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SAT SATURDAY 02 AUGUST 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04bj9tb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04ch1c4 (Listen) SAT Cold Blood, Episode 5 SAT SAT Read by Robert Powell. SAT SAT As a boy, Richard Kerridge found refuge in the wilderness of SAT suburban England whose reptilian inhabitants were wondrously SAT untameable. His often troubled and turbulent relationship SAT with his father formed the backdrop to his adventures with SAT neighbourhood friends as they scoured local parks and SAT streams for newts, frogs, toads, lizards, and the ultimate SAT prize - snakes. SAT SAT What might it be like to be cold blooded, to sleep through SAT the winter, to shed your skin, and taste wafting chemicals SAT on your tongue? Do toads feel a sense of danger as the SAT wheels of a car approach ? What exactly is an 'alien' SAT species? SAT SAT Kerridge has continued to ask these questions during a SAT lifetime of fascinated study and countless expeditions. SAT SAT Weaving startling nuggets of research (e.g. fewer than 5% of SAT toads reach adulthood) with elements of history and SAT folklore, the author has also created his personal emotional SAT map of a lifelong relationship with these often unloved and SAT overlooked creatures. SAT SAT Episode 5: SAT Family memories, a Natterjack sings, and the 'alien' Camden SAT Creature. SAT SAT Abridged, produced and directed by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Richard Kerridge SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Author: Richard Kerridge SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04bj9td (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04bj9tg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04bj9tj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04bj9tl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04bs1hf (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil SAT Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04bs1hh (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04bj9tn (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04bj9tq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04brrjl (Listen) SAT Slate Mines, Snowdonia SAT SAT Snowdonia's slate once roofed the world, employing thousands SAT of workers across scores of mines in North Wales. But that SAT was in its heyday, in Victorian times. Today, whilst the SAT industry still exists, it employs just 350 people. SAT SAT Helen Mark finds out what's become of the abandoned slate SAT quarries and caverns today. Some are now places of leisure, SAT with zip wires above ground, trampolines in underground SAT slate caverns, and with scuba diving opportunities in SAT flooded quarries, but others, as Helen discovers at Dorothea SAT mine, are rapidly being reclaimed by nature. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04c9bc7 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Harvest 2014 SAT SAT You'd be forgiven for thinking, after all that glorious SAT sunshine, the British countryside would be alive with the SAT rumble of combine harvesters and the chugging of tractors SAT loaded with grain. At least that's what Caz Graham had in SAT mind for this harvest edition of Farming Today This Week. SAT Unfortunately, it rained. SAT Caz meets Richard Reeves, a tenant on the Tatton Park estate SAT in Cheshire. He grows 750 acres of wheat, barley, oats and SAT oilseed rape and sells his grain locally for animal feed. SAT Hampered by the wet weather and unable to get to work in the SAT fields, Richard takes the opportunity to discuss global SAT wheat prices, the impact of a strong pound on exports, the SAT quality of this year's crop and the pros and cons of being SAT an arable farmer in one of the rainiest parts of Britain. He SAT also shares his concerns about the National Trust's long SAT term vision for his land - to be taken out of food SAT production and returned to parkland. SAT We also feature a series of reports on the UK harvest, from SAT the first apples of the season to an update on black grass. SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04bj9ts (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04c9dfj (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from 02/08/2014 (3) SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04c9dfl (Listen) SAT Maureen Lipman SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by the actress and SAT writer Maureen Lipman, artist John Dolan who was saved from SAT homelessness by his dog George, and Alison Trim who received SAT a memorable musical 50th birthday present. John McCarthy SAT meets Level 42's Mark King and his mother Bridget on the SAT Isle of Wight, twins Billy and Bob Seago explain how passing SAT and failing the 11 plus affected their relationship, Allan SAT and Margot Wells reflect on working together and their long SAT association with the Commonwealth Games, and Erasure's Andy SAT Bell shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Maureen Lipman stars in Daytona at the Theatre Royal, SAT Haymarket, London, until 23 August. SAT SAT John Dolan's exhibition, John and George, is at the Howard SAT Griffin Gallery London E1, until 17 August. John and George SAT The Dog Who Changed My Life by John Dolan is published by SAT Random House. SAT SAT Andy Bell inherits Blondie's '(I'm Always Touched By Your) SAT Presence, Dear' and he passes on 'Moments Of Pleasure' by SAT Kate Bush. Andy Bell: Is Torsten the Bareback Saint at SAT Assembly Venue 1, George Street, Edinburgh, from 6-16 SAT August. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Maureen Lipman (2) SAT SAT Mark King and mum Bridget with John at Gurnard Marsh SAT SAT Studio Photo SAT Maureen Lipman, Suzy Klein, Rev. Richard Coles, Alison Trim SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Maureen Lipman SAT Interviewed Guest: Alison Trim SAT Interviewed Guest: John McCarthy SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark King SAT Interviewed Guest: John Dolan SAT Interviewed Guest: Billy Seago SAT Interviewed Guest: Bob Seago SAT Interviewed Guest: Allan Wells SAT Interviewed Guest: Margot Wells SAT Interviewed Guest: Andy Bell SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b04c9dfn (Listen) SAT Series 7, Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? SAT SAT Steve Punt turns detective to investigate a mystery from the SAT Midlands. SAT SAT In 1943, in a small wood in the village of Hagley, the body SAT a woman was found inside a Wych elm tree. She had been put SAT in feet first, alive or just recently dead. The police SAT issued a good photo fit but, despite extensive enquiries, a SAT match could not be found and no one reported her missing. SAT SAT Punt hunts first for the files and then for the body. But SAT things are not where they should be. He heads into those SAT unsettling woods, rustles up tangled leads, and ends up SAT barking up the occasional wrong tree. SAT SAT He tracks down the 101-year-old forensic biologist on the SAT case and investigates witchcraft and spying in his attempt SAT to separate conspiracy from the truth. SAT SAT And Professor Norman Fenton, expert witness in major SAT criminal trails, subjects Punt's findings to analysis, SAT building a unique model especially for the programme. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Bowen. SAT SAT Bayesian Model SAT Professor Norman Fenton’s SAT Bayesian Model SAT used in the programme. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04crzf1 (Listen) SAT Hair, Fur and Cilia SAT SAT Hair has always held us captive: a symbol of strength and SAT vitality, or of sexual attraction and youth. But what are SAT its molecular secrets? And what are we learning about those SAT other mysterious filaments, the hair-like cilia strands SAT attached to almost every living cell? SAT Bridget Kendall brings together three people whose work SAT explores why these slender threads are essential to life. SAT The medical geneticist Philip Beales explains why cilia SAT disorders can affect memory and learning, Professor Ralf SAT Paus, a leading hair loss researcher, reveals fresh insights SAT into the role of neurohormones in promoting hair growth, and SAT the artist Adeline de Monseignat shows her beautiful but SAT disturbing sculptures, which suggest hair and fur aren't SAT really a stack of dead cells, but somehow still alive. SAT SAT Philip Beales SAT Philip Beales is Professor of medical genetics at University SAT College London and a clinical scientist at Great Ormond SAT Street hospital. He is also head of the Cilia disorders SAT laboratory. A cilium is a slender microscopic hair-like SAT structure that extends like a tail from the surface of all SAT our cells, and is vital for our body's healthy functioning. SAT Professor Beales says the significance of the cilium is SAT reflected in the fact that it is primordial, and ubiquitous SAT in nature, from bacteria in volcano vents to fish, worms and SAT insects. As a specialist in diseases that occur when cilia SAT are not functioning, Professor Beales’ latest research has SAT discovered a link between obesity, diabetes and cilia SAT disorders. Professor Beales is also the co-editor of SAT Ciliopathies:A reference for clinicians. SAT SAT Ralf Paus SAT SAT Ralf Paus is Professor of Cutaneous medicine at the SAT University of Manchester and runs one of Europe's leading SAT hair research groups in Manchester, and at the University of SAT Münster, in Germany. Professor Paus specialises in promoting SAT hair growth. Describing each hair follicle as a hormone SAT factory, Professor Paus believes neurohormones play a vital SAT role in helping hair grow: these are hormones with SAT neurotransmitters that both the brain and the hair follicle SAT are able to produce and are used in the production of hair SAT cells. SAT SAT Adeline de Monseignat SAT SAT Adeline de Monseignat is a Monegasque sculptor who works SAT with hair and fur. What fascinates her about using these SAT materials is that they are somewhere in between the animate SAT and inanimate, the dead and living, which is why she SAT describes her creations as "creaptures" - a cross between SAT sculptures and creatures. This also highlights a duality she SAT explores in hair and fur: how it attracts and repulses at SAT the same time. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04c9gsd (Listen) SAT Invasion of the Seagulls SAT SAT Despatches by reporters around the world. In this edition, SAT Chris Morris, who was in Gaza twenty years ago, returns to SAT chronicle how things 'have got worse, much worse'. Claudia SAT Hammond, in Cyprus, on the latest attempts to find out what SAT happened to those who went missing decades ago during SAT fighting between the island's Greek and Turkish communities. SAT Tim Mansel is in Sierra Leone amid growing alarm over the SAT spread of the Ebola virus in west Africa. Why a seagull SAT observed in Vatican City could be a disturbing omen for SAT peace - that's from Alan Johnston and Petroc Trelawny finds SAT out where the newly-weds like to go in Guangzhou, one of SAT China's fastest-developing cities. SAT SAT 12:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04c9gsg (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT With official statistics showing UK house prices up almost SAT 10% over the past year, the Governor of the Bank of England SAT has described rising property prices as the greatest threat SAT to economic recovery. But are fears of a property bubble SAT justified? SAT In the first of a four part series, Michael Robinson travels SAT across the UK to ask what's going on in the British housing SAT market. SAT In the South West he finds estate agents with almost nothing SAT to sell while buyers snap up houses within days of their SAT coming onto the market. In the North-West where houses are SAT far cheaper, first time buyers are struggling to compete SAT with a new army of buy-to let landlords. And in Northern SAT Ireland, where prices are now low enough for first time SAT buyers to get a foot onto the ladder, he also meets some of SAT the casualties of one of the biggest property crashes in UK SAT history. SAT SAT 12:30 The Brig Society b04bs0m9 (Listen) SAT Series 2, MEP SAT SAT Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! SAT Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of SAT a big old thing and each week he starts out by thinking SAT "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with SAT "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who SAT knew...?" SAT SAT This week, Marcus Brigstocke has got himself elected as a SAT Member of the European Parliament. So it's off to Brussels SAT to meet Europe's finest parliamentary minds and also UKIP. SAT SAT Along the way he'll be examining the history of the EU, its SAT legislative structure, the democratic burden that must be SAT shouldered to promulgate a more humane society and why so SAT many UKIP members wear yellow trousers. SAT SAT Helping him to publish the answers in up to 31 languages SAT will be Rufus Jones (W1A, Holy Flying Circus), William SAT Andrews (Sorry I've Got No Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT (Miranda) SAT SAT The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice, SAT David Tyler who also produces Marcus appearances as the SAT inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg - as well as Jeremy Hardy SAT Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, Milton SAT Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando Iannucci's SAT Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The 99p SAT Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active and Bigipedia. SAT SAT Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, SAT Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. SAT SAT Produced by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for the BBC. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Ensemble: Rufus Jones SAT Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT Ensemble: William Andrews SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT Writer: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Writer: Jeremy Salsby SAT Writer: Toby Davies SAT Writer: Nick Doody SAT Writer: Steve Punt SAT Writer: Dan Tetsell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04bj9tv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04bj9tx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04bs0mh (Listen) SAT Mary Beard, Rod Liddle, Clive Aslet, Richard Dannatt SAT SAT Edward Stourton presents political debate and discussion SAT from Turner Contemporary in Margate in Kent, with Spectator SAT columnist Rod Liddle, classicist and broadcaster Mary Beard, SAT former head of the British Army Richard Dannatt, and Editor SAT at Large of Country Life magazine and Ramsgate resident SAT Clive Aslet. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04c9gsj (Listen) SAT Call Any Answers Now on 03700 100 444 SAT SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04c9gsl (Listen) SAT His Master's Voice SAT SAT By James Maw and Tim Sullivan. Rob Brydon is ventriloquist SAT Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews in a new play that SAT tells the true story behind one of the most successful radio SAT shows of all time. With Fenella Woolgar as Peggy Brough. SAT SAT The 1950s BBC Radio show Educating Archie - with 16 million SAT listeners - catapulted the ventriloquist Peter Brough from SAT suburban obscurity to the heights of high society. The Royal SAT Family were fans. His show introduced the world to Eric SAT Sykes (writer), Tony Hancock (Archie's Tutor), Max Bygraves SAT (another tutor) and Julie Andrews (Archie's girlfriend). SAT SAT After eight years on radio, Educating Archie transferred to SAT television. And yet, one day in 1961, Peter Brough locked SAT the dummy in a suitcase and left him on the top of a SAT wardrobe for forty years until, six years after the SAT ventriloquist's death, Archie Andrews was put up for SAT auction. SAT SAT His Master's Voice tells the true story of what went wrong SAT in the world of Archie Andrews and Peter Brough. SAT SAT Written by James Maw and Tim Sullivan SAT SAT Director and Producer: Jeremy Mortimer SAT A Cast Iron Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT 1958: Educating Archie SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Peter Brough: Rob Brydon SAT Archie Andrews: Rob Brydon SAT Peggy Brough: Fenella Woolgar SAT Arthur Brough: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Christopher Brough: Thomas Williams-Boyle SAT Romey Brough: Eliza Harrison-Dine SAT Liz: Stephanie Racine SAT Hattie Jacques: Stephanie Racine SAT William Haley: James Lailey SAT Max Bygraves: Ewan Bailey SAT Edith: Harriet Collings SAT Cloakroom Girl: Harriet Collings SAT Writer: James Maw SAT Writer: Tim Sullivan SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Producer: Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT 15:30 Roots Reggae and Rebellion b04bnd0x (Listen) SAT Episode 2 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 Jamaican father. SAT In these two half hour programmes, Akala travels to Jamaica SAT to discover the cultural and sociological significance of SAT his 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 final part of the series, Akala explores Rastafari's SAT global impact after the explosion of Jamaica's Roots Reggae SAT scene in the 1970s. The music provided a vehicle for SAT spreading the message of Rastafari around the world, not SAT least through the songs of musical icons like Bob Marley, SAT Peter Tosh and Burning Spear. For young Jamaican immigrants SAT growing up in a racist environment of 1970s London - such as SAT Akala's father - Rastafari provided a connection back to SAT their lost Jamaican and African heritage. Akala also visits SAT the Bobo Hill Rasta camp in Kingston to discover modern life SAT as a Rasta and explores whether this spiritual and cultural SAT movement still has relevance today. SAT Contributors include dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, SAT Professor Carolyn Cooper from the University of the West SAT Indies, Italian Rastafarian Alborosie and the residents of SAT the Bobo Hill Rastafari village in Kingston, Jamaica. SAT SAT Music Played SAT SAT Aswad SAT Warrior Charge SAT Island SAT IS-170 SAT SAT Linton Kwesi Johnson SAT Inglan Is A Bitch SAT Island SAT 524 575-2 SAT SAT Dennis Bovell SAT SAT and SAT SAT Dennis Bovell Dub Band SAT Chief Inspector SAT EMI SAT 724358432121 SAT SAT Burning Spear SAT SLAVERY DAYS SAT ISLAND SAT 552-585 2 SAT SAT Bob Marley SAT TRENCHTOWN ROCK (LIVE) SAT ISLAND SAT ILPS-9376 SAT SAT The Abyssinians SAT DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SAT Clinch SAT AL27888 SAT SAT Linton Kwesi Johnson SAT SAT and SAT SAT Poet and the Roots SAT All Wi Doin' is Defending SAT Virgin SAT VS 19012 SAT SAT Dennis Bovell SAT Beefy's Tune SAT EMI SAT 724358432121 SAT SAT Alborosie SAT SAT and SAT SAT The Abyssinians SAT Give Thanks SAT Greensleeves SAT VPGSRL7010 SAT SAT Alborosie SAT Zion Train SAT Greensleeves SAT VPGSRL7010 SAT SAT Lee "Scratch" Perry SAT Brotherly Dub SAT Roots SAT RRCDS001 SAT SAT Ronnie Davis SAT Got To Go Home SAT On Top Records SAT 3 SAT SAT Chronixx SAT Ain't No Giving In SAT SAT Linval Thompson SAT I LOVE MARIJUANA SAT TROJAN SAT CDTRL-151 SAT SAT The Heptones SAT COOL RASTA SAT SANCTUARY/TROJAN SAT TJACD-013 SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04c9js5 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Scottish Referendum SAT SAT The Scottish Referendum; Are women really still making up SAT their minds? Should we be treating attacks on prostitutes as SAT hate crimes? The pressure on young sports women to look a SAT certain way - how much support is there for athletes with SAT eating disorders? Plus, the growing popularity of Street SAT Dance, and how to Cook the Perfect Daily Dal. SAT SAT Produced by Katie Langton SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Katie Langton SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Davidson SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicola Sturgeon SAT Interviewed Guest: Meera Sodha SAT Interviewed Guest: Tim Keelan SAT Interviewed Guest: Rosie Campbell SAT Interviewed Guest: Jayne Nesbit SAT Interviewed Guest: Dr Alan Currie SAT Interviewed Guest: Ashley Bruce SAT Interviewed Guest: Amanda Woodward SAT Interviewed Guest: Katie Prince SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04bs0lx (Listen) SAT 2nd August SAT SAT The British cabinet is split over whether to join the war. 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 b04c9kyq (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04bs1hh (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04bj9tz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04bj9v1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04bj9v3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04c9kys (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Kevin Eldon, Julian Ovenden, Jon Culshaw, Louise SAT Wener, Arthur Smith, Slow Club, Samantha Crain SAT SAT Nikki's aboard the Big Train with comedy actor Kevin Eldon, SAT whose book 'My Prefect Cousin' charts the rollercoaster ride SAT of cousin Paul Hamilton's life dedicated to verse. SAT SAT Former Sleeper front woman Louise Wener tells Nikki about SAT channelling her experience of the music industry into Radio SAT 4 drama series 'Queens of Noise'. It tells the story of SAT Velveteens, an all-girl band desperate to make it in the SAT days before the digital revolution changed the music SAT business forever. SAT SAT Arthur Smith meets Tony Blair and Obi-Wan Kenobi...or, more SAT accurately, impressionist Jon Culshaw, back on Radio 4's SAT 'Dead Ringers' with a new cast of characters. No one's safe SAT from the merciless parodies, as the show takes down every SAT programme, institution and politician we hold dear. SAT SAT Julian Ovenden takes a break from playing aristocrat Charles SAT Blake in 'Downton Abbey' to star in 'My Night With Reg'; a SAT funny and bittersweet comedy, set in the summer of 1985 SAT against the backdrop of the mounting AIDS crisis. SAT SAT With music from Slow Club, who perform 'The Pieces' from SAT their album 'Complete Surrender' and Samantha Crain who SAT plays 'For The Miner' from her album 'Kid Face' SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Nikki Bedi, Kevin Eldon, Julian Ovenden, SAT Jon Culshaw, Louise Wener, Arthur Smith, Slow Club, Samantha SAT Crain (2) SAT SAT Jon Culshaw SAT Episode two of ‘Dead Ringers II’ is on Wednesday 6th August SAT on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Kevin Eldon SAT ‘My Prefect Cousin: A Short Biography of Paul Hamilton’ is SAT published by Faber on 7th August. SAT ‘Poets’ Tree’ is back on Wednesday 6 August at 11.45 on SAT Radio 4 Extra. SAT Kevin is also at Baillie Gifford Main Theatre, Edinburgh SAT Book Festival on Saturday 16th August at 21.30. SAT SAT Louise Wener SAT The first series of ‘15 Minute Drama: Queens Of Noise’ is SAT now available on BBC iPlayer. The second series starts on SAT Monday 15th September on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Julian Ovenden SAT ‘My Night With Reg’ is at Donmar Warehouse, London until SAT Saturday 27th September. SAT SAT SAT Slow Club SAT ‘Complete Surrender’ is available now on Caroline SAT International. SAT Slow Club are playing at Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire on SAT Saturday 9th, Victorious Festival, Portsmouth on Saturday SAT 23rd August, On Blackheath Festival, London on 14th SAT September and Electric Brixton, London on 11th November. SAT SAT Samantha Crain SAT ‘Kid Face’ is available now on Full Time Hobby. SAT Samantha is playing at Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire on SAT Sunday 10th, Secret House Show, Sheffield on Thursday 14th SAT and Green Man Festival, Brecon on Sunday 17th and Electric SAT Circus, Edinburgh on Tuesday 19th August. Check her website SAT for further dates. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04c9kyv (Listen) SAT Radoslaw Sikorski SAT SAT Becky Milligan profiles Poland's foreign minister, Radoslaw SAT Sikorski, a one-time teenage rebel, Oxford networker, daring SAT reporter - and now a key voice in the Ukraine crisis and an SAT important force in European politics. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04c9lp2 (Listen) SAT Gillian Anderson Streetcar, Mood Indigo film, Secret Cinema, SAT Philip Hensher, Gomorrah on TV SAT SAT Gillian Anderson returns to London's West End theatre, SAT playing Blanche Dubois in Tennessee Williams' 1948 play A SAT Streetcar Named Desire. SAT Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo is one of his typically SAT fantastical films, starring Audrey Tatou as a young woman SAT who discovers a flower is growing inside her lungs. Packed SAT full of extraordinary images, is it a collection of moments SAT or a good film? SAT Secret Cinema is the new immersive form of cinema, staged in SAT unconventional settings, encouraging the audience to dress SAT up in clothing appropriate to the movie, their latest SAT production is the 1985 classic Back To The Future. It can be SAT expensive to stage and attend, but is it worth it? SAT Philip Hensher's new novel The Emperor Waltz threads SAT together several stories from different times and locations, SAT dealing with how an idea gains a hold in wider society. SAT A new Italian TV drama series - Gomorrah - looks at the SAT mafia. It's been an enormous hit in Italy but has this SAT once-toxic subject matter become less controversial nowadays SAT or does it still shock viewers? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Natalie Haynes, Susannah Clapp SAT and Patrick Gale. the producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT The Emperor Waltz SAT The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher is published by Fourth SAT Estate. SAT SAT A Streetcar Named Desire SAT Directed by Benedict Andrews, SAT A Streetcar Named Desire SAT is at the Young Vic in London until 19 September 2014. SAT National Theatre Live SAT will broadcast the play to cinemas around the country on SAT Tuesday 16 September. SAT SAT Mood Indigo SAT Directed by Michael Gondry, SAT Mood Indigo SAT is in cinemas from Friday 1 August, certificate 12A. SAT SAT Secret Cinema presents Back To The Future SAT The immersive cinema experience, SAT Secret Cinema presents Back To The Future SAT until 31 August. SAT SAT Gomorrah SAT A new 12 part series, Gomorrah begins on Monday 4 August, SAT 9pm, Sky Atlantic. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Natalie Haynes SAT Interviewed Guest: Susannah Clapp SAT Interviewed Guest: Patrick Gale SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04c9lp4 (Listen) SAT Wars, Lies and Audiotape SAT SAT The war between the United States and Vietnam cost over SAT 58,000 American and more than one million Vietnamese lives. SAT It left one country physically devastated and the other SAT socially splintered. It began, President Lyndon Johnson told SAT the world, with an "unprovoked attack" on American ships on SAT the night of August 4, 1964. SAT SAT What we know today is that the incident that was reported to SAT have taken place in the South China Sea off the coast of SAT Vietnam didn't ever happen. Yet three days later it was SAT cited as the justification for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution SAT which authorised "the President, as Commander in Chief, to SAT take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack SAT against the forces of the United States and to prevent SAT further aggression." SAT SAT The Gulf of Tonkin was the crucial turning point. In 1960 SAT there were 900 American troops in Vietnam - by the end of SAT 1965 there were over 200,000. SAT SAT Did President Johnson take his country to war on a lie, or SAT was he misled? SAT SAT Journalist and historian D D Guttenplan explores these SAT dramatic events through archive recordings and new SAT interviews with the key players, bringing all the evidence SAT together for the first time. Taped White House phone calls SAT transport us back to that day - we'll listen in on President SAT Johnson as he discusses the situation with Secretary of SAT Defense Robert McNamara and hear the situation unfold SAT through conversations between key military personnel. SAT SAT Daniel Ellsberg remembers being in the Pentagon receiving SAT reports of the incident on the day, and Jim Stockdale tells SAT us how his father was flying above the USS Maddox when the SAT attack supposedly happened. SAT SAT Producer: Peggy Sutton SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b04bmtpk (Listen) SAT Eugenie Grandet, Episode 1 SAT SAT Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation, starring Ian SAT McKellen, of Balzac's tragic novel revolving around Grandet, SAT an ageing vine farmer, and his innocent young daughter SAT Eugenie. SAT SAT Monsieur Grandet, who has amassed a considerable fortune, is SAT a miser who feigns poverty and runs his household along SAT miserably frugal lines. All changes with the arrival of SAT Eugenie's handsome 22-year-old cousin, Charles Grandet, from SAT Paris. Charles has brought with him a shocking letter from SAT his father, Guillaume, who has committed suicide. He has SAT placed his debts and the care of his son into his brother's SAT hands. It is a fatal decision, with ruinous consequences for SAT the whole family. SAT SAT Eugenie Grandet is considered by many to be the strongest SAT novel in Balzac's magnificent series, The Human Comedy. It SAT pits a young naive girl against the father she has SAT worshipped and this defiance sets us on course for the SAT playing out of a heart-rending tragedy. Like King Lear, SAT Grandet is a man who deeply loves the daughter who has SAT defied him. He has no other child, no hope, no future but SAT her. But in Balzac's 'human comedy' the tragic and the comic SAT exist side by side and this fruitful conjunction blossoms in SAT Rose Tremain's enthralling adaptation. SAT SAT Cello and Treble Recorder: Alison Baldwin SAT Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown SAT SAT Produced and directed by Gordon House SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Grandet: Ian McKellen SAT Eugenie: Alison Pettitt SAT Nanon: Shirley Dixon SAT Madame Grandet: Anna Calder-Marshall SAT Charles: Blake Ritson SAT Cruchot: Harry Hadden-Paton SAT Des Grassins: David Horovitch SAT Madame Des Grassins: Jenny Funnell SAT Abbe Cruchot: Geoffrey Beevers SAT Adolphe: Arthur Hughes SAT Director: Gordon House SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT Adaptor: Rose Tremain SAT Author: Honore Balzac SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04bj9v5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b04brpdk (Listen) SAT Series 10, Treating Patients with Dementia SAT SAT Modern medicine has succeeded in treating many of the SAT diseases that kill us and, as a result, people are living SAT longer. SAT SAT However, as we get older and become more frail decisions SAT have to be made about when to treat the ailments that crop SAT up. SAT SAT This becomes particularly challenging when a person can't SAT make the decision for themselves, like those with advanced SAT dementia. SAT SAT Jean is in her eighties and is getting increasingly frail. SAT Each ailment brings another admission to hospital. When SAT should a treatment be given that will prolong her life, and SAT when should it be withheld so that nature can take its SAT course? SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. SAT SAT Producer: Beth Eastwood. SAT SAT The Panel SAT SAT James Beattie, Cardiologist at the Heart of England NHS SAT Foundation Trust in Birmingham, with a longstanding interest SAT in end of life care SAT SAT SAT SAT Liz Sampson, Old Age Psychiatrist and a Clinical Researcher SAT at University College London looking at end of life care in SAT people with dementia SAT SAT SAT SAT Penney Lewis, Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Law and SAT Ethics at Kings College London, who has a particular SAT interest in Advanced Decisions SAT SAT Your Comments SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT My sister and I listened with great interest to your SAT programme yesterday. Jean’s story could have been our SAT mother’s. Mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2000 and is SAT now approaching 93 years old. She fell and broke her hip SAT while a resident in a care home some years ago and this SAT particular care home refused to take her back because she SAT needed more care than they were able to give. Hence she SAT stayed in hospital for 8 to 10 weeks being shunted from one SAT ward to another while Social Services decided what to do SAT with her. Needless to say she deteriorated very rapidly SAT while in the hospital. In the end we discovered that Social SAT Services had done absolutely nothing to find a nursing home SAT so we took it into our own hands and found the nursing home SAT that she is now in. SAT SAT SAT SAT She has had at least two bouts of pneumonia for which she SAT was treated with antibiotics; various urine infections and SAT stomach upsets (quite severe). For the past four (+) years SAT she has been bedridden, is doubly incontinent and completely SAT without speech or recognition of her family. She is now in SAT the most extreme foetal position with her knees and hands SAT drawn up under her chin in the most grotesque fashion and SAT can actually be positioned in her single bed sideways. SAT SAT SAT SAT She is unable to swallow and her skin is breaking down which SAT causes her much pain (obviously she can’t tell us this but SAT her movements and facial expressions would imply this). SAT SAT SAT SAT She has had no quality of life for the past few years and as SAT one of your previous emailers said you would be considered SAT extremely cruel if you kept an animal in this condition. SAT SAT SAT SAT When death is the only release/relief she will find, why do SAT the powers that be insist that nature must take its course? SAT SAT SAT SAT As we think/hope Mum is now within the final few days of her SAT life, your programme yesterday was particularly poignant. SAT It was good that you brought this particular illness to SAT listeners’ attention and for that we thank you. SAT SAT (Lizzy Drake) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT After listening to your very good programme on Dementia, I SAT suggest a good follow up programme would be to look at the SAT Ward C22 at Newcross Hospital in Wolverhampton. This ward SAT specialises in Dementia (patients have underlying illness), SAT Dr Leung is the consultant in charge, they have introduced SAT many things like, large signs, labelled ward names, day SAT rooms, garden, lots of activities, singing, crafts etc etc, SAT there are also volunteers ( I have been one since the ward SAT opened) who help in lots of areas of the ward. SAT SAT SAT SAT This ward has won several awards since its opening. This is SAT the type of ward which should be in every hospital !! Ward SAT C22 always has a waiting list to go onto the ward – this is SAT what the future should be like in hospitals not only for the SAT dementia patients but also for other patients at the SAT hospital, Dr Leung has lots of statistics to show how this SAT ward is not only helping Dementia patients but also other SAT patients on other wards SAT SAT SAT SAT A good follow up to your program to show what is being done SAT and should be done in all hospitals. SAT SAT SAT SAT (C Johnstone) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT Just heard todays episode –excellent and thought provoking SAT (my sister in law has dementia; my advance directive is SAT done!) SAT SAT (Ruth Overington) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT I listened with interest to this morning's broadcast on SAT Dementia, and in particular on the difficult decisions SAT regarding treatment of other physical conditions the patient SAT might have, especially with regard to 'end of life', and the SAT thing that struck me most was that all those on your panel, SAT and others