MON synagogue in New Jersey who worked closely with King and was MON present when he delivered the "I have a dream" speech and MON Richard Reddie, author of the book Martin Luther King MON Junior, History Maker. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b038xmf0 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038prgv (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b038xmf6 (Listen) MON Series 67, Episode 3 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? Join Sue Perkins, MON Russell Kane, Paul Merton and new player Henry Blofeld find MON out. Recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b038xmfd (Listen) MON Usha inspires rivalry, and Caroline makes some MON introductions. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b038xmfl (Listen) MON Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, with Kate Atkinson, Nicci MON French and Stuart MacBride MON MON With Mark Lawson, who reports from this year's Harrogate MON Crime Writing Festival. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038xmcz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 God's Trombone: Remembering King's Dream b038xmfr (Listen) MON On August 28th, 1963, at the March on Washington for Jobs MON and Freedom, Martin Luther King stepped to the podium in MON front of the Lincoln Memorial. Around 10 minutes into his MON speech, King sounded as though he were wrapping up when MON Mahalia Jackson, the gospel singer and King's friend, MON shouted: "Tell them about the dream Martin". He ignored her MON at first. Then she shouted again. He put the text to the MON left of the lectern, grabbed the podium and, after a pause MON more pregnant than most, started to riff. MON MON King's adviser Clarence Jones turned to the person next to MON him and said: "Those people don't know it, but they're about MON to go to church." MON MON It's 50 years since Martin Luther King gave the speech that MON stands as one of the nation's favourite addresses delivered MON by one of its most beloved figures. But "I have a dream" MON wasn't in the text of the speech and its mainstream MON popularity only grew after King was assassinated. MON MON Gary Younge looks behind the scenes of the speech and MON explores what made it both timely and timeless. Why do we MON remember it? How do we remember it? Does the way we remember MON it say as much about us today as it does about those events MON 50 years ago? MON MON We'll hear from King's colleagues and friends including his MON speechwriter Clarence Jones; King's aide, later US MON ambassador to the United Nations and Andrew Young. Young MON explores how King was influenced by African-American MON preachers: he was firmly rooted in a tradition of orators MON described by influential Harlem Renaissance poet and MON intellectual James Weldon Johnson as "God's Trombones". MON MON Producer: Peggy Sutton MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b038hj3t (Listen) MON Turkey's New Opposition MON MON Change is in the air in Turkey following anti-government MON protests centred on a park in Istanbul - but where will it MON end? Emre Azizlerli of the BBC Turkish Service explores the MON strange new alliances forged in Turkey's anti-government MON protests, and asks if this diverse movement can hold MON together. He meets the anti-capitalist Islamists who have MON made common cause with environmentalists and secularists as MON well as gay and lesbian groups. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip MON Erdogan refers to the protesters as "piteous rodents". The MON government has reacted by clamping down and sending in the MON riot police. Can the very different groups which oppose MON Erdogan really make common cause? MON MON Producer: Mark Savage. MON MON 21:00 Raising Allosaurus: The Dream of Jurassic Park MON b038c7b9 (Listen) MON In the 20 years since the release of the film Jurassic Park, MON DNA cloning technologies have advanced dramatically. MON Professor Adam Hart asks whether we could and should start MON bringing extinct animals back from the dead. MON MON The fossilised remains of dinosaurs are too degraded to hold MON any viable DNA, so Jurassic Park is unlikely to be a MON reality. But what about Pleistocene Park? Deep frozen MON remains of Arctic animals like the woolly mammoth or the MON Irish elk, have been shown to contain DNA - but is it in MON good enough condition to rebuild the genome and attempt MON cloning these animals which went extinct nearly 4000 years MON ago? MON MON Some people think it could work. But should we even be MON considering it? With so many plants and animals threatened MON with extinction now, should we be wasting time and resources MON on bringing back animals that didn't make the cut? MON MON Adam Hart asks experts in ancient DNA whether the code for MON life could be resurrected in animals like the mammoth, the MON passenger pigeon, the dodo, the marsupial tiger, or MON thylacine? And he asks conservationists whether we should be MON doing it. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b038xmc5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b038prgx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b038xmft (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038xmfw (Listen) MON Secrecy, Episode 1 MON MON "Some see you as a master craftsman. Others say you're a MON sorcerer. You're mysterious, obsessive. Controversial." MON MON Zummo - a 17th-century sculptor - makes things out of wax, MON figures so lifelike they look as if they might move and MON breathe. He has journeyed throughout Italy over the years in MON an attempt to flee his past. Now, in 1691, he has been MON summoned to the Medici court by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. MON He arrives in Florence, a city in which "everything was MON forbidden [and] anything was possible." But what does the MON Grand Duke have in mind for him? MON MON Ten years later, Zummo visits a convent in France and tells MON the whole story to Marguerite-Louise of Orléans, MON long-estranged wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. MON MON Secrecy is a tale of love, art, murder and concealment, MON enacted within a beautifully-realised 17th century MON Florentine and Tuscan setting. MON MON Some of the 'plague pieces' by Gaetano Zummo (1656-1701) can MON be found in La Specola, Florence. MON MON Rupert Thomson is the author of eight highly-acclaimed MON novels including Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted MON for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party's Got MON to Stop won the Writer's Guild Non-Fiction Award. MON MON Episode One MON In 1701, a frail, dying Zummo arrives at a French convent. MON He has a story to tell. His audience? Marguerite-Louise of MON Orléans, former wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. MON MON Readers: Greta Scacchi and Owen Teale MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b038c7bs (Listen) MON Language Games MON MON From Ancient Greece, to Saturday nights watching TV, word MON puzzles have fascinated people for thousands of years. Chris MON Ledgard takes us on a journey through the language of MON puzzles, from anagrams to Call My Bluff, and visits the MON International Linguistics Olympiad to meet to some of the MON sharpest puzzle-solving minds in the business. MON MON Puzzle setter for The Guardian, Chris Maslanka, explains the MON secrets of puzzle setting; Marcel Danesi from the University MON of Toronto explains the Riddle of the Sphinx; and scientist MON Katherine Friedlander explains how you can improve your MON puzzle solving. MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 23:30 The New North b01slrj5 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In the last decade the north of England has discovered a new MON public face. A boom in new landmark cultural public MON buildings, many built with Lottery funding, has created a MON distinctive, contemporary image for the region's towns and MON cities. MON MON Martin Goodman, professor of creative writing at Hull MON University presents this two part journey in search of the MON 'New North'. He visits the iconic new public buildings and MON asks how they reflect the changing region, how it differs MON from the traditional industrialised imagery of the north, MON and considers the economic challenges these new buildings MON face in today's austere times. MON MON He starts at The Sage in Gateshead and then moves on to MON MIMA, Middlesbrough's modern art gallery, before going to MON Hull to visit The Deep aquarium. He speaks to its architect, MON Sir Terry Farrell, about that building as