23 August, 2014

Radio 4 Listings for 23/08/2014 - 29/08/2013

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SAT SATURDAY 23 AUGUST 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04dh1j9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04fc2k9 (Listen) SAT On Silbury Hill, Episode 5 SAT SAT Silbury Hill in Wiltshire - together with Stonehenge, SAT Avebury and the remains of numerous barrows - forms part of SAT a Neolithic landscape about which very little is known or SAT understood. SAT SAT Adam Thorpe describes his book as '"a marble cake of SAT different soils. Memoir, data, theory, streaks of poetry, SAT swirls of fiction" - but he is not alone in having been SAT drawn to explore the meaning of the largest prehistoric SAT mound in Europe. Artists and archaeologists as well as SAT various cults and neo-pagan traditions have focussed on the SAT blank canvas that the hill presents as a way of exploring SAT our complicated relationship with the past and the people SAT who lived there. SAT SAT "An estimated million hours spent on construction rather SAT than herding or cooking or stitching must have had a point, SAT but we don't get it. Is conjecture a species of fiction? To SAT muddy the difference further, Silbury insisted on being SAT called 'she'. I obeyed, not out of New Age winsomeness but SAT from the influence of country dialect, in which neuter SAT pronouns are as alien as robot leaf blowers." SAT SAT This chalkland memoir told in fragments and snapshots, takes SAT a circular route around the hill, a monument which we can no SAT longer climb, and celebrates the urge to stand and wonder. SAT SAT Episode 5: All Hallow's Eve 2013 - Silbury and the stone SAT circle at Avebury, shadows and rituals. SAT SAT Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Director: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Author: Adam Thorpe SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04dh1jc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04dh1jf (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04dh1jh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04dh1jk (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04dqx46 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Reverend Mike Starkey. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04dqx48 (Listen) SAT "If you've got it, it's likely to be your death SAT certificate." - iPM speaks to a listener who can tell us SAT first hand what it's like to test positive for ebola. SAT Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04dh1jm (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04dh1jp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04dqngr (Listen) SAT Cheshire Salt SAT SAT Look at any map of the district around Northwich in Cheshire SAT and you'll see that it's dotted with numerous lakes, called SAT flashes. What have these got to do with salt? Felicity Evans SAT is astonished to learn that they've been created by the SAT unregulated extraction of rock salt, which has been SAT exploited for industrial as well as culinary purposes since SAT the 1700s. SAT SAT We'll hear that salt crystals were evaporated from brine in SAT huge pans at numerous salt works across the county, the SAT firewood for which saw the loss of the county's forests. SAT Meanwhile, the rock salt was hewn deep underground then, SAT just as it is today. In fact, Felicity goes underground at SAT Winsford when she visits the Salt Union's massive caverns, SAT so vast they have a similar volume to that of fifty St Pauls SAT cathedrals. SAT SAT Felicity meets salt historian and archaeologist Andrew SAT Fielding, as well as Kelly Fletcher, Heritage Officer with SAT Middlewich Town Council. Industrial archaeologist Chris SAT Hewitson shows Felicity around the Lion Salt Works, which SAT open to the public next year, while at Winsford rock salt SAT mine, Felicity goes underground with mine manager, Gary SAT Sinclair. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04f89m7 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Rural Tourism SAT SAT As the summer shows signs of coming to an end, Caz Graham SAT looks at how tourism benefits the countryside. Tourists SAT bring billions of pounds a year into the rural economy, but SAT what does the countryside offer in return? Farming Today SAT This Week comes from Umberslade Farm Park in Warwickshire SAT where young children can experience feeding the animals. Set SAT in an old family estate, Oliver Muntz runs the business SAT after returning home from studying tourism at Harper Adams SAT University. His younger brother Sebastian has recently set SAT up Umberslade Adventure offering older children the chance SAT to swing on zip-wires through ancient woodland. SAT SAT Farming Today This Week also looks at how the floods SAT affected tourism earlier this year on the Somerset Levels. SAT And from bog snorkelling to stiletto racing, Chris Eldon Lee SAT visits the smallest town in Britain who is going to extremes SAT to boost tourist numbers. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Lucy Bickerton. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04dh1jr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04f89m9 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT Today in Edinburgh - Saturday 23rd August SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04f89mc (Listen) SAT Gemma Cairney SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by Radio 1 DJ Gemma SAT Cairney, former engineer Sam King from Jamaica, who served SAT with the RAF during the First World War and went on to SAT become the first black mayor in the UK. Now 88 years-old he SAT talks to Saturday Live about his life, legacy and the SAT Notting Hill Carnival. Annabel Tellis Tunley emigrated with SAT her family to Australia in 2004 and is running a project SAT where she calls a Facebook friend, old or new every day. SAT Some of them she hasn't spoken to for up to 40 years. SAT Cellist and recovering alcoholic Rachael Lander on how she's SAT rebuilding her career and looking forward to motherhood, SAT Captain Andrew Wilkins who helps people overcome their fear SAT of flying. He has recreated the interior of an aircraft SAT where nervous flyers learn to 'fly' the plane themselves. SAT The actor Anthony Head shares his Inheritance Tracks and JP SAT Devlin will be in the studio reading your emails and waiting SAT to take your calls. SAT SAT Gemma Cairney can be heard BBC Radio 1, Monday to Friday SAT 4:00-6:30am SAT SAT Rachael Lander can be seen in Addicts Symphony, Wednesday SAT 27th August 11pm Channel 4 SAT SAT Sam King's 'Climbing Up the Rough Side of the Mountain', SAT Upfront Publishing; New edition 2004 SAT SAT Anthony Head inherits Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, SAT arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of SAT his String Quartet, Op. 11 and Highway, Highway by Stephen SAT Allen Davies SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Gemma Cairney (2) SAT SAT Sam King SAT SAT Sam King was one of the founders of the Notting Hill SAT Carnival. From Jamaica, he served in the RAF during the SAT Second World War and went on to become Britain's first black SAT mayor. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Gemma Cairney SAT Interviewed Guest: Sam King SAT Interviewed Guest: Annabel Tellis Tunley SAT Interviewed Guest: Rachael Lander SAT Interviewed Guest: Andrew Wilkins SAT Interviewed Guest: Anthony Head SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04f89mf (Listen) SAT Series 8, Bedford SAT SAT Jay Rayner and the team are in Bedford. Taking questions SAT from the audience on eating and drinking are food scientist SAT Charles Spence, chef Sophie Wright, Masterchef winner Tim SAT Anderson, and former Head of Creative Development for Heston SAT Blumenthal James "Jocky" Petrie. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun 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 b04f8b2v (Listen) SAT Democracy and the Arts in South Africa SAT SAT Twenty years on from the end of apartheid, what role can the SAT arts play now in helping South African society develop? SAT Recorded with an audience at the National Arts Festival in SAT Grahamstown, Bridget Kendall talks to playwright Mike Van SAT Graan, poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, arts journalist Percy SAT Mabandu, and jazz singer Nomfundo Xaluva who performs live SAT for us. SAT SAT Mike Van Graan SAT SAT For playwright Mike Van Graan, satire remains a powerful SAT tool: but the targets have changed. His SAT new play, ‘Return of the Ancestors’, imagines murdered SAT activist Steve Biko SAT visiting modern South Africa. Encountering government SAT corruption, poverty and SAT police brutality, Biko begins to question whether his SAT sacrifice was worth it. SAT SAT Phillippa Yaa de Villiers SAT SAT As a mixed-race African and adoptee, poet Phillippa Yaa de SAT Villiers has always felt like an outsider in her own SAT culture – something she SAT says has been an advantage as an artist. SAT Free of the constraints of a traditional role, she simply SAT tries to tell SAT her truth as generously as she can. SAT SAT Percy Mabandu SAT SAT Arts journalist Percy Mabandu believes that jazz is the most SAT democratic of all art forms, and so uses it to measure how SAT far his country has SAT come over two decades. Like democracy, the music demands SAT strict collaboration SAT but also handsomely rewards individuality. SAT SAT Nomfundo Xaluva SAT SAT Jazz singer and pianist Nomfundo Xaluva performs a live SAT rendition of Yakhal’Inkomo and explains why this song, SAT which holds deep meaning SAT for black South Africans as an anthem of the anti-apartheid SAT struggle, still SAT inspires musicians today. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04f8cwv (Listen) SAT A Poet at War SAT SAT Foreign correspondents. Today: can a meeting of presidents SAT halt the fighting in eastern Ukraine? Why the international SAT health workers who've come to tackle the Ebola virus in west SAT Africa are not always welcome. Deported from the US - and SAT back home in Guatemala; why life is difficult for many of SAT the returnees. On leaving Pakistan, there are many happy SAT memories -- but none of them, one departing correspondent SAT says, feature the national airline PIA. And it may be a cool SAT damp summer in Switzerland, but the stories coming from SAT parliament are distinctly hot and steamy. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04fc3np (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Bricks and Bubbles b04f8cwx (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT Increasingly unaffordable prices, soaring rents and regional SAT imbalance. What can be done to fix Britain's broken housing SAT market? SAT SAT Should we build more? Do we just need to open up empty SAT homes? What about investing our pension money in property SAT development? In the final part of his series, Michael SAT Robinson explores how to put the property sector back on SAT track. SAT SAT 12:30 The Brig Society b04dqwyt (Listen) SAT Series 2, Farmer 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 grasped the bull by the horns and SAT become a farmer. After all, what could go wrong? As he SAT himself puts it, "Dairy, livestock, cattle - it's all grist SAT to my mill." SAT SAT Helping him to plough the fields and scatter will be Rufus SAT Jones (W1A, Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've SAT Got No 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: Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT Ensemble: William Andrews SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT Writer: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Writer: Jeremy Salsby SAT Writer: Toby Davies SAT Writer: Nick Doody SAT Writer: Steve Punt SAT Writer: Dan Tetsell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04dh1jt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04dh1jw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04dqwz0 (Listen) SAT Anthony Seldon, Elaine C Smith, Hugh Pennington, Tony Banks SAT SAT Shaun Ley presents political debate from the Corn Exchange SAT in Melrose, Scotland with historian and commentator Sir SAT Anthony Seldon, microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington SAT actress and comedienne Elaine C Smith and the businessman SAT Tony Banks. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04f8cwz (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? Presented by Julian SAT Worricker. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01mnxnw (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Killings, Roseanna SAT SAT Roseanna is the first in the Martin Beck series, written SAT over ten years from 1965 - 1975 by the husband and wife SAT writing team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Featuring the SAT intriguing, dogged, intuitive complex figure of Detective SAT Inspector Martin Beck and his colleagues in the National SAT Police Homicide Department in Stockholm, the books set a SAT gold standard for all subsequent Scandinavian crime fiction, SAT and for much of the best crime fiction in Britain and SAT America written since the 1960s. The books have been admired SAT and imitated by crime writers and readers ever since their SAT publication; now Radio 4 offers audiences the opportunity to SAT discover just why the books have been so acclaimed by those SAT in the know. SAT SAT The use of crime and police procedure to hold up a mirror to SAT society and its most dysfunctional elements is commonplace SAT now, but that's because Martin Beck paved the way for SAT subsequent generations of European crime writers whose SAT fallible heroes - Kurt Wallander, John Rebus etc. - make the SAT best fist they can of their own lives whilst trying to SAT tackle the violence around them. SAT SAT The books were written deliberately to give an SAT unsentimental, realistic portrait of Sweden in the SAT mid-sixties: not the liberal place it was thought to be, but SAT a society suffering from a stifling bureaucracy and a SAT creeping rottenness behind the surface sheen. Confronting SAT the dark side of this society are stubborn, logical, SAT anti-social Detective Inspector Martin Beck, his closest SAT friend Detective Inspector Lennart Kollberg - overweight, SAT hedonistic, opinionated; Detective Inspector Frederick SAT Melander, with a memory like a card-index file and a noxious SAT pipe clamped in his jaws, and their colleagues in the murder SAT squad. SAT SAT In Roseanna, they are faced with the body of an unknown girl SAT found in a canal dredger. The long investigation ends with a SAT risky and frightening sting. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Jennifer Howarth SAT Original music by Elizabeth Purnell SAT Directed by Sara Davies. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Ahlberg: Jonathan Tafler SAT Kafka: Garrick Hagon SAT Bengtsson: John MacKay SAT Inga Beck: Lucy Black SAT Sonja Hansson: Susie Riddell SAT Police Doctor: Patrick Brennan SAT Mulvaney: Harry Livingstone SAT Miss Peterson: Amaka Okafor SAT Siv Lindberg: Amaka Okafor SAT Colonel: Robert Blythe SAT Miss Gota: Jenny Harrold SAT Doctor: Christine Absalom SAT Adaptor: Jennifer Howarth SAT Director: Sara Davies SAT Author: Maj Sjowall SAT Author: Per Wahloo SAT SAT 15:45 Key Matters b01hy2zr (Listen) SAT Series 3, F Minor SAT SAT In "Key Matters", Ivan Hewett explores the way in which SAT different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics SAT of their own. In this fourth programme, Ivan is joined by SAT harpsichordist Terence Charlston, to explore the key of F SAT minor. This is a key which acquired its unique personality SAT for historical reasons to do with tuning systems of early SAT keyboard instruments. Under these tuning systems, F minor SAT didn't really work and sounded distorted and frankly, weird. SAT Although tuning systems gradually got sorted out, composers SAT such as Bach and later Beethoven and Schubert, remembered SAT the distorted nature of F minor in the past and so used this SAT key, to write anguished and stormy music. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04f8fb8 (Listen) SAT Jo Pavey, Helen McCrory SAT SAT Jo Pavey discusses what it's like to be the oldest female SAT European Athletics champion after winning gold in the ten SAT thousand metres in Zurich. Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for SAT Grimsby joins Jane Garvey to discuss his comments that women SAT MPs were more likely to be interested in "small problems SAT rather than big ideas". SAT SAT What is it like to suffer from an eating disorder when SAT you're in your 40s and 50s and how can women be helped? We SAT talk to two women who've suffered from anorexia, and SAT consultant psychiatrist Paul Robinson. Nia Reynolds on SAT Claudia Jones the civil rights activist who in the wake of SAT the Notting Hill riots established the first major SAT celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture in 1959. SAT SAT How can more young women and girls be encouraged to take a SAT vocational route into male dominated careers like IT and SAT engineering? The actress Helen McCrory on her new role SAT playing the ultimate anti-heroine, Euripides's Medea. And SAT she tells us what it's like to be married to a heartthrob. SAT Susanna White, Anna Keel and Amy Walker discuss the lack of SAT female directors in television and why it matters. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT The Feminisation of Politics SAT Austin Mitchell, MP on the 'feminisation' of politics with SAT Isabel Hardman and Ivana Bartoletti. SAT SAT Jo Pavey SAT In August Jo Pavey became the oldest female European SAT Athletics champion after winning gold in the 10,000m in SAT Zurich. The extraordinary win came just ten days after SAT winning a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. SAT At the age of forty and only eleven months after giving SAT birth to her second child, Jo was unsure if she would even SAT qualify for the championships, let alone win it. Jo joins SAT Jenni to discuss her thrilling win and why she puts her SAT success down to being a busy mum. SAT SAT Eating Disorders in Older Women SAT SAT Last year the actress Briony McRoberts died when she threw SAT herself in front of a train on the London underground. She SAT was 56. Her husband, the Downton Abbey actor David Robb, has SAT more recently attributed her death to her eating disorder, SAT which she had battled with since she was a teenager. He SAT said “She was murdered by anorexia. It isn’t a self-centred, SAT teenage disease. It kills people middle-aged women… If it SAT gets its hooks in, it suffocates the person.” SAT SAT So why, even in the wake of cases like Briony’s, do we still SAT see eating disorders as a young women’s disease? Julie SAT Kirkwood is aged 43 and from Dumfries, and Aimee Yates is SAT aged 40 and from Cambridge. Both have been treated for SAT anorexia and Aimee is still battling her binge eating SAT disorder. They join Jane along with Dr Paul Robinson, SAT consultant psychiatrist at the Eating Disorders Unit at St SAT Ann’s Hospital in London. SAT Beat is the UK’s leading charity supporting anyone affected SAT by eating disorders or difficulties with food, weight and SAT shape. It provides information and support through its SAT helplines and online support. SAT www.b-eat.co.uk SAT Helpline: 0845 634 1414 SAT SAT The Origins of the Notting Hill Carnival SAT This weekend hundreds of thousands of people will flock to SAT London’s Notting Hill Carnival. Since 1966 this corner of SAT London has dedicated a weekend in August to a massive SAT celebration of Caribbean culture, but the origins of this SAT celebration are even older. Film maker Nia Reynolds tells us SAT the story of Claudia Jones, the civil rights activist who SAT staged the first major celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture SAT in 1959, and who spent her life fighting tirelessly for the SAT rights of black people. SAT SAT Girls and Vocational Courses SAT SAT Thursday is GCSE result day and often the first time that SAT young people seriously start considering their next steps SAT and thinking about career options. Research shows young SAT women are still being discouraged from traditionally SAT male-dominated careers like IT and engineering. If they’re SAT taking a vocational route how are those stereotyped choices SAT being challenged? Jenni speaks to Marion Plant OBE, Joint SAT Principal of North Warwickshire & Hinckley College and South SAT Leicestershire College and Tiana Locker, youth engagement SAT officer for City and Guilds. SAT SAT SAT City and Guilds SAT Find a Future SAT SAT Helen McCrory SAT SAT Over a lengthy career, Helen McCrory has played an SAT impressive range of roles. On stage she’s been Rosalind in SAT ‘As You Like it’; and Libby in ‘The Last of the Haussmans’; SAT her film roles have included Cherie Blair in ‘The Queen’, SAT Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies and Clair Dowar SAT in the James Bond film, Skyfall. On the small screen she has SAT played a raft of roles including the older woman who falls SAT for a much younger man in Tony Marchant’s Leaving. SAT SAT Now she stars as the ultimate anti-heroine, Euripides’s SAT Medea, in a new SAT National Theatre production SAT Medea tells the story of a jilted wife, who breaks the SAT ultimate taboo by murdering her children as a way of revenge SAT against her ex-husband. Jenni Murray talks to Helen about SAT playing the title role in one of the most horrifying of the SAT Greek tragedies. SAT SAT The production will be broadcast from the National Theatre SAT live to over 550 cinemas in the UK on SAT 4 September. SAT SAT SAT Female Directors SAT In May 2014, SAT Directors UK SAT published a report highlighting the overwhelmingly low SAT numbers of women directors working in British television, SAT and showed that the numbers are dwindling. When they SAT presented it the industry was shocked. So why are there are SAT so few women behind the camera in the UK, and does it SAT matter? Jane discusses with Susanna White, director of Bleak SAT House and Parade’s End, with Amy Walker, SAT SAT factual series producer and founder of SAT Media Parents SAT and with factual director Anna Keel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Interviewed Guest: Jo Pavey SAT Interviewed Guest: Austin Mitchell SAT Interviewed Guest: Isabel Hardman SAT Interviewed Guest: Ivana Bartoletti SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Robinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Nia Reynolds SAT Interviewed Guest: Rachael Carr SAT Interviewed Guest: Tiana Locker SAT Interviewed Guest: Marion Plant SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen McCrory SAT Interviewed Guest: Susanna White SAT Interviewed Guest: Anna Keel SAT Interviewed Guest: Amy Walker SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04f8fbb (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04dqx48 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04dh1jy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04dh1k0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04dh1k2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04f8fbd (Listen) SAT Danny Wallace, Rodney P, Robin Hobb, Matthew Parker, Leo SAT Leigh, Luke Sital-Singh, Bitter Ruin SAT SAT From 1946 until the end of his life, Ian Fleming lived for SAT two months of every year at the house he built on Jamaica's SAT north coast. All the Bond novels and stories were written SAT here. In his new book Goldeneye, Matthew Parker tells Danny SAT how for Fleming, Jamaica was the perfect mix of British SAT old-fashioned imperial values, and of the dangerous and SAT sensual; the same curious combination that made the Bond SAT novels so appealing and successful. SAT SAT Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler SAT is a chronicle of the final three years of Marty Reisman's SAT life, a former international table tennis SAT champion-turned-money player. Pursuing notoriety through his SAT idiosyncratic lifestyle and motivated by his love of fame SAT and Ping Pong, he inadvertently has to face his biggest SAT fear: mortality. Film maker Leo Leigh chronicle Marty's SAT complex mix of childlike excitement, eccentric narcissism SAT and constant charm. SAT SAT Twenty years after the publication of classic novel SAT Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb returns to her best-loved SAT characters with Fool's Assassin. One of the world's finest SAT writers of epic fiction, Robin was raised in Alaska, where SAT she learned how to raise a wolf cub, skin a moose and SAT survive in the wilderness. SAT SAT Why hasn't the food-obsessed British public caught on to SAT curry goat or ackee and salt fish like it has korma, kebab SAT and chicken chow-mein? For Notting Hill Carnival weekend, SAT Rodney P, the Godfather of UK Rap, talks to Nikki Bedi about SAT his mission to get to the bottom of this multicultural SAT mystery. SAT SAT With music from BITTER RUIN who perform Diggers from their SAT album Waves and more music from LUKE SITAL-SINGH who SAT performs Nothing Stays The Same from his album The Fire SAT Inside SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Danny Wallace, Rodney P, Robin Hobb, SAT Matthew Parker, Leo Leigh, Luke Sital-Singh, Bitter Ruin (2) SAT SAT Matthew Parker SAT ‘Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica’is SAT published by Random House and available now. SAT SAT SAT Leo Leigh SAT ‘Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler’ SAT is available now on iTunes. SAT SAT Rodney P SAT ‘Notting Hill Carnival: Hard Food’ is available on BBC SAT iPlayer. SAT SAT Robin Hobb SAT ‘Fool’s Assassin’ is published by Harper Collins and SAT available now. SAT SAT Bitter Ruin SAT ‘Waves’ is available now on Bitter Recordings. SAT SAT Luke Sital-Singh SAT ‘The Fire Inside’ is available now on Parlophone UK. SAT Luke is playing at Norwich Arts Centre on Monday 8th, The SAT Haunt, Brighton on Tuesday 9th and Scala, London on SAT Wednesday 10th September. Check his website for further SAT dates. SAT SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04f8fbg (Listen) SAT Nicholas Macpherson SAT SAT Sir Nicholas Macpherson, largely unknown outside Whitehall, SAT has become a key figure in the Scottish independence debate. SAT And as head of the Treasury since 2005, he's been at the SAT centre of Britain's response to the global financial crisis. SAT Chris Bowlby explains why he's so influential, and how his SAT involvement in the Scottish debate is informed by personal SAT links as well as policy considerations. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04f8fbj (Listen) SAT Edinburgh Festival: James II, Front, Two Days One Night, SAT Exhibit B, Sarah Waters SAT SAT At the 2014 Edinburgh Festival: National Theatre of SAT Scotland's production of a new history play looking at the SAT Scottish Stuart kings - we've been to see James II. SAT SAT Front is a multilingual, multi sensory theatrical experience SAT telling the stories of the First World War. Marion SAT Cotillard's new film, directed by The Dardennes brothers is SAT Two Days One Night; in order to try and save her own job, a SAT woman has to persuade her work colleagues to forgo their SAT annual bonus. SAT SAT The shameful history of colonisation and racial exploitation SAT is explored in Exhibit B, an exhibition that has caused SAT consternation and extreme reactions amongst those who have SAT visited it. SAT SAT Sarah Waters' new novel The Paying Guests is set in 1920s SAT London when a mother and daughter in reduced circumstances, SAT take in tenants leading to complicated repercussions. SAT SAT Edinburgh Festival SAT The SAT Edinburgh Festival SAT continues until 31 August 2014. SAT SAT James II: Day of the Innocents SAT Written by Rona Munro, SAT The James Plays SAT transfer to the Olivier Theatre, the National Theatre in SAT London from 10 September - 29 October 2014. SAT SAT Exhibit B SAT Conceived and directed by Brett Bailey, SAT Exhibit B SAT transfers to the Barbican: The Vaults in London from 23-27 SAT September 2014. SAT SAT Two Days One Night SAT Written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Two SAT Days One Night is in cinemas from Friday 22 August, SAT certificate 15. SAT SAT The Paying Guests SAT The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters is published by Virago on SAT 28 August 2014. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04f8fbl (Listen) SAT Vietnam and the Presidents SAT SAT An examination of America's descent into war from the SAT exclusive vantage point of the Oval Office. SAT SAT Across two decades, BBC Washington producer David Taylor SAT conducted over 50 recorded interviews with first-hand SAT witnesses to the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Administrations SAT mired in the Vietnam crisis. SAT SAT He had privileged access to National Security Advisors, SAT Secretaries of Defence, First Ladies and CIA Agents. Now, he SAT can create a complete picture of the war, as the private SAT presidential tapes were only recently released in their SAT entirety. David discovers the intimate, hidden side of three SAT presidential characters at war. Their bombast, insecurity, SAT confidence, paranoia and euphoria shaped important decisions SAT about Vietnam. SAT SAT David discovers how President Kennedy's increasing SAT dependence on amphetamines jeopardised the 1961 Vienna SAT Summit and how he was racked with guilt after the SAT CIA-supported Diem assassination. After the JFK SAT Assassination, Johnson was riddled with doubts over Vietnam. SAT His rampant mood swings are vividly captured on tape. As SAT Johnson quit a presidency defined by Vietnam, enter Richard SAT Nixon, who secretly escalated the war. With Watergate SAT looming and Vietnam unending, Nixon adopted a paranoid SAT bunker mentality and, according to some colleagues, was SAT placed on suicide watch. SAT SAT By revisiting his own archive and pouring through the SAT complete presidential tapes, David constructs a surprising SAT picture of the Vietnam War through the eyes of the embattled SAT commanders-in-chief. SAT SAT Producers: David Taylor and Colin McNulty SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 The Stuarts b04dh39f (Listen) SAT Charles II, Part Two: The Long Lease of Pleasant Days SAT SAT By Mike Walker SAT SAT Charles II fathered over a dozen illegitimate children, yet SAT his wife Queen Catherine was unable to produce an heir. Mike SAT Walker's sweeping epic sees Charles fending off the claims SAT of his eldest son Monmouth and the plots against his SAT increasingly unpopular Catholic wife and brother. All this SAT while juggling an often tempestuous love life. SAT SAT Directors: Sasha Yevtushenko & Marc Beeby. SAT SAT Credits SAT Charles II: Pip Torrens SAT James: James Fleet SAT Ashley-Cooper: Ken Bones SAT Halifax: Clive Hayward SAT Monmouth: Alex Waldmann SAT Louise: Olivia Ross SAT Barbara: Stephanie Racine SAT Titus Oates: Matthew Watson SAT Catherine: Elaine Claxton SAT Speaker: David Cann SAT Doctor: Damian Lynch SAT Priest: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Huntsman: Mark Edel-Hunt SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04dh1k4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Agree to Differ b04dn662 (Listen) SAT Fracking SAT SAT Most discussion formats set out to define opposing points of SAT view and offer the listener a choice between them - maximum SAT disagreement, minimum consensus. Agree to Differ is Radio SAT 4's new discussion programme where the aim is to give SAT listeners a completely new way to understand a controversial SAT issue and to decide where they stand. Often when it comes to SAT debates in these contested areas the protagonists spend more SAT time attacking and caricaturing each other than they do SAT addressing the heart of the issue. Agree to Differ will use SAT techniques from mediation and conflict resolution to SAT discover what really divides them - and just as important - SAT if there's anything they can agree on. The mediator is SAT Matthew Taylor the chief executive of the RSA and subjects SAT for this first series will be fracking, vivisection and the SAT future of Jerusalem. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b04dk882 (Listen) SAT Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for SAT 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 Episode 2 SAT SAT Comedian and writer Dave Gorman SAT Novelist and journalist Philip Hensher SAT Presenter, critic and author Libby Purves SAT Writer, poet and former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Dave Gorman SAT Panellist: Philip Hensher SAT Panellist: Libby Purves SAT Panellist: Michael Rosen SAT Reader: Peter Jefferson SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 Piers the Plowman Revisited b04dh39k (Listen) SAT It's one of the strangest, most complex and frustrating SAT works in Middle English, so when writer Ian Sansom is tasked SAT with coming up with a radio adaptation of William Langland's SAT medieval dream poem 'Piers the Plowman', it presents a bit SAT of a challenge. SAT SAT His producer's solution? To lock Ian away in a Curfew Tower SAT in the Glens of Antrim and challenge him to come up with his SAT adaptation over the course of a weekend, after which time SAT he'll be expected to put on a performance. SAT SAT The 14th century poem - part theological allegory, part SAT social satire - may have eluded scholars for centuries but SAT Ian has help at hand. Aside from three poetry students from SAT Queen's University, renowned medievalist Dr Stephen Kelly SAT will be there to guide him on his quest for salvation. SAT SAT As Ian grapples with the text written in alliterative long SAT lines and framed in a series of dream visions, adaptation SAT expert Brian Sibley will be just a phone call away. Then SAT there's the members of Belfast outfit The Wireless Mystery SAT Theatre who'll be dropping by to bring music and their own SAT distinctive style to Ian's performance. SAT SAT Who knows, it could turn out to be a dream...or it could be SAT a nightmare. SAT SAT Producer: Conor Garrett SAT SAT Sound Design: Jason Martin. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 AUGUST 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04f856j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Sussex Scandals b01cjb66 (Listen) SUN Up and Down the Fire Escape SUN SUN Written by John Peacock. 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SUN SUN International preacher, broadcaster and author Dr Ravi SUN Zacharias explores this year's theme: 'The Uniqueness of SUN Christ'. The service also includes a sketch from actor and SUN writer Richard Everett. SUN SUN Service leader: Jonathan Lamb. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN The Keswick Convention 24/08/2014 SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN Sunday Worship from The Keswick Convention SUN Recorded Tuesday 29th July 2014 SUN Contributors: SUN Dr Ravi Zacharias - preacher SUN Jonathan Lamb - leader SUN Stuart Townend - music leader SUN Yvonne Lyon - vocalist SUN Richard Everett – actor and writer with a sketch from his SUN book 'Sound Bites’ SUN SUN SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN BBC Radio 4. And time now for Sunday Worship which was SUN recorded at this year’s Keswick Convention in Cumbria. The SUN music is led by Stuart Townend and the preacher is SUN international speaker and author, Dr Ravi Zacharias. The SUN service, which focuses on the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, is SUN introduced by Jonathan Lamb and begins with the hymn ‘All SUN hail the power of Jesus’ name’. SUN Hymn: All Hail the power of Jesus’ name (Miles Lane) SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN Welcome to the English Lake District and to the Keswick SUN Convention, a Bible teaching event which attracts thousands SUN of Christians of all ages and backgrounds from across SUN Britain and from many parts of the world. SUN SUN This year our theme is the search for reality in an SUN increasingly confused and uncertain culture: how can we make SUN sense of the world around us, and is there a secure SUN foundation on which to build our lives? Ever since this SUN event began nearly 140 years ago, the heart of its message SUN has been the centrality of Jesus Christ. We’re convinced SUN that he is the ultimate reality, and that our lives make SUN sense when they are connected to his. SUN SUN We pray together: ‘Our Father, as we gather for this SUN service, we ask that by your Holy Spirit you will unite us SUN in worship of Jesus Christ and encourage us in committed SUN devotion to Him, in whose name we pray. Amen’ SUN Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross (O waly waly) SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN As part of the Keswick Unconventional programme this week, SUN we’re delighted to have Richard Everett with us. Richard is SUN a well-known writer, having written and produced material SUN for the stage, film, animation, and also three plays for BBC SUN Radio 4. We’re going to listen to a sketch performed by SUN Richard Everett and Cameron Potts based on Matthew 28. SUN Richard re-imagines the scene following Jesus’ crucifixion, SUN and the sketch is called ‘The Priest, the guard, and the SUN empty tomb’. SUN Richard Everett & Cameron Potts: The Priest, the Guard, and SUN the Empty Tomb SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN Out thanks to Richard Everett and Cameron Potts for that SUN extract from Richard’s book ‘Sound Bites’. And now we’re SUN going to sing about that resurrection story: the hymn ‘See SUN what a morning’. SUN Hymn: See what a morning (Stuart Townend & Keith Getty) SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN This week we’re pleased to have many guests from around the SUN world, including Bernard Koranteng, who is originally from SUN Ghana but has been serving churches in many different SUN African countries, and he’ll now lead our prayers. SUN Bernard Koranteng: SUN God our Father, thank you for the gifts of your Son. At his SUN birth, the angels declared him the Saviour, Christ the SUN Lord. At his baptism, you expressed your pleasure in him. SUN And on the mount of transfiguration you affirmed your love SUN for him and encouraged the disciples to listen to him. On SUN the cross you demonstrated your amazing love for us, by SUN giving the one in whom you had such delight to be a SUN sacrifice to save us from our sin. We thank you that at the SUN resurrection, Jesus promised to be with us always, even to SUN the end of the age. Help us to open our hearts, minds and SUN lives to you, the Lord of creation, history and the future. SUN Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN The Bible has a rich vocabulary with which to describe the SUN majesty of Jesus, and our next song uses many titles which SUN remind us of his loving rule – ‘Beautiful Saviour, Wonderful SUN Counsellor, the Way, the Truth, the Life.’ SUN Hymn: All my days (Beautiful Saviour) (Stuart Townend) SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN The young church in Colosse lived in a world where there SUN were many claims to truth, and the apostle Paul wrote a SUN letter to assure them of the supremacy of Christ. Here is a SUN section from the first chapter of that letter read by Phoebe SUN Sleeman, a member of our youth programme. SUN Reading: Colossians 1:15-23 SUN The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn SUN over all creation. For in him all things were created: SUN things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, SUN whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all SUN things have been created through him and for him. He is SUN before all things, and in him all things hold together. And SUN he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning SUN and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything SUN he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all SUN his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to SUN himself all things, whether things on earth or things in SUN heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the SUN cross. SUN SUN Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your SUN minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has SUN reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to SUN present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from SUN accusation - if you continue in your faith, established and SUN firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. SUN This is the gospel that you heard and that has been SUN proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, SUN Paul, have become a servant. SUN SUN Leader: SUN One of our speakers this week is Ravi Zacharias, who was SUN born in India and who travels widely explaining and SUN defending the Christian faith. This week he is speaking on SUN the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, which is the subject of his SUN short address to us now. SUN Address: Ravi Zacharias SUN It is often assumed that all religions are fundamentally the SUN same and only superficially different. The truth is that SUN they are, at their core, fundamentally different and only SUN superficially similar. This truth may sometimes sit SUN uneasily within us, but it is a fact borne out by honest SUN study. SUN SUN I would like to support that claim in the following SUN assertions: SUN SUN First, Jesus’s description of the human condition. Malcolm SUN Muggeridge once remarked that the depravity of man is the SUN most empirically verifiable fact at the same time that it is SUN the most intellectually resisted. That is well put. And SUN ironically, the more we argue against that, the more we end SUN up proving it. SUN SUN Football is often described as that ‘Beautiful Game’. It SUN certainly gives great pleasure to many millions around the SUN world and is the focus of so much good in community work. SUN But, like everything else in the world, it has a dark SUN undercurrent in which the truth of the human condition is SUN revealed. SUN SUN I was at the World Cup of football in Brazil. There were SUN fans from all over the world, ranging from those closest to SUN the field of play to those proverbially described as the SUN “nosebleed section.” But none were as close to the ring as SUN about one hundred able-bodied men surrounding the perimeter SUN of the playing field. Ironically, they would not witness SUN the game. They had their backs to the game and their sole SUN purpose was to watch the fans and keep them from disruptive SUN or violent behavior. They were there to protect the SUN players. Others were in the stands to protect the SUN spectators from each other! On the field itself were the SUN uniformed referees to keep an eye on the players and to keep SUN them from violating the rulesand even to keep them from SUN taking a bite off the opposing player’s shoulder! SUN SUN The human heart may vary in what angers one, but the SUN systemic bent to autonomy and pride spares no one. Of SUN course, this is not just true of soccer; it’s true of every SUN arena where winning and losing are at stake: sports, SUN politics, business, yes, even in religion and ultimately in SUN life itself. As Chesterton remarked in response the SUN question: "What’s wrong with the world?”: “I am, yours SUN truly, G.K Chesterton.” That enslavement to lust, greed, SUN and pride are so much at the core of the human disposition. SUN When we lost the concept of sin, we lost the definition of SUN life itself. Jesus made it clear that our hearts are in SUN rebellion against God. SUN SUN The second assertion is the uniqueness is Jesus’s provision SUN for my malady. I put the Christian message this way. The SUN greatest ethic is love. Where love is a possibility, SUN freedom has to be given. Where there is freedom, there will SUN always be the possibility of sin. Where there is sin, there SUN is the need of a Saviour. Where there is a Saviour, there SUN is the possibility of redemption. That, in a nutshell, is SUN the entire gospel story and that is uniquely true of the SUN message of Jesus Christ. SUN SUN You see, in every worldview, there needs to be a necessary SUN explanatory power to the undeniable realities with which we SUN live. As I see it, there are four questions to life that a SUN worldview must coherently answer: the questions of origin, SUN meaning, morality, and destiny. In the sequence of the SUN gospel message we see these four questions answered. Jesus SUN Christ truly offers grace and redemption. SUN SUN The next assertion is the purity of Jesus’s own life. Even SUN Pontius Pilate said, “I find no fault in this man.” The SUN thief on the cross said, “We receive the due reward of our SUN deeds, but this man has done nothing amiss.” Jesus himself SUN asked his accusers, “Which of you convinces me of any sin?” SUN The spotless “lamb of God” is the description given to Him. SUN He was unique. SUN SUN Lastly Jesus’s resurrection from the dead. This unique SUN message is deemed the most critical aspect in demonstrating SUN Jesus’ divinity. Without the resurrection, two realities SUN become inescapable. One would be the finality of all SUN earthly relationships. The second would be the SUN impossibility of ultimate justice. In the Christian faith, SUN the resurrection of Jesus promises both hope and justice. SUN This alone ought to make us aware of how important is the SUN message of his grace when we come to Him for forgiveness. SUN The resurrection is so definitively important that if the SUN early skeptic had wanted to debunk Jesus’s divinity, all SUN they had to do was to produce the body. SUN SUN In that grand piece of work called ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’, SUN Pilgrim is finally met by three shining ones. One says, SUN “Thy sins be forgiven thee.” The second drapes the new SUN robes and shoes for the transformed life. The third gives SUN the scroll and directions to the celestial city. SUN SUN Forgiveness, redemption, and guidance on life’s path. That SUN is what Jesus provides for the one who comes to Calvary. He SUN is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. SUN SUN One of the most mind-stirring scenes in the Scriptures is SUN the interchange between Jesus and Pilate. The question SUN Pilate asked was the most important question of life: “What SUN is truth?” He asked the question but never waited for the SUN answer. He asked it of the One who embodied the answer but SUN left without letting him answer. So often it is the same SUN with us. I remember many times in my youth how I dreaded SUN the truth because of its implications in my life. We can SUN all say with Francis Thompson, “I fled him down the nights SUN and days.... I fled him down the arches of the years.” SUN Often times, we ask Jesus why he is the truth yet never take SUN the time to examine why he made such claims. SUN SUN May God bless you as you ponder these truths to the SUN uniqueness of Jesus Christ. SUN Song: Love Alive (Blameless and pure, the Son of the Father) SUN (David Lyon) SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN Our thanks to singer/songwriters Yvonne and David Lyon for SUN reminding us of Jesus who has died in our place and brought SUN us new life. And this leads us now to pray together. SUN SUN Prayers: SUN Father, we know your heart is broken by the fracture of SUN nations, of communities, and of human lives. We bring SUN before you all those parts of the world where violence is SUN part of life, and where Christian communities are persecuted SUN for their faith in Christ. Strengthen your Church, that SUN they will be an influence for good in society as they SUN respond to evil and suffering as Jesus himself would do. SUN SUN We pray for your compassionate care for those who today are SUN suffering from sickness, or bereavement or the sorrows of SUN this world. By your Holy Spirit, draw alongside them to SUN comfort them, to strengthen their trust in you, and to SUN assure them of the salvation which has been won now and SUN through eternity, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, in whose SUN name we pray. Amen. SUN SUN We now join together in the words of the Lord’s Prayer: SUN SUN Our Father in heaven, SUN hallowed be your name, SUN your kingdom come, SUN your will be done, SUN on earth as in heaven. SUN Give us today our daily bread. SUN Forgive us our sins SUN as we forgive those who sin against us. SUN Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. SUN For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours SUN now and for ever. SUN Amen. SUN Jonathan Lamb: SUN Our final hymn declares Jesus as the Word of God, the author SUN of creation and the Lord of all. As we close, we pray for SUN the blessings of the Trinity: may the grace of our Lord SUN Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the SUN Holy Spirit, be with us all. 