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SAT SATURDAY 01 AUGUST 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0638c2r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b063n285 (Listen) SAT Long Time No See, Episode 5 SAT SAT The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her SAT Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her SAT childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death SAT and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his SAT childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met SAT her mother. SAT SAT Episode 5. SAT A young woman forges her own path. Chick dwindles before his SAT family's eyes, but his daughter's gaze is focussed SAT elsewhere. SAT SAT Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined SAT sections of Chick's life read by Colin Salmon. SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Hannah Lowe SAT Author: Hannah Lowe SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0638c2t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0638c2w (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0638c2y (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0638c30 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b063dhbz (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew SAT Graystone. SAT SAT Script SAT Good morning. SAT The skin on our fingertips has several layers, and embedded SAT in them are millions of receptors that respond to SAT stimulation. Thermoreceptors enable our skin to sense heat, SAT nociceptors [know-si-sceptres] allow us to feel pain, and SAT four different types of mechanoreceptors respond to various SAT pressures, vibrations and stretching of the finger. It is SAT the place where our mind meets the world. You can use it to SAT touch, point or play the violin. It is a dual-purpose tool SAT for exploring and also controlling our environment. It is SAT so well adapted that nine times out of ten we can touch SAT something and understand it, even when we can’t see it. A SAT finger is pretty amazing. And we have ten of them. SAT Increasingly, our interface with the world happens at the SAT place where a finger touches the screen of a smart phone or SAT tablet. By comparison with the finger, a touch screen is SAT rather limited. It can only sense where the finger is – not SAT how hard it is pressing, whether it is wet or dry, how warm SAT it is, what it feels like, what shape it is… Its language SAT is limited to taps and swipes. SAT For all the advantages of mobile technology, I wonder if SAT we’re in danger of creating a digital deficit – of limiting SAT ourselves to the capacity of the machines we use; of SAT regarding the most sophisticated tool we have – the human SAT finger – as nothing more than an object to poke a glass SAT screen? After all, which of them – touch-screen or finger – SAT is the more wonderful? SAT Thank you, creator God, for the technology that enhances our SAT lives.Thank you too, for the infinitely more amazing SAT technology of the human body, fearfully and wonderfully made SAT and bearing your image in every cell. Amen. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b063dhc1 (Listen) SAT 'It's time the law grew up about what sexual intimacy means SAT today' SAT SAT 'It's time the law grew up about what sexual intimacy means SAT today'. A listener tells us how she couldn't divorce her SAT cheating husband for adultery because he is gay. Presented SAT by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0638c32 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0638c34 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b063d34g (Listen) SAT Rathlin Island SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Rathlin Island situated just off the North SAT Coast of Antrim. SAT SAT Despite having a population of just over a hundred people, SAT Rathlin Island is a thriving community. Its rugged landscape SAT is home to a population of farmers and fishers, and supports SAT thousands of sea birds. SAT SAT Each year around thirty thousand tourists flock to the SAT island and Helen discovers what its like to live there SAT during the busy summer months, and once the tourists have SAT left and the island is quiet once more in the winter months. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b063xz5b (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: CLA Game Fair in Yorkshire SAT SAT Charlotte Smith reports from the CLA Game Fair at Harewood SAT House in Yorkshire, hearing from those who love hunting, SAT fishing and shooting, and those who oppose these field SAT sports. SAT SAT Author Mark Avery has just published a book, 'Inglorious - SAT Conflict in the Uplands' - calling for a ban on grouse SAT shooting. He debates his point of view with Andrew Gilruth SAT of GWCT, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. SAT SAT Charlotte tries her hand at fly fishing with an instructor, SAT and at kayaking, whilst also speaking to BASC, the British SAT Association for Shooting and Conservation. Toni Shepherd of SAT the League Against Cruel Sports says she hopes the SAT Government's deferred vote on the relaxation of the ban on SAT fox hunting has been permanently shelved. Tim Breitmeyer, SAT Vice President of the CLA, the Country, Land and Business SAT Association disagrees. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0638c37 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b063xz5d (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT Today's running order SAT 0710 SAT SAT Extra sniffer dogs and fencing are to be offered to SAT authorities in Calais to help them deal with migrants trying SAT to reach the UK, the prime minister says. Gavin Lee is our SAT correspondent in Calais. SAT 0715 SAT SAT In an interview on The Times, SAT the head of the Charity Commission William Shawcross has SAT criticised the management of the RSPCA. David Bowles is SAT assistant director of public affairs at the RSPCA. SAT 0720 SAT SAT It is estimated the sport of shooting brings around £2 SAT billion a year into the economy. We hear from Richard Ali, SAT Chief Executive of the British Association for Shooting and SAT Conservation, and Jeff Knott, Head of Nature Policy, RSPB. SAT 0730 SAT SAT There are unconfirmed reports that the sister and stepmother SAT of deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were among the SAT four people who have died, after a Saudi-registered private SAT jet crashed at a private airport in Hampshire yesterday. We SAT hear from Barry Wright, who was working in an office metres SAT from where the plane crashed. Our BBC reporter is Simon SAT Jones. SAT 0735 SAT SAT Continuing the discussion on the extra resources to be used SAT in Calais to deal with the influx of migrants, we have SAT Jerome Vignon, a government advisor and head of the National SAT Observatory for poverty and social exclusion, and Helen SAT Whately, Conservative MP for Faversham and Mid-Kent. SAT 0745 SAT SAT Eating game is synonymous with country life, but it has seen SAT a big rise in popularity in recent years as it begins to SAT appear on more restaurant menus and supermarkets. We hear SAT from Miranda Sampson, who runs Holme Farmed Venison with her SAT husband Nigel. SAT 0750 SAT SAT The Country Landowners Association says the rural housing SAT shortage is the biggest challenge facing rural communities. SAT We hear from Ross Murray, deputy president of the Country SAT Landowners Association. SAT 0810 SAT SAT Earlier this week it was confirmed that Mullah Omar, the SAT leader of the Taliban had died from an illness. Contributing SAT to the programme is Michael Semple, visiting professor at SAT the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and SAT Social Justice at Queens University. SAT 0820 SAT SAT Country houses remain huge tourist attractions in the UK, SAT and interest in them has been renewed in recent years by the SAT ITV drama Downton Abbey. Speaking on the subject is David SAT Lacelles, Earl of Harewood. SAT 0825 SAT SAT After the success of the Women's World Cup, the next SAT instalment is at the Women's FA Cup Final which takes place SAT this afternoon at Wembley. Our reporter Sara Orchard went to SAT meet the players involved. SAT 0830 SAT SAT As extra resources are given to authorities in Calais to SAT help them deal with migrants trying to reach the UK, Zoe SAT Conway speaks with the cousin of a Pakistani migrant who SAT died this week trying to board a freight train from Calais SAT to the UK. We also hear from Gulwali Passarlay, an Afghan SAT migrant who arrived in the UK in 2007 and is now an SAT activist. SAT 0835 SAT SAT The Conservative government was forced to delay plans to SAT amend the ban on hunting in England and Wales to bring it SAT into line with legislation in Scotland in the face of SAT opposition from the Scottish National Party and Labour MPs SAT early this month. SAT Contributing to the programme is Jim Barrington, an animal SAT welfare consultant, and Robbie Marsland, UK director of the SAT International Fund for Animal Welfare. SAT 0850 SAT SAT Do politicians understand the countryside? If decisions are SAT being made at Westminister then are the right decisions SAT being made for those who live in rural areas? Speaking on SAT the programme today is Angela Smith, Labour MP for Sheffield SAT and Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs, Carl Les, leader of SAT North Yorkshire County Council, and Tim Bonner, chief SAT executive of the Countryside Alliance. SAT SAT *All subject to change.* SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b063xz5g (Listen) SAT Julian Clary SAT SAT Suzy Klein and Kate Silverton present this week's Saturday SAT Live. SAT SAT He's a stand up comedian who has done musicals, panto, SAT hosted game shows, is a panelist on Just a minute, who won SAT Celebrity big brother, came third on Strictly and has SAT written 3 adult novels. Now Julian Clary has turned his hand SAT to children's fiction. He joins us to talk about his varied SAT career. SAT SAT Listener Jackie Winter got in touch with us about her SAT experience clocking up more than 100,000 miles over her 40 SAT years as a tandem rider. And all that despite not being able SAT to ride a pedal cycle! She joins us to tell us about her SAT life as a 'stoker'. SAT SAT Sean Myatt is a puppeteer and academic who teaches puppetry SAT at Nottingham Trent University. He will join us to talk SAT about object theatre, scenography, being a puppet captain at SAT the Olympics opening ceremony and working with Kate Bush. SAT SAT Peter Marren is a butterfly obsessive. A repentant child SAT collector and lifelong fan, he muses on our relationship SAT with this most beautiful of insects. How have they been SAT regarded over the years? And why are they so important to SAT us? SAT SAT Fresh from her win on Celebrity Masterchef, ex Pussycat Doll SAT Kimberly Wyatt talks about another passion in her life - her SAT dogs. Having a rescue dog herself, she visits Battersea Dogs SAT and Cats Home to see what life is like for rescued animals. SAT SAT We hear the inheritance tracks of interior designer Kelly SAT Hoppen who chooses Aretha Franklin's Say a Little Prayer and SAT I feel Good by James Brown. SAT SAT Julian Clary's book is The Bolds SAT Peter Marren's book is Rainbow Dust, Three Centuries of SAT Delight in British Butterflies SAT both are out now. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Studio Photo 1st August 2015 SAT (L to R) Peter Marren, Julian Clary, Sean Myatt, Kate, Suzy SAT and Jackie Winter. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Presenter: Kate Silverton SAT Interviewed Guest: Julian Clary SAT Interviewed Guest: Jackie Winter SAT Interviewed Guest: Sean Myatt SAT Interviewed Guest: Peter Marren SAT Interviewed Guest: Kimberly Wyatt SAT Interviewed Guest: Kelly Hoppen SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Will Gompertz Gets Creative b063xz5j (Listen) SAT Hit Songs and Love Songs SAT SAT For the final programme in the series, the BBC Arts Editor SAT drops in on songwriting group in the Midlands to see how SAT easy it is to create a hit love song. Plenty try but few SAT succeed - so joining him for a special masterclass are the SAT Mercury and Brit nominated artists Kathryn Williams and Tom SAT McRae who have both written songs with and for other artists SAT - ranging from John Martyn and Marianne Faithful to Nadine SAT Coyle and Matt Cardle. Can they help the members of the SAT Coventry Singer Songwriting group create a hit of their own? SAT SAT If you are inspired to get involved in songwriting - or SAT indeed any other areas of artistic endeavour - there's lots SAT to discover at the BBC's Get Creative website SAT http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/sections/get-creative SAT SAT Series produced by Clare Walker, Kate Lamble and Paul SAT Kobrak. SAT SAT The Coventry Singer Songwriters at work SAT SAT Collaborating on a song with Tom McRae SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b064kd3m (Listen) SAT Adventures in 2D: Graphene and Beyond SAT SAT Top graphene researchers, including the Nobel laureate who SAT first isolated pure graphene, talk to Bridget Kendall about SAT the future of not just this 'wonder-material' but also a SAT whole host of other 2-dimensional crystals now available. SAT How close are we to a cheap production of quality graphene SAT on an industrial scale? Can the EU's Graphene Flagship, a SAT research and industrial consortium which includes about 150 SAT partners in over 20 countries, quickly move graphene SAT products from the lab to the consumer? And should we worry SAT about the safety of 2D materials? Recorded at Graphene Week SAT held at the University of Manchester, with Sir Konstantin SAT Novoselov, Sarah Haigh, Jari Kinaret, Toby Heys and Jonathan SAT Coleman. Photo: An artist's illustration depicting graphene: SAT by Shan Pillay. SAT SAT Konstantin Novoselov SAT SAT Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov is a Russian-British SAT physicist and Langworthy Professor in the School of Physics SAT and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. His work on SAT graphene with Andre Geim, earned them the Nobel Prize in SAT Physics in 2010. In 2004 Novoselov, Geim, and colleagues SAT succeeded in isolating graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of SAT carbon found in a hexagonal lattice. Graphene is an SAT extremely good conductor of electricity and may surpass SAT silicon to form the next generation of computer chips. SAT Graphene is also almost totally transparent, so it could be SAT an ideal material for touch screens and solar cells. SAT SAT Sarah Haigh SAT SAT Sarah Haigh is a Lecturer in Materials Characterisation at SAT the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests SAT centre on improving our understanding of nanomaterials SAT properties using transmission electron microscope imaging SAT and analysis techniques. Recent examples of work from her SAT group include imaging of new 2D heterostructure materials, SAT three dimensional elemental imaging of nanoparticles and ‘in SAT situ’ elemental analysis where samples are analysed in SAT liquids or gases at elevated temperature. She was elected to SAT join the Armourers and Brasiers Company as a freeman in 2009 SAT and now sits on their Material Science Committee. She is SAT Honorary treasurer and secretary of the Institute of Physics SAT EMAG group and on the advisory board for the EPSRC’s SAT SuperSTEM laboratory. SAT SAT Jari Kinaret SAT SAT Jari Kinaret is the Director of the Graphene Flagship and SAT Professor and Head of Condensed Matter Theory Division at SAT Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University in SAT Sweden. Born in Finland, he has been active in Gothenburg SAT since 1995, most recently as a professor and director for SAT Chalmers’ Area of Advance Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. SAT His research focuses on electrical and mechanical phenomena SAT on the nanoscale, lately in systems that comprise carbon SAT nanotubes or graphene. He has published 55 scientific SAT articles and has 6 patents. SAT SAT Toby Heys SAT SAT Toby Heys has worked as a Digital Technologies Research SAT Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Research and SAT Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD) since 2012. He is an SAT active external member and researcher within Hexagram, an SAT international network dedicated to research-creation in SAT media arts, design, technology and digital culture, which it SAT investigates through the following three axes: Senses, SAT Embodiment and Movement; Materiality; and Ubiquity. Heys SAT also works with Steve Goodman as AUDINT, a research cell SAT investigating how ultrasonic, sonic and infrasonic SAT frequencies used to demarcate territory in the soundscape, SAT producing sound/video performances, installations, and books SAT for venues such as Art in General (New York), Herford Museum SAT of Contemporary Art (Germany), Academy of Art (Berlin) and SAT TATE Britain (London) SAT SAT Jonathan Coleman SAT SAT Jonathan Coleman is the Professor of Chemical Physics in SAT Trinity College Dublin. The focus of his research is liquid SAT exfoliation of layered compounds. Exfoliation of these SAT materials gives 2D nanosheets which can easily be processed SAT into thin films or composites from applications from energy SAT to mechanics. He has published approximately 180 papers in SAT international journals including Nature and Science. He was SAT recently listed by Thomson Reuters among the world’s top 100 SAT materials scientists of the last decade and was names as the SAT Science Foundation Ireland researcher of the Year in 2011. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0638c39 (Listen) SAT The Busy Executioner SAT SAT Story-telling from reporters around the world. In this SAT edition, as the UN, EU and others voice criticism of the SAT number of executions now being carried out in Pakistan, our SAT correspondent meets a hangman who talks frankly about his SAT job; a colleague visits a far-right militia group's training SAT camp in Ukraine and hears why it's against not only the SAT pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country but also SAT the government in the capital, Kiev; we gaze at a minaret in SAT Tunisia and consider the forgotten history of a town where SAT migrants FROM Europe once arrived in search of a new life. A SAT reporter tours the capital of Albania, Tirana, and discovers SAT why soft toys have been pressed in to service against the SAT 'evil eye.' And we find out how a posse of elderly Italian SAT ladies raised enough money to enjoy a holiday by the sea. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0638c3c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 The New Workplace b063zn9h (Listen) SAT The New Employer SAT SAT Office and factory nine-to-five long ago gave way to SAT flexible and tele-working. Middle management is a ghost of SAT its former pervasive self. Trade unions' once-dominant role SAT in the workplace has been eclipsed. Far-reaching revolution SAT has - and continues - to transform when, where, how and with SAT whom we work - and what we are paid. SAT SAT So how do today's workers and those who employ them - plus SAT the growing numbers of the self-employed - see the changes SAT that are taking place across the workplace? SAT SAT In a new series exploring how work is being re-shaped and SAT re-defined, Michael Robinson reports on SAT the ways in which expectations about how work is organised SAT and rewarded have changed. He considers technology, who does SAT what, pay, qualifications, training and skills and what the SAT changes we've seen tell us about what's going on at work and SAT what it tells us about how we're likely to work in the SAT future. SAT SAT In this first programme of the series, Michael considers the SAT role of the employer. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b063dch8 (Listen) SAT Series 46, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical SAT stand-up and sketches. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0638c3f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0638c3h (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b063dgs7 (Listen) SAT James Delingpole, Graham James, Nikki King, David Orr SAT SAT Shaun Ley presents political debate and discussion from SAT Attleborough in Norfolk with author and columnist James SAT Delingpole, the Bishop of Norwich Rt Rev Graham James, SAT Honorary Chairman of Isuzu Trucks Nikki King, and Chief SAT Executive of the National Housing Federation David Orr. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b063xz5n (Listen) SAT Migrants, Housing crisis SAT SAT Your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions? including SAT the crisis in Calais and how we can balance human empathy SAT with the needs of business and holiday makers. And, trying SAT to get on the housing ladder, or worried about plans to SAT build housing near you? NIMBY v need, where do you stand? SAT SAT Presenter: Sheila McClennon SAT Producers: Maire Devine, Angie Nehring. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b039lmk2 (Listen) SAT For Services Rendered SAT SAT Somerset Maugham's classic play, with Sian Thomas and David SAT Calder. SAT SAT Written in 1932 For Services Rendered is Somerset Maugham's SAT incisive state-of-the-nation play - written fifteen years on SAT from the end of WW1. SAT SAT Set in late summer 1932 in Kent, the Ardsley family seem to SAT be managing their lives very well but in reality each of SAT them is fighting for survival. The Ardsley children are SAT facing unpromising futures: Ethel is married to a former SAT officer who is not quite the man she hoped he'd be; Eva is SAT unmarried and approaching 40, martyring herself to the cause SAT of their brother Sydney; Sydney has been blinded in the war; SAT and Lois, at 27, is single and without a hope of marrying in SAT the English backwater the family live in. SAT SAT The family must go through a seismic shift in order to SAT survive. The younger generation can no longer live their SAT lives in the blueprint of the older generation, they must SAT find a new way of living. England is changing, falling SAT apart, and must begin again. SAT SAT The first performance was on 1 November 1932 in the West End SAT (with Ralph Richardson playing Leonard Ardsley). The SAT anti-war message was not popular with audiences, and the SAT play only ran for 78 performances. SAT SAT The play is particularly extraordinary viewed in retrospect SAT as the lessons of WW1 are written so clearly across the SAT lives of the characters who, less than a decade later, would SAT find themselves at war again. SAT SAT For Services Rendered was written by Somerset Maugham. It is SAT adapted and directed for radio by Lu Kemp. SAT SAT Credits SAT Leonard Ardsley: David Calder SAT Charlotte Ardsley: Sian Thomas SAT Sydney Ardsley: Tom Espiner SAT Eva Ardsley: Cath Whitefield SAT Lois Ardsley: Louise Brealey SAT Ethel Bartlett: Mariah Gale SAT Howard Bartlett: Michael Shaeffer SAT Collie Stratton: Justin Salinger SAT Wilfred Cedar: Ron Cook SAT Gwen Cedar: Hettie Baynes Russell SAT Dr Charles Prentice: John Rowe SAT Gertrude: Philippa Stanton SAT Writer: W Somerset Maugham SAT Adaptor: Lu Kemp SAT Director: Lu Kemp SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b063xz5r (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Iris Apfel, Jeremy Corbyn, Family SAT Estrangement SAT SAT Iris Apfel: the 93 year old style icon gives us her fashion SAT philosophy. SAT SAT The Labour leader hopeful Jeremy Corbyn on his manifesto for SAT women. The impact of family estrangement. The possible SAT impact on personality in later life of premature birth. SAT SAT Two Green Party members tell us about their fight for a SAT judicial review into giving MP's the right to job share. SAT Kate Mosse and Hilary Strong on Queen of Crime, Agatha SAT Christie and her enduring popularity. SAT SAT And are social media sites like Facebook and Instagram SAT influencing the way women dress and consume fashion. SAT SAT Presented by Emma Barnett SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Barnett SAT Interviewed Guest: Jason Robinson SAT Interviewed Guest: Shaheen Hashmat SAT Interviewed Guest: Iris Apfel SAT Interviewed Guest: Jeremy Corbyn SAT Interviewed Guest: Caroline Davey SAT Interviewed Guest: Dieter Wolke SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Cope SAT Interviewed Guest: Claire Phipps SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Mosse SAT Interviewed Guest: Hilary Strong SAT Interviewed Guest: Camille Charriere SAT Interviewed Guest: Remy Millar SAT Interviewed Guest: Sasha Wilkins SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b063xz5t (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b063dhc1 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0638c3k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0638c3m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0638c3p (Listen) SAT A pilot has died in a crash during an ariel display at a SAT charity festival SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b063xz5w (Listen) SAT Angie Greaves, Alex Kapranos, Doc Brown, Michael Day, SAT Sajeela Kershi, Katzenjammer SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Angie Greaves are joined by Alex SAT Kapranos, Doc Brown, Michael Day and Sajeela Kershi for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Katzenjammer and Doc Brown. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Alex Kapranos SAT SAT The album ‘FFS’ is out now on Domino Records. FFS are SAT performing at Edinburgh Festival Theatre on 24th August. SAT SAT SAT SAT Doc Brown SAT SAT ‘Doc Brown: Empty Threats’ is released on the 15th SAT August via Bust-A-Gut Ltd. The Weird Way Round UK Tour SAT starts on the 3rd September 2015 at Colchester Arts Centre. SAT Doc Brown's official website SAT SAT SAT Sajeela Kershi SAT Immigrant Diaries at the Edinburgh Fringe is at The Assembly SAT Rooms from the 6 - 30 August (excl 17) SAT SAT Michael Day SAT SAT ‘Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall from Cosa Nostra to SAT Bunga Bunga’ is published by St. Martin's Press and out now. SAT SAT Michael Day's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Katzenjammer SAT SAT The album ‘Rockland’ is out now on Propellor Recordings. SAT Katzenjammer's official website SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Angie Greaves SAT Interviewed Guest: Alex Kapranos SAT Interviewed Guest: Doc Brown SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Day SAT Interviewed Guest: Sajeela Kershi SAT Performer: Katzenjammer SAT Performer: Doc Brown SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b063xz8j (Listen) SAT Donald Trump SAT SAT Billionaire Donald Trump, leading Republican candidate in SAT the US Presidential race was in Scotland this week. Mark SAT Coles asks if he has what it takes to get him to the White SAT House. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b063xz8l (Listen) SAT Three Days in the Country, Richard Long, Iris, Last Sparks SAT of Sundown, A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me SAT SAT Patrick Marber has re-imagined Turgenev's A Month In The SAT Country as Three Days In The Country for The National SAT Theatre - does his version do justice to a classic of SAT Russian theatre? SAT There is a retrospective of the work of Richard Long at the SAT Arnolfini Gallery in his hometown of Bristol which includes SAT new works created from the environment. SAT 93 year old stylist Iris Apfel is the subject of a fashion SAT documentary by Robert Maysles. SAT Pulitzer Prize nominated author David Gates' collection of SAT short stories "A Hand Reached Down To Guide Me" is his first SAT for 15 years. Is it worth the wait? SAT British indi comedy film The Last Sparks of Sundown was made SAT for £46,000; was it money well spent? SAT SAT THEATRE: Three Days In The Country, by Patrick Marber, SAT after Turgenev. SAT SAT Three Days in the Country runs at the National’s Lyttelton SAT Theatre, in London, until October 21st. SAT Image: Amanda Drew (Natalya) & John Simm (Rakitin) Photo SAT credit: Tristram Kenton SAT SAT SAT BOOK: A Hand Reached Down To Guide Me by David Gates is SAT published by Serpent’s Tail. SAT Image: Author David Gates. Courtesy: Serpent’s Tail. SAT SAT EXHIBITION: Richard Long: Time and Space continues at SAT Bristol’s Arnolfini Gallery until 15th November. SAT SAT Image: Richard Long Photo: James Wainman. Courtesy of SAT Lisson Gallery. SAT SAT SAT SAT FILM: The Last Sparks of Sundown, Certificate 15, is on SAT very selected release now. SAT Image: Miles Jupp. Courtesy: Black Shark Media SAT SAT FILM: Iris, Certificate 12 A, is in selected cinemas now. SAT Image: Iris Apfel. Courtesy: Albert Maysles SAT SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0644gn8 (Listen) SAT Cradle to Grave SAT SAT The history of the National Health Service told through the SAT story of one hospital, the QEII, which was opened by the SAT Queen in Welwyn Garden City in 1963. SAT SAT Fifteen years earlier, on July 5th 1948, the National Health SAT Service had been launched, taking control of nearly 480 000 SAT hospital beds in England and Wales, with 125,000 nurses and SAT 5,000 consultants as well as GPs, dentists and other health SAT professionals. Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan described it SAT as "the biggest single experiment in social service that the SAT world has ever seen undertaken". SAT SAT The QEII - the first all-purpose, district general NHS SAT hospital - opened with some 100 beds to meet the needs of a SAT rapidly increasing population, many from London who had SAT relocated to the new Garden City. SAT SAT In the summer of 2015, the old hospital was closed down as SAT part of a centralisation of health services by East and SAT North Herts NHS Trust, with in-patients services moved out SAT to the Lister Hospital at Stevenage and outpatients services SAT moved into the new QEII hospital on the same site. SAT SAT Cradle to Grave captures the sounds of the old QEII hospital SAT during its last days and gathers the memories of hospital SAT staff and patients, past and present. Other contributors SAT include Dr Geoffrey Rivett who, as well as starting his SAT career as a hospital doctor in the new health services, has SAT written a definitive history of the NHS. SAT SAT Produced by Sara Parker SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b0638hpl (Listen) SAT Tender Is the Night: A Romance, Episode 2 SAT SAT by F Scott Fitzgerald SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks SAT SAT Episode Two SAT SAT Nicole Diver has had a breakdown and, together with her SAT husband Dick, she flees Paris. The events of the past are SAT beginning to take a toll on their marriage and only one of SAT them has the strength to survive. SAT SAT The book regarded by many as Fitzgerald's greatest. A SAT beautiful and poignant novel about marriage, glamour and SAT disintegration. SAT SAT Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dick Diver: Simon Harrison SAT Nicole Diver: Melody Grove SAT Rosemary: Kelly Burke SAT Tommy: Finn den Hertog SAT Swanson: Laurie Brown SAT Baby: Anita Vettesse SAT Kathe: Anne Lacey SAT Caroline: Anne Lacey SAT Franz: Nick Underwood SAT Warren: Nick Underwood SAT Collis: Alasdair Hankinson SAT Narrator: Sam Dale SAT Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane SAT Director: Gaynor Macfarlane SAT Author: F Scott Fitzgerald SAT Abridger: Robin Brooks SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0638c3r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b063cxn2 (Listen) SAT Series 11, Withdrawing Feeding in Children SAT SAT Food and water are the very essence of life. But is there SAT ever a time when food and water should be withheld in SAT someone who is not otherwise dying? And what if that someone SAT is a child? SAT SAT Emma is born with a smooth brain; a life-limiting condition SAT that means she will never develop skills beyond that of a 6 SAT month old baby. Her condition also means she has difficulty SAT swallowing and has to be fed artificially. SAT SAT As she passes her tenth birthday things start to become more SAT difficult; she increasingly seems to be in pain but the SAT medical team are not sure why and Emma cannot tell them. SAT SAT Her consultants eventually trace the source of her pain to SAT her intestines and slowly they realise that they can no SAT longer feed her artificially. They are all agreed that SAT feeding must be withheld to ease her pain but they know that SAT would ultimately lead to her death. SAT SAT Although her prognosis has always been shortened, Emma is SAT not otherwise dying - her heart is strong, her kidneys are SAT functioning, and she breathes without difficulty. SAT Withholding nutrition would bring her life to an end over SAT the coming weeks; should the team be making those decisions SAT in a child who is not already dying? SAT SAT Joan Bakewell leads a panel of experts to discuss. SAT SAT Producer: Lorna Stewart SAT SAT Photo Credit: Joe Raedle /Getty Images. SAT SAT The Panel SAT Deborah Bowman SAT Professor of Ethics and Law at St George’s Hospital, London SAT SAT Emily Harrop SAT Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care at Helen and SAT Douglas House Hospices in Oxford SAT SAT SAT Francis Edwards SAT Paediatric Palliative Care Liaison Nurse at Bristol Royal SAT Children’s Hospital SAT SAT Your Comments SAT SAT SAT SAT What a moving episode. What a lovely mum she is. SAT SAT If little Emma had been a pet she would have been put to SAT sleep quietly and put out of her misery. What they all went SAT through was horrendous. SAT SAT My heart goes out to everyone concerned. SAT SAT (Anne Fricker) SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT Why oh why is your presenter insisting on using the present SAT tense when reviewing historical events? SAT SAT It presents an inaccurate picture! SAT SAT It is the worst of 'modern' broadcasting techniques! SAT SAT It is VERY annoying! SAT SAT IT MADE ME SWITCH OFF AND LOOK FOR THIS PAGE!! SAT SAT SAT SAT It reminded me that the switching off also occurred last SAT week! SAT SAT SAT SAT Sad - it looks as though it could have been an interesting SAT series. SAT SAT SAT SAT Does no-one edit text before recording? SAT SAT SAT SAT (Maggie Manders) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT I can't hardly bear to listen to this - surely a case when a SAT baby should have been left to die with dignity shortly after SAT birth. So much terrible agony for child and parents. SAT SAT SAT SAT (Alison Field) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT This must be one of the best programmes on air - just caught SAT the end today and it had me in tears. SAT SAT SAT SAT Radio 4 is one of the best channels in the media. SAT SAT SAT SAT (Kirsten Barger) SAT SAT Programme Transcript - Inside the Ethics Committee SAT Downloaded from SAT www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 SAT SAT SAT THE ATTACHED TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A RECORDING AND NOT SAT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF SAT MISHEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING SAT INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE BBC CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS COMPLETE SAT ACCURACY. SAT SAT SAT SAT INSIDE THE ETHICS COMMITTEE SAT SAT SAT Programme 3 – Withdrawing Feeding in Children SAT SAT TX: 30.07.15 SAT SAT PRESENTER: JOAN BAKEWELL SAT SAT PRODUCER: LORNA STEWART SAT SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Food and water keep us alive. Yet sometimes in the closing SAT hours of a person’s life it can make sense to withhold food. SAT But what if that person isn’t dying and what if it’s a SAT child? SAT SAT SAT SAT Welcome to Inside the Ethics Committee. SAT SAT SAT SAT It is summer 2002. Louise and her partner are expecting SAT their first child; a girl who they name Emma. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT We was overjoyed, over the moon, couldn’t wait to start out SAT family. I had Emma at nine minutes past four in the SAT afternoon and she was a beautiful, beautiful baby. She had SAT bright red hair. But it was quite apparent that something SAT was wrong. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Emma is born with a very swollen head, caused by a build-up SAT of fluid on her brain. Brain scans reveal that Emma has a SAT condition known as lissencephaly, or smooth brain, where the SAT outer layer of the brain hasn’t fully developed….and won’t SAT do so. Doctors fit a shunt to drain the fluid but that’s SAT all they can do. Emma’s neurologist explains the outlook to SAT the family. SAT SAT SAT Neurologist SAT SAT Initially when we counselled Emma’s parents I think they SAT were given a very poor prognosis, in fact we didn’t think SAT that she would make her first birthday. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT It was just bad news after bad news after bad news. SAT Obviously you have a cry and you think why me, why me but if SAT that was Emma’s life then that was Emma’s life, I was going SAT to do everything I could for her to have a wonderful life. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Emma is at the severe end of impairment for children with SAT this condition. She has frequent epileptic fits which are SAT controlled by medication. She’s virtually blind but responds SAT to sound. And she has difficulty swallowing which puts her SAT at high risk for choking, which could be fatal. SAT SAT SAT SAT At six months old there’s a crisis. Emma stops breathing. SAT Paramedics rush her to the hospital where doctors revive her SAT but her risk of choking is now so great that they have to SAT feed her through a tube into her stomach. SAT SAT SAT SAT Despite all this, Emma is doing surprisingly well. Her first SAT birthday comes and goes, then her second. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT We just got through every birthday, every birthday was a SAT massive milestone for us and every time we took her back I SAT think a lot of the doctors were surprised to see how well SAT Emma had got on. It was like yeah she’s proved everybody SAT wrong but I knew she would, I somehow always knew she would SAT prove everybody wrong. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But as she gets older, the impact of her brain condition SAT stops her making the progress appropriate for her age. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT Emma couldn’t do anything really, she was reliant on me for SAT everything, she couldn’t sit up unaided, she couldn’t hold SAT her head up, she couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk, she SAT couldn’t feed herself so she was completely reliant on me. SAT I think she had the mental age of a six month old baby. So SAT yeah she was my big baby. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Emma is in and out of hospital a lot. With each visit the SAT doctors warn her mother that it is likely to be her last SAT year. She requires constant care and frequent hospital SAT procedures for her complex condition. Her nurse specialist: SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT So there would be tummy problems, there would be teeth SAT problems, there was the weight issue for a while, there was SAT seizures but every time something was done in her treatment SAT and off she went again. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT We just took every day as it come. We had birthday parties SAT every – every year that went on they kind of got bigger and SAT bigger because it was such an achievement that she’d reached SAT this special age. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT She was a very happy smiley giggly girl. Lots of memories SAT of her sitting in her wheelchair giggling and being SAT interactive on her level. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT She knew her routine. So she loved her bath times and she SAT knew that she’d have her hair washed and then blow dried and SAT she loved girly things so I would paint her nails and we’d SAT have the music on and she loved the Beach Boys and she loved SAT Michael Buble. Just cuddles on the settee, we used to sit SAT on the settee and have lots of cuddles and singsongs and she SAT loved just simple silly things – slurping cups of tea she SAT would burst out, you know, laughing till she would go blue SAT in her face because she couldn’t suffer it anymore where she SAT was laughing so much. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The neurologist SAT SAT SAT Neurologist SAT SAT The family were incredibly dedicated. I mean I always say SAT to the family actually if it weren’t for their love and SAT attention and care I didn’t think Emma would have been with SAT us that long. And I can remember their visits to the clinic SAT and it actually would be the whole family that would be SAT there – the mother, the aunt and the grandparents – I mean SAT they were incredibly engaged as a family looking after her. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The years continue to pass and to the medical team’s SAT amazement Emma turns 10 years old. But her brain condition SAT means that her feeding is still problematic. After years of SAT being fed directly into her stomach it eventually grows too SAT sensitive. So her tube is adjusted to deliver food straight SAT into her intestines, bypassing the stomach entirely. SAT SAT SAT SAT Emma’s first decade has involved many medical procedures but SAT she’s always come through. But now the team are finding it SAT more difficult to handle her problems. Her mother: SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT She was having a lot more problems – urine infections – and SAT they were becoming every other week; and we was in hospital SAT every month. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The medical team is eager to find where the pain is coming SAT from. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT Children like Emma who have got very reduced mobility she SAT wasn’t doing anything for herself – pain can become an SAT issue. So once you start to think about pain you have to SAT start top to bottom, look at everything, so we were looking SAT at hips, we were looking at – well firstly before that – SAT positioning, is there certain positions, has she got SAT pressure sores, simple things that may have been the SAT problem. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team eventually discover kidney stones. They think these SAT might be the cause of her pain and frequent urinary SAT infections. Removing the stones would require surgery and SAT such a procedure carries risks for Emma. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT They did warn me that it could be the start of something SAT really horrific for Emma, she could decline in health SAT really, really badly after the operation. But I felt I had SAT no other option because her quality of life was – was not as SAT it was before because of these constant infections and she SAT wasn’t enjoying life at that point, she was constantly in SAT pain. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Emma is admitted to hospital and surgery to remove her SAT kidney stones is successful. All appears well and she SAT returns home but more and more problems arise. Removing her SAT kidney stones doesn’t seem to have helped all that much - SAT she’s in and out of hospital every month with increasing SAT pain that is not controllable. A few months after her 11th SAT birthday she takes a turn for the worse. She’s admitted to SAT hospital again showing signs of infection but the doctors SAT are unsure of the cause. Her situation is dire. Family and SAT friends say their goodbyes and a priest visits to read her SAT last rites. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT I forgot her special toy that she had which was Violet the SAT Dog and it said her name. And my sister rushed home and got SAT it for me and brought it up and she played it to Emma and as SAT soon as she did she opened her eyes. It was like a miracle, SAT you could say, and she was looking round as if to say what SAT are you all doing here, you know. And she started to get SAT better again. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Again Emma returns home but she’s having more regular SAT seizures, the pain keeps returning, and the team are no SAT clearer about what is causing her discomfort. After several SAT more months of trying – and failing – to make her more SAT comfortable, they decide to admit her again to try finally SAT to resolve the issue of her pain. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT I was quite shocked when I’d seen her that night, I mean SAT we’d had – there’d be telephone calls between us in those SAT few months prior to that but actually until you see it face SAT to face you can see how distressing this is and how SAT distraught Emma was by this pain and the fact that she has SAT no means of communicating how she’s feeling. It was SAT heart-breaking really. And the deterioration in those SAT couple of months between the admissions – it was very SAT apparent. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT Horrific, horrendous – in complete and utter pain. Every SAT time you tried to feed her she would scream in complete SAT agony. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT It was very clear that any time anything was put down into SAT her tummy – milk or medication – that would exacerbate this SAT pain. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Joining me now are Emily Harrop, who’s Consultant in SAT Paediatric Palliative Care at Helen and Douglas House SAT Hospices in Oxford and Francis Edwards, Paediatric SAT Palliative Care Liaison Nurse at Bristol Royal Children’s SAT Hospital. SAT SAT SAT SAT So let’s talk about this case of the prognosis – did the SAT doctors get it wrong Emily? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT I think it’s never as simple as right or wrong, there’s SAT always a normal distribution of how people will actually do SAT given a particular set of scan results or diagnoses at the SAT very early stage, so antenatally, immediately after birth. SAT And I think there’s been a very traditional approach to SAT prepare parents for the worst, probably by painting quite a SAT gloomy prognosis. I think we’re becoming much more aware of SAT the importance to counsel people about the uncertainty as SAT well now. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But of course, Francis, it’s quite difficult for the family, SAT this child might live two years, might not live a second SAT year, is that appropriate? SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT I find that very difficult and I think that putting a SAT timescale on some of these children is really, really SAT difficult because I think none of us know, we don’t know SAT what they’re going to do. And I think we need to be open to SAT that. And I think that first encounter that the family have SAT with the medical team and the nursing team is so, so SAT important for setting the foundation of what happens next. SAT And that may be over a short period of time or it may be SAT over many years. And the sort of thought about palliation SAT and palliative care, I think most people think that’s about SAT end of life but in actual fact it’s not – palliative care SAT for me, as a clinician, is about living. The bereavement SAT starts at diagnosis – this mother’s already starting to SAT grieve the loss of the child that she never had or the child SAT that she was expecting to have and the child that is going SAT to die and who’s going to have a shortened life. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But you have to offer them hope too. SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT Absolutely and I think the management of hope is so, so SAT important. But I think parents need to – they need two SAT things from us – one thing I think they need from us is SAT honesty and they need us to be honest but I think also they SAT need to be able to trust and respect us as professionals. SAT And you need both of those things to be in play for that SAT relationship to unfold over however long that may take. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Emma can’t talk so how do you, Emily, as a doctor, SAT determine the quality of life for someone who can’t talk? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT Very many of my patients are non-verbal and I know through SAT talking to their families, through hearing what their life SAT is like, that I get a feel for the quality of it, so I have SAT very many non-verbal patients who greatly enjoy school, who SAT greatly enjoy holidays, I have patients who go camping on SAT non-invasive ventilators, I have patients who go camping on SAT a feed pump and we would always support this. So I think SAT you can get proxy measures by hearing their enjoyment of SAT their life, you can also pick up on what’s been difficult SAT for them – maybe they haven’t been able to access school for SAT a while, maybe it’s been very difficult for them to SAT undertake something of meaning for them. And you can help SAT them to look for ways to enable that activity. I think when SAT you look at pain it’s very difficult because pain in SAT children like Emma is very rarely a straightforward simple SAT single cause pain, you know it’s obviously frequently a SAT complicated multifactorial problem, so it might be what we SAT would think of as usual pain, it might be pain from their SAT nerves because their neurological system is not healthy, SAT which we might call neuropathic pain. And there may be many SAT sources, as her mother alluded to, people had looked at her SAT hips, her teeth, her tissue viability – that’s only the tip SAT of the iceberg for her. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Francis. SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT I agree with everything that Emily’s just said and that for SAT me the quality of life is a very difficult thing to assess SAT but the best person to assess that is the parent. And I’ll SAT be standing by the bed of a child with a mother and she will SAT just say did you say that look, did you see that smile and SAT that, for them, indicates the quality and that is so, so SAT important. So no, no the part of the conversation you know SAT you ignore mothers at your peril as a professional. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Do you have the idea in your mind that this child is in some SAT way dying, on her way to dying, and do you ever use that SAT word? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT I think it’s very hard to know if that’s the appropriate SAT word because I think she’s also living. Very many of the SAT children that we care for have these sorts of neurological SAT complex conditions and we may care for them for one year, we SAT may care for them for 10 before we end up delivering what’s SAT more akin to traditional palliative care or end of life SAT care. So I think it’s very hard to say that she isn’t dying SAT and her life is likely to be shortened but I think it would SAT be very negative to focus on her as a dying child. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But Francis you’ve already said palliative care doesn’t mean SAT only care of the dying but it does include that, so when SAT does one kind of palliative care move into the other? SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT Well absolutely but – and I think that you start to get SAT signs and the child will start to demonstrate signs and SAT symptoms which will give you some clues about the direction SAT of travel and where they’re going. And I think that until SAT that time comes it’s really, really important that you SAT enable the family to do the living and to do the things that SAT they need to do, as a family, and like the mum talks about SAT all the memories and the special birthdays – they’re just SAT so, so important for the long term and that is part of their SAT bereavement work as well. And so it’s working with them SAT along that way but not denying the fact that this child, SAT Emma, has a shortened life and we expect her to have a SAT shortened life. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right. Well let’s pick up the story again. It’s July 2014 SAT and Emma has been admitted to the hospital in great pain. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT I remember going to see her on the ward and she was lying in SAT the bed, she was postured like somebody in pain and there SAT was just constant – this high pitched screaming, she just SAT looked distressed. And then actually the whole family just SAT looked distressed. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT I just was beside myself because I couldn’t help her. SAT Nobody could help her at that point and she was in horrific SAT pain. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT Pain should never be an issue in a young person or an adult SAT if they’re unwell, you should be able to get on top of it. SAT And despite having lots and lots of different various very SAT strong medications this pain was just constantly breaking SAT through. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team decide to perform a small procedure to repair the SAT tip of her feeding tube hoping that it will alleviate some SAT of the pain. But it doesn’t work. They look for other SAT possible causes; ruling things out takes time. She still has SAT one kidney stone but they don’t think that’s causing her SAT pain. They have ruled out all other possibilities and SAT gradually they conclude that the problem must be her gut. SAT Anything that enters her gut is causing her extreme pain – SAT including her medication. They stop feeding her for a few SAT days at a time and then try to reintroduce food in very SAT small amounts. But even a tiny amount of food is given, Emma SAT is once again in writhing agony. Emma’s surgeon. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT The dilemma we were then in was if we can’t feed Emma SAT through her bowel in the normal way with a tube then the SAT only other alternative to feed anybody is through the SAT veins. And nutrition through the veins comes with another SAT multitude of risks. It requires central lines to be able to SAT give the nutrition, which involve operations to be put in SAT and carry the risk of infection. And it also – because it SAT is metabolised by the liver – it over the longer term has SAT risks in terms of liver damage and impairment from that SAT perspective. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team doesn’t think that the risks of feeding Emma via SAT her veins can be justified. The operation would require an SAT anaesthetic which she may not survive. Feeding through the SAT veins over the long term could lead to serious liver damage. SAT But whilst they continue to weigh up options her mother SAT desperately needs decisions, she cannot bear to watch her SAT daughter suffer. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT They was giving her morphine, ketamine, clonidine, fentanyl, SAT midazolam and she was still screaming in pain. Obviously as SAT a parent you want your child to not feel any pain and I just SAT wanted people to do things when I wanted them to do it, I SAT didn’t care whatever else they was doing I just needed my SAT child out of this pain. She would literally throw her head SAT back and arch her back and just scream and shake in agony SAT and all I could do was lay on the bed and hold her and rock SAT her and try…. try to just comfort her. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Despite this desperate situation, one thing the doctors are SAT certain about is that Emma is not dying. Her gut is failing SAT but her other organs are functioning well. Her SAT neurologist…and then her surgeon SAT SAT SAT Neurologist SAT SAT We have a child who’s actually having quite severe symptoms, SAT we are throwing quite a large amount of medications at her SAT to control her symptoms but actually we’re not winning. SAT We’re not achieving what we want to achieve, which is give SAT her a good quality of life and be distress free and pain SAT free. And it became very clear that she might be like this SAT for a long time because she was not actively dying. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT When you’re talking about someone actively dying, it’s more SAT of a direct process. And so in Emma’s case she wasn’t SAT actively dying from an infection, she wasn’t actively dying SAT from a bowel blockage or a physical thing, it was just a SAT slow progressive deterioration that would have continued to SAT occur. And that’s the difficulty. If she’d developed an SAT acute infection it’s an easier decision to say well we may SAT not offer intensive care treatment for this infection, for SAT instance, because there’s something active happening. SAT Whereas when that’s not the case it’s a much – a much more SAT difficult decision about what to do or not to do. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT At the moment Emma is not being fed. The team doesn’t want SAT to cause her more pain by feeding into her intestines, but SAT they also don’t feel they can risk putting nutrition into SAT her veins. But should they stop feeding her altogether? SAT SAT SAT Neurologist SAT SAT Children who die of, for example, cancer they are given food SAT until the very end, so it would be a very unusual situation SAT to withdraw nutrition in palliative care per se. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Food is given to these people, dying or not, for very good SAT reason. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT When you don’t provide nutrition to someone, so for Emma, SAT the body isn’t getting the nutrients that it requires and so SAT is unable to metabolise and to replenish cells in the same SAT way that it would normally. So you can live without SAT nutrition either by mouth or through the veins for a long SAT period of time but you won’t be able to continue living SAT forever because you’re essentially missing the food. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team decides to refer Emma’s case to the ethics SAT committee. Should they stop feeding her? SAT SAT SAT Neurologist SAT SAT The referral to the ethics committee was made by me and I SAT think myself and our palliative consultant colleague, we SAT both felt actually we’re all on the same page here but we SAT still felt that actually this is a big decision. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The nurse: SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT We wanted to know should we stop feeding Emma because of SAT this pain. I felt very strongly that she was telling us SAT that she was tired. We knew that feeding her was causing SAT her pain and that this was the start of her end of life SAT course really. So our question was: would we have the SAT support of the hospital if we were to stop feeding her and SAT just give her hydration intravenously. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now we turn to our panel once again and joining us alongside SAT Emily Harrop and Francis Edwards is Deborah Bowman, SAT Professor of Ethics and Law at St George’s University, SAT London. SAT SAT SAT SAT First of all Emily, will you define for me what is SAT artificial nutrition? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT So artificial nutrition is nutrition that you have to SAT provide in a way that is not the way we feed ourselves, so SAT we feed ourselves by being able to eat, chew and swallow SAT food. For people for whom that’s not possible they may be SAT artificially fed through a tube between their nose and their SAT stomach, through a surgically created tube directly into SAT their stomach or small bowel or even by the provision of SAT intravenous sterile feeding. And those are all artificial SAT nutrition options of different levels of invasiveness. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So how long can someone continue to live on artificial SAT feeding? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT People live on artificial feeding into their gut for years, SAT for decades, but feeding somebody into a vein – that can SAT only sustain a person for a certain amount of time. It’s SAT limited by two main things – one is the access line needed, SAT so people need a line going into a very large or central SAT vein which has to be placed surgically as was described in SAT Emma’s case, the other issue is over time it causes their SAT liver to become fatty and eventually to fail. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And how long can someone live with no food at all? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT So this is something that I’ve some experience of through my SAT own work, more than – I would say there’s very little SAT written about how long people survive with only fluids and SAT no food. But it is certainly a number of weeks. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So it’s a number of weeks. And what’s the experience of SAT starvation like? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT Well I think it’s important to say we would never refer to SAT it as starvation, to a family, I think we generally wouldn’t SAT have something quite as binary as feeding and not feeding. SAT So I think what often happens in clinical practice in SAT children with complex neurological diagnoses, whose gut SAT fails over time, is actually it’s more usual that you become SAT progressively less able to feed them and so there would be a SAT much more of a sliding scale, so you wouldn’t be talking SAT about one day being fully fed, the next day being starved. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Deborah, it’s very interesting but to the lay world out SAT there the option is to starve someone, that’s the word we SAT all use, it’s difficult isn’t it to – we have to weigh the SAT burdens of continuing to live in intolerable pain and the SAT burden of starvation – how do you weigh that equation? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT I think I’d say it a bit differently actually – I think it’s SAT the burden of her life as experienced at the moment and the SAT burden of the treatment which is being fed. And actually SAT it’s looking at those two things together and saying is what SAT the team is now doing to support her, to support her living SAT with artificial nutrition, that itself has become SAT problematic, it’s become burdensome, it’s causing her pain, SAT it’s causing her suffering. But I think Emma’s mother is a SAT very good observer, clearly she’s a very astute observer in SAT this and it’s obvious that something has changed. What has SAT been done in terms of treatment is now having an intolerable SAT effect. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT We’ve heard that Emma is not dying. It is a moral dilemma SAT isn’t it Deborah. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT It is a moral dilemma and I think there are lots of aspects SAT to the ways in which it’s morally experienced if you like. SAT So I think the first is that despite what the law says and SAT what professional guidance says and in fact what many SAT ethicists have argued – food is experienced differently, we SAT perceive food as somehow special and nurturing and a test of SAT love. So there’s that aspect. But there’s also the aspect SAT of changing or withdrawing care. And that is always SAT difficult. It’s always a judgement, it’s always laden with SAT moral dilemma and choice. It has uncertainty as part of the SAT context as well. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So food in this context constitutes care? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT It constitutes – I would say it constitutes treatment and I SAT think the majority of people in my world would. I would say SAT that this is treatment because it is aimed at ensuring that SAT this patient has a quality of life that is reasonable and SAT now it has ceased to be the case that it is clear that the SAT treatment is having the desired effect. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Yes, Francis you wanted to join. SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT Yes I just wanted to say that we never withdraw care, we SAT withdraw treatment but we never withdraw care. We continue SAT to care for a child up until their time of death and even SAT beyond the time of their death. And I think that’s really SAT important for people to make that distinction. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well does the law make this distinction Deborah? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT Yes it does. The general legal principle is that artificial SAT nutrition is a treatment, a medical treatment, and therefore SAT is subject to the principles and practices that surround any SAT medical treatment. So we can withhold or withdraw according SAT to best interests in this sort of case. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So from all that we know so far can I ask you whether you SAT think they should withdraw feeding? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT I think if she was in distress here and now it would SAT certainly be appropriate to pause feeding, to reflect, to SAT look at the impact of pausing feeding and then to consult SAT again with the wider clinical team, with the family, and to SAT gauge what that experience is for Emma, what that is for her SAT parents and in fact is she in less distress. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And Francis, what’s your view? SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT My view is – I mean I’d really want to understand the nature SAT of what is causing the pain. If the feeding is the thing SAT that’s causing the pain and that’s causing more harm than SAT good then I personally don’t have an issue about the SAT withdrawing of artificial nutrition. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And Deborah? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT Yes, I mean for me I’m not a clinician and so it comes with SAT that caveat but what I hear makes me think about SAT tolerability and it sounds that this is becoming burdensome SAT and even harmful and that worries me. So I am inclined SAT towards withdrawing feeding. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well let’s return to Emma’s story now. The ethics committee SAT agree with the team; they should stop feeding Emma. Without SAT food death is inevitable. But she is still being given SAT fluids intravenously which means her body will go on SAT functioning possibly for many weeks. SAT SAT Everyone hopes that without food Emma will be in less pain. SAT But her stomach is still producing digestive juices. Even SAT when the team try to drain these away she is still in SAT tremendous pain, even with such high doses of medication. SAT The nurse: SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT When you’re in a room with a child and parents that are very SAT distressed watching their child suffer it is just completely SAT heart-breaking. And you’ve got no control, so you know SAT you’re giving these medicines and the ward nurses are SAT regularly giving more and more medicines, increasing pain SAT pumps and yet could just see this breakthrough pain SAT continuing. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Not only is it agony for Emma, it’s agony for her mother SAT too. She wants to prevent her daughter from suffering in any SAT way she can. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT And that’s when I kind of said enough’s enough, I can’t – I SAT can’t let my child go through this anymore, she can’t SAT survive for a possible month, two months, three months in SAT this sort of pain, something needs to be done. And I spoke SAT to the doctors and I asked them if I could go to court SAT because I felt it was in Emma’s best interests to withhold SAT all fluids. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT I had never in my many years of being a nurse ever been in SAT that scenario where you would even be contemplating firstly SAT withdrawing feeding let alone withdrawing fluids. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT This is unchartered territory. Emma is no longer being fed SAT so while her underlying conditions aren’t killing her, the SAT lack of food will lead to her death. As long as she is SAT hydrated, however, her kidneys continue to function, SAT flushing out toxins that the body produces. Removing her SAT fluids would mean that she would die sooner and that means SAT less protracted suffering for them both. The nurse again: SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT Every child is different but it was very unusual for a child SAT to have gone through all that Emma had gone through and yet SAT be showing no signs from a respiratory or cardiac point of SAT view of failing. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT After consideration, the team agrees with Emma’s mother. SAT They believe that withdrawing her fluids would be in her SAT best interests. But to be sure they are making the right SAT decision they turn once again to the ethics committee, and SAT also seek legal advice. The barrister considers whether to SAT take the case to court even though the medical team and SAT mother are not in dispute SAT SAT SAT Barrister SAT SAT There’s always a concern that further along the line when SAT emotions change that they’ll be a change of view, either by SAT the clinicians or by the parents or by the public who learn SAT about what’s happened and they may consider this to be the SAT killing of an otherwise fairly stable – I wouldn’t say she SAT was healthy because clearly she had a lot of conditions that SAT impacted on her health. She had already outlived her SAT prognosis for her neurological condition, she’d lived for 12 SAT years, she’d lived a fulfilling life and the only reason SAT that she would not continue to live for another 12 years, SAT who knows, would be that she was effectively being starved SAT and deprived of water. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s a big decision and the barrister warns what the risks SAT of not seeking legal oversight might be for the medical SAT team. SAT SAT SAT Barrister SAT SAT It may have been suggested that they were intentionally or SAT deliberately taking a step that was going to hasten death or SAT bring about death when it otherwise wouldn’t naturally have SAT occurred. So they may have been facing criminal charges as SAT serious as murder. So in order to avoid any suggestion that SAT what the clinicians were doing would amount to something SAT along the lines of euthanasia I thought that it was sensible SAT to go to court. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well we come back to our panel now who are looking extremely SAT surprised at this. SAT SAT SAT SAT Deborah, the word murder has been dropped into the SAT conversation here, how relevant is that? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT I’m surprised. I am surprised, as you’ve said. Of course SAT to take the life of another is murder, that’s not the SAT issue. What for me is the issue is that this is about the SAT care of or the treatment of a child which is about SAT determining best interest, that we know that you can SAT withdraw treatment that’s not in someone’s best interest if SAT they lack capacity. I think the other thing that struck me SAT was the reference to she could live another 12 years, she’s SAT lived a very fulfilled life. The difference for me is her SAT life is no longer fulfilled, she is suffering. And I’m very SAT surprised at this term. However, I don’t mean that to sound SAT like a criticism because the weight of these decisions is SAT considerable and it is impossible to judge the anxiety that SAT this must be causing everybody. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT How frightening is it, Emily, as a doctor who’s responsible SAT for decisions, to feel that there could be legal SAT consequences later on? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT Well I think you know as Deborah said it is an incredibly SAT difficult time for the whole team, this is not just about SAT doctors, it’s about the nurses, it’s about everybody that SAT has any relationship to the child and family. So I’ve SAT sympathy for the position on that basis. I think it’s very SAT interesting that it was Emma’s mother who said we should go SAT to court because I want to do something. Now that to me SAT would maybe be the reason to do it because I think if this SAT mother felt she could better live with a decision that may SAT ultimately, through an appropriate channel, shorten her SAT daughter’s life if she went to court she should go to court SAT for her comfort. I don’t think it should be done uniquely SAT defensively for the healthcare professionals if it places SAT burden of delay onto Emma. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Francis, what do you feel about this? SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT I was surprised to hear that mum wanted to go to court, that SAT really took me aback there and so I’m saying to myself well SAT why is she in that position to actually want to take this SAT court, what else has happened. Because I feel very strongly SAT – and it goes back to what I said at the beginning of the SAT programme about the relationship that they have and the open SAT communication and if there’s been good communication and if SAT there’s been every effort to come to a consensus which was SAT what I was hearing within the story – that there was a SAT consensus within the team and with mum – and it kind of felt SAT to me that that would be a backward step. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Emma is not having any nutrition – is Emma now dying? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT Emma’s life is likely to be measured in weeks or short SAT months, if she’s not able to be given substantial SAT nutrition. And experience free of infection might be six to SAT eight weeks, that sort of ballpark figure. So she is on a SAT course that is more measurable towards her death. Whether SAT or not she is actively dying would need to be assessed on a SAT daily basis, so she may succumb to an infection, she may SAT succumb to other complications depending on the details of SAT her case. So I think you would accept that she was now SAT approaching the end of her life, that she was in receipt of SAT end of life care but I think whether you labelled her as SAT dying would depend on a daily assessment and I’m not sure it SAT would be very helpful for her family to do so actually, I SAT think you would probably use a different language with them. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Does the withdrawal of fluids cause further suffering? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT I think that it’s very difficult for us to know. I think SAT there are ways to try to limit that suffering. So there’s SAT some evidence from the care of adults who cannot be fully SAT hydrated and who are able to verbally share their experience SAT that if you give a patient good mouth care, good lip care, SAT that their mouth is moist, their lips are hydrated that the SAT sensation of being somewhat dehydrated is greatly SAT diminished. So I think there are very many supportive care SAT elements that can be brought into play. I think it would be SAT very difficult to say there was no suffering because we SAT talked about kidney function but I think it could be SAT mitigated. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT I wonder the parents being so engaged with the care of such SAT a child, does it make them particularly resolute and even SAT very demanding, assertive, does it change the temperament of SAT a parent? Francis. SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT I have come across families, across parents, who have found SAT themselves in a very difficult position because they have SAT had to fight for everything. And this mother and I think it SAT was the doctor early on saying if it wasn’t for the mother SAT the child wouldn’t have reached this point. And I think SAT some of these mothers they have to work really, really hard SAT and it puts them in a certain sort of combative kind of SAT position. And I think we have to recognise that but we also SAT have to say to ourselves – how have we made that – turned SAT that mother into the mother that she now is, what have we SAT done to her on that journey. I’m not suggesting that this SAT team has done any of that but there are… SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT There are sort of issues around that. SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT Absolutely. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And also strength of character must matter a great deal. SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT Yeah, yeah if it wasn’t for these mothers these children SAT wouldn’t be where they are. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT My observation would be even in cases where there is a huge SAT divide in opinion and many people have judged the parent or SAT parents to be acting in a way that is quotes “contrary” to SAT the child’s best interest I have never felt that parents SAT were motivated by anything other than love, ever actually. SAT And so what may be described as resolution or pushiness to SAT me is love, pure and simple. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT If you were sitting on this ethics committee then Emily what SAT would your decision be? SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT I think I would be very clear to look at whether the SAT treatment was now futile, burdensome or inappropriate for SAT Emma in her best interests. But I would not be against the SAT withdrawal of fluids if they were felt to be burdensome or SAT futile to Emma. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Francis? SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT I totally agree with that – with that approach. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And Deborah? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT If the team and Emma’s mother feel that they wish to SAT withdraw hydration I am supportive of that. SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT SAT For me I think there’s something about the aim of our work SAT has got to be about leaving families with a good enough SAT memory of the life, the dying, the death and the aftercare SAT of their child. That for me is my personal mantra. That’s SAT – the aim is to leave them with a good enough memory. This SAT mother finds herself in a very difficult position where SAT that’s now been affected. She has 10 years of really good SAT memory work with her child over that time and now that in SAT some ways is being destroyed by the situation she now finds SAT herself in. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT That description you give of your mantra, is that what you SAT might call, as people use the phrase, a good death? SAT SAT SAT Edwards SAT Yes, yes. SAT SAT SAT Harrop SAT SAT And I think you know it’s very easy to underestimate the SAT importance of a good death unless you’ve been in a situation SAT where you have seen a number of people come to the end of SAT their life. And I think a death that’s well supported and SAT well managed saves the life of the other people involved, SAT whether it’s the siblings, the parents, or the grandparents. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Deborah? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT And your ethical duty doesn’t stop when treatment stops. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well let’s return to our story now. SAT SAT SAT SAT The barrister has advised that the case should go to court. SAT Emma’s mother writes a statement for the court. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT My daughter is no longer my daughter. She is now merely SAT just a shell. The light from her eyes is now gone and is SAT replaced with a fear and a longing to be at peace. Today SAT I’m appealing to you for Emma, as I truly believe that she SAT has endured enough and for me to say that literally breaks SAT my heart but I have to say it as I have always lived my life SAT for the best interests of Emma. And now removing fluids is SAT what is best for my child to stop the pain and suffering… SAT SAT SAT Barrister SAT SAT It was one of those moments that I have to say I will never SAT forget. We had court staff in tears because it was so SAT moving. It really was all that needed to be said in this SAT case and that’s why the judge ended her judgement with the SAT full account from mum and granted the application. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The judge issues a court order that Emma’s fluids should be SAT withdrawn. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT The call came through from the legal team to the ward and SAT the ward nurse that had been looking after Emma a lot, who SAT just finds it very difficult to even talk about it now, SAT turned off those fluids. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT I can’t explain the feeling that I had, it was a relief that SAT Emma wouldn’t have to suffer for as long as what we possibly SAT first thought. And I just – and my heart was breaking at SAT that time because I knew I wouldn’t have much longer with SAT her. SAT SAT SAT Neurologist SAT SAT I think it’s medicine at its raw end. When we come to do SAT this profession we come to heal and sometimes it’s difficult SAT to see how could this be healing. I think healing does SAT encompass the whole gamut of humanity. Being there with the SAT child and the family until the very end and seeing that SAT through is very important. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team continue to keep Emma comfortable. Emma’s mother is SAT at her bedside. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT We just played music, we laid together in bed. My family SAT visited every day. Her brothers came up to see her. It was SAT just such a lovely family time. We celebrated another – her SAT 12th birthday in hospital. So we had a big cake and big SAT party for that. But it was a lot of mixed emotions, a lot SAT of tears but lots of lovely cuddles and smiles and laughter SAT and yeah we just tried to make the best of it as we could. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Emma continues to breathe for herself and her heart remains SAT strong for nearly two weeks. SAT SAT SAT Mother SAT SAT Around five o’clock I said to them I’m going to make a cup SAT of tea, yeah it was just past five o’clock, I’m going to SAT make a cup of tea down the end of the corridor. And as soon SAT as I got there I got a phone call saying she’s going. SAT SAT SAT Nurse SAT SAT Very, very tough but absolutely did the right thing. And I SAT think I’m proud of us as a team for what we did. It’s a big SAT thing. And knowing this family for such a long time and SAT it’s awful that it came to that and it’s awful that she had SAT all that pain but I do firmly believe that I – [indistinct SAT words] I firmly believe we did the right thing. SAT SAT SAT SAT ENDS SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b0639jp4 (Listen) SAT Series 29, Heat 8, 2015 SAT SAT (8/13) SAT Everything from cats in classical music to the hits of Queen SAT is on offer to the competitors in the ultimate quiz for SAT music lovers, which reaches its eighth heat of the 2015 SAT series. SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini puts questions on every imaginable musical SAT style and era to this week's trio of contestants. At stake SAT is another of the places in this year's semi-finals. SAT SAT As always, as well as answering general knowledge music SAT questions, they'll have to pick a musical topic in which to SAT specialise, with no prior warning of the choices and no SAT chance whatsoever to prepare. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT ALAN FRANKLIN, a retired librarian from Fulham in London SAT SAT PAUL HOLMES, a freelance designer from Okehampton in Devon SAT SAT KEVAN JAMES, a GP practice manager from Norwich. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry in the Remaking b0638j4n (Listen) SAT Jacob Sam-La Rose and Zaffar Kunial SAT SAT Six poets re-read Ted Hughes' ground-breaking book about how SAT to write poetry which began life in the 1960s as a series of SAT BBC schools radio broadcasts. The programmes and chapters SAT had titles like Capturing Animals, Meet My Folks, Moon SAT Creatures, and Wind and Weather. Each is full of Ted Hughes' SAT interests and energies. Not one mentions rhyme or metre. SAT With Michael Rosen, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Fiona SAT Sampson, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Zaffar Kunial and archive SAT readings from the original broadcasts by Ted Hughes. SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 AUGUST 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b063y5sf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Three Stories by Edith Pearlman b01rqhw9 (Listen) SUN Binocular Vision SUN SUN "These stories are an exercise in imagination and SUN compassion.. a trip around the world.." SUN ANN PATCHETT, author of Bel Canto SUN SUN Edith Pearlman has been writing stories for decades and is SUN in her mid seventies. Recognition duly arrived in America SUN with various awards, but only recently has her collection, SUN Binocular Vision, been acclaimed in Britain. Now there's SUN chance to hear three of the tales on radio, and be SUN acquainted with a voice that is compelling and new to us.. SUN SUN 1. Binocular Vision SUN A young girl picks up her father's binoculars and observes SUN the neighbours SUN across the road. There are surprises in store.. 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SUN SUN Born in America, she has become one of the UK's most SUN celebrated cooks. Despite not being a trained chef, she set SUN up The River Café with her business partner, the late Rose SUN Gray, in 1987. The focus was on high quality, seasonal SUN produce cooked the Italian way. Many of today's top chefs SUN including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Theo SUN Randall, Sam Clark and Allegra McEvedy began their careers SUN in their kitchen. The café was awarded a Michelin star in SUN 1997. SUN SUN The youngest of three children, Ruth Rogers' parents were SUN both immigrants and very political. In the late sixties, she SUN left America and moved to London where she joined other SUN Americans protesting against the Vietnam War. In 1969 she SUN met the architect, Richard, now Lord, Rogers and they SUN married in 1973. The couple moved to Paris when Richard SUN Rogers and his partners won the contract to design the SUN Pompidou Centre. 