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SAT SATURDAY 26 JULY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04b2kns (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04b61hh (Listen) SAT Deep, Episode 5 SAT SAT James Nestor's new book, "Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science SAT and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves" begins at the SAT surface and then plunges ever deeper into the unknown - SAT until we are at 35,797 feet below sea level: the lowest SAT point on earth. "Freedivers" come to the ocean to redefine SAT the limits of the human body, swimming up to 400 feet below SAT the surface for minutes at a time in a single breath. SAT SAT Nestor introduces us to freedivers who are drawn to the sea SAT for a variety of reasons: some to break records, some to SAT find peace, and some who are scientists, freediving 'because SAT it's the most intimate way to connect with the ocean.' SAT Nestor unveils startling facets of human physiology - most SAT notably the extraordinary life-preserving reflexes known as SAT the Master Switch of Life. SAT SAT And we learn about the old and new life-forms that inhabit SAT our deep oceans - a habitat with the greatest biodiversity SAT on earth, yet most of it remains unknown. SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Pippa Vaughan. SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Pippa Vaughan SAT Abridger: Pippa Vaughan SAT Writer: James Nestor SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04b2knv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04b2knz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04b2kp3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04b2kp5 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04b30q2 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison SAT Murdoch. SAT SAT Alison Murdoch SAT SAT Good Morning. SAT "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SAT SAT A well-known coffee company has just put up a billboard at SAT the end of my street. Brightly coloured and six foot high, SAT it proclaims in giant letters “get today on your side!” My SAT first response was, what a good idea, a cappuccino would SAT really hit the spot. Just what the ad-man intended. Then I SAT noticed that someone had defaced the billboard with a SAT sticker bearing a phone number and the simple word SAT ‘massage!’ Hmmm – now there’s a choice… SAT SAT How wonderful if life was as simple as that. Imagine if all SAT the things that we’re encouraged to consume, whether coffee, SAT intimate massage, clothes, gadgets or cars, could genuinely SAT deliver the happiness and contentment that we seek. In that SAT case, it would make sense that we rush around like ants, SAT earning money and taking out loans in search of an SAT ever-higher standard of living. And the happiest people in SAT society would be the rich and famous, with celebrity SAT magazines full of stories of harmony and contentment instead SAT of drinking, dieting and break-ups. SAT SAT Instead, all the evidence is that material objects can’t and SAT don’t deliver what they promise. So it’s a puzzle to me how SAT I still continue to be so distracted by them, and to SAT organise my day around them. I know deep down that happiness SAT comes from things that money can’t buy, such as loving SAT relationships, doing someone a good turn, or suddenly seeing SAT something of beauty. However I seem to need constant SAT reminders that qualities such as kindness, generosity and SAT contentment are more important than what’s up there on the SAT billboards. That’s why I’m so grateful to Buddhism and to SAT the other spiritual traditions, which offer a still small SAT voice of calm among so much noise and madness. SAT SAT Let’s pray that each of us can revisit our priorities today, SAT and make careful choices about how we spend our precious SAT energy and time. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04b30q4 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04b2kp9 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04b2kpc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04b24y0 (Listen) SAT Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire SAT SAT How did people live on the land 2,000 years ago, during the SAT Iron Age? Helen Mark finds out when she visits Butser SAT Ancient Farm near Petersfield in Hampshire, very much a SAT living experiment in practical archaeology. SAT SAT Founded 42 years ago by Peter Reynolds, Helen hears that SAT Butser still operates as a kind of laboratory that looks SAT into how our ancestors lived. For example, Butser's thatched SAT roundhouses are built according to the exact dimensions SAT found at digs in the vicinity, along the wooded hills and SAT valleys of the South Downs. Butser director Maureen Page SAT shows Helen the sheep they keep, which are genetically close SAT to those kept by Iron Age farmers. SAT SAT Experienced thatcher and roundhouse builder, Dave Freeman, SAT demonstrates how to lay Norfolk reed as a roofing material. SAT However, we hear the reed isn't from Norfolk or anywhere in SAT the UK, but from Turkey. This is because our reeds simply SAT aren't up to the job, affected by chemical runoff from the SAT fields into our waterways. SAT SAT Meanwhile Butser's resident experimental archaeologist, Ryan SAT Watts, shows Helen the canoe he successfully made last SAT summer from a fallen oak, hollowing it out with fire, and SAT finishing it off with bronze axes that they cast on site. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04bj7pc (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04b2kpf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04bj7pf (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 b04bj7ph (Listen) SAT Special Programme from Glasgow SAT SAT Your extraordinary stories from across the Commonwealth - SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles present a special programme SAT from Glasgow. SAT SAT Produced by Alex Lewis. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b04bj7pk (Listen) SAT Series 7, The Case of the MP Who Vanished SAT SAT Steve Punt turns private investigator and examines the SAT curious case of the socialist MP Victor Grayson who vanished SAT into thin air! SAT SAT Firebrand politician, champion of the mill workers, scion of SAT the establishment, fancy dresser, hard drinker, man about SAT town. Victor Grayson was many things when he erupted onto SAT the public stage in 1907 as the first and last independent SAT socialist MP, aged 26. However this shooting star SAT disappeared from sight in 1920, under mysterious SAT circumstances, with no confirmed sightings after that. SAT SAT Punt P.I. sets out on a trail through Yorkshire valleys, SAT dusty archives and seedy Soho to pick up clues to Victor's SAT disappearance. SAT SAT Producer Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT Punt PI and Mike Shaw SAT SAT Punt PI and Mike Shaw outside the Marsden Socialist Club, SAT trying to piece together the mysterious case of Victor SAT Grayson. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b04bj7pt (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent consults fellow presenters SAT of 'The Week in Westminster' about the fortunes and SAT frailties of the main party leaders as MPs break for the SAT summer. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04bj7pw (Listen) SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b04bj7py (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b04b2x05 (Listen) SAT Series 84, Episode 8 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest SAT panellists Susan Calman, Bob Mills and Katherine Ryan. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sandi Toksvig SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Susan Calman SAT Panellist: Bob Mills SAT Panellist: Katherine Ryan SAT Producer: Lyndsay Fenner SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04b2kph (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04b2kpk (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04b30m3 (Listen) SAT Greg Dyke, Dan Hannan MEP, Baroness Kramer, Justine Picardie SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from St James' Church in Emsworth, Hampshire, with Chairman SAT of the Football Association Greg Dyke, Editor of Harper's SAT Bazaar Justine Picardie, Conservative MEP Dan Hannan and SAT Transport Minister Baroness Kramer. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04bj8hs (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 Queens of Noise: Shout to the Top b01mw1n1 (Listen) SAT London, 1988. Three ambitious young women form a band, SAT Velveteens, to take on the world. But is the world ready? SAT Armed with loud guitars, attitude to burn, and a makeshift SAT manager, they are soon taking their first faltering steps SAT into the music industry. SAT SAT Written by two veterans of the business, Roy Boulter and SAT Louise Wener, this is the story of a young band chasing the SAT dream. With actor, singer and comedian Shane Richie as the SAT band's temporary manager, Vince, this drama-with-music SAT charts the life of Velveteens from formation to first gig; SAT from first demo to (hopefully) first record deal. SAT SAT Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Queens of Noise: Shout to the Top (8) SAT SAT Credits SAT Vince: Shane Richie SAT Beth: Fiona Macrae SAT Sylvie: Samantha Robinson SAT Rain: Hannah Arterton SAT Maggie: Liza Sadovy SAT Russ: Ben Crowe SAT David: Adam Nagaitis SAT Journalist: Joe Sims SAT Director: Toby Swift SAT Writer: Roy Boulter SAT Writer: Louise Wener SAT SAT 15:30 Roots Reggae and Rebellion b049yhcz (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Rastafari is Jamaica's most famous export. Alongside Bob SAT Marley - the world's most recognised Rastafarian - this SAT cultural and spiritual movement is the enduring global image SAT of the Caribbean island. For better or worse, the red, green SAT and gold colours, dreadlocks, reggae music and marijuana are SAT all closely associated with Jamaica. But what role has this SAT spiritual movement had in forming Jamaica's soul and SAT identity? SAT Presented by political commentator and educator Kingslee SAT Daley, this series examines how Rastafari turned from an SAT ostracised religious sect into a global phenomenon. Kingslee SAT is better known as Akala, a British poet, rapper and founder SAT of the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company. Born in London he was SAT brought up immersed in Rasta culture by his father. In these SAT two half hour programmes, Akala travels to Jamaica to SAT discover the cultural and sociological significance of his SAT spiritual heritage. SAT Rastafari first came to prominence in 1930s Jamaica, SAT emerging from the civil rights struggle during British SAT colonial rule. It's a complicated synergy of the Old SAT Testament and the teachings of pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey SAT who predicted in the 1920s that "a black king shall be SAT crowned in Africa" ushering in a "day of deliverance." When SAT the Ethiopian prince Ras Tafari - who was also known as SAT Haile Selassie I - became Emperor in 1930, the descendants SAT of slaves in Jamaica took this as proof that Garvey's SAT prophecy had come true. The fact that Selassie was also a SAT pan-Africanist with black empowerment philosophies of his SAT own only further cemented their belief. Many Rastafari SAT believe Selassie to be the second coming of Jesus, a black SAT Christ. But whatever the theologies surrounding Rastafari, SAT its importance for Jamaica and for the Jamaican diaspora has SAT gone way beyond religion. SAT In this first part of the series, Akala uncovers the story SAT of Rastafari and its role in replacing the shackles of SAT colonial rule with a forgotten African identity. At first SAT Rastas were deemed the scourge of society, hounded by both SAT the British and Jamaican authorities. But thanks to an SAT explosion of incredible music in the 1970s, the Rastafari SAT message took over the whole island before spreading around SAT the world. SAT Contributors include writer Sir Salman Rushdie, the Kenyan SAT author and political activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Professor SAT Carolyn Cooper from the University of the West Indies and SAT the residents of the early Rasta camp known as Pinnacle. SAT SAT Music Played SAT SAT Burning Spear SAT People Get Ready SAT Island SAT ILPS 9412 SAT SAT King Tubby SAT SAT and SAT SAT Lee "Scratch" Perry SAT African Roots SAT Fay Music SAT FM 101 SAT SAT The Silvertones SAT African Dub SAT Trojan SAT TRO9013 SAT SAT Yabby U SAT Praises SAT Grove Music SAT GMLP 4 SAT SAT Anthony Johnson SAT Dreadlocks SAT Trojan SAT TJDDD118 SAT SAT Sugar Minott SAT Africa is the Black Man's Home SAT Trojan SAT TJACD210 SAT SAT Bob Marley & The Wailers SAT IRON LION ZION SAT TUFF GONG SAT BMWCD3/-586024-2 SAT SAT Bob Marley & The Wailers SAT RASTA MAN CHANT SAT ISLAND SAT 0602498-233375 SAT SAT Bob Marley & The Wailers SAT Jah Is Mighty SAT Earmark SAT 43023 SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04bj8hv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04bj8hx (Listen) SAT 26th July SAT SAT The British foreign secretary proposes mediation to settle SAT the Balkan crisis. 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 Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, SAT Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak SAT Jane Whittenshaw SAT SAT Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SAT SAT Producer: Russell Finch SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04bj8hz (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b04bsylz (Listen) SAT Recalls SAT SAT Faulty children's beds, mislabelled horsemeat burgers and SAT exploding dishwashers are among the products recalled by SAT companies in the UK to protect the health and safety of SAT consumers. Evan Davis and guests discuss the process for SAT recalling defective items and find out how quickly SAT manufacturers and distributors must act. What are the SAT logistics of getting back hundreds of thousands of products SAT from consumers? And what impact does a recall have on a SAT company's reputation? Does it reassure or unnerve customers? SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Gerard Bos, Customer Relations Manager for UK and Ireland, SAT Ikea SAT SAT Chris Dee, Chief Operating Officer, E.H Booth SAT SAT Vince Shiers, Managing Director, RQA Global SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04b2kpm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04b2kpp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04b2kpr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04bj8j1 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Frank Skinner, Glen Matlock, Sophia Myles, SAT Jess Thom, Scottee, Hercules and Love Affair, The Good Ones SAT SAT Frank Skinner tells Clive about exposing his more SAT sophisticated side, in his Edinburgh Fringe show (and SAT touring) Man In A Suit: actress Sophia Myles (Spooks, Dr SAT Who... ) chats about new film Blackwood, a retro-feel SAT English ghost story to give us the shivers; also heading for SAT the Edinburgh Fringe is Glen Matlock with his Festival debut SAT - a spoken word show documenting his life as a teenage Sex SAT Pistol. And guest interviewer Scottee talks to writer, SAT artist and part-time superhero Jess Thom, who created her SAT Touretteshero show (also part of the Edinburgh Fringe) to SAT celebrate the creative side of the neurological condition SAT that makes her say 'biscuit' 16,000 times a day. With music SAT from Rwandan genocide survivors The Good Ones and from SAT Hercules and Love Affair SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Frank Skinner SAT ‘Man In A Suit’ is at Assembly George Square Theatre, SAT Edinburgh from Friday 1st to Sunday 24th August and then SAT touring. Check Frank’s website for details. SAT Frank’s Absolute Radio show is on Saturday mornings from SAT 08.00 to 11.00. SAT SAT Jess Thom SAT ‘Backstage In Biscuit Land’ is at Pleasance Courtyard, SAT Edinburgh from Friday 1st to Saturday 16th August. SAT SAT Sophia Myles SAT ‘Blackwood’ is showing in UK cinemas from Friday 1st SAT August. SAT SAT SAT Glen Matlock SAT ‘I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol’ is at Assembly, George Square SAT Gardens, Edinburgh from Friday 1st to Wednesday 6th August. SAT SAT The Good Ones SAT ‘Kigali y Izahabu’ is available now on Dead Oceans. SAT SAT Hercules & Love Affair SAT ‘The Feast Of The Broken Heart’ is available now on Moshi SAT Moshi Records. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04bj8j3 (Listen) SAT Mazher Mahmood SAT SAT The so-called "fake sheikh" - investigative journalist SAT Mazher Mahmood - hit the headlines this week after singer SAT Tulisa Contostavlos's drugs trial, which was triggered by SAT one of his newspaper investigations, collapsed. The judge SAT told the court he thought prosecution witness Mahmood had SAT lied in giving evidence. SAT SAT Mahmood has long been a controversial figure. His SAT investigations, many for News of the World, have exposed SAT serious wrongdoing. But he is accused of provoking people to SAT commit criminal acts, in pursuit of a lurid newspaper SAT headline. Edward Stourton presents. SAT SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04bj8j5 (Listen) SAT Medea, Joe, Our World War, DBC Pierre, Imperial War Museum SAT SAT Helen McCrory is playing Medea in a new production at SAT London's National Theatre - it's a new take on the Greek SAT tragedy; how can one make a play written 1700 years ago SAT resonate today? SAT Nicholas Cage's new film Joe is a gritty blue collar tale of SAT poverty and misery in rural Mississippi. It shows his gentle SAT side rather than a raving onslaught; might this be a chance SAT for viewers to reassess the way his acting has been heading? SAT The BBC's commemoration of the centenary of WW1 continues SAT with a series Our World War, which imagines what our view of SAT it would be like if the soldiers had modern recording SAT technology like headcams. SAT DBC Pierre's novel Breakfast With The Borgias is the story SAT of a man isolated in a rather shabby guesthouse desperate SAT trying to contact his girlfriend, who vividly discovers the SAT truth behind Sartre's maxim that "Hell is other people". SAT The Imperial War Museum in London has just reopened after a SAT multi-million pound refit - making major structural changes SAT and opening a new WW1 gallery. Has it been money well spent? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are James Walton, Susan SAT Jeffreys and Kit Davies. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: James Walton SAT Interviewed Guest: Susan Jeffreys SAT Interviewed Guest: Kit Davies SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b03th931 (Listen) SAT How Britain Went to War SAT SAT Peter Hennessy, the leading historian of Whitehall, examines SAT Britain's secret war planning and preparations before 1914, SAT explores the difficulties over the plans within government, SAT and asks what difference the plans made when war came. SAT Drawing on official papers, sound archive, and interviews SAT with historians, Hennessy takes us inside Whitehall during SAT the years before 1914. He discusses what was in the minds of SAT Asquith, his ministers and their officials and top soldiers SAT and sailors, as they prepared for a possible conflict and as SAT they finally took Britain into a major war in August 1914. SAT He explores the tensions between senior military and naval SAT officers, between the Admiralty and the War Office, and SAT within the Cabinet, where ministers resisted state planning, SAT and he shows how the resulting debates and divisions shaped SAT the war plans and influenced their effectiveness. SAT But as he also shows, these years also saw the creation of SAT Britain's first Secret Service Bureau (forerunner of MI5 and SAT MI6) and the first ever 'War Book', a detailed set of SAT instructions for government departments to follow during the SAT transition from peace to war - a vital element of Whitehall SAT planning that has continued ever since. SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b049xtjw (Listen) SAT By a Young Officer: Churchill on the North West Frontier SAT SAT Douglas Booth stars as the young Winston Churchill. The year SAT is 1897 and news is just reaching London that Islamic SAT insurgents are causing havoc in the mountainous border SAT between British India and Afghanistan. SAT SAT Written by Michael Eaton SAT Director: Dirk Maggs SAT SAT Producer: David Morley SAT A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Railway Clerk: Abdullah Afzal SAT Sikh Soldier: Abdullah Afzal SAT Browne-Clayton: Jonathan Bailey SAT Cpt of the 35th: Jonathan Bailey SAT Winston Churchill: Douglas Booth SAT Sir Bindon Blood: Kenneth Cranham SAT Colonel Goldney: Kenneth Cranham SAT Buffs Sergeant: Kenneth Cranham SAT Major Deane: Stephen Critchlow SAT Cole: Stephen Critchlow SAT Hughes: Stephen Critchlow SAT Jennie Churchill: Lorelei King SAT Duchess Lilly: Lorelei King SAT Colonel Ramsey: Toby Longworth SAT Staff Officer: Toby Longworth SAT Auctioneer: Toby Longworth SAT Beresford: Toby Longworth SAT Heckler: Toby Longworth SAT Director: Dirk Maggs SAT Producer: David Morley SAT Writer: Michael Eaton SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04b2kpt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b04b1zlk (Listen) SAT Series 10, Organ Donation and Newborn Babies SAT SAT Organ transplants are one of the triumphs of modern SAT medicine. As the field has evolved, views on who can receive SAT organs, and who can donate, have changed. SAT SAT Elizabeth and Kenny are expecting twins. While one baby SAT looks healthy, the other has anencephaly, a lethal SAT abnormality where the brain fails to develop. Babies with SAT this condition either die in the womb, are stillborn or live SAT for just seconds, minutes or hours after birth. It's SAT possible to terminate the pregnancy of this twin, but the SAT procedure could trigger a miscarriage in the healthy one. SAT SAT The couple decide to continue with the pregnancy of both SAT twins - a healthy baby girl and a boy with anencephaly. As SAT the pregnancy progresses, it's very emotional for the couple SAT knowing that their little boy won't survive. However, they SAT are keen to meet both babies and spend whatever precious SAT time they might have with their son, before he dies. SAT SAT Early on in discussions about their son, the obstetrician SAT raises the subject of organ donation. Elizabeth and Kenny SAT are open to the idea. They feel it could enable some good to SAT come out of their son's tragic situation and are keen to SAT explore it further. SAT SAT Retrieving organs from children for transplant is rare, but SAT it's particularly unusual from newborn babies. It's unheard SAT of in those with anencephaly. SAT SAT Can Elizabeth and Kenny donate the organs of their newborn SAT baby with anencephaly, after its death? To what lengths can SAT a team go to enable transplantation to take place? SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. SAT SAT Producer: Beth Eastwood. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b049y9pd (Listen) SAT (10/12) SAT In what way might a Dickensian cricket match have provided SAT inspiration for Lindisfarne and J.K.Rowling? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe asks the panellists to ponder this, and plenty SAT of other cryptic puzzles, in the latest contest between the SAT North of England and Scotland. Diana Collecott and Adele SAT Geras of the North will be hoping to repeat the defeat they SAT inflicted last time they encountered the Scots, Val McDermid SAT and Roddy Lumsden. Knowledge of music, literature, mythology SAT and popular culture will all be handy in tackling today's SAT batch of convoluted questions. SAT SAT As always, some of the questions have been drawn from the SAT stack of brilliant ideas provided by RBQ listeners in recent SAT months. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Questions in this programme SAT SAT Q1 North of England SAT SAT In what way might a Dickensian cricket match have provided SAT inspiration for Lindisfarne and J.K. Rowling? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q2 Scotland SAT SAT (From John Wilkes) Can you place in the correct order: the SAT blacktop that passes through St Louis, Amarillo and San SAT Bernadino; the speed limit on parts of it; a treat combining SAT flavours of chocolate and vanilla; a German defence against SAT enemy aircraft; and Kookie Byrnes’ place on the Strip? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q3 North of England SAT (Music Question) SAT SAT How and where they might be associated with arrival and SAT departure? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q4 Scotland SAT (Music Question) SAT SAT These three performers might claim kinship with the heroine SAT of a Jane Austen novel: which one? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q5 North of England SAT SAT Where might half an orang-utan and Leontes’s daughter be SAT spotted, along with 99 others? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q6 Scotland SAT SAT To which family could Mrs Thatcher, the enemy of the SAT Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon, and the smallest public monument in SAT Stockholm, all belong? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q7 North of England SAT SAT (From Imogen Thomas) What does the seagull not have that is SAT provided by part of a knight’s equipment, a pair of SAT Babylonian lovers and the description of a naked person? SAT SAT SAT SAT Q8 Scotland SAT SAT (From Richard Condon) Which mythical literary phrase, never SAT actually uttered, might lead to the mythical characters SAT Atlas, Daedalus, Prometheus and Tantalus? SAT SAT SAT SAT Last week's teaser question and answer 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 The place you’d keep your tomatoes is a greenhouse, even SAT though it’s not actually coloured green – and all of the SAT other named individuals live or lived in houses named after SAT colours. SAT SAT Benjamin Britten lived in the Red House at Aldeburgh in SAT Suffolk; Barack Obama lives in the White House; Vincent van SAT Gogh lived in a building in Arles which became the subject SAT of his famous painting ‘La Maison Jaune’ or ‘The Yellow SAT House’; and Mrs Park Geun-Hye is the President of South SAT Korea, and therefore lives in the official presidential SAT residence in Seoul known as the Blue House. SAT SAT This week's teaser question SAT SAT What would make the Sire of a political dynasty, the First SAT Lady of Song, and the arch-chronicler of the Jazz Age, SAT converge on a Killarney sports stadium? 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 SAT SAT 23:30 The Verse That Stings b049xtk0 (Listen) SAT Ian Hislop celebrates the sharp, deflating barbs of SAT Alexander Pope and the 18th Century satirists, 300 years SAT since the publication of The Rape of the Lock. SAT SAT Ian first came across Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and the SAT poems of the 18th Century Scriblerus club at school and SAT later studied them at university. He was struck by these SAT rude, offensive and funny poems about the government, the SAT aristocracy and the machinations of power. SAT SAT As the editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye, Ian SAT views a direct line between his work and Pope's biting SAT satire. Pope and his circle of literary friends debated how SAT offensive their satires should be and whether or not to name SAT and shame subjects. SAT SAT Ian meets Armando Iannucci, the creator of television SAT satires including The Thick Of It and Veep, who compares the SAT rhythms of Alexander Pope's couplets to the comedian's SAT perfect punch line. SAT SAT Ian visits Hampton Court Palace, the setting of the long SAT poem that made Pope's name, The Rape of The Lock. Professor SAT Judith Hawley of Royal Holloway University, helps uncover SAT its true story of a trivial confrontation between two SAT leading Catholics of the time. SAT SAT Professor Edith Hall of Kings College London describes how SAT Pope and the Scriblerians were in awe of Juvenal, Rome's SAT most vitriolic satirist. And Christopher Reid, author of Six SAT Bad Poets a farce in verse about London's literary SAT establishment, explains why some poets are reluctant to SAT write satires today. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Smith SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 JULY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04bj9js (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 The Food of Love b01kjlhr (Listen) SUN The Lovely Miss What's-Her-Face 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 this story, 'The Lovely Miss What's-Her-Face' by Kevin SUN Barry, winner of the 2012 Sunday Times short story award, an SUN insurance clerk of a certain age recreates the exotic SUN spaghetti bolognese he cooked for the lass in the typing SUN pool, on his last romantic date - some 30 years before... SUN SUN Kevin Barry's first novel, 'City of Bohane', was shortlisted SUN for the Costa first novel award, and a previous short story SUN collection, 'There Are Little Kingdoms', won the Rooney SUN prize for Irish Literature. SUN SUN Read by: David Schofield SUN Producer: Justine Willett. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: David Schofield SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Writer: Kevin Barry SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04bj9jv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04bj9jx (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04bj9jz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04bj9k1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04bmd37 (Listen) SUN St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon SUN SUN The bells of St. Mary the Virgin in Bowdon, Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04bj8j3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04bj9k3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04bmd39 (Listen) SUN Translation SUN SUN Mark Tully negotiates the challenges, pitfalls and delights SUN of translating ideas, emotions and even music, into SUN different languages, cultures and forms of expression. SUN SUN In literature, he draws from the writing of Salman Rushdie SUN who regards himself as having been translated from India to SUN the English-speaking world: a physical translation which SUN greatly affects his literary translations of Indian themes. SUN SUN In music, Mark plays variations on, or musical translations SUN of, Paganini's Caprice 24 by artists as diverse as Benny SUN Goodman and Sergei Rachmaninov. SUN SUN And in poetry he borrows the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke SUN who said "Translation is the purest procedure by which SUN poetic skill can be realised"; and of Ted Hughes who wrote SUN that bringing poets together, in translation, gives us hope SUN that the various nations of the world will eventually, "make SUN a working synthesis of their ferocious contradictions". SUN SUN The readers are Polly Frame, John McAndrew and Frank SUN Stirling. SUN SUN The producer is Adam Fowler and it is a Unique production SUN for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b04bmd3c (Listen) SUN Turks and Caicos Islands: The Pygmy Boa Constrictor SUN SUN The Living World is a natural history strand that revels in SUN rich encounter, immersion in the natural world and warm, SUN enthusiastic story telling. SUN SUN As boa constrictors go the Caicos Islands pygmy is unlikely SUN to frighten even the most committed herpetophobe. It may SUN belong to the same family as the South American anaconda, SUN but at 25cm long the pygmy (or dwarf) boa is small enough to SUN be gobbled up by house mice. The island of North Caicos 200 SUN miles east of Cuba is one of the last large undeveloped SUN islands in the Caribbean. Amongst the ruins of a slave SUN plantation a healthy population of pygmy boa is watched over SUN by local naturalist Bryan Naqqi Manco. At dusk in the SUN crumbling plasterwork of the plantation well it's easy to SUN spot the heads of these endemic snakes poking out, waiting SUN patiently for baby frogs and tiny geckos to hop into range. SUN SUN In the first of two programmes from the Turks and Caicos SUN Islands Tom Heap joins Bryan for a night safari. In the SUN tropical dry forest of Wade's Green Plantation they find SUN tailless whip scorpions, contemplate the Milky Way and enjoy SUN the astonishing chorus of katydids and tree frogs. SUN SUN Presented by Tom Heap SUN Produced by Alasdair Cross. SUN SUN Looking for the pgymy (or drawf) boa constrictor SUN SUN Tom Heap (L) with Bryan "Naqqi" Manco (R), a Senior SUN Conservation Officer for the Turks & Caicos National Trust. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04bj9k5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04bj9k7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04bmd3f (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04bmd3h (Listen) SUN The Passage SUN SUN David Dimbleby presents The Radio 4 Appeal for The Passage. SUN The Passage is the operating name of Passage 2000, SUN registered charity number 1079764. SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'The Passage'. SUN SUN The Passage SUN SUN The Passage’s mission is to provide resources which SUN encourage, inspire and challenge homeless people to SUN transform their lives. The Passage is based in London but SUN works with over 2000 individuals each year who arrive here SUN from all over the UK and numerous other countries; it SUN therefore runs projects across London and beyond. It SUN fulfils its mission by providing: homelessness prevention SUN projects; resource centre services; outreach services; SUN hostel accommodation; supported semi-independent SUN accommodation; and community support for formerly homeless SUN people. SUN SUN The Resource Centre SUN SUN The SUN Passage’s Resource Centre provides a range of primary SUN services such as SUN clothing, laundry facilities, showers, food, and health SUN services. SUN SUN Homelessness Prevention SUN SUN As well as SUN working with rough sleepers, The Passage’s staff work with SUN people who are at SUN risk of homelessness and they provide tenancy sustainment SUN support to help SUN people keep their accommodation. SUN SUN Education, Training and Employment SUN SUN 60 people SUN last year found work thanks to The Passage’s Education, SUN Training and Employment SUN services, which also help numerous others to build their SUN skills and prepare for SUN work. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04bj9k9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04bj9kc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04bmd3k (Listen) SUN From the Buxton Festival SUN SUN Festival Mass in St John's Church, Buxton sung to Mozart's SUN Missa Brevis in B flat by the Buxton Madrigal Singers with SUN soloists from the Buxton Festival's Young Artists Programme SUN directed by Michael Williams. The celebrant is the Rector of SUN Buxton, the Revd John Hudghton, and the preacher is Canon SUN Simon Taylor, Chancellor of Derby Cathedral. Organist: Roger SUN Briscoe. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04b30m5 (Listen) SUN Republican or royalist we all need something or someone in SUN which to invest our loyalty. Will Self reflects on what SUN really lies behind our sense of patriotism. In Britain we SUN invest the idea of sovereignty in an individual, namely the SUN Queen - or rather, it is an idealisation of who she is SUN decoupled for the living reality. The Queen, says Will Self, SUN is unfailingly wise, calm, pacific - a true mother of the SUN nation; and if her Government happens to do things that are SUN at variance with her goodliness, that is only because their SUN power is contingent upon an evanescent electoral mandate, SUN while her shadow-power-play is founded upon time-out-of-mind SUN heredity - and at least residually, upon the Lord's will. SUN Patriotic Britons may be reluctant to admit to all of this, SUN argues Self, preferring to be seen as modern and up-to-date, SUN but if they examine their consciences carefully they're SUN likely to concede that a discrete love-of-country object is SUN required for full patriotic attachment. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b0378x0n (Listen) SUN Rock Pipit SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Michaela Strachan presents the rock pipit. The sight of a SUN greyish bird no bigger than a sparrow, at home on the SUN highest cliffs and feeding within reach of breaking waves SUN can come as a surprise. In spring and early summer, the male SUN Pipits become wonderful extroverts and perform to attract a SUN female, during which they sing loudly to compete with the SUN sea-wash. SUN SUN Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04bmdf3 (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 b04bmdf5 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Ben Archer: Thomas Lester 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 Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Annabelle Schrivener: Julia Hills SUN Buddy: Gavin Brocker SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04bmdf7 (Listen) SUN Dame Wendy Hall SUN SUN Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the SUN Royal Society, Dame Wendy fought long and hard to prove that SUN her type of web science was highly significant and here to SUN stay. If algebraic topology and open hypermedia systems SUN really aren't your thing, Dame Wendy is also in demand as a SUN brilliant communicator on, what can seem to outsiders to be, SUN impenetrable topics. SUN SUN Her parents were from humble beginnings and it was clear SUN from the get-go that their first born had a budding flair SUN for numbers: aged six she was charged with teaching a group SUN of schoolmates maths. The first in her family to go to SUN University she rejected Cambridge, judging it "too stuffy". SUN SUN She says, "I get too excited about stuff. I love my life and SUN am passionate about web science, women in science and SUN shopping". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Wendy Hall SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b049y9pq (Listen) SUN Series 61, Episode 4 SUN SUN The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the SUN Assembly Hall in Worthing. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by SUN Harry Hill with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts SUN piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. 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 b04bmtp9 (Listen) SUN English Wine SUN SUN English and Welsh wines are on the up and up, as Sheila SUN Dillon investigates. SUN SUN Wine production is well known as a risky investment, not SUN least because it is so dependent on the weather. Many UK SUN growers were hit very hard by the terrible summer of 2012. SUN One of our most well known brands, Nyetimber, completely SUN abandoned their harvest for that year. Establishing a SUN vineyard also requires a big capital investment; one adage SUN used to be that if you wanted to make a moderate amount of SUN money the way to do it would be to have a large amount of SUN money and then plant a vineyard. This may be part of the SUN reason why the wine produced in England and Wales accounts SUN for less than 1% of that consumed here. SUN SUN Despite all of this, the acreage of vineyards in England has SUN doubled in the last 7 years and there are some producers SUN aiming to produce an unheard of million bottles a year. SUN Perhaps more importantly, mentioning English or Welsh wine SUN at a dinner table is no longer likely to attract sniggers of SUN derision. In fact our wine production is now synonymous with SUN quality. As UK wine producers big and small are growing in SUN confidence, Sheila Dillon asks how they can assure their SUN future in a risk laden business, where they are still one of SUN the smallest players on the global market. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04bj9kf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04bmtpc (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 A Bombay Symphony b04bmtpf (Listen) SUN India is embarking on a love affair with Western classical SUN music. In his home-city, Mumbai, Zareer Masani encounters SUN enthusiastic audiences for the country's first national SUN ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra of India. Furtado's, the SUN city's oldest music shop, sells hundreds of pianos a year. SUN Thousands of children learn a Western instrument. Yet, SUN Zareer discovers, this is not the total success it seems. SUN SUN It's called the Symphony Orchestra of India, but only a SUN dozen of its members are Indian. Most come from Kazakhstan. SUN The founder-director of the SOI is unapologetic. He wants an SUN orchestra of international standard, regardless of where the SUN musicians come from. Others, who for decades have been SUN nurturing Bombay's domestic musical talent, are incensed: SUN money is going to foreign players rather than to teaching SUN Indians. It doesn't help that the state government heavily SUN taxes western, but not Indian, music. SUN SUN Many of the pianos Furtado's sell are status symbols, chosen SUN by interior designers to fit the drawing-rooms of the SUN super-rich down to the last centimetre. Many students are SUN learning to play because their parents think this will help SUN them get into foreign universities - where they will study SUN medicine, not music. SUN SUN But Zareer discovers there is real love for western music, SUN not just among Mumbai's elite, but also at the other end of SUN the social spectrum. He discovers a choir of the children of SUN sex workers happily singing in the city's dangerous red SUN light district. SUN SUN Zareer Masani considers these rich contradictions, and the SUN implications for India's own classical music, in 'A Bombay SUN Symphony'. As well as the arguments it captures the sounds, SUN the music of this remarkable city, in a programme that in SUN its structure is itself a symphony. SUN SUN Producer: Julian May. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04b2wzs (Listen) SUN Chester Zoo SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Chester Zoo. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04bmtph (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between couples who SUN together find the strength to make a fresh start, eliminate SUN starvation in a small Tanzanian town, and deal with fatal SUN illness, from Scotland, Birmingham, and Devon. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b04bmtpk (Listen) SUN Eugenie Grandet, Episode 1 SUN SUN Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation, starring Ian SUN McKellen, of Balzac's tragic novel revolving around Grandet, SUN an ageing vine farmer, and his innocent young daughter SUN Eugenie. SUN SUN Monsieur Grandet, who has amassed a considerable fortune, is SUN a miser who feigns poverty and runs his household along SUN miserably frugal lines. All changes with the arrival of SUN Eugenie's handsome 22-year-old cousin, Charles Grandet, from SUN Paris. Charles has brought with him a shocking letter from SUN his father, Guillaume, who has committed suicide. He has SUN placed his debts and the care of his son into his brother's SUN hands. It is a fatal decision, with ruinous consequences for SUN the whole family. SUN SUN Eugenie Grandet is considered by many to be the strongest SUN novel in Balzac's magnificent series, The Human Comedy. It SUN pits a young naive girl against the father she has SUN worshipped and this defiance sets us on course for the SUN playing out of a heart-rending tragedy. Like King Lear, SUN Grandet is a man who deeply loves the daughter who has SUN defied him. He has no other child, no hope, no future but SUN her. But in Balzac's 'human comedy' the tragic and the comic SUN exist side by side and this fruitful conjunction blossoms in SUN Rose Tremain's enthralling adaptation. SUN SUN Cello and Treble Recorder: Alison Baldwin SUN Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown SUN SUN Produced and directed by Gordon House SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Grandet: Ian McKellen SUN Eugenie: Alison Pettitt SUN Nanon: Shirley Dixon SUN Madame Grandet: Anna Calder-Marshall SUN Charles: Blake Ritson SUN Cruchot: Harry Hadden-Paton SUN Des Grassins: David Horovitch SUN Madame Des Grassins: Jenny Funnell SUN Abbe Cruchot: Geoffrey Beevers SUN Adolphe: Arthur Hughes SUN Director: Gordon House SUN Producer: Gordon House SUN Adaptor: Rose Tremain SUN Author: Honore Balzac SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04bmtpm (Listen) SUN Jessie Burton and Summer Reads SUN SUN This week Mariella Frostrup talks to Jessie Burton, author SUN of one of this year's mostly eagerly awaited debuts, The SUN Miniaturist - a tale of greed, lust and hypocrisy set in SUN Golden Age Amsterdam. SUN SUN Author and broadcaster Viv Groskop and writer Matt Haig will SUN be guiding Mariella through the best of the beach reads this SUN summer, as well as taking us on a tour of the great classics SUN set around the Mediterranean. SUN SUN Also in the programme, Booker-shortlisted and South SUN African-born novelist and playwright Deborah Levy on the SUN place where she writes. SUN Book at Bedtime SUN Deborah Levy on Open Book SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton - Publisher: Picador SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton SUN The Miniaturist: Chapter 1 SUN by Jessie Burton SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Jessie Burton SUN Interviewed Guest: Viv Groskop SUN Interviewed Guest: Matt Haig SUN SUN 16:27 Betjeman's Banana Blush b04bmtpp (Listen) SUN Jarvis Cocker uncovers the hidden treasure Betjeman's Banana SUN Blush - an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974. The LP SUN featured the then Poet Laureate reading twelve poems while SUN accompanied by music composed by Jim Parker. SUN SUN Betjeman's Banana Blush was released on the progressive rock SUN label Charisma - the home of Genesis, Lindisfarne and Van SUN Der Graf Generator - and tracks from it were regularly SUN featured on John Peel's Radio 1 programme. A Shropshire Lad SUN was named single of the week by New Musical Express and the SUN paper featured an interview with the poet. SUN SUN For those reasons, the album reached an audience beyond Sir SUN John's usual readers. Suggs from Madness fell in love with SUN the LP: 'I first heard the album in 1979. We'd be listening SUN to Syd Barrett, The Clash...and then Banana Blush would go SUN on. It seemed equally psychedelic in its own strange way. I SUN fell in love with it straight away.' Suggs chose 'On A SUN Portrait Of A Deaf Man' from the album as one of his Desert SUN Island Discs. SUN Before working on the album, Jim Parker had been a member of SUN Doggerel Bank, writing music to accompany the poems of SUN William Bealby-Wright. Following Betjeman's Banana Blush, he SUN wrote award-winning scores for TV series and films, SUN including Miss Marple, Moll Flanders, Midsomer Murders and SUN Foyle's War. SUN SUN His compositions provide perfect settings for Sir John's SUN poems, which range in subject matter from the charming SUN innocence of Indoor Games Near Newbury to the deeply moving SUN 'A Child Ill'. In the programme, Jim plays piano and SUN explains how the album was made. SUN SUN Producer: Kevin Howlett SUN A Howlett Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from Betjeman's Banana Blush (3) SUN SUN 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04bmvxb (Listen) SUN 27th July SUN SUN Reactions to British soldiers shooting unarmed protesters in SUN Dublin. 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 Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, SUN Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak SUN Jane Whittenshaw SUN SUN Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SUN SUN Producer: Russell Finch SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Kurdistan: A State of Uncertainty b049yqzj (Listen) SUN John McCarthy meets the Kurds of northern Iraq, a unique SUN island of stability in a nation broken into warring SUN fragments. He asks how a people who have been victims of SUN abuse and atrocity for generations managed to transform SUN their fortunes so dramatically. How did they recently gain SUN the confidence to calmly take over the disputed city of SUN Kirkuk and claim it as their own? And how can they avoid SUN being sucked once more into a maelstrom of violence? SUN SUN A rich cast of contributors includes Siyamand Banaa, a SUN diplomat and former peshmerga freedom fighter; Narin Bahat SUN who has committed her life to the cause of disadvantaged SUN women; Yaccoub Sulleyman who, as a child, watched his SUN parents being forced to demolish the family home; and Helly SUN Luv, who has returned from exile to rap her way to stardom SUN in pop music and film. SUN SUN John starts his journey in the mountains that Kurds believe SUN have shaped their destiny, by offering them protection from SUN the greater powers that have sought to dominate them. He SUN visits the fast-expanding regional capital Erbil, which some SUN people call the new Dubai thanks to its access oil wealth SUN and smart deals. He moves to the cultural capital SUN Sulaymaniah, where he encounters the political tensions that SUN lie just below the surface. SUN SUN John discovers that internal conflicts, a political system SUN weakened by the abuses of patronage and corruption and the SUN inherent dangers of unpredictable forces mean that Iraqi SUN Kurdistan's good fortune remains vulnerable. It continues to SUN be in a state of uncertainty. SUN SUN Presenter: John McCarthy SUN Producer: Geoff Dunlop SUN SUN A Whistledown production for Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04bj8j3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04bj9kh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04bj9kk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04bj9km (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04bmvxd (Listen) SUN Pick of the Week SUN SUN The best of BBC Radio this week with Isy Suttie SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04bmvxg (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music b04bmvxj (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Aspiring singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth has been SUN posting audio cassettes of his "finest songs to date" to pop SUN stars throughout the land, in the hope that someone would SUN 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 Mary is not happy as John has invited Toyah Wilcox SUN to the lounge and she's worried that Toyah will live up to SUN her wild 80's image and wreak havoc in the house. So, as SUN Mary busies herself hiding the valuables and even the SUN pillows in case Toyah throws them around and spreads SUN feathers everywhere, John has to keep Toyah entertained in SUN the garden. How will he explain all this to Toyah, who is SUN expecting to sing in the lounge? SUN SUN Also Gordon Giltrap tells John how to make his songs SUN commercial in 'Top Tips on the Telephone' and, hopefully, SUN there's Ken in the Konservatory. SUN SUN Written and Performed by Graham Fellows with special guests SUN Toyah Wilcox and Gordon Giltrap. SUN SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN A Chic Ken production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN John Shuttleworth: Graham Fellows SUN Interviewed Guest: Toyah Wilcox SUN Interviewed Guest: Gordon Giltrap SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN Writer: Graham Fellows SUN SUN 19:45 The Empire Cafe b04bmvxl (Listen) SUN The Business of Tea SUN SUN The first of three brand new stories to mark the SUN Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, from writers taking part in SUN the city's Empire Cafe. Writers Kei Miller, Jackie Kay, and SUN Fred D'Aguiar turn their attention to some of the products SUN of Empire and the Atlantic slave trade. The Empire Cafe is a SUN commonwealth themed cafe and literary venue opening SUN specially for the Games period, run by award-winning SUN thriller writer Louise Welsh. SUN SUN Each story will focus on one product of Empire - SUN SUN Kei Miller kicks off our series with a clever and SUN multilayered story drawing together themes of slavery, SUN Glasgow's Empire past in Jamaica and the most traditional of SUN British drinks, tea. Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet and SUN fiction writer based in Glasgow. He was nominated for the SUN Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First book. His recent SUN poetry collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to SUN Zion is shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best SUN Collection. SUN SUN The series will continue with Jackie Kay who has chosen SUN ginger, playfully weaving in connections between Scotland SUN and the Caribbean in a story set in Saint Kitts. Finally SUN Fred D'Aguiar's 'Black Gold' brings us back to Glasgow with SUN a slave brought back to Scotland in a story that looks to SUN sugar. SUN SUN The authors will be reading at the Empire Cafe in the SUN Briggait in Glasgow's Merchant City (where the merchants SUN would have kept look out for their ships docking with goods SUN from the commonwealth and sent an assistant running to greet SUN them). SUN SUN Produced by Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy SUN Writer: Kei Miller SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04b2wzz (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04b2wzx (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b049z4x2 (Listen) SUN Charity's New Mission?: Do More, Say Less SUN SUN Gagging clauses, threats of closure and self-censorship SUN imposed through fear of losing funding - John Waite SUN investigates claims by leading figures in the charity sector SUN that they are being silenced. He hears of a "chilling SUN effect" as voluntary organisations fear for their future if SUN they dare to speak out about local or central government SUN policy. Others, however, tell John that more needs to be SUN done to limit political campaigning and that charities need SUN to concentrate more on helping directly, those in need. SUN SUN Assistant Producer: Natalie Goldwater SUN Producer: Joe Kent SUN Editor:Andrew Smith. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04bmd3h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b049y9pz (Listen) SUN Thrifty Debtors SUN SUN The downturn's made everyone worry more about money. But SUN while we may want to be thriftier, Chris Bowlby discovers SUN why we're stuck with high levels of personal and household SUN debt. Credit has become a way of life and new technology SUN makes it ever more accessible. We know we ought to save more SUN for, say, old age, but pensions seem distant and a dodgy SUN investment, while the government and others are desperate to SUN encourage revived consumer spending . Borrowing to buy SUN houses seems to many the best financial bet. Is there an SUN alternative approach out there? SUN SUN A wide range of voices from different communities explore SUN the mixture of hard financial fact, psychology and morality SUN that's shaped our financial behaviour in such a turbulent SUN few years. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Hugh Levinson. SUN Poverty vs Equality SUN Escaping Credit Serfdom SUN Capitalists Against the Super Rich SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04bmvxn (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04bmvxq (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 1914: Day by Day b04bmvxs (Listen) SUN 1914: Day by Day - Omnibus, Episode 4 SUN SUN Austria-Hungary delivers its ultimatum to Serbia. Meanwhile SUN British attention is diverted by the threat of civil war in SUN Ireland. In France the nation is gripped by a sensational SUN murder trial. 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 Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, SUN Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak SUN Jane Whittenshaw SUN SUN Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SUN SUN Producer: Russell Finch SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04bmd39 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 JULY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04bj9lk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b049z7x7 (Listen) MON Dalit Parties and Democratisation in Tamil Nadu; History of MON the Elevator MON MON Elevators - a cultural history. Before skyscrapers MON transformed the urban landscape a new conveyance made them MON possible. The elevator, invented in New York in the 1850s, MON became a factor of metropolitan modernity on both sides of MON the Atlantic - forever in motion and reflecting the MON intimacy, as well as the anonymity, of capitalist cities. MON Laurie Taylor talks to Andreas Bernard, Visiting Professor MON of Cultural Studies at Leuphana University of Luneburg, and MON author a of new book which explores the origins & meaning of MON the 'lift'. Also, Hugo Gorringe, Senior Lecturer in MON Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, discusses his MON study of political militants in India who move into MON mainstream electoral politics. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Andreas Bernard MON MON Cultural Scientist and Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Andreas Bernard MON MON MON Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator MON Publisher: New York University Press MON ISBN-10: 0814787169 MON ISBN-13: 978-0814787168 MON MON Hugo Gorringe MON MON Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Edinburgh MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Hugo Gorringe MON MON MON MON MON Dalit Politics and Democratisation in Tamil Nadu? MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04bmd37 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04bj9lm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04bj9lp (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04bj9lr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04bj9lt (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04bmxm8 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison MON Murdoch. MON MON Alison Murdoch MON MON Good Morning. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Exactly nine years ago today, the IRA announced a formal end MON to its armed campaign, promising to decommission all its MON weapons and pursue its goals by purely peaceful means. MON Despite widespread scepticism, it was a turning point in the MON Northern Ireland peace process. In the same week in 1991, MON the USA and USSR voted to cut their stocks of nuclear MON warheads by one third, and in 1998 the UK government MON outlawed the use of landmines. By any standards, the last MON week of July has a good record for peace and goodwill. MON MON Many people would agree that the fewer guns, nuclear MON warheads and landmines in the world the better. However from MON a Buddhist point of view, this doesn’t solve the problem of MON people being mean and violent towards each other, because MON the actual cause of violence is not the weapon itself, but MON the person who chooses to press the button or pull the MON trigger. As one of my Bhuddist teachers says, if negative MON thoughts could be eliminated, then all the weapons in the MON world would be useless. MON MON This is why so many Buddhist teachings emphasise the MON development of patience. It’s a quality that deserves a MON better press. True patience isn’t about being meek and mild, MON but about learning to tame whatever angry thoughts arise in MON our minds before they turn into hurtful speech or actions MON that will cause harm to someone else. The rationale, as ever MON with Buddhism, is grounded in logic. Anger and violence MON undermine our health, corrupt our judgement, and ruin our MON relationships. They’re an own goal that doesn’t benefit MON anyone. MON MON Each time one of us chooses to turn away from anger and MON violence, we protect another being from harm. And we don’t MON need to be politicians, statesmen or military leaders to MON achieve this: let peace begin with us. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04bmxmb (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04bj9lw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02twnw4 (Listen) MON Herring Gull MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve MON Backshall presents the herring gull. MON MON Herring gulls now regularly breed inland and that's because MON of the way we deal with our refuse. Since the Clean Air Acts MON of 1956 banned the burning of refuse at rubbish tips, the MON birds have been able to cash in on the food that we reject: MON And our throwaway society has provided them a varied menu. MON We've also built reservoirs around our towns on which they MON roost, and we've provided them with flat roofs which make MON perfect nest sites. MON MON Herring gull (Larus argentatus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b04bmxnn (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Playing the Skyline b04bmxnq (Listen) MON Cumnock and Ben Wyvis 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, Anna Meredith, who MON was commissioned to create a piece for the Last Night of the MON Proms, Welsh pianist Gwilym Simcock and Kizzy Crawford MON eighteen, of Bajan heritage, a singer and songwriter at home MON in English and Welsh. 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 This final programme bucks the format somewhat to reflect MON the cultural realities of Scotland - lowland/highland, MON rural/industrial and Gaelic/English (or Scots). So James MON MacMillan plays, with help from local schoolchildren and MON musicians from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the MON skyline Cumnock, the pit village in Ayrshire where he spent MON his childhood. Julie Fowlis, drawing on Gaelic poetry, MON traces in music the skyline of Ben Wyvis in Easter Ross. MON MON Producers: Benedict Warren and Julian May. MON MON James MacMillan's drawing of the Cumnock skyline MON MON Julie Fowlis's drawing of the Cumnock skyline 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 09:30 World Agony b04bmz8s (Listen) MON Australia 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 3: Kate de Brito, Australia MON Kate de Brito writes her advice blog 'Ask Bossy' for the MON news.com.australia website. Her strap line reads 'Got a MON question? Ask Bossy. It's the advice your friends and MON relatives are probably too polite to give.' And Kate, who is MON one of the few agony aunts with qualifications in MON counselling and psychotherapy, does indeed give practical MON and clear-sighted advice. The two agony aunts discuss MON attitudes to gender differences in Australia, problems MON concerning the aboriginal community, and the importance of MON referring serious issues on for specialised counselling. 