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SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Rhiannon: Jade Matthew SUN Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b04f8m54 (Listen) SUN The Sun Newspaper SUN SUN Sue MacGregor reunites journalists working on The Sun SUN newspaper in the 1980s to consider how it revolutionised our SUN news. SUN SUN In November 1969, the presses rolled on a new tabloid that SUN would change Britain forever. "Does your daily paper bore SUN the pants off you?" asked the television advertisement, SUN "Then wake up with The Sun". The paper was to be a SUN combination of sex, sport and contests - according to its SUN young proprietor Rupert Murdoch. This simple formula had SUN shocked many in his native Australia but made Murdoch a SUN fortune. Fleet Street critics were scathing, but the paper's SUN young working class readership lapped up the scandal. SUN SUN From day one, The Sun chose sex as the battleground for the SUN coming circulation war with its rivals. Girly pictures were SUN a standard element in tabloids at that time and usually came SUN with spurious fashion features or stories. But The Sun SUN boldly dispensed with those. The regular, topless Page Three SUN features started on the paper's first anniversary. SUN SUN In the 1980s, with Editor Kelvin Mackenzie at the helm, the SUN paper carved out a position as strident, campaigning, SUN anti-establishment and hugely profitable. His style was SUN epitomised by outrageous headlines such as 'Freddie Starr SUN ate My Hamster', 'Gotcha' after the sinking of the Belgrano SUN and 'It Was The Sun Wot Won It' after the Conservative Party SUN election victory in 1992. Rupert Murdoch referred to him SUN affectionately as "my little Hitler". SUN SUN Joining Sue around the table to look back on the meteoric SUN rise of the paper are five journalists who were there, SUN including legendary news editor Tom Petrie, Harry Arnold the SUN Royal Correspondent and Wendy Henry who later went on to SUN become editor of the Sun's sister paper The News of the SUN World. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04fc3p1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b04dk891 (Listen) SUN Series 70, Episode 2 SUN SUN Hosted by the legendary Nicholas Parsons and recorded at the SUN Edinburgh Festival - how hard can it be to talk for 60 SUN seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation? Gyles SUN Brandreth, Paul Merton and Sue Perkins find out. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Sue Perkins SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04f8m56 (Listen) SUN A Taste of Britain Revisited - Dorset SUN SUN In 1974, Derek Cooper set off on a hunt - for BBC Television SUN - around Britain to discover what was left of its regional SUN foods and traditional ingredients. Forty years on, Dan SUN Saladino revisits that series, called "A Taste of Britain" - SUN to meet some of those involved, their descendants, and to SUN find out what happened after these food traditions, many of SUN which at the time were on the wane, were recorded for the SUN cameras. SUN SUN In the first of a three-part special summer series, Dan SUN starts his own food journey in Dorset. He'll share stories SUN with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Mark Hix, and go on the SUN trail of some long-hidden buried fungi, as well as an oddly SUN elusive cheese: the Dorset Blue Vinny. SUN SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from A Taste of Britain Revisited - Dorset (2) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall SUN Interviewed Guest: Mark Hix SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04f8578 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04f8m58 (Listen) SUN James Robbins 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 b041xbxf (Listen) SUN Series 18, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor SUN SUN Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, is one of the most popular and SUN moving pieces of music but, as academic and composer Andrew SUN Gant explains, it wasn't written by Albinoni and is now SUN attributed to the twentieth century Italian composer, SUN Giazotto. SUN SUN Award-winning veteran BBC foreign correspondent, Malcolm SUN Brabant recalls the ' cellist of Sarajevo', Vedran SUN Smailovic, playing it everyday for weeks amidst the wreckage SUN of the beautiful city, as Serbian gunfire raged around. SUN SUN Virginia McKenna explains how the piece became so special to SUN her and her late husband, Bill Travers, who died twenty SUN years ago this month, the piece was played at the beginning SUN and end of his memorial service. SUN SUN And TV producer, Gareth Gwenlan reveals why it was chosen as SUN the theme for the character played by Wendy Craig, in the SUN seventies sitcom, Butterflies. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Lunt. SUN SUN Virginia Mckenna speaks of her great love for Albinoni's SUN Adagio SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04dqwym (Listen) SUN Cheshire SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs the panel programme from Cheshire. SUN Joining him to answer audience questions are Matt Biggs, SUN Anne Swithinbank and Christine Walkden. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN This programme features the Woodland Trust's 'Nature's SUN Calendar' volunteering scheme. To find out more, visit their SUN website SUN SUN www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/learn/recording-trees-and-nature/na SUN ures-calendar/natures-calendar/ SUN SUN 1.Q. Could the panel recommend some plants or shrubs that SUN could be cut for long-lasting indoor display? SUN SUN A. Pinus Mugo, Phormium, Penstemon, Cornflowers, Cotinus SUN Grace (Smoke Bush), Pittosporum, Mexican Sunflowers, Lilies, SUN Daffodils, Antirrinum, Molucella, Zinnias, Hesperanthas, SUN Allium (Globemaster), Alstroemeria and Zantedeschia (Arum SUN Lily) will all work well but the secret is really in the SUN technique. Try to cut the plants early in the morning and as SUN soon as you have cut the plants put them in a bucket filled SUN with very cold water and let them soak for several hours SUN (alternatively, put them in the fridge for a couple of SUN hours) then trim the stems diagonally, bunch and put them in SUN a vase. You could also put ice cubes in the water and change SUN the water regularly. Place the vase where it will get bright SUN but not scorching sunshine and the flowers will last longer. SUN SUN 2. Q. My four-year-old Cox tree suffers every year from SUN dieback on the shoots and also has very mottled, brown SUN leaves. What is wrong? SUN SUN A. The Cox is prone to disease so if you like the flavour of SUN the apple try growing Red Devil or Ribston Pippin instead. SUN SUN 3. Q. Is it safe to grow Fig trees close the foundations of SUN a house? SUN SUN A. If you grow a Fig tree near the foundations of a house SUN you could line the growing pit with paving flagstones to SUN restrict the growth. Also prune the tree regularly. SUN SUN 4.Q. What would be the best way to move my SUN eighteen-year-old, four-foot (1.2 Metre) high hybrid Tea SUN Rose to my new garden around the corner? SUN SUN A. It won't like being moved so take cuttings instead. But SUN if you do want to move it, cut it right back and try moving SUN it in the autumn or winter. SUN SUN 5. Q. Our patio Cherry Tree (Dwarf Prunus Avium) has SUN produced lots of foliage but no flowers or fruit. SUN SUN A. It could be being baked or waterlogged in the winter. It SUN might also be due to the soil composition. In the future SUN when planting in containers, try mixing a John Innes number SUN two with the same quantity of a general multi purpose. Use a SUN slow-release fertiliser once a year in the spring. Give the SUN tree a bit more time because it's still young. SUN SUN 6. Q. Could the panel suggest flowers that would appeal to SUN the senses? SUN SUN A. Sensitive Plant, Pulsatillas, Lambs' Ears, Peonies, Lemon SUN Balm and Mint, Pennisetums, Agastache, Thyme, Dill, Fennel, SUN Bamboos and Fuschias, Platycodon Grandiflorus (Balloon SUN Flowers). SUN SUN 7. Q. How can we get rid of the many Poplar saplings that SUN are appearing in our garden? They are growing up from the SUN roots of a tree that was cut down from the railway SUN embankment near our house. SUN SUN A. You'll continue to get regrowth so ask the railway to SUN treat the tree stump with herbicide. You can also treat the SUN cut surface of the suckers with brushwood killer. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04f8m5b (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with three excerpts from a conversation from SUN Cumbria between a mother and daughter about how their family SUN coped with the death of the strong man who was their husband SUN and father. 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 b04f8m5d (Listen) SUN James II: The Storms of this Deceitful World SUN SUN By Mike Walker SUN SUN During his short reign James II faced rebellion led by his SUN nephew and widespread condemnation for his policy of SUN religious tolerance. When he produced a Catholic heir, the SUN political tensions exploded and resulted in his son-in-law SUN William of Orange landing an invading army in England. Why SUN did it go so wrong for dismal Jimmy? SUN SUN Directors: Marc Beeby & Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN Credits SUN James II: James Fleet SUN Sunderland: Clive Hayward SUN Talbot: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Churchill: Michael Shelford SUN Sarah Churchill: Jaimi Barbakoff SUN Monmouth: Alex Waldmann SUN Maria: Jane Slavin SUN Van Weede: Nicholas Murchie SUN Colonel: David Cann SUN Foreman: Damian Lynch SUN Sergeant: Mark Edel-Hunt SUN Priest: Matthew Watson SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN Writer: Mike Walker SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04f8m5g (Listen) SUN Literary Scene in London SUN SUN In a special edition of Open Book, Mariella Frostrup SUN discusses the rise of live literary events with writers SUN Damian Barr, Evie Wyld and Joe Dunthorne before a live SUN audience in London. SUN SUN Over the past few years there's been a renaissance on live SUN literary events from Literary Death Matches to scratch SUN nights, Bookslams to Bookjams, salons to flash fiction SUN nights. Mariella Frostrup will be finding out what they all SUN are, what they mean for authors and book-lovers, and whether SUN live literary nights really are the new rock'n'roll. SUN The BBC World Service's own Parisian Literary Salon SUN The literary gathering in caricature SUN SUN Event Listings SUN SUN Brixton Bookjam takes place quarterly on the first Monday of SUN the month at the Hootenanny pub in Brixton. Tickets are SUN free. SUN SUN The Peirene Salon takes place roughly quarterly at a private SUN home in Highgate. Tickets cost £20. SUN SUN Homework takes place monthly at Bethnal Green Working Men’s SUN Club. Tickets cost £8. SUN SUN Literary Death Match takes place regularly at venues across SUN the world. Tickets cost £8. SUN SUN Damian Barr’s Literary Salon takes place roughly quarterly SUN at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. Tickets cost £10. SUN SUN See below for links to each event's homepage, and a gallery SUN of images. 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 In Memoriam: Conversations on a Bench b04f8m5j (Listen) SUN Anna Scott-Brown hears stories of love, loss and hope from SUN the strangers and friends she sits beside on 'Rosie's Bench' SUN in a park in Oxford. The inscription, Rest Awhile and SUN Remember Happy Times Together, draws out reflections and SUN revelations which Michael Symmons Roberts weaves into a SUN poem, specially commissioned for the programme. SUN SUN Gradually, the story behind the inscription is revealed by SUN Rosie herself as she remembers her husband Chris, whose life SUN the bench commemorates. The experience of others, mixed with SUN her own, turns Rosie's tale into a heartfelt and emotional SUN acknowledgement of the need to stop and communicate with SUN people around us, as life rushes by. SUN SUN Hidden lives are revealed and common threads recur as Anna SUN Scott-Brown's gentle - but insistent and sometimes extremely SUN direct - questions elicit poignant and profound responses SUN from those sitting on the bench to 'Rest Awhile'. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Taking the Edge Off b04dmbkg (Listen) SUN Sixty years after the publication of The Doors of SUN Perception, Francine Stock reviews Aldous Huxley's SUN experiments with mescaline and asks why evolution has failed SUN to select out our need for escape. SUN SUN Since earliest times we have contrived ways to alter our SUN natural conscious state by trance or stupor or frenzy. SUN Francine Stock asks whether the settings are just 'off' in SUN human consciousness and explores what could be lacking in SUN our brains, that life sometimes seems unbearable without the SUN 'edge' taken off. SUN SUN With Huxley's biographer, Nicholas Murray, she discovers the SUN author's association with the 1960s counterculture was not SUN one he sought. Sixty years on from the afternoon in Los SUN Angeles when he took mescaline, later described in The Doors SUN of Perception (1954), neuroscience has advanced. Huxley's SUN father, Thomas Henry known as 'Darwin's bulldog' was the SUN biologist who popularised Darwin's theories. Huxley reckoned SUN mind-expanding substances were needed to free ourselves from SUN the limitations of our nervous system since our capacity for SUN perception of anything beyond the strictly utilitarian had SUN atrophied as we evolved. Drugs and other hallucinogens SUN provided the portals to a mystic experience. SUN SUN There is, however, the alternative possibility that our SUN enduring craving for various kinds of artificial stimulus SUN and escape is an attempt to correct and/or enhance our SUN neural responses. SUN SUN Francine explores the evolutionary possibilities associated SUN with our use of mind-altering substances in the company of SUN psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Marc Lewis, SUN ethnobotanist and environmental anthropologist Dr Miguel SUN Alexiades, and psychiatrist Dr Tammy Saah. Neuroscientist Dr SUN Valerie Voon shows her what can be seen in brain activity SUN when substances are consumed, and she discusses society's SUN changing acceptance of different substances - from opium in SUN the 19th century to alcohol today - with Professor Virginia SUN Berridge, and visits a health food store to examine the SUN substances available for purchase. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and SUN drugs by Virginia Berridge SUN Publisher: SUN OUP Oxford; 1 edition (28 Nov 2013) SUN ISBN-10: SUN 0199604983 SUN ISBN-13: SUN 978-0199604982 SUN SUN Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual by Nicholas Murray SUN Publisher: SUN Abacus; New Ed edition (6 Nov 2003) SUN ISBN-10: SUN 0349113483 SUN ISBN-13: SUN 978-0349113487 SUN SUN Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis SUN Publisher: SUN PublicAffairs; Reprint edition (21 Mar 2013) SUN ISBN-10: SUN 1610392337 SUN ISBN-13: SUN 978-1610392334 SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04f8fbg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04f857b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04f857d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04f857g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04f8pwh (Listen) SUN Radio is at its best when people tell real life stories and SUN we've got some terrific tales this week: of an inspirational SUN teacher changing lives, of a civil rights campaigner SUN standing up to lynch mobs, of the show carrying on in siege SUN torn Sarajevo. We have contemporary stories of climbing SUN feats, the impact of emigration and the power of music mixed SUN with archived accounts of the disastrous effects of war and SUN the advent of page three. So join us for Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Reflections with Peter Hennessy (Radio 4, 20th August) SUN SUN Afternoon Drama: The Chemistry Between Them (Radio 4, 20th SUN August) SUN SUN The Reunion (Radio 4, 24th August) SUN SUN World at One (Radio 4, All-Week) SUN SUN Night Climbers of Cambridge (5Live, 17th August) SUN SUN Crossing Continents (Radio 4, 21st August) SUN SUN The Documentary: Grapes of Wrath Revisited (World Service, SUN 19th August) SUN SUN Great Lives (Radio 4, 19th August) SUN SUN 5Live Sport (5Live, 18th August) SUN SUN Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo? (Radio 4, 21st August) SUN SUN Archive on 4: Vietnam and the Presidents (Radio 4, 23rd SUN August) SUN SUN Radio 1 Stories: MP3 War (Radio 1, 18th August) SUN SUN The Langley Music Schools Project (Radio 4, 19th August). SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Liz Barclay SUN SUN Liz Barclay is a British broadcaster, journalist and writer. SUN She is one of the most recognised voices on British radio SUN today with her common sense approach to money and finance. SUN In recent years on Radio 4 she has presented The Job Clinic, SUN A Small Business, and NHS Punters Fight Back. She was SUN announced as a lay member of the NHS Equality and Diversity SUN Council joining NHS Leaders, trades union and third sector SUN representatives on the council, which was set up in August SUN 2009 to champion improvement in equality and diversity SUN performance throughout the NHS. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04f8pwk (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Charles Paris Mystery b00wdf4d (Listen) SUN Murder in the Title, Episode 3 SUN SUN By Jeremy Front SUN Based on the novel by Simon Brett SUN SUN Charles is appearing in 'The Message is Murder', a terrible SUN play; so bad that someone wants to kill off the cast. 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 The Kinks SUN Who'll Be The Next In Line? SUN SUN Small Faces SUN All Or Nothing SUN SUN Bob Dylan SUN Like A Rolling Stone SUN SUN The Who SUN Magic Bus SUN SUN Lynyrd Skynyrd SUN Whisky-Rock-A-Roller SUN SUN Eric Clapton SUN Bell Bottom Blues SUN SUN The Velvet Underground SUN Run, Run, Run SUN SUN The Velvet Underground SUN Beginning To See The Light SUN SUN The Doors SUN Soul Kitchen SUN SUN Small Faces SUN Shake 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 Elaine: Christine Kavanagh SUN Phoebe: Claire Harry SUN Chris: Henry Devas SUN Frank: Tony Bell SUN Protestor: Sally Orrock SUN Barmaid: Leah Brotherhead SUN Author: Simon Brett SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN Director: Sally Avens SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b04f8pwm (Listen) SUN Series 10, Bad Fairytale SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded earlier this month at the BBC's pop up SUN venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SUN SUN Tonight, an alternative fairytale written and read by SUN Grainne Maguire. SUN SUN A stand-up comic and comedy-writer, Maguire received a SUN prestigious BBC Radio 4 Comedy Writer's bursary in 2013. She SUN has written topical jokes for The Now Show and The News SUN Quiz. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Grainne Maguire SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04dqyh4 (Listen) SUN Troubled families? SUN SUN "Revealed: half a million problem families" reported The SUN Sunday Times. The government's expanding its Troubled SUN Families programme - two years after More or Less found it SUN statistically wanting. Tim Harford discusses the new numbers SUN with BBC Newsnight's Chris Cook. SUN SUN Chief executive pay: a new survey from the High Pay Centre SUN highlights how much higher CEO remuneration is compared to SUN that of their workers. But Ben Carter discovers the figures SUN aren't quite what they seem. SUN SUN As the Gaza conflict continues, the fact that there are SUN estimated to be nearly three times as many men as women SUN among the Palestinian civilian casualties has been an issue SUN in the spotlight. Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander look at why SUN men are often over-represented in civilian death tolls, and SUN how the statistics in this conflict are being gathered. SUN SUN And, further adventures in the audio presentation of data SUN with BBC Radio 4's Daily Service presenter, Andrew SUN Graystone. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN Chapters SUN Troubled families? SUN The government's expanding its Troubled Families programme - SUN we question the new numbers. SUN Chief Executive Pay SUN Is CEO remuneration really so much higher than that of their SUN workers? SUN Deaths in Gaza SUN Why are men over-represented in civilian death tolls and how SUN are the statistics gathered? SUN Data sounds SUN Further adventures in the audio presentation of data with SUN Andrew Graystone. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04dqy3q (Listen) SUN Albert Reynolds, Ronnie Stonham, Norman Cornish, Gerry SUN Anderson, Licia Albanese SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The former Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, who SUN advanced the peace process in Northern Ireland, signing the SUN Downing Street Declaration of 1993. SUN SUN Brigadier Ronnie Stonham, who was the link between the BBC SUN and the intelligence services and wound down the practice of SUN vetting Corporation staff. SUN SUN Norman Cornish, the Northumberland miner who became an SUN artist. SUN SUN The broadcaster Gerry Anderson - loved by his radio audience SUN in Northern Ireland, but not by all listeners to Radio 4. SUN SUN And the Italian American soprano Licia Albanese, known for SUN her interpretations of Puccini and Verdi. SUN SUN Albert Reynolds (pictured) SUN SUN Matthew Spoke to the former BBC Ireland correspondent, Denis SUN Murray. SUN SUN Born 3 November 1932; died 21 August 2014 aged 81. SUN SUN Ronnie Stonham SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend and former colleague, Michael SUN Hodder and to Prof Anthony Glees, Director of the Centre for SUN Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of SUN Buckingham. SUN SUN Born 9 July 1927; died 5 August 2014 aged 87. SUN SUN Norman Cornish SUN SUN His friend, the writer Michael Chaplin, pays tribute. SUN SUN Born 18 November 1919; died 1 August 2014 aged 94. SUN SUN Gerry Anderson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his colleague Michael Bradley and to Simon SUN Elmes, Creative Director for Features and Documentaries, who SUN produced Gerry. SUN SUN Born 28 October 1944; died 21 August 2014 aged 69. SUN SUN Licia Albanese SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the historian and broadcaster, Prof SUN Christopher Cook. SUN SUN Born 23 July 1909; died 15 August 2014 aged 105. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Parris SUN SUN 21:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04f8cwx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04f8k45 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04dqrt5 (Listen) SUN Health Technology SUN SUN Peter Day reports from Silicon Valley on the cutting-edge SUN innovation that's promising to transform healthcare. From SUN apps which monitor your fitness to phone attachments that SUN diagnose ear infections, the boom in high-tech gadgets is SUN attracting millions of pounds of venture capital money. But SUN can the technology companies really come up with the goods SUN which will make us live longer, healthier lives? SUN SUN Contributors, in order of appearance: SUN SUN Ashwin Raut, Samsung SUN Young Sohn, Samsung SUN Sam De Brouwer, Scanadu SUN Eric Douglas, Cellscope SUN Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures SUN Daniel Kraft, Singularity University SUN Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos SUN Esther Dyson, HICCup SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04f9ch1 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04f9ch3 (Listen) SUN Sue Cameron of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04dqpxf (Listen) SUN Luc Besson on Lucy; Dardenne Brothers; Kelly Reichardt SUN boxset SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Luc Besson discusses the neuro-science behind his latest SUN thriller, Lucy, in which Scarlett Johansson's brain capacity SUN increases to dangerous levels. SUN SUN The Dardenne Brothers discuss their latest award winning SUN drama Two Days, One Night, with Marion Cotillard. SUN SUN Palaeontologist Jack Horner explains how he tried to make SUN Jurassic Park as scientifically accurate as possible. SUN SUN Catherine Bray reviews a box-set of the films of Kelly SUN Reichardt, whose movies defy conventions such as conclusive SUN endings and coherent dialogue. SUN SUN Minor Irritations SUN Tell us about the little things that bug you about a trip to SUN the cinema. Not talking, texting or popcorn munching, but SUN the minor irritations, the more petty and particular the SUN better. Email us SUN here SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Luc Besson SUN Interviewed Guest: Jean-Pierre Dardenne SUN Interviewed Guest: Luc Dardenne SUN Interviewed Guest: Jack Horner SUN Interviewed Guest: Catherine Bray SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04f8k3z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 AUGUST 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04f858q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Educators b04dmxwl (Listen) MON John Hattie MON MON What really works in schools and classrooms? How much MON difference can homework and class size make to a child's MON ability? MON MON Sarah Montague interviews John Hattie, Professor of MON Education at the University of Melbourne and Chair of the MON Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership. MON MON Over 20 years, he carried out one of the biggest pieces of MON education research, compiling studies from previous decades MON and comparing the effect they have on attainment and MON ability. MON MON His work is ongoing, but the results show a league table of MON effectiveness. It reinforces things you might expect, such MON as the importance of teachers, but also offers some MON surprises that might have parents and teachers questioning MON their priorities. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04f8k3x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04f858s (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04f858v (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04f858x (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04f858z (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fcqnm (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Reverend Mike Starkey. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04f9fr5 (Listen) MON The Farm Shop on the Motorway MON MON As far as motorway service stations go, Gloucester Services MON on the M5 northbound offers something a bit different. It MON markets itself as a farm shop; selling fresh, local produce MON from Gloucestershire farms, orchards, pantries and bakeries. MON MON But is it just a watering hole for the well-off? A feast of MON luxury food for those who can afford it? Sybil Ruscoe finds MON out how affordable a farm shop on the motorway really is, MON and meets some of the producers selling their wares to the MON thousands of people travelling up the M5 every day. MON MON Sybil also chats to chief executive and farmer's daughter MON Sarah Dunning, whose family started Tebay Services on the M6 MON in Cumbria back in 1972. Sarah shares her vision for MON Gloucester Services and defends those inflated motorway MON prices. MON MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Anna Jones. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04f8591 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qjrh (Listen) MON Meadow Pipit MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Brett Westwood presents the Meadow Pipit. The thin but MON penetrating calls of the meadow pipit can be heard on a MON remote mountainside or high above the city streets on an MON autumn day. Meadow pipits are often the main hosts for the MON parasitic Cuckoos and many a pipit pair ends up stuffing MON insects into a much larger cuckoo chick. MON MON 06:00 Today b04f9fr7 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b04f9fr9 (Listen) MON Series 7, Plain English MON MON Plain English can be very valuable. Clarity, precision and MON simplicity are highly important - in an airline safety MON announcement, in online terms and conditions or instruction MON manuals, or messages from public bodies. MON MON But Stephen finds it's not as simple as that. A definition MON of plain-ness is hard to achieve. The study of readability, MON as it is properly called, can grade certain texts and MON calibrate their readability, usually coming up with the age MON of the person who might be expected to read and understand MON them. But it's not an exact science, and can't come up with MON a single defined plain-ness. MON MON There ought to be a plain English law, it's been suggested. MON The trouble is, defining what plain English means can be MON paradoxically complicated. In order to do so, Stephen and MON Charlotte dance the tango, examine a famous TV commercial MON and have an argument. Stephen claims that there is a law MON enforcing government departments to communicate in plain MON English. Charlotte doesn't believe him. The outcome of their MON disagreement is a bit, well, complicated. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b03s6zmg (Listen) MON Series 2, Comedy MON MON Bettany Hughes considers changing ideas of comedy by MON listening to a rat laughing and by giggling at schoolboy MON jokes from Ancient Mesopotamia. 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 shaped the human MON experience. In the second programme of this series, Bettany MON considers changing ideas of comedy with neuroscientist Dr MON Sophie Scott, Assyriologist Dr. Irving Finkel, Artistic MON Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Gregory Doran, and MON comedian John Lloyd. MON MON Other ideas examined in The Ideas that Make Us are idea, MON desire, agony, fame, justice, wisdom, liberty, hospitality MON and peace. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04f9frc (Listen) MON Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, Episode 1 MON MON Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets - a household MON name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such MON innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen MON sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the MON last century. MON MON Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more MON controversial. A solitary librarian known for his pessimism, MON he disliked exposure and had no patience with the literary MON circus. And when, in 1992, the publication of his Selected MON Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, MON accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny MON were levelled against him. MON MON There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be MON likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and MON life were really so deeply at odds with each other. Can the MON poet who composed the moving 'Love Songs in Age' have been MON such a cold-hearted man? Can he who uttered the playful, MON self-deprecating words 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils MON were for Wordsworth' really have been so boorish? MON MON A very different public image is offered by those who shared MON the poet's life - the women with whom he was romantically MON involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is MON with their personal testimony, including access to MON previously unseen letters, that Booth reinstates a man MON misunderstood - not a gaunt, emotional failure, but a witty, MON provocative and entertaining presence, delightful company; MON an attentive son and a man devoted to the women he loved. MON MON Read by Michael Pennington MON MON Written by James Booth MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON MON Produced by Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Michael Pennington MON Author: James Booth MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Producer: Joanna Green MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04f9frf (Listen) MON Woman's Hour and Men's Hour collaborate on a programme about MON friendship; particularly the friendship that exists between MON men and women and the different way that the two genders MON approach platonic relationships. 25 years ago, the film When MON Harry Met Sally asked the question, can men and women ever MON be friends? So has anything changed in past quarter of a MON century or is this question as relevant as it was in 1989? MON Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison have been best-friends for ten MON years and join Jane Garvey, Tim Samuels and broadcaster MON Geoff Lloyd to explain the benefits of having a close friend MON of the opposite sex. Mark Vernon, author of "The Meaning of MON Friendship", and Relate Ambassador and relationship MON psychologist Anjula Mutanda join us to explore why MON friendship is so important to us and the factors at play MON when we choose our closest friends. And what happens when MON friendship is pushed to its limits? Simon Speakman Cordall MON explains why his friendship survived an extraordinary test MON and Vanessa Feltz examines why her friendships fell apart in MON the wake of her divorce. MON MON Presenters: Jane Garvey and Tim Samuels MON Producers: Laura Northedge and Will Cantopher. MON MON Can men and women really be friends? MON MON It is MON twenty-five years since the film When Harry Met Sally was MON released and posed MON the question; can men and women ever really be friends? Or MON does sexual attraction always get in the MON way? Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison are best MON friends who have put their relationship to the test by MON writing the young adult MON novel Lobsters together. They join Jane MON and Tim along with broadcaster Geoff Lloyd to ask whether MON relationships between MON men and women are ever truly platonic. MON MON What are the differences between male and female MON friendships? MON Reporter Catherine Carr interviews revellers on a night out MON in Cambridge to discover what we MON really MON talk about when the opposite sex isn't around. And what MON does this tell us about the differences between male and MON female friendship? MON MON Why is friendship so important? MON MON A recent study MON commissioned by Relate revealed that nine per cent of us MON don’t feel we have a MON close friend. But is that necessarily a MON problem? Given that people have MON families, romantic relationships, colleagues and MON acquaintances, what is the MON purpose of friendship? Why is friendship MON something that we seek out and what governs who we MON befriend? And is there a MON difference between the way men and women view friendship? MON Jane and Tim are MON joined by Mark Vernon, author of The Meaning of Friendship, MON and by Anjula MON Mutanda, a relationship psychologist and Relate MON Ambassador. MON MON Friendship against the odds MON MON Simon MON Speakman Cordall lost most of his sight following a drunken MON fight with his best MON friend. He tells Jane and Tim how, MON despite years of agonising treatment, he cannot feel anger MON towards his friend. MON MON Vanessa Feltz MON When Vanessa Feltz's marriage ended in 2000, she thought the MON support of her life-long friends was a given. Instead she MON found that she was suddenly on the outside of her social MON circle and was forced to accept that she not only had lost a MON husband but many of her friends as well. She talks to Jane MON and Tim about rebuilding her social circle from scratch and MON her new best friend - who just happens to be a man. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Presenter: Tim Samuels MON Interviewed Guest: Geoff Lloyd MON Interviewed Guest: Tom Ellen MON Interviewed Guest: Lucy Ivison MON Interviewed Guest: Anjula Muntanda MON Interviewed Guest: Mark Vernon MON Interviewed Guest: Simon Speakman Cordall MON Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Feltz MON Producer: Laura Northedge MON Producer: Will Cantopher MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04f9frh (Listen) MON Dark Fire, Episode 1 MON MON Gripping dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's atmospheric Tudor MON crime novel set during the last days of Thomas Cromwell. MON MON London, 1540, hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake has lived MON quietly in the three years since he was asked by Cromwell to MON investigate a murder at Scarnsea monastery on England's MON south coast (a story told in "Dissolution"). But his quiet MON life is soon forgotten as he rushes to solve two very MON different but urgent mysteries: save the life of a young MON girl accused of a terrible murder; and, discover who has MON stolen the last precious batch of Greek Fire, a mythical MON weapon of mass destruction. MON MON Accompanied by Cromwell's man - the young and impetuous MON Barak - Shardlake desperately searches for clues against the MON backdrop of a hot and stinking London summer. MON MON A fast and furious crime drama, "Dark Fire" features ethical MON dilemmas, intriguing characters and a luminous historical MON setting. Starring Justin Salinger as Shardlake, Bryan Dick MON as Barak and Robert Glenister as Thomas Cromwell. MON MON Written by C. J. Sansom MON Dramatised by Colin MacDonald MON Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Shardlake: Justin Salinger MON Barak: Bryan Dick MON Cromwell: Robert Glenister MON Guy: Vincent Ebrahim MON Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton MON Norfolk: Patrick Brennan MON Marchamount: Nick Underwood MON Elizabeth: Susie Riddell MON Bealnapp: Clive Hayward MON Rich: Damian Lynch MON Director: Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON Adaptor: Colin MacDonald MON Author: CJ Sansom MON MON 11:00 Recycled Radio b04f9frk (Listen) MON Series 2, Truth 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: Truth. MON MON Expect contributions from those who can spot a lie from a MON mile off, including politicians Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and MON Michael Howard. And explore the philosophical meaning of MON Truth with Nicholas Parsons, Melvyn Bragg and Sandi Toksvig. MON MON The programme is produced in Bristol by Melvin Rickarby. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b04f9frm (Listen) MON Summer 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 3: Summer MON In which Geoff is forced to lead the Maypole dancing at MON Yxsjö's Midsummer festivities and go skinny dipping. 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 Soran: Farshad Kolghi MON Shop Assistant: Lisa Werlinder MON Director: Frank Stirling MON Writer: Danny Robins MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04fc4dh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04f9frp (Listen) MON 25 August 1914 - Isabel Graham MON MON After the influx of refugees from Belgium, initiatives are MON afoot at St Judes to help. MON MON Written by: Shaun McKenna MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Sylvia: Deborah Findlay MON Dorothea: Rachel Shelley MON Marieke: Olivia Ross MON Ivy: Lizzy Watts MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON Producer: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04f9frr (Listen) MON Why the take-up of technologies that help with health and MON social care has been so slow and whether the people who are MON resisting using this equipment are right to reject it. MON MON Winifred Robinson visits Mi Liverpool, one of four MON Government-funded initiatives that is being piloted across MON the UK and hears how people are using telecare and MON telehealth packages. She's joined in the studio by Dave MON Horsfield who runs the project, also by Claire Medd, MON Clinical Director for Care Innovations and Professor Trisha MON Greenhalgh from Barts and the London School of Medicine and MON Dentistry. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04f8593 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04f9frt (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents national and international news. MON MON 13:45 Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy MON b04f9frw (Listen) MON The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy MON MON In the first of a series of five programmes, writer Lucy MON Mangan selects five different economic remedies from MON literature. Will she find a solution to Britain's economic MON recovery in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? MON MON Lucy finds the book on her bookshelf and takes it for MON discussion to Professor Mary Morgan from the London School MON of Economics and to Bob Swarup, who has written a guide to MON 2,500 years of boom and bust. MON MON In later programmes she will see what ideas found in fairy MON tales and children's stories can add to the economic MON recovery debate. MON MON Producer: Janet Graves MON A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. MON Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04f8pwk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04f9fry (Listen) MON Blink MON MON by Phil Porter MON MON Sophie and Jonah are two shy, lonely individuals thrown MON together in urban London. Their love affair takes a strange MON and initially contactless route. MON MON Director: David Hunter. MON MON Credits MON Sophie: Lizzy Watts MON Jonah: Thomas Pickles MON Sophie Cattermole: Scarlett Brookes MON Herbert: Clive Hayward MON Mr Shuttleworth: Craige Els MON Mum: Heather Craney MON Charlotte: Jaimi Barbakoff MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Phil Porter MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b04f9fs0 (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 3 MON Actress, writer and comedienne Maureen Lipman MON Presenter and newsreader Penny Smith MON Journalist, political commentator and president of YouGov MON Peter Kellner MON Comedian, writer and actor Sanjeev Kohli MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Maureen Lipman MON Panellist: Penny Smith MON Panellist: Peter Kellner MON Panellist: Sanjeev Kohli MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04f8m56 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Don't Go In the Water! b04f9fs8 (Listen) MON Jaws made the scientist Dr Gareth Fraser what he is today - MON a lecturer in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and shark MON jaw specialist, at the University of Sheffield's Department MON of Animal and Plant Sciences. MON MON This is his exploration of Jaws - the fiction of the rogue MON shark that enthralled Gareth when he was a boy in South MON Wales, looking out on the dark silt of the Bristol channel, MON wondering what lay beneath. MON MON Even the eminent Professor David Sims (of the Marine MON Biological Association and University of Southampton) admits MON to looking out for the fins of Great Whites when he's out MON tagging toothless basking sharks in Devon and Cornwall. MON MON Can the story really still have such power over our psyches? MON MON Jaws was written by Peter Benchley forty years ago and MON turned into the first summer blockbuster, by Stephen MON Spielberg, a year later. MON MON It may have inspired Gareth to swim with sharks - despite MON his father's fisherman's tales of sea monsters - yet it MON petrified other people out of the water for good. MON MON Gareth asks what innate fears Jaws taps into - the fear of MON being eaten alive, like in Hansel and Gretel, or of the MON deep, dark unknown of the sea. He asks how realistic Jaws' MON tale of a Great White killing machine really is and what MON impact it still has today - both on sharks and on new MON generations of swimmers, either running from the water after MON flashbacks from the film or running into the waves MON determined to grow up to be another Matt Hooper, the story's MON charismatic shark scientist. MON MON Producer: Frances Byrne MON A Big Fish production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04f9hxw (Listen) MON Charity MON MON The current crisis' in Iraq, Gaza and Syria means there is MON much work for humanitarian relief agencies working to pick MON up the pieces of these terrible conflicts. Many of these MON groups are faith based bodies - organisations motivated by a MON religious conviction to help those in need. But what does it MON mean to be a faith based charity? Is it a strength to have a MON religious dimension or a weakness? And how do you ensure MON that charity does not become exercise in proselytization? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the pros and cons of faith MON based charity are Andrew Hogg, Head of Media at Christian MON Aid; Jehangir Malik, Director of Islamic Relief; and Dr MON Michael Jennings, Lecturer in the Department for Development MON Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in MON London. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b04f9hxy (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04f8595 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b04f9hy0 (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 3 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? Sue MON Perkins, Gyles Brandreth and Paul Merton find out. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04f9lmd (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04f9lmg (Listen) MON Richard Bean MON MON In a Front Row special, playwright Richard Bean discusses MON his prolific and varied career, which includes One Man, Two MON Guvnors and three new plays this year alone: Great Britain, MON Pitcairn and Made in Dagenham. MON MON James Corden, who played the original lead in One Man, Two MON Guvnors, talks to John Wilson about what is possibly the MON best role he'll ever play. MON MON And National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner explains the MON success of his collaborations with Bean, which include this MON year's phone-hacking satire starring Billie Piper, Great MON Britain. MON MON Pitcairn MON Pitcairn, written by Richard Bean and directed by Max MON Stafford-Clark runs at the MON Chichester Festival Theatre MON from 22 August to 20 September 2014. It then transfers to MON the MON Globe Theatre, London MON from 22 September to 11 October 2014. MON MON Toast MON Toast, written by Richard Bean and directed by Eleanor Rhode MON is playing at the MON Park Theatre MON London from 27 August to 21 September 2014. MON MON Great Britain MON Great Britain, written by Richard Bean and directed by MON Nicholas Hytner opens at the MON Theatre Royal, Haymarket MON on 10 September. MON MON Made in Dagenham - The Musical MON Made in Dagenham, written by Richard Bean and directed by MON Rupert Gould opens at MON The Adelphi Theatre, London MON on 9 October 2014. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Producer: Philip Sellars MON Interviewed Guest: Richard Bean MON Interviewed Guest: James Corden MON Interviewed Guest: Nicholas Hytner MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04f9frh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Why Men Pay for Sex b04f9lmj (Listen) MON The debate about whether there's something wrong with buying MON sex, and whether it should be illegal, is heated and MON unresolved. Amid the debate, however, one question is rarely MON asked: what motivates men to pay women to sleep with them? MON Four men tell Jo Fidgen why they do it. MON MON Producer: Charlotte McDonald MON Editor: Richard Knight. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04dqlc1 (Listen) MON Goodbye Ireland; Goodbye Gaelic Football MON MON Gaelic Football is Ireland's most popular sport - there are MON clubs in every parish of the country. The game is very much MON part of the Irish identity. But it is losing its lifeblood. MON And all because of emigration. John Murphy goes to the far MON west of Ireland, to learn about this uniquely Irish game and MON hear how clubs are struggling to keep going as more and more MON young people leave the country, to find jobs abroad. MON MON Helen Grady producing. MON MON 21:00 The Listeners b04dm5qg (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON Listening is about more than hearing as we discover with MON four individuals for whom listening is very much the focus MON of their lives; indeed motivates their working lives. MON Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer whose compositions are MON concerned with acoustic ecology and soundscape listening. MON One of her earliest memories of consciously listening was MON when her piano teacher " would literally stop me and say MON listen to what you just played ... listen to your touch with MON the piano". Then when she was a student she attended a MON lecture by Murray Schafer who founded the World Soundscape MON project and "literally felt my ears had been opened ". Today MON Hildegard is part of the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective - a MON group of people who meet to take part in soundwalks; walks MON during which participants are asked not to talk but to MON listen. Acoustic ecologist Phil Morton runs similar walks in MON Liverpool. The focused listening which happens in these MON walks can become meditative. Participants not only become MON more aware of the sounds outside them but also start to MON listen to the sounds within themselves. MON "What drew me was a life centred on listening to God and MON listening to other people so I'd then be able to devote my MON life to serving God and to serving the needs of other MON people" explains Fr. Christopher Jamison on why he become a MON Benedictine Monk and "listening lies at the foundations of MON the work of any priest and listening lies at the foundation MON of the whole monastic way of life ". Listening is also very MON much the focus of forensic speech analyst Peter French " I'm MON not listening so much as to what is being said but to how MON its being said" and in some cases it's what being said in MON the background behind the speech that is of interest and MON provides clues as to where a recording is made, as we MON discover. MON MON Best of Natural History Radio Podcast MON MON This programme will be available to download for free MON shortly after the broadcast - via the MON Best of Natural History Radio MON podcast. MON MON Fr. Christopher Jamison MON MON Fr. Christopher Jamison is a Benedictine monk and Director MON of the MON Roman Catholic National Office for Vocation MON MON Hildegard Westerkamp MON Hildegard Westerkamp MON is a composer, more specifically a soundscape composer, and MON her compositions are concerned with acoustic ecology, MON soundscape and listening. She is also a founding member of MON the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. Hildegard is also a MON founding member of the MON Vancouver Soundwalk Collective MON MON Phil Morton MON MON Phil Morton is an acoustic ecologist based in Liverpool and MON describes himself as MON le flaneur scouser MON He leads soundwalks in Liverpool. MON MON MON MON Information on some of his previous soundwalks: MON http://www.artinliverpool.com/?p=34088 MON http://culture.org.uk/2013/10/soundwalk-st-james%E2%80%99-pa MON k-night-walk/ MON http://modisti.com/news/?p=2278 MON MON MON MON Professor Peter French MON Professor Peter French MON is Company Chairman of a forensic speech and acoustics MON laboratory in York, and also teaches and supervises research MON projects at the University there. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b04f9fr9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04f8597 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04f9lml (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04f9lmn (Listen) MON The Thrill of It All, Episode 1 MON MON Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill MON of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative MON soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the MON formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their MON struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in MON transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. MON Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" MON MON This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for MON anyone who has ever loved a song. MON MON Author ..... Joseph O'Connor MON Abridger ..... Neville Teller MON Producer ..... Gemma McMullan MON MON The Author MON MON Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and MON Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, MON The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, MON Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written MON radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the MON multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed MON adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. MON MON His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, MON selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 MON languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio MON Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen MON Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association MON Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and MON the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. MON His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book MON novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for MON Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. MON MON Credits MON Robbie: Philip Glenister MON Fran: Ramon Tikaram MON Author: Joseph O'Connor MON Abridger: Neville Teller MON Producer: Gemma McMullan MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04dm87k (Listen) MON Talking About Cancer MON MON The writer Graham Joyce (pictured above left) presents a MON personal exploration of the language around cancer, and the MON ways in which we try to make sense of it for ourselves. With MON contributions from Consultant Haematologist Dr Ben Kennedy MON and fellow writer Peter Crowther (pictured above right). MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from Talking About Cancer (2) MON MON 23:30 Believe It! b03ktz0f (Listen) MON Series 2, Victor MON MON Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a MON second series. MON MON Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has MON always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of MON truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, MON most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard MON Wilson. MON MON He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan MON delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his MON fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version MON of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, MON private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester MON United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has MON survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of MON fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, MON charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian MON McKellan (not true). MON MON The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed MON reference his famous catchphrase. MON MON Written by Jon Canter MON Produced and Directed by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Himself: Richard Wilson MON Terry Savage: Simon Greenall MON Francois Mattieu: Simon Greenall MON Bob Geldof: Lewis Macleod MON Margaret Thatcher: Steve Nallon MON Jorgen: Steve Nallon MON Mickey Mouse: David Tennant MON Lisa McTaggart: Jane Slavin MON Old Woman: Jane Slavin MON Tabitha: Lotte Rice MON Sheila Goldenberg: Samantha Spiro MON Writer: Jon Canter MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04f85b1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04f9frc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04f85b3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04f85b5 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04f85b7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04f85b9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fcq8m (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Reverend Mike Starkey. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04f9lv0 (Listen) TUE Farm fires, Ospreys, Dredging, Land access TUE TUE 2014 has been a particularly bad year for farm fires. New TUE figures show that the amount they're costing the industry TUE has risen by six million pounds over the last three years, TUE and last year it stood at 50 million pounds. That's more TUE than rural crime costs farming businesses. TUE TUE Dredging work on the two Somerset rivers which flooded so TUE catastrophically earlier this year is now more than half way TUE through. We catch up with the dredgers, and ask the TUE campaigners who called for dredging to happen whether TUE they're happy with progress. TUE TUE Ospreys were extinct in England from the middle of the 19th TUE century, until they were re-introduced in 2001. This year a TUE breeding pair at Roudsea Wood and Mosses National Nature TUE Reserve has successfully hatched two chicks - a first for TUE the reserve. Caz Graham goes off for a spot of TUE bird-watching. TUE TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk0c (Listen) TUE Green Sandpiper TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Brett Westwood presents the Green Sandpiper; a bird with a TUE wonderful yodelling call and the heart-stopping suddenness TUE with which it leaps up from its feeding place and dashes TUE off. The birds that visit the UK are often from Scandinavia, TUE where they nest high up in a fir-tree. When the chicks hatch TUE they tumble unharmed from the nest and are escorted to safe TUE feeding places by their parents. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04f9q7f (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of...? b04f9q7k (Listen) TUE Series 6, The National Trust TUE TUE Quentin Letts casts a quizzical eye over a cherished TUE national institution. The National Trust was formed in 1895 TUE to make the "life enhancing virtues of pure earth, clean air TUE and blue sky" available for all, particularly for the TUE underprivileged poor. To this end, it has acquired 1% of the TUE land and 750 miles of our coastline. It's also taken over TUE responsibility for the upkeep of hundreds of stately homes TUE from the gentry, even though many continue to live in them, TUE tax free. A socialist redistribution of wealth, or TUE subsidised housing for the well-to-do? TUE TUE On summer afternoons the houses are "brought to life" for TUE swarms of visitors who admire their treasures, sniff the TUE mandatory begonias, and eat coffee and walnut cake in their TUE tea shops, staffed by the National Trust's vast army of TUE unpaid workers. TUE TUE Just occasionally the Trust enlists its Middle England TUE supporters to campaign in support of their conservation TUE principles. Governments take note: the National Trust has TUE more members than all the political parties put together. TUE TUE Would Octavia Hill, recognise the organisation she helped to TUE found 120 years ago? Protector of the landscape, pickler of TUE our history, a job creation scheme for the retired? What TUE today is the point of the National Trust? TUE TUE Producer: Rosie Dawson. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04f9q7m (Listen) TUE Jailed for Speaking his Mind in China TUE TUE In 1957 the Chinese Communist leader Chairman Mao made a TUE speech encouraging criticism of the Communist system, saying TUE 'Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of TUE thought contend'. But when one student, Harry Wu, made his TUE views known, he ended up in prison for nearly twenty years. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04fc4m0 (Listen) TUE Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, Episode 2 TUE TUE Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets - a household TUE name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such TUE innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen TUE sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the TUE last century. TUE TUE Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more TUE controversial. A solitary librarian known for his pessimism, TUE he disliked exposure and had no patience with the literary TUE circus. And when, in 1992, the publication of his Selected TUE Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, TUE accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny TUE were levelled against him. TUE TUE There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be TUE likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and TUE life were really so deeply at odds with each other. Can the TUE poet who composed the moving 'Love Songs in Age' have been TUE such a cold-hearted man? Can he who uttered the playful, TUE self-deprecating words 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils TUE were for Wordsworth' really have been so boorish? TUE TUE A very different public image is offered by those who shared TUE the poet's life - the women with whom he was romantically TUE involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is TUE with their personal testimony, including access to TUE previously unseen letters, that Booth reinstates a man TUE misunderstood - not a gaunt, emotional failure, but a witty, TUE provocative and entertaining presence, delightful company; TUE an attentive son and a man devoted to the women he loved. TUE TUE Written by James Booth TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE TUE Produced by Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Michael Pennington TUE Author: James Booth TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04f9q7p (Listen) TUE Vicky Beeching; Enduring appeal of Kate Bush TUE TUE Christian rock star, Vicky Beeching explains her decision to TUE come out at 35. Are women the new action heroes? 1 in 5,000 TUE women is born without a womb or a vagina. How does that TUE impact their lives? Does providing women only spaces in gyms TUE encourage more of us to exercise? And the enduring appeal of TUE Kate Bush. TUE TUE Presenter : Emma Barnett TUE Producer : Kirsty Starkey. TUE TUE Vicky Beeching TUE TUE Vicky Beeching is a broadcaster, and a TUE theologian. She is also one of the best known musicians on TUE the Christian rock TUE scene, getting her first major music deal at 17, and TUE signing to EMI at TUE 23. She’s been a committed Christian all her life, her TUE music sung in churches TUE all over the World, and she’s been particularly popular TUE with evangelical TUE churches in the Bible Belt of the United States. Vicky has TUE also always known TUE she was gay, but for a long time lived with the secret, TUE afraid of the effect it TUE would have on her life. At 35, and after a serious illness, TUE she made the TUE decision this month to come out. Vicky Beeching joins Emma TUE Barnett to discuss TUE the support she’s received, the people who can’t accept her TUE choice and a future TUE outside of Christian music. TUE TUE Women and Exercise TUE TUE Only last week we TUE were celebrating the success of the English women’s rugby TUE team in winning the TUE World Cup. But what about ordinary women? Figures show that TUE once TUE they leave school, women are less likely to take part in TUE sport than men. So what are the barriers which discourage TUE women from exercising and how do we TUE break them down? We’ve been to two London gyms to find out TUE whether TUE creating women-only exercise spaces might help.The TUE Clissold Leisure TUE Centre TUE is mixed, but has recently introduced some women-only TUE sessions and TUE The TUE Bridge TUE only caters for women. And Emma is joined by Katie Ellis TUE from TUE GLL TUE an independent social enterprise which is the UK’s largest TUE leisure TUE provider, and by the blogger, Julie Creffield, who has TUE created TUE The Fat TUE Girls’ Guide To Running TUE The Women’s Sport TUE and Fitness Foundation. TUE TUE Born Without a Womb TUE One in TUE five thousand women are born without a vagina or a womb. TUE The condition is TUE called Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser or MRKH and it can TUE have a major impact of TUE the lives of those who have it – the absence of a womb TUE makes it impossible to TUE carry a baby and because there is no vagina, penetration TUE during sex is pretty TUE much impossible. Dr Alice Evans suffers from the condition TUE and she joins Emma Barnett, as does Nuala Dixon who is a TUE Clinical Nurse Specialist working with women who TUE have MRKH at Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital in TUE London. TUE TUE Are Women the New Action Heroes? TUE TUE Action film TUE The Expendables 3 opened in the UK this month and featured TUE the biggest roster TUE of action stars ever cast in one film. The line-up TUE includes Sylvester TUE Stallone, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, TUE Wesley Snipes, TUE Dolph Lundgren and just about anyone who was anyone in TUE 1980s and 1990s action TUE films. But despite its star-studded cast, the film only TUE reached third TUE place at the box office and attention has turned this TUE weekend to Lucy, a TUE critically acclaimed sci-fi action film starring Scarlett TUE Johansson. So TUE are these all male, all action films best left in the TUE past? And what do TUE the new breed of female action stars tell us about our TUE changing taste in TUE heroes? Emma is joined by journalists Tom Fordy and Helen TUE Lewis. TUE TUE Kate Bush TUE TUE From tonight Kate Bush kicks off her series of sell-out TUE concerts, in her hugely anticipated return to the stage 35 TUE years after her last TUE performance in 1979. So what’s behind the powerful TUE popularity of the enigmatic TUE writer and performer of such unique and hugely admired TUE classics like Wuthering TUE Heights, Running Up That Hill, and Babooshka? Music writer TUE Jude Rogers joins TUE Emma Barnett to discuss Kate Bush’s incredible 36 year TUE recording career and TUE what makes her such a stand-out musical force. TUE TUE Kate Bush’s series of Before The Dawn concerts starts TUE tonight, 26 August, at the Eventim Apollo in London TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Emma Barnett TUE Interviewed Guest: Vicky Beeching TUE Interviewed Guest: Helen Lewis TUE Interviewed Guest: Tom Fordy TUE Interviewed Guest: Alice Evans TUE Interviewed Guest: Nuala Dixon TUE Interviewed Guest: Katie Ellis TUE Interviewed Guest: Julie Creffield TUE Interviewed Guest: Jude Rogers TUE Producer: Kirsty Starkey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04f9q7r (Listen) TUE Dark Fire, Episode 2 TUE TUE Atmospheric dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's gripping Tudor TUE crime novel set during the last days of Thomas Cromwell. TUE TUE London, 1540, hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake is summoned TUE by Cromwell and forced to undertake a deadly secret mission: TUE tracking down a batch of Greek Fire, an ancient weapon of TUE mass destruction, thought to have been lost with the fall of TUE Constantinople. TUE TUE Written by C. J. Sansom TUE Dramatised by Colin MacDonald TUE Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Shardlake: Justin Salinger TUE Barak: Bryan Dick TUE Cromwell: Robert Glenister TUE Guy: Vincent Ebrahim TUE Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton TUE Norfolk: Patrick Brennan TUE Marchamount: Nick Underwood TUE Elizabeth: Susie Riddell TUE Bealnapp: Clive Hayward TUE Rich: Damian Lynch TUE Director: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Adaptor: Colin MacDonald TUE Author: CJ Sansom TUE TUE 11:00 Everything We Know Is Wrong b04f9r4k (Listen) TUE Every day the newspapers carry stories of new scientific TUE findings. There are 15 million scientists worldwide all TUE trying to get their research published. But a disturbing TUE fact appears if you look closely: as time goes by, many TUE scientific findings seem to become less true than we TUE thought. It's called the "decline effect" - and some TUE findings even dwindle away to zero. TUE TUE A highly influential paper by Dr John Ioannidis at Stanford TUE University called "Why most published research findings are TUE false" argues that fewer than half of scientific papers can TUE be believed, and that the hotter a scientific field (with TUE more scientific teams involved), the less likely the TUE research findings are to be true. He even showed that of the TUE 49 most highly cited medical papers, only 34 had been TUE retested and of them 41 per cent had been convincingly shown TUE to be wrong. And yet they were still being cited. TUE TUE Again and again, researchers are finding the same things, TUE whether it's with observational studies, or even the "gold TUE standard" Randomised Controlled Studies, whether it's TUE medicine or economics. Nobody bothers to try to replicate TUE most studies, and when they do try, the majority of findings TUE don't stack up. The awkward truth is that, taken as a whole, TUE the scientific literature is full of falsehoods. TUE TUE Jolyon Jenkins reports on the factors that lie behind this. TUE How researchers who are obliged for career reasons to TUE produce studies that have "impact"; of small teams who TUE produce headline-grabbing studies that are too statistically TUE underpowered to produce meaningful results; of the way that TUE scientists are under pressure to spin their findings and TUE pretend that things they discovered by chance are what they TUE were looking for in the first place. It's not exactly fraud, TUE but it's not completely honest either. And he reports on new TUE initiatives to go through the literature systematically TUE trying to reproduce published findings, and of the bitter TUE and personalised battles that can occur as a result. TUE TUE Producer/Presenter: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 11:30 Music of the Forest b04f9r4m (Listen) TUE Horatio Clare tells the story of the complex and TUE unconventional anthropologist Colin Turnbull. TUE TUE Arguably the most influential field recordings of all time TUE were made in 1954 by a British anthropologist called Colin TUE Turnbull. These recordings of the finely wrought music of TUE Mbuti pygmies, in the Ituri forest of what was then the TUE Belgian Congo, inspired legions of ethnomusicologists and TUE have gone on to be used as influence and source material for TUE a raft of artists, including Madonna, John Coltrane, Brian TUE Eno and Herbie Hancock to name a few. Alongside Bach, Mozart TUE and Louis Armstrong, Turnbull's recordings of the Mbuti were TUE sent into space as part of the Voyager Golden Record. TUE TUE Colin Turnbull's fascination with the Mbuti pygmies made him TUE one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and '70s. TUE He appeared on chat shows and collaborated with filmmakers TUE and theatre directors. His bestselling book, The Forest TUE People, showed how these hunter-gatherers, roaming the TUE forest in search of honey, fruit, and game, lived lives of TUE compassion for one another in an environment they adored. TUE This idealistic vision, and Turnbull's corresponding unease TUE with the excesses of western life, became the lens through TUE which he would fashion his own existence - the rest of his TUE life became a search to find those same values outside the TUE forest. TUE TUE Featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah; Steven Feld; Roy Richard TUE Grinker and Terese Hart. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Williams. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04fc4dk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04f9r4p (Listen) TUE 26 August 1914 - Adam Wilson TUE TUE In Folkestone, the German Consulate is under surveillance. TUE TUE Written by: Shaun McKenna TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood TUE Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Adam: Leo Montague TUE Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson TUE Florrie: Claire Rushbrook TUE Forrester: Nigel Hastings TUE Mickey: Reece Buttery TUE Albert: Harry Myers TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE Producer: Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04f9r4r (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours: Should you lend money to family members? TUE TUE The family lending economy has reached £31 billion, TUE according to new research. That's three times what the TUE Government is giving banks to boost lending to small TUE businesses. What's your experience of borrowing or lending TUE within the family? Has it put your own finances under TUE pressure? Was it willingly given and gratefully received or TUE did it ruin relationships? Has what used to be a rare thing TUE become the norm in these days of rising house prices and TUE student loans? Contact us now and tell us your stories. TUE Email us at youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04f85bc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04f9r4t (Listen) TUE National and international news with Edward Stourton. TUE TUE 13:45 Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy TUE b04f9r4w (Listen) TUE The Treasure Seekers TUE TUE Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies TUE from literature to see if the answer to the economic TUE recovery has been sitting on her book shelves all along. TUE TUE In programme two, she selects her childhood favourite, The TUE Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit, and takes it to Andrew Oswald TUE from the University of Warwick and Bridget Rosewell, TUE economist and former chief economic advisor to the Greater TUE London Authority. She tests whether literary fiction can TUE contribute to the debate on economic recovery. TUE TUE Producer: Janet Graves TUE A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04f9lmd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01hl4gt (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, The Sensitive - The Protector TUE TUE Alastair Jessiman's gentle psychic detective returns for TUE another investigation - one which will surprise him more TUE than anyone. TUE TUE Thomas Soutar is asked to investigate the disappearance of a TUE family friend. It's believed the missing man may have TUE committed suicide. The voices in Thomas's head suggest a TUE different explanation - but before he can solve the mystery TUE he's shocked by a revelation about a secret hidden deep in TUE his own past. TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Mrs Soutar: Sheila Donald TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Jean Harvey: Anne Downie TUE David: John Buick TUE Minister: John Buick TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04f89mf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b04f9r9h (Listen) TUE The Diesel Decade TUE TUE The air quality in our towns and cities has remained TUE stubbornly filthy over the last ten years despite tightening TUE regulations on the poisonous emissions our cars can legally TUE belch out. That means more lung disease and more heart TUE attacks. TUE TUE New research is pointing the finger of suspicion at the TUE dramatic rise in the number of diesel vehicles on our roads. TUE Take a look at the data from car manufacturers and it seems TUE that diesel engines are getting significantly cleaner. TUE Independent monitoring suggests something very different- TUE real cars driven in the real world can emit up to five times TUE more of some pollutants than the manufacturers claim. TUE TUE Tom Heap investigates the source of our pavement pollution TUE and kicks off his campaign for cleaner air. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE MPs from the Environmental Audit Committee begin their air TUE pollution investigation TUE Air pollution on Oxford Street TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04f9r9k (Listen) TUE Is the Double Entendre in Rude Health? TUE TUE Arthur Bostrom examines the origins and colourful history of TUE the double entendre and asks if this comic device is TUE upholding its reputation as a firm favourite or whether its TUE popularity is starting to droop. TUE TUE Novelist Angela Carter described a double entendre as TUE 'everyday discourse which has been dipped in the infinite TUE riches of a dirty mind'. Whether innocently filthy or TUE gleefully subversive, this British institution is part of TUE our comedy tradition and has made us giggle for centuries. TUE TUE Arthur himself, a purveyor of this custom, most memorably as TUE Officer Crabtree in the popular situation comedy 'Allo TUE 'Allo, slips into a world of suggestive speech including TUE radio series, saucy postcards and bawdy song. However as he TUE probes the new era of the double entendre he discovers it TUE isn't to everyone's taste - including his own. TUE TUE He's joined by comedy historian CP Lee; Deputy Editor of TUE Marketing Week Branwell Johnson; and Dr Paul MacDonald, a TUE comic novelist and lecturer in creative writing. TUE TUE Produced by Stephen Garner. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04f9r9m (Listen) TUE Series 34, Ray Mears on Rommel TUE TUE The life of Erwin Rommel, for a time Hitler's favourite TUE general is nominated by Ray Mears. Matthew Parris hears why TUE this German soldier was a "great life". They are also joined TUE by Dr Niall Barr, Reader in Military History, Defence TUE Studies Department at Kings College, London. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE From the recording with Dr Niall Barr, Ray Mears and Matthew TUE Parris TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Ray Mears TUE Interviewed Guest: Niall Bartr TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04f9r9p (Listen) TUE Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04f85bf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b03m3nty (Listen) TUE Series 4, Company Man; Diary Extracts 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, the pros and cons of being grown up enough to TUE have a guest room in "Company Man", and some more extracts TUE from his hilarious diary, which he has kept nightly for over TUE 30 years. TUE TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Sedaris TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE Writer: David Sedaris TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04f9r9r (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04f9r9t (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04f9q7r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Whatever Happened to Global Governance? b04f9rdr (Listen) TUE The way that countries cooperate with each other is TUE changing, and in surprising ways. The old powers - the TUE United States, Britain, Europe - used to hold the reins of TUE how global issues were dealt with. Professor Ngaire Woods TUE examines how a new playing field is emerging where newcomers TUE - such as Brazil, Russia, India and China - are creating TUE their own solutions. TUE TUE Is old-style global governance fragmenting? In 1944, Bretton TUE Woods, New Hampshire, was the birthplace of the familiar TUE international organisations that keep countries talking to TUE each other. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank TUE were created, followed by the United Nations and what went TUE on to be the World Trade Organisation (WTO). They were a TUE huge achievement - but 70 years on, are they fit for TUE purpose? TUE TUE The world's smaller economies, such as in Africa, used to TUE have to go cap in hand to Washington DC for answers. Now TUE they have many other options. Professor Woods speaks to TUE former chief economists of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz TUE and Justin Yifu Lin, and former WTO director, Pascal Lamy, TUE to find out why. TUE TUE So as the old system fragments, how will the world solve its TUE big issues, such as poverty, climate change, immigration and TUE pandemics? And how will Britain negotiate this new terrain? TUE TUE Producer: Dominic Byrne TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04f9rdt (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b04f9rdw (Listen) TUE Conflicted Medicine: Public Health Campaigns TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter examines how powerful lobbying groups like TUE the food and alcohol industries steer public health policy TUE in the direction that suits them most. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of...? b04f9q7k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04gbyc4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04f9rfb (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04fln8n (Listen) TUE The Thrill of It All, Episode 2 TUE TUE Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill TUE of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative TUE soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the TUE formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their TUE struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in TUE transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. TUE Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" TUE TUE This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for TUE anyone who has ever loved a song. TUE TUE Author ..... Joseph O'Connor TUE Abridger ..... Neville Teller TUE Producer ..... Gemma McMullan TUE TUE The Author TUE TUE Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and TUE Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, TUE The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, TUE Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written TUE radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the TUE multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed TUE adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. TUE TUE His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, TUE selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 TUE languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio TUE Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen TUE Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association TUE Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and TUE the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. TUE His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book TUE novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for TUE Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. TUE TUE Credits TUE Robbie: Philip Glenister TUE Trez: Natasha Little TUE Author: Joseph O'Connor TUE Abridger: Neville Teller TUE Producer: Gemma McMullan TUE TUE 23:00 The Guns of Adam Riches b04f9rz9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Adam Riches' new series of comic adventure stories continues TUE with the tale of Mastermind, a blind megalomaniac who is TUE taking a break from world domination to look for love. Aided TUE by a host of absurd henchmen, including some plucked TUE straight from the audience, will Mastermind find what he's TUE looking for or will he end up heartbroken? TUE TUE Starring Adam Riches, Cariad Lloyd, Jim Johnson and TUE Katharine Bennett-Fox. TUE TUE Written by Adam Riches TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Adam Riches TUE Actor: Cariad Lloyd TUE Actor: Jim Johnson TUE Actor: Katharine Bennett-Fox TUE Writer: Adam Riches TUE Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer TUE TUE 23:30 Believe It! b03lpjpk (Listen) TUE Series 2, Secrets TUE TUE Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a TUE second series. TUE TUE Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has TUE always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of TUE truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, TUE most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard TUE Wilson. TUE TUE He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan TUE delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his TUE fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version TUE of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, TUE private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester TUE United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has TUE survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of TUE fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, TUE charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian TUE McKellan (not true). TUE TUE The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed TUE reference his famous catchphrase. TUE TUE Credits TUE Himself: Richard Wilson TUE Doug: David Tennant TUE Herself: Celia Imrie TUE Suzy Baker: Samantha Spiro TUE Egg Wilson: Lewis Macleod TUE Teddy: Robert Portal TUE Mother: Arabella Weir TUE Auntie Rita: Jane Slavin TUE Writer: Jon Canter TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04f85c8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04fc4m0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04f85cb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04f85cd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04f85cg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04f85cj (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fc5dt (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Reverend Mike Starkey. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04fcr17 (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 b038qk0y (Listen) WED Wood Sandpiper WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Brett Westwood presents the Wood Sandpiper. Wood Sandpipers WED are elegant waders and just a handful of pairs breed in the WED UK, in wooded marshes and remote bogs of Northern Scotland. WED There's a chance to see them when they break their migration WED journey south at inland pools and marshes here. Listen out WED for their cheerful call that has been described as sounding WED like an old penny-whistle. WED WED Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) WED Image courtesy of Steve Knell (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b04fcr19 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04fc5dy (Listen) WED Series 2, David Steel WED WED In this series, Peter Hennessy, the historian of modern WED Britain, asks a senior politician to reflect on his or her WED life and times. Each week, he invites his guest to explore WED their early influences, their experiences of events and WED their impressions of people they've known. WED In this third episode, David Steel (now Lord Steel of WED Aikwood), the former Liberal Party Leader, reflects on his WED role in shifting Britain away from two-party politics WED towards multi-party politics and coalition government. He WED was nicknamed 'Boy David' after becoming an MP in 1965 at WED the age of 26, but soon established his national reputation WED by piloting reform of the abortion law through Parliament. WED He discusses his reasons for forming the 'Lib-Lab Pact' with WED Labour's Jim Callaghan in the late 1970s and talks about his WED role in encouraging the 'Gang of Four' to quit Labour and WED form the SDP. As a senior Liberal Democrat with strong WED sympathy for social democratic ideas, he reflects candidly WED on Nick Clegg's leadership and his party's coalition with WED the Conservatives. WED Peter's earlier guests in this series were Sir John Major, WED the former Prime Minister and Roy Hattersley, the former WED Labour Deputy Leader. Next week's guest is Dame Margaret WED Beckett MP, the first woman to have been Foreign Secretary WED and to have led the Labour Party (in 1994) and the first WED woman to have been Deputy Leader of her party. WED The producer is Rob Shepherd. WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03xf16j (Listen) WED Series 2, Norah Smallwood WED WED Robert McCrum explores the stories of five great British WED publishers. WED WED Norah Smallwood was the first woman to break into the WED traditional gentleman's club of publishing in the early 20th WED Century. She joined Chatto and Windus as a secretary in 1936 WED and rapidly worked her way up, becoming a partner after the WED Second World War, and managing director between 1975 and WED 1982. She was on the board of the Hogarth Press and worked WED closely with its founder, Leonard Woolf. WED WED Her authors included Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Taylor, Iris WED Murdoch, A. S. Byatt and Toni Morrison. She also became WED close friends with Dirk Bogarde, then one of Britain's WED leading movie stars, after she heard him on a late night WED radio show and spotted his potential as a writer. Iris WED Murdoch said she was 'a combination of comrade, leader, WED mother, business partner and muse'. WED WED The Observer's Robert McCrum talks to publishing insiders WED including Dame Gail Rebuck and Booker prize-winning author, WED A. S. Byatt. WED WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04fc5f0 (Listen) WED Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, Episode 3 WED WED Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets - a household WED name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such WED innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen WED sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the WED last century. WED WED Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more WED controversial. A solitary librarian known for his pessimism, WED he disliked exposure and had no patience with the literary WED circus. And when, in 1992, the publication of his Selected WED Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, WED accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny WED were levelled against him. WED WED There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be WED likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and WED life were really so deeply at odds with each other. Can the WED poet who composed the moving 'Love Songs in Age' have been WED such a cold-hearted man? Can he who uttered the playful, WED self-deprecating words 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils WED were for Wordsworth' really have been so boorish? WED WED A very different public image is offered by those who shared WED the poet's life - the women with whom he was romantically WED involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is WED with their personal testimony, including access to WED previously unseen letters, that Booth reinstates a man WED misunderstood - not a gaunt, emotional failure, but a witty, WED provocative and entertaining presence, delightful company; WED an attentive son and a man devoted to the women he loved. WED WED Written by James Booth WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED WED Produced by Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Michael Pennington WED Author: James Booth WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Producer: Joanna Green WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04fcrdh (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 b04fc5f2 (Listen) WED Dark Fire, Episode 3 WED WED Atmospheric dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's bestselling WED Tudor crime novel. WED WED London, 1540. Under orders from Thomas Cromwell, WED detective-lawyer Matthew Shardlake is investigating the WED theft of a barrel of Greek Fire, an ancient weapon of mass WED destruction, the formula for which was thought to have been WED lost with the fall of Constantinople. Assisted by Cromwell's WED man, Barak, it's increasingly clear that whoever is behind WED the theft will do anything - including murder - to keep the WED substance from the Earl of Essex. WED WED Written by C. J. Sansom WED Dramatised by Colin MacDonald WED WED Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Shardlake: Justin Salinger WED Barak: Bryan Dick WED Cromwell: Robert Glenister WED Guy: Vincent Ebrahim WED Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton WED Norfolk: Patrick Brennan WED Marchamount: Nick Underwood WED Elizabeth: Susie Riddell WED Bealnapp: Clive Hayward WED Rich: Damian Lynch WED Director: Kirsteen Cameron WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED Adaptor: Colin MacDonald WED Author: CJ Sansom WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04fc5f5 (Listen) WED Richard and Mark - Men of Metal WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation about the hidden history that WED is revealed when you go searching with a metal detector, and WED what makes someone go in search of such discoveries. 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 Sandhurst and the Sheikhs b04fc5f7 (Listen) WED Four reigning Arab monarchs have passed through the Royal WED Military Academy Sandhurst or its associated institutions - WED the kings of Bahrain and Jordan, the Emir of Qatar and the WED Sultan of Oman, alongside a long list of lesser sheikhs and WED princes, and many of the region's military chiefs of staff. WED WED Matthew Teller uses archive, analysis and new interviews to WED examine Sandhurst's longstanding links with the Gulf, WED exploring whether there is a detectable 'Sandhurst WED influence' on the repression of popular protests across the WED Middle East, and asking whether Sandhurst should help WED deliver officer-trained military leaders to Middle Eastern WED allies if they have questionable records on rights and WED accountability. WED WED Links between Sandhurst and the elite families of the Middle WED East stretch back over a century. King Hussein of Jordan WED attended Sandhurst and later said, "I have always felt that WED my experience at Sandhurst was one which had the greatest WED impact on my formative years." WED WED Today, the region has started to turn the tables. Gulf WED monarchies are deploying 21st-century techniques (and, above WED all, money) to extend their own soft power. Latterly WED Sandhurst sparked debate by accepting £3m from Bahrain and WED £15m from the UAE to rededicate two buildings. These WED controversially included the former Mons Hall, originally WED named for the first major British-fought battle of WW1, but WED now retitled the King Hamad Hall after the Bahraini monarch. WED WED Sandhurst insiders - including a former commandant, Middle WED Eastern activists and exiled academics - debate the rights WED and wrongs of Sandhurst's role in bolstering at best WED undemocratic, and at worst repressive, regimes. WED WED Presenter: Matthew Teller WED Producer: Karen Pirie WED WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01ljwm8 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Next Story WED WED Tom and Lucy are furious they are not allowed a dog. Their WED parents say that when kids go between two households it's WED too complicated. But their mum and dad's love lives are even WED more tangled. After all, Tom has seen his parents kissing. WED So where does that leave their mum's new third husband, and WED the unstable pet shop owner their dad has been secretly WED dating? 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 Bobby: Stephen Critchlow WED Vicky: Doon Mackichan WED Harry: Guy Paul WED Writer: Marcella Evaristi WED Director: Marilyn Imrie WED Producer: Gordon Kennedy WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04fc4dm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04fc5fc (Listen) WED 27 August 1914 - Gabriel Graham WED WED In Folkestone, Gabriel struggles to write an appropriate WED speech for the first British war wounded... WED WED Written by: Shaun McKenna WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED Credits WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Sylvia: Deborah Findlay WED Hilary: Craige Els WED Norman: Sean Baker WED Officer: Matthew Watson WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED Producer: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04fcrdk (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04f85cl (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04fcrdm (Listen) WED National and international news with Edward Stourton. WED WED 13:45 Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy WED b04fc5ff (Listen) WED The Million Pound Bank Note WED WED Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies WED from literature to see if she can find a solution to WED Britain's economy. In this witty and enlightening series, WED she uses her extensive personal library to help economists WED out. WED WED In this the third programme in the series, she re-reads Mark WED Twain's short story The Million Pound Bank Note, and talks WED to Bob Swarup and Andrew Sentance about what literary WED fiction can contribute to the debate on economic recovery. WED WED Producer: Janet Graves WED A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04f9r9r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0076zvm (Listen) WED Keeping the Score WED WED By Martyn Wade. Gerald owns a score box at his village WED cricket ground, but it's put to most use in the winter WED months, something his wife has never found out and which WED Gerald is determined she never shall. WED WED Music arranged and played by Neil Brand. WED WED Directed by Jane Morgan. WED WED Martyn Wade was prompted to write Keeping the Score by the WED actor David Troughton, who as Martyn remembers it, suggested WED that he write a play about two men in a score box. At the WED time Martyn wasn't even sure what a score box was and WED certainly couldn't think what two men would talk about in WED such a place, but the idea stayed with him and the result is WED a delightful play, which requires absolutely no knowledge WED of, nor enthusiasm for, the game of cricket. WED WED Credits WED Gerald: David Troughton WED Derek: Sam Kelly WED Director: Jane Morgan WED Writer: Martyn Wade WED WED 15:00 Bricks and Bubbles b04f8cwx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b04f9rdw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Educators b04fc707 (Listen) WED Tony Little WED WED Eton College in Berkshire is one of the world's most famous WED schools. With so many of its old boys having distinguished WED careers, an Eton education carries the expectation of WED success. WED The school's name has also become a cultural shorthand for WED influence, privilege and wealth. WED Tony Little became headmaster in 2002. A former pupil of the WED school, he talks to Sarah Montague about how Eton gets WED results, and whether there's anything in the ethos and WED practice that could apply to all schools. WED WED He believes a British education is uniquely rich and varied, WED with much of the value being outside the classroom, but WED fears it is being eroded by an age of measurement. Nineteen WED British prime ministers have been educated at Eton, WED alongside notable writers, actors and scientists. Tony WED Little says it asks something of all the boys there. "If WED they've done it, why not you?" WED WED Presenter: Sarah Montague WED Producer: Joel Moors. WED WED Clip WED empty WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04fc709 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04fc70c (Listen) WED Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's WED news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04f85cn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dead Ringers b04fc70f (Listen) WED Series 12, Episode 5 WED WED After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning WED impressions show is back with a new cast of characters. WED WED No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show WED takes down every programme, institution and politician you WED hold dear. WED WED Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis WED MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. WED WED Producer: Bill Dare. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Jon Culshaw WED Performer: Jan Ravens WED Performer: Duncan Wisbey WED Performer: Lewis Macleod WED Performer: Debra Stevenson WED Producer: Bill Dare WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04fc70h (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04fc70k (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04fc5f2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Agree to Differ b04fc70m (Listen) WED Vivisection WED WED Agree to Differ is Radio 4's new discussion programme where WED the aim is to give listeners a completely new way to WED understand a controversial issue and to decide where they WED stand. Presented by Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04fc70p (Listen) WED Series 4, In Defence of Anger WED WED Philosopher Amia Srinivasan makes the case for anger, WED arguing that it can be a huge source of strength and power, WED particularly for the apparently weak and powerless. WED WED Using the personal experiences and political beliefs of WED Martin Luther King and Malcolm X to advance her case, Amia WED argues that we should seriously question why people in power WED criticise or dismiss those who are angry. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b04f9r9h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04fc5dy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04f85cq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04fc70r (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04flnj5 (Listen) WED The Thrill of It All, Episode 3 WED WED Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill WED of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative WED soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the WED formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their WED struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in WED transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. WED Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" WED WED This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for WED anyone who has ever loved a song. WED WED Author ..... Joseph O'Connor WED Abridger ..... Neville Teller WED Producer ..... Gemma McMullan WED WED The Author WED WED Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and WED Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, WED The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, WED Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written WED radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the WED multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed WED adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. WED WED His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, WED selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 WED languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio WED Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen WED Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association WED Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and WED the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. WED His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book WED novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for WED Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. WED WED Credits WED Robbie: Philip Glenister WED Sean: Shaun Dingwall WED Author: Joseph O'Connor WED Abridger: Neville Teller WED Producer: Gemma McMullan WED WED 23:00 Jigsaw b04fc70t (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Award-winning stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine WED and Nat Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together a WED rapid-fire and surreal sketch show. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Dan Antopolski WED Performer: Tom Craine WED Performer: Nat Luurtsema WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED WED 23:15 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b04fc70w (Listen) WED The Viewing WED WED by Jenny Éclair WED WED A lonely woman takes a peek into other people's properties WED and lives when their houses are put up for sale. WED WED Producer ..... Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Annette Badland WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED WED 23:30 Believe It! b03m7p12 (Listen) WED Series 2, Danger Man WED WED Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a WED second series. WED WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of WED truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, WED most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard WED Wilson. WED WED He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan WED delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his WED fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version WED of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, WED private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester WED United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has WED survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of WED fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, WED charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian WED McKellan (not true). WED WED The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference his famous catchphrase. WED WED Written by Jon Canter WED WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Richard Wilson WED Himself: Ian McKellan WED Young Richard: Michael Higgins WED Mother: Arabella Weir WED Muriel Grant: Arabella Weir WED Young Murray: Aaron Mitra WED Old Murray: David Tennant WED Marcos: David Tennant WED LA Kid: Nick MacCarone WED Writer: Jon Canter WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Director: Clive Brill WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 AUGUST 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04f85dk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04fc5f0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04f85dm (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04f85dp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04f85dr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04f85dt (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fcs1z (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Reverend Mike Starkey. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04fcs21 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Lucy Bickerton. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk3x (Listen) THU Mistle Thrush: Part One THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Brett Westwood presents the Mistle Thrush. Loud rattling THU calls, like someone scraping a comb across wood, tell you THU that Mistle Thrushes are about. From midsummer to early THU autumn, bands of Mistle Thrushes roam the countryside, where THU they feed on open pastures, among stubble or on moorland. THU These birds are very fond of the white sticky berries of THU mistletoe and spread the seeds into cracks of tree bark when THU they wipe their bills or defecate. THU THU Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus) THU Image courtesy of Jenny Hibbert (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b04fcs23 (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 b04fc80v (Listen) THU Series 3, Shoplifting THU THU The Old Bailey opens up the whole of 18th century society to THU us - rich and poor passed through London's great criminal THU court - and so thousands of court transcripts give us a THU record of voices which have otherwise left no trace. THU Historians treasure these criminal records, not just for the THU way they preserve individual voices but because collectively THU they tell the story of massive social change. THU THU This programme explores consumer revolution and a brand-new THU crime it spawned - shoplifting. It's a crime that only THU entered the statute books in 1699 - and it could be punished THU by execution. THU THU Shoplifting was a brand new offence, seen to be fuelled by a THU new kind of greed - because in the 18th century, shops were THU themselves new. They sprang up all across the fashionable THU districts of London, replacing markets and hawkers, then THU spread across the south and by the late 18th century every THU small town in the North - even villages - would have its own THU shop. THU THU On location in an 18th century shop, Lock's Hat Shop in St THU James's, Professor Vickery listens to shop-lifting cases THU from the Old Bailey. Beginning with simple smash-and-grab THU theft, and ending with an elaborate fraud - the theft of THU hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of diamond jewellery. THU THU Contributors include Professor Peter King of Leicester THU University, leading historian of crime; cultural historian THU Helen Berry from Newcastle University; and historian of THU glamour and fashion, Hannah Greig from the University of THU York. THU THU With readings by Charlotte Stockley, Ewan Bailey, Oliver THU Soden, David Holt, Damien Bouvier and Steven Webb - and THU specially arranged music from singer Guy Hughes and pianist THU David Owen Norris. THU THU Produced by Elizabeth Burke THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Getting started on the Old Bailey Site THU THU You can find details of all these cases on the website Old THU Bailey Online. The site includes a video tutorial with THU search tips and further advice to help you navigate this THU rich source of archive. THU Getting started - video tutorial THU THU Case 1: A hat is stuffed under someone’s petticoats THU THU Alice Jones, of St. Michael's Cornhill, was indicted for THU privately stealing a Bermundas Hat. THU THU THU Case 1: A hat is stuffed under someone’s petticoats THU THU Case 2: The hatter’s own hat is stolen THU THU Elizabeth Jenkins, otherwise Bateman was indicted for THU stealing one man's hat. THU THU THU Case 2: The hatter’s own hat is stolen THU THU Case 3: “Ruffles” are stolen THU THU Elizabeth Glascow, spinster, was indicted for stealing one THU pair of laced ruffles. THU THU THU Case 3: “Ruffles” are stolen THU THU Case 4: The modus operandi of two women working together are THU revealed THU THU Mary Hudon and Hannah Hobbs were indicted for THU Case 4: The modus operandi of two women working together are THU revealed: September 1790, Mary Hudson and Hannah Hobbs THU THU Case 5: James Molesworth Hobart, aka “Lord Massey” and “Duke THU of Ormonde THU THU James Molesworth Hobart steals jewellery from Bond Street THU jewellers Willerton & Green in 1791 . THU THU THU Case 5: James Molesworth Hobart, aka “Lord Massey” and “Duke THU of Ormonde THU THU Amanda Vickery THU THU Professor Amanda Vickery is the prize-winning author of The THU Gentleman's Daughter (Yale University Press, 1998) and THU Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale THU University Press, 2009). She is Professor of Early Modern THU History at Queen Mary, University of London. She lectures on THU British social, political and cultural history. THU THU THU Amanda reviews for The Guardian, The Times Literary THU Supplement, and BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review, Front Row and THU Woman’s Hour. Her TV series At Home with the Georgians aired THU on BBC2 in December 2010. She was a judge of the 2011 BBC THU Samuel Johnson Prize. THU THU THU Amanda Vickery THU THU London Lives THU London Lives THU is the sister site to Old Bailey Online. It makes available, THU in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of THU primary sources about eighteenth-century London, many of THU which concern the same individuals who appeared at the Old THU Bailey. THU The site includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages THU and over 3.35 million names. THU THU THU London Lives THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04fc80x (Listen) THU Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, Episode 4 THU THU Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets - a household THU name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such THU innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen THU sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the THU last century. THU THU Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more THU controversial. A solitary librarian known for his pessimism, THU he disliked exposure and had no patience with the literary THU circus. And when, in 1992, the publication of his Selected THU Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, THU accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny THU were levelled against him. THU THU There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be THU likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and THU life were really so deeply at odds with each other. Can the THU poet who composed the moving 'Love Songs in Age' have been THU such a cold-hearted man? Can he who uttered the playful, THU self-deprecating words 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils THU were for Wordsworth' really have been so boorish? THU THU A very different public image is offered by those who shared THU the poet's life - the women with whom he was romantically THU involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is THU with their personal testimony, including access to THU previously unseen letters, that Booth reinstates a man THU misunderstood - not a gaunt, emotional failure, but a witty, THU provocative and entertaining presence, delightful company; THU an attentive son and a man devoted to the women he loved. THU THU Written by James Booth THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU THU Produced by Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Michael Pennington THU Author: James Booth THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Producer: Joanna Green THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04gb67s (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 b04fcc83 (Listen) THU Dark Fire, Episode 4 THU THU Dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's Tudor crime novel set during THU the last days of Thomas Cromwell. THU THU London, 1540. Detective-lawyer Matthew Shardlake, assisted THU by Cromwell's man Barak, visit the ruins of St Bartholew's, THU where the barrel of 'Greek Fire' - a liquid weapon capable THU of terrible destruction, the formula for which was thought THU lost during the fall of Constantinople - was first THU discovered. THU THU Written by C. J. Sansom THU Dramatised by Colin MacDonald THU Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Shardlake: Justin Salinger THU Barak: Bryan Dick THU Cromwell: Robert Glenister THU Guy: Vincent Ebrahim THU Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton THU Norfolk: Patrick Brennan THU Marchamount: Nick Underwood THU Elizabeth: Susie Riddell THU Bealnapp: Clive Hayward THU Rich: Damian Lynch THU Director: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU Adaptor: Colin MacDonald THU Author: CJ Sansom THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04fc8yq (Listen) THU Guatemala's Addicts Behind Bars THU THU The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in cocaine THU trafficking through Guatemala en route north, to the United THU States. Part of the fallout locally, has been a rise in THU addiction. As a result, more than 200 drug rehabilitation THU centres have been set up in the capital alone. Many of these THU are run by Pentecostal churches, with little oversight or THU regulation. Often addicts are swept up from the streets by THU 'hunting parties', and forced to attend such a centre. Linda THU Pressly travels to Guatemala City to investigate compulsory THU drug rehabilitation. THU THU 11:30 Fantasy Festival b04fc8ys (Listen) THU Frank Cottrell Boyce joins presenter Tim Samuels to curate THU and create the festival of his wildest dreams. THU THU Festivals are fast becoming significant events on more and THU more people's calendars. And, whether it's a huge rock fest THU or a small scale village event, it's somebody's job to THU imagine the festival before it happens, and to assemble all THU the pieces of the jigsaw that are needed to bring their THU vision to life. THU THU But what if you could create your own festival - where you THU set the agenda, chose the guests, pick the acts, and dictate THU the weather, the food and the ambience. A festival where THU anyone - whether dead or alive - can be summoned to perform, THU and nothing is unimaginable. THU THU Fantasy Festival gives the children's author and THU screenwriter, Frank Cottrell Boyce, the chance to outline THU his dream festival of participation which is set in a sprout THU field outside Ormskirk. Letter writing and a collective THU bedtime story are mandatory activities. And he programmes THU poetry reading by Seamus Heaney, singing by Martha Reeves THU and music from Terje Isungset's ice orchestra. THU Producer: Rosie Boulton THU a Monty Funk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04fc4dp (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04fc8yv (Listen) THU 28 August 1914 - Dorothea Winwood THU THU Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a THU hundred years ago. Britain were victorious in their first THU naval battle and in Folkestone, there are tears at the THU Vicarage. THU THU Written by: Shaun McKenna THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Ralph: Nicholas Murchie THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Marieke: Olivia Ross THU Belgian Woman: Lorna Nickson-Brown THU Hilary: Craige Els THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU Producer: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04fcs25 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04f85dw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04fcs27 (Listen) THU National and international news with Edward Stourton. THU THU 13:45 Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy THU b04fc8yx (Listen) THU The Last Chronicle of Barset THU THU Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies THU from literature. Today, she looks inside The Last Chronicle THU of Barset by Trollope. THU THU In this witty and enlightening series, Lucy searches for THU economic solutions in her bookshelves. She talks to Andrew THU Oswald from the University of Warwick and Mary Morgan from THU the London School of Economics about what literature can THU contribute to the economic recovery debate. THU THU Producer: Janet Graves THU A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04fc70h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04fcb4l (Listen) THU A Meeting with Dora THU THU A Meeting With Dora THU by Don Shaw THU THU In 1979 the writer Don Shaw met Dora Russell, who was a THU campaigner for some of the great causes of the 20 century, THU including women's rights, progressive education, sexual THU reform and birth control. She was also the former wife of THU the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Shaw had been commissioned THU by the BBC to write a film about their life together. What THU resulted was a far more personal meeting for Shaw himself. THU Thirty five years later, using a mixture of fact and THU fiction, he has re-created that meeting. THU THU Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Dora: Eleanor Bron THU Don: David Schofield THU Director: Pauline Harris THU Producer: Pauline Harris THU Writer: Don Shaw THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04fcb4n (Listen) THU The Needles, Isle of Wight THU THU Helen Mark visits one of the Isle of Wight's great THU attractions, those famous chalk cliffs, The Needles, at the THU western end of the island. These iconic white stacks march THU out to sea, back towards the Dorset coast, that they used to THU be joined to a mere 10,000 years ago. Tony Tutton of the THU National Trust shares the great views across the Solent with THU Helen, describing how treacherous the waters beneath them THU can sometimes be to competing sailors, and how vicious the THU winds can be. THU THU Helen also unpicks a Cold War secret that lurks amongst the THU Needles: in the 1950s, the Victorian gun battery here became THU the test site for the British space missile programme. We THU hear from former rocketeer Mike Elliott, who used to work on THU the Black Knight system. THU THU By contrast, Jamie Marsh, Reserves Officer with the Isle of THU Wight Wildlife Trust, shows Helen the impact of the sea at THU Bouldnor, where old oaks, part of a landslip wood, are being THU rapidly undercut by the sea - the nearest to a mangrove THU swamp that you could hope to find in the UK. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04f8k45 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04f8m5g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04fcb4q (Listen) THU The Cabinet of Dr Caligari THU THU Francine Stock unlocks The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Producer: Stephen Hughes THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04fcc7x (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04fcs29 (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04f85f0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qm4q4 (Listen) THU Series 1, Death Penalty THU THU In a brand new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores THU issues on which she has strong opinions. This week, she THU examines the issues surrounding the Death Penalty from the THU perspective gained whilst working on Death Row. THU THU Susan was always stoically against capital punishment - THU because that was the expected position for a liberal student THU to take - and thought that she knew all about it. But it's THU very easy being so liberal when you're sitting in a country THU that doesn't have the death penalty. Then, as a law student, THU she travelled to North Carolina and worked on Death Row for THU a time. What she experienced whilst there persuaded her THU absolutely that she thought Capital Punishment was utterly THU wrong. THU THU This is a story about the transition from casually adopting THU received opinion to developing your own belief system. THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Performer: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU Writer: Susan Calman THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04fcc7z (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04fcc81 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04fcc83 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04fcc85 (Listen) THU Publishing Wars THU THU Who will win the book wars between the world's largest THU publishers and Amazon, the comprehensive online retailer? THU Adam Fleming reports on the latest - and potentially THU epoch-making - chapter in the book wars. THU THU The big French publishing house Hachette is locked in a THU battle with Amazon in the US over the price of Ebooks. THU Amazon alleges the prices which publishers, including THU Hachette, charge for these titles are too high. In support THU of its campaign to lower them, Amazon has made purchases on THU its website of books by authors who are published by THU Hachette - including such well-known writers as Ian Rankin - THU slower and more expensive. In return, publishers are THU threatening to withhold books by popular authors from the THU online retailer. This endangers Amazon's claim always to THU stock the book readers want. THU THU Adam Fleming asks why this row has flared up now and who THU will win it. Where do authors and readers stand in this THU battle between corporate giants and what do they stand to THU win and lose? He also explores the radical changes that are THU taking place elsewhere in the publishing industry - such as THU self-publishing - in which Amazon is itself involved - and THU independent funding of books. How will these changes affect THU all those who write, publish, buy and read books. THU THU Among those contributing to the programme are the writers THU Germaine Greer and Alexander McCall Smith, the children's THU author Linda Strachan and award-winning self-published THU writer Al Brookes. We also hear from Ben Edelman, an expert THU on what Amazon has to lose, and Brad Stone on what it - and THU its publishing counterparts - stand to gain. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04fcc87 (Listen) THU Take a Bow THU THU Thanks to great craftsmen such as the Amati family and THU Antonio Stradivari, the city of Cremona in northern Italy THU has been a global centre of violins for five centuries. THU Peter Day finds out how tradition, marketing and years of THU training enable Cremonese instrument makers to survive in a THU fast changing musical world. THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU Contributors to this programme THU THU Massimo Ardoli THU THU International Violin Making School of Cremona THU THU THU THU THU THU Christopher Kurz THU THU student International Violin Making School of Cremona THU THU THU THU THU THU Philip Ihle THU THU Ihle Violins, London THU THU THU THU THU THU Stefano Trabucchi THU THU Master Violin Maker, Cremona THU THU THU THU THU THU Giorgio Grisales THU THU Master Violin Maker, Cremona and business director, Antonio THU Stradivari Consortium of Cremona Violin Makers THU THU THU THU THU THU Edgar Russ THU THU Master Violin Maker, Cremona THU THU THU THU THU THU Mathijs Heyligers THU THU Master Violin Maker, Cremona THU THU THU THU THU THU Paulo Bodini THU THU Chairman, Museum of the Violin Cremona THU THU THU THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04fcc7x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b04fc80v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04f85f2 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04fcs2c (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04flnzy (Listen) THU The Thrill of It All, Episode 4 THU THU Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill THU of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative THU soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the THU formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their THU struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in THU transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. THU Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" THU THU This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for THU anyone who has ever loved a song. THU THU Author ..... Joseph O'Connor THU Abridger ..... Neville Teller THU Producer ..... Gemma McMullan THU THU The Author THU THU Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and THU Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, THU The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, THU Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written THU radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the THU multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed THU adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. THU THU His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, THU selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 THU languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio THU Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen THU Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association THU Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and THU the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. THU His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book THU novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for THU Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. THU THU Credits THU Robbie: Philip Glenister THU Fran: Ramon Tikaram THU Trez: Natasha Little THU Author: Joseph O'Connor THU Abridger: Neville Teller THU Producer: Gemma McMullan THU THU 23:00 The Show What You Wrote b04fcc89 (Listen) THU Series 2, Art and Literature 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 3 - Art & Literature THU THU Written by THU The Public THU THU Producers THU Alexandra Smith THU Carl Cooper. THU THU Written by THU THU Pete Barrett THU THU Owen Cooper THU THU Will Cooper THU THU Sean Fee THU THU Helen Green THU THU Joe Hodgeson THU THU Daniel Hooper THU THU Gabby Hutchinson Crouch THU THU Caspian James THU THU Greg Jennings THU THU Graham Kilvington THU THU David McIver THU THU Matthew Radway THU THU Owen Seddon THU THU Andrew Stephenson THU THU Emlyn Williams THU THU Script edited by Jon Hunter. That's JON HUNTER. THU THU THU Credits THU Ensemble: Fiona Clarke THU Ensemble: Gavin Webster THU Ensemble: Helen Moon THU Ensemble: Darren Kuppan THU Producer: Carl Cooper THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU THU 23:30 Believe It! b03mg87c (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a THU second series. THU THU Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has THU always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of THU truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, THU most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard THU Wilson. THU THU He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan THU delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his THU fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version THU of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, THU private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester THU United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has THU survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of THU fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, THU charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian THU McKellan (not true). THU THU The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed THU reference his famous catchphrase. THU THU Written by Jon Canter THU Produced and Directed by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Himself: Richard Wilson THU The Grim Reaper: Michael Eaves THU Rev Grey: Michael Eaves THU Sean Connery: Lewis Macleod THU Gordon Brown: Lewis Macleod THU David Beckham: Lewis Macleod THU Egg Wilson: Lewis Macleod THU Cussin Colin: Forbes Masson THU Herself: Celia Imrie THU Himself: Ian McKellan THU Mother: Arabella Weir THU Young Richard: Michael Higgins THU Director: Clive Brill THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Writer: Jon Canter THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 AUGUST 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04f85fx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04fc80x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04f85fz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04f85g1 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04f85g3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04f85g5 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fcf4x (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Reverend Mike Starkey. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04fcscf (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk4j (Listen) FRI Great Spotted Woodpecker FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Brett Westwood presents the Great Spotted woodpecker. In FRI spring Great Spotted Woodpeckers drum loudly with their FRI bills against tree bark to advertise their territories. FRI Unlike many of our woodland birds, which are declining, FRI Great Spotted Woodpeckers have increased rapidly over the FRI last few decades - up to 250% since the 1970's. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04fcsfl (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b04f8m54 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04fchlh (Listen) FRI Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, Episode 5 FRI FRI Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets - a household FRI name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such FRI innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen FRI sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the FRI last century. FRI FRI Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more FRI controversial. A solitary librarian known for his pessimism, FRI he disliked exposure and had no patience with the literary FRI circus. And when, in 1992, the publication of his Selected FRI Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, FRI accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny FRI were levelled against him. FRI FRI There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be FRI likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and FRI life were really so deeply at odds with each other. Can the FRI poet who composed the moving 'Love Songs in Age' have been FRI such a cold-hearted man? Can he who uttered the playful, FRI self-deprecating words 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils FRI were for Wordsworth' really have been so boorish? FRI FRI A very different public image is offered by those who shared FRI the poet's life - the women with whom he was romantically FRI involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is FRI with their personal testimony, including access to FRI previously unseen letters, that Booth reinstates a man FRI misunderstood - not a gaunt, emotional failure, but a witty, FRI provocative and entertaining presence, delightful company; FRI an attentive son and a man devoted to the women he loved. FRI FRI Written by James Booth FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI FRI Produced by Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Michael Pennington FRI Author: James Booth FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04fcsrf (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 b04fchlk (Listen) FRI Dark Fire, Episode 5 FRI FRI Dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's Tudor crime novel set during FRI the last days of Thomas Cromwell. FRI FRI Drawing a blank in their investigation into the theft of FRI Greek Fire, detective-lawyer Matthew Shardlake, assisted by FRI Cromwell's man Barak, turn their attentions to the case of FRI Elizabeth Wentworth: an orphan accused of murdering her FRI young cousin. FRI FRI Written by C. J. Sansom FRI Dramatised by Colin MacDonald FRI Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shardlake: Justin Salinger FRI Barak: Bryan Dick FRI Cromwell: Robert Glenister FRI Guy: Vincent Ebrahim FRI Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton FRI Norfolk: Patrick Brennan FRI Marchamount: Nick Underwood FRI Elizabeth: Susie Riddell FRI Bealnapp: Clive Hayward FRI Rich: Damian Lynch FRI Director: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Adaptor: Colin MacDonald FRI Author: CJ Sansom FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b04fchlm (Listen) FRI Series 17, The Death Doulas FRI FRI Alan Dein meets doulas in Lewes in Sussex - people working FRI in palliative care from all walks of life who have learned FRI how to be companions for people who are dying. They also are FRI involved in consciousness-raising about the end of life and FRI run Death Cafes in Lewes. We follow doulas Polly and Jane as FRI they reveal their motivation for being involved in this FRI work, talk to people about end of life directives, and FRI describe what a doula does in the room of a dying person. FRI Producer: Sara Conkey. FRI FRI Support Contact Details FRI Macmillan Cancer Support FRI wants to make sure no one faces cancer alone. The charity FRI provides medical, practical, emotional and financial support FRI to cancer patients, their carers friends and family. You can FRI get information from its website, emotional support through FRI its telephone helpline and online community or benefits FRI advice and one-off grants to help with the costs of cancer. FRI FRI FRI Helpline: 0808 808 0000 FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI Marie Curie FRI provides free nursing care to terminally ill people in their FRI own homes or in one of the charity’s nine hospices. The FRI charity is best known for its network of Marie Curie Nurses FRI who provide expert nursing care and emotional support to FRI terminally ill people and their families. To get help from FRI the Marie Curie Nursing Service speak to your GP, district FRI nurse or discharge nurse. FRI FRI FRI General enquiries: 0800 716 146 FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI Help the Hospices FRI is a leading charity for hospice care which supports and FRI champions the work of more than 200 hospices across the UK. FRI Hospices provide vital care for people with terminal FRI illnesses and life-limiting conditions and also support FRI their families and carers. For more information about FRI hospice care, or to find your local hospice visit them FRI online FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI Dying Matters FRI is a national coalition which aims to raise public awareness FRI about the importance of talking more openly about dying, FRI death and bereavement. They are working to encourage people FRI to talk about their wishes before it is too late, including FRI by writing a will, discussing where they want to die and FRI setting out their funeral plans with friends, family and FRI loved ones. Talking about dying makes it more likely that FRI you, or your loved one, will be cared for and supported as FRI you might have wished and it will make it easier for your FRI loved ones if they know you have had a ‘good death’. FRI FRI FRI FRI Living Well Dying Well FRI encourages reflection on how to live life fully, while FRI planning and preparing for the end of life. Their FRI courses, training, conversations and services help people FRI think about it, talk about it and plan for it, in a safe and FRI supportive way. In the UK they are pioneering the role of a FRI Doula as a companion and mentor, in support of the whole FRI family, before, during and after this important life event. FRI FRI FRI General enquiries: 01273 933 115 FRI FRI FRI FRI FRI Cruse Bereavement Care FRI is there to support you after the death of someone close. If FRI someone you know has died and you need to talk, you can FRI call their helpline or get in touch by email. 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FRI FRI FRI Helpline: 0800 634 9494 or 01789 265077 (9am to 5pm Monday FRI to Friday) FRI FRI 11:30 My Teenage Diary b03bfkb7 (Listen) FRI Series 5, Kate Mosse FRI FRI Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by author Kate Mosse, whose FRI diary tells of a rain-soaked family holiday to the Lake FRI District in the 1970s. FRI FRI Highlights of the trip included getting lost in the Newbury FRI one-way system and a visit to a pencil factory. FRI FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Rufus Hound FRI Interviewed Guest: Kate Mosse FRI Producer: Harriet Jaine FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04fc4ds (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04fchlp (Listen) FRI 29 August 1914 - Albert Wilson FRI FRI In Folkestone, the cake sale at St Jude's is in full swing. FRI FRI Written by: Shaun McKenna FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Forrester: Nigel Hastings FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04fcsrh (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04f85g7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04fchlr (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy FRI b04fchlt (Listen) FRI Cinderella FRI FRI Writer Lucy Mangan searches her bookshelves to find literary FRI solutions to the economy. FRI FRI In this programme, the final in the series, she turns to the FRI fairy tale of Cinderella, as written by Charles Perrault. FRI This is the version where all the magic happens, and good FRI triumphs in the end. FRI FRI In this enlightening and witty series, Lucy talks to FRI economists Andrew Sentance, formerly one of the treasury's FRI wise men, and economist Bridget Rosewell, to see what fairy FRI tales can contribute to the economic recovery debate . FRI FRI Producer: Janet Graves FRI A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04fcc7z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04fchlw (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 3 FRI FRI Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. Ep 3 of 6 FRI FRI A high powered lawyer and her daughter are arrested for FRI possession of drugs after a house party. But when our team FRI of paralegals investigate they find a cat's cradle of other FRI motives. 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 Matilda: Lucy Dixon FRI Shirley: Fiona Clarke FRI PC Anderson: Everal A Walsh FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Tom Fry FRI Writer: Sharon Kelly FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04fchly (Listen) FRI RHS Wisley FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is at RHS Wisley for this week's episode of the FRI horticultural panel programme. Joining him to answer FRI audience questions are Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and FRI Matthew Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Opening Lines b04fchm0 (Listen) FRI Series 16, Baker, Emily and Me FRI FRI A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging FRI short story writers their radio debut. FRI FRI Lizzie Watts reads Claire Fuller's post-apocalyptic tale set FRI in a world of never-ending rain. A young girl is thrilled to FRI be part of a plan to steal a chicken from the Snatchers. FRI FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI Claire Fuller's first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, will FRI be published by Fig Tree in March 2015. She has written many FRI short stories and several of these have been selected to be FRI read in public performances by White Rabbit Theatre Company, FRI as well as being published in the literary fiction journals, FRI Vintage Script and From the Depths. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Lizzie Watts FRI Writer: Claire Fuller FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04fcstv (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04fcsyt (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04fchm2 (Listen) FRI Sheila and Helen - More Than Just a Mother FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between friends who discovered FRI they had a similar history of failed IVF attempts and share FRI the realisation that their lives are rich without children, FRI proving again that it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or FRI just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04fcsyw (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn presents coverage and analysis of the day's FRI news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04f85g9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Brig Society b04fchm4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Religion FRI FRI Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! FRI 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, glory be, Marcus Brigstocke has decided to form FRI his own religion - based on peace, lovingkindness and FRI probably war. FRI FRI Among his acolytes and apostates are Rufus Jones (W1A, Holy FRI Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've Got No Head) and FRI Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda) FRI FRI The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by FRI Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also FRI produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles FRI Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy FRI Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, FRI Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando FRI Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The FRI 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active 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 b04fchm6 (Listen) FRI Vicky has got news for Hayley, and Freddie delivers a FRI parcel. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04fchm8 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04fchlk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04fchmb (Listen) FRI Prof Hugh Montgomery, Simon Heffer, Thomasina Miers, George FRI Monbiot FRI FRI Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Broadcasting FRI House Radio Theatre in London with the chef and co founder FRI of the Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca, Thomasina Miers, FRI Environmentalist George Monbiot, columnist and historian FRI Simon Heffer and Professor Hugh Montgomery a geneticist who FRI specialises in intensive care medicine and is known for his FRI pioneering genetic research into fitness genes. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04fchmd (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04fchmg (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 25-29 August 1914 FRI FRI With the first war-wounded arriving home through Folkestone, FRI the locals attempt to boost morale with a fundraising event. FRI FRI Written by: Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Norman: Sean Baker FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mickey: Reece Buttery FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Forrester: Nigel Hastings FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Belgian woman: Lorna Nickson-Brown FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Marieke: Olivia Ross FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Officer: Matthew Watson FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04f85gc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04fchmj (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04fqjkv (Listen) FRI The Thrill of It All, Episode 5 FRI FRI Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill FRI of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative FRI soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the FRI formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their FRI struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in FRI transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. FRI Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" FRI FRI This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for FRI anyone who has ever loved a song. FRI FRI Author ..... Joseph O'Connor FRI Abridger ..... Neville Teller FRI Producer ..... Gemma McMullan FRI Reader ..... Philip Glenister FRI FRI The Author FRI FRI Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and FRI Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, FRI The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, FRI Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written FRI radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the FRI multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed FRI adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. FRI FRI His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, FRI selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 FRI languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio FRI Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen FRI Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association FRI Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and FRI the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. FRI His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book FRI novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for FRI Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. FRI FRI Credits FRI Author: Joseph O'Connor FRI Abridger: Neville Teller FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI Reader: Philip Glenister FRI FRI 23:00 Summer Nights b04fchml (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI FRI Presenter: Jay Rayner FRI Producer: Ruth Watts. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04fchmn (Listen) FRI Marie-Jamila and Rachel - A Different Education FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between two friends FRI about the impact the National Front had on their school days FRI in East London during the 1980s. 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