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SAT SATURDAY 09 AUGUST 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04cg03f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04cs8z9 (Listen) SAT In Montmartre, Episode 5 SAT SAT Author Sue Roe's account, abridged by Katrin Williams, SAT describes how Pablo Picasso and other artists found this SAT Paris quarter irresistible when arriving in the early SAT 1900's: SAT SAT 5. Picasso eventually leaves Montmatre for the sedate charms SAT of Clichy. Then author Gertrude Stein sums what Montmartre SAT really means to its artists. SAT SAT Reader Stella Gonet SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Stella Gonet SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Author: Sue Roe SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04cg03h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04cg03k (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04cg03m (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04cg03p (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04cg0b7 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon SAT Stephen Shipley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04cg0b9 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04cg03r (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04cg03t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04cfkv8 (Listen) SAT The Bournville Legacy SAT SAT As the Cadbury family sought to expand their growing SAT chocolate business in the late 19th century they also SAT developed their vision for a better quality of life for the SAT people of Birmingham. Buying 300 acres of land they created SAT a model village they called Bournville, helping people SAT escape the slums to good quality housing with gardens and SAT fruit trees, green open spaces, churches and sports SAT facilities. SAT SAT Today the Trust that runs the estate has expanded it to a SAT thousand acres and residents often speak of being able to SAT smell the chocolate from the factory. Felicity Evans visits SAT the South Birmingham town to see how George Cadbury's work SAT and ethos continues today. She visits some of the first SAT houses built and talks to lifelong residents and former SAT Cadbury workers about what made the area special. She visits SAT Rowheath Pavilion, 90 years after its creation, to hear how SAT it still hosts sports teams and community events but also SAT looks out for those in need of support. SAT SAT She also ascends the village's carillon tower, built by SAT George after an inspiring trip to Belgium. The 4-octave, 48 SAT bell instrument is still played each Saturday. Carilloneur SAT Trevor Workman explains how it's one of only a handful in SAT the UK and gives a demonstration of how it should be played SAT - with gusto! SAT SAT But modern residents of Bournville aren't the only ones to SAT benefit. The new village of Lightmoor is being developed SAT near Telford to establish the same community benefits George SAT envisioned. But can community still be formed in the modern SAT day and without the original chocolate factory. SAT SAT Presented by Felicity Evans SAT Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04d0hxl (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: World War One SAT SAT In this special edition of Farming Today This Week, marking SAT 100 years since the beginning of World War One, Sybil Ruscoe SAT discovers what impact war in France had on farming SAT communities in Britain. SAT By the time conscription was introduced in 1916, the War SAT Office faced a massive dilemma. They were desperate for men SAT at the front but still needed to produce food for the SAT troops, and the domestic population. What should they do SAT with the farmers? Send them to war, or leave them on the SAT land? SAT Farming was a reserved occupation but the criteria was SAT strict. Across the country 60,000 agricultural labourers SAT were called up and Military Service Tribunals were held to SAT decide who could stay, and who would go. SAT In Wiltshire many original records still survive. Sybil uses SAT the archives to find out what happened to two men; SAT 19-year-old Robert Pegler and a ploughman called Jim Hunt, SAT who were among thousands to apply for military exemption. SAT In a journey that takes Sybil back to the farms where they SAT worked, she meets historians, descendents and local people SAT to piece together what happened to Robert and Jim all those SAT years ago. SAT This programme also features reports from "World War One At SAT Home", a BBC and Imperial War Museums project - all about SAT people and places on the home front of the UK and Ireland SAT during World War One. SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04cg03w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04d0hxn (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04d0hxq (Listen) SAT Katy Brand SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the writer and SAT comedian Katy Brand, author Harry Bucknall who followed all SAT 1,411 miles of the Via Francigena Pilgrims walk from the SAT City of London through England, France, Switzerland and SAT Italy to Rome, and actor Daniel Laurie who's become the SAT first student with Downs Syndrome to be accepted to the SAT Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Theatre School SAT Summer Course. Author and former news correspondent Gerald SAT Seymour recalls his meeting with Maurice Bailey who, in SAT 1973, with his wife Maralyn survived for 117 days on a SAT rubber raft in the Pacific Ocean, and Maurice tells his side SAT of the story. Alice Morrison has recently run the toughest SAT footrace on earth - the Marathon Des Sables: six marathons SAT in six days across the desert in temperatures of 50 degrees, SAT carrying all your own provisions. The conductor and SAT violinist Sir Neville Marriner shares his Inheritance Tracks SAT and JP Devlin will be in the studio reading your emails and SAT waiting to take your calls. SAT SAT Katy Brand will be at the Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire SAT on the Sunday 10th August and her book Brenda Monk Is Funny SAT was published by crowd-funding publisher Unbound on 31st SAT July 2014. SAT SAT Harry Bucknall's book Like A Tramp, Like A Pilgrim: On Foot, SAT Across Europe to Rome was published in July 2014 by SAT Bloomsbury. SAT SAT Gerald Seymour's book Vagabond is out now. SAT SAT Sir Neville Marriner inherits Handel's Messiah performed by SAT The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and passes on SAT Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht performed by the Hollywood SAT String Quartet. He's conducting Prom 32 on Sunday August SAT 10th. SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Katy Brand SAT Interviewed Guest: Harry Bucknall SAT Interviewed Guest: Daniel Laurie SAT Interviewed Guest: Neville Marriner SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT SAT 10:30 Meet the Wainwrights b04d0hxs (Listen) SAT Nina Myskow talks to Rufus and Martha Wainwright, acclaimed SAT singer songwriters, children of folk singers Loudon SAT Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle. SAT SAT Rufus is the Grammy-nominated creator of pop songs, SAT described by Elton John as the greatest songwriter of our SAT generation. Martha has carved her own quirky musical niche. SAT Both have followed the family tradition - rejection, hurt, SAT betrayal, all laid bare in confessional songs about each SAT other. For all of them, the very personal is material to be SAT translated into song. SAT SAT Over the course of a month, Nina Myskov sat down with Rufus SAT in London, with Loudon in uptown New York, and with Martha SAT in Brooklyn - to try to understand this generational SAT conversation expressed through song. SAT SAT Love, sadness, bitterness and loss revealed to public SAT scrutiny. How cathartic is the writing process? Were songs SAT written out of revenge? Looking back, now that the dust has SAT settled, do any of them regret writing such revelatory barbs SAT about their close family? SAT SAT Presenter: Nina Myskow SAT SAT Producer: Barney Rowntree SAT A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04d4wh2 (Listen) SAT Outcasts: The Forum at Risor Festival, Norway SAT SAT From the Risor Festival in Norway: Bridget Kendall hears SAT from four distinguished Scandinavians and an attentive SAT festival audience on the topic of the uninvited. With film SAT director Margreth Olin, bioethicist Bjorn Hofmann, Icelandic SAT writer Sjon and violinist Henning Kraggerud. SAT SAT (Photo: Bridget Kendall, Margreth Olin, Bjorn Hofmann, Sjón SAT and Henning Kraggerud in front of an invited audience. SAT Credit: Liv Øvland/Risør Chamber Music Festival) SAT SAT Margreth Olin SAT SAT From the beginning of her career, Margreth Olin’s SAT documentary films, such as In the House SAT of Angels, My Body and Raw Youth have SAT been winning international accolades as well as stimulating SAT discussion about difficult SAT social issues at home in Norway. Her SAT first feature fiction film, The Angel, was the Norwegian SAT candidate for the 2010 SAT Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Her latest SAT work is Cathedrals of SAT Culture, a 3D collaboration with the likes of Wim Wenders SAT and Robert Redford SAT about the soul of buildings. In the Forum, Margreth reveals SAT how Norwegian SAT attitudes to her uncle’s disability inspired her SAT film-making. SAT SAT SAT SAT Photo: Liv Øvland/Risør Chamber Music Festival SAT SAT Bjørn Hofmann SAT SAT Bjørn Hofmann is a Norwegian researcher in philosophy of SAT medicine with special interest for the relationship between SAT epistemology and SAT ethics. His main subjects in the philosophy of medicine SAT have been the concepts SAT of health and disease. In the philosophy of the health SAT sciences he has studied SAT causation, rationality, and evidence. His main interests SAT include reproductive SAT technologies, biobanks, and organ transplantation. In the SAT programme, Bjorn SAT looks to the future and wonders whether some new medical SAT interventions, such as SAT pre-natal screening of people’s genomes, risk creating a SAT new generation of SAT outcasts. SAT SAT Photo: Liv Øvland/Risør Chamber Music Festival SAT SAT Sjón SAT SAT Novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist Sjón has won the SAT Nordic Council's Literary Prize for his novel 'The Blue SAT Fox' (the equivalent of SAT the Man Booker Prize). His novels 'From The Mouth Of The SAT Whale' and 'Moonstone SAT – The Boy Who Never Was' were also awarded prestigious SAT awards. He has frequently SAT worked with his fellow Icelander Björk, including writing SAT songs for her most SAT recent musical project, Biophilia. In the Forum, Sjón SAT discusses the unique SAT geographical position of Iceland in Europe and how that’s SAT contributed to SAT Icelandic literature. He also cautions that the more we try SAT to keep foreigners SAT from coming in, the greater the risk of dangerous outsiders SAT arising in our SAT midst. SAT SAT SAT SAT Photo: Liv Øvland/Risør Chamber Music Festival SAT SAT Henning Kraggerud SAT SAT Such is the musicianship of violinist, composer and SAT co-director of the Risor Festival, Henning Kraggerud, that SAT he is invited time SAT and time again to many of the world’s most important SAT orchestras, such as the SAT Hallé, Oslo Philharmonic and Toronto and Cincinnati SAT Symphony orchestras to name SAT a few. Similarly, Henning’s collaborative nature earns him SAT the respect of SAT leading conductors with whom he has formed strong SAT connections; examples include SAT Stéphane Denève, Jukka Pekka Saraste, SAT Thomas Dausgaard, Osmo Vänskä and Nicholas McGegan. During SAT the Forum, SAT Henning warns about trying to protect Norwegian culture SAT from outside influences SAT too much: not least because some of the best Norwegian SAT music, he says, is SAT actually a fusion of several different cultures. SAT SAT SAT SAT Photo: Liv Øvland/Risør Chamber Music Festival SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04d0hxv (Listen) SAT A Footnote to Conflict SAT SAT Foreign correspondents tell their stories - in this edition, SAT discussions in Israel about the conflict in Gaza, Tim SAT Whewell; why the Turkish prime minister seems set to become SAT the country's new president, Natalie Martin; why Argentina's SAT demanding that global financial systems be overhauled, Katy SAT Watson; tourists start to return to parts of The Philippines SAT battered by storms and an earthquake, Rajan Datar and Reggie SAT Nadelson visits a seaside town on America's east coast where SAT African Americans traditionally took their summer holidays. SAT SAT 12:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04d0j0v (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Last year, London's house prices rose by more than the SAT entire GDP of New Zealand. Rents in the capital are almost SAT double the national average. Meanwhile, wealthy investors SAT are paying in cash for luxury homes which haven't even been SAT built. SAT SAT London's property market calls the tune for the rest of the SAT UK. Michael Robinson asks how London came to be so expensive SAT and what its continually ebullient market holds in store for SAT those who wish to buy and rent there. SAT SAT 12:30 The Brig Society b04cfzxk (Listen) SAT Series 2, Social Media SAT SAT Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! 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 has decided to create his own Social Media SAT site. Please RT. Please Follow. Please Like. Please give all SAT your details to Google and the NSA. SAT SAT Helping him to turn your metadata into cash will be Rufus SAT Jones ("W1A", "Holy Flying Circus"), William Andrews ("Sorry SAT I've Got No Head") and Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda") SAT SAT The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by SAT Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also SAT produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles SAT Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy SAT Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, SAT Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando SAT Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The SAT 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active & Bigipedia. SAT His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting SAT Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Three Fights SAT Two Weddings & A Funeral, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino SAT Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. SAT SAT Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, SAT Nick Doody, Steve Punt & Dan Tetsell SAT SAT Produced by David Tyler SAT SAT A Pozzitive production for the BBC. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Ensemble: Rufus Jones SAT Ensemble: William Andrews SAT Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith 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 Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04cg03y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04cg040 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04cfzxt (Listen) SAT Max Hastings, Soweto Kinch, Julie Bindel, Mark Littlewood SAT SAT Martha Kearney presents political debate from the SAT Broadcasting House Radio Theatre in London, with historian SAT and commentator Max Hastings, jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch, SAT feminist writer Julie Bindel, and Director of the Institute SAT of Economic Affairs Mark Littlewood. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04d0l1d (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? With Anita Anand. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b04d0l1g (Listen) SAT Victory SAT SAT Victory by Gwyneth Hughes. SAT SAT Admiral Lord Nelson , Sir William and Emma, Lady Hamilton SAT have been living together in Italy. But when they return SAT home to England their triangular relationship comes under SAT public scrutiny, ending only with Nelson's death at the SAT battle of Trafalgar in 1805. SAT SAT Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT Credits SAT Emma: Imogen Stubbs SAT Nelson: Ronan Vibert SAT Hamilton: Stuart Richman SAT Fanny: Fiona Clarke SAT Mrs Cadogan: Fiona Clarke SAT Kitty: Verity-May Henry SAT Little Emma: Verity-May Henry SAT Rev Edmund Nelson: Seamus O'Neill SAT King George: Seamus O'Neill SAT Beatty: Seamus O'Neill SAT Greville: Andonis James Anthony SAT Prince of Wales: Andonis James Anthony SAT Hardy: Andonis James Anthony SAT Beckford: Jonathan Keeble SAT Lord St Vincent: Jonathan Keeble SAT Pitt: Jonathan Keeble SAT Horatia: Sophie Downham SAT Writer: Gwyneth Hughes SAT Producer: Susan Roberts SAT SAT 15:30 Transylvanian Blues: The Story of Muzsikas b03phpfw (Listen) SAT Forty years on from their formation, Simon Broughton tells SAT the story of Hungarian folk musicians Muzsikas. SAT SAT Back in 1973, a group of amateur musicians living in SAT Budapest consciously set about creating a folk music SAT revival. But their formation of the group Muzsikas to SAT collect, preserve and perform the traditional music of SAT Hungary and Romania wasn't simply an exercise in nostalgic SAT musical heritage. It was a political act, as much to do with SAT national (even racial) identity and an alignment with SAT pre-Communist culture as it was with a love for 'gipsy' SAT rhythms and Balkan folk melodies . SAT SAT We trace the story of Muzsikas back to the source from which SAT Bartok similarly drank and examine the wide-reaching impact SAT and legacy of this musical revolution. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04d0l1j (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Jacqueline Bisset; Contraceptive pill SAT and mood swings; Sexual identity SAT SAT Jacqueline Bisset on her new film 'Welcome to New York'; the SAT effect of the contraceptive pill on our mood and wellbeing; SAT the Women against Feminism movement; Indian author Deepti SAT Kapoor on her new novel 'A Bad Character'; playing in the SAT Women's Rugby World Cup after a caesarean; and the wonders SAT of wearing the same items of clothing again and again by 89 SAT year old theatre critic Blanche Marvin. Plus, do we have to SAT define ourselves as lesbian or straight? Two women who have SAT changed their sexual identities discuss. SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Emma SAT Barnett. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Shebbeare SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT The Pill, Women’s Hormones and Mental Health SAT SAT Millions of women use the contraceptive pill at some point SAT in their life time. For many it’s a liberation, a convenient SAT and effective way of managing one’s fertility. It can also SAT be helpful in other ways - skin conditions can improve, SAT premenstrual tension reduce and periods become less SAT painful. However, all women react individually to different SAT hormonal preparation and for some women taking the wrong SAT pill can be disastrous when it comes to mood swings. It was SAT many years before the author and broadcaster Alice Roberts SAT realised she didn’t suit the pill she was on. She and Peter SAT Greenhouse, consultant in sexual health in Bristol, join SAT Emma to discuss how women’s hormonal make up and how it SAT interacts with the birth control pill. SAT SAT SAT Dr Annie Evans: Premenstrual Problems SAT SAT Jacqueline Bisset SAT SAT In the new film Welcome to New York, Jacqueline Bisset plays SAT the long-suffering wife of a powerful adulterous French SAT businessman - a plot allegedly based on the allegations of SAT sexual assault brought against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Emma SAT talks to Jacqueline about marriage, infidelity and the sex SAT lives of older women. SAT SAT SAT Welcome to New York opened in UK cinemas August 8 SAT SAT How do you define your sexuality? SAT Rosie Garland SAT identified as a lesbian for twenty years but is now in a SAT relationship with a man, Jayne Headon-Meldrum was married to SAT man for over 20 years and they had children together, but SAT she now in a relationship with a woman. They join Jenni to SAT discuss the reactions they have experienced to their changed SAT sexual identities. SAT SAT SAT Rosie Garland’s new book, Vixen, is out now SAT SAT Women’s Rugby World Cup SAT The Women’s Rugby World Cup SAT is underway in Paris. After losing the last three finals SAT England’s women will be doing everything in their power to SAT stop history repeating itself, but they face some fierce SAT competition – not least from New Zealand, which will be SAT seeking to claim its fifth consecutive title. England SAT Hooker Emma Croker will be talking to Emma Barnett about the SAT mood in the England squad - and we’ll be finding out how she SAT juggles playing for her country with a full time job and SAT motherhood. SAT SAT Women Against Feminism SAT SAT The SAT Women Against Feminism SAT hashtag portrays a growing number of photographs of women SAT holding up pieces of paper saying ‘I don’t need feminism SAT because….’