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 b04bmz8v (Listen) MON Cold Blood, Episode 1 MON MON Read by Robert Powell. MON MON As a boy, Richard Kerridge found refuge in the wilderness of MON suburban England whose reptilian inhabitants were wondrously MON untameable. His often troubled and turbulent relationship MON with his father formed the backdrop to his adventures with MON neighbourhood friends as they scoured local parks and MON streams for newts, frogs, toads, lizards, and the ultimate MON prize - snakes. MON MON What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through MON the winter, to shed your skin, and taste wafting chemicals MON on your tongue? Do toads feel a sense of danger as the MON wheels of a car approach ? What exactly is an 'alien' MON species? MON MON Kerridge has continued to ask these questions during a MON lifetime of fascinated study and countless expeditions. MON MON Weaving startling nuggets of research (e.g. fewer than 5% of MON toads reach adulthood) with elements of history and MON folklore, the author has also created his personal emotional MON map of a lifelong relationship with these often unloved and MON overlooked creatures. MON MON Episode 1: Eight year old Richard catches his first newt. MON MON Abridged, produced and directed by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Richard Kerridge MON Producer: Jill Waters MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Author: Richard Kerridge MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04bmz8x (Listen) MON Woman's Hour in Scotland MON MON Is the independence referendum an issue for women? MS MON research and care at the Anne Rowling clinic. Composer Sally MON Beamish on how Scotland has inspired her music. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Jane Thurlow. MON MON The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic MON MON We visit the MON Anne MON Rowling Clinic MON in Edinburgh to find out how it wants to bring together MON excellence in research and patient care for those with MON multiple sclerosis and MON other neurological conditions. Scottish women are more MON likely to develop MON multiple sclerosis than any other demographic or national MON group. MS affects roughly 100,000 people in the UK, it MON typically affects almost three times as many women as men MON and the incidence is greatest in Scotland – with the MON Orkney Islands showing the highest rate of the disease. The MON clinic was set up after a donation MON of £10 million pounds from MON J K Rowling MON whose mother Anne died with the MON condition. Jane Garvey speaks to Professor Siddarthan MON Chandra and Nicola MacLeod, senior MON MS nurse specialist. MON The Multiple Sclerosis Society MON MON Sally Beamish MON MON Sally Beamish has been composing since she was a child but MON only set out on the path of professional composer after MON moving to Scotland in MON 1990, having already established a successful career as a MON viola player. MON MON She has written a large amount of music for MON orchestra, including symphonies and concertos. She has also MON written chamber and instrumental music, film scores, theatre MON music, and music for amateurs. MON MON On August 1st 2014, one of Sally Beamish’s MON largest and most important works will be given its London MON premiere at the BBC MON Proms. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Sally Beamish MON Producer: Jane Thurlow MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04bmz8z (Listen) MON Queens of Noise: Get It On, Episode 1 MON MON by Roy Boulter. It's 1989. All-girl band Velveteens are high MON on champagne and excitement as they sign their first record MON deal. Are they on the road to be wannabe flops or Top of the MON Pops? Music industry veterans Louise Wener and Roy Boulter MON draw on their experiences to tell the story of a young band MON about to get their big break. MON MON Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates MON MON Directed by Toby Swift. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Credits MON Sylvie: Samantha Robinson MON Beth: Anneika Rose MON Rain: Hannah Arterton MON Sam: Joe Absolom MON Christy: Clare Corbett MON Alec: Damian Lynch MON Richard: Matthew Watson MON Director: Toby Swift MON Writer: Roy Boulter MON Writer: Louise Wener MON MON 11:00 The Singing Fish of Batticaloa b04bn086 (Listen) MON "It is said to be heard the clearest on a full moon night... MON One has to go by boat, plunge an oar into the water, put the MON other end of the oar to one's ear, and listen..." MON MON Since the 18th century, Tamil fishermen have claimed to MON navigate by the mysterious music of the singing fish of the MON Batticaloa lagoon in eastern Sri Lanka. The fishermen's MON ancient name for the creature is oorie coolooroo cradoo MON (crying shells); scientists believe that the underwater MON choristers are some kind of fish. But, after thirty years of MON civil war and the ravages of the tsunami, does any evidence MON of this strange nocturnal chorus remain? MON MON Restrictions and curfews made it impossible to visit the MON lagoon at night and locals, suffering the loss and MON deprivation of a bitter conflict, had other priorities. The MON people of Batticaloa became disconnected from this ancient MON cultural symbol. Very few have heard the aquatic music, and MON many believe it's a myth. MON MON But for Father Lorio, a Jesuit priest present at one of the MON earliest recordings of the phenomenon made using a homemade MON hyrdophone in the 1950s, the singing fish are the soundtrack MON to sixty years of profound turmoil and change he's witnessed MON in the region. And for Prince Casinader, a Tamil journalist MON in his eighties, there's the belief that they could bring a MON sense of community and hope to his hometown. MON MON Now a group of young Tamil scientists have joined the effort MON to rediscover this lost symbol. Guided by local fishermen, MON they embark on an unusual odyssey into the muddy lagoon to MON capture a new recording and establish if this elusive watery MON wonder has survived to enchant another generation with its MON song. MON MON With music composed by Adam Nicholas MON MON Produced by Cicely Fell and Kannan Arunasalam MON A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bad Salsa b04bn088 (Listen) MON Episode 4 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 Corrine: Kay Stonham MON Writer: Kay Stonham MON Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b04bn08b (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04bj9ly (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04bn08d (Listen) MON Edward Stourton presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04bn08g (Listen) MON Taming the Exotic MON MON To the Victorians the Amazonian water lily was more than MON just a plant. The adventure of finding this exotic piece of MON the Empire and getting it to grow on home soil involved MON horticultural ambition, scientific vision and fierce MON competition amongst the country's wealthy landowners. MON MON Prof Kathy Willis hears about the race during the 1840s MON between Kew's director William Hooker and the Duke of MON Derbyshire's gardener Joseph Paxton to get the aquatic lily MON to flower. Historian and biographer Kate Colquhoun examines MON how the plant's exacting requirements demanded an entirely MON new approach to horticultural architecture, engineering and MON management of water and heat. MON MON Lara Jewett, manager of Kew's tropical house, and Greg MON Redwood, head of Kew's glasshouses, explain why this MON voracious feeder and aquatic beauty still proves a challenge MON to cultivate today. MON MON But botanists were quick to make the connection between MON repeating modular-like structures on the underside of the MON lily's leaf and the possibilities of new engineering design, MON which as Jim Endersby explains, was to inspire the use of MON essential giant greenhouses to cultivate food in soot laden MON cities, and for Joseph Paxton to ultimately create the MON greatest glasshouse ever built - Crystal Palace. MON MON Producer Adrian Washbourne. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04bmvxg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01dvzg7 (Listen) MON The Waste Land MON MON Eileen Atkins and Jeremy Irons read The Waste Land by MON T.S.Eliot introduced by Dr Rowan Williams Archbishop of MON Canterbury, Jackie Kay, Matthew Hollis and Sean O'Brien MON MON .The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is arguably one of the most MON important poems of the 20th century . In 1921, Eliot took MON leave from his job in a bank for a break in Margate with his MON wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. Here he began working on MON the poem. The Eliots travelled on to Paris where they were MON guests of the poet Ezra Pound. Eliot was en route to MON Lausanne, Switzerland, for treatment for his nervous MON disorder by Doctor Roger Vittoz whilst Vivien remained at a MON sanatorium just outside Paris. In Lausanne, Eliot produced a MON longer version of the poem . Pound then made detailed MON editorial comments and significant cuts to the manuscript. MON Eliot later dedicated the poem to Pound. MON MON Eliot originally considered titling the poem He do the MON Police in Different Voices - a phrase taken from Charles MON Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend. This would help the reader MON to understand that, while there are many different voices in MON the poem, some critics believe there is only one central MON consciousness. MON MON In the end, the title Eliot chose was The Waste Land. In his MON first note to the poem he attributes the title to Jessie L. MON Weston's book on the Grail legend, From Ritual to Romance. MON The allusion is to the wounding of the Fisher King and the MON subsequent sterility of his lands. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Eileen Atkins MON Reader: Jeremy Irons MON Author: TS Eliot MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b04bn08j (Listen) MON (11/12) MON Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair and the teams from Scotland MON and the South of England are in the spotlight, as the MON contest of cryptic connections reaches the penultimate match MON of the series. MON MON Roddy Lumsden and Val McDermid play for Scotland, while MON Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego represent the South of MON England. Last time these teams encountered one another the MON Scots won convincingly, so the pressure is on the MON Southerners to turn the tables if they're to achieve a MON respectable finish on the RBQ league table for 2014. MON MON As usual a knowledge of literature, history, music, MON geography, the natural world and popular culture will all be MON helpful to the teams in unravelling the programme's MON trademark convoluted puzzles. Some of the best are drawn MON from the mailbag of suggestions received from RBQ listeners MON in recent months. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04bmtp9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Art of the Nation b04bn0gm (Listen) MON War 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 BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz discovers extraordinary MON stories behind the art-works on our domestic walls, and the MON tales they tell about our nation - an unwritten biography MON charting up and downs, highs and lows. MON MON In this edition, Will focuses on art and war. There's the MON tale of the shipwrecked sailor, who turned to painting. MON Trude remembers her father, who perished in Auschwitz, MON through the only item left from her former home in MON Czechoslovakia - a large 19th century oil painting, an MON allegory of Jewish oppression. MON MON Or there is the small stone with tiny carvings on it, owned MON by Nazrin who spent eight years in an Iranian jail. The MON stone was carved by a fellow inmate, who gave it to her as a MON token of affection, even though she could have been put to MON death for doing so. And there are paintings of Charles II MON and Lord Montagu, once arch enemies who ended up as allies, MON and an image of World War One battle-field, painted on the MON day that war ended. All are kept in domestic settings, and MON all have a story to tell. MON MON Producer Neil George. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b04bn0gp (Listen) MON Series 10, Can Science Save Us? MON MON Can Science Save Us? MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by Stephen Fry, MON chemist and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University, MON Professor Tony Ryan, and University of London solar MON scientist, Dr Lucie Green, as they ask: "can science save MON us?" They'll be looking at some of the fantastic ideas at MON the very forefront of science and technology that are being MON looked at to help in tackling some of the biggest challenges MON facing our planet, from climate change, to feeding our ever MON expanding global population. MON MON 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04bn0lf (Listen) MON 28th July MON MON Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. 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 Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore MON MON Producer: Russell Finch MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b04bn28c (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04bj9m0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04bn28f (Listen) MON Series 61, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to Bradford's MON St George's Hall. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and MON Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Andy Hamilton, MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the MON piano. 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: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04bn28h (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04bn28k (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04bmz8z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b04bn28m (Listen) MON In the first of the new series of Document, Gordon Corera MON travels to Stockholm to investigate theories about the 1986 MON assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. MON MON He begins with newly-discovered documents written by the MON late novelist and investigator of the far-right, Stieg MON Larsson. MON MON But the trail leads him to the role of various secret MON services, to questions about elements of the Stockholm MON police, to South African dirty tricks, and ultimately back MON to Britain, where he makes a surprising discovery. MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04csssl (Listen) MON Tornado Hide and Seek MON MON When a twisting funnel drops from the sky with tearing winds MON of up to 500 km/h, what do you do? In Oklahoma, people MON thought they knew the answer. The state is in the heart of MON tornado alley in the USA, where the public is regularly MON drilled on storm awareness. But when the largest storm ever MON recorded formed on the outskirts of Oklahoma City last year, MON people ignored the best advice and nearly died in their MON thousands. Now, officials are nervously watching where the MON next storm will form...and trying to figure what people will MON do when it does. Neal Razzell goes out and about with the MON storm chasers in Oklahoma City. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b049yhcx (Listen) MON Zoos in the Wild MON MON As more land is developed for industry and housing or MON converted to produce food the areas we have fenced off for MON nature are increasingly important. But are the worlds nature MON reserves essentially made into a fortress to protect the MON area from development able to function on their own, or do MON they need constant management. Are they "zoos in the wild". MON Monty Don hears from Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in South Africa, MON the reserve that helped replenish Southern Africa's white MON rhinoceros population and finds out whether size really does MON matter for our protected areas. MON MON Dr M Sanjayan MON Dr Sanjayan is Executive Vice President and senior scientist MON at Conservation International. His work focuses on the role MON of conservation in improving human well-being, wildlife, and MON the environment. He honed his knowledge over 16 years as MON Lead Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, specialising in MON development and conservation strategies. MON He is also a television presenter and has fronted numerous MON documentaries. He is currently filming his new TV series, MON Earth – A New Wild, which is set to air on America’s PBS MON network in 2015. Earlier this year he also contributed to MON the BBC World News series The Power of Nature. MON He is a sought after speaker on college and business MON campuses with recent appearances on stage at TED Global and MON other key forums and festivals and he was recently selected MON to serve on the Explorers Council, a distinguished group of MON top scientists, researchers, and explorers who provide MON advice and counsel to National Geographic Society across MON disciplines and projects. MON Twitter.com: @msanjayan MON MON Professor David Lindenmayer MON David Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at The Australian MON National University. He has written more than 900 scientific MON articles and 36 books on forest ecology and management, MON forest and woodland biodiversity, conservation in MON agricultural landscapes, the ecology and management of fire MON and conservation science and natural resource management. MON He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and the MON New York Academy of Science, winner of the Eureka Prize MON (twice), Whitely Award (six times), the Australian Natural MON History Medal, the Serventy Medal for Ornithology and MON numerous other awards. David Lindenmayer was awarded a MON prestigious 5-year Australian Research Council Laureate MON Fellowship in 2013 and an Order of Australia in mid-2014. MON He currently runs 5 large-scale, long-term research programs MON in south-eastern Australia, primarily associated with MON developing ways to conserve biodiversity in reserves, MON national parks, wood production forests, plantations and on MON farm land. By far his greatest achievement has been helping MON more than 50 students complete their post-graduate Ph.D or MON MSc degrees. MON MON 21:30 Playing the Skyline b04bmxnq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04bj9m2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04bn2xz (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04bn2y1 (Listen) MON The Miniaturist, Episode 6 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. 6 Whilst Johannes is in Venice an unwelcome visitor MON arrives at the Brandt household. 