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SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b063yqqs (Listen) SUN The Great Scott, Heart of Midlothian SUN SUN "She wouldn't lie in court to save her sister's life - so SUN she had to find another way. "Mike Harris' fast paced SUN adaptation of Walter Scott's most gripping, most SUN contemporary novel. SUN SUN 'Heart of Midlothian' begins with a trial for child murder, SUN and then never lets the tension drop with disguises, SUN thwarted love, hazardous journeys, kidnappings, riots, SUN rescues - and a shy, retiring, heroine who will stop at SUN nothing to undo the terrible damage her virtue has done. SUN SUN Adapted for radio by Mike Harris SUN SUN Produced and Directed by Clive Brill SUN A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Sir Walter Scott: David Tennant SUN Jenny Dean: Joanne Cummins SUN Reuben Butler: Brian Ferguson SUN George Staunton: Mark Bonnar SUN Defending Council: Mark Bonnar SUN Meg Murdockson: Caroline Guthrie SUN Queen Caroline: Caroline Guthrie SUN Madge Wildfire: Lynsey-Anne Moffat SUN Dumbiedykes: Christian Rodska SUN The Magistrate: Hugh Ross SUN Duke of Argylle: Forbes Masson SUN Effy Dean: Alice Simone SUN King's Mistress: Alice Simone SUN Author: Walter Scott SUN Adaptor: Mike Harris SUN Director: Clive Brill SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b063yqqv (Listen) SUN AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven SUN SUN A. M. Homes discusses her poignant and funny book May We Be SUN Forgiven. Academic and Nixon obsessive Harold is our SUN companion in this whirlwind of a novel when his dull life is SUN ruptured by his super successful brother George, who having SUN caused a terrible road accident, commits an even more SUN heinous crime within his own home. SUN SUN May We Be Forgiven won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction SUN (now known as the Bailey's Prize). SUN SUN September's Bookclub choice : One Day by David Nicholls SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : A.M. Homes SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b063zkxv (Listen) SUN Series 5, Clive James SUN SUN Clive James talks to Paul Farley and reads his new SUN staring-death-in-the-face poems. The Echo Chamber returns SUN with new poems on the old subjects. Clive James has been a SUN poet throughout his life as well as a literary critic, SUN memoirist and television pundit. He didn't expect to be SUN alive to see his new collection Sentenced to Life after SUN illness and old age took him in their grip a couple of years SUN ago. But, against the odds, he's still with us. And his SUN recent poems are extraordinarily clear-eyed and fearlessly SUN moving. He manages to be light throughout whilst remaining, SUN as one critic put it, deadly serious. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 HSBC, Muslims and Me b0639w47 (Listen) SUN In the summer of 2014 HSBC dispatched a batch of identical SUN letters to several prominent Muslims telling them that their SUN accounts would be closed. The bank said that it no longer SUN had the "risk appetite" to handle their money. But it failed SUN to explain why or to offer a right of appeal. So what SUN happened? SUN SUN Pursuing this story led journalist Peter Oborne to resign SUN his job as Chief Political commentator of the Daily SUN Telegraph: the paper had refused to publish an article he SUN had written which was critical of HSBC's decision. SUN SUN Footloose and temporarily freelance, Oborne embarked on an SUN intriguing journey to discover the cause of the bank's SUN decision. Were the Muslims targeted by mistake or were they SUN targeted because they are Muslims? Was Peter naive to think SUN the accounts would be closed without good reason? And, given SUN the fact that many of those cut off by the bank had links to SUN the Muslim Brotherhood, could the HSBC's actions have SUN anything to do with David Cameron's announcement of a SUN government review of this Islamist network? SUN SUN Oborne is shocked when he finds out the truth. SUN SUN Producer: Anna Meisel SUN Presenter: Peter Oborne. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b063xz8j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b063y5t6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b063y5t8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b063y5tb (Listen) SUN Cilla Black, the singer and television entertainer, has died SUN in Spain. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b063zkxx (Listen) SUN Naga Munchetty chooses her BBC Radio highlights from the SUN past week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b063zkxz (Listen) SUN Helen and Rob are so happy, as Rob proudly calls her 'Mrs SUN Titchener'. Rob becomes passionate but they laugh as they're SUN interrupted by Henry. Rob and Helen tell Pat, Tony, Tom and SUN Johnny about having married on the Isle of Wight. Pat and SUN Tony are happy but taken by surprise. It was such a romantic SUN idea of Rob's, says Helen who has never felt happier. Tony SUN raises a toast. SUN Ambridge win their cricket match - Johnny has really SUN improved under Rob's coaching guidance. Adam's wary of Rob - SUN saying no one's bigger than the team. SUN SUN Ian enjoyed his day out at the cricket Test Match with Adam SUN and Charlie. But he asks Adam what's wrong. Adam needs to SUN make a decision about Brian's share farming proposition. Ian SUN suggests that Adam could call his bluff and take that job SUN with Debbie in Hungary - Ian would happily move and get a SUN job there if it made Adam happy. SUN SUN Charlie listens to Adam and encourages him to accept Brian's SUN offer. Ian's gobsmacked when Adam reveals that's what he's SUN doing - that wasn't what they agreed?! But Ian shows his SUN support. Adam's determined to show everyone he's his own SUN man. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01cjm4p (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 2 SUN SUN Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all SUN about words. SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and SUN comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat SUN star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and SUN Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. SUN SUN This week linguistic brainbox Natalie Haynes and poet SUN Michael Rosen vie for wordy supremacy with comedians Arthur SUN Smith and Paul Sinha. SUN SUN Gyles is the longest-serving wordsmith in Countdown's SUN Dictionary Corner and the author of numerous wordplay books. SUN But now it's time for him to encourage other people to show SUN off their knowledge of words and playfulness with language. SUN SUN Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. SUN There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, SUN new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus SUN the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful SUN words: the whole world of words in twenty-eight minutes. SUN SUN Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler SUN and buckfitches - the difference between French marbles, SUN French velvet and the French ache - hear the glorious poetry SUN of the English language, as practiced from writers varying SUN from William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice - and spend half an SUN hour laughing and learning with some of the finest SUN Wordaholics in the business. SUN SUN Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 19:45 Opening Lines b063zky1 (Listen) SUN Series 17, Mussels SUN SUN A new short story selected from thousands of entries for the SUN BBC Opening Lines 2015 initiative, our annual open SUN submission window for writers new to radio. SUN SUN Recently arrived from Ireland, Triona takes as a job as a SUN teacher in a Norfolk prison and finds herself at the sharp SUN end of the refugee crisis. She must balance her roles as SUN sympathetic mentor and authority figure to the prison's SUN population of migrant detainees, many of whom are SUN traumatized by their experiences before coming to the UK. SUN But when a relationship with a Vietnamese inmate threatens SUN her new life, she must decide which immigrant she will save: SUN the prisoner or herself. SUN SUN Author Sue Healy SUN Reader Dervla Kirwan SUN Producer Simon Richardson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Dervla Kirwan SUN Writer: Sue Healy SUN Producer: Simon Richardson SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b063dch2 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton explores religious broadcasting on radio. As SUN the UK becomes more spiritually diverse and increasingly SUN secular, how should the BBC approach religious news and SUN worship? SUN SUN Since its birth in the 1920s, the Corporation has always SUN produced religious content, with programmes focussed SUN primarily on Christian worship during the early days. Ninety SUN years later, the religious makeup of the country is far more SUN diverse and complex, so is the BBC keeping up with the times SUN when it comes to spiritual matters? We ask listeners whether SUN they think religion still has a place on the BBC, and how a SUN national broadcaster should reflect faith and worship across SUN different religions. SUN SUN For some Feedback listeners, religious output is extremely SUN important - for others, it is outdated and inappropriate. SUN Roger discusses these views with Religious Affairs SUN correspondent Caroline Wyatt, Editor for Religion and Ethics SUN in BBC Regions, Ashley Peatfield, and Head of Radio for BBC SUN Religion and Ethics, Christine Morgan. SUN SUN The subject of Religion is not just confined to specialist SUN programming. Outside of people's personal worship, religion SUN plays a significant role in social and political affairs SUN both on the international and domestic stage. So how well SUN does the BBC tackle religion when it comes to news and SUN current affairs? SUN SUN Islam is the fastest growing religion in the UK, but while SUN coverage and debate around the Islamic faith is fairly SUN common on Radio 4, Muslim worship is rarely heard. So how SUN well does wider BBC Radio serve its Muslim listeners? SUN Feedback visits BBC Radio Sheffield, which runs Ramadan SUN programmes during the Holy month. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b063dch0 (Listen) SUN Nova Pilbeam, Reverend Owen Chadwick, Jon Vickers, Yoichiro SUN Nambu, Nick Ryman SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Reverend Owen Chadwick, the distinguished ecclesiastical SUN historian who was vice Chancellor of Cambridge University SUN during student protests in the 1970s and chaired an SUN influential commission on Church and State. SUN SUN Also Jon Vickers the operatic tenor best known for playing SUN muscular roles like Samson, Otello and Peter Grimes. SUN SUN Yoichiro Nambu, the theoretical physicist who won the Nobel SUN Prize for his ground-breaking work on sub atomic particles. SUN SUN Nova Pilbeam, the leading lady in early Hitchcock films who SUN later turned her back on stage and screen. SUN SUN And Nick Ryman who made his fortune by building up the SUN family stationery firm and then moved to France to become a SUN successful wine maker. SUN SUN Nova Pilbeam SUN SUN Film writer Matthew Sweet pays tribute SUN SUN Born November 15 1919; died July 17 2015, aged 95. SUN SUN Rev Owen Chadwick SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his colleague and friend, Sir David SUN Harrison SUN SUN Born May 20 1916; died July 17 2015, aged 99. SUN SUN Jon Vickers SUN SUN Matthew spoke with Sir John Tooley, former general director SUN of the Royal Opera House SUN SUN Born October 29, 1926; died July 10 2015, aged 88. SUN SUN Yoichiro Nambu SUN SUN Matthew spoke to former student and friend, Madhusree SUN Mukerjeem, and Professor John Ellis,Theoretical Physicist SUN at King's College London SUN SUN Born January 18 1921; died July 5 2015, aged 94. SUN SUN Nick Ryman SUN SUN Matthew spoke with his son Hugh Ryman. SUN SUN Born November 15 1931; died July 14 2015, aged 83. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Paula McGinley SUN SUN 21:00 The New Workplace b063zn9h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b063ybdl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b063d34z (Listen) SUN Driverless Cars SUN SUN As the race to develop driverless cars hots up around the SUN world, the UK is determined not to be left in the slow lane. SUN Government money is being invested to help test vehicles and SUN 'pods' over the next three years. SUN It's not just the robotic technology which is being SUN developed- building the trust of the public in vehicles SUN which eventually won't need drivers behind the wheel is SUN crucial SUN There's still a long way to go, and Peter Day talks to those SUN involved in this brave new world of transport. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN Contributors: SUN SUN Professor Nick Reed, Director of the academy at TRL (the SUN UK’s Transport Research Laboratory. Leading Gateway SUN Consortium Greenwich SUN SUN Neil Fulton, Programme Director at Transport Systems SUN Catapult SUN SUN Tim Armitage, Arup, leading UK Autodrive Consortium SUN SUN Dr Wolfgang Epple, Head of Research and Development Jaguar SUN Landrover SUN SUN Professor Paul Newman, Professor Information Engineering at SUN Oxford University SUN SUN John McCarthy, Atkins. Leading Venturer Consortium SUN SUN Klas Bendrik, Chief Information Officer, Volvo Cars SUN SUN David Williams, Managing Director of Underwriting in SUN Britain, Axa SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b063zn9k (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b063zn9m (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator looks at how the papers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b063d34j (Listen) SUN Sir Tom Courtenay SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Fifty years after winning his first award for his film work, SUN Sir Tom Courtenay talks about his latest role, in 45 Years, SUN for which he won the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin Film SUN Festival. The actor talks about his relationship and rivalry SUN with Albert Finney and how he persuaded Omar Sharif to SUN become a life-long fan of Hull City FC. SUN SUN Buster Keaton Tour… SUN SUN Did you see Buster Keaton on his tour of British theatres in SUN 1951? If you did, please e-mail us at SUN thefilmprogramme@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN These are his tour dates: SUN SUN June 18-23 Leicester Palace SUN June 35-31 Chiswick Empire SUN July 2-7 Wood Green Empire SUN July 9-14 Manchester Hippodrome SUN July 16-21 Derby Hippodrome SUN July 30-August 4 Leeds Empire SUN August 6-11 Glasgow Empire SUN August 13-18 Newcastle Empire SUN August 20-24 Bradford Alhambra SUN SUN Image: US actor and comedian Buster Keaton and his wife SUN Eleanor Ruth Morris in London, 15th June 1951 (Photo SUN credit: Reg Birkett / Keystone / Getty Images) SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Courtenay SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b063ybcm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 AUGUST 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b063y5vc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0639xmq (Listen) MON Prison gangs in US, Millionaire children MON MON Prison gangs in the USA. Laurie Taylor talks to David MON Skarbek, Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at MON King's College, London, about his research into the hidden MON world of convict culture, inmate hierarchy and jail MON politics. He finds sophisticated organisations, often with MON written constitutions, behind the popular image of chaotic MON violence. They're joined by Jane Wood, Senior Lecturer in MON Forensic Psychology at the University of Kent. MON MON Also, what would children do with an unexpected windfall of MON a million pounds? Sally Power, Professor of Education at MON Cardiff University, asked this question in order to explore MON children's values and priorities. Would they spend, save or MON give it away? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0638ry8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b063y5vf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b063y5vh (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b063y5vk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b063y5vm (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0651f4d (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew MON Graystone. MON MON Script MON Good morning. MON The centre piece of Michaelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine MON Chapel in Rome is, quite literally, iconic. In the section MON known as The Creation of Adam a patriarchal figure, clearly MON intended to represent God, reaches out towards the extended MON finger of a naked human being, Adam. The fingers are MON almost, but not quite, touching. The initiative is clearly MON from God’s side, and the impending touch is going to vivify MON the listless Adam. But there is a mutuality about it that MON isn’t present in, say, a human being petting an animal. In MON Michaelangelo’s fresco God is reaching out to Adam, but Adam MON is reaching out to God as well. We feel sure that at any MON moment one finger will touch the other, and something MON amazing will happen. MON The picture is highly dramatic, but it’s strangely unlike MON the creation scenes recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures. MON There the first human is brought to life by the breath of MON God rather than the touch. Breath was understood in Judaism MON as God’s medium for imparting life. MON In fact Michaelangelo’s image would have been sacrilegious MON in a Jewish or Islamic context, where representations of God MON were forbidden, and the idea of a physical encounter between MON God and a human being would be a scandal. But Christianity MON takes a different view. It celebrates the touch of God as MON powerful, life-giving and creative. MON Creator God we give you thanks that of your own choice you MON have touched us, and brought us to life; made us bearers of MON your image, and co-creators with you. May our touch in turn MON bring life and beauty to a needy world. Amen. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b063znwy (Listen) MON Harvest 2015, Rural crime, The green belt MON MON Harvest 2015 is underway but it's been a stuttering start in MON parts of the UK because of cold and damp weather. Farming MON Today looks at the prospects for this year and the key MON components of a good harvest. For farmers revving up the MON combines, we have that all important Farming Today Five Day MON Forecast from the BBC Weather Centre. MON MON Scottish farmers at Stirling Market tell us that they're MON scared to go into their fields for fear of encountering MON cattle rustlers. Nancy Nicholson reports on a campaign MON against rural crime running in Scotland this summer. MON MON And it's Happy 60th Birthday to the Green Belt! But with a MON housing shortage, will the countryside encircling our towns MON and cities survive? MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sybil Ruscoe. MON MON 05:56 Weather b063y5vp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwxfp (Listen) MON Siskin 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 Martin Hughes-Games presents the Siskin. Siskins are MON visiting our gardens as never before. These birds now breed MON across the UK and cash in on our love of bird-feeding. They MON are now regular visitors to seed dispensers of all kinds. MON MON Siskin (Carduelis spinus) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b063zt9m (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON Today's running order MON 0650 MON MON A non-invasive, inexpensive urine test for early stage MON pancreatic cancer now looks possible. We hear the latest MON from Professor Nick Lemoine, director of Barts Cancer MON Institute at Queen Mary University. MON 0710 MON MON Jeremy Corbyn's "starry-eyed hard-left" economic strategy MON would push up inflation and interest rates, undermine MON support for public services and deliver a decade or more of MON Conservative rule. That’s the warning from Labour’s shadow MON chancellor Chris Leslie, who we speak to today. MON 0715 MON MON The Greek Stock Exchange is opening today after being closed MON for five weeks. Constantine Michalos is head of Hellenic MON Chambers of Commerce and Industry. MON 0720 MON MON A brain-training computer game has been found to help people MON with schizophrenia. Barbara Sahakian is a professor of MON Clinical Neuropsychology at Cambridge University and led the MON team working on ‘Wizard’. MON 0730 MON MON Child abuse is still a problem in Rotherham. Today the UK’s MON biggest specialist project to tackle the sexual exploitation MON of children will be launched in the area. We hear from a 23 MON year old who was groomed in Rotherham from the age of 11 and MON Javed Khan, chief executive of Barnardo’s. MON 0740 MON MON Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival gets underway starts this week MON and this year a special programme titled The Sick of the MON Fringe will bring together scientists, doctors and MON performers to explore mental illness. We speak to artist MON Brian Lobel and stand-up comedian Tom Allen. MON 0750 MON MON Lord Coe, who's running to be president of the world MON athletics governing body, the IAAF, says the organisation is MON taking the latest allegations of doping in the sport MON "extremely seriously". Michele Verroken is former director MON of ethics and anti-doping at UK Sport. Rebecca Adlington is MON double Olympic Gold Swimmer. MON 0810 MON MON Landlords could face up to 5 years in jail unless they check MON the status of illegal immigrants before they rent to them. MON Richard Lambert is chief executive of the National Landlords MON Association. Greg Clarke is secretary of state for MON Communities and Local Government. MON 0820 MON MON Books of condolence will open in Liverpool today to allow MON people to pay tribute to Cilla Black, the singer and MON entertainer, who died at the weekend. Gerry Marsden is a MON musician best known for being leader of the British MON Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers. Lord John Birt is MON former director-general of the BBC. MON 0830 MON MON Two Turkish soldiers were killed and 31 wounded in a bomb MON attack on a military police station in the far east of the MON country over the weekend. Onur Oymen is former Turkish MON ambassador to NATO. MON 0840 MON MON The only surviving Navy ship from the ill-fated Gallipoli MON campaign opens to the public this week, at the National MON Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. Matthew Sheldon is MON the museum’s project director. Lesley Wills is granddaughter MON of Richard Chapple, a Royal Marine who was aboard the ship. MON 0845 MON MON Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos badly needs new transport MON infrastructure. A new railway has been promised for decades, MON but it's only recently that the project has actually taken MON off, with more than a little help from China. Our Nigeria MON correspondent Will Ross reports. MON 0850 MON MON Books of condolence will open in Liverpool today to allow MON people to pay tribute to Cilla Black, the singer and MON entertainer, who died at the weekend. Alex and Sue Tatham MON got married after meeting on Blind Date. MON MON *All subject to change.* MON MON 09:00 The Listening Project b063zt9p (Listen) MON The Listening Project Live MON MON From the Booth parked on the historic walls of MON Derry/Londonderry, Fi Glover talks to best-selling author, MON Brian McGilloway, about the Irish facility with words and MON the lyricism of the conversations gathered in Ulster. She MON meets Victor and Finola, who had one of those conversations, MON and listens again to The Key of Heaven. And she meets MON members of the Verbal Arts Centre, who are hosting the MON Booth's visit. MON MON The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a MON snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the MON UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to MON them about a subject they've never discussed intimately MON before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK MON by teams of producers from local and national radio stations MON who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're MON not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - MON lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key MON moment of connection between the participants. Most of the MON unedited conversations are being archived by the British MON Library and used to build up a collection of voices MON capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade MON of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening MON Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON 09:30 Under the Mushroom Cloud b063zt9r (Listen) MON A dramatic eye-witness account of the events in Hiroshima MON seventy years ago. MON MON On 5th August 1945, Shuntaro Hida was a 28-year old doctor MON working at the Hiroshima Military Hospital - the epicentre MON of the atomic bomb dropped by the Enola Gay. After a dinner MON for visiting dignitaries, where a lot of sake had been MON consumed, he was woken by a man who had come to ask him to MON treat his sick grandchild. Strapped to the back of the man's MON bike, they cycled 6 km to the village of Heseka, where he MON spent the night treating the child. MON MON This chance event saved his life. MON MON Dr Hida's personal and professional story is such a MON remarkable and extraordinary one it makes compelling MON listening. As he was preparing to give the child a syringe, MON he happened to look up into the clear blue sky on the MON morning of 6th August and saw the American bomber flying MON over Heseka. Then he saw the blinding flash over Hiroshima MON and, a few seconds later, was thrown through the air by the MON force of the blast. MON MON Clawing his way from under the rubble of the collapsed MON building, he saw the growing mushroom cloud. MON MON Dr Hida's immediate instinct was to rush back to the MON hospital - but he describes encountering so many MON horrendously injured and burnt people fleeing the city, some MON crawling on their hands and knees with burnt flesh dropping MON off their bodies like molten wax, he couldn't get through. MON MON So he jumped into the river and swam to the city centre, MON where he found complete and utter devastation. He made his MON way back to Heseka and did what he could - with only a few MON bandages and little else - to set up a treatment centre for MON the victims. Now aged 98, Dr Hida has dedicated the rest of MON his life to treating Hiroshima survivors. MON MON Produced by Ruth Evans MON A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b063zt9t (Listen) MON Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of MON Seashells, Episode 1 MON MON Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales tells the story of MON seashells; from the molluscs that create them to the humans MON who have used them as jewellery, symbol and even currency. MON MON Episode 1 MON Helen Scales defines 'molluscs', one of the most ancient and MON successful animal groups on the planet. MON MON Written and read by Helen Scales MON Abridged by Sian Preece MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON Helen Scales' doctorate involved searching for giant, MON endangered fish in Borneo; she's also tagged sharks in MON California, and once spent a year cataloguing all the marine MON life she could find surrounding a hundred islands in the MON Andaman Sea. Helen appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 on MON programmes such as 'Inside Science' and 'Shared Planet' and MON has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people MON will ever live underwater, the science of making and surfing MON waves and the intricacies of sharks' minds. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Helen Scales MON Author: Helen Scales MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b063zt9w (Listen) MON Men and relationships, Amnesty International sex work MON debate, Penelope Mortimer MON MON Men and Relationships: in the first in a special four week MON series Suzi Godson hears from men in their twenties through MON to their eighties, beginning with young men's attitudes to MON commitment. MON MON We speak to jockey Hayley Turner about women in horse racing MON and competing alongside men. MON MON As Amnesty International prepares to review an internal MON policy document on the sex trade, we look at the debate MON around decriminalisation. MON MON And, Penelope Mortimer's novel The Pumpkin Eater is the MON subject of our drama this week. Rachel Cooke, explains why MON it's such an important work. MON MON Presenter: Emma Barnett MON Producer: Helen Fitzhenry. MON MON Prostitution Amnesty Review MON Later this week MON Amnesty International MON is set to review an internal policy document on sex work at MON a meeting in Dublin. The proposed policy would decriminalise MON the buying or selling of consensual sex between adults. We MON discuss. MON MON Women in Racing MON Horse racing is one of the few sports where women and men MON compete alongside one another equally, but men still MON dominate at the top of the sport. MON Ultimate Ladies Night MON has been held at Carlisle Racecourse each year since 2011. MON It’s the only all-female event in the racing calendar and MON provides an opportunity for young female jockeys to get MON extra rides under their belt. Emma Barnett is joined by top MON Jockey Hayley Turner and MON Women in Racing MON ’s Susannah Gill. MON MON Men and Relationships Part 1 (of 11) MON For the last year Suzi Godson, the relationships columnist MON for The Times, has been conducting research into the male MON experience of marriage and family. In a special four week MON series for Woman’s Hour Suzi hears from men in their MON twenties through to their eighties beginning with young MON men's attitudes to commitment which highlight the profound MON impact of changing family structures and the consequences of MON absent fathers. Today she hears from 23 year old Liam who MON described himself as a “commitment-phobe” until he met a MON partner who he realised that he couldn’t imagine a future MON without. MON MON Our Drama: The Pumpkin Eater MON The Pumpkin Eater is the subject of our drama this week. The MON semi- autobiographical novel written by Penelope Mortimer MON and published in 1962 tells the story of a mother of MON numerous children who suffers a breakdown. After she MON discovers she is pregnant again her husband urges her to MON have a termination. Penelope herself had six children by MON four different men and at the time of writing she was MON married to the screenwriter and barrister John Mortimer. MON Rachel Cooke, Observer journalist and author of ‘Her MON Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties’ MON explains to Emma why ‘The Pumpkin Eater’ is such an MON important piece of work. MON The Pumpkin Eater is the fifteen minute drama from 1045 MON Mon-Fri and the novel has been re-issued by Penguin Classics MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Emma Barnett MON Interviewed Guest: Suzi Godson MON Interviewed Guest: Hayley Turner MON Interviewed Guest: Rachel Cooke MON Producer: Helen Fitzhenry MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b063zt9y (Listen) MON The Pumpkin Eater, Episode 1 MON MON Helen McCrory and Paul Ready star in Penelope Mortimer's MON stark portrait of marriage and motherhood from 1962, MON dramatised by Georgia Fitch. MON MON Mrs Armitage is encouraged by her successful screenwriter MON husband, Jake, to talk to a psychiatrist about her apparent MON compulsion to keep having children. MON MON Directed by Emma Harding. MON MON Credits MON Mrs Armitage: Helen McCrory MON Jake Armitage: Paul Ready MON Doctor: Chris Pavlo MON Father: Stephen Critchlow MON Mother: Sheila Reid MON Philpot: Rhiannon Neads MON Dinah: Rhiannon Neads MON Bob Conway: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Beth Conway: Alex Tregear MON Giles: Sam Dale MON Journalist: Neet Mohan MON Author: Penelope Mortimer MON Adaptor: Georgia Fitch MON Director: Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b063ztb0 (Listen) MON Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach MON MON Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series MON which examines the work of the people who have changed our MON understanding of the human mind. This week she explores Carl MON Rogers' revolutionary approach to psychotherapy, led by the MON client and not the therapist. His influence can be seen MON throughout the field today. MON MON Claudia meets Rogers' daughter, Natalie Rogers, who has MON followed in her father's footsteps and developed Expressive MON Arts Person-Centred Therapy, and hears more about the man MON from Maureen O'Hara of the National University at La Jolla, MON who worked with him. Richard McNally of Harvard University MON and Shirley Reynolds of Surrey University explain how far MON Rogers' influence extends today, and Claudia sees this for MON herself in a consulting room in downtown San Francisco, MON where she meets Person-Centred psychotherapist, Nina MON Utigaard. MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess MON MON Three Approaches to Psychotherapy (1965): film clips MON courtesy of Sharon K. Shostrom, Psychological & Educational MON Films. MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b063ztb3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Home and Away MON MON It's Spring in Edinburgh in Hilary Lyon's Secrets and MON Lattes, and new beginnings are on the horizon for the staff MON of Cafe Culture. MON MON Trisha (Hilary Maclean) is now engaged to her long-distance MON lover Richard (Roger May) and her big sister Clare (Hilary MON Lyon) is gradually working her way through her divorce. MON Laid-back Glaswegian chef, Callum, (Derek Riddell) is MON struggling to let the reins go as his autistic son Max MON (Scott Hoatson) turns 18 while Lizzie (Pearl Appleby) is MON enjoying helping the officially-adult Max spread his wings. MON MON Nobody quite seems to know where home is at the moment - MON including the stray dog that Lizzie has acquired. MON MON Things come to a head when Max's birthday party doesn't MON quite go according to plan and an unwelcome encounter for MON Lizzie results in trauma all round. MON MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producers: Gordon Kennedy and Moray Hunter MON An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Trisha: Hilary Maclean MON Richard: Roger May MON Clare: Hilary Lyon MON Callum: Derek Riddell MON Max: Scott Hoatson MON Lizzie: Pearl Appleby MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Moray Hunter MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b063y5vr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 A History of Ideas b063zv12 (Listen) MON How Can I Know Anything at All? MON MON A history of ideas. Presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in MON many voices. MON MON Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different MON backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week he's MON asking 'How can I know anything at all?' MON MON Helping him answer it are physicist Tara Shears, lawyer MON Harry Potter, philosopher Clare Carlisle and MON neuropsychologist Paul Broks. MON MON For the rest of the week Tara, Harry, Clare and Paul will MON take us further into the history of this idea with MON programmes of their own. Between them they will examine: MON David Hume's debunking of miracles; Wittgenstein's attempt MON to prove that other people have minds; Karl Popper's idea of MON falsification, which underpins the scientific method; and MON George Berkeley's approach to a famous philosophical problem MON - If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear MON it, does it make a sound? MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b063zv14 (Listen) MON Pitching a novel, Criminal courts charge, Action fraud MON MON The You and Yours Literary Agency is open! We speak to MON Rebecca Ritchie of Curtis Brown, the agent who is taking one MON line pitches over Twitter! And you can get one to her, send MON a very short one line pitch to us via the hashtag MON #youandyours or to youandyours@bbc.co.uk and you may get a MON verdict live on air! MON Also, the Criminal Courts Charge is intended to make MON convicted criminals pay for the money the courts spend in MON dealing with them. We speak to Bob Hutchinson, a magistrate MON who has resigned saying it is unfair and will not generate MON much money. MON Following the financial worries of Broadcasting Support MON Services, the private company which runs the Action Fraud MON helpline, we speak to the City of London Police about the MON record of the Fraud Reporting Hotline. MON The Census is changing and John Pullinger the National MON Statistician can tell us how he will oversee pens and paper MON being replaced by mouse clicks. MON And the consumer report which finds the people of Northern MON Ireland are being let down when it comes to online MON deliveries. Meanwhile, our reporter Pete Ross is on the MON streets of Glasgow, finding that there's controversy when it MON comes to bars' efforts to promote European-style cafe MON culture. MON MON 12:57 Weather b063y5vt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b063zv16 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark MON Mardell. MON MON 13:45 The Misogyny Book Club b063zx16 (Listen) MON The Price of an Apple MON MON Why was it Eve who was first tempted by the forbidden fruit MON - often characterised as an apple? And why is the maggot of MON misogyny still eating away at the core of society? MON MON In this series, Jo Fidgen and a selection of readers take a MON fresh look at some of our most read books to discover how MON writers have distilled and influenced the hatred of women MON over centuries. MON MON From the Bible to Fifty Shades of Grey, via Hamlet, Sons and MON Lovers, and fairytales, each episode takes as its starting MON point a text which has informed our culture, and contains MON misogynistic sentiments. Writers and other people with a MON personal connection to the texts discuss how these ideas MON have developed, and speak openly about how their own lives MON have been affected. MON MON In the first episode, Jo and company read Genesis and MON consider Eve's role in the Fall of Man. MON Why did the Early Fathers of the church put all the blame on MON her? And can a line be traced from their depiction of Eve MON all the way to modern-day attitudes to women? They consider MON the philosophical tradition of linking men with the mind and MON women with the body; how we condemn women for dressing MON seductively; and the resistance to women holding positions MON of authority. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b063zkxz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b063zx18 (Listen) MON Silk: The Clerks' Room, Episode 1 MON MON By Mick Collins MON MON Following the cuts to Legal Aid the pressure is mounting on MON Shoe Lane barristers' chambers. Head Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil MON Stuke) anticipates that they are on the brink of financial MON collapse and makes a desperate bid to secure work from an MON unscrupulous solicitor. But his wheeler-dealing creates MON unease in the Shoe Lane clerks' room and he soon finds MON himself at loggerheads with his star-performing barrister MON Rose Parker (Alex Tregear). MON MON The drama series is inspired by the BBC One legal drama Silk MON and features the same core cast and characters from the TV MON show's clerks' room: Neil Stuke, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Amy MON Wren and John Macmillan. MON MON As Billy Lamb would have it known, the Clerks' Room is the MON epicentre of everything that happens in a successful set of MON chambers like Shoe Lane. Barristers' clerks act as their MON agents; they get the cases, distribute the work, and can MON make or break careers. To some, they're a gang of wide-boys MON with an inflated sense of their own importance. To others, MON they're an essential pillar that dates back to the MON beginnings of the Inns of Court. MON MON The television show Silk is created by Peter Moffat. MON MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON Credits MON Billy: Neil Stuke MON Bethany: Amy Wren MON Jake: Theo Barklem-Biggs MON Rose: Alex Tregear MON Anthony: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Ray: David Hounslow MON Lee: Josef Altin MON Judge: David Acton MON Judge: Jessica Turner MON Director: Sasha Yevtushenko MON Writer: Mick Collins MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b063zx1b (Listen) MON Series 29, Heat 9, 2015 MON MON (9/13) MON Competitors from the North of England join Paul Gambaccini MON for the ninth and last heat in the 2015 tournament of the MON wide-ranging music quiz. MON MON In which 20th century choral work would you hear the 'Song MON of the Wood-Dove'? And which jazz violinist claimed to have MON been born on board a ship carrying his Italian emigrant MON parents to the United States? MON MON Today's trio of competitors will have to answer questions MON such as these in their attempt to win a semi-final place. MON They'll also have to choose a musical topic in which to MON specialise, from a list of five of which they've had no MON prior warning. Every musical genre and era is fair game, all MON the way from medieval music to opera, jazz, film and TV MON music and contemporary rock and pop. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON Today's competitors MON MON MARK CLOWES, a librarian from Swinton in South Yorkshire MON MON NICK REED, a charity administrator and fundraiser from MON Masham in North Yorkshire MON MON ALAN SHUTT, a retired teacher from Chesterfield. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b063yqpy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b063zx1d (Listen) MON John Finnemore MON MON Comedy writer and star of R4's Cabin Pressure John Finnemore MON presents his favourite funniest readings, with the help of MON his readers Stephanie Cole & Geoffrey Whitehead. Recorded in MON front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. Great words MON from Julian Barnes, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Parker, Philip MON Larkin, Jack Handey, Shakespeare and PG Wodehouse, and MON comedy archive from Chris Morris and Peter Cook contribute MON to a hilarious and warm-hearted show. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Extracts chosen MON MON Short pieces by Wordsworth and Housman MON MON MON MON Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare MON MON MON MON Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey MON MON MON MON First Sight by Philip Larkin MON MON MON MON A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters by Julian MON Barnes MON MON MON MON A review of ‘The Ideal System for Acquiring a Practical MON Knowledge of French’ by Dorothy Parker MON MON MON MON Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse MON MON MON MON God Bless You, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut MON MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Finnemore MON Reader: Stephanie Cole MON Reader: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b063zx1g (Listen) MON Series 12, Speed MON MON The Need for Speed MON MON The Monkey Cage returns from its tour of the USA, as Brian MON Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage of the BBC Radio MON Theatre to look at the science of speed. They are joined by MON comedian and former motoring correspondent for the Daily MON Telegraph, Alexei Sayle, Land Speed Record Holder Andy Green MON and Professor Danielle George from the University of MON Manchester. They'll be looking at the engineering challenges MON of creating the fastest vehicle on the planet, and whether MON the limits to human speed are engineering or the laws of MON physics themselves. MON MON 17:00 PM b063zx1j (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b063y5vw (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b063zxkx (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 4 MON MON The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the Alban MON Arena in St Albans. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and MON Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Omid Djalili MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano MON accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio MON Comedy production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Omid Djalili MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b063zxkz (Listen) MON Charlie needs to dig deeper, and Peggy feels generous. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b063zxl1 (Listen) MON Sir James MacMillan, Penny Woolcock, The Gift, Road movies MON MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b063zt9y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Women of Terror b063zxl3 (Listen) MON From Russia's 19th century Nihilists to contemporary Sri MON Lanka and the Middle East women have played central roles in MON terror organisations. Attacks planned or executed by women MON certainly attract more attention and seem to inspire a MON different kind of fear. MON MON Why are we still shocked by women who bomb, kidnap and kill? MON Why are they so effective? How can women be dissuaded from MON joining terrorist organisations? BBC Diplomatic MON Correspondent Bridget Kendall investigates the motives that MON drive these women and considers the response of the media MON and the public to those who have planted bombs, hijacked MON planes and killed innocents in their quest for political MON change. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b063cxn8 (Listen) MON A Mediterranean Rescue MON MON In one of the largest operations of its kind, thousands of MON migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were pulled off MON cramped, unseaworthy boats in the Mediterranean in June. MON Gabriel Gatehouse has had rare access to the operation. He MON follows two young men as they try to find a new home in MON Europe, from the moment they board a privately-funded search MON and rescue ship, to their attempts to evade the Italian MON police. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9b6j (Listen) MON Dinosaurs MON MON Our collective imaginations go wild at the thought of MON lumbering, ferocious beasts that were so powerful they once MON ruled the earth. T Rex scares us witless and diplodocus was MON an astonishing creature of breath taking proportions. It is MON no wonder then that dinosaur books, especially for children, MON appeared in the early nineteenth century and are still MON flying of the shelves today. MON MON Dinosaur exhibitions always draw throngs of people. From the MON Crystal Palace dinosaurs in London built in the mid 19th MON Century to the wonderful animatronic models in today's MON modern museums, these ancient beasts speak to us of a MON different planet earth, lost in deep time, gone for ever. MON Yet they have left us bones and teeth that are still MON revealing amazing facts. Recent science shows most dinosaurs MON were not cold bloodied reptiles but warm blooded, feathered MON and colourful. They lived for 160 million years, occupying a MON warm humid planet rich in vegetation. MON MON When we use the world 'dinosaur' we mean it as a derogatory MON term for someone who can't adapt but nothing could be MON further from the truth. These were supreme rulers that were MON brought down by an Act of God that defies imagination. So MON huge was the impact of the meteorite that the earth went MON cold and dark. Dinosaurs though will never leave us, we will MON take them with us into the future, in our stories, films and MON science and we will learn from their old bones ever more MON details about life on earth, and how even the most MON successful creatures on earth are, in reality, so fragile. MON MON Professor Paul Barrett MON Professor Paul Barrett is a world-leading expert on the MON evolution and biology of dinosaurs and other extinct MON reptiles and has published more than 100 scientific papers MON and books. He joined the MON Natural History Museum MON in 2003 and is a Merit Researcher in the Department of Earth MON Sciences and Head of Division for Fossil Vertebrates, MON Anthropology and Micropalaeontology. Prior to this he held MON academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge and MON Oxford. MON His main areas of interest are in MON the biology of plant-eating dinosaurs MON describing new dinosaurs, and in large-scale evolutionary MON processes, such as the coevolution of animals and plants MON through time. MON During the course of this work, he has travelled extensively MON to work on museum collections around the world and conducted MON fieldwork in China, the UK and South Africa. He is currently MON President of the MON Palaeontographical Society MON holds numerous editorial positions and sits on the councils MON and committees of several learned societies. MON Twitter: MON @NHMdinolab MON MON Professor Mike Benton MON Michael Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at MON the MON University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences MON He was elected MON Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014 MON for his fundamental contributions to understanding the MON history of life, particularly biodiversity fluctuations MON through time. He has led in integrating data from living and MON fossil organisms to generate phylogenies – solutions to the MON question of how major groups originated and diversified MON through time. MON This approach has revolutionised our understanding of major MON questions, including the relative roles of intrinsic and MON extrinsic factors on the history of life, whether diversity MON reaches saturation, the significance of mass extinctions, MON and how major clades radiate. MON MON Dr Kelvin Corlett MON Dr Kelvin Corlett is a lexicographer and senior assistant MON editor at the MON Oxford English Dictionary MON which he joined shortly after completing a PhD in MON mathematics at the University of East Anglia. MON Specialising in scientific vocabulary, he is part of the MON editorial team currently working on the ongoing project to MON completely revise the OED. MON MON Dr Melanie Keene MON Dr Melanie Keene is a MON historian of science at Homerton College, Cambridge MON where she also acts as Graduate Tutor. She has written MON widely on the history of science for children; on scientific MON books and objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth MON centuries, and on topics from candlesand pebbles to board MON games, toy sets, and model dinosaurs. MON She is the author of MON Science in Wonderland: the scientific fairy tales of MON Victorian MON Britain MON MON Adrienne Mayor MON Adrienne Mayor is an independent folklorist/historian of MON science who investigates natural knowledge contained in MON pre-scientific myths and oral traditions. Her research looks MON at ancient "folk science" precursors, alternatives, and MON parallels to modern scientific methods. MON Her two books on pre-Darwinian fossil traditions in MON classical antiquity and in Native America; MON Fossil Legends of the First Americans MON and MON The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman MON Times MON have opened up a new field within geomythology. MON Twitter: MON @amayor MON MON Dr Ellinor Michel MON Dr Ellinor Michel is an evolutionary biologist and ecologist MON at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London. Her work focuses on freshwater species. Her MON taxonomic speciality is primarily molluscs but she has also MON worked on fish, crustaceans, sponges and other MON invertebrates. She also has a background in palaeontology MON and sedimentary geology and is the chair of the MON Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs MON In addition to her academic research she was the acting MON field director and assistant project director for a US-NSF MON research training programme on tropical lakes and Executive MON Secretary for the MON International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature MON She continues to work on digital access for biological MON information. MON MON Professor John O'Maoilearca MON John Ó Maoilearca is Professor of Film and Television MON Studies at Kingston University, London. He has published 10 MON books, including (as author) Bergson and Philosophy, MON Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline, Philosophy and the MON Moving Image: Refractions of Reality, and as editor Laruelle MON and Non-Philosophy and The Bloomsbury Companion to MON Continental Philosophy . MON His latest book – on animals, cinema, and philosophy – is MON entitled MON All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy MON . MON MON 21:30 The Listening Project b063zt9p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b063y5vy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b063zz86 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b063zz88 (Listen) MON The Mark and the Void, Episode 6 MON MON What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel MON called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named MON after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, MON a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an MON ex-KGB man? You guessed it... MON MON The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of MON institutional folly, following the success of his wildly MON original Skippy Dies. MON MON While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp MON and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is MON approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for MON his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets MON steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing MON influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. MON But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, MON even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on MON Claude's side at all? MON MON The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the MON deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and MON commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever MON written about a financial crisis. MON MON Abridged by Sara Davies. MON MON Produced by Jenny Thompson. MON MON Read by Peter Serafinowicz. MON MON Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Peter Serafinowicz MON Author: Paul Murray MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Jenny Thompson MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b05r3w3l (Listen) MON Series 7, Adaptation MON MON Josie Long hears stories of adaptation. MON MON A former ghost writer describes adapting someone else's life MON for the page, a woman who left Damascus considers how her MON city has changed in the last few years and we hear two MON stories of adapting to extraordinary circumstances - members MON of the Arctic 30 adjust to their new life inside a Russian MON prison, and a researcher perched on top of a Hawaiian MON volcano tests her psychological capacity to live on another MON planet. MON MON Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON The items featured in the programme are: MON MON Invisible Ink MON Feat. Mark McCrum MON Produced by Olivia Humphreys MON MON Martha's Mars MON Feat. Martha Lenio MON Produced by Tim Hinman MON MON The Sound of Damascus MON Feat. Sarah Dadouch MON Produced by Fiona Clampin MON MON Patience MON Feat. Frank Hewetson and Dima Litvinov. MON MON 23:30 New Wave at Westminster b061017f (Listen) MON Arcane and bewildering - that's how new members often find MON the House of Commons. Following the General Election there MON are 182 of them, who have been adjusting to their new life MON at Westminster. MON MON Over the past few weeks, BBC Radio 4 has been following six MON of the new intake, recording their experiences, exploring MON their hopes and seeing whether this class of 2015 are going MON to make a difference. MON MON Johnny Mercer was the unexpected Conservative winner for the MON seat of Plymouth, Moor View. A former captain in the British MON Army, he completed three combat tours of Afghanistan. MON MON Maria Caulfield is the Conservative MP for Lewes, and until MON the election was a nurse at the Royal Marsden Hospital and a MON part-time shepherd. MON MON Tulip Siddiq kept the seat of Hampstead and Kilburn for MON Labour by the slimmest of majorities. She is the MON granddaughter of the first President of Bangladesh and niece MON to the current Bangladeshi Prime Minister. MON MON Jess Phillips is the Labour MP for Birmingham, Yardley, with MON a background of working with victims of domestic and sexual MON violence. MON MON Tommy Sheppard is the new SNP MP for Edinburgh East and one MON of the older newbies at 56. He was previously Scottish MON Labour's Assistant General Secretary but more recently a MON comedy club owner. MON MON Natalie McGarry is the SNP MP for Glasgow East and was a MON founder member of Women for Independence in 2012. MON MON Martha Kearney looks at how these MPs from very diverse MON backgrounds are coping with the pressures of Westminster MON life and asks whether the class of 2015 is making an MON impression in the new parliament. MON MON Producer: Kate Dixon. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 AUGUST 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b063y5ww (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b063zt9t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b063y5wy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b063y5x0 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b063y5x2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b063y5x4 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0651f5m (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew TUE Graystone. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0640dr2 (Listen) TUE Calais chaos hits Scottish fish, Tweeting farmers, Flowers TUE to tempt bees TUE TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwy14 (Listen) TUE Black-Headed Gull TUE TUE Martin Hughes-Games presents the Black-Headed Gull. TUE Black-Headed Gulls are our commonest small gull and TUE throughout the year you can identify them by their rather TUE delicate flight action, red legs and the white flash on the TUE front edge of their wings. TUE TUE Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0640j57 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b0640j59 (Listen) TUE Geoff Palmer TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to botanist Geoff Palmer, the UK's only TUE professor of brewing and distilling, about revolutionising TUE the malting industry and his unusual scientific career after TUE arriving from Jamaica in 1955 as a 14 year old boy. When he TUE went for an interview for an MSC in 1964 the representative TUE from the Ministry of Agriculture suggested he go back home TUE and grow bananas. Why? Because he got a question about the TUE difference between wheat and barley wrong. Undeterred he TUE went on to become, a world authority on barley, an TUE internationally renowned expert on brewing and distilling TUE and Scotland's first black professor. His research on barley TUE and how malt could be made more quickly saved the brewing TUE industry millions. But he says, it's only through good luck TUE and with the help of good Samaritans that his career took TUE the course it did, helping him get to University and even to TUE finish school. Now at the age of 75, he's still fighting to TUE make education and a scientific career available to TUE everyone, regardless of their background. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0640j5c (Listen) TUE Adrian Chiles speaks to Kerstin Rodgers TUE TUE Adrian Chiles talks to Kerstin Rodgers, aka Ms Marmite TUE Lover, food writer, cook and pioneer of the supper club TUE movement. TUE It's well known that TV and radio presenter Adrian Chiles TUE loves football. What's less well known is his real passion: TUE food, both eating and cooking it. Adrian believes in the TUE power of food to change lives, to improve society and to TUE bring people together. TUE At this year's Bristol Food Connections festival, he TUE recorded two editions of One to One in front of an audience TUE with guests who have extraordinary life changing food TUE stories to tell. TUE Kerstin's love of preparing, cooking and sharing food TUE started early in life but a visit to Cuba and their paladar TUE restaurants which are set up in people's homes, inspired her TUE to try it here. She guides Adrian through the pleasures and TUE pitfalls of cooking for strangers in your own house and TUE charging them for the experience. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b064m621 (Listen) TUE Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of TUE Seashells, Episode 2 TUE TUE Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales tells the story of TUE seashells; from the molluscs that create them to the humans TUE who have used them as jewellery, symbol and even currency. TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE The author considers the human use of shells - from TUE jewellery via fertility symbol through to their link with a TUE dark episode in human history. TUE TUE Written and read by Helen Scales TUE Abridged by Sian Preece TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE Helen Scales' doctorate involved searching for giant, TUE endangered fish in Borneo; she's also tagged sharks in TUE California, and once spent a year cataloguing all the marine TUE life she could find surrounding a hundred islands in the TUE Andaman Sea. Helen appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 on TUE programmes such as 'Inside Science' and 'Shared Planet' and TUE has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people TUE will ever live underwater, the science of making and surfing TUE waves and the intricacies of sharks' minds. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Helen Scales TUE Author: Helen Scales TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0640j5f (Listen) TUE Emma Barnett presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Emma Barnett TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0640j5h (Listen) TUE The Pumpkin Eater, Episode 2 TUE TUE Helen McCrory and Paul Ready star in Penelope Mortimer's TUE stark portrait of marriage and motherhood from 1962, TUE dramatised by Georgia Fitch. TUE TUE When Jake returns from a shoot in Africa, Mrs Armitage TUE throws a party for his film colleagues. TUE Cast: TUE TUE Directed by Emma Harding. TUE TUE Credits TUE Mrs Armitage: Helen McCrory TUE Jake Armitage: Paul Ready TUE Doctor: Chris Pavlo TUE Father: Stephen Critchlow TUE Mother: Sheila Reid TUE Philpot: Rhiannon Neads TUE Dinah: Rhiannon Neads TUE Bob Conway: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Beth Conway: Alex Tregear TUE Giles: Sam Dale TUE Journalist: Neet Mohan TUE Author: Penelope Mortimer TUE Adaptor: Georgia Fitch TUE Director: Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9b64 (Listen) TUE Meteorites TUE TUE For thousands of years we have marvelled at the stones that TUE fell from the sky. They were mysterious messages from the TUE heavens; omens of luck and favour. Ancient Egyptians buried TUE them in their tomb and Terry Pratchett put meteorite iron TUE into his home made sword to enhance its mystical properties. TUE TUE Myths and legends about meteorites abound in all cultures. TUE In religious art they are visions in the sky foretelling of TUE the apocalypse. Interest in them rocketed when it was TUE finally accepted, as late as the 1970s that they did kill TUE the dinosaurs, a scientific debate that took many years to TUE settle and was hard fought. Meteorites are marvels; they are TUE fragments of other worlds come to our home to remind us we TUE are not alone and that above the sky there is a dynamic, TUE restless universe. TUE TUE Today people still believe meteorites contain magical TUE minerals. The bizarre plants, Venus flytraps, only grow in TUE the areas meteorites are found (by coincidence) and were TUE thought to be plants brought down from another planet. We TUE are all touched by the mystery of meteorites and today they TUE are helping unravel the mysteries of our own solar system - TUE and beyond. TUE TUE Dr Caroline Smith TUE Caroline is Principle Curator of Meteorites and Head of TUE Mineralogy Collections at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE and has been researching meteorites for the last 17 years. TUE Her main research interests are planetary differentiation TUE and extra-terrestrial and terrestrial alteration processes TUE and she regularly uses a number of analytical techniques for TUE studying precious meteoritic materials including electron TUE and ion-beam instrumentation for sample preparation and TUE analyses, mass spectrometry and CT-scanning. TUE Her experience and expertise in curation and collections TUE care has been recognised by the award of a prestigious TUE Aurora Fellowship from the TUE UK Space Agency TUE and consultancy work with industrial and academic partners TUE studying and planning for future Solar System sample return TUE missions. TUE In 2011, Caroline was selected as one of seven European TUE scientists invited to participate in the TUE ESA/NASA Joint Science Working Group TUE planning for a proposed Mars exploration mission, where she TUE provided input and advice related to sample curation and TUE containment during collection, caching and on return to TUE Earth. In 2014 she was chosen to be the UK representative TUE for iMARS Phase 2 and was selected to be the Co-Chair of the TUE Science Team. TUE TUE Professor Mike Benton TUE Michael Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at TUE the TUE University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences TUE He was elected TUE Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014 TUE for his fundamental contributions to understanding the TUE history of life, particularly biodiversity fluctuations TUE through time. He has led in integrating data from living and TUE fossil organisms to generate phylogenies – solutions to the TUE question of how major groups originated and diversified TUE through time. TUE This approach has revolutionised our understanding of major TUE questions, including the relative roles of intrinsic and TUE extrinsic factors on the history of life, whether diversity TUE reaches saturation, the significance of mass extinctions, TUE and how major clades radiate. TUE TUE Brother Guy Consolmagno TUE Brother Consolmagno is curator of the Vatican meteorite TUE collection in Castel Gandolfo, one of the largest in the TUE world, and is nicknamed "the Pope's astronomer". His TUE research explores the connections between meteorites and TUE asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in TUE the solar system. TUE In 1996, he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with an TUE NSF-sponsored team on the blue ice of Antarctica, and in TUE 2000 he was honored by the TUE International Astronomical Union TUE for his contributions to the study of meteorites and TUE asteroids with the naming of asteroid 4597 Consolmagno. Last TUE year he received the TUE Carl Sagan Medal TUE from the TUE American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary TUE Sciences TUE for excellence in public communication in planetary TUE sciences. TUE He has coauthored five astronomy books: “Turn Left at TUE Orion”; “Worlds Apart”; “The Way to the Dwelling of Light”; TUE “Brother Astronomer”; and “God's Mechanics”. TUE TUE Beth Holtum TUE Beth Holtum trained in Complimentary Medicine, specialising TUE in Homeopathy, before defecting to the world of rocks and TUE minerals in 2005, when she and her husband, Graham, starting TUE running Rainbow Spirit their crystal shop in Wadebridge, TUE near Padstow in North Cornwall. TUE They share a love of geology, especially the historic finds TUE from the Poldark and China Clay country that surrounds them, TUE and a fascination for meteorites and impactites. TUE TUE Dr Diane Johnson TUE Dr Diane Johnson TUE is a researcher in the TUE Department of Physical Sciences TUE at the Open University in Milton Keynes, her research TUE interests include meteorites, the history of meteorites and TUE analysis of ancient materials. TUE She began working at the Open University in 2005 applying TUE electron and ion beam microscopy to explore diverse research TUE issues in Earth, planetary and space sciences. Diane has TUE extensively analysed meteorites, space hardware, fossils and TUE ancient cultural artefacts, publishing research papers in TUE international peer reviewed journals and magazines. In 2009, TUE a trip to Egypt inspired her to take up research into the TUE influence of meteorite iron in ancient Egyptian culture. TUE TUE Nick Johnson TUE Nick Johnson is team leader of the Temperate and Carnivorous TUE Plant Unit, in the Tropical Nursery at TUE Kew Gardens TUE His specialty is the care and propagation of threatened TUE island plants, including plants from the United Kingdom’s TUE Overseas Territories. TUE He mentors trainees, students and apprentices; coordinates TUE his team and is involved in many expeditions with Kew’s TUE scientists. He trains international partners in nursery TUE techniques to assist in conserving plants in their natural TUE habitats. TUE Picture ©RBG Kew TUE TUE 11:30 The Great Songbook b0640j5k (Listen) TUE Italy TUE TUE In search of the musical heart of the nation, Cerys Matthews TUE discusses the songs of Italy and pieces together her own TUE Great Italian Songbook, with the help of literary scholar TUE Francesco Durante, cultural historian Rachel Haworth and TUE music journalist Federico Vacalebre. TUE TUE Recorded in Naples at the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro TUE a Majella. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Williams. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b063y5x6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 A History of Ideas b0640mxk (Listen) TUE Lawyer Harry Potter on Eyewitness Testimony TUE TUE Barrister Harry Potter asks whether we can believe the TUE evidence of our own eyes. It's a vital question for the TUE justice system today and Harry traces it back to the work of TUE 18th century Philosopher David Hume. Hume, a key figure in TUE the Scottish Enlightenment, wrote about miracles, arguing TUE they were most likely the product of wishful thinking and TUE faulty perception. His arguments are still important for TUE barristers, judges and juries still reliant on eye witness TUE testimony to decide guilt or innocence. TUE TUE To find out how our eyes deceive us, Harry meets professor TUE Amina Menon, expert in eye witness evidence at Royal TUE Holloway, University of London. And Harry visits professor TUE of philosophy Peter Millican at Oxford University to ask TUE whether Hume's methods can help us overcome our inbuilt TUE biases. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0640mxm (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b063y5x8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0640mxs (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark TUE Mardell. TUE TUE 13:45 The Misogyny Book Club b064khpq (Listen) TUE Sex and Silence TUE TUE Are men afraid of women's sexuality? And if so, why? TUE TUE Jo Fidgen and company look for clues in Shakespeare's TUE Hamlet, in the second in a series of programmes exploring TUE misogyny in some of our most read books. When the young TUE prince attacks his mother over starting a new relationship TUE in middle age, he reveals an age-old fear that women have TUE insatiable sexual appetites, and a patriarch's urge to TUE control them. TUE TUE Actor Charlotte Cornwell, who played Gertrude in the RSC TUE production of Hamlet, talks about how she identifies with TUE the character and how it felt to be on the receiving end of TUE Hamlet's insults. TUE TUE The contributors discuss how women gained a reputation for TUE licentiousness and whether they have ever shaken it off. TUE Their conversation takes in the invisibility of older women TUE in society; the subtle ways in which women are silenced; and TUE the way women police themselves. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b063zxkz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b0640mxx (Listen) TUE Silk: The Clerks' Room, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Mick Collins TUE TUE A rift at Shoe Lane causes prosecution to be pitted against TUE defence, with Billy Lamb and his deputy John Bright vying TUE for control of the clerks' room. Junior barrister Amy Lang TUE risks becoming a pawn in their game as John makes promises TUE that he can't keep. TUE TUE As Head Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke) would have it known, TUE the Clerks' Room is the epicentre of everything that happens TUE in a successful set of chambers like Shoe Lane. Barristers' TUE clerks act as their agents; they get the cases, distribute TUE the work, and can make or break careers. To some, they're a TUE gang of wide-boys with an inflated sense of their own TUE importance. To others, they're an essential pillar that TUE dates back to the beginnings of the Inns of Court. TUE TUE The dramas feature the same core cast and characters from TUE the TV show's Clerks' Room: Neil Stuke, Theo Barklem-Biggs, TUE Amy Wren, John Macmillan. TUE TUE The television show Silk is created by Peter Moffat. TUE TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE Credits TUE Billy: Neil Stuke TUE Bethany: Amy Wren TUE John: John MacMillan TUE Amy: Jessica Henwick TUE Rose: Alex Tregear TUE Lucy: Amelia Lowdell TUE Stephen: David Acton TUE Judge: Jessica Turner TUE Usher: David Hounslow TUE Director: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE Writer: Mick Collins TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0640mxz (Listen) TUE Popular history series. TUE TUE 15:30 Flexagon Radio b0640my1 (Listen) TUE Marcus du Sautoy TUE TUE A series which encourages guests to "think with the heart TUE and feel with the intellect." This week, Murray Lachlan TUE Young invites mathematician Marcus du Sautoy to combine his TUE favourite sounds and his most passionately held ideas in TUE unexpected ways by feeding them into an electronic device TUE called 'The Flexagon'. TUE TUE Murray has not prepared an interview but, instead, he and TUE Marcus respond spontaneously to what the Flexagon returns to TUE them in the form of short audio 'Flexes'. Neither of them TUE knows which of the sounds, music and speech the Flexagon TUE will select, nor how it will combine them. The idea is to TUE throw up connections that might not have occurred to guests TUE otherwise, and to encourage them to think and feel about TUE their concerns and passions in a different way. TUE TUE Marcus's sounds include evocations of the moment he TUE discovered his passions for maths and for playing the TUE trumpet, Indian and Ghanaian musical rhythms, and a 1930s TUE speech by a German mathematician ending with the words "Wir TUE müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen." ("We must know. We will TUE know."), which he takes issue with. TUE TUE These, and Marcus's other sounds, are flexed together with TUE audio suggested by his passion for prime numbers, proofs and TUE contradictions. The result is unpredictable and far ranging, TUE taking Murray and Marcus into areas of doubt, faith, TUE infinity and the possibility of knowing the unknowable. TUE TUE The unpredictability increases as the Flexagon introduces TUE some audio of its own, drawn from the BBC Radio archives, to TUE create even more unusual associations between apparently TUE disparate material, and to alter perspectives on familiar TUE issues. TUE TUE Producer: Adam Fowler TUE An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 The Move b04md4np (Listen) TUE A Move into the Unknown TUE TUE In a brand new series aims to satisfy our fascination with TUE moving, as Rosie Millard charts the progress of people TUE across the UK as they take the plunge and look for a new TUE home - whether out of necessity or just for a change. TUE TUE Whether contemplating a mansion or a shoe-box, all her TUE subjects have one thing in common - it's a jump into the TUE unknown, somewhere where there is no network of friends TUE waiting for them, no family and no preconceptions. TUE TUE In the first programme we follow Hannah and John, cycling TUE fanatics, who are hoping to buy a live/work space in a TUE converted mill in the Yorkshire dales. It's a big step for TUE them both as Hannah has always lived in the far South of TUE England, and now contemplates a new life in the North, TUE whilst John, Cumbrian born and bred has, like so many 30 TUE somethings, still kept his room on at his parent's house. TUE Most of the time he just lives out of a kit bag as he TUE travels the world as a cycle guide, and he certainly never TUE contemplated having a mortgage. TUE TUE Trudi, meanwhile, is facing eviction for the second time in TUE two years, as her run-down flat in Islington has TUE dramatically turned into prime London real estate. "There TUE was a two bed flat across the road went on the market for TUE £770,000. It was sold in a week!" TUE The notice to quit has arrived, and as a wheelchair user TUE she's facing life on the streets or in sheltered TUE accommodation, something she's none too pleased to TUE contemplate at the age of 55 - "It's like God's waiting TUE room..." TUE TUE But as Rosie finds out, things don't always turn out for the TUE worst, or the best, in the moving business. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b0640p3r (Listen) TUE Series 37, Ian McKellen on Edmund Hillary TUE TUE On May 29 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached TUE the summit of Everest. Both men immediately became famous TUE worldwide. The actor Sir Ian McKellen, then a young teenager TUE in Burnley, was clearly struck by the achievement. In later TUE life he met Hillary in New Zealand and has strong memories TUE of a modest man whose first job was beekeeping. "I did a TUE good job on Everest," Hillary once said, "but have always TUE known my limitations and I found being classified as a hero TUE slightly embarrassing." TUE TUE Joining Sir Ian McKellen to discuss the life of this TUE fascinating man - he took a tractor to the South Pole in TUE 1958 and became High Commissioner to India in 1985 - is the TUE author of Everest 1953, Mick Conefrey. He reveals the epic TUE story of the first ascent, plus discusses Hillary's work TUE with the Himalayan Trust. TUE TUE The presenter is Matthew Parris, the producer Miles Warde. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Ian McKellan TUE Interviewed Guest: Mick Conefrey TUE Producer: Miles Warde TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0640pnv (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b063y5xb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b0640pnx (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 6 TUE TUE Who does Susan Calman often get mistaken for? What does TUE Vernon Kay consider his career lowlight? What's the TUE naughtiest thing Sara Pascoe did as a child? TUE TUE All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in TUE the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested TUE on how well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE TUE In this case, comedian Susan Calman picks her friend, TUE presenter Vernon Kay picks his old university pal, and TUE comedian Sara Pascoe chooses her mum. TUE TUE Producer: Matt Stronge. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Miles Jupp TUE Panellist: Susan Calman TUE Panellist: Vernon Kay TUE Panellist: Sara Pascoe TUE Producer: Matt Stronge TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0640rql (Listen) TUE Jill and Shula hatch a plan, and Helen looks happy. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0640rqn (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0640j5h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Experiments in Living b0640sp5 (Listen) TUE Social historian Juliet Gardiner questions the 1930s dream TUE of a semi-detached home in the suburbs, where 'a man's home TUE is his castle' to live in splendid isolation with his TUE nuclear family. TUE TUE This ideal was born out of the raw memory of the TUE over-crowded slums which had only recently been cleared, TUE making the idea of a home of one's own so precious. But TUE Juliet argues this dream is doing us no favours at all when TUE facing the challenges of how to live today. She asks if we TUE really want or need as much privacy as we think we do. TUE TUE Today we are in the throes of an acute housing crisis and TUE people are being forced to experiment with new ways to live TUE to put a roof over their head. Juliet draws parallels with TUE the housing crisis after World War Two, when slum clearances TUE and bombs led to a huge housing shortage. What ideas and TUE lessons can she bring from the experiments of the past to TUE the experiments of the present? TUE TUE Juliet shares her knowledge of the post-1945 period when TUE people began to live more communally. While they were glad TUE to be out of the shelters, many wanted to retain the greater TUE sense of community, camaraderie and communal living. Big TUE country houses were sold off cheaply and bought by groups of TUE families, sharing resources and child-care. TUE TUE She meets participants in 'Home Share' an initiative which TUE matches older people who live alone and want company, with TUE younger people who are struggling to afford rents. She also TUE hears about 'property guardian' schemes, whereby TUE participants live in an empty property for a low rent, TUE matching their need for affordable housing with the owner's TUE need to protect the security of their property. TUE TUE Do any of these experiments present an answer to the housing TUE crisis? TUE TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0640spc (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Rock, Paper, Scissors b0640tzr (Listen) TUE We've all played Rock, Paper, Scissors, and first sight it TUE looks like a simple game of chance. But, says Jolyon TUE Jenkins, there is far more to it than meets the eye. TUE TUE In a bar in Philadelphia, hardened players meet four times a TUE week to battle it out in an eight week tournament that will TUE net the winner $1000. For them it's "poker without the TUE cards", predicting what the other person is going to throw, TUE at the same time as they are trying to predict your move. TUE TUE The economic discipline of "game theory" says that this is a TUE waste of time. The only "rational" way to play rock, paper, TUE scissors, is to make your moves randomly. If you manage to TUE do this, you are guaranteed a draw, and this is the best you TUE can hope for. In fact, most people are very bad at playing TUE randomly, which means that the best players, who can spot TUE their patterns, consistently win. TUE TUE But even if you can predict someone's next move correctly, TUE you need to take account of the fact that they might change TUE it to take account of your prediction. So you need to second TUE guess them. And they are trying to second guess you. So you TUE third guess them. But how far ahead can you, or should you, TUE think? The question goes far beyond rock, paper, scissors: TUE whether you're the leader of a country at war trying to work TUE out what the enemy is doing (while they try to do the same), TUE or a motorist trying to decide whether to avoid motorway TUE congestion by coming off at a junction, we're all trying to TUE second guess (and third guess...) each other's actions. TUE TUE As Jolyon discovers, most game theory assumes that we are TUE perfectly rational, guessing infinitely far ahead about each TUE other's moves. But the experimental evidence suggests most TUE of us only think about one and a half steps ahead. Or to put TUE it another way - although people may be thinking about what TUE you are thinking, they are unlikely to be thinking about TUE what you are thinking they are thinking. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b0640j59 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b063y5xd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0640tzt (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0640tzw (Listen) TUE The Mark and the Void, Episode 7 TUE TUE What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel TUE called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named TUE after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, TUE a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an TUE ex-KGB man? You guessed it... TUE TUE The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of TUE institutional folly, following the success of his wildly TUE original Skippy Dies. TUE TUE While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp TUE and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is TUE approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for TUE his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets TUE steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing TUE influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. TUE But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, TUE even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on TUE Claude's side at all? TUE TUE The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the TUE deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and TUE commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever TUE written about a financial crisis. TUE TUE Abridged by Sara Davies. TUE TUE Produced by Jenny Thompson. TUE TUE Read by Peter Serafinowicz. TUE TUE Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Peter Serafinowicz TUE Author: Paul Murray TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Jenny Thompson TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b063zx1g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Wireless Nights b01ghc56 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Night Manoeuvres TUE TUE Jarvis Cocker continues his prowl through the dark in the TUE last of his new series Wireless Nights. TUE TUE This evening he invites you on a curb crawl around the seamy TUE side of town as he explores the theme 'night manoeuvres'. TUE Driving through London he weaves his way in and out of the TUE lives of other night riders who are always on the move. He TUE joins a private investigator in Nottingham on a car chase TUE and stake out on the trail of a man suspected to be having TUE an affair; he finds a minicab driver lost in the Mersey fog TUE between fares, haunted by an eerie bell; and is encircled by TUE street skaters who spin around the neon-lit West End and TUE dark car parks seeking thrills on wheels. TUE TUE The ride might get a bit hairy at times, but he promises to TUE drop you off safely at the end. TUE TUE Produced by Neil McCarthy and Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 AUGUST 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b063y5y7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b064m621 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b063y5y9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b063y5yc (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b063y5yf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b063y5yh (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0651f7v (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew WED Graystone. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b06418l1 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwy1y (Listen) WED Golden Plover 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 Martin Hughes-Games presents the Golden Plover. If, among a WED flock of lapwings circling over a ploughed field, you see WED smaller birds with wings like knife-blades and bell-like WED calls ... these are golden plovers. WED WED Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b06418l3 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 What's the Point of...? b06418l5 (Listen) WED Series 7, The Met Office WED WED Quentin Letts begins a new series casting a critical but WED amicable eye across institutions at the heart of British WED life, asking the question 'What's the Point Of...? WED WED From it's origins after a sea disaster 150 years ago, its WED importance during World War II, to its daily weather WED predictions, the Met Office has been part British life for a WED long time but as Quentin finds out it's future is part of a WED complex debate involving a £97 million super-computer, the WED accuracy of long term weather predictions and the science of WED climate change. WED WED Is the Met Office a valuable national asset providing WED essential and possibly life-saving information about severe WED weather or an expensive liability, dropping forecasting WED clangers like the barbecue summer and missing the Great WED Storm of 1987? WED WED With help from Met Office veterans, independent weather WED forecasters and a word or two or advice from those trusty WED weather folklore experts - the farmers, Quentin asks "What's WED the point of the Met Office. 1/4 WED WED Producer: Vince Hunt WED Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. WED WED 09:30 Witness b06418l7 (Listen) WED The Fall of Saigon WED WED In 1975 US troops airlifted hundreds of people out of the WED South Vietnamese capital of Saigon as North Vietnamese WED troops closed in. They were the final days of the Vietnam WED war and although most American soldiers had long since left WED the city, there were some left who helped desperate people WED escape to aircraft carriers waiting off the coast. Hear from WED Stu Herrington and Vern Jumper, two former American WED servicemen. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b064mb5t (Listen) WED Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of WED Seashells, Episode 3 WED WED Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales tells the story of WED seashells; from the molluscs that create them to the humans WED who have used them as jewellery, symbol and even currency. WED WED Episode 3 WED Helen Scales investigates the bizarre world of the hermit WED crab and uncovers the truth behind the near-mythical WED substance 'sea silk'. WED WED Written and read by Helen Scales WED Abridged by Sian Preece WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED Helen Scales' doctorate involved searching for giant, WED endangered fish in Borneo; she's also tagged sharks in WED California, and once spent a year cataloguing all the marine WED life she could find surrounding a hundred islands in the WED Andaman Sea. Helen appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 on WED programmes such as 'Inside Science' and 'Shared Planet' and WED has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people WED will ever live underwater, the science of making and surfing WED waves and the intricacies of sharks' minds. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Helen Scales WED Author: Helen Scales WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b06418l9 (Listen) WED Emma Barnett presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Emma Barnett WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b06418lc (Listen) WED The Pumpkin Eater, Episode 3 WED WED Helen McCrory and Paul Ready star in Penelope Mortimer's WED stark portrait of marriage and motherhood from 1962, WED dramatised by Georgia Fitch. WED WED Mrs Armitage makes a confession. WED WED Directed by Emma Harding. WED WED Credits WED Mrs Armitage: Helen McCrory WED Jake Armitage: Paul Ready WED Doctor: Chris Pavlo WED Father: Stephen Critchlow WED Mother: Sheila Reid WED Philpot: Rhiannon Neads WED Dinah: Rhiannon Neads WED Bob Conway: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Beth Conway: Alex Tregear WED Giles: Sam Dale WED Journalist: Neet Mohan WED Author: Penelope Mortimer WED Adaptor: Georgia Fitch WED Director: Emma Harding WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b06418lf (Listen) WED Robin and Anne - Doing More WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation recorded in the mobile WED Booth at Sutton House in Hackney, where a son admits to his WED mother that growing up in a politicised home has left him WED feeling he should probably be taking a firmer stand. Another WED in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Three Pounds in My Pocket b06419cw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED In the second series Kavita Puri picks up the story of the WED early pioneers from the Indian subcontinent in 1968: the WED year of a significant Race Relations Act and Enoch Powell. WED She charts the years to 1976 when the make-up of the South WED Asian community in Britain was changing. Young single men WED came after the Second World War with as little as £3 because WED of strict currency exchange rules. By the 1960s family WED reunions had already taken place for many Sikh and Hindu WED families. By the 70's, as Pakistani men became more settled, WED their wives joined them too. Increased numbers of WED Bangladeshi men came over following the war of Independence WED in 1971, but most of their wives would not come over till WED the following decade. Asians also came from East Africa in WED the late 60's and early 70's. Against this new tide of WED migration, we chart how the three pound generation - many WED here for two decades - responded to the new arrivals. With WED increased numbers, the community became more visible. We see WED how the atmosphere on the street was changing towards them - WED in contrast to the post-war years - where many had been WED greeted with curiosity. Racist abuse became commonplace as WED immigration became a charged political issue. WED WED Producer: Smita Patel WED WED With help from Dr Florian Stadtler. WED WED 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b06418ms (Listen) WED Series 4, The Supplement WED WED Damien is offered the chance to present his own television WED series all about "street food", something which doesn't WED initially appeal, particularly as he is busy editing the WED food supplement for a Sunday newspaper - territory which is WED far more familiar. WED WED But when he is forced to become more populist to placate the WED paper's editor, perhaps this is the time to finally take the WED plunge into the murky world of "TV". WED WED And Damien's boundaries are further tested when his kitchen WED is commandeered by Anthony and Mr Mullaney, who are in the WED midst of planning a property renovation company together. WED WED It was written by Justin Edwards WED WED The producer was Sam Michell. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony: Justin Edwards WED Ian Frobisher: Philip Fox WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED Livi Hollinshead: Alex Tregear WED Paula, the Editor: Jessica Turner WED Arlo Chance: Stephen Critchlow WED Producer: Sam Michell WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED WED 12:00 News Summary b063y5yk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 A History of Ideas b0641bg2 (Listen) WED Physicist Tara Shears on Falsification WED WED Science is based on fact, right? Cold, unchanging, WED unarguable facts. Perhaps not, says physicist Tara Shears. WED WED Tara is more inclined to follow the principles of the WED Anglo-Austrian philosopher, Karl Popper. He believed that WED human knowledge progresses through 'falsification'. A theory WED or idea shouldn't be described as scientific unless it WED could, in principle, be proven false. WED WED Raised in a Vienna in thrall to Marxism and Freudianism, WED Popper bristled against these 'sciences' which could adapt WED and survive to prevailing political and social conditions. WED They could not be proven false and so they were not science. WED The ideas of Einstein, by contrast, could be tested WED scientifically and might one day be proven false. WED WED An interesting principle certainly, but potentially WED demoralising for a scientist who could see her life's work WED dissolve in front of her eyes. Tara joins her colleagues at WED the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva to ponder the WED implications of Popper's work. She also meets Popper's WED former student, John Worrall and string theoretician David WED Tong. WED WED This is part of a week of programmes asking how we can know WED anything at all. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0641bg4 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b063y5ym (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0641bg6 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark WED Mardell. WED WED 13:45 The Misogyny Book Club b064kjm4 (Listen) WED Unhappily Ever After WED WED What do fairy tales teach girls about what a woman should WED be? WED WED In the third in a series of programmes exploring misogyny in WED some of our most read books, a young primary school teacher WED and an Oxford professor who specialises in fairy stories WED join Jo Fidgen to discuss the messages encoded in these WED well-loved morality tales, and the effect they can have on WED women's sense of worth. WED WED They engage in a revealing discussion about their depiction WED of violence against women. In the witch hunts of the 17th WED century, women were targeted for resembling the witches of WED fairy tales. Today, one woman talks about her experience of WED tolerating abuse in the hope of living happily ever after. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0640rql (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b0641bpt (Listen) WED Silk: The Clerks' Room, Episode 3 WED WED By Mick Collins WED WED Time is running out for Billy Lamb as he struggles to save WED Shoe Lane. With days remaining for him to secure a WED guaranteed income, his only option is to force the hand of WED an unscrupulous solicitor. But where will he find the WED leverage? A suspicious alibi in a GBH trial provides a clue. WED WED As Head Clerk Billy Lamb (Neil Stuke) would have it known, WED the Clerks' Room is the epicentre of everything that happens WED in a successful set of chambers like Shoe Lane. Barristers' WED clerks act as their agents; they get the cases, distribute WED the work, and can make or break careers. To some, they're a WED gang of wide-boys with an inflated sense of their own WED importance. To others, they're an essential pillar that WED dates back to the beginnings of the Inns of Court. WED WED The dramas feature the same core cast and characters from WED the TV show's Clerks' Room: Neil Stuke, Theo Barklem-Biggs, WED Amy Wren, John Macmillan and Jessica Henwick. WED WED The television show Silk is created by Peter Moffat. WED WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED Credits WED Billy: Neil Stuke WED Bethany: Amy Wren WED John: John MacMillan WED Jake: Theo Barklem-Biggs WED Rose: Alex Tregear WED Amy: Jessica Henwick WED Ray: David Hounslow WED Lee: Josef Altin WED Judge: Stephen Critchlow WED Shop Owner: David Acton WED Paul: Chris Pavlo WED Director: Sasha Yevtushenko WED Writer: Mick Collins WED WED 15:00 The New Workplace b063zn9h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Rock, Paper, Scissors b0640tzr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Business of Film with Mark Kermode b0536932 (Listen) WED Development Hell WED WED Film critic Mark Kermode reveals the economic realities WED behind the film industry. In the first part of the series, WED Mark finds out about the journey from script to screen - a WED path littered with obstacles. WED WED Many films languish in so-called "Development Hell", where WED producers turn in scripts, listen to conflicting opinions WED and resubmit their storylines hoping for a magical green WED light. Some will make it, such as Jonathan Glazer's Under WED the Skin which took 13 years to get to the screen. Others, WED like Lynda Obst's film about an Ebola outbreak in the late WED 1980s, may finally see the light of day, in some form, WED twenty years on. WED WED Away from the art and artifice lie the financial barriers to WED getting a film made. For some, the movie industry in 2015 is WED little more than the 'branded carnival business'. The WED Hollywood studio system seeks success, replication, and WED reliability. Has an industry that was built by risk takers WED now become risk averse? Independent movie makers struggle to WED raise the finance for their films while the big studios WED produce movies that they know will turn a profit. WED WED We hear from the BFI, Channel 4 and BBC Films on the support WED they are offering. Experts within film finance describe WED their model, but Lock Stock and Kick Ass producer Matthew WED Vaughn, who has turned a profit on every film he has made, WED believes there is no such thing as a British film industry WED and movies should not be subsidised with tax breaks, adding WED that the industry is just a 'glamorised service provider'. WED WED Producers: Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones WED A Hidden Flack production for Radio 4. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0643t5x (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b06555ll (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b063y5yp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b06172dj (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED WED Award winning actress and comedian Isy Suttie presents the WED pick of the best live sketch groups currently performing on WED the UK comedy circuit in a new series of BBC Radio 4's WED sketch act showcase. Each week the show spotlights three up WED and coming groups featuring character, improv, broken and WED musical sketch comedy. WED WED There are so many incredibly talented and inventive sketch WED groups on the British Comedy scene but with no dedicated WED broadcast format. Sketchorama aims to bring hidden gems and WED established live acts to the airwaves offering a truly WED distinctive show for Radio 4. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0643t5z (Listen) WED Emma feels left out, and Susan wants to move with the times. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0643t61 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06418lc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0643t63 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Claire Fox WED and Jill Kirby. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0643t65 (Listen) WED The End of the Age of Ideas WED WED Robert Rowland Smith argues that we are coming to the end of WED the Age of Ideas. He examines how different 'ages' - of WED superstition, religion, reason and ideas - have emerged and WED gradually been eclipsed. And he hints at the age we may be WED about to enter. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Rewinding the Menopause b0643vfl (Listen) WED Dr Aarathi Prasad looks at how new research into women's WED fertility may help stave off the menopause, improving health WED and quality of life. WED WED The conventional wisdom is that a woman has a finite number WED of eggs which begin dying off before she is even born. WED Researchers in the 1950s counted the number of healthy eggs WED in human ovaries over the course of a life time. After the WED menopause none remain. WED WED In 2004, Dr Jonathan Tilly's lab at the Massachusetts WED General Hospital challenged this assumption when they WED identified cells they believed could replenish a woman's WED bank of eggs. The research is controversial as it has yet to WED be convincingly replicated, although scientists like Dr WED Evelyn Telfer - once sceptical of Dr Tilly's claims - have WED isolated the cells and already produced some promising WED results. WED WED Meanwhile, medical colleagues in Edinburgh have been WED freezing ovarian tissue, harvested from patients who - WED either through illness or medical treatment such as WED chemotherapy - face an early menopause. The aim is to use WED the patient's ovarian tissue at a later date to reverse the WED menopause and restore their fertility. WED WED In the long-term, such research could have implications for WED all menopausal women. However, obstetrician Dr Susan Bewley WED warns that benefits could come at a cost. She believes the WED menopause is a natural part of aging and there are risks in WED trying to reverse it. WED WED So what might the future hold for the application of this WED new research? WED WED Producer: Sara Parker WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of...? b06418l5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b06552y0 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0643vfn (Listen) WED The Mark and the Void, Episode 8 WED WED What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel WED called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named WED after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, WED a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an WED ex-KGB man? You guessed it... WED WED The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of WED institutional folly, following the success of his wildly WED original Skippy Dies. WED WED While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp WED and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is WED approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for WED his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets WED steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing WED influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. WED But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, WED even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on WED Claude's side at all? WED WED The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the WED deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and WED commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever WED written about a financial crisis. WED WED Abridged by Sara Davies. WED WED Produced by Jenny Thompson. WED WED Read by Peter Serafinowicz. WED WED Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Peter Serafinowicz WED Author: Paul Murray WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Jenny Thompson WED WED 23:00 Terry Alderton's All Crazy Now b0643vfq (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED There's a pole vaulting chicken, a racing cow, a dancing WED bear and several confused inner voices. Street Kid is back WED with Morgan the Free Man and an ironic Australian - or is it WED an ironic Englishman? Irony is harder than it looks. WED WED Let Terry take you on a sonic journey through comedy and WED possible madness. Prepare to be surprised, shocked and WED delighted. WED WED Written by and starring Terry Alderton WED Additional material by Johnny Spurling, Boothby Graffoe, WED Richard Melvin, Julia Sutherland and Owen Parker. WED WED Sound designed by Sean Kerwin WED WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Terry Alderton WED Writer: Terry Alderton WED Writer: Johnny Spurling WED Writer: Boothby Graffoe WED Writer: Richard Melvin WED Writer: Julia Sutherland WED Writer: Owen Parker WED Producer: Richard Melvin WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01s8mpr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED EPISODE TWO: ABOUT CAREFUL DRIVING WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of WED the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she WED just wants the best for her son. However, she aint looking WED embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad is clumsy and hard-headed and leaves WED running the house to his wife (she wouldn't allow it to be WED any other way). WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe she left the paradise WED in the West Indies and came to the freezing United Kingdom WED for a better life so that years later her grandson could WED 'tell jokes!' It's not the good Christian way! WED WED So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan WED do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or WED will he give in to his family's interference? WED WED About Careful Driving WED WED Nathan Caton acknowledges that his Dad loves his car more WED than him. WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED SUE ..... CHIZZY AKUDOLU WED POLICE OFFICER ..... DON GILÉT WED POLICE OFFICER 2 ..... OLA WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED Credits WED Nathan: Nathan Caton WED Mum: Adjoa Andoh WED Dad: Curtis Walker WED Grandma: Mona Hammond WED Sue: Chizzy Akudolu WED Police Officer: Don Gilet WED Police Officer 2: Ola WED Writer: Nathan Caton WED Writer: James Kettle WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Ola WED Writer: Maff Brown WED WED 23:30 Wireless Nights b04lpyj1 (Listen) WED Series 3, Reaching for the Moon WED WED Jarvis Cocker attempts to fly to the moon, with the aid of WED astronaut Chris Hadfield - famous for his rendition of David WED Bowie's Space Oddity on the International Space Station. WED WED En route he hears stories of those touched by the moon in WED its many manifestations. WED WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and repeated on 6 Music to WED mark the Winter Solstice. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 AUGUST 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b063y5zj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b064mb5t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b063y5zl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b063y5zn (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b063y5zq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b063y5zs (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0651fb3 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew THU Graystone. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0643x5x (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwyv9 (Listen) THU Common Crane 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 Martin Hughes-Games presents the Common Crane. Common Cranes THU were extinct in the UK in the 17th century. Now, they are THU being re-introduced to the Somerset Levels and Moors. The THU aim is to release a hundred birds into the wild over five THU years and establish a strong population. THU THU Common Crane (Grus grus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b0643x5z (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b0643x61 (Listen) THU Series 11, Teenager Refuses Chemotherapy THU THU Ashley is 14 years old when doctors discover a brain tumour. THU Tests reveal that it's highly treatable; there's a 95% THU chance of cure if he has a course of radiotherapy. THU THU Ashley begins the treatment but he has to wear a mask which THU makes him very anxious and the radiotherapy itself makes him THU sick. He finds it increasingly difficult to bear and he THU starts to miss his sessions. THU THU Despite patchy treatment Ashley's cancer goes into THU remission. He and his mother are thrilled but THU a routine follow-up scan a few months later shows that the THU cancer has returned. THU THU Ashley is adamant that he will not have the chemotherapy THU that is recommended this time. He threatens that he will run THU away if treatment is forced on him. Although Ashley is only THU 15 he is 6'2" and restraining him would not be easy. THU THU Should the medical team and his mother persuade him to have THU the chemotherapy? Or should they accept his decision, even THU though he is only 15? THU THU Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. THU THU Producers: Beth Eastwood & Lorna Stewart THU Photo Credit: Christopher Furlong / Getty Images. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b064md1q (Listen) THU Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of THU Seashells, Episode 4 THU THU Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales tells the story of THU seashells; from the molluscs that create them to the humans THU who have used them as jewellery, symbol and even currency. THU THU Episode 4 THU Helen Scales explores the impact of fossilised shells on THU agriculture and geology, and peeks into the driven world of THU the shell collector. THU THU Written and read by Helen Scales THU Abridged by Sian Preece THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU Helen Scales' doctorate involved searching for giant, THU endangered fish in Borneo; she's also tagged sharks in THU California, and once spent a year cataloguing all the marine THU life she could find surrounding a hundred islands in the THU Andaman Sea. Helen appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 on THU programmes such as 'Inside Science' and 'Shared Planet' and THU has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people THU will ever live underwater, the science of making and surfing THU waves and the intricacies of sharks' minds. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Helen Scales THU Author: Helen Scales THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b065541l (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0643x63 (Listen) THU The Pumpkin Eater, Episode 4 THU THU Helen McCrory and Paul Ready star in Penelope Mortimer's THU stark portrait of marriage and motherhood from 1962, THU dramatised by Georgia Fitch. THU THU Mrs Armitage has consented to an abortion and a THU sterilisation. THU THU Directed by Emma Harding. THU THU Credits THU Mrs Armitage: Helen McCrory THU Jake Armitage: Paul Ready THU Doctor: Chris Pavlo THU Father: Stephen Critchlow THU Mother: Sheila Reid THU Philpot: Rhiannon Neads THU Dinah: Rhiannon Neads THU Bob Conway: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Beth Conway: Alex Tregear THU Giles: Sam Dale THU Journalist: Neet Mohan THU Author: Penelope Mortimer THU Adaptor: Georgia Fitch THU Director: Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0643x65 (Listen) THU China's Ketamine Fortress THU THU Celia Hatton goes undercover to The Fortress, the Chinese THU village at the centre of the world's illicit ketamine THU problem. She hears how China is a top maker and taker of the THU drug. Celia visits karaoke bars where ketamine is snorted THU regularly; she hears from those trying to wean themselves THU off their addiction; and hears from police who took part in THU a major raid on a village accused of producing vast THU quantities of illegal ketamine. A local farmer complains THU that his land and his crops have been destroyed by the drug THU gangs and Celia discovers how Chinese ketamine has led to THU the problem known as "Bristol bladder" back in the UK. John THU Murphy producing. THU THU 11:30 Decoding the Masterworks b0643y64 (Listen) THU Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere THU THU Dr Janina Ramirez introduces the first in a new series on THU BBC Radio 4 in which three great masterworks are examined in THU minute detail. Recorded in the galleries in which the THU pictures hold pride of place, Janina is joined by experts THU who can provide context, biographical background and THU artistic insight, all combining to decode these masterworks THU for today's audience. THU THU The series begins at the Courtauld gallery in London with THU Edouard Manet's 'A bar at the Folies-Bergère'. Joining THU Janina are Professor Griselda Pollock of the University of THU Leeds and Dr Karen Serres of the Courtauld Institute who THU explain why the girl at the centre of the picture was more THU than just a reflection of a moment in Parisian cultural THU history, and why British Beer plays an important part in the THU painting. There are also insights into the figures making up THU the background to the waitress standing at the bar on the THU upper-floor of the Folies. THU THU Listeners are invited to look the painting up, if they can, THU on their computer or tablet, with the best webpage being: THU http://courtauld.ac.uk/GALLERY/collections/paintings/imppost THU mp/manet/foliesbergere/index.shtml THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b063y5zv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 A History of Ideas b0643y66 (Listen) THU Philosopher Clare Carlisle on Reality and Perception THU THU If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, THU does it make a sound? THU THU That's the kind of head-scratching question that's popularly THU believed to occupy the time and brains of philosophers. It THU relates to the ideas of immaterialism proposed by Bishop THU George Berkeley who asserted that the only things that exist THU are minds and ideas in those minds. He said that matter THU didn't really exist and that, in any case, it was THU unnecessary to complicate things with such a concept. For THU Berkeley, "to be perceived is to be". THU THU But what happens to "things" when they are not being THU perceived? Did Bishop Berkeley really believe that his bed THU disappeared when he gets up in the morning and left the THU room? The answer is no, because there is the over-arching THU mind of God and God is always perceiving all things even THU when we are not. When Berkeley leaves the room God is still THU perceiving the bed so it doesn't pop out of existence. THU THU To try and get to grips with this Clare Carlisle talks to Dr THU John Callanan, a lecturer in philosophy from Kings College THU London and hears a neat limerick on the subject by Robert THU Knox. She also talks to the filmmaker Carol Morley whose THU documentary, Dreams of a Life, explored the story of a 38 THU year old woman, Joyce Vincent, whose body was found in her THU flat amongst half wrapped Christmas presents, the tv THU switched on. She had been dead for 3 years and nobody had THU noticed she wasn't there. THU THU The reader is Peter Marinker. THU THU Producer: Natalie Steed. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06554dj (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b063y5zx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b064xdp3 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark THU Mardell. THU THU 13:45 The Misogyny Book Club b064kk6j (Listen) THU Mother Love THU THU Why does the character of the devouring mother have such THU force? Jo Fidgen and company discuss D. H. Lawrence's Sons THU and Lovers, regarded by many critics as a classic depiction THU of Sigmund Freud's Oedipus Complex. Gertrude Morel has a THU passionate and controlling relationship with her son, Paul. THU THU At the same time as Lawrence was writing, Freud was making a THU splash with his theories about women's sexual fantasies and THU penis envy. Detractors say he gave a modern legitimacy to THU age-old misogyny by giving support to the belief that women THU are less rational than men. THU THU In the fourth in a series of programmes exploring how some THU of our most read books have distilled and influenced THU negative attitudes to women, writers Blake Morrison and Lisa THU Appignanesi defend Lawrence and Freud and discuss how we THU should interpret them. Are women still facing the THU consequences of their school of thought? THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0643t5z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037d18g (Listen) THU Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares! THU THU 1969. Ernest Shepard looks forward to a V&A retrospective of THU his drawings for Winnie-the-Pooh. But then, in an imagined THU meeting with the now grown-up Christopher Robin Milne, some THU painful truths emerge. By Christopher William Hill. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Christopher William Hill THU Ernest Shepard: Oliver Davies THU Norah: Kate Fahy THU Christopher Milne: Simon Treves THU Janet Steen: Harriet Chandler-Judd THU Reynolds: Michael Bertenshaw THU Ensemble: Sean Murray THU Ensemble: Ben Crowe THU Ensemble: Philippa Stanton THU Director: Peter Kavanagh THU Producer: Peter Kavanagh THU THU 15:00 Open Country b064418t (Listen) THU Thomas Hardy's Dorset THU THU Thomas Hardy is one of England's most enduring writers. 175 THU years after his birth a new film of 'Far From the Madding THU Crowd' has recently been released and like the original THU version from 1967 it features scenes shot in the beautiful THU Dorset countryside. For Hardy the heathland, forests and THU rivers which surrounded his birthplace at Higher Bockhampton THU near Dorchester were more than a backdrop. Landscape in THU Hardy's novel is central to the narrative and it is his THU vivid descriptions of the stunning setting in which he grew THU up that lend authenticity and magic to what he wrote. Helen THU Mark visits Dorset to discover the countryside which Hardy THU disguised as 'Wessex' in novels such as 'Tess of the THU D'urbervilles', 'Return of the Native', 'The Mayor of THU Casterbridge' and 'Jude the Obscure' and hears how this THU landscape is now inspiring new writers in their work. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b063ybdl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b063yqqv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b064xd1j (Listen) THU Jonny Greenwood on There Will Be Blood THU THU With Antonia Quirke THU THU Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood discusses his score for There THU Will Be Blood, which he will be performing live in August. THU He also tells Antonia why he wouldn't like to score a Bond THU movie or any other blockbuster. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Antonia Quirke THU Interviewed Guest: Jonny Greenwood THU Producer: Philip Sellars THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b064mjp9 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06554rb (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b063y5zz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b064418w (Listen) THU Series 5, Stepping Out, The Vigilant Rabbit THU THU One of the world's best storytellers, back on BBC Radio 4 THU doing what he does best. THU THU This week: THU how a quest for fitness can become an obsession in "Stepping THU Out"; THU an anthropomorphic tale of over zealous security in "The THU Vigilant Rabbit"; THU and some questions from the studio audience. THU THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: David Sedaris THU Writer: David Sedaris THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU THU 19:00 The Archers b064418y (Listen) THU Self-doubting Kate gets a pep talk. Ruth and David get THU moving. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b064kbws (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0643x63 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0644190 (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0644192 (Listen) THU The Californian Drought THU THU California has some of the world's most productive THU agricultural land. It puts fruit and vegetables on America's THU tables and exports huge amount of produce too; nearly all of THU the almonds we consume come from here. But the state is also THU endured a severe drought, now into its fourth year. Farm THU land is being fallowed, farm workers are losing their jobs THU and thousands of wells are drying up. Some farmers believe THU that this year is the tipping point. If rain does not fall THU in the winter, they'll be out of business next year. But THU other farmers have had some of their best years during these THU testing times. Peter Day explores what happens when water THU becomes the most valuable commodity there is. THU THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b064mjp9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Punt PI b04c9dfn (Listen) THU Series 7, Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? THU THU Steve Punt turns detective to investigate a mystery from the THU Midlands. THU THU In 1943, in a small wood in the village of Hagley, the body THU a woman was found inside a Wych elm tree. She had been put THU in feet first, alive or just recently dead. The police THU issued a good photo fit but, despite extensive enquiries, a THU match could not be found and no one reported her missing. THU THU Punt hunts first for the files and then for the body. But THU things are not where they should be. He heads into those THU unsettling woods, rustles up tangled leads, and ends up THU barking up the occasional wrong tree. THU THU He tracks down the 101-year-old forensic biologist on the THU case and investigates witchcraft and spying in his attempt THU to separate conspiracy from the truth. THU THU And Professor Norman Fenton, expert witness in major THU criminal trails, subjects Punt's findings to analysis, THU building a unique model especially for the programme. THU THU Producer: Sarah Bowen. THU THU Bayesian Model THU Professor Norman Fenton’s THU Bayesian Model THU used in the programme. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b06554vt (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0644194 (Listen) THU The Mark and the Void, Episode 9 THU THU What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel THU called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named THU after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, THU a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an THU ex-KGB man? You guessed it... THU THU The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of THU institutional folly, following the success of his wildly THU original Skippy Dies. THU THU While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp THU and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is THU approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for THU his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets THU steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing THU influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. THU But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, THU even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on THU Claude's side at all? THU THU The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the THU deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and THU commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever THU written about a financial crisis. THU THU Abridged by Sara Davies. THU THU Produced by Jenny Thompson. THU THU Read by Peter Serafinowicz. THU THU Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Peter Serafinowicz THU Author: Paul Murray THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Jenny Thompson THU THU 23:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04kf60f (Listen) THU Series 10, How to Be Better THU THU Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves THU with a broadcast of national comic import! THU THU Using just the Bible, the Monarchy and Audrey Hepburn, THU Jeremy Hardy promises to build a whole new you. THU THU Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of THU debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank THU exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, THU erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with another THU episode of his show, famous for lines like, "Islam is no THU weirder than Christianity. Both are just Judaism with the THU jokes taken out." THU THU Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they THU first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show THU was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on THU a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since THU the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment THU department was besieged, questions were asked in the House THU and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible THU for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with THU Paul Lewis. THU THU Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony THU Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for THU Chemistry. He is a much-loved regular on both The News Quiz THU and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He can't sing. THU THU Written by Jeremy Hardy THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Jeremy Hardy THU Writer: Jeremy Hardy THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 23:30 Wireless Nights b04mc6sn (Listen) THU Series 3, Lava and Ice THU THU Jarvis Cocker wanders the lava fields of Iceland in search THU of the unseen forces of night. In the midnight shadow of THU Snaefellsjokull, the volcano featured in Jules Verne's THU Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jarvis considers the THU timelessness of the landscape, until he discovers sheep THU time. His sheep guides only lead him further into the THU unknown, through a hole in the lava floor and on a journey THU through a magma underworld, finding there a symphony THU orchestra, human seals and a wake. THU THU Producer Neil McCarthy. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 AUGUST 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b063y60x (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b064md1q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b063y60z (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b063y611 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b063y613 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b063y615 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0651fmn (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Andrew FRI Graystone. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06488sb (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwz7f (Listen) FRI Linnet 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 Martin Hughes-Games presents the Linnet. Linnets gather in FRI large flocks to feed on weed-seeds and the seeds of oilseed FRI rape and flax left behind after harvesting. You can often FRI identify the flocks from a distance as the birds circle over FRI a field, by their tight formation and bouncing motion. FRI FRI Linnet (Carduelis cannabina) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06488sf (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b063yqpn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b064mg4p (Listen) FRI Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of FRI Seashells, Episode 5 FRI FRI Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales tells the story of FRI seashells; from the molluscs that create them to the humans FRI who have used them as jewellery, symbol and even currency. FRI FRI Episode 5 FRI Molluscs continue to surprise as researchers pursue medical FRI advances, while scientists look to them as bellwethers of FRI our impact on the seas. FRI FRI Written and read by Helen Scales FRI Abridged by Sian Preece FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI Helen Scales' doctorate involved searching for giant, FRI endangered fish in Borneo; she's also tagged sharks in FRI California, and once spent a year cataloguing all the marine FRI life she could find surrounding a hundred islands in the FRI Andaman Sea. Helen appears regularly on BBC Radio 4 on FRI programmes such as 'Inside Science' and 'Shared Planet' and FRI has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people FRI will ever live underwater, the science of making and surfing FRI waves and the intricacies of sharks' minds. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Helen Scales FRI Author: Helen Scales FRI Abridger: Sian Preece FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b06488sh (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06442qc (Listen) FRI The Pumpkin Eater, Episode 5 FRI FRI Helen McCrory and Paul Ready star in Penelope Mortimer's FRI stark portrait of marriage and motherhood from 1962, FRI dramatised by Georgia Fitch. FRI FRI Having discovered Jake's affair with Beth Conway, Mrs FRI Armitage takes refuge with her former husband, Giles. FRI FRI Directed by Emma Harding. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mrs Armitage: Helen McCrory FRI Jake Armitage: Paul Ready FRI Doctor: Chris Pavlo FRI Father: Stephen Critchlow FRI Mother: Sheila Reid FRI Philpot: Rhiannon Neads FRI Dinah: Rhiannon Neads FRI Bob Conway: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Beth Conway: Alex Tregear FRI Giles: Sam Dale FRI Journalist: Neet Mohan FRI Author: Penelope Mortimer FRI Adaptor: Georgia Fitch FRI Director: Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Seth Lakeman and the Newport Folk Festival b06442qf (Listen) FRI Seth Lakeman explores the cultural impact of the Newport FRI Folk Festival, one of the world's most acclaimed musical FRI celebrations, where 50 years ago Bob Dylan famously 'went FRI electric' and dramatically changed the course of popular FRI music. FRI FRI As a fan of the history of folk music Seth is keen to FRI discover how Dylan's iconic performance in July 1965 helped FRI establish the Newport Folk Festival's reputation as a FRI barometer for cultural change, where key artistes at the FRI forefront of the civil rights movement were provided with a FRI platform to voice their political views to a wider audience. FRI Having the so called 'voice of a generation' perform such an FRI outrageous act as playing an amplified electric set of songs FRI was viewed by many purists at the time as a betrayal of the FRI honesty and purity of Folk music while others saw it as a FRI radical rejection of the old guard and the key musical FRI turning point of the 60's. FRI FRI Seth talks with musicians, fans and festival organisers some FRI of whom were there with Dylan in 1965 to discover why his FRI now iconic appearance at Newport had such a momentous FRI political and musical impact, re-defining the boundaries FRI between pop and folk. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b06442qh (Listen) FRI Series 10, This Is a Man's World FRI FRI Episode Five - This Is A Man's World. FRI FRI Nali's ex-husband arrives unexpectedly and Clare takes it FRI upon herself to intervene. Simon has some bad news about FRI Brian's vitamin supplements. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering FRI in other people's lives on both a professional and personal FRI basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI FRI Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control FRI both her professional and private life In today's Big FRI Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an FRI involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Clare: Sally Phillips FRI Brian: Alex Lowe FRI Nali: Nina Conti FRI Simon: Andrew Wincott FRI Justin: Dustin Demri-Burns FRI Thomas: Stefan Ramsden FRI Writer: Harry Venning FRI Writer: David Ramsden FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b063y617 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas b06442qk (Listen) FRI Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on Wittgenstein FRI FRI Paul Broks looks at the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and FRI the problem of "other minds". How do I know you are not a FRI zombie who behaves like a human but actually has no FRI consciousness? Even if you are conscious, how can I tell FRI that what I experience as red, you do not experience as FRI blue? I know what's going on in my own mind, but I can never FRI have direct access to what's going on in yours. FRI FRI Such questions have troubled philosophers for centuries, but FRI Wittgenstein thought that most of these tough problems were FRI caused by nothing more than a "bewitchment by language". He FRI didn't claim to be able to solve them; rather, he invented a FRI method which he thought of as a kind of philosophical FRI therapy that would cause the problems to melt away. The aim, FRI he said, was to "show the way out of the fly bottle". In the FRI case of the "other minds" problem, he imagined trying to FRI invent a "private language" to describe one's own private FRI mental states, and then showed (he thought) that such an FRI idea was incoherent. FRI FRI Is the fly out of the fly bottle? Paul Broks suspects not, FRI and psychologist Nicholas Humphrey argues that philosophy FRI took a disastrous turn in the 20th century when it started FRI focusing on language. Humphrey argues that the privacy of FRI our individual minds is a stark and unpalatable fact about FRI human existence which has driven much of our culture. FRI FRI Presenter: Paul Broks FRI Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0648b9n (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b063y619 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0648cc8 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Norman FRI Smith. FRI FRI 13:45 The Misogyny Book Club b064kk77 (Listen) FRI Hands Up, Misogynists! FRI FRI What does the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey say about FRI how women see themselves? FRI FRI This is the final programme of a series exploring misogyny FRI in our most read books, including the Bible, Hamlet, fairy FRI tales and Sons and Lovers. Jo Fidgen and company discuss how FRI E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey reflects or subverts the FRI hatred of women depicted in these earlier texts. FRI FRI The conversation ranges over violence towards women; the FRI taboo of sexual curiosity; and broaches an uncomfortable FRI question: can a feminist also be a misogynist? FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b064418y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b037jfmy (Listen) FRI Miss You Still FRI FRI Lenny Henry plays Charlie, a Midlands bus driver, who has FRI shut himself off from the world. Joyce, who works at the bus FRI garage, is a newly appointed lay preacher. She sends Charlie FRI her feisty teenage daughter to help him clean up his life. FRI Joyce's daughter is a wannabe-singer with a gym-obsessed FRI boyfriend. The last thing she wants on her hands is a smelly FRI old man who hears voices. FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI FRI Lenny Henry stars in his second original play for Radio 4. FRI Set in the Midlands Miss You still is a ghost story and a FRI love story. It's about facing the truth. Only by admitting FRI responsibility for the past can Charlie begin to deal with FRI the present. There are four vibrant characters: Charlie, the FRI reclusive bus driver, Joyce, a lay-preacher who works in FRI admin at the bus depot, Roxanne, Joyce's feisty 16 year old FRI daughter and Kulvinder, Roxanne's gym-obsessed boyfriend. FRI FRI Lenny Henry is currently starring in Fences in the West End, FRI Clare Perkins is Ava Hartman in EastEnders, Bunmi Mojekwu is FRI in Romeo and Juliet at the National Theatre, and Amit Shah FRI is currently filming The Smoke for Sky 1. This is thirteen FRI year old Tranae Sinclair's radio debut and she is also in FRI Fences in the West End. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Lenny Henry FRI Charlie: Lenny Henry FRI Joyce: Clare Perkins FRI Roxanne: Bunmi Mojekwu FRI Kulvinder: Amit Shah FRI Uncle Lloyd: Alex Lanipekun FRI Nora: Tranae Sinclair FRI Director: Claire Grove FRI Producer: Claire Grove FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b064447x (Listen) FRI Dalston FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team are at Dalston Eastern Curve FRI Garden. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Joe Smith and His Waxworks b0644481 (Listen) FRI The Living Ghosts FRI FRI An extraordinary account of a showman's life drawn from his FRI memoirs about touring a rough waxworks show around the FRI southern counties of England in the 1840s. Read by Tony FRI Lidington. FRI FRI Published in 1896, Bill Smith's memoirs recall his early FRI life working for his Uncle Joe, whose touring waxworks show FRI was well-known at country fairs in the south of England in FRI the middle of the 19th century. FRI FRI It's an extraordinary story of the hardships of an itinerant FRI performer's life, in an age when the great historical FRI characters from kings to vagabonds, and famous scenes from FRI the Bible, literature and fairy tales were brought to the FRI towns and villages of England by the showmen and FRI storytellers of the travelling fairs. FRI FRI In today's episode we learn of Uncle Joe's skill in crafting FRI and displaying his waxwork figures to advantage. He becomes FRI known to visitors and show folk alike as 'The Waxy'un'. FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tony Lidington FRI Author: Bill Smith FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0644485 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b0648ccb (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0644487 (Listen) FRI Tiggy and Sarah - Digging Deeper FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces friends who have both ended up caring FRI for their husbands and who now confide, in a conversation FRI recorded in the mobile Booth outside the British Library, FRI how they've had to find resources they never knew they had. FRI Another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0655zkx (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b063y61c (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b064448c (Listen) FRI Series 46, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b064448h (Listen) FRI Pip keeps things going, and Jolene and Kenton have a FRI mountain to climb. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0648ccd (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06442qc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06445xf (Listen) FRI Jennie Johnson, Sir Anthony Seldon FRI FRI Shaun Ley presents political debate from Salford with the FRI founder of CEO of the Northwest Childcare company Kids FRI Allowed and the master of Wellington College Sir Anthony FRI Seldon. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06445xh (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas b06445xk (Listen) FRI Omnibus, How Can I Know Anything at All? FRI FRI Melvyn Bragg asks 'How can I know anything at all?' Bishop FRI Berkley, Karl Popper, David Hume and Ludwig Wittgenstein FRI provide the answers. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b063y61f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0648ccg (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06445xm (Listen) FRI The Mark and the Void, Episode 10 FRI FRI What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel FRI called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named FRI after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, FRI a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an FRI ex-KGB man? You guessed it... FRI FRI The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of FRI institutional folly, following the success of his wildly FRI original Skippy Dies. FRI FRI While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp FRI and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is FRI approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for FRI his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets FRI steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing FRI influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. FRI But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, FRI even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on FRI Claude's side at all? FRI FRI The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the FRI deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and FRI commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever FRI written about a financial crisis. FRI FRI Abridged by Sara Davies. FRI FRI Produced by Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Read by Peter Serafinowicz. FRI FRI Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Peter Serafinowicz FRI Author: Paul Murray FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b0640p3r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Wireless Nights b04n31d8 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Bright Nights FRI FRI In the second part of his nocturnal Icelandic adventure, FRI Jarvis goes on a journey through the long, light summer FRI night. He meets Megas, the island's best known poet and rock FRI and roll legend, who warns of wandering demons as he embarks FRI on an overnight road trip. FRI FRI Along the way he stops to hear ghost stories in Reykjavik's FRI oldest cemetery, meets an elf seer in a lava field and is FRI led to a sacred waterfall, behind which he makes a wish. But FRI will he make it back before the hour of the wolf? FRI FRI Producer Neil McCarthy. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b06445xp (Listen) FRI Tiggy and Sarah - Broken but Better FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation recorded in the mobile Booth FRI outside the British Library, between friends who have both FRI found themselves caring for their husbands. It's been a FRI challenge, but both feel they are better people as a result. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
03 August, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 01/08/2015 - 07/08/2015
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