interviewed are SAT middle-aged, SAT since it sounded as though they are working men and women, SAT but you were discussing what are, by and large, SAT the ancient – SAT Jean, we were told, was 93 when she died earlier this year – SAT and I don't think you necessarily saw it from the point of SAT view of someone who could be SAT 50 years older than any of you! SAT SAT When my mother was in her eighties, she commented that the SAT Bible had got it right when it talked about Man's Life Span SAT being “three score years and ten”. She reckoned that one was SAT pretty fit and well until then, but after that one began to SAT be plagued with all sorts of aches and pains. SAT SAT Being much younger, I laughed, but having now reached almost SAT her age then, myself, I think she was right! She also said SAT that she thought that as time goes by, from then on, one's SAT fear of death fades into an acceptance that it is on the SAT horizon, and that what one really hopes, is to be able to SAT die peacefully in one's own bed - or as my sister said a SAT couple of days ago, “What I'd really like, is to go to bed SAT and wake up dead”. SAT SAT Obviously I have no idea if this is a common attitude among SAT the ancient – and I think perhaps, for most people, the SAT difference between being 'old' and 'ancient' comes at about SAT 80! – but I think it might well be, from what I have heard a SAT good many people say, - it's the sort of thing one does hear SAT at funerals! BUT, obviously too, there are people who still SAT have the vigour to do all sorts of things into their SAT nineties, which is lovely, but their existence and opinion SAT should not out-weigh that of those who aren't so sprightly. SAT SAT All of you, panel and others interviewed, can expect to have SAT many years of health and happiness ahead, hopefully SAT unencumbered by even the relatively minor ailments that make SAT doing ordinary things difficult and/or painful. I'm sure SAT none of you can REALLY imagine saying you wish you could SAT wake up dead – you all have far too much to live for! SAT SAT But take Jean, the patient in the programme. She was in her SAT eighties when she started to exhibit signs of dementia – SAT which must have been absolutely terrifying, as her 'known' SAT world turned into a world of increasing chaos, full of SAT strangers doing strange things to her, and strange places SAT where she didn't want to be – so her prognosis was that SAT things could only get worse, and they did. Whether, when she SAT was still 'with it ', she realised what was happening to SAT her, and that she could only get worse, we weren't told, but SAT those who do realise, might well wish 'to wake up dead'. SAT SAT Everyone talks about 'quality of life', and for the majority SAT of those below the age of 70 or 80, who have no underlying SAT dreadful medical condition and have 'just' been involved in SAT an accident or have non-malignant tumours etc, then their SAT quality of life after successful SAT resuscitation/surgery/course of antibiotics etc, should be SAT fine, hopefully for years to come. For Jean, that was SAT not the case. SAT In her nineties, with progressing dementia, what was her SAT ability to have a good 'quality of life' in the few years SAT remaining to her? Virtually none I should have said. She SAT would have had very little SAT understanding SAT of the world around her, let alone be able to enjoy it. Yes, SAT 'a piece of music' might have given her pleasure – for how SAT long? Half an hour? That's not SAT 'life'. SAT 'Life ' is a matter of all day every day. SAT SAT I should like to see the words “ SAT THOU SHALT NOT KILL, BUT NEITHER STRIVE OFFICIOUSLY TO KEEP SAT ALIVE” SAT over the door of every Hospital ward, Nursing Home, Care SAT Home and Hospice where the elderly, old, or ancient at the SAT end of their lives, are being cared for. It is simple, SAT clear, and wholly compassionate. Leaving Jean's battery to SAT run down came into this category. SAT SAT Following the horrendous experience of 'resuscitation' on a SAT friend's mother (mercifully unsuccessful) I wrote to Dr Gill SAT Turner, Vice-President for Clinical Quality at the British SAT Geriatrics Society, and I very much hope that she will SAT institute a wide consultation on better End of Life care, SAT and in particular, resuscitation – such as an answer to the SAT question “what do you resuscitate someone SAT FOR?” SAT To be a 'cabbage', wholly dependent on others for every SAT aspect of your life? What 'quality of life' is that? Pretty SAT poor quality I should say. SAT SAT If you haven't read it, Jennifer Worth's book, SAT In the Midst of Life SAT is well worth reading on this matter. SAT SAT (Sally Spencer) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I have just heard the very interesting programme about SAT treating patients with dementia. My friend had heard it and SAT suggested that I listen. My husband's story is almost the SAT same as Jean's. He was taken down to theatre for a pacemaker SAT last week, so I cut short my visit and left for home. While SAT I was on the bus, the surgeon rang me and said he didn't SAT want to do the operation because my husband's quality of SAT life was nil, and nothing would be gained in the long run. I SAT agreed with him. SAT SAT SAT SAT But there are issues with his care. He has been in either SAT hospitals or a care home since last October. I had to pay SAT top-up fees for the care home. However, on 7 July the care SAT home said they could no longer meet his needs, because he SAT kept trying to stand up and as soon as he did so, he had a SAT dizzy spell (maybe a fit or seizure, they said) and fell SAT over. SAT SAT SAT SAT So my key worker at Social Services has tried to find space SAT in a nursing home, but tells me I might have to pay the full SAT cost. This may be in excess of £400 per week, which I SAT couldn't possibly pay. SAT SAT There was a case a few years ago: Coughlan, which states SAT that where a person's primary need is for health care, and SAT that is why he is placed in nursing home accommodation, the SAT NHS is responsible for the full cost of the package. SAT SAT SAT SAT He was taken to hospital a few weeks ago after yet another SAT fall. The hospital is much too far away, making it difficult SAT to visit, and today he is being transferred to another SAT hospital, equally difficult to get to. I don't know who to SAT turn to for help, and wondered if your experts could advise. SAT SAT (Anne Weyers) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you for airing this very difficult moral dilemma. SAT SAT SAT SAT This programme was particularly poignant for me: my mother SAT is now 93 and lives in a care home. She doesn't have SAT dementia but is very confused, is now wheel-chair bound and SAT doubly incontinent. She is no longer the woman I knew as mum SAT and she would have been horrified if she had known that this SAT is what her future would be. SAT SAT SAT SAT I question the validity of putting pacemakers into elderly SAT patients without any consideration of their situation and SAT quality of life, as was the case with my mother. Before my SAT mother had a pacemaker fitted three years ago, she was SAT living in her own sheltered accommodation, with the support SAT of carers and her family. My mother was struggling to move SAT around and was becoming increasingly frail but she was able SAT to live in her own flat, make her own decisions about what SAT to eat, whether to watch TV and when to go to bed. One SAT morning she slipped in the bath and her carer was unable to SAT help her and so she called for an ambulance. When the SAT paramedics arrived they checked her pulse etc and discovered SAT that she had a very slow heart beat. I arrived just as they SAT were taking her to hospital and was told that her condition SAT was serious but quite common in people of her age. SAT SAT SAT SAT She was hospitalised and had a pacemaker inserted. There was SAT never any discussion about whether this was an appropriate SAT decision, with any of us, including my mother. To cut a very SAT long and upsetting series of events, short: my mother had a SAT horrendous 3 weeks in hospital, being shunted from ward to SAT ward. After her treatment she was sent home in a very frail SAT condition, with carers providing after-care. This was a SAT disaster and led to my mother becoming doubly incontinent as SAT she could not get herself to the toilet without help. Her SAT 'care' was also, so poor that two weeks after being sent SAT home she was re-admitted to hospital and then never returned SAT home. SAT SAT SAT SAT What hospital staff/ doctors also fail to consider is the SAT impact of being in hospital upon an elderly and frail SAT patient. Elderly patients become very fearful and lose their SAT confidence very quickly. One week after being sent home my SAT mother found herself unable to walk at all, this was caused SAT by the 'trauma' of her hospital stay. From that point on my SAT mother has been unable to walk and is now wheel-chair bound, SAT needing constant care. SAT SAT SAT SAT Before my mother slipped in the bath she was able to live an SAT independent life, albeit with support and a care package in SAT place, after having a pace-maker fitted she now is doubly SAT incontinent, wheel-chair bound and lives in a care home. If SAT a pace maker had not been fitted my mother would have SAT continued to live in her flat, semi-independently, as she SAT wished and probably would have gone to bed one night and SAT died peacefully in her sleep. I know what choice she would SAT have made, if it had been offered to her. SAT SAT SAT SAT It is appropriate that elderly people are still offered SAT treatment but let's be sensible about treatment and look at SAT the whole patient. I don't know anyone who wants to live to SAT 93 in the state my mother is in now. To be honest, I am SAT terrified that my mother's situation could be mine and I am SAT determined to ensure I have enough money to take myself off SAT to Switzerland, if needs be, to ensure I have a dignified SAT end to my life. Keeping people alive isn't the priority, the SAT most important thing is quality of life. SAT SAT (Mrs D A Lucas) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I was so interested to hear the programme this morning SAT regarding the elderly woman with dementia and the sensible SAT and obviously correct decision not to renew her pacemaker. SAT I was a nurse and midwife and now an Episcopalian Priest - SAT and my ministry brings me into contact with many, mostly SAT women, with dementia in our number of care homes in this SAT area. SAT SAT SAT SAT I had a dreadful experience with my aunt who eventually died SAT two years ago. In the early stages of dementia and not SAT coping with her finances I suggested that she spoke to her SAT solicitors regarding power of attorney which I think we both SAT assumed would be just for her finances. She lived in Sussex SAT and I in Scotland but I had always promised to care for her SAT if need be, having been a nurse myself. The solicitor duly SAT organised full power of attorney which she signed - and to SAT my horror it turned out that I had absolutely no say in her SAT health and welfare and I am pretty sure that my aunt did not SAT realise this either. This led to my contacting them many SAT times and the story is too long to give all the details but SAT in the end they got her into an expensive nursing home SAT transferring her from Hospital - it was one not on a bus SAT route so her old friends could not easily visit unless SAT driven there, despite my asking for her to be in a Care Home SAT so people could go by bus - as a result she was rarely SAT visited. I even suggested that we got her up to Scotland SAT to one of the Care Homes here so I could visit her and take SAT her out etc. They said it was not in her best interests - SAT a common response from them! SAT SAT SAT SAT I was convinced that the pain she was experiencing was quite SAT probably due to cancer and not "just old age" and despite SAT being in Hospital for a long time because of falling, with SAT also ongoing rehabilitation and ending up with a third SAT degree sacral pressure sore, no scan was done to see what SAT might be causing the pain. During the "rehab" she fell SAT twice, once fracturing her pelvis and once dislocating her SAT shoulder - each time she was sent back to the Hospital. SAT They decided that the fracture was possibly due to cancer SAT secondaries. However the GP attached to the Care Home SAT agreed it would be helpful to have a proper diagnosis, he SAT arranged for a scan and she was found to have a large tumour SAT on her sacrum and he agreed that she needed palliative SAT care. SAT SAT SAT SAT Thinking of the ethics committee and decisions to be made - SAT I agreed with the GP and the Nursing Home that she should SAT remain there and not be transferred to hospital if she SAT became ill and no resuscitation etc - strictly speaking SAT because of the full POA I really had no say about this! SAT Her dementia was very advanced by this time, she was not SAT able to feed herself, her aggression had gone and she was SAT confined to bed all the time. SAT SAT SAT SAT Eventually she developed pneumonia and the nurse on duty SAT over the weekend called the paramedics and she was SAT transferred to hospital and the registrar contacted me and SAT said she felt it would be in my aunt's best interest to let SAT nature take its own course and I absolutely agreed. I felt SAT it would be just a matter of days before she died and I SAT arranged to go down to see her - this was Sunday. I phoned SAT the ward a couple of times on Monday and they said she was SAT comfortable, but late evening I phoned again and was told SAT that she had an antibiotic infusion in progress. SAT Apparently the solicitors had telephoned in the morning and SAT said that she had to be treated. When I got to the SAT hospital I spoke to the senior house officer who said SAT unfortunately this was a not an uncommon problem with that SAT particular large firm of solicitors and he suggested that I SAT wrote a letter to the Consultant which I did. SAT SAT SAT SAT She recovered from the chest infection but apparently lost SAT the ability to swallow and was eventually discharged to the SAT Care Home - by which time the hospital team, with the SAT solicitor's representative, agreed that the Liverpool Care SAT Pathway should be used. The ward sister wanted to send me a SAT copy but the solicitor's office apparently said it was none SAT of my business! She did anyway. I actually spoke to my SAT aunt's Solicitor regarding the situation and said that I SAT wished she had had a living will, and he said they were on SAT the whole useless as every situation could not be covered - SAT which I think was sort of mentioned in the programme today. SAT My aunt eventually died about 2 months later to my great SAT relief. SAT SAT SAT SAT My aunt was never married, had no children and none of her SAT nieces and nephews lived locally so one can see that having SAT a full power of attorney with the solicitor had merit - what SAT should have happened, as the solicitor knew that my aunt SAT considered me to be her next of kin, they should have SAT advised her to have me included in the POA, at least for SAT health and welfare. This is certainly something I plan to SAT do, to make sure my niece or step daughter have some say in SAT my care should I develop dementia. SAT SAT SAT SAT Apologies for the long story, but perhaps my point of SAT writing is really about the power of attorney and the end of SAT life directive - to make it quite clear to the general SAT public that it needs very careful scrutiny. At the moment SAT I am not sure what the law is in Scotland about either of SAT these and quite probably different from England. My aunt SAT definitely would not have wanted things to go the way they SAT did if she had still had her mental capacity. SAT SAT (Revd Denise Herbert, Fife, Scotland) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you for a thoughtful programme on the day I am SAT completing the online Power of Attorney forms for my SAT in-laws. SAT SAT SAT SAT I've concluded we should do this at all ages, so I will put SAT them in place for my wife and I, and I will encourage my SAT children to do the same when they get married and make their SAT wills. It's a safety net not just for the old. I highly SAT recommend the online service; it’s very clear and excellent SAT for multiple registrations: SAT https://www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney SAT SAT SAT SAT At aged 61 I am astonished at the number of people older SAT than me with even older parents, so dementia is an SAT increasing topic of conversation, and while the outcome of SAT the case discussed seemed obvious perhaps a less clear cut SAT example would have better represented the issues facing a SAT health services having to make increasing volumes of SAT intervene/don't intervene decisions. SAT SAT SAT SAT I am in rude health, but wouldn't be surprised if, like just SAT about all my contemporaries, I start a daily or weekly SAT intervention regime; most likely popping pills of one kind SAT or another. However after your programme I will ask the SAT medic offering it for an end date, or the appropriate SAT circumstances to stop taking them. I don't expect a coherent SAT answer, other than 'the rest of your life'! SAT SAT (Ged Parker) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT How apposite this morning’s programme has been for my mother SAT and myself. SAT SAT SAT SAT A few days ago my 99 year-old mother, Helena, fell yet SAT again. The resulting bumps and bruising on the side of her SAT face and forehead are shocking. This fall is the latest in a SAT number over the past three years. Two years ago she SAT fractured her pelvis. Her pain is constant. SAT SAT SAT SAT Our visits to A&E are almost routine. I chivvy the SAT overstretched, harassed staff there to take a rather more SAT urgent interest so that we may leave, but there are children SAT and very inebriated people to tend, too. Mother waits on the SAT trolley with outward equanimity, but she is hiding a terror SAT of hospitals and does not want to be admitted to a ward. SAT SAT SAT SAT My mother wears two hearing aids and spectacles. Her poor SAT hearing means she seems slow to understand what nurses and SAT doctors ask of her. I’m convinced that very elderly deaf SAT people may be diagnosed as being demented when, quite SAT simply, they cannot hear. But she does understand. Her short SAT term memory is rather poor. She certainly doesn’t have the SAT intellectual capacity that she had even five years ago. I SAT understand that many medics would rate my mother’s SAT intellectual capacity and her quality of life as very poor SAT even without the latest injury. I do, too. SAT SAT SAT SAT Nevertheless, Helena’s iron will nurtures an indomitable SAT life force that encourages her to try to walk and to be SAT independent. She speaks of the kindness of her carers, SAT enjoys visits to the local ice cream parlour, loves hearing SAT about her five great grandchildren and looks forward to SAT outings. SAT SAT SAT SAT Her quality of life is wonderful, she would say. She still SAT loves life, so I carry on chivvying all those who are SAT directly involved in her care because she wants to continue SAT living. Who am I, as the person who might know her best, to SAT determine that she no longer has a life that’s worth SAT continuing? I have, though, instigated a DNR order to be SAT included in her medical notes. SAT SAT SAT SAT She is kind to her carers, never complains, is interested in SAT her nearest and dearest. She says she loves life. These are SAT all fashionably undervalued and small motives for wanting to SAT live a life, and being ’nice’ to everyone is part of her SAT belief in living a good life. SAT SAT SAT SAT She has no intention of dying yet, non-assisted or SAT otherwise, and looks forward, albeit slightly awe-struck (as SAT does her family) to her 100th birthday early in 2015. SAT SAT (Hilary Paviour) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thanks for exploring this topic. SAT SAT SAT SAT Despite my having a professional background in both Care & SAT Ethics, I and my brother (who is a University lecturer to SAT Medics and Nurses) struggle with issues about our father's SAT care. In our case it is the challenges associated with SAT preventing his transfer from the specialist dementia SAT residential home, where he has lived for many years, to SAT what would be a more generalist nursing home. SAT SAT SAT SAT So far, our arguments have prevailed, but they are finely SAT balanced, and the decision to keep him where he is, which is SAT costly and legally precarious ( as nurses are being employed SAT by the NHS, locally, to augment his care whilst he stays in SAT his Local Authority setting) is subject to regular review. SAT SAT There aren't any easy answers, but regarding the dilemma you SAT portrayed, I think the decision not to replace the pacemaker SAT was the most humanitarian and caring. Despite it being a SAT different issue, listening to your programme helped me to SAT feel less isolated, regarding the situation with my father. SAT SAT Thanks for an interesting programme, especially also to the SAT family and practitioners. It can't be easy to be exposed to SAT public scrutiny in a radio programme, where such emotionally SAT charged real-life dilemmas are clarified. SAT SAT (Ian S. Rickard) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you for your excellent programme ‘Living with SAT Dementia’, to which I listened with great interest. My own SAT mother bravely precipitated her own death (she died in 2009 SAT at the age of 95) by categorically refusing a new pacemaker. SAT Unlike the lady discussed in your programme, she had been SAT compos mentis to the very end but had endured years of SAT excruciating pain caused by her osteoarthritis (at least SAT this is what the medics told us). She HAD, by the way, made SAT a living will and expressed her total determination, totally SAT lucidly, not to have her life prolonged to all concerned. SAT But my point is slightly different: the opponents of the SAT assisted-dying legislation claim that modern medicine eases SAT suffering by controlling pain effectively. Nonsense – it SAT DOES NOT! My poor mother had been in pain for years, and SAT this wonderful modern medicine was unable to offer her SAT effective pain relief. She kept asking: ‘Have they legalised SAT euthanasia yet?” while bravely enduring her pain (even SAT though she was on morphine for the past five years of her SAT life). So when she was told her pacemaker battery was SAT running out, she leapt at the chance of not having it SAT replaced. Since she was suffering from ‘a complete heart SAT block’, she hoped she would die as soon as the battery ran SAT out – and this is exactly what happened (she just toppled SAT over while sitting at the table at home – she was living SAT with us – and eating her dinner). I would greatly welcome a SAT debate on the extent to which modern medicine is, in fact, SAT able to control SAT SAT (Anna Nolan) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I have a personal and professional interest in the topic of SAT Alzheimer's and end-of-life experiences and thought the SAT programme this morning was excellent. It covered all the SAT main issues in depth, thoughtfully and sensitively. My SAT mother had Alzheimer's and I agree with the panel that SAT people with dementia perceive their lives as being more SAT positive than their relatives do. Being a psychotherapist I SAT wonder if we project our difficulties about dealing with our SAT loved ones' problems on to them. The panel also reminded us SAT that the person in still there despite having lost many of SAT their faculties. It is this, the person, that we should seek SAT to find and with whom we can continue to connect, right to SAT the end. In this shared space love can abound. Despite my SAT years of exposure to this subject I shed a tear at the end SAT of this programme. Thank you! SAT SAT SAT SAT My mother retained her faculty of speech, all be it limited, SAT till the end and through gentle conversation she told me SAT what she was experiencing, giving me great insight into the SAT late stage of this disease. I recorded our conversations for SAT three and a half years and these now form the heart of my SAT book, The Gift of Alzheimer's. Since then I have continued SAT to research and have found many of the things that I noted SAT at the time have subsequently been explained by research in SAT neuroscience. SAT SAT (Maggie La Tourelle) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you for your programme. I listened with interest as my SAT mother is in the final stages of her life and has severe SAT dementia. My current dilemma is that there is nothing wrong SAT with her which is life threatening so she exists, in bed, SAT with no ability to eat, drink, move or do anything herself. SAT She has no ability to communicate, doesn't even acknowledge SAT our existence. She is fed, given fluid with gel added to SAT stop her choking, she is incontinent too. Recently her SAT swallowing reflex is intermittently failing so she goes for SAT long periods without taking fluids. This is agonising to SAT witness as she is obviously thirsty so the care staff offer SAT fluids regularly, however, if she takes it she chokes and SAT they have to aspirate her, which is very distressing for SAT her. SAT SAT SAT SAT My opinion is that she should be allowed to pass away SAT peacefully, I'm sure this is what she would want. Giving SAT fluids at this stage is prolonging the agony. Her SAT diamorphine has been increased to prevent her being too SAT aware of her discomfort, but not enough to allow her to pass SAT away peacefully if her fluids were stopped. Each time she SAT manages to take some fluids I know that she will have to SAT endure another few days of hell. SAT SAT SAT SAT Why can't we be allowed to administer enough morphine to let SAT her go in peace? Surely this would be kinder. No animal SAT would be allowed to suffer like this! SAT SAT (Lesley Trett) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you for an interesting programme. I was particularly SAT interested in the topics of advance decisions and lasting SAT power of attorney as I was faced with this dilemma when my SAT mother became ill with frontal lobe dementia. SAT SAT SAT SAT Thinking we were preparing adequately for the event when my SAT mother became unable to care for herself my mother, my SAT sister and I discussed this possibility while my mother was SAT still fully able, and came to the decision that power of SAT attorney for health and wellbeing and finance would be SAT sensible for my sister and I in order to give Mum the care SAT she wished for. That was for her to come and live with me, a SAT trained nurse, to be cared for by me and to die in our home. SAT SAT SAT SAT This turned out to be the worst decision as the two LPA’s SAT were perceived as a ‘conflict of interest’ by my mother’s SAT NHS carers. They accused me of financial abuse because I SAT cancelled some short visit care that was inconvenient and SAT unwanted care recommended by social services, because I SAT preferred to save Mum’s very limited savings for respite SAT care and longer visit daily care which was more useful to SAT me, but which the social services did not know about at the SAT time. SAT SAT SAT SAT The end result was that my mother was removed from my care SAT and placed in a home which was exactly what she did not SAT want. I was able to get no legal advice or support as no-one SAT appeared to want to challenge the social services. This SAT needs to be emphasized to future family carers and advice of SAT advance decision be recommended instead of LPA for Health SAT and Wellbeing. SAT SAT This all happened nearly 3 years ago and I still feel SAT traumatised by the events, particularly the lack of support SAT and legal advice, and more importantly the feeling that I SAT let my mother down terribly. She died in the nursing home. SAT SAT SAT SAT I would so like to let other family carers know about this SAT possibility to prevent a similar thing happen to them. Let’s SAT have more programmes around this topic to inform people SAT about dementia and its consequences. SAT SAT (Brenda Robertson) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I cannot thank you enough for the content of this programme, SAT the presentation helped me, as a layperson understand all SAT the problems related to dementia, apart from the obvious one SAT of memory loss. SAT SAT SAT SAT My mother is 86 and has recently had a pacemaker fitted, SAT apart from this she is thankfully in good health however, as SAT the team explained other health problems could present SAT themselves over the years as the ageing process continues, SAT and your programme has given me direction into what we (she SAT and I) may need to consider and the options we have. SAT SAT SAT SAT Many thanks again for the way you dealt with such a SAT sensitive subject. SAT SAT (Jeanette Morgan) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT This is already an excellent programme, but I stood still in SAT my kitchen for the entire time this morning....Joan has a SAT wonderful, clear and insightful way of managing the dialogue SAT on this amazingly complicated topic of dementia....a dear SAT friend (copied) has just lost her mother to this awful and SAT slow and emotionally painful disease. My father recently SAT died in the ICU after 6 days post cardiac arrest (heart SAT failure and 10 tablets a day for 2/3 years) and we did SAT switch off the ventilator in a joint decision with the SAT wonderful team there......Clare's mother was able to die at SAT home (her mother's wish) not without lots of anguish and SAT emotional turmoil... SAT SAT THANK YOU - Radio 4 at its very best SAT SAT (Angela Dymoke) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I don’t know at 75 years what I would want at 90 with SAT dementia. I know I need lots of stimulation in activities SAT now though I am in great pain; discomfort & mobility is SAT getting worse. Maybe dementia patients don't have enough SAT stimulation to keep them going. Most of my life was boring & SAT lonely and its only at this end of my life that life is SAT really worth living, I am at last doing what I want to do, SAT so don't dump me yet. SAT SAT SAT SAT Recently I drew a portrait of a person with dementia who SAT arrived at our disabled class. He was overjoyed & preened SAT whilst posing for me. I did it to include him in our group SAT as he couldn't speak. I don't like my portrait being taken SAT or drawn. So it’s different for all of us. SAT SAT SAT SAT My mother didn't have a life or death choice as the nurses SAT in the hospital in North West London decided she wasn't SAT worth keeping alive & moved her on out of this life, SAT dropping her on the floor & smashing her face in, taking her SAT warm clothes away & opening the window so she got pneumonia. SAT My brother’s grief having taken care of her at great SAT personal expense to himself is still one of great anger, SAT taken out against me. So our family is destroyed too. SAT SAT SAT SAT Nobody has the right to end your life deliberately, let us SAT take our chances in the least harmful way possible SAT SAT (D. Watkins) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you for an excellent programme. SAT SAT SAT SAT A very important issue handled with balance, real humanity SAT and common sense. SAT SAT SAT SAT This is what the BBC should be proud of. SAT SAT (Luke Warm) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Today's programme brings back the experience with my mother, SAT who passed away peacefully nearly 3 years ago age 98, and SAT had many years before signed an Enduring Power of Attorney SAT in favour of my brother and myself - but I am appalled at SAT the situation that you describe, because my mother's SAT downhill path was managed much much better. It involved a SAT combination of: SAT SAT - North Somerset Social Services throughout (including SAT providing funding); SAT SAT - after a short period in a not very good care home (at a SAT time when Mum was still fully capable of telling me that she SAT did not want to live with mad people) an excellent diagnosis SAT by the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust SAT (followed up by an MRI scan for confirmation and the SAT prescription by the Trust of very effective medication that SAT the GP was not allowed to prescribe); SAT SAT - an excellent privately owned care home until her SAT increasing physical frailty meant that they could not keep SAT her; SAT SAT - finally a newly developing care home designed and run on SAT Australian lines by St Monica Trust with support from the SAT Mental Health Partnership Trust (including providing SAT specialist nurses on secondment); SAT SAT - very little intervention, a declaration by the family of SAT 'Do Not Resuscitate', and a peaceful end. SAT SAT OK, no illness requiring intervention, so an easier path SAT than the one that you described, and part of Mum's brain was SAT still capable of decision making and of appreciating the SAT excellent care given to her - but the doctors did what we SAT wanted, not what they might have wanted to do. The irony is SAT that that Health Trust is always under threat of being SAT closed down because it doesn't fit the administrative SAT pattern that top managers want to impose... CQC is studying SAT that Trust, and so I have written to them explaining how the SAT Trust's assistance, at low cost, was a key factor in a good SAT death. SAT SAT (Peter Tomlinson) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT I have listened to a few of your really interesting SAT programmes. I may have missed this, but I think a much more SAT in depth discussion of the law around people without SAT capacity would be interesting and helpful. My Mum is now in SAT a vegetative state, following herpes encephalitis. I was SAT astonished to discover the legal position that in the SAT absence of a power of attorney I have no decision making SAT capacity on my Mum's behalf. As an ex-lawyer, I had no idea SAT that this was the position and a straw poll amongst my SAT friends demonstrates the same lack of awareness. We all SAT assume that as next of kin we have rights - but we don't. We SAT only have the right to be consulted; the decision is SAT actually that of the medical team. There is guidance around SAT the 'best interests' concept - but not really unpicking what SAT this means. In my view, the medical team's role should be to SAT give advice; the people best placed to decide on a person's SAT 'best interests' are surely the family, taking into account SAT the medical advice. The current law seems to me to enshrine SAT an outdated paternalistic attitude that we lay people are SAT not capable of making decisions or taking responsibility. SAT Indeed I have been patronised by a range of doctors during SAT discussions of 'escalations of care' who have told me that SAT it's best for me to have the 'burden of responsibility' SAT taken off my shoulders. I actually think that the medical SAT team should have the burden of responsibility taken away SAT from them. In retrospect I wish so much that we had done a SAT power of attorney; your recent discussion of advance SAT directives did not mention powers of attorney - the latter SAT are far more useful. Advance decisions require a level of SAT specificity while a power of attorney simply would have put SAT me in my Mum's place for all decision making. SAT SAT (Sarah Morpeth) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT No wonder the NHS is collapsing with 80 year olds lives just SAT revolving around hospital appointments! SAT SAT (Jan Womack) SAT SAT SAT SAT ENDS SAT SAT Programme Transcript SAT Downloaded from SAT www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 SAT SAT SAT THE ATTACHED TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A RECORDING AND NOT SAT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF SAT MISHEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING SAT INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE BBC CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS COMPLETE SAT ACCURACY. SAT SAT SAT SAT INSIDE THE ETHICS COMMITTEE SAT SAT Programme 3 – Dementia SAT SAT TX: 31.07.14 SAT SAT PRESENTER: JOAN BAKEWELL SAT SAT PRODUCER: BETH EASTWOOD SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Medicine now helps people live longer with conditions that SAT arise later in life but don’t kill us outright – diabetes, SAT heart problems. But as we get more and more frail how do we SAT decide when to treat the illnesses that crop up? The SAT decision becomes particularly difficult when someone has SAT dementia and eventually can’t decide for themselves. SAT SAT SAT SAT Welcome to Inside the Ethics Committee. SAT SAT SAT SAT Our story begins in the year 2000 when Jean and Arthur are SAT both 80 years old. Arthur has ongoing heart problems so SAT they move to live near their daughter Sarah so she can help SAT out day to day. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT They were living in a flat near us and they were managing SAT very well, they were involved in the community, my father SAT did painting lessons, my mum was in the women’s club, they’d SAT made lots of friends, they were settled, they were very SAT happy there. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Neither Jean nor Arthur can drive, so Sarah helps out with SAT the shopping and takes her dad to his hospital SAT appointments. On one particular occasion, when he’s been SAT kept in overnight, Sarah takes her mother to visit him and SAT notices something different. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I went to visit the hospital with my mother and noticed that SAT she was struggling to keep up with me, which was unusual and SAT she was very, very breathless. So she then went to the SAT hospital and they found her pulse was very low and realised SAT that she needed to have a pacemaker. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Pacemakers are mainly fitted in elderly patients when the SAT ageing heart develops problems, as is the case with Jean. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT The problem was the top part of the heart was firing off but SAT the signals weren’t getting to the bottom part of the heart SAT and so her heart was going very slowly. So for her the SAT pacemaker was putting some extra signals in to speed her SAT heart up and make it go at a normal rate. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Fitting a pacemaker is a surprisingly straight forward SAT procedure. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT She had a little bit of local anaesthetic put in near the SAT shoulder, an incision made which was about two inches long SAT and you make a little pocket under the skin and you find a SAT vein under there and you slip a couple of wires in, they go SAT down into the heart and then there’s a few stitches and SAT people can usually go home the same day or the following SAT day. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jean stays overnight and is soon back to her old self busy SAT with her family and with the community. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT She seemed very well after that, back to normal really, as SAT though nothing had happened really, it was very successful. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT For the next five years things go well. Jean and Arthur SAT continue to live independently with Sarah and her husband SAT helping out with the shopping and hospital visits. But in SAT 2006, when they are both 86, Sarah notices a change in her SAT mother. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Mum has always read books, done puzzles, word searchers and SAT her concentration started to go and I noticed that she SAT wasn’t reading books because I’d read one passage over to SAT her and vice versa and she wasn’t able to do that. We were SAT getting very confused about shopping – I was having to check SAT what was in the fridge because there was stuff in there that SAT was out of date. And you start putting in things to make SAT that right, like buying meals that they can take out the SAT freezer and reheat in the microwave. That worked for a SAT while, then it was down to meals on wheels. Then we were SAT getting a home help in and then eventually they went to a SAT day centre a couple of days and had a meal there. And all SAT these things worked for a while. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But her father Arthur’s hospital visits are getting more SAT frequent and as Jean is getting increasingly confused, she’s SAT no longer able to look after him. Sarah is aware that a SAT role reversal is taking place between her parents, the SAT caring role passing from her mother to her father but he’s SAT too frail to cope. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT We were worried that the pressure of looking after my mother SAT was putting pressure on him. And then she got to the point SAT where at times she wouldn’t recognise him. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT You go through this stage where you just put it down to SAT forgetfulness in old age. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah’s husband. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT It was only when we started getting lots of phone calls from SAT them saying there’s a strange man in my house, what’s this SAT man doing, that you realise that something really SAT fundamental is wrong. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s very difficult for the family but also for Jean SAT herself. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT She was quite aware that something was happening but wasn’t SAT quite sure and she was trying to cover it up quite a lot. SAT You ask her well where are you and she’d say well where do SAT you think I am. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah and her husband are concerned that Jean has dementia. SAT An assessment reveals that they’re right. Around the same SAT time, Arthur collapses and is admitted to hospital. Sarah SAT decides to move her mother in to live with her. SAT SAT SAT SAT After several weeks, Arthur is discharged from hospital but SAT is now too frail to live independently. So, to keep her SAT parents together, Sarah moves them both into a care home. SAT But just four months later, at the start of 2008, her father SAT collapses again and dies. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Mum was there when he died because I fetched her, she went SAT to the funeral but the awful thing was after that she never SAT once asked me about him, it was almost as though she’d SAT forgotten him which I find very difficult actually. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Joining me to discuss Jean’s story so far are: James SAT Beattie, a Cardiologist at the Heart of England NHS SAT Foundation Trust in Birmingham, who has a particular SAT interest in end of life care. And Liz Sampson, an Old Age SAT Psychiatrist and a researcher at University College London SAT looking at the end of life care in people with dementia. SAT SAT SAT SAT Liz, first of all, what is dementia? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Dementia is a progressive disease where brain cells die and SAT it affects multiple areas of the brain, so it can affect SAT someone’s memory and that’s the most commonly recognised SAT symptom. But it also affects people’s judgement and their SAT more complex thinking processes and as it advances it SAT affects people’s ability to care for themselves, simple day SAT to day tasks which require coordination like washing and SAT dressing. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So is it an illness or is it a natural part of ageing? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Dementia is an illness, it’s not a normal consequence of SAT ageing. So we know about one in five people over the age of SAT 80 will have dementia, that means four in five people SAT won’t. All of us gets slightly memory problems and our SAT memory gets less efficient as we get older but dementia is a SAT syndrome of problems where we have memory problems plus SAT difficulties with our day to day function, behaviour, SAT personality change. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT What treatments are available for dementia? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Well unfortunately we don’t have any treatments that will SAT alter the underlying loss of brain cells and disease SAT process. We do have some drugs available that can improve SAT symptoms of memory loss, may improve day to day function and SAT may help with some of the behavioural and psychological SAT difficulties that people have. And there’s some evidence SAT that they give people a limited amount of independent life SAT at home. Other treatments are available as well and it’s SAT really important to think about psychological and social SAT support. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now we heard that Jean tried to disguise it from her SAT daughter, is that common? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT I think it is but I think it’s important to realise that SAT that’s not usually a deliberate attempt, our brains are SAT quite sophisticated, they like to fill in the gaps and give SAT the whole picture, so I think it’s quite normal for people SAT to just try and carry on as normal and to make up for little SAT mistakes. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And how good are we at diagnosing it? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT We’re getting better, there’s been a huge push on increasing SAT dementia diagnosis rates in this country recently although SAT we still have quite a way to go. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And how important is it that you know or that your family SAT know that you have dementia? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Most people would say that although a diagnosis of dementia SAT is a very frightening and distressing thing to hear it’s SAT better to know because you can start making plans for the SAT future. It might help you plan where you might want to SAT live, it might help you plan to have treatment that you SAT need, so in some areas of the country people are able to SAT have dental treatment so their teeth are fixed, so that they SAT don’t then have to have lots of dental treatment and SAT dentures when they get to an advanced stage of dementia. SAT But it’s more than about just having treatment, it’s about SAT being able to access care and support psychologically as SAT well. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Jim, we’ve heard that Jean had five good years, that’s SAT much to the credit of the pacemaker that she had, so is that SAT what usually happens? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Yes pacemakers are relatively simple to manage and SAT pacemakers last perhaps eight to 10 years, depending on how SAT often the heart requires to get the impulse and how fast the SAT battery wears down. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So people are living much, much longer because of the help SAT you can give them. SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Yes pacemaker therapy is very routine in this country and SAT the target implant rate for the UK is 700 per million SAT population. So we have about 30,000 new pacemakers per year SAT in the UK. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So here we have a situation of because of the technological SAT improvement people are living much longer but they’re SAT starting to get other problems. SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT The living legacy of successful intervention. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT You’re smiling as you say it because we’re pleased that SAT people live longer but it is a paradox isn’t it, it is a SAT dilemma now? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT It makes living longer but more complicated and that’s the SAT trade-off. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s a trade-off that we have to deal with and that SAT presumably Liz, you’ve got to examine in terms of what’s SAT going to happen to older people? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT I think it is, we’ve seen a big shift now and obviously a SAT 100 years ago many people died in infancy, young ages from SAT infectious diseases, then we had a shift towards people SAT dying more from heart attacks, strokes, we’re getting better SAT at preventing heart attacks and strokes, so people then live SAT longer. And now we’re getting better at treating cancer and SAT people are living longer as well. And so really the SAT neurodegenerative diseases are the next diseases that come SAT in as you live longer. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So that progress involves critical problems arising that SAT hadn’t arisen before and that’s what we’re tackling right SAT here and now? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Absolutely, it’s a trade-off, yes. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right well let’s get back to the story because following SAT Arthur’s death, Jean remains in the care home. But the SAT staff are struggling to cope with her – she keeps wandering SAT off and leaving through the fire door. And her mood is SAT volatile – she can be suddenly aggressive. Her daughter SAT Sarah moves her into another care home which specialises in SAT looking after people with dementia. The GP there. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT Communication was even by that time getting difficult and SAT she tended to use just a few words – yes, no – shake her SAT head or nod. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Initially when I went she would recognise me. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT And you could have a conversation with her, not a very long SAT conversation but at the same time something would switch, SAT obviously in her mind, and she could become quite SAT aggressive. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jean finds personal intervention by the care staff SAT difficult. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT She would frequently resist attempts to assist her when SAT undressing, cleaning, washing, such that the staff did SAT frequently suffer bruising and scratching. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT They said that that’s what she hated in the home was the SAT personal intervention – the washing, the bathing, the SAT changing, the toilet and all that. If you look at her when SAT she was early 80s she was a very smart, well dressed lady, SAT loved shopping, loved buying clothes and then you’re reduced SAT to that and I can imagine that she would absolutely hate it. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT Distress during personal intervention is a very common SAT problem that we see for patients with moderate and severe SAT dementia. And it is remarkable in a way how well care staff SAT deal with what can be quite difficult situations. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT You never knew how she was going to be. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT I can remember her pinching me and she’d be obsessed with my SAT shoes. But at that time you could at least have a SAT conversation and she did recognise you when we first went SAT in. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But over the next year Jean’s dementia gets worse, robbing SAT her of much of what remains of the personality her family SAT had known. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT Verbal communication was less and less possible and it was SAT difficult to get any clear indication as to her feelings. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jean is also becoming physically frail. She fractures her SAT hip and is admitted to hospital to have it repaired. It’s a SAT harrowing experience for her daughter Sarah who quickly SAT realises that the hospital struggles to cope with patients SAT with dementia. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I was worried about her not eating because I’d go and find SAT food just left in front of her, she couldn’t feed herself at SAT the time. So I was going in at mealtimes to make sure that SAT she had food. I remember her being in the bed at one point SAT soaking wet because they were struggling to cope with her SAT because she was so aggressive because she didn’t know where SAT she was, who were these people, that she was in pain, that SAT were poking and so they found her very difficult to manage. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And the GP is all too familiar with this state of affairs. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT Hospitals are not necessarily geared up to looking after SAT patients with dementia and this can be a concern. If the SAT hospital does not have staff that have understanding of this SAT it can lead to patients becoming increasingly distressed, SAT can also affect nutrition but also poor nutrition can SAT significantly impact a patient’s ability to fight SAT infection. So that they may deteriorate rather than SAT improve. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jean returns to live at the care home where all frail SAT residents are regularly assessed to determine whether SAT resuscitation, following a heart attack, would be SAT appropriate. The GP discusses Jean’s situation with her SAT daughter and the staff. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT We all felt, in Jean’s case, successful resuscitation would SAT be highly unlikely and also was not in her best interests. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The family feel the same. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT To resuscitate her is just prolonging the dementia, so I SAT thought that was probably a good way for her to end her SAT life, a natural way. And I’m sure that’s what she would SAT have wanted. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Yet at the same time, the medical profession continues to SAT intervene to prolong Jean’s life when the situation arises. SAT For example she receives a yearly flu vaccine. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT She had the flu jab because I remember joking with them SAT saying well if you can give it to her I’m more than happy SAT for her to have it. But she could be a bit of a tartar at SAT times, so if she didn’t want something she would give them SAT hell. And she had a couple of urine infections, so SAT obviously had the medication for that. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT And when she fell and broke her hip as well. So there’s SAT quite a substantial amount of intervention in those years. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Yes. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Most of these interventions are given to Jean to restore her SAT health SAT . SAT Yet many of the treatments older people receive are not in SAT themselves remedies, but simply prolong life. The SAT geriatrician: SAT SAT SAT Geriatrician SAT SAT So there are lots and lots of people with dementia who are SAT taking drugs every day that are not designed to make them SAT feel better but are designed to make them live longer. So SAT that would be all the blood pressure medications for SAT example, all the statins, the aspirin and having a flu SAT vaccine every year, it doesn’t make you feel better but the SAT aim is that it should make you live longer. And they’re not SAT always as carefully considered as they should be, we’re SAT living in a world where we’re under huge pressure to treat SAT various chronic conditions according to national guidelines, SAT the guidelines are developed based on very large research SAT trials that absolutely do not include frail, old demented SAT people and are therefore not really applicable to them but SAT at the same time we really don’t want to deny people SAT important treatments and at the moment I think a lot of SAT people are finding it very difficult to find a balance SAT between not denying people treatment just because they are SAT old or because they are frail or because they’re demented SAT but equally not burdening them with treatment that might SAT keep them alive for longer than they actually want to be SAT alive. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So in frail older people with advanced dementia, like Jean, SAT who can’t speak for herself, when is it ethical to treat the SAT illnesses that crop up, and when should we let nature take SAT its course? SAT SAT SAT SAT Well let’s resume out discussion because it’s getting more SAT interesting now. How do you reconcile this business Jim SAT between the natural frailties of old age with the onset of SAT dementia? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT These are difficult issues because in clinical medicine we SAT tend to reconcile, certainly within the specialties, it may SAT be a little bit different in elderly care medicine, SAT sometimes at the expense of what is really happening. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So Liz, how often does it happen that people with dementia SAT just end up in hospital wards? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT It’s very common the research that we’ve done shows that at SAT least 40% of older people in hospitals will have some form SAT of dementia. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And they’re not there because of the dementia? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT No, no they’re usually there for other reasons. So like SAT with Jean they may have a urinary tract infection, they may SAT have a chest infection or a whole range of other medical SAT problems that have brought them in to the hospital. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now you’ve done work on this, so what are you discovering SAT all the time? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Well we’re finding, as the people you interviewed alluded SAT to, that the hospital’s a very difficult environment for SAT someone with dementia – it’s noisy, sometimes the lights are SAT on all night, it’s an unfamiliar environment – it’s very SAT challenging. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT What impact does that have on them? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT They are at risk of infections and falls and they are at SAT risk of having longer hospital stays compared to people SAT without dementia, you might find that someone loses SAT function, they may lose their previous ability to wash or SAT dress themselves, they may become incontinent because they SAT can’t find the toilet. And they may be at risk of being SAT prescribed antipsychotic medication which can have quite SAT serious side effects to calm down the behavioural problems SAT that they’re having. Also they’re much more at risk of SAT being placed in a care home or residential home after SAT they’ve been in hospital. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It sounds totally inappropriate. SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT We have to be careful there. It is inappropriate for some SAT people with dementia to be in hospital but sometimes they’re SAT ill and they need to be in hospital. So in a way we need to SAT think about whether or not the hospital environment should SAT be adapted better for people with dementia. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right well, joining the discussion now is Penney Lewis, SAT Co-Director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at Kings SAT College London. I want to know whether there’s a legal SAT obligation to treat these physical illnesses in people who SAT are frail and have dementia. SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT There is no legal obligation to provide any particular SAT treatment to anyone but in patients who don’t have capacity SAT to make their own decisions you should only provide SAT treatment that is in their best interests. So as the family SAT members mentioned we need to decide in a case like this what SAT is in Jean’s best interest and you have to do that for each SAT potential intervention. So for the flu vaccine, for the SAT antibiotics, for the urinary tract infection – is this in SAT her best interest, considering all of the circumstances SAT including the patient’s wishes and feelings, beliefs and SAT values, any statements that they might have made before they SAT lost capacity to make their own decisions or even while they SAT have no capacity to make their own decisions and you have to SAT consult those who care about them in order to try and assess SAT what their best interests are. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Liz, how do you decide when to intervene in this stage? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT I think it’s very difficult, it’s very important to take a SAT step back and think about the quality of life that the SAT person has and aspects that we may not always consider, the SAT fact that you want to keep someone comfortable rather than SAT making an intervention just for the reason to prolong their SAT life. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT What about something like resuscitation, Jim, that concerns SAT you, when is resuscitation appropriate and when is it not SAT appropriate? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT The difficulty with resuscitation is becomes the default SAT position for the most part and people do not step back and SAT look at the overall picture. In a general hospital the SAT chance of leaving hospital after resuscitation are about SAT 5%... SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Oh as low as that? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT In the general medical and elderly population. I mean SAT people have a feeling from Casualty or ER and all these SAT things that it’s a quick resuscitation and you marry the SAT surgeon then you go home. That doesn’t really happen. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So resuscitation is much more serious and it would affect SAT elderly people badly? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Someone who is in hospital, particularly the elderly, with SAT multiple core morbidities, if they have a cardiac arrest SAT it’s a sign of decline, it’s just their act of dying and it SAT should not be a resuscitation, it should – allowed to die. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Alright but what about a little intervention, what about a SAT yearly flu jab – is that appropriate? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT I think that’s very, very difficult and there’s no clear SAT guidance on that at the moment. Some nursing homes will SAT vaccinate all of their residents, so it’s done in the best SAT interests of the wider population of the care home but SAT sometimes having flu, dying from pneumonia may actually SAT allow you to have a natural death. I think ideally we SAT should be discussing these vaccination decisions more with SAT families and relatives. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT I just want to have a general discussion really about the SAT problem for society here. We’ve got a real paradox haven’t SAT we – we’ve got the technologies and the treatments which we SAT regard as a great success and we’re enormously proud that SAT people are living longer and indeed so are the people – I’m SAT one of them – but when you get these dreadful illnesses SAT you’re piling up enormous dilemmas and there’s no SAT resolution, are we going to go on like that? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT I think it’s attitudinal because society these days is much SAT less familiar with death. Our great grandparents and to SAT some extent our grandparents grew up with people dying SAT before antibiotics and so on and that is denied these days, SAT and people died at home. Death is now becoming lodged in SAT hospitals or lodged in care homes, so somewhere remote from SAT the family, remote from the home, therefore that familiarity SAT has been lost. And we need to make it a more natural SAT expectation if you like – life is a 100% mortality and we SAT need to get used to that. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well let’s move on with our story now because it’s now early SAT 2012… Jean is now 92. A new issue arises, this time for the SAT cardiologist who runs the pacemaking service for the SAT region. He oversees two and half thousand patients with SAT pacemakers, including Jean. The pacing technicians visit SAT Jean at the home each year to check the battery on the SAT pacemaker she had fitted 10 years ago. The battery check is SAT easy but not with Jean. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT They’d had real problems just checking the battery and SAT because she was confused and had dementia she would fight SAT the pacing techs off. With the help of the staff from the SAT home they managed to get the device on that allows us to SAT read how much battery life is left, it doesn’t take very SAT long, it takes a minute or so and they could work out from SAT that that there was very little battery life left in the SAT pacemaker. And they said well this lady, her battery’s SAT running out she needs a box change but there’s all this SAT going on, how are we going to do that. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Changing the box containing the battery usually takes 20 SAT minutes under local anaesthetic at the hospital. The box, SAT lies just beneath the skin on the chest, and is the size of SAT a large coin. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT It contains the battery and it contains the fancy SAT electronics that decide to do all the pacing. Make a little SAT incision take it out, unscrew the leads, put a new box on, SAT screw the leads back in. And you can literally then slide SAT the box between the skin and the front of the muscle and SAT then you just close everything up. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But with Jean’s dementia it’s less straight forward. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT This is a lady who would not cooperate, who would not lie SAT still and allow us to operate on her, who we would have to SAT bring in to the hospital against her will, who we would have SAT to restrain in some way to allow us to get access to her SAT veins, to then give her a general anaesthetic to undertake SAT the procedure, to wake her up from that anaesthetic, to stop SAT her from picking and pawing at the wound for several weeks, SAT so it was going to be quite an undertaking for her. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But what might happen if the battery wasn’t replaced? SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT Many people who have a pacemaker are not dependent on their SAT pacemaker, it’s something that improves their quality of SAT life and if you let their battery run out they won’t die as SAT a result of that. This lady was so dependent on her SAT pacemaker and I thought if this lady’s battery runs out she SAT is almost certainly going to die as a consequence of this. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So doing nothing will have grave consequences. If Jean is SAT actually dying the decision would be easier. But the GP SAT doesn’t think she is. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT It is very difficult to determine with patients when they SAT might die. In Jean’s case although she had significant SAT dementia she did not have major other medical other problems SAT and I could not say that I expected her to die in the next SAT year. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The fact that Jean can’t decide for herself complicates SAT thing further. It’s easier for the cardiologist when SAT patients express a choice. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT I often encounter patients in their 90s who come up to a box SAT change and they say I don’t want you to do that, I would SAT just rather die. If they’re of sound mind then we don’t SAT change the battery and I’ve had a number of elderly patients SAT die when I would have happily operated on them but they SAT didn’t want it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Guidance in such situations is rather thin on the ground. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT There is standard advice that when the battery runs out you SAT simply change the battery but that doesn’t take into account SAT the patient’s circumstances in any way. And there’s no SAT formal guidance about what to do in those situations. I’d SAT also realised this was becoming an increasing problem SAT because dementia is becoming more common and because SAT patients who we put pacemakers in are living longer. So I SAT thought that I would seek advice from the ethics committee. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Given that Jean can’t decide for herself, the team and the SAT ethics committee need to establish what course of action is SAT in her best interests. SAT SAT SAT SAT If a person makes their wishes known, in the form of what’s SAT called an ‘Advanced Decision’ or a ‘living will’, before SAT losing their capacity, that would influence everyone’s SAT decision. But Jean hadn’t done that. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT My mother didn’t leave any instructions written or otherwise SAT of how to react in a situation like this or anything else, SAT to be honest, I didn’t even know whether she wanted to be SAT buried or cremated – stupidly we never had those SAT conversations. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT Because it’s quite difficult when you’re healthy and fit to SAT actually write it down what you would like to happen in the SAT long term, I think that’s quite difficult to do that. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jean is not unusual. The Chair of the ethics committee SAT again: SAT SAT SAT Geriatrician SAT SAT Sadly we very rarely see a valid advanced decision that SAT applies to the situation that they’re in. People often tell SAT us oh I have a living will or the husband may produce a SAT living will but in fact it’s a piece of paper that says I SAT want no heroics, which really doesn’t cover the situation SAT that we’re in. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So is changing the pacemaker battery in Jean’s best SAT interests? SAT SAT SAT SAT An important consideration is her quality of life. This SAT makes her daughter doubt the value of going ahead with the SAT op. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Her quality of life is getting less and less and less, so I SAT wasn’t sure whether I should prolong that. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT She needed help with all aspects of life, needed carers to SAT assist her to stand and transfer to a wheelchair, she had SAT continence problems and communicated in a very limited way, SAT often just shaking her head or closing her eyes. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT There was not even a glimmer of recognition of me. We take SAT the grandchildren in, all her family but she never seemed to SAT recognise any of them. So I just loved to have known what SAT she understood, what was going on in her mind. The brain SAT seemed to have gone but she was still a person. SAT SAT SAT GP SAT SAT Despite her limited communication she had personality, was SAT feisty and could on occasions be happy, smiling. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT She was just sitting in a chair, okay sometimes she was SAT happy, sometimes she was not, very bad tempered, aggressive. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And visits to the local hospital just make matters worse. SAT There was the occasion when she had to have her remaining SAT two teeth out. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT SAT She went to the day centre in the hospital and they had to SAT put her out, obviously, because they were worried about her SAT being aggressive and I said to them as soon as she comes SAT round you need to fetch me and I’d heard her screaming from SAT the waiting room and she was so distressed, she was asking SAT for her mother and her father, she was screaming that I was SAT trying to kill her because obviously she was in a lot of SAT pain, she’d just had these teeth out. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah and her husband are reluctant to put her through yet SAT another procedure - the change of her pacemaker battery - SAT but it’s an agonising decision, given that it could SAT ultimately lead to her death. SAT SAT SAT Sarah’s husband SAT SAT If she could understand what would she have said? Would she SAT have said no I don’t want my pacemaker done, will you please SAT let me go? That would have been really helpful to know. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT She would say to me years and years and years ago oh it’s SAT time I popped off, I’m getting long in the tooth now. I SAT know you joke about things like that but I think there is a SAT little nugget of truth there somewhere. It’s very SAT difficult, very difficult. The only thing that kept me SAT going was trying to think what would she have wanted. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right, well I come back to my panel now as the questions get SAT harder. We heard about Jean’s quality of life but, Liz, how SAT do we know what’s going on in the mind of someone with SAT dementia? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT When someone gets to the advanced stages of dementia where SAT Jean is at it’s very hard but I think that you can get clues SAT like her daughter said sometimes she was smiling, we saw a SAT sense of her old personality there, sometimes it’s a case of SAT finding a familiar piece of music that can help someone to SAT enjoy themselves and relax but it’s incredibly difficult and SAT I don’t think anyone can put ourselves in the mind of SAT someone at that advanced stage of dementia. I just get the SAT sense that it must be very frightening sometimes. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jim. SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT The other slightly worrying thing is that I think as SAT clinicians we often make assumptions in terms of our SAT perception of patient’s quality of life and we make SAT decisions sometimes on these value judgements which I think SAT are intrinsically risky. For example, in heart failure we SAT often think that patients who can’t walk across the room SAT would rather let their life end than maintain that limited SAT life but that’s often not the case. SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT There’s some really interesting research with people with SAT the earlier or more moderate stages of dementia which shows SAT that they always tend to rate their quality of life higher SAT than their relatives rate it and I think that gives us SAT perhaps a useful indication that they are still enjoying SAT life and that we, as clinicians or relatives, may be putting SAT our own perception of their situation. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Yes it is a danger. Now we’ve heard all along that everyone SAT surrounding Jean wished they knew what she wanted. Now SAT Penney, this is one for you, because they’ve talked about SAT advanced decisions, popularly known as living wills, if only SAT she’d left instructions. Now how often do you come across SAT people with dementia who’ve done that? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT Well it is possible to make a decision called an advanced SAT decision to refuse treatment where you envisage SAT circumstances in the future, after you’ve lost the capacity SAT to make the decision for yourself. Of course if we think SAT about it in the context of this particular case we can see SAT how difficult that is because possibly Jean might have been SAT able to make an advanced decision to refuse treatment when SAT she was first diagnosed with dementia… SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT That is allowed is it, that would be considered having SAT capacity? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT If she still had capacity… SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Who decides that? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT The idea would be that you have a discussion with your GP SAT about it, that helps you think about what sorts of SAT treatments you might want to refuse and what treatments you SAT might actually say I’d really quite like this if it’s SAT appropriate for me… SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now that seems to me very good to do it at the point of SAT diagnosis with a GP but, Liz, how many GPs would enter into SAT that kind of conversation do you think? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Well some GPs would but they have very limited time and I SAT think it’s something that all healthcare professionals SAT sometimes find a difficult topic to bring up because you’re SAT projecting into the future and you’re talking about dying. SAT It’s something that is offered in some memory clinics when SAT people are first diagnosed with dementia. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT We’ve heard that someone had made an advanced decision SAT saying they don’t want any heroics, now that presumably SAT means that people phrase things far too loosely, so what is SAT the best way to phrase an advanced decision? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT If you go online you can find different forms. If you’re SAT diagnosed with a particular illness an organisation that SAT specialises in that illness might have their own form. A SAT more generic form, which I think is quite a useful one, is SAT available from an organisation called Compassion in Dying SAT and they also provide a free telephone helpline that you can SAT call and they’ll help you fill in the form. And the other SAT thing they do, which I think can be incredibly useful, is to SAT help you create a statement of values and wishes and that SAT can be used not only to help interpret the advanced decision SAT but also to assist with assessing your best interests if SAT there’s a treatment that’s not covered by the advanced SAT decision. In this case the family would really have SAT benefited from knowing more about what sort of a death Jean SAT wanted, what sort of care she wanted at the end of life, SAT what sort of interventions she might have wanted. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT That sounds the absolute ideal solution if it wasn’t rather SAT complicated. Now Liz old people are frail, they might be SAT fading in some way, is the form too complicated? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT I think it is quite a complex process, there are so many SAT different forms around and I think we can get very hung up SAT on having a signed bit of paper. Actually it’s the SAT discussion that can be really useful and I don’t think we SAT should undervalue the importance of having a discussion with SAT your family, with your friends. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now if Jean had written an advanced decision would it have SAT covered this battery replacement matter? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Well it could do and in a sense the opportunity is missed SAT because the other trigger point to have that conversation is SAT the time of informed consent for the first pacemaker. It SAT just doesn’t tend to happen, I have to say, very often for SAT pacemakers. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But that’s up to the cardiologist really. SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Well cardiology have not brought into that discussion very SAT much. We do other devices, for example, implantable SAT defibrillators these days to stop people dying suddenly of SAT some lethal cardiac rhythm disturbances. Now these are SAT designed to stop people dying and it seems entirely SAT appropriate to me to discuss end of life at the point of SAT that device being implanted because they can also complicate SAT dying – you can have an active defibrillator and be dying of SAT cancer or dying of dementia and no one knows how to handle SAT that then. So again we need to grasp opportunities at the SAT point of contact when it’s appropriate to have that SAT discussion. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It becomes awfully technological too because dying is about SAT something far more philosophical than a lot of machinery SAT isn’t it? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Well exactly but we’re making dying more complicated by SAT these devices. And if Jean had had a comment about handling SAT her life downstream from the pacemaker implantation then SAT this would have been a much easier decision. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now we’ve been talking about the advanced decision but let’s SAT now move on about the lasting power of attorney which helps SAT other people make the decisions. Penney, can you explain SAT that? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT So a lasting power of attorney for healthcare is a document SAT that allows someone while they still have capacity to SAT appoint someone to make healthcare decisions for them when SAT they lose capacity. So, for example, Jean might have SAT appointed her daughter to make decisions for her. Those SAT decisions still have to be made in Jean’s best interests. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But how does that person know what’s in your best interests? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT When you make a lasting power of attorney you have a SAT conversation with the person you’re appointing about what SAT you might want in the circumstances. And as you get older, SAT as maybe you get diagnosed with something new you can have SAT another discussion about okay now I’ve got this cardiac SAT problem, what would I want in these circumstances, okay now SAT there’s a dementia diagnosis – you have to have these SAT repeated discussions with the people you care about so that SAT they can inform the best interests assessment. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s quite a sophisticated idea that isn’t it? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT It’s very challenging, it’s very difficult to predict SAT oneself into the future, some people may find it really SAT quite distressing to imagine their own death but nonetheless SAT we’ll make better decisions if we do talk about them. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now I happen to have made one of these and it is a SAT complicated form and it’s expensive. So this business of SAT planning ahead, how can we make it easier? Can I put the SAT burden on the medical profession to begin with Jim? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Thank you. I sometimes worry that the medics will determine SAT the decision because they’re to some extent speaking with SAT authority and I think that has to be avoided to some SAT extent. And it must come down to sheer decision making in SAT the true sense, making them aware in a comprehensible way of SAT these complex problems and take their insight into making a SAT consensus in terms of how they want to handle things. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s a matter of educating the public isn’t it Liz? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT I think it is and there are big ongoing campaigns at the SAT moment to try and increase people’s confidence in discussing SAT what they want when they’re dying – the Dying Matters SAT coalition’s doing a lot of work around this at the moment. SAT Because we don’t talk about it, it’s still very taboo and SAT yet as we’ve said already it’s the one certainty. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right, well you’re here as the ethics committee so I want a SAT quick answer from each of you as what would you now do in SAT Jean’s case about changing the battery in her pacemaker? SAT What would you advise Penney? SAT SAT SAT Lewis SAT SAT Based on the information that we’ve had in terms of her SAT current experience in my view it wouldn’t be in her best SAT interests to have the battery changed, that her quality of SAT life after the procedure is one which she wouldn’t find SAT worthwhile. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Liz? SAT SAT SAT Sampson SAT SAT Given what Jean’s daughter and son-in-law have said about SAT her and about their views, which I think is important to SAT take into account what the family says, I would agree and I SAT think it would not be in Jean’s best interests to put her SAT through such a distressing procedure. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jim? SAT SAT SAT Beattie SAT SAT Despite being a cardiologist and interventionist I would be SAT inclined to agree that we should be conservative here. I SAT think that to put her through a procedure would be a major SAT disruption and I think it would interfere with her quality SAT of life and I think that is ethically illicit in allowing a SAT natural death. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well thank you all – James Beattie, Liz Sampson and Penney SAT Lewis. SAT SAT SAT SAT And now let’s find out what happened. SAT SAT SAT SAT In the summer of 2012 the clinical ethics committee gave SAT their advice to the cardiologist. SAT SAT SAT Geriatrician SAT SAT Once we had all the information about the situation that SAT Jean was in, the views of her family, her previously SAT expressed wishes it really seemed clear, I think, to all of SAT us that changing the pacemaker would not be in her best SAT interests. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The cardiologist considered the advice. SAT SAT SAT Cardiologist SAT SAT The final decision was mine and I spoke with Jean’s daughter SAT and I said to her – I’m not going to change her device, I SAT don’t think it’s the right thing to do. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jean’s daughter agreed. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Taking everything into consideration that seemed to be the SAT best option and the nicest option for her, if there can be a SAT nice option. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Jean’s pacemaker battery was expected to run out in early SAT 2013, a few months after the decision was made. But it’s an SAT imprecise science and it continued to work for another year. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT She just continued and it was not until early 2014 that they SAT noticed that her pulse had gone very slow and we did go to SAT the hospital but obviously because of the decision that had SAT been made they didn’t do anything and we took her back. 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SUN SUN In the first of two exclusive reports for Sunday, Dr Rowan SUN Williams, Chair of Christian Aid and former Archbishop of SUN Canterbury, reports on the desperate situation he found in SUN South Sudan when he visited the country this week. SUN SUN Concluding our series exploring the views of faith groups at SUN the outbreak of World War One, June Osborne, the Dean of SUN Salisbury, looks at the Church of England's response to the SUN war. The Rev Laurence Whitley, Minister of Glasgow SUN Cathedral, looks ahead to the Centenary Commonwealth Service SUN taking place in Scotland and tells the story of the four SUN Anderson Brothers who lost their lives during the Great War. SUN SUN As the UK plays host to the cast and crew of the latest Star SUN Wars instalment, we explore the theology of the blockbuster SUN movie with David Wilkinson, author of 'The Power of the SUN Force: The Spirituality of the Star Wars Movies' SUN SUN Producers: SUN Dan Tierney SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN SUN Series Producer: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Rev Laurence Whitley SUN David Wilkinson SUN Jehangir Malik SUN Tom Keatinge. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04c9s0c (Listen) SUN GardenAfrica SUN SUN Monty Don presents The Radio 4 Appeal for GardenAfrica, an SUN international NGO working with Africa's smallholder farmers. SUN Registered Charity No 1141093 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'GardenAfrica'. SUN SUN GardenAfrica SUN GardenAfrica works with SUN some of the most vulnerable people in Southern and East SUN Africa to find SUN plant-based solutions to everyday challenges. GardenAfrica SUN trains community SUN gardeners & family farmers to make the most sustainable use SUN of their SUN natural resources to build health, wellbeing and economic SUN opportunity. By SUN conserving vital horticultural knowledge GardenAfrica also SUN ensures that this SUN knowledge is available to the next generation, while SUN enabling people to make SUN informed choices about the conservation & sustainable use SUN of their SUN biodiversity. SUN Photo shows a smallholder farmer in Hwedza harvesting her SUN baby courgette crop for market. SUN SUN Why Biodiversity? SUN SUN Growing a single crop – upon which your entire family’s SUN survival depends – is always a risky business. Imagine your SUN crop being lost to drought or pests before you’ve sold it to SUN pay for schooling, medicine or food for your family’s SUN nutrition. 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SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04c97mp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04c97mr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04c9s0f (Listen) SUN Where Poppies Grow SUN SUN General Lord Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff and SUN present Constable of the Tower of London, preaches at a SUN service in Holy Trinity Church Dartford marking the SUN centenary of the outbreak of World War 1. As part of the SUN commemoration, the Royal British Legion are planting a SUN million poppies in and around Dartford. The service is led SUN by the Vicar of Holy Trinity, the Revd Martin Henwood and SUN the music is directed by George Richford. Producer: Stephen SUN Shipley. SUN SUN Holy Trinity Church SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past eight and time to go live to SUN Holy Trinity Parish Church Dartford for this morning’s SUN Sunday Worship. It commemorates the centenary tomorrow of SUN the outbreak of the First World War and it’s led by the SUN Vicar, the Revd Martin Henwood. General Lord Dannatt, SUN former Chief of the General Staff and present Constable of SUN the Tower of London, is the preacher. The service begins SUN with Edward Bairstow’s setting of the words ‘Jesu, the very SUN thought of thee with sweetness fills my breast.’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Introit: Jesu, the very thought of thee (Bairstow) SUN SUN Martin Henwood: SUN Welcome to Dartford Parish Church in north Kent. We are one SUN day’s march away from central London, and lie on the old SUN Roman road to Rochester, Canterbury, Dover and Europe. SUN Countless pilgrims, people of commerce and soldiers have SUN stopped by here. SUN SUN Dartford has seen many armies marching out and marching SUN back. A Requiem Mass took place in this church after the SUN victory at Agincourt, and King Henry V’s body, guarded by SUN 500 knights, was laid overnight here after his last military SUN campaign in France. And so on the eve of the 100th SUN anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War we pause SUN to reflect on the war that was to end all wars. SUN SUN Heavenly Father, we recall the sacrifice of the men, women SUN and children who were maimed in body, mind or spirit, or who SUN died in the Great War. We recall the repercussions that have SUN tumbled upon succeeding generations, including ours. Help us SUN to let go of that which makes for evil and to be open to the SUN Holy Spirit. May the actions of all faithful people release SUN the very best of what you have wrought within us, so that SUN with Christ we may be one with you, the Holy Spirit and all SUN Creation, working for a Kingdom of prosperity, peace and SUN love. Amen. SUN SUN We are delighted to welcome General Lord Dannatt as our SUN visiting preacher. SUN SUN Lord Dannatt: SUN At 11pm tomorrow evening, lights will be going out across SUN our country as we envisage the sinking feeling that our SUN forebears must have experienced on 4th August 1914 as SUN Germany failed to respond to the British ultimatum that SUN could have prevented war. Diplomacy collapsed, mobilisation SUN across Europe was ordered and by the end of the month the SUN guns were roaring and crashing around the soldiers of the SUN tiny British Expeditionary Force as it stood against the SUN might of the German Army’s main attack into Belgium. SUN The first British soldier killed in that war is buried in a SUN cemetery just outside Mons, only yards from where the last SUN British soldier was killed and buried over four years later SUN on 11th November 1918. In between those events, according SUN to official statistics, 888,246 British and Colonial SUN soldiers lost their lives. Millions more from other nations SUN suffered the same fate. For families, for communities, for SUN nations this was a tragic loss of life – and more sadly, it SUN turned out not to be the Great War to end wars but instead SUN the precursor to the World War that followed just twenty one SUN years later and laid the foundations for the unstable world SUN in which we now live. SUN So, a hundred years later, we are faced with a great SUN dilemma – what sense can we make of the Great War? I will SUN try to give an answer, later in our service. SUN SUN Martin Henwood: SUN We sing our first hymn, based on Psalm 90: O God, our help SUN in ages past. SUN SUN Hymn: O God, our help in ages past, SUN SUN Reader: SUN First and foremost - keep your heads. Be calm. Go about your SUN ordinary business quietly and soberly. Do not indulge in SUN excitement or foolish demonstrations. Think of others more SUN than you are wont to do. Think of your duty to your SUN neighbour. Think of the common weal. Try to contribute SUN your share by doing your duty in your own place and your own SUN sphere. Be abstemious and economical. Avoid waste. SUN Remember those who are worse off than yourself. Pay SUN punctually what you owe, particularly to your poorest SUN creditors, such as washerwomen and charwomen. Explain to SUN the young and ignorant what war is, and why we have been SUN forced to wage it. SUN Martin Henwood: SUN A propaganda advertisement issued to Dartford Citizens at SUN the outbreak of the First World War. SUN SUN The choir now sings Psalm 23 to a chant written by Ivor SUN Gurney. Gurney was a long-term patient at the City of London SUN Mental Hospital in Dartford, where he died in 1937. He wrote SUN this short chant for Psalm 23 from his time at the Royal SUN College of Music and Gurney sang the psalm to himself, using SUN his own chant, to steady his nerves when under fire in the SUN trenches during the First World War. SUN SUN Music: Psalm 23 SUN SUN Martin Henwood: SUN At the heart of most conflicts and strife lie a sense of SUN grievance, and the desire to settle matters by our own SUN hands. When desire and action is no longer set in the SUN context of the love of God, love of our neighbour, or indeed SUN love of ourselves we find ourselves far from the Kingdom of SUN Heaven. These words from the gospel of Matthew mirror words SUN quoted by Nelson Mandela: “Our deepest fear is not that we SUN are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful and SUN lovely beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that SUN frightens us.” In this reading Jesus unpacks what it is to SUN live out of light and not darkness. SUN SUN Reader: SUN Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Therefore I tell you, do not SUN worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will SUN drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life SUN more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the SUN birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into SUN barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not SUN of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add SUN a single hour to your span of life? And why do you worry SUN about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they SUN grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even SUN Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. SUN But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive SUN today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much SUN more clothe youyou of little faith? Therefore do not worry, SUN saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or SUN “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for SUN all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that SUN you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom SUN of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be SUN given to you as well.’ (Matthew 6:25-33 NRSV) SUN SUN Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind SUN SUN Lord Dannatt: SUN ‘O still, small voice of calm.’ SUN What a contrast is that final line of the hymn we have just SUN sung, to the tumultuous noise of the rifles, the machine SUN guns, and the artillery of the First World War, as we recall SUN the devastation and tragedy of a hundred years ago. Such SUN huge events, and such massive loss of life, seem SUN overwhelming to comprehend but it is the figure of 888,246 SUN that I mentioned earlier in our service that shines a light SUN on the dilemma of the Great War. Nations, armies and SUN communities are not face-less collective entities but are SUN made up of individual people - like you and me - each one SUN created in the image of God. So we need to see the loss of SUN life in the Great War not so much as an anonymous collective SUN tragedy, but, as in the case of the British Army, as 888,246 SUN personal tragedies. Each life lost was someone’s son, SUN daughter, brother, sister, and friend. SUN If you go the Tower of London on Tuesday morning, or on any SUN day over the next three months, and look into the moat you SUN will observe not the green grass that you might expect, but SUN a sea of red depicting the blood swept battlefields of the SUN Great War. But on closer inspection, it is not just a sea SUN of red that you are gazing at but an array of individual SUN glazed ceramic poppies – 888,246 of them, and each one the SUN size of a heart – one for every British and Colonial soldier SUN who lost their lives in the Great War. Wars might be SUN started by Governments for a variety of motives but they are SUN fought by individual men and women - each one precious, not SUN only to their families, but to our creator, God himself. SUN SUN It may be asked of the Great War “Was God on our side?” but SUN I believe that is the wrong question. God did not create SUN nations or states that might fight against each other and SUN invoke God to be on “their” side, but instead He made SUN individual people. He made you and me, and he made all SUN those British and Colonial soldiers who died – and all those SUN from foreign lands too - be they friend or foe. SUN But the question for us, as it was for them, is not whether SUN God is on our side but whether we are on God’s side SUN personally, because the relationship that really matters in SUN life and before death, is our own individual relationship SUN with God. He made us and loves us and wants us to have a SUN personal relationship with Him. SUN It is often said that there are no Atheists in a foxhole, SUN and those Great War soldiers who died would have had to SUN confront the issues of life and death as they clutched their SUN rifles and machine guns in the mud. We can only surmise SUN something of the anguish that went on in their hearts a SUN hundred years ago. But we do know what is going on in our SUN hearts today. We know that surrounded by the turbulent times SUN of 2014, like the horrific times of 1914, Almighty God, SUN through His Son, Jesus Christ, wants us to reach out and SUN take his hand and enter into an individual relationship with SUN Him. That brings a whole new meaning to the war that was SUN supposed to end wars, and by kneeling at the foot of SUN Christ’s cross of sacrifice and by taking God’s hand, we end SUN our personal war and are welcomed to walk and to work, side SUN by side with him. SUN SUN In our reading this morning Jesus asked his listeners to: SUN “Look at the birds of the air” and to “Consider the lilies SUN of the fields” - He could have talked of poppies rather than SUN lilies, but his point is the same. He urges us to “strive SUN first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness”. What SUN our Heavenly Father wants is individuals – like you and me – SUN to have the courage to walk in peace and with purpose, in SUN his footsteps. In an individual life lived with God, in SUN peace or war, in happiness or tragedy, we - as St Paul wrote SUN to the Romans - are more than conquerors through him who SUN loves us. And, moreover, lives lived in tune with God, SUN committed to Christ and open to the Holy Spirit can change SUN families, can change communities and can change nations. SUN This is not something done by mighty armies, it is done by SUN ordinary individuals. SUN So, in our thinking about the Great War, if we can see SUN beyond the catastrophe of the clash of nations and the mass SUN casualties of the Western Front, and realise that this was a SUN war fought by millions of individual human beings who, SUN themselves, had to struggle to make sense of what was going SUN on around them, then we have the chance to make sense of SUN what is going on in our world today. And that sense comes SUN from realising that it was never God’s purpose for nations SUN to fight amongst themselves and invoke his name in support, SUN but it is his great desire and purpose that we as SUN individuals in 2014, as many undoubtedly did amidst the SUN chaos of 1914, reach out to God on a personal basis and put SUN our trust in him, look through the “earthquake, wind and SUN fire” and listen out for that “still, small voice of SUN calm.” Amen. SUN SUN Music: Expectans expectavi (Wood/Sorley) SUN Martin Henwood: SUN Charles Wood’s setting of a poem written by Charles Hamilton SUN Sorley in 1915 and published in a Treasury of War Poetry. SUN SUN General Lord Dannatt spoke of the Tower of London and a sea SUN of red poppies, glazed in ceramic, depicting the blood swept SUN battlefields of the Great War. This Centenary Poppy SUN Campaign to cover the UK with poppies originated as a local SUN idea from the Greenhithe and Swanscombe Branch of the SUN British Legion. Its purpose is to remind us of the SUN consequences of that war. So in collaboration with local SUN schools, community groups, and Dartford Borough Council we SUN too have been planting poppy seeds in remembrance of those SUN men, women and children who fought and died in the First SUN World War, keeping us ever mindful of the consequences of SUN conflicts that are not peacefully resolved. SUN So let us pray with hope for the future of the world and for SUN the needs of all people. SUN SUN Reader: SUN For peace and justice in our world, for an end to war and SUN conflict, for the leaders of all nations and peoples, and SUN for those who make peace and foster reconciliation. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN hear our prayer. SUN SUN For the unity of all Christian people, for the Church of God SUN in every land, for all who seek God and the truth, and for SUN all who follow the way of conscience with integrity. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN hear our prayer. SUN SUN For the healing of memories, for those who suffer as a SUN result of war, for communities where past wrongs and SUN violence persist, for all in pain or distress and those who SUN care for them. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN hear our prayer. SUN SUN For friendship and trust amongst all, for an appreciation of SUN our interdependence, for the new partnerships between the SUN nations, and for a world that is in harmony with itself. SUN Lord, in your mercy SUN hear our prayer. SUN SUN Most merciful Father, accept our prayers that we may know SUN your peace in our hearts, and your love in our lives, SUN through Christ our Lord. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Hymn: God be in my head SUN SUN Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy SUN kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our SUN trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And SUN lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For SUN thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and SUN ever. Amen. SUN SUN Act of Commemoration SUN They that sow in tears SUN shall reap in joy. SUN They that now go away weeping, and beareth forth good seed, SUN shall come again with joy. SUN SUN They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: SUN Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. SUN At the going down of the sun and in the morning, SUN We will remember them. SUN We will remember them. SUN SUN Hymn: Eternal Father, strong to save SUN SUN Martin Henwood: SUN Go forth into the world in peace; be of good courage; hold SUN fast that which is good; render to no one evil for SUN evil; strengthen the fainthearted; support the weak; help SUN the afflicted; honour everyone; love and serve the SUN Lord, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit; and the SUN blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy SUN Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen. SUN SUN Music: Nunc Dimittis in D (Dyson) SUN SUN SUN Half-muffled Bells to exit SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04bs0mk (Listen) SUN The Changing Nature of Utopias SUN SUN Will Self reflects on what the changing nature of utopias SUN says about us, from Thomas More's sixteenth century Utopia SUN to the recent TV series of the same name. The utopias and SUN dystopias of the past offer a range of different futuristic SUN scenarios but, argues Will Self, they actually all have one SUN thing in common: they're about each writer's present, not SUN future. The late 19th century saw something of a craze in SUN the publication of utopian fiction. Many novels were SUN implicitly optimistic in that they imagined better futures, SUN and some even spurred political movements as was the case SUN with Edward Bellamy's 'Looking Backward 2000-1887'. But SUN nowadays, at a time of man-made global warming, this SUN optimism has dissipated, and our utopias are reduced to SUN fairytales of the non-human, or involve less environmentally SUN destructive species like fictional apes. Where we do imagine SUN a human future, such as in the current TV series, it looks SUN suspiciously dated. SUN SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Arlene Gregorius SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b02tws57 (Listen) SUN Cirl Bunting SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve SUN Backshall presents the cirl bunting. SUN SUN Cirl buntings are related to yellowhammers and look rather SUN like them, but the male cirl bunting has a black throat and SUN a greenish chest-band. SUN SUN Their rattling song may evoke memories of warm dry hillsides SUN in France or Italy. Cirl buntings are Mediterranean birds SUN more at home in olive groves than chilly English hedgerows. SUN Here at the north-western edge of their range, most of our SUN cirl buntings live near the coast in south Devon where they SUN breed in hedgerows on farmland. SUN SUN Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04c9xcb (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 b04c9xcd (Listen) SUN There's a special guest at the village fete, and Charlie SUN lays it on the line. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Peter Wild SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Charlie Thompson: Felix Scott SUN Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Mr Stevens: Paul Thornley SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04c9xcg (Listen) SUN Guy Garvey SUN SUN Guy Garvey, musician and frontman of Elbow, is interviewed SUN by Kirsty Young for Desert island Discs. SUN SUN Front man of the group "Elbow" his voice and lyrics have SUN helped the band win pretty much every music prize going ... SUN headlining Glastonbury too, and playing at the closing SUN ceremony of the London Olympics. Yet his image is that of an SUN everyday, low key, unassuming bloke ... except that he SUN isn't, he's penning and performing songs filled with SUN intimacy, optimism and lyricism, that strike a chord with SUN millions of fans. SUN SUN For a long while his devotees were well versed in the art of SUN delayed gratification - Elbow's debut album was released 11 SUN years after the band members first made music together. SUN SUN He writes his songs in his journal and has been keeping a SUN diary since he was 14. Maybe it was the peace and calm of SUN the blank page that first appealed - one of 7 kids he says SUN he was brought up "in a house full of women that were SUN singing, shouting, arguing, fighting over the bathroom. I'm SUN ruined by these women, spoilt rotten". SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Guy Garvey SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04bn28f (Listen) SUN Series 61, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to Bradford's SUN St George's Hall. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and SUN Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Andy Hamilton, SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the SUN piano. 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: Andy Hamilton SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04c9xcj (Listen) SUN Problems with Poultry? SUN SUN Is the poultry industry fit for purpose? As our consumption SUN of chicken increases and production of poultry in the UK SUN intensifies, Dan Saladino looks at claims of hygiene SUN failings. SUN SUN Produced by Sarah Langan and Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN Food Standards Agency advice SUN Click SUN here SUN to see advice from the Food Standards Agency on preparing SUN chicken safely (June 2014) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04c97my (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04c9xcl (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 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Primary Colours b044h9bh (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN In collaboration with the National Gallery in London whose SUN summer show is about the history and theory of COLOUR, SUN Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looks beneath the surface of our SUN colour-saturated world to investigate what we're actually SUN looking at when we see red, yellow and blue. SUN SUN In the first programme he returns to a period when most SUN people were dressed in drab dye stuffs, derived from plants, SUN and painters had to work hard to source mineral pigments for SUN paint. SUN SUN Deep in the National Gallery, he visits senior conservator SUN Jill Dunkerton to discuss how she goes about restoring SUN pictures from the early Renaissance. What does she SUN substitute for the original lapis lazuli blue found so often SUN in pictures of the Madonna? Any why was this colour so SUN prized by artists of this period? SUN SUN Victoria Finlay has travelled the world in search of the SUN sources of coloured minerals. She tells of searching for SUN lapis in Afghanistan and the cochineal beetle (source for SUN red dye) in Mexico. These were the exotic lands from which SUN the early ingredients for pigments came. SUN SUN Laurence takes his explorations forward in time to the SUN nineteenth century when the science of colour was becoming SUN properly understood. Professor Martin Kemp explains how the SUN Impressionists began to imitate the effects of light SUN reflecting off coloured surfaces onto the eye. SUN SUN Ella Hendriks is a curator at the Van Gogh museum and she's SUN in charge of preserving the colours in his paintings. She SUN explains that the colours in his paintings are completely SUN different to how they looked originally. SUN SUN One of Laurence's final contributors is Professor Anya SUN Hurlbert, who researches our perceptions of colour. She's SUN interested in how we explain the way our brains can identify SUN colours despite dramatic differences in lighting. SUN SUN The programmes visit the Matisse exhibition in London, the SUN Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, and the churches of Florence. SUN As Laurence discovers, colour is much more slippery and SUN complicated than you might think. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Marling, Isabel Sutton SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04bryz3 (Listen) SUN Shropshire SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Shropshire. Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny SUN Guinness join him to answer the audience's questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. How should I prune and train two dwarf Cherry trees SUN (Summer Sun and Sweet Heart varieties) to keep them within SUN the bounds of a fruit cage? SUN SUN A. Plant the trees at an angle rather than straight up. SUN Instead of pruning, weave the branches downwards. Or try SUN draping the branches by tying a log to weigh them down. SUN SUN Q. Is it best to leave cut grass to mulch? SUN SUN A. Grass clippings are high in nitrogen and so it's good to SUN use them around the garden. Leaving the grass will improve SUN the tilth but can encourage weeds and thatch buildup. SUN SUN Q. Are there any varieties of Raspberries that don't take SUN over? SUN SUN A. Most varieties that yield a good crop will be invasive so SUN find an area of the garden where you don't have to worry SUN about them taking over, for example, in a thin sliver of SUN soil between paving and a wall where they cannot spread. You SUN could also try planting them in containers. Tulameen is a SUN very tasty variety. SUN SUN Q. Is there anything I can plant beneath my hundred-year-old SUN Yew Tree? SUN SUN A. Try putting in a statue - this will attract the Ivy, or SUN plant annual bedding plants in containers and put them SUN beneath the tree. Along the periphery of the canopy you SUN could grow Cyclamen, Iris Foetidissima, Holly, Ruscus SUN (Witches' Broom), Euphorbia Robbiae, Ground Elder or SUN Pachysandra (Japanese Spurge). SUN SUN Q. What is the best way to move two large Rosa Rugosa SUN shrubs? SUN SUN A. Take cuttings in the autumn and start again in the new SUN location. The old plants will not like being moved. Or if SUN you really did want to move them, do so in August/ SUN September. Prune them hard and then dig them out, cut around SUN some of the stubborn root and replant them. SUN SUN Q. Do the panel have any suggestions for encouraging SUN wildlife in the garden? SUN SUN A. You can make habitats within the garden to encourage all SUN sorts of wildlife: a wet area, a pile of twigs, a hedge, a SUN pond etc. Multi-stem trees are fantastic for encouraging SUN wildlife. Plant wild seed mixes on bare soil. SUN SUN Q. How can I best disguise a fence? One side faces SUN northeast, the other southwest. SUN SUN A. For the northeast facing side try a Hedera (Ivy), SUN Hydrangea petiolaris, or a Schizophragma hydrangeoides. You SUN could put in buttresses to change the look of the fence. You SUN could put hanging baskets on the posts of the fence and SUN plant in Petunias or Nasturtiums. SUN SUN Q. What do the panel have in their gardens that cannot be SUN described as either beautiful or functional? SUN SUN A. Bob has a defunct lawnmower in his. Chris says that SUN everything in his garden is a work in progress and he sees SUN the beauty of potential and functionality in everything. SUN Bunny has got rid of a Leylandii hedge that was neither SUN beautiful of functional. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04c9xcn (Listen) SUN For 40 years Iby kept secret the fact that she'd been held SUN in Auschwitz - she didn't even tell her husband. She finally SUN told someone 30 years ago and one of the conversations SUN introduced by Fi Glover is with that friend; the other is SUN with her granddaughter. Since Iby finally revealed her SUN secret, she has gone on to tell her story to more than SUN 20,000 people, most of them school children, in her SUN determination that the horrors of the Holocaust should never SUN be repeated. And, in a departure for The Listening Project, SUN Iby reads the powerful poem she wrote in her pursuit of this SUN aim. 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 b04c9xcq (Listen) SUN Eugenie Grandet, Episode 2 SUN SUN The final part of Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation of SUN Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, starring Ian McKellen as Eugenie's SUN miserly father and Alison Pettit as his lovelorn daughter. 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 Cruchot: Harry Hadden-Paton SUN Des Grassins: David Horovitch SUN Charles: Blake Ritson SUN Madame Des Grassins: Jenny Funnell SUN Director: Gordon House SUN Producer: Gordon House SUN Adaptor: Rose Tremain SUN Author: Honore Balzac SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b04c9xcs (Listen) SUN Sadie Jones - The Outcast SUN SUN With James Naughtie. Sadie Jones talks about her novel The SUN Outcast which won the Costa First Novel award in 2008. SUN SUN The book is about a boy called Lewis - his childhood and SUN adolescence - as he grows up in the stultifying world of the SUN home counties in the late forties and fifties. It's a tale SUN of drunkenness, violence and a fair amount of sex, set SUN amongst the well-brought-up professional classes. It is also SUN a love story. SUN SUN Sadie says : There's something fascinating about the 50s, SUN the cataclysm of the war and the 60s. We all think about SUN this explosion of freedom, but caught in between it was ten SUN years of breath held and that fascinated me. SUN SUN August's Bookclub : A Question of Loyalties by Allan Massie SUN (1989) SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN "She examines the pain that’s often part of adolescence.." SUN Sadie Jones on Surrey as the dark heart of Britain SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Sadie Jones SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:27 Poetry Postcards b04c9xcv (Listen) SUN A chance to hear some of the best poems from BBC Scotland's SUN Poetry Postcards series, inviting a poet from each SUN participating nation and territory to send a poem to Glasgow SUN for the Commonwealth Games. SUN SUN Razia Iqbal discusses the common themes arising from the SUN collection with four of the participating poets: Sasenarine SUN Persaud from Guyana; Nigerian journalist and poet Tolu SUN Ogunlesi; Toni Stuart, a performance poet from South Africa; SUN and Trinidadian Vahni Capildeo. SUN SUN 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04c9xcx (Listen) SUN 3rd August SUN SUN The British Foreign Secretary speaks in favour of war at the SUN House of Commons. 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 Trick or Trust b04brlq0 (Listen) SUN How much does an understanding of evolutionary biology SUN influence policy-makers at the sharp end of government? SUN Quite a lot, according to Times columnist and former Downing SUN Street advisor, Daniel Finkelstein. He's seen how the latest SUN scientific research into our genes and how we behave sheds SUN light on the delicate interplay of trust, reciprocity and SUN deception in human affairs. Now he explores how that could SUN shape political decision-making on issues like welfare SUN reform, immigration and what should be done about bankers' SUN pay. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04c9kyv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04c97n0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04c97n2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04c97n4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04c9xcz (Listen) SUN This week the wonders of the Natural world with aftershave SUN for bees and the once in a lizards lifetime trick the SUN reptile can do to put off predators. SUN Rob Drydon stars as Peter Brough the ventriloquist whose SUN famous puppet Archie took over his life, and those master SUN mimics Dead Ringers return to radio after seven years. SUN Professor Brian Cox has a go at rewriting comic history with SUN Stephen Fry and Jenny Éclair uses airplane turbulence as a SUN metaphor for a bumpy marriage. SUN Sheila McClennon asks you to fasten your seatbelts, make SUN sure your seats are in the upright position and join her for SUN Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Sketchorama (Radio 4, 30th June) SUN SUN Plants from Roots to Riches (Radio 4, 30th June) SUN SUN Book of the Week: Cold Blood (Radio 4, All-Week) SUN SUN Saturday Drama: His Master's Voice (Radio 4, 2nd August) SUN SUN Little Lifetimes (Radio 4, 30th July) SUN SUN Inside the Ethics Committee (Radio 4, 31st July) SUN SUN You and Yours (Radio 4, All-Week) SUN SUN BBC Proms 2014: Prom 19 (part 1): Strauss and Elgar (Radio SUN 3, 31st July) SUN SUN The Infinite Monkey Cage (Radio 4, 28th July) SUN SUN Dead Ringers (Radio 4, 30th July) SUN SUN Empire Café: The Business of Tea (Radio 4, 27th July) SUN SUN Playing the Skyline (Radio 4, 28th July). SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04c9xd1 (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music b04c9xd3 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 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 stars to bring their music to his SUN Sheffield home. So it is that Chas and Dave, Heaven 17, SUN Toyah Willcox 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 It's the last show in the series this week but John is SUN feeling a little stressed despite the fact all the jingles SUN are recorded. John's final guest is Leee John from SUN Imagination who's a very busy man involved with charity SUN work, singing, acting and making a documentary - and John is SUN worried that Leee is doing too much and should take things a SUN bit easy. Maybe they could take a trip to the reservoir to SUN check the levels as that's a very relaxing thing to do? SUN SUN But Leee has been working since the age of 13 and is still SUN full of energy so he's ready to sing one of John's songs, SUN and indeed one of his own. As Leee prepares to sing Body SUN Talk, John settles down to listen and by the end of it feels SUN quite relaxed. But things get tense once more as Ken tries SUN one last desperate attempt to woo a star to his stable. Will SUN Leee be interested? And will Ken finally get to present the SUN item Ken in the Konservatory? SUN SUN Also, there are top tips on the telephone from Anita Harris. SUN SUN Written and Performed by Graham Fellows with special guests SUN Leee John and Anita Harris. 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: Leee John SUN Interviewed Guest: Anita Harris SUN Writer: Graham Fellows SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN SUN 19:45 The Empire Cafe b04c9yq8 (Listen) SUN The Ginger MacIntosh Clan of Saint Kitts SUN SUN Jackie Kay continues our series of three brand new stories SUN recorded in front of a Glasgow audience at The Empire Cafe SUN in Glasgow. Each of our authors will be turning their SUN attention to some of the products of Empire and the Atlantic SUN slave trade at this commonwealth themed cafe and literary SUN venue. The Empire Cafe is opening specially for the Games SUN period and is run by award winning thriller writer Louise SUN Welsh. Each story will focus on one product of Empire. SUN SUN Jackie Kay has chosen ginger, playfully weaving in SUN connections between Scotland and the Caribbean in a story SUN set in Saint Kitts. SUN SUN Leading Scottish writer Jackie Kay grew up in Glasgow. Her SUN award-winning memoir Red Dust traced her journey to meet her SUN Nigerian birth father. Her recent short story collection SUN Reality Reality is published by Pan Macmillan. SUN SUN Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Kei Miller will be reading at SUN the Empire Cafe in the Briggait in Glasgow's Merchant City SUN (where the merchants would have kept look out for their SUN ships docking with goods from the commonwealth and sent an SUN assistant running to greet them). SUN SUN Produced by Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Jackie Kay SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy SUN Writer: Jackie Kay SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04bs0ls (Listen) SUN Listeners' views on the BBC's coverage of the SUN Israeli-Palestinian conflict continue to dominate our inbox. SUN There are allegations of bias on both sides - the BBC SUN coverage is accused of being too pro-Palestinian and too SUN pro-Israeli. But how easy is it to accurately report the SUN conflict on the ground from within Gaza? Roger Bolton speaks SUN to the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. SUN SUN Also this week, should history stay in the past? John SUN Humphrys and Melvyn Bragg have gone head-to-head over the SUN use of the present tense to describe historical events. SUN Matthew Parris, who presents Radio 4's long-running SUN biographical series Great Lives, was among the first to SUN criticise this seemingly modern fad. But is it actually a SUN new thing? And can it be an effective tool for bringing the SUN past to life? Matthew gives his view. SUN SUN And Roger joins the gardeners of Cumbria on board the M V SUN Teal on Windermere for a special recording of Gardeners' SUN Question Time. The chairman, Eric Robson, is celebrating 20 SUN years of presiding over the gardening queries of the nation, SUN but what's in his garden? And how do the panel of Bob SUN Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, and Bunny Guinness prepare for SUN any question that the audience might throw at them? Find out SUN how an audience of 150 gardeners, perhaps more used to being SUN close to the earth, take to the water. You can hear the SUN special edition of Gardeners' Question Time on Friday 8th SUN August at 15.00 and repeated on Sunday 10th August at 14.00 SUN on BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Finally, are Sandi Toksvig and her News Quiz panel taking up SUN raving? The problems with the BBC iPlayer continue. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04bs0ll (Listen) SUN Sir Richard MacCormac, Eileen Ford, Nigel Ryan, Zohra SUN Sehgal, Frank Mumford SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The architect Sir Richard MacCormac, who gave a human face SUN to modernism and fell out with the BBC over the creation of SUN its new London headquarters. SUN SUN Eileen Ford, who set up the Ford Modelling Agency, managing SUN stars like Lauren Hutton, Christy Turlington and Elle SUN Macpherson. SUN SUN Nigel Ryan, editor during the glory days of ITN in the 60s SUN and 70s, who also promoted the careers of women journalists. SUN SUN The actress Zohra Seghal, known as "the grand old lady of SUN Indian cinema." SUN SUN And Frank Mumford who toured Europe with a show featuring SUN his own handmade glamorous puppets. SUN SUN Sir Richard MacCormac (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew spoke with Alan Yentob, BBC's creative director. SUN SUN Born 3 September 1938; died 26 July 2014 aged 75. SUN SUN Eileen Ford SUN SUN Matthew talked with Eileen's daughter Katie Ford. SUN SUN Born 25 March 1922; died 9 July 2014 aged 92. SUN SUN Nigel Ryan SUN SUN Matthew talked to Nigel's former ITN colleague, Stewart SUN Purvis, and with broadcaster Sue Lloyd Roberts. SUN SUN Born 12 December 1929, died 18 July 2014 aged 83. SUN SUN Zohra Sehgal SUN SUN Matthew talked with her friend Sun Buchar and with Bollywood SUN film critic Anil Sinanan. SUN SUN Born 27 April 1912, died 10 July 2014 aged 102. SUN SUN Frank Mumford SUN SUN Matthew spoke with Frank's great niece Jenny Allen and to SUN Liz Arratoon who was the circus and light entertainment SUN expert on the Stage Newspaper for twenty years. SUN SUN Born July 12 1918, died July 4 2014 aged 95. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Paula McGinley SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b04brjzz (Listen) SUN Prostitution: Red Light? Green Light? SUN SUN John Waite investigates the varying approaches to street SUN prostitution across the UK - from open tolerance in some SUN areas to zero tolerance in others. Eight years ago five SUN women were murdered in Ipswich while working as prostitutes. SUN It was a wake-up call for how the sex industry is policed SUN across the country. But with critics now saying that SUN policing tactics contributed to yet another murder of a SUN prostitute in London recently - what has really changed? SUN Producer: Paul Waters SUN Research: Craig Lewis SUN Editor: Gavin Poncia. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04c9s0c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04brtgb (Listen) SUN Deep Thoughts SUN SUN It sounds abstruse, but clever people argue that commercial SUN companies have a lot to learn from great philosophers and SUN the academics who spend their lives studying them. SUN Peter Day meets some of the business people inspired and SUN influenced by highbrow philosophy. SUN Produced by David Edmonds. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Mickel Rasmussen SUN SUN ReD Associates, Copenhagen. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Samia Kappe SUN SUN Coloplast, Copenhagen SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Alex Oliver SUN SUN Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Magdalena Smith SUN SUN PhD Student, Cambridge University SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Reid Hoffman SUN SUN Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Stewart Butterfield SUN SUN Internet entrepreneur SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04cb057 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04cb059 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 1914: Day by Day b04cb1p7 (Listen) SUN 1914: Day by Day - Omnibus, Episode 5 SUN SUN Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia threatens to SUN drag the rest of Europe into a war. The British government SUN is split on whether to intervene. 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 b04c9p7f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 AUGUST 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04c97p4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04brn4l (Listen) MON Non-Networking Graduates; Race and Consumption MON MON Race & consumption - Laurie Taylor talks to Ben Pitcher, MON Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, about the MON ways in which racial meaning is produced in everyday acts of MON consumption. From the depiction of 'red Indians' by MON children's authors to the wearing of Bob Marley T shirts and MON the enthusiasm for 'ethnic' street food; our ideas of race MON are made and re-made across the terrain of contemporary MON culture. They're joined by Lola Young, Crossbench Peer and MON former Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of MON Middlesex. Also, Jessica Abrahams, graduate student at the MON University of Cardiff, explores working class students' MON refusal to use networks and contacts as a route to career MON advancement. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Ben Pitcher MON MON Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of MON Westminster, London MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Ben Pitcher MON MON MON Consuming Race MON Publisher: Routledge MON ISBN-10: 0415519691 MON ISBN-13: 978-0415519694 MON MON Lola Young MON MON Baroness Young of Hornsey, OBE, British actress, author, and MON Crossbench peer MON MON MON Find out more about MON Lola Young MON MON Jessica Abrahams MON MON Graduate student at Cardiff University’s School of Social MON Sciences MON MON MON Find out more about MON Jessica Abrahams MON MON MON Paper: MON “Staying Classy: How Perceptions of Honour amongst the MON Working Class Prevents them from Using Nepotism to get MON Ahead” MON MON MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography MON Thinking Allowed in association with the British MON Sociological Association announces the annual award for a MON study that has made a significant contribution to MON ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a MON culture or sub-culture. MON MON MON MON Are you involved in social science research and completing MON or will have completed an ethnography this year? The Award MON is open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher MON or researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK MON institution of higher education. MON MON MON MON An entry should be a MON completed ethnography MON a qualitative research project which provides a detailed MON description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole MON authored book or peer reviewed research article published MON during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. MON MON MON MON The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. MON MON MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair MON originality MON and MON clarity MON alongside sound methodology. The work should make a MON significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in MON the relevant area of research. MON MON MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON MON MON The winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference MON in April 2015. MON MON MON MON Read on for essential information and details on how to MON enter. MON MON MON MON Please see the MON Terms & Conditions MON for all the rules. MON MON How to enter: Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography MON MON You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. MON MON MON MON All entries must include the summary and contact details and MON a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under MON the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON MON MON Please ensure you have read the MON Terms & Conditions MON before submitting your entry. MON MON MON MON Email a summary of your work to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone MON number. MON Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' MON category of your email. MON MON If you are submitting a paper MON it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more MON than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation MON your paper is too large and you will need to send it by MON post. MON MON MON MON MON If you are submitting a book MON (which must be published during this year) it should be MON posted to: MON Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award MON Room 6045 MON Broadcasting House MON London MON W1A 1AA MON MON MON Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st MON December 2014 MON MON Terms & Conditions: Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and MON Conditions MON MON MON MON 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following MON criteria: MON MON MON MON 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. MON The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual MON entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered MON into. MON MON MON MON 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken MON and published by the entrant. Please include the name of MON your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The MON summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography MON must consist of a qualitative research project which MON provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday MON life and practice of a group, people or culture and been MON included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in MON 2014. All entries and research must be in English. MON MON MON MON 4. 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All entries must be sole authored. MON MON MON MON 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select MON six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team MON for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select MON an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on MON the work which displays flair and originality, and which MON makes a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry MON will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research MON project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of MON the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or MON culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. MON It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON MON MON 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision MON will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence MON with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding MON entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. MON MON MON MON 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring MON of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a MON selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable MON attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right MON to offer the prize to the next best entry. MON MON MON MON 13. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in MON order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be MON compliant with BBC branding policies. MON MON MON MON 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the MON purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the MON BBC’s Privacy Policy MON MON MON MON 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st December 2014. MON All entries which are received after that will not be MON considered. 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MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04c9nms (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04c97p6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04c97p8 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04c97pb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04c97pd (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d0rv9 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil MON Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04cb2w6 (Listen) MON Choosy Bees, First World War, Scottish Sheep Support MON MON Sheep farmers in Scotland's harshest landscapes will get MON extra EU money from next year. NFU Scotland argues that the MON payment is needed to prevent further abandonment of grazing MON in the hills. MON MON On the centenary of the First World War being declared, we MON begin a week exploring the impact on British farming and the MON countryside. MON MON And, an insight into just how bumblebees pick and choose the MON flowers they feed from. MON MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04c97pg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xcd (Listen) MON Icterine Warbler MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Michaela Strachan presents the icterine warbler. Icterine MON Warblers are fluent mimics and include phrases of other MON species in their song. Their name, icterine, is derived from MON ikteros, the ancient Greek word for jaundice and describes MON the bird's spring plumage...yellowish beneath and olive MON brown on top. MON MON Icterine Warbler (Hippolais icterina) MON Image courtesy of Richard Brooks (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b04cb5sf (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b04cb5sh (Listen) MON Series 7, Magic MON MON Language and magic have a mysterious relationship, which is MON probed in this programme by Stephen Fry. It's a beguiling, MON secret world in which magicians and psychologists feel MON equally at home. The common factor - nobody knows exactly MON how either works. MON MON Derren Brown, illusionist and mentalist, is Stephen's guest. MON He describes how the idea of magic features in his work, how MON the art of persuasion is akin to magic, and how some people MON are more susceptible than others to this mysterious - MON largely verbal - art. Derren also exerts an amazing power MON over Stephen, despite them being two hundred miles apart. MON And he does it using words alone. MON MON From a psychological and neuro-scientific angle, Dr Steven MON Pinker examines the idea that language itself is a form of MON magic and the use of words give us the power to change our MON perception of reality. MON MON And we venture into the coven of Davenport's Magic Shop to MON meet some young Harry Potters trying out their stage patter. MON Magic Circle Vice President Richard Penrose leads us to a MON safe containing the first ever glossary of magic terminology MON -The Discovery of Witchcraft - and utters some magic words MON he then refuses to explain. MON MON Folklorist Juliette Wood offers some theories as to the MON origins of taboo words like Hocus Pocus and Abracadabra. MON Philip Pullman talks about the magical effect of poetry. And MON Stephen himself conjures another poetic figure from history, MON the great Magus Prospero from Shakespeare's The Tempest, to MON demonstrate Shakespeare's use of magical language to create MON new worlds. MON MON Producer: Sarah Cuddon MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:30 World Agony b04cb5sk (Listen) MON Egypt 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 5: Youssra el-Sharkawy, Egypt. MON Youssra el-Sharkawy had an advice column in The Egyptian MON Gazette, an English speaking newspaper. Agony Aunts are MON usually older than the people who write to them, but Youssra MON is young - only 27 years old. Her career as an agony aunt MON began when she joined an all-women theatre troupe and became MON drawn into helping her fellow actors with their problems. MON Her correspondents tend to be young and idealistic and MON Youssra deals with their concerns with a rational and mature MON approach. The revolutionary events in Egypt mean that some MON of the women who write to her are alone and depressed. She MON talks to Irma about the position of women in her country and MON her frustration at being a free-thinking woman in a country MON where many women are far from liberation. 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 b04cb5sm (Listen) MON In Montmartre, Episode 1 MON MON Author Sue Roe account, abridged by Katrin Williams, MON describes how Pablo Picasso and other artists found this MON Paris quarter irresistible when arriving in the early MON 1900's: MON MON 1. He turns up with his Catalan friend Casagemas during the MON World Fair and quickly MON feels at home, painting the scene and carousing in such MON notorious watering holes as MON the 'Zut'. MON MON Reader Stella Gonet MON MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Stella Gonet MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Author: Sue Roe MON MON 09:58 World War I Centenary Commonwealth Service b04cb5sp (Listen) MON James Naughtie commentates live with guest Colin MacKay from MON Glasgow Cathedral where the Commonwealth Service marks the MON beginning of the centenary commemorations, attended by HRH MON The Duke of Rothesay and Commonwealth Heads of State. MON MON 11:00 Woman's Hour b04cb5sr (Listen) MON Home Front; Kay Mellor; Women's Rugby World Cup MON MON Behind the scenes of Radio 4's new WW1 drama Home Front and MON the lesser told stories of the war's impact on the lives of MON women far away from the trenches, the latest movement MON against feminism - is it having an impact? Teen pregnancy as MON seen through the eyes of scriptwriter and actress Kay MON Mellor, and with the Women's Rugby World Cup underway in MON Paris, we look at the favourites and the competition. MON MON BBC Radio 4’s new drama Home Front MON MON On the day that marks a hundred years since Britain’s MON declaration of war on Germany, we go behind the scenes of a MON new Radio 4 drama, MON Home Front MON as it begins its four-year run. Actor Harriet Walter talks MON about MON her cameo role as Emmeline Pankhurst, and we hear from the MON writers about the MON opportunity to dramatise the domestic lives of people whose MON stories aren’t told MON in military history books, particularly those of women and MON the working classes. MON Emma Barnett is joined by Jessica Dromgoole, Editor of Home MON Front, and by Dr MON Angela K Smith, Associate Professor of English at Plymouth MON University, and a MON specialist in war writing and gender. MON MON Kay Mellor on her new drama ‘In the Club’ MON MON As a pregnant teen, MON Kay Mellor hid her pregnancy from her parents for five MON months and thought that MON her life was over. Now, 50 years on, she’s written about MON childbirth in a new TV MON drama. The prolific scriptwriter, actress and director MON talks to Emma Barnett about MON her latest series MON ‘In The Club MON ’ that follows the stories of six sets of MON prospective parents who meet at antenatal classes in the MON last trimester of MON their pregnancies. MON MON ‘In The Club’ starts on 5 August at 9.00 pm on BBC One. MON MON Women Against Feminism MON MON The MON Women Against MON Feminism MON hashtag portrays a growing number of photographs of women MON holding up pieces of paper saying ‘I don’t need feminism MON because….’