well as his work MON in the North East. He also asks author David Almond what MON these new buildings mean for the culture of Gateshead and MON Newcastle. MON MON So, is there a 'New North' emerging - and if there is, how MON does it differ from what has gone before? And can these new MON institutions survive in economically testing times. MON MON In part two, Martin will visit the striking new Hepworth MON Gallery in Wakefield and speak to the architect David MON Chipperfield about its design. He'll talk to the writer Alan MON Garner about the historic qualities of the North and find MON out about regeneration in Manchester and Salford, visiting MON the new Museum of Liverpool and meeting TV writer Phil MON Redmond. And he'll hear how the economic squeeze can leave MON some of those who run new developments feeling like 'paupers MON in palaces'. MON MON Producer: Philip Reevell MON A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 AUGUST 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b038prhy (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b038xmch (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038prj0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038prj2 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038prj4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b038prj6 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039sp5y (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop TUE Joe Aldred. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b038xrj1 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Emma Campbell, and Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xwb (Listen) TUE Spotted Redshank TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Michaela Strachan presents the spotted redshank. Spotted TUE Redshanks are elegant long-legged waders which don't breed TUE in the UK but pass through in spring and autumn on journeys TUE between their summer home in Scandinavia and their wintering TUE grounds in southern Europe and Africa. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b038xrj3 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b038xrj5 (Listen) TUE Joanna Haigh TUE TUE Joanna Haigh studies the influence of the sun on the earth's TUE climate using satellites. She talks to Jim Al-Khalili about TUE her fascination with climate and how it is changing. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b038xrj7 (Listen) TUE Frank Gardner talks to Tim Rushby-Smith TUE TUE After a life changing injury or incident one of the things TUE that makes a huge difference on how you then move on with TUE the rest of your life is what you can still do and can't do. TUE TUE The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner regards TUE himself lucky that he was able to carry on doing journalism TUE after being shot 9 years ago in Saudi Arabia by terrorists. TUE Some of those bullets hit the core of his body and damaged TUE his spinal nerve - he can no longer use his legs and is in a TUE wheelchair for the rest of his life. However, being able to TUE return to work and continue with his profession has been one TUE of the biggest factors in his own recovery. TUE TUE In this second programme for the series 'One to One', Frank TUE meets Tim Rushby-Smith who fell from a tree and had to face TUE the fact he would no longer be able to carry on with his TUE profession and livelihood. TUE TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03966zs (Listen) TUE Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Kerry Shale TUE TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE PRODUCER: JOANNA GREEN TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Author: Alyn Shipton TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b038xrj9 (Listen) TUE New Tricks. Storme Toolis. Inbetweeners TUE TUE Emma Barnett presents. TUE TUE The relationship between a teacher and pupil is inevitably a TUE strong one, so what's being done to stop it crossing the TUE line and becoming abuse? TUE TUE If your parents divorce when you're grown up and no longer TUE living at home does it hurt more or less? TUE TUE Making tiles from concrete and linen, a modern way to unite TUE Northern Ireland's manufacturing industries. TUE TUE And actress Storme Toolis talks about her new part in New TUE Tricks and how as a wheelchair user, she sidesteps the TUE inevitable role of hospital patient. TUE TUE Teacher and Student Relationships TUE TUE What happens when pupils and teachers develop strong TUE feelings for one another? What is in place in schools and TUE during teacher training to prevent these from developing, TUE and what happens when an abusive relationship begins? Emma TUE Barnett speaks to Ella, a young woman who was groomed and TUE sexually abused by a teacher at her school from the age of TUE 14. He is currently serving a 12 year sentence. Ella has TUE documented her experiences in a programme for Radio 1 called TUE “Tempted by Teacher”, in which she speaks to students the TUE same age as she was when the abuse began. How aware were TUE they of the dangers of teacher/student relationships? TUE Also taking part is Brian Lightman, General Secretary of the TUE Association of School and College Leaders. TUE TUE Storme Toolis TUE TUE Storme Toolis is an actress and a wheelchair-user, who TUE brought authenticity to her disabled character in The TUE Inbetweeners Movie. Her latest role is in BBC One’s New TUE Tricks, in which she plays Holly Griffin, a confident, TUE feisty young woman who is a law student and has a TUE boyfriend. Storme joins Emma Barnett to explain how she can TUE relate to this character, and how refreshing it is, as a TUE wheelchair user, to be cast as a true reflection, rather TUE than as the butt of jokes, hospital patients or car crash TUE victims. TUE TUE New Tricks in on BBC One on Tuesday 27 August at 9pm. TUE TUE Linen and Concrete TUE TUE The linen industry was once one of the mainstays of the TUE Northern Irish economy when the beautiful fine cloth was TUE exported around the world. However, due to rising costs at TUE home and increasing competition from abroad there is now no TUE linen manufacturing at all in Northern Ireland. But two TUE women are determined to continue the country's long TUE relationship with the textile. Professor of Architecture TUE Ruth Morrow and Trish Belford, Textile Designer joined TUE forces to use linen in a new way. Their company, TUE Tactility Factory TUE takes fabric and combines it with concrete to form a TUE building material that aims to be as beautiful as it is TUE useful. Helen Mark went to meet the women, and see the TUE linen and a vat of sludgy concrete. TUE TUE How does late life divorce affect grown children? TUE TUE There is no doubt that parents divorcing is difficult for TUE any family to deal with but it is often assumed that a TUE separation in later life will be less disruptive for adult TUE children. Woman’s Hour investigates whether the effect on TUE adult children of divorce may be underestimated. TUE Guest presenter, Emma Barnett, is joined by writer and TUE advice columnist Bel Mooney, and we hear the mixed TUE experiences of some of our listeners. TUE TUE Producer: Kirsty Starkey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038xrjc (Listen) TUE The True Story of Bonnie Parker, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Beatrice Colin TUE TUE Bonnie has made a choice to embark on a life on the road TUE with Clyde Barrow. But things start to go badly wrong and TUE soon they are on the run from the law. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 11:00 Deep Down Inside b038xrjf (Listen) TUE Deep Brain stimulation is a brain surgery technique TUE involving electrodes being inserted to reach targets deep TUE inside the brain. Those targets are then stimulated via the TUE electrodes which are connected to a battery powered TUE pacemaker surgically placed under the person's collar bone. TUE TUE Geoff Watts finds out how the technique has been used TUE successfully for treating the movement disorders of TUE Parkinson's disease, in patients with severe, intractable TUE depression, in chronic pain and how it's also being trialled TUE to see if it can also be successful in treating Obsessive TUE Compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome and other TUE disorders. TUE TUE Geoff meets patients who have had their lives changed by TUE having Deep brain stimulation. He also meets the surgeons at TUE the operating table to find out how it works. At the moment TUE no one has all the answers but one psychiatrist he meets TUE says the success of Deep Brain stimulation means we should TUE radically change the way we understand how the brain works. TUE That the brain is governed by electrical circuitry rather TUE than a chemical soup of neurotransmitters. TUE TUE 11:30 How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My TUE Albatross b038xrjh (Listen) TUE Music writer Pete Paphides runs through the 5 stages of TUE grief following a huge hit record with stories from some of TUE those who know including Mike Batt, Ralph McTell, Colin TUE Vearncombe, Ivan Doroschuk and Sandie Shaw. TUE TUE Many artists are best known for doing something - be it a TUE hit, or an album or for having an intense, sustained period TUE of success that is hard to maintain in the long-run. In the TUE case of Ralph McTell it's the song 'Streets of London', for TUE Ivan Doroschuk from Men Without Hats it's 'The Safety TUE Dance', for Mike Batt, a prolific songwriter and producer, TUE his Womble years are often remembered first, Sandie Shaw has TUE never been able to forget 'Puppet on a String' and Colin TUE Vearncombe's band Black's albatross track was Wonderful TUE Life. TUE TUE The five stages a musician goes through of dealing with TUE their albatross are uncannily similar to the five stages of TUE grief that follow bereavement or news of a terminal illness. TUE These were identified by psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross TUE in her 1969 book On Death & Dying (they also form the TUE narrative arc of Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day). TUE They include denial, bargaining, anger, depression and TUE finally acceptance. TUE TUE How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love My Albatross TUE walks through these five stages, with lots of testimony from TUE people who have been through all the different points in the TUE curve of self-realisation - punctuated, of course, with lots TUE of clips of all their great songs. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b038xrjk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: Hospital Food TUE TUE We're talking about hospital food on today's Call You And TUE Yours. Nearly 80 organisations are backing a campaign to TUE improve patient meals, so what's your point of view? We want TUE to hear from you if you've eaten hospital meals or know TUE something about them because your friends or relatives have TUE been in hospital. TUE TUE If you cook the food that's served in hospital call us or TUE email us. If you have an opinion one way or the other get in TUE contact. TUE TUE Call You And Yours on 03700 100 444 or you can e-mail via TUE the Radio 4 website or text on 84844. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b038prj8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b038xrjm (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x02 (Listen) TUE The Five Ages of Brandreth, 1960s TUE TUE Gyles Brandreth recounts more diary instalments in the Five TUE Ages of his life. This time it's the early 60s. Gyles is TUE still at school but he's fascinated by all that's going on TUE -- the Beatles, the Profumo scandal, Macmillan's decline and TUE the death of President Kennedy. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b038xmfd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038xrjp (Listen) TUE Bad Elvis TUE TUE Bad Elvis by Katie Hims. Aidan, Deaf, checks into the hotel TUE he used to stay in with his mother and father as a child. TUE During the evening an Elvis impersonator starts to sing at TUE the wedding downstairs, interrupting his rest. TUE TUE The third in a series of plays commissioned for Deaf actor TUE David Bower and developed with Signdance Collective TUE TUE Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. TUE TUE Credits TUE Aidan: David Bower TUE Snow White: Sally Carmen TUE Rachel: Janice McKenzie TUE Elvis: Terence Mann TUE Landlord: Terence Mann TUE Linus: Matt Sutton TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE Director: Susan Roberts TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b038xtd4 (Listen) TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b038xrjr (Listen) TUE Electric Cars Recharged TUE TUE It has been the Next Big Thing for longer than most people TUE can remember but there are signs that the much-derided TUE electric car may finally be poised for it's moment in the TUE sun. TUE TUE For Costing the Earth, Tom Heap visits the factory where a TUE major European car maker's latest electric supermini takes TUE it's place on the same production line as it's petrol and TUE diesel cousins. TUE TUE And he discovers that experts believe that success will come TUE this time thanks to a combination of improved technology, TUE commercial imperatives and a hefty dose of EU legislation. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b038xtd6 (Listen) TUE What are we allowed to say to each other? Chris Ledgard TUE looks at the laws surrounding language use, from libel to TUE blasphemy. TUE TUE Barristers Nicola Cain and Christina Michalos explain TUE defamation law. Professor Laura Gowing from King's College TUE London takes us back to a time when seditious language could TUE land you in the pillory. And barrister Diane Chanteau TUE explains how critical the use of exact language is in court. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b038xtd8 (Listen) TUE Series 31, Julie Burchill on Ava Gardner TUE TUE The writer Julie Burchill talks to Matthew Parris about the TUE Hollywood star Ava Gardner. They're joined by Ava's TUE biographer Lee Server. Often described as "the most TUE beautiful woman in the world", Ava Gardner made 65 movies, TUE ranging from 'Mogambo' (for which she won an Oscar TUE nomination) to 'Maisie Goes To Reno' (for which she didn't). TUE She had three husbands (Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank TUE Sinatra) and hundreds of lovers including Howard Hughes, TUE David Niven, Robert Mitchum, John F.Kennedy and various TUE playboys, beach-boys and bullfighters. She was, says Matthew TUE Parris, a "hard-drinking, wisecracking, libidinous vamp - a TUE liberated woman before the phrase was invented. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Julie Burchill TUE Producer: Peter Everett TUE TUE 17:00 PM b038xtdb (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038prjb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Clare in the Community b038xtdd (Listen) TUE Edinburgh Special: In Treatment TUE TUE Clare and Brian's relationship has always been fraught but TUE with communication at an all time low the couple try TUE relationship counselling. A one-off episode recorded in TUE Edinburgh at the Festival. TUE TUE Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all TUE the right jargon but never a practical solution. A control TUE freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other TUE people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. TUE Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and TUE heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of TUE discomfort to her. TUE TUE Clare struggles to control both her professional and private TUE life and in this special one-off episode recorded at the TUE Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Clare's professional life is TUE impacting on her personal life as she and Brian seek help TUE with their relationship. After all, Clare gives of herself TUE everyday at work - is it her fault there's little left for TUE Brian's dreary problems at the end of the day? TUE TUE In Treatment - Cast TUE TUE Written by Harry Venning TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell. TUE TUE Credits TUE Clare: Sally Phillips TUE Brian: Alex Lowe TUE Robin: Peter Mitchell TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b038xtdg (Listen) TUE Helen's making the most of it, and there's a hiccup in TUE Brian's schedule. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b038xtdj (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038xrjc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Before the Mugshot b038xtdl (Listen) TUE In 2008 a grainy CCTV image appeared in south London TUE newspapers of a young man robbing a cash and carry. Sarah TUE O'Connell tells the story behind the photo. TUE TUE Everyone has seen similar pictures - of a surly young man TUE who has committed a serious criminal offence. Yet as a TUE society we have not been very successful at stopping them TUE from doing so. TUE TUE Sarah takes that CCTV picture, and one of Aaron as a baby, TUE and explores what went wrong with Aaron's life in the gap TUE between the two pictures which resulted in him committing a TUE serious, violent criminal offence before he had yet turned TUE 18. TUE TUE In the programme Aaron himself discusses his life with TUE candour - from his family background to his motivation for TUE committing criminal offences. Sarah also speaks to members TUE of his family, teachers and mentors to give a rich picture TUE of how a life can fall apart - and perhaps what we might do TUE better in the future. TUE TUE Producer: Giles Edwards. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b038xw3h (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Seven Ages of Science b038xw3k (Listen) TUE Age of Inspiration TUE TUE Lisa Jardine explores an Age in which scientists took leaps TUE of faith. TUE TUE At the start of the 19th century, fossils were a mystery. TUE Mary Anning excavated the remains of huge and extraordinary TUE creatures from the cliff face at Lyme Regis. Most men of TUE science assumed she'd found a crocodile: she insisted her TUE creature was entirely unknown. As other such mysterious TUE monsters were unearthed, they represented a puzzle for TUE established theology, but theology coped. TUE TUE Electricity, "that imponderable fluid", was another mystery; TUE as was magnetism, another weird and invisible force. TUE Maxwell's Laws of electro-magnetism, lavishly praised by TUE Einstein decades later, explained them both, and light as TUE well. His four simple equations reduced mystery by unifying TUE apparently disparate phenomena. A notion that pervades and TUE drives much of physics to this day. TUE TUE The way in which telegraph networks deliver messages might TUE as well have been magic. And several well respected TUE Victorian physicists believed that if voices can travel TUE invisibly over hundreds of miles, then perhaps the laws of TUE physics could help us communicate in séances with dead TUE souls. TUE TUE Perhaps the biggest mystery of all concerned the origin of TUE life itself. We tend to imagine a great clash between TUE science and religion in the middle of the 19th century but TUE for most of the century there was little conflict. Theology TUE was able to accommodate the fossil evidence, or not worry TUE too much about it; and evolutionary ideas had been around TUE since Charles Darwin's grandfather published his scientific TUE poem, Zoonomia. And, when Darwin published On the Origin of TUE Species many in the chattering classes remained TUE light-hearted, with one notable woman of letters remarking TUE that she didn't believe her grandfather was an oyster. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b038xrj5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b038prjd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b038xw3m (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038zlqk (Listen) TUE Secrecy, Episode 2 TUE TUE Florence 1691. After settling in to his new surroundings TUE Zummo is summoned to meet Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. TUE TUE Reader: Owen Teale TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01m9qkz (Listen) TUE Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section: Edinburgh 2012 TUE TUE A one-off Edinburgh special of music and comedy from Alex TUE Horne and his 5 piece band. With special guests Al Murray TUE and poet Tim Key. TUE TUE Alex Horne .... Host TUE Joe Auckland .... Trumpet and Banjo TUE Mark Brown .... Saxophone and guitar TUE Will Collier .... Bass TUE Ben Reynolds .... Drums TUE Joe Stilgoe .... Keyboards TUE Al Murray .... Guest TUE Tim Key .... Guest TUE TUE Producer .... Julia McKenzie. TUE TUE 23:30 The New North b02116zh (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Professor Martin Goodman explores the new, iconic cultural TUE buildings that have emerged in the North of England over the TUE last decade and asks if they represent a 'New North'. TUE TUE In the second part of his journey, he visits the Hepworth TUE Gallery in Wakefield and talks to its architect, Sir David TUE Chipperfield about the design. In Manchester he gets a TUE panoramic view of the city from the 47th floor penthouse of TUE the architect Ian Simpson, who designed the tower. TUE TUE He talks to Maria Balshaw, the director of the Manchester TUE Art Gallery to find out about the historic relevance of that TUE gallery today, and meets the director of a new cultural TUE building, where work has just begun. TUE TUE Martin also hears from Professor Peter Barrett about the TUE regeneration of Salford Quays, home of the Imperial War TUE Museum and the recently opened MediacityUK. Professor TUE Barrett has studied the economics of Lottery funded arts and TUE cultural buildings. TUE TUE In Cheshire, at the Jodrell Bank telescope, Martin explores TUE a longer-term view of the North's history with the writer TUE Alan Garner. TUE TUE In Liverpool, he visits the new Museum of Liverpool on the TUE banks for the Mersey, meeting its director Janet Dugdale to TUE find out about its perspective on Liverpool's history, and TUE also talks about that city's culture and place in the world TUE with the writer Phil Redmond. Finally Martin hears from TUE Liverpool's Mayor about the challenges of economic austerity TUE and public funding for the arts, and his hopes of attracting TUE investment from China into a huge redevelopment of the TUE city's derelict Docks. TUE TUE Producer: Philip Reevell TUE A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 AUGUST 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b038prk8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03966zs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038prkb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038prkd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038prkg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b038prkj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039sp6f (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop WED Joe Aldred. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b038xx70 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Ana Jones, and Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xxk (Listen) WED Golden Eagle WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Michaela Strachan presents the golden eagle. Golden Eagles WED are magisterial birds. With a wingspan of over two metres WED their displays are dramatic affairs involving spectacular WED aerobatics. They can dive upon their quarry at speeds of WED more than 240 kilometres per hour, using their sharp talons WED to snatch up their prey. WED WED 06:00 Today b038xx72 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 I Have a Dream b0395qvq (Listen) WED Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" is one of the most WED powerfully passionate political statements of the 20th WED century. WED WED This unique tribute program from BBC Radio, which will be WED broadcast to a global audience, seeks to commemorate Dr WED King's legacy through his words. Global figures celebrate Dr WED Kings legacy by reading sections of the speech which WED resonate with their own experiences and aspirations. WED Martin Luther King Collection WED WED 09:30 Just So Science b01ptzmp (Listen) WED 3. The Beginning of the Armadillos 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 3. The Beginning of the Armadillos. Part mammal, part WED reptile, part just plain weird. Why the story of the WED Armadillo is stranger than fiction, according to Richard WED Dawkins and Mariella Superina. WED Producer: Rami Tzabar. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0395qvs (Listen) WED Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter, Episode 3 WED WED Reader: Kerry Shale WED WED ABRIDGED BY LIBBY SPURRIER WED PRODUCER: JOANNA GREEN WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED Author: Alyn Shipton WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b038xx76 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038xx78 (Listen) WED The True Story of Bonnie Parker, Episode 3 WED WED by Beatrice Colin WED WED The photographs of Bonnie and Clyde posing with guns have WED been widely published in the press. The Barrow Gang is now WED wanted - Dead or Alive. WED WED Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 11:00 Midweek b038xx74 (Listen) WED Mark Ravenhill WED WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 11:45 Witness b038x4x1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Sunday] WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b038xx7g (Listen) WED Consumer news with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b038prkl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b038xx8h (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x4j (Listen) WED The Five Ages of Brandreth, 1970s WED WED Gyles Brandreth continues his Five Ages series with a look WED at the early 1970s. He's asked, with Cliff Richard, to bring WED a youthful voice to Lord Longford's anti-porn inquiry. He WED goes to see "blue" films in London and accompanies Longford WED on his infamous trip to "sin-city" -- Copenhagen, sex clubs WED and all. But in the end, he's sacked from the inquiry WED because he can't take it seriously enough. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b038xtdg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038yk6s (Listen) WED On Mardle Fen, Series 6, Mardle End Part 1 WED WED By Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock is back as eccentric chef WED Warwick Hedges. In the sixth and final series of this comedy WED drama, set in the Cambridgeshire Fens, Warwick goes in WED search of a magical, golden paradise...somewhere on Mardle WED Fen. WED WED Directed by Claire Grove WED WED Two new dramas from master-storyteller Nick Warburton take WED this popular comedy drama series out on a high. Trevor WED Peacock is back as inspirational chef Warwick Hedges - Mr WED Toad meets King Lear - who runs an up market restaurant in WED the Cambridgeshire Fens. His son Jack, played by Sam Dale, WED works alongside his father, which makes him permanently WED anxious. They are assisted by Samuel, played by John Rowe, WED an earthy odd-job man "who crawled out of the slime with the WED eels" and Zofia, a Polish waitress, now a single parent with WED a baby called Dillie. The mixture of food, family WED relationships and Fenland legend is handled with Nick WED Warburton's characteristic deft comic touch. WED WED Trevor Peacock is a brilliant character actor best known as WED the bumbling Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley. At 82 he is WED still at the top of his game, appearing earlier this year WED alongside Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, WED Pauline Collins and Michael Gambon in Dustin Hoffman's WED directorial debut film Quartet. WED WED Nick Warburton has written over 30 plays for BBC Radios 3, WED 4, 5, 7 and BBC World Service. He was joint winner of the WED BBC/Radio Times Drama award for Conversations From the WED Engine Room and winner of the Tinniswood Award for best WED radio play of 2005, Beast. He's a regular writer for BBC WED TV's medical series, Holby City and Doctors, and has also WED written for Eastenders and Born & Bred. His numerous stage WED plays include a recent double-bill at Alan Ayckbourn's WED Stephen Joseph Theatre. He is author of seven novels for WED children and young adults. WED WED Credits WED Warwick Hedges: Trevor Peacock WED Jack Hedges: Sam Dale WED Marcia Hedges: Kate Buffery WED Zofia: Helen Longworth WED Samuel: John Rowe WED Mavis: Tilly Tremayne WED Ravi: Paul Bazely WED Director: Claire Grove WED Writer: Nick Warburton WED WED 15:00 How You Pay for the City b038x1ll (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Seven Ages of Science b038xw3k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b038yk6v (Listen) WED Walter Benjamin WED WED What is the value of forgotten histories, of possibilities WED not realised? What can a quite amble down a backstreet tell WED us about the nature of modernity? How has technology WED affected the nature and purpose of art? In the mid twentieth WED century Walter Benjamin explored all these questions and WED brought Marxist thinking to high culture, exploring people's WED relationship to objects and art. His influence is probably WED felt now more than ever. Laurie Taylor presents a special WED programme on the work of this pioneering German intellectual WED and theorist. He's joined by the philosopher Jonathan Ree WED and the professor of political aesthetics, Esther Leslie. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b038yk6x (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 b038yk6z (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038prkq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b038yk71 (Listen) WED Series 5, Vanessa Feltz WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. WED WED Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by broadcaster Vanessa Feltz, WED who revisits her teenage years in North London. She spent WED her holidays packing knickers for her father's lingerie WED firm, and a lot of the rest of the time daydreaming about WED being married to her teenage boyfriend. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b038yl1b (Listen) WED Kirsty's encouraging, and David makes it clear he's not WED interested in shortcuts. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b038yl1d (Listen) WED Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED Producer Ella-mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038xx78 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Four Thought b038yl1g (Listen) WED Best of Four Thought, Hidden Benefits WED WED For the third episode in our series of the 'Best of Four WED Thought' talks that combine new ideas with personal WED experience, David Baddiel selects three speakers who all WED strike an optimistic note as they find hidden benefits in WED surprising places. WED WED Emma Byrne, a science writer, says swearing can be good for WED us. Amber Dermont explains the advantages of an unhappy WED childhood. And Kamin Mohammadi thinks oppression by WED totalitarian regimes can spur extraordinary creativity. WED WED Producer: Arlene Gregorius. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b038yl1j (Listen) WED Series 4, Greg Votolato WED WED Greg Votolato confesses his addiction to cars while arguing WED for more sustainable designs to meet our desire for status WED and private space. Four Thought is a series of talks which WED combine new ideas and personal stories. Speakers explain WED their thinking on the trends and ideas in culture and WED society in front of a live audience. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b038xrjr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b038xx74 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b038prkv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b038yl1l (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038zm1s (Listen) WED Secrecy, Episode 3 WED WED The Grand Duke holds a 'Sicilian' banquet in honour of WED Zummo: events there change the sculptor's life forever. WED WED Reader: Owen Teale WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 James Acaster's Findings b01rg23c (Listen) WED NEW SERIES WED WED Stand-up comedian James Acaster presents the results of his WED in-depth research into the subject of 'bread', assisted by WED his trusty sidekick Nathaniel Metcalfe, in this brand new WED comedy show for BBC Radio 4. WED WED We'll find out why the French struggle to come up with a WED snappy slogan to advertise Brioche, learn why the Bagel is WED so trendy, and discover the hidden anti-bread propaganda WED pushed at children through the medium of fairytales. WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED 23:30 iPM b03968jp (Listen) WED iPM Archives: Fathers and sons WED WED Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey delve into the archives of WED iPM - the programme devoted to the ideas, experiences and WED expertise of Radio 4 listeners - to explore the topic of WED father and son relationships. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 AUGUST 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b038prlr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0395qvs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038prlt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038prlw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038prly (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b038prm0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039sp94 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop THU Joe Aldred. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b038ylhl (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham, and Produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xyd (Listen) THU White-tailed Eagle THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the white-tailed eagle. These THU magnificent birds, sometimes called the sea eagle, are our THU largest breeding bird of prey and in flight have been THU described as looking like a "flying barn-door". The adults THU have white tail feathers, a bulky yellow bill and long THU parallel-sided wings: they really do deserve that barn door THU description. THU THU 06:00 Today b038ym0k (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b038ym0m (Listen) THU Series 9, Lung Transplant Teenager THU THU John had a lung transplant at 11, but a few years later his THU illness returned. Should he be given a second transplant? THU Joan Bakewell and guests discuss this real life case. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0395r30 (Listen) THU Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter, Episode 4 THU THU ABRIDGED BY LIBBY SPURRIER THU READER: KERRY SHALE THU PRODUCER: JOANNA GREEN. THU Author: Alyn Shipton THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b038ym0p (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038ym0r (Listen) THU The True Story of Bonnie Parker, Episode 4 THU THU by Beatrice Colin THU THU Bonnie is recovering after the car accident. The Barrow Gang THU run to Oklahoma and hole up at the Red Crown Tavern. But the THU law is closing in on them. THU THU Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b038ynyx (Listen) THU Inside Gay Pakistan THU THU Mobeen Azhar investigates life in gay, urban Pakistan. THU Despite Pakistan's religious conservatism and homosexuality THU being a crime, he finds a vibrant gay scene, all aided by THU social media. He meets gay people at underground parties, THU shrines and hotels and finds out what it's really like to be THU gay in Pakistan. As one man tells him, "The best thing about THU being gay in Pakistan is you can easily hook up with guys THU over here. You just need to know the right moves and with a THU click you can get any guy you want." At a gay party he meets THU an NGO worker who then takes him to one of Karachi's prime THU cruising locations - a shrine to a 9th-century Muslim saint. THU Mobeen meets a "masseur", who works on the street THU advertising his services. The masseur's real job is selling THU sexual services to men - with the full knowledge of his THU wife. And with great difficulty, Mobeen speaks to a lesbian THU couple, who conceal their relationship from their own THU parents. One of them argues that it is too soon for gay THU Pakistanis to fight openly for political rights and that THU they must find happiness in the personal sphere. Mobeen THU discovers that while urban Pakistanis may easily be able to THU find sex, being in a relationship is far more difficult. THU Producer: Helena Merriman. THU THU Ahmed Asif’s wife is supportive of her husbands work THU THU Ahmed has been a masseur for his entire working life. He THU claims to have slept with over 3000 men but perhaps even THU more surprisngly, he has 2 wives and 8 children. THU THU One of his wives Sumera wears a burka and the nikab, the THU full face covering. It could be assumed that she is THU religiously conservative. In fact she’s extremely accepting THU of her husband’s work and says she wishes more of society THU would keep an open mind. “I know he has sex. No problem. THU If he doesn’t work how will the kids eat?" THU THU 11:30 The Gambaccini Years b038ynyz (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU (4/4) THU Paul Gambaccini's series celebrating his 40th anniversary as THU a broadcaster in Britain reaches the 21st century. With THU guests including Jude Kelly of London's South Bank Centre, THU Paul recalls favourite interviews he has conducted with THU personal heroes such as Dave Brubeck, Stephen Sondheim and THU Bob Newhart. THU THU Producer: Paul Bajoria. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b038ynz1 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b038prm2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b038ynz3 (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x73 (Listen) THU The Five Ages of Brandreth, 1980s THU THU Gyles Brandreth continues his Five Ages with a look back at THU the 80s. Breakfast television was just starting and Gyles THU became a regular on TV-am. It was also the time of a great THU electoral triumph for Mrs Thatcher and a scandal involving THU Cecil Parkinson. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b038yl1b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038ynz5 (Listen) THU On Mardle Fen, Series 6, Mardle End Part 2 THU THU By Nick Warburton. Eccentric chef Warwick Hedges goes in THU search of a magical, golden paradise, somewhere on Mardle THU Fen. But up a tree at dusk, disguised as a badger, he is THU shot at. Could this be poachers or something more sinister? THU THU Directed by Claire Grove. THU THU Credits THU Warwick Hedges: Trevor Peacock THU Jack Hedges: Sam Dale THU Marcia Hedges: Kate Buffery THU Zofia: Helen Longworth THU Samuel: John Rowe THU Mavis: Tilly Tremayne THU Ravi: Paul Bazely THU Director: Claire Grove THU Writer: Nick Warburton THU THU 15:00 Open Country b038ynz7 (Listen) THU Beer Quarry Caves THU THU The history of Britain's cathedrals is celebrated but much THU less so that of the quarries and quarrymen, who hewed the THU stone they're built of. On this week's Open Country, Helen THU Mark rectifies that. With her hard hat to hand she goes THU underground in the South West. THU THU She explores Devon's Beer Quarry Caves which supplied Exeter THU cathedral with the highest quality limestone, reserved for THU some of the finest carvings in this and many other medieval THU churches. THU THU Helen meets John Scott who fought hard to make sure that the THU Beer Quarry Caves weren't demolished in the 1980s. John is a THU master storyteller who conjures the underground world of THU generations of anonymous masons and quarrymen at the caves, THU which are open to the public. They're joined by master mason THU Peter Dare.At Exeter cathedral the archaeologist John Allan THU shows Helen the tracery windows and high ribbed ceilings, THU all carved from the characteristic creamy white Beer stone. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b038x32x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b038x4x5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b038ynz9 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Hilary Dunn THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b038ynzc (Listen) THU Prof Alice Roberts 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 b038ynzf (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038prm4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b01npb83 (Listen) THU Series 3, Rubbish; Jesus Shaves THU THU The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his THU wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with the final edition in a THU series of audience readings. This week moving to the British THU countryside has its downsides exposed in "Rubbish" and the THU eye-opening experience of learning French at a Paris THU language school is considered in "Jesus Shaves". THU THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b038ynzh (Listen) THU Darrell's still got his pride, and Alan makes a grand THU gesture. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b038ynzk (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038ym0r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b038ynzm (Listen) THU Private Investigators THU THU Private investigators are coming under increasing scrutiny THU themselves - with the latest controversy surrounding the THU work they carry out for companies. THU THU Adam Fleming investigates how PIs take advantage of cameras, THU GPS tracking devices and legal grey areas to carry out THU surveillance on individuals for insurers and other clients. THU THU He also meets the people who accuse the industry of dirty THU tricks, as the government announces the introduction of THU licences for investigators. THU The Hacking Scandal and the Murder of Daniel Morgan THU THU 20:30 In Business b038ynzp (Listen) THU Kit of Life THU THU Simon Berry wondered why crates of soft drinks can be found THU in some of the most remote places in the world, but simple THU medicines to treat childhood diseases have for decades THU failed to reach the people who need them. The social THU enterprise he set up, ColaLife, designed an ingenious THU package that can slot in between soda bottles, piggybacking THU on Coca-Cola's supply chain and potentially getting anywhere THU Coca-Cola does. THU Called 'Kit Yamoyo' - roughly translated as 'kit of life' in THU a number of African languages - it includes oral rehydration THU salts and zinc to treat diarrhoea, plus a bar of soap. The THU outer shell also functions as a measure and drinking cup for THU the medicine. The idea caught the attention of the design THU world and won Cola Life a top prize in the London Design THU Awards show earlier this year. THU But Simon Berry was already realising that a clever design THU was not enough, and that the real lesson from Coca-Cola was THU devising a 'value chain' - and making sure everyone involved THU in the distribution gets paid. THU In this programme (in London and Zambia), he explains to THU Peter Day how he applied the profit-driven ideas of THU multinational companies to tackle a disease that kills more THU African children than HIV, malaria and measles combined. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b038ynzc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Zeitgeisters b036j3qc (Listen) THU Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng THU THU As part of Radio 4's Year of Culture initiative, the BBC THU Arts Editor Will Gompertz meets the cultural entrepreneurs THU who are shaping our lives and defining the very spirit of THU our age. THU THU These are not Turner Prize winners or the recipients of THU grants from the Arts Council or the Lottery Fund. These are THU the people behind the scenes, pulling the strings and THU plotting a path of consumer-driven success. They are the THU designers of the latest 'must have' piece of technology or THU clothing, the brains behind an artist's development, and the THU tastemakers that know what will work at the box office and THU what will sell on the high street. Their impact goes beyond THU mere commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. They are the THU Zeitgeisters and it's about time we met them. THU THU Programme 4. In the final programme of the series, Will THU meets Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng, co-founders of Coursera, THU the company that is revolutionising education much in the THU same way that Amazon and iTunes turned publishing and music THU on their heads. Daphne and Andrew have together created a THU platform which allows anyone from anywhere in the world (who THU has internet access) to attend lectures and classes given by THU the best teachers in the world - for free. Universities as THU we know them may soon be a thing of the past. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 21:58 Weather b038prm6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b038ynzr (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038zm8k (Listen) THU Secrecy, Episode 4 THU THU Zummo is weighing up the Grand Duke's secret commission THU when, after months of searching, he meets the girl from the THU apothecary. THU THU Reader: Owen Teale THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 North by Northamptonshire b00sxj24 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 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 It's Town Talent Night at last and Ken and Keith are busy THU fine-tuning their pet whippets' dance routine. THU THU Everyone nervously awaits the arrival of the celebrity judge THU Lady Ballantyne who is unfortunately in the spotlight for THU being the most recent Royal racist. THU THU Jan does her last minute preparations for her trip to THU Australia. Will she be going alone or could she possibly THU dare to dream that Jonathan might join her at the last THU minute? THU THU And finally supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) gets THU to take Tanya from till 4 on a date. The true measure of THU success will be how many packets of scampi fries they THU consume. Will it be just the one? Or perhaps too many to THU count? THU THU Written by Katherine Jakeways THU Produced by Claire Jones. THU THU Credits 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 Taxi Driver: Rufus Wright THU Lady Ballantyne: Lizzie Roper THU Angela: Lizzie Roper THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU Producer: Claire Jones THU THU 23:30 iPM b03968jt (Listen) THU iPM Archives: mothers and daughters THU THU Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey delve into the archives of THU iPM - the programme devoted to the ideas, experiences and THU expertise of Radio 4 listeners - to explore the topic of THU mother and daughter relationships. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 AUGUST 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b038prn1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0395r30 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038prn3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038prn5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038prn7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b038prn9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039spfw (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop FRI Joe Aldred. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b038z86g (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham, and Produced by Toby Field. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378y3z (Listen) FRI Barred Warbler FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Michaela Strachan presents the barred warbler. With its FRI glaring yellow eyes, banded chest and long white-tipped FRI tail, the Barred Warbler is always an exciting find. Look FRI out for them in late summer and autumn, when young Barred FRI Warblers turn up here regularly as they migrate south. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b038z8pl (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b038x4wv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0395rgg (Listen) FRI Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter, Episode 5 FRI FRI ABRIDGED BY LIBBY SPURRIER FRI Reader: Kerry Shale FRI PRODUCER: JOANNA GREEN FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Author: Alyn Shipton FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b038z8pn (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038z9fy (Listen) FRI The True Story of Bonnie Parker, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Beatrice Colin FRI FRI Bonnie and Clyde spring a young convict from jail and commit FRI ever more desperate crimes. Clyde remains optimistic but FRI Bonnie knows that time is running out. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 11:00 The Italian Freedom Trail b038zcqh (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI On September 8th 1943 around 50,000 Allied prisoners broke FRI out of their POW camps in Italy. On the 70th anniversary FRI Edward Stourton presents The Italian Freedom Trails, the FRI incredible story of the biggest mass breakout in history. In FRI the recounting of the history of World War II it's often FRI forgotten that Italy surrendered to the Allies and the FRI Italians threw open the doors of their POW camps. For the FRI prisoners in Italy this was a golden opportunity that FRI amazingly they were ordered to ignore. While their Italian FRI guards put down their rifles and in many cases left the FRI prison camps completely, the order from London was for FRI soldiers to wait for Allied troops to arrive so they could FRI quickly be integrated back in to fighting units - any FRI serviceman making a run for it would be regarded as a FRI deserter. The vast majority of men though didn't hesitate FRI and headed for freedom. All of those who obeyed orders were FRI transported to Germany. Edward Stourton joins an FRI Anglo-Italian memorial walk in the Apennines, along the FRI routes taken by escapers, to tell their extraordinary FRI stories and the stories of those who helped them; stories of FRI bravery, endurance, sacrifice and love, as Eric Newby told FRI in his classic "Love and War in the Apennines." The series FRI includes interviews with Wanda Newby, the woman who helped FRI Newby while he was on the run and who eventually married FRI him, with veterans who escaped and with Italian families who FRI helped them. These are moving stories of individuals and of FRI a mass escape which helped changed the course of the war and FRI subsequent history of Italy. FRI FRI 11:30 Just William - Live! b01ph83g (Listen) FRI Aunt Arabelle in Charge FRI FRI In 2012, as part of Winchester's Best of British Festival in FRI celebration of the Jubilee, Martin Jarvis performed the FRI second of two of Richmal Crompton's comic classics, live FRI on-stage. FRI FRI In Aunt Arabelle in Charge, William and his faithful Outlaws FRI (Ginger, Douglas and Henry) encounter a strangely complacent FRI six year old who is staying in the village. This odious FRI child turns out to be the hugely famous Anthony Martin, FRI subject of his mother's best-selling books and poems. FRI FRI The Outlaws need to redeem themselves in the admittedly FRI short-sighted eyes of Ginger's journalist aunt. She, FRI equally, is desperate to secure an exclusive interview with FRI the child star. It's soon clear that this wonderfully FRI constructed story is a brilliant parody of - who else - A.A. FRI Milne's Christopher Robin. FRI FRI The packed Winchester audience understood this at once. In FRI Jarvis' inhabitation of both the smug infant and Ginger's FRI aunt, the comedy is unremitting. FRI FRI Can William sort this out and, incidentally, give the FRI horrific child his just desserts? Blackmail is the answer, FRI of course. FRI FRI Performed by Martin Jarvis FRI Director: Rosalind Ayres FRI A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b038zh9s (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b038prnc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b038zh9x (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x99 (Listen) FRI The Five Ages of Brandreth, 1990s FRI FRI Gyles Brandreth completes his Five Ages with a look back to FRI the 1990s with Mrs Thatcher's downfall, John Major's FRI election victory and Brandreth's own time as a Conservative FRI MP and government whip. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b038ynzh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038zh9z (Listen) FRI Red and Blue, Ransomware FRI FRI By Philip Palmer FRI FRI Under constant threat from hackers, financial institutions FRI take cybersecurity very seriously. A City hedge fund has FRI hired war-gaming expert Bradley Shoreham to test its FRI networks in a planned exercise. Although barely computer FRI literate himself, Shoreham has prepared a whole box of cyber FRI tricks to do battle with the firm's IT experts. And he's FRI prepared to play dirty in order to demonstrate how a FRI multi-million pound business can be brought to its knees. FRI FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI FRI A second series of Red and Blue; Philip Palmer's trilogy FRI that focuses on Bradley Shoreham (Tim Woodward). After FRI leaving the British Army, Shoreham became a Consultant FRI Subject Matter Expert. He spends his working life creating FRI war games for training purposes. Fictional they may be but FRI the higher the level of authenticity the greater their value FRI to the participants. And when governments are paying for FRI training they expect a high return for their money. FRI FRI In 'Sacrifice', Bradley tries to convince an eminent FRI scientist to take part in a war-game exercise that explores FRI a major pandemic outbreak in the UK. FRI FRI In 'Shadow', Shoreham finds himself on an oil rig in the FRI North Sea, testing the safety protocols and the rig's FRI security. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bradley Shoreham: Tim Woodward FRI Malcolm Pemberley: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Toby Driscoll: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett FRI Andrea Harwood: Lydia Leonard FRI Danny Webber: Matthew Watson FRI Geoff Butcher: David Seddon FRI Melissa Ryan: Philippa Stanton FRI IT Analyst: Ben Crowe FRI Senior Manager: Hannah Wood FRI Writer: Philip Palmer FRI Director: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b038zhb1 (Listen) FRI Kensington Roof Gardens FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts this week's episode at Kensington Roof FRI Gardens in London. Panellists Anne Swithinbank, Matthew FRI Wilson and Bunny Guinness answer the audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b038zhb3 (Listen) FRI Comic Fringes, Kill Dilly FRI FRI Story series featuring new writing by leading comedians, FRI recorded live in front of an audience at this year's FRI Edinburgh Festival Fringe. FRI FRI Larry has been (mostly) happily married to Dilly for FRI forty-five years. Things have deteriorated, however, since FRI his retirement and now Larry is contemplating murder. FRI Ludicrous and funny tale by award-winning Irish comedian FRI Aisling Bea, whose debut Fringe show sold out within days at FRI this year's Edinburgh Festival. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b038zhb5 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b038zhb7 (Listen) FRI Have blundering doctors and nurses have really killed 13,000 FRI people? This was widely reported alongside the publication FRI of the Keogh Report into standards of care at 14 NHS FRI hospital trusts in England. Tim Harford finds out how FRI so-called 'excess' deaths are calculated, and whether FRI they're the best measure of hospital standards. FRI FRI And, apparently, it's a fact that if there's one thing FRI that's worse for you than drinking, scoffing bacon FRI sandwiches and smoking 80 unfiltered cigarettes a day, it's FRI being left-handed. Left-handers die on average several years FRI earlier than right-handers. Or do they? Tim gets to the FRI bottom of a sinister statistic. FRI FRI Presenter: Tim Harford FRI Producer: Ruth Alexander. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b038zhb9 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038prnf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b038zhbc (Listen) FRI Is Our Democracy Working? FRI FRI Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big FRI contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. FRI FRI Regular panellists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody are joined FRI this week by guests Debra Stephenson and political historian FRI Dr David Runciman, as Rory asks "Is Our Democracy Working"? FRI FRI Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of FRI things as it is to make fun of them - only then will people FRI laugh at the truth. So this deconstructed "quiz" has only FRI one question each week, because that question is so big, FRI there's no time for anything else. Expect a mix of stand-up FRI and sketch combined with investigative satire and incisive FRI interviews with a diverse range of characters who really FRI know what they're talking about. FRI FRI Presenter: Rory Bremner FRI Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b038zhbf (Listen) FRI Ticket sales are going well, and Pip's off for the time of FRI her life. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Helen Monks FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Leigh Barham: Jonathan Forbes FRI Writer: Nawal Gadalla FRI Director: Sue Wilson FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b038zhbh (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038z9fy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b038zl3q (Listen) FRI Nick Robinson presents political debate and discussion from FRI Broadcasting House, London with former English judge Lady FRI Butler Sloss who now sits in the Lords as a Crossbench peer, FRI Pornographic film director Anna Arrowsmith AKA Anna Span, FRI the media executive Kelvin MacKenzie, and the Bishop of FRI Willesden, the Rev. Peter Broadbent. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b038zl3v (Listen) FRI Of the People, by the People FRI FRI Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature FRI and limits of democracy. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Knight FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01l5klf (Listen) FRI A Special Kind of Dark FRI FRI A year ago Caspar was locked up and declared criminally FRI insane. Finally he breaks his silence to reveal a deadly FRI tale of love and politics. But is he telling the truth? A FRI psychological thriller by Adrian Penketh. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift FRI FRI Adrian Penketh has written a number of plays for Radio 4, FRI including THE WATERBUCKS, which was shortlisted for the FRI Imison Award, and an adaptation of Balzac's THE WILD ASSES FRI SKIN which was runner-up for the Prix Italia in 2011. FRI FRI Credits FRI Caspar: Paul Rhys FRI Helene: Fenella Woolgar FRI Felix: David Schofield FRI Baptiste: Christopher Fairbank FRI Elodie Testoud: Matilda Ziegler FRI TV Director: Sam Alexander FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Adrian Penketh FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b038prnh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b038zl3z (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038zl41 (Listen) FRI Secrecy, Episode 5 FRI FRI A late night visit to Dr Pampolini reminds Zummo that FRI Florence can be a dark and dangerous place. FRI FRI Reader: Owen Teale FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b038xtd8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 iPM b03968jw (Listen) FRI iPM Archives: Husbands, wives and partners FRI FRI Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey delve into the archives of FRI iPM - the programme devoted to the ideas, experiences and FRI expertise of Radio 4 listeners - to explore the FRI relationships of husbands, wives and partners. FRI
23 August, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 24/08/2013 - 30/08/2013
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