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SAT SATURDAY 16 AUGUST 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04d4wbx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04dq7z6 (Listen) SAT A genius immortalised her. A French king paid a fortune for SAT her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million SAT visitors trek to view her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while SAT everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her SAT story. SAT SAT Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered - a blend of biography, SAT history, and memoir - truly is a book of discovery about the SAT world's most recognised face, most revered artist, and most SAT praised and parodied painting. SAT SAT Who was she, this ordinary woman who rose to such SAT extraordinary fame? Why did the most SAT renowned painter of her time choose her as his model? What SAT became of her? And why does her smile enchant us still? SAT SAT The author, Dianne Hales, is a prize-winning, widely SAT published journalist and author. The President of Italy SAT awarded her an honorary knighthood in recognition of her SAT internationally bestselling book, La Bella Lingua. SAT SAT Abridged by Eileen Horne SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Nancy Crane SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Abridger: Eileen Horne SAT Author: Dianne Hales SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04d4wbz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04d4wc5 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04d4wc7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04d4wcb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04d4wgm (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon SAT Edwin Counsell. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04d4wgp (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04d4wch (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04d4wck (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04d4tb7 (Listen) SAT Chalk Streams SAT SAT Revered by fly fishermen, Helen Mark visits the famous chalk SAT streams of Hampshire and Wiltshire to find out about their SAT particular ecology. With their trademark gravel beds and SAT gin-clear waters, chalk streams are one of the very few SAT habitats that are almost entirely exclusive to England. SAT SAT Helen begins at Salisbury's Harnham Water Meadows, close to SAT the city's cathedral, with its well known limestone spire, SAT from the spot where Constable painted his view of the scene. SAT She hears that the meadows act like a sponge, and without SAT them absorbing the heavy rainfall last winter, flooding in SAT the Salisbury area would have been considerably worse. SAT SAT She meets Jan Fitzjohn and Tim Tatton-Brown, Trustees of the SAT water meadows, who tell her about the winter 'drownings' of SAT this low-lying land, which gave a distinct economic SAT advantage to southern England's once vital sheep and wool SAT industry. The irrigation of the water meadows achieved this SAT by encouraging the early growth of spring grass, known as SAT the 'first bite'. We also meet grazier Rob Hawke, whose SAT sheep today feed on the pastures, in the shadow of SAT Salisbury's spire. SAT SAT Then, in the Hampshire village of Nether Wallop (the Wallop SAT being a tributary of the celebrated trout stream, the Test) SAT Helen finds out about the patient art of fly fishing from SAT writer Simon Cooper. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04dh08j (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04d4wcr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04dh08l (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04dh08n (Listen) SAT Laura Mvula SAT SAT Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles are joined by the award-winning SAT singer and composer Laura Mvula, poet Josephine Dickinson SAT who has just regained her hearing after being deaf since she SAT was six, and 'Educating Yorkshire' English teacher Matthew SAT Burton. Plus Carl-Magnus Helgegren who took his two sons, SAT aged ten and eleven, to visit a war zone after they asked to SAT play the computer game 'Call of Duty', Clive and Jane Green SAT who set out on a short sailing trip in 1998 and returned SAT 51,000 nautical miles and 16 years later, and three folk SAT musicians travelling from London to Bristol researching and SAT playing the music of the canals on their way. And the former SAT England cricket captain Andrew Strauss shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT JP Devlin will read your tweets (#saturdaylive), texts SAT (84844) and emails (saturdaylive@bbc.co.uk). SAT SAT Laura Mvula will perform at the Proms on Tuesday August 19th SAT - #Prom 45: Late Night with ... Laura Mvula'. SAT SAT "Educating Yorkshire - One Year On" will be broadcast at SAT 2100 on Channel 4 on August 21st. SAT SAT The folk-trio The Dead Rat Orchestra are performing at The SAT Arnolfini in Bristol on Saturday August 16th. SAT SAT Andrew Strauss inherits Boney M's 'Rivers of Babylon', and SAT he passes on Hootie & The Blowfish's 'Hold My Hand.' Andrew SAT Strauss' autobiography 'Driving Ambition' is available now. SAT SAT Producer: Joe Kent. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Laura Mvula SAT Interviewed Guest: Josephine Dickinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Matthew Burton SAT Interviewed Guest: Carl-Magnus Helgegren SAT Interviewed Guest: Clive Green SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane Green SAT Interviewed Guest: Andrew Strauss SAT Producer: Joe Kent SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04dh08q (Listen) SAT Series 8, Isle of Wight SAT SAT Jay Rayner and his panel are in Cowes, Isle of Wight, taking SAT questions from the audience on eating and drinking. SAT SAT This week the team explore the science behind some SAT surprising flavour pairings and marvel over the emulsifying SAT magic of an ultra sonic mixer. They discuss the intriguing SAT history of garlic on the island and the many ways to cook SAT with rabbit and tomatoes. SAT SAT On the panel are DIY food expert Tim Hayward, restaurateur SAT Henry Dimbleby, Catalan inspired Scottish cook Rachel SAT McCormack and food scientist Professor Peter Barham. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04dh08s (Listen) SAT Solitude SAT SAT Do you crave being on your own, having time to take stock SAT and think things through? Or do you loathe being alone and SAT always try to be around other people? Joining Bridget SAT Kendall to explore solitude are New Zealand novelist Eleanor SAT Catton, New York educator Diana Senechal and SAT Chinese-American writer Yiyun Li. SAT SAT Diana Senechal SAT SAT Diana Senechal currently teaches philosophy at Columbia SAT Secondary School for Math, Science & Engineering. Her book, SAT Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and SAT Culture, examines ways in which individuals, schools, and SAT culture are pushing solitude aside. It looks at what SAT solitude is; why we need it and avoid it; and what can SAT happen when we drive it away. Photo by StudioDuda SAT Photography. SAT SAT Yiyun Li SAT SAT Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and now lives in the United SAT States. Kinder Than Solitude, her latest novel, explores why SAT some people choose to be alone: as a way to avoid facing SAT uncomfortable questions about the past. Her other books SAT include ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’, ‘The Vagrants’, SAT and ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’. They have been translated into SAT more than twenty languages. SAT SAT Eleanor Catton SAT SAT Eleanor Catton was born in Canada but raised and lives in SAT New Zealand. The winner of the prestigious 2013 Man Booker SAT Prize, and a host of other awards, Eleanor’s second novel SAT ‘The Luminaries’ is set in 19th century New Zealand, a world SAT littered with loners who've abandoned friends and families SAT in search of gold. But not all solitude is loneliness: SAT ‘It’s dreadful to feel alone and really be alone. But I SAT love to enjoy the feeling when I am not’, says one of SAT Catton’s characters. Photo © Robert Catto. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04dh08v (Listen) SAT A Shopping List for Cuba SAT SAT Despatches from correspondents: Why should the west SAT intervene with aid or arms? It's a question asked by our SAT reporter in northern Iraq. The six-year-olds in Gaza who've SAT already lived through three wars. Awesome sights and SAT stressful moments as the Panama Canal celebrates its SAT centenary. Why did she pack an orange bottle of cleaning SAT fluid along with the tennis shoes? Our correspondent talks SAT of a frantic shopping run before her return to Cuba. And the SAT militants of al-Shabaab use film and social media to get SAT their message across - in this programme we also hear they SAT like to telephone a certain BBC editor. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04fc368 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Bricks and Bubbles b04dh08x (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT In this programme, Michael Robinson gets to the bottom of SAT the UK rental market. SAT SAT He meets the buy-to-letters who've bought up council homes SAT to rent out as private landlords - not to be confused with SAT the let-to-buyers who are renting out their old home so they SAT can buy a new one for themselves. He discovers the impact of SAT changes to the housing benefit system and asks whether the SAT current relationship between tenants and landlords is just a SAT way of transferring wealth from young people to their baby SAT boomer parents. SAT SAT 12:30 The Brig Society b04d4w5z (Listen) SAT Series 2, Drug Dealer 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 Broken Bad and become a drug dealer. SAT He'll also go on a long personal journey and, along the way, SAT he'll examine the complex inter-relationship between SAT legalisation, culture, hypocrisy and cheese. SAT SAT Helping him to cook up a storm will be Rufus Jones (W1A, SAT Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've Got No SAT Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda) SAT SAT The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice SAT David Tyler, who also produces Marcus appearances as the SAT inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio SAT credits include Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin SAT Pressure, Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See SAT You Now, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The SAT 3rd Degree, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active SAT and Bigipedia. SAT SAT Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, SAT Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. SAT SAT Produced by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Ensemble: Rufus Jones SAT Ensemble: William Andrews SAT Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT Writer: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Writer: Jeremy Salsby SAT Writer: Toby Davies SAT Writer: Nick Doody SAT Writer: Steve Punt SAT Writer: Dan Tetsell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04d4wcx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04d4wd0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04d4w65 (Listen) SAT Sir Robert Francis QC, Minette Batters, Val McDermid, John SAT Cridland SAT SAT Shaun Ley presents political debate from Broadcasting House SAT Radio Theatre in London with the Deputy President of the NFU SAT Minette Batters, crime writer Val McDermid, the Director SAT General of the CBI John Cridland and Sir Robert Francis QC SAT the President of the Patients Association who also led the SAT inquiry into poor care at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04dh08z (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 b04dh091 (Listen) SAT Murder Under Trust: The Massacre at Glencoe SAT SAT In 1692 soldiers billeted in the homes of the MacDonald clan SAT in Glencoe rose up and killed their hosts. Was this Highland SAT massacre the inevitable outcome of a long-standing clan SAT feud? Or were there other factors behind this infamous SAT betrayal? Adrian Bean's play - based on the contemporary SAT parliamentary Commission Of Enquiry into the massacre and on SAT historian John Prebble's seminal book, Glencoe - dramatises SAT these tragic 17th century events. SAT SAT Producer/director: Bruce Young. SAT SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Tamara Kennedy SAT Marquis of Tweeddale: John Buick SAT Colonel Hill: Brian Pettifer SAT Lt Col Hamilton: Jordan Young SAT Laird of Glenlyon: Matthew Zajac SAT Alasdair MacIain: Paul Young SAT Lt Lindsay: Martin McBride SAT Eiblin MacDonald: Julie Duncanson SAT Duncan Campbell: Iain Robertson SAT Helen MacDonald: Anne Lacey SAT Neil McDonald: Stewart Campbell SAT Director: Bruce Young SAT Producer: Bruce Young SAT Writer: Adrian Bean SAT SAT 15:30 Tales from the Stave b04581jm (Listen) SAT Series 10, Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever SAT SAT It's 'ere we go, ere we go, ere we go' for the last in the SAT current series of Tales from the Stave, Frances Fyfield's SAT exploration of the handwritten manuscripts of our greatest SAT composers. However, rather than a football stadium Frances SAT is in the Library of Congress, Washington DC along with two SAT US Marine Bandsmen Michael Ressler and Ryan Nowlin. They've SAT come to see the marches of John Philip Sousa and most SAT importantly The national march of the United States - The SAT Stars and Stripes Forever. SAT SAT Sousa's neat scores and his sketch books are far more than SAT just interesting research fodder for these men who have SAT marched to Sousa's beat for a lifetime. SAT SAT There's fascination in his working methods, many of them SAT explained by a third bandsman and member of the Library SAT staff, Loras Schissel. Sousa never wrote at the piano and SAT rarely put pen to paper before working much of his material SAT out in his head. Melody, harmony, rhythms; these were all in SAT place before he started sharing his composition. SAT SAT And while his music is full of boisterous confidence, Sousa SAT himself was a modest figure. A violinist and son of SAT immigrant parents he always gave the impression that fortune SAT was kind to him, belying the sheer effort and labour which SAT saw him create his own touring band who were on the road for SAT the majority of the year. SAT SAT The programme tells the story of how he came to write 'The SAT Stars and Stripes Forever', the impact it had and Sousa's SAT place in US musical history. SAT SAT The musical highlight is the moment that our three bandsmen, SAT imitating piccolo, trombone and cornet, perform Sousa's SAT famous trio tune (borrowed by football fans all over the SAT world) in glorious three part harmony. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04dh093 (Listen) SAT Women and body size. Baroness Ruth Rendell. The quest for SAT the perfect jeans SAT SAT If you are a woman with a fuller figure you'll receive SAT harsher criticism than men. So how can we talk about a SAT healthy approach to body size without demonising and shaming SAT women's body image? SAT SAT In the UK in any one year more than 20% of employed women SAT take time off work because of domestic abuse. So how can SAT women safely raise their problems at work and what are the SAT consequences if they don't. SAT The stand up comedian Deborah Frances White talks about her SAT life changing experience of tracing her birth family and her SAT roots in Australia. SAT SAT It's 19 years since the British climber Alison Hargreaves SAT died attempting to climb K2. What is Alison's mountaineering SAT legacy? SAT SAT Should women arm themselves with self defence skills or will SAT they face blame if they are attacked and can't successfully SAT fight their attacker off? SAT SAT It's 50 years since Inspector Wexford first appeared in the SAT pages of a Ruth Rendell crime thriller. She joins Jenni to SAT discuss her latest book. SAT SAT In 1934 the first jeans designed for women where produced by SAT Levi Strauss. But is there really a jean shape out there for SAT everyone? SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Rendell SAT Interviewed Guest: Lindsay Harris SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Veale SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Boseley SAT Interviewed Guest: Deborah Cameron SAT Interviewed Guest: Deborah Frances-White SAT Interviewed Guest: Mollie Hughes SAT Interviewed Guest: Milena Popova SAT Interviewed Guest: Debi Steven SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Reber SAT Interviewed Guest: Linda Watson SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04dh0rg (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04d4wgp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04d4wd5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04d4wd8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04d4wdb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04dh0rj (Listen) SAT Rick Wakeman, June Whitfield, Michael Mosley, Dominic SAT Wilcox, Danny Wallace, Tricky SAT SAT Nikki talks to the Absolutely Fabulous legend of British SAT comedy, June Whitfield, who's graced our screens since the SAT 1960s appearing in a huge variety of shows - from 'Terry and SAT June' to 'Steptoe and Son'. Now June stars in 'Boomers' - a SAT new comedy which follows the ups and downs of three couples SAT coming at retirement from very different directions. SAT SAT Journalist and presenter Dr. Michael Mosley is best known SAT for his "selfexperimentation" trials, which include hosting SAT a tapeworm in his own gut and subjecting himself to quirky SAT diets and exercises - all in the name of research. He talks SAT to Nikki about his new series for 'Horizon', investigating SAT the truth about meat. Is it good or bad for us? SAT SAT Artist, designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox has shown his SAT odd, surprising and thought-provoking designs at galleries SAT around the world. Dominic talks to Nikki about his book SAT 'Variations on Normal' and his unexpected inventions, SAT including the world's first fully-functional GPS Shoes and SAT Wrist Nets for the Butterfingered. SAT SAT Nikki Journeys to the Centre of the Earth with keyboardist SAT and composer Rick Wakeman, who's produced over 100 solo SAT albums and sold more than 50 million records - as a solo SAT artist and with prog rock band 'Yes'. He talks to Nikki SAT about being a Grumpy Old Man and performs 'Eleanor Rigby' on SAT the Loose Ends piano. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Rick Wakeman, June Whitfield, Michael SAT Mosley, Dominic Wilcox, Danny Wallace, Tricky (2) SAT SAT June Whitfield SAT The second episode of ‘Boomers’ is on Friday 22nd August at SAT 21.00 on BBC One. SAT SAT Michael Mosley SAT ‘Horizon: Should I Eat Meat?’ is on Monday 18th and SAT Wednesday 20th August at 21.00 on BBC Two. SAT SAT Dominic Wilcox SAT ‘Variations on Normal’ is published by Square Peg on 21st SAT August. SAT SAT Rick Wakeman SAT The 40th anniversary edition of ‘Journey to the Centre of SAT the Earth’ is available now on Music Fusion. SAT SAT Tricky SAT ‘Adrian Thaws’ is available on 8th September on False Idols. SAT Tricky is playing at Galtres Parklands Festival, York on SAT Saturday 23rd August. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04dh0rl (Listen) SAT Haider al-Abadi SAT SAT As Iraq's divisive Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki steps SAT down, hopes are now pinned on his likely successor, Haider SAT al-Abadi to restore trust with the Kurdish and Sunni SAT communities and fight off the advance of the self-styled SAT Islamic State's jihadist fighters. But what do we know about SAT him? SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart charts the rise of the doctor's son from SAT Baghdad, who gained a doctorate in electrical engineering in SAT the UK, leading to him forming a company servicing lifts for SAT clients including the BBC. She talks to fellow Shiite Dawa SAT Party members, a member of the Sunni opposition and a former SAT US diplomat to ask whether Dr al-Abadi has the qualities to SAT fix his country's problems. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04dh0rn (Listen) SAT Joseph O'Neill, Robin Wright, Jezebel, Match of the Day at SAT 50 and Andrew Marr's Great Scots SAT SAT Joseph O'Neill's previous novel Netherland received SAT rapturous attention. His new book The Dog is a story of a SAT New York Lawyer who accepts a job working for a rich college SAT friend in Dubai, but he realises it's a very complicated SAT role he's expected to play. SAT SAT Robin Wright plays a version of herself in The Congress; a SAT live action/cartoon crossover movie directed by Ari Folman SAT (Waltz With Bashir). But where does the fantasy end and SAT reality begin? SAT SAT Jezebel is a comedy by the Dublin-based Rough Magic Theatre SAT Company in which a couple try to spice up their sex-lives SAT with an awkward threesome which has unforeseen consequences. SAT Match Of The Day is celebrating its 50th birthday and we've SAT been watching a TV programme marking this anniversary. SAT SAT Andrew Marr's Great Scots - Writers Who Shaped a Nation is SAT his tribute to three writers who helped to create the modern SAT Scottish identity through their work and lives. SAT SAT The Dog SAT The Dog by Joseph O'Neill is published by Fourth Estate. SAT SAT The Congress SAT Directed by Ari Folman, The Congress is in cinemas from SAT Friday 18 August, certificate 15. SAT SAT Jezebel SAT Written by Mark Cantan, SAT Jezebel SAT is at the Soho Theatre in London until 31 August 2014. SAT SAT Match Of The Day at 50 SAT The documentary SAT Match Of The Day at 50 SAT is on Friday 22 August, 10.35pm, BBC One. SAT SAT Andrew Marr's Great Scots SAT A new three part series, SAT Andrew Marr's Great Scots SAT begins on Saturday 16 August, 9.15pm, BBC Two. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04dh0rq (Listen) SAT You Are Feeling Sleepy SAT SAT The history and science of the use of hypnosis in medicine. SAT SAT Hypnosis has BMA and BMJ approval, NHS support for helping SAT with the likes of depression, anxiety, burns and childbirth, SAT and a pedigree of being used to alleviate physical and SAT mental pain for thousands of men in the Great War. Yet in SAT the popular imagination, hypnosis is associated much more SAT with quick-fix quacks and dodgy stage shows. SAT SAT Perhaps that's not surprising when considering the likes of SAT the 19th-century scientist Mesmer and his bogus animal SAT magnetism theories. More recently, the misunderstanding of SAT what hypnotism can and cannot do has created a slew of False SAT Memory Syndrome incidents, with families destroyed by SAT erroneous accusations of childhood sexual abuse. And then, SAT under hypnosis, there have been claims of living former SAT lives - with so-called 'regressive parties' inviting guests SAT to 'come as they were'! SAT SAT But as well as the charlatans and fakers, there have also SAT been pioneers in genuine medical hypnosis, whose stories are SAT less often told, but whose extraordinary dedication and SAT impressive willingness to challenge the medical SAT establishment, often at great personal cost, led to the SAT clinical understanding of hypnosis that we have today. SAT SAT In this Archive on 4, interviewees include psychiatrist Dr SAT John Butler, illusionist Derren Brown, hypnotherapist and SAT hypnotist Chris Green, hypno-birthing expert Tamara Ciafini, SAT and Associate Professor of History at the University of SAT Chicago, Alison Winter. SAT SAT And there is archive not only of the ground-breakers, but SAT also of the bogus and the mystical, and variations both SAT serious and hilarious of 'happiness sought through radical SAT personal transformation'. SAT SAT Producer: David Coomes. SAT SAT 21:00 The Stuarts b04d11l4 (Listen) SAT Charles II, Part One: Through the World in Various Fortune SAT SAT By Mike Walker SAT SAT Charting the early life of Charles II, as a young boy in the SAT court of his father and during the Civil War, his life in SAT exile during the interregnum, and later his failed attempts SAT to regain the crown. When news finally reaches him of Oliver SAT Cromwell's death, Charles plots his return once more. SAT SAT Directors: Marc Beeby & Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT Credits SAT Charles: Jamie Parker SAT James: Will Howard SAT Kenelm Digby: Paul Hilton SAT Hyde: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Young Charles: Adam Thomas Wright SAT Brodie: Clive Hayward SAT General Monck: Alun Raglan SAT Secretary: Matthew Watson SAT Colonel: David Cann SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04d4wdj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Voter's Voice b04d4qpb (Listen) SAT James Naughtie invites an Edinburgh Festival audience to SAT discuss their hopes and fears for Scotland's future, as the SAT vote on independence nears. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b04d1kvv (Listen) SAT Radio 4's popular quotations programme 'Quote ... Unquote' SAT returns for it's 50th series. SAT SAT In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by SAT writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy SAT types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, SAT Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... SAT have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. SAT SAT Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the SAT origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the SAT famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Chris Addison SAT Panellist: Jim Al-Khalili SAT Panellist: Katy Brand SAT Panellist: John Campbell SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Batter My Heart: Growing Up and Growing Old with John SAT Donne b04d11l8 (Listen) SAT Novelist Ed Docx grew up with John Donne's love poems and SAT found them useful billets doux with his early girlfriends. SAT Now not so young he has been surprised by how as he has SAT grown up so the poetry of Donne has kept him company. SAT Talking to three scholars - a young reader of Donne, a SAT middle aged one and an elderly one, and armed with a stack SAT of Bob Dylan records (another artist good for all ages) Ed SAT Docx discovers how Donne batters the heart of us all through SAT life. SAT SAT Producer Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 AUGUST 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04dh17k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Sussex Scandals b01c6tzz (Listen) SUN A Yard in Crawley SUN SUN Written by John Peacock. SUN SUN A young woman falls in love with her parent's lodger, the SUN charming John George Haigh, twenty years older than herself. SUN Eventually she will have to find a way of dealing with his SUN appalling crimes. 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, SUN defending his father during his mother's notorious affair SUN with Charles Stewart Parnell. SUN SUN Read by Anna Madeley. SUN SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Anna Madeley SUN Producer: Celia de Wolff SUN Writer: John Peacock SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04dh17m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04dh17p (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04dh17r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04dh17t (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04dh2gr (Listen) SUN St Peter's Church, Ropley, Hampshire SUN SUN The bells of St Peter's Church in Ropley, Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04dh0rl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04dh17w (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04dh2gt (Listen) SUN Ignorance SUN SUN Mark Tully invites us to accept our own ignorance as a first SUN step on a voyage of discovery, taking his lead from SUN Socrates' well known thought that, "The only true wisdom is SUN in knowing you know nothing." SUN SUN He also quotes from Nobel Prize winning theoretical SUN physicist David Gross, who says that "there is no evidence SUN that we are running out of our most important resource - SUN ignorance." Mark discusses this importance of ignorance to SUN science with Stuart Firestein, Chair of the Department of SUN Biological Sciences at Columbia University, who feels that SUN knowledge is followed by ignorance, rather than vice versa, SUN and that facts are not always the most reliable part of SUN scientific advances. SUN SUN On a more personal level, the programme considers how we SUN might be more tolerant of the world views and beliefs of SUN others, by understanding the limits of our knowledge and SUN realising that we, too, will always be ignorant. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b04dh2gw (Listen) SUN Guillemots of Skomer 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 Skomer Island lies off the south east coast of Wales and is SUN home to thousands of seabirds. SUN SUN There are 25,000 guillemots packed together on the cliffs, SUN no other bird breeds in such close proximity to its SUN neighbours. Fights and squabbles constantly break out, but SUN friendships and pair-bonding are very strong. They keep the SUN same mate for life and produce one chick a year. The SUN fledgling has to leap from the sheer cliff face into the sea SUN below to find its dad, surrounded by thousands of others, SUN and try to avoid being eaten by predatory gulls. Each year SUN each guillemot pair comes back to exactly the same place on SUN the cliff ledge and they defend it vigorously. SUN SUN In the early decades of the 20th Century there were 100,000 SUN guillemots on Skomer but numbers plummeted to just 2000 SUN after the second world war, probably due to oil pollution in SUN the sea. Now numbers are slowly recovering but the increase SUN in storms may be a problem for them in the future. Professor SUN Tim Birkhead from Sheffield University has led a 42 year SUN study of the birds and reveals some of their secrets to Mary SUN Colwell in this week's Living World. SUN SUN Tim Birkhead SUN SUN Professor Tim Birkhead, of the University of Sheffield’s SUN Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, first visited SUN Skomer Island in 1972. No one had tried to conduct a census SUN of guillemots before and Professor Birkhead came up with an SUN innovative way to count the birds and determine how many SUN chicks were produced each year. SUN SUN SUN SUN By marking birds individually with colour rings Professor SUN Birkhead was able to measure their breeding success, see how SUN old they are when they first start to breed and see how long SUN the birds live. SUN SUN SUN SUN When Professor Birkhead began his studies the guillemot SUN population breeding on Skomer was just 2,000 individuals, SUN yet pictures of the island thirty years earlier showed that SUN there had been around 100,000 guillemots then. In 2011 the SUN population showed signs of recovery as around 20,000 SUN individuals were recorded. SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04dh17y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04dh180 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04dh2gy (Listen) SUN Pope in South Korea, Bahá'Ãs, Vicky Beeching SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04dh2h0 (Listen) SUN Pan Intercultural Arts SUN SUN Juliet Stevenson presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Pan SUN Intercultural Arts (PAN), empowering vulnerable, SUN hard-to-reach young people to change their lives using the SUN arts. SUN Registered Charity no 295324 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN ' Pan Intercultural Arts '. SUN SUN Pan Intercultural Arts SUN SUN Pan Intercultural Arts uses theatre, music and other art SUN forms to help SUN some of the most marginalised and disadvantaged groups find SUN a voice to re-claim SUN their place in society and re-imagine their lives. SUN SUN Trafficked women, refugee victims of torture, and those SUN close to gun SUN and knife crime all benefit from engaging with creativity SUN to overcome anxiety SUN and trauma and find better futures. SUN SUN Research suggests that their involvement in the arts leads SUN to less SUN crime, greater social harmony, more people in education and SUN employment, and a SUN massive increase in trust and wellbeing. SUN SUN Pan’s expansion across the UK will involve 10,000 SUN participants in the SUN coming years and our AMIES project for trafficked women is SUN at the heart of SUN this. SUN SUN SUN Building confidence SUN SUN Nicole was trafficked from Nigeria aged 14 and worked as a SUN domestic slave until she escaped years later. When she SUN joined Pan’s AMIES SUN project for victims of trafficking she lacked confidence SUN and had difficulty SUN making friends and trusting people around her. SUN SUN Slowly her confidence and self-expression grew and she began SUN to imagine a new life. After a year Nicole was in college SUN studying IT and had a SUN part time office job. The following year she volunteered SUN with AMIES providing SUN encouragement to new group members. SUN SUN Now Nicole has a daughter. She cares for her, works SUN part-time and is proud she can teach her to be a strong and SUN independent woman SUN with high aspirations. SUN SUN Moving beyond the trauma SUN SUN Pan’s AMIES groups meet weekly throughout the year using SUN arts activities to move its members beyond the trauma of SUN slavery and achieve SUN fulfilling lives. SUN SUN They role-play what they would like to be and how to SUN overcome obstacles in their way. By the end of the year the SUN great majority are SUN ready to enter education, training or employment. SUN SUN Many still fear being recaptured (and will not consent to SUN being photographed), but they can begin to enjoy their SUN lives and their SUN new-found friends through the bonding of singing, SUN performing and planning SUN concepts together. SUN SUN Supporting victims of torture SUN SUN Pan’s work also supports victims of torture (the FORTUNE) SUN group, unaccompanied minors requesting asylum (the FUTURE SUN group), young people SUN likely to offend, and those who have offended (the WEAPON SUN OF CHOICE group). SUN SUN These groups, who feel they have little or no voice in SUN society, find in the arts a way of discovering pride in SUN themselves and showing SUN themselves in a positive light to others. SUN SUN Investing relatively small amounts in their engagement with SUN Pan avoids taxpayers having to spend millions if they SUN become long-term SUN benefit-dependent or if they enter the criminal justice SUN system. Pan also has a SUN far-reaching international programme. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04dh183 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04dh185 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04dh2h2 (Listen) SUN A Sabbath-Rest SUN SUN At the height of the holiday period, The Very Revd Stephen SUN Lake (Dean), The Revd Canon Neil Heavisides (Precentor), and SUN The Revd Canon Celia Thomson (Canon Pastor) consider the SUN importance of rest and relaxation in the context of SUN scripture and the Church's own traditions. Live from SUN Gloucester Cathedral with the Royal School of Church Music's SUN Millennium Youth Choir directed by David Ogden. SUN SUN Gloucester Cathedral 17/08/2014 SUN SUN Please note: SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past eight and time to go live to SUN Gloucester Cathedral for this morning’s Sunday Worship. The SUN Royal School of Church Music Millennium Youth Choir is SUN spending the week there for their summer school and sings SUN for today’s service, reflecting on rest and recreation. SUN They begin with music by John Bell, Be still and know that SUN I am God. SUN SUN Choir: Be still and know – John Bell SUN SUN Neil Heavisides: On behalf of all of us at the Cathedral in SUN Gloucester, good morning and welcome. It is not easy today SUN to focus on the necessity for rest and relaxation when there SUN is so much unrest and chaos in our world at the present SUN time. But we may be able to pray: SUN SUN Lead us from death to life, SUN from falsehood to truth; SUN lead us from despair to hope, SUN from fear to trust; SUN lead us from hate to love, SUN from war to peace. SUN Let peace fill our hearts, SUN our world, our universe. SUN SUN Hymn: I heard the voice of Jesus (Kingsfold) SUN H. Bonar (1808-89) SUN SUN Neil H Now in some moments of quietness let us call to mind SUN all those ways in which we have disfigured God’s world and SUN marred her beauty SUN For the times we have allowed diversity to divide us and SUN have sought to be justified more than we have sought to be SUN just..... SUN All Forgive us SUN SUN For the times when we have valued land more than lives, SUN power more than peace..... SUN All Forgive us SUN SUN For the times we have retaliated rather than reconciled, SUN ….. SUN All Forgive us SUN SUN Neil H May God heal us and help us. SUN All Amen SUN SUN Celia T Genesis 2.vv1-3 (NRSV) SUN SUN The first reading is from the book Genesis, chapter two SUN from the first verse. SUN SUN Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their SUN multitude. 2And on the seventh day God finished the work SUN that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all SUN the work that he had done. 3So God blessed the seventh day SUN and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work SUN that he had done in creation. SUN SUN Neil H The Dean of Gloucester Stephen Lake reflects on the SUN mystery of God’s resting. SUN Stephen Lake There are many people in the world today who SUN have no break from their daily needs, from their challenging SUN situation, or from the simple need for survival. Watching or SUN listening to the news at the moment is not very restful. SUN SUN The wonder of creation is that we have been made for rest as SUN well as activity. ‘And on the seventh day, he rested from SUN all the work he had done.’ God has loved us into existence SUN and this human life with all its challenges and pains is SUN meant to have moments of joy and refreshment. It is easy to SUN see this as a western luxury when we reflect upon the SUN trouble spots of our world but God wants rest for those SUN whose lives are full of toil, perhaps most especially for SUN those who see no end to their situation. So when we do get SUN to rest, we should not feel guilty but make the most of it, SUN for there will be plenty of times when there is not rest. SUN Certainly, rest is a blessing, and those who do get to rest SUN must use it as a blessing in the help for others, not just SUN in the pursuit of hedonism. If you are listening to this on SUN holiday this August weekend, enjoy your time, but come back SUN to a renewed commitment to work productively and to help SUN those who may need your time and your commitment. God rested SUN so that he could continue to create, and to recreate, and to SUN love what he created. This love was not an expression of SUN luxury but led to the cost of the cross, with loving arms SUN spread wide in unconditional grace. The cost of loving means SUN that we all need to rest in the Lord. After all, the word SUN holiday, is all about making each day that the Lord has SUN made, holy and full of his love. SUN SUN One popular hymns calls us from our foolish ways to a SUN proper understanding of balance so that we can truly hear SUN what God is trying to say to us. SUN SUN Choir Dear Lord and Father SUN J. G. Whittier (1807-92) SUN SUN Celia T Jesus certainly needed time to listen to that still SUN small voice of calm in his own life. He often slipped away SUN from his disciples and the crowds to find a quiet place. SUN Jesus invites us to learn from him. SUN SUN Neil H Matthew 11.vv28-end (NRSV) SUN SUN Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy SUN burdens, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, SUN and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and SUN you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, SUN and my burden is light.’ SUN SUN Choir Prayer of Mother Teresa - Ogden SUN SUN May today there be peace within. SUN May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant SUN to be. SUN SUN May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born SUN of faith. SUN May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on SUN the love that has been given to you. May you be content SUN knowing you are a child of God. SUN SUN Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your SUN soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is SUN there for each and every one of us.” SUN SUN Stephen L God’s liberating presence is indeed there for each SUN and every one of us, but sometimes we get in the way or SUN ourselves, and of God’s love. SUN SUN Whenever we go on holiday as a family, there is always the SUN great debate about how much stuff to take. I like to go with SUN something for every eventuality, although that rarely gets SUN into the small suitcase allowed for aircraft cabins. Just SUN having what you need, so that your time off is not cluttered SUN by possessions or decisions about what to wear, is an SUN important lesson in living daily with all we need to be in SUN the company of God in Jesus Christ. His burden is light. SUN Being held back by the clutter of life is bad for our SUN relationships with each other and with God. It is all too SUN easy to be keeping up with emails and to be constantly SUN available. But to be free of such distractions, even just SUN for a short while, refocuses our lives on what is really SUN important, that is living our lives in community and sharing SUN in the community that is God the Trinity. Clutter that takes SUN up the hours moves our focus away from God and the different SUN ways in which he communicates with us. I heard on the news SUN recently that the average adult in the UK now spends more SUN time each day looking at a mobile or a tablet screen than SUN sleeping. [Perhaps It gives a whole new meaning to the SUN saying … there is no rest for the wicked!] But resting in SUN the Lord is vital if we are going to be aware of him and his SUN love for us. Baggage can literally, weigh us down and hold SUN us back from hearing God or sharing our lives with him. SUN SUN The greatest danger of the baggage of modern life is that it SUN fills up every moment, becomes falsely important and that at SUN worst, we stop praying. If we stop praying, then we cannot SUN hear the God who answers prayer. So we need to travel light, SUN and make space in our lives, for the God who made us and SUN wants to remake us from glory into glory, trusting in him, SUN the Lord of all hopefulness. SUN SUN Hymn Lord of all hopefulness (Slane) SUN Jan Struther (Joyce Placzek) (1901-53) SUN SUN Neil H Our final reading reminds us that the rest we can SUN enjoy now is a glimpse of another world – but not, as a SUN famous Bishop of Durham once said, “an endless idle harping SUN upon harps of gold, reclining on clouds or wandering SUN aimlessly through the paradise of God, clad in white robes SUN and with crowns on our heads. “ Rest from pain, rest from SUN weariness, but not rest from participating in God’s eternal SUN loving purposes. Isaiah looks forward to that world, SUN transformed in ways we cannot possibly imagine. SUN SUN Celia T Isaiah 32.vv15-end (NRSV) SUN SUN 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, SUN and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. SUN 17 The effect of righteousness will be peace, SUN and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for SUN ever. SUN 18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, SUN in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places. SUN 19 The forest will disappear completely,* SUN and the city will be utterly laid low. SUN 20 Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, SUN who let the ox and the donkey range freely. SUN SUN Stephen L Every priest or minister is often asked what SUN heaven is going to be like. I hope it is restful, but I also SUN hope that it won’t be boring. Nothingness is not rest, there SUN is no refreshment in nothingness. Eternal rest, rest in the SUN Lord, must, I hope, be about the best kind of loving SUN relationship possible. Heaven cannot just be about the SUN absence of things but the perfection of things. When we die, SUN we hope, through the resurrection, that life is changed not SUN taken away and that our hope is fulfilled in a way that we SUN cannot now know. That’s why we create the image of heaven. SUN But if we believe in a God of creation, of gradual SUN development and springing forth, then we must believe in a SUN God who can change death into something unexpected and SUN fulfilling, again in a way that cannot be imagined now. Or SUN to put it another way, the rest of eternity is not constant SUN activity but the taking away of our human restlessness, the SUN need for us to be constantly doing and surviving. In heaven, SUN survival is not needed, there is a different order of rest. SUN And in heaven, whatever that is, we move into the divine SUN timeframe, which again we cannot now imagine. The God of SUN creation has a wholly different concept of time from us SUN ordered and framed creatures. This is again why we must SUN spend time in prayer, resting in the Lord, for it begins to SUN tune us in to the divine understanding, into the mind of SUN Christ, and enables us to not only make the most of our time SUN here but also to consecrate time so that it becomes shared SUN with God in Christ. In this sharing, God can share his will SUN with us, rather than just us sharing our needs and desires. SUN SUN This cathedral stands as a sign of God’s timelessness, and SUN in its daily worship, we seek to draw ever closer into that SUN presence which is both here and now, and yet to come. The SUN God of rest, of re-creation is also the God of recreation, SUN and we can take pleasure in the fact that in rest, we can SUN find refreshment and renewal. SUN SUN Neil H: That timelessness is evoked in the music of the SUN anthem which the choir will now sing – a vision of rest in SUN heaven. Justorum animae by Stanford. SUN SUN Choir Justorum animae (Stanford) SUN SUN Neil H/Celia T Eternal God, SUN we give you thanks for the rhythms of rest and recreation SUN that permeate the seasons and inspire the grace and beauty SUN of creation. Help us to balance the responsibilities of work SUN with our desire to be creative that we may be your people in SUN all we do and all we are and combine the urgency of working SUN for your Kingdom with the joy of Sabbath rest. We ask this SUN in the name of Jesus Christ. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN We pray for those places around the world SUN SUN SUN SUN where the destructiveness of hatred, fear and violence SUN silence the voice of creativity, we pray for those who have SUN no rest from the relentlessness of suffering; we pray for SUN creative solutions and for courageous reconcilers; we pray SUN that we may not turn away our eyes from what is overwhelming SUN but be compassionate in our praying and generous in our SUN giving. SUN To you Lord of Love, SUN All We entrust our prayers. SUN SUN CHOIR Calm me Lord as you calmed the storm, SUN still me Lord, keep me from harm. SUN Let all the tumult within me cease; SUN enfold me Lord in your peace. SUN (Margaret Rizza) SUN SUN We pray for those who are so driven by their work that they SUN have lost the ability to rest; those who so hide behind SUN their work that they are afraid to rest and those for whom SUN the responsibilities of work drain them of all creativity. SUN To you Lord of Love, SUN All We entrust our prayers. SUN SUN CHOIR Calm me Lord as you calmed the storm, SUN SUN We give thanks for those whose creativity inspires and SUN enriches us; for those artists and poets whose calling means SUN they live on the edges of light and darkness. SUN We pray for ourselves that we would have confidence in our SUN own gifts and be encouragers of others. SUN To you Lord of Love, SUN All We entrust our prayers. SUN SUN CHOIR Calm me Lord as you calmed the storm, SUN SUN We pray for your church that she would show the world a SUN different way as she seeks to be your hands and feet and SUN reach out to those in need. May she model a rhythm of being SUN and doing, of resting and working that reflects your heart SUN and your longing. SUN To you Lord of Love, SUN All We entrust our prayers. SUN SUN CHOIR Calm me Lord as you calmed the storm, SUN SUN God of all creation, you have made us for yourself, and our SUN hearts are restless till they find their rest in you. Teach SUN us to offer ourselves to your service, that here we may have SUN your peace, and in the world to come may see you face to SUN face; through Jesus Christ our Friend and Saviour. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN Neil H The childlike simplicity of our final hymn points us SUN to the unceasing creativity of God which, like all SUN creativity, is infinitely vulnerable. SUN Hymn Morning has broken (Bunessan) SUN Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) SUN SUN Neil H May the God of stillness and busyness, the God of SUN silence and music SUN so inspire in us a rhythm of creativity and rest that we SUN may not miss the gifts of being in our urge to keep on SUN doing. May the blessing of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit SUN be upon you and remain with you always. SUN All Amen. SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04d4w67 (Listen) SUN The Affliction of Consumption SUN SUN Will Self reflects on the power of modern day consumption SUN and the effect it is having on us. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj2c (Listen) SUN Roseate Tern SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Brett Westwood presents the Roseate Tern. One of the rarest SUN of the UK's breeding seabirds, the Roseate Tern is SUN exquisitely graceful. Roseate means flushed with pink and SUN seen close this bird does have a faint pinkish wash on its SUN chest in summer, but from a distance, it's the SUN brilliant-white freshly-laundered look of its back and wings SUN that distinguishes a Roseate Tern from its greyer relatives, SUN the Common and Arctic Terns. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04dh2jn (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 b04dh2jq (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Adrian Flynn SUN Director ..... Sean O'Connor SUN Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ben Archer: Thomas Lester SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Carol Treggoran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b042cs5t (Listen) SUN The Berlin Airlift SUN SUN At the end of WWII, a defeated Germany was divided amongst SUN the victors - the United States, the Soviet Union, Great SUN Britain, and France. The capital city Berlin, sitting deep SUN in the Soviet zone, was also divided into four parts. SUN SUN By 1948 it was apparent that the Western Powers' plans to SUN rebuild Germany differed from those of the Soviet Union. SUN Tensions came to a head on 24th June when, following a SUN series of diplomatic spats, the Soviets closed all roads, SUN railways and waterways into West Berlin. It seemed likely SUN that two and a half million Berliners would starve to death SUN or be forced to accept Soviet domination. It was one of the SUN first incidents of the Cold War. SUN SUN The Western Allies immediately took to the air, creating SUN what Berliners called a Luftbrucke, an air-bridge, carrying SUN food, coal, medicines and raw materials into the beleaguered SUN city. The operation, which lasted for fifteen months was the SUN largest humanitarian mission in Air Force history. SUN SUN At the height of the operation, hundreds of planes were in SUN the air around the clock. Their omnipresent roar became a SUN part of daily life. Thousands of workers - Allied and German SUN - supported the airlift effort on the ground. When two SUN airports proved inadequate, Berliners of all walks of life SUN came forward to speed construction of a third. SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites British personnel involved in the SUN operation - including RAF Dakota pilot Dick Arscott, air SUN traffic controller Joyce Hargrave-Wright, flight engineer SUN Alec Chambers, Fred Danckwardt who was head of security at SUN the British airbase Gatow, and Freddie Montgomery who worked SUN in British military intelligence in Berlin. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04fc38m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b04d1mrf (Listen) SUN Series 70, Episode 1 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation? Paul Merton, Alun SUN Cochrane, Jonathan Ross and Liza Tarbuck find out. With the SUN legendary Nicholas Parsons keeping the score. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Alun Cochrane SUN Panellist: Jonathan Ross SUN Panellist: Lisa Tarbuck SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04dh397 (Listen) SUN Eat for Victory SUN SUN Eat for Victory - Sheila Dillon meets the people who are SUN using the techniques of WWII rationing to improve their diet SUN today. Clare Millar likes to dress as a land girl, and eat SUN like one too. She isn't interested in eating Woolton Pie but SUN she finds that the mantras from the time of rationing such SUN as Grow Your Own Food, Don't Take More Than You Can Eat and SUN Don't Waste Good Food are still useful today. SUN SUN 60 years after the end of rationing Sheila and Clare find SUN that there is still a lot to learn from that period. They SUN meet women in their 80s and 90s to hear the cooking SUN techniques that they learnt during rationing. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill SUN in Bristol. SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Clare Millar SUN Visit Clare's website - 'Eat For Victory' SUN here SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Clare Millar SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04dh187 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04dh399 (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 Soul Music b0418kfw (Listen) SUN Series 18, Myfanwy SUN SUN The hauntingly beautiful Welsh song Myfanwy 'is in the air SUN in Wales' according to singer Cerys Matthews. She along with SUN others discuss what the melodic tale of unrequited love SUN means to them. They include a Welsh woman living in Sicily SUN for whom the song represents 'hiraeth', a longing or SUN homesickness for Wales and another who believes it expresses SUN the 'wounded soul of the Welsh'. A man remembers how his SUN late brother and he used to sing it in pubs in North Wales SUN and how the song symbolises the unrequited love he felt for SUN him. Members of the Ynysowen choir, started after the mining SUN disaster in Aberfan as a way of dealing with the emotion, SUN talk about the song's power, and an ex soldier recalls SUN digging for survivors with lines from it playing in his head SUN "Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy". SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04d4q0c (Listen) SUN Sandringham SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from the SUN Sandringham Estate. Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne SUN Swithinbank join the panel to answer the local audience's SUN questions. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras. SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 1.Q. I have a Cobnut bush that is about fifteen years old. SUN It usually produces a good crop but last year each nut SUN collected had a small hole in it and nothing inside. What SUN has happened? SUN A. This sounds like a weevil. There is not much you can do SUN but hope this year is weevil free. SUN SUN 2. Q. Can the panel outline the advantages and disadvantages SUN of grafting different species of Apple onto one rootstock? SUN A. It's a brilliant idea but quite often one species will be SUN more vigorous than the other. The advantage is that if it SUN did work, you would have a varied crop of apples without SUN taking up too much space. The disadvantage is that different SUN species require different pruning routines and this can get SUN complicated. There are ways of training apple trees to allow SUN you to have a range of varieties without taking up too much SUN room and without the hassle of grafting. SUN SUN 3. Q. What mix of planting medium would the panel recommend SUN for wooden planting tubs? We want to grow Roses, Clematis, SUN annuals and bulbs. Also, would the panel recommended SUN complete replenishment or a regular top-up dressing? SUN A. Use a mixture; half of your own good compost and half a SUN proprietary mix. But if you don't have your own compost, you SUN could use a soil conditioner and good topsoil. Make a mix; SUN one third John Innes number two, one third soilless potting SUN compost and one third grit. Periodically dig half of it up SUN and replace it with new compost and churn it through. SUN Completely replace the soil every five or ten years. Be wary SUN of plating a Clematis there, it might not do so well. SUN SUN 4. Q. What can I plant that will give me colour all year SUN round? I have heavy soil that gets waterlogged easily and SUN the area in question is small and shady. SUN A. Drymis Aramatica 'Suzette' has lots of different leaf SUN colours and red shoots. Variegated Pieris is also colourful SUN and you can under plant it with bulbs. SUN SUN 5. Q. How should I feed Alstroemerias and should large SUN clumps be divided? SUN A. Just mulch them (with rotted garden compost) and give SUN them a couple of liquid feeds but if they look as if they SUN need more you could give them a slow release fertiliser in SUN the spring. You could use a high-potash liquid feed to SUN encourage flowering. Don't worry about splitting the clumps SUN until they get bigger. Check the plants for viruses as they SUN are particularly prone. SUN SUN 6. Q. Is it okay to keep taking runners to replace old SUN strawberry plants or is it better to buy new plants that SUN have been grown from seed? SUN A. It is good to replace the strawberries, and make sure to SUN buy certified plants and put them into fresh soil to avoid SUN viruses. SUN SUN 7. Q. Why are my Agapanthus stems curly? SUN A. This could be a virus and if that is the case you will SUN see flecks of cream in the leaves. Otherwise, this might be SUN due to pest damage. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw and Head Gardener of Sandringham, Martin SUN Woods. SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04dh39c (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between mothers who have SUN both lost sons, a mother-in-law and her son's civil partner, SUN and a retired couple who regularly ride roller coasters. SUN These conversations from Northern Ireland, London and Devon SUN prove once again that it's surprising what you hear when you SUN listen. 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 b04dh39f (Listen) SUN Charles II, Part Two: The Long Lease of Pleasant Days SUN SUN By Mike Walker SUN SUN Charles II fathered over a dozen illegitimate children, yet SUN his wife Queen Catherine was unable to produce an heir. Mike SUN Walker's sweeping epic sees Charles fending off the claims SUN of his eldest son Monmouth and the plots against his SUN increasingly unpopular Catholic wife and brother. All this SUN while juggling an often tempestuous love life. SUN SUN Directors: Sasha Yevtushenko & Marc Beeby. SUN SUN Credits SUN Charles II: Pip Torrens SUN James: James Fleet SUN Ashley-Cooper: Ken Bones SUN Halifax: Clive Hayward SUN Monmouth: Alex Waldmann SUN Louise: Olivia Ross SUN Barbara: Stephanie Racine SUN Titus Oates: Matthew Watson SUN Catherine: Elaine Claxton SUN Speaker: David Cann SUN Doctor: Damian Lynch SUN Priest: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Huntsman: Mark Edel-Hunt SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Writer: Mike Walker SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04dh39h (Listen) SUN Literary Landscape: Ross Raisin and Yorkshire SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup takes a literal and literary ramble up SUN Haworth Moor, in the Yorkshire Pennines, to discover the SUN wild, dark and changeable landscape which inspired writers SUN from the Bronte sisters to Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. SUN Joined by John Bowen, Professor of 19th Century Literature SUN at the University of York and Will Atkins, author of 'the SUN Moor', she journeys to Top Withens, the supposed site upon SUN which Wuthering Heights was based. SUN SUN John Bowen talks about the sense of liberty that the moors SUN provided for the Bronte sisters, whose personification of SUN the landscape in their literary characters is crucial in SUN their work. Will Atkins has travelled through most of the SUN moorland in England and discusses the particular brooding SUN quality of these northern moors, and their impact on authors SUN who have passed through them. Author Ross Raisin tells Open SUN Book why he chose his home territory, the North Yorkshire SUN Moors, as the setting for his 2008 debut novel 'God's Own SUN County', the book which won him the Times Young Writer of SUN the Year Award and discusses the impact that growing up SUN within an isolated landscape has had on his work. SUN SUN Presenter Mariella Frostrup. SUN Producer Ruth Sanderson. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN God's Own Country by Ross Raisin SUN The Moor by William Atkins SUN The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett SUN Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte SUN Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte SUN Selected Poems by Ted Hughes SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Ross Raisin SUN Interviewed Guest: Will Atkins SUN Interviewed Guest: John Bowen SUN Producer: Ruth Sanderson SUN SUN 16:30 Piers the Plowman Revisited b04dh39k (Listen) SUN It's one of the strangest, most complex and frustrating SUN works in Middle English, so when writer Ian Sansom is tasked SUN with coming up with a radio adaptation of William Langland's SUN medieval dream poem 'Piers the Plowman', it presents a bit SUN of a challenge. SUN SUN His producer's solution? To lock Ian away in a Curfew Tower SUN in the Glens of Antrim and challenge him to come up with his SUN adaptation over the course of a weekend, after which time SUN he'll be expected to put on a performance. SUN SUN The 14th century poem - part theological allegory, part SUN social satire - may have eluded scholars for centuries but SUN Ian has help at hand. Aside from three poetry students from SUN Queen's University, renowned medievalist Dr Stephen Kelly SUN will be there to guide him on his quest for salvation. SUN SUN As Ian grapples with the text written in alliterative long SUN lines and framed in a series of dream visions, adaptation SUN expert Brian Sibley will be just a phone call away. Then SUN there's the members of Belfast outfit The Wireless Mystery SUN Theatre who'll be dropping by to bring music and their own SUN distinctive style to Ian's performance. SUN SUN Who knows, it could turn out to be a dream...or it could be SUN a nightmare. SUN SUN Producer: Conor Garrett SUN SUN Sound Design: Jason Martin. SUN SUN 17:00 The Tories and the Police: The End of the Affair SUN b04d4n8l (Listen) SUN The Tories and the Police: Robin Aitken examines the SUN apparent close relationship between the Conservative Party SUN and the police force. A relationship which was cemented with SUN an unprecedented pay rise in the 1970s by Margaret Thatcher. SUN A relationship which has soured over recent years SUN culminating in a damning speech by Theresa May to the Police SUN Federation conference earlier this year. Robin Aitken talks SUN to Conservative politicians who have been key players in the SUN story of this marriage of law and order over the last four SUN decades including former Home Secretaries Ken Clarke and SUN Michael Howard. SUN SUN Presenter: Robin Aitken SUN Producer: Emma Rippon. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04dh0rl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04dh189 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04dh18c (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04dh18f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04dh3xf (Listen) SUN The best of BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04dh3xh (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Charles Paris Mystery b00w77k5 (Listen) SUN Murder in the Title, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Jeremy Front SUN Based on the novel by Simon Brett SUN SUN Charles has been the victim of an attempted stabbing. Can he SUN find the murderer before he strikes again or will Charles be SUN fired from the cast first? 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. So when SUN he's offered a small role in an awful play up in Rugland she SUN nearly pushes him out the door. SUN SUN The production is as creaky as anything Charles has ever SUN appeared in but the next play the theatre is scheduled to do SUN is much more controversial. Soon a protest group has formed SUN calling for a 'Porn Free Rugland'. And nasty accidents begin SUN to befall members of the cast and crew. SUN SUN Music Played SUN SUN Carpenters SUN Top Of The World SUN SUN Middle of the Road SUN Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep SUN SUN Led Zeppelin SUN Lemon Song 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 The Kinks SUN You Really Got Me SUN SUN The Kinks SUN Village Green Preservation Society SUN SUN Lou Reed SUN I'm So Free SUN SUN Bob Dylan SUN Subterranean Homesick Blues SUN SUN Muse SUN Uprising SUN SUN Lou Reed SUN Vicious 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 Sean: Iain Batchelor SUN Ronnie: Sean Baker 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 Comic Fringes b04dh3xk (Listen) SUN Series 10, Love and Orangutans SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded live in front of an audience at this SUN year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. SUN SUN The series gets underway with a comic tale from Romesh SUN Ranganathan, Best Newcomer nominee at last year's Edinburgh SUN Comedy Awards. Completing the line up, and coming up over SUN the next two Sundays, will be witty tales by award-winning SUN Irish comedian Grainne Maguire and satirist John O'Farrell. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Romesh Ranganathan SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04d4v85 (Listen) SUN Student Loans SUN SUN A recent report suggests that the cost of the government's SUN new student loan system is rising. Tim Harford investigates SUN whether they should they have foreseen the rising costs, and SUN whether the new system will end up costing more than the old SUN one. SUN SUN We also examine whether it's true that one tonne of ore SUN produces one gram of gold, but one tonne of mobile phones SUN contains 300 grams of gold and ask whether it means we're SUN all walking around with tiny goldmines in our pockets. SUN SUN The Pope sparked a global debate recently when he reportedly SUN said that 2% of priests are paedophiles. We ask whether that SUN claim is true. How would we know? What does it mean to say SUN that someone is a paedophile? And is two per cent higher or SUN lower than the population at large? SUN SUN And machine learning is a buzzword of the moment, part of SUN the technology behind things like Google translate and SUN Microsoft's Kinect. Anthony Goldbloom from the website SUN Kaggle explains how machine learning works, and talks about SUN the next step - deep learning. SUN SUN (Image: Education Costs - Mortar Board Graduation Cap Full SUN of Coins. Credit: Thinkstock). SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04d4v83 (Listen) SUN Lauren Bacall, Prof Sir Alan Peacock, Robin Williams, Peter SUN Sculthorpe SUN SUN Andrea Catherwood on SUN SUN Oscar-winning actor and stand up comedy genius Robin SUN Williams famed for films such as Good Morning Vietnam and SUN Dead Poets' Society. SUN SUN Hollywood movie legend Lauren Bacall who shot to stardom in SUN the 1940's starring alongside Humphrey Bogart who she SUN married, creating one of Hollywood's most high profile SUN partnerships on and off screen. SUN SUN Peter Sculthorpe, credited as being the first truly SUN Australian composer who created music with a distinct SUN identity drawing on the Australian landscape and Aboriginal SUN music for his inspiration. SUN SUN Professor Sir Alan Peacock, a leading free market economist SUN with expertise in cultural economics who chaired the Peacock SUN Committee into funding of the BBC in the mid eighties. SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN Lauren Bacall (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to theatre director Terry Hands and to SUN Angela Allen who worked with her. SUN SUN Born 16 September 1924; died 12 August 2014 aged 89. SUN SUN Professor Sir Alan Peacock SUN SUN Andrea spoke to his friend Professor Hector MacQueen and to SUN Professor Janet Jones. SUN SUN Born 26 June 1922; died 2 August 2014 aged 92. SUN SUN Robin Williams SUN SUN Andrea spoke to his friend Stanley Wilson. SUN SUN Born 21 July 1951; died 11 August 2014 aged 63. SUN SUN Peter Sculthorpe SUN SUN Andrea spoke to his friend, the composer David Matthews. SUN SUN Born 29 April 1929; died 8 August 2014 aged 85. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Andrea Catherwood SUN Producer: Paula McGinley SUN SUN 21:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04dh08x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04dh2h0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04d4v76 (Listen) SUN Inside Silicon Valley SUN SUN Can Silicon Valley's enormous success as the global centre SUN of innovation continue indefinitely? With new challengers SUN popping up all over the world - from Boston to Tel Aviv - SUN will Silicon Valley keep ahead of the game and what seeds SUN need to be sown now to ensure future creativity? Peter Day SUN explores the Valley - past, present and future - with SUN start-ups, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Joshua McGinty SUN SUN Piston SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Jamis MacNiven SUN SUN Buck’s of Woodside SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Kat Manalac SUN SUN Y Combinator SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Elise Polezel and Matthew Udomphol SUN SUN LivBlends SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Judy Estrin SUN SUN Entrepreneur and author The Innovation Gap SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Steve Jurvetson SUN SUN Draper Fisher Jurvetson SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Janos Veres SUN SUN PARC SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Steve Hoover SUN SUN PARC SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Paul Saffo SUN SUN futurist SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Curt Carlson SUN SUN SRI International SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04dh3xm (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04dh3xp (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04d4tzm (Listen) SUN Robin Wright; David Michod; Crisis in the VFX industry SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Actress Robin Wright reveals which director told her that SUN there would be no need for actors in 20 years time, thanks SUN to digital technology which can scan their every expression. SUN SUN Director David Michod answers his critics who said there was SUN no plot in his revenge drama The Rover. SUN SUN With several Oscars for Gravity, 2014 seemed like a good SUN year for the visual effects industry in this country, but in SUN fact, many British companies are facing a crisis, as The SUN Film Programme explains. SUN SUN We hear from a listener who inadvertently stopped the staff SUN of a cinema enjoying the day off to celebrate a royal SUN wedding. SUN SUN The Congress SUN Directed by Ari Folman, SUN The Congress SUN is in cinemas from Friday 15 August, certificate 15. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Robin Wright SUN Interviewed Guest: David Michod SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04dh2gt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 AUGUST 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04dh19d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Educators b04d4nvv (Listen) MON Sir Ken Robinson MON MON A talk for the online lecture series TED in 2006 launched MON Sir Ken Robinson's ideas to a global audience. He spoke MON about creativity in schools for 20 minutes, and the video MON has been watched more than any other TED Talk, with 27 MON million views so far. MON MON In conversation with Sarah Montague, he argues that modern MON teaching is a product of industrialisation, putting children MON through a factory model that prepares them for working life. MON But if we truly value innovation and creativity, why isn't MON it taught? MON MON For the programme, Sir Ken returns to the former Margaret MON Beavan Special School in Liverpool, where he spent his MON primary school years in the 1950s, after contracting polio MON at four years old. MON MON He's since advised governments and businesses around the MON world on how to harness creativity, and believes if schools MON were radically different, giving creative subjects equal MON status, children would find their true talents. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04dh2gr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04dh19g (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04dh19j (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04dh19l (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04dh19n (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dk84f (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon MON Edwin Counsell. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04dk84h (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04dh19s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xsn (Listen) MON Common Gull MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Michaela Strachan presents the common gull. In spite of MON their name Common Gulls aren't as common or widespread as MON some of our other gulls. Most of the breeding colonies in MON the UK are in Scotland. In North America their alternative MON name is Mew gull because of their mewing cat-like cries. MON MON Common Gull (Larus canus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b04dk84k (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b04dk84m (Listen) MON Series 7, Reading Aloud MON MON Stephen Fry looks at the history and practice of reading MON aloud. MON MON Silent reading is a relatively new accomplishment for man. MON In Greek and Roman times, reading silently to oneself was MON frowned on - libraries resonated with the rumble of MON individuals reading aloud to themselves. Skill in the art MON was much respected and it was fashionable to hold soirees at MON which one read aloud to one's friends. MON MON Pliny the Younger was so ashamed of his lack of skill in MON this area that he recruited a talented slave to conceal MON himself behind a curtain and read aloud a manuscript while MON Pliny mimed delivery of the content to the audience seated MON in front - the first recorded example of the art of MON lip-syncing. MON MON Later, monks started putting spaces between the words of a MON manuscript so it was easier to make silent sense of the MON content and, over the centuries as populations became more MON literate, so reading silently became the norm. MON MON But reading aloud didn't go away. Stephen's studio guest is MON Professor John Mullan of University College, London, who MON provides fascinating insight into the greats of literature MON and their skills in this area - Austen, Dickens, Stevenson. MON He points out that contemporary authors are having to hone MON these skills in order to satisfy the demands of attendees at MON the ever growing number of literary festivals, eager to hear MON text delivered in the authorial voice. MON MON We hear also from Jane Davis and members of her Reader MON Organisation in Liverpool, a charity working to connect MON people with great literature through shared reading aloud. MON Damien who is bi-polar, and Louise who has Asperger MON Syndrome, are witnesses to the change the simple art of MON reading aloud can bring to troubled lives. MON MON Producer: Merilyn Harris MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b03b0kfh (Listen) MON Series 1, Idea MON MON The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the MON history of the most influential ideas in the story of MON civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. MON MON In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning MON historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each MON programme with the first, extant evidence of a single MON word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards MON and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have MON been moulded by history and have impacted on history and the MON human experience. In this, the first programme of the MON series, Bettany investigates the idea of 'idea' with MON neuroscientist Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, classicist MON Professor Paul Cartledge, historian Dr. Stephen Pigney and MON specialist in intellectual property law, Professor Tanya MON Aplin. MON MON Other ideas examined in The Ideas that Make Us are desire, MON agony, fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty, hospitality MON and peace. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON The Iliad in a sex shop? MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04dk84p (Listen) MON On Silbury Hill, Episode 1 MON MON Silbury Hill in Wiltshire - together with Stonehenge, MON Avebury and the remains of numerous barrows - forms part of MON a Neolithic landscape about which very little is known or MON understood. MON MON Adam Thorpe describes his book as '"a marble cake of MON different soils. Memoir, data, theory, streaks of poetry, MON swirls of fiction" - but he is not alone in having been MON drawn to explore the meaning of the largest prehistoric MON mound in Europe. Artists and archaeologists as well as MON various cults and neo-pagan traditions have focussed on the MON blank canvas that the hill presents as a way of exploring MON our complicated relationship with the past and the people MON who lived there. MON MON "An estimated million hours spent on construction rather MON than herding or cooking or stitching must have had a point, MON but we don't get it. Is conjecture a species of fiction? To MON muddy the difference further, Silbury insisted on being MON called 'she'. I obeyed, not out of New Age winsomeness but MON from the influence of country dialect, in which neuter MON pronouns are as alien as robot leaf blowers." MON MON This chalkland memoir told in fragments and snapshots, takes MON a circular route around the hill, a monument which we can no MON longer climb, and celebrates the urge to stand and wonder. MON MON Episode 1:The base of Silbury Hill covers five acres of MON Wiltshire turf which have not seen sunlight for 4,300 years. MON Adam Thorpe has known her since he was 13yrs old. MON MON Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Director: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Author: Adam Thorpe MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04dk862 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04dk864 (Listen) MON The Awakening, Episode 1 MON MON by Kate Chopin, dramatised by Janice Okoh MON MON Holidaying on Grand Isle in 1899, Edna Pontellier feels she MON is living in a dream, so the attentions of the dashing young MON Robert Lebrun serve merely to amuse her. MON MON Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow MON MON When it was published in 1899, Kate Chopin's novel shocked MON society and divided critics. Respectable, married Edna MON Pontellier, 28, is away from her home in New Orleans, MON holidaying on Grand Isle in the Gulf of Mexico with her MON husband and children. Teaching her to swim is the debonair MON young Robert Lebrun, known for forming an attachment with a MON different woman every summer. Despite warnings from her more MON conventional friend, Adele, Edna falls incontrovertibly for MON Robert. When he leaves Louisiana for Mexico, Edna realises MON she's been "awakened" and questions everything: her MON marriage, her position, the society she lives in. But what MON is left for her? The novel is regarded by many as the first MON in a new wave of modern American literature. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Credits MON Edna Pontellier: Pippa Bennett-Warner MON Leonce Pontellier: Guy Paul MON Celestine: Petra Letang MON Robert Lebrun: PJ Brennan MON Adele Ratignolle: Sasha Pick MON Madame LeBrun: Adjoa Andoh MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Adaptor: Janice Okoh MON Author: Kate Chopin MON MON 11:00 Recycled Radio b04dk868 (Listen) MON Series 2, Art MON MON Welcome to the chopped up, looped up, sped up world of MON Recycled Radio, introduced by cartoonist Gerald Scarfe. This MON week's programme : Art. MON "I've been fascinated by this subject ever since art MON college, where a young David Hockney recognised early on the MON advantages of dying his hair and wearing a gold lamé suit. A MON metaphor for life ? You'll find out in this exploration of MON good art, bad art - the over-priced and the over-hyped." MON Expect contributions from a dream line up including Bridget MON Kendall, Tony Hart, AL Kennedy and Kenneth Clarke; plus the MON Matthews Parris, Lucas and D'Ancona; Christopher Biggins, MON John Prescott and Linda Snell from "The Archers". MON The programme is produced in Bristol by Miles Warde. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b04dk87p (Listen) MON Spring MON MON A sitcom from Danny Robins, writer of the Lenny Henry comedy MON Rudy's Rare Records. This series is set and recorded in MON 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 2: Spring. In which Geoff attempts to bond with his MON new family and embarks on a potentially hazardous fishing MON trip with the two most taciturn men in Sweden. Will he MON survive the alcohol? Or the fish? 