. Several MON months after it first appeared on Tumblr, the social MON networking website, the MON comments continue to provoke a discussion. Now with a MON Facebook page and a Twitter following, it is by no means a MON large movement but presenter Emma Barnett MON speaks to Laura Perrins, co-editor of the blogsite MON conservative women and Ellie MON Mae O’Hagan, a feminist commentator, to look at the MON significance, if any, of MON the #Women Against Feminism crusade. MON MON Women’s Rugby World Cup MON The MON Women’s Rugby World Cup MON is underway in Paris. After losing the last three finals MON England’s women will be doing everything in their power to MON stop history MON repeating itself, but they face some fierce competition – MON not least from New MON Zealand, which will be seeking to claim its fifth MON consecutive title. MON England Hooker Emma Croker will be talking to Emma Barnett MON about the mood in MON the England squad - and we’ll be finding out how she MON juggles playing for her MON country with a full time job and motherhood. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Emma Barnett MON Producer: Anne Peacock MON MON 11:45 15 Minute Drama b04cb617 (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 1 MON MON The last series of Hattie Naylor's adaptation. MON MON It's a tense time in the Pepys household. As we know from MON the last nine years of his diary, Sam has often had MON dalliances with other women, unbeknown to his wife MON Elizabeth. Her ignorance of his behaviour came to an abrupt MON end last October when she walked in on him in a compromising MON position with the maid, Debs Willet. This discovery has put MON a huge strain on their marriage. Almost deranged by MON suspicion and jealousy, Elizabeth forbids Sam to leave the MON house unless he is accompanied at all times by their MON servant, Will. It's not all bad, however, as she's used MON Sam's guilt to make him give her a bigger clothing MON allowance. MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON Production Co-Ordinator: Willa King MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON Credits MON Sam: Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth: Katherine Jakeways MON Will: John Biddle MON Harry Sheers: Geoffrey Streatfeild MON Director: Kate McAll MON Producer: Kate McAll MON Adaptor: Hattie Naylor MON Author: Samuel Pepys MON MON 12:00 Home Front b03thbcj (Listen) MON 4 August 1914 - Kitty Wilson MON MON Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a MON hundred years ago. As Britain waits for Germany's response MON to their ultimatum, in Folkestone, Kitty Wilson has a MON deadline of her own. MON MON Written by: Katie Hims MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON Home Front is a ground-breaking new Radio Four radio drama - MON its biggest ever at around 600 episodes - set in Britain MON during the Great War, playing a central role in the BBC's MON comprehensive World War One offering. MON MON An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each MON episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, MON and follows one character's day. Together they create a MON mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British MON society, and a playful treasure hunt, with at least one MON historical truth hidden in each story. MON MON Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian MON seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the MON military machine, and close enough to France to hear the MON fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, MON telling the major stories of wartime Britain. MON MON Marking major and minor events of the time, Home Front MON charts the strategies that ordinary people found for MON managing life in wartime, and how, together, they ensured MON that the Home Front didn't break down. MON MON Credits MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Adam: Leo Montague MON Dieter: Joe Sims MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Customer: Craige Els MON Cynic: Wilf Scolding MON Man: Michael Bertenshaw MON Woman: Rachel Shelley MON Writer: Katie Hims MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04cb9gr (Listen) MON Telephone bank scams, The night-time economy, Smart meters MON MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04c97pj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04cb9gt (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04cb9gw (Listen) MON Towards the Light MON MON The Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded to German MON scientist Richard Willstatter in 1915 for his analysis of MON the green plant pigment chlorophyll. It marked a significant MON moment in the long history of piecing together the many MON elements that contribute to photosynthesis - the process by MON which plants draw in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and MON together with light and water can generate their own glucose MON and release oxygen back into the air. The limits of this MON process were now clear MON MON Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby about MON defining moments in photosynthesis' long history and from MON Kew's Head of Conservation Biotechnology about how MON artificially elevating levels of carbon dioxide in the air,a MON technique long developed by horticulturists to produce MON bigger fruit and vegetable crops, is now having dramatic MON effects on successful reintroduction of cultivated MON endangered plants back into the wild. MON MON And as scientists understand the different methods that MON plants use to photosynthesise, Kathy Willis hears from MON Oxford plant scientist Jane Langdale who's part of a network MON of international scientists who are attempting to mend a MON fundamental flaw in the process of photosynthesis which MON could improve future rice yields by 50% MON MON Producer Adrian Washbourne. MON The View from Kew: The Arboretum MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kathy Willis MON Interviewed Guest: Tony Kirkham MON Interviewed Guest: Jim Endersby MON Interviewed Guest: Viswambharan Sarasan MON Interviewed Guest: Jane Langdale MON Production Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy MON Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie MON Producer: Adrian Washbourne MON Editor: Deborah Cohen MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04c9xd1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04cb9gy (Listen) MON Close Call MON MON With Apollo 11 about to land on the moon, the Watts family MON have finally installed their first telephone, little MON realising how much their lives will change with its arrival. MON The phone sits in the hallway, witnessing the activities of MON the house, listening to the family's secret loves, fears and MON joys. MON MON The writer Sarah Weatherall captures the excitement of using MON a phone for the first time, in the days before mobiles and MON texts, and when no conversation was private. MON MON Directed by Anne Bunting. MON MON Credits MON Frank Watts: Ricky Champ MON Natalie: Angie Wallis MON Vincent: Matthew Tennyson MON Liam: Reece Buttery MON DJ: Clive Hayward MON Newsreader: Elaine Claxton MON Writer: Sarah Weatherall MON Director: Anne Bunting MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b04cb9h0 (Listen) MON (12/12) MON If you sprinkled some sweetness onto a Cambridge tutor, a MON computer network and a little bit, to which places would it MON take you? MON MON The final match of the 2014 series pits Northern Ireland MON against Wales, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair. Today's MON result is crucial to the final Round Britain Quiz rankings MON for this year, with Northern Ireland set to be the overall MON series winners if they win today. MON MON Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney play for Northern Ireland, MON opposite Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards for Wales. MON They'll need all the arcane and apparently-unconnected MON snippets of knowledge they can muster, in order to make any MON sense of the cryptic questions. You can play along by MON looking at the questions on the Round Britain Quiz pages of MON the Radio 4 website. MON MON This week's final match, by Round Britain Quiz tradition, is MON made up entirely of questions suggested by listeners in MON recent months. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04c9xcj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Art of the Nation b04cb9h2 (Listen) MON Fathers and Sons 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 or MON shelves, and the tales they tell about our nation - an MON unwritten biography charting ups and downs, highs and lows. MON MON In this edition, Will looks at art passed from fathers to MON sons. Many art-works - and the tales behind them - are MON handed down in this way, and the programme includes the MON story of how Luke, son of celebrated artist Mark Gertler, MON began to understand his father's life through the art he now MON owns. MON MON Producer Neil George. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b04cbbld (Listen) MON Series 10, Episode 5 MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport the cage of infinite MON proportions, for the first of 2 programmes from the MON Edinburgh Festival. They are joined on stage by cosmologists MON Carlos Frenk and Faye Dowker and actor and comedian Ben MON Miller and comedian and fellow physics PhD alumnus Richard MON Vranch. MON MON 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04cbblg (Listen) MON 4th August MON MON Britain declares war on Germany. 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 b04cbblj (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04c97pl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04cbbll (Listen) MON Series 61, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at Bradford's St George's Hall, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by Andy Hamilton, with Jack Dee in MON the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON Clip MON empty 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 b04cbbln (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04cbblq (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04cb617 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b04cbbls (Listen) MON The Saur Death List of Afghanistan MON MON David Loyn investigates how a lost document is helping MON Afghanistan come to terms with its painful past. MON MON It revolves around the lesser known moment when Afghanistan MON began to fall apart: 1978, two years before the Soviet MON invasion. Lesser known, partly because the world wasn't MON really paying attention but also because evidence of state MON murder and disappearance was covered up after the co-called MON Saur Revolution. That is, until now. A war crimes trial in MON the Netherlands has unearthed a list of 5000 prisoners MON detained, tortured and killed by the radical communist MON regime in 1978 / 79. MON MON This 'Death List' has less than half the total number of MON people unaccounted for during that period but it has finally MON given families of the disappeared confirmation of the fate MON of their loved ones and allowed them to mourn. The MON reverberations of this are being felt strongly in MON Afghanistan. This story is told through the eyes of a MON remarkable survivor of these purges whose name is on the MON list of the dead. MON MON This 'Death List' leads us to the issue of justice and MON accountability for war crimes in Afghanistan, not just from MON 1978 but over the following three decades. Post 9/11 the MON West dealt with warlords whose very poor human rights MON records went unquestioned and many of them now hold powerful MON government positions in Afghanistan. It raises the question: MON when will the country be able to face the crimes of its MON recent past and bring the perpetrators to justice? It's a MON question on the lips of many ordinary Afghans. MON MON Producer Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04brrj6 (Listen) MON Fearless Women in Turkish Kurdistan MON MON For decades, Turkey's Kurds have been struggling against a MON state that used to deny their very existence as a separate MON people. In the low level war between the Turkish military MON and the militant Kurdish group, the PKK, both side have been MON accused of atrocities. In the 29 years of fighting up to MON last year's ceasefire, at least 40,000 people died and MON hundreds of villages were destroyed. But now, just when MON Kurds in neighbouring Iraq are considering establishing an MON independent state, and many believe the chaos in Syria will MON change borders across the region, Kurds in Turkey are MON increasingly reconciled to remaining within existing MON frontiers. As Turkey pursues peace talks with the PKK, the MON militant movement's supporters talk of changing society, not MON borders. And already, they've initiated some radical MON experiments. MON MON Pro-PKK towns and villages across eastern Turkey are now MON each governed by two co-mayors, male and female, and the new MON system has propelled many dynamic young women into power in MON regions that were once socially conservative. One is a MON survivor of domestic violence determined to use her position MON to encourage other women to speak up about what until now MON has been a taboo subject. She's not just the first woman MON mayor of her town, but also the first woman ever to get a MON divorce there. Tim Whewell travels to the region to meet her MON and other social reformers, and discover why so many of MON Turkey's Kurds say they have turned their back on MON nationalism, and want to express their identity in ways they MON say are more modern. MON MON Producers: Charlotte Pritchard and Guney Yildiz. MON MON Kurdish Women in Turkish Syrian Border MON MON Kurdish women of young and old are increasingly dominating MON politics as well as public life in towns across Turkey's MON Kurdish region. MON MON Gultan Kisanak Co-Mayor of Diyarbakir MON MON Gultan Kisanak was one of the hundreds of inmates who was MON subjected to torture in Diyarbakir's notorious prison MON following a military coup in 1980. 32 years later after the MON end of her sentence, she returned to the city as its mayor. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04bnd0v (Listen) MON National Parks MON MON The term National Park can be applied to different types of MON areas depending on where they are situated, some have more MON protection for wildlife than others. In the United States MON the traditional National Parks such as Yellowstone or MON Yosemite enjoy a high level of protection with many MON restrictions on what people can do. Contrast that with MON British National Parks which are working landscapes with MON villages, farms and even industry. MON MON In this week's Shared Planet Monty Don looks at where MON wildlife fits into this complex mix of wilderness and human MON activity. In reality how do these much-loved protected areas MON work for wildlife? Beautiful scenery does not necessarily MON equal abundant wildlife. And in more human centred National MON parks, do our needs override those of animals and plants. In MON the Cairngorms National park plans are underway to build MON 15000 houses and Loch Lomond has given the go ahead for a MON gold mine. Join Monty Don to explore the relationship MON between wildlife and National Parks. MON MON Produced by Mary Colwell. MON MON Dr William Tweed MON Dr William Tweed serves as Chair of the Sequoia Parks MON Foundation. His association with the Foundation dates back MON to 1993, when he assumed the role of government liaison with MON the organisation. He remained in that position until 2006, MON when he retired from the National Park Service after a MON career that included 28 years at Sequoia and Kings Canyon MON National Parks. MON During that period he served the parks in a wide variety of MON capacities, including chief park naturalist, park planner, MON public affairs officer, environmental compliance officer, MON special projects manager for the park superintendent, MON concessions management officer, and district naturalist. He MON joined the Sequoia Parks Foundation board in 2006. MON Dr Tweed is the author or co-author of a number of books MON including Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of MON National Parks, Challenge of the Big Trees (co-authored with MON Lary Dilsaver), The Centennial History of Sequoia and Kings MON Canyon, Death Valley and the Northern Mojave (co-authored MON with Lauren Davis), and Sequoia and Kings Canyon: The Story MON Behind the Scenery. MON MON Gordon Watson MON MON Mr Watson oversees all aspects Rural Development, Planning, MON Conservation and Visitor Experience for the National Park MON Authority. Between 1999 and 2002, Gordon worked on the MON establishment of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National MON Park, including as a new planning authority. He has MON developed the NPA planning service into a highly regarded MON operation focussed on delivery and outcomes.It also provides MON the highest performing online service in Scotland. Gordon MON has been responsible for developing innovative approaches to MON planning for tourism through utilising market intelligence MON and partner working to attract high quality sustainable MON investment and development. Notable achievements have MON included the Carrick Resort development which has been MON recognised by Scottish and UK RTPI Planning Awards. More MON recently, has seen the securing of a £70m inward investment, MON Ben Arthur Resort development at the former MOD Torpedo MON Range in Arrochar. MON MON Gordon has led significant initiatives to engage private MON businesses in improving the tourism product in the Park MON co-ordinating private and public investment. He has worked MON with the larger tourism businesses in the Park to establish MON a Destination Group to drive tourism activity and MON investment. Initiatives have included establishing a MON scheduled Waterbus network on Loch Lomond (now extended to MON Loch Katrine) and investing in new public infrastructure on MON busy lochside sites, long distance routes and in towns and MON villages. Gordon oversees a £1m plus annual capital MON programme and he also oversees the Park's work encouraging MON sensitive hydro energy projects. MON MON Ernesto Enkerlin MON Dr Ernesto Enkerlin Hoeflich is head of IUCN’s World MON Commission on Protected Areas. He is a prominent Mexican MON conservationist, environmentalist, opinion leader and MON researcher specialised in protected areas, ecosystem MON services, sustainability, biodiversity stewardship and rural MON development. MON From 2001 to 2010, he was National Commissioner for MON Protected Areas of Mexico (CONANP). During his tenure, MON Mexico increased its protected area coverage by almost 50% MON with 43 new protected areas covering over eight million MON hectares. During that period, Mexico became a world leader MON in the implementation of Ramsar, World Heritage and MON Biological Diversity Conventions and UNESCO Biosphere MON Reserve Network. MON Dr Enkerlin has worked as conservationist for several NGOs MON and co-founded Amigos de la Naturaleza and Pronatura MON Noreste. He has also worked as a research professor at the MON Center for Environmental Quality (ITESM) and as an adjunct MON research scientist for the Center for Environmental Research MON and Conservation of the Earth Institute at Columbia MON University. He currently leads the Natural Solutions Program MON at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico and serves on board of MON several organisations. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b04cb5sh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04c97pn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04cbg36 (Listen) MON World Tonight Special including the Centenary Vigil MON MON David Eades presents a special hour-long edition of The MON World Tonight from the Imperial War Museum, looking back MON with historians at how Britain entered the First World War MON and real time reporting of the last hours before London's MON ultimatum to Berlin to withdraw from Belgium expired. MON MON The programme includes coverage of the candlelit vigil from MON Westminster Abbey with Mike Wooldridge. MON MON 23:02 Word of Mouth b04bng0x (Listen) MON Newspeak MON MON One of the most terrifying ideas in George Orwell's MON dystopian fantasy, "1984" is an entirely artificial language MON which the State plans to impose on the people in order, not MON only to control what they say, but what they think. MON MON The premise of "Newspeak" is to pare down the English MON language - or Oldspeak - so that only words that are MON essential in both a utilitarian and an ideological sense MON remain. MON MON The idea is that this will make dissenting ideas - MON "thoughtcrime" in Newspeak - literally impossible. MON MON But could it work? MON MON In Word of Mouth this week Chris Chris Ledgard tries to work MON out if New speak could happen here and whether, by taking MON away words, the government could also take away thoughts. MON MON He gets to grips with the question of whether language MON determines thoughts as Orwell's invention supposes. He also MON finds out whether the most extreme totalitarian regimes like MON North Korea have attempted language control on the scale of MON Newspeak? MON MON Many would argue that much political and corporate language MON as well as political correctness amounts to a creeping MON Newspeak in modern life but are we really that malleable or MON does the popularity of satires that mock that kind of jargon MON suggest Orwell was too pessimistic. We can spot attempts to MON impose phoney and manipulative language on to us and we ward MON it off with mockery. MON MON Interviewees include: Jean Seaton, Professor of Media MON History at the University of Westminster and Director of the MON Orwell Prize, D.J Taylor, author of "Orwell - the Life" and MON John Morton, writer and director of the BBC mock documentary MON comedies, "Twenty Twelve" and "W1A". MON MON 23:30 With Great Pleasure b048nlfj (Listen) MON Pauline Black MON MON Pauline Black, actor, writer and lead singer with ska band MON the Selecter chooses her favourite words of music, prose and MON poetry including works by Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, MON Barack Obama and Joni Mitchell. These are the pieces that MON helped shape her identity as a young black woman growing up MON with adoptive parents in Essex in the 1950s, a place she MON describes as 'hardly a seething hotbed of multiculturalism'. MON MON Ray Shell reads The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston MON Hughes MON Claire Benedict reads from Passing by Nella Larsen MON Pauline Black sings Little Green by Joni Mitchell MON Claire Benedict reads Still I Rise by Maya Angelou and an MON excerpt from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath MON Pauline Black sings Strange Fruit MON Ray Shell reads an extract from Dreams From My Father by MON Barack Obama MON Claire Benedict reads from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery MON Williams MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON Credits MON Interviewed Guest: Pauline Black MON Reader: Ray Shell MON Reader: Claire Benedict MON Producer: Maggie Ayre MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 AUGUST 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04c97qf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04cb5sm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04c97qh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04c97qk (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04c97qm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04c97qp (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d0s0x (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil TUE Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04cbnn2 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xj7 (Listen) TUE Northern Wheatear TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Michaela Strachan presents the northern wheatear. With their TUE black masks, white bellies, apricot chests and grey backs, TUE male wheatears are colourful companions on a hill walk. The TUE birds you see in autumn may have come from as far as TUE Greenland or Arctic Canada. They pass through the British TUE Isles and twice a year many of them travel over 11,000 TUE kilometres between Africa and the Arctic. It's one of the TUE longest regular journeys made by any perching bird. TUE TUE Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04cbnn4 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 A Law unto Themselves b04cbnn6 (Listen) TUE Gareth Peirce TUE TUE Helena Kennedy talks to solicitor Gareth Peirce who has been TUE described by one of her own clients as specialising in TUE representing pariahs of society. TUE TUE During a career spanning nearly 40 years she has been at the TUE heart of many of Britain's fiercest legal controversies. She TUE has helped free convicted Irish bombers such as the TUE Birmingham Six and Guilford Four, secured the release of TUE Guantanamo Bay detainees, and for years thwarted government TUE attempts to deport the Muslim preacher Abu Qatada. TUE TUE Opinions about her tend to be polarised. For many she is an TUE indefatigable fighter for human rights, defender of the TUE underdog and campaigner against miscarriages of justice. TUE Others see her actions as a threat to national security - TUE making Britain appear a "safe haven for terrorists". TUE TUE Her other high profile clients have included Julian Assange TUE and the family of Jean Charles de Menezes who had been shot TUE dead by police at Stockwell tube station. TUE TUE Gareth Peirce discusses her role in uncovering some of the TUE biggest miscarriages of justice in the country's legal TUE history, and explains why she has devoted her life to TUE defending those whom she believes have no voice in society. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04cbv9d (Listen) TUE The Death of Frida Kahlo TUE TUE On July 13 1954, the celebrated Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, TUE died at the age of 47. Married to the famous mural painter, TUE Diego Rivera, Kahlo was best known for her vivid and often TUE brutal self-portraits depicting different episodes in her TUE tragic life. Witness hears from 90-year-old art critic TUE Raquel Tibol, a friend of Kahlo's, and the veteran Mexican TUE journalist, Elena Poniatowska. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04cs839 (Listen) TUE In Montmartre, Episode 2 TUE TUE Author Sue Roe's account, abridged by Katrin Williams, TUE describes how Pablo Picasso and other artists found this TUE Paris quarter irresistible when arriving in the early TUE 1900's: TUE TUE 2. Picasso must sell his work to survive and he meets up TUE with some remarkable dealers. Also the alluring Fernande, TUE his new muse and lover.. TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Stella Gonet TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Author: Sue Roe TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04cbv9g (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04cbv9j (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 2 TUE TUE Elizabeth engages a new maid but Sam is dismayed to find she TUE is ugly with small pox scars upon her face and very large TUE hands. Elizabeth's fury at his deceit of her has abated and TUE the household is more peaceful now, though Sam is still TUE unable to venture abroad without Will, their servant, as his TUE 'guard'. Then one day in April, while working at Whitehall, TUE he spots Debs Willet, his former maid and lover. Unable to TUE contain his feelings, he manoeuvres Will out of the way and TUE chases after her, finding her in the chapel below-stairs. TUE When he goes home after this brief encounter, he hardly TUE dares to speak to Elizabeth for fear of giving himself away. TUE Adapted by Hattie Naylor TUE TUE Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by TUE Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany TUE Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David TUE Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by TUE Alice Baxter. TUE TUE Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE Sound by Nigel Lewis TUE Production Co-Ordinator: Willa King TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sam: Kris Marshall TUE Elizabeth: Katherine Jakeways TUE Will: John Biddle TUE Brouncker: Tim McMullan TUE Middleton: Ewan Bailey TUE Mrs Lane: Eiry Thomas TUE Harry Sheers: Geoffrey Streatfeild TUE Debs: Aimee-Ffion Edwards TUE Director: Kate McAll TUE Producer: Kate McAll TUE Adaptor: Hattie Naylor TUE Author: Samuel Pepys TUE TUE 11:00 The Listeners b04cc1sq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE Listening is about more than hearing as we discover from TUE people who 'listen for a living'. In the first of three TUE fascinating programmes we meet four individuals who all TUE listen to languages and words. Mark Turin is an TUE anthropologist whose work includes the documentation of oral TUE languages. "It's very hard to make sense of a language which TUE you've never heard before if you don't see it written down TUE and don't know where the word breaks are." explains Mark. TUE There are about 7000 languages spoken on earth today and TUE some estimates suggest that 2 languages become extinct every TUE month, so when Mark visited Nepal to study Thangmi; an oral TUE language for which there was no written documentation, he TUE had to really learn to listen to understand words and TUE meaning. Carine Kennedy had to learn a foreign language when TUE at the age of 5 she went to school in England, having been TUE brought up in a French-speaking family. Today she is a TUE Conference Interpreter working in both French and Italian. TUE She describes interpreting as "listening but also TUE understanding what the person is saying. You're almost one TUE step ahead of them". For Baroness Helena Kennedy QC TUE listening "is the activity of hearing combined with the TUE search for meaning or hidden meaning", and in court she TUE "listens hard to what might be beyond what is being said" TUE and describes herself as having "quite good antennae for TUE this". Like Helena, Mark Milton, founder of Education 4 TUE Peace, a Swiss foundation dedicated to advocating and TUE supporting emotional health programmes in schools and sports TUE also traces his ability to listen back to childhood, and he TUE fervently believes we should be teaching children how to TUE listen because of the benefits which it can bring to society TUE " ...its an essential value to the human being". TUE TUE Best of Natural History Radio Podcast TUE This programme will be available to download for free TUE shortly after the broadcast - via the TUE Best of Natural History Radio TUE podcast. TUE TUE Helena Kennedy TUE TUE Baroness Helena Kennedy Q.C. is one of Britain’s most TUE distinguished lawyers. She is a member of the House of Lords TUE and chair of Justice – the British arm of the International TUE Commission of Jurists. TUE TUE TUE http://www.helenakennedy.co.uk/ TUE TUE Carine Kennedy TUE Carine Kennedy is a freelance Conference Interpreter. TUE Educated at the University of TUE Edinburgh French/Italian (1973-1977). Carine works with a TUE number of government departments especially the Foreign and TUE Commonwealth Office (F.C.O.). She also has assignments from TUE law firms and has worked for arbitrations in the UK and TUE abroad. TUE TUE Mark Turin TUE TUE Mark Turin is Turin is Professor of Anthropology at the TUE University of British Columbia in Vancouver and also Chair TUE of the First Nations, Languages Programme. TUE TUE TUE http://markturin.commons.yale.edu/ TUE http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/projectteam/markturin.php TUE TUE Mark Milton TUE TUE Mark Milton is founder of Education 4 Peace Foundation. “ TUE The seeds for sustainable peace amongst human beings are in TUE our children’s education”. TUE TUE TUE http://www.education4peace.org/ TUE TUE 11:30 All You Need Is Lab: How Science and Technology TUE Inspired Innovation in Music b03v9np1 (Listen) TUE Musician and songwriter Midge Ure looks at the many ways TUE scientific and technological innovation have stimulated TUE creativity in pop music. TUE TUE From the invention of the steel guitar string, through the TUE tape recorder and the synthesiser, to the drum machine and TUE Autotune, musicians have always embraced the latest ideas TUE and adapted or distorted them to produce new sounds. TUE TUE Musicians Anne Dudley (Art of Noise) and Thomas Dolby join TUE music journalist David Hepworth and blues researcher Tom TUE Attah, exploring how the laboratory has informed and TUE inspired the studio. TUE TUE Midge demonstrates what you can achieve with just a laptop TUE these days - but laments the passing of an age of invention TUE in popular music. TUE TUE Featured music includes The Beatles, Chopin, Thomas Dolby, TUE Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Charlie TUE Christian, Les Paul and Mary Ford, The Tornados, The Small TUE Faces, Queen, The Sweet, Stevie Wonder, Band Aid, Art of TUE Noise, Donna Summer, Fat Boy Slim, Cher, Daft Punk and Nick TUE Clegg. TUE TUE Producer: Trevor Dann TUE A Trevor Dann production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 Home Front b04cc1ss (Listen) TUE 5 August 1914 - Gabriel Graham TUE TUE Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a TUE hundred years ago. Folkestone has woken up to new TUE responsibilities as a part of the war machine. TUE TUE Written by: Katie Hims TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Hilary: Craige Els TUE Sylvia: Deborah Findlay TUE Freddie: Freddie Fox TUE Dieter: Joe Sims TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04cc1sz (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04c97qr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04cc1ww (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE TUE 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04cc1wy (Listen) TUE Multiple Genes TUE TUE In 1903 a cluster of evening primrose in an abandoned potato TUE field outside the Dutch town of Hilversum caught the eye of TUE German botanist Hugo de Vries. Its huge blooms and large TUE leaves appeared to suggest the sudden development of a new TUE species. Around the same time in Kew Gardens a mysterious TUE primula hybrid appeared. The new discipline of plant TUE genetics soon revealed that this curious trick was being TUE driven by multiplication of chromosomes inside the plant TUE cell nucleus. TUE TUE Professor Kathy Willis examines this phenomenon - known as TUE polyploidy ( "multiple forms") - and how insights into this TUE peculiarity can contribute to the evolutionary success of TUE plants. It may also hold the answer to one of the botanical TUE world's greatest mysteries - why so soon after appearing in TUE the fossil record did the flowering plants suddenly explode TUE into the bewildering range of species we see today. TUE TUE With contributions from historian Jim Endersby, Keeper of TUE Kew's Jodrell Lab Mark Chase, and Jodrell Laboratory TUE geneticist Illia Leitch. TUE TUE Producer Adrian Washbourne. TUE The View from Kew: Conservation TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kathy Willis TUE Interviewed Guest: Jim Endersby TUE Interviewed Guest: Ilia Leitch TUE Production Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy TUE Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie TUE Producer: Adrian Washbourne TUE Editor: Deborah Cohen TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04cbbln (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00hv3j0 (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, A Possession TUE TUE Alastair Jessiman's third play about a Glasgow psychic who TUE uses his gifts to help police investigations. When Thomas TUE Soutar agrees to help in the search for a music student who TUE has been missing for a year, he becomes obsessed by the TUE missing girl in ways that he had not expected. TUE TUE Directed by Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Natasha: Anita Vetesse TUE Mrs Soutar: Sheila Donald TUE Mr Paris: James Macpherson TUE Mrs Paris: Cara Kelly TUE Mrs Collins: Juliet Cadzow TUE Guest House Manager: John-Paul Hurley TUE Carol: Patricia Kavanagh TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b04cc7ck (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 Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help b04cc7cm (Listen) TUE Mirrors for Princes TUE TUE Robin Ince explores our fascination with the self-help TUE shelf. From Socrates to Sam Smiles, Marcus Aurelius to Allen TUE Carr, can this $13 billion industry really make us all TUE richer, happier and more productive? And what is it about TUE the 21st century that has made it bigger than ever before? TUE TUE Episode 1/3: Mirrors for Princes. TUE TUE From the earliest recorded times, philosophers and writers TUE have offered living advice to their readers. Much of ancient TUE Stoic thinking reads a lot like a modern set of rules for a TUE better life. TUE TUE Even Bede's Ecclesiastical History was explicitly written to TUE 'present examples for imitation or avoidance'. TUE TUE The literary genre of 'Mirrors for Princes' grew up over the TUE middle ages, usually written ostensibly for the benefit of TUE young inexperienced rulers about to take office, but with TUE obvious appeal to those of other walks of life. The most TUE famous example of the genre is of course by Machiavelli; A TUE renaissance self-help book purportedly responsible for the TUE horrors of some of the worst despotism in history. TUE TUE Subsequently, this mode of writing and publishing spread TUE over into other lifestyle areas such as food and well-being, TUE paralleled by the continued use of the classical consolatio TUE diatribe. Thus further setting the genre into the western TUE European consciousness, Elizabeth I personally wrote an TUE English translation of Boethius' Consolations in Philosophy. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04cc7cp (Listen) TUE How the Telephone Rewired Us TUE TUE Chris Ledgard looks at how the invention of the telephone TUE changed society, rewired the way we speak to one another and TUE explores the idea that the phone as a single entity is TUE disappearing. TUE TUE With many people unaware or forgetting how much its TUE invention changed the world Chris uses the book 'The History TUE of the Telephone' written in 1910 by Herbert Casson to trace TUE the impact and assess early opinion of what one journalist TUE called "an invention of the devil" up to present day, where TUE the device in our pockets is no longer regarded as a phone. TUE TUE He's joined by Professor Will Stewart from the Institution TUE of Engineering, discusses the telephone in movies with TUE Professor Jeffrey Richards, learns about phone etiquette TUE from Manager of Debretts James Field and makes a call to TUE Bernard Cribbins to discuss the Buzby advertising campaign TUE of the seventies. TUE TUE Producer: Stephen Garner. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04cc7cr (Listen) TUE Series 34, Jonathan Meades on Edward Burra TUE TUE Writer Jonathan Meades nominates the English artist Edward TUE Burra, who died in 1976, for "great life" status, arguing TUE that he deserves to be better known. TUE TUE Burra painted sailors, drinkers and prostitutes in Toulon; TUE jazz musicians in Harlem; surreal wartime pictures of TUE soldiers in terrifying bird masks; and, in his later years, TUE landscapes in which anthropomorphic and malevolent machines TUE bite chunks out of the countryside. Disabled with rheumatoid TUE arthritis from an early age, Burra barely went to school and TUE so escaped the Edwardian upper class upbringing that would TUE otherwise have been his destiny. At once camp yet apparently TUE celibate, Burra was intensely private and disliked talking TUE about either himself or art - or, as he called it, "fart". TUE TUE Matthew Parris chairs the discussion, and is joined by TUE Burra's biographer Jane Stevenson. TUE TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Meades TUE Interviewed Guest: Jane Stevenson TUE Producer: Jolyon Jenkins TUE TUE 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04cc7kf (Listen) TUE 5th August TUE TUE Advertisements in British newspapers urge the public to TUE enlist in the army. 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 b04cc7kh (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04c97qt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b03jysr6 (Listen) TUE Series 4, The Happy Place; The Shadow of Your Smile TUE TUE One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC TUE Radio 4 doing what he does best. TUE TUE There are two stories, this week: "The Happy Place", dealing TUE with the ups and downs of a colonoscopy; and "The Shadow of TUE Your Smile", about how the right lighting can make us all TUE look good. TUE TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Sedaris TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE Writer: David Sedaris TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04cc7yc (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04cc7yf (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04cbv9j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Business Covenant b04cc7yh (Listen) TUE The financial crisis of 2008, exorbitant pay deals for TUE bankers and business executives and high energy bills have TUE all contributed to a collapse in the public's trust of big TUE business. TUE TUE Lord Digby Jones, former head of the employers' organisation TUE the CBI and then a trade minister in the last government, TUE examines whether the relationship between business, TUE government and society has been fractured beyond repair. He TUE asks if the answer might be a "Business Covenant" - a deal TUE outlining business's obligations to society and what TUE business can expect from Government in return. TUE TUE Through interviews with business leaders and politicians he TUE examines the case for a formalised deal for business. Could TUE that restore trust in the companies that create the wealth TUE on which the country depends? TUE TUE Producer: Caroline Bayley TUE Editor: Richard Knight. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04cc7yk (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04cc7ym (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 b04cbnn6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04cccl9 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04ccdql (Listen) TUE Pierre et Jean, Episode 1 TUE TUE Guy de Maupassant's compelling short novel, abridged in 4 TUE parts by Penny Leicester, follows family rivalries in the TUE seaport of Le Havre: TUE TUE 1. On a fishing trip all is happy with the Roland clan. TUE Then returning home, a revelation.. TUE TUE Reader Carl Prekopp TUE TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Carl Prekopp TUE Producer: Duncan Minshull TUE Abridger: Penny Leicester TUE Author: Guy de Maupassant TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b04cbbld (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 With Great Pleasure b0499j2p (Listen) TUE Heidi Thomas at the Hay Festival TUE TUE "Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain and little I TUE am soulless and heartless?" cries Jane Eyre to Mr Rochester TUE in one of Heidi Thomas's favourite books, and Heidi uses TUE this rallying cry for the oppressed and under-estimated as a TUE motif for her choice of readings in With Great Pleasure. She TUE is joined onstage at the Hay Festival by Nicholas Farrell TUE and Sylvestra Le Touzel, who read a wide selection including TUE poetry, Bills of Mortality, novels and social history. TUE TUE Heidi's interest in the small, the uncelebrated life has TUE informed much of her work, from her television adaptation of TUE Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford to her current work, the TUE massively successful Call the Midwife. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Heidi Thomas TUE Reader: Nicholas Farrell TUE Reader: Sylvestra Le Touzel TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 AUGUST 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04c97rk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04cs839 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04c97rm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04c97rp (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04c97rr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04c97rt (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d0w2w (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil WED Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04cf3hc (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xjw (Listen) WED White Stork WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Michaela Strachan presents the white stork. White Storks are WED annual visitors in small numbers to the UK, mainly in spring WED and summer when migrating birds overshoot their Continental WED nesting areas and wander around our countryside. They used WED to breed here, most famously documented on St Giles's WED cathedral in Edinburgh in 1415 and who knows, they may well WED breed here in the future. WED WED White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) WED Image courtesy of Malcolm Hunt (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b04cf5ps (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 The Long View b04cf5pv (Listen) WED Jonathan Freedland focuses on a current news story through WED the lens of history. WED WED Producer Neil McCarthy. WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03bsb9m (Listen) WED Series 1, Geoffrey Faber WED WED Geoffrey Faber was a brilliant middleman. He sought out the WED best new poetry and prose. And he hired a young American WED banker named T.S. Eliot - not just a poet of genius, but WED also a gifted publisher. Together, Eliot and Faber built one WED of the most influential literary lists of the twentieth WED century. WED WED Faber was a classical scholar, a fellow of All Souls and a WED member of the Yorkshire brewing family Strong & Co. In 1924, WED bored with beer, he went into partnership with an Oxford WED friend, Maurice Gwyer, as a publisher. Gwyer already WED specialised in medical books and journals, but Faber had WED other ideas. Within five years he turned a company that WED published 'The Nursing Mirror' and the 'Hospital Newsletter' WED into one that hosted Siegfried Sassoon, Ezra Pound and T.S. WED Eliot. WED WED He championed the notion that Faber & Faber had a WED responsibility to the world to preserve the best in WED literature and encouraged enterprises that were not always WED commercial. Yet it was show business that saved the company WED when T.S. Eliot's 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' WED became a hit musical. WED WED In a landscape increasingly dominated by giant media WED empires, Faber & Faber remains one of the last great WED independent publishing houses in the UK. As the digital WED revolution shakes traditional publishing to its foundations, WED the firm is exploring new ways of presenting its authors, WED including Eliot, for a new generation of readers. WED WED Robert meets Geoffrey's grandson Toby Faber, and literary WED and publishing experts, to explore Geoffrey Faber's life and WED the future of publishing in Britain. WED WED Produced by Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04cs869 (Listen) WED In Montmartre, Episode 3 WED WED Author Sue Roe's account, abridged by Katrin Williams, WED describes how Pablo Picasso and other artists found this WED Paris quarter irresistible when arriving in the 1900's: WED WED 3. Picasso works in the vicinity of other artists such as WED Derain and Vlaminck. And also Matisse. The two of them are WED like chalk and cheese! WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Stella Gonet WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Author: Sue Roe WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04cf5px (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 10:41 15 Minute Drama b04cf5pz (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 3 WED WED Sam and Elizabeth go out in their newly varnished coach for WED the May Day Parade where their liveries of serge, horses' WED manes tied with red ribbon, and green reins attract admiring WED glances. Meanwhile, Sam's eyes continue to cause him pain WED when writing in candlelight. He tries out a new vizard with WED a tube fastened to it in the hope that it will ease the WED discomfort but to no avail. He petitions the King to allow WED him two or three months off from work so that he can go WED abroad to rest. Elizabeth surprises Sam by telling him that WED she intends to keep a journal of their travels. Sam has WED secretly been keeping a diary for nearly ten years now but WED at the end of May, he has to come to a very difficult WED decision about whether to continue. WED WED Adapted by Hattie Naylor WED WED Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by WED Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany WED Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David WED Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by WED Alice Baxter. WED WED Historical consultant: Liza Picard WED Sound by Nigel Lewis WED Production Co-Ordinator: Willa King WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED Credits WED Sam: Kris Marshall WED Elizabeth: Katherine Jakeways WED Will: John Biddle WED Harry Sheers: Geoffrey Streatfeild WED Mrs Lane: Eiry Thomas WED Charles: Ewan Bailey WED Director: Kate McAll WED Producer: Kate McAll WED Adaptor: Hattie Naylor WED Author: Samuel Pepys WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b04d8lgs (Listen) WED Anthea and Ramarni - A Better School WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and WED son. The 12 year old's IQ is higher than that of Einstein, WED Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, and his mother is concerned WED that the local school cannot meet his needs, yet he wants to WED stay put. 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 11:00 The Radio 4 Psalter b04cf5q1 (Listen) WED Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and WED sets out to make his own for radio. WED WED The classic medieval Psalter was an often highly illustrated WED collection of the Psalms, sometimes placed together with WED other religious texts and tracts and surrounded by visual WED and textual references to local life. These texts played a WED extremely important role at the centre of community worship WED - a value illustrated by the fact that in 2013, the Bay WED Psalm Book, the Psalter created by early European settlers WED in America, sold at auction for over fourteen million WED dollars and became the most expensive book in history. WED WED For Michael Symmons Roberts, Psalters have played a highly WED prominent role in his recent career. Inspired by the WED drysalter store he kept noticing in Macclesfield where he WED lives, he went in search of the Macclesfield Psalter - a WED classic of the type - only to find out it in fact had WED nothing to do with the town. Undeterred, he set about WED writing his most recent collection based on the idea of 150 WED poems each with fifteen lines, following the Psalter model. WED That book, Drysalter, has now won numerous prizes. WED WED Still though, Michael is keen to offer up a new Psalter for WED radio, rooted in his home town using the voices of people WED there to read Psalms that will frame expert commentary from WED the likes of Professor Diarmaid Macculloch and Susan WED Gillingham. WED WED Following the tradition that saw Psalters provide WED inspiration for people to respond in the margins, Michael WED will also commission a new piece of music inspired by the WED Psalms, as well as a drawing from prize winning illustrator WED Chris Riddel - all with a view to illustrating the profound WED beauty of the Psalms and the Psalters that housed them. WED WED Producer: Geoff Bird WED A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01kt6qy (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Mark Bonnar and Sarah Alexander star in Marcella Evaristi's WED comedy of shared parenting. WED WED Mimi and Joe are determined to be the best kind of divorced WED parents, supportive and as good as any traditional set up. WED Mimi has even salvaged her ex's best suit from the charity WED shop where it was meanly dumped by Joe's most recent WED ex-wife. But Joe keeps getting misdirected post from the WED fetish shop across the road and Mimi cannot keep her prying WED fingers away from a big fat intriguing parcel. WED WED Meanwhile their daughter Lucy has discovered an ethical way WED of eating that does not involve putting Quorn in her mouth - WED because her hero Mark Zuckerberg has said eating meat is not WED immoral if you catch your own dinner. So Lucy is going to WED steal a chicken. From a back garden in Highgate. It's a WED brilliant plan, especially since she has told her brother WED Tom he is saving the chicken bound for a battery farm. WED WED But what are all those funny handcuffs doing on her dad's WED sitting room floor? 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 Jennifer: Emily Bruni WED Freddie: Oli Dillon WED Writer: Marcella Evaristi WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED WED 12:00 Home Front b04cf9gv (Listen) WED 6 August 1914 - Jimmy Macknade WED WED Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a WED hundred years ago. In all the excitement of war, two seven WED year old boys fancy an adventure of their own. WED WED Written by: Katie Hims WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Jimmy: Alfie Lowles WED Sam: Alexander Aze WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Archie Tulliver: Arthur Hughes WED Freddie: Freddie Fox WED Victor: Joel MacCormack WED Dr McFee: David Cann WED Lilian: Lisa Brookes WED Woman: Cassie Layton WED Miss Penn-Caskell: Emily Spooner WED Writer: Katie Hims WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04cf9gx (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04cf9gz (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED WED 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04cffpd (Listen) WED Battling Bark and Beetle WED WED By the end of the First World War the mysterious sudden WED death of elms was a common sight across Belgium and the WED Netherlands. Dutch researchers managed to elucidate the real WED culprit amidst rumours of drought or wartime gas poisoning. WED It was a fungus thought to originate from America, carried WED by a beetle and the disease rather unfairly gained its name WED Dutch elm disease. Diagnosis produced no cure and it soon WED advanced across the channel to Britain. WED WED Professor Kathy Willis talks to the head of Kew's arboretum, WED Tony Kirkham, on the disease's impact amidst complacency, WED and how the emergence of a vigorous new fungal strain was to WED completely transform the landscape during its peak in the WED 1970's. WED WED Now that the principle replacement for lost elms, ash, WED itself has fallen victim to the latest disease to hitch a WED ride on incoming nursery stock, Paul Smith, Head of Kew's WED Millennium Seed Bank, explains why this new disease could be WED easier to control. WED WED Producer Adrian Washbourne. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04cc7yc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04cffpg (Listen) WED Psalm WED WED Nick Warburton's tense and moving drama springs from one WED curious historical fact: the Elizabethan playwright Ben WED Jonson once escaped execution for manslaughter, just by WED reading a psalm. WED WED An old loophole in the law meant that anyone who proved that WED they could read from the bible, could have their case tried WED in an ecclesiastical court as if they were clergy, and that WED their sentence would be lighter. WED WED The fact that the passage normally chosen to be read was WED Psalm 51, with its penitential sentiments, meant that this WED psalm came to be called 'the neck verse'. WED WED But what if you were a condemned man... who couldn't read? WED WED Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED Credits WED John: Jeremy Whitton Spriggs WED Walters: Kim Wall WED Judith: Amanda Root WED Writer: Nick Warburton WED Director: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED WED 15:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04c9gsg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04cc7ym (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04cffpj (Listen) WED Gaybourhood and City Life WED WED Gay life at home and in the 'city' - a special edition of WED Thinking Allowed presented by Laurie Taylor. From squatted WED terraces to rented bedsits, the social historian, Matt Cook, WED explores the domestic and family lives of gay men - the WED famous, infamous and unknown - in London over the past WED century. The sociologist, Rachel Scicluna, charts the WED changing domestic lives of metropolitan lesbians. And US WED sociologist, Amin Ghaziani, describes the way in which urban WED enclaves such as Greenwich Village in New York have long WED provided sexual minorities with a safe haven in an unsafe WED world. WED WED How have gentrification, as well as increasing social WED acceptance and legal rights, impacted on the existence of WED gay neighbourhoods? And do lesbian and gay home lives now WED mirror those of heterosexuals rather than offering WED alternative models of domesticity, family and belonging? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED Matt Cook WED WED Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies, Birkbeck, WED University of London WED WED WED Find out more about Dr WED Matt Cook WED WED WED Queer Domesticities WED Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan WED ISBN-10: 0230221394 WED ISBN-13: 978-0230221390 WED WED Amin Ghaziani WED WED Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, British WED Columbia University, Vancouver WED WED WED WED Find out more about WED Amin Ghaziani WED WED WED There Goes the Gayborhood? WED Publisher: Princeton University Press WED ISBN-10: 0691158797 WED ISBN-13: 978-0691158792 WED WED Rachel Scicluna WED WED Post-doctoral Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, WED University of Manchester WED WED WED Find out more about WED Rachel Scicluna WED WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography WED Thinking Allowed in association with the British WED Sociological Association announces the annual award for a WED study that has made a significant contribution to WED ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a WED culture or sub-culture. WED WED WED WED Are you involved in social science research and completing WED or will have completed an ethnography this year? The Award WED is open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher WED or researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK WED institution of higher education. WED WED WED WED An entry should be a WED completed ethnography WED a qualitative research project which provides a detailed WED description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole WED authored book or peer reviewed research article published WED during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. WED WED WED WED The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. WED WED WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair WED originality WED and WED clarity WED alongside sound methodology. The work should make a WED significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in WED the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED WED WED The winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference WED in April 2015. WED WED WED WED Read on for essential information and details on how to WED enter. WED WED WED WED Please see the WED Terms & Conditions WED for all the rules. WED WED How to enter: Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography WED WED You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. WED WED WED WED All entries must include the summary and contact details and WED a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under WED the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED WED WED Please ensure you have read the WED Terms & Conditions WED before submitting your entry. WED WED WED WED Email a summary of your work to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone WED number. WED Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' WED category of your email. WED WED If you are submitting a paper WED it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more WED than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation WED your paper is too large and you will need to send it by WED post. WED WED WED WED WED If you are submitting a book WED (which must be published during this year) it should be WED posted to: WED Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award WED Room 6045 WED Broadcasting House WED London WED W1A 1AA WED WED WED Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st WED December 2014 WED WED Terms & Conditions: Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and WED Conditions WED WED WED WED 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following WED criteria: WED WED WED WED 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. WED The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual WED entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered WED into. WED WED WED WED 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken WED and published by the entrant. Please include the name of WED your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The WED summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography WED must consist of a qualitative research project which WED provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday WED life and practice of a group, people or culture and been WED included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in WED 2014. All entries and research must be in English. WED WED WED WED 4. The email entry must include the following information WED and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal WED address, institution of higher education, email address and WED contact telephone number. WED WED WED WED 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published WED during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A WED 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, WED provided it is no more than 10MB. If you receive no WED automatic email confirmation your paper is too large and you WED will need to send it by post. WED WED WED WED 6. All entries must include the: (i) summary (by email); WED (ii) the contact details (by email) and (ii) hard WED copy/electronic copy (if under 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED WED WED 7. Only one entry will be allowed per person. WED WED WED WED 8. Entries cannot be submitted by any other method or they WED will not be considered. WED WED WED WED 9. All entries must be sole authored. WED WED WED WED 10. A panel of 5 highly experienced academics will select WED six finalists. These may be contacted by the Production Team WED for an interview. From the finalists, the panel will select WED an overall winner. The selection criteria will be based on WED the work which displays flair and originality, and which WED makes a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. Each entry WED will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research WED project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of WED the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or WED culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. WED It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and WED understanding in the relevant area of research. WED WED WED WED 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision WED will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence WED with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding WED entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. WED WED WED WED 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring WED of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a WED selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable WED attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right WED to offer the prize to the next best entry. WED WED WED WED 13. The winner should refrain from referring to the award in WED order to promote commercial ventures. All references must be WED compliant with BBC branding policies. WED WED WED WED 14. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the WED purposes of administering the scheme. Please see the WED BBC’s Privacy Policy WED WED WED WED 15. Closing date for entries is 23:59 on 31st December 2014. WED All entries which are received after that will not be WED considered. WED WED WED WED 16. The BBC cannot accept any responsibility for any problem WED with the internet or electronic mail system. WED WED WED WED 17. 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The names of the all selected entrants and any entrant WED whose entry is broadcast or used on-line will be made WED public. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-event WED publicity if required. WED WED WED WED 21. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify any entry which WED breaches any of these terms and conditions. WED WED WED WED 22. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter the award WED (including amending these terms and conditions) at any WED stage, including members of the judging panel if deemed WED necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside WED its control. In this event, a notice will be posted on the WED following website: WED http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed WED WED WED WED 23. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of WED England and Wales. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04cffpl (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04cffpn (Listen) WED 6th August WED WED German Zeppelins bomb the Belgian city of Liege - the first WED air attack on a European city. 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 b04cffpq (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04c97rw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dead Ringers b04cffps (Listen) WED Series 11, Episode 2 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 b04cffpv (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04cffpx (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04cf5pz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b04cffpz (Listen) WED Politics, personality and pragmatism WED WED Michael Buerk presents combative, provocative and engaging WED debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04cffq1 (Listen) WED Series 4, Philip North WED WED When Revd Philip North was tending the spiritual needs of WED people on an estate in Hartlepool he saw at close range the WED way a poor community could become self-sufficient. WED WED But in the years since, he argues, the working class has WED been systematically de-skilled by middle class WED professionals. WED WED In this provocative talk he argues that top-down meddling WED has replaced grassroots community-building, and that society WED is worse off for it. WED 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 WED Presenter: Ben Hammersley WED Producer: Mike Wendling. WED WED 21:00 Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help b04cc7cm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 The Long View b04cf5pv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04c97ry (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04cffq3 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04cffq5 (Listen) WED Pierre et Jean, Episode 2 WED WED Guy de Maupassant's compelling short novel, abridged in 4 WED parts by Penny Leicester, follows family rivalries in the WED seaport of Le Havre: WED WED 2. First there were feelings about the Will, now a secret WED concerning Madame Roland is out.. WED WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Carl Prekopp WED Producer: Duncan Minshull WED Abridger: Penny Leicester WED Author: Guy de Maupassant WED WED 23:00 Future of Radio b04cffq7 (Listen) WED Plastic Fantastic 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, Luke and Trish seem to have cracked WED the old Star-Trek conundrum - how do you transport physical WED objects through space? WED WED Pianist: Mike Woolley WED WED Written by Jerome Vincent and Stephen Dinsdale WED 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 Aileen: Joan Walker WED Stella: Joan Walker WED Lawrence: Chris Stanton WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Writer: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b04cffq9 (Listen) WED Carol Goes Swimming WED WED By Jenny Éclair WED WED Carol's life's not really been the same since her best WED friend Sandra died but a trip to the swimming bath brings WED back memories of their time together with surprising WED results. WED WED Produced by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Carol: Lorraine Ashbourne WED Manager: Jane Slavin WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED Producer: Sally Avens WED WED 23:30 With Great Pleasure b04b22h5 (Listen) WED Neil Stuke at Bristol Food Connections Festival WED WED Neil Stuke, the actor who played Billy Lamb, the Clerk in WED BBC One's Silk, chooses his favourite and funniest pieces of WED writing about food for the audience at the Bristol Food WED Connections Festival. His readers are Miranda Raison and WED Jack Klaff. WED WED Pieces range from Laurie Lee and Chris Stewart on the WED delights of Spanish cuisine, to Keith Floyd on the joys of WED seafood - and Geoff Dyer on his loathing of the same. WED Provocative lines from PJ O'Rourke, Samuel Pepys on honest WED gluttony, words of wisdom from Clement Freud and DH Lawrence WED describing what he ate on his travels in Italy complete the WED bill of fare. WED WED Neil Stuke is a keen cook, who was runner-up in Celebrity WED MasterChef. His father was a chef, and Neil himself is a WED passionate food lover. WED WED Producer Beth O'Dea. WED WED Pieces chosen in the programme WED WED Table Talk by AA Gill (extract) WED WED The Joys of Excess, from The Diaries of Samuel Pepys WED (extract) WED WED As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee WED (extract) WED WED The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping WED House Like a Pig by PJ O’Rourke (extract) WED WED Freud on Food by Clement Freud (extract) WED WED The Letters of DH Lawrence: Vol II 1913-16 by DH Lawrence WED (extract) WED WED Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer (extract) WED WED Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart (extract) WED WED Stirred But Not Shaken by Keith Floyd (extract) WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Neil Stuke WED Reader: Miranda Raison WED Reader: Jack Klaff WED Producer: Beth O'Dea WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 AUGUST 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04c97ss (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04cs869 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04c97sv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04c97sx (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04c97sz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04c97t1 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d0w3f (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil THU Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04cfftw (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xkr (Listen) THU Honey Buzzard THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the honey buzzard. The Honey THU Buzzard is more closely related to the Kite than it is to THU our common Buzzard. It gets its name for its fondness, not THU for honey, but for the grubs of bees and wasps. The bird THU locates their nests by watching where the insects go from a THU branch. It then digs out the honeycomb with its powerful THU feet and breaks into the cells. THU THU Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus) THU Image courtesy of Mike Read (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b04cfgrd (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b04cfgrg (Listen) THU Series 10, Treating Smokers THU THU Many patients with lung disease receive oxygen therapy to THU try to improve their quality of life. However, patients with THU this condition often struggle to give up smoking and THU continue the habit against medical advice. THU THU Mark has smoked since he was a teenager. Now 67 he has THU advanced lung disease as a result of his smoking. Despite THU his worsening ill health and against medical advice, Mark THU continues to smoke 40 cigarettes a day. THU THU Having oxygen at home also carries a fire risk, so the fire THU service carry out an inspection at each patient's home. The THU medical team is concerned as they are noticing an increasing THU number of patients being treated for burns after smoking THU whilst using their oxygen in the home. THU THU Our second patient, James, set his plastic tubing alight THU when he sparked up. The oxygen flowing into his nostrils THU fuelled the fire and he was hospitalised with facial burns. THU THU Should patients be allowed oxygen therapy if they continue THU to smoke? Who is responsible for any fire that happens? The THU doctor? The patient? THU THU And how should the benefit to patients be weighed against THU the risks for people living nearby who might also be caught THU up in a fire? THU THU Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. THU THU Producer: Lorna Stewart. THU THU The Panel THU THU Deborah Bowman, Professor of Ethics and Law at St George’s THU Hospital in London THU THU THU THU Peter Calverley, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the THU University of Liverpool and has published extensively on THU COPD THU THU THU THU Jonathon Tomlinson, a London GP with an interest in medical THU ethics THU THU Your Comments THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04cs8n0 (Listen) THU In Montmartre, Episode 4 THU THU Author Sue Roe's account, abridged by Katrin Williams, THU describes how Pablo Picasso and other artists found this THU Paris quarter irresistible when arriving in the early THU 1900's: THU THU 4. Picasso travels with Fernande to Spain, which opens the THU mind to some fantastic possibilities. And one particular THU picture will cause a stir. THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Stella Gonet THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Author: Sue Roe THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04cfgrj (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 b04cfgrl (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 4 THU THU Elizabeth starts practising writing her travel journal but THU Sam disapproves of her writing things down before they THU happen. Sam's attempt to become a candidate for Parliament THU is thwarted by rumours that his biggest supporter, the Duke THU of York, is to convert to Catholicism. Elizabeth spies Debs THU Willet through the window of the glove shop and feels faint. THU But all is forgotten as they set off happily on their THU journey together to Holland and France. THU THU Adapted by Hattie Naylor THU THU Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by THU Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany THU Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David THU Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by THU Alice Baxter. THU THU Historical consultant: Liza Picard THU Sound by Nigel Lewis THU Production Co-Ordinator: Willa King THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU Credits THU Sam: Kris Marshall THU Elizabeth: Katherine Jakeways THU Will: John Biddle THU Mrs Bilby: Lynne Seymour THU Passerby: Eiry Thomas THU Debs: Aimee-Ffion Edwards THU Director: Kate McAll THU Producer: Kate McAll THU Adaptor: Hattie Naylor THU Author: Samuel Pepys THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04b22h3 (Listen) THU Crimea: Paradise Regained THU THU As Ukrainian holidaymakers stay away from Crimea's beaches THU following Russia's annexation of the peninsula, Lucy Ash THU meets the Russians who are reclaiming their bit of paradise. THU THU 11:30 Graffiti: Kings on a Mission b04cfhm3 (Listen) THU In 1974, one of America's most celebrated cultural figures THU declared graffiti as "the great art of the 70s". THU THU Back then, thousands of teenagers were vandalising New York, THU in particular the subway system. Yet Norman Mailer described THU their "passion", their "cool", their "masterpieces in THU letters six feet high". THU THU Who were the teens behind the "tags" - now the veterans of THU the scene? Why did they create this movement? Were they even THU thinking about art, politics, protest - or simply writing THU their names on trains? THU THU BBC Radio 4 meets some of those who defied the law (and THU their parents) and diced with death including pioneers such THU as Riff 170, Jester, Coco 144, Flint Gennari, and Tats Cru. THU Their efforts have been replicated far beyond New York - in THU art galleries and in the hands of Arab Spring protesters - THU and yet their aspirations were largely apolitical: they were THU chasing fame and the acceptance of their peers. THU THU The programme explores the city's complicated relationship THU with graffiti, which it appears to condemn and celebrate in THU equal measure. Former artists - or "writers" as they prefer THU to be known - revisit their old haunts and discuss why they THU believe they had a right to "tag", "bomb" and "destroy" New THU York with markers and spray paint. THU THU The programme paints a vivid picture of a city that became a THU canvas at a time when, according to Norman Mailer, "it THU looked as if graffiti would take over the world". THU THU Produced by Steve Urquhart THU A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. THU The Faith of Graffiti - Norman Mailer THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU 12:00 Home Front b04cfhm5 (Listen) THU 7 August 1914 - Ralph Winwood THU THU Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a THU hundred years ago. When a postman drops dead in the Post THU Office, the life of Reverend Mr Winwood takes an unexpected THU turn. THU THU Written by: Katie Hims THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Waitress: Cassie Layton THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Katie Hims THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04cfhm7 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04c97t3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04cfhm9 (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU THU 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04cfhqt (Listen) THU Hunt for Diversity THU THU Agriculture tends to favour the best food varieties but this THU is often a trade off with beneficial traits such as THU resistance to disease or tolerance to drought. During the THU 1920s the Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov, having witnessed THU famine on a large scale, became increasingly concerned about THU the potential loss of locally adapted varieties and spent THU his life studying crop plants in their wild habitats. THU THU Professor Kathy Willis examines Vavilov's pioneering work THU and his search for pools of genetic variability - so called THU "centres of origin" amongst the wild relatives of our THU domesticated crops that could help sustain future plant THU breeding for human use. THU THU Vavilov's story has a tragic end but, as we hear, his legacy THU lives on in seedbanks such as Kew's Millennium Seedbank at THU Wakehurst Place whose Crop Wild Relatives Project is THU collecting and assessing new potential amongst the original THU progenitors of our domestic crops. THU THU With contributions from archaeobotanist Dorian Fuller, Kew's THU curator of economic botany Mark Nesbitt, Crop Wild Relatives THU Project coordinator Ruth Eastwood, and head of the THU Millennium Seedbank Paul Smith. THU THU Producer Adrian Washbourne. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04cffpv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04cfkv4 (Listen) THU Recent Events at Collington House THU THU Collington House is a secondary school in a Midlands town THU with a large proportion of its students from the Muslim THU community. New head teacher Roz Taylor, eager to be THU inclusive and accommodate all faiths and cultures, finds THU herself increasingly at odds with one of the parent THU governors. THU THU This is a drama that gets behind the news headlines and THU political wrangles to examine what is actually meant by THU "Islamisation" and the difference is between radicalisation THU and the co-existence of different faiths in schools on a THU day-to-day level. THU THU Writer: Matthew Solon THU Researcher: Eva Kryslak THU Sound: Eloise Whitmore THU THU Director: John Dryden THU A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Roz Taylor: Heather Craney THU Abdul Lateef Shah: Neil D'Souza THU Jaffer n Sadiq: Sam Dastor THU Folasade Olabode (Sade): Tracy Ifeachor THU John Roberts: Philip Jackson THU Mrs Barlow: Becci Gemmell THU PC Khan: Jaz Deol THU Writer: Matthew Solon THU Director: John Dryden THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04cfkv8 (Listen) THU The Bournville Legacy THU THU As the Cadbury family sought to expand their growing THU chocolate business in the late 19th century they also THU developed their vision for a better quality of life for the THU people of Birmingham. Buying 300 acres of land they created THU a model village they called Bournville, helping people THU escape the slums to good quality housing with gardens and THU fruit trees, green open spaces, churches and sports THU facilities. THU THU Today the Trust that runs the estate has expanded it to a THU thousand acres and residents often speak of being able to THU smell the chocolate from the factory. Felicity Evans visits THU the South Birmingham town to see how George Cadbury's work THU and ethos continues today. She visits some of the first THU houses built and talks to lifelong residents and former THU Cadbury workers about what made the area special. She visits THU Rowheath Pavilion, 90 years after its creation, to hear how THU it still hosts sports teams and community events but also THU looks out for those in need of support. THU THU She also ascends the village's carillon tower, built by THU George after an inspiring trip to Belgium. The 4-octave, 48 THU bell instrument is still played each Saturday. Carilloneur THU Trevor Workman explains how it's one of only a handful in THU the UK and gives a demonstration of how it should be played THU - with gusto! THU THU But modern residents of Bournville aren't the only ones to THU benefit. The new village of Lightmoor is being developed THU near Telford to establish the same community benefits George THU envisioned. But can community still be formed in the modern THU day and without the original chocolate factory. THU THU Presented by Felicity Evans THU Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04c9s0c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b04c9xcs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04cfkvd (Listen) THU John Slattery on God's Pocket THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU John Slattery, aka Roger Sterling in Mad Men, discusses his THU directorial debut, God's Pocket, one of the last films to THU star Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died earlier this year. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: John Slattery THU Producer: Philip Sellars THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04cfkvg (Listen) THU Professor Alice Roberts investigates the news in science and THU science in the news. THU THU 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04cfkvl (Listen) THU 7th August THU THU British Trade Unions announce they will not oppose the war. 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 b04cfkvq (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04c97t5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Sketchorama b048nyk4 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 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 Four Screws Loose. THU New Act of the Year finalists, featuring Richard Caine, THU Joseph Elliot, Thom Ford and Conan House. THU They have performed in prestigious comedy venues from London THU to Edinburgh (via, naturally, Yeovil) and alongside top acts THU such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Patrick Kielty, Alex Zane, Frisky THU and Mannish and Boy With Tape on his Face. THU THU The Jest. THU Recently slimmed down from a nine-person sketch group Simply THU the Jest, who performed at the Fringe from 2011 to 2013. The THU Jest is made up of University of Exeter graduates Ella THU Ainsworth (School of Comedy on Channel 4 and at The THU Pleasance, the BBC's Hustle and Being Human), Tristan THU Rogers, Jack Stanley (Little Britain, 2005 film The THU Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Luke Theobald (runner-up THU on an episode of Pointless. Hell yeah!) and Bryony Twydle. THU THU Birthday Girls. THU Beattie Edmondson, Rose Johnson and Camille Ucan. THU Collectively, individually and existentially they have been THU seen or heard on things like Live At The Electric (BBC3), THU Absolutely Fabulous, Dick & Dom's Funny Business (BBC2) and THU the first series of Sketchorama in their former sketch THU collective Lady Garden. 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 b04cfkvs (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04cfnz0 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04cfgrl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04cfnz2 (Listen) THU Litvinenko: The miniature nuclear attack THU THU It was a death in Britain like no other seen in living THU memory. THU THU The gaunt and agonised face of the former Russian security THU service officer, Alexander Litvinenko, stared out of THU television screens and newspaper front pages in November THU 2006 as his painful end approached in London's University THU College Hospital. His poisoning by a radioactive isotope was THU a bizarre death. It baffled the experts and transfixed a THU horrified nation. THU THU Nearly eight years on from his death, Litvinenko's relatives THU - as well as lawyers, scientists, diplomats, politicians and THU the public at large - are still waiting to find out how this THU British citizen met his end in such an alarming and public THU way. After patient but unyielding pressure from his widow, THU Marina, and a High Court ruling earlier this year, the Home THU Secretary finally accepted in July that the inquest into the THU death needed to be replaced with a public inquiry. Under the THU senior judge, Sir Robert Owen, it will probe aspects of the THU case which the inquest was unable to scrutinise. THU THU Peter Marshall reported on the Litvinenko story as it first THU unfolded. Now, he speaks to Marina Litvinenko about the THU questions she thinks should lie at the centre of Sir THU Robert's inquiry and what she wants it to achieve. He also THU speaks to lawyers, scientific and security experts about the THU unusual life and death of the former security officer in THU Russia's FSB - the successor body to the Soviet-era KGB. THU THU Marshall discovers how far Alexander Litvinenko's decision THU to flee to Britain, the special work he undertook and the THU enemies he had all affected how he died. And he questions THU how far the Russian state and its president, Vladimir Putin THU - already under pressure over Ukraine and the downing of THU Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 - should be under examination THU too. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04cfnz4 (Listen) THU Fast and Furious THU THU Series about the world of work, from vast corporations to THU the modest volunteer. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04cfkvg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Zeitgeisters b03z081s (Listen) THU Series 2, Sonia Friedman 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 4. Sonia Friedman - the prolific West End and THU Broadway producer whose shows Ghosts, Chimerica, Book of THU Mormon and Merrily We Roll Along have just scooped fourteen THU Olivier awards. In fact, it was Laurence Olivier who THU interviewed her for her first job as a stage manager at the THU National Theatre. Since when she co-founded the theatre THU company Out of Joint before forming her own production THU company in 2002 and becoming possibly one of the most THU powerful impresarios of the West End and Broadway. THU THU Producer: Clare Walker. THU THU 21:58 Weather b04c97t7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04cfnz6 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04cfnzb (Listen) THU Pierre et Jean, Episode 3 THU THU Guy de Maupassant's compelling short novel, abridged in 4 THU parts by Penny Leicester, follows family rivalries in THU maritime Dieppe: THU THU 3. Jean is happy of course, but Pierre burns with rage. So a THU confrontation is due. THU THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Carl Prekopp THU Producer: Duncan Minshull THU Abridger: Penny Leicester THU Author: Guy de Maupassant THU THU 23:00 Don't Make Me Laugh b04cfnzg (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU David Baddiel hosts this brand-new show as David Mitchell, THU Josh Widdicombe, Roisin Conaty and Joe Lycett go against THU their natural instincts and try not to make an audience THU laugh. THU THU Scorer: Emily Dean THU Producer: Dave Cribb THU THU A So Television / Fierce Tears production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Performer: David Mitchell THU Performer: Josh Widdicombe THU Performer: Roisin Conaty THU Performer: Joe Lycett THU Producer: Dave Cribb THU THU 23:30 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 his chosen reader Patricia Hodge. THU His life in books ranges through Tynan, Logue and Isherwood THU to Dickens, Nashe and Shakespeare: in which Simon and THU Patricia perform together on stage for the first time. THU Recorded in front of an audience at St George's in Bristol. THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU Pieces chosen in the programme THU THU Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood THU THU At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald THU THU Titus Andronicus, review from the Observer 1953, published THU in Curtains by Kenneth Tynan THU THU Bleak House by Charles Dickens THU THU Gone Ladies by Christopher Logue THU THU Summer’s Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe THU THU Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Simon Callow THU Reader: Patricia Hodge THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 AUGUST 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04c97v5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04cs8n0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04c97v7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04c97v9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04c97vc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04c97vf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d0w8t (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection with the Rev Neil FRI Gardner of Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04cfrtt (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xmn (Listen) FRI Common Tern FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Michaela Strachan presents the common tern. The Common Tern FRI is the most widespread of our breeding terns and is very FRI graceful. It has long slender wings and a deeply forked tail FRI with the outer feathers extended into long streamers. These FRI features give the bird its other name, sea swallow, by which FRI terns are often called. FRI FRI Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04cfvfn (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04c9xcg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04cs8z9 (Listen) FRI In Montmartre, Episode 5 FRI FRI Author Sue Roe's account, abridged by Katrin Williams, FRI describes how Pablo Picasso and other artists found this FRI Paris quarter irresistible when arriving in the early FRI 1900's: FRI FRI 5. Picasso eventually leaves Montmatre for the sedate charms FRI of Clichy. Then author Gertrude Stein sums what Montmartre FRI really means to its artists. FRI FRI Reader Stella Gonet FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Stella Gonet FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Author: Sue Roe FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04cfvfq (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 b04cfvfs (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 5 FRI FRI After Sam has explored the shipyards of Holland, he and FRI Elizabeth travel to Paris where Elizabeth enjoys buying FRI fashionable gloves and hats. The difficult past year is FRI forgotten and they are happy in each other's company. They FRI go to the Palais Royal to see a play but soon afterwards FRI Elizabeth begins to feel unwell. They return home where her FRI sickness gets worse. Doctor Hollier is called but no remedy FRI seems to help. Sam remembers the promise he made her, and FRI calls a Priest. The concluding episode of this long-running FRI series, adapted from the diaries by Hattie Naylor. FRI FRI Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by FRI Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David FRI Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by FRI Alice Baxter. FRI FRI Historical consultant: Liza Picard FRI Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI Production Co-Ordinator: Willa King FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sam: Kris Marshall FRI Elizabeth: Katherine Jakeways FRI Will: John Biddle FRI Balty: Matthew Gravelle FRI Priest: Ewan Bailey FRI Dr Hollier: Gareth Pierce FRI Lord Brouncker: Tim McMullan FRI Director: Kate McAll FRI Producer: Kate McAll FRI Adaptor: Hattie Naylor FRI Author: Samuel Pepys FRI FRI 11:00 Choral Diplomacy b04cfvfv (Listen) FRI Political journalist Alex Stevenson follows an unusual FRI diplomatic venture by MPs and peers, as the Parliament Choir FRI hosts the Bundestag Choir for a unique concert in FRI Westminster. FRI FRI The Parliament Choir is a workplace choir comprised of FRI anyone who works at Westminster from peers, to MPs to FRI researchers, to caterers. As part of the commemorations for FRI World War 1, they've taken the step of inviting their German FRI counterparts, the Bundestag Chor, to Westminster for a FRI concert on July 9th. The concert also remembers the 300 FRI years since the Hanoverian Succession. FRI FRI What was originally a nice idea has been transformed into a FRI major opportunity to boost diplomatic ties with Germany FRI following support from German chancellor Angela Merkel. The FRI documentary investigates whether the resulting parallel FRI political programme will make a difference amid a period of FRI intense sensitivity for British-German relations over the FRI future of Europe. FRI FRI Alex Stevenson has been following the choir as they prepare FRI with their conductor Simon Over. He visits rehearsals in FRI London and in Berlin and attends the Foreign Office FRI reception to greet the German choir before the big day of FRI the concert itself. FRI FRI We hear from current choir Chairman, former Cabinet minister FRI Caroline Spelman MP, previous chair Lord German, veteran FRI politician Kenneth Clarke, conductor Simon Over, the FRI composer in residence at the choir Nick O'Neill and other FRI choir members. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 My Teenage Diary b039cy0f (Listen) FRI Series 5, Sarfraz Manzoor 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. In this programme, FRI Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by journalist Sarfraz FRI Manzoor. FRI FRI Sarfraz relives his teenage days living in Luton in a strict FRI Muslim family - when he was obsessed with Bo Derek and pop FRI music, and desperate to buy a computer. FRI FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Rufus Hound FRI Interviewed Guest: Sarfraz Manzoor FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI FRI 12:00 Home Front b04cfvfx (Listen) FRI 8 August 1914 - Adam Wilson FRI FRI Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a FRI hundred years ago. Perfect weather for the Sunday School FRI picnic. FRI FRI Written by: Katie Hims FRI Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Sam: Alexander Aze FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04cfvfz (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04c97vh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04cfvg1 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI FRI 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04cfvg3 (Listen) FRI Botanical Medicine FRI FRI In 1947 Sir Robert Robinson received the Nobel prize for FRI Chemistry "in recognition of his investigations of plant FRI products of biological importance, especially the FRI alkaloids". This powerful family of plant chemicals was FRI proving a potent medical tool. FRI FRI Professor Kathy Willis traces the natural role of alkaloids FRI in plants and the first attempts to isolate one of the best FRI know - quinine, from chinchona bark growing in the Andes. FRI This development gave rise to the emergence of a new kind of FRI laboratory scientist equally able to handle botanical and FRI chemical data. As Mark Nesbitt, Keeper of Kew's Economic FRI Botany Collection explains, this was to eliminate the chance FRI and guesswork in identifying "good" plants from "bad". FRI FRI Professor Monique Simmons of Kew's Jodrell Laboratory, FRI assesses why chemicals from the plant kingdom are still FRI needed in the fight against some of our most challenging FRI diseases, from breast cancer to cardiovascular disease, and FRI how making the nuanced connections between plant species is FRI central to success in this field. FRI FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04cfkvs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0184s2s (Listen) FRI The Lamp FRI FRI In a remote Scottish library, a farmer's widow and a FRI visiting Kenyan librarian bond unexpectedly over a shared FRI love of books. FRI FRI Written by Linda Cracknell and recorded on location at FRI Innerpeffray Library in Perthshire, a museum celebrating FRI Scotland's first public lending library. FRI FRI Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Elspeth: Ellie Haddington FRI Simon: Fraser James FRI David: Ralph Riach FRI Writer: Linda Cracknell FRI Director: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04cfw3h (Listen) FRI Windermere FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a special edition of the horticultural FRI panel programme from Lake Windermere. Bob Flowerdew, Pippa FRI Greenwood and Bunny Guinness join him aboard a ferry to FRI answer passenger's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 If I Only Had... b04cfw3k (Listen) FRI If I Only Had a Brain FRI FRI August 2014 sees the 75th anniversary of the iconic MGM film FRI adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic novel The Wizard of FRI Oz. FRI FRI Inspired by the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion's FRI quest to find Brains, Heart and Courage, Ian Sansom, FRI Morwenna Banks and Colin Carberry bring us a series of three FRI stories about people who find themselves in unexpected FRI situations, which challenge them to display qualities they FRI never realized they had all along, or which find them FRI looking at their lives in a new light in their own personal FRI quests for a brain, a heart, and the nerve. FRI FRI If I Only Had a Brian FRI Read by Mark Heap FRI Novelist and broadcaster Ian Sansom takes us into the daily FRI routine of a scientist who in his quest for new discoveries FRI rarely tells the people he meets exactly what his job FRI entails. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Mark Heap FRI Writer: Ian Sansom FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04cfzx9 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b04cfzxc (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:55 1914: Day by Day b04cfzxf (Listen) FRI 8th August FRI FRI The French army declares a victory in their lost province of FRI Alsace. 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. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04cfzxh (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04c97vk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Brig Society b04cfzxk (Listen) FRI Series 2, Social Media FRI FRI Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! 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 has decided to create his own Social Media FRI site. Please RT. Please Follow. Please Like. Please give all FRI your details to Google and the NSA. FRI FRI Helping him to turn your metadata into cash will be Rufus FRI Jones ("W1A", "Holy Flying Circus"), William Andrews ("Sorry FRI I've Got No Head") and Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda") FRI FRI The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by FRI Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also FRI produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles FRI Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy FRI Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, FRI Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando FRI Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The FRI 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active & Bigipedia. FRI His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting FRI Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Three Fights FRI Two Weddings & A Funeral, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino FRI Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. FRI FRI Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, FRI Nick Doody, Steve Punt & Dan Tetsell FRI FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI FRI A Pozzitive production for the BBC. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Ensemble: Rufus Jones FRI Ensemble: William Andrews FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith 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 Producer: David Tyler FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04cfzxm (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Caroline Harrington FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI FRI King's School Choir Worcester .... Conducted by Simon FRI Taranczuk FRI Christopher Allsop ..... Organist. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Ben Archer: Thomas Lester FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Mr Stevens: Paul Thornley FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04cfzxr (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04cfvfs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04cfzxt (Listen) FRI Julie Bindel, Yemi Adedeji, Max Hastings, Soweto Kinch FRI FRI Martha Kearney presents political debate from the FRI Broadcasting House Radio Theatre in London with feminist FRI writer Julie Bindel, Rev. Yemi Adedeji the director of the FRI One People Commission at the Evangelical Alliance UK, FRI Historian and commentator Max Hastings and Jazz Saxophonist FRI Soweto Kinch. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04cfzxw (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04cfzxy (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 4-8 August 1914 FRI FRI Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred FRI years ago this week. Omnibus of the first week, as FRI Folkestone comes to terms with being at the hub of Britain's FRI war effort. FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI Home Front is a ground-breaking new Radio Four radio drama - FRI its biggest ever - set in Britain during 1914-18, playing a FRI central role in the BBC's comprehensive World War One FRI offering. FRI FRI An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each FRI episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, FRI and follows one character's day. Together they create a FRI mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British FRI society, and a playful treasure hunt, with historical truths FRI hidden in each story. FRI FRI Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian FRI seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the FRI military machine, and close enough to France to hear the FRI fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, FRI telling the major stories of wartime Britain. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sam: Alexander Aze FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Lilian: Lisa Brookes FRI Dr McFee: David Cann FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Freddie: Freddie Fox FRI Archie Tulliver: Arthur Hughes FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Waitress: Cassie Layton FRI Jimmy: Alfie Lowles FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Cynic: Wilf Scolding FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Dieter: Joe Sims FRI Miss Penn-Caskell: Emily Spooner FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04c97vm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04cfzy0 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04cfzy2 (Listen) FRI Pierre et Jean, Episode 4 FRI FRI Guy de Maupassant's compelling short novel, abridged in 4 FRI parts by Penny Leicester, follows family rivalries in the FRI seaport of Le Havre: FRI FRI 4. There's only one answer: Pierre must bid his farewells. FRI It's sad for the family, but what else is possible? FRI FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Carl Prekopp FRI Producer: Duncan Minshull FRI Abridger: Penny Leicester FRI Author: Guy de Maupassant FRI FRI 23:00 Summer Nights b04cfzy4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI FRI Presenter: Aleks Krotoski FRI Producer: Ruth Watts. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04cfzy6 (Listen) FRI Marion and Grace - A Time to Dance FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between an eight year old who FRI has her dance career mapped out and her grandmother, who was FRI considered too tall for ballet but still tap dances at 78, FRI proving once 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
02 August, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 02/08/2014 - 08/08/2014
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