. Several months after it first appeared on SAT Tumblr, the social networking website, the comments continue SAT to provoke a discussion. Now with a Facebook page and a SAT Twitter following, it is by no means a large movement but SAT presenter Emma Barnett speaks to Laura Perrins, co-editor of SAT the blogsite conservative women and Ellie Mae O’Hagan, a SAT feminist commentator, to look at the significance, if any, SAT of the #WomenAgainstFeminism crusade. SAT SAT A Bad Character SAT SAT The Indian writer Deepti Kapoor talks about her first novel, SAT A Bad Character. It’s set in 21st century Delhi and offers SAT an insight into what it means to be a middle-class woman who SAT chooses to reject the security of an arranged marriage in a SAT city that can intimidate single women. Instead, the main SAT character Idha, falls for a charismatic, but dangerous young SAT man whose behaviour is unstable. SAT SAT SAT A Bad Character is out now SAT SAT One hundred years of the Brownies SAT SAT Many of us will remember being a Brownie, or a Guide, and SAT earning badges for learning skills such as making a bed or SAT brewing a cup of tea, as well as the greater excitement of SAT going camping. The Brownies are 100 this year and these SAT days Brownies are as likely to learn about bullying, drugs SAT and sex awareness. With 200,000 members in the UK the SAT Brownies remain as popular as ever, Comedian, Susan Calman SAT and Gill Slocombe from Girlguiding join Sheila McClennon to SAT explore its enduring appeal. SAT SAT Recycling Fashion SAT SAT The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was criticised this SAT week for turning up at a music festival in an outfit she’d SAT worn before – shock horror – and it was a garment she’s said SAT to have owned for eighteen years. It seems a woman can never SAT get it right – the Duchess of Cambridge was criticised for SAT not recycling her wardrobe enough and then for wearing the SAT same thing twice. So what’s to be done? Blanche Marvin is a SAT theatre critic who at the age of 89 has lots of stuff in her SAT wardrobe that she has no problems recycling. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Barnett SAT Interviewed Guest: Jacqueline Bisset SAT Interviewed Guest: Deepti Kapoor SAT Interviewed Guest: Blanche Marvin SAT Producer: Sarah Shebbeare SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04d0l1l (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04cg0b9 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04cg042 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04cg044 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04cg046 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04d0l1n (Listen) SAT Pamela Stephenson Connolly, Pam Ayres, Mark Baldwin, Albert SAT Mazibuko, Adrienne Truscott, Nikki Bedi, Ladysmith Black SAT Mambazo SAT SAT To kick off the Loose Ends Edinburgh show, 12 of Te SAT Matatini, some of New Zealand's finest Haka performers put SAT on an electrifying display of Maori dance. SAT SAT Clive giggles with poet and comedienne Pam Ayres, whose SAT wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy SAT and unfairness of life. Pam returns to the Fringe with her SAT hair-trigger timing and eye for detail. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi chats to Albert Mazibuko, a member of choral SAT legends, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and to choreographer Mark SAT Baldwin about their collaboration in Zulu ballet 'INALA'. SAT The show celebrates 20 years of democracy in South Africa - SAT a spiritually and uplifting live story-telling experience, SAT with a cultural explosion of music, song and dance. SAT SAT Clive talks to performer Adrienne Truscott, one-half of the SAT infamous Wau Wau Sisters. 'Adrienne Truscott's Asking For SAT It' is a show that undoes and does in the rules and rhetoric SAT about rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between. SAT SAT More dance as Dr Pamela Stephenson Connolly, the writer and SAT inspiration behind dance drama 'Brazouka', a journey of SAT pulsing music and explosive energy, tells Clive how, after SAT her stint in the final of 'Strictly Come Dancing', her SAT pursuit to find the real passion in dancing led her to SAT Brazil, where she founded a dance company and 'Brazouka' was SAT born. SAT SAT With music from Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who perform 'Siyo SAT Phinda Futhi Sibonane' and 'Khulumanaye' from 'INALA'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Te Matatini Haka SAT Te Matatini Haka is at Assembly Hall, Edinburgh at 14:00 SAT until Monday 25th August and is part of NZ at Edinburgh SAT season. SAT SAT Pam Ayres SAT Pam Ayres is at The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh at 14.05 on SAT Sunday 10th August and then touring until November. Check SAT Pam’s website for details. SAT SAT Ladysmith Black Mambazo SAT ‘INALA’ is at The Edinburgh Playhouse from Sunday 10th to SAT Tuesday 12th August. SAT The England tour kicks off at Sadler’s Wells from Wednesday SAT 17th to Saturday 20th September. Check their website for SAT further dates. SAT SAT Mark Baldwin SAT ‘INALA’ is at The Edinburgh Playhouse from Sunday 10th to SAT 12th August and then touring. SAT SAT Albert Mazibuko SAT ‘INALA’ is at The Edinburgh Playhouse from Sunday 10th to SAT 12th August and then touring. SAT SAT Adrienne Truscott SAT 'Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It' is at Bob & Miss SAT Behave's Bookshop at 23.00 on Saturday 9th and Wednesday SAT 13th to Saturday 16th August. SAT SAT Pamela Stephenson Connolly SAT ‘Brazouka’ is at Main Hall, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh at SAT 17.30 until Tuesday 26th August. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04d0l1q (Listen) SAT Karren Brady SAT SAT Jo Fidgen explores the life and times of Karren Brady, SAT successful in business, TV star in The Apprentice and now a SAT rising political star in the Conservative party. How did she SAT succeed in the male-dominated business of football, and SAT where might her career now take her? SAT SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04d0l1s (Listen) SAT My Night With Reg, Wakolda, Home Front, Kevin Eldon, The Art SAT and Science of Exploration SAT SAT Kevin Elyot's 'My Night With Reg' was originally staged in SAT 1994 and was the first British gay play to win a wide West SAT End audience as well as several theatre awards. it's now SAT being revived at London's Donmar Warehouse. How well does it SAT stand up 2 decades later? SAT SAT ''Wakolda' is a film which tells the story of an Argentinean SAT family who unwittingly shared their house with the Nazi war SAT criminal Joseph Mengele Auschwitz's "Angel of Death" without SAT realising who he was. SAT SAT As part of Radio 4's' commemorations of the centenary of the SAT outbreak of World War 1, their biggest ever drama commission SAT Home Front' has just hit the airwaves. It's a mammoth SAT undertaking 500 episodes, 150 hours of dialogue SAT SAT The actor Kevin Eldon has written a mock-biography of his SAT 'cousin', Paul Hamilton, a rather deluded uninspiring poet SAT who doesn't let his own inadequacies stop his ambition and SAT self-belief. SAT SAT The Art and Science of Exploration is an exhibition in The SAT Queen's House in Greenwich of some of the work created by SAT artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyages SAT around the globe in 18th Century. Their job was to produce SAT scientific records and imaginative responses to the new SAT unfamiliar territories that they encountered. SAT SAT Razia Iqbal is joined by Jake Arnott, Emma Woolf and Kathryn SAT Hughes. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT The Art and Science of Exploration 1768-80 SAT The exhibition SAT The Art and Science of Exploration 1768-80 SAT is on display at The Queen's House, Royal Museums Greenwich. SAT Main Image: The Kongouro from New Holland (Kangaroo) by SAT George Stubbs, 1772, National Maritime Museum London. SAT SAT My Night With Reg SAT Directed by Robert Hastie, SAT My Night With Reg SAT is at the Donmar Warehouse in London until 27 September SAT 2014. SAT SAT Wakolda SAT Written and directed by Lucía Puenzo, Wakolda is in cinemas SAT from Friday 8 August, certificate 12A. SAT SAT My Prefect Cousin SAT My Prefect Cousin by Kevin Eldon is published by Faber & SAT Faber. SAT SAT Home Front SAT The new drama serial SAT Home Front SAT continues on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Razia Iqbal SAT Interviewed Guest: Jake Arnott SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Woolf SAT Interviewed Guest: Kathryn Hughes SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01rqc5z (Listen) SAT Riding into Town SAT SAT The excitement and romance of the wild west was a powerful SAT force on the imaginations of the British from the 1930s SAT until the '70s. Samira Ahmed reflects on the love of the SAT Western. SAT SAT The American Film Institute defines western films as those SAT "set in the American West that embody the spirit, the SAT struggle and the demise of the new frontier". The term SAT Western, used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to SAT have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture SAT World Magazine. SAT SAT In this personal exploration, Samira Ahmed will see how SAT Westerns nourished post-war British children and how they SAT explored the politics and fears of their day. Samira says, SAT "I remember sitting at an uncle's house in Hillingdon, SAT possibly celebrating Eid, with lots of Hyderabadi relatives, SAT and we were all - kids and adults alike - gathered round the SAT TV watching the end of the original True Grit." SAT SAT The programme considers the central cast of characters in SAT the western form. Samira explores her interest in the weird SAT and wonderful women and their ranches full of outlaws, such SAT as Marlene Dietrich in Rancho Notorious: "I especially loved SAT the strong Indian and Mexican women - Katy Jurado in High SAT Noon, as opposed to anaemic Grace Kelly. And there were SAT always strong women in Westerns, holding their own in a SAT deeply macho world. Then there were those secretly gay, SAT camp, polysexual or just plain wacko Westerns - Johnny SAT Guitar, the French critics' favourite, and The Singer Not SAT the Song featuring Dirk Bogarde's highly unlikely Mexican SAT bandido in black leather jeans and gloves." SAT SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT How The West Was Fun: When Britain loved cowboys SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b04c9xcq (Listen) SAT Eugenie Grandet, Episode 2 SAT SAT The final part of Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation of SAT Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, starring Ian McKellen as Eugenie's SAT miserly father and Alison Pettit as his lovelorn daughter. 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 Cruchot: Harry Hadden-Paton SAT Des Grassins: David Horovitch SAT Charles: Blake Ritson SAT Madame Des Grassins: Jenny Funnell SAT Director: Gordon House SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT Adaptor: Rose Tremain SAT Author: Honore Balzac SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04cg048 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b04cfgrg (Listen) SAT Series 10, Treating Smokers SAT SAT Many patients with lung disease receive oxygen therapy to SAT try to improve their quality of life. However, patients with SAT this condition often struggle to give up smoking and SAT continue the habit against medical advice. SAT SAT Mark has smoked since he was a teenager. Now 67 he has SAT advanced lung disease as a result of his smoking. Despite SAT his worsening ill health and against medical advice, Mark SAT continues to smoke 40 cigarettes a day. SAT SAT Having oxygen at home also carries a fire risk, so the fire SAT service carry out an inspection at each patient's home. The SAT medical team is concerned as they are noticing an increasing SAT number of patients being treated for burns after smoking SAT whilst using their oxygen in the home. SAT SAT Our second patient, James, set his plastic tubing alight SAT when he sparked up. The oxygen flowing into his nostrils SAT fuelled the fire and he was hospitalised with facial burns. SAT SAT Should patients be allowed oxygen therapy if they continue SAT to smoke? Who is responsible for any fire that happens? The SAT doctor? The patient? SAT SAT And how should the benefit to patients be weighed against SAT the risks for people living nearby who might also be caught SAT up in a fire? SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. SAT SAT Producer: Lorna Stewart. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b04cb9h0 (Listen) SAT (12/12) SAT If you sprinkled some sweetness onto a Cambridge tutor, a SAT computer network and a little bit, to which places would it SAT take you? SAT SAT The final match of the 2014 series pits Northern Ireland SAT against Wales, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair. Today's SAT result is crucial to the final Round Britain Quiz rankings SAT for this year, with Northern Ireland set to be the overall SAT series winners if they win today. SAT SAT Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney play for Northern Ireland, SAT opposite Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards for Wales. SAT They'll need all the arcane and apparently-unconnected SAT snippets of knowledge they can muster, in order to make any SAT sense of the cryptic questions. You can play along by SAT looking at the questions on the Round Britain Quiz pages of SAT the Radio 4 website. SAT SAT This week's final match, by Round Britain Quiz tradition, is SAT made up entirely of questions suggested by listeners in SAT recent months. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Postcards b04c9xcv (Listen) SAT A chance to hear some of the best poems from BBC Scotland's SAT Poetry Postcards series, inviting a poet from each SAT participating nation and territory to send a poem to Glasgow SAT for the Commonwealth Games. SAT SAT Razia Iqbal discusses the common themes arising from the SAT collection with four of the participating poets: Sasenarine SAT Persaud from Guyana; Nigerian journalist and poet Tolu SAT Ogunlesi; Toni Stuart, a performance poet from South Africa; SAT and Trinidadian Vahni Capildeo. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 AUGUST 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04d0h3s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Sussex Scandals b019rgtf (Listen) SUN Emma Carew SUN SUN Written by John Peacock. SUN SUN At Uppark, Amy Lyons caused a scandal by dancing naked on SUN Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh's dining table. As Lady SUN Hamilton, 32 years later, the repercussions come back to SUN haunt her. SUN SUN These are three short stories narrated by characters SUN involved in notorious scandals that originated in Sussex: SUN Uppark (Lady Hamilton), Crawley (John George Haigh's girl SUN friend) and Brighton (Katie O' Shea's son, Gerard), ranging SUN from 1815 to 1953. The fall of a woman who revelled in her SUN scandals, another who was forced to face the truth that her SUN lover was a murderer, and the son of Katie O' Shea defending SUN his father during his mother's notorious affair with Charles SUN Stewart Parnell. SUN SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Eva Pope SUN Writer: John Peacock SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04d0h3v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04d0h3x (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04d0h3z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04d0h41 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04d0x1h (Listen) SUN St Thomas, Norbury SUN SUN The bells of the Parish Church of St Thomas, Norbury in SUN Hazel Grove, Stockport. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04d0l1q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04d0h43 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04d0x1k (Listen) SUN Forests: Weaving Magic Secrets SUN SUN John McCarthy asks why we are drawn to and drawn into SUN forests, both real and imaginary. And what do we find there? SUN SUN From Jean Paul Sartre's Nausea to Kenneth Grahame's Wind in SUN the Willows, woodland has often been seen as magical, SUN strange, sacred and scary. The ancient forests of northern SUN Europe were where folk tales began - the wolf, the witch, SUN the gingerbread house, and the poor woodcutter. SUN SUN Mostly though forests, whether invented or actual, stand in SUN relation to civilisation and, as such, have a particular SUN imaginative resonance. SUN SUN In Dante's Paradise Lost, he sees the forest being SUN domesticated, from the dark forest of the Inferno, an SUN allegory of the soul's state of sinfulness and error to the SUN ancient forest of Eden at the top of Purgatory, which is a SUN kind of park under the jurisdiction of the City of God. SUN SUN Following in the footsteps of the poet John Clare on his SUN walk out of Epping Forest and away from his asylum, John SUN McCarthy learns why the forest is not just a setting for so SUN many stories, it is central to what happens next with rules SUN of its own and a way of intervening into the drama of those SUN travelling through it. SUN SUN The programme features music by Paul Weller and the Mormon SUN Tabernacle Choir. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Tristes Tropique SUN Synopsis: An account of the author’s journey into the SUN Amazon. SUN Author: Claude Levi-Strauss translated by John Weightman SUN Title: Gilgamesh: A verse narrative SUN Synopsis: Gilgamesh proposes a journey to the Cedar Forest SUN to slay the monstrous god Humbaba. SUN Author: Herbert Mason SUN Title: How the Oak Tree Came to Life SUN Synopsis: A modern day fable. SUN Author: Maggie O’Farrell part of the anthology Why the SUN Willows Weep SUN Title: Song B SUN Synopsis: The author describes the magic of Epping Forest. SUN SUN Author: John Clare included in “Out of Essex” by James SUN Canton SUN Title: My House Is Buried In The Deepest Recess Of The SUN Forest SUN Synopsis: The Zen master and hermit describes his life in SUN the Forest. SUN Author: Daigu Ryokan SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b04d0x5h (Listen) SUN Green Hairstreak SUN SUN The Living World is a natural history strand that revels in SUN rich encounter, immersion in the natural world and warm, SUN enthusiastic story telling. SUN SUN The Green Hairstreak butterfly is small, bright green and SUN feisty. The males fight for females, spiralling in the air SUN at break neck speed. This lovely butterfly was not recorded SUN in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh, until 20 years SUN ago but now populations are being discovered in more and SUN more places. Sensitive management is helping bring back this SUN bright jewel to the bilberry and heather clad hills. By SUN excluding sheep and letting gorse and bilberry grow together SUN the right conditions now exist. Green Hairstreak only appear SUN on the wing in May and Victor Partridge takes Mary Colwell SUN to see where he first spotted them in the Pentland Hills. SUN SUN Victor Partridge SUN Victor Partridge is Natural Heritage Officer for The City of SUN Edinburgh Council Natural Heritage Service and Landscape, SUN Biodiversity and Volunteers Natural Heritage Officer for SUN Pentland Hills Regional Park. SUN As a child, he lived in Bury on the edge of Manchester and SUN with easy access to the countryside he explored the fields, SUN reservoirs and hills of the Pennines. As many children used SUN to do in those days, he enjoyed finding caterpillars and SUN putting them in a jam jar, but instead of letting them die SUN he got books out of the library and learnt about their needs SUN and life cycle. SUN He was inspired by a television programme called 'Elusive SUN Butterflies' and wrote to the presenter to find out how to SUN get a job as a lepidopterist - someone who studies moths and SUN butterflies. The reply was honest and explained there are SUN not many people who get paid to study butterflies. SUN After studying geology at Liverpool University and doing SUN several jobs around London, such as helping children learn SUN about the countryside and leading a team of long-term SUN unemployed people in making improvements to the environment, SUN he gained his dream job of being a countryside ranger. SUN Now working in the Pentland Hills Regional Park he has the SUN occasional opportunity to be a lepidopterist, as he helps to SUN conserve the habitat of the green hairstreak. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04d0h45 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04d0h47 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04d0x5k (Listen) SUN Church leaders support Iraqi Christians, Ebola crisis, SUN Theology of Star Wars SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN discussing Church leaders and their support for Iraqi SUN Christians, plus the ebola crisis and the theology of Star SUN Wars. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04d0x5m (Listen) SUN Bipolar UK SUN SUN Bill Oddie presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Bipolar UK, SUN dedicated to supporting individuals with the much SUN misunderstood and potentially devastating condition of SUN bipolar, their families and carers. SUN Registered Charity No. 293340 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ' Bipolar UK '. SUN SUN Bipolar UK SUN SUN Bipolar UK is a small national charity dedicated to SUN supporting those affected by this much misunderstood SUN condition. The illness can affect every aspect of life, SUN causing significant, devastating, mood swings from suicidal SUN depression to manic highs. Bipolar is a lifelong condition; SUN it doesn’t care whether you are male or female, how old you SUN are or where you’re from. SUN SUN SUN SUN Families and friends too suffer the consequences of bipolar, SUN particularly as it takes an average of 10 years before a SUN correct diagnosis is made. Those with bipolar and their SUN loved ones have to cope with misinformation, confusion and SUN often a reduced quality of life whist becoming increasingly SUN isolated. With more than 1 million people in the UK SUN diagnosed with bipolar, the chances are you know someone SUN affected by the condition. SUN SUN SUN SUN Each year Bipolar UK supports over 70,000 people affected by SUN bipolar through a range of peer support services. They have SUN monthly support group meetings across the country and a busy SUN eCommunity available 24hrs a day. Their programmes include SUN mentoring and dedicated support for young people. With your SUN help Bipolar UK will continue to develop its work supporting SUN people affected by bipolar. SUN SUN Bipolar UK conference: a day of workshops and speakers SUN SUN For over 30 years, Bipolar UK has worked with and for the 1 SUN million people in the UK diagnosed with bipolar. As one SUN Bipolar UK service user says SUN “I want everyone to know that Bipolar UK was there for me, SUN and that I wouldn't even be here today if it wasn't for SUN their support and inspiration. SUN SUN Bipolar UK support groups offer information, advice and SUN support SUN SUN There are over 120 Bipolar UK Support Groups in local SUN communities across the country. Groups are free to attend SUN and open to all individuals affected by bipolar including SUN those with a diagnosis, those pre-diagnosis, their family SUN members, friends and carers. You don't need a referral and SUN you don't have to let anyone know you're coming - just turn SUN up! To find out where your nearest meeting is, please visit: SUN http://www.bipolaruk.org.uk/self-help-group-map.html SUN SUN Bipolar UK youth service helps young people aged 18-25 SUN SUN Many people with bipolar suffer their first episode of SUN severe mania or depression in their late teens or early SUN twenties. Our Youth Project supports young people aged SUN between 18 and 25 years old who are affected by bipolar, SUN including those who may not have a diagnosis and young SUN people who may be caring for someone with bipolar. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04d0h49 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04d0h4c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04d0x5p (Listen) SUN In the Beginning Was Jazz SUN SUN In the Beginning was Jazz. SUN SUN To mark the 30th anniversary of the Brecon Jazz Festival, SUN the Rev. Dr. Stephen Roberts explores the relationship SUN between jazz and faith and looks back over the special jazz SUN services held at Brecon Cathedral. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04cfzxw (Listen) SUN Believing in Beliefs SUN SUN Will Self offers a weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xjw (Listen) SUN White Stork SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Michaela Strachan presents the white stork. White Storks are SUN annual visitors in small numbers to the UK, mainly in spring SUN and summer when migrating birds overshoot their Continental SUN nesting areas and wander around our countryside. They used SUN to breed here, most famously documented on St Giles's SUN cathedral in Edinburgh in 1415 and who knows, they may well SUN breed here in the future. SUN SUN White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) SUN Image courtesy of Malcolm Hunt (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04d0xfs (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 b04d0xfv (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor SUN SUN King's School Choir Worcester ..... Conducted by Simon SUN Taranczuk SUN Christopher Allsop ..... Organist. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Caroline Harrington SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Ben Archer: Thomas Lester SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charles Martin SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Mr Stevens: Paul Thornley SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04d0xfx (Listen) SUN Malcolm Gladwell SUN SUN Malcolm Gladwell, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for SUN Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN To read his work is to experience the sense that after years SUN of bumbling about short-sightedly in the human experience SUN one has suddenly put on a pair of perfectly intellectually SUN focused spectacles. Always concise, frequently SUN counterintuitive and unexpectedly beguiling his work orders SUN the world in such a way as to make previously opaque SUN patterns of human behaviour vividly illuminating. SUN SUN He believes that only by understanding people's backgrounds SUN can we unravel the logic behind their success; his own SUN achievements can presumably then be attributed not just to SUN his keen mind and polished prose but also to the concerned SUN cultivation of his parents - an English mathematician and a SUN Jamaican psychotherapist. SUN SUN He says, "I am the bird attached to the top of a very large SUN beast, pecking away and eating the gnats.... I am someone SUN who draws inspiration from the brilliance of others and SUN repackages it ... I am a populariser, a simplifier and a SUN synthesizer." SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Malcolm Gladwell SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04cbbll (Listen) SUN Series 61, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at Bradford's St George's Hall, SUN regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by Andy Hamilton, with Jack Dee in SUN the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Andy Hamilton SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04d0yby (Listen) SUN Growing Veg, Not Drugs SUN SUN Growing salad leaves is changing the lives of former drug SUN addicts in Bristol. Sheila Dillon visits The Severn Project SUN run by Steve Glover. Steve employs ex addicts and other SUN people who find it hard to get jobs. And he's turned it into SUN a profitable business. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill SUN in Bristol. SUN SUN Find out more about the Severn Project SUN Visit the Severn Project's website SUN here. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04d0h4f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04d0yc0 (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 b045bss4 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 b04cfw3h (Listen) SUN Windermere SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a special edition of Gardeners' Question SUN Time from Windermere. Joining him aboard the ferry to answer SUN passenger questions are Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and SUN Bunny Guinness. SUN SUN This week's programme features the National Council for the SUN Conservation of Plants and Gardens. More information can be SUN found on their website: www.nccpg.com/ SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. Is deadheading really necessary? SUN SUN A. It depends on what you're growing. It's worthwhile for SUN summer bedding but when it comes to shrubs, it's probably SUN not worth it. Deadheading does help to clean up the SUN appearance of your plants though. SUN SUN Q. Can we fill the dips and hollows in our lawn with soil SUN and grass seed? SUN SUN A. Where you have bumps or dips, make a slit, peel back the SUN turf, level the soil and lay the turf back down again. If SUN you want to start again, put a layer of topsoil over the SUN whole thing and plant grass seed. SUN SUN Q. I have an enormous hedge that I trimmed recently. A third SUN of it has now died. What went wrong? SUN SUN A. It looks like it has suffered from disease, perhaps SUN seiridium canker. If this is the case, you must cut out all SUN the diseased branches. However, this might also be due to SUN drought or waterlogging. SUN SUN Q. Can the panel recommend some colourful shrubs to plant on SUN a very shady side of the house? SUN SUN A. Paniculata hydrangeas will tolerate shade. One called SUN Limelight is particularly nice. Try hardy varieties of Roses SUN such as May Flower. Lilac could also work. Mahonia has SUN coloured leaves and bright yellow flowers and it does well SUN in the shade. Climbing Tropaeolum Speciosum has attractive SUN foliage and bright flowers. Clematis will sprinkle colour SUN through the other plants. SUN SUN Q. Do the panel have any top tips for starting an allotment. SUN SUN A. Get rid of the weeds. Don't be overambitious - stick with SUN six of your favourite things. Start with plants rather than SUN seeds the first year. Try raised beds and mini greenhouses. SUN Try to work the allotment throughout the year. SUN SUN Q. How do we deal with the invasion of the Himalayan balsam SUN and prevent it in future years? SUN SUN A. Cut it down before it goes to seed. Try glyphosate weed SUN killer. Be careful where you apply this, particularly if SUN it's near water. It's an easy weed to uproot, so this might SUN be a more ecologically sound way of dealing with the SUN problem. It also makes brilliant compost. SUN SUN Q. We have large-leaved Rhododendrons that are ten years old SUN and they still haven't flowered. What is going on? SUN SUN A. It sounds like moisture levels are low and the shade SUN might be too dense. Get more light in and be sure to keep SUN the plants moist and you should get some flowers. SUN SUN Q. Which native wildflowers would the panel recommend SUN planting? SUN SUN A. Campanula (Harebell), Wild Orchids which can be sewn in SUN plugs, Yellow Rattle can be planted to prevent the grass SUN from taking over and Wild Chicory and Campion flowers are SUN lovely. SUN SUN Q. Can the panel recommend a potted plant for the roof of my SUN boat? SUN SUN A. In the summer, plant rows of dwarf Sun Flowers. A stretch SUN of wild flower meadow would be nice. Trailing Pelegoniums or SUN Balcony Geraniums could work as would House Leeks and a SUN Nasturtium variety known as Empress of India. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04d0yc2 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about choices to be made around SUN health, education and career, between two mothers and their SUN sons and between an eight year old and her grandmother, from SUN Teeside and London. 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 The Stuarts b04d11l4 (Listen) SUN Charles II, Part One: Through the World in Various Fortune SUN SUN By Mike Walker SUN SUN Charting the early life of Charles II, as a young boy in the SUN court of his father and during the Civil War, his life in SUN exile during the interregnum, and later his failed attempts SUN to regain the crown. When news finally reaches him of Oliver SUN Cromwell's death, Charles plots his return once more. SUN SUN Directors: Marc Beeby & Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN Credits SUN Charles: Jamie Parker SUN James: Will Howard SUN Kenelm Digby: Paul Hilton SUN Hyde: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Young Charles: Adam Thomas Wright SUN Brodie: Clive Hayward SUN General Monck: Alun Raglan SUN Secretary: Matthew Watson SUN Colonel: David Cann SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN Writer: Mike Walker SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04d11l6 (Listen) SUN Literary Landscape: John Banville and 1950s Dublin SUN SUN In a Literary Landscape special for Open Book, Irish author SUN John Banville, aka crime writer Benjamin Black, takes SUN Mariella Frostrup on a tour of the foggy streets, SUN smoke-filled bars and genteel hotel tea rooms of 1950s SUN Dublin. SUN SUN Banville explains why he was drawn to the Fifties for his SUN Quirke series of crime fiction and discusses some of the SUN major writers from that period - J P Donleavy, Brendan SUN Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Mary Lavin. Together, he and SUN Mariella visit some of the locations that feature in SUN Benjamin Black's Quirke novels. SUN SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Reader: Owen Roe SUN Producer: Emma Harding. SUN JP Donleavy SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN Writers mentioned in this week’s programme: SUN SUN SUN SUN John Banville writing as Benjamin Black - Quirke novels ( SUN Christine Falls, Elegy for April, The Silver Swan, Holy SUN Orders, A Death in Summer SUN ) SUN SUN The Ginger Man SUN by J P Donleavy SUN Happiness and Other Stories SUN by Mary Lavin SUN Borstal Boy SUN and SUN Confessions of an Irish Rebel SUN by Brendan Behan SUN Selected Poems SUN by Patrick Kavanagh SUN Dead as Doornails: A Memoir SUN by Antony Cronin SUN Remembering How we Stood: Bohemian Dublin at the Mid-Century SUN by John Ryan SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Reader: Owen Roe SUN Producer: Emma Harding SUN SUN 16:30 Batter My Heart: Growing Up and Growing Old with John SUN Donne b04d11l8 (Listen) SUN Novelist Ed Docx grew up with John Donne's love poems and SUN found them useful billets doux with his early girlfriends. SUN Now not so young he has been surprised by how as he has SUN grown up so the poetry of Donne has kept him company. SUN Talking to three scholars - a young reader of Donne, a SUN middle aged one and an elderly one, and armed with a stack SUN of Bob Dylan records (another artist good for all ages) Ed SUN Docx discovers how Donne batters the heart of us all through SUN life. SUN SUN Producer Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 The Business Covenant b04cc7yh (Listen) SUN The financial crisis of 2008, exorbitant pay deals for SUN bankers and business executives and high energy bills have SUN all contributed to a collapse in the public's trust of big SUN business. SUN SUN Lord Digby Jones, former head of the employers' organisation SUN the CBI and then a trade minister in the last government, SUN examines whether the relationship between business, SUN government and society has been fractured beyond repair. He SUN asks if the answer might be a "Business Covenant" - a deal SUN outlining business's obligations to society and what SUN business can expect from Government in return. SUN SUN Through interviews with business leaders and politicians he SUN examines the case for a formalised deal for business. Could SUN that restore trust in the companies that create the wealth SUN on which the country depends? SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley SUN Editor: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04d0l1q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04d0h4h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04d0h4k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04d0h4m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04d11lb (Listen) SUN Chris Watson's selection for Pick Of The Week includes the SUN story of how a sycamore branch became a concert hall SUN instrument, there's a valuable lesson in phone etiquette, SUN and white knuckle ride around Africa chasing the top five. SUN We also learn to listen and how to resolve a problem with SUN your neighbours Yak and finally achieve enlightenment SUN through forest bathing Shinrinyoku style. SUN SUN 1914: Day by Day (Radio 4 - All Week) SUN SUN The Sycamore Sings: The Wilfred Owen Violin (Radio Scotland SUN - 4th August) SUN SUN Forgotten Heroes: The Indian Army in the Great War (Asian SUN Network - 4th August) SUN SUN Panjabi Hit Squad (Asian Network - 9th August) SUN SUN Graffiti: Kings on a Mission (Radio 4 - 7th August) SUN SUN Psalm (Radio 4 - 6th August) SUN SUN The Listeners (Radio 4 - 5th August) SUN SUN Law unto Themselves (Radio 4 - 5th August) SUN SUN Word of Mouth: How the Telephone Rewired Us (Radio 4 - 5th SUN August) SUN SUN The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1669 (Radio 4 - All Week) SUN SUN Fry's English Delight (Radio 4 - 4th August) SUN SUN DJ Edu: Destination Africa (Radio 1Xtra - 3rd August) SUN SUN Composer of the Week: Stravinsky (Radio 3 - All Week) SUN SUN Something Understood (Radio 4 - 10th August) SUN SUN Tweet of the Day (Radio 4). SUN SUN Chris Watson recording Pick of the Week SUN SUN Chris Watson is one of the world's leading recorders of SUN wildlife and natural phenomena. SUN SUN In 1971 he was a founding member of the influential SUN Sheffield-based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire. SUN His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne SUN Tees Television. Since then he has developed a particular SUN and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of SUN animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As SUN a freelance recordist for film, tv & radio, Chris Watson SUN specialises in natural history and documentary location SUN sound together with track assembly and sound design in post SUN production. SUN www.chriswatson.net SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04d11ld (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Charles Paris Mystery b00w190h (Listen) SUN Murder in the Title, Episode 1 SUN SUN By Jeremy Front SUN Based on the novel by Simon Brett SUN SUN A series of nasty accidents befall the cast of the play SUN Charles is appearing in. Is it bad luck or is someone out to SUN sabotage the production. SUN SUN Directed by Sally Avens SUN SUN As ever, Charles is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who SUN can resist anything except temptation especially in the form SUN of women and alcohol. His intentions may be good but somehow SUN the results always go wrong. SUN SUN He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get SUN a job and he's driving Frances his semi-ex-wife mad. SUN SUN So when he's offered a small role in an awful play up in SUN Rugland she nearly pushes him out the door. SUN SUN But as always with Charles murder is never far behind. SUN SUN Music Played SUN SUN Derek and the Dominos SUN Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out SUN SUN Cream SUN I Feel Free SUN SUN Eric Clapton SUN Bellbottom Blues SUN SUN Small Faces SUN Shake SUN SUN Small Faces SUN Whatcha Gonna Do About It SUN SUN Bob Dylan SUN Most Likely You Go Your Way And I Go Mine SUN SUN The Animals SUN We Gotta Get Out Of This Place SUN SUN Cream SUN White Room SUN SUN The Kinks SUN She's Got Everything SUN SUN Dusty Springfield SUN I Only Want To Be With You SUN SUN The Kinks SUN Mr Pleasant SUN SUN The Kinks SUN All Day And All Of The Night SUN SUN Vangelis SUN Chariots of Fire SUN SUN Led Zeppelin SUN The Lemon Song SUN SUN The Kinks SUN Who'll Be The Next In Line SUN SUN Credits SUN Charles Paris: Bill Nighy SUN Frances: Suzanne Burden SUN Maurice: Jon Glover SUN Fabio: Theo Cross SUN Tony: Sam Dale SUN Lindsay: Christine Kavanagh SUN Ronnie: Sean Baker SUN Sean: Iain Batchelor SUN Phoebe: Claire Harry SUN Chris: Henry Devas SUN Landlady: Sally Orrock SUN Barmaid: Leah Brotherhead SUN Author: Simon Brett SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN Director: Sally Avens SUN SUN 19:45 The Empire Cafe b04d11lg (Listen) SUN Black Gold SUN SUN Fred D'Aguiar completes our series of brand new stories SUN recorded in front of a Glasgow audience at The Empire Cafe SUN in Glasgow. Writers Fred D'Aguiar, Kei Miller and Jackie Kay SUN have all turned their attention to some of the products of SUN Empire and the Atlantic slave trade at this commonwealth SUN themed cafe and literary venue. The Empire Cafe is opening SUN specially for the Games period and is run by award winning SUN thriller writer Louise Welsh. Each story will focus on one SUN product of Empire. SUN SUN Fred D'Aguiar's 'Black Gold' is set in Glasgow with a slave SUN brought back to Scotland in a story that looks to sugar - SUN from the Jamaican plantations across the Atlantic to SUN Glasgow. British-Guyanese writer Fred D'Aguiar has won SUN prizes for both his poetry and novels, and his work SUN contemplates issues of race and belonging. His most recent SUN novel Children of Paradise is published by Granta. SUN SUN The authors will be reading at the Empire Cafe in the SUN Briggait in Glasgow's Merchant City (where the merchants SUN would have kept look out for their ships docking with goods SUN from the commonwealth and sent an assistant running to greet SUN them). SUN SUN Produced by Allegra McIlroy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Fred D'Aguiar SUN Writer: Fred D'Aguiar SUN Producer: Allegra McIlroy SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b04cfzxc (Listen) SUN On 4th August 1914 Britain entered World War I. The BBC SUN marked the date with a variety of programmes exploring the SUN history of the conflict and by broadcasting commemorative SUN ceremonies. Many listeners were moved by the coverage, SUN others questioned whether it was too jingoistic, while some SUN wonder whether the level of analysis is sustainable for the SUN next four years. SUN SUN Also this week, Roger Bolton meets his teenage crush - Carol SUN Tregorran from The Archers, played by film star Eleanor SUN Bron. Carol hasn't been heard in The Archers for 34 years, SUN but how long will she be staying this time? SUN SUN And Roger is in Glasgow meeting journalists at the BBC SUN headquarters at Pacific Quay on the day of the first SUN televised debate of the Scottish Referendum campaign. With SUN just six weeks to go before the people of Scotland cast SUN their vote, Roger asks Scotland Correspondent Colin Blane SUN and Special Correspondent Allan Little whether they can give SUN their listeners inside and outside of Scotland the SUN information they want and need. He also meets Louise White, SUN presenter of BBC Radio Scotland's phone-in programme Morning SUN Call, and BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor who SUN deals with allegations of bias from both sides. SUN SUN Marcus Brigstocke has dealt with plenty of allegations of SUN bias for his brand of close-to-the-bone political satire. SUN His Radio 4 comedy series The Brig Society returned this SUN week and already listeners are divided over whether his SUN analysis of the European Union was refreshingly witty or SUN wilfully one-sided. Which side are you on? SUN SUN Producer: Lizz Pearson SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04cfzx9 (Listen) SUN Chapman Pincher, Mike Smith, Lettice Curtis, Karl Albrecht, SUN Kenny Ireland SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The journalist and author Chapman Pincher who specialised in SUN revealing inside information about the British secret SUN services. SUN SUN Karl Albrecht the reclusive German businessman who, with his SUN brother, founded the cut price supermarket chain Aldi and SUN became a multi billionaire. SUN SUN Mike Smith the Radio 1 breakfast show presenter who went on SUN to a successful career on TV. SUN SUN Lettice Curtis the fearless woman pilot who played a key SUN role in the wartime Air Transport Auxiliary. SUN SUN And the actor and director Kenny Ireland, known to TV SUN viewers for playing a swinger in the comedy series Benidorm, SUN but also a former artistic director of the Royal Lyceum SUN Theatre in Edinburgh. SUN SUN Chapman Pincher SUN Matthew spoke with Michael Chapman Pincher about his father SUN Chapman Pincher. Born 29 March 1914, died 5 August SUN 2014 aged 100. SUN SUN Karl Albrecht SUN Mathias Mueller von Blumencron spoke about Karl Albrecht who SUN died aged 94, on the 16th July 2014. SUN SUN Mike Smith SUN SUN Matthew spoke with former R1 DJ Mike Reid, and to Tim SUN Blackmore who was Capital's Head of Programmes at the time. SUN SUN Born 23 April 1955, died 1 August 2014 at 59 years of SUN age. SUN "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SUN SUN SUN SUN Lettice Curtis SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Ian Reed, director of the Yorkshire Air SUN Museum of which Lettice Curtis was a patron. SUN SUN Born 1 February 1915, died 21 July 2014 at the age of SUN 99. SUN "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SUN SUN Kenny Ireland SUN SUN Matthew speaks with his friend, the actor Bill Paterson. SUN SUN Born 7 August 1945, died 31 July 2014, aged 68. SUN SUN "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SUN SUN SUN SUN 21:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04d0j0v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04d0x5m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04cfnz4 (Listen) SUN Fast and Furious SUN SUN Britain is a world leader in Formula 1 cars, engineering and SUN research. Peter Day reports on how the influence of UK motor SUN racing expertise is now reaching out into other businesses SUN and our everyday lives, inspired by the drama of the SUN pit-stop. SUN SUN Produced by Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Peter van Manen SUN SUN Vice President, McLaren Applied Technologies SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Geoff McGrath SUN SUN Vice President, McLaren Applied Technologies SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Caroline Hargrove SUN SUN Technical Director, McLaren Applied Technologies SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Simon Rudland SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Shaun Glover SUN SUN Engineering Director, GlaxoSmithKline SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Nick Henry SUN SUN Senior Research Fellow, Coventry University SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Mike O'Driscoll SUN SUN Group CEO, Williams SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Craig Wilson SUN SUN Managing Director, Williams Advanced Engineering SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04d12lb (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04d12ld (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 1914: Day by Day b04d12lg (Listen) SUN 1914: Day by Day - Omnibus, Episode 6 SUN SUN Britain declares war on Germany and prepares the British SUN Expeditionary Force. Domestic disputes over women's SUN suffrage, industrial relations and Irish home rule are put SUN aside. Meanwhile Belgium defends itself against the Germans. 