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 Anders: Fredrick Andersson MON Ian: Danny Robins MON Director: Frank Stirling MON Writer: Danny Robins MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04fc3n7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04dk87r (Listen) MON 18 August 1914 - Hilary Pearce MON MON Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a MON hundred years ago. Where there's war, there's brass, and MON Hilary Pearce has the makings of a real operator. MON MON Written by: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Archie: Arthur Hughes MON Parsons: Alun Raglan MON Bill: Ben Crowe MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04dk87t (Listen) MON The start of evening peak time rail fares in the North of MON England. MON MON The Section 106 website that has been set up to help MON developers avoid having to build affordable homes. MON MON On the 50th anniversary of Neighbourhood watch have we MON forgotten how to be good neighbours? MON MON And if you've ever tried to unlock your phone you know what MON a long winded process it can be, we'll find out why and MON speak to the network who are the first to sell all their MON phones unlocked. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04dh19v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04dk87w (Listen) MON James Robbins presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04dk87y (Listen) MON A Blooming Tree of Life MON MON The new science of DNA sequencing during the 1990's would MON not only lead to the mapping of complete human and plant MON genomes but it was to also revolutionise the classification MON for flowering plants. For the first time, rather than the MON 200 year old tradition of classifying plants just on their MON shape and structures, scientists could begin to infer how MON closely plants were related by examining the differences in MON DNA between different families and species. MON MON Kathy Willis examines the story of how new connections MON between plants were uncovered that appearance alone could MON never have suggested. She talks to Kew's Mark Chase, leader MON of the Angiosperm Plant Phylogeny Group - an international MON group of scientists who pioneered this work, and hears how MON this molecular analysis was to rewrite some of the many MON assumptions that we've made about close relationships within MON and between plant families. MON MON Kathy also hears from plant morphologist Paula Rudell on how MON detailed pollen analysis was to back up some of the MON controversial findings that this work was suggesting The MON practical implications of this new way of classifying are MON huge and could open the way to identifying new plants for MON medicinal use, and help accurately determine the ability of MON plants to withstand future environmental change. MON MON With additional contributions from Kew taxonomist Gwil Lewis MON and historian Jim Endersby MON MON Producer Adrian Washbourne. MON The View from Kew: DNA and the plant family tree MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04dh3xh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04dk880 (Listen) MON The Vicar, the Automaton and the Talking Dog MON MON The Vicar, The Automaton and The Talking Dog MON by Lavinia Murray MON MON Using a mixture of fact and fantasy, this is an MON extraordinary day in the life of Alexander Graham Bell as a MON child, where we discover the roots of his genius, and how MON his mother's impending deafness helped lead him to his MON invention of the telephone. Aleck, with the help of his MON friend and brother, made an automaton that could say 'Mama' MON and further, he manipulated his dog's throat and mouth so he MON indeed had a talking dog. MON MON Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris MON MON Further info MON We begin with a symphony of various telephone rings through MON the ages brought to us on a light Scottish breeze, and then MON we cut to answer machine. We see the stark difference MON between Bell's world of sound and his mother's world into MON silence. This is a drama not without humour, fascinating, MON illuminating and enchanting; providing a real, dramatic MON insight into the roots of a scientific genius, told with MON imagination and originality, and created especially for MON radio. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON Credits MON Aleck: John Bell MON Ben: Keir Beckwith MON Rev McReady: Stuart McQuarrie MON Father: Seamus O'Neill MON Voice of the Automaton: Seamus O'Neill MON Trouve: Seamus O'Neill MON Mother: Morag Siller MON Melville: Stephen Fletcher MON Writer: Lavinia Murray MON Director: Pauline Harris MON Producer: Pauline Harris MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b04dk882 (Listen) MON Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for MON 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 Episode 2 MON MON Comedian and writer Dave Gorman MON Novelist and journalist Philip Hensher MON Presenter, critic and author Libby Purves MON Writer, poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Dave Gorman MON Panellist: Philip Hensher MON Panellist: Libby Purves MON Panellist: Michael Rosen MON Reader: Peter Jefferson MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04dh397 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Ansel Adams on Tape b04dk88v (Listen) MON Miles Warde explores the life of the great American MON photographer Ansel Adams on tape. Using extensive archive, MON the programme builds a compelling picture of the man MON responsible for some of the most expensive photographic MON prints in history. He is probably most famous for dramatic MON black and white images of Yosemite, while a 1948 print of MON Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico sold for $609,000 in 2006. MON MON With contributions from Ansel Adams, the photographer Greg MON Bartley, and Hiag Akmakjian, whose recordings of Adams MON speaking in Carmel, California over 30 years ago have never MON previously been heard. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04dk88x (Listen) MON Seven Deadly Sins MON MON Envy, Pride, Anger, Gluttony and Lust are some of the MON misdemeanours considered so serious by the Church that they MON could have a fatal effect on an individual's spiritual MON health. Early British wall paintings stressed the connection MON between committing these so called "deadly sins" and ending MON up in Hell. But who decided what the seven deadly sins MON should be? Why was sadness replaced by sloth? Ernie Rea MON discussed the Seven Deadly Sins, their history and relevance MON today with John Cornwall, Catholic writer and Visiting MON Professor for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies at MON the University of Cambridge; Akhandadi Das, Vishnau Hindu MON teacher and theologian; and Father Andrew Louth, Archpriest MON of the Russian Orthodox Church and Emeritus Professor of MON Patristic Studies at Durham University. MON MON Producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b04dk88z (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04dh19x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b04dk891 (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 2 MON MON Hosted by the legendary Nicholas Parsons and recorded at the MON Edinburgh Festival - how hard can it be to talk for 60 MON seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation? Gyles MON Brandreth, Paul Merton and Sue Perkins find out. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04dk89r (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04dk89t (Listen) MON John Wilson talk to Man Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson MON about his new novel, J, set in a dystopian future where the MON past is a dangerous country. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Interviewed Guest: Howard Jacobson MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04dk864 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Don't Mention the Referendum b04dk89w (Listen) MON Friends are falling out and the atmosphere is tense around MON the family dinner table, as the temperature rises over the MON issue of Scottish independence. Husbands and wives may agree MON in general on politics but disagree, vehemently, on the idea MON of Scotland 'being a 'nation again'. MON MON It's the heat of the debate, and the passions of those who MON have decided, that have marked much of this referendum, MON which centres on a particular vision for Scotland that goes MON beyond the party politics of general elections. MON MON In her dying words Scottish politician Margo Macdonald spoke MON about the importance of soothing these divides and called MON for Scots to seek a common purpose, whatever the political MON landscape. MON MON This programme captures these divisions in the run up to the MON referendum vote on September 18th, illustrating the strongly MON defined splits that exist on an individual basis as a means MON of reflecting a moment in time, when Scotland will need to MON find a path forward, no matter what the result of the vote. MON MON James Naughtie talks to the husbands and wives, children and MON parents and friends who disagree over Scottish independence. MON MON Producer: Caitlin Smith. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04d4sbz (Listen) MON Chasing China's Doomsday Cult MON MON Almighty God vs the Red Dragon: It sounds like a fantasy MON action film but it is in fact a real and disturbing struggle MON in China. The most vivid case involves a group of people who MON beat a stranger to death in a fast food restaurant. They MON said they had no choice because the victim was a 'demon'. MON The killers are fanatical followers of the Church of the MON Almighty God, a Christian doomsday cult which claims MON millions of members across China and pledges to overthrow MON the Chinese Communist Party - which it calls the 'Great Red MON Dragon'. Gracie uses her fluent Chinese to gain access to MON families of those caught up in the cult, including a man who MON infiltrated it to save his wife. MON MON 21:00 The Listeners b04d4hpt (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON Listening is about more than hearing as we discover with MON people who listen for a living, and have learned to MON interpret meaning in the sounds they hear. In this, the MON second of three programmes, the four listeners all listen to MON sounds which are indicators of health and quality. In the MON mid-1960's Bernie Krause became involved with early analogue MON synthesisers and when he and his musician friend Paul Beaver MON decided to make an album which incorporated natural sounds, MON Bernie was the one who went out on location to record MON natural sounds. The experience changed his life, and began MON to record and archive natural soundscapes. During the past MON 45 years he has spent listening and recording Bernie has MON become increasingly aware of how sound is an indicator of MON the health of a landscape or environment. "Of the 4,500 MON hours of marine and terrestrial habitats that I have MON recorded, 50% of those habitats come from now what I call MON extinct habitats ... the habitats are altogether silent or MON can no longer be heard in their original form". Sound is MON also an indicator of health when it comes to the human lungs MON as Dr Nabil Jarad demonstrates when he listens with a MON stethoscope, and simply tapping a piece of wood provides MON early stringed musical instrument maker, Roger Rose with the MON information he needs when choosing and shaping wood for an MON instrument "Everything about the instrument really affects MON the sound ...from when we start to choose the wood.." MON Finally, Valentin Amrhein describes what he and his MON colleagues have learned about the quality of an individual MON Nightingale by listening to their songs. It appears the MON nature and number of trills in a song is used by other males MON and females to determine the fitness and health of the MON singer. MON MON Bernie Krause MON Bernie Krause is a musician, writer, bioacoustician and MON founder of Wild Sanctuary, an organisation dedicated to the MON recording and archiving of natural soundscapes. Pic: Tim MON Chapman MON Listen to the TED talk 'Bernie Krause: The Voice of the MON Natural World' MON MON Roger Rose MON Roger Rose is a specialist stringed instrument maker – a MON maker of Baroque bows and early stringed musical MON instruments, particularly Viola da Gamba. MON See a selection of Roger Rose's work MON MON Dr Valentin Amrhein MON Valentin Amrhein is a senior lecturer at the University of MON Basel in Switzerland and also Director of the Research MON Station ‘Petite Camargue Alsacienne’ where he and his MON colleagues study the behaviour and song of Nightingales. MON See more on the The Research Station Petite Camargue MON Alsacienne, founded in 1852 MON Read about Dr Amrhein's work with the evolutionary biology MON team at the University of Basel MON MON Dr Nabil Jarad MON MON Dr Nabil MON Jarad is a consultant chest MON physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Honorary Clinical MON Senior Lecturer at Bristol MON University. MON More on Dr Nabil Jarad's work at Bristol University MON MON Best of Natural History Radio MON This programme will be available to download for free MON shortly after the broadcast - via the MON Best of Natural History Radio podcast MON MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b04dk84m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04dh19z (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04dk8b8 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04dk8bb (Listen) MON A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 6 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 Author: Carys Bray MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04d4jy3 (Listen) MON The Online Me MON MON Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney asks are we different online MON than in real life? Breakfast presenter Nick Grimshaw says MON he's cooler, funnier and more 'street' on twitter, while MON ultra-hip fashion blogger Bip Ling has made up her own MON language and a character called Mooch on instagram... Laura MON Dockrill performs a specially commissioned poem on the MON subject and explains why being called 'saffron' is the MON highest accolade around. MON MON Dr Aleks Krotoski describes how we use language to create MON multiple personalities online across different social media MON platforms and the psychological effect of this. Forensic MON linguist Dr Claire Hardaker explains how communities rapidly MON develop their own unique lexicons as a way of establishing MON who's in and who's out. MON MON Producer Milly Chowles. MON MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from The Online Me (3) MON MON Bip Ling's digitally enhanced Instagram picture MON MON Writer Laura Dockrill gets wordy with presenter Gemma MON Cairney MON MON Nick Grimshaw on Radio 4 for the first time #radio4 #selfie MON MON 23:30 Shared Experience b03nt8j5 (Listen) MON Series 2, Falling Off the Wagon MON MON "That first drink and it was like woohoo, a party going off MON in my head" Three people with different addictions talk MON frankly to Fi Glover about falling off the wagon. In Lisa's MON case, one cocktail was all it took to get her back on hard MON drugs and alcohol. For Richard, it was putting a one pound MON coin into a slot machine and winning the jackpot, while MON Simon was in such denial about his addiction that he used MON drugs as a way of abstaining from alcohol, so that MON technically he could say he wasn't relapsing. MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 AUGUST 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04dh1bq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04dk84p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04dh1bs (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04dh1bv (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04dh1bx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04dh1bz (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dm0pk (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon TUE Edwin Counsell. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04dm0pm (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Lucy Bickerton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xwb (Listen) TUE Spotted Redshank TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Michaela Strachan presents the spotted redshank. Spotted TUE Redshanks are elegant long-legged waders which don't breed TUE in the UK but pass through in spring and autumn on journeys TUE between their summer home in Scandinavia and their wintering TUE grounds in southern Europe and Africa. TUE TUE Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) TUE Image courtesy of Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04dm114 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 A Law Unto Themselves b04dm116 (Listen) TUE Eva Joly TUE TUE Helena Kennedy talks to the internationally renowned TUE investigative judge Eva Joly who has devoted much of her TUE life to fighting corruption in the upper echelons of French TUE business and political life - relentlessly investigating and TUE prosecuting people whom she believes consider themselves TUE above the law. TUE TUE The Norwegian-born judge talks about her seven year long TUE investigation into a multi-billion euro fraud involving the TUE state-owned Elf oil company. Thirty people were eventually TUE convicted and senior members of former President Francois TUE Mitterand's government implicated after Eva Joly revealed TUE that company directors had siphoned off billions of francs TUE to pay for bribes and luxurious lifestyles. TUE TUE She tells Helena Kennedy about how she received death TUE threats and was placed under 24 hour police protection, TUE placing intolerable pressure on her family - eventually TUE resulting in the break-up of her marriage. TUE TUE The pressures of the investigation only re-enforced her TUE determination to continue with the case, and bring the TUE guilty to justice. She believes the conviction sent out a TUE sign that power and wealth does not bring impunity from the TUE law. TUE TUE More recently she has switched careers and entered politics, TUE becoming an MEP for the Green Party....but the fight against TUE corruption, not just in France but throughout the world, TUE remains her driving cause. She believes the crimes she has TUE uncovered are merely the tip of an iceberg. TUE TUE Producer: Matt Willis TUE An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04dm118 (Listen) TUE The Crime That Shocked Argentina TUE TUE The brutal kidnap and murder of Axel Blumberg, a 23-year-old TUE student, provoked a wave of protests in Argentina in 2004. TUE The demonstrators demanded a tough government response to TUE rising crime. The protests were led by Axel's father, Juan TUE Carlos. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04fc169 (Listen) TUE On Silbury Hill, Episode 2 TUE TUE Silbury Hill in Wiltshire - together with Stonehenge, TUE Avebury and the remains of numerous barrows - forms part of TUE a Neolithic landscape about which very little is known or TUE understood. TUE TUE Adam Thorpe describes his book as '"a marble cake of TUE different soils. Memoir, data, theory, streaks of poetry, TUE swirls of fiction" - but he is not alone in having been TUE drawn to explore the meaning of the largest prehistoric TUE mound in Europe. Artists and archaeologists as well as TUE various cults and neo-pagan traditions have focussed on the TUE blank canvas that the hill presents as a way of exploring TUE our complicated relationship with the past and the people TUE who lived there. TUE TUE "An estimated million hours spent on construction rather TUE than herding or cooking or stitching must have had a point, TUE but we don't get it. Is conjecture a species of fiction? To TUE muddy the difference further, Silbury insisted on being TUE called 'she'. I obeyed, not out of New Age winsomeness but TUE from the influence of country dialect, in which neuter TUE pronouns are as alien as robot leaf blowers." TUE TUE This chalkland memoir told in fragments and snapshots, takes TUE a circular route around the hill, a monument which we can no TUE longer climb, and celebrates the urge to stand and wonder. TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE The author's boarding school was three miles up the road TUE from Silbury Hill. The target of vicious bullying, he was TUE grateful for the soothing mysteries of the landscape. TUE TUE Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Director: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Author: Adam Thorpe TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04dm11b (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 b04dm5qd (Listen) TUE The Awakening, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Kate Chopin, dramatised for radio by Janice Okoh TUE TUE Edna is still holidaying on Grand Isle and, after a TUE disagreement with her husband, plans a trip alone with TUE Robert. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow. TUE TUE Clip TUE empty TUE TUE Credits TUE Edna Pontellier: Pippa Bennett-Warner TUE Leonce Pontellier: Guy Paul TUE Celestine: Petra Letang TUE Madame LeBrun: Adjoa Andoh TUE Robert Lebrun: PJ Brennan TUE Adele Ratignolle: Sasha Pick TUE Mlle Reisz: Lucy Newman-Williams TUE Director: Marion Nancarrow TUE Producer: Marion Nancarrow TUE Adaptor: Janice Okoh TUE Author: Kate Chopin TUE TUE 11:00 The Listeners b04dm5qg (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE Listening is about more than hearing as we discover with TUE four individuals for whom listening is very much the focus TUE of their lives; indeed motivates their working lives. TUE Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer whose compositions are TUE concerned with acoustic ecology and soundscape listening. TUE One of her earliest memories of consciously listening was TUE when her piano teacher " would literally stop me and say TUE listen to what you just played ... listen to your touch with TUE the piano". Then when she was a student she attended a TUE lecture by Murray Schafer who founded the World Soundscape TUE project and "literally felt my ears had been opened ". Today TUE Hildegard is part of the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective - a TUE group of people who meet to take part in soundwalks; walks TUE during which participants are asked not to talk but to TUE listen. Acoustic ecologist Phil Morton runs similar walks in TUE Liverpool. The focused listening which happens in these TUE walks can become meditative. Participants not only become TUE more aware of the sounds outside them but also start to TUE listen to the sounds within themselves. TUE "What drew me was a life centred on listening to God and TUE listening to other people so I'd then be able to devote my TUE life to serving God and to serving the needs of other TUE people" explains Fr. Christopher Jamison on why he become a TUE Benedictine Monk and "listening lies at the foundations of TUE the work of any priest and listening lies at the foundation TUE of the whole monastic way of life ". Listening is also very TUE much the focus of forensic speech analyst Peter French " I'm TUE not listening so much as to what is being said but to how TUE its being said" and in some cases it's what being said in TUE the background behind the speech that is of interest and TUE provides clues as to where a recording is made, as we TUE discover. TUE TUE 11:30 Langley School Music Project b04dm5qj (Listen) TUE Pete Paphides tells the story of a very special Canadian TUE school recording that inspired the film School of Rock. TUE TUE Hans Fenger was a rock 'n roll musician who got his first TUE job as a teacher in the bible belt area of Langley, Canada, TUE in the 1970s. He didn't follow the normal teaching methods, TUE never had a lesson plan, didn't use a curriculum and instead TUE taught the children the pop songs of the days - the Beach TUE Boys, Wings, David Bowie, The Eagles. Together they made a TUE record of these songs which each of the pupils took home. TUE TUE Years later, Brian Linds, a radio presenter and actor, found TUE the LP in a charity shop and took it home. He sent it to TUE another radio presenter and producer, Irwin Chusid, who TUE began playing the mystery recording of Space Oddity. It was TUE a massive hit and Irwin secured a re-release of the songs on TUE CD to massive critical acclaim. David Bowie was among those TUE who praised the record. TUE TUE Here, Pete Paphides speaks to those involved to hear how the TUE record was made and why it had such an enormous emotional TUE and musical impact. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04fc3nc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04dm5ql (Listen) TUE 19 August 1914 - Victor Lumley TUE TUE Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a TUE hundred years ago. Lt Lumley is devastated that he can't go TUE to war, not least because life at home is so complicated. TUE TUE Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Victor: Joel MacCormack TUE Ivor: Alun Raglan TUE Sylvia: Deborah Findlay TUE Martindale: Stephen Critchlow TUE Kitty: Ami Metcalf TUE Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04dm5qn (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04dh1c1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04dm6v1 (Listen) TUE Shaun Ley presents national and international news. TUE TUE 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04dm6v3 (Listen) TUE Dynamic Rainforest TUE TUE Palms provide many basic necessities and are collectively TUE one of the most important plants families after grasses and TUE legumes. In 2007 and extraordinary new find came to light TUE when a French plantation manager in Madagascar, came across TUE a new species of palm tree 18metres high and with a 5m leaf TUE span - visible from Google Earth. The palm family continues TUE to grow at a rapid rate As new species make themselves known TUE to science it's becoming vital to appreciate their potential TUE uses. Discoveries are also helping to shed light on the TUE "palm tree of life". TUE TUE Professor Kathy Willis meets Head of Palms at Kew, Bill TUE Baker, to examine how new technology such as DNA sequencing TUE has come to provide an amazing evolutionary record of palms TUE over timescales greater than the fossil record can offer. TUE Crucially, it's beginning to show when the diversification TUE of palms began. In doing so, the genetic analysis is TUE beginning to rewrite our understanding of the origins of the TUE rainforest and looking to favour Alfred Russel Wallace's TUE overlooked "museum model " of the evolution of ancient TUE rainforests. TUE TUE With additional contributions from head of the Kew Palm TUE House Scott Taylor, and former Head of Palms at Kew, John TUE Dransfield TUE TUE Producer Adrian Washbourne. TUE The View from Kew: Dimaka Palm from Madagascar TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04dk89r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b010dp0v (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, A Casualty of War TUE TUE A woman missing since 1945 is seen in a deserted guest TUE house. Glasgow's psychic detective investigates. TUE TUE Atmospheric thriller by Alastair Jessiman. TUE TUE A Casualty Of War is the latest in an occasional series of TUE psychic investigations by the "Sensitive" - Thomas Soutar. TUE TUE Thomas's mother has been forced to close her guest house due TUE to emergency building work. An old friend, retired hotelier TUE Jack Cameron, offers her the use of his guest house, now TUE lying empty. Reluctant to allow his mother to stay in the TUE house alone Thomas persuades his girlfriend Kat to stay with TUE them. TUE TUE Soon tensions become evident between Kat, Thomas and his TUE mother. The house sits on a hill, isolated, cold and gloomy. TUE Thomas senses a malignant presence - and he hears an old TUE woman calling out for help. Even Kat detects a strange TUE atmosphere, and one night Thomas's mother is sure she sees a TUE face in her bedroom mirror. TUE TUE Thomas confesses to Kat that he's been fascinated by the TUE "house on the hill" and its owner - ever since he discovered TUE that Jack's mother had disappeared from here without a trace TUE in 1945. TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Mrs Soutar: Sheila Donald TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Jack: Paul Young TUE Mrs Forbes-Brown: Edith MacArthur TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04dh08q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help b04dm87h (Listen) TUE Richer TUE TUE Robin Ince explores our timeless fascination with the TUE self-help shelf. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04dm87k (Listen) TUE Talking About Cancer TUE TUE The writer Graham Joyce with a personal take on the ways in TUE which we talk about cancer, and how we try to make sense of TUE it for ourselves. With contributions from Consultant TUE Haematologist Dr Ben Kennedy and fellow writer Peter TUE Crowther. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04dm9d2 (Listen) TUE Series 34, Baroness Oona King on Ida B Wells TUE TUE Matthew Parris leads a discussion on Ida B. Wells the TUE African American civil rights and women's rights activist TUE who was a political trailblazer. Throughout her life, Wells TUE was militant in her demands for equality and justice for TUE black Americans and she encouraged the African American TUE community to fight for positive change through their own TUE efforts. She was an investigative journalist who highlighted TUE the practice of lynching in the United States, showing how TUE it was used as a way to control or punish blacks , often TUE under the guise of trumped up rape charges. Ida was also TUE active in women's rights and the women's suffrage movement, TUE establishing several notable women's organizations. She was TUE a skilled and inspiring rhetorician, and travelled TUE internationally on lecture tours. She is the great life TUE chosen this week by Baroness Oona King. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Oona King TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04dm9d4 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04dh1c3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b03lnprh (Listen) TUE Series 4, #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad 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, in "#2 to Go", a trip to China does not work out TUE well for David - especially on the food front. TUE TUE The second story is called "Innocents Abroad" and tackles TUE the tricky tightrope of "going native" when learning a TUE foreign language. TUE TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Clips TUE empty TUE empty TUE See all clips from #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad (2) TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Sedaris TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE Writer: David Sedaris TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04dmbkb (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04dmbkd (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04dm5qd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Taking the Edge Off b04dmbkg (Listen) TUE Sixty years after the publication of The Doors of TUE Perception, Francine Stock reviews Aldous Huxley's TUE experiments with mescaline and asks why evolution has failed TUE to select out our need for escape. TUE TUE Since earliest times we have contrived ways to alter our TUE natural conscious state by trance or stupor or frenzy. TUE Francine Stock asks whether the settings are just 'off' in TUE human consciousness and explores what could be lacking in TUE our brains, that life sometimes seems unbearable without the TUE 'edge' taken off. TUE TUE With Huxley's biographer, Nicholas Murray, she discovers the TUE author's association with the 1960s counterculture was not TUE one he sought. Sixty years on from the afternoon in Los TUE Angeles when he took mescaline, later described in The Doors TUE of Perception (1954), neuroscience has advanced. Huxley's TUE father, Thomas Henry known as 'Darwin's bulldog' was the TUE biologist who popularised Darwin's theories. Huxley reckoned TUE mind-expanding substances were needed to free ourselves from TUE the limitations of our nervous system since our capacity for TUE perception of anything beyond the strictly utilitarian had TUE atrophied as we evolved. Drugs and other hallucinogens TUE provided the portals to a mystic experience. TUE TUE There is, however, the alternative possibility that our TUE enduring craving for various kinds of artificial stimulus TUE and escape is an attempt to correct and/or enhance our TUE neural responses. TUE TUE Francine explores the evolutionary possibilities associated TUE with our use of mind-altering substances in the company of TUE psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Marc Lewis, TUE ethnobotanist and environmental anthropologist Dr Miguel TUE Alexiades, and psychiatrist Dr Tammy Saah. Neuroscientist Dr TUE Valerie Voon shows her what can be seen in brain activity TUE when substances are consumed, and she discusses society's TUE changing acceptance of different substances - from opium in TUE the 19th century to alcohol today - with Professor Virginia TUE Berridge, and visits a health food store to examine the TUE substances available for purchase. TUE TUE Producer: Marya Burgess. TUE TUE Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and TUE drugs by Virginia Berridge TUE Publisher: TUE OUP Oxford; 1 edition (28 Nov 2013) TUE ISBN-10: TUE 0199604983 TUE ISBN-13: TUE 978-0199604982 TUE TUE Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray TUE Publisher: TUE Abacus; New Ed edition (6 Nov 2003) TUE ISBN-10: TUE 0349113483 TUE ISBN-13: TUE 978-0349113487 TUE TUE Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis TUE Publisher: TUE PublicAffairs; Reprint edition (21 Mar 2013) TUE ISBN-10: TUE 1610392337 TUE ISBN-13: TUE 978-1610392334 TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04dmbwq (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04dmbws (Listen) TUE Conflicted Medicine: Specialists and GPs TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter examines the hidden conflicts of interest TUE that may affect how your GP or specialist treats you. He TUE discovers that the advice patient groups give you is also TUE not immune to the influences of organisations such as TUE pharmaceutical companies. TUE TUE 21:30 A Law Unto Themselves b04dm116 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04gbyd2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04dmbwv (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04dmg9y (Listen) TUE A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 7 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 Author: Carys Bray TUE TUE 23:00 The Guns of Adam Riches b04dmgb0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bean's Odyssey TUE TUE Comedian Adam Riches introduces a new series of one-off TUE comic adventure stories. In this opening episode, we are TUE taken on "Bean's Odyssey": an epic journey which follows TUE Sean Bean's attempts to save his castle, his wife and his O2 TUE contract from the ever-growing threat of...the McGann TUE brothers. TUE TUE As usual Adam is joined by Cariad Lloyd, Jim Johnson and a TUE host of unwitting and occasionally unwilling audience shaped TUE co-stars to create a cavalcade of mayhem that explodes deep TUE into your ear flaps. TUE TUE Written by Adam Riches TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE 23:30 Shared Experience b045bqsy (Listen) TUE Series 2, Surviving deadly events TUE TUE Four survivors of deadly events tell their stories to Fi TUE Glover and how they dealt with the aftermath. Stories TUE include being attacked by a Great White shark, surviving a TUE plane crash, being in Japan when the earthquake struck and TUE surviving an IRA bomb attack on a coach. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 AUGUST 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04dh1cv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04fc169 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04dh1cx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04dh1cz (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04dh1d1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04dh1d3 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dmxvr (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon WED Edwin Counsell. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04dmxvt (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Lucy Bickerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xxk (Listen) WED Golden Eagle WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Michaela Strachan presents the golden eagle. Golden Eagles WED are magisterial birds. With a wingspan of over two metres WED their displays are dramatic affairs involving spectacular WED aerobatics. They can dive upon their quarry at speeds of WED more than 240 kilometres per hour, using their sharp talons WED to snatch up their prey. WED WED Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b04dmxvw (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04dmxvy (Listen) WED Series 2, Roy Hattersley 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 In this second episode, Roy Hattersley, the former Labour WED Deputy Leader, tells how a teacher inspired his belief in WED equality and recalls what he learned about attitudes to WED poverty while delivering milk on a vacation job. WED Roy Hattersley's vivid recollections of an eventful career WED at the heart of the Labour Party are spiced with insights WED into its leading characters and also into its setbacks and WED triumphs. His commitment to comprehensive education remains WED undimmed and he regrets never having been Education WED Secretary. WED The first episode in this series featured Sir John Major, WED the former Prime Minister. WED Peter's other guests in the current series are: Lord Steel WED of Aikwood (David Steel), the former Liberal Party Leader, WED and Dame Margaret Beckett MP, the only woman to have been WED Foreign Secretary and to have led the Labour Party (in WED 1994), and former Deputy Leader of her party. WED The producer is Rob Shepherd. WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03xf0g5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Victor Gollancz WED WED Robert McCrum explores the stories of five great British WED publishers. WED WED Victor Gollancz was a giant of 20th century British WED publishing. The firm he founded published works by Ford WED Madox Ford, George Orwell, Elizabeth Bowen, Daphne du WED Maurier, Franz Kafka, Kingsley Amis and John le Carre. WED WED Gollancz used the profits from these bestselling authors to WED fund his political mission. He created the pioneering Left WED Book Club to campaign against the rise of fascism in Europe. WED It gained 45,000 members in its first year and, at its peak, WED was distributing nearly 60,000 books a month. The Road to WED Wigan Pier by George Orwell was its most famous title. WED WED Victor Gollancz was a rare breed - a publisher with a social WED conscience. He was a great literary man who devoted his life WED to contemporary causes. In the process, he helped to change WED the world. WED WED The Observer's Robert McCrum talks to publishing insiders WED including bestselling author, John le Carré, and Victor WED Gollancz's daughter Livia Gollancz. WED WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04fc21r (Listen) WED On Silbury Hill, Episode 3 WED WED Silbury Hill in Wiltshire - together with Stonehenge, WED Avebury and the remains of numerous barrows - forms part of WED a Neolithic landscape about which very little is known or WED understood. WED WED Adam Thorpe describes his book as '"a marble cake of WED different soils. Memoir, data, theory, streaks of poetry, WED swirls of fiction" - but he is not alone in having been WED drawn to explore the meaning of the largest prehistoric WED mound in Europe. Artists and archaeologists as well as WED various cults and neo-pagan traditions have focussed on the WED blank canvas that the hill presents as a way of exploring WED our complicated relationship with the past and the people WED who lived there. WED WED "An estimated million hours spent on construction rather WED than herding or cooking or stitching must have had a point, WED but we don't get it. Is conjecture a species of fiction? To WED muddy the difference further, Silbury insisted on being WED called 'she'. I obeyed, not out of New Age winsomeness but WED from the influence of country dialect, in which neuter WED pronouns are as alien as robot leaf blowers." WED WED This chalkland memoir told in fragments and snapshots, takes WED a circular route around the hill, a monument which we can no WED longer climb, and celebrates the urge to stand and wonder. WED WED Episode 3: WED What can archaeology really tell us? Face-to-face with WED Neolithic man. WED WED Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Director: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Author: Adam Thorpe WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04dmxw0 (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 b04dmxw2 (Listen) WED The Awakening, Episode 3 WED WED by Kate Chopin, dramatised for radio by Janice Okoh WED WED Edna continues to be enraptured by Robert's company, but WED there is a shock in store for her. WED WED Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Edna Pontellier: Pippa Bennett-Warner WED Leonce Pontellier: Guy Paul WED Celestine: Petra Letang WED Adele Ratignolle: Sasha Pick WED Madame LeBrun: Adjoa Andoh WED Mlle Reisz: Lucy Newman-Williams WED Dr Mandalet: Peter Marinker WED Director: Marion Nancarrow WED Producer: Marion Nancarrow WED Adaptor: Janice Okoh WED Author: Kate Chopin WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04dmxw4 (Listen) WED Lesley and Ruth - The Perfect Daughter WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and WED daughter who ponder whether the daughter's anorexia was the WED result of her father's death. 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 Waiting b04dmxw6 (Listen) WED Waiting is an inescapable fact of life - it invades so much WED of our daily activity. We barely notice that we are waiting, WED unless the wait is accompanied by frustration, impatience, WED boredom, restlessness and helplessness. The pleasurable acts WED of waiting often pass us by. WED WED The physician and writer Raymond Tallis examines the nature WED of waiting - how it operates and how it causes both pleasure WED and anguish. WED WED He considers the ways in which waiting plays with our sense WED of time. He looks at how waiting invades the workplace and WED is frequently used as a way of exerting power. He describes WED the various ways in which waiting is used in music and WED literature and how it appears in the language of love. He WED talks to a prisoner about the life of waiting and considers WED the role of waiting within spiritual life. WED WED Why do we wait? And how best should we be waiting? WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow WED A Kati Whitaker production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01l8qxl (Listen) WED Series 2, Sex, Guns and Frida Kahlo WED WED Mimi and Joe are in a state of conflicted liberal anguish WED because Lucy is growing up too fast. She wants a sexy WED Halloween costume to dazzle her boyfriend, but Joe talks her WED into going to a party dressed as Frida Kahlo. Meanwhile WED Joe's wily mother sorts out her son's vindictive and most WED recent ex-wife, the radical rug designer. 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 Mimi: Sarah Alexander WED Tom: Finlay Christie WED Lucy: Phoebe Abbott WED Sophia: Juliet Cadzow WED Writer: Marcella Evaristi WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04fc3nf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04dmxw8 (Listen) WED 20 August 1914 - Ralph Winwood WED WED Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a WED hundred years ago. The Belgian refugees, escaping the WED atrocities at home, pour into Folkestone and present a new WED challenge for the townsfolk. WED WED Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Hilary: Craige Els WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04dmxwb (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04f2r85 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04dmxwd (Listen) WED Shaun Ley presents national and international news. WED WED 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04dmxwg (Listen) WED Capture and Drawdown WED WED In 2005 a landmark study was published which changed the WED political landscape for conservation, probably for ever. WED Rather than viewing biodiversity as something to be WED conserved for conservation's sake, the Millennium Ecosystem WED Assessment started to assess the contributions that WED biodiversity makes to human livelihoods and well-being. WED These include regulating services ( such as modulating WED climate), cultural services (the spiritual, educational and WED recreational value) and provisioning services (the WED biodiversity that provides food, fresh water, and fuel). WED WED Professor Kathy Willis examines the first of these new WED approaches to biodiversity conservation by firstly assessing WED the role plants play in regulating our atmospheric carbon WED dioxide. She talks to Yadvinder Mahli on the importance of WED trees in drawing down and capturing carbon and on new WED understandings in where the effect is most apparent on our WED planet. WED WED But how we view ecosystems at the landscape scale is equally WED important if plants are to flourish in this capacity and WED recent reduction in vital plant pollination services are WED proving to be poorly understood . WED WED But as Kathy Willis hears from chemistry ecologist Phil WED Stevenson, one of several approaches in improving the memory WED of bees that account for 30% of plant pollination could have WED a dramatic and significant effect in securing this vital WED function. WED WED Producer: Adrian Washbourne. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04dmbkb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04dmxwj (Listen) WED The Chemistry Between Them WED WED By Adam Ganz. It's 1983 and Margaret Thatcher is awaiting WED her former college tutor, Nobel Prize winner Dorothy WED Hodgkin. However the visit will put their friendship to the WED test as Dorothy has a request that challenges Thatcher's WED political policies. WED WED Director: Nandita Ghose WED WED The Writer WED ADAM GANZ is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at Royal WED Holloway University of London. After leaving university Adam WED worked in a hostel for ex-prisoners before researching Oral WED History documentaries for Channel 4. He then studied Radio, WED Film & TV at Bristol University (winning a Fuji Film award) WED followed by the National Film & TV School directing course. WED He went on to combine writing and directing for film and TV WED with teaching and researching narrative and new media as WED well as working as a consultant for Working Title and WED Theatre de Complicite. WED WED His first radio drama, Listening to the Generals, was 'pick WED of the day' in several national newspapers and was the basis WED for a successful application to the Heritage Lottery Fund. WED His second, Nuclear Reactions, about the German scientists WED held at Farm Hall was repeated in September 2012. His last WED radio play, The Gestapo Minutes, was based on personal WED family history and was short-listed for an Audio Drama Award WED in 2013 (produced by Catherine Bailey Productions for Radio WED 4). WED WED Credits WED Margaret Thatcher: Catherine Skinner WED Dorothy Hodgkin: Jane Slavin WED Alf Roberts: Stephen Critchlow WED Thomas Hodgkin: Damian Lynch WED JD Bernal: David Cann WED Pat: Georgie Fuller WED Writer: Adam Ganz WED Director: Nandita Ghose WED WED 15:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04dh08x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04dmbws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Educators b04dmxwl (Listen) WED John Hattie WED WED What really works in schools and classrooms? How much WED difference can homework and class size make to a child's WED ability? WED WED Sarah Montague interviews John Hattie, Professor of WED Education at the University of Melbourne and Chair of the WED Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership. WED WED Over 20 years, he carried out one of the biggest pieces of WED education research, compiling studies from previous decades WED and comparing the effect they have on attainment and WED ability. WED WED His work is ongoing, but the results show a league table of WED effectiveness. It reinforces things you might expect, such WED as the importance of teachers, but also offers some WED surprises that might have parents and teachers questioning WED their priorities. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Montague WED Producer: Joel Moors. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04dmxwn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04dmxwq (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04dh1d5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dead Ringers b04dn1ry (Listen) WED Series 11, Episode 4 WED WED After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning WED impressions show is back with a new cast of characters. WED WED No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show WED takes down every programme, institution and politician you WED hold dear. WED WED Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis WED MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. WED WED Producer: Bill Dare. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Jon Culshaw WED Performer: Jan Ravens WED Performer: Duncan Wisbey WED Performer: Duncan Macleod WED Performer: Debra Stevenson WED Producer: Bill Dare WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04dn1s0 (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04dn1s2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04dmxw2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Agree to Differ b04dn662 (Listen) WED Fracking WED WED Most discussion formats set out to define opposing points of WED view and offer the listener a choice between them - maximum WED disagreement, minimum consensus. Agree to Differ is Radio WED 4's new discussion programme where the aim is to give WED listeners a completely new way to understand a controversial WED issue and to decide where they stand. Often when it comes to WED debates in these contested areas the protagonists spend more WED time attacking and caricaturing each other than they do WED addressing the heart of the issue. Agree to Differ will use WED techniques from mediation and conflict resolution to WED discover what really divides them - and just as important - WED if there's anything they can agree on. The mediator is WED Matthew Taylor the chief executive of the RSA and subjects WED for this first series will be fracking, vivisection and the WED future of Jerusalem. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04dn664 (Listen) WED Series 4, A New Currency of Commitment WED WED Comedian Rosie Wilby proposes the end of monogamy. She first WED discussed the idea in a show at last year's Edinburgh WED festival, since when it has taken an unexpectedly serious WED turn. That show prompted many people to get in touch with WED Rosie to share their stories, and it has even had knock-on WED effects in her own life. Now she shares her thinking on how WED it might affect ours, too. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help b04dm87h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04dmxvy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04dh1d7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04dn666 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04dn668 (Listen) WED A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 8 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 b04dqf02 (Listen) WED Good Vibrations 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 discovers that certain low WED frequencies add a whole new dimension to Book At Bedtime. 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 Bella: Joan Walker WED Lola: Joan Walker WED Des Redmond: Ben Crowe WED Peter Kent: Chris Stanton WED Writer: Jerome Vincent WED Writer: Stephen Dinsdale WED Producer: David Blount WED WED 23:15 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b04dqf04 (Listen) WED George's Cake WED WED by Jenny Eclair. WED WED Bea can tell you how to peel an onion without crying or how WED to make the perfect pavlova. In her Shaker style kitchen she WED prepares a very special Birthday cake for her husband and WED reflects on a lifetime of culinary success and marital woe. WED WED Produced by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Bea: Susie Blake WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED WED 23:30 Shared Experience b045z93v (Listen) WED Series 2, Estranged WED WED 'I love my son but I just don't like him anymore.' explains WED one woman in this programme that deals with the subject of WED family estrangement. Three people share their stories with WED Fi Glover of how they came to the decision to cut ties with WED either parents or children. WED WED Producer: Maggie Ayre. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 AUGUST 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04dh1f4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04fc21r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04dh1f6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04dh1f8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04dh1fb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04dh1fd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dqhgl (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon THU Edwin Counsell. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04dqhgn (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Sally Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xyd (Listen) THU White-tailed Eagle THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the white-tailed eagle. These THU magnificent birds, sometimes called the sea eagle, are our THU largest breeding bird of prey and in flight have been THU described as looking like a "flying barn-door". The adults THU have white tail feathers, a bulky yellow bill and long THU parallel-sided wings: they really do deserve that barn door THU description. THU THU White Tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b04dqlbs (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 b04dqlbv (Listen) THU Series 3, Murder THU THU For all its elegance and politeness, one of the most THU striking features of Georgian society is its violence. THU Murder cases abounded at the Old Bailey. Some were cold THU premeditated crimes, a tiny minority were committed by THU women, but the vast majority were the outcome of drunken THU brawls. THU THU Professor Amanda Vickery uses three Old Bailey murder cases THU to expose the honour code that governed male aggression - THU looking at duels, boxing matches and the defence of manly THU honour. THU THU She begins with a poignant case in which two teenagers fight THU to the death over a mere piece of cake. The second case THU involves two builders working on Marylebone Road, whose THU brawl gathers a huge crowd so that they're unable to stop THU until one of them dies. And the final case is a duel, in THU which the man who wins the fight is a blind clergyman. THU THU Listening with Amanda to the Voices from the Old Bailey are THU Professor Peter King from Leicester University, a leading THU historian of crime; Karen Harvey, Reader in Cultural History THU at Reading University; and Robert Shoemaker, Professor of THU History at Sheffield University and the co-founder of the THU Old Bailey Online. THU THU The programme is recorded on location in the Wallace THU Collection, Manchester Square, which has a world-beating THU collection of 18th century swords and guns, demonstrated by THU Curator Tobias Capwell. It features readings by Charlotte THU Stockley, Ewan Bailey, Oliver Soden, David Holt, Damien THU Bouvier and Steven Webb; and specially arranged music, from THU singer Guy Hughes and pianist David Owen Norris. THU THU Produced by Elizabeth Burke THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04fc29d (Listen) THU On Silbury Hill, Episode 4 THU THU Silbury Hill in Wiltshire - together with Stonehenge, THU Avebury and the remains of numerous barrows - forms part of THU a Neolithic landscape about which very little is known or THU understood. THU THU Adam Thorpe describes his book as '"a marble cake of THU different soils. Memoir, data, theory, streaks of poetry, THU swirls of fiction" - but he is not alone in having been THU drawn to explore the meaning of the largest prehistoric THU mound in Europe. Artists and archaeologists as well as THU various cults and neo-pagan traditions have focussed on the THU blank canvas that the hill presents as a way of exploring THU our complicated relationship with the past and the people THU who lived there. THU THU "An estimated million hours spent on construction rather THU than herding or cooking or stitching must have had a point, THU but we don't get it. Is conjecture a species of fiction? To THU muddy the difference further, Silbury insisted on being THU called 'she'. I obeyed, not out of New Age winsomeness but THU from the influence of country dialect, in which neuter THU pronouns are as alien as robot leaf blowers." THU THU This chalkland memoir told in fragments and snapshots, takes THU a circular route around the hill, a monument which we can no THU longer climb, and celebrates the urge to stand and wonder. THU THU Episode 4:The author meets a pair of enthusiastic Wiccan THU drummers. THU THU Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Director: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Author: Adam Thorpe THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04dqlbx (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 b04dqlbz (Listen) THU The Awakening, Episode 4 THU THU by Kate Chopin, dramatised for radio by Janice Okoh THU THU Leonce hopes a visit from her father will stop Edna's THU unconventional behaviour, but very soon the notorious Alcee THU Arobin has begun to visit.... THU THU Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Edna Pontellier: Pippa Bennett-Warner THU Leonce Pontellier: Guy Paul THU Celestine: Petra Letang THU Alcee Arobin: Richard Laing THU Adele Ratignolle: Sasha Pick THU Mlle Reisz: Lucy Newman-Williams THU Colonel: David Cann THU Director: Marion Nancarrow THU Producer: Marion Nancarrow THU Adaptor: Janice Okoh THU Author: Kate Chopin THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04dqlc1 (Listen) THU Goodbye Ireland; Goodbye Gaelic Football THU THU Gaelic Football is Ireland's most popular sport - there are THU clubs in every parish of the country. The game is very much THU part of the Irish identity. But it is losing its lifeblood. THU And all because of emigration. John Murphy goes to the far THU west of Ireland, to learn about this uniquely Irish game and THU hear how clubs are struggling to keep going as more and more THU young people leave the country, to find jobs abroad. THU THU Helen Grady producing. THU THU 11:30 Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo? b04dqlc3 (Listen) THU Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the THU arts in restoring the city's identity, twenty years after THU the siege which saw its cultural life flourish against the THU odds. THU THU When Sarajevo's multicultural identity was targeted by THU Serbian nationalists - firing from positions only 200 yards THU from the city's treasured National Musuem - it fought back THU by maintaining an artistic life worthy of a European capital THU city confident of its cultural heritage. Allan Little finds THU out how these values are faring in a peace which allowed for THU no State Ministry of Culture and fragmented the THU multi-cultural society the city once symbolised. THU THU Allan takes internationally acclaimed theatre director Haris THU Pasovic back to the Youth Theatre in Sarajevo where he THU invited Susan Sontag to stage her now legendary production THU of Waiting for Godot. Lit by candles, under constant mortar THU fire, and with actors so hungry they had to lie down when THU not performing, each of its twenty performances was a THU sell-out. Both audience and actors risked their lives to be THU there. Why? THU THU Pasovic, who also founded the Sarajevo Film Festival during THU the siege with ten VHS tapes and a TV set, says, "In war it THU is not the most important thing to survive, the most THU important thing is to remain human... you are human when you THU let the child in you speak. When we do that we are not THU aggressive, we are creative. That is why art is a primary THU need like food, sex and water." THU THU How are the citizens of Sarajevo fulfilling that basic human THU need for art in a transformed cultural landscape? Allan THU talks to National Theatre actors Vedrana and Aleksandar THU Seksan, Mirsad Purivatra (now director of the Sarajevo Film THU Festival) and artist Sejla Kameric. THU THU Produced by Hilary Dunn THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04fc3nh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04dqlc5 (Listen) THU 21 August 1914 - Florrie Wilson THU THU Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred THU years ago today. A boy's hat is discovered on the beach. THU THU Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Albert: Harry Myers THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Adam: Leo Montague THU Norman: Sean Baker THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04dqngg (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04dh1fg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04dqngk (Listen) THU Shaun Ley presents national and international news. THU THU 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04dqngm (Listen) THU Green and Pleasant Lands THU THU Prof. Kathy Willis examines the different kinds of THU spiritual, physical and intellectual links that we have with THU the landscape and their diverse ecosystems and the extent to THU which they contribute to our health and well being. THU THU As well as providing a source of inspiration and recreation THU there's plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that green THU spaces can make a positive contribution to our health, but THU what kinds of landscapes are of greatest benefit? THU THU Kathy Willis assesses the some of the latest research THU assessing physiological and psychological benefits that THU ecosystems can provide from manicured botanical gardens to THU wild open countryside THU THU With contributions from Richard Barley, director of THU horticulture Kew Gardens; Rachel Bragg researcher in Green THU Care at Essex University, Shonil Bhagwat environmental THU geographer at the OU, and historian Jim Endersby THU THU Producer Adrian Washbourne. THU Green Ears THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04dn1s0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04dqngp (Listen) THU The Man Inside the Radio Is My Dad THU THU Charlie Brooks stars in Louise Monaghan's second radio play. THU THU Is Mum telling Chloe the truth about the absence of her Dad THU or is she holding something back? THU THU Chloe's classmates played by Year 3 children from Pickhurst THU Junior Academy School. THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale THU THU The Story: THU THU Seven year old Chloe is missing her Dad. Chloe's Mum, Debra, THU tells her that her Dad's away on a trip and won't be home THU for a long time. Chloe knows she's lying and fears the THU worst, but when she tells her teacher and her classmates THU that her Dad's dead, Debra knows she has to tell Chloe the THU truth. Chloe's Dad, Steve, is in prison. Chloe has THU nightmares about her Dad in jail but when he sends her a CD THU of him reading stories, hearing his voice inside the radio THU makes her glad that he's still her Dad. THU THU The play was inspired by the Storybook Dads reading scheme THU which is run in over 100 prisons across the UK. Storybook THU Dads enables children to keep in contact with parents in THU prison and helps offenders to maintain meaningful THU relationships with their families at home. The skills and THU training the scheme provides increases the chances of THU prisoners finding employment when they are released thereby THU reducing the risk of re-offending. THU THU The Writer: THU Louise Monaghan has written one play for radio: Alone In The THU Garden With You. She won the Papatango Award in 2012 for her THU play Pack, and was a finalist for the Bruntwood Prize in the THU same year. THU THU Credits THU Debra: Charlie Brooks THU Chloe: Trixiebelle Harrowell THU Nan: Christine Absalom THU Mrs Worthington: Jane Slavin THU Dad: Harry Myers THU Writer: Louise Monaghan THU Director: Tracey Neale THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04dqngr (Listen) THU Cheshire Salt THU THU Look at any map of the district around Northwich in Cheshire THU and you'll see that it's dotted with numerous lakes, called THU flashes. What have these got to do with salt? Felicity Evans THU is astonished to learn that they've been created by the THU unregulated extraction of rock salt, which has been THU exploited for industrial as well as culinary purposes since THU the 1700s. THU THU We'll hear that salt crystals were evaporated from brine in THU huge pans at numerous salt works across the county, the THU firewood for which saw the loss of the county's forests. THU Meanwhile, the rock salt was hewn deep underground then, THU just as it is today. In fact, Felicity goes underground at THU Winsford when she visits the Salt Union's massive caverns, THU so vast they have a similar volume to that of fifty St Pauls THU cathedrals. THU THU Felicity meets salt historian and archaeologist Andrew THU Fielding, as well as Kelly Fletcher, Heritage Officer with THU Middlewich Town Council. Industrial archaeologist Chris THU Hewitson shows Felicity around the Lion Salt Works, which THU open to the public next year, while at Winsford rock salt THU mine, Felicity goes underground with mine manager, Gary THU Sinclair. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04dh2h0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04dh39h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04dqpxf (Listen) THU The Dardennes Brothers THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU The Dardenne Brothers discuss their latest award winning THU drama Two Days, One Night. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Jean-Pierre Dardenne THU Interviewed Guest: Luc Dardenne THU Producer: Stephen Hughes THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04dqpxh (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04dqpxk (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04dh1fj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qjb1y (Listen) THU Series 1, Equal Marriage THU THU In a brand new series for Radio 4, News Quiz favourite Susan THU Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. THU This week, she examines the current hot political topic of THU Equal Marriage from a personal perspective. THU THU When Susan was younger, she thought marriage was silly. A THU patriarchal institution which she would never buy into. That THU was until she grew up, fell in love and wanted more than THU anything to get married - except she couldn't. THU THU Susan relates her own personal experiences on this matter; THU including the minutiae of the legislation governing her THU recent civil partnership ceremony, as well as examining the THU well-trodden arguments against the issue. THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Performer: Susan Calman THU Writer: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04dqrsx (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04dqrsz (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04dqlbz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04dqrt1 (Listen) THU Surrogacy THU THU Surrogacy in the UK is based on trust rather than a legally THU enforceable contract between surrogate and intended parents. THU Catrin Nye asks if the system is sustainable. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04dqrt5 (Listen) THU Health Technology THU THU Peter Day reports from Silicon Valley on the cutting-edge THU innovation that's promising to transform healthcare. From THU apps which monitor your fitness to phone attachments that THU diagnose ear infections, the boom in high-tech gadgets is THU attracting millions of pounds of venture capital money. But THU can the technology companies really come up with the goods THU which will make us live longer, healthier lives? THU THU Contributors, in order of appearance: THU THU Ashwin Raut, Samsung THU Young Sohn, Samsung THU Sam De Brouwer, Scanadu THU Eric Douglas, Cellscope THU Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures THU Daniel Kraft, Singularity University THU Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos THU Esther Dyson, HICCup THU THU Producer: Ruth Alexander. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04dqpxh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b04dqlbv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04dh1fl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04dqrt8 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04dqrtb (Listen) THU A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 9 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 b04dqrtd (Listen) THU Series 2, Geography 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 2 - Geography THU THU Written by THU The Public THU THU Producers THU Alexandra Smith THU Carl Cooper. THU THU Written By THU THU Liam Beirne THU THU Bridget Burgoyne THU THU Will & Owen Cooper THU THU Kev Core THU THU Max Davis THU THU Stuart Doherty THU THU Gil Gilmore THU THU Rob Gilroy THU THU Eleanor Green THU THU Sam Hudson THU THU Carl Jones THU THU Rob Marshall THU THU Adam Perrott THU THU Andrew Stephenson THU THU Ash Williamson THU THU Credits THU Ensemble: Fiona Clarke THU Ensemble: Gavin Webster THU Ensemble: Helen Moon THU Ensemble: Ben Crompton THU Producer: Carl Cooper THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU THU 23:30 Shared Experience b046kwvq (Listen) THU Series 2, Mental Breakdown THU THU Three very different people come together to discuss the THU experience of mental breakdown, starting with the moment THU they realised what was happening. THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 AUGUST 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04dh1gf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04fc29d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04dh1gh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04dh1gk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04dh1gm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04dh1gp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dqwy3 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Canon FRI Edwin Counsell. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04dqwy5 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Jones. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378y3z (Listen) FRI Barred Warbler FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Michaela Strachan presents the barred warbler. With its FRI glaring yellow eyes, banded chest and long white-tipped FRI tail, the Barred Warbler is always an exciting find. Look FRI out for them in late summer and autumn, when young Barred FRI Warblers turn up here regularly as they migrate south. FRI FRI Barred Warbler (Sylvia nisoria) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04dqwy7 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b042cs5t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04fc2k9 (Listen) FRI On Silbury Hill, Episode 5 FRI FRI Silbury Hill in Wiltshire - together with Stonehenge, FRI Avebury and the remains of numerous barrows - forms part of FRI a Neolithic landscape about which very little is known or FRI understood. FRI FRI Adam Thorpe describes his book as '"a marble cake of FRI different soils. Memoir, data, theory, streaks of poetry, FRI swirls of fiction" - but he is not alone in having been FRI drawn to explore the meaning of the largest prehistoric FRI mound in Europe. Artists and archaeologists as well as FRI various cults and neo-pagan traditions have focussed on the FRI blank canvas that the hill presents as a way of exploring FRI our complicated relationship with the past and the people FRI who lived there. FRI FRI "An estimated million hours spent on construction rather FRI than herding or cooking or stitching must have had a point, FRI but we don't get it. Is conjecture a species of fiction? To FRI muddy the difference further, Silbury insisted on being FRI called 'she'. I obeyed, not out of New Age winsomeness but FRI from the influence of country dialect, in which neuter FRI pronouns are as alien as robot leaf blowers." FRI FRI This chalkland memoir told in fragments and snapshots, takes FRI a circular route around the hill, a monument which we can no FRI longer climb, and celebrates the urge to stand and wonder. FRI FRI Episode 5: All Hallow's Eve 2013 - Silbury and the stone FRI circle at Avebury, shadows and rituals. FRI FRI Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Director: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Author: Adam Thorpe FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04dqy3j (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 b04dqwy9 (Listen) FRI The Awakening, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Kate Chopin, dramatised for radio by Janice Okoh FRI FRI Edna thinks Robert's return will make her happy, but events FRI are to overtake them both. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow. FRI FRI Clip FRI empty FRI FRI Credits FRI Edna Pontellier: Pippa Bennett-Warner FRI Celestine: Petra Letang FRI Robert Lebrun: PJ Brennan FRI Alcee Arobin: Richard Laing FRI Adele Ratignolle: Sasha Pick FRI Mme LeBrun: Adjoa Andoh FRI Catiche: Adjoa Andoh FRI Director: Marion Nancarrow FRI Producer: Marion Nancarrow FRI Adaptor: Janice Okoh FRI Author: Kate Chopin FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b04dqwyc (Listen) FRI Series 17, The Roman Way FRI FRI Alan Dein follows the fast-moving story of a squatter who FRI takes over a pub in Luton - he says for the benefit of the FRI local community. FRI FRI The Roman Way is a sprawling 1960s pub at the centre of the FRI Lewsey Farm housing estate. FRI FRI The landlord of fourteen years, Declan, made the decision FRI earlier this year to give up the business and return to FRI Ireland to start a new life. FRI FRI But, just as Declan is leaving, on his very last morning in FRI the pub, Biggs turns up; a larger-than-life local character FRI determined to take over the pub on behalf of the newly FRI formed Lewsey Farm Community Action Group. FRI FRI Dressed in a hoodie and bandana and carrying a heavy chain, FRI he negotiates his way past police and a representative from FRI the pub's owners, and - in his terminology - 'legally FRI occupies' the building. FRI FRI Over the next few weeks the story takes many unexpected FRI twists and turns, and draws in bailiffs, security guards, FRI police and the local community. FRI FRI Alan Dein watches as the story comes to a conclusive end. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Gregor. FRI FRI 11:30 My Teenage Diary b03b2j7f (Listen) FRI Series 5, Janet Ellis 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 actress and presenter FRI Janet Ellis, whose teenage diaries show that her love of FRI arts and crafts started long before she got the job on Blue FRI Peter. FRI FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Rufus Hound FRI Interviewed Guest: Janet Ellis FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04fc3nk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04dqwyf (Listen) FRI 22 August 1914 - Jessie Moore FRI FRI Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a FRI hundred years ago. An eclipse brings tourists and townsfolk FRI flocking to the seafront. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04dqy3l (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04dh1gr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04dqy3n (Listen) FRI James Robbins presents national and international news. FRI FRI 13:45 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04dqwyh (Listen) FRI The Great Providers FRI FRI Prof Kathy Willis concludes her major new history series by FRI asking how much plant biodiversity is worth, and examines FRI new research into securing the future of our staple crops. FRI FRI Understanding the distribution, diversity and potential of FRI plants for food, lay at the heart of the 18th century FRI botanical impresario Joseph Banks' vision to "improve FRI Britain's estates of the world". To secure future resilience FRI of crops in today's world there's a growing need to conserve FRI the closest wild relatives of our staple crops. FRI FRI Kathy Willis discovers, given climatic threats to some of FRI our most substantial crops such as coffee - for which the FRI industry currently depends on a single species, the economic FRI value of wild relatives of today's domestic crops is FRI considerable. FRI FRI And as we hear, some important future crops are still to be FRI found from previously overlooked plants. FRI FRI With contributions from Richard Thompson, Business FRI valuations partner at Price-Waterhouse Cooper; historian Jim FRI Endersby; head of coffee research at Kew, Aaron Davis; Kew's FRI head of yams Paul Wilkin. FRI FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne FRI FRI Music for the series was composed by Mark Russell. FRI The View from Kew: Protecting coffee from the threat of FRI extinction FRI Food Programme: The Coffee Business FRI Food Programme: Coffee FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04dqrsx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04dqwyk (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 2 FRI FRI Brief Lives by Nuala O'Sullivan. Ep 2 of 6 FRI FRI More tales from the team of Manchester paralegals. Sarah is FRI called in to defend a man accused of arson. And Cheryl helps FRI Frank with his rehabilitation. 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 Sugita: Rina Mahoney FRI Andrew: Simon Donaldson FRI Ellie: Julia Rounthwaite FRI PC Hughes: David Corden FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Nuala O'Sullivan FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04dqwym (Listen) FRI Cheshire FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Cheshire. Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Christine Walkden FRI join him to answer questions from the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 If I Only Had... b04dqwyp (Listen) FRI If I Only Had the Nerve 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 the Nerve FRI Read by Ben Peel FRI FRI Colin Carberry (co-writer of Good Vibrations) introduces us FRI to Brendon, a serial Recruitment Agency temp, who finally FRI discovers the courage to make some important changes in his FRI life. FRI FRI Writer ...... Colin Carberry FRI Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ben Peel FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI Writer: Colin Carberry FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04dqy3q (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04dqyh4 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04dqyh6 (Listen) FRI Lesley and Ruth - Shared Memories FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a mother and daughter, FRI where the mother admits her guilt that she did not let her FRI children know that their father was terminally ill. 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 b04dqwyr (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04dh1gt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Brig Society b04dqwyt (Listen) FRI Series 2, Farmer 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 grasped the bull by the horns and FRI become a farmer. After all, what could go wrong? As he FRI himself puts it, "Dairy, livestock, cattle - it's all grist FRI to my mill." FRI FRI Helping him to plough the fields and scatter will be Rufus FRI Jones (W1A, Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've FRI Got No 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: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: William Andrews FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI Writer: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Writer: Jeremy Salsby FRI Writer: Toby Davies FRI Writer: Nick Doody FRI Writer: Steve Punt FRI Writer: Dan Tetsell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04dqwyw (Listen) FRI It's Loxfest, and Roy has got some news. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth FRI Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Rhiannon: Jade Matthew FRI Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04dqwyy (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04dqwy9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04dqwz0 (Listen) FRI Anthony Seldon, Elaine C Smith FRI FRI Political debate and discussion. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04dqwz2 (Listen) FRI What's Funny? FRI FRI Will Self reflects on comedy, asking why we laugh and FRI whether there's too much of the wrong type of humour in our FRI culture. FRI FRI Producer: Caroline Bayley. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Will Self FRI Producer: Caroline Bayley FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04dqwz4 (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 18-22 August 1914 FRI FRI Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years FRI ago. The week that Folkestone welcomed the first wave of FRI Belgian refugees, fleeing the war. FRI FRI Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sgt Harris: Sean Baker FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Martindale: Stephen Critchlow FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Archie Tulliver: Arthur Hughes FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Ivor: Alun Raglan FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04dh1gw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04dqyh8 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04dqwz6 (Listen) FRI A Song for Issy Bradley, Episode 10 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 b04dqwz8 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI Presenter: Evan Davis FRI Producer: Ruth Watts. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04dqyhb (Listen) FRI Lesley and Ruth - Life Without Dad FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and FRI daughter who have different views of how the mother coped as FRI a parent after the death of her husband. 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
15 August, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 16/08/2014 - 22/08/2014
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