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SAT SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b064x3gg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b065008l (Listen) SAT Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary SAT Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, A New Beginning and a SAT Tragic Ending SAT SAT Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's SAT dual biography of the pioneering feminist, Mary SAT Wollstonecraft and her novelist daughter, Mary Shelley. SAT Today, Mary Wollstonecraft is surprised by love and makes a SAT compromise. Meanwhile, further tragedy awaits Mary Shelley. SAT SAT Abridged by Sara Davies SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Juliet Aubrey SAT Reader: Ellie Kendrick SAT Author: Charlotte Gordon SAT Abridger: Sara Davies SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b064x3gj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b064x3gl (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b064x3gn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b064x3gq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0650hvk (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Venerable Peter Eagles. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0650hvm (Listen) SAT 'The guilt of saying no to charity' SAT SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b064x3gv (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b064x3gx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b064zp7k (Listen) SAT Jersey Shores SAT SAT Jersey doubles in size when the tide goes out. Helen Mark SAT discovers what the retreating waters reveal, from the SAT evidence of our Neanderthal ancestors to the extraordinary SAT marine life of the island's reefs. SAT SAT At La Rocque three local guides take her across miles of SAT treacherous shifting sands to Seymour Tower, built to defend SAT Jersey against the French but used by the German occupiers. SAT On the north coast she meets Dusty, the first red-billed SAT chough to be born in the wild in Jersey for a hundred years SAT and in the south-east she searches for evidence of the SAT Neanderthal people who left more evidence of their existence SAT here than in the rest of the British Isles combined. SAT SAT Producer: Alasdair Cross. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b065rlrm (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Dairy Crisis SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b064x3gz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b065rlrp (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b065rlrr (Listen) SAT Richard Herring SAT SAT The prolific podcaster, comedian, writer and blogger Richard SAT Herring joins Kate Silverton and Richard Coles to tell them SAT why, after an unbroken run of performing a different SAT stand-up show at the Edinburgh festival for the last eleven SAT years, he's not going this year. Instead, he's re-enacting SAT all his festival shows, plus creating a twelfth brand new SAT one, in London. SAT SAT Former soldier Hannah Campbell was the first British mother SAT wounded in Iraq in 2007. After years of surgery she decided SAT to have her leg amputated and in her words, hasn't looked SAT back since. She describes the mental and physical SAT transformation she has been through since the attack and why SAT she is now happier than ever. SAT SAT Listener Jonathan Lovett runs 'Tales of the Plague', a SAT walking tour of London with his partner Mary Ann. He tells SAT us about the three-day festival coming up (4th-6th SAT September) to commemorate the 350th Anniversary of the Great SAT Plague whilst dressed as a plague doctor and accompanied by SAT his fake pet rat Sam. SAT SAT Noel Smith spent most of his adult life in prison. After the SAT death of his son in 2001, he was inspired to turn his life SAT around. Having already taught himself to read and write SAT while in solitary confinement, he has gone on to have four SAT books published. Noel now spends his time as the SAT commissioning editor of 'Inside Time' newspaper and giving SAT talks to young offenders. SAT SAT Conchita Wurst, Austrian pop star and drag queen who came to SAT international attention for winning the Eurovision Song SAT Contest 2014 shares her Inheritance Tracks. She chooses SAT 'Goldfinger' by Shirley Bassey and 'Only Love Can Hurt Like SAT This' by Paloma Faith. SAT SAT Plus listener Emma Clayton tells us about her Saturday's SAT spent volunteering at her local Repair Cafe. SAT SAT Produced by Pete Ross SAT Edited by Alex Lewis. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Kate Silverton SAT Interviewed Guest: Hannah Campbell SAT Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Lovett SAT Interviewed Guest: Noel Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Herring SAT Interviewed Guest: Conchita Wurst SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Clayton SAT Producer: Pete Ross SAT Editor: Alex Lewis SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b065rlrt (Listen) SAT Series 8, The Case of the Missing Cezanne SAT SAT Steve Punt turns Private Investigator and tries to crack the SAT case of the missing Cezanne masterpiece 'Auvers Sur Oise'. SAT SAT The painting was stolen from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford SAT whilst the city celebrated the millennium, and has not been SAT seen since. SAT SAT His search takes him from the crime scene to the Mayfair art SAT world, via leads at Scotland Yard and sightings on a pub SAT wall in Coventry. SAT SAT With a watchful eye for any Mr Big who may be behind a SAT painting reportedly "stolen to order", Punt PI enters the SAT murky world of stolen art. But how close can he get to the SAT stolen Cezanne? SAT SAT Producer Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b065rlrw (Listen) SAT Resurrection SAT SAT Why we yearn to bring the past back to life, whether it is SAT extinct animals, ancient languages or salvaging the wreckage SAT of a legendary speedboat. Bridget Kendall asks the ancient SAT DNA biologist Beth Shapiro, the Sanskrit expert Jyotsna SAT Kalavar and the engineer Bill Smith to share their SAT thoughts.(Photo: A woolly mammoth. Credit: Getty Images). SAT SAT Beth Shapiro SAT Beth Shapiro specialises in the ancient DNA of two extinct SAT species, the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon, and is SAT associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at SAT the University of California in Santa Cruz. She shares with SAT us her latest research on de-extinction, which is the SAT science of creating an organism which is a member of or SAT resembles an extinct species. While it’s unlikely any SAT extinct animal will be successfully brought back to life SAT soon, Beth argues that resurrecting extinct traits can be a SAT powerful new tool in biodiversity conservation. Beth’s SAT latest book is How to Clone a Mammoth: The science of SAT De-Extinction. SAT SAT Bill Smith SAT Bill Smith is an engineer and salvage diver who is leading a SAT project to restore one of the world's most legendary SAT speedboats. It was more than 45 years ago that the racing SAT driver Donald Campbell was killed in his boat Bluebird, in a SAT spectacular crash while trying to increase the world water SAT speed record to more than 300 miles an hour. Bill Smith was SAT the diver who recovered the wreckage in 2001, and has since SAT spent more than a decade restoring the boat so it can run at SAT speed again. He explains to us the complications of SAT rebuilding such a craft which had the engine of a jet SAT powered hydroplane, and was considered a spectacular feat of SAT engineering. SAT SAT Jyotsna Kalavar SAT Professor Jyotsna Kalavar is actively involved in the SAT revival of Sanskrit as a spoken language in India and the SAT United States, and has been a key contributor to Sanskrit SAT education around the world. She is also a Samskita Bharati SAT senior volunteer teacher. While Sanskrit has remained as a SAT written and liturgical language throughout the centuries, SAT the numbers of people speaking it declined dramatically more SAT than a hundred years ago. Some of this has been attributed SAT to the rise of English after colonialism, and also a change SAT in the traditional educational system. Jyotsna speaks about SAT the challenges of modernising a language that was created so SAT long ago, and why it is worth preserving the ancient SAT knowledge locked in its words. Jyotsna Kalavar is also SAT Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the New SAT Kensington campus of Penn State University in the US. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b064x3h1 (Listen) SAT Politics and Witchcraft SAT SAT The stories behind the news. In this edition: the government SAT in Tanzania warns of the dangers of black magic as the SAT country prepares to go to the polls in October; how the SAT presence of militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, who are SAT allied to the so-called Islamic State, marks an ominous turn SAT for the authorities in Cairo; in the Czech Republic there's SAT a plan to extend overcast mining in what was once a SAT largely-undisturbed landscape of pine forests and deep SAT valleys -- and it could have severe consequences for some of SAT the people living there; an island community pulls together SAT as a medical emergency descends on distant Tristan da Cunha, SAT six days' sail away from specialist health treatment. And SAT the music, the cars, the sunshine and the history - they're SAT all part of the daily drive to work enjoyed by our man in SAT the Cuban capital, Havana. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b064x3h3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 The New Workplace b065rlry (Listen) SAT Who Do I Really Work For? SAT SAT In the third episode of The New Workplace, Michael Robinson SAT explores the world of agency workers and umbrella companies SAT and discovers that some workers aren't sure who they are SAT actually working for. SAT SAT Michael talks to Mick Lynch, assistant general secretary of SAT the RMT about conditions workers had to endure when working SAT for Citylink, which went into administration on Boxing Day SAT 2014. He also talks to hair salon owner Barry Alan about the SAT 'rent-a-chair' system, which means none of the seven SAT stylists working in his salon are employed by him. SAT SAT We also hear from IT contractor Peter Meace who has spent SAT the last fifteen years being 'employed' by an umbrella SAT company that helps him take home more of his gross pay. Rob SAT Crossland, owner of Parasol - the umbrella company that SAT Peter uses - explains the advantages of using an umbrella. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Carter SAT Presenter: Michael Robinson. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b0650623 (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 1 SAT SAT A satirical take on politics, media and celebrity. SAT SAT Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis SAT MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. SAT SAT Produced by Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b064x3h5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b064x3h7 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0650872 (Listen) SAT Andy Burnham MP, Tom Conti, Germaine Greer, Matt Hancock MP SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from SAT the Broadcasting House Radio Theatre with Shadow Health SAT Secretary and Labour Leadership candidate, Andy Burnham MP, SAT the actor Tom Conti, the writer Germaine Greer, and the SAT Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt SAT Hancock MP. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b065rls0 (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? With Julian Worricker. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b065rn7t (Listen) SAT Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell SAT SAT Starring John Hurt. A dying Soho, seen through the eyes of SAT the notorious columnist of The Spectator - plain-speaking SAT drinker, gambler, wit and raconteur. With frequent, very SAT strong language. SAT SAT Keith Waterhouse's biographical play of Jeffrey Bernard is a SAT recreation of a time in London when poets, painters, artists SAT and writers (Dylan Thomas, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, and SAT Elizabeth Smart) lived alongside the local Low Life of No SAT Knickers Joyce and Sid the Swimmer, inhabiting the clubs and SAT pubs of Dean Street. Jeffrey knew and wrote about all of SAT them. SAT SAT The play is set very early in the morning at the Coach and SAT Horses pub in Soho, where Jeffrey spent most of his days, SAT when not 'at the Races'. The Coach and Horses was his SAT 'office'. Jeffrey has passed out in the Gents, missed SAT closing time and wakes up to find himself alone in the pub SAT with the door locked. He spends the night re-visiting SAT incidents in Soho past and present, his childhood, gambling, SAT women, racing and drink - fuelled by vodka. SAT SAT Alongside John Hurt in the lead role, the cast includes SAT Nichola McAuliffe, Jeff Rawle, Amelia Bullmore and Miles SAT Jupp. SAT SAT Recorded on location in Gerry's Club in Dean Street Soho. SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Jeffrey Bernard: John Hurt SAT Actor: Nichola McAuliffe SAT Actor: Jeff Rawle SAT Actor: Amelia Bullmore SAT Actor: Miles Jupp SAT Writer: Keith Waterhouse SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b065rn7w (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT SAT 17:00 PM b065rls2 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0650hvm (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b064x3hb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b064x3hd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b064x3hg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b065rn7y (Listen) SAT Arthur Smith, Aisling Bea, Michael Che, Damien Slash, Kevin SAT McNally, Shaun Keaveny, Ship of the Ryukyu, Blue Rose Code SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined in Edinburgh for SAT a Loose Ends special with Aisling Bea, Damien Slash, Kevin SAT McNally, Michael Che and Shaun Keaveny. With music from Ship SAT of the Ryukyu and Blue Rose Code. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Damien Slash SAT 'Damien Slash: Übermen' is at Pleasance Courtyard until SAT Sunday 30th August. SAT SAT Michael Che SAT ‘Michael Che: Six Stars’ is at Stand 3 until Thursday 20th SAT August. SAT SAT Aisling Bea SAT ‘Plan Bea’ is at Gilded Balloon until Sunday 30th August. SAT SAT Shaun Keaveny SAT SAT 'Shaun Keaveny: Live & Languorous' is at Cabaret Bar, SAT Pleasance Courtyard from Monday 17th to Friday 21st August. SAT SAT The Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show is on weekdays at 06.00 on SAT BBC Radio 6 Music. SAT SAT Kevin McNally SAT ‘The Missing Hancocks’ is at Assembly Rooms until Sunday SAT 30th August. SAT SAT Blue Rose Code SAT ‘The Ballads of Peckham Rye’; available now. Ross' Fringe SAT show is sold out but he’s touring the UK in September and SAT October. SAT SAT Ship of the Ryukyu SAT SAT ‘Okinawa Sansan’ is at Emerald Theatre, Greenside at SAT Nicolson Square until Saturday 29th August. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Interviewed Guest: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Aisling Bea SAT Interviewed Guest: Damian Slash SAT Interviewed Guest: Kevin McNally SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Che SAT Interviewed Guest: Shaun Keaveny SAT Performer: Ship of the Ryukyu SAT Performer: Blue Rose Code SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b065rn80 (Listen) SAT Michelle Mone SAT SAT Founder of the Ultimo lingerie brand Michelle Mone's rags to SAT riches tale. SAT SAT Clever use of PR has helped make Michelle Mone one of SAT Britain's most recognisable businesswomen. Now she has been SAT made the government's new entrepreneurship tsar and is SAT tipped for a place in the House of Lords. SAT SAT Presenter Mark Coles charts her journey from childhood SAT poverty in Glasgow to a City penthouse overlooking the SAT Thames. SAT SAT Producers: Keith Moore and Katie Inman. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b065rn82 (Listen) SAT A Little Life, Trainwreck, John Hurt, Scandalous Lady W, SAT Bedwyr Williams SAT SAT Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life is an expansive novel SAT about a group of male friends in New York. It has been SAT shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. SAT American comic actor Amy Schumer stars in Trainwreck as a SAT hard-living young woman for whom love turns her life around SAT Sir John Hurt plays the title role in Radio 4's adaptation SAT of John Mortimer's 1989 play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell; an SAT entertainingly dissolute life spent in old Soho. SAT The Scandalous Lady W on BBC2 tells the story of an 18th SAT century noblewoman whose infidelity led to a sensational SAT public trial. SAT Bedwyr Williams is a Welsh artist who has exhibited work at SAT The Venice Biennale and now has a show at The Whitworth in SAT Manchester (Museum of The Year 2015). SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b065rn84 (Listen) SAT Stadium Rock at 50 SAT SAT On 15th August 1965, The Beatles played Shea Stadium in New SAT York. It was a pioneering gig, the promoter counted record SAT takings - and the fans had a terrible time. They were penned SAT on a sports field, where the Fab Four seemed miles away and SAT were largely inaudible. For The Beatles, the show turned SAT into a joke, with John Lennon playing a keyboard with his SAT elbows towards the end of the set. SAT SAT Half a century later, stadium rock is a very serious SAT business. Tremendous advances in sound, lighting, design, SAT video, choreography and computer technology have created a SAT global musical experience unimaginable 50 years ago - the SAT stadium or arena show. And it's become more vital for the SAT balance sheet as recording revenues plummet. SAT SAT In this 'Archive on 4' music journalist Kate Mossman charts SAT the journey from Shea Stadium to the present - with tales of SAT get-lucky promoters, bands whose imaginations ran riot, the SAT rise of the stadium anthem, and the art of reaching out to SAT tens of thousands of fans. SAT SAT Producers: Melanie Brown & Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b064xbpk (Listen) SAT The Great Scott, The Antiquary SAT SAT Richard Wilson stars as The Antiquary, a man who hordes SAT secrets as well as treasures. Will his knowledge allow Lovel SAT to marry his secret love? With David Tennant as Walter SAT Scott. SAT SAT The Antiquary (1816) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott about an SAT amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of SAT dubious antiquity. Although he is the eponymous character, SAT he is not necessarily the hero, as many of the characters SAT around him undergo far more significant journeys or change. SAT Instead, he provides a central figure for other more SAT exciting characters and events - on which he provides a SAT sardonic commentary. SAT SAT This is Scott's gothic novel, redolent with family secrets, SAT stories of hidden treasure and hopeless love, with a SAT mysterious, handsome, young man, benighted aristocracy and a SAT night-time funeral procession to a ruined abbey. The romance SAT and mystery is counterpoised by some of Scott's more SAT down-to-earth characters, and grittily unromantic events. SAT SAT Scott wrote in an advertisement to the novel that his SAT purpose in writing it, similar to that of his novels SAT Waverley and Guy Mannering, was to document Scottish life SAT and manners of a certain period - in this case the last SAT decade of the 18th century. SAT SAT Music by Ross Hughes and Esben Tjalve SAT Cello played by George Cooke SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Sir Walter Scott: David Tennant SAT Oldbuck: Richard Wilson SAT Edie: Alexander Morton SAT Sir Arthur: Stuart McGugan SAT Isabel: Melody Grove SAT Lovel: Dominic Rye SAT Geraldin: Christian Rodska SAT Tafril: Charles Davies SAT Hector: John Wark SAT Caxon: David Haydn SAT Sweepclean: David Haydn SAT Lesley: David Haydn SAT Macleuchar: Beth Tuckey SAT Elspeth: Beth Tuckey SAT Maggie: Beth Tuckey SAT Director: Clive Brill SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Author: Walter Scott SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b064x3hj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b064z7f2 (Listen) SAT Life SAT SAT FutureProofing is a new series in which presenters Timandra SAT Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the implications - social SAT and cultural, economic and political - of the big ideas that SAT are set to transform the way our society functions. SAT SAT Episode 1: Life. SAT SAT FutureProofing explores why emerging bio-technology will SAT transform how we understand and control life itself. SAT SAT Timandra and Leo discuss the consequences for humankind with SAT leading genetic scientists and designers - people who are SAT now able to create and manipulate the very building blocks SAT of life. SAT SAT The programme examines the results of inventing and editing SAT life forms; how easy it is to become a bio-hacker; why the SAT FBI has decided to adopt a strangely relaxed attitude SAT towards such potentially catastrophic experimentation; and SAT how a new understanding of biology as a software engineering SAT system that we can design has profound consequences for the SAT way we think about Life in future. SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b064ygl0 (Listen) SAT Series 29, First Semi-Final, 2015 SAT SAT (10/13) SAT Paul Gambaccini is at the BBC's historic Maida Vale studios SAT to welcome back the first three of this season's heats SAT winners, ready to face the challenge of the UK's SAT widest-ranging musical quiz. SAT SAT This week the semi-finalists hail from London and SAT Leicestershire. They've already proved the breadth of their SAT musical knowledge by coming unscathed through the heats. Now SAT a place in the 2015 Final awaits today's winner. SAT SAT As usual, they'll have to answer questions and identify SAT musical extracts ranging across all styles and eras - from SAT Verdi and Brahms to Prince - and beat their opponents to the SAT buzzer if they're going to gain the vital edge in what SAT promises to be a close contest. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT TED BARR, a barrister from Wigston in Leicestershire SAT SAT DAVID HARMAN, a freelance editor from North London SAT SAT SIMON SURTEES, a careers advisor from London. SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b064xbpp (Listen) SAT Series 5, Liz Berry and Helen Mort SAT SAT Two of the most striking and original first poetry SAT collections in the last few years have been Division Street SAT by Helen Mort and Black Country by Liz Berry. Both books are SAT steeped in the places they were made in: West Yorkshire and SAT the West Midlands. With Paul Farley for The Echo Chamber SAT both poets have travelled towards one another and taken some SAT poems back to their source. Helen Mort in the Peaks, on SAT Sheffield streets, and then the memorably twisted spire of SAT the church in Chesterfield. Liz Berry in a Black Country SAT pigeon loft, an echoing canal tunnel and an ancient SAT geological treasure trove. The heart of England is remade in SAT these new poems. The poets end up half way between one SAT anothers' places in a hotel that W. H. Auden (great poet of SAT the unloved world) said served the best martinis in the SAT land. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b065rt18 (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 b01s032m (Listen) SUN Fidelity 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 3. Fidelity SUN Victor Cullen is a renowned travel writer, a stickler for SUN research. SUN Then one day he starts making his journeys up.. SUN SUN Reader Peter Marinker SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN Credits SUN Author: Edith Pearlman SUN Producer: Duncan Minshull SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b065rt1b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b065rt1d (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b065rt1g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b065rt1j (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b065rv5j (Listen) SUN The bells from Westminster Abbey. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b065rn80 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b065rt1l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b065rv5m (Listen) SUN Changing the Mirror SUN SUN The actor Adjoa Andoh explores our need to see our own SUN identities reflected in the culture and environment that SUN envelop us. SUN SUN With readings from work by Jackie Kay and Aminatta Forna and SUN music by Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba and Florence Price. SUN SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b065rv5r (Listen) SUN Royal Special: Prince Charles on the Future of Rural SUN Communities SUN SUN His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales opens the door to his SUN holiday home in Transylvania for a rare and exclusive SUN interview. In the shade of the house he bought and renovated SUN in the village of Zalanpatak, a relaxed Prince Charles SUN speaks openly to Charlotte Smith about his efforts to SUN support remote farming communities. This part of Romania, he SUN says, is "where we see true sustainability and complete SUN resilience." SUN Farmers here still scythe hay meadows by hand, keep just one SUN or two cows and load milk churns onto horse-drawn carts, SUN rumbling along potholed tracks to village collection points. SUN Charlotte questions the sustainability of such old-fashioned SUN practices but Prince Charles is adamant these "ancient SUN patterns of life" should be preserved. SUN To that end he has created a village cooperative, SUN encouraging people to market their homegrown and handmade SUN products. He sees the potential for eco-tourism and rents SUN out two rustically-restored houses, offering visitors an SUN authentic Transylvanian experience. And as if to prove his SUN commitment to the culture and traditions of this region, the SUN future king sits at a table in a meadow and judges a SUN scything competition. SUN But is the Prince preserving a way of life, or a museum? SUN Charlotte explores that question, and many others, on her SUN journey through a landscape unchanged by the modern world. SUN And from subsistence farms in the foothills of the SUN Carpathian Mountains to a dairy farm on the Duchy Estate, we SUN explore the challenges facing rural communities in the UK. SUN The Prince of Wales believes there are similar threats to SUN their survival but shares his thoughts on the solutions; on SUN how to keep young people on the land and family farms SUN thriving in the future. SUN Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced, in Romania, by SUN Anna Jones. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b065rt1n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b065rt1q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b065rv5v (Listen) SUN VJ Day, Avebury pilgrims, 'Lazy' atheists SUN SUN Services are being held this weekend to commemorate the 70th SUN Anniversary of VJ Day. William Crawley speaks to Alan Wills SUN whose father, George, was captured by the Japanese in 1942 SUN and endured three years of brutal treatment as a prisoner of SUN war. SUN SUN Jeremy Timm, a Reader in the Church of England, will have SUN his preaching licence revoked by the Archbishop of York SUN after choosing to marry his same-sex partner next month. SUN Kevin Bocquet spoke to him about his decision, and Bishop SUN Robert Paterson, Chair of the Central Readers' Council, SUN addresses the Church's management of the issue. SUN SUN Scottish Catholic Journalist Ian Dunn explains the SUN significance of the McLellan Commission which will publish SUN its report into the child protection policies of the SUN Catholic Church in Scotland next week. SUN SUN The only victim of child sex abuse among the Chabad movement SUN of ultra-orthodox Jews to give evidence, as part of SUN Australia's Royal Commission, is now trying to set up an SUN international inquiry into the extent of the problem in his SUN faith, as Matt Wells reports. SUN SUN Bob Walker continues our series of summer pilgrim walks as SUN he explores the pagan connections of Avebury in Wiltshire. SUN SUN Our series of essays on Christian persecution concludes with SUN the BBC's Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet SUN reporting from Pakistan. SUN SUN And does contemporary atheism thrive on poor arguments and SUN cheap sound bites? It's a claim made in a new book by Dr SUN Andy Bannister. He debates with Sanderson Jones, co-founder SUN of the non-religious Sunday Assembly. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Dan Tierney SUN Zaffar Iqbal SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Rt Revd Robert Paterson SUN Jeremy Timm SUN Alan Wills SUN Dr Andy Bannister SUN Sanderson Jones SUN Ian Dunn. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b065rv5x (Listen) SUN Women for Women International SUN SUN Cherie Lunghi presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Women for SUN Women International SUN Registered Charity No 1115109 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Women for Women International'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Women for Women SUN International'. SUN SUN Women for Women International SUN SUN Since 1993, Women for Women International has helped nearly SUN 420,000 marginalised women in countries affected by war and SUN conflict. SUN Where extremism takes root, individual freedoms and rights SUN suffer, and women’s freedoms are often worst affected. WfWI SUN works directly with women in eight countries, offering SUN support, tools, and access to life-changing skills to move SUN from crisis and poverty to stability and economic SUN self-sufficiency. SUN Participants come together in classes of 25 for life-skills, SUN leadership and rights awareness training, which enables SUN women to become healthy, active leaders of positive change SUN in their communities. They learn a marketable vocational SUN skill, such as organic farming, bee-keeping, or brick SUN making, and receive business skills training, to turn their SUN chosen skill into an income-generating activity. SUN SUN Lifeskills class SUN SUN Sooria, a life-skills trainer, teaches a class of WfWI SUN programme participants in Afghanistan. In the life-skills SUN classes, women learn about their rights, how to participate SUN in decision-making at home and in the community, and how to SUN take care of their health and provide nutritious food for SUN their family. SUN Photo credit: Rada Akbar SUN SUN Hope for the future SUN SUN Like Cherie’s sponsor sister Tahira, Farida has chosen to SUN learn poultry farming as her vocational skill. Selling eggs SUN produced by her chickens will enable her to pay her SUN children’s school fees, which gives her hope for the future. SUN Women who take part in the WfWI programme report that their SUN daily income increases nearly five-fold, from just $0.41 at SUN enrolment, to $1.98 two years after graduation. SUN Photo credit: Jenny Matthews SUN SUN One-to-one connection SUN SUN Noorzia is holding a letter she received from her sponsor SUN sister. Building a one-to-one connection between women SUN survivors of war and their sponsor sisters is at the heart SUN of Women for Women International’s work. Just knowing that a SUN woman on the other side of the world knows your name and SUN cares for you is a powerful message of hope for the women we SUN work with. SUN Photo credit: Women for Women International SUN *All names have been changed to ensure the privacy and SUN security of the women we work with.* SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b065rt1s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b065rt1v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b065rv5z (Listen) SUN Terry Waite preaches and worship is led by the Dean, The SUN Very Rev'd Adrian Dorber, as Lichfield Cathedral - nearby SUN the National Memorial Arboretum - marks the 70th anniversary SUN of VJ Day. Hymns from the congregation and choral music from SUN Lichfield Cathedral's Chamber Choir, conducted by Martin SUN Rawles, punctuate the journey from Commemoration, through SUN Reconciliation, to Victory over evil and death. Remembering SUN the prisoners of war, the victims of Hiroshima, and the SUN servicemen in the Far East who felt 'forgotten' in the midst SUN of celebrations back home hailing VE Day as the 'end' of SUN WW2. Producer: Rowan Morton-Gledhill. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN SUN SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN BBC Radio 4. Terry Waite CBE is the preacher for this SUN morning’s Sunday Worship to mark VJ Day, which comes direct SUN from Lichfield Cathedral and is led by the Dean, The Very SUN Rev’d Adrian Dorber. SUN SUN SUN THE DEAN: SUN Good morning. This weekend, the nation marks the 70th SUN anniversary of VJ Day: the end of World War 2. Yesterday, SUN this Cathedral hosted a national service for the Children SUN and Families of Far East Prisoners of War. In today’s SUN worship, we continue to remember prisoners of war who SUN suffered and died at the hands of their cruel captors, but SUN also the ordinary citizens of Japan who died in the bombing SUN of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before their rulers surrendered. SUN We remember too the so-called ‘Forgotten Army’ – the members SUN of our armed forces serving in the Far Eastern theatre of SUN war, who felt anger and desolation at being overlooked and SUN abandoned after the great rush to celebrate the Victory in SUN Europe in May 1945 – and who, even after the Victory in SUN Japan, still had months – sometimes years - of waiting SUN before they could return home. SUN SUN Our speaker this morning, Terry Waite, is a distinguished SUN patron of ‘Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of SUN War’, which represents the families of all those (military SUN and civilian) who were affected by the conflict in the Far SUN East. We begin our worship with a prayer written by – and SUN for - Far Eastern Prisoners of War: SUN SUN THE DEAN: (FEPOW Prayer) SUN SUN And we that are left grow old with the years, SUN Remembering the heartache, the pain and tears; SUN Hoping and praying that never again, SUN Man will sink to such sorrow and shame. SUN The price that was paid we will always remember, SUN Every day, every month, not just in November. SUN SUN All respond: We will remember them. SUN THE DEAN: SUN This Holy House was founded at the turn of the eighth SUN century as a shrine to our Patron, St Chad, who was a Bishop SUN during the turbulent Anglo-Saxon period. It continues to be SUN a place of pilgrimage, of healing and of hope… And our SUN first hymn in this service of Hopeful Remembering reminds us SUN that in a dark world, it is our Saviour Jesus Christ who is SUN the place of our rest, the life-giving stream and the light SUN of our life. SUN SUN SUN SUN HYMN: I heard the voice of Jesus say (Kingsfold) SUN Horatius Bonar 1808-1889 SUN SUN THE DEAN: SUN Lichfield is a beautiful, modestly-sized city a little SUN north-east of Birmingham and only seven miles from the SUN National Memorial Arboretum: the United Kingdom’s living SUN centre of remembrance. Tens of thousands of visitors come SUN from across the world - often to visit both the Arboretum SUN and the Cathedral: many comment on the powerful emotional SUN experience of seeing the many memorials to those who have SUN died in the service of their country and then encountering SUN the peace and tranquillity of the sacred space of this great SUN Gothic cathedral. Those who have walked quietly through SUN beautiful trees in one place come to light candles and say SUN prayers in the other, a two-fold experience of commemoration SUN and faith. Among the memorials, are original artefacts from SUN the Far Eastern conflict: a section of track from the SUN Thai-Burma and Sumatra Railways – and the lych gate from the SUN Cemetery at Singapore’s infamous Changi Gaol, built by SUN prisoners as a memorial to their comrades who died. And SUN it’s from there that our first reading from Holy Scripture SUN was read by the Founder of the National Memorial Arboretum, SUN Commander David Childs… SUN SUN PRE-REC - READING SUN (David Childs, Founder of the National Memorial Arboretum) SUN In: A reading from the Book of Wisdom… SUN Out: …he watches over his elect. SUN Dur: SUN A reading from the book of Wisdom. SUN SUN The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, SUN and no torment will ever touch them. SUN In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, SUN and their departure was thought to be a disaster, SUN and their going from us to be their destruction; but they SUN are at peace. SUN For though in the sight of others they were punished, their SUN hope is full of immortality. SUN SUN Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great SUN good, SUN because God tested them and found them worthy of himself; SUN like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a SUN sacrificial burnt-offering he accepted them. In the time of SUN their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like SUN sparks through the stubble. They will govern nations and SUN rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for SUN ever. Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the SUN faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and SUN mercy are upon his holy ones, and he watches over his elect. SUN SUN CHOIR: So they gave their bodies (Aston) SUN THE DEAN: SUN Terry Waite is going to deliver the first of his three short SUN addresses. In 1987, when negotiating for the release of SUN hostages in Lebanon, as the then Archbishop of Canterbury’s SUN Envoy to the Middle East, he was himself taken hostage, and SUN spent much of the next five years in solitary confinement. SUN SUN PRE-REC - FIRST ADDRESS - COMMEMORATION: Terry Waite SUN In: VJ Day saw the liberation… SUN Out: …for our divided world. SUN Dur: 2’04” SUN VJ Day saw the liberation of the many who had been SUN incarcerated in horrific circumstances in prison camps in SUN the Far East. In our own country, we especially bring to SUN mind the Far Eastern prisoners of war: FEPOW’s as they are SUN known. Although it’s 70 years since the liberation took SUN place, there are still some former prisoners with us today. SUN They are men who experienced and witnessed starvation, SUN torture, death and cruelty and a disregard for human rights SUN and dignity that left many who survived with physical and SUN emotional scars, at a time when our understanding of such SUN trauma was much less developed than now. SUN SUN Commemoration can be used in many different ways: SUN SUN - It can be used politically to justify warfare which in SUN itself is destructive and horrible SUN SUN - It can be used as an act of remembrance to bring to mind SUN those who suffered and died in conflict, as well as enabling SUN current serving personnel to have a sense of their place in SUN history and the high calling of serving Queen and country. SUN - It can be used as a corporate act of contrition when SUN determination is expressed not to repeat past horrors. SUN SUN - It can be used as an act of public mourning when we grieve SUN together and gain strength from our solidarity. SUN SUN Many public commemorations are a complex mixture of all the SUN above elements and more besides. SUN SUN There are times in the human experience when, as the Bible SUN puts it, we need to sit by the waters of Babylon and weep. SUN Today we weep for the many, on both sides of the conflict, SUN who fell victim to warfare. However we weep not only for SUN those who suffered or died. SUN We weep as we remember our own divided nature and, by SUN remembering, we renew our determination to continue to seek SUN healing for ourselves and for our divided world. SUN SUN READING: Romans 5:1-11 SUN PAT: SUN A reading from Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Chapter 5. SUN Therefore, since we are justified by faith, SUN we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, SUN through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which SUN we stand; SUN and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. SUN And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, SUN knowing that suffering produces endurance, SUN and endurance produces character, SUN and character produces hope, SUN and hope does not disappoint us, SUN because God’s love has been poured into our hearts SUN through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. SUN SUN For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died SUN for the ungodly. SUN Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person SUN though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare SUN to die. SUN But God proves his love for us in that while we still were SUN sinners Christ died for us. Much more surely then, now that SUN we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved SUN through him from the wrath of God. SUN SUN For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God SUN through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been SUN reconciled, will we be saved by his life. But more than SUN that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, SUN through whom we have now received reconciliation. SUN SUN SUN THE DEAN: SUN The Japanese are the only nation to have known the horrors SUN of nuclear weapons used against them. As we mark the 70th SUN anniversary of VJ Day, we also remember the civilian victims SUN in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [The first SUN atomic bomb (deceptively code-named ‘Little Boy’) was SUN dropped on Hiroshima on the sixth of August 1945, instantly SUN killing about 80,000 people. Three days later, as a cloud SUN obscured the intended target city of Kokura – the city of SUN Nagasaki was chosen instead, and there, 70,000 people died SUN immediately. Tens of thousands more subsequently died of SUN terrible injuries and radiation.] SUN SUN The Cathedral’s Chamber Choir in a moment will sing a SUN setting by the contemporary Japanese composer, Ko SUN Matsushita, of ‘Ubi Caritas’ – ‘Where there is charity and SUN love, God is there. Christ's love has gathered us into SUN one.’ …but first, a translation of Saga Nobuyuki’s poem, SUN ‘The Myth of Hiroshima’, describing the experience of the SUN atomic bomb attack from the point of view of… the dead… SUN POEM SUN ANTHONY: SUN Translated from the Japanese by Hajime Kajima SUN SUN (omitted from transcript for copyright reasons) SUN SUN SUN SUN CHOIR: Ubi Caritas (Matsushita) SUN SUN PRE-REC - SECOND ADDRESS - RECONCILIATION: Terry Waite SUN In: This day, we remember… SUN Out: …until in the last of days, we rest in peace. SUN Dur: 2’13” (long) OR 1’44” (short) SUN This day, we remember a terrible war finally brought to an SUN end by terrible means - the explosion of a nuclear device SUN which killed thousands of men, women and children in Japan. SUN In 1982 the Japanese Government issued an ordinance SUN declaring that the day should be designated 'the day for SUN mourning of war dead and praying for peace.' SUN SUN Deep in the hearts of men and women there lies a desire to SUN experience peace and reconciliation but as bitter experience SUN tells us this desire is far from easy to be realised. SUN SUN [The First World War was described as 'A war to end all SUN wars'. That laudable sentiment was soon forgotten as 21 SUN years later the Second World War broke out. Since 1945 there SUN has been warfare in some part of the world or other and it SUN could be argued that today we are experiencing a Third World SUN War, albeit fought in a very different way, when acts of SUN violent aggression occur in all parts of the globe.] SUN SUN The desire to be reconciled is often in conflict with other SUN powerful forces. The desire to conquer and destroy. The SUN desire to be superior and express that superiority over SUN others. The desire to survive at all costs. Corporately and SUN individually, we are a complex species. SUN At war within and at war without. SUN SUN I find the peace we desire may perhaps be best described in SUN a poem that I wrote: SUN SUN Peace is the fragile meeting SUN Of two souls in harmony. SUN SUN Peace is an embrace SUN That protects and heals. SUN SUN Peace is a reconciling SUN Of opposites. SUN Peace is rooted in love, SUN It lies in the heart, SUN Waiting to be nourished, SUN Blossom SUN And flourish, SUN Until it embraces the world. SUN SUN May we know the harmony of peace, SUN May we sing the harmony of peace, SUN Until in the last of days, SUN We rest in peace SUN © Terry Waite CBE (with kind permission) SUN SUN SUN SUN HYMN: In Christ there is no east or west (St Stephen) SUN SUN William Arthur Dunkerley SUN READING: John 6:37-40 SUN PAT: SUN SUN A reading from the Gospel according to St John SUN SUN Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, SUN and anyone who comes to me I will never drive away; SUN for I have come down from heaven, SUN not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. SUN And this is the will of him who sent me, SUN that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, SUN but raise it up on the last day. SUN This is indeed the will of my Father, SUN that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal SUN life; SUN and I will raise them up on the last day.’ SUN PRE-REC - THIRD ADDRESS - VICTORY: Terry Waite SUN In: A symbol carries within it… SUN Out: …give us strength for the journey. SUN Dur: 1’54” SUN A symbol carries within it a depth of meaning which is not SUN always understood by those who view it. One powerful SUN symbol, which stands central in the Christian Faith, is that SUN of the cross: a symbol of suffering. SUN SUN Today we have remembered appalling suffering experienced by SUN many people from different nationalities. We live in a SUN world full of suffering and no individual can escape some SUN experience of it during the course of their life. Many SUN suffer through no fault of their own and we often puzzle why SUN this should be so. It is difficult, if not impossible, to SUN give adequate answers. SUN SUN One thing can be said with certainty. In many cases SUN suffering need not destroy. Some of the most creative acts SUN have emerged from situations of terrible suffering. SUN SUN The symbol of the cross points to this reality. Christians SUN look beyond the scaffold to the resurrection. The cross is SUN transformed from a symbol of death into a symbol of hope. SUN Death has lost its sting. The self-sacrifice shown by SUN Christ shows that no self-sacrificing act of love is in SUN vain. Victory is not in conquering. Victory is experienced SUN in the fullness of love which is truly healing. SUN SUN Today, when we cast our minds back across the years, we look SUN back not in anger but in sorrow. In this great Cathedral, SUN we bow our heads and pray for peace. As we leave, to walk SUN freely in the world, we hold our heads high, determined to SUN make peace a reality in our own lives and also in the poor, SUN divided world which we call our home. SUN SUN May God grant us that vision and give us strength for the SUN journey. SUN THE DEAN: SUN Our thanks to Terry Waite for bringing his experience - both SUN personal and as patron of ‘Children and Families of Far East SUN Prisoners of War’ - to us this morning. SUN The late Bishop of Thetford, Eric Cordingly, had been an SUN army Padre and a prisoner of war in Changi Prison, and later SUN worked on the notorious ‘Death Railway’ beside the River SUN Kwai. Throughout his internment, he kept a secret diary SUN which - amongst the many horrors – also detailed the joys of SUN friendship and faith, usually amongst the prisoners – but SUN just once, from the enemy, when Eric and another prisoner SUN had been handcuffed together and thrown into a deep air-raid SUN pit: SUN SUN ANTHONY: SUN In the early hours of the morning before it was light, a SUN bamboo ladder was lowered into the pit and down it came a SUN young Japanese soldier, presumably the guard on duty. He SUN had with him a container of sweetened tea and two bananas. SUN His knowledge of English was as slight as ours of Japanese. SUN He indicated that he was a Christian and that he knew I was SUN a Christian priest. Trembling and fearful he told us to eat SUN and drink quickly and in a few moments he was gone… I did SUN not see the Japanese soldier again…but I know that if he had SUN been discovered by the Guard commander he would have been SUN executed for the action he took in caring for enemy SUN prisoners. SUN Throughout our years of captivity we came across very few SUN Japanese Christians and I shall always remember this young SUN Japanese soldier SUN who wonderfully demonstrated his faith. SUN SUN SUN THE DEAN: SUN Rare events such as this, plus the everyday comradeship and SUN humour shared with fellow prisoners, and what he described SUN as the short but ‘thrilling’ services he led in makeshift SUN chapels, all led Eric Cordingly to be thankful for what he SUN called: ‘The most wonderful time in my life…one saw people SUN as they really were.’ SUN CHOIR: Praise to God in the Highest (Campbell) SUN THE DEAN: SUN Our prayers are led by Alexandra Metcalf, Maria Bullen-Bell, SUN and Nicola Dallinger: three granddaughters of Far East SUN Prisoners of War, as they visited the National Memorial SUN Arboretum… SUN SUN SUN PRE-REC - PRAYERS (PRE-RX’d – same time and place as David SUN Childs) SUN In: SUN Out: SUN Dur: SUN SUN O Lord, may we draw strength from those whose lives were SUN rudely cut short, and how they sacrificed their future so SUN that we, SUN the generations of today, can flourish in happiness and SUN success. SUN And may we learn from those who survived SUN but still suffered in silence with the memories every single SUN day, SUN and make it our duty to ensure that this suffering is never SUN forgotten, SUN that their hardship was never in vain. SUN Lord in your mercy, SUN ALL: hear our prayer. SUN Heavenly Father, SUN please help us always to hold in our hearts, SUN the thankfulness we have for their sacrifices. SUN For generations to come, we will remember them. SUN SUN Lord in your mercy SUN ALL: hear our prayer. SUN THE DEAN: …any topical prayer(s) needed … SUN SUN The following prayer was used at the Solemn Commemoration on SUN the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War at SUN Westminster Abbey in August last year, and it serves well SUN today: SUN SUN Lord God, you hold both heaven and earth in a single SUN peace. SUN Let the design of your great love shine SUN on the waste of our wraths and sorrow, SUN and give peace to your Church, SUN peace among nations, peace in our homes, and peace SUN in our hearts; SUN in Jesus Christ our Lord. SUN ALL: Amen. SUN THE LORD’S PRAYER SUN SUN THE DEAN: Let us sum up all our prayers, in the words our SUN Saviour gave us: SUN SUN ALL: Our Father, who art in heaven, SUN hallowed be thy name; SUN thy kingdom come; thy will be done; SUN on earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread. SUN And forgive us our trespasses, SUN as we forgive those who trespass against us. SUN And lead us not into temptation; SUN but deliver us from evil. SUN For thine is the kingdom, SUN the power and the glory, SUN for ever and ever. Amen. SUN HYMN: Lift high the Cross (Crucifer) SUN George William Kitchen 1827-1912 and M R Newbolt 1874-1956 SUN BLESSING SUN THE DEAN: SUN SUN The Lord be with you. SUN ALL: And also with you. SUN SUN God grant to the living, grace; SUN to the departed, rest; SUN to the Church, the Queen, the Commonwealth, SUN and all humankind, peace and concord; SUN and to us and all his servants, life everlasting; SUN and the blessing of God Almighty, SUN the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, SUN be among you and remain with you always. SUN ALL: Amen. SUN CHOIR: A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter) SUN ORGAN VOLUNTARY - J.S. Bach - BWV 545 – in C Major SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0650874 (Listen) SUN John Gray: Euro Despair SUN SUN John Gray sees the European currency as a misconceived SUN project from the outset and thinks the austerity policies SUN imposed on Greece are destructive and self defeating. SUN "Attempting to maintain the euro at any cost can only result SUN in mounting desperation, which will seek expression in SUN violence if no practicable policies are on offer to SUN ameliorate the situation." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt1q (Listen) SUN Sooty Shearwater SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Sooty SUN Shearwater. Sooty Shearwaters are rather scarce seabirds SUN around our islands as they breed on islands off South SUN America and the coasts of eastern Australia and New Zealand. SUN After breeding, the shearwaters head north to feeding SUN grounds in the North Pacific and North Atlantic undertaking SUN one of the longest journeys of any migratory animal. SUN SUN Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus) SUN Image courtesy of David Tipling (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b065rt1x (Listen) SUN News for Sunday morning. Kevin Connolly looks at the SUN campaign to save Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria villa from SUN demolition. Paddy O'Connell investigates the demise of SUN nightclubs with the help of Peter Stringfellow. Novelist and SUN former politician Chris Mullin imagines a Corbyn-led General SUN Election victory. Reviewing the papers - behaviour tsar Tom SUN Bennett, historian Bettany Hughes and Admiral Lord West. SUN Presented by Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b065rvps (Listen) SUN Kenton feels sorry for himself, and Lynda rues the flood. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Charlotte Delaney SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b065rvpv (Listen) SUN Guantanamo Bay SUN SUN Sue MacGregor speaks to former detainees and the head of the SUN guard force at Guantanamo Bay. SUN SUN In 2002, a detention camp was hastily built in a remote SUN corner of Cub, to house the men captured in America's "war SUN on terror". Thirteen years later, it is still there. And in SUN the intervening time, Guantanamo Bay has become a byword for SUN controversy, a place Amnesty International called "the gulag SUN of our time". SUN SUN Now Sue MacGregor reunites two of the men held there. Sami SUN al Hajj, a Sudanese cameraman with the news organisation Al SUN Jazeera, was picked up in Afghanistan. He says he was SUN covering America's war with the Taliban. Moazzam Begg, who SUN is British, was living with his family in Pakistan when he SUN was arrested. He claims he was handed over for bounty money. SUN They are joined by Colonel Mike Bumgarner, head of the guard SUN force at Guantanamo, and lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. SUN SUN Sami al Hajj spent eight years in the camp. He describes SUN being beaten and forcibly kept awake. He went on hunger SUN strike and says he was force fed until he threw up, in an SUN attempt to break his strike. But the worst torture was being SUN kept away from his family, particularly his baby son. SUN Moazzam Begg was detained for three years. He says he saw SUN two men beaten to death by American soldiers in Afghanistan SUN on his way to Guantanamo. SUN Colonel Mike Bumgarner describes how little guidance was SUN given to those in charge of running the camp and points out SUN that, while force feeding is unpleasant, detainees can't SUN just be allowed to die. Clive Stafford Smith reveals the SUN black humour at the heart of Guantanamo, recalling a SUN detainee who was accused of being an Al Qaeda financier SUN purely as a result of mistranslation. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b065rt1z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b064ygll (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to Sheffield SUN City Hall. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim SUN Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Susan Calman, with SUN Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy SUN production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b065rxjf (Listen) SUN My Food Hero: Sheila Dillon meets writer and campaigner SUN Susan George SUN SUN In the second of a special series of food heroes, Sheila SUN Dillon meets one of the most influential writers on SUN international hunger and social justice in recent times. SUN SUN Susan George published her first book 'How the Other Half SUN Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger' almost 40 years SUN ago. It was a book that, at the time, offered a radically SUN different perspective on famine in the developing world. SUN SUN In 1985, as pictures of East African drought and hunger SUN started appearing on our TV screens, Susan George published SUN 'Ill Fares The Land' a collection of essays which didn't shy SUN away from criticising International aid efforts, and SUN demanded a different approach to trade and development. She SUN wrote 'A more just society is a better-fed society'. It SUN would become a seminal text. SUN SUN Now, aged 81, and continuing to speak at conferences around SUN the world, Susan George speaks to Sheila Dillon about her SUN career, the predictions she made 30 years ago, and the SUN problems we still face in feeding our growing global SUN population. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Susan George SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b065rt21 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b065s068 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by James Robbins. SUN SUN 13:30 The Great Songbook b062kdd5 (Listen) SUN France SUN SUN France's popular music legacy is vast and diverse. Cerys SUN Matthews travels to Paris in search of some of the key SUN classic songs that constitute the French songbook, and talks SUN to a panel of guests including musicologist Catherine SUN Rudent, writer and commentator Catherine Guilyardi and SUN popular music journalist Bertrand Dicale. Whilst some French SUN songs have been chart successes in the UK, and others have SUN become jazz standards, Cerys uncovers a patrimony that SUN ranges from the seductive to the salacious, but which is SUN always delivered with wit and panache. And with some 3,000 SUN French songs including 'Paris' in their titles, the city SUN itself acts as muse as well as backdrop to many of France's SUN greatest popular classics. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b065061j (Listen) SUN Kenilworth Castle SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire. Bunny Guinness, Christine SUN Walkden and Bob Flowerdew answer the audience questions. SUN SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – Why can’t I grow snowdrops in my garden please? SUN Christine SUN – Normally snowdrops don’t grow because it’s too dry (and SUN they wither) or it’s too wet (and they rot). Sometimes SUN squirrels will get them but normally it’s too wet or too SUN dry. SUN Bunny SUN – If it’s too wet, plant them on a mound to give them better SUN drainage. SUN Bob SUN – Make sure you break them up into small bunches of SUN two/three bulbs at a time so that they can spread. SUN Q – Our carrots look very healthy, with nice green tops, but SUN when we come to cut them they are very difficult to cut SUN through. The core of the carrot is yellow and green and SUN very enlarged – why is this? SUN Bob SUN – It’s been quite cold and dry this year. What’s happened SUN is the root has gone down, it’s made a root, and then it has SUN swelled later. There’s always a difference between the core SUN and the outside but when they grow really quickly the core SUN tends to be quite tender. I don’t think it’ll happen again SUN unless we have the same weather pattern. SUN Q – I’d like to know whether it’s ok for me to prune some SUN large trees and shrubs that I’ve got in the garden. I find SUN it difficult to do it when they’re not in leaf as I can’t SUN get the shape so well. I’ve got Mahonias, Sambucas, SUN Pittosporums, Cherry flowering trees, and particularly a SUN Weeping Pear which has got really big. I’m just worried SUN that I’m going to damage the trees if I cut too much off in SUN the summer months. SUN Bunny SUN – I think it’s an excellent time to prune. From a fungal SUN point of view it’s better to do as the plant will be more SUN resistant to disease. Also we’re not far off from the SUN autumn gales which will rip off new growth. The only thing SUN is that it’s quite heavy with all the leaves on. There will SUN be a loss of flowering though with the Mahonia for example SUN but other than that it’s a great time. SUN SUN SUN Q – Flea beetles are a real problem this season – they have SUN infested my sweet peas and they have damaged brassica crops SUN – what do you do about flea beetles? SUN Bob SUN – Firstly, they don’t like wet conditions. Secondly, they SUN don’t like the smell of tomato leaves – so any spare leaves SUN from your tomatoes will deter them. Thirdly, and most SUN simply, you take a piece of cardboard, put some golden syrup SUN on it and you wave it over them. They jump (like fleas) SUN when disturbed so they’ll jump right into the syrup. SUN Bunny SUN – Also, yellow sticky papers would work.. Or Envriomesh is SUN an unattractive solution. SUN SUN SUN Q – We have a tree on the allotment site which, after two SUN weeks of us being away on holiday, has turned brown at the SUN top – as if someone had coloured the top third of the leaves SUN brown and left the others green. The brown leaves are not SUN shrivelled and none of the surrounding trees were affected. SUN What’s happened? SUN Bob SUN – It sounds like sun scorch. It was very hot for a few SUN days, couple that with a light dew and the top leaves may SUN simply have been burnt. It shouldn’t cause long-standing SUN damage. SUN SUN SUN Q – We have a small Monkey Puzzle tree growing in a pot that SUN has recently started going brown at the bottom and some of SUN the leaves are browning too – is it dying off? The pot is 9 SUN inches (23cm) in diameter and 10-12 inches (25-30cm) deep – SUN it’s been in for about 6 months. The tree is about 9 inches SUN (23cm) tall. SUN Christine SUN – I think it’s fine but just needs re-potting into a bigger SUN pot. You should be using a loam-based compost and I would SUN keep it well watered. SUN Bob SUN – I think you might be waterlogging it – keep it a little on SUN the drier side. SUN SUN SUN Q – In my heavy soil I am growing rampant Cardoons, about 8 SUN or 9 feet tall, but I’ve never had any success with Globe SUN Artichokes. I believe they are closely related so what SUN could be the reason? SUN Bob SUN – The Cardoon is a bit tougher than the Globe Artichoke – SUN the latter needs conditions to be a bit moister. The best SUN ones come from Brittany which is a wet area of France. SUN Bunny SUN – It can be difficult to get Globe Artichokes to establish. SUN If it’s wet and you get a cold winter they won’t like it. SUN You can get very good F1 varieties eg Concerto which would SUN do well from seed. Slightly raise them and perhaps protect SUN them from the cold in winter too. SUN Bob – SUN The other things to look out for are slugs and snails. They SUN won’t do too much to an established plant but they can SUN destroy a young plant. SUN SUN SUN Q – If the King of Spain’s daughter* came to visit you what SUN would it be to see? SUN Bunny – SUN My Persimmon tree or my Grapefruit tree SUN Christine – SUN My beautiful, purple Plum SUN Bob – SUN My nut trees – Hazelnuts, Cobnuts, and Filbert Nuts SUN SUN SUN SUN **From the nursery rhyme ‘I Had A Little Nut Tree’* SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b065s7hm (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about changing attitudes SUN to love and partnership and the frustrations of living with SUN a disability that others cannot see, all recorded in the SUN mobile Booth on its visit to Birmingham, in the Omnibus SUN edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b065s7hp (Listen) SUN The Great Scott, The Talisman SUN SUN The Talisman is the finale of Scott's novels set during the SUN crusades but this one features the dying dog days of the SUN Third Crusade. Richard the Lionheart is de facto leader but SUN the military expedition has ground to a halt and the allies SUN are getting itchy feet. They are sick of Richard's SUN over-bearing leadership and, to make it worse, very few of SUN them still believe Jerusalem can be reconquered. SUN SUN To the modern reader this must be a rather recondite SUN setting. Beyond the jousting and the knightliness, how much SUN do we care about the crusades anymore? And that's without SUN opening the can of worms as to whether the West had any more SUN right to be there then than it does now. SUN SUN Jonathan Myerson, the adapter, wondered how to update this SUN story and find a modern parallel to this situation. SUN And then it came to him: Occupy London in 2011. Those SUN protestors started with the same, almost ecstatic belief in SUN the possibility of change. They aimed to seize the holiest SUN of places - the London Stock Exchange - but were beaten back SUN and forced to set up camp outside. As the original crusaders SUN came to loathe the heat and insect life in their desert SUN encampment outside Jerusalem, the protestors of Occupy came SUN to much the same conclusion - as winter set in - about SUN sleeping on the cold, wet flagstones of St.Paul's SUN Churchyard. And, in much the same way, the competing groups SUN started to feel it was time to pack up and go home. SUN SUN So, new listeners will follow Scott's original story of SUN conspiracy and counter-conspiracy and, most important of SUN all, star-crossed lovers but will hear new resonances in SUN this old tale. SUN SUN Produced by Clive Brill SUN A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Kenny: John Wark SUN Hakim: Danny Rahim SUN Theo: Nicholas Woodeson SUN Rick: Alex Waldmann SUN Devvo: Martin Hutson SUN Lee: Ben Lloyd-Hughes SUN Robbo: Bryan Dick SUN Conrad: Alex Lanipekun SUN Bernie: Daisy Haggard SUN Edie: Pippa Bennett-Warner SUN Author: Walter Scott SUN Adaptor: Jonathan Myerson SUN Director: Jonathan Myerson SUN Producer: Clive Brill SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b065s7hr (Listen) SUN Leila Aboulela SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Leila Aboulela and SUN comedian and author Helen Lederer considers the secret of SUN writing a funny book, and reveals the titles that make her SUN laugh out loud. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of The Kindness of Enemies by Leila SUN Aboulela SUN The Kindness of Enemies: Chapter 1 SUN by Leila Aboulela SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Leila Aboulela SUN Interviewed Guest: Helen Lederer SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b065s7ht (Listen) SUN Series 5, Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan SUN SUN Paul Farley listens for ghosts and feels for flesh in the SUN new poems of Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan. Among the SUN subjects are baby mammoths and men working on their muscles SUN in gyms. The body and absent bodies bring a veteran American SUN poet and a young newcomer together across the Atlantic. SUN Prodcuer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 The Other Side of Adoption b0650jwh (Listen) SUN Tim Whewell investigates the challenges of life SUN post-adoption, discovers the remarkable tenacity of many SUN adoptive parents faced with challenging behaviour, and asks SUN what changes are being made to improve the current situation SUN where a quarter of adoptive families face serious SUN difficulties. SUN SUN Thirteen years ago, Sarah and her husband adopted two SUN brothers. The younger one had extensive therapy to guide him SUN through a fixation with suicide. The older brother is now SUN living away from the family following years of violence and SUN the revelation that he had been sexually abusing the young SUN son of family friends. SUN SUN Ten years ago, Mary and Steve (not their real names) adopted SUN two young siblings. The challenges they have faced - SUN truancy, self-harming, drugs, violence - left Mary suffering SUN from depression and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress SUN disorder. SUN SUN Today, they believe the worst is behind them. But they also SUN believe that adopted children and their adoptive families SUN are the 'poor relations' - compared to children in foster SUN care or in children's homes - when it comes to allocating SUN resources/providing services. "It feels like you're SUN abandoned once the children are placed for adoption with you SUN - as if adoption is a magic wand - and that everything will SUN now be OK," says Mary. "In reality it's very, very SUN difficult." SUN SUN Forty years ago, most adopted children were given up at SUN birth by mothers escaping social stigma. Today, 70 percent SUN of them come from care. As a result, many adoptive families SUN today need significant support to overcome the history of SUN abuse and neglect that children import into their new SUN family. But are they getting the help they need? SUN SUN Produced by Geoff Bird SUN A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b065rn80 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b065rt23 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b065rt25 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b065rt27 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b065s7hw (Listen) SUN John Waite SUN SUN Leisure pursuits seem to be a bit of a theme in this week's SUN Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Jeffrey Bernard (in the guise of actor John Hurt) fills his SUN spare hours with vodka, cigarettes and barbed bon mots. SUN Whereas veteran radio producer Piers Plowright loves going SUN al fresco with a bracing dip in Hampstead ponds. SUN Rugby star Brian Moore likes nothing more than listening to SUN a good aria - while sound recordist Chris Watson's set on SUN following the journey of an Icelandic ice ship as it makes SUN its way to the sea. That should keep him busy for the next SUN ten thousand years. SUN SUN So, if you've a spare moment, why not join John Waite for SUN his Pick of the Week this Sunday evening at 6.15. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b065s7hy (Listen) SUN Susan springs into action, and Ruth is very frustrated. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01d0prh (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 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 Today the panel unravel the meanings of Cockney rhyming SUN slang, attempt to reduce some long pieces of prose and SUN poetry to the length of a tweet and try to guess the SUN meanings of some words no longer in common parlance, taken SUN from this week's guest dictionary compiled by Dr Samuel SUN Johnson. 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 b065s85x (Listen) SUN Series 17, Pieces of Mars Have Fallen to Earth 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 When man first sets foot on Mars the world is elated. But SUN this epochal achievement comes at a price: the astronauts SUN who walk the red planet today are never coming back. SUN SUN The mother of one of 'The Mars Four' reflects on how it SUN feels to be left behind - her only contact with her son SUN brief footage of his daily routine captured by cameras SUN relaying footage of the mission. Her thoughts turn to other SUN historical women left behind to wait and wonder, women that SUN history has forgotten. SUN SUN Unlike them, she knows her Joe is safe. But limited to a few SUN snapshots of him a day, live images to which she has no more SUN intimate access than anyone else with a home computer, and SUN with no way of holding a direct conversation, she finds SUN herself haunted by these images and the memories they SUN prompt. SUN SUN Author Cherise Saywell SUN Reader Juliet Stevenson SUN Producer Simon Richardson. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Juliet Stevenson SUN Writer: Cherise Saywell SUN Producer: Simon Richardson SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0659q1f (Listen) SUN Migrant Crisis SUN SUN Migrant Crisis SUN There is a "swarm" of migrants coming into Europe according SUN to the Prime Minister. Where are they coming from and how SUN many are coming to Calais to try to get into Britain? Are 70 SUN percent of migrants in Calais making it to the UK, as SUN claimed in the Daily Mail? We scrutinise the numbers. SUN SUN Worm wars SUN A debate has been raging over the last month about the SUN benefits of mass deworming projects. Hugely popular with the SUN UN and charities, the evidence behind the practice has come SUN under attack. Are the criticisms justified? We hear from the SUN different sides - both economists and epidemiologists. SUN SUN Football SUN How useful are football predictions and should we always SUN trust the so called experts? The More or Less team look into SUN the idea that predicting where sides will finish in the SUN Premier League is best based on how they performed in SUN previous seasons. Also, why is Leicester City the most SUN watched Premier League team in the Outer Hebrides? SUN SUN Generations SUN Loyal Listener Neil asks: So much is currently reported as SUN the best, worst, least certain 'in a generation' - but just SUN how long is that? SUN We find out.. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b065061q (Listen) SUN David Nobbs, Frances Kelsey, Kyril Zinovieff, Elio Fiorucci, SUN Harry Pitch SUN SUN Reeta Chakrabarti on SUN SUN The comic writer and novelist David Nobbs - we speak to his SUN friend and fellow writer Jonathan Coe about the man who SUN invented the 1970s anti-hero Reginald Perrin. SUN Frances Kelsey, the scientist whose concerns about the drug SUN Thalidomide prevented it from being approved in the US. SUN Kyril Zinovieff, who as a child in Russia saw Rasputin, and SUN as a spy for Britain encountered Hitler. SUN The Italian fashion designer Elio Fiorucci, who introduced SUN the world to skintight vinyl jeans. SUN And the musician Harry Pitch, the harmonica player who SUN performed everywhere from jazz clubs to opera houses. SUN SUN David Nobbs (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his friend and fellow writer, Jonathan SUN Coe. SUN SUN Born 13 March 1935; died 9 August 2015 aged 80. SUN SUN Frances Kelsey SUN SUN Reeta spoke to Adam Bernstein of the Washington Post. SUN SUN Born 24 July 1914; died 7 August 2015 aged 101. SUN SUN Kyril Zinovieff SUN SUN Reeta spoke to his great niece, Sofka Zinovieff. SUN SUN Born 11 September 1910; died 31 July 2015 aged 104. SUN SUN Elio Fiorucci SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Sonnet Stanfill, head curator at V&A SUN fashion and to Terry Jones, co-founder of iD Magazine. SUN SUN Born 10 June 1935; died 19 July 2015 aged 80. SUN SUN Harry Pitch SUN SUN Born 9 May 1925; died 15 July 2015 aged 90. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Reeta Chakrabarti SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Coe SUN Interviewed Guest: Adam Bernstein SUN Interviewed Guest: Sofka Zinovieff SUN Interviewed Guest: Sonnet Stanfill SUN Interviewed Guest: Terry Jones SUN SUN 21:00 The New Workplace b065rlry (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b065rv5x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b064zp8d (Listen) SUN A Night at the Opera SUN SUN Opera is an expensive art form. It receives millions of SUN pounds of public money. Can that be justified? Peter Day SUN gets a range of operatic experiences - from top opera SUN companies, to pub performers and a country house summer SUN festival. The first opera was performed 400 years ago in SUN Italy; how does the future look? SUN SUN Producer: Penny Murphy. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b065s85z (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b065s861 (Listen) SUN How the newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b064zp7m (Listen) SUN Greta Gerwig, Judd Apatow, Open-air screenings SUN SUN With Antonia Quirke SUN SUN Greta Gerwig, writer and star of Mistress America, talks SUN about what it's like to write with her romantic partner Noah SUN Baumbach and her life as a teenage fencer and dancer. SUN SUN Judd Apatow discusses his bad taste comedy Trainwreck and SUN why Hollywood has a problem with potty-mouthed, sexually SUN unfettered women SUN SUN As someone whose ideal cinematic experience is watching a SUN movie in an empty auditorium on a Tuesday afternoon, Antonia SUN has never understood the appeal of the outdoor screening. So SUN to find out just what all the fuss is about, she braves an SUN open air showing of Withnail And I with critic Tim Robey. SUN SUN Buster Keaton on tour in Britain ... 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 These are his tour dates: 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 At the end of the tour the other acts gave Buster Keaton a SUN gift. Photograph courtesy of Bob Borgen. SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Greta Gerwig SUN Interviewed Guest: Judd Apatow SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Robey SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b065rv5m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b065rt38 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Move b04n600y (Listen) MON Frustrations MON MON Each year about three million people across the country pack MON their entire life into a removal truck and move home. And MON for most people it is rarely simple. Even the most MON meticulously planned move can be complicated and traumatic, MON the most optimistic people reduced to tears. MON MON This week Rosie meets Romaine, a dynamic, fast-talking MON businesswoman who loves London, thriving on its energy and MON opportunities. But bringing up young boys and running a MON fashion company from their two bedroom flat is proving MON challenging. Sleeplessness, illness and harassment are MON plaguing the family and for the sake of them all, Romaine MON has to confront moving to a sleepy rural village. MON MON Pete has long revelled in the unruly and bohemian side of MON Brighton and Hove. Now in his early fifties he is weary of MON jostling with tourists and party-goers and feels like a MON stranger in his own town. Having recently met someone on MON line who lives a mobile home in Aberystwyth, Pete prepares MON to pack up and move three hundred miles to be with them. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b065rv5j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b065rt3b (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b065rt3d (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b065rt3g (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b065rt3j (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b065s95p (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Venerable Peter Eagles. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b065s95r (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b065rt3l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2qh (Listen) MON Pied Wagtail 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 Pied Wagtail. In winter, MON pied wagtails can often be seen roosting in towns and cities MON in large flocks. By day, pied wagtails are often obvious in MON fields feeding on insects but they're equally at home on our MON streets gleaning prey from pavements and road surfaces. MON MON Pied Wagtail [also known as White Wagtail] (Motacilla alba) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b065s996 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Front Row b065s9s0 (Listen) MON Front Row Edinburgh Special MON MON Special edition of the arts programme. MON MON Simon McBurney MON MON Photo above: © Eva Vermandel MON MON 09:30 Soundstage b05mtcrk (Listen) MON Midnight at the Oasis MON MON Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson introduces the first MON of five audio postcards, each of which is a time MON compression; a spectacular natural event which has been MON recorded over hours, days, weeks or even months but which is MON heard here, in less than 15minutes. The series begins in the MON Kalahari Desert. Between November and February summer MON temperatures reach over 40 degrees centigrade. To avoid the MON dry, desiccating heat much of the wildlife has developed MON nocturnal habits. Chris wanted to capture the sounds of this MON extreme and ancient environment at a time when he could see MON very little, but could hear everything. This meant recording MON the sounds of the Kalahari Desert from dusk until dawn. MON First we hear the sounds of the sand, as grains are driven MON up the sand dunes and over the summit by the scouring winds. MON As the afternoon passes, sidewinder snakes slither across MON the desert surface. Flash rainfalls create pools of water in MON the dry riverbed hollows which are exploited by flocks of MON namaqua sandgrouse. As the light fades there's a brief MON evening chorus of birdsong. After sunset, the dunes, grasses MON and thorn bushes are patrolled by an emerging alien empire; MON the insects, producing an astonishing wall of sound. Baked MON hard by the sun, the red sand and soil of the Kalahari acts MON as a sounding board at night for the far carrying and MON chilling calls of brown hyenas, and before sunrise Chris MON records the powerful territorial calls of a desert lion MON which he can hear but cannot see. Sunrise is rapid, MON accompanied by the displays of clapper larks, calling and MON beating their wings together. And after sunrise, the MON temperature soars once again and the animals retreat leaving MON the voice of the prevailing winds as they scour across the MON Kalahari desert. Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Chris Watson MON MON Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School MON and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the MON influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret MON Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound MON recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees MON Television. Since then he has developed a particular and MON passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of MON animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As MON a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, MON Watson specialises in natural history and documentary MON location sound together with sound design in MON post-production. MON MON His television work includes many programmes in the David MON Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ MON which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. MON More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with MON David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which MON also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). MON MON Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio MON productions including; ‘ MON The Listeners MON ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press MON Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet MON of the Day, and MON The Cliff MON http://www.chriswatson.net/ MON MON Best of Natural History Radio Podcast MON This programme is available to download for free via the MON "Best of Natural History Radio" podcast. MON MON 09:45 Book at Bedtime b065ssqt (Listen) MON The History of the Peloponnesian War, War Begins MON MON 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the MON taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for MON ever,' Thucydides MON MON Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' spellbinding first-hand MON account chronicles the devastating 27-year-long war between MON Athens and Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a MON life-and-death struggle that reshaped the face of ancient MON Greece and pitted Athenian democracy against brutal Spartan MON militarism. MON MON Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general MON who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all MON time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for MON myth admired by historians today. Looking at why nations go MON to war, what makes a great leader, and whether might can be MON better than right, he became the father of modern MON Realpolitik. His influence fed into the works of MON Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War MON and beyond. MON MON Thucydides' masterful account of the end of Greece's Golden MON Age, depicts an age of revolution, sea battles, military MON alliances, plague and massacre, but also great bravery and MON some of the greatest political orations of all time. MON Today: With Spartan distrust of the rising power of Athens, MON is war inevitable? MON MON Abridger: Tom Holland is an award-winning novelist and MON historian, specialising in the classical and medieval MON periods. He is the author of 'Rubicon: The Triumph and MON Tragedy of the Roman Republic', which was shortlisted for MON the Samuel Johnson Prize, as well as 'Persian Fire', MON 'Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of MON Christendom', 'In the Shadow of the Sword', as well as MON several novels. His latest non-fiction book, 'Dynasty', MON chronicling the Roman Emperors, will be published in 2015. MON He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for MON the BBC. His translation of Herodotus was published in 2013. MON In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association MON prize, awarded to 'the individual who has done most to MON promote the study of the language, literature and MON civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome'." MON Reader: David Horovitch MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON Credits MON Reader: David Horovitch MON Author: Thucydides MON Abridger: Tom Holland MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b065ssqw (Listen) MON The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b065ssr0 (Listen) MON The Pillow Book, Episode 1 MON MON Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return for a new MON series of the popular mystery series the Pillow Book, set in MON 10th Century Japan. MON MON Lieutenant Yukinari's patience with the affairs and MON intrigues of the palace is reaching breaking point. On the MON Empress's command, the policeman finds himself interviewing MON a Palace Lord without any sense of the crime that might have MON been committed. MON MON Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and MON lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese MON court. MON MON Written by Robert Forrest. MON MON Directed by Lu Kemp. MON MON A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell MON Yukinari: Cal Macaninch MON Asaji: Robert Jack MON Writer: Robert Forrest MON Director: Lu Kemp MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b065ssr2 (Listen) MON Series 20, The Adoption Party MON MON In the last few years, 'adoption activity days' have MON gathered momentum in the UK, where children waiting to be MON adopted meet prospective adoptive parents at a party. MON MON The children are often 'hard to place,' either because of MON medical issues, their age, or behavioural problems. The hope MON is that once the families meet them face to face, they will MON get a much better idea of the children, rather than from MON paper and photo alone. MON MON For these children, the party day is often their last chance MON to find a family, before they are put into long-term foster MON care. MON MON Alan Dein joins couples Rob and Sarah, and Emma and John, MON and single adopter Rachael, as they look for a child. MON MON Producer in Bristol: Sara Conkey. MON MON 11:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03fdh2c (Listen) MON Series 1, Time to Celebrate MON MON When Tom phones home we find out why he hates celebrations, MON why his mum can't stop organising them and why his father MON needs an electric whisk. MON MON Classic Wrigglesworth rants combined with a fascinating and MON hilarious glimpse into his family background and the MON influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and MON hang-ups. MON MON Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from MON Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the MON conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call MON to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate MON various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his MON family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off MON about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday MON annoyances. MON MON During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from MON 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from MON our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in MON a 30 minute phone call. MON MON 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of MON Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a MON bit of totally legal phone hacking. MON MON Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle MON Additional Material by Miles Jupp MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Granny: Judy Parfitt MON Dad: Paul Copley MON Mum: Kate Anthony MON Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Writer: James Kettle MON Writer: Miles Jupp MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 12:00 News Summary b065rt3n (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Four Thought b03vgnjv (Listen) MON Series 4, Nothing to Lose MON MON Byron Vincent discusses nature versus nurture, and society's MON obligations to its weakest. MON MON In a powerful, personal talk, Byron tells the story of his MON own childhood on a troubled housing estate, of how his MON surroundings shaped him, and of the choices he felt forced MON to make. Faced with similar circumstances he asks who can MON say they would make different choices. Byron explores the MON moral consequences of this for the rest of our society. MON MON Introduced by Kamin Mohammadi. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b065ssr4 (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b065rt3q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b065ssr6 (Listen) MON Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, including MON Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall answering questions MON from listeners, hosted by Martha Kearney. MON MON Editor: Nick Sutton. MON MON 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain b065ssr8 (Listen) MON Exercise MON MON Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and MON techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical MON and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our MON lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into MON protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and MON broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in MON Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some MON cases even reverse, mental deterioration. MON MON In this episode Sian analyses the importance of physical MON exercise to brain health with Dr Alan Gow, Dr Hannah MON Critchlow and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her MON mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who is using MON exercise to combat her memory loss. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b065s7hy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01slvvl (Listen) MON Goodnight from Him MON MON A new comedy drama by award-winning playwright Roy Smiles, MON writer of previous Afternoon Dramas Ying Tong, Good Evening, MON Pythonesque and Dear Arthur, Love John. MON MON Goodnight From Him tells the story of Ronnie Corbett and MON Ronnie Barker from their beginnings in cabaret and repertory MON theatre, via their first meeting at the bar of the Buckstone MON Club in 1963 and being chosen by David Frost for his new MON show The Frost Report (alongside John Cleese), to getting MON their own Saturday night BBC1 series The Two Ronnies in MON 1971. The show ran for an extraordinary sixteen years, MON always topping the ratings, ending in 1986 with Ronnie MON Barker's early retirement. MON MON The play explores the differences between the two: Corbett MON the happy-go-lucky sketch performer and extrovert, MON comfortable chatting to an audience; and Barker the shy MON introvert who needed to hide behind his characters to face MON an audience and worked like a demon behind the scenes. MON MON Using parodies of some of their greatest sketches - Fork MON Handles, Mastermind and The Class Sketch from The Frost MON Report - Goodnight From Him tells the story of how two men MON worked together for twenty years without ever a cross word. MON MON Written by Roy Smiles MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee, MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Ronnie Barker: Robert Daws MON Ronnie Corbett: Aidan McArdle MON David Frost: James Lance MON John Cleese: Matt Addis MON Writer: Roy Smiles MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b065ssrd (Listen) MON Series 29, Second Semi-Final, 2015 MON MON (11/13) MON Three more music lovers who have won their heats earlier in MON the series join Paul Gambaccini for the second semi-final, MON from London's historic Maida Vale studios. MON MON Paul's questions range across every style of music, from MON Bruckner to the Beatles, Billie Holiday and Mel Brooks. With MON the competition tougher than ever at the semi-final stage, MON the breadth of the competitors' knowledge is really put to MON the test. As well as answering general knowledge questions MON on music they'll also have to 'specialise' in a category MON chosen from a list of which they've had no warning MON whatsoever. MON MON The winner takes another of the places in the 2015 Final. MON Might this year's champion be among today's contenders? MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b065rxjf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Lacrimosa b065sx6w (Listen) MON For most of his life, 26-year-old Proinsias O'Coinn, has MON thought that there's something wrong with him. MON MON Ever since he was a teenager he's been trying to find a MON song, a film, a poem or any piece of art that could make him MON cry. MON MON When friends would be moved to tears by a weepy film or a MON sad song, Proinsias would look on in envy, wishing it could MON have the same effect on him. You see in his head, being able MON to cry at a piece of art would allow him to appreciate and MON engage with it like everyone else. MON MON He's come close on a number of occasions. Like when Jean MON Grey kills Professor X in X-Men 3 or when listening to the MON Adele song 'One and Only'. But it's the sheer joy at these MON moments; that this could be it, this could be the time he's MON finally able to cry, that stops the tears from coming. It's MON like the sneeze that comes tantalisingly close but just MON never happens. MON MON So Proinsias is on a mission to find a piece of art that has MON the power to make him cry. But as he embarks on this very MON personal journey, he finds himself facing up to far bigger MON questions about himself and who he is. MON MON Producer: Conor Garrett. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b065sx6y (Listen) MON Religion and Debt MON MON The Greek Debt Crisis has highlighted in the most dramatic MON way just how much our economic systems depend on borrowed MON money. The figures of international debt are mind boggling. MON In the economies of wealthy countries like the United States MON and the UK, around 97-98% of the money is debt. It is money MON whose value rests not on something that exists in the MON present but on something that might exist in the future. MON MON We are all living with debt. People in the UK owed £1.436 MON trillion at the end of May 2015, according to The Money MON Charity, up from £1.407 trillion at the end of May 2014. MON That's an extra £584 per adult. We have learnt to live with MON credit, whether it be a mortgage or a loan for a car or just MON a credit card account which spirals out of control. MON MON It seems that debt has become an essential part of personal MON finance. But is that healthy? Or ethical? And do our MON religious traditions have anything to say about our reliance MON on debt? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Habib Ahmed, Sharjah Chair in Islamic MON Law and Finance at Durham University Business School; Paul MON Francois Tremlett, Lecturer in the Religious Studies MON Department at the Open University; and Michelle Swallow, MON Debt Advisor at the organisation Christians Against Poverty. MON MON Produced by Nija Dalal-Small. MON MON 17:00 PM b065sx70 (Listen) MON News interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b065rt3s (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b065sx74 (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at Sheffield City Hall, regulars MON Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined MON on the panel by Susan Calman, with Jack Dee in the chair. MON Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. Producer - MON Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b065sx76 (Listen) MON Has Joe seen a ghost? Rob sees red. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b065sx78 (Listen) MON Establishing a national theatre, Comedy about mental health, MON Edinburgh flyering tips MON MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b065ssr0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Bin Laden Tapes b065sx7b (Listen) MON In early 2002, following the fall of the Talban, Osama Bin MON Laden's abandoned compound in the Afghan city of Kandahar MON was ransacked. MON MON Among the finds was a collection of more than 1500 audio MON cassettes featuring sermons, speeches, songs and candid MON recordings of Arab-Afghan fighters, recorded between the MON 1960s up until the 9/11 attacks. MON MON The collection served as an audio library for those who MON gathered under Bin Laden's roof between 1997 and 2001 - a MON key era in Al Qaeda's development and growth. MON MON BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera speaks to Prof MON Flagg Miller from the University of California-Davis, who MON has spent more than a decade translating and analysing the MON tapes. MON MON Through pain-staking detective work Prof Miller has sought MON to understand what the tapes say about the evolution of Bin MON Laden, presenting his findings in the book 'The Audacious MON Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qaeda'. MON MON The collection features over 200 speakers, with around 20 MON tapes featuring Bin Laden himself - among them some MON rarely-heard speeches. MON MON While the cassette tape is undoubtedly an instrument for MON proselytising and propaganda, this collection reveals that MON the people making recordings seemed to find extraordinary MON pleasure in capturing the ordinary sounds of life - MON conversations over breakfast; sounds from the battlefield; MON wedding celebrations and militants singing Islamic anthems. MON MON As diverse as the recordings in the collection are, they MON offer exceptional insight into Bin Laden's broad MON intellectual interests in the years leading up to the MON September 11 attacks in the United States. MON MON Presenter: Gordon Corera MON Producer: Richard Fenton-Smith. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b064zlvn (Listen) MON Cuba on the Move MON MON Will Grant takes a ride in Cuba to discover how people get MON around and whether the thaw in relations with the United MON States will make any difference to their lives. The country MON is known the world over for its classic cars, a consequence MON of the American trade embargo imposed after the revolution MON in 1959, when, as one motoring journalist quipped, 'the tail MON fin was still a recent innovation in automotive design'. MON There are a few collectibles but spare parts are almost MON impossible to come by and most vehicles are held together MON with sticky tape and glue. It is almost as if Cuba has been MON stuck in a time warp for half a century with around 60 MON thousand vintage cars now attempting to navigate the MON country's notoriously bad roads. Car ownership is still the MON dream for most people but the reality is a chaotic bus MON service, a bone shaking ride in a horse and cart or hitching MON a lift. How do people cope and will things change? MON Produced by Mark Savage. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9b6b (Listen) MON Mammoths MON MON "Manny" the hairy, grumpy, yet ultimately caring hero of the MON animation series Ice Age sums up our love of these giants of MON the past. When a superbly preserved baby mammoth was MON displayed at the Natural History Museum she became a star MON attraction. MON MON We are intrigued by the idea of a hairy elephant wandering MON our land so tantalisingly recently; the last mammoths are MON thought to have died out in Russia just 4,000 years ago. MON Bones of these huge elephants have often been found, people MON believing they were the remains of giants, or that they were MON the huge burrowing creatures that died underground. MON MON Beautiful paintings of mammoths adorn ice age cave walls, MON symbolising our close relationships with these animals that MON provided us with so much cultural material. Not only mammoth MON meat but bones and tusks to build shelter, skins for walls, MON ivory for carvings and teeth for musical instruments; the MON first flute was a mammoth bone. MON MON on instruments made from mammoth bone created haunting MON sounds. Delicately carved tiny mammoths are found in places MON many miles from where mammoths lived, dating back at least MON 30,000 years. If they were alive today we would no doubt be MON protecting them from ivory traders, but as they are extinct, MON the mass of ivory bone being exhumed from the tundra (it is MON thought there are 150 million tusks buried there) is legally MON sent to China to be made into jewellery, trinkets and pieces MON of art. MON MON Not far off 50% of the ivory entering China is mammoth. Some MON think it is a sustainable alternative to elephant ivory, MON others believe it keeps the whole trade alive. Should MON mammoth ivory be treated the same as elephant? Should MON mammoth become the first extinct animal to be listed as an MON endangered species? MON MON Professor Adrian Lister MON Professor Adrian Lister MON has been research leader at the MON Natural History Museum MON since 2007 and is a palaeobiologist interested in patterns MON and processes of species-level evolution, adaptation and MON extinction. His work focuses on mammals of the ice age, MON especially deer, elephants and mammoths. In addition to MON excavating and studying fossil material from around the MON world, he has studied living elephants in Ghana, India, MON Nepal and Borneo. MON He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers and four MON books, Evolution on Planet Earth, Mammoths: Giants of the MON Ice Age, Mammoths: Ice Age Giants and a children’s book, MON Tracker’s Guide to Ice Age Animals. Prior to joining the MON Museum, he was Professor of Palaeontology at UCL. He MON completed his PhD at Cambridge on evolution of fossil MON mammals. MON MON Jill Cook MON Jill Cook is Senior Curator in the Department of Prehistory MON and Europe at MON The British Museum MON She specialises in the archaeology of human origins and her MON particular interest is in Ice Age art. MON As well as collaborations with several UK museums she has MON curated successful exhibitions at the British Museum. These MON include Made in Africa and The Swimming Reindeer both of MON which linked with the major BBC – British Museum project MON A History of the World in 100 Objects MON In 2013 she curated two ground breaking exhibitions: MON Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind MON at the British Museum and El arte en la epoca Altamira at MON the Fundacion Botin in Santander and wrote the accompanying MON books in which her fascination for natural history came to MON the fore. MON MON Anna Friederike Potengowski MON Anna Friederike Potengowski is a contemporary musician MON whose project Ventos involves her playing replicas of Stone MON Age flutes and percussion. MON As a contemporary musician, she has performed with various MON ensembles, including the MON 'Unheard of Music' of the BKA-Theater Berlin MON She has also played at the MON Brandenburg Theatre MON and the MON Festival of Contemporary Music MON in Dresden. MON Picture: Frank Korte Photography 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 Lucy Vigne and Dr Esmond Martin MON Lucy Vigne was born in South Africa and has lived in Kenya MON since 1983 and has carried out fieldwork in Africa and Asia, MON surveying both the ivory and rhino horn trade for WWF MON International, UNEP, Save the Elephants, Elephant Family and MON Care for the Wild International. MON Dr Esmond Martin has investigated the trade in rhino MON products and co-authored monographs on the world's invory MON markets. Recently, he and Lucy Vigne produced a report MON entitled MON The Ivory Dynasty: A report on the soaring demand for MON elephant and mammoth ivory in Southern China MON MON MON Jay Wilson MON Michael J. Wilson created the story and characters for the MON Ice Age MON franchise and co-wrote the screenplay for Ice Age I. He MON recently completed the first draft of Ice Age V, which is MON now in production. MON He lives in Malibu, California with Regina Wilson, who is a MON film editor and scriptwriter. MON MON 21:30 Front Row b065s9s0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b065rt3v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b065sycl (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065sycn (Listen) MON Go Set a Watchman, Episode 6 MON MON GO SET A WATCHMAN MON MON In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive MON second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for MON decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', MON this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through MON adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a MON compelling and important release to Radio 4. MON MON Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb MON for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into MON the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her MON beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship MON with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same MON place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother MON Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust MON shattered before she is able to become her own woman. MON MON Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill MON A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept MON over and revered by generations since its publication in MON 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. MON MON Read by Fenella Woolgar MON MON Written by Harper Lee MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON MON Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Fenella Woolgar MON Author: Harper Lee MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b05stkq6 (Listen) MON Series 7, Songlines MON MON Josie Long hears stories of music and memory. From the song MON that proves your parents right - rock and roll really will MON lead you down a dangerous path of drugs and destruction - to MON the symphony that haunted one man's dreams for decades. 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 96 Tears MON Feat. Anthony Bourdain MON Produced by Ann Heppermann, Kara Oehler and Rick Moody MON MON Piano Man MON Feat. Barry Colson MON Produced by Sindre Leganger MON MON The Stage MON Feat. Grace Savage MON Produced by Hana Walker-Brown MON MON Lullaby MON Feat. Colin Dexter MON Produced by Phil Smith MON MON Dream Symphony MON Feat. Stuart Sharp MON Produced by Olivia Humphreys with Jodie Taylor. MON MON 23:30 The Invention of Germany b015c342 (Listen) MON The Thirty Years War MON MON " Germany as we understand it, unified and strong, only came MON into existence a mere 140 years ago. Before then ? Well MON there was Bavaria and Prussia, Saxony, Baden Wurttemberg, MON Pomerania, Westfalia, Schleswig Holstein .this list is MON extremely long. And defining where one bit ended and the MON next began - well, it was utterly bewildering." MON MON Misha Glenny presents a three part history of Germany before MON the world wars, revealing how weak and fragmented it used to MON be. MON MON The series starts with the siege of Magdeburg of 1631, when MON a city the size of Paris was burnt to the ground. The events MON of the Thirty Years War hugely influenced later German MON nationalists, as Swedes, French, Danish, Spanish and huge MON numbers of Scottish mercenaries rampaged through the area we MON now call Germany. MON "Germany was in many ways more sinned against than sinning," MON concludes contributor Simon Winder. MON MON Misha Glenny is a former BBC central European correspondent MON and winner of a Sony gold. The producer is Miles Warde, who MON collaborated with Misha Glenny on previous series about the MON Alps, the Habsburgs and Garibaldi. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b065rt4w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book at Bedtime b065ssqt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b065rt4y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b065rt50 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b065rt52 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b065rt54 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b065t311 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Venerable Peter Eagles. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b065t315 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2w1 (Listen) TUE Dunlin TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Martin Hughes-Games presents the Dunlin. Dunlins are a TUE stirring sight, en masse, as their flocks twist and turn TUE over the winter shoreline. When the tide turns they take to TUE the air in a breath-taking aerobatic display. Around 350,000 TUE Dunlin winter here, travelling from Scandinavia and Russia. TUE TUE Dunlin (Calidris alpina) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b065t3v7 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b065tqyq (Listen) TUE Series 8, Talking about the Weather TUE TUE A history of weather-related language, Stephen Fry TUE acknowledges the influence of God, who it was thought TUE controlled the weather and used it as a way of talking to TUE humans, and tracks the Englishness of weather talk from TUE Shakespeare to the present day. TUE TUE God seemed to have signalled his approval of the English TUE cause in 1588, by helping destroy the Spanish Armada with TUE storms. Unseasonably hot winter weather in 1661, which TUE threatened to spread plague, was interpreted by King Charles TUE as a punishment for human sin. In a densely worded TUE proclamation, he ordered all subjects to fast. The weather TUE reverted to normal and the King ordered another fast to say TUE thank you. TUE TUE Despite modern meteorology, whose language is explained to TUE Stephen by TV meteorologist Tomasz Shafernaker, people still TUE look for metaphorical meanings in weather. One activist on TUE the climate change demonstration on an unseasonably warm day TUE in 2015, described it as 'an omen'. TUE TUE The English preoccupation with weather as a topic of TUE conversation can be quite complex. But Stephen argues we TUE don't have adequate language to deal with the onset of TUE future changes in the climate. We find it hard to realise TUE the idea of 'future generations' as yet unborn. He quotes TUE Marx (Groucho) on the posterity question. 'What has TUE posterity ever done for me?' TUE TUE Producer: Nick Baker TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b065tqys (Listen) TUE Kensington Gardens TUE TUE A hundred years since the publication of Virginia Woolf's TUE first novel, author Alexandra Harris wonders at the link TUE between her writing and her passion for walking - this week TUE exploring where it all began, in Kensington Gardens. TUE Accompanied by Woolf biographer Dame Hermione Lee - the pair TUE set out on a walk which Virginia and would have done TUE probably 20,000 times - from 22 Hyde Park Gate, across the TUE busy traffic and into the park. TUE TUE Re-enacting the scene, Hermione and Alex recall how - TUE 'calling for his dog and his daughter' - Leslie Stephen, TUE father to Virginia Woolf, set off twice daily for a TUE constitutional walk around the park. TUE TUE Passing the woman selling her "balloon of quivering TUE airballs", the young girl entered a public world and set her TUE imagination to work on all she encountered: people talking TUE and shouting, skaters, statues, ranks of uniformed nannies. TUE TUE All her life she would remember in vivid detail the early TUE routines of sailing boats on the Round Pond, touching the TUE bark of the 'Crocodile Tree', reading in the grass and TUE starting to match words to experience. TUE TUE Mike Fitt, the Royal Parks honorary historian joins them, to TUE add his particular knowledge of Kensington Gardens to the TUE mix. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 09:45 Book at Bedtime b05s310r (Listen) TUE The History of the Peloponnesian War, From Funerals to TUE Plague TUE TUE 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the TUE taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for TUE ever,' Thucydides TUE TUE Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand TUE account of the three decades of war between Athens and TUE Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death TUE struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted TUE Athenian democracy against brutal Spartan militarism. TUE TUE Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general TUE who went on to chronicle what he saw as the greatest and TUE most devastating war of all time, applying a passion for TUE accuracy and a contempt for myth admired by historians and TUE journalists today. As the father of modern Realpolitik, his TUE influence fed into the works of Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs TUE and the politics of the Cold War and beyond. TUE TUE Thucydides' masterful account of the end of Greece's Golden TUE Age, depicts an age of revolution, sea battles, military TUE alliances, plague and massacre, but also great bravery and TUE some of the greatest political oratory of all time. TUE TUE Today: from the glorification to the devastation of Athens - TUE Pericles' great funeral speech and the plague that followed. TUE TUE Abridger: Tom Holland is an award-winning novelist and TUE historian, specialising in the classical and medieval TUE periods, who has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and TUE Virgil for the BBC. TUE Reader: David Horovitch TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Horovitch TUE Author: Thucydides TUE Abridger: Tom Holland TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b065tqyx (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b065tqyz (Listen) TUE The Pillow Book, Episode 2 TUE TUE Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return for a new TUE series of the popular mystery series the Pillow Book, set in TUE 10th Century Japan. TUE TUE Lieutenant Yukinari turns renegade as he doggedly attempts TUE to root out conspirators in the Palace, regardless of the TUE consequences. TUE TUE Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and TUE lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese TUE court. TUE TUE Written by Robert Forrest. TUE TUE Directed by Lu Kemp. TUE TUE A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell TUE Yukinari: Cal Macaninch TUE Asaji: Robert Jack TUE Takashi: Alexander Morton TUE Writer: Robert Forrest TUE Director: Lu Kemp TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5y (Listen) TUE Snakes TUE TUE In much of the Christian West snakes don't get a good press, TUE they are considered sly, even evil creatures that tempted TUE Eve causing the downfall for all humanity - quite a burden TUE to bear. The Bible is full of less than flattering TUE references to snakes. Many people fear snakes and kill them TUE on sight. Yet the image of a snake wrapped around a stick is TUE the symbol of medicine. Our complex relationship with snakes TUE means they are amongst the most persecuted creatures on TUE earth. There is no denying that people have in inbuilt fear TUE of snakes as psychological experiments show. DH Lawrence's TUE poem The Snake encapsulates our contradictory relationship TUE with serpents. He is mesmerised by the majesty of the snake, TUE and honoured that it chose to be near him. After scaring the TUE snake away he regrets his mean and petty action: "I despised TUE myself and the voices of my accursed human education." TUE Snakes are wound intricately throughout our beliefs, art and TUE literature. TUE TUE Dr Ronald Jenner TUE Dr Ronald Jenner is Head of the Invertebrates Division at TUE the TUE Natural History Museum TUE London. He specialises in the study of the evolution of TUE animal venoms and his work has been published in over 70 TUE publications. TUE In addition to being a Research Leader at the Museum, he is TUE an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. He TUE has a PhD in systematic biology from the University of TUE Amsterdam and a Masters in experimental zoology from Utrecht TUE University. TUE TUE Catherine Howell TUE Catherine Howell is Curator of Toys and Games at the TUE V&A Museum of Childhood TUE Her main research interests are games, optical toys and soft TUE toys and she has contributed her expertise to a number of TUE exhibitions and publications. TUE She has played a key role in many of the Museum’s major TUE exhibitions including Alice: The Wonderland of Lewis Carroll TUE (1998). She was the curator of the hugely successful touring TUE exhibitions Teddy Bear Story: 100 years of the teddy bear TUE (2002) and Magic Worlds (2011). TUE Catherine Howell has worked at the Museum of Childhood since TUE 1991 and is the collections specialist on the history of TUE childhood toys and games. TUE TUE TUE Richard Kerridge TUE Richard Kerridge is a nature writer. * TUE Cold Blood TUE *, a memoir of his childhood fascination with the British TUE reptiles and amphibians, was published in 2014 and has just TUE appeared in paperback. TUE The book is about natural history, friendship, family, TUE frogs, toads, newts, snakes, lizards, and the joys and TUE anxieties of growing up. Richard has also published books TUE and articles about nature writing and other kinds of wild TUE literature. He teaches creative writing, including nature TUE writing, at Bath Spa University, and was a founder of the UK TUE branch of the TUE Association for the Study of Literature and Environment TUE TUE Nigel Marven TUE Nigel Marven is a naturalist and wildlife television TUE presenter and producer. He began producing programmes at the TUE BBC, including primetime programmes such as Incredible TUE Journeys and Life of Birds, and then Granada Television, TUE where he first found a role behind the camera. TUE Nigel now runs his own production company, Image Impact, and TUE makes films for audiences all over the world. TUE TUE Gordon Orians TUE Gordon Orians is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the TUE University of Washington, Seattle and author of * TUE Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes our TUE Loves and Fears TUE .* TUE Among other areas, his research has focussed on behavioral TUE ecology, such as habitat selection, mate selection and TUE mating systems, selection of prey and foraging patches TUE (foraging theory), and relationships between ecology and TUE social organisation. TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter TUE Dr Mark Porter is the elected British Medical Association TUE council chair and a consultant anaesthetist at the TUE University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS TUE Trust. TUE His special interest is in obstetric anaesthesia and the TUE continual development of maternity services to improve the TUE mother's experience. TUE In the past he has been a clinical director of his TUE department, and the chair of the medical staff local TUE negotiating committee. TUE TUE TUE Dr Deepak Shimkhada TUE Dr Deepak Shimkhada has taught courses in Asian religions, TUE including Hinduism and Buddhism at Claremont McKenna College TUE and at the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate TUE University, the University of the West, and California State TUE University-Northridge. TUE As art historian, Shimkhada happily marries two disciplines. TUE He is the author of many art historical articles published TUE in journals such as TUE Artibus Asiae TUE Arts of Asia TUE Oriental Art TUE and TUE Orientations TUE TUE 11:30 Philip Glass: Taxi Driver b065tqz1 (Listen) TUE Philip Glass revisits his parallel lives in 1970s New York - TUE driving a taxicab through threatening twilight streets while TUE emerging as a composer in Manhattan's downtown arts scene. TUE TUE The Philip Glass Ensemble formed in 1968 and performed in TUE lofts, museums, art galleries and, eventually, concert TUE halls. Two of Glass's early pieces - the long form Music In TUE Twelve Parts and the opera Einstein on the Beach - secured TUE his reputation as a leading voice in new music. TUE TUE But America's soon-to-be most successful contemporary TUE composer continued to earn a living by driving a taxi until TUE he was 42. TUE TUE "I would show up around 3pm to get a car and hopefully be TUE out driving by 4. I wanted to get back to the garage by 1 or TUE 2am before the bars closed, as that wasn't a good time to be TUE driving. I'd come home and write music until 6 in the TUE morning." TUE TUE Glass's new musical language - consisting of driving TUE rhythms, gradually evolving repetitive patterns and TUE amplified voice, organs and saxophones - reflected the TUE urgency of the city surrounding him. New York, on the brink TUE of financial collapse, was crime-ridden and perilous. TUE Driving a cab offered more than a window on this gritty, TUE late night world. Almost every other month, according to TUE Glass, a driver colleague was murdered. Glass escaped TUE altercations with gangs and robbers in his cab. TUE TUE One of the most successful films at the time was Martin TUE Scorsese's Taxi Driver starring Robert DeNiro. Glass TUE couldn't bring himself to watch it until years later. He TUE says, "I was a taxi driver. On my night off, I was not going TUE to go watch a movie called Taxi Driver." TUE TUE Produced by Paul Smith. TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b065rt56 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Four Thought b0639xst (Listen) TUE Passports for a Price TUE TUE Katy Long argues that we should think differently about TUE citizenship. She compares how citizenship and passports are TUE bought and sold, and explores the ethical implications. TUE TUE Producer: Katie Langton. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b065v41q (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b065rt58 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b065v41s (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Martha TUE Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain b065v44t (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and TUE techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical TUE and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our TUE lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into TUE protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and TUE broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in TUE Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some TUE cases even reverse, mental deterioration. TUE TUE In this episode Sian analyses the importance of stress TUE management to brain health with Dr Annette Bruhl, Dr Hannah TUE Critchlow and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and her TUE mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who took up TUE mindfulness to combat memory loss. TUE TUE Producer: Dixi Stewart. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b065sx76 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b065vqd2 (Listen) TUE Undercover Mumbai, Episode 1 TUE TUE On her release from jail, disgraced police inspector Alia TUE Khan seeks a life of obscurity as a receptionist in a run TUE down Mumbai hotel. But murder soon comes knocking at her TUE door. TUE TUE Second series of the crime drama set and recorded on TUE location in India. Written by Ayeesha Menon and directed by TUE John Dryden. TUE TUE Production: TUE Sound Recordist - Ayush Ahuja TUE Sound Design - Steve Bond TUE Script Editor - Phillip Shelley TUE Music - Sacha Putnam. TUE Writer - Ayeesha Menon TUE Assistant Producer - Toral Shah TUE Producer - Nadir Khan TUE Director - John Dryden TUE TUE A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Alia: Prerna Chawla TUE Ratna: Shivani Tanksale TUE Jamal: Kenny Desai TUE Yamraj: Abhay Mahajan TUE Meenakshi: Ratnabali Bhattacharjee TUE Faisal: Prashant Prakash TUE Bala: Prabal Panjabi TUE Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mital TUE Senior Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur TUE The Hotel Manager: Joy Sengupta TUE Principal Pandey: Sohrab Ardeshir TUE Inspector Siddiqui: Adhir Bhat TUE Home Minister: Satchit Puranik TUE Dhruv: Neil Bhoopalam TUE Shaina Patel: Preetika Chawla TUE Ensemble: Vivek Madan TUE Ensemble: Nadir Khan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Ayeesha Menon TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b065vrl6 (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the studio by the historical TUE consultant for Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner. TUE TUE Helen Castor is on the South Downs with geographer Dr TUE Geoffrey Mead who has been researching responses to the TUE housing crisis of the 1920s. Close to Brighton, he has TUE discovered an informal settlement - one that was maybe once TUE described as a 'shanty-town', but was built by the TUE aspirational middle-classes who could find £10 to buy a plot TUE of land. Dr Adrian Green from the University of Durham TUE explains that these communities, built on what geographers TUE describe as marginal or non-productive land, were TUE commonplace right the way back to the middle ages when TUE people would move to be closer to work. TUE TUE Professor Sharon Ruston from Lancaster University is in TUE Warrington, where she highlights the role of the town's TUE dissenting academy - and the work of Joseph Priestley in TUE particular - in promoting the teaching of science to a TUE community of scholars that were barred from Oxford and TUE Cambridge because of their radical religious beliefs and TUE who, she argues, were the intellectual driving force of the TUE industrial revolution. TUE TUE Tom Holland visits Sheffield to talk to research student Dr TUE Hannah Probert about the significance of facial hair in TUE Roman times. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Playlist Series b03m3j6w (Listen) TUE The Duke of Wellington's Playlist TUE TUE The Duke of Wellington's military achievements, including TUE his victory over Napoleon, are well-known. Much less TUE well-known is the Duke of Wellington, the musician. TUE TUE His father was a composer and music was the only consolation TUE of a lonely, unloved childhood - the only thing he was good TUE at was playing the violin. But as a young man, in a TUE theatrical gesture of renunciation, he burnt his violin and TUE vowed to give up music altogether as too much of a TUE distraction from his military career. But despite the grand TUE gesture, the Duke had a passion for music all his life. And TUE music played an important role in warfare too, with military TUE bands marching into battle and vying for supremacy. TUE TUE This programme discovers and records the Duke's music, TUE including long-forgotten songs about the Battle of Waterloo. TUE Musician David Owen Norris gives old songs a new twist and TUE sets them for jazz singer Gwyneth Herbert and classical TUE singer Thomas Guthrie. He then plays them to a trio of TUE Wellington experts - Royal historian Kate Williams, military TUE historian Tim Clayton, and the Duke of Douro (the Duke's TUE direct descendent). TUE TUE The programme is recorded on location in Apsley House on TUE Hyde Park Corner and includes performances on the Duke's own TUE Grand Piano. TUE TUE David Owen Norris is a pianist and composer and Professor of TUE Music at Southampton University. TUE TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 The Move b04nv6m6 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE On average we move eight times during our lives and end up TUE quite close to where we are born. TUE TUE But this week Rosie meets Tina, an American artist and TUE serial mover. Tina gets itchy feet within months and is now TUE drawn by the light and coastline of the North East. TUE Fascinated by Scarborough where she knows no one but one TUE on-line friend, Tina is trying to raise the money to make TUE the 250 mile move through crowdfunding. TUE TUE Jim and Sheila are leaving behind their beloved converted TUE barn to move from Derby to Northern Ireland. Sheila has TUE never lived outside Derby but now in her 70s, Jim is taking TUE her across the North Sea with her Labradors and his TUE home-made aeroplane to be nearer the grandchildren and, with TUE cheaper house prices, a dream of living like kings. But TUE sadly before they go, they have a secret they must bid TUE farewell to. TUE TUE Producers: Simon Elmes and Sarah Bowen. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b065vrl8 (Listen) TUE Series 37, Michael Howard on Elizabeth I TUE TUE Matthew Parris meets the former leader of the Conservative TUE Party Michael Howard to discuss the life of Elizabeth I of TUE England. TUE TUE They're joined by Professor Paulina Kewes of Jesus College TUE Oxford. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Michael Howard TUE Interviewed Guest: Paulina Kewes TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre TUE TUE 17:00 PM b065vrlb (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b065rt5b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fresh from the Fringe b065vrld (Listen) TUE Fresh from the Fringe: 2015, Part 1 TUE TUE The cream of sketch and stand up comedy, hot from this TUE year's Edinburgh fringe festival. TUE TUE Producer - Joe Nunnery. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b065vrlg (Listen) TUE Pip is there for Ruth, and Helen is understanding. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b065vrlj (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b065tqyz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Overage Drinkers b064ygls (Listen) TUE Heavy drinking by older people is causing a major public TUE health risk in the UK, yet the issue often falls below the TUE radar. TUE TUE While alcohol consumption among the young is falling, the TUE over 60s are drinking more, and more harmfully, with one in TUE three developing problems with alcohol for the first time in TUE later life and alcohol-related hospital admissions among the TUE old rising alarmingly. TUE TUE BBC reporter Leala Padmanabhan investigates, starting with TUE the story of her own father who developed alcoholism in his TUE 70s while caring for her mother, who has alcoholism-related TUE dementia. Despite his background as a doctor and his long TUE experience of witnessing his wife's alcoholism, Leala's TUE father was unable to rehabilitate himself, and his drink TUE problem helped contribute to his death in 2010. TUE TUE Leala's family is the starting point for a programme telling TUE her own and similar stories. TUE TUE A large number of people are developing problems in later TUE life, partly because of social factors associated with their TUE age, such as loneliness, bereavement, depression and TUE boredom. TUE TUE In addition to these late-onset drinkers there is a large TUE number of "baby boomers" who are carrying heavy drinking TUE patterns into old age. TUE TUE And yet alcohol problems are less likely to be detected in TUE older people, and where problems are detected, they are less TUE likely to be referred to an alcohol service for treatment. TUE TUE Leala talks to family members and friends about her own TUE father's decline. She also interviews people grappling with TUE a similar problem, campaigners working to raise awareness, TUE people working in treatment services, and social and medical TUE experts. TUE TUE Support Organisations TUE Drinkline TUE is a national alcohol helpline. If you're worried about your TUE own or someone else's drinking, you can call the free TUE helpline in complete confidence. They can put you in touch TUE with your local alcohol advice centre for help and support. TUE Helpline TUE : 0300 123 1110 TUE Alcoholics Anonymous TUE TUE If you seem to be having trouble with your drinking, or if TUE your drinking has reached the point where it worries you, TUE you may be interested to know something about Alcoholics TUE Anonymous and the A.A. programme of recovery from TUE alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire TUE to stop drinking. TUE TUE National Helpline: TUE 0800 9177 650 TUE TUE http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk TUE TUE Drinkaware TUE provides consumers with information to make informed TUE decisions about the effects of alcohol on their lives and TUE lifestyles. The charity aims to reduce alcohol misuse and TUE minimise alcohol-related harm in the UK. TUE TUE http://www.drinkaware.co.uk TUE TUE Addaction TUE has services throughout England and Scotland that help TUE people and their families recover from addiction and TUE substance misuse problems. The charity has services for both TUE adults and young people. TUE http://www.addaction.org.uk/ TUE Service finder TUE http://www.addaction.org.uk/service-finder.asp?section=98&se TUE tionTitle=Service+finder TUE TUE Aquarius TUE strives to help people, their families and friends overcome TUE the harms caused by alcohol, drugs and gambling. For TUE information, support, visit them online. TUE TUE http://www.aquarius.org.uk TUE TUE Adfam TUE works to improve support for families affected by drug and TUE alcohol use. They provide information for families and can TUE help them access a range of support options, including local TUE support groups across the UK. TUE General enquiries TUE : 020 7553 7640 (please note Adfam does not operate a TUE helpline) TUE http://www.adfam.org.uk/ TUE TUE Nacoa (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics) TUE is a charity that supports the needs of children growing up TUE in families where one or both parents suffer from alcoholism TUE or a similar addictive problem. TUE Helpline TUE : 0800 358 3456 TUE TUE Email: TUE helpline@Nacoa.org.uk TUE TUE TUE http://www.nacoa.org.uk TUE TUE Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs TUE provides information and support to anyone who is concerned TUE about someone they care about who is misusing alcohol or TUE drugs. TUE Helpline TUE : 08080 10 10 11 TUE Email TUE : TUE helpline@sfad.org.uk TUE TUE http://www.sfad.org.uk TUE TUE Age UK TUE is a charity dedicated to improving later life for all. They TUE provide free information, advice and support on the issues TUE that matter to older people. TUE Age UK Advice (Age UK & Age Cymru) TUE : 0800 169 6565 TUE Age NI Advice TUE : 0808 808 7575 TUE Age Scotland Helpline TUE : 0845 125 9732 TUE TUE http://www.ageuk.org.uk TUE TUE Independent Age TUE is a charity providing information, advice and support to TUE older people their families and carers. TUE Phone TUE : 0800 319 6789 (10am-4pm, Monday to Friday) TUE Email TUE advice@independentage.or TUE TUE http://www.independentage.org TUE TUE TUE Cruse Bereavement Care TUE is there to support you after the death of someone close. TUE Helpline (England, Wales, NI) TUE : 0844 477 9400 (weekdays 9:30am–5pm) TUE Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland TUE : 0845 600 2227 TUE Email TUE : TUE helpline@cruse.org.uk TUE TUE http://www.cruse.org.uk TUE TUE TUE Bereavement Advice Centre TUE is a free helpline and web-based information service which TUE supports and advises people on what they need to do after a TUE death. TUE Helpline TUE : 0800 634 9494 or 01789 265077 (9am to 5pm Monday to TUE Friday) TUE TUE http://www.bereavementadvice.org TUE TUE TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b065vrtl (Listen) TUE Gratitude TUE TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack TUE b0540b3p (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Robert McCrum journeys into his own brain to understand