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 b04d0x1k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 AUGUST 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04d0h5k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04cffpj (Listen) MON Gaybourhood and City Life MON MON Gay life at home and in the 'city' - a special edition of MON Thinking Allowed presented by Laurie Taylor. From squatted MON terraces to rented bedsits, the social historian, Matt Cook, MON explores the domestic and family lives of gay men - the MON famous, infamous and unknown - in London over the past MON century. The social anthropologist, Rachael Scicluna, charts MON the changing domestic lives of metropolitan lesbians. And US MON sociologist, Amin Ghaziani, describes the way in which urban MON enclaves such as Greenwich Village in New York have long MON provided sexual minorities with a safe haven in an unsafe MON world. MON MON How have gentrification, as well as increasing social MON acceptance and legal rights, impacted on the existence of MON gay neighbourhoods? And do lesbian and gay home lives now MON mirror those of heterosexuals rather than offering MON alternative models of domesticity, family and belonging? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Amin Ghaziani MON MON Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, British MON Columbia University, Vancouver MON MON MON MON Find out more about MON Amin Ghaziani MON MON MON There Goes the Gayborhood? MON Publisher: Princeton University Press MON ISBN-10: 0691158797 MON ISBN-13: 978-0691158792 MON MON Matt Cook MON MON Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies, Birkbeck, MON University of London MON MON MON Find out more about Dr MON Matt Cook MON MON MON Queer Domesticities MON Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan MON ISBN-10: 0230221394 MON ISBN-13: 978-0230221390 MON MON Rachael Scicluna MON MON Post-doctoral Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, MON University of Manchester MON MON MON Find out more about MON Rachael Scicluna 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. 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MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04d0h5p (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04d0h5r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04d0h5t (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dbz7l (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon MON Stephen Shipley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04d18jj (Listen) MON Livestock theft, Subterranean rights, Weed-eating weevils MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04d0h5w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qhyz (Listen) MON Robin MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Brett Westwood presents the robin. The autumn song of the MON Robin is the soundtrack to shortening days, gathering mists MON and ripening fruit. Robins sing in spring but their autumn MON song is different. It may sound melancholy to us but for the MON Robin it has clear purpose - to defend the winter MON territories that male and female robins establish separately MON after they've moulted. MON MON 06:00 Today b04d1bjm (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b04d1bjp (Listen) MON Series 7, Capital Punishment MON MON Adopting a wild west theme, Stephen ventures into the MON untamed territory of names, place names, brands and MON trademarks. MON MON For example, 'wild west' - should those two words have MON capitals? Stephen hears from a lexicographer in a cowboy MON hat, some west country cows (West Country cows?) an MON intellectual property lawyer and an onomastician - the name MON given to name experts. MON MON What he finds out is that 'capital-ism' changes its rules, MON and may be threatened by technology, as well as discovering MON that trade mark owners will be quite assertive about making MON sure you spell their brands with capital letters. What the MON programme really asks, to misquote Juliet, is what is a MON name? And do names operate differently to other words? MON MON One of the answers is counterintuitive. Linguistically, MON names don't always behave like other words. MON Capitalising on this, Stephen will conduct tests on MON listeners' ability to capitalise correctly. The trouble is MON the solutions aren't always clear. MON MON There will be no mention of hoovering in this programme. Or MON should that be Hoovering? MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:30 World Agony b04d1bjr (Listen) MON Criselda Kananda, South Africa 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: Criselda Kananda, South Africa. MON In the final programme of this series, Irma Kurtz talks to MON Criselda Kananda - an agony aunt in South Africa, where more MON than six million people are living with HIV. She tells Irma MON that the practical and optimistic responses she gives to the MON many letters she receives from people who are coping with MON the condition comes from first hand experience. Criselda was MON diagnosed HIV positive 15 years ago and knows only too well MON the ignorance and confusion that such a diagnosis can cause. MON Criselda talks about her own relationships, the letters that MON lift her spirits and her mission to remove the stigma of MON HIV. 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 b04d1c48 (Listen) MON A genius immortalised her. A French king paid a fortune for MON her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million MON visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while MON everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her MON story. MON MON Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered - a blend of biography, MON history, and memoir - truly is a book of discovery about the MON world's most recognised face, most revered artist, and most MON praised and parodied painting. MON MON Who was she, this ordinary woman who rose to such MON extraordinary fame? Why did the most MON renowned painter of her time choose her as his model? What MON became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? MON MON The author, Dianne Hales, is a prize-winning, widely MON published journalist and author. The President of Italy MON awarded her an honorary knighthood in recognition of her MON internationally bestselling book, La Bella Lingua. MON MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Reader: Nancy Crane MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Nancy Crane MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Abridger: Eileen Horne MON Author: Diana Hales MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04d1kv8 (Listen) MON Rugby World Cup; Deborah Frances-White; Town v country MON MON The latest from the Woman's Rugby World Cup in Paris. MON MON Many women who suffer from pelvic pain have a 'hypertonic MON pelvic floor', which means that their pelvic muscles are in MON spasm. Jane is joined by Vicky Keates, a specialist women's MON health physiotherapist to discuss how pelvic pain can make MON sex and even sitting down almost impossible, and why more MON GP's need to refer women with this problem to a MON physiotherapist. MON MON If you've just spent the last couple of weeks on holiday in MON the country has it made you think about moving there full MON time? What are the implications of uprooting your family and MON moving out of the city for a life in countryside? Does it MON offer a better lifestyle or is the rural idylls not all it's MON cracked up to be? MON MON And stand-up comedian Deborah Frances-White talks about how MON searching for her birth mother inspired her one woman show MON Half a Can of Worms. MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Producer Beverley Purcell. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Interviewed Guest: Vicky Keates MON Interviewed Guest: Chris Kearns MON Interviewed Guest: Jane Alexander MON Interviewed Guest: Deborah Frances-White MON Producer: Beverley Purcell MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04d1kvb (Listen) MON To the Lighthouse, Episode 1 MON MON Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist novel based on her own MON early experiences and published 1927 is dramatised by Linda MON Marshall Griffiths. MON MON Intensely personal and profoundly universal; a moving MON portrait of family life that captures the transience of MON human experience. MON MON Just before the First World War, Mr and Mrs Ramsay, their MON eight children and an array of guests are on the Isle of MON Skye for the summer. Despite Mr Ramsay's prediction of bad MON weather, Young James is determined to get to the Lighthouse. MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Credits MON Lily: Lyndsey Marshal MON Mrs Ramsay: Charlotte Emmerson MON James: Alex Starke MON Mr Ramsay: John Lynch MON Mr Tansley: Matthew McNulty MON Prue: Verity-May Henry MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths MON Author: Virginia Woolf MON MON 11:00 Recycled Radio b04d1kvd (Listen) MON Series 2, Hell MON MON Welcome to the chopped up, looped up, sped up world of MON Recycled Radio, old BBC broadcasts turned into something MON new. Today cartoonist Scarfe scavenges round his studio for MON depictions of the fiery realms of Satan, Hades and MON Mephistopheles, otherwise known as Recycled Hell. MON MON This is the archive hour at breakneck speed, and our journey MON to the underworld makes surprising visits to both MON Glastonbury and Heathrow Terminal 5. Expect to hear from MON Dante, Milton and Eddie Mair, along with Tony Blair, Melvyn MON Bragg and Germaine Greer. Fun, silly, thoughtful radio about MON a place that exerts an enormous grip on the imagination of MON people everywhere. MON MON The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b04d1kvg (Listen) MON Winter MON MON A new sitcom from Danny Robins, writer of the Lenny Henry MON comedy Rudy's Rare Records. This series is set and recorded MON in Sweden and stars Adam Riches, Danny Robins and some of MON Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors. MON MON Geoff, a marginally successful stand-up comic from London, MON is moving to the tiny, cold and unpronounceable village of MON Yxsjö in northern Sweden - a culture shock forced on him by MON his Swedish girlfriend Linda's decision to move home to MON raise their child. MON MON Geoff has to contend with snow, moose, pickled herring, MON unemployment, snow, Maypole dancing, snowmobiles, snow, MON meatball rolling, saunas, social democracy, snow, the MON weirdest pizzas in Europe, bears, deep forests, death metal, MON illegal alcohol, snow. MON MON Above all, he has a new family to contend with. The MON Andersson's bewilder him - from father Sten who has a MON worrying tendency to growl like a bear and threaten him with MON any blunt instrument to hand, to Gunilla who threatens him MON with naked folk-dancing. MON MON It's worth it all for Linda, of course - apart from her new MON found urge to conform with everything and except for her MON brother, a Goth with a propensity to set fire to things. MON MON Episode 1: Winter MON In which Geoff attempts to start a career as a comedian in MON Yxsjö. In a town with barely any shops, where the venue is MON run by Linda's father, getting an audience is going to be a MON problem. MON MON Writer: Danny Robins MON Director: Frank Stirling MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Geoff: Adam Riches MON Sten: Thomas Oredsson MON Linda: Sissela Benn MON Gunilla: Anna-Lena Bergelin MON Ian: Danny Robins MON Jen: Helen Braunholz-Smith MON Shop Assistant: Lisa Werlinder MON Director: Frank Stirling MON Writer: Danny Robins MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04fc126 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04d1kvj (Listen) MON 11 August 1914 - Norman Harris MON MON Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a MON hundred years ago. As the search for the missing boys MON continues, Folkestone's local police find their resources MON terribly stretched... MON MON Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt MON Music by: Matthew Strachan MON Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood MON 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 Norman: Sean Baker MON Forrester: Nigel Hastings MON Adam: Leo Montague MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Mrs Clout: Elaine Claxton MON Writer: Katie Hims MON Writer: Sean Moffatt MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04d1kvl (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04d0h5y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04d1kvn (Listen) MON James Robbins presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d1kvq (Listen) MON Signals of Growth MON MON When in 1934 botanist Kenneth Thimann isolated the plant MON hormone auxin, he put an end to one of the great botanical MON mysteries - how plants move and respond to their MON surroundings. For decades plant scientists had been MON mystified as to how plants, without any apparent nervous MON system, bent towards light, flowered at the right time of MON year, or grew away from other plants. MON MON Professor Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby on MON how the discovery of plant hormones was the culmination of a MON journey that had involved Charles Darwin and a series of MON probing experiments published in his book "The Power of MON Movement in Plants". They discuss how new technologies MON enabled successful isolation of what we now have come to MON recognise as a suite of hormones regulating a whole series MON of plant responses from stem growth to fruiting. MON MON We hear how another hormone during the 1950s went on to MON steal the limelight - gibberellin whose discovery owes much MON to Japanese rice crops that grew so tall they would simply MON fall over, rendering them useless. The race to harness the MON power of gibberellin would lead to dwarf varieties of key MON crops that transformed global production in what became MON known as the Green Revolution. MON MON Professor Nick Harberd, a plant geneticist at Oxford MON University, has been researching the molecular basis of MON plants' response to this powerful hormone and he sheds light MON on developing crops suitable for harsher environments in MON future. MON MON Producer Adrian Washbourne. MON The View from Kew: Conservation MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kathy Willis MON Interviewed Guest: Jim Endersby MON Interviewed Guest: Viswambharan Sarasan MON Interviewed Guest: Nick Harberd MON Production Coordinator: Elisabeth Tuohy MON Assistant Producer: Jen Whyntie MON Producer: Adrian Washbourne MON Editor: Deborah Cohen MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04d11ld (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04d1kvs (Listen) MON How to Say Goodbye Properly MON MON by E V Crowe. Lucy feels as if she's been in the army her MON whole life. Her father swears this is their last posting. MON But can she believe him? And if not, can she cope with MON another tour of duty? MON MON Credits MON Lucy: Ellie Kendrick MON Angela: Hermione Norris MON Martin: Stuart McQuarrie MON Toby: Alex Lawther MON Writer: EV Crowe MON Director: Abigail le Fleming MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b04d1kvv (Listen) MON Radio 4's popular quotations programme 'Quote ... Unquote' MON returns for it's 50th series. MON MON In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by MON writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy MON types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, MON Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... MON have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. MON MON Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the MON origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the MON famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Chris Addison MON Panellist: Jim Al-Khalili MON Panellist: Katy Brand MON Panellist: John Campbell MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04d0yby (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Behind the Looking Glass b03ggc1k (Listen) MON "It's a difficult thing being the muse, you only are as MON other people see you, you never really represent yourself MON because other people have always got the paintbrush..." MON MON The role of a muse has changed quite dramatically since MON their origin in the myths of Ancient Greece. The sister MON goddesses who inspired new insights and creative form are a MON far cry from their modern counterparts, from Edie Sedgwick MON to Kate Moss. MON MON Lauren Laverne meets three women who embody the changing MON figure of the muse during the last 200 years. Who are the MON individuals who inspired some of our most iconic works? MON MON Lucinda Hawksley tells the sad story of 'Pre-Raphaelite MON supermodel' Elizabeth Siddal. A poet and painter herself, MON Siddal is most famous for gracing the work of a generation MON of Pre-Raphaelite painters including John Everett Millais MON and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who became her husband. MON MON Next Lauren talks to one of the most famous ballerinas of MON the twentieth century, Suzanne Farrell. Legendary MON choreographer George Balanchine created two dozen ballets MON for her. But her decision to marry someone else cost her MON position at the New York City Ballet. How did her artistic MON relationship with Balanchine endure? MON MON Finally Lauren meets one of British fashion's most famous MON faces, Erin O'Connor. What qualities do our contemporary MON supermodels share with the original muses of antiquity? MON MON By profiling three different women who have lit the MON touchpaper of another's creativity, we explore the dynamic MON between artist and muse, how these women have been defined MON by the work they inhabit, and how musedom has changed. MON MON Produced by Rebecca Maxted and Jade Hutchinson. MON A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b04d1lwx (Listen) MON Series 10, Irrationality MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedians Josie Long MON and Paul Foot, psychologist Richard Wiseman and MON neuroscientist Stuart Ritchie to ask "is irrationality MON genetic?". The second of two programmes recorded at the MON Edinburgh Festival. MON MON 17:00 PM b04d1lwz (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04d0h60 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b04d1mrf (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 1 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? Paul Merton, Alun MON Cochrane, Jonathan Ross and Liza Tarbuck find out. With the MON legendary Nicholas Parsons keeping the score. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Alun Cochrane MON Panellist: Jonathan Ross MON Panellist: Lisa Tarbuck MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04d1mrh (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04d1mrk (Listen) MON Dylan Moran and Igor Meerson; Jung Chang; Todd Miller; MON Referendum theatre MON MON Front Row comes from Edinburgh with Dylan Moran who, along MON with fellow comedian Eddie Izzard, is producing a showcase MON of stand ups from around Europe as part of the Edinburgh MON Fringe. Representing Russia is Igor Meerson who joins Dylan MON Moran to discuss the differences between British and Russian MON humour. Jung Chang, whose family memoir Wild Swans sold more MON than 13 million copies, discusses researching her biography MON of the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi in China, director Todd MON Miller talks about his documentary Dinosaur 13, which MON follows the bitter custody battle over an extraordinary T MON Rex skeleton found in South Dakota in 1990. And, as several MON plays at the Edinburgh Festivals explore the Scottish MON Referendum, Kirsty Lang looks at how playwrights are MON tackling the subject. MON MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON Producer: Olivia Skinner. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON Interviewed Guest: Dylan Moran MON Interviewed Guest: Igor Meerson MON Interviewed Guest: Jung Chang MON Interviewed Guest: Todd Miller MON Interviewed Guest: Joyce McMillan MON Producer: Olivia Skinner MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04d1kvb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b04d1mrm (Listen) MON The Hague Warning MON MON When Rodney Dennys, a counter-intelligence officer working MON in the feverish atmosphere of The Hague in July 1939 MON received a phone call from a German agent working for the MON British and warning that Germany would invade Poland in just MON over seven weeks time, he insured the message was ciphered MON back to Britain immediately. In the event the warning was MON accurate to within days, in spite of a sustained belief that MON Hitler might still be placated. MON MON Historian Helen Jones explores the document in which Rodney MON Dennys recalls his intelligence coup and the subsequent MON inaction of the British authorities. She asks why it was MON that the Foreign office and leading figures in the Joint MON Intelligence Committee failed to act on such a detailed MON warning and she finds out about the German agent, Wolfgang MON Zu Putlitz who gave it. It was the last in a long series of MON accurate intelligence reports he'd supplied by way of his MON link on the British side, a certain Klop Ustinov, father of MON the famous actor and playwright, Peter. MON MON The programme examines the state of the British intelligence MON community at the time, the split between appeasers and those MON who distrusted every German move and why this Document and MON the later Venlo incident in which two British intelligence MON officers walked into a trap laid by the Germans, was a MON Secret Intelligence Crisis. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04b22h3 (Listen) MON Crimea: Paradise Regained MON MON Europe and the US have imposed the toughest sanctions on MON Russia since the Cold War amid anger over the Kremlin's MON support for east Ukrainian separatists who stand accused of MON shooting down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet. But the MON crisis began further south with Russia's annexation of MON Crimea in March. MON MON Crimea's idyllic scenery drew Soviet visitors for years - MON some called it the Communist Cote d'Azur. The collapse of MON communism did little to dent Russia's appetite for their bit MON of paradise on the Black Sea along with the thousands of MON Ukrainian holidaymakers who flocked there each year. But now MON the Ukrainians are staying away and the Russian government MON is trying to fill the gap by urging employers in Russia to MON send staff on subsidised breaks in Crimea. A holiday in the MON newly annexed peninsula has become every Russian's patriotic MON duty. For Crossing Continents, Lucy Ash visits Crimean MON tourist resorts and explores the motives behind Vladimir MON Putin's fateful decision to reclaim Russia's paradise. MON MON 21:00 The Listeners b04cc1sq (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Listening is about more than hearing as we discover from MON people who 'listen for a living'. In the first of three MON fascinating programmes we meet four individuals who all MON listen to languages and words. Mark Turin is an MON anthropologist whose work includes the documentation of oral MON languages. "It's very hard to make sense of a language which MON you've never heard before if you don't see it written down MON and don't know where the word breaks are." explains Mark. MON There are about 7000 languages spoken on earth today and MON some estimates suggest that 2 languages become extinct every MON month, so when Mark visited Nepal to study Thangmi; an oral MON language for which there was no written documentation, he MON had to really learn to listen to understand words and MON meaning. Carine Kennedy had to learn a foreign language when MON at the age of 5 she went to school in England, having been MON brought up in a French-speaking family. Today she is a MON Conference Interpreter working in both French and Italian. MON She describes interpreting as "listening but also MON understanding what the person is saying. You're almost one MON step ahead of them". For Baroness Helena Kennedy QC MON listening "is the activity of hearing combined with the MON search for meaning or hidden meaning", and in court she MON "listens hard to what might be beyond what is being said" MON and describes herself as having "quite good antennae for MON this". Like Helena, Mark Milton, founder of Education 4 MON Peace, a Swiss foundation dedicated to advocating and MON supporting emotional health programmes in schools and sports MON also traces his ability to listen back to childhood, and he MON fervently believes we should be teaching children how to MON listen because of the benefits which it can bring to society MON " ...its an essential value to the human being". MON MON Best of Natural History Radio Podcast MON This programme will be available to download for free MON shortly after the broadcast - via the MON Best of Natural History Radio MON podcast. MON MON Helena Kennedy MON MON Baroness Helena Kennedy Q.C. is one of Britain’s most MON distinguished lawyers. She is a member of the House of Lords MON and chair of Justice – the British arm of the International MON Commission of Jurists. MON MON MON http://www.helenakennedy.co.uk/ MON MON Carine Kennedy MON Carine Kennedy is a freelance Conference Interpreter. MON Educated at the University of MON Edinburgh French/Italian (1973-1977). Carine works with a MON number of government departments especially the Foreign and MON Commonwealth Office (F.C.O.). She also has assignments from MON law firms and has worked for arbitrations in the UK and MON abroad. MON MON Mark Turin MON MON Mark Turin is Turin is Professor of Anthropology at the MON University of British Columbia in Vancouver and also Chair MON of the First Nations, Languages Programme. MON MON MON http://markturin.commons.yale.edu/ MON http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/projectteam/markturin.php MON MON Mark Milton MON MON Mark Milton is founder of Education 4 Peace Foundation. “ MON The seeds for sustainable peace amongst human beings are in MON our children’s education”. MON MON MON http://www.education4peace.org/ MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b04d1bjp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04d0h62 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04d1pp8 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04d1ppb (Listen) MON A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 1 MON MON This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. MON MON It is the story of Ian - husband, father, maths teacher and MON Mormon bishop - and his unshakeable belief that everything MON will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, MON like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife Claire's MON lonely wait for a sign from God and her desperate need for MON life to pause while she comes to terms with what's happened. MON MON It is the story of the agony and hope of Zippy Bradley's MON first love, the story of Alma Bradley's cynicism and MON reluctant bravery, and it is the story of seven-year-old MON Jacob. But mostly it's the story of a family trying to work MON out how to carry on when their world has fallen apart. MON MON Incredibly moving, unexpectedly funny and sharply observed, MON A Song for Issy Bradley, explores the outer reaches of doubt MON and faith. Author Carys Bray was brought up in a devout MON Mormon family. In her early thirties she left the church and MON replaced religion with writing. She was awarded the Scott MON prize for her debut short story collection Sweet Home. A MON Song for Issy Bradley is her first novel. MON MON Written by Carys Bray MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Emma Fielding MON Producer: Joanna Green MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04cc7cp (Listen) MON How the Telephone Rewired Us MON MON Chris Ledgard looks at how the invention of the telephone MON changed society, rewired the way we speak to one another and MON explores the idea that the phone as a single entity is MON disappearing. MON MON With many people unaware or forgetting how much its MON invention changed the world Chris uses the book 'The History MON of the Telephone' written in 1910 by Herbert Casson to trace MON the impact and assess early opinion of what one journalist MON called "an invention of the devil" up to present day, where MON the device in our pockets is no longer regarded as a phone. MON MON He's joined by Professor Will Stewart from the Institution MON of Engineering, discusses the telephone in movies with MON Professor Jeffrey Richards, learns about phone etiquette MON from Manager of Debretts James Field and makes a call to MON Bernard Cribbins to discuss the Buzby advertising campaign MON of the seventies. MON MON Producer: Stephen Garner. MON MON 23:30 Shared Experience b03lph1d (Listen) MON Series 1, I Saw a Ghost MON MON Shared Experience is a new series. Fi Glover and guests sit MON round a kitchen table to share strange tales that turn out MON to be unexpectedly common. In the first programme Fi talks MON to people who've seen a ghost. Fi's guests have come from MON different places, with different backgrounds; they live very MON different lives. But they have one experience they all share MON - the day they saw a ghost and what happened to them after. MON In Britain, strange tales are more common than you think. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 AUGUST 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04d0h6w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04d1c48 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04d0h6y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04d0h70 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04d0h72 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04d0h74 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dbz46 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon TUE Stephen Shipley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04d4cpq (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj1l (Listen) TUE Swallow TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Brett Westwood presents the swallow. You can see Swallows at TUE this time of year gathering on telegraph wires, strung out TUE like musical notes on a stave, before their long journey TUE south to Africa. The female swallow often rears two broods TUE of young each year but in sunny weather when there are TUE plenty of flying insects, she may manage three broods. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04d4cps (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 A Law unto Themselves b04d4cpv (Listen) TUE Jeremy Hutchinson TUE TUE Helena Kennedy talks to the great liberal lawyer Jeremy TUE Hutchinson about a career which ranged from defending TUE Penguin Books in the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity TUE trial, to taking on the might of the British intelligence TUE service in the ABC official secrets trial. TUE TUE Throughout a long career, his brilliant and stylish advocacy TUE achieved success in cases that looked unwinnable. He was TUE renowned for a certain theatricality in his performance TUE before the jury - perhaps influenced by his first marriage TUE to the great actress Peggy Ashcroft. TUE TUE Lord Hutchinson, his charm and wit undiminished by his 99 TUE years, explains how early experiences in life drove him to TUE become a thorn in the side of the establishment, always TUE ready to challenge illiberal attitudes within government and TUE the legal world. TUE TUE He appeared in another famous obscenity trial, when Mary TUE Whitehouse took out a private prosecution against the TUE director of the play The Romans In Britain. Despite having TUE "a bit of a soft spot" for Mrs Whitehouse, it didn't stop TUE him from ridiculing her main witness over whether or not he TUE was able to accurately identify an exposed male organ on TUE stage from the back seat of the theatre. TUE TUE Among other cases he recalls are his defence of society call TUE girl Christine Keeler and the art thief Kempton Bunton. He TUE says he has always loved his job, seeing it as a privilege TUE to be able to help people from all walks of life at crisis TUE points in their lives. TUE TUE He says he's been better able to "make a difference" in TUE court than in parliament - as a defence lawyer he has been TUE able to help many people assert their rights and resist TUE oppression. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04d4cpx (Listen) TUE Steve Biko TUE TUE In August 1977 Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness TUE Movement, was arrested in South Africa. Weeks later, he was TUE killed while in police custody. We hear from Mamphela TUE Ramphele, who was in a relationship with Biko. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04dq6gh (Listen) TUE A genius immortalised her. A French king paid a fortune for TUE her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million TUE visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while TUE everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her TUE story. TUE TUE Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered - a blend of biography, TUE history, and memoir - truly is a book of discovery about the TUE world's most recognised face, most revered artist, and most TUE praised and parodied painting. TUE TUE Who was she, this ordinary woman who rose to such TUE extraordinary fame? Why did the most TUE renowned painter of her time choose her as his model? What TUE became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? TUE TUE The author, Dianne Hales, is a prize-winning, widely TUE published journalist and author. The President of Italy TUE awarded her an honorary knighthood in recognition of her TUE internationally bestselling book, La Bella Lingua. TUE TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Nancy Crane TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Abridger: Eileen Horne TUE Author: Diana Hales TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04d4cpz (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 b04d4cq1 (Listen) TUE To the Lighthouse, Episode 2 TUE TUE Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist novel based on her own TUE early experiences and published 1927 is dramatised by Linda TUE Marshall Griffiths. TUE TUE Intensely personal and profoundly universal; a moving TUE portrait of family life that captures the transience of TUE human experience. TUE TUE The Ramsays holiday with their eight children and assorted TUE guests in their summer house in the Hebrides. Mrs Ramsay TUE believes that everyone should marry; but while young painter TUE Lily Briscoe has other ideas, down on the beach Minta is on TUE the brink of a moment that will change her whole life. TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Credits TUE Paul: Ben Lamb TUE Minta: Olivia Hallinan TUE Mrs Ramsay: Charlotte Emmerson TUE James: Alex Starke TUE Mr Bankes: Andonis James Anthony TUE Lily: Lyndsey Marshal TUE Cam: Talia Barnett TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths TUE Author: Virginia Woolf TUE TUE 11:00 The Listeners b04d4hpt (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Listening is about more than hearing as we discover with TUE people who listen for a living, and have learned to TUE interpret meaning in the sounds they hear. In this, the TUE second of three programmes, the four listeners all listen to TUE sounds which are indicators of health and quality. In the TUE mid-1960's Bernie Krause became involved with early analogue TUE synthesisers and when he and his musician friend Paul Beaver TUE decided to make an album which incorporated natural sounds, TUE Bernie was the one who went out on location to record TUE natural sounds. The experience changed his life, and began TUE to record and archive natural soundscapes. During the past TUE 45 years he has spent listening and recording Bernie has TUE become increasingly aware of how sound is an indicator of TUE the health of a landscape or environment. "Of the 4,500 TUE hours of marine and terrestrial habitats that I have TUE recorded, 50% of those habitats come from now what I call TUE extinct habitats ... the habitats are altogether silent or TUE can no longer be heard in their original form". Sound is TUE also an indicator of health when it comes to the human lungs TUE as Dr Nabil Jarad demonstrates when he listens with a TUE stethoscope, and simply tapping a piece of wood provides TUE early stringed musical instrument maker, Roger Rose with the TUE information he needs when choosing and shaping wood for an TUE instrument "Everything about the instrument really affects TUE the sound ...from when we start to choose the wood.." TUE Finally, Valentin Amrhein describes what he and his TUE colleagues have learned about the quality of an individual TUE Nightingale by listening to their songs. It appears the TUE nature and number of trills in a song is used by other males TUE and females to determine the fitness and health of the TUE singer. TUE TUE Bernie Krause TUE Bernie Krause is a musician, writer, bioacoustician and TUE founder of Wild Sanctuary, an organisation dedicated to the TUE recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Pic: Tim TUE Chapman TUE Listen to the TED talk 'Bernie Krause: The Voice of the TUE Natural World' TUE TUE Roger Rose TUE Roger Rose is a specialist stringed instrument maker – a TUE maker of Baroque bows and early stringed musical TUE instruments, particularly Viola da Gamba. TUE See a selection of Roger Rose's work TUE TUE Dr Valentin Amrhein TUE Valentin Amrhein is a senior lecturer at the University of TUE Basel in Switzerland and also Director of the Research TUE Station ‘Petite Camargue Alsacienne’ where he and his TUE colleagues study the behaviour and song of Nightingales. TUE See more on the The Research Station Petite Camargue TUE Alsacienne, founded in 1852 TUE Read about Dr Amrhein's work with the evolutionary biology TUE team at the University of Basel TUE TUE Dr Nabil Jarad TUE TUE Dr Nabil TUE Jarad is a consultant chest TUE physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Honorary Clinical TUE Senior Lecturer at Bristol TUE University. TUE More on Dr Nabil Jarad's work at Bristol University TUE TUE Best of Natural History Radio TUE This programme will be available to download for free TUE shortly after the broadcast - via the TUE Best of Natural History Radio podcast TUE TUE TUE 11:30 The Art of the Loop b03wgpyg (Listen) TUE Most current pop music is created not with live instruments, TUE but from pre-formed, off the shelf chunks of music known as TUE loops. Musician Matthew Herbert explores the art of the loop TUE and the million-dollar industry that has grown up around it, TUE and asks whether it is setting music makers free from the TUE constraints of traditional instruments or killing TUE creativity. TUE TUE Loops are pre-recorded performances, typically of a solo TUE instrument, and typically 1 or 2 bars long. Looping isn't TUE new - it started soon after the advent of tape recorders. TUE But recent advances in computer technology and software mean TUE that effects which once needed a full-scale studio costing TUE thousands of pounds can be created for little or no cost on TUE a laptop or even a mobile phone. A CD of loops costing £10 TUE can be used to make a million-selling international hit, but TUE who is the real composer? TUE TUE Matthew once made an entire album from the sounds of a TUE single pig's life, so he's no stranger to the benefits of TUE loops and sampling. He talks to producers, musicians and TUE loop-creators and experiments with technology ancient and TUE modern; he hears from looping's defenders and detractors and TUE looks into a musical future which he finds fascinating but TUE many find terrifying. TUE TUE And, along the way, he builds a dance track out of a Radio 4 TUE Continuity announcer. TUE TUE Produced by Micky Curling TUE A Folded Wing production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04fc1q2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04d4hpw (Listen) TUE 12 August 1914 - Victor Lumley TUE TUE Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a TUE hundred years ago. As Britain and France declare war on TUE Austria- Hungary, two cousins from Folkestone can't wait to TUE join in. TUE TUE Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt TUE Music by: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Victor: Joel MacCormack TUE Freddie: Freddie Fox TUE Dr McFee: David Cann TUE Archie: Arthur Hughes TUE Bill: Ben Crowe TUE Ralph: Nicholas Murchie TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE Writer: Sean Moffatt TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE Producer: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04d4hpy (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04d0h76 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04d4hq0 (Listen) TUE James Robbins presents national and international news. TUE TUE 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4hq2 (Listen) TUE Unlocking Biodiversity TUE TUE In 1947 an ambitious project began to survey and catalogue TUE the biodiversity of plants in East Africa. It was to take 60 TUE years and turned out to be one of the largest regional TUE "floras" ever assembled, involving 135 botanists from 21 TUE countries amassing a host of new species to science. TUE TUE Professor Kathy Willis examines the deceptive simplicity of TUE creating Floras - books in which plants are catalogued, TUE described and often lavishly illustrated. She explores how TUE they're proving powerful tools for unlocking the range of TUE newly discovered species for plant enthusiasts and TUE conservationists. TUE TUE And she unlocks the secrets of the rigorous art of botanical TUE illustration, a tradition that goes back as far as when the TUE botanical impresario Sir Joseph Banks first employed an TUE illustrator on board the Endeavour. Kathy Willis discovers TUE why this discipline is unlikely to ever be superseded by TUE photography. TUE TUE With contributions from Henke Beentje, former editor of TUE Flora of Tropical East Africa, senior botanist Iain TUE Darbyshire, Quentin Luke of National Museum of Kenya and TUE illustrator Lucy Smith TUE TUE Producer Adrian Washbourne. TUE The View from Kew: Flora of Tropical East Africa TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04d1mrh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00rfhjj (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, A Nobody TUE TUE Alastair Jessiman's Glasgow psychic detective returns for a TUE new and disturbing case. TUE TUE Thomas suffers a crisis of confidence when he is asked to TUE investigate a potential serial killer. An old girlfriend, TUE Kat, persuades him to take a break, but when they drive TUE north for a few days, Thomas soon becomes convinced that TUE they are being followed. TUE TUE Directed by Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Kat: Daniela Nardini TUE Young Man: Iain Robertson TUE Mrs Soutar: Sheila Donald TUE Crawford: Simon Tait TUE WPC: Suzanne Donaldson TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b04d4hq6 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland 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 Richard II and our Earliest Medieval Royal Portraits TUE Image: Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child TUE by his Patron Saint John the Baptist and Saints Edward and TUE Edmund (‘The TUE Wilton Diptych’), circa1395-9 © The TUE National Gallery, London TUE TUE Helen Castor visits the National Gallery in TUE London to question why our two earliest royal portraits TUE from the TUE 14th century show a king whose reign is in big trouble. The TUE king was Richard II TUE and the paintings are the Wilton Diptych (see above) and a TUE life-sized portrait TUE which hangs in Westminster Abbey. Is this image making? TUE TUE Helen talks to Dr Susan TUE Foister, the Deputy Director and Director of Collections at TUE the National TUE Gallery. She has been Curator of Early Netherlandish, TUE German and British TUE Painting at the National Gallery since 1990; and Dr Jenny TUE Stratford who currently TUE teaches palaeography and manuscript studies to MA and Ph.D TUE students at the TUE Institute of Historical Research. Her book TUE Richard II and the English Royal TUE Treasure TUE was TUE published in 2012. TUE Useful Links TUE Institute of Historical Research TUE TUE National Gallery TUE Westminster Abbey TUE TUE Royal Collection Trust TUE TUE TUE What kind of historian are you? TUE TUE That’s the question posed by historians at the TUE Universities of Edgehill and Roehampton in their attempts TUE to help youngsters TUE with the transition from school to degree level courses. TUE TUE Have a go at the quiz devised by Mason Norton TUE (Edgehill) and Daniel Taylor (Roehampton) to see which type TUE of historian you TUE are: TUE https://sites.google.com/site/whathistorianquiz/home TUE TUE There is more information about the project, TUE which is funded by the Higher Education Academy, and TUE resources for teaches at the project TUE website TUE http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/histlearn/ TUE Useful Links TUE Higher Education Academy TUE TUE University of Roehampton TUE TUE Edgehill University TUE TUE TUE Subterranea Britannica TUE TUE Dr Sam Willis joins members of Britain’s TUE foremost organisation for exploring underground history at TUE a Palmerston Fort TUE near Portsmouth, just one of their activities in the year TUE in which it TUE celebrates its 40th birthday. TUE TUE More information at TUE Subterrenea Britannica TUE TUE TUE Making History is produced by Nick Patrick and TUE is a Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Contributor Links TUE Dr Lucy Robinson - historian of culture and gender at the TUE University of Sussex TUE Professor Justin Champion - Royal Holloway University of TUE London TUE Professor Champion - the newly elected TUE President of the Historical Association TUE TUE 15:30 Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help b04d4jy1 (Listen) TUE Healthier TUE TUE Episode 2/3 TUE The learned men of the scientific revolution - the likes of TUE Wren, Hooke, Boyle and Newton - were obsessed by how their TUE daily routines and diets affected their moods and ability to TUE work. TUE TUE In the 16th century diets, and "regimens", were published in TUE medical texts printed in English, rather than Latin. TUE Previously, medical theory was more or less only published TUE in Latin, and only aimed at medical practitioners. TUE TUE Now, many more could read up and do their homework. TUE TUE John Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" went to many editions TUE in its time and was popular for its style as much as its TUE authority. It was an attempt to digest all that was known TUE about wellbeing into one massive book, but it spread well TUE beyond its stated aims. TUE TUE George Cheyne's "Essay on Health and Long Life" over a TUE century later also sold well and was a call for moderation TUE "in immoderate times". TUE TUE But it was the Industrial Revolution and growth of cities TUE that really led to the rise of the genre. TUE Samuel Smiles' "Self-Help", published the same year as, and TUE out-selling, Darwin's "On The Origin of Species", was the TUE literary sensation of aspirational, reform-minded Victorian TUE Britain. TUE TUE Its suggestion, that if you read and followed the examples TUE of the successful contained within, you too could lift TUE yourself, would have far-reaching consequences, not least in TUE the United States. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04d4jy3 (Listen) TUE The Online Me TUE TUE Gemma Cairney asks are we different online than in real TUE life? Radio 1 breakfast presenter Nick Grimshaw says he's TUE cooler, funnier and more 'street' on twitter, while TUE ultra-hip fashion blogger Bip Ling has made up her own TUE language and a character called Mooch on instagram... Laura TUE Dockrill performs a specially commissioned poem on the TUE subject and explains why being called 'saffron' is the TUE highest accolade around. TUE TUE Dr Aleks Krotoski describes how we use language to create TUE multiple personalities online across different social media TUE platforms and the psychological effect of this. Forensic TUE linguist Dr Claire Hardaker explains how communities rapidly TUE develop their own unique lexicons as a way of establishing TUE who's in and who's out. TUE TUE Producers Milly Chowles and Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Bip Ling's digitally enhanced Instagram picture TUE TUE Writer Laura Dockrill gets wordy with presenter Gemma TUE Cairney TUE TUE Nick Grimshaw on Radio 4 for the first time #radio4 #selfie TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04d4n8b (Listen) TUE Series 34, Jazzie B on James Brown TUE TUE Matthew Parris invites his guests to nominate the person TUE whom they feel is a great life. In this programme, music TUE entrepreneur and DJ Jazzie B of Soul II Soul chooses TUE American singer and musician, James Brown, 'the Godfather of TUE Funk'. TUE TUE Jazzie B, who was awarded a CBE for services to black TUE British music, spent time with James Brown towards the end TUE of his life and says he became 'like a big brother' to him. TUE Here, together with music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, TUE they talk to Matthew about why they believe 'Mr Brown' is a TUE Great Life. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Jazzie B TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04d4n8d (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04d0h78 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b03kp2kh (Listen) TUE Series 4, Repeat After Me TUE TUE One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC TUE Radio 4 doing what he does best. TUE TUE This week, a story dealing with the guilt he sometimes feels TUE as a result of writing stories about his family in "Repeat TUE After Me" and some more extracts from his hilarious diary. 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 b04d4n8g (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04d4n8j (Listen) TUE George RR Martin; Alison Jackson; Sara Pascoe; The Congress TUE TUE Kirsty Lang talks to Game of Thrones creator George RR TUE Martin at the Edinburgh Festival. TUE TUE Producer Ellie Bury. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Kirsty Lang TUE Interviewed Guest: George RR Martin TUE Producer: Ellie Bury TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04d4cq1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Tories and the Police: The End of the Affair TUE b04d4n8l (Listen) TUE The Tories and the Police: Robin Aitken examines the TUE apparent close relationship between the Conservative Party TUE and the police force. A relationship which was cemented with TUE an unprecedented pay rise in the 1970s by Margaret Thatcher. TUE A relationship which has soured over recent years TUE culminating in a damning speech by Theresa May to the Police TUE Federation conference earlier this year. Robin Aitken talks TUE to Conservative politicians who have been key players in the TUE story of this marriage of law and order over the last four TUE decades including former Home Secretaries Ken Clarke and TUE Michael Howard. TUE TUE Presenter: Robin Aitken TUE Producer: Emma Rippon. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04d4n8n (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04d4n8q (Listen) TUE Conflicted Medicine TUE TUE Are conflicts of interest in medicine out of control and TUE undermining public trust, or an over-hyped concern? Dr Mark TUE Porter investigates the hidden influences driving your TUE doctor. TUE TUE 21:30 A Law unto Themselves b04d4cpv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04d4n8s (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04drmjq (Listen) TUE A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 2 TUE TUE This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. TUE TUE It is the story of Ian - husband, father, maths teacher and TUE Mormon bishop - and his unshakeable belief that everything TUE will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, TUE like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife Claire's TUE lonely wait for a sign from God and her desperate need for TUE life to pause while she comes to terms with what's happened. TUE TUE It is the story of the agony and hope of Zippy Bradley's TUE first love, the story of Alma Bradley's cynicism and TUE reluctant bravery, and it is the story of seven-year-old TUE Jacob. But mostly it's the story of a family trying to work TUE out how to carry on when their world has fallen apart. TUE TUE Incredibly moving, unexpectedly funny and sharply observed, TUE A Song for Issy Bradley, explores the outer reaches of doubt TUE and faith. Author Carys Bray was brought up in a devout TUE Mormon family. In her early thirties she left the church and TUE replaced religion with writing. She was awarded the Scott TUE prize for her debut short story collection Sweet Home. A TUE Song for Issy Bradley is her first novel. TUE TUE Written by Carys Bray TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Emma Fielding TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b04d1lwx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Shared Experience b03m7fg0 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Saving a life TUE TUE Fi Glover brings together a disparate group of people all TUE with one thing in common. This week people who have saved TUE someone's life discuss the experience and how it affects TUE them afterwards. TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 AUGUST 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04d0h80 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04dq6gh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04d0h82 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04d0h84 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04d0h86 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04d0h88 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d4hr8 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon WED Stephen Shipley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04d4hrb (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj2c (Listen) WED Roseate Tern WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Brett Westwood presents the Roseate Tern. One of the rarest WED of the UK's breeding seabirds, the Roseate Tern is WED exquisitely graceful. Roseate means flushed with pink and WED seen close this bird does have a faint pinkish wash on its WED chest in summer, but from a distance, it's the WED brilliant-white freshly-laundered look of its back and wings WED that distinguishes a Roseate Tern from its greyer relatives, WED the Common and Arctic Terns. WED WED 06:00 Today b04d4jvw (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04d4jvy (Listen) WED Series 2, Sir John Major WED WED In this series, Peter Hennessy, the historian of modern WED Britain, asks senior politicians to reflect on their life WED and times. Each week, he invites his guest to explore their WED early influences, their experiences of events and their WED impressions of people they've known. WED WED In the first programme in this run, Sir John Major, the WED former Prime Minister, talks about his political journey WED from Brixton to Downing Street and the challenge of WED following Margaret Thatcher in Number 10. He discusses his WED difficult inheritance as Prime Minister in 1990 after the WED financial boom of the 1980s, the economic crisis of 'Black WED Wednesday' in September 1992, the divisions in his party, WED and how he took the first delicate steps in what became the WED Northern Ireland peace process. WED WED Peter's other guests in this run are Lord Hattersley (Roy WED Hattersley), the former Labour Deputy Leader and now a WED writer; Lord Steel of Aikwood (David Steel), the former WED Liberal Party Leader; and Dame Margaret Beckett MP, the only WED woman to have been Foreign Secretary and the first woman to WED lead the Labour Party (in 1994), and former Deputy Leader of WED her party. The producer is Rob Shepherd. WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03xd3hs (Listen) WED Series 2, Kaye Webb WED WED Robert McCrum explores the stories of five great British WED publishers. WED WED Kaye Webb was a children's book publisher of genius who WED shaped the literary imagination of generations. Through WED Puffin, Kaye Webb created an immortal library of children's WED books. WED WED Towards the end of her life, Kaye Webb told Sue Lawley on WED Desert Island Discs, "I've had very good luck in the working WED sense and not such good luck in the private sense". Her WED third husband - the cartoonist Ronald Searle - left her for WED another woman, and she brought up their twin children alone. WED Yet as her own family disintegrated, she built up an WED increasingly happy and motivated professional family at WED Puffin Books, which she took over in 1961. WED WED Paperbacks were booming and children's publishing was WED entering a golden age, with Webb leading the way. Puffin WED acquired the paperback rights to most of the best children's WED writers of the day: Roald Dahl, Rosemary Sutcliff, Maurice WED Sendak, Raymond Briggs, Leon Garfield, Joan Aiken, Nina WED Bawden, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes, Alan Garner, C.S. WED Lewis, and new authors such as Clive King, whose Stig of the WED Dump was one of Webb's most famous purchases. WED WED Webb spent her final years in a wheelchair with arthritis. WED Sadly, the woman who produced so many happy endings for WED other people's children did not get her own. WED WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04dq6pg (Listen) WED A genius immortalised her. A French king paid a fortune for WED her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million WED visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while WED everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her WED story. WED WED Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered - a blend of biography, WED history, and memoir - truly is a book of discovery about the WED world's most recognised face, most revered artist, and most WED praised and parodied painting. WED WED Who was she, this ordinary woman who rose to such WED extraordinary fame? Why did the most WED renowned painter of her time choose her as his model? What WED became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? WED WED The author, Dianne Hales, is a prize-winning, widely WED published journalist and author. The President of Italy WED awarded her an honorary knighthood in recognition of her WED internationally bestselling book, La Bella Lingua. WED WED Reader: Nancy Crane WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Nancy Crane WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Abridger: Eileen Horne WED Author: Diana Hales WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04d4kk7 (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 b04d4lbm (Listen) WED To the Lighthouse, Episode 3 WED WED Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist novel based on her own WED early experiences and published 1927 is dramatised by Linda WED Marshall Griffiths. WED WED Intensely personal and profoundly universal; a moving WED portrait of family life that captures the transience of WED human experience. WED WED The Ramsay's host a dinner party but Paul and Minta are not WED back from the beach and Mr Ramsay finds it difficult to WED conceal his impatience. WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Mr Ramsay: John Lynch WED Mrs Ramsay: Charlotte Emmerson WED Lily: Lyndsey Marshal WED Mr Tansley: Matthew McNulty WED Minta: Olivia Hallinan WED Paul: Ben Lamb WED Cam: Talia Barnett WED James: Alex Starke WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths WED Author: Virginia Woolf WED WED 10:56 The Listening Project b04d8lmg (Listen) WED Sylvia and Dennis - Rollercoaster Riders WED WED Fi Glover introduces the oldest members of the Great Britain WED Rollercoaster Club, who have ridden Nemesis at Alton Towers WED 3800 times, and are wondering when they will have to stop. 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 Birth of Love b04d4lcz (Listen) WED Before the 12th century, love didn't figure much in English WED literature. Instead, the historical epics and myths of the WED distant past dealt with inscrutable heroes, high causes, and WED sacrifice - unknowable monsters and unfeeling Gods. Then, in WED the 12th century, there was a sudden shift to a new focus on WED the individual, on a psychologically realised self. This is WED reflected in writing which is not historical or mythic, but WED fictional - imaginative, emotional, creative, speculative. WED WED And this new fiction brings with it an exploration of WED relationships - of love. This led to the new, strange idea - WED strangeness now obscured by its familiarity - that love is WED life's most profound purpose, an idea that is still at the WED centre of our culture today. WED WED Laura explores the cultural legacy of Henry II and Eleanor WED of Aquitaine, at whose court the Romance was born. She WED visits battle sites and castles and talks to experts in WED medieval history and literature, and she considers how some WED of her favourite films reflect ideas of love born 800 years WED ago - ideas which still captivate our imaginations and WED emotions today. WED WED Dr Laura Ashe is Associate Professor of English at Worcester WED College, Oxford. WED WED Producer: Jane Greenwood WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED Digital Human: Crush WED In Our Time: The Philosophy of Love WED The Listening Project: Love: Beryl and Graham WED WED 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01l1g5k (Listen) WED Series 2, Under the Same Night Stars WED WED Lucy is despairing about the future of the planet - until WED she meets a cute boy with a moped. But Tom is in a huff with WED his family and inventing imaginary parents because he is not WED allowed to see his best friend Freddy. When Freddy runs away WED it's left to Lucy to save the day. Thank goodness her mum WED never uses that porcini filled writing shed. WED WED Written by Marcella Evaristi. 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 Mim: Sarah Alexander WED Tom: Finlay Christie WED Lucy: Phoebe Abbott WED Jenn: Emily Bruni WED Fred: Oli Dillon WED Bob: Stephen Critchlow WED Chris: Daniel Boyd WED Writer: Marcella Evaristi WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04fc1q4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04d4m3g (Listen) WED 13 August 1914 - Florrie Wilson WED WED Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a WED hundred years ago. The squadron of the First Royal Flying WED Corps leaves for France and a local Folkestone newspaper WED starts a rumour. WED WED Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt WED Music: Matthew Strachan. WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Jack: Ashley Kumar WED Albert: Harry Myers WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Writer: Katie Hims WED Writer: Sean Moffatt WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED Producer: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04d4mml (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04d4mmn (Listen) WED James Robbins presents national and international news. WED WED 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4mmq (Listen) WED An Ill Wind WED WED During the early hours of October 16th 1987, hurricane force WED winds ripped through southern England recording gusts of 110 WED mph. In just a few hours 15 million trees across the country WED were felled. Dawn revealed over 700 of Kew's trees sprawled WED on their sides, their root systems spread in the cool calm WED air after the storm. WED WED Kathy Willis explores how one Kew oak tree - the Turner Oak WED - that didn't fall, helped transform the understanding of WED tree planting, arboreal care and provided insights into why WED trees stay upright. WED WED She takes a walk with arborealist Tony Kirkham around Kew WED Gardens to learn how this natural clearout gave a once in a WED generation chance to rethink Kew's arboreal canvas. It also WED created an opportunity for the first ever comprehensive tree WED root survey which has since transformed our approach to tree WED planting and long term care that's now finding its way into WED horticultural practices today. WED WED Producer Adrian Washbourne. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04d4n8g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04d4nhf (Listen) WED The Good Listener WED WED This authentic drama takes us inside the intelligence agency WED GCHQ, where agents are tracking three young British Muslims WED as they head for Syria. WED WED Henry Morcombe, an experienced GCHQ analyst, is tasked with WED establishing whether they intend to deliver humanitarian aid WED or join the armed conflict. He realises that there is more WED to this case than meets the eye when the team discovers the WED boys' true purpose in Syria. WED WED How to protect the public while keeping within legal and WED ethical boundaries is far from straightforward, and tensions WED emerge as the team responds to unfolding events. WED WED GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) has come WED under closer scrutiny in recent years and yet little is WED known about the operations of this highly secretive, but WED strategically essential, spy agency. The production team WED gained unprecedented access to GCHQ during the making of the WED drama. The story and the characters presented here are WED fictional. WED WED Written by Fin Kennedy WED WED Story consultant: Kris Hollington WED Sound design: Alisdair McGregor WED WED Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris WED A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Henry: Owen Teale WED Jacqui: Pollyanna McIntosh WED Siddiq: Ashley Kumar WED Alison: Alison Newman WED David: Richard Maxted WED Gerry: Dominic Hawksley WED Khaled: Faraz Alauddin WED Zak: Ahmed Malik WED Abdul: Ali Malik WED Witness: Fin Kennedy WED Director: Boz Temple-Morris WED Producer: Boz Temple-Morris WED WED 15:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04d0j0v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04d4n8q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Educators b04d4nvv (Listen) WED Sir Ken Robinson WED WED A talk for the online lecture series TED in 2006 launched WED Sir Ken Robinson's ideas to a global audience. He spoke WED about creativity in schools for 20 minutes, and the video WED has been watched more than any other TED Talk, with 27 WED million views so far. WED WED In conversation with Sarah Montague, he argues that modern WED teaching is a product of industrialisation, putting children WED through a factory model that prepares them for working life. WED But if we truly value innovation and creativity, why isn't WED it taught? WED WED For the programme, Sir Ken returns to the former Margaret WED Beavan Special School in Liverpool, where he spent his WED primary school years in the 1950s, after contracting polio WED at four years old. WED WED He's since advised governments and businesses around the WED world on how to harness creativity, and believes if schools WED were radically different, giving creative subjects equal WED status, children would find their true talents. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Montague WED Producer: Joel Moors. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04d4nvx (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04d4nvz (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04d0h8b (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dead Ringers b04d4nw3 (Listen) WED Series 11, Episode 3 WED WED Long 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 b04d4nwh (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04d4p1y (Listen) WED John Wilson talks to comedian Phill Jupitus about his love WED of art and drawing, which has inspired his new Edinburgh WED Fringe show, Sketch Comic. WED WED Producer Ellie Bury. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Wilson WED Interviewed Guest: Phill Jupitus WED Producer: Ellie Bury WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04d4lbm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 The Voter's Voice b04d4qpb (Listen) WED James Naughtie invites an Edinburgh Festival audience to WED discuss their hopes and fears for Scotland's future, as the WED vote on independence nears. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04d4qpd (Listen) WED Series 4, Americans Abroad WED WED Mara Oliva argues that we need to think differently about WED ordinary Americans' views and the making of their nation's WED foreign policy. WED WED Mara has spent countless hours in US presidential archives WED examining how public opinion was assessed and understood in WED several administrations. In this talk she compares her WED research into the series of crises in East and South-East WED Asia from the 1940s to the 1970s - Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, WED Cambodia and China - to the Middle East today. She argues WED that the American public then and now took a more nuanced WED and cautious approach towards foreign policy than political WED leaders. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help b04d4jy1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04d4jvy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04d0h8d (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04d4qpg (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04d4qpj (Listen) WED A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 3 WED WED This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. WED WED It is the story of Ian - husband, father, maths teacher and WED Mormon bishop - and his unshakeable belief that everything WED will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, WED like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife Claire's WED lonely wait for a sign from God and her desperate need for WED life to pause while she comes to terms with what's happened. WED WED It is the story of the agony and hope of Zippy Bradley's WED first love, the story of Alma Bradley's cynicism and WED reluctant bravery, and it is the story of seven-year-old WED Jacob. But mostly it's the story of a family trying to work WED out how to carry on when their world has fallen apart. WED WED Incredibly moving, unexpectedly funny and sharply observed, WED A Song for Issy Bradley, explores the outer reaches of doubt WED and faith. Author Carys Bray was brought up in a devout WED Mormon family. In her early thirties she left the church and WED replaced religion with writing. She was awarded the Scott WED prize for her debut short story collection Sweet Home. A WED Song for Issy Bradley is her first novel. WED WED Written by Carys Bray WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Emma Fielding WED Producer: Joanna Green WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Author: Carys Bray WED WED 23:00 Future of Radio b04d4qpl (Listen) WED Breaking Small 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 invents a nano radio pill that WED can be taken orally. But the ingested radio molecules have WED curious side-effects. 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 Actor: Chris Stanton WED Actor: Joan Walker WED Actor: Ben Crowe WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Writer: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b04d4qpn (Listen) WED A Trolley for a Change WED WED by Jenny Éclair WED WED A grandmother visits an upmarket supermarket to buy her WED grandchildren a meal they won't forget, but the trip proves WED memorable for all the wrong reasons. WED WED Produced by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Pat: Ruth Sheen WED Checkout woman: Elaine Claxton WED Security guard: Clive Hayward WED Lauren: Jane Slavin WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED Producer: Sally Avens WED WED 23:30 Shared Experience b03mfn0h (Listen) WED Series 1, Pest Controllers WED WED More shared experiences discussed in a lively intimate way WED with host Fi Glover. This week four pest control share their WED passion for the job controlling bedbugs, rats, maggots and WED creatures many of us find repellent. WED WED Producer: Maggie Ayre. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 AUGUST 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04d0h99 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04dq6pg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04d0h9c (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04d0h9f (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04d0h9h (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04d0h9k (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d4qrx (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon THU Stephen Shipley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04d4qrz (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj54 (Listen) THU Greenshank THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Brett Westwood presents the Greenshank. The ringing triple THU call of a greenshank from a pool or marshy area is something THU to listen out for and a sure sign that autumn migration is THU under way. It's during their migration north that most of us THU meet greenshanks because in the UK they breed only in THU Scotland and even there, they are usually in the most remote THU bogs and mires of the Flow Country of Caithness and THU Sutherland. THU THU 06:00 Today b04d4rbh (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Voices from the Old Bailey b04d4sbs (Listen) THU Series 3, Smuggling THU THU The Old Bailey was the most important court of the English THU speaking world. It was a great theatre of humanity - with THU victims, witnesses and the accused. Many of them were THU illiterate, but thanks to the court shorthand writers, THU scribbling down all the evidence, we have records of their THU voices - the closest thing we have to a tape-recording of THU the past. THU THU In this series, Professor Amanda Vickery uses dramatic court THU cases to explore 18th century social history, hearing the THU voices of ordinary people who have otherwise left no trace. THU THU This first programme is recorded on location in Rye, Sussex, THU and we hear the voices of smugglers - and the gallant THU customs officers who fought them in bloody battles. THU THU Smuggling was a trade in the 18th century - sprawling from THU the brutal criminal underworld, to shops, to chic drawing THU rooms - brandy, tobacco, pepper, lace, French silks. But one THU commodity above all was worth killing for and facing the THU noose - tea. THU THU In fact two thirds of the tea which was drunk in Britain was THU smuggled in along the Southern coastline of Britain. Every THU single inhabitant of coastal ports like Rye would have known THU what was going on, probably most were drawn into it - and THU many ended up in the Old Bailey in London. THU THU Listening to the voices from the Old Bailey are historians THU Professor Peter King from Leicester University, a leading THU historian of crime; cultural historian Professor Judith THU Hawley from Royal Holloway, University of London; and THU Richard Platt who has written many books on smuggling and THU spent a lifetime collecting smuggling stories. THU THU Produced by Elizabeth Burke THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04dq78w (Listen) THU A genius immortalised her. A French king paid a fortune for THU her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million THU visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while THU everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her THU story. THU THU Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered - a blend of biography, THU history, and memoir - truly is a book of discovery about the THU world's most recognised face, most revered artist, and most THU praised and parodied painting. THU THU Who was she, this ordinary woman who rose to such THU extraordinary fame? Why did the most THU renowned painter of her time choose her as his model? What THU became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? THU THU The author, Dianne Hales, is a prize-winning, widely THU published journalist and author. The President of Italy THU awarded her an honorary knighthood in recognition of her THU internationally bestselling book, La Bella Lingua. THU THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Nancy Crane THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Abridger: Eileen Horne THU Author: Diana Hales THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04d4sbv (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 b04d4sbx (Listen) THU To the Lighthouse, Episode 4 THU THU Both intensely personal and profoundly universal, Virginia THU Woolf's landmark modernist novel is dramatised by Linda THU Marshall Griffiths. It explores childhood, marriage, love, THU loss, grief and the changing class structure in the period THU spanning the Great War. THU THU With the First World War comes heartbreaking loss. Ten years THU pass and the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye remains THU empty and Mrs McNab the housekeeper tries in vain to keep it THU from falling into a state of disrepair. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Lily: Lyndsey Marshal THU Mrs McNab: Alexandra Mathie THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths THU Author: Virginia Woolf THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04d4sbz (Listen) THU Chasing China's Doomsday Cult THU THU Almighty God vs the Red Dragon: It sounds like a fantasy THU action film but it is in fact a real and disturbing struggle THU in China. The most vivid case involves a group of people who THU beat a stranger to death in a fast food restaurant. They THU said they had no choice because the victim was a 'demon'. THU The killers are fanatical followers of the Church of the THU Almighty God, a Christian doomsday cult which claims THU millions of members across China and pledges to overthrow THU the Chinese Communist Party - which it calls the 'Great Red THU Dragon'. Gracie uses her fluent Chinese to gain access to THU families of those caught up in the cult, including a man who THU infiltrated it to save his wife. THU THU 11:30 Learning to Listen b04d4sdm (Listen) THU As broadcasting took the world by storm in the 1920s, the THU radio quickly became the hub of many households. Entire THU families would huddle around their receiver, each person THU individually connected with their own headset. THU THU But for this first generation of radio listeners, the THU flexible styles of listening that we habitually employ today THU were by no means innate - many sat silent and fully THU attentive, listening just as they would in a concert hall. THU THU Historian Dominic Sandbrook charts how a new, more informal THU style of listening gradually evolved through the 1920s and THU 30s, by delving into the diaries of the Austrian musician THU Heinrich Schenker. THU THU Schenker began to record what he heard on the radio within THU days of the inaugural broadcast from Austria's first THU official station, Radio Wien. This rare and fascinating THU record, which spans just over a decade, offers tangible THU evidence of how new approaches to listening emerged over THU these formative years. We'll follow Schenker's journey as THU the radio shifts from being something that demanded his rapt THU attention, to eventually becoming an integrated part of his THU domestic life. THU THU Special thanks to the ORF, Dokufunk, the Deutsches THU Rundfunkarchiv and the Österreichische Mediathek for their THU assistance in sourcing archive for this programme. The diary THU entries in the programme, and many more, are available at THU Schenker Documents Online. THU THU Written by Kirstie Hewlett THU THU Produced by Eleanor Kiff THU A TBI production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04fc1q6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04d4sz9 (Listen) THU 14 August 1914 - Kitty Wilson THU THU Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a THU hundred years ago. On the Folkestone Leas, an unlikely pair THU are brought together to promote the town's flagging tourism. THU THU Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Dieter: Joe Sims THU Lilian: Lisa Brookes THU Victor: Joel MacCormack THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Albert: Harry Myers THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU Producer: Lucy Collingwood THU Writer: Katie Hims THU Writer: Sean Moffatt THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04d4t0m (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04d0h9m (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04d4t0p (Listen) THU Shaun Ley presents national and international news. THU THU 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4t17 (Listen) THU Capsules of Life THU THU By the end of the 20th century, concerns raised in the 1992 THU Rio Earth Summit about the fate of wild plants and their THU ecosystems meant that conservation in the field now needed THU to be complemented by methods away from a plant's natural THU habitat. THU THU Professor Kathy Willis pays a visit to the underground THU vaults of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), one THU in a network of 1300 seed banks around the world - and one THU of the main "ex situ" methods for conserving plant genetic THU material. THU THU Knowing the longevity and quality of seeds is vital if THU they're to be put to good use in the real world. We hear a THU testament to the length of seed survival as head of the MSBP THU reveals recent success in germinating a 200 year old packet THU of seeds collected from the Dutch East India Company Gardens THU in South Africa. And Kathy Willis discovers how research THU into variable climates during crop cycles on seed quality is THU providing new leads into which varieties of crops seeds to THU store, to ensure future sustainable food supplies. THU THU With contributions from seed morphologist Wolfgang Stuppy, THU MSB seed manager Janet Terry, Paul Smith head of the MSBP, THU and Hugh Pritchard head of MSBP seed conservation. THU THU Producer Adrian Washbourne. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04d4nwh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04d4t9r (Listen) THU Nocturne THU THU Margaret Wilkinson's moving and haunting drama about secrets THU and lies. THU THU Judith wants to get closer to her mother but is too THU frightened to open up and ask for the help she needs. Her THU mother, Anna, has a secret she's never shared with her THU daughter and time is running out. When Judith becomes her THU mother's carer, their lack of communication intensifies. Can THU these women, forced into intimate proximity hold onto their THU secrets? THU THU PIANIST.....Emily Hooker THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Anna: Julia McKenzie THU Judith: Deborah McAndrew THU Witness: Margaret Wilkinson THU Producer: Nadia Molinari THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04d4tb7 (Listen) THU Chalk Streams THU THU Revered by fly fishermen, Helen Mark visits the famous chalk THU streams of Hampshire and Wiltshire to find out about their THU particular ecology. With their trademark gravel beds and THU gin-clear waters, chalk streams are one of the very few THU habitats that are almost entirely exclusive to England. THU THU Helen begins at Salisbury's Harnham Water Meadows, close to THU the city's cathedral, with its well known limestone spire, THU from the spot where Constable painted his view of the scene. THU She hears that the meadows act like a sponge, and without THU them absorbing the heavy rainfall last winter, flooding in THU the Salisbury area would have been considerably worse. THU THU She meets Jan Fitzjohn and Tim Tatton-Brown, Trustees of the THU water meadows, who tell her about the winter 'drownings' of THU this low-lying land, which gave a distinct economic THU advantage to southern England's once vital sheep and wool THU industry. The irrigation of the water meadows achieved this THU by encouraging the early growth of spring grass, known as THU the 'first bite'. We also meet grazier Rob Hawke, whose THU sheep today feed on the pastures, in the shadow of THU Salisbury's spire. THU THU Then, in the Hampshire village of Nether Wallop (the Wallop THU being a tributary of the celebrated trout stream, the Test) THU Helen finds out about the patient art of fly fishing from THU writer Simon Cooper. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04d0x5m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04d11l6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04d4tzm (Listen) THU Robin Wright on playing Robin Wright THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Actress Robin Wright reveals what it's like playing actress THU Robin Wright in the fantasy satire The Congress. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Robin Wright THU Producer: Stephen Hughes THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04d4tzp (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04d4v3t (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04d0h9p (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Sketchorama b04d4v3w (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Thom Tuck presents the pick of the best live sketch groups THU currently performing on the UK comedy circuit, from the THU Edinburgh Fringe Festival. THU THU The sketch groups featured in this episode are: THU THU The Colour Ham THU A brand new and exciting comedy project based in Edinburgh, THU written by and starring Colin Cloud, Kevin McMahon and Gavin THU Oattes. It's where comedy, magic and mindreading come THU together in a big ball of rock 'n' roll silliness! THU THU Lead Pencil THU Formed in 2012, Lead Pencil are a stylish comedy group that THU gives you observational sketches with a colourful twist, THU featuring Maddie Rice, Louise Beresford and Dave Biddy. THU Imagine the lovechild of Saved by the Bell and Art Attack. THU That's Lead Pencil and they've made a sketch show by THU literally sketching it! THU THU Foil, Arms and Hog THU Fringe favourites Foil, Arms and Hog are Sean Finegan THU (Foil), Conor McKenna (Arms) and Sean Flanagan (Hog). THU Ireland's top comedy trio have sold out the Edinburgh Fringe THU for five consecutive years and recently completed a world THU tour of festivals including Chicago, San Francisco and THU Adelaide, where they won a Fringe Comedy Award. 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 b04d4q07 (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04d4v72 (Listen) THU John Wilson hosts a special edition of Front Row, recorded THU in front of an audience at the Edinburgh Festival, featuring THU The Killing actress Sofie Grabol, who plays Queen Margaret THU in a new play about James III of Scotland. Plus, comedian Al THU Murray on his new stand-up show. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: John Wilson THU Interviewed Guest: Sofie Grabol THU Interviewed Guest: Al Murray THU Producer: Jerome Weatherald THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04d4sbx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04d4v74 (Listen) THU The Big Society THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04d4v76 (Listen) THU Inside Silicon Valley THU THU Can Silicon Valley's enormous success as the global centre THU of innovation continue indefinitely? With new challengers THU popping up all over the world - from Boston to Tel Aviv - THU will Silicon Valley keep ahead of the game and what seeds THU need to be sown now to ensure future creativity? Peter Day THU explores the Valley - past, present and future - with THU start-ups, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. THU THU Producer: Ruth Alexander. THU THU Contributors to this programme THU THU Joshua McGinty THU THU Piston THU THU THU THU THU THU Jamis MacNiven THU THU Buck’s of Woodside THU THU THU THU THU THU Kat Manalac THU THU Y Combinator THU THU THU THU THU THU Elise Polezel and Matthew Udomphol THU THU LivBlends THU THU THU THU THU THU Judy Estrin THU THU Entrepreneur and author The Innovation Gap THU THU THU THU THU THU Steve Jurvetson THU THU Draper Fisher Jerveston THU THU THU THU THU THU Janos Veres THU THU PARC THU THU THU THU THU THU Steve Hoover THU THU PARC THU THU THU THU THU THU Paul Saffo THU THU futurist THU THU THU THU THU THU Curt Carlson THU THU SRI International THU THU THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04d4tzp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b04d4sbs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04d0h9s (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04d4vbv (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04d4vbx (Listen) THU A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 4 THU THU This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. THU THU It is the story of Ian - husband, father, maths teacher and THU Mormon bishop - and his unshakeable belief that everything THU will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, THU like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife Claire's THU lonely wait for a sign from God and her desperate need for THU life to pause while she comes to terms with what's happened. THU THU It is the story of the agony and hope of Zippy Bradley's THU first love, the story of Alma Bradley's cynicism and THU reluctant bravery, and it is the story of seven-year-old THU Jacob. But mostly it's the story of a family trying to work THU out how to carry on when their world has fallen apart. THU THU Incredibly moving, unexpectedly funny and sharply observed, THU A Song for Issy Bradley, explores the outer reaches of doubt THU and faith. Author Carys Bray was brought up in a devout THU Mormon family. In her early thirties she left the church and THU replaced religion with writing. She was awarded the Scott THU prize for her debut short story collection Sweet Home. A THU Song for Issy Bradley is her first novel. THU THU Written by Carys Bray THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Emma Fielding THU Producer: Joanna Green THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Author: Carys Bray THU THU 23:00 The Show What You Wrote b04d4vbz (Listen) THU Series 2, Sport and Leisure THU THU Radio 4's themed sketch show made entirely from THU contributions sent in by the public is back for a second THU series. THU THU The best ideas have been chosen from thousands of THU submissions from new writers resulting in a show like no THU other. THU THU Recorded in Manchester. THU THU Episode 1 - Sport & Leisure THU THU Written by THU The Public THU THU Producers THU Alexandra Smith THU Carl Cooper. THU THU Credits THU Ensemble: Fiona Clarke THU Ensemble: Gavin Webster THU Ensemble: Janice Connolly THU Ensemble: Chris Addison THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU Producer: Carl Cooper THU THU 23:30 Shared Experience b03mfwjx (Listen) THU Series 1, Mothers Who Left Their Kids THU THU Fi Glover talks to four women who have made the painful THU choice to leave their children, how they have dealt with THU separation, and if they can ever rebuild their relationship THU with them. THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 AUGUST 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04d0hbm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04dq78w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04d0hbp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04d0hbr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04d0hbt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04d0hbw (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d4vch (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon FRI Stephen Shipley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04d4ngv (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj9c (Listen) FRI Red Grouse FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Brett Westwood presents the Red Grouse. These birds like to FRI eat the shoots of young heather and nest in the shelter of FRI older clumps. For many years Red Grouse were thought to be FRI the only species of bird found in the British Isles and FRI nowhere else, but scientists now believe the Red Grouse is a FRI relative, a subspecies of the Willow Grouse, which is a FRI widespread bird of northern Europe. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04d4nk6 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04d0xfx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04dq7z6 (Listen) FRI A genius immortalised her. A French king paid a fortune for FRI her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million FRI visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while FRI everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her FRI story. FRI FRI Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered - a blend of biography, FRI history, and memoir - truly is a book of discovery about the FRI world's most recognised face, most revered artist, and most FRI praised and parodied painting. FRI FRI Who was she, this ordinary woman who rose to such FRI extraordinary fame? Why did the most FRI renowned painter of her time choose her as his model? What FRI became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? FRI FRI The author, Dianne Hales, is a prize-winning, widely FRI published journalist and author. The President of Italy FRI awarded her an honorary knighthood in recognition of her FRI internationally bestselling book, La Bella Lingua. FRI FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Nancy Crane FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Abridger: Eileen Horne FRI Author: Diana Hales FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04d4p06 (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 b04d4p08 (Listen) FRI To the Lighthouse, Episode 5 FRI FRI Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist novel of 1927 dramatised FRI by Linda Marshall Griffiths captures the transience of human FRI experience and examines the nature of love and loss. FRI FRI Ten years have passed and the Ramsays' holiday home on the FRI Isle of Skye has remained empty. Finally some of the FRI remaining Ramsay family and other guests return. Lily FRI Briscoe revisits her unfinished painting and a trip to the FRI Lighthouse is planned. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Clip FRI empty FRI FRI Credits FRI Mr Ramsay: John Lynch FRI Cam: Verity-May Henry FRI Lily: Lyndsey Marshal FRI James: Henry McEntire FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI Adaptor: Linda Marshall Griffiths FRI Author: Virginia Woolf FRI FRI 11:00 A Family Without a Child b04d4p0b (Listen) FRI In this touching exploration of what it means to be FRI childless, Sangita Myska meets three women who have tried FRI for years to have a child - and failed. FRI FRI "I remember it was a Tuesday afternoon in February. I was FRI standing in my flat looking out of the window and suddenly FRI the truth hit me. I'm 43. This 15-year journey to be a mum FRI is done - it's not going to happen. I'd had one future in FRI mind - which was motherhood - and the thought of letting go FRI was like dropping into a void". FRI FRI Jody Day is one of a growing number of childless women in FRI Britain. At present, one in five women - by the time they FRI reach 45 - won't have a child. Soon it's estimated that FRI figure will be one in four. FRI FRI Jody - who is 49 - has accepted she never will have a child; FRI Jessica - who is 43 - is still hopeful of giving birth, even FRI after 11 rounds of IVF; while Paula - who is 59 - is going FRI through the pain of childlessness all over again as her FRI friends start becoming grandmothers. FRI FRI From all three women Sangita hears what a huge taboo FRI childlessness is. FRI FRI It's a story of shame, desperation, jealousy, and a feeling FRI of exclusion from friends these women have known for years, FRI simply because they do not have children. FRI FRI Sangita delves into the emotional, physical and social FRI impact of that absence, and asks how these women re-define FRI themselves as they come to terms with carving out a family FRI without a child. FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 11:30 My Teenage Diary b039q5ff (Listen) FRI Series 5, Rachel Johnson FRI FRI Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by FRI opening up their intimate teenage diaries. FRI FRI Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by journalist Rachel Johnson. FRI Rachel's diaries focus on her gap year in Israel, when she FRI worked on a kibbutz with her brother and was wined and dined FRI by an Israeli shepherd. FRI FRI They also include her trip to the Andes with a boyfriend who FRI suffered from vertigo. FRI FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Rufus Hound FRI Interviewed Guest: Rachel Johnson FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04fc30z (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04d4p0d (Listen) FRI 15 August 1914 - Isabel Graham FRI FRI Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a FRI hundred years ago. At Folkestone harbour, the Grahams bid a FRI fond farewell to Freddie. FRI FRI Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Freddie: Freddie Fox FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Writer: Sean Moffatt FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04d4p0g (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04d0hby (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04d4pp7 (Listen) FRI James Robbins presents national and international news. FRI FRI 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4ppb (Listen) FRI A Useful Weed FRI FRI At a glance, Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse ear cress) looks FRI little more than a tiny flowering weed. But this nondescript FRI plant became a Rosetta stone for understanding the molecular FRI processes underpinning many plant traits when in 2000 it FRI became the first plant to have its genome fully sequenced. FRI FRI Professor Kathy Willis hears how Arabidopsis bagged the role FRI in plant genetics research similar to that played by mice FRI and fruit flies in animal research, and how amidst arguments FRI for and against the technique of modification, it became a FRI key to introducing new characteristics in a quicker and more FRI targeted way than traditional plant breeding. FRI FRI The overall size of the Arabidopsis genome however, is not FRI typical of many plants. We hear how a new understanding of FRI the surprisingly diverse range of genome sizes within the FRI plant kingdom is shedding light on the speed of a plant's FRI ability to reproduce and adapt in changing conditions, which FRI could play a fundamental role in decoding the patterns of FRI plant distribution we see around the world. FRI FRI With contributions from historian Jim Endersby, plant FRI scientist Prof Liam Dolan and cytogeneticist Ilia Leitch. FRI FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04d4q07 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04d4q09 (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 1 FRI FRI Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. Ep 1 of 6 FRI FRI Frank Twist and his team of Manchester's finest paralegals FRI returns for another series. Frank is recovering from his FRI recent stroke and desperate to get back to work. Meanwhile FRI Sarah's beauty parlour seems to be harbouring a secret. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Kathryn Hunt FRI Ronnie: Rachel Austin FRI Cheryl: Mandi Symonds FRI Kim: Sarah Lam FRI Anh: Vera Chok FRI DC Hart: James Quinn FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Tom Fry FRI Writer: Sharon Kelly FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04d4q0c (Listen) FRI Sandringham FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the FRI Sandringham Estate. Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne FRI Swithinbank answer the local audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 If I Only Had... b04d4v81 (Listen) FRI If I Only Had a Heart 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 Heart FRI Read by Vicky McClure FRI FRI Writer and performer Morwenna Banks takes us to a hospital FRI bedside where a mother waits nervously for news that could FRI save her son's life. FRI FRI Writer ...... Morwenna Banks FRI Producer ..... Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Morwenna Banks FRI Reader: Vicky McClure FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04d4v83 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04d4v85 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04d4v87 (Listen) FRI Elaine and Marlene - Life After Loss FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two women about FRI their memories of losing their sons to illness and accident FRI and how they've managed to carry on. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04d4v89 (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04d0hc0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Brig Society b04d4w5z (Listen) FRI Series 2, Drug Dealer 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 Broken Bad and become a drug dealer. FRI He'll also go on a long personal journey and, along the way, FRI he'll examine the complex inter-relationship between FRI legalisation, culture, hypocrisy and cheese. FRI FRI Helping him to cook up a storm will be Rufus Jones (W1A, FRI Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've Got No FRI Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda) FRI FRI The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice FRI David Tyler, who also produces Marcus appearances as the FRI inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio FRI credits include Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin FRI Pressure, Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See FRI You Now, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The FRI 3rd Degree, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active FRI and Bigipedia. FRI FRI Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, FRI Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. FRI FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Ensemble: Rufus Jones FRI Ensemble: William Andrews FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI Writer: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Writer: Jeremy Salsby FRI Writer: Toby Davies FRI Writer: Nick Doody FRI Writer: Steve Punt FRI Writer: Dan Tetsell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04d4w61 (Listen) FRI Jennifer celebrates the kitchen, and Fallon and Burns have FRI an unexpected encounter. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ben Archer: Thomas Lester 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 Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Carol Treggoran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04d4w63 (Listen) FRI Damian Barr talks to actor Simon Pegg, whose new film is FRI about a man in search of fulfilment, Hector and the Search FRI for Happiness. FRI FRI Plus, the artist Katie Paterson, whose latest work has been FRI rocketed into space. FRI FRI Producer Ella-Mai Robey. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Damian Barr FRI Interviewed Guest: Simon Pegg FRI Interviewed Guest: Katie Paterson FRI Producer: Ella-mai Robey FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04d4p08 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04d4w65 (Listen) FRI Sir Robert Francis QC, Minette Batters, Val McDermid, John FRI Cridland FRI FRI Shaun Ley presents political debate from Broadcasting House FRI Radio Theatre in London with the Deputy President of the NFU FRI Minette Batters, crime writer Val McDermid, the Director FRI General of the CBI John Cridland and Sir Robert Francis QC FRI the President of the Patients Association who also led the FRI inquiry into poor care at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04d4w67 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04d4w69 (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 11-15 August 1914 FRI FRI Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred FRI years ago this week, as Britain declared war on FRI Austria-Hungary. Folkestone tries to rally flagging tourism FRI whilst waving local troops off to the front. FRI FRI Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music by: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: 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 First World War 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 Norman: Sean Baker FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Lilian: Lisa Brookes FRI Mrs Clout: Elaine Claxton FRI Dr McFee: David Cann FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Freddie: Freddie Fox FRI Forrester: Nigel Hastings FRI Archie: Arthur Hughes FRI Jack: Ashley Kumar FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Dieter: Joe Sims FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Writer: Sean Moffatt FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04d0hc2 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04d4w6c (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04d4w6f (Listen) FRI A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 5 FRI FRI This is the story of what happens when Issy Bradley dies. FRI FRI It is the story of Ian - husband, father, maths teacher and FRI Mormon bishop - and his unshakeable belief that everything FRI will turn out all right if he can only endure to the end, FRI like the pioneers did. It is the story of his wife Claire's FRI lonely wait for a sign from God and her desperate need for FRI life to pause while she comes to terms with what's happened. FRI FRI It is the story of the agony and hope of Zippy Bradley's FRI first love, the story of Alma Bradley's cynicism and FRI reluctant bravery, and it is the story of seven-year-old FRI Jacob. But mostly it's the story of a family trying to work FRI out how to carry on when their world has fallen apart. FRI FRI Incredibly moving, unexpectedly funny and sharply observed, FRI A Song for Issy Bradley, explores the outer reaches of doubt FRI and faith. Author Carys Bray was brought up in a devout FRI Mormon family. In her early thirties she left the church and FRI replaced religion with writing. She was awarded the Scott FRI prize for her debut short story collection Sweet Home. A FRI Song for Issy Bradley is her first novel. FRI FRI Written by Carys Bray FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Emma Fielding FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Author: Carys Bray FRI FRI 23:00 Summer Nights b04d4w6h (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI FRI Presenter: Jane Garvey FRI Producer: Ruth Watts. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04d4w6y (Listen) FRI June and Wayne - A Modern-Day Relationship FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and her FRI son-in-law which highlights the changing attitudes to gay FRI relationships and civil partnerships. 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
08 August, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 09/08/2014 - 15/08/2014
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