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 b049yjwt (Listen) MON Message in a Bottle MON MON Chris Ledgard uncorks the subject of message in a bottle. MON MON Sending a message in a bottle across the ocean to be MON rediscovered by someone in a far off land is an idea as old MON as Ancient Greece. Christopher Columbus did it, Jules Verne MON wrote about it and The Police sang that song. There's MON romance and adventure in the endless possibilities of MON interacting with the unknown. MON MON As Chris explores the oblique and whimsical nature of this MON form of communication he hears modern day stories about MON people who have been saved by sending out an SOS, formed MON friendships across the water and found scientific value in MON the pastime. MON MON However, amongst the tide of approval for this historical MON tradition a dissenting voice lurks. MON MON Produced by Stephen Garner MON MON The Word of Mouth Message in a Bottle MON MON Launching the bottle in Liverpool Bay MON MON Richard Gordon Smith MON MON Richard Gordon Smith plays his violin on Crosby Beach MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04bn2y3 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON 23:55 The Listening Project b04brn30 (Listen) MON Hal and Natasha - Double Exposure MON MON Fi Glover introduces a conversation about the intimacy of MON nude photography and how it can reveal the unexpected, MON proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you MON listen. MON MON The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a MON snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the MON UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to MON them about a subject they've never discussed intimately MON before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK MON by teams of producers from local and national radio stations MON who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're MON not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - MON lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key MON moment of connection between the participants. Most of the MON unedited conversations are being archived by the British MON Library and used to build up a collection of voices MON capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade MON of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or MON just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting MON bbc.co.uk/listeningproject MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 JULY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04bj9mt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04bmz8v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04bj9mw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04bj9my (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04bj9n0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04bj9n2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04bnd0d (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison TUE Murdoch. TUE TUE Alison Murdoch TUE TUE Good Morning. TUE "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> TUE TUE Last weekend I visited a friend who has a wonderful TUE selection of fridge magnets. One of them made me laugh, but TUE also stop and think. It said: “seen it all, done it all, TUE can’t remember most of it”. It‘s so true – when I look back TUE at the past year, or even month, my memory is like a leaky TUE boat. That’s one reason I take so many photos, but unless TUE they’re selfies, I may not even remember who all the people TUE are. TUE TUE The Buddha would argue that all this rushing here and there, TUE the 1000 things to see, do, eat or drink before you die, is TUE missing the point. The view may be magnificent, but it can TUE only be seen through the lens of the mind, and if the mind TUE is cloudy or biased in any way, that’s all we get. It’s like TUE experiencing the world through the equivalent of a tinted or TUE dirty pair of sunglasses. TUE TUE The practice of mindfulness meditation offers one method for TUE experiencing the world with more spaciousness and clarity. TUE Through finding some quiet time at the beginning or end of TUE each day, and learning to take pauses when we find ourselves TUE overloaded, it’s possible to regain control of the mind just TUE as if we were grabbing the wheel of a driverless car. The TUE results can be extraordinary. Thousands of people in the UK TUE report lowered levels of stress, better sleep, improved TUE concentration, and happier relationships. TUE TUE Although there are some first-rate Buddhist meditation TUE teachers, this isn’t a religious trip but a basic human TUE skill. As the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius said: “Very TUE little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within TUE yourself, in your own way of thinking”. Let’s pray that each TUE of us can find a moment today to pause and question whether TUE we really need to see and do that extra thing. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04bnd0g (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02twpwl (Listen) TUE Kingfisher TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve TUE Backshall presents the kingfisher. TUE TUE The Ancient Greeks knew the kingfisher as Halcyon and TUE believed that the female built her nest on the waves calming TUE the seas while she brooded her eggs: hence the expression, TUE Halcyon days which we use now for periods of tranquillity. TUE TUE Kingfishers can bring in over 100 fish a day to their large TUE broods and the resulting collection of bones and offal TUE produces a stench that doesn't match the bird's attractive TUE appearance. TUE TUE Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04bnd0j (Listen) TUE News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 A Law unto Themselves b04bnd0l (Listen) TUE Justice Michael Kirby TUE TUE The first of a new series of conversations between barrister TUE Helena Kennedy and some of the world's most brilliant and TUE influential lawyers and judges. TUE TUE Helena's guests have all demonstrated courage. Their TUE willingness to campaign on human rights issues has brought TUE them into conflict with governments and other powerful TUE sections of society. TUE TUE Her first guest is Justice Michael Kirby, the first TUE Australian High Court judge to come out as gay and who TUE argued forcefully, in the face of considerable opposition, TUE for equal rights for homosexuals. TUE TUE In a profession most commonly marked by conformity and TUE deference to legal protocol, Michael became known as the TUE "great dissenter", frequently voting against his fellow TUE judges and doing the thing that judges are not supposed to TUE do - expressing his personal views outside of the courtroom. TUE TUE Other guests in the series include the first chief TUE prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno TUE Ocampo, given the task of bringing some of the world's worst TUE criminals to justice, and solicitor Gareth Peirce who has TUE spent much of her 30 year career representing Irish and TUE Muslim terror suspects. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04bnd0n (Listen) TUE The Man Who Tried to Kill Hitler TUE TUE In July 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to TUE kill Adolf Hitler by planting a briefcase bomb in a meeting TUE at Hitler's headquarters. The attack was supposed to be the TUE trigger for a coup against the Nazi regime. We hear from von TUE Stuaffenberg's son, General Berthold Schenk Graf von TUE Stauffenberg. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04cgyx8 (Listen) TUE Cold Blood, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Robert Powell. TUE TUE As a boy, Richard Kerridge found refuge in the wilderness of TUE suburban England whose reptilian inhabitants were wondrously TUE untameable. His often troubled and turbulent relationship TUE with his father formed the backdrop to his adventures with TUE neighbourhood friends as they scoured local parks and TUE streams for newts, frogs, toads, lizards, and the ultimate TUE prize - snakes. TUE TUE What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through TUE the winter, to shed your skin, and taste wafting chemicals TUE on your tongue? Do toads feel a sense of danger as the TUE wheels of a car approach ? What exactly is an 'alien' TUE species? TUE TUE Kerridge has continued to ask these questions during a TUE lifetime of fascinated study and countless expeditions. TUE TUE Weaving startling nuggets of research (e.g. fewer than 5% of TUE toads reach adulthood) with elements of history and TUE folklore, the author has also created his personal emotional TUE map of a lifelong relationship with these often unloved and TUE overlooked creatures. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Toads - real and imaginary. The temptations of TUE anthropomorphism. TUE TUE Abridged, produced and directed by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Richard Kerridge TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Author: Richard Kerridge TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04bnd0q (Listen) TUE Women in Sport TUE TUE Live from BBC at the Quay during the Commonwealth Games. Has TUE the Olympic legacy lasted? Are those with eating disorders TUE given enough support within sport? TUE TUE Presented by Jane Garvey TUE Produced by Jane Thurlow. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE Producer: Jane Thurlow TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04bnd0s (Listen) TUE Queens of Noise: Get It On, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Louise Wener. After the heady excitement of last night's TUE party to celebrate their record deal, Velveteens are back to TUE the realities of life. TUE TUE Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rain: Hannah Arterton TUE Sylvie: Samantha Robinson TUE Beth: Anneika Rose TUE Sam: Joe Absolom TUE Joyce: Jane Slavin TUE Stylist: Jane Slavin TUE Richard: Matthew Watson TUE Lucas: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE Writer: Roy Boulter TUE Writer: Louise Wener TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04bnd0v (Listen) TUE National Parks TUE TUE The term National Park can be applied to different types of TUE areas depending on where they are situated, some have more TUE protection for wildlife than others. In the United States TUE the traditional National Parks such as Yellowstone or TUE Yosemite enjoy a high level of protection with many TUE restrictions on what people can do. Contrast that with TUE British National Parks which are working landscapes with TUE villages, farms and even industry. TUE TUE In this week's Shared Planet Monty Don looks at where TUE wildlife fits into this complex mix of wilderness and human TUE activity. In reality how do these much-loved protected areas TUE work for wildlife? Beautiful scenery does not necessarily TUE equal abundant wildlife. And in more human centred National TUE parks, do our needs override those of animals and plants. In TUE the Cairngorms National park plans are underway to build TUE 15000 houses and Loch Lomond has given the go ahead for a TUE gold mine. Join Monty Don to explore the relationship TUE between wildlife and National Parks. TUE TUE Produced by Mary Colwell. TUE TUE Dr William Tweed TUE Dr William Tweed serves as Chair of the Sequoia Parks TUE Foundation. His association with the Foundation dates back TUE to 1993, when he assumed the role of government liaison with TUE the organisation. He remained in that position until 2006, TUE when he retired from the National Park Service after a TUE career that included 28 years at Sequoia and Kings Canyon TUE National Parks. TUE During that period he served the parks in a wide variety of TUE capacities, including chief park naturalist, park planner, TUE public affairs officer, environmental compliance officer, TUE special projects manager for the park superintendent, TUE concessions management officer, and district naturalist. He TUE joined the Sequoia Parks Foundation board in 2006. TUE Dr Tweed is the author or co-author of a number of books TUE including Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of TUE National Parks, Challenge of the Big Trees (co-authored with TUE Lary Dilsaver), The Centennial History of Sequoia and Kings TUE Canyon, Death Valley and the Northern Mojave (co-authored TUE with Lauren Davis), and Sequoia and Kings Canyon: The Story TUE Behind the Scenery. TUE TUE Ernesto Enkerlin TUE Dr Ernesto Enkerlin Hoeflich is head of IUCN’s World TUE Commission on Protected Areas. He is a prominent Mexican TUE conservationist, environmentalist, opinion leader and TUE researcher specialised in protected areas, ecosystem TUE services, sustainability, biodiversity stewardship and rural TUE development. TUE From 2001 to 2010, he was National Commissioner for TUE Protected Areas of Mexico (CONANP). During his tenure, TUE Mexico increased its protected area coverage by almost 50% TUE with 43 new protected areas covering over eight million TUE hectares. During that period, Mexico became a world leader TUE in the implementation of Ramsar, World Heritage and TUE Biological Diversity Conventions and UNESCO Biosphere TUE Reserve Network. TUE Dr Enkerlin has worked as conservationist for several NGOs TUE and co-founded Amigos de la Naturaleza and Pronatura TUE Noreste. He has also worked as a research professor at the TUE Center for Environmental Quality (ITESM) and as an adjunct TUE research scientist for the Center for Environmental Research TUE and Conservation of the Earth Institute at Columbia TUE University. He currently leads the Natural Solutions Program TUE at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico and serves on board of TUE several organisations. TUE TUE 11:30 Roots Reggae and Rebellion b04bnd0x (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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 final part of the series, Akala explores Rastafari's TUE global impact after the explosion of Jamaica's Roots Reggae TUE scene in the 1970s. The music provided a vehicle for TUE spreading the message of Rastafari around the world, not TUE least through the songs of musical icons like Bob Marley, TUE Peter Tosh and Burning Spear. For young Jamaican immigrants TUE growing up in a racist environment of 1970s London - such as TUE Akala's father - Rastafari provided a connection back to TUE their lost Jamaican and African heritage. Akala also visits TUE the Bobo Hill Rasta camp in Kingston to discover modern life TUE as a Rasta and explores whether this spiritual and cultural TUE movement still has relevance today. TUE Contributors include dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, TUE Professor Carolyn Cooper from the University of the West TUE Indies, Italian Rastafarian Alborosie and the residents of TUE the Bobo Hill Rastafari village in Kingston, Jamaica. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b04bndm1 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04bj9n4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04bndm3 (Listen) TUE Edward Stourton presents national and international news. TUE TUE 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04bndm5 (Listen) TUE Tapping into Rubber TUE TUE Natural rubber derived from latex had long been a curiosity. TUE When Nelson Goodyear perfected his method of vulcanisation TUE of rubber and showcased its applications at the Great TUE Exhibition of 1851 the possibilities now seemed endless. TUE TUE But by 1860 demand was outstripping supply from Brazil. TUE Kathy Willis examines how Kew was charged with getting seeds TUE of this economically vital plant out of South America to TUE germinate at Kew Gardens, and then to send seedlings off to TUE cultivate in far flung reaches of the Empire. TUE TUE The historian Emma Reisz explains how Kew acted as the TUE international clearing house for smuggled seeds out of TUE Brazil. Historian Jim Endersby sheds light on why Kew put TUE its faith in one man: Henry Wickham, a travelling plant TUE hunter with dubious botanical credentials. We hear from Mark TUE Nesbitt, curator of Kew's economic botany collection, on TUE how, despite rubber being recognised as an economically TUE essential plant for the British Empire's economy, the whole TUE business of transporting and nurturing the seedlings turned TUE out to be a comically hit and miss affair. TUE TUE Producer Adrian Washbourne. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04bn28h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b008crhy (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, Episode 2 TUE TUE Alastair Jessiman's second play about a psychic who uses his TUE gifts to help police investigations. Thomas Soutar discovers TUE some unsettling connections. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b04bndm9 (Listen) TUE Helen Castor presents the programme in which listeners join TUE with some of the world's leading researchers to discuss the TUE latest work that is Making History. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Into the Abyss b04b1v8v (Listen) TUE Deep Sea Mining TUE TUE The deep ocean contains extraordinary ecosystems, full of TUE life forms found nowhere else on the planet. Some of those TUE same habitats are unusually rich in valuable minerals. Could TUE we and should we mine them? TUE TUE Hydrothermal vent systems are one of the deep ocean habitats TUE which have gained the interest of mining concerns. TUE Volcanically-heated water gushes from the sea floor. The TUE chemically-charged water sustains unique ecosystems, the TUE like of which aren't seen anywhere else on Earth. There are TUE gigantic worms and clams which are nourished by bacteria TUE within their tissues - the bacteria themselves are fuelled TUE by chemicals in the water, in the way plants on the surface TUE use light. There are vast swarms of blind, heat-guided TUE shrimps. TUE TUE The superheated waters are also rich in metals such as TUE copper, silver and gold which crystallise when the hot water TUE meets the cold ocean. Great chimneys of metallic ores and TUE rock form in this process. The concentration of metals is TUE typically much higher than those of terrestrial ore TUE deposits. Mining companies are keen to exploit them if the TUE costs of extracting them from deep beneath the waves are TUE favourable. Given growing demand from an increasingly TUE industrialised world, the corporations believe the profits TUE are set to outweigh the costs. Underwater robotic bulldozers TUE and monster sized vacuum cleaners are ready for their first TUE deployments and operations. TUE TUE Many marine biologists view these prospects with alarm. The TUE impact of mining on hydrothermal vents and other TUE mineral-rich deep sea habitats will destroy life in the TUE immediate extraction areas and may cause unknown kinds and TUE scales of damage down current and distant from mining areas. TUE The pace of life and its rate of recovery is notoriously TUE slow in the deep ocean. Biodiversity in this realm has TUE barely been documented and studied. TUE TUE Should we be damaging tracts of the ocean bed before we know TUE what's there and what the wider consequences will be? On the TUE other hand, might industrial mining deep under water be TUE preferable environmentally and socially to mining on land TUE where there are people as well as animals? TUE TUE Rebecca Morelle and David Shukman of BBC News investigate. TUE TUE Producers: Andrew Luck-Baker and Kate Stephens. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04bng0x (Listen) TUE Newspeak TUE TUE One of the most terrifying ideas in George Orwell's TUE dystopian fantasy, "1984" is an entirely artificial language TUE which the State plans to impose on the people in order, not TUE only to control what they say, but what they think. TUE TUE The premise of "Newspeak" is to pare down the English TUE language - or Oldspeak - so that only words that are TUE essential in both a utilitarian and an ideological sense TUE remain. TUE TUE The idea is that this will make dissenting ideas - TUE "thoughtcrime" in Newspeak - literally impossible. TUE TUE But could it work? TUE TUE In Word of Mouth this week Chris Chris Ledgard tries to work TUE out if New speak could happen here and whether, by taking TUE away words, the government could also take away thoughts. TUE TUE He gets to grips with the question of whether language TUE determines thoughts as Orwell's invention supposes. He also TUE finds out whether the most extreme totalitarian regimes like TUE North Korea have attempted language control on the scale of TUE Newspeak? TUE TUE Many would argue that much political and corporate language TUE as well as political correctness amounts to a creeping TUE Newspeak in modern life but are we really that malleable or TUE does the popularity of satires that mock that kind of jargon TUE suggest Orwell was too pessimistic. We can spot attempts to TUE impose phoney and manipulative language on to us and we ward TUE it off with mockery. TUE TUE Interviewees include: Jean Seaton, Professor of Media TUE History at the University of Westminster and Director of the TUE Orwell Prize, D.J Taylor, author of "Orwell - the Life" and TUE John Morton, writer and director of the BBC mock documentary TUE comedies, "Twenty Twelve" and "W1A". TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b04bng0z (Listen) TUE Ade Adepitan and Dominic Holland TUE TUE Paralympian Ade Adepitan and comedian Dominic Holland talk TUE books with Harriett Gilbert. Books under discussion are: Sue TUE Townsend's delicious tale of teenage angst, The Secret Diary TUE of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's TUE 'non-fiction novel' about the murders of four family members TUE in a Kansas farmhouse in 1959 and Roddy Doyle's The Snapper, TUE a comic portrayal of an unplanned pregnancy. Harriett and TUE her two guests talk about the both the comedy and the TUE poignancy to be found in novels about a working class Dublin TUE family and a pompous teenager in 1980s Ashby de-la-Zouch. TUE They debate the mind and motives of a psychopath and Truman TUE Capote's views on the death penalty. TUE Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Ade Adepitan TUE Interviewed Guest: Dominic Holland TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04brlpj (Listen) TUE 29th July TUE TUE The Kaiser sends a telegram to The Tsar to try to prevent TUE war. 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 Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore TUE TUE Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04brlpn (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04bj9n6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b045xxst (Listen) TUE Series 3, Mortality TUE TUE Stephen K Amos is joined by comedians Jason Cook, Brendon TUE Burns and Robin Ince to present a guide to mortality. 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: Jason Cook TUE Performer: Brendon Burns TUE Performer: Robin Ince TUE Producer: Colin Anderson TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04brlpt (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04brlpw (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04bnd0s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Trick or Trust b04brlq0 (Listen) TUE How much does an understanding of evolutionary biology TUE influence policy-makers at the sharp end of government? TUE Quite a lot, according to Times columnist and former Downing TUE Street advisor, Daniel Finkelstein. He's seen how the latest TUE scientific research into our genes and how we behave sheds TUE light on the delicate interplay of trust, reciprocity and TUE deception in human affairs. Now he explores how that could TUE shape political decision-making on issues like welfare TUE reform, immigration and what should be done about bankers' TUE pay. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04brlq2 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04brlq6 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter goes on a weekly quest to demystify the TUE health issues that perplex us. TUE TUE 21:30 A Law unto Themselves b04bnd0l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04brlq8 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04brlqd (Listen) TUE The Miniaturist, Episode 7 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.7. Nella discovers Marin's secret, but does she fully TUE understand its implications ? 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 b04bn0gp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04brlqj (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE 23:55 The Listening Project b04brn3w (Listen) TUE Edward and Ben - A Working Relationship TUE TUE Fi Glover introduces a conversation about what you should TUE retain and what you need to change when you take over the TUE family business from your father. TUE TUE The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a TUE snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the TUE UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to TUE them about a subject they've never discussed intimately TUE before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK TUE by teams of producers from local and national radio stations TUE who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're TUE not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - TUE lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key TUE moment of connection between the participants. Most of the TUE unedited conversations are being archived by the British TUE Library and used to build up a collection of voices TUE capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade TUE of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or TUE just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting TUE bbc.co.uk/listeningproject TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 JULY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04bj9ny (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04cgyx8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04bj9p0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04bj9p2 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04bj9p4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04bj9p6 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brxsm (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison WED Murdoch. WED WED Alison Murdoch WED WED Good Morning. WED "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> WED WED Today is the anniversary of that famous day in 1966 when WED England both hosted and won the final of the FIFA World WED Cup. 93,000 spectators crowded into Wembley Stadium to WED watch the thrilling match, supplemented by 400 million on WED TV. Sadly, an even bigger audience watched England crash out WED of the World Cup again last month. WED WED Perhaps it’s not all bad. We can take pride in the fact that WED we invented the rules of the beautiful game in the first WED place. And even without bringing home the cup, football WED still creates pleasure and jobs, attracts around a million WED tourists each year , and contributes over £1 billion in WED taxes to our economy . WED WED Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, is one of many WED people who believe that setbacks are actually essential to WED success. “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways WED that won't work. I’ve failed my way to success” he said. WED WED As someone who makes mistakes and lets myself down pretty WED much every day, this is a huge encouragement. Winning may WED be exciting and exhilarating, but the real learning seems to WED come from my mistakes. And the secret is how to capitalize WED skillfully on the experience. For example, there’s a world WED of difference between guilt or beating myself up, which WED encourages self-preoccupation and despondency, and finding WED some quiet space for constructive regret and positive WED resolutions. WED WED There isn’t a single person – or football manager – on the WED planet who doesn’t make mistakes. As Albert Einstein said, WED ‘try not to be a person of success, but a person of value.’ WED Let’s pray that each of us can learn something positive from WED a mistake or defeat that we experience today. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04brjqs (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tws57 (Listen) WED Cirl Bunting WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve WED Backshall presents the cirl bunting. WED WED Cirl buntings are related to yellowhammers and look rather WED like them, but the male cirl bunting has a black throat and WED a greenish chest-band. WED WED Their rattling song may evoke memories of warm dry hillsides WED in France or Italy. Cirl buntings are Mediterranean birds WED more at home in olive groves than chilly English hedgerows. WED Here at the north-western edge of their range, most of our WED cirl buntings live near the coast in south Devon where they WED breed in hedgerows on farmland . WED WED Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b04brj7x (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 b04brj7z (Listen) WED Through the prism of history, Jonathan Freedland considers WED our attitudes towards young people who volunteer to fight in WED foreign wars. WED WED Producer: Mohini Patel. WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03bs759 (Listen) WED Series 1, Harold Macmillan WED WED As the digital revolution shakes publishing to its WED foundations, writer and former publisher Robert McCrum WED explores how Harold Macmillan, the publishing Prime WED Minister, mixed politics with business. WED WED Harold Macmillan was always a publisher and a politician. In WED both lives, he was a showman, an operator, and an inveterate WED reader. Print was in his DNA and books were his business. As WED a Conservative Prime Minister, he was also a successful WED publisher with the firm that carried his name. WED WED The firm was founded in 1843 by two outsiders. Brothers WED Daniel and Alexander Macmillan were Scottish crofters. It's WED a story whose romantic undertones always stirred Harold WED Macmillan's love of a good tale. WED WED Under Harold, Macmillan would become a publishing empire WED with a worldwide reach. As Prime Minister, Macmillan gave WED independence to Britain's African colonies. Officially, he WED was letting go. As a publisher, however, he was doing WED lucrative deals to secure the company's future. WED Simultaneously with decolonisation, Macmillan oversaw an WED ambitious expansion programme for the family firm. Macmillan WED remains one of the largest publishers in the world, WED operating in over seventy countries. WED WED Today, the digital revolution has made publishing truly WED global. A world without borders, largely de-coupled from its WED colonial past. Publishers can now reach new markets across WED the English-speaking world at the click of a mouse, in a way WED Harold Macmillan could only dream of. WED WED Robert meets Harold Macmillan's grandson, Lord Stockton, as WED well as experts in literature and publishing, to discuss the WED wily publishing Prime Minister. WED WED Produced by Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04cgzhc (Listen) WED Cold Blood, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Robert Powell. WED WED As a boy, Richard Kerridge found refuge in the wilderness of WED suburban England whose reptilian inhabitants were wondrously WED untameable. His often troubled and turbulent relationship WED with his father formed the backdrop to his adventures with WED neighbourhood friends as they scoured local parks and WED streams for newts, frogs, toads, lizards, and the ultimate WED prize - snakes. WED WED What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through WED the winter, to shed your skin, and taste wafting chemicals WED on your tongue? Do toads feel a sense of danger as the WED wheels of a car approach ? What exactly is an 'alien' WED species? WED WED Kerridge has continued to ask these questions during a WED lifetime of fascinated study and countless expeditions. WED WED Weaving startling nuggets of research (e.g. fewer than 5% of WED toads reach adulthood) with elements of history and WED folklore, the author has also created his personal emotional WED map of a lifelong relationship with these often unloved and WED overlooked creatures. WED WED Episode 3: WED Tensions at home are released by a lizard hunt. WED WED Abridged, produced and directed by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Richard Kerridge WED Producer: Jill Waters WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Author: Richard Kerridge WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04brj9f (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 b04brjb4 (Listen) WED Queens of Noise: Get It On, Episode 3 WED WED by Roy Boulter. Songwriter Beth has been hanging out with WED the lead singer of rival band The Radicals. Now she's WED pushing to dump the planned debut single and record her new WED song. WED WED Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates WED WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED Credits WED Beth: Anneika Rose WED Sylvie: Samantha Robinson WED Rain: Hannah Arterton WED Sam: Joe Absolom WED Richard: Matthew Watson WED Mike: Michael Bertenshaw WED Alec: Damian Lynch WED Director: Toby Swift WED Writer: Roy Boulter WED Writer: Louise Wener WED WED 11:00 The Georgians: Restraint, Revolution and Reform WED b04brjnr (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED In the final part of a series examining the political impact WED of the Georgian era, Amanda Foreman looks at politics on the WED ground as she considers the structures of British life that WED created both control and freedom. She asks why Britain WED experienced political evolution, not revolution. WED WED In 1832 the British political elite voluntarily chose to WED weaken its own power for the first and only time in history. WED This was the result of the Reform Act, which added 130 new WED seats to Parliament and almost doubled the number of people WED able to vote in general elections. WED WED While riot and rebellion was rife and often met with violent WED backlash from those in power, Amanda argues that the WED Georgian elites placed emphasis on freedom through a WED strengthening of the apparatus of control in politics and WED the law and that ordinary people could exercise political WED influence even without the vote. WED WED Meeting radicals in Newcastle and evangelical conservatives WED in the Mendip hills, Amanda examines how the ordinary WED disenfranchised man and woman increasingly invested in WED politics and civic life through a combination of local-level WED political interaction, seemingly non-political actions such WED as philanthropy, and direct rebellion - thereby avoiding WED heads on sticks and, instead, transforming how the elected WED related to the people. WED WED The series examines the formative years of British politics WED when the most important structures of British life we value WED and recognise today were established - and all in the shadow WED of revolution. It paints a picture of the Georgian legacy, WED one where decadence and scandal takes a backseat to WED proto-democracy and social reform. WED WED Producer: Katherine Godfrey WED A Whistledown production for Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01kl20n (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Mark Bonnar and Sarah Alexander star as the exes determined WED to be double- not single-parents and bring their kids up WED together apart. WED WED But Lucy has noticed the difference between her affluent WED mum, a children's fiction writer, and her broke dad who has WED just started a new job with Your Pets Painted in the WED Afterlife.com. She figures her dad he needs a proper WED Father's Day present, and her tuba has served it's purpose WED of getting her into that good state school where she doesn't WED get bricks thrown at her head. So why not take a visit to WED the pawn shop? WED WED Her mum Mimi's young life was blighted by a no-show actor WED dad but she has fibbed to her kids, telling them her missing WED magical dad suffered from Dramnesia. When Tom discovers his WED granddad is starring in a stool-softening advert he invites WED him to visit. Won't his mum be delighted? WED WED Director: Marilyn Imrie 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 William: Nicky Henson WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b04brjzx (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b04brjzz (Listen) WED Prostitution: Red Light? Green Light? WED WED John Waite investigates the varying approaches to street WED prostitution across the UK - from open tolerance in some WED areas to zero tolerance in others. Eight years ago five WED women were murdered in Ipswich while working as prostitutes. WED It was a wake-up call for how the sex industry is policed WED across the country. But with critics now saying that WED policing tactics contributed to yet another murder of a WED prostitute in London recently - what has really changed? WED Producer: Paul Waters WED Research: Craig Lewis WED Editor: Gavin Poncia. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04brl1z (Listen) WED Edward Stourton presents national and international news. WED WED 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04brl21 (Listen) WED Orchidmania WED WED Orchids are big business. Today over £5m of orchid hybrids WED are imported as cut flowers into the UK each year. For the WED Victorians orchids were the chosen ornaments of royalty and WED captured the 19th century fascination with scientific oddity WED and imperial conquest. WED WED Prof Kathy Willis explores how orchids, one of the planet's WED most diverse family of plants, mesmerised Victorian devotees WED and became not only trophy plants of the rich but also a WED scientific tool to promote a new theory of evolution. The WED study of orchids also paved the way for cultivation of WED exotics for all. WED WED Lara Jewitt tours the orchid glasshouses at Kew where over WED 3000 species are cultivated, and explains the biology unique WED to orchids that fuels interest for both scientists and plant WED lovers. WED WED Darwin was fascinated with these rare and precious plants. WED Their unique pollination mechanisms helped back up his new WED evolutionary theory based upon natural selection. As WED historian Jim Endersby reveals, the delicate orchid was to WED play a part in getting botany a seat at the top table of WED scientific respectability. WED WED Even in the 1850s, Kew's director Joseph Hooker had WED expressed concern about the damage orchid hunters were WED inflicting on the wild population. Whilst today many species WED remain endangered, V Sarasan, head of Kew's Conservation WED Biotechnology Unit, reveals how new conservation efforts in WED some of the most orchid species-rich areas of Madagascar are WED helping to successfully reintroduce endangered members of WED this vast but vulnerable flowering family back into the WED wild. WED WED Producer Adrian Washbourne. WED Rare Orchids WED Woman's Hour: Orchids v Roses WED Gardeners' World: Orchid care WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Orchids in the News WED BBC News: In Pictures - Exotic Orchids WED Botanists discover 'remarkable' night-flowering orchid WED Europe's rarest orchid rediscovered in the Azores WED Early spider orchid found at Dorset's Swanage sewage works WED Invasion of the Orchid Snatchers WED WED WED WED WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04brlpt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04brn3h (Listen) WED Hatch, Match and Dispatch, Elephants All the Way Up WED WED Hatch, Match and Dispatch: Elephants All The Way Up. WED WED Last in a series of linked plays that start in a Register WED Office and end in either a birth, a marriage or a death. WED Harper works in a zoo. He is a simple soul but his life is WED complicated. His wife is desperate for a baby, and his angry WED dad is bare knuckle boxer. Then the ground starts to shift - WED literally. A surreal comedy by Lavinia Murray WED WED Director/Producer Gary Brown. WED WED Credits WED Harper: Graeme Hawley WED Yolanda: Kate Coogan WED Dad: Seamus O'Neill WED Carlos: Chris Jack WED Arlo: Lloyd Peters WED Turtle: Lloyd Peters WED Grayson: Malcolm Raeburn WED Turtle: Malcolm Raeburn WED Woman: Lisa Allen WED Turtle: Lisa Allen WED Director: Gary Brown WED Producer: Gary Brown WED Writer: Lavinia Murray WED WED 15:00 Money Box b04bj7py (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04brlq6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04brn4l (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04brn4n (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04cgcsh (Listen) WED 30th July WED WED The Tsar orders a full mobilisation of the Russian army. 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 b04brn4q (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04bj9p8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dead Ringers b04brr99 (Listen) WED Series 11, Episode 1 WED WED After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning WED impressions show is back with a new cast of characters. WED WED No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show WED takes down every programme, institution and politician you WED hold dear. WED WED Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis WED MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. WED WED Producer: Bill Dare. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Jon Culshaw WED Performer: Jan Ravens WED Performer: Duncan Wisbey WED Performer: Lewis Macleod WED Performer: Debra Stevenson WED Producer: Bill Dare WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04brr9c (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04brr9f (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04brjb4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04brrgt (Listen) WED Michael Buerk presents combative, provocative and engaging WED debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04csb0h (Listen) WED Series 4, Adjoa Andoh WED WED Actor Adjoa Andoh's son sensed from a very young age that WED although he inhabits the body of a girl, he was born a boy. WED "In the imperfect language we have to describe people," she WED says, "we call him transgender." WED Adjoa talks movingly about raising a transgender child, and WED about what really defines who we are or who we might become. WED "In too many places today," she says, "and in too many ways, WED we suffocate our true potential selves at birth." 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 The Bronze Age Man of Jodrell Bank b043x86j (Listen) WED The writer, Alan Garner lives in a medieval building on a WED Bronze Age site, within a mile of the Jodrell Bank radio WED telescope. In this documentary he explains how the Bronze WED Age legacy of his home and its proximity to Jodrell Bank WED have been the inspiration for his writing over the last 50 WED years. He describes how it gives him a unique sense of WED place, and a perspective on the passage of time which is WED reflected in his most recent book Boneland, set in and WED around Jodrell Bank, where the main character works. The WED novel is the third and final part of a trilogy that first WED propelled Garner to fame with the children's classic fantasy WED story, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen over 50 years ago. WED WED As he approaches his 80th birthday in October 2014, this WED profile of the author is presented by Martin Goodman, WED Professor of Creative Writing at Hull University. He visits WED Jodrell Bank with Garner to find out more about the timeline WED Garner traces from the Bronze Age artefacts he has found WED around his home, through to the contemporary exploration of WED space which the telescope undertakes today. Garner takes WED inspiration from making these connections and expresses them WED through his fantasy stories. WED WED Goodman also re-visits the places which make Garner's books WED so memorable, including the locations on Alderley Edge WED itself, an outcrop of rock in Cheshire, with dramatic views WED of the Pennines. Goodman explores locations on Alderley WED Edge, as they are recorded in Garner's novels - the physical WED features of this landscape, such as stones and hidden WED places, which have been given a mythical dimension by WED Garner, who explains how the Edge has cast a spell over him WED since his childhood. WED WED Producer: Philip Reevell WED A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 The Long View b04brj7z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04bj9pb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04brrgy (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04brrmc (Listen) WED The Miniaturist, Episode 8 WED WED Title: 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 Ep8. With Johannes under arrest it falls to Nella to do what WED she can to sell the warehouse full of sugar before it rots. 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 Future of Radio b04brrpp (Listen) WED Sweet Smell of Success WED WED What is the future of radio? In a world of digital overload WED can the public be expected to just listen to something WED without any pictures? Is the radio era over? The Institute WED of Radiophonic Evolution (IRE), based in South Mimms, is WED working hard to give radio a bright future. WED WED Their secret work is revealed in these programmes which draw WED on conference calls, voice notes and life-logs, to tell a WED compelling and strange story of the technological lengths to WED which the researchers will go to keep radio relevant. WED WED Instead of just adding pictures, the lab is working on ways WED to transmit smells, vibrations, and 3D images, as well as a WED way of putting radio into listeners' very brains! WED WED It sounds impossible, but the IRE boffins believe in making WED the impossible audible. And that's their motto. WED WED Each week a jiffy bag of sound files arrives at BBC Radio 4. WED We listen to the contents to discover what backroom boffins WED Luke Mourne and Professor Trish Baldock (ably assisted by WED Shelley - on work experience) have been up to. WED WED In this week's episode, they discover that radio can WED transmits smells and use them to enhance the output of the WED Radio Drama Department. WED WED Pianist: Mike Woolley WED WED Written by Jerome Vincent and Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Luke: William Beck WED Trish: Emma Kilbey WED Shelley: Lizzy Watts WED Felix: David Brett WED Actor: Joan Walker WED Actor: Chris Stanton WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Witness: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b04brs9j (Listen) WED Fifteen Minutes to Landing WED WED by Jenny Éclair WED WED The first of a series of stories set in real time as six WED very different women share their secrets. WED WED A couple experience severe turblulence on a flight but it WED turns out to be not nearly as bumpy as their marriage. WED WED Produced by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Woman: Lesley Manville WED Captain James Barrington: Clive Hayward WED Air Hostess: Jane Slavin WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04brvjc (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED 23:55 The Listening Project b04brvjf (Listen) WED William and Elizabeth - Finding Love in Orkney WED WED Fi Glover introduces a couple who moved to Orkney as WED business partners and now reflect on how they fell in love WED with the remote islands and with each other, proving again WED that it's surprising what you hear when you listen. 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 31 JULY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04bj9q5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04cgzhc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04bj9q7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04bj9q9 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04bj9qc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04bj9qf (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brpdc (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison THU Murdoch. THU THU Alison Murdoch THU THU Good Morning. THU "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> THU THU Today, 31st July, is celebrated worldwide as the anniversary THU of the first teaching of the Buddha. Over 2500 years ago, on THU the borders of India and Nepal, the young prince decided THU that his comfortable and privileged lifestyle wasn’t going THU to bring him either happiness or satisfaction. So one night THU he crept out of the palace and set out, empty-handed and THU alone, to explore the meaning of life. THU THU After many years of study and meditation the young man THU achieved a state of insight and calm that is known as his THU ‘enlightenment’. Five of his former colleagues saw that THU something extraordinary had taken place, and asked him to THU sit down with them in a beautiful forest grove and share THU what he’d discovered. THU THU Buddhism can conjure up images … orange robes and begging THU bowls, vegetarianism, statues with gentle smiles. These are THU just what’s visible and external. Whereas the Buddha was THU entirely preoccupied with something invisible and internal – THU the nature of his mind. His main insight was something very THU practical and straightforward: that it’s our own minds that THU are the prime cause of all our happiness and problems. On THU this basis, Buddhism offers a set of tools and techniques THU for shaping and developing the mind, so that we can all find THU the same peace and happiness as the Buddha, and then share THU it with the people around us. THU THU As the Dalai Lama often says, making better use of our minds THU isn’t religious business, it’s human being business, and THU Buddhism is simply one approach to the task. Wherever we THU are, whoever we are, we all have the potential to develop THU our minds to become more calm, happy and content. Let’s pray THU that we can all find the time and motivation to do this. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04brpdf (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tx0s5 (Listen) THU Spotted Flycatcher THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve THU Backshall presents the spotted flycatcher. THU THU Spotted flycatchers may be rather plain-looking but they're THU full of character and they often nest in our gardens. The THU first sign that one's about may be a pale shape darting out THU from a tree to pluck a fly in mid-air with an audible snap THU of its bill. THU THU Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b04brpdh (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 b04brpdk (Listen) THU Series 10, Treating Patients with Dementia THU THU Modern medicine has succeeded in treating many of the THU diseases that kill us and, as a result, people are living THU longer. THU THU However, as we get older and become more frail decisions THU have to be made about when to treat the ailments that crop THU up. THU THU This becomes particularly challenging when a person can't THU make the decision for themselves, like those with advanced THU dementia. THU THU Jean is in her eighties and is getting increasingly frail. THU Each ailment brings another admission to hospital. When THU should a treatment be given that will prolong her life, and THU when should it be withheld so that nature can take its THU course? THU THU Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. THU THU Producer: Beth Eastwood. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04ch156 (Listen) THU Cold Blood, Episode 4 THU THU Read by Robert Powell. THU THU As a boy, Richard Kerridge found refuge in the wilderness of THU suburban England whose reptilian inhabitants were wondrously THU untameable. His often troubled and turbulent relationship THU with his father formed the backdrop to his adventures with THU neighbourhood friends as they scoured local parks and THU streams for newts, frogs, toads, lizards, and the ultimate THU prize - snakes. THU THU What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through THU the winter, to shed your skin, and taste wafting chemicals THU on your tongue? Do toads feel a sense of danger as the THU wheels of a car approach ? What exactly is an 'alien' THU species? THU THU Kerridge has continued to ask these questions during a THU lifetime of fascinated study and countless expeditions. THU THU Weaving startling nuggets of research (e.g. fewer than 5% of THU toads reach adulthood) with elements of history and THU folklore, the author has also created his personal emotional THU map of a lifelong relationship with these often unloved and THU overlooked creatures. THU THU Episode 4: THU The much maligned adder - and how to catch one. THU THU Abridged, produced and directed by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Richard Kerridge THU Producer: Jill Waters THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Author: Richard Kerridge THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04brpdm (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 b04brpdp (Listen) THU Queens of Noise: Get It On, Episode 4 THU THU by Louise Wener. Landing the support slot on a big tour THU gives Velveteens the chance to play to thousands every THU night. But can that ever compensate for the lack of black THU pudding at the B&B? THU THU Music directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates THU THU Directed by Toby Swift. THU Shout to the Top: Radio 2 THU Shout to the Top: Radio 2 THU THU Credits THU Sylvie: Samantha Robinson THU Rain: Hannah Arterton THU Beth: Anneika Rose THU Sam: Joe Absolom THU Richard: Matthew Watson THU Vince: Ben Crowe THU Director: Toby Swift THU Writer: Roy Boulter THU Writer: Louise Wener THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04brrj6 (Listen) THU Fearless Women in Turkish Kurdistan THU THU For decades, Turkey's Kurds have been struggling against a THU state that used to deny their very existence as a separate THU people. More than 40,000 people have died - and hundreds of THU villages have been destroyed - in the war between the THU Turkish army and the militant Kurdish group, the PKK. But THU now, just when Kurds in neighbouring Iraq are considering THU establishing an independent state, and many believe the THU chaos in Syria will change borders across the region, Kurds THU in Turkey are increasingly reconciled to remaining within THU existing frontiers. As Turkey pursues peace talks with the THU PKK, the militant movement's supporters talk of changing THU society, not borders. And already, they've initiated some THU radical experiments. THU THU Pro-PKK towns and villages across eastern Turkey are now THU each governed by two co-mayors, male and female, and the new THU system has propelled many dynamic young women into power in THU regions that were once socially conservative. One is a THU survivor of domestic violence determined to use her position THU to encourage other women to speak up about what until now THU has been a taboo subject. She's not just the first woman THU mayor of her town, but also the first woman ever to get a THU divorce there. Tim Whewell travels to the region to meet her THU and other social reformers, and discover why so many of THU Turkey's Kurds say they have turned their back on THU nationalism, and want to express their identity in ways they THU say are more modern. THU THU Producers: Charlotte Pritchard and Guney Yildiz. THU THU 11:30 With Great Pleasure b04brrj8 (Listen) THU Simon Callow THU THU Actor Simon Callow presents and reads his favourite literary THU extracts, with the help of Patricia Hodge. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Simon Callow THU Reader: Patricia Hodge THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b04brrjb (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04bj9qh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04brrjd (Listen) THU Edward Stourton presents national and international news. THU THU 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04brrjg (Listen) THU Plant Invaders THU THU The Victorians' pride at the effortless movement of plants THU around the world during the late 19th century was having an THU unwelcome side effect. Invasive species were beginning to THU wipe out native populations of plants. With no natural THU predators to control them, one man's flower was turning into THU another man's weed. THU THU Prof Kathy Willis hears how during the late 1800s, many THU invasive species from Japanese knot weed to Himalayan balsam THU to water hyacinth came from deliberate introductions and THU asks if today, trying to control them is ultimately futile? THU THU As historian Jim Endersby explains both Charles Darwin and THU Kew's director Joseph Hooker were the first to examine the THU impact of invasives, having noticed on the island of St THU Helena and Ascension Island the effect on native plants. THU THU One of the current biggest invaders is lantana, familiar to THU British gardeners as a small pot plant. As Shonil Baghwat of THU the Open University reveals, since its introduction to THU Kolkata Botanical garden in the 1870s it decimated native THU teak plantations. But today opportunities exist to exploit THU its presence for the wood, basketry and paper industries. THU THU And Kathy Willis hears from Kew conservationist Colin Clubb THU on the extent to which we should view invasive plants in our THU ecosystems as part of a strategy to maintain resilience to THU environmental change in the future. THU THU Producer Adrian Washbourne. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Invasive Plants in the News THU Buddleia: The plant that dominates Britain's railways THU THU Should we learn to love weeds? THU THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04brr9c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04brrjj (Listen) THU Imagining Some Fear THU THU Imagining Some Fear THU by Ellen Dryden THU A haunting story about a woman's struggle to come to terms THU with the truth. THU Emma is having trouble sleeping, she's having terrible THU nightmares. London is feeling claustrophobic. So when Emma THU unexpectedly inherits a lonely, dilapidated country cottage THU and a small fortune from a Great-Aunt Florence she's never THU met, she's hopeful of a new beginning. But the nightmares THU continue. Until, that is, she starts to uncover the secrets THU of Great Aunt Florence. THU THU Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Credits THU Emma: Lyndsey Marshal THU Abigail: Anna Francolini THU Neil: Jonathan Keeble THU Pamela: Ellen Dryden THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Writer: Ellen Dryden THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04brrjl (Listen) THU Slate Mines, Snowdonia THU THU Snowdonia's slate once roofed the world, employing thousands THU of workers across scores of mines in North Wales. But that THU was in its heyday, in Victorian times. Today, whilst the THU industry still exists, it employs just 350 people. THU THU Helen Mark finds out what's become of the abandoned slate THU quarries and caverns today. Some are now places of leisure, THU with zip wires above ground, trampolines in underground THU slate caverns, and with scuba diving opportunities in THU flooded quarries, but others, as Helen discovers at Dorothea THU mine, are rapidly being reclaimed by nature. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04bmd3h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04bmtpm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04brrmx (Listen) THU Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss lines up his favourite THU screen detectives THU THU With Matthew Sweet. THU THU Sherlock co-creator and League Of Gentlemen founder Mark THU Gatiss reveals his favourite screen detectives in the last THU instalment of his series. THU THU Richard Ayoade of The IT Crowd discusses his dystopian THU adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Double and reveals the words THU of advice he got from fellow director David Cronenberg. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Matthew Sweet THU Interviewed Guest: Mark Gatiss THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04brrmz (Listen) THU Professor Alice Roberts investigates the news in science and THU science in the news. THU THU 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04brtft (Listen) THU 31st July THU THU Panic in the financial markets as the Bank of England is THU forced to close. 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 b04brtfw (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04bj9qk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Sketchorama b04800pr (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU THU Tom Tuck presents the pick of the best live sketch groups THU currently performing on the UK comedy circuit - featuring THU three up and coming groups in character, improv, broken and THU musical sketch comedy. THU THU In this programme: THU THU Mixed Doubles. THU Rose Robinson, Paul Aitchison, Megan Smith and Will Close THU formed Mixed Doubles in 2012 after meeting at Mountview THU Academy of Theatre Arts and deciding to postpone THU unemployment through the means of sketch comedy. Their debut THU performances were at the Henley Fringe Festival in July 2012 THU and after a successful opening stint, London shows became an THU increasing regularity in the build-up to their rampant first THU appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013. They scooped the THU 'People's Choice Award' for their viral Modern Conversation THU at the Dave Comedy Festival in 2013 and were named Finalists THU in the Foster's 'So You Think That's Funny - Best New Sketch THU Act' of the same year. THU THU The Real MacGuffins. THU A London based sketch comedy group formed in 2008 by Dan THU March, Jim Millard and Matt Sheahan. They have performed THU their unique brand of sketch comedy across the UK as well as THU supporting comedians including Stewart Lee, Dave Gorman and THU Perrier Award Winners Tim Vine, Phil Nichol, Adam Riches and THU Doctor Brown. The group have proved a crowd favourite at the THU Edinburgh Fringe Festival throughout 2010, 2011 and 2013. THU THU Bob and Jim. THU Bob and Jim have created three Edinburgh shows - 'Modern THU Urges' (2011), 'GO' (2012) and 'Two Stars' (2013) and are THU Musical Comedy Awards Finalists (2014). THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie. THU A Comedy Unit Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Thom Tuck THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04brtg0 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04brtg4 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04brpdp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04brtg6 (Listen) THU Diabetes: A Surgical Solution? THU THU Around 700 people are diagnosed with diabetes in Britain THU every day, and the condition accounts for around 10 per cent THU of the NHS budget - but is enough being done to combat the THU effects of the disease? THU THU The National Institute of Clinical Excellence - NICE - is THU the body which provides guidance and advice to the NHS. It THU recently published new draft guidelines which proposed THU increasing access to weight-loss surgery to a wider range of THU patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. THU THU This announcement was met with fierce criticism, especially THU from the tabloid press, which declared such treatment as THU undeserved: fat people should just stop eating instead of THU using up valuable resources to pay for vanity operations. THU THU But some experts say bariatric surgery is the most important THU development in the history of diabetes treatment and its THU effectiveness can lead to full remission of type 2 diabetes. THU In turn, this could end up saving the NHS millions of pounds THU as patients are weaned off costly drugs, and are less likely THU to develop complications such as blindness or kidney THU failure. THU THU But is this really a long-term solution? Or do we need to THU think more radically about how to educate the public about THU healthy living to really reduce the rapid rise in diabetes THU diagnoses? THU THU Reporter: Adrian Goldberg THU Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. THU E-Cigarettes THU The Truth About Statins THU Right to Die THU THU 20:30 In Business b04brtgb (Listen) THU Deep Thoughts THU THU It sounds abstruse, but clever people argue that commercial THU companies have a lot to learn from great philosophers and THU the academics who spend their lives studying them. THU Peter Day meets some of the business people inspired and THU influenced by highbrow philosophy. THU Produced by David Edmonds. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04brrmz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Zeitgeisters b041469j (Listen) THU Series 2, Theaster Gates 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 3. Theaster Gates - a man with two degrees in THU urban planning (and a further one in religious studies), who THU worked for the city's Transport Authority, but now uses THU sculpture, installation and performance to bridge the gap THU between art and life. Will Gompertz travels to Chicago to THU meet the the artist who is using collectors' desire for his THU artworks (they sell for anything upwards of several hundred THU thousand dollars each) to transform the rundown Southside THU where he now lives. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 21:58 Weather b04bj9qm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04brxqh (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04brxqk (Listen) THU The Miniaturist, Episode 9 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 Ep9. The burgomasters of Amsterdam are determined to uphold THU their city's god-fearing reputation. 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 b04brxqm (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU David Baddiel hosts this brand-new show as Clive Anderson, THU Rhys Thomas, Chris Ramsay and Katherine Ryan go against THU their natural instincts and try not to make an audience THU laugh. THU THU Scorer: Emily Dean THU THU Producer: Dave Cribb THU A So Television / Fierce Tears production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Performer: Clive Anderson THU Performer: Rhys Thomas THU Performer: Chris Ramsay THU Performer: Katherine Ryan THU Producer: Dave Cribb THU THU 23:30 The Living Mountain b03mfndd (Listen) THU Robert Macfarlane takes inspiration from writer Nan Shepherd THU on a very special poetic pilgrimage to the Cairngorms. THU THU Nan Shepherd believed that it was 'a grand thing to get THU leave to live.' She did this by spending every minute she THU could in her beloved Cairngorms. In her 88-years, she THU covered thousands of miles on foot and became minutely aware THU of the rhythms of these wild places. THU THU She collected her thoughts in 'The Living Mountain'. It's a THU remarkable love letter to these dramatic landscapes, but THU convinced that readers didn't want an "aimless, sensual THU exploration of the Cairngorms," Nan tucked the manuscript THU away in a drawer and left it there for 30-years. THU THU Four years before she died, her book finally saw the light THU of day. At just 80-pages, it's small in size, but big in THU impact and has been described by The Guardian as "the finest THU book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain". THU THU Robert Macfarlane agrees. He calls 'The Living Mountain' a THU "wry, beautiful hymn to 'living all the way through'". He THU thinks this book is hugely important as more and more of us THU experience less and less contact with the outside world; "We THU are, literally, losing touch." Nan's writing is the THU antithesis of this. She plunges readers right into the THU landscape. THU THU Robert celebrates this intrepid literary spirit by embarking THU on an autumnal trip right into the heart of Nan's favourite THU wild places. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 AUGUST 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04bj9rg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04ch156 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04bj9rj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04bj9rl (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04bj9rn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04bj9rq (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04brxxz (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison FRI Murdoch. FRI FRI Alison Murdoch FRI FRI Good Morning. FRI "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> FRI FRI A few weeks ago, my husband and I moved home for the first FRI time in nearly 20 years. Research studies suggest that FRI moving home is one of the top ten sources of stress in life, FRI alongside divorce, bereavement and unemployment. I’ve FRI definitely noticed myself being more grumpy and anxious than FRI usual, but I can hardly complain when we’re moving by choice FRI to a house that was love at first sight. FRI FRI Next week we’ll be remembering the start of World War One, FRI in which millions of Europeans were forcibly uprooted and FRI displaced. And sadly the number of refugees and asylum FRI seekers in the world has been going up ever since. At the FRI end of last year, the United Nations calculated that over 45 FRI million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from FRI their homes . In Syria alone, over a million children have FRI now become refugees. FRI FRI The comparison between our situation and that of a refugee FRI could hardly be more striking. While we got frustrated by FRI the road works on the M3, they were dodging bullets and FRI barbed wire, or risking their lives on overcrowded boats. We FRI have an embarrassing quantity of crates and boxes to unpack, FRI whereas a migrant is lucky to own one battered suitcase. And FRI while we’ve been given welcoming smiles, offers of help and FRI even flowers by our new neighbours, displaced people are FRI often greeted with suspicion and mistrust. FRI FRI Why do we fail to open our hearts to people who are FRI experiencing such extreme crisis and upheaval? Why this FRI massive breakdown in kindness, empathy and compassion? Plato FRI said: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard FRI battle”. Let’s pray that each of us today can find some FRI more kindness in our hearts for people who have lost their FRI homes. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04brxy3 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tx41n (Listen) FRI Sparrowhawk FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve FRI Backshall presents the sparrowhawk. FRI FRI A garden visit from a sparrowhawk can be an exciting affair. FRI They're smash-and grab raiders, using bushes, hedgerows and FRI fences as cover to take their victims by surprise. Males are FRI blue-grey above, with a striking rusty-orange chest and are FRI smaller than the brown females - this allows the pair to FRI take a wide range of prey. FRI FRI Sparrwohawk (Accipiter nisus) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04brybw (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04bmdf7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04ch1c4 (Listen) FRI Cold Blood, Episode 5 FRI FRI Read by Robert Powell. FRI FRI As a boy, Richard Kerridge found refuge in the wilderness of FRI suburban England whose reptilian inhabitants were wondrously FRI untameable. His often troubled and turbulent relationship FRI with his father formed the backdrop to his adventures with FRI neighbourhood friends as they scoured local parks and FRI streams for newts, frogs, toads, lizards, and the ultimate FRI prize - snakes. FRI FRI What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through FRI the winter, to shed your skin, and taste wafting chemicals FRI on your tongue? Do toads feel a sense of danger as the FRI wheels of a car approach ? What exactly is an 'alien' FRI species? FRI FRI Kerridge has continued to ask these questions during a FRI lifetime of fascinated study and countless expeditions. FRI FRI Weaving startling nuggets of research (e.g. fewer than 5% of FRI toads reach adulthood) with elements of history and FRI folklore, the author has also created his personal emotional FRI map of a lifelong relationship with these often unloved and FRI overlooked creatures. FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Family memories, a Natterjack sings, and the 'alien' Camden FRI Creature. FRI FRI Abridged, produced and directed by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Richard Kerridge FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Author: Richard Kerridge FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04bryby (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 b04bryc0 (Listen) FRI Queens of Noise: Get It On, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Roy Boulter. The debut single's out. The band love it, FRI the record company loves it and Janice Long "loves it to FRI bits". Will the nation agree? FRI FRI Music Directors ..... Brian Rawling and Marky Bates FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI Credits FRI Rain: Hannah Arterton FRI Sylvie: Samantha Robinson FRI Beth: Anneika Rose FRI Sam: Joe Absolom FRI Herself: Janice Long FRI Shop Assistant: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Writer: Roy Boulter FRI Writer: Louise Wener FRI FRI 11:00 The Soul of Ireland b04bryc2 (Listen) FRI RTE's Sean Rocks traces how Ireland first heard soul music, FRI blues and R&B, from smoky bars to armed forces radio. But it FRI was the network of Parish halls that brought Dusty FRI Springfield, Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher to the masses. FRI FRI "Ireland in the 50's and 60's was a cultural backwater," FRI Father Brian D'Arcy explains. "The parish hall was the FRI (social) web of our time". Parish tours meant that artists FRI got heard by the youth of Ireland - something that was not FRI easy on Irish Radio or TV. FRI FRI This music had some early enthusiasts who would trade vinyl FRI and stories of the best upcoming artists, but there were FRI those that labelled it The Devil's Screeching. Music FRI journalist Trevor Hodget recalls when Van Morrison's band FRI Them played Cookstown, "The punters started pelting the band FRI with pennies and a near riot ensued." FRI FRI Still considered one of the finest blues singers in the FRI world, Van Morrison remembers how he first got into blues FRI and how hard it was to find other musicians in Ireland who FRI could play black music: "It sounded like Chinese music to FRI most of them!" FRI FRI Showband player and Arklow resident Liam O'Reilly recalls a FRI slightly bizarre encounter with a music legend. In 1965, FRI Dusty Springfield played Arklow's endearingly titled FRI Entertainment Centre. Liam remembers the heckles when Dusty FRI announced "Sorry, we are not used to playing small places FRI like this." FRI FRI Touring with The Springfields, musician Mike Hurst had to FRI act like a bouncer in many of the dancehalls, "He grabbed FRI hold of Dusty's shoulders and started to try and kiss her!" FRI In the middle of a strangle hold Mike was told by his FRI manager, "I wouldn't be doing that if I were you Mike, he's FRI the Chief of Police!" FRI FRI Producer: Peter Shevlin FRI A BlokMedia production for Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 My Teenage Diary b038yk71 (Listen) FRI Series 5, Vanessa Feltz 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 broadcaster Vanessa Feltz, FRI who revisits her teenage years in North London. She spent FRI her holidays packing knickers for her father's lingerie FRI firm, and a lot of the rest of the time daydreaming about FRI being married to her teenage boyfriend. FRI FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Rufus Hound FRI Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Feltz FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b04bryc4 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b04bryc6 (Listen) FRI Iby and Carolyn - A Survivor's Secret FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between Iby, who FRI survived the Holocaust but kept her secret for forty years, FRI and the friend to whom she first revealed that she'd spent FRI time in Auschwitz; nearly thirty years on Carolyn asks her FRI why she waited so long to share her past. 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 b04bj9rs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04brydp (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI FRI 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04bryyz (Listen) FRI Patterns from Crossed Peas FRI FRI In 1900 three papers by three botanists, unknown to each FRI other, appeared in the same scientific journal. Each had FRI independently "rediscovered" the rules of inheritance that FRI Gregor Mendel had found four decades earlier in his solitary FRI investigations of pea plants. FRI FRI Kathy Willis reassesses Mendel's famous pea experiments in FRI the light of his attempts to uncover what happens over FRI several generations when hybrid plants are created. As FRI historian Jim Endersby explains, Mendel's initial results FRI may have stunned him and shown what plant breeders might FRI have suspected for decades, but science now had mathematical FRI laws to create new varieties. FRI FRI Historian Greg Radick sheds light on how Mendelism, in the FRI years leading up to the first World War, became heavily FRI promoted by Cambridge botanist William Bateson and was put FRI into action by the first Professor of Agricultural Botany, FRI Roland Biffen. His success in creating new wheat hybrids is FRI explained by a unique international assembly of wheat ears FRI from the early 1900s, curated by Mark Nesbitt, Head of Kew's FRI economic botany collection. FRI FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04brtg0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04bryz1 (Listen) FRI I'm a Believer FRI FRI Stephen Mangan stars in Jon Canter's irreverent comedy. FRI FRI When Simon meets God in his dreams, he's happy to tell Him FRI to His face that He doesn't exist. But that's before Simon FRI meets Birth, Death and a woman who thinks he's a vicar... FRI all on the same night. FRI FRI Directed by Jonquil Panting FRI FRI Jon Canter's deliciously dry dialogue, satirically FRI self-conscious characters, and real moments of pathos, make FRI his comedies as intelligent and sharp as they are gentle and FRI ineffably English. His comic novels include 'Seeds of FRI Greatness','A Short Gentleman' and 'Worth'. He wrote FRI 'Afterliff' with John Lloyd, and helped Rev. Adam Smallbone FRI edit 'The Rev Diaries'. He has written for Lenny Henry, Dawn FRI French, Angus Deayton, Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, FRI Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, co-wrote 'Posh Nosh' with FRI Arabella Weir, and 'Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful' with FRI Guy Jenkin. Other writing credits include 'The Two Ronnies', FRI 'Not The Nine O Clock News', 'Mr Bean', 'Alas Smith & FRI Jones', and 'Murder Most Horrid'. Hugh Bonneville starred in FRI BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of 'A Short Gentleman' by Robin FRI Brooks, Stephen Fry starred in 'I Love Stephen Fry', and FRI 'Believe It!', starring Richard Wilson, won the BBC Audio FRI Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Simon: Stephen Mangan FRI God: Colin McFarlane FRI Jane: Claudie Blakley FRI Mary: Pauline McLynn FRI Director: Jonquil Panting FRI Writer: Jon Canter FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04bryz3 (Listen) FRI Shropshire FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Shropshire. He's joined by Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew FRI and Bunny Guinness, who answer the audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Stories from the Southern Cross b04bryz5 (Listen) FRI Orbiting FRI FRI Story produced in collaboration with the first Australia New FRI Zealand Literature Festival. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04bs0ll (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04bs0ls (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04bs0lx (Listen) FRI 2nd August FRI FRI The British cabinet is split over whether to join the war. 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 b04bs0m1 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04bj9rv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Brig Society b04bs0m9 (Listen) FRI Series 2, MEP FRI FRI Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! FRI Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of FRI a big old thing and each week he starts out by thinking FRI "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with FRI "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who FRI knew...?" FRI FRI This week, Marcus Brigstocke has got himself elected as a FRI Member of the European Parliament. So it's off to Brussels FRI to meet Europe's finest parliamentary minds and also UKIP. FRI FRI Along the way he'll be examining the history of the EU, its FRI legislative structure, the democratic burden that must be FRI shouldered to promulgate a more humane society and why so FRI many UKIP members wear yellow trousers. FRI FRI Helping him to publish the answers in up to 31 languages FRI will be Rufus Jones (W1A, Holy Flying Circus), William FRI Andrews (Sorry I've Got No Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI (Miranda) FRI FRI The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice, FRI David Tyler who also produces Marcus appearances as the FRI inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg - as well as Jeremy Hardy FRI Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, Milton FRI Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando Iannucci's FRI Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The 99p FRI Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active and Bigipedia. FRI FRI Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, FRI Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. FRI FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for the BBC. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Ensemble: Rufus Jones FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: William Andrews FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI Writer: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Writer: Jeremy Salsby FRI Writer: Toby Davies FRI Writer: Nick Doody FRI Writer: Steve Punt FRI Writer: Dan Tetsell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04bs0mc (Listen) FRI Charlie lays it on the line, while Emma tries to comfort Ed. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Peter Wild FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Nic Grundy: Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Charlie Thompson: Felix Scott FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Mr Stevens: Paul Thornley FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04bs0mf (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04bryc0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04bs0mh (Listen) FRI Mary Beard, Rod Liddle, Clive Aslet, Lord Dannatt FRI FRI Ed Stourton presents political debate and discussion from FRI Turner Contemporary in Kent with the Spectator columnist Rod FRI Liddle, historian Mary Beard, Former head of the British FRI Army Lord Dannatt and the editor at large of Country Life FRI magazine and Ramsgate resident Clive Aslet. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04bs0mk (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b03g89c6 (Listen) FRI The Right Honourable FRI FRI By Mike Bartlett. Nerys Jones, at 28, is the youngest MP in FRI the House of Commons. In her first week she signs up for an FRI introductory tour of Parliament and is surprised to find her FRI tour guide is a very senior politician. At first he seems to FRI be playing some sort of game and she's not sure what it is, FRI but soon she is drawn into a web of intrigue which tests FRI everything she stands for. FRI FRI Starring Peter Firth and Alexandra Roach (the young Margaret FRI Thatcher in The Iron Lady), this is fresh political FRI storytelling from Mike Bartlett, one of the most FRI thought-provoking playwrights in Britain today. His TV FRI series, The Town (December 2012), was nominated for a FRI Breakthrough Talent BAFTA. His most recent play Bull FRI received excellent reviews earlier this year at the FRI Sheffield Crucible and transferred to New York. His FRI dramatisation of Chariots of Fire directed by Ed Hall at FRI Hampstead had an extended season last year in the West End. FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Nerys: Alexandra Roach FRI Mark: Peter Firth FRI Giles: Anton Lesser FRI Steve: Alun Raglan FRI Paul: Gerard McDermott FRI Andrew: Paul Bazeley FRI Constituent: Di Botcher FRI Writer: Mike Bartlett FRI Director: Claire Grove FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04bj9rx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04bs0mm (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04bs0mp (Listen) FRI The Miniaturist, Episode 10 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 Ep10 Nella bids her husband farewell and welcomes the new FRI arrival. 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 b04bs0mr (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI FRI Presenter: Evan Davis FRI Producer: Ruth Watts. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04bs0mt (Listen) FRI Iby and Julia - Not Defined by the Holocaust FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a survivor of FRI Auschwitz and her granddaughter, which reveals that Iby used FRI her experience to pass on tolerance and understanding, not FRI fear, proving again that it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
25 July, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 26/07/2014 - 01/08/2014
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