18 July, 2014

Radio 4 Listings for 19/07/2014 - 25/07/2014

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SAT SATURDAY 19 JULY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0499szy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b049mwb1 (Listen) SAT Last Man Off, Episode 5 SAT SAT In the spring of 1998, Matt Lewis was just 23 and not long SAT out of college when he accepted a job as a scientific SAT observer on the deep-sea fishing vessel Sudur Havid. It was SAT his first time as an observer and, with the fishing season SAT already started, he was rushed out to Cape Town to join the SAT crew. The boat then sailed off to the Southern Ocean, off SAT South Georgia, to fish in some of the most hostile SAT conditions on the planet. SAT SAT 'Last Man Off' is Matt Lewis's story of that journey and the SAT fateful consequences. It is a story that has waited over 15 SAT years to be told. "I was waiting for more time to make the SAT story less painful," said Lewis. SAT SAT Matt Lewis was born in Bristol in 1974. He trained as a SAT marine biologist at Bangor University and completed his MSc SAT in marine and fisheries science (with distinction) at SAT Aberdeen University. He now lives in Aberdeen with his wife SAT and two children. SAT SAT Writer: Matt Lewis SAT Reader: Sam Troughton SAT Abridger: Pete Nichols SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Sam Troughton SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT Abridger: Peter Nichols SAT Author: Matt Lewis SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0499t02 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0499t04 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0499t06 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0499t08 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0499typ (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0499tyr (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0499t0l (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0499t0s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0499llh (Listen) SAT Hafod, Mid Wales SAT SAT Once, the Hafod estate near Aberystwyth was one of Wales' SAT most popular attractions, but that was 200 years ago. Then SAT the grand stately home burnt down, and by 1950 the SAT landscaped grounds (inspired by visions of classical Italy - SAT unlikely as that might sound, given the extremely high SAT annual rainfall in mid-Wales!) had fallen into disrepair, SAT off the map, and out of the guidebooks. That's when the SAT Forestry Commission bought the estate and planted it with SAT conifers. SAT SAT As Felicity Evans finds out, in recent years there's been an SAT ongoing programme to restore the fine paths through the SAT estate's wooded hills, and preserve the ancient parkland SAT trees that still remain. This makes it a fascinating place SAT to visit. SAT SAT She's shown around by estate manager, David Newnham, SAT landscape historian Jennie Macve (who's written a history of SAT Hafod, and its remarkable founder, Thomas Johnes) and the SAT botanist Ray Wood. Felicity also visits the nearby Llywernog SAT Silver Lead Mine to meet Peter Lloyd Harvey who shows her SAT how this mine reveals a very different attitude to landscape SAT in the early Victorian period: it was far from being a SAT tourist attraction for visiting gentry. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b049p7n8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Organic optimism and a Royal visit SAT SAT Green shoots of recovery for organic farming? SAT SAT Sybil Ruscoe is at the visit of the Prince of Wales to an SAT organic farm in Wiltshire. It rounds off a positive week for SAT organic farming. Research published this week in the British SAT Journal of Nutrition suggests that organic crops contain SAT higher levels of some antioxidants than conventionally grown SAT crops. The study has put a spring in the step of organic SAT farmers, recovering after a slowdown in consumer spending SAT during the recession. The latest figures from DEFRA show SAT that the number of producers in the UK fell for five years SAT in a row until 2013. Farming Today This Week meets growers SAT from around the country who believe that organic is bouncing SAT back. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0499t10 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b049p7nb (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b049p9ym (Listen) SAT Nick Hewer SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Lord Sugar's SAT longstanding Apprentice advisor Nick Hewer, SAT PhD student Hannah Earnshaw who's on the shortlist for a SAT one-way ticket to Mars, and Lois Pryce who rode her SAT motorcycle three thousand miles around Iran on her own. SAT British Empire Medal winner Annie Chapman describes how SAT she's raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for cancer SAT research astride her tractor, lawn bowls player Andrew SAT Newell explains why he wants to get Team Jamaica to the next SAT Commonwealth Games, and JP Devlin tickles the ivories with SAT Joe and Richard Stilgoe. Nancy Dell'Olio shares her SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Nick Hewer presents Countdown on Channel 4. The Apprentice SAT returns to BBC One this autumn. SAT SAT Annie Chapman received the British Empire Medal for services SAT to charity in June. Her Pink Ladies Tractor Road Run in East SAT Anglia has raised over £300,000 for Cancer Research UK. SAT SAT Hannah Earnshaw is studying for a PhD in Astronomy at The SAT University of Durham. She's one of 700 people shortlisted by SAT the Mars One Foundation which aims to establish permanent SAT human life on Mars. SAT SAT Lois Pryce motorcycled around Iran this April. She founded SAT The Adventure Travel Film Festival and has written two books SAT 'Lois on the Loose' and 'Red Tape, White Knuckles'. SAT SAT Andrew Newell is trying to create a Jamaican Lawn Bowls team SAT from scratch in time for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the SAT Gold Coast. SAT SAT Nancy Dell'Olio inherits Nessun Dorma from Puccini's SAT Turandot and passes on Message in a Bottle by The Police. SAT 'Nancy Dell'Olio: Rainbows From Diamonds' is at the Gilded SAT Ballon in Edinburgh from August 15th to 24th. SAT SAT Joe Stilgoe's show 'Songs On Film' is at Edinburgh's SAT Assembly Checkpoint on July 31st and August 1st. SAT SAT Produced by Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT Motorcycle tales: Lois Pryce SAT Long distance motorcyclist Lois Pryce recounts her 3,000 SAT mile journey around Iran. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Rev. Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Nick Hewer SAT Interviewed Guest: Hannah Earnshaw SAT Interviewed Guest: Lois Pryce SAT Interviewed Guest: Annie Chapman SAT Interviewed Guest: Andrew Newell SAT Performer: JP Devlin SAT Performer: Joe Stilgoe SAT Performer: Richard Stilgoe SAT Interviewed Guest: Nancy Dell'Olio SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b049p9yp (Listen) SAT Series 7, The Baker Street Bank Robbery SAT SAT Steve Punt turns gumshoe, investigating curious rumours SAT surrounding the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. SAT SAT Quite possibly the most audacious heist in British history, SAT the robbers tunnelled into the bank's vault from the SAT basement of a shop two doors down. They escaped with a haul SAT worth an estimated £30 million today. SAT SAT Though four robbers were convicted, intriguing claims SAT persist - most notably that the security services mounted SAT the heist to secure compromising photographs of a senior SAT public figure. SAT SAT Punt sifts the evidence, calls in the experts and attempts SAT to establish fact from fiction. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b049p9yt (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b049p9yw (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b049p9yy (Listen) SAT Ghost payments, overdraft charges, stocks and shares SAT transfer problems and insurance comparison sites SAT SAT Ghost payments: We hear from a listener who paid nearly SAT £2,000 for flights and found that another £2,000 had been SAT frozen in his account at the request of the airline which SAT plunged his account into the red and left him with cheques SAT and payments bouncing. We've heard of similar online horror SAT stories involving supermarkets, department stories and SAT holiday firms. Why do some online retailers 'ring fence' or SAT 'reserve' extra money when you make an order? SAT SAT Overdrafts: As rules are announced this week to cap pay day SAT loans listeners ask why bank overdraft fees are not subject SAT to a cap. This comes at a time when several high street SAT lenders have changed or are changing their fees which SAT listeners say are costing them much more. We compare SAT arranged overdraft charges and talk to Dan Plant from SAT Moneysupermarket. SAT SAT Money in limbo: One city insider described it as the SAT Financial Industry's 'dirty secret'. We investigate who is SAT to blame for delays which are holding up transfers of stocks SAT and shares investments speaking to Mark Polson founder of SAT the lang cat and Jason Hollands, Managing Director of SAT Bestinvest. SAT SAT Insurance Comparisons: The FCA said this week that some SAT insurance comparison sites of failing their customers. The SAT report said that there was too much focus on price without SAT telling consumers about other policy details and that in SAT some cases the sites were not meeting regulatory standards. SAT SAT Presenter: Sarah Pennells. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0499sp7 (Listen) SAT Series 84, Episode 7 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest SAT panellists David Mitchell, Andy Hamilton and Rebecca Front. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: David Mitchell SAT Panellist: Andy Hamilton SAT Panellist: Rebecca Front SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0499t12 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0499t14 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0499spf (Listen) SAT Hilary Benn MP, Patrick McLoughlin MP, Molly Scott Cato MEP, SAT Maxine Aldred SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Uppingham School in Rutland with the Secretary of State SAT for Transport Patrick McLoughlin MP and the Shadow Secretary SAT of State for Local Government and Communities Hilary Benn SAT MP, Molly Scott Cato the new Green MEP for the South West SAT and Maxine Aldred from the Federation of Small Businesses. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b049p9z0 (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b049pc1q (Listen) SAT Red Velvet SAT SAT by Lolita Chakrabarti. SAT SAT Adrian Lester stars in a radio version of the Tricycle SAT Theatre's award-winning production, directed by Indhu SAT Rubasingham, about the first black actor of note to play SAT Othello. SAT SAT The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1833. Edmund Kean, the SAT greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage SAT whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has SAT been asked to take over the role. But as the public riot in SAT the streets over the abolition of slavery, how will the SAT cast, critics and audience react to the revolution taking SAT place in the theatre? SAT SAT Imagined experiences based on the true story of Ira SAT Aldridge. SAT SAT Lolita Chakrabarti won Most Promising Playwright at The SAT Evening Standard Awards and the Critics' Circle Awards after SAT the 2012 run of Red Velvet at The Tricycle. Adrian Lester's SAT performance earned him the Best Actor Award at the Critics' SAT Circle Awards. SAT SAT Music by Paul Englishby SAT SAT Directed by Indhu Rubasingham SAT Studio Production by Anne Bunting, Keith Graham and Mike SAT Etherden SAT Produced by Abigail le Fleming SAT SAT Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning. SAT Lolita Chakrabarti talks to BBC Writersroom SAT Watch the trailer SAT Find out more about Ira Aldridge SAT Othello: The history of black performances SAT Red Velvet: The Observer SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Ira Aldridge: Adrian Lester SAT Ellen: Charlotte Lucas SAT Pierre: Eugene O'Hare SAT Charles: Oliver Ryan SAT Halina: Rachel Finnegan SAT Betty: Rachel Finnegan SAT Margaret: Rachel Finnegan SAT Terence: Simon Chandler SAT Bernard: Simon Chandler SAT Henry: Nic Jackman SAT Casimir: Nic Jackman SAT Connie: Natasha Gordon SAT Director: Indhu Rubasingham SAT Producer: Abigail le Fleming SAT Writer: Lolita Chakrabarti SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b049pcc0 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The author Yasmina Reza discusses her new book about SAT relationships, philandering and the differences between the SAT French and the English. SAT SAT The end of the summer term is fast approaching and for SAT children in year 6 it can now come with a stretch limo, a SAT Prom, a commemorative DVD, and a lot of high emotion. But is SAT that a good thing for the kids? SAT SAT We have a live performance from the Kenyan-born Somali poet SAT and the first ever Young Poet Laureate Warsan Shire. SAT SAT We debate whether a UK ban on the muslim veil would protect SAT women and reduce Islamophobic attacks? SAT SAT The European Union is high on the news agenda but why does SAT it raise so little interest among the electorate? And what SAT role are women playing in shaping its future? SAT SAT We delve into the Woman's Hour archive to hear from Nadine SAT Gordimer, the Nobel Prize winning author and activist who SAT died this week. SAT SAT And Twenty years ago marked the height of Brit pop the SAT musical movement defined by boys with guitars, so what was SAT it like for the female front women of some of the top bands? SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Yasmina Reza SAT SAT Yasmina Reza, best known for her plays 'Art' and 'God of SAT Carnage', has a new book out. 'Happy are the Happy' is a SAT novel about eighteen different people, each chapter narrated SAT by a different character. Cumulatively they reveal secret SAT passions, many disappointments and a strong propensity for SAT infidelity. Yasmina Reza joins Jane to talk about SAT relationships, philandering and the perception of difference SAT - right or wrong - between the French and the English. SAT SAT 'Happy are the Happy' by Yasmina Reza is published by SAT Harvill Secker. SAT SAT Leaving Primary School SAT The end of the summer term is approaching and activities are SAT hotting up for children in Year 6 - shows, discos, proms and SAT sleepovers, the list is endless. So why all the focus on SAT leaving primary school? Is it new? And is it a good thing? SAT Sally Bates, Head of Wadsworth Fields Primary in Nottingham SAT and parent and journalist Bee Rowlatt join Jane. We also SAT hear from a selection of year 6 leavers. SAT SAT Warsan Shire SAT SAT Last October SAT SAT Warsan Shire was announced as the first ever Young Poet SAT Laureate for London by Carol Ann Duffy at the Houses of SAT Parliament. She has spent the last 9 months creating work SAT that reflects the ever-changing city, and giving readings SAT around Britain and internationally. The Kenyan-born Somali SAT poet first came to notice when her poem "For Women Who Are SAT Difficult to Love" went viral in 2009. SAT The Young Poet Laureate competition is launching again this SAT week as part of SAT Spoke SAT a poetry and spoken word programme commissioned by the SAT London Legacy Development Corporation to promote poetry in SAT East London. Warsan joins Jenni to talk about the SAT inspiration for her poems and to do a live performance. SAT SAT SAT African Poetry Prize SAT SAT Islamophobia and the Veil SAT SAT The ban on the burka in France has been upheld by the SAT European Court of Human Rights. And, attacks on Muslim SAT women wearing the veil in the UK are reported to be on the SAT increase. Does traditional dress put women at risk? Would a SAT UK ban protect women and reduce Islamophobic attacks? The SAT criminologist Dr Irene Zempi has spoken to women who wear SAT the veil in Leicester. SAT SAT 'Islamophobia, Victimisation and the Veil’ by Irene Zempi SAT and Neil Chakraborti is published Palgrave Macmillan. SAT SAT Europe - what has the EU done for women? SAT In this year's European elections, UKIP took the biggest SAT share of votes and more seats in the new parliament, than SAT each of the other parties. And across Europe, Eurosceptic SAT and anti-European parties also gained electoral ground. SAT Defenders of the European project argue that it is SAT misunderstood, that this was a protest vote and that the EU SAT has done more for gender equality than any single nation SAT state. Its critics say that it's one size fits all approach SAT is failing everyone, that regulation and quotas are a burden SAT for women and that it's time for a change. Jenni hears about SAT what Europe has done, what women voters want and the role SAT women are playing in shaping the future of Europe. SAT SAT South African Novel Prize Winning Nadine Gordimer SAT SAT The SAT writer, who was one of the literary world's most powerful SAT voices against SAT apartheid - died at her home after a short illness, her SAT family said. SAT SAT She SAT wrote more than 30 books, including the novels My Son's SAT Story, Burger's SAT Daughter and July's People. SAT SAT She SAT jointly won 1974's Booker Prize for The Conservationist and SAT was awarded the SAT Nobel Prize for literature in 1991. SAT SAT In 2002 Nadine came onto to SAT Woman’s Hour to talk to Jenni Murray. SAT SAT Women and Britpop SAT SAT 20 years ago marked the height of Britpop – of bands like SAT Blur, Oasis, Suede, Pulp, Elastica, Sleeper, and Echobelly. SAT Blur released the album Parklife, and Oasis put SAT out Definitely Maybe, and the two later battled head-to-head SAT in a media-stoked chart battle, dubbed "The Battle of SAT Britpop." It was scene concerned with British working class SAT values, and a cocky maleness that went hand-in-hand with the SAT rising lad culture of the era. But in a musical movement SAT defined by boys with guitars, where were all the female SAT musicians? And what did this ‘laddishness’ mean for women? SAT Jenni is joined by Sonya Madan of Echobelly, and by Jo SAT Whiley, whose Radio 1 show in the nineties, The Evening SAT Session, celebrated the Britpop scene. SAT SAT The SAT SAT new album Britpop At The BBC is out this week on Warner, and SAT Echobelly re-release their first two albums next week, on 23 SAT July SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Yasmina Reza SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Performer: Warsan Shire SAT Editor: Anne Peacock SAT SAT 16:55 1914: Day by Day b049pcc3 (Listen) SAT 19th July SAT SAT The Royal Navy fleet gathers for a review by the King. SAT SAT Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the SAT First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper SAT accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals SAT from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a SAT picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the SAT time. SAT SAT The series tracks the development of the European crisis day SAT by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand SAT through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the SAT war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world SAT in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the SAT sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the SAT suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for SAT women. SAT SAT Margaret Macmillan is professor of international history at SAT Oxford University. SAT SAT Presenter and Writer: Margaret Macmillan SAT SAT Assistant Producers: Phil Smith and Carly Maile SAT Researcher: Dawn Berry SAT Music: Sacha Puttnam SAT Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SAT Broadcast Assistant: Hannah Newton SAT Development Consultant: Catriona Pennell SAT SAT Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, SAT Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak, SAT Jane Whittenshaw SAT SAT Producer: Russell Finch SAT Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SAT SAT A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b049pcc7 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b04bsykw (Listen) SAT Location, Disruption, Location SAT SAT Civil war in Sierra Leone, political unrest in Ukraine, the SAT Japanese tsunami and Hurricane Sandy on the east coast of SAT the US - three guests tell Evan Davis how they led SAT businesses through periods of unexpected and extended SAT turmoil. SAT SAT Guests : SAT Peter Kaye, Director of Business Development, Pilgrims Group SAT Bryan Disher, Ukraine Country Manager, PWC SAT Mary Bahsoon, Co-owner Bennimix SAT SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0499t19 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0499t1c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0499t1f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b049xbzz (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Adrian Dunbar, Mark Watson, Natalie Young, SAT Richard Thompson, Clara Amfo, Sara Cox, Los Campesinos! SAT SAT Nikki Mocks The Week with comedian and author Mark Watson. SAT His fifth novel 'Hotel Alpha' tells the story of the SAT charismatic Howard York, who, three decades ago created the SAT finest hotel in London. Here, guests SAT are provided with everything they could wish for. And when SAT Howard is in the room, there is a sense that anything is SAT possible. SAT SAT Nikki gets skin deep with Radio 1Xtra DJ Clara Amfo, who's SAT new documentary investigates why so many young black people SAT are bleaching their skin. In 'Deeper Than Skin', Clara asks SAT whether there's a connection between skin colour and SAT identity and what drives some young black people to risk SAT their health for lighter skin. SAT SAT Nikki's in the Line of Duty with actor, screenwriter and SAT director Adrian Dunabr, who's appeared in such notable films SAT as 'My Left Foot' and 'The Crying Game'. Adrian is directing SAT a one-act play by Beckett dedicated to the Czech playwright SAT Vaclav Havel, and originally performed when he was SAT imprisoned as a dissident. 'Catastrophe' forms part of Happy SAT Days: the 3rd International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen. SAT SAT Sara Cox cooks up a storm with former Times journalist SAT Natalie Young, whose latest novel 'Season to Taste' tells SAT the tale of Lizzie, an unhappily married housewife, who, SAT overcome by desperation kills her husband, chops him into 16 SAT bits, freezes him, then over the course of the narrative SAT cooks and eats parts of his body. SAT SAT With music from legendary folk artist Richard Thompson, who SAT performs 'One Door Opens' from his album 'Acoustic Classics' SAT and from Los Campesinos! who play 'What Death Leaves Behind' SAT from their album 'No Blues'. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Nikki Bedi, Adrian Dunbar, Mark Watson, SAT Natalie Young, Richard Thompson, Clara Amfo, Sara Cox, Los SAT Campesinos! (2) SAT SAT Mark Watson SAT ‘Hotel Alpha’ is published by Picador on 31st July. SAT Mark will be talking about ‘Hotel Alpha’ in the Literary SAT Arena at Latitude Festival, Suffolk on Sunday 20th July. His SAT new stand-up shows ‘Flaws’ and ‘Mark Watson's Comedywealth SAT Games’ are at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Check Mark’s SAT website for details. SAT SAT Clara Amfo SAT ‘Deeper Than Skin’ is on Sunday 20th July at 21.00 on BBC SAT Radio 1Xtra. SAT SAT Natalie Young SAT ‘Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband' is published by SAT Tinder Press and available now. SAT SAT Adrian Dunbar SAT ‘Catastrophe’ is at ‘Happy Days: The 3rd International SAT Beckett Festival’ in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland from SAT Thursday 31 July to Sunday 10th August. SAT SAT Richard Thompson SAT ‘Acoustic Classics’ is available now on Beeswing/Proper. SAT Richard’s UK tour kicks off at Folk by the Oak, Hatfield on SAT Sunday 20th, Hawth, Crawley on Tuesday 22nd and Forum, Bath SAT on Wednesday 23rd July. Check his website for further dates. SAT SAT Los Campesinos! SAT ‘No Blues’ is available now on Turnstile. SAT Los Campesinos! are playing One Beat Weekender, Birmingham SAT on Saturday 19th July and Festival Number 6, Portmeirion on SAT Friday 5th September. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b049xc02 (Listen) SAT Nicky Morgan SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. With Mark Coles. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b049xc05 (Listen) SAT Malevich at Tate Modern, Importance of Being Earnest, Norte, SAT Silicon Valley, Flusfeder: John the Pupil SAT SAT A new exhibition of work by Russian painter Kasimir Malevich SAT at London's Tate Modern follows his career from early SAT representational work through his cubo-futurist phase, to SAT his creation of the concept of supremacism and back to SAT figurative art. It is grand in its scale and vision and SAT ambition, but will it be packing in the visitors this SAT summer? SAT SAT There's another revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of SAT Being Earnest, with an all-star cast including Nigel Havers SAT and Martin Jarvis. What devices can make this 120 year old SAT much-venerated comedy funny to a modern audience? SAT SAT Filipino film Norte; The End of History is more than 4 hours SAT long and loosely based on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment SAT and it has been hailed as a masterpiece by many critics as SAT it has been shown on the major festival circuit. SAT SAT There's new US TV sitcom called Silicon Valley, revolving SAT around the lives of a bunch of internet start-up nerds. It's SAT the work of Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, SAT King of the Hill) and it's already been nominated for 5 SAT Emmys SAT SAT David Flusfeder's John The Pupil is a novel that purports to SAT be a long lost diary of a 13th century monk and his SAT companions as they journey from England to deliver a package SAT from their Friar to The Pope in Viterbo SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Paul Morley, Kate Williams and SAT Amber Jane Butchart. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT John The Pupil SAT John The Pupil by David Flusfeder is published by Fourth SAT Estate. SAT SAT Norte, The End Of History SAT Directed by Lav Diaz, Norte, The End of History is in SAT selected cinemas from Friday 18 July, certificate 15. SAT SAT Malevich: Revolutionary Of Russian Art SAT An exhibition at Tate Modern in London, SAT Malevich: Revolutionary Of Russian Art SAT is on display until 26 October 2014. SAT SAT The Importance of Being Earnest SAT Directed by Lucy Bailey, SAT The Importance Of Being Earnest SAT is at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London until 20 September SAT 2014. SAT SAT Silicon Valley SAT New US comedy Silicon Valley began and continues from SAT Wednesday 16 July, 9pm on Sky Atlantic. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Morley SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Williams SAT Interviewed Guest: Amber Jane Butchart SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b049xc07 (Listen) SAT Series 6, Michael Howard SAT SAT "Mr Howard, did you threaten to overrule him.. I note you SAT are not answering the question.. did you threaten to SAT overrule him..." SAT SAT Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, is a brave man, SAT confronting his own media archive in this week's MEETING SAT MYSELF COMING BACK. Surely by now he has tired of hearing SAT himself being Paxmaned in 1997 - that same question asked SAT over and over. But Howard's political career was merely SAT stalled by the grilling, not stopped. Having lost out to SAT William Hague in the 1997 leadership election - scuppered, SAT some think, by Ann Widdecombe's remark that there was SAT 'something of the night about him' - the Conservative Party SAT would turn to him again as a leader in 2003. SAT SAT Lord Howard relives his most memorable time in Prime SAT Minister's Questions, confronting Tony Blair on university SAT top-up fees. SAT "Let's make it clear Mr Speaker. This grammar school boy is SAT not going to take any lessons from that public school boy SAT there..!" But was this killer blow actually that grammar SAT school boy's line? SAT He confesses to presenter John Wilson, "I think George may SAT have possibly come up with it....." George Osborne being one SAT of two advisors helping him prepare for PMQ's that day, the SAT other being a fresh faced David Cameron - neither famous for SAT their grammar school credentials. SAT SAT From tales of strip bars in Los Angeles, to the moving tale SAT of hearing about his wife's delivery of their daughter, SAT whilst in the midst of a heated road enquiry, Lord Howard SAT takes time to reflect on the highs, lows and blows of his SAT long career, including an extraordinary moment when, during SAT a visit to West Berlin 1963, he chanced upon J.F. Kennedy, SAT making his famous speech, and saw 'the weight of the world SAT resting on the slim young shoulders'. SAT SAT Producer : Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0495nlb (Listen) SAT The Great Scott, Redgauntlet SAT SAT A free adaptation by Robin Brooks of Scott's novel - now set SAT in the year 2035, in a fictional future Scotland. SAT SAT This is the second season of adaptations of some of Sir SAT Walter Scott's most popular novels, with David Tennant as SAT Walter Scott. SAT SAT Alan Fairford is destined to become a lawyer but is SAT distracted from his studies by the sudden disappearance of SAT his best friend Danny Latimer. SAT SAT Danny's absence seems to be connected with the sudden SAT appearance of Stuart Galloway - aka Redgauntlet - who has SAT business with Alan's father, Alexander. SAT SAT But who is Redgauntlet? And what is his mission? SAT SAT Alan Fairford sets out to find out the answers and hopefully SAT to rescue his friend. SAT SAT Written by Robin Brooks SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Alan Fairford: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd SAT Alexander: Clive Russell SAT Peter Peebles: Christian Rodska SAT Lily Galloway: Olivia Morgan SAT Stewart Galloway: Forbes Masson SAT Roller Hopkins: Robert Hudson SAT Findlay: Robert Hudson SAT Workman: Robert Hudson SAT Nanty Ewart: Simon Greenall SAT Cozen: Simon Greenall SAT Regina Crosbie: Allison McKenzie SAT Walter Scott: David Tennant SAT OS Voice: Allison McKenzie SAT Danny Latimer: Paul Ready SAT James: Paul Ready SAT Nixon: Paul Ready SAT Director: Clive Brill SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Adaptor: Robin Brooks SAT Author: Walter Scott SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0499t1h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b0499j2f (Listen) SAT Series 10, Treating Teenagers SAT SAT The teenage years are full of change and confusion, creating SAT tensions for parents and children. How much worse can things SAT get when a long-term illness becomes part of the mix? SAT SAT May is fourteen years old and has type-1 diabetes. After SAT being diagnosed at the age of seven, she initially copes SAT well but, within a few months, she struggles to take her SAT insulin regularly. SAT SAT The diabetic team try on numerous occasions to help her, and SAT her mum, to manage May's diabetes better, but she doesn't SAT see the point. The risks don't seem real to her and she SAT wants to be normal, like her friends. SAT SAT At the age of eleven, May is admitted to hospital three SAT times with dangerously high blood sugars. By the age of SAT twelve, the long term complications the team have warned May SAT about, start to appear. SAT SAT Now on the brink of adolescence, May can't cope. She feels SAT controlled by her diabetes and when those around her try to SAT help, it feels like pressure. SAT SAT What lengths can the medical team go to to encourage May to SAT take the treatment she needs? Can they force her to take SAT insulin? SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. SAT SAT Producer: Beth Eastwood. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b049699v (Listen) SAT (9/12) SAT This week's contest of lateral thinking and convoluted SAT connections pits the Midlands against Wales for the second SAT time this season, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair to ensure SAT fair play and to provide gentle hints wherever needed. SAT SAT Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock of the Midlands are SAT making their final appearance of the series, and they need a SAT victory against Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards of Wales SAT to stay in the running for the overall series title. SAT SAT The questions require often-arcane snippets of knowledge of SAT history, the visual arts, literature, film and popular SAT culture, and the winners will be the team who need fewest SAT helpful hints from the chairman in order to unravel the SAT complex questions. The questions, as always, include a few SAT of the best recent ideas submitted by listeners. SAT SAT Tom will also reveal the answer to the question he left SAT tantalisingly unanswered at the end of last week's SAT programme. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 Midlands SAT SAT Why do the following seem all confused? The one whom Roy’s SAT drowning girl refuses to call for help; an Elizabethan woman SAT of easy virtue; and a suit of armour for a horse. SAT SAT SAT SAT Q2 Wales SAT SAT “You say you can play the Chicago Piano, Mr Atkins? What SAT complete nonsense!” What might Pete Townshend make of these SAT words? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q3 Midlands SAT Music Question SAT SAT Why might both of these performers share the same small SAT patch of SW1 with the Golden Hind (and her captain), the SAT star of SAT Drive, SAT and a recently retired off-spinner? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q4 Wales SAT Music Question SAT SAT Tell me why this combination would require you to keep a SAT very straight face. SAT SAT SAT SAT Q5 Midlands SAT SAT One owned by an English sleuth, which started out as SAT straight, became curved when it crossed the pond, and has SAT remained so ever since. In 2009, one belonging to a French SAT actor was infamously replaced by a windmill, but was SAT reinstated two years later. That of a Belgian artist, SAT meanwhile, has always denied its own existence. How so? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q6 Wales SAT SAT If you add information technology to check the books; SAT SAT an explanation to create an exemplary war hero and cowboy; SAT SAT and Jupiter's first moon to create sound – SAT SAT which Commonwealth currency did you start with? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q7 Midlands SAT SAT (From Marjorie Wilson) One went on a pilgrimage, two brought SAT about the downfall of a Shakespearean rogue, and three could SAT have been four, but for an outbreak of scarlet fever. Who SAT are they and how are they connected to a novel by Elizabeth SAT Gaskell? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q8 Wales SAT SAT One preached, revolted and was executed; another gave birth SAT to America’s first; and a third entertained with her Cuban SAT husband. Why would they add up to a fit of weeping at the SAT Antiques Roadshow SAT ? SAT SAT Last week's teaser question and answer SAT SAT A journalist working overseas checks into a Caribbean SAT hostelry with a Hebrew woman, using a common pseudonym for SAT unmarried couples, and arousing the doubts of the SAT proprietor. To which wartime sequence does this all refer? SAT SAT It refers to the sequence of films made, consecutively, by SAT Alfred Hitchcock during the first three years of the Second SAT World War. A Caribbean hostelry might be a Jamaica Inn SAT (1939); the Hebrew woman is Rebecca (1940) and the reporter SAT is a Foreign Correspondent (1940); they check in as Mr and SAT Mrs Smith (1941); and they arouse the proprietor’s Suspicion SAT (1941). SAT SAT This week's teaser question SAT SAT Why might the location of your tomato plants seem similar to SAT the dwellings of Benjamin Britten, Barack Obama, Vincent van SAT Gogh and Park Geun-Hye? SAT SAT Don't write to us: there are no prizes, but you can see if SAT you're right when we reveal the answer next time. SAT SAT 23:30 Derek Walcott: A Fortunate Traveller b0495r41 (Listen) SAT Glyn Maxwell meets the Nobel Laureate poet Derek Walcott at SAT his home on the Caribbean island of St Lucia on his 84th SAT birthday. From his beach home, Walcott talks about the sea SAT and what it is like to come from a place he feels to be SAT without history. He remembers his late friend Seamus Heaney SAT and enthuses about Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin. They SAT talk of teaching poetry - Glyn was once Derek's student. He SAT reads some of his own poems and, from memory, a sad and SAT beautiful lyric by Walter de la Mare. The surf and the SAT tropical rain make their own calypso music. Producer: Tim SAT Dee. SAT BBC Arts: Derek Walcott: A Fortunate Traveller SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 JULY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b049xc4f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Food of Love b01k9npn (Listen) SUN Cake SUN SUN In this series of monologues exploring the link between food SUN and memory, poignant domestic dramas gradually unfold SUN through the preparation of a special recipe. SUN SUN In the first story by Helen Simpson, powerful memories are SUN evoked when a mother bakes a birthday cake for her daughter, SUN now no longer a child. SUN SUN Helen Simpson is a novelist and hugely acclaimed short story SUN writer. Her first collection, 'Four Bare Legs in a Bed and SUN Other Stories', won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the SUN Year Award, while her book 'Hey Yeah Right Get a Life', a SUN series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize. SUN She was one of Granta's twenty Best of Young British SUN Novelists campaign in 1993, and is currently a Fellow of the SUN Royal Society of Literature. SUN SUN The next story in the series comes from Kevin Barry, who won SUN this year's Sunday Times short story award. Barry's first SUN novel, 'City of Bohane', was shortlisted for the Costa first SUN novel award, and a previous short story collection, 'There SUN Are Little Kingdoms', won the Rooney prize for Irish SUN Literature. In Barry's story, an insurance clerk of a SUN certain age recreates the romantic spaghetti bolognese he SUN cooked for the lass in the typing pool on his last date - SUN some thirty years before... SUN SUN The final story in the series is by Aminatta Forna, the SUN award-winning author of two novels: 'The Memory of Love and SUN Ancestor Stones'. In her story, a man struggles to cook for SUN a young child after a terrible loss. SUN SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Reader: Stella Gonet. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Stella Gonet SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Writer: Helen Simpson SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b049xc4h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b049xc4k (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b049xc4m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b049xc4p (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b049xfjn (Listen) SUN St Chad's, Shrewsbury SUN SUN The bells of St. Chad's Church in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b049xc02 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b049xc4r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b049xfjq (Listen) SUN Independently Dependent SUN SUN Living alone, as a mature person, can result in creating an SUN almost invisible protective guard and an apparent lack of SUN any need to trust or be dependent on others. Then the SUN promise of starting a new relationship throws into question SUN all sorts of assumptions and expectations about oneself and SUN about the other. SUN SUN The actress Felicity Finch reflects on the idea of how to be SUN independently dependent, with reference to the relationship SUN of John Bayley and Iris Murdoch and the composer Johannes SUN Brahms' life-long devotion to Clara Schumann, his musical SUN mentor's concert-pianist wife. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN Today's programme was presented by Felicity Finch SUN The readers were Tara Hugo and Steven Crossley SUN The interviewee was Marianne Ihlen SUN SUN Readings: SUN SUN Title: A Marriage SUN Author: Michael Blumenthal SUN Synopsis: Poem exmploring how a couple can find their way of SUN living together SUN SUN Title: A Personal Touch SUN Author: Simon Armitage SUN Synopsis: A couple's search for 'space' SUN SUN Title: Listen SUN Author: Alice Walker SUN Synopsis: An exploration of interdependence SUN SUN Title: Stag's Leap SUN Author: Sharon Olds SUN Synopsis: Exploring a complex admiration for the escapes of SUN others SUN SUN Title: Fair Play SUN Author: Tove Jansson SUN Synopsis: Two partners who work and live side by side SUN explore independent dependence SUN SUN Title: Iris SUN Author: John Bayley SUN Synopsis: Exploring how "the closeness of apartness" became SUN the "closeness of closeness" SUN SUN Music SUN SUN Title: Romance SUN Amy Beach SUN David Halen SUN Label: AAM Records SUN Album: Salut d'Amour: Romantic Works for Violin and Piano SUN SUN Title: Living Through It All SUN Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott SUN Label: Blue Note SUN Album: Common Touch SUN SUN Title: No Fear of Falling SUN I am Kloot SUN Label: Virgin SUN Album: Natural History SUN SUN Title: The Kiss SUN Judee Sill SUN Label: Water Music Records SUN Album: Heart Food SUN SUN Title: So Long Marianne SUN Leonard Cohen SUN Label: Sundazed SUN Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen SUN SUN Title: Love Will Tear Us Apart SUN Susanna and the Magical Orchestra SUN Label: Magnetic SUN Album: Ram Café Lounge and Chillout, Vol. 2 SUN SUN Title: Opus 119, No. 1 SUN Johannes Brahms SUN Radu Lupu SUN Label: Decca SUN Album: Brahms: 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79/Klavierstucke, Opp. 117 SUN - 119. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b049xhfb (Listen) SUN Commonwealth Games Athlete SUN SUN Eighteen year old Samantha Kinghorn was partially paralysed SUN four years ago in an accident on the family farm. As part of SUN her rehabilitation, she took up wheelchair racing. Now she's SUN preparing to represent Scotland in the Commonwealth Games in SUN Glasgow. Sybil Ruscoe meets her and her family on the farm SUN in the Scottish borders. She hears how life has changed SUN since the accident, and discovers that Sam still works on SUN the farm, combining shifts in the lambing shed with her SUN athletic training schedule. Sam also demonstrates the SUN training equipment she uses, built by her father using bits SUN of old combine harvester! SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b049xc4t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b049xc4w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b049xhfd (Listen) SUN Catholics in World War I; Commonwealth Games; What makes a SUN good death? SUN SUN Samira Ahmed talks to the Auxiliary Bishop Hendriks of SUN Haarlem, Amsterdam ahead of a special Catholic service on SUN Sunday to offer prayers and support for families who have SUN lost people in the Malaysian air crash. SUN SUN Continuing our series on World War One we hear from Bishop SUN Richard Moth , Bishop to the Forces, he looks at the SUN Catholic Church's response to the war and in particular to SUN the role of Pope Benedict XV who described the war as "the SUN suicide of Europe". SUN SUN We hear the views of young people taking part in the first SUN child-led inquiry examining child poverty in the UK, SUN 16-year-old panel member Yousef tells Samira his experience SUN of growing up in a deprived area and what's inspired him to SUN do something about it. SUN SUN Kevin Bocquet reports from the Athletes' Village as SUN competitors arrive for the Commonwealth Games and talks to SUN Chaplains who have been recruited to look after the SUN spiritual needs of competitors and explores the relationship SUN between religion and sport. SUN SUN Yvonne Colgan talks about how she accompanied her son to SUN Switzerland to take his own life. She explains why the SUN assisted dying bill does not go far enough. Baroness Julia SUN Neuberger, Revd Dr Brendan McCarthy and Hindu writer Ranchor SUN Prime discuss what it means to have a "good death". SUN SUN Will Nicky Morgan the new education minister be in favour of SUN Religious Education? Ed Pawson, Chair of National SUN Association of Teachers of Religious Education tells Samira SUN what the wish list is for people on the ground. SUN SUN Producers SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN Dan Tierney SUN SUN Editor SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors SUN Auxiliary Bishop Hendriks of Haarlem, Amsterdam SUN Yvonne Colgan SUN Baroness Julia Neuberger SUN Revd Dr Brendan McCarthy SUN Ranchor Prime. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b049xhfg (Listen) SUN Anti-Slavery International SUN SUN Hugh Quarshie presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Anti-Slavery SUN International. SUN Registered Charity: 1049160 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ' Anti-Slavery International '. SUN SUN Anti-Slavery International SUN SUN Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is committed to SUN eliminating all forms of slavery throughout the world. SUN Slavery, servitude and SUN forced labour are violations of individual freedoms, which SUN deny millions of SUN people their basic dignity and fundamental human rights. SUN Anti-Slavery SUN International works to end these abuses by campaigning for SUN slavery’s SUN eradication, exposing current cases, supporting the SUN initiatives of local SUN organisations to release people and pressing for more SUN effective implementation SUN of international laws against slavery. For further SUN information on modern SUN slavery and what we do to eradicate it please see SUN www.antislavery.org SUN SUN Cyprian, from Tanzania SUN SUN Cyprian, 17, from Tanzania, has been a domestic worker since SUN he was eleven. He could not go to school as his employer SUN didn't give him time SUN off. He got support through Anti-Slavery partners Kuvulini SUN and now he has SUN become a leader in his community helping other child SUN domestic workers to make SUN changes in their lives. SUN SUN Saruda, from Nepal SUN SUN Saruda's parents work as labourers in the fields harvesting SUN rice, so she has to look after her little brother instead SUN of going to school. SUN She also has to fetch water and firewood, and sometimes SUN help harvest rice in SUN the fields. SUN SUN Aminatou, from Niger SUN SUN Aminatou Ghalssoune is twelve years old. She now goes to SUN the school in Inabado, Niger. SUN Her school is part of Anti-Slavery’s Niger School Project SUN providing education SUN to communities of former slaves. It’s the first time these SUN communities have a SUN chance to break the cycle of exploitation by their SUN traditional masters. Before SUN she went to school Aminatou used to help her mum doing all SUN the housework, SUN fetching wood and water for her family’s master. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b049xc4y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b049xc50 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b049xhfl (Listen) SUN Marking the Commonwealth Games from Gorbals Parish Church, SUN Glasgow. SUN As tens of thousands of athletes and spectators start to SUN descend on Glasgow close to the Church, the Minister, the SUN Rev Ian Galloway, explores what it means to be a welcoming SUN city and how the Games focus our minds on what kind of SUN excellence we aim for. SUN With the Gorbals congregation and singers of Glasgow SUN University Chapel Choir directed by James Grossmith, SUN accompanied by Andrew Forbes. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0499sph (Listen) SUN Some critics of religion see having faith as being childish. SUN But John Gray argues that believing that human beings are SUN rational is more childish than believing in religion. The SUN belief in the power of reason to improve humankind rests on SUN childishly simple ideas he says. One of the commonest is SUN that history's crimes are mistakes that can be avoided as we SUN gain greater knowledge. But if history teaches us anything, SUN Grey asserts, it's that behaviours and attitudes like SUN cruelty and hatred are permanent human flaws. To imagine SUN that we can become more rational is an example of magical SUN thinking and an expression of the belief in the omnipotence SUN of the human will that psychoanalysts identify as the SUN fundamental infantile fantasy. John Gray believes that we'd SUN all be better off if we saw ourselves as we are: SUN intermittently and only ever partly rational creatures, who SUN never really grow up. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b02tw750 (Listen) SUN House Martin SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve SUN Backshall presents the house martin. SUN SUN House martins are often confused with swallows , but look SUN shorter-tailed and lack the rusty throats. They're compact SUN birds which build their with pellets of mud under our eaves SUN and although they're so familiar to us in summer, we still SUN can't be certain where they spend the winter. Ornithologists SUN believe that they may spend our winter catching insects high SUN over African rainforests. SUN SUN House Martin (Delichon urbica) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b049xk43 (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 b049xk45 (Listen) SUN Tony's feeling guilty. Roy's got a challenge for Elizabeth. SUN Helen's on tenterhooks. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Peter Wild SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rhiannon: Jade Matthew SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b049xtjk (Listen) SUN Doug Allan SUN SUN Doug Allan, wildlife cameraman, is interviewed by Kirsty SUN Young for Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Doug Allan SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04969b3 (Listen) SUN Series 61, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit SUN to the Assembly Hall in Worthing. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel SUN by Harry Hill, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN provides piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Harry Hill SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b049xtjm (Listen) SUN Salad leaves SUN SUN Dan Saladino reports on the increasingly complex world of SUN the simplest of food, the salad. SUN SUN Produced by Rich Ward. SUN SUN 5 leaves from David Everitt-Matthias SUN 5 Seasonal Leaves SUN SUN SUN SUN Wild Garlic; SUN Found at spring time in woodlands in moist conditions. They SUN can be found near bluebells. Garlic flavour, young leaves SUN are good raw, larger leaves are good wilted or chopped. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Cleavers; SUN Again, a spring time leaf. They grow all over the place, SUN near water , in longer grass on common land. The tips have a SUN raw taste like freshly podded peas. SUN SUN SUN Ox-Eye Daisy; SUN Found in summer time growing by the roadside or in meadows. SUN They look like massive daisies. The leaves go great with SUN beetroot in salads because of their earthy beetroot taste. SUN SUN SUN Wood Sorrel; SUN Found in wooded areas and hedgerows in the spring, summer SUN and autumn. The leaves have a wonderful kick of citrus due SUN to the Oxalic acid. Great with fish and seafood. SUN SUN SUN Woodruff; SUN Late spring and summer. You can find it in wooded SUN areas.Wonderful, slightly almondy flavour when raw or used SUN for infusing. SUN SUN David is Chef Proprietor at The Champignon Sauvage in SUN Chaltenham. He is also author of 'Essence' SUN SUN David's Baby Gem salad SUN SUN Serves 4 People SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 2 Baby Gem Lettuce SUN SUN 50g Olive Oil SUN SUN 50g Unsalted Butter SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 1. Cut the little gems in half lengthways. SUN SUN 2. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and place the lettuce SUN in flat-side down. SUN SUN 3. Cook over a high heat until scorched. ( deep brown ) SUN SUN 4. Remove from the pan. Place to one side. SUN SUN 5. Heat another pan with the water and the butter. Bring to SUN the boil to create an emulsion and add the lettuce. Cook for SUN 2-3 minutes until just cooked. SUN SUN 6. Season and serve. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN At the restaurant we place the lettuce halves under vacuum SUN pressure to remove some of the water. This makes for a more SUN concentrated toasty flavour. I am sure if you are friendly SUN with your butcher and ask him nicely he will 'vac pac' it SUN for you. You'd then keep the leaves like this for 1-2 hours SUN and then cook as above. SUN SUN SUN SUN In the photo, we've used the lettuce as part of a scallop SUN dish served with pea puree, peas and roasted peanuts. But is SUN also goes very well with barely cooked and chopped SUN oysters and fresh almonds. SUN SUN Mark Diacono's Lettuce, pea and mint soup SUN Lettuce, pea and mint soup SUN SUN SUN SUN Lettuce soup is one of those peculiarly little made recipes SUN that once made becomes a regular. Delicious hot or chilled, SUN it is infinitely adaptable to whatever's in season - broad SUN beans and dill, courgette and basil etc in place of the pea SUN and mint. It's also a belter to have to call on when too SUN many lettuces are ready at once or if some are going to SUN seed. Using a light stock or water allows the flavour of the SUN lettuce to stay up front. SUN SUN SUN SUN A generous knob of butter SUN SUN 4 spring onions - roughly sliced SUN SUN 400 grams of peas in the pod (or 160gms frozen peas) - SUN podded SUN SUN Head of one lettuce (just beginning to bolt if you like) or SUN the outer leaves from 2 to 3 lettuce - washed and roughly SUN chopped. SUN SUN 200ml or so of vegetable stock or water SUN SUN 4 or 5 mint leaves SUN SUN Splash of cream SUN SUN Salt and pepper SUN SUN SUN Method SUN SUN Melt the butter on a low heat and add the peas, spring onion SUN and lettuce, and cook gently until the lettuce has wilted SUN well. Add the water or stock and continue cooking gently SUN for around 10 minutes. Take off the heat, add the mint SUN leaves and allow to infuse for a few minutes while the soup SUN cools a little. Liquidise thoroughly and return to the pan, SUN warm, season to taste. Serve with a splash of cream, a SUN dollop of yoghurt or a swirl of good olive oil. SUN SUN Mark Diacono grows unusual and forgotten food at his SUN smallholding Otter Farm. He is the author of 'A Taste of the SUN Unexpected'. SUN SUN 4 leaves from Mark Diacono. Reine de Glace... SUN Reine de Glace SUN – a really wonderful crisphead lettuce. Think of it like an SUN elegantly ragged iceberg but with so much more flavour and SUN refinement. Very green, very crisp and very beautiful SUN iceberg heads that have never failed me. A very old variety SUN (200 years+) and one of the best. SUN SUN ...Australian Yellow Leaf & Lingua di Canarino... SUN Australian Yellow Leaf (foreground) SUN – A large, open-headed lettuce with gorgeous bright SUN green/yellow crinkled leaves, looks fabulous, is slow to SUN bolt and takes well to cut-and-come-again harvesting. The SUN texture is superb – firm and crunchy – and the flavour sweet SUN and fine. Grow it with the deep red, Really Red Deer Tongue SUN for a fabulous visual and flavour combination. SUN SUN SUN Lingua di Canarino (background) – SUN an oakleaf lettuce with a mild yet distinctive flavour, a SUN good crisp texture and is very slow to bolt or turn bitter. SUN A very hardy lettuce that does thrive into autumn and in SUN cool areas. SUN SUN ...and Buttercrunch lettuce SUN Buttercrunch SUN along with Marvel of Four Seasons, is my favourite SUN butterhead lettuce.While the outer leaves are soft and SUN loose, the centre is crisp, so it’s almost two lettuces in SUN one. The flavour is gentle and buttery. It’s slow to bolt SUN and drought resistant too. Try it with just olive oil and SUN salt, or use it as the base of a mixed salad. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN All leaves feature in SUN A Year at Otter Farm SUN by Mark Diacono, published by Bloomsbury SUN SUN Photography: Mark Diacono SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b049xc54 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b049xtjp (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents national and international news, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The War Widows of Afghanistan b049xtjr (Listen) SUN Lisa and Jacqui live in Britain, Tajbibe and Marzia live in SUN Afghanistan. Their lives are very different but they have SUN one thing in common - they were all widowed by the same war. SUN SUN Their husbands were among the estimated 13000 Afghan SUN soldiers and 453 British soldiers who have died in the war SUN against the Taliban, which began in 2001 and which draws to SUN an official close with the withdrawal of NATO troops from SUN Afghanistan this year. SUN SUN Zarghuna Kargar hears how the lives of all four women SUN changed the moment they received the news of their husbands' SUN sudden deaths, how they have coped in the aftermath and what SUN they feel about war today. SUN SUN Reporter Zarghuna Kargar SUN SUN Producer Mukti Jain Campion SUN A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0499snv (Listen) SUN Correspondence at Sparsholt SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts from the GQT potting shed at Sparsholt SUN College as the panel tackle listeners' questions sent in by SUN post, email and social media. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. Any suggestions for suitable plants to brighten up an SUN office with no natural light and 24-hour air conditioning? SUN SUN A. With no natural light and only strip lighting, any plant SUN will struggle. You could try using strips of LED lights to SUN improve your chances. Try Mediterranean plants in big pots; SUN Lemon Trees and Olive trees might work. Try Hibiscus, SUN Bougainvillea and Clivia. SUN SUN Q. I inherited a delicate pink rose from my grandfather. SUN After years of keeping it in a greenhouse, it is eight foot SUN high but struggling to flower and is losing its leaves, SUN which are covered in cobwebs and dusty mould. How can I save SUN it? SUN SUN A. If it has been growing in a pot, try putting it in the SUN ground. Burst it into growth and then take long cuttings and SUN try those in the ground outside. It might not need to be SUN grown in a greenhouse after all. Keep it well fed and SUN watered and try to identify the dusty mould which can be SUN treated with chemicals. The webs might be down to spider SUN mites, which can cause damage to the plant. Identify and SUN treat all the plant's ailments before taking cuttings. SUN SUN Q. Why do the Tomatoes, Courgettes and Peppers I grow in SUN clay pots need more watering than the ones I grow in plastic SUN pots? I am based in the Pennines and am growing them in a SUN greenhouse. SUN SUN A. The clay pots are losing water via evaporation. The best SUN way to grow these plants would be in black plastic posts on SUN good quality capillary matting. SUN SUN Q. Is it possible to grow Mecanopsis in East London? SUN SUN A. Anything is possible, but it is very difficult. SUN SUN Q. What flower seeds can the panel recommend for a woodland SUN garden that is fifteen by twenty meters wide? I want plants SUN that will flower in the later half of the summer. SUN SUN A. There aren't many annuals that like shade, so try SUN perennials like Martagon Lilies, Japanese Anemones and SUN autumn bulbs like Corchicums. Fox Gloves such as SUN Illumination Pink should work. White Willow Herb grows well SUN in these conditions, as do Herbaceous Geraniums, Laniums, SUN Paniculata Hydrangeas, Golden Philadelphia, Macarisms and SUN Epimediums. SUN SUN Q. Any recommendations for a climbing plant on a SUN south-facing wall? Something that won't damage the brickwork SUN - and evergreen would be a bonus. SUN SUN A. Trachelospermums are wonderful plants with beautiful SUN scented flowers. Wall shrubs like Cytisus battandieri SUN (Pineapple Broom) would be great and wouldn't damage the SUN wall. Itea Ilicifolia are graceful wall shrubs. Banksia SUN Roses have amazing flowers and grow tall. Espalier Pears SUN could work well as could Pyracantha or Clematis Armandii. SUN SUN Q. Why do some Poinsettias survive with little attention and SUN others die despite a lot of work? SUN SUN A. You can keep them alive, but they will never be quite the SUN same as when you bought them. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b049xtjt (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from Devon, Wales and SUN Cumbria about losing your sight but holding on to your SUN appearance, the power of scouting to break down cultural SUN barriers, and whether we help animals or they help us. SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b049xtjw (Listen) SUN By a Young Officer: Churchill on the North West Frontier SUN SUN Douglas Booth stars as the young Winston Churchill. The year SUN is 1897 and news is just reaching London that Islamic SUN insurgents are causing havoc in the mountainous border SUN between British India and Afghanistan. SUN SUN Written by Michael Eaton SUN Director: Dirk Maggs SUN SUN Producer: David Morley SUN A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Railway Clerk: Abdullah Afzal SUN Sikh Soldier: Abdullah Afzal SUN Browne-Clayton: Jonathan Bailey SUN Cpt of the 35th: Jonathan Bailey SUN Winston Churchill: Douglas Booth SUN Sir Bindon Blood: Kenneth Cranham SUN Colonel Goldney: Kenneth Cranham SUN Buffs Sergeant: Kenneth Cranham SUN Major Deane: Stephen Critchlow SUN Cole: Stephen Critchlow SUN Hughes: Stephen Critchlow SUN Jennie Churchill: Lorelei King SUN Duchess Lilly: Lorelei King SUN Colonel Ramsey: Toby Longworth SUN Staff Officer: Toby Longworth SUN Auctioneer: Toby Longworth SUN Beresford: Toby Longworth SUN Heckler: Toby Longworth SUN Director: Dirk Maggs SUN Producer: David Morley SUN Writer: Michael Eaton SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b049xtjy (Listen) SUN Tom Campbell and Nikesh Shukla SUN SUN Alex Clark talks to Tom Campbell and Nikesh Shukla about the SUN challenge of writing about today's alienated young men - SUN continuing in a tradition of such classic British novels as SUN Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. SUN How are this new generation of male youth, shaped by social SUN media, lack of affordable housing and challenging employment SUN prospects, being interpreted on the page by today's writers? SUN SUN Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola was introduced to the West by T SUN S Eliot, championed by Dylan Thomas and likened to Virginia SUN Woolf. As his novels are reissued, Nigerian writer and SUN blogger Chikodili Emelumadu considers the controversy his SUN popularity abroad caused in his native Nigeria when he was SUN first published in the 1950s and assesses the continuing SUN literary merit of his work. SUN SUN With commemorations of the First World War rippling around SUN the globe, we turn our gaze to the place where it all began, SUN the cultural melting pot that is Sarajevo. Continuing our SUN series of writers' postcards from around the literary globe, SUN Andrea Lesic from Sarajevo University, in a special SUN recording from the Sarajevo Musuem of Literature and SUN Theatre, gives the lowdown on Bosnian books. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Planner by Tom Campbell - Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla - Publisher: Harper Collins SUN SUN SUN SUN By Amos Tutuola: SUN SUN The Palm-Wine Drunkard SUN My Life in the Bush of Ghosts SUN Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer SUN The Brave African Huntress SUN All published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Why is Venice Sinking? by Abdulah Sidran SUN Make Up by Sejla Sehabovic SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of The Planner by Tom Campbell SUN The Planner: Chapter 1 SUN by Tom Campbell SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of Meatspace by Nikesh Shukla SUN Meatspace: Chapter 1 SUN by Nikesh Shukla SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Alex Clark SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Campbell SUN Interviewed Guest: Nikesh Shukla SUN Interviewed Guest: Andrea Lesic SUN SUN 16:27 The Verse That Stings b049xtk0 (Listen) SUN Ian Hislop celebrates the sharp, deflating barbs of SUN Alexander Pope and the 18th Century satirists, 300 years SUN since the publication of The Rape of the Lock. SUN SUN Ian first came across Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and the SUN poems of the 18th Century Scriblerus club at school and SUN later studied them at university. He was struck by these SUN rude, offensive and funny poems about the government, the SUN aristocracy and the machinations of power. SUN SUN As the editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye, Ian SUN views a direct line between his work and Pope's biting SUN satire. Pope and his circle of literary friends debated how SUN offensive their satires should be and whether or not to name SUN and shame subjects. SUN SUN Ian meets Armando Iannucci, the creator of television SUN satires including The Thick Of It and Veep, who compares the SUN rhythms of Alexander Pope's couplets to the comedian's SUN perfect punch line. SUN SUN Ian visits Hampton Court Palace, the setting of the long SUN poem that made Pope's name, The Rape of The Lock. Professor SUN Judith Hawley of Royal Holloway University, helps uncover SUN its true story of a trivial confrontation between two SUN leading Catholics of the time. SUN SUN Professor Edith Hall of Kings College London describes how SUN Pope and the Scriblerians were in awe of Juvenal, Rome's SUN most vitriolic satirist. And Christopher Reid, author of Six SUN Bad Poets a farce in verse about London's literary SUN establishment, explains why some poets are reluctant to SUN write satires today. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Smith SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:55 1914: Day by Day b049xtk2 (Listen) SUN 20th July SUN SUN The French President arrives on a state visit to Russia. SUN SUN Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the SUN First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper SUN accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals SUN from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a SUN picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the SUN time. SUN SUN The series tracks the development of the European crisis day SUN by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand SUN through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the SUN war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world SUN in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the SUN sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the SUN suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for SUN women. SUN SUN Margaret Macmillan is professor of international history at SUN Oxford University. SUN SUN Presenter and Writer: Margaret Macmillan SUN SUN Assistant Producers: Phil Smith and Carly Maile SUN Researcher: Dawn Berry SUN Music: Sacha Puttnam SUN Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SUN Broadcast Assistant: Hannah Newton SUN Development Consultant: Catriona Pennell SUN SUN Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, SUN Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak SUN Jane Whittenshaw SUN SUN Producer: Russell Finch SUN Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b049828l (Listen) SUN Childhood Cancer SUN SUN Every year more than 1,500 UK children are diagnosed with SUN cancer. SUN For some the outlook is good but for those struck down by SUN one of the rarer cancers, the prognosis can be a bleak one. SUN Two hundred and fifty children die each year from the SUN disease. SUN Parents have told File on 4 there is a worrying lack of SUN research into new drugs for childhood cancers, with SUN youngsters sometimes offered treatments which have hardly SUN changed in the last forty years - treatments that can have a SUN limited chance of success and which can cause fatal, serious SUN and life-long side-effects for those lucky enough to SUN survive. SUN In the battle to get the most up-to-date treatments for SUN children with some of the most aggressive cancers, SUN increasing numbers of families say they are forced to raise SUN hundreds of thousands of pounds to travel abroad to take SUN part in pioneering drugs trials elsewhere. SUN Meanwhile UK researchers say they face a constant battle for SUN funding. They also warn of a loophole in European SUN regulations which they say stops break-through drugs that SUN have been developed for adult cancer sufferers, being SUN developed to benefit children. SUN As science takes the treatment and understanding of disease SUN to new levels, Jane Deith asks whether enough is being done SUN to give children a fighting chance. SUN Reporter: Jane Deith SUN Producer: Nicola Dowling. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b049xc02 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b049xc56 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b049xc58 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b049xc5b (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b049xyht (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith chooses her highlights from the previous SUN seven days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b049xyhw (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music b049xyhy (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Since the mid-1980s, aspiring singer/songwriter, John SUN Shuttleworth has been posting audio cassettes of his "finest SUN songs to date" to pop stars throughout the land, in the hope SUN that someone would record his material. But all to no avail. SUN SUN However, the BBC has very kindly given John a series and SUN asked him to invite pop starts to bring their music to his SUN Sheffield home. So it is that Chas and Dave, Heaven 17, SUN Toyah Wilcox and Leee John find themselves in John's lounge SUN having tea with wife Mary, being flirted with by Mary's SUN friend Joan and hassled by John's agent Ken Worthington, as SUN they try and perform not only one their greatest hits but SUN more importantly, one of John's. SUN SUN This week John is in a fluster as Kirsty the scottie dog has SUN eaten the tape with all John's jingles on it - so he's SUN having to play them all live and is worried they may all go SUN wrong. SUN SUN Mary has been complaining that the music is too loud - SUN although she doesn't seem to mind when Heaven 17 are SUN playing. And is that a lemon drizzle cake she's brought for SUN them? SUN SUN As Glenn and Martyn settle down to play one of their songs, SUN Come Live With Me, Joan Chitty arrives and quite likes the SUN sound of the title. So while John is fretting that the maths SUN in the song lyrics are all wrong, Joan asks if the boys can SUN give her a massage to ease her sciatica. SUN All this, along with Tina Charles telling John how to sing SUN very high in Top Tips on the Telephone, leaves time short SUN for Ken in the Konservatory - will it happen? SUN SUN Written and Performed by Graham Fellows with special guests SUN Heaven 17 and Tina Charles. SUN SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN A Chic Ken production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Performer: Graham Fellows SUN Interviewed Guest: Martyn Ware SUN Interviewed Guest: Glenn Gregory SUN Interviewed Guest: Tina Charles SUN Writer: Graham Fellows SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN SUN 19:45 Annika Stranded b049xyj0 (Listen) SUN Series 2, All Human Life SUN SUN Annika Strandhed is a leading light in the murder squad of SUN the Oslo police. Her neuroses - and she has a few - are SUN mostly hidden by a boisterous manner and a love of SUN speedboats. As fictional Scandinavian detectives go, she's SUN not as astute as Sarah Lund or Saga Norén, perhaps, but SUN probably better company. SUN SUN In this second series of stories by Nick Walker - SUN commissioned specially for Radio 4 - Annika is learning to SUN juggle the demands of policing the Oslofjord with a new SUN challenge. Namely, single motherhood. SUN SUN Episode 3 (of 3): All Human Life SUN Frogner Park had always been a place of happy associations SUN for Annika - until three men were found dead at the base of SUN its famous monolith. SUN SUN Nick Walker is the author of two critically-acclaimed SUN novels, Blackbox and Helloland. His plays and short stories SUN are often featured on BBC Radio 4, including Arnold In A SUN Purple Haze (2009), the First King of Mars stories (2007 - SUN 2010), the Afternoon Drama Life Coach (2010) and the stories SUN Dig Yourself (2011) and The Indivisible (2012). The first SUN series of Annika Stranded was broadcast in 2013. SUN SUN Reader: Nicola Walker SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Nicola Walker SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN Writer: Nick Walker SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0499sp1 (Listen) SUN On Thursday, the BBC announced 415 jobs losses from its news SUN department. The job cuts are to save money after the last SUN licence fee agreement left the BBC needing to find £800 SUN million in efficiency savings. But what do the cuts mean for SUN radio news? Roger Bolton asks the BBC's Director of News, SUN James Harding. SUN SUN And amid accusations of bias on both sides, Roger speaks to SUN the World News Editor, Andrew Roy, about whether the BBC is SUN sufficiently impartial in its coverage of the Israel-Gaza SUN conflict. SUN SUN Also this week, hard hitting journalism isn't only for Radio SUN 4. As Radio 1 celebrates 40 years of documentary-making and SUN its Newsbeat programme, we'll be asking some of its young SUN listeners for their views on its documentaries. The Radio 1 SUN and 1Xtra Stories are an hour long and cover anything from SUN domestic violence and teacher-pupil relationships to the SUN lifestyles of the rich and famous. But are they too long for SUN the audience? Is there too much music? We put those SUN questions to Radio 1 Commissioning Editor Piers Bradford and SUN Chloe Straw, an Executive Producer from the independent SUN production company Somethin' Else. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Broadcasters need to be challenged SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0499snz (Listen) SUN Elaine Stritch, Nadine Gordimer, Michael Scudamore and Lorin SUN Maazel SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The formidable actress Elaine Stritch. Famous for her SUN remarkable voice, witty put downs and hard drinking youth, SUN she was known as "The First Lady of Broadway". SUN SUN The South African novelist Nadine Gordimer, whose work SUN embodied the complex story of the nation's struggle with SUN race. SUN SUN The jockey and trainer Michael Scudamore, who competed in 16 SUN consecutive Grand Nationals, winning in 1959 on a horse SUN called Oxo. SUN SUN And the conductor Lorin Maazel, who was a child prodigy and SUN went on to direct some of the world's greatest orchestras. SUN SUN Elaine Stritch SUN SUN Matthew spoke live in the studio to Matt Wolf, London SUN Theatre Critic for the International New York Times. SUN SUN Born 2 February 1925; died 17 July 2014 aged 89. SUN SUN Nadine Gordimer (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her friend Maureen Isaacson, former SUN Literary Editor of Independent on Sunday in Sout Africa and SUN to Dennis Walder, Emeritus Professor of Literature at the SUN Open University. SUN SUN Born 20 November 1923; died 13 July 2014 aged 90. SUN SUN Michael Scudamore SUN SUN Matthew spoke to BBC Horse Racing Correspondent Cornelius SUN Lysaght. SUN SUN Born 17 July 1932; died 7 July 2014 aged 81. SUN SUN Lorin Maazel SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Music Critic and Cultural Commentator SUN Norman Lebrecht. SUN SUN Born 6 March 1930; died 13 July 2014 aged 84. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Matt Wolf SUN Interviewed Guest: Maureen Isaacson SUN Interviewed Guest: Professor Dennis Walder SUN Interviewed Guest: Cornelius Lysaght SUN Interviewed Guest: Norman Lebrecht SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b0499dl7 (Listen) SUN Filling the Autism Gap SUN SUN John Waite investigates why scientists say autism research SUN receives a fraction of the funding invested in other SUN conditions and that as a consequence, there are very few SUN effective interventions to treat the disorder. Meanwhile, SUN parents of autistic children say they face a long wait for SUN treatment provided by their local authority, and have SUN instead turned to unproven methods offered by nutritionists SUN and psychotherapists. SUN Presenter:John Waite SUN Producer:Richard Hooper SUN Editor:Andrew Smith. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b049xhfg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0496bgc (Listen) SUN The end of the pay rise? SUN SUN Something strange has been happening in the British economy. SUN For over six years now, wages have fallen for most of us, SUN which is unprecedented in British modern history. And SUN despite the return of economic growth, wages still have not SUN picked up. SUN SUN What has happened? And crucially is this a long term problem SUN - is this the end of the pay rise? Paul Johnson, director of SUN the Institute for Fiscal Studies, explores the mystery of SUN our falling wages and finds out how it is related to how SUN productive we are, but also to how wages themselves are SUN shared out between the top earners and the rest of us. SUN SUN Producer: Estelle Doyle SUN SUN Contributors: SUN ** Nikki King, Honorary Chairman, Isuzu Trucks UK SUN ** Andy Haldane, chief economist, Central Bank of England SUN ** Jonathan Haskel, Professor of Economics, Imperial College SUN Business School SUN ** Paul Gregg, Professor of Economic and social policy, SUN University of Bath SUN ** Nick Crafts, Professor of Economic History, Warwick SUN University SUN ** Andrew Sentance, former member of Central Bank MPC SUN ** Matt Whitaker, Chief Economist, Resolution Foundation SUN ** Nicola Smith, Trade Union Congress SUN ** Sarah Collyer, Peter Murphy, Hillary Rogers from Isuzu SUN Trucks UK. SUN Escaping Credit Serfdom SUN Making the Best of a Bad Job SUN Quantitative Easing: Miracle Cure or Dangerous Addiction? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b049xyj2 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b049xyj4 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 1914: Day by Day b049xyj6 (Listen) SUN 1914: Day by Day - Omnibus, Episode 3 SUN SUN Rumours spread about Austria-Hungary's planned ultimatum to SUN Serbia. The French are shocked by revelations that their SUN army has a shortage of artillery. A meeting of Suffragettes SUN is attacked by a mob and the British fleet gathers for the SUN naval review by the King. SUN SUN Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the SUN First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper SUN accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals SUN from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a SUN picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the SUN time. SUN SUN The series tracks the development of the European crisis day SUN by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand SUN through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the SUN war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world SUN in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the SUN sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the SUN suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for SUN women. SUN SUN Margaret Macmillan is professor of international history at SUN Oxford University. SUN SUN Presenter and Writer: Margaret Macmillan SUN Researcher: Dawn Berry SUN Music: Sacha Puttnam SUN Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SUN Broadcast Assistant: Hannah Newton SUN Development Consultant: Catriona Pennell SUN SUN Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, SUN Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak, Jane Whittenshaw SUN SUN Producer: Russell Finch SUN Executive Producer: Joby Waldman SUN Assistant Producers: Phil Smith and Carly Maile SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b049xfjq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 JULY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b049xc6c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0499dlh (Listen) MON Rio, Protests and the World Cup; Dying in Prison MON MON Rio, protests and the World Cup. Laurie Taylor talks to MON Jessica Leigh Glass, graduate student in the Department of MON Anthropology at Georgia State University, about her research MON into the street protests taking place in Rio since June MON 2013. Initially arising in reaction to a hike in public MON transport fares, the protests broadened to target wider MON social inequalities, expenditure on multi-million dollar MON projects ahead of the 2014 World Cup & the 2016 Olympics and MON the clearing of some favelas. What is the impact of such MON sporting 'mega-events' on the people who live in the host MON cities.? They're joined by Professor Anthony King from the MON University of Exeter. MON MON Also, men dying in prison. Marian Peacock, Senior Research MON Associate in the Faculty of Health and Medicine at Lancaster MON University, discusses the increasing number of elderly men - MON many of whom are sex offenders - who may end their lives in MON jail. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Jessica Leigh Glass MON MON Graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at MON Georgia State University MON MON MON Jessica will be presenting her paper on the protest movement MON in Rio at the American Anthropologists Association annual MON meeting this November in Chicago. MON MON Anthony King MON MON Professor in Sociology at Exeter University MON MON MON Find out more about MON Anthony King MON MON MON The Transformation of Europe's Armed Forces: From the Rhine MON to Afghanistan MON Publisher: Cambridge University Press MON ISBN-10: 1107647681 MON ISBN-13: 978-1107647688 MON MON MON Marian Peacock MON MON Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Health and MON Medicine at Lancaster University MON MON MON MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Marian Peacock MON MON MON MON MON Study (part 1): MON Dying in Prison: 'Both sides of the fence: improving end of MON life care for prisoners' MON MON MON MON MON Study (part 2): MON Dying in Prison 'Both sides of the fence: improving end of MON life care for prisoners' MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b049xfjn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b049xc6f (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b049xc6l (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b049xc6n (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b049xc6q (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brc1c (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b049xzlg (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell. MON Plants: From Roots to Riches MON MON 05:56 Weather b049xc70 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378wy3 (Listen) MON Common Redstart 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 redstart. Redstarts MON are summer visitors from sub-Saharan Africa. The males are MON very handsome birds, robin-sized, but with a black mask, MON white forehead and an orange tail. John Buxton gave us a MON fascinating insight into their lives when, as a prisoner of MON war in Germany, he made a study of them. MON MON Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) MON Image courtesy of Nigel Blake (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b049y3m7 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Playing the Skyline b049y3m9 (Listen) MON Port Talbot: Kizzy Crawford and Gwilym Simcock MON MON On old nautical charts as well as the bird's eye view there MON is often a coastal profile - the outline of the land seen MON from the point of view of a sailor approaching it. Radio MON producer Julian May was struck by the musicality of these, MON the undulations of hills are melodic, the spacing of MON landmarks - trees, church spires - rhythmic. Musicians MON could, he thought, take the line dividing sky from land, MON place it on manuscript paper, and play the skyline. MON MON Half a dozen prominent musicians are intrigued by this, MON including jazz musician Courtney Pine; the Scottish composer MON James MacMillan; Julie Fowlis, leading light of Gaelic song; MON and Anna Meredith, who was commissioned to create a piece MON for the Last Night of the Proms. MON MON For Radio 4 Tim Marlow presents three programmes, in MON England, Wales and Scotland, in which two musicians look at MON the skyline, talk about their initial responses, then create MON a piece of music each - playing their skyline. He hears how MON they are getting along then the musicians, Tim (and Radio MON 4's listeners) hear for the finished pieces, and consider MON what they have made. MON MON In the second programme the singer and song writer Kizzy MON Crawford and pianist Gwilym Simcock create new pieces MON inspired by the outline against the sky of Port Talbot, seen MON from the sea. The town, the hills beyond and the steelworks MON encapsulate the geography and history of Wales. MON MON Kizzy Crawford is eighteen, of Welsh and Bajan heritage, a MON singer and songwriter at home in English and Welsh. Gwilym MON Simcock is a Welsh pianist who composes classical pieces, MON and improvises, too, MON MON They meet Tim Marlow aboard the Seren y Mor (Star of the MON Sea) looking from out at sea at Port Talbot, whose skyline MON they will make into music and song. MON MON Producers: Julian May and Benedict Warren. MON MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from Port Talbot: Kizzy Crawford and Gwilym MON Simcock (2) MON MON Play Your Skyline MON MON Why not play your own skyline? Listeners from all over the MON country and abroad have sent us their compositions. It's MON simple! Find somewhere that interests you. Draw the line MON between earth and sky, if you wish, you can trace this onto MON musical manuscript paper but this isn't essential. Follow MON the line to create the music of your skyline. Please send a MON soundfile - mp3 or wav to MON Playingyourskyline@bbc.co.uk MON with a picture of the skyline you are playing, and please, MON no longer than three minutes. We will put some on this MON website for you to listen to. MON MON The Port Talbot Skyline ready for transformation into music MON MON Gwylim's drawing of Port Talbot MON MON First page of Gwylim's skyline score MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tim Marlow MON Interviewed Guest: Kizzy Crawford MON Interviewed Guest: Gwilym Simcock MON Transportation Captain: Kevin Axtell MON Producer: Julian May MON Producer: Benedict Warren MON MON 09:30 World Agony b049y3mc (Listen) MON Bachi Kakaria, India MON MON Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan magazine's Agony Aunt for over 40 MON years, talks to a different agony aunt from around the world MON for each programme in this series. MON MON She speaks to Aunts from America, India, Australia, Egypt MON and South Africa, and reflects on the universal and MON contrasting problems that occur in their particular society. MON These Aunts, many of whom have dramatic personal lives MON themselves, offer advice in newspaper columns, on radio MON phone-ins and on-line. MON MON Irma draws on her ample experience to offer a useful MON perspective on their approach to problem solving. Together MON they discuss the problems specific to their communities and MON listeners hear examples of some of the letters they receive MON and the advice given. MON MON Programme 2: Bachi Kakaria, India. MON Irma talks Bachi Kakaria, who writes her advice column MON Giving Gyan in two Indian newspapers, the Mumbai Mirror and MON the Bangalore Mirror. MON MON Giving Gyan translates roughly as 'laying it on the line', MON and Bachi certainly does that. This is a very different MON style of agony aunting to the one we're used to. She is MON level headed and empathetic but doesn't wrap her advice in MON any sentiment, as her strap line intimates: 'There are agony MON aunts and then there's Bachi, she'll sort you out'. MON MON Her qualifications, she says, are none - other than a close MON observation of life, personal and professional. Her post bag MON reflects the concerns particularly of young people who, MON after years of Indian socialism, have been plunged into MON consumerism. On the one hand there is liberalism and, on the MON other, conservatism - so there is confusion and conflict in MON the minds of India's young. MON MON Producer: Ronni Davis MON A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe MON Interviewed Guest: Grayson Perry MON Interviewed Guest: Penelope Curtis MON Interviewed Guest: Philip Davis MON Interviewed Guest: Nicholas Lovell MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b049y3mf (Listen) MON Deep, Episode 1 MON MON In his new book, "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and MON What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves", American MON journalist James Nestor investigates the world of MON freediving, both competitive and scientific. MON MON He learns how to stay underwater for extended periods; goes MON shark-tagging; has a close encounter with sperm whales; MON plunges to 2,500 feet in a DIY submarine; unveils startling MON facets of human physiology - most notably the extraordinary MON life-preserving reflexes known as the Master Switch of Life. MON MON And we learn about the old and new life-forms that inhabit MON our deep oceans - a habitat with the greatest biodiversity MON on earth, yet most of it remains unknown. MON MON Abridged and produced by Pippa Vaughan. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Producer: Pippa Vaughan MON Abridger: Pippa Vaughan MON Writer: James Nestor MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b049y3mh (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON Plants: From Roots to Riches MON MON Women who’ve had multiple children taken into care MON Women who’ve had successive children taken into care are a MON small group MON with a range of complex problems. Poor outcomes for their MON children and the cost MON to society make it crucial to help them but they’re stuck MON in a cycle. In MON Hackney in London the Pause Project seeks to help women MON stop getting pregnant MON and losing their children again and again. To be eligible, MON women must use MON long-acting contraception and in return they get support MON from a key-worker, MON access to services and even days out. Jane Garvey meets MON Sophie Humphreys who MON developed the project after years of experience of taking MON children from their MON mothers. And, talks to a woman we’re calling Helen who is MON trying to turn her MON life around after having losing her four children because MON of her drug use and MON chaotic lifestyle. MON MON The Commonwealth Games MON MON From shooting to judo, boxing to badminton, the Commonwealth MON Games will bring together an international array of elite MON competitors all going MON for gold in Glasgow. After Olympic success for top MON sportswomen for Team GB in MON 2012, who are the medal contenders from Scotland, Wales, MON England and Northern MON Ireland this summer? Ahead of the opening of the Games, MON Jane Garvey talks to MON BBC sports correspondent Karthi Gnanasegaram about the MON women to watch. MON MON The History of Botany MON MON The history of Botany - the study of plants - is the MON focus of new Radio 4 series, in partnership with the Royal MON Botanic Gardens Kew, MON to be broadcast over the summer. It chronicles the MON evolution of Botany, from MON Carl Linnaeus, to Beatrix Potter and the fight for MON botanists, men as well as MON women, to be taken seriously in their field of science. MON Prof Kathy Willis, Head MON of Science at RBG Kew, who presents the series, joins Jane MON to talk about this MON untold story. MON MON 'Plants: From Roots to Riches' is broadcast on Radio 4 MON weekdays at 1.45pm MON MON Holidaying with other Families MON MON It seems like the perfect plan – MON going on holiday with another family. The children will MON have other MON children to play with. You’ll have proper time with your MON adult MON friends. In Lizzie Enfield’s new novel, Living with It, MON four couples MON who’ve been friends since university go on holiday to MON France with their MON children. One couple's baby daughter contracts the measles MON virus from another couples sixteen year old daughter. The MON baby is left profoundly deaf. Huge MON recriminations follow. This dramatic fictional example MON captures perfectly MON the consequences of different parenting styles in a holiday MON setting. Author Lizzie Enfield and Annalisa Barbieri who MON writes an advice column on parenting in the Guardian join MON Jane to discuss the MON pitfalls and pleasures of going on holiday with other MON families. MON MON Living with It by Lizzie MON Enfield is published by Myriad Editions. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b049y3mk (Listen) MON The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 1 MON MON The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles - Series 6 - Ep1/5 MON by Esther Wilson MON Return of award winning 15' drama series about a young MON married couple with learning disabilities, starring Donna MON Lavin and Edmund Davies, actors with learning disabilities. MON Based on true stories and created in part through MON improvisation, this comic and heartfelt series sees Darleen MON pursue her desire to help people less able than herself; she MON wants to move to a village created solely for adults with MON learning disabilities. Husband, Jamie, however, has no MON intention wants no such thing. MON MON Darleen Fyles ........ Donna Lavin MON Jamie ......... Edmund Davies MON Treena ....... Siobhan Finneran MON Bob ...... Cark Cockram MON Stacey ...... Ashley Ogden MON Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON Credits MON Darleen Fyles: Donna Lavin MON Jamie: Edmund Davies MON Treena: Siobhan Finneran MON Bob: Stephen Chapman MON Stacy: Ashley Ogden MON Romana: Ruth Worth MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON Writer: Esther Wilson MON MON 11:00 The Paper Commonwealth b049y3mm (Listen) MON As the director-elect of the Centre of South Asian Studies, MON Cambridge, Dr Joya Chatterji explores the remarkable MON archives at her disposal to find out what they reveal about MON the tense negotiations to bring India and Pakistan - the MON first non-white dominions of the British empire - into the MON Commonwealth. And how the 'old Commonwealth' - Australia, MON Canada and South Africa -respond to the inclusion of the MON 'new Commonwealth' into that union. And about the key role MON played by South Africa in the aftermath of the Boer War - MON from its white supremacist standpoint - and how it was MON ultimately brought to heel by the Commonwealth itself. MON MON From the early history of this lasting institution to the MON plotting of so-called allies, the deep mistrust between MON India and Pakistan, their zealous attempts to contain mass MON migration, and prevent the return home of migrants, all MON produced ingredients that went into the making of the MON Commonwealth as we know it today. Desperate memos, letters MON home to relatives and other writings during these times MON bring the process to life. MON MON Such was the birth of the new Commonwealth in 1947. Today it MON includes 53 independent countries. MON Radio 4 listeners will enjoy the human detail and the horse MON trading that show that international politics were just a MON complicated then as they are now. As the news fills with MON stories from the Glasgow Games, we can stifle a smile in the MON knowledge that it nearly all didn't happen, while thinking MON also of the people whose lives were caught up in, and shaped MON by, its creation. MON MON Producer: Mohini Patel. MON MON 11:30 Bad Salsa b049y3mp (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON After treatment for Ovarian and breast cancer Chippy, is mad MON Jill is sad and Terri is definitely dangerous to know! The MON road back after cancer treatment can be tricky and full of MON obstacles. In Bad Salsa, two middle aged women and their MON younger friend seek to regain their zest for life and love MON by learning to dance at Bad Salsa, the club where everyone MON knows your name but no-one knows your prognosis! MON Depictions of people with cancer on TV and radio too often MON follow a standard format; there is the diagnosis, the MON depression the chemo, then the false recovery followed by MON the tragic death. MON Bad Salsa tries to paint a picture at once more hopeful and MON more in line with survival rates which have improved MON immensely over the past twenty years. For many, 'living with MON cancer' is now their day to day challenge. The characters in MON the series have finished their treatment and are in the MON process of finding their way back to normal life or at least MON finding a "new normal." As in the real world, the challenges MON of everyday life go on for our characters; like us they have MON boring marriages, distracting crushes, troublesome children, MON difficult workmates and infuriating parents, but unlike us MON their brush with mortality has given them a new perspective. MON The fun and excitement of the series is in watching them MON decide to preserve the pre-cancer status quo or in Terri's MON words, to say "sod it all" and "go for it!" MON The series follows the women as they embrace the world of MON salsa whilst they adjust to life after cancer. MON MON Writer ..... Kay Stonham MON Producer ..... Alison Vernon-Smith. MON MON Credits MON Terry: Camille Coduri MON Chippy: Sharon Rooney MON Jill: Natasha Little MON Marco: Ben Smith MON Gordon: Andrew Obeney MON Colin: David Cann MON Georgie: Emily Chase MON Tim: Matt Houlihan MON Sara: Antonia Reid MON Chippy's Mum: Kay Stonham MON Writer: Kay Stonham MON Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b049y6c3 (Listen) MON Classic Cars, Care on the Continent and Calligraphy MON MON NHS England publishes a review of how hospitals are rated by MON patients and their relatives. MON MON Insurers have been writing to Classic Car owners to tell MON them they're in danger of being underinsured. MON MON How the European Health Insurance Card has changed - and how MON it could affect you this summer. MON MON Can you tell whether or not a person is suited to a job by MON analysing their handwriting? MON MON More on why some potential customers were told they couldn't MON buy the VW Golf they wanted. MON MON 3 months on - how are the new mortgage tests affecting MON borrowers? MON MON How car insurance firms could be able to keep a closer eye MON on you. MON MON Does the latest attempt to cut illegal music downloads live MON up to the promises of the past? MON MON 12:57 Weather b049xc75 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b049y6c5 (Listen) MON Edward Stourton presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b048s4tn (Listen) MON A Rose by Any Other Name MON MON The 18th century's age of travel and enlightenment meant MON that a vast influx of newly discovered plants into Europe MON was creating a botanical tower of Babel. No common language MON for plants and a wealth of long and localised names made MON communication about plant species often impossible. Swedish MON naturalist Carl Linnaeus dedicated his life to developing a MON proper system of naming and placing plants into a new MON ordered hierarchy. MON MON Professor Kathy Willis launches the series by talking to Jim MON Endersby, historian at Sussex University, who argues that MON Linnaeus' system of plant classification established the MON roots of botany as we now know it and revolutionised the MON economics and movement of plant species and their riches MON across the globe, and how they are referred to. MON MON She speaks with Linnaean archivist Gina Douglas and learns MON how in 1753 his System Naturae placed plants into a MON hierarchy of relationships based on the number of MON reproductive organs, in the hope of uncovering the machinery MON of nature. Whilst much of what Linnaeus developed has now MON been superseded by a more natural system of classification, MON his method of naming still dominates today MON MON Producer: Adrian Washbourne MON MON Presenter: KATHY WILLIS is Director of Science at Royal MON Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also Professor of Long-term MON Ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford MON University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 MON years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation MON at Oxford and Cambridge. MON The View from Kew: Encephalartos Altensteinii, one of MON world's oldest pot plants lives in Kew’s Palm House MON The Zululand cycad MON MON Cycads in the News MON Extinction threat to ancient plant group MON Love blossoms for rare plants MON 'Oldest' pot plant to get new pot (from 2003) MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kathy Willis MON Interviewed Guest: Greg Redwood MON Interviewed Guest: Emma Townshend MON Interviewed Guest: Jim Endersby MON Interviewed Guest: Gina Douglas MON Consultant: Jim Endersby MON Production Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy MON Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie MON Producer: Adrian Washbourne MON Editor: Deborah Cohen MON MON 14:00 The Archers b049xyhw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b049y9pb (Listen) MON It Takes Two to Lie MON MON Crime drama by Isabelle Grey. When Des takes Nabil hostage MON while attempting to rob the local Pawnbroker's Shop, things MON don't go quite the way he had imagined. As he tries to lie MON his way out of the situation, student Nabil forces him to MON face up to the truth. But what if you've forgotten what the MON truth is? MON MON The writer MON Isabelle Grey's most recent television drama is 'Tina's MON Story', an episode of Accused written with Jimmy McGovern. MON She has contributed to numerous drama series, including The MON Bill, Casualty, Wycliffe, Rosemary & Thyme and Midsomer MON Murders. Her third novel will be published in October. This MON is her first radio drama. MON MON CAST MON Des ..... Gerard McDermott MON Nabil ..... Muzz Khan MON Andy ..... Robert Harper MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Tom Wentworth. MON MON Credits MON Des: Gerard McDermott MON Nabil: Muzz Khan MON Andy: Robert Harper MON Writer: Isabelle Grey MON Director: Tom Wentworth MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b049y9pd (Listen) MON (10/12) MON In what way might a Dickensian cricket match have provided MON inspiration for Lindisfarne and J.K.Rowling? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe asks the panellists to ponder this, and plenty MON of other cryptic puzzles, in the latest contest between the MON North of England and Scotland. Diana Collecott and Adele MON Geras of the North will be hoping to repeat the defeat they MON inflicted last time they encountered the Scots, Val McDermid MON and Roddy Lumsden. Knowledge of music, literature, mythology MON and popular culture will all be handy in tackling today's MON batch of convoluted questions. MON MON As always, some of the questions have been drawn from the MON stack of brilliant ideas provided by RBQ listeners in recent MON months. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b049xtjm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Art of the Nation b049y9pg (Listen) MON Discovery MON MON BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz investigates the art-works in MON our homes, and considers the stories they tell about our MON national identity. MON MON Most of the nation's greatest works of art are in our MON museums and galleries, but there are also thousands of MON significant works - some valuable, some not - in homes MON across the country. MON MON Will Gompertz discovers extraordinary stories behind the MON art-works on our domestic walls, and the tales they tell MON about our nation - an unwritten biography charting up and MON downs, highs and lows. MON MON In the first programme of the series, he reveals the MON importance of discovery, hearing about the joy of uncovering MON apparently lost masterpieces, and acquiring works by chance. MON MON Will meets an unemployed couple from Lincoln who believe MON they have tracked down - via the internet - works by Van MON Gogh, Manet and Cézanne. Will also finds out about the MON businessman who happened to become a good friend of Picasso, MON who gave him one of his prized plates. The plate sat in a MON drawer for 40 years, because its new owner thought it looked MON horrible. Now his son has re-discovered it. And there's the MON tale of home owner who happened to find a work by Francis MON Bacon on a wall - long hidden behind fitted furniture. MON MON Producer Neil George. MON MON Send Us Your Art MON Why not send us a picture of your art with a line or two MON about it. E-mail us at MON ArtoftheNation@bbc.co.uk MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b049y9pj (Listen) MON Series 10, Does Science Need War? MON MON Does Science Need War? MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by comedian MON Katy Brand, science writer Philip Ball and medic, author and MON broadcaster Kevin Fong. They'll be asking whether scientific MON progress needs the pressures and casualties of war to drive MON it, or whether some of our biggest scientific breakthroughs, MON that have resulted from periods of conflict, would have MON happened anyway? It's a serious topic, but never fear, on MON the way the intergalactic battles faced in Star Wars, and MON why only the French could come up with onions as a cure for MON burns, are all equally seriously investigated. MON MON 16:55 1914: Day by Day b049y9pl (Listen) MON 21st July MON MON The King warns of civil war in Britain over Irish Home Rule. MON MON Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the MON First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper MON accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals MON from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a MON picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the MON time. MON MON The series tracks the development of the European crisis day MON by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand MON through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the MON war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world MON in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the MON sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the MON suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for MON women. MON MON Margaret Macmillan is professor of international history at MON Oxford University. MON MON Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, MON Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak MON Jane Whittenshaw MON MON Presenter and Writer: Margaret Macmillan MON Producer: Russell Finch MON Executive Producer: Joby Waldman MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b049y9pn (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b049xc77 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b049y9pq (Listen) MON Series 61, Episode 4 MON MON The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the MON Assembly Hall in Worthing. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme MON Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by MON Harry Hill with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts MON piano accompaniment. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Harry Hill MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b049y9ps (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b049y9pv (Listen) MON Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, MON literature, film, media and music. MON MON Credits MON Actor: John Wilson MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b049y3mk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 At the End of Death Row b049y9px (Listen) MON A series of botched executions in early 2014, shortages of MON drugs for lethal injections, and moves in several states to MON abandon execution have re-ignited the debate in the United MON States about the death penalty. MON MON In this programme BBC correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan MON travels across the southern state of Tennessee, where the MON state legislature recently passed a law re-introducing the MON electric chair if drugs for lethal injection become MON unavailable. MON MON Rajini speaks to people across the political spectrum - MON church ministers keen to end executions, the parents of a MON murder victim who want to see justice done, a man released MON after 20 years on death row, and a state representative who MON backed the new law. She hears a debate filled with tragedy, MON and nuance, and asks where it might be heading. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 20:30 Analysis b049y9pz (Listen) MON Thrifty Debtors MON MON The downturn's made everyone worry more about money. But MON while we may want to be thriftier, Chris Bowlby discovers MON why we're stuck with high levels of personal and household MON debt. Credit has become a way of life and new technology MON makes it ever more accessible. We know we ought to save more MON for, say, old age, but pensions seem distant and a dodgy MON investment, while the government and others are desperate to MON encourage revived consumer spending . Borrowing to buy MON houses seems to many the best financial bet. Is there an MON alternative approach out there? MON MON A wide range of voices from different communities explore MON the mixture of hard financial fact, psychology and morality MON that's shaped our financial behaviour in such a turbulent MON few years. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby MON Editor: Hugh Levinson. MON Poverty vs Equality MON Escaping Credit Serfdom MON Capitalists Against the Super Rich MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b0496c09 (Listen) MON Urban Wildlife MON MON Wildlife in urban areas can be surprisingly diverse - MON particularly when neighbouring more natural areas. Can the MON urban jungle actually be better than some rural areas for MON bees and birds? In this episode Monty Don hears from MON scientists working to find out just how important our urban MON areas are for wildlife. MON MON Presented by Monty Don and produced by Brett Westwood. MON MON Dr Katherine Baldock MON Dr Katherine Baldock is a postdoctoral researcher in the MON School of Biological Sciences and the Cabot Institute at the MON University of Bristol. Her research is focused on examining MON community-level interactions between plants and their MON pollinators and the study of these relationships using MON interaction networks. She co-ordinates the research project MON ‘Urban Pollinators: their ecology and conservation’, a MON collaborative project involving academic, practitioner and MON taxonomist partners. MON The project team has been studying insect pollinators and MON the plants they feed on in urban habitats throughout the UK. MON The project has examined plant-pollinator communities in MON replicate cities, farms and nature reserves, sampled 700 MON sites in four cities to assess the suitability of urban MON habitats for pollinators and planted 60 pollen and MON nectar-rich flower meadows to examine their benefit for MON pollinators. MON MON Dr Myla Aronson MON Dr Myla Aronson is a Research Scientist at Rutgers School of MON Environmental and Biological Sciences and is interested in MON the conservation and maintenance of biodiversity in human MON dominated landscapes and the patterns, causes and MON consequences of exotic species invasions. MON Her work has focussed on the patterns of plant diversity in MON relation to land use change and urbanisation. It has also MON studied processes of community assembly and biotic MON homogenisation by exotic species and urbanisation at local MON and regional scales. MON Her work has also studied the long-term change in intact and MON restored vegetation communities in urban and agricultural MON landscapes in order to better understand and manage plant MON community dynamics in human dominated landscapes over time. MON She has also explored potential ways to restore biodiversity MON in these landscapes MON MON 21:30 Playing the Skyline b049y3m9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b049xc79 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b049y9q1 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b049y9q3 (Listen) MON The Miniaturist, Episode 1 MON MON THE MINIATURIST by Jessie Burton MON MON Read by : Emilia Fox MON MON On a cold autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella MON Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife MON of the Dutch East India Company's most successful merchant MON trader : Johannes Brandt. But her lavishly furnished new MON home is not welcoming, and its inhabitants seem preoccupied MON with their own secrets. Johannes is kind yet distant, always MON locked in his study or at his warehouse office which leaves MON Nella isolated in the grand house on the canal with his MON sister, the sharp-tongued Marin and Otto and Cornelia their MON servants as company. MON MON Nella's world changes when Johannes presents her with an MON extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their MON home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a MON miniaturist, an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny and MON intricate creations mirror their real-life counterparts in MON eerie and unexpected ways. MON MON But as she starts to receive unexpected and unasked for MON items for her 'toy house' Nella becomes aware that the MON Brandt household contains unusual secrets and she begins to MON understand - and fear- the escalating dangers that await MON them all. In this repressively pious society conformity is MON all. Neighbours are encouraged to spy on each other, MON excavating 'the canker' of sin. The packages from the MON mysterious miniaturist begin to reveal chillingly prophetic MON objects but Nella remains at a loss as to what they all MON mean. MON MON Ep. 1 : Eighteen year old Nella Oortman arrives from the MON country at her husband's imposing house in Amsterdam. But MON the welcome is a little less than effusive. MON MON Producer: JILL WATERS MON Abridged by Isobel Creed and directed by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Emilia Fox MON Producer: Jill Waters MON Director: Jill Waters MON Abridger: Isobel Creed MON Author: Jessie Burton MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04980f3 (Listen) MON Weighing Your Words MON MON Chris Ledgard investigates three situations where the MON precise use of words is crucial. He speaks to a cancer MON specialist and a woman in remission from the disease about MON the language of diagnosis and prognosis. How do doctors MON balance the need to be sensitive with the need to be MON accurate? Is the word cancer itself still one that people MON prefer not to use? The second situation under consideration MON is when journalists, covering a fast moving story for the MON popular press, are made party to information they are MON requested not to print. Reporter Paul Sims describes how he MON dealt with one such situation during the hunt for the MON gunman, Raoul Moat in 2010. Finally, there can be few MON situations where choosing precisely the right words matters MON more than during negotiations to end an armed conflict. MON Britain's Chief Negotiator on Northern Ireland, Jonathan MON Powell and Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy, discuss the language MON that paved the way to the Good Friday Agreement and why it MON was often ambiguous rather than clear language that kept the MON talks on track. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b049y9q5 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 JULY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b049xc81 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b049y3mf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b049xc83 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b049xc85 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b049xc87 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b049xc89 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brc0c (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b049yfhn (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378wz1 (Listen) TUE Bullfinch 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 Bullfinch. The males have TUE rose-pink breasts and black caps and are eye-catching whilst TUE the females are a duller pinkish-grey but share the black TUE cap. Exactly why they're called Bullfinches isn't clear - TUE perhaps it's to do with their rather thickset appearance. TUE 'Budfinch' would be a more accurate name as they are very TUE fond of the buds of trees, especially fruit trees. TUE TUE Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b049yhcl (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b049yhcn (Listen) TUE Carol Robinson TUE TUE Carol Robinson describes her remarkable journey from leaving TUE school at 16 to work as a lab technician at Pfizer, to TUE becoming the first female Professor of Chemistry at both TUE Oxford and Cambridge University, despite an eight year TUE career break to bring up three small children. TUE TUE Getting back into the workplace wasn't easy. Carol was hired TUE for a job for which she was over-qualified because she 'used TUE to be good' and advised not to dress so smartly because TUE people would think she was a secretary. She managed to TUE negotiate a day a week to do her own research and secured TUE much sought after Royal Society funding to support it. TUE TUE For decades, Carol felt insecure about having a degree from TUE a further education college, which she achieved by studying TUE part-time for seven years while working at Pfizer; but now TUE Carol is proud of her unconventional route into academia and TUE actively recruits students to her lab from a wide range of TUE different backgrounds. TUE TUE In her hands, mass spectrometry has been transformed from a TUE routine technique for checking what chemicals are present TUE in, say an antibiotic, into a powerful research tool for TUE drug development. Her motto when doing experiments is, 'it's TUE not working yet' and she's happy to risk drilling into this TUE hugely expensive machine to try and get it to do what she TUE wants. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b049yhcq (Listen) TUE Radio 4's Today presenter Sarah Montague, in the second of TUE two interviews with people who have a family member in TUE prison, talks to a mum whose son is behind bars. She asks TUE her how she is coping, especially as her former job was to TUE work with troubled families, and she has now found herself TUE in a similar situation to those she helped before. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04b60fq (Listen) TUE Deep, Episode 2 TUE TUE James Nestor's new book, "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science TUE and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves" begins at the TUE surface and then plunges ever deeper into the unknown - TUE until we are at 35,797 feet below sea level: the lowest TUE point on earth. "Freedivers" come to the ocean to redefine TUE the limits of the human body, swimming up to 400 feet below TUE the surface for minutes at a time in a single breath. TUE TUE Scientific adventurers take us even deeper when they explore TUE Grand Canyon-like chasms no one has ever reached (alive) TUE before, where life-forms flourish in 300 degree water with TUE absolutely no light. None of it should exist, and yet it TUE does. But how? TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Pippa Vaughan. TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Pippa Vaughan TUE Abridger: Pippa Vaughan TUE Writer: James Nestor TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b049yhcs (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b049yhcv (Listen) TUE The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 2 TUE TUE The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Ep.2/5 TUE by Esther Wilson TUE TUE Return of award winning 15' drama series about a young TUE married couple with learning disabilities, starring Donna TUE Lavin and Edmund Davies, actors with learning disabilities. TUE Based on true stories and created in part through TUE improvisation. Darleen has moved to the countryside to a TUE village created solely for adults with learning TUE disabilities. Husband Jamie refused to go and to make TUE matters worse, his mother-in-law, Treena, has moved in with TUE him. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE Credits TUE Darleen Fyles: Donna Lavin TUE Jamie: Edmund Davies TUE Treena: Siobhan Finneran TUE Bob: Stephen Chapman TUE Stacey: Ashley Ogden TUE Jill: Ruth Worth TUE Scott: Byron Konizi TUE Director: Pauline Harris TUE Producer: Pauline Harris TUE Writer: Esther Wilson TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b049yhcx (Listen) TUE Zoos in the Wild TUE TUE As more land is developed for industry and housing or TUE converted to produce food the areas we have fenced off for TUE nature are increasingly important. But are the worlds nature TUE reserves essentially made into a fortress to protect the TUE area from development able to function on their own, or do TUE they need constant management. Are they "zoos in the wild". TUE Monty Don hears from Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa, TUE the reserve that helped replenish Southern Africa's white TUE rhinoceros population and finds out whether size really does TUE matter for our protected areas. TUE TUE Dr M Sanjayan TUE Dr Sanjayan is Executive Vice President and senior scientist TUE at Conservation International. His work focuses on the role TUE of conservation in improving human well-being, wildlife, and TUE the environment. He honed his knowledge over 16 years as TUE Lead Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, specialising in TUE development and conservation strategies. TUE He is also a television presenter and has fronted numerous TUE documentaries. He is currently filming his new TV series, TUE Earth – A New Wild, which is set to air on America’s PBS TUE network in 2015. Earlier this year he also contributed to TUE the BBC World News series The Power of Nature. TUE He is a sought after speaker on college and business TUE campuses with recent appearances on stage at TED Global and TUE other key forums and festivals and he was recently selected TUE to serve on the Explorers Council, a distinguished group of TUE top scientists, researchers, and explorers who provide TUE advice and counsel to National Geographic Society across TUE disciplines and projects. TUE Twitter.com: @msanjayan TUE TUE Professor David Lindenmayer TUE David Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at The Australian TUE National University. He has written more than 900 scientific TUE articles and 36 books on forest ecology and management, TUE forest and woodland biodiversity, conservation in TUE agricultural landscapes, the ecology and management of fire TUE and conservation science and natural resource management. TUE He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and the TUE New York Academy of Science, winner of the Eureka Prize TUE (twice), Whitely Award (six times), the Australian Natural TUE History Medal, the Serventy Medal for Ornithology and TUE numerous other awards. David Lindenmayer was awarded a TUE prestigious 5-year Australian Research Council Laureate TUE Fellowship in 2013 and an Order of Australia in mid-2014. TUE He currently runs 5 large-scale, long-term research programs TUE in south-eastern Australia, primarily associated with TUE developing ways to conserve biodiversity in reserves, TUE national parks, wood production forests, plantations and on TUE farm land. By far his greatest achievement has been helping TUE more than 50 students complete their post-graduate Ph.D or TUE MSc degrees. TUE TUE 11:30 Roots Reggae and Rebellion b049yhcz (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Rastafari is Jamaica's most famous export. Alongside Bob TUE Marley - the world's most recognised Rastafarian - this TUE cultural and spiritual movement is the enduring global image TUE of the Caribbean island. For better or worse, the red, green TUE and gold colours, dreadlocks, reggae music and marijuana are TUE all closely associated with Jamaica. But what role has this TUE spiritual movement had in forming Jamaica's soul and TUE identity? TUE Presented by political commentator and educator Kingslee TUE Daley, this series examines how Rastafari turned from an TUE ostracised religious sect into a global phenomenon. Kingslee TUE is better known as Akala, a British poet, rapper and founder TUE of the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company. Born in London he was TUE brought up immersed in Rasta culture by his Jamaican father. TUE In these two half hour programmes, Akala travels to Jamaica TUE to discover the cultural and sociological significance of TUE his spiritual heritage. TUE Rastafari first came to prominence in 1930s Jamaica, TUE emerging from the civil rights struggle during British TUE colonial rule. It's a complicated synergy of the Old TUE Testament and the teachings of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey TUE who predicted in the 1920s that "a black king shall be TUE crowned in Africa" ushering in a "day of deliverance." When TUE the Ethiopian prince Ras Tafari - who was also known as TUE Haile Selassie I - became Emperor in 1930, the descendants TUE of slaves in Jamaica took this as proof that Garvey's TUE prophecy had come true. The fact that Selassie was also a TUE pan-Africanist with black empowerment philosophies of his TUE own only further cemented their belief. Many Rastafari TUE believe Selassie to be the second coming of Jesus, a black TUE Christ. But whatever the theologies surrounding Rastafari, TUE its importance for Jamaica and for the Jamaican diaspora has TUE gone way beyond religion. TUE In this first part of the series, Akala uncovers the story TUE of Rastafari and its role in replacing the shackles of TUE colonial rule with a forgotten African identity. At first TUE Rastas were deemed the scourge of society, hounded by both TUE the British and Jamaican authorities. But thanks to an TUE explosion of incredible music in the 1970s, the Rastafari TUE message took over the whole island before spreading around TUE the world. TUE Contributors include writer Sir Salman Rushdie, the Kenyan TUE author and political activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Professor TUE Carolyn Cooper from the University of the West Indies, TUE reggae legend Max Romeo and the residents of the early Rasta TUE camp known as Pinnacle. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b049yhd1 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b049xc8c (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b049yhd3 (Listen) TUE Edward Stourton presents national and international news. TUE TUE 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b049yhd5 (Listen) TUE Plants to Shape Society TUE TUE The 18th century botanical impresario Sir Joseph Banks was TUE convinced that Britain's destiny was as the major civilising TUE power in the world, and this could be achieved by harnessing TUE botany and imperial progress to each other's mutual benefit. TUE TUE Professor Kathy Willis talks to Linnaean Society honorary TUE archivist, Gina Douglas, on how Britain's acquisition of TUE Carl Linnaeus' collection of books and specimens proved the TUE tool to promote, identify, and trade plants across the TUE Empire. TUE TUE She hears from Richard Barley, Director of Horticulture at TUE Kew and former director of Melbourne's Botanic Gardens, who TUE discusses Banks' influence on the choice of plants taken TUE with the first settlers to Australia. TUE TUE But how central were plants to Britain's colonial project? TUE Historian Jim Endersby weighs up Joseph Banks' 18th century TUE vision to use Kew as a centre to gather as many plants and TUE plant products as possible, not only to enrich the Royal TUE Garden's collection but for Kew to also function as a TUE botanical exchange house between the colonies. TUE TUE Producer: Adrian Washbourne TUE TUE Presenter: KATHY WILLIS is Director of Science at Royal TUE Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also Professor of Long-term TUE Ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford TUE University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 TUE years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation TUE at Oxford and Cambridge. TUE The View from Kew: Joseph Banks, the plant collector who TUE brought us some of our most loved and well-known garden TUE plants TUE Frontiers: Carl Linnaeus TUE Linnaeus and the Immorality of Bluebells TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kathy Willis TUE Interviewed Guest: Gina Douglas TUE Interviewed Guest: Jim Endersby TUE Interviewed Guest: Richard Barley TUE Production Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy TUE Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie TUE Producer: Adrian Washbourne TUE Editor: Deborah Cohen TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b049y9ps (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b042l782 (Listen) TUE The Sensitive: Underground Man, Episode 1 TUE TUE 1 / 2. Glasgow's disused underground tunnels are the hunting TUE ground for an injured ex-soldier who threatens to kill three TUE men he holds responsible for cheating him out of an TUE inheritance. When one of the men under threat goes missing, TUE Glasgow psychic, Thomas Soutar, helps police in their search TUE - but Thomas and his girlfriend, Kat, soon find there's TUE danger much closer to home. By Alastair Jessiman. The TUE concluding episode is tomorrow. TUE TUE Other parts played by the cast. TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Brodie: Simon Donaldson TUE George: Finlay Welsh TUE DI Crawford: Stevie Hannan TUE Paul: Finlay McLean TUE Anderson: John Shedden TUE Mrs Anderson: Ann Scott-Jones TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b049yjc5 (Listen) TUE History magazine programme in which listeners and TUE researchers share their passion for the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Into the Abyss b0499gpc (Listen) TUE The Hadal Zone TUE TUE Rebecca Morelle talks to explorers of deep ocean trenches, TUE from film-maker James Cameron to biologists discovering dark TUE realms of weird pink gelatinous fish and gigantic TUE crustaceans. TUE TUE The deepest regions of the ocean lie between 6,000 and TUE 11,000 metres. Oceanographers term this the Hadal Zone. It TUE exists where the floor of abyss plunges into long TUE trough-like features, known as ocean trenches. The hadal TUE zone is the final frontier of exploration and ecological TUE science on the planet. TUE TUE At its most extreme, the water pressure rises to 1 tonne per TUE square centimetre and the temperature drops to 1 degree C. TUE Despite the challenging conditions, some animals survive and TUE thrive in the trenches. Because the technical challenges to TUE operating down there are so high, we are only now just TUE learning what is down there and how creatures adapt to live TUE in the extremes. TUE TUE Based at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, deep sea TUE ecologist Alan Jamieson is one of the premier explorers of TUE life in the hadal zone. In the programme, he talks through TUE some of the latest video footage he's acquired from the TUE depths of the Kermadec Trench in New Zealand - not by TUE visiting in person but by dropping cameras on a deep sea TUE probe called a hadal lander to the distant sea floor. The TUE images were gathered on an expedition two months ago and TUE revealed new habits of hadal creatures. TUE TUE Rebecca does talk to two people who have ventured to the far TUE limit of the hadal zone: US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh who TUE went down to the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana TUE Trench in 1960, and Hollywood director James Cameron who, 52 TUE years later, repeated Walsh's voyage to 11,000 metres down. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b049yjwt (Listen) TUE Message in a Bottle TUE TUE Chris Ledgard uncorks the subject of message in a bottle. TUE TUE Sending a message in a bottle across the ocean to be TUE rediscovered by someone in a far off land is an idea as old TUE as Ancient Greece. Christopher Columbus did it, Jules Verne TUE wrote about it and The Police sang that song. There's TUE romance and adventure in the endless possibilities of TUE interacting with the unknown. TUE TUE As Chris explores the oblique and whimsical nature of this TUE form of communication he hears modern day stories from TUE people who have been saved by sending out an SOS, formed TUE friendships across the water and found scientific value in TUE the pastime. TUE TUE However, amongst the tide of approval for this historical TUE tradition a dissenting voice lurks. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b049yjww (Listen) TUE Shami Chakrabarti and Monica Ali TUE TUE Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights organisation TUE Liberty, and Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane, talk about TUE their favourite reads with Harriett Gilbert. Books under TUE discussion are Evelyn Waugh's satire on the Anglo-American TUE relationship staged in and around an LA funeral business, TUE The Loved One, Rachel Holmes' biography of Eleanor Marx, and TUE the children's classic, Charlotte's Web. Conversation ranges TUE from our attitudes to death, to strong women who make bad TUE relationship choices, to what makes great children's TUE literature. TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Shami Chakrabarti TUE Interviewed Guest: Monica Ali TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 16:55 1914: Day by Day b049yjwy (Listen) TUE 22nd July TUE TUE The Russian Royal family give a lavish welcome to the French TUE President. TUE TUE Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the TUE First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper TUE accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals TUE from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a TUE picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the TUE time. TUE TUE The series tracks the development of the European crisis day TUE by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand TUE through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the TUE war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world TUE in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the TUE sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the TUE suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for TUE women. TUE TUE Margaret Macmillan is professor of international history at TUE Oxford University. TUE TUE Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, TUE Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak TUE Jane Whittenshaw TUE TUE Presenter and Writer: Margaret Macmillan TUE Producer: Russell Finch TUE Executive Producer: Joby Waldman TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b049yqz8 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b049xc8f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b045fzcm (Listen) TUE Series 3, Penny Pinching and Austerity TUE TUE Stephen K Amos is joined by Suzi Ruffell, Tom Rhodes and TUE Andy Zaltzman to present a guide to penny pinching and TUE austerity. TUE TUE Additional material by Stephen Grant and Hugh Sington. TUE Produced by Colin Anderson. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Stephen K Amos TUE Performer: Suzi Ruffell TUE Performer: Tom Rhodes TUE Performer: Andy Zaltzman TUE Producer: Colin Anderson TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b049yqzd (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b049yqzg (Listen) TUE Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, TUE literature, film, media and music. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: John Wilson TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b049yhcv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Kurdistan: A State of Uncertainty b049yqzj (Listen) TUE John McCarthy meets the Kurds of northern Iraq, a unique TUE island of stability in a nation broken into warring TUE fragments. He asks how a people who have been victims of TUE abuse and atrocity for generations managed to transform TUE their fortunes so dramatically. How did they recently gain TUE the confidence to calmly take over the disputed city of TUE Kirkuk and claim it as their own? And how can they avoid TUE being sucked once more into a maelstrom of violence? TUE TUE A rich cast of contributors includes Siyamand Banaa, a TUE diplomat and former peshmerga freedom fighter; Narin Bahat TUE who has committed her life to the cause of disadvantaged TUE women; Yaccoub Sulleyman who, as a child, watched his TUE parents being forced to demolish the family home; and Helly TUE Luv, who has returned from exile to rap her way to stardom TUE in pop music and film. TUE TUE John starts his journey in the mountains that Kurds believe TUE have shaped their destiny, by offering them protection from TUE the greater powers that have sought to dominate them. He TUE visits the fast-expanding regional capital Erbil, which some TUE people call the new Dubai thanks to its access oil wealth TUE and smart deals. He moves to the cultural capital TUE Sulaymaniah, where he encounters the political tensions that TUE lie just below the surface. TUE TUE John discovers that internal conflicts, a political system TUE weakened by the abuses of patronage and corruption and the TUE inherent dangers of unpredictable forces mean that Iraqi TUE Kurdistan's good fortune remains vulnerable. It continues to TUE be in a state of uncertainty. TUE TUE Presenter: John McCarthy TUE Producer: Geoff Dunlop TUE TUE A Whistledown production for Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b049yqzl (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b049yqzn (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b049yhcn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b049yrng (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04b3tyw (Listen) TUE The Miniaturist, Episode 2 TUE TUE THE MINIATURIST by Jessie Burton TUE TUE Read by Emilia Fox TUE TUE On a cold autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella TUE Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife TUE of the Dutch East India Company's most successful merchant TUE trader : Johannes Brandt. But her lavishly furnished new TUE home is not welcoming, and its inhabitants seem preoccupied TUE with their own secrets. Johannes is kind yet distant, always TUE locked in his study or at his warehouse office which leaves TUE Nella isolated in the grand house on the canal with his TUE sister, the sharp-tongued Marin and Otto and Cornelia their TUE servants as company. TUE TUE Nella's world changes when Johannes presents her with an TUE extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their TUE home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a TUE miniaturist, an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny and TUE intricate creations mirror their real-life counterparts in TUE eerie and unexpected ways. TUE TUE But as she starts to receive unexpected and unasked for TUE items for her 'toy house' Nella becomes aware that the TUE Brandt household contains unusual secrets and she begins to TUE understand - and fear- the escalating dangers that await TUE them all. In this repressively pious society conformity is TUE all. Neighbours are encouraged to spy on each other, TUE excavating 'the canker' of sin. The packages from the TUE mysterious miniaturist begin to reveal chillingly prophetic TUE objects but Nella remains at a loss as to what they all TUE mean. TUE TUE Ep.2. Nella continues to wonder when her husband is going to TUE consummate their marriage, in the meantime her sister-in-law TUE has suggested that some sort of 'distraction' would be a TUE good idea. TUE TUE Producer: JILL WATERS TUE Abridged by Isobel Creed and directed by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Emilia Fox TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE Director: Jill Waters TUE Abridger: Isobel Creed TUE Author: Jessie Burton TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b049y9pj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b049yrnj (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 JULY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b049xc96 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04b60fq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b049xc98 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b049xc9b (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b049xc9d (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b049xc9g (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brbzx (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b049yskj (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378x0n (Listen) WED Rock Pipit 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 rock pipit. The sight of a WED greyish bird no bigger than a sparrow, at home on the WED highest cliffs and feeding within reach of breaking waves WED can come as a surprise. In spring and early summer, the male WED Pipits become wonderful extroverts and perform to attract a WED female, during which they sing loudly to compete with the WED sea-wash. WED WED Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b049ysn8 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 The Long View b049z14k (Listen) WED Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of Nigel Farage by WED comparing him to eighteenth century libertarian, John WED Wilkes, who sent shockwaves through the political WED establishment and saw himself as the defender of the WED ordinary man. WED WED Nigel Farage's recent success at local and European WED elections may have left the other political parties baffled, WED but the Wilkite movement of the 1760s also caused WED consternation. Wilkes' election to Westminster was WED repeatedly quashed, prompting him to obtain re-election. WED WED Wilkes' slogan was 'liberty' and he called for parliamentary WED reform, raising the issue of how MPs should be chosen: by WED the people or their elite masters. WED WED Producer: Clare Walker. WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03bs6z3 (Listen) WED Series 1, Allen Lane WED WED Allen Lane left school at 16 and had no university WED education, yet he was fascinated by learning and education, WED ideas and argument. His revolutionary innovation was to WED produce a series of inexpensive books, in paper covers, at WED sixpence apiece - the price of a packet of cigarettes. It WED was an idea which came to him when, returning from visiting WED Agatha Christie in the West Country, he could find nothing WED worth reading on the Exeter railway station bookstall. WED WED Allen Lane's brainwave - the Penguin - was the biggest WED single innovation in books of the twentieth century. WED Households across Britain began sprouting those colour-coded WED spines. Lane's Penguin books revolutionised publishing and WED changed people's lives. WED WED Allen Lane's populist instincts told him that post-war WED Britain was hungry for knowledge. Central to post-war WED renewal, Penguin titles eventually sold 250 million copies. WED But he never dumbed down. His Pelican titles, specially WED commissioned non-fiction, became an informal university for WED 1950s Britons. Pelicans, said Lane, were "another form of WED education for people like me who left school at sixteen." WED WED Lane was a great innovator and a great risk taker. In 1960 WED he took the biggest risk of all by publishing the infamous WED 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', which had become almost a byword WED for pornography. In publishing the novel, Lane deliberately WED risked prosecution. WED WED Penguin, that jaunty little bird from the twentieth century, WED survives in the new century, still one of the most WED recognised publishing brands in the English-speaking world. WED WED Robert McCrum meets Allen Lane's daughters, as well as WED experts in literature and publishing, to discuss the man who WED brought books to the mass market. WED WED Producer: Melissa Fitzgerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04b60k8 (Listen) WED Deep, Episode 3 WED WED James Nestor's "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What WED the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves", explores the human WED relationship with the deep sea, following extreme athletes, WED adventurers and scientists who risk life and limb to dive WED deeper than anyone before. What they discover is weird and WED wondrous, and in many cases redefines our understanding of WED biology - ours, and the sea's. WED WED Deep begins at the surface and then plunges ever deeper into WED the unknown - until we are at 35,797 feet below sea level: WED the lowest point on earth. "Freedivers" come to the ocean to WED redefine the limits of the human body, swimming up to 400 WED feet below the surface for minutes at a time in a single WED breath. WED WED Nestor learns how to stay underwater for extended periods; WED goes shark-tagging; has a close encounter with sperm whales; WED plunges to 2,500 feet in a DIY submarine; and unveils WED startling facets of human physiology - most notably the WED extraordinary life-preserving reflexes known as the Master WED Switch of Life. WED WED Abridged and produced by Pippa Vaughan. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Pippa Vaughan WED Abridger: Pippa Vaughan WED Writer: James Nestor WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b049z14m (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b049z14p (Listen) WED The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 3 WED WED The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Ep.3/5 WED by Esther Wilson WED New series of award winning 15' drama about a young married WED couple with learning disabilities, starring Donna Lavin and WED Edmund Davies, actors with learning disabilities. Based on WED true stories and created in part through improvisation. WED Darleen's left Jamie and moved to the countryside to a WED village created solely for adults with learning WED disabilities. She's stressing about the country sounds and WED Jamie's stressing about his mother-in-law who's moved into WED his flat. WED WED Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED Credits WED Darleen Fyles: Donna Lavin WED Jamie: Edmund Davies WED Treena: Siobhan Finneran WED Bob: Stephen Chapman WED Stacy: Ashley Ogden WED Jilly: Ruth Piggott WED Scott: Byron Konizi WED Director: Pauline Harris WED Producer: Pauline Harris WED Writer: Esther Wilson WED WED 11:00 The Georgians: Restraint, Revolution and Reform WED b049z4ww (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Amanda Foreman examines the formative years of British WED politics when the most important structures of British life WED - still valued and recognised today - were established in WED the shadow of revolution. WED WED Amanda invites us to enter the world of the political elite WED in London's luxurious St James' Square. Here, political WED heavyweights would gather for a season debating and defining WED British politics. Against a backdrop of decadence, they went WED about the serious business of crafting the structures of WED politics and society so familiar to us in the 21st Century. WED WED The Georgians continuously tested where true power lay - in WED the Monarchy, or in Parliament. At Buckingham Palace with WED the keeper of the Queen's pictures, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, WED Amanda discovers how a monarchy imported from Hanover styled WED themselves as a constitutional monarchy that showed WED deference to the structures of British politics. WED WED But this wasn't just a power play by ambitious politicians, WED it was part of a reforming attitude exemplified by calls to WED reform Parliament and make it more representative of the WED people. No 18th century figure embodied the development of WED this political modernity more than Edmund Burke, the Irish WED philosopher and politician, who Amanda encounters with MP WED Jesse Norman. WED WED The struggle for power was a struggle for control of the WED people, made more pressing in a climate of fear as WED revolution took hold across the channel in France. But, as WED Amanda shows, local-level politics in Georgian Britain was a WED type of 'soft power' that eased tensions. WED WED Producer: Katherine Godfrey WED A Whistledown production for Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01kksr2 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Break-Up WED WED Marcella Evaristi's sly take on contemporary parenting looks WED at a divorced North London family through the prism of two WED go-betweening siblings. WED WED This week, Lucy prepares to dazzle the world with her WED Rihanna-influenced take on the part of Nancy in the school WED production of Oliver! - but her mum, armed with a new WED parenting manual, prepares to do battle with her daughter's WED impermeable belief in her own genius. Meanwhile, son Tom is WED appalled by his hated fictional alter ego, cutesy Georgie. WED Maybe if he garrottes his mother's puppet version of WED himself, she'll get the hint? Dad is determined to steer him WED away from the merchandise and takes him to see a wrestling WED match instead. WED WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Joe: Mark Bonnar WED Mimi: Sarah Alexander WED Tom: Finlay Christie WED Lucy: Phoebe Abbott WED Helen: Tracy-Ann Oberman WED Katy: Ophelia Davidson WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED Writer: Marcella Evaristi WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b049z4x0 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b049z4x2 (Listen) WED Charity's New Mission?: Do More, Say Less WED WED Gagging clauses, threats of closure and self-censorship WED imposed through fear of losing funding - John Waite WED investigates claims by leading figures in the charity sector WED that they are being silenced. He hears of a "chilling WED effect" as voluntary organisations fear for their future if WED they dare to speak out about local or central government WED policy. Others, however, tell John that more needs to be WED done to limit political campaigning and that charities need WED to concentrate more on helping directly, those in need. WED WED Assistant Producer: Natalie Goldwater WED Producer: Joe Kent WED Editor: Andrew Smith. WED WED 13:00 World at One b049z4x4 (Listen) WED Edward Stourton presents national and international news. WED WED 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b049z4x6 (Listen) WED Pressed Plants and Possibilities WED WED The Victorians realised that preserving the structural WED features of a plant was essential to classifying it, placing WED it on a plant family tree and building up an overall WED understanding of the relationships between plants. Central WED to this was the herbarium - a collection of dried plants WED documented, pressed and mounted onto identical sheets of WED paper. Kathy Willis examines the genesis of this process at WED Kew which plays host today to over 7 million specimens, and WED is now one of a network of herbaria around the world. WED WED If you want to know what a plant is, the herbarium is where WED you come. But how was the Kew collection established? Kathy WED Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby on the influence of WED William Jackson Hooker whose private plant collection forms WED the basis of the collection. WED WED Historian Anne Secord of Cambridge University examines the WED delicate relationship between artisan collectors in the WED field and gentlemen botanists which defied the rigid social WED divide to enable specimens to be gathered from far afield to WED advance botanical knowledge. WED WED Kathy Willis learns from Kew botanist, Bill Baker, how WED patterns now emerge in the herbarium that enable changing WED patterns of plant behaviour from flowering times to plant WED distribution to feed into wider questions about the effect WED of changing climate and land use. WED WED And in an age when the Empire was aiming to show everything WED to its best advantage researcher Caroline Cornish reveals WED how plants could be effectively displayed to a curious WED Victorian public through Britain's first Museum of Economic WED Botany. WED WED Producer: Adrian Washbourne WED WED Presenter: KATHY WILLIS is director of science at Royal WED Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor of long-term WED ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford WED University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 WED years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation WED at Oxford and Cambridge. WED The View from Kew: The Plant Family Tree - how we map the WED relationship between plants WED Gardeners' Question Time WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Kathy Willis WED Interviewed Guest: William Baker WED Interviewed Guest: Jim Endersby WED Interviewed Guest: David Simpson WED Interviewed Guest: Anne Secord WED Interviewed Guest: Caroline Cornish WED Production Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy WED Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie WED Producer: Adrian Washbourne WED Editor: Deborah Cohen WED WED 14:00 The Archers b049yqzd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b049z7x1 (Listen) WED Hatch, Match and Dispatch, Nine Lives WED WED By Anna Maria Murphy WED WED Isn't it strange that the registering of life's important WED moments happen in a sterile municipal office? Everyone's got WED a story as to how they got there. WED WED The fifth in a series of six quirky plays that start in a WED Register Office and end in a birth, marriage or death. WED WED Beth's elderly father Patrick has a lifetime's worth of WED stories, and Beth knows them so well she almost feels as if WED she's lived them herself. But one story she finds hard to WED believe - Patrick claims that he was never born. That he's WED lived forever. As Beth tries to untangle the truth of her WED father's birth, she uncovers an unexpected family secret. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Beth: Eiry Thomas WED Patrick: Peter Marinker WED Bill: Christian Patterson WED Mrs Knowles: Sharon Morgan WED Miriam: Eirlys Bellin WED Janet: Eirlys Bellin WED Reg: Matthew Gravelle WED Harold: Matthew Gravelle WED Director: James Robinson WED Writer: Anna Maria Murphy WED WED 15:00 Money Box b04bmx4f (Listen) WED Ghost payments, overdraft charges, stocks and shares WED transfer problems and insurance comparison sites WED WED Ghost payments: We hear from a listener who paid nearly WED £2,000 for flights and found that another £2,000 had been WED frozen in his account at the request of the airline which WED plunged his account into the red and left him with cheques WED and payments bouncing. We've heard of similar online horror WED stories involving supermarkets, department stories and WED holiday firms. Why do some online retailers 'ring fence' or WED 'reserve' extra money when you make an order? WED WED Overdrafts: As rules are announced this week to cap pay day WED loans listeners ask why bank overdraft fees are not subject WED to a cap. This comes at a time when several high street WED lenders have changed or are changing their fees which WED listeners say are costing them much more. We compare WED arranged overdraft charges and talk to Dan Plant from WED Moneysupermarket. WED WED Money in limbo: One city insider described it as the WED Financial Industry's 'dirty secret'. We investigate who is WED to blame for delays which are holding up transfers of stocks WED and shares investments speaking to Mark Polson founder of WED the lang cat and Jason Hollands, Managing Director of WED Bestinvest. WED WED Insurance Comparisons: The FCA said this week that some WED insurance comparison sites of failing their customers. The WED report said that there was too much focus on price without WED telling consumers about other policy details and that in WED some cases the sites were not meeting regulatory standards. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Pennells. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b049yqzn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b049z7x7 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b049z7x9 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 16:55 1914: Day by Day b049z7xc (Listen) WED 23rd July WED WED Austria-Hungary delivers the ultimatum to Serbia. WED WED Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the WED First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper WED accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals WED from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a WED picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the WED time. WED WED The series tracks the development of the European crisis day WED by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand WED through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the WED war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world WED in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the WED sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the WED suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for WED women. WED WED Margaret Macmillan is Professor of International History at WED Oxford University. WED WED Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, WED Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak, WED Jane Whittenshaw WED WED Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore WED WED Producer: Russell Finch WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b049z7xf (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b049xc9n (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 It's a Fair Cop b049z7xh (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Alfie Moore invites his audience to be police officers for WED one night as he takes them though a scenario based on a WED real-life case and asks them 'What would you have done?' WED WED Presented and written by Alfie Moore WED Script editor, Will Ing WED Producer, Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Alfie Moore WED Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith WED Writer: Alfie Moore WED WED 19:00 The Archers b049z7xk (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04b1v8n (Listen) WED Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film, media and music. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Samira Ahmed WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b049z14p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04b1v8q (Listen) WED Michael Buerk presents combative, provocative and engaging WED debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04b1v8s (Listen) WED Series 4, Rupert Goodwins WED WED Technology writer Rupert Goodwins was an early user of WED internet message boards which he idealistically thought WED would bring the world closer together. WED The truth hit him when he waded into a forum debating WED creationism and ended up being attacked by both sides. WED He argues that the fundamental problem of incivility on the WED internet has never gone away - in fact it has got much, much WED worse. WED Four Thought is a series of thought-provoking talks in which WED speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests WED and passions that affect culture and society in front of a WED live audience. WED Presenter: Ben Hammersley WED Producers: Mike Wendling and Smita Patel. WED WED 21:00 Into the Abyss b04b1v8v (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED The deep ocean contains extraordinary ecosystems, full of WED life forms found nowhere else on the planet. Some of those WED same habitats are unusually rich in valuable minerals. Could WED we and should we mine them? WED WED Hydrothermal vent systems are one of the deep ocean habitats WED which have gained the interest of mining concerns. WED Volcanically-heated water gushes from the sea floor. The WED chemically-charged water sustains unique ecosystems, the WED like of which aren't seen anywhere else on Earth. There are WED gigantic worms and clams which are nourished by bacteria WED within their tissues - the bacteria themselves are fuelled WED by chemicals in the water, in the way plants on the surface WED use light. There are vast swarms of blind, heat-guided WED shrimps. WED WED The superheated waters are also rich in metals such as WED copper, silver and gold which crystallise when the hot water WED meets the cold ocean. Great chimneys of metallic ores and WED rock form in this process. The concentration of metals is WED typically much higher than those of terrestrial ore WED deposits. Mining companies are keen to exploit them if the WED costs of extracting them from deep beneath the waves are WED favourable. Given growing demand for metals from the WED industrialising nations such as China and India, the WED corporations believe the profits are set to outweigh the WED costs. Underwater robotic bulldozers and monster sized WED vacuum cleaners are ready for their first deployments and WED operations. WED WED Many marine biologists view these prospects with alarm. The WED impact of mining on hydrothermal vents and other WED mineral-rich deep sea habitats will destroy life in the WED immediate extraction areas and may cause unknown kinds and WED scales of damage down current and distant from mining areas. WED The pace of life and its rate of recovery is notoriously WED slow in the deep ocean. Biodiversity in this realm has WED barely been documented and studied. WED WED Should we be damaging tracts of the ocean bed before we know WED what's there and what the wider consequences will be? On the WED other hand, might industrial mining deep under water be WED preferable environmentally and socially to mining on land WED where there are people as well as animals? WED WED Rebecca Morelle and David Shukman of BBC News investigate. WED WED 21:30 The Long View b049z14k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b049xc9w (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04b1v8x (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04b3v10 (Listen) WED The Miniaturist, Episode 3 WED WED THE MINIATURIST by Jessie Burton WED WED Read by Emilia Fox WED WED On a cold autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella WED Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife WED of the Dutch East India Company's most successful merchant WED trader : Johannes Brandt. But her lavishly furnished new WED home is not welcoming, and its inhabitants seem preoccupied WED with their own secrets. Johannes is kind yet distant, always WED locked in his study or at his warehouse office which leaves WED Nella isolated in the grand house on the canal with his WED sister, the sharp-tongued Marin and Otto and Cornelia their WED servants as company. WED WED Nella's world changes when Johannes presents her with an WED extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their WED home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a WED miniaturist, an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny and WED intricate creations mirror their real-life counterparts in WED eerie and unexpected ways. WED WED But as she starts to receive unexpected and unasked for WED items for her 'toy house' Nella becomes aware that the WED Brandt household contains unusual secrets and she begins to WED understand - and fear- the escalating dangers that await WED them all. In this repressively pious society conformity is WED all. Neighbours are encouraged to spy on each other, WED excavating 'the canker' of sin. The packages from the WED mysterious miniaturist begin to reveal chillingly prophetic WED objects but Nella remains at a loss as to what they all WED mean. WED WED Ep3. The unlooked for package from the miniaturist has WED unnerved Nella, but she can't help but be seduced by the WED intricate craftsmanship. WED WED Producer: JILL WATERS WED Abridged by Isobel Creed and directed by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Emilia Fox WED Producer: Jill Waters WED Director: Jill Waters WED Abridger: Isobel Creed WED Author: Jessie Burton WED WED 23:00 Tina C's Commonwealth of Nations: The Empire Strikes WED Back b04b1v8z (Listen) WED Country music legend Tina C - multi-Grammy award-winner, WED global peace icon, and US troops pin-up in warzones WED worldwide - is the living embodiment (and what a body) of WED soft power. WED WED Fresh from the Commonwealth Games' spectacular opening WED ceremony, Tina guides a Glasgow audience through her own WED unique take on the Commonwealth, and why she should be in WED it. Expect great songs, laughs, and a look at something WED you've known about all your life from a completely different WED perspective. Including special guests, obscure facts, and WED power ballads to bring us all together where ideology has WED failed. Written and performed by Christopher Green. WED WED "Christopher Green's Tina C is one of the great comic WED creations of the age. A genuinely fine country singer, but WED with a twist of satire and insight which is rare and to be WED highly prized." - Stephen Fry WED WED "To misconstrue Tina as a comedy act done merely for laughs WED is to miss out on a strategic, highly intelligent brand of WED satire" - The Age, Melbourne WED WED "The political person's Barry Humphries" - The Guardian WED WED "Better politics than Michael Moore, better legs than WED Marlene Dietrich" - New Zealand Herald WED WED "Christopher Green....Part politician, part shaman, part WED sociologist, part healer, but you'll happily only focus on WED the fact that he's an entertainer" The Guardian WED WED Producer: Jonquil Panting. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04b1v91 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED 23:55 The Listening Project b04b2485 (Listen) WED Allyson and Sarah - Animal Rescue WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between the manager of WED an Animal Rescue centre and a volunteer about what animals WED can do for us, and what we must do for them. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or WED just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 JULY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b049xcbv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04b60k8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b049xcbx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b049xcbz (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b049xcc1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b049xcc3 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brc1t (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04b1zlf (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378x67 (Listen) THU Arctic Skua 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 arctic skua. Arctic Skuas are THU the pirates of the bird world and cash in on the efforts THU other seabirds make to find food. They are elegant birds THU with long angular wings, projecting central tail feathers THU and a hooked bill. The dashing flight of an Arctic Skua as THU it chases a hapless gull is always thrilling to watch. THU THU Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) THU Image courtesy of Mark Sisson (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b04b1zlh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b04b1zlk (Listen) THU Series 10, Organ Donation and Newborn Babies THU THU Organ transplants are one of the triumphs of modern THU medicine. As the field has evolved, views on who can receive THU organs, and who can donate, have changed. THU THU Elizabeth and Kenny are expecting twins. While one baby THU looks healthy, the other has anencephaly, a lethal THU abnormality where the brain fails to develop. Babies with THU this condition either die in the womb, are stillborn or live THU for just seconds, minutes or hours after birth. It's THU possible to terminate the pregnancy of this twin, but the THU procedure could trigger a miscarriage in the healthy one. THU THU The couple decide to continue with the pregnancy of both THU twins - a healthy baby girl and a boy with anencephaly. As THU the pregnancy progresses, it's very emotional for the couple THU knowing that their little boy won't survive. However, they THU are keen to meet both babies and spend whatever precious THU time they might have with their son, before he dies. THU THU Early on in discussions about their son, the obstetrician THU raises the subject of organ donation. Elizabeth and Kenny THU are open to the idea. They feel it could enable some good to THU come out of their son's tragic situation and are keen to THU explore it further. THU THU Retrieving organs from children for transplant is rare, but THU it's particularly unusual from newborn babies. It's unheard THU of in those with anencephaly. THU THU Can Elizabeth and Kenny donate the organs of their newborn THU baby with anencephaly, after its death? To what lengths can THU a team go to enable transplantation to take place? THU THU Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. THU THU Producer: Beth Eastwood. THU THU The Panel THU THU Bobbie Farsides, Professor of Clinical Ethics at Brighton & THU Sussex Medical School and a member of the UK Donation Ethics THU Committee THU THU THU THU Susan Bewley, Professor of Complex Obstetrics at Kings THU College London THU THU THU THU John Wyatt, Emeritus Professor of Neonatology at University THU College London THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04b60rv (Listen) THU Deep, Episode 4 THU THU In "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean THU Tells Us About Ourselves", journalist James Nestor becomes THU enthralled by the extreme sport of freediving - where humans THU plunge many hundreds of feet into the sea without oxygen or THU breathing equipment. Nestor overcomes his initial scepticism THU about this dangerous sport and meditates on our relationship THU to the ocean, which he describes as 'the last truly quiet THU place on Earth.' THU THU We meet scientific adventurers who take us ever deeper when THU they explore Grand Canyon-like chasms no one has ever THU reached (alive) before, where life-forms flourish in 300 THU degree water with absolutely no light. None of it should THU exist, and yet it does. But how? THU THU Abridged and produced by Pippa Vaughan. THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Producer: Pippa Vaughan THU Abridger: Pippa Vaughan THU Writer: James Nestor THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04b1zlm (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04b22h1 (Listen) THU The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 4 THU THU The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Ep.4/5 THU by Esther Wilson THU New series of award winning 15' drama about a young married THU couple with learning disabilities, starring Donna Lavin and THU Edmund Davies, actors with learning disabilities. Based on THU true stories and created in part through improvisation. THU Darleen's left Jamie and moved to the countryside to a THU village created solely for adults with learning THU disabilities. Jamie decides to surprise Darleen and go to THU the commune to declare his love for her. But it all goes THU terribly wrong. THU THU Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Credits THU Darleen Fyles: Donna Lavin THU Jamie: Edmund Davies THU Treena: Siobhan Finneran THU Bob: Stephen Chapman THU Stacey: Ashley Ogden THU Jilly: Ruth Piggott THU Scott: Byron Konizi THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Writer: Esther Wilson THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04csssl (Listen) THU Tornado Hide and Seek THU THU When a twisting funnel drops from the sky with tearing winds THU of up to 500 km/h, what do you do? In Oklahoma, people THU thought they knew the answer. The state is in the heart of THU tornado alley in the USA, where the public is regularly THU drilled on storm awareness. But when the largest storm ever THU recorded formed on the outskirts of Oklahoma City last year, THU people ignored the best advice and nearly died in their THU thousands. Now, officials are nervously watching where the THU next storm will form...and trying to figure what people will THU do when it does. Neal Razzell goes out and about with the THU storm chasers in Oklahoma City. THU THU 11:30 With Great Pleasure b04b22h5 (Listen) THU Neil Stuke at Bristol Food Connections Festival THU THU Neil Stuke, the actor who played Billy Lamb, the Clerk in THU BBC One's Silk, chooses his favourite and funniest pieces of THU writing about food for the audience at the Bristol Food THU Connections Festival. His readers are Miranda Raison and THU Jack Klaff. THU Pieces range from Laurie Lee and Chris Stewart on the THU delights of Spanish cuisine, to Keith Floyd on the joys of THU seafood - and Geoff Dyer on his loathing of the same. THU Provocative lines from PJ O'Rourke, Samuel Pepys on honest THU gluttony, words of wisdom from Clement Freud and DH Lawrence THU describing what he ate on his travels in Italy complete the THU bill of fare. THU Neil Stuke is a keen cook, who was runner-up in Celebrity THU MasterChef. His father was a chef, and Neil himself is a THU passionate food lover. THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Neil Stuke THU Reader: Miranda Raison THU Reader: Jack Klaff THU Producer: Beth O'Dea THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b04b22h7 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b049xcc5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04b22sp (Listen) THU Edward Stourton presents national and international news. THU THU 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04b22yh (Listen) THU Blight on the Landscape THU THU Out of the tragedy of the Irish potato famine was to emerge THU a major new discipline in science - plant pathology. THU Infectious microorganisms would come to be accepted as a THU cause of disease rather than its result. THU THU Kathy Willis hears from Kew's head of mycology, Brin THU Dentinger, on the significance of German botanist Antony de THU Bary's experiments that would lead to a new understanding of THU the causes of potato blight. THU THU Insights into the life cycle and behaviour of fungal spores THU required detailed and repetitive observations. Some of the THU most important insights in the 19th century came from THU children's story writer and natural history illustrator THU Beatrix Potter. Historian Jim Endersby explains how her THU careful observations contributed to the controversial idea THU that many fungi, far from being destructive, live in THU symbiosis with a host of plants. THU THU Kew mycologist Martin Bidatondo studies this relationship THU and we hear how thanks to new technology enabling THU researchers to identify fungal DNA we're on the brink of THU elucidating the real importance of fungi in today's THU ecosystems. THU THU Producer Adrian Washbourne THU THU Presenter: KATHY WILLIS is director of science at Royal THU Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor of long-term THU ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford THU University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 THU years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation THU at Oxford and Cambridge. THU The View from Kew: Fungi THU The Forum: The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi THU The Forum: The 'chemical warfare' of fungi THU The Living World: Fairy Rings THU THU 14:00 The Archers b049z7xk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b016ljhy (Listen) THU No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, A Late Van Just Glimpsed THU THU written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith THU THU Episode One: A Late Van Just Glimpsed THU THU The first of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall Smith's THU enormously successful and popular series set in Botswana. THU THU Mma Ramotswe makes a ghostly sighting and there is THU disturbing news about Charlie, Mr JLB Matekoni's wayward THU apprentice and the ladies investigate unexplained, violent THU attacks on cattle. Meanwhile, preparations are underway for THU Mma Makutsi's wedding to Phuti Radiphuti , but tragedy THU awaits outside the shoe shop. THU THU Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU Credits THU Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict THU Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall THU Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe THU Housekeeper: Janice Acquah THU Woman by Road: Adjoa Andoh THU Shoe Shop Assistant: Adjoa Andoh THU Charlie: Maynard Eziashi THU Mr Moeti: Nyasha Hatendi THU Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith THU Author: Alexander McCall Smith THU Director: Gaynor MacFarlane THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04b24y0 (Listen) THU Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire THU THU How did people live on the land 2,000 years ago, during the THU Iron Age? Helen Mark finds out when she visits Butser THU Ancient Farm near Petersfield in Hampshire, very much a THU living experiment in practical archaeology. THU THU Founded 42 years ago by Peter Reynolds, Helen hears that THU Butser still operates as a kind of laboratory that looks THU into how our ancestors lived. For example, Butser's thatched THU roundhouses are built according to the exact dimensions THU found at digs in the vicinity, along the wooded hills and THU valleys of the South Downs. Butser director Maureen Page THU shows Helen the sheep they keep, which are genetically close THU to those kept by Iron Age farmers. THU THU Experienced thatcher and roundhouse builder, Dave Freeman, THU demonstrates how to lay Norfolk reed as a roofing material. THU However, we hear the reed isn't from Norfolk or anywhere in THU the UK, but from Turkey. This is because our reeds simply THU aren't up to the job, affected by chemical runoff from the THU fields into our waterways. THU THU Meanwhile Butser's resident experimental archaeologist, Ryan THU Watts, shows Helen the canoe he successfully made last THU summer from a fallen oak, hollowing it out with fire, and THU finishing it off with bronze axes that they cast on site. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b049xhfg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b049xtjy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04b26jh (Listen) THU Mark Gatiss THU THU With Matthew Sweet. THU THU Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss reveals the identity of his THU favourite screen detectives in another instalment of his THU series. THU THU Richard Lester reveals which of The Beatles was his THU favourite actor as A Hard Day's Night is released on DVD to THU celebrate its 50th anniversary. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Matthew Sweet THU Interviewed Guest: Mark Gatiss THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04b26jk (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04b26jm (Listen) THU 24th July THU THU Britain and Russia react to Austria-Hungary's ultimatum. THU THU Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the THU First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper THU accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals THU from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a THU picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the THU time. THU THU The series tracks the development of the European crisis day THU by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand THU through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the THU war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world THU in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the THU sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the THU suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for THU women. THU THU Margaret Macmillan is Professor of International History at THU Oxford University. THU THU Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, THU Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak, THU Jane Whittenshaw THU THU Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore THU THU Producer: Russell Finch THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b04b2bvp (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b049xcc7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Sketchorama b047c7x4 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU THU Comedian Thom Tuck presents three groups making their mark THU on the UK sketch comedy scene featuring character, broken THU and musical sketch comedy. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Thom Tuck THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04b2bvr (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04b2bvt (Listen) THU Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, THU literature, film, media and music. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Kirsty Lang THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04b22h1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04b2hzc (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b04bsylz (Listen) THU Recalls THU THU Faulty children's beds, mislabelled horsemeat burgers and THU exploding dishwashers are among the products recalled by THU companies in the UK to protect the health and safety of THU consumers. Evan Davis and guests discuss the process for THU recalling defective items and find out how quickly THU manufacturers and distributors must act. What are the THU logistics of getting back hundreds of thousands of products THU from consumers? And what impact does a recall have on a THU company's reputation? Does it reassure or unnerve customers? THU THU Guests: THU THU Gerard Bos, Customer Relations Manager for UK and Ireland, THU Ikea THU THU Chris Dee, Chief Operating Officer, E.H Booth THU THU Vince Shiers, Managing Director, RQA Global THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04b26jk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Zeitgeisters b040h14h (Listen) THU Series 2, Rem Koolhaas THU THU BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz meets the cultural THU entrepreneurs whose aesthetic sense infects and influences THU our daily lives... who know what we want, even when we do THU not... the men and women whose impact goes beyond mere THU commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. THU THU Programme 2. Rem Koolhaas - the world renowned starchitect THU whose first step in the profession was not to design a THU building, but to write a book. 'Delirious New York', became THU an instant cult hit among avant-garde hipsters... but also THU became his own manifesto that has shaped his work and that THU of many others for over thirty years. Now though, as he THU launches his directorship of this year's Venice Architecture THU Biennale, he presents a new manifesto - one that takes THU architecture into a new future which also recognises the THU past. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 21:58 Weather b049xcc9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04b2hzh (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04b612c (Listen) THU The Miniaturist, Episode 4 THU THU THE MINIATURIST by Jessie Burton THU THU Read by Emilia Fox THU THU On a cold autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella THU Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife THU of the Dutch East India Company's most successful merchant THU trader : Johannes Brandt. But her lavishly furnished new THU home is not welcoming, and its inhabitants seem preoccupied THU with their own secrets. Johannes is kind yet distant, always THU locked in his study or at his warehouse office which leaves THU Nella isolated in the grand house on the canal with his THU sister, the sharp-tongued Marin and Otto and Cornelia their THU servants as company. THU THU Nella's world changes when Johannes presents her with an THU extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their THU home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a THU miniaturist, an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny and THU intricate creations mirror their real-life counterparts in THU eerie and unexpected ways. THU THU But as she starts to receive unexpected and unasked for THU items for her 'toy house' Nella becomes aware that the THU Brandt household contains unusual secrets and she begins to THU understand - and fear- the escalating dangers that await THU them all. In this repressively pious society conformity is THU all. Neighbours are encouraged to spy on each other, THU excavating 'the canker' of sin. The packages from the THU mysterious miniaturist begin to reveal chillingly prophetic THU objects but Nella remains at a loss as to what they all THU mean. THU THU Ep4. Rejected by her husband Nella continues to feel alone THU in the city, except for the watchful gaze of the strange THU blonde haired woman. THU THU Producer: Jill Waters THU Abridged by Isobel Creed and directed by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Emilia Fox THU Producer: Jill Waters THU Director: Jill Waters THU Abridger: Isobel Creed THU Author: Jessie Burton THU THU 23:00 Don't Make Me Laugh b04b2hzk (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU EP 2 THU THU David Baddiel hosts this brand-new show as Jonathan Ross, THU Richard Herring, Kerry Godliman and Paul Chowdhry go against THU their natural instincts and try not to make an audience THU laugh. THU THU Scorer: Emily Dean THU Producer: Dave Cribb THU A So Television / Fierce Tears production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Performer: Jonathan Ross THU Performer: Richard Herring THU Performer: Kerry Godliman THU Performer: Paul Chowdhry THU Producer: Dave Cribb THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04b2hzm (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU 23:55 The Listening Project b04b24y2 (Listen) THU Ali and Tammi - Our Grandmothers THU THU Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who had THU very different relationships with their grandmothers. One THU worked in a palace, the other ran off to Rio, proving again THU that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. THU THU The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a THU snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the THU UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to THU them about a subject they've never discussed intimately THU before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK THU by teams of producers from local and national radio stations THU who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're THU not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - THU lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key THU moment of connection between the participants. Most of the THU unedited conversations are being archived by the British THU Library and used to build up a collection of voices THU capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade THU of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or THU just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting THU bbc.co.uk/listeningproject THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b049xcd4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04b60rv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b049xcd6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b049xcd8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b049xcdb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b049xcdd (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brc2q (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Canon Simon Doogan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04b2kt3 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378x87 (Listen) FRI Yellow Wagtail 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 yellow wagtail. Arriving in FRI April, Yellow Wagtails are summer visitors to the UK, FRI breeding mostly in the south and east. The Yellow Wagtail FRI has several different races which all winter south of the FRI Sahara and all look slightly different. The birds which FRI breed in the UK are the yellowest of all. FRI FRI Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04b2kwb (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b049xtjk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04b61hh (Listen) FRI Deep, Episode 5 FRI FRI James Nestor's new book, "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science FRI and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves" begins at the FRI surface and then plunges ever deeper into the unknown - FRI until we are at 35,797 feet below sea level: the lowest FRI point on earth. "Freedivers" come to the ocean to redefine FRI the limits of the human body, swimming up to 400 feet below FRI the surface for minutes at a time in a single breath. FRI FRI Nestor introduces us to freedivers who are drawn to the sea FRI for a variety of reasons: some to break records, some to FRI find peace, and some who are scientists, freediving 'because FRI it's the most intimate way to connect with the ocean.' FRI Nestor unveils startling facets of human physiology - most FRI notably the extraordinary life-preserving reflexes known as FRI the Master Switch of Life. FRI FRI And we learn about the old and new life-forms that inhabit FRI our deep oceans - a habitat with the greatest biodiversity FRI on earth, yet most of it remains unknown. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Pippa Vaughan. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Pippa Vaughan FRI Abridger: Pippa Vaughan FRI Writer: James Nestor FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04b2wz8 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04b2wzb (Listen) FRI The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Episode 5 FRI FRI The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles, Ep.5/5 FRI by Esther Wilson FRI New series of award winning 15' drama about a young married FRI couple with learning disabilities, starring Donna Lavin and FRI Edmund Davies, actors with learning disabilities. Comic and FRI heartfelt, the series is based on true stories and created FRI in part through improvisation. Darleen's living in a village FRI created solely for adults with learning disabilities. She's FRI in a dilemma when her young step sister, Stacey, turns up. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Darleen Fyles: Donna Lavin FRI Jamie: Edmund Davies FRI Treena: Siobhan Finneran FRI Bob: Stephen Chapman FRI Stacey: Ashley Ogden FRI Jilly: Ruth Piggott FRI Scott: Byron Konizi FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Writer: Esther Wilson FRI FRI 11:00 The Leadership Gap b04b2wzd (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI In the light of recent problems of leadership in many of our FRI large organisations, public and private, Sir John Tusa, FRI former Head of the BBC World Service and London's Barbican FRI Centre, takes an objective look at the state of leadership FRI in large UK organisations today. FRI FRI He talks to a range of leaders, from one who employs 3000 FRI people to one who employed 1.3 million. He asks how FRI dispersed leadership can really be and when it needs to be FRI focussed in one individual. He explores the difficulties of FRI leading organisations that are enormously complex - often FRI with blurred lines of accountability. And he probes the gaps FRI - in pay, culture and values - that can emerge between FRI leaders and led. FRI FRI Along the way he watches a charismatic lecture in leadership FRI at London Business School, and hears from some of its FRI recipients. He goes with John Timpson CBE to pay surprise FRI visits on the staff of some of his many shops. And he visits FRI a fast-growing young company to find out how they took on FRI specialist leaders to join the founders, and how that has FRI changed the company's culture. FRI FRI With: FRI FRI Lucy Armstrong (The Alchemists) FRI Lord (Tony) Hall (Director-General, BBC) FRI Margaret Hodge MP (Chair, Public Accounts Committee) FRI Sir Andrew Likierman (Dean, London Business School) FRI Tarek Nseir (CEO, TH_NK) FRI Sir David Nicholson (ex-Chief Executive, NHS England) FRI Jesse Norman MP (Treasury Select Committee) FRI Sir Hugh Orde (President, ACPO; former Chief Constable of FRI Northern Ireland) FRI Pat Ritchie (Chief Executive, Newcastle City Council) FRI Sir Stuart Rose (ex-CEO, Marks and Spencer) FRI Dame Nancy Rothwell (Vice-Chancellor, University of FRI Manchester) FRI Sir Martin Sorrell (Chief Executive of WPP) FRI John Timpson CBE (Chair and ex-CEO of Timpsons) FRI FRI PRODUCER: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 11:30 My Teenage Diary b038hghc (Listen) FRI Series 5, Ken Livingstone FRI FRI Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by FRI opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them FRI out in public for the very first time. FRI FRI Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by former London Mayor Ken FRI Livingstone. Ken reads from his 1966 diary, when he hitched FRI across the Sahara, adopted an incontinent ostrich called FRI Horace, and ate a venomous snake. FRI FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Rufus Hound FRI Interviewed Guest: Ken Livingstone FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b04b2wzg (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b04b2wzj (Listen) FRI Eugene and Margaret - Bread for Africa FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a couple who anticipated a quiet FRI retirement before a visit to Tanzania made them determined FRI to remedy the endemic starvation they saw by setting up a FRI bakery. Last year no-one starved in Ifakara. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b049xcdg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04b2wzl (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI FRI 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04b2wzn (Listen) FRI Lumping and Splitting FRI FRI By 1850 identifying and classifying plants had become far FRI more important than mere list making. Establishing the FRI global laws of botany - what grew where and why - occupied FRI the well travelled naturalist Joseph Hooker - son of Kew's FRI director William Hooker and close friend of Charles Darwin. FRI Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby on how Hooker FRI was to acquire species from all over the world to build up FRI the first accurate maps of the world's flora. FRI FRI Mark Nesbitt, curator of Kew's economic botany collection, FRI reveals how gifts to Hooker in the collection reveal the FRI relationship between the amateur collector in the field and FRI Hooker back at Kew was one built on trust and mutual FRI understanding. FRI FRI But, as Jim Endersby explains, the relationships were FRI frought with tension when it came to naming new plants. FRI Arguments between those claiming they had found new species FRI (often called "splitters") versus cautious botanists, such FRI as Hooker, who would often "lump" together species as FRI variants of the same, raised new debates about what FRI constitutes a new species. And as Mark Chase, Keeper of FRI Kew's Jodrell Laboratory reveals, the arguments continue FRI today. FRI FRI Producer: Adrian Washbourne FRI FRI Presenter: KATHY WILLIS is director of science at Royal FRI Botanic Gardens at Kew. She is also professor of long-term FRI ecology and a fellow of Merton College, both at Oxford FRI University. Winner of several awards, she has spent over 20 FRI years researching and teaching biodiversity and conservation FRI at Oxford and Cambridge. FRI The View from Kew: Joseph Hooker, biography of the famous FRI explorer, botanist and friend of Darwin FRI In Our Time: Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle FRI Dear Darwin FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04b2bvr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b016lkgj (Listen) FRI No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Saturday Big Tent FRI Wedding FRI FRI written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith FRI FRI Episode Two: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding FRI FRI The second of two plays adapted from Alexander McCall FRI Smith's enormously successful and popular series set in FRI Botswana. FRI FRI The ladies solve the case of the murdered cattle. Mma FRI Makutsi is feeling anxious about her upcoming wedding to FRI Phuti Radiphuti and an old friend comes to the rescue. And FRI Charlie is let off the hook. FRI FRI Director: Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict FRI Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall FRI Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe FRI Housekeeper: Janice Acquah FRI Mma Potokwani: Janice Acquah FRI Maid: Adjoa Andoh FRI Charlie: Maynard Eziashi FRI Teacher: Maynard Eziashi FRI Mr Moeti: Nyasha Hatendi FRI Fortitude Seleo: Obi Abili FRI Priest: Obi Abili FRI Mpho: Beru Tessema FRI Phuti Radiphuti: Jude Akuwudike FRI Prudence: Gbemisola Ikumelo FRI Adaptor: Alexander McCall Smith FRI Author: Alexander McCall Smith FRI Director: Gaynor MacFarlane FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04b2wzs (Listen) FRI Chester Zoo FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Chester Zoo. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Stories from the Southern Cross b04b2wzv (Listen) FRI The Mare's Nest FRI FRI Stories from the Southern Cross consists of three new pieces FRI of writing produced in collaboration with the first FRI Australia New Zealand Literature Festival. Each story FRI represents a new voice from the Antipodes - a place at once FRI very familiar, but in fact quite different. FRI FRI The series depicts a world of aggressive ennui, of suburban FRI sprawl battling with a voracious bush and extreme weather, FRI of taboos and generations colliding as old, White Australia FRI comes to terms with another generation of migration. FRI FRI The second of these three stories is Chris Womersley's The FRI Mare's Nest, in which the narrator remembers his father's FRI psychological disintegration, making him anything but the FRI epitome of the Australian male - the bloke. The father's FRI delusions were fuelled by a very real and extraordinary FRI landscape, by myth and recent history, and by his own FRI father's suicide which - in a culture of denial - becomes FRI his 'disappearance'. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: David Roper FRI Writer: Chris Womersley FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04b2wzx (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04b2wzz (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04b2x01 (Listen) FRI 25th July FRI FRI Serbia responds to the ultimatum. FRI FRI Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the FRI First world war. Each episode draws together newspaper FRI accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals FRI from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a FRI picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the FRI time. FRI FRI The series tracks the development of the European crisis day FRI by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand FRI through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the FRI war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world FRI in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the FRI sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the FRI suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for FRI women. FRI FRI Margaret Macmillan is Professor of International History at FRI Oxford University. FRI FRI Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, FRI Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak, FRI Jane Whittenshaw FRI FRI Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04b2x03 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b049xcdj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b04b2x05 (Listen) FRI Series 84, Episode 8 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest FRI panellists Susan Calman, Andy Hamilton and Katherine Ryan. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Sandi Toksvig FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Susan Calman FRI Panellist: Andy Hamilton FRI Panellist: Katherine Ryan FRI Producer: Lyndsay Fenner FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04b2x07 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Tim Stimpson FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Mr Pinnock: Andrew Frame FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04b2x09 (Listen) FRI Live daily magazine programme on the worlds of arts, FRI literature, film, media and music. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Kirsty Lang FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04b2wzb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04b30m3 (Listen) FRI Greg Dyke, Dan Hannan MEP, Susan Kramer MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from St James' Church in Emsworth, Hampshire, with Chairman FRI of the Football Association Greg Dyke and Conservative MEP FRI Dan Hannan and Transport Minister Susan Kramer MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04b30m5 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b03ccz12 (Listen) FRI The Confessions of Caminada FRI FRI The Confessions of Caminada by Christopher Reason FRI Jerome Caminada was a real life detective in nineteenth FRI century Manchester. This drama is based on a real life case FRI from his memoirs. It is 1889 and eighteen year old Charlie FRI Parton has been convicted of murder of a respected local FRI councillor. He faces execution but prominent social FRI campaigner Mrs Annie Swinton knows the lad and refuses to FRI believe he is guilty. FRI FRI Caminada................................George Costigan FRI Annie Swinton..........................Julia Ford FRI Father Dermot/Bannister..........Russell Dixon FRI Fletcher/Wood..........................Jonathan Keeble FRI Moods.......................................Justin Moorhouse FRI Charlie......................................Oliver Lee FRI Producer/Director Gary Brown FRI FRI Manchester is gripped by an economic depression, the FRI political atmosphere is febrile, there are demonstrations on FRI the streets and crime is spiralling. Only this isn't 2013, FRI it's the 1880s and the man keeping chaos at bay is Detective FRI Inspector JEROME CAMINADA. Combining high principles with FRI low cunning, he cracks down on both political dissent and FRI criminality with single-minded ruthlessness. And yet for all FRI his hard nosed pragmatism, he is capable of moments of FRI insight, humour and compassion. The man is an enigma. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jerome Caminada: George Costigan FRI Annie Swinton: Julia Ford FRI Father Dermot: Russell Dixon FRI Bannister: Russell Dixon FRI Fletcher: Jonathan Keeble FRI Wood: Jonathan Keeble FRI Moods: Justin Moorhouse FRI Charlie: Oliver Lee FRI Writer: Christopher Reason FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b049xcdl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04b30m7 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04b61hk (Listen) FRI The Miniaturist, Episode 5 FRI FRI THE MINIATURIST by Jessie Burton FRI FRI Read by Emilia Fox FRI FRI On a cold autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella FRI Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife FRI of the Dutch East India Company's most successful merchant FRI trader : Johannes Brandt. But her lavishly furnished new FRI home is not welcoming, and its inhabitants seem preoccupied FRI with their own secrets. Johannes is kind yet distant, always FRI locked in his study or at his warehouse office which leaves FRI Nella isolated in the grand house on the canal with his FRI sister, the sharp-tongued Marin and Otto and Cornelia their FRI servants as company. FRI FRI Nella's world changes when Johannes presents her with an FRI extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their FRI home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a FRI miniaturist, an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny and FRI intricate creations mirror their real-life counterparts in FRI eerie and unexpected ways. FRI FRI But as she starts to receive unexpected and unasked for FRI items for her 'toy house' Nella becomes aware that the FRI Brandt household contains unusual secrets and she begins to FRI understand - and fear- the escalating dangers that await FRI them all. In this repressively pious society conformity is FRI all. Neighbours are encouraged to spy on each other, FRI excavating 'the canker' of sin. The packages from the FRI mysterious miniaturist begin to reveal chillingly prophetic FRI objects but Nella remains at a loss as to what they all FRI mean. FRI FRI Ep5. Prompted by the jibes of Agnes Meermans, Nella decided FRI to pay a visit to her husband at the offices of the Dutch FRI East India Company. FRI FRI Producer: JILL WATERS FRI Abridged by Isobel Creed and directed by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Emilia Fox FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI Director: Jill Waters FRI Abridger: Isobel Creed FRI Author: Jessie Burton FRI FRI 23:00 Summer Nights b04b30m9 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI FRI Presenter: Jane Garvey FRI Series Producer: Ruth Watts FRI Producer: Jane Thurlow. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04b30mc (Listen) FRI Gill and Paul - Marriage and MSA FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a woman dying from FRI Multiple System Atrophy and her husband; they find they must FRI dismiss the future they wanted and accept the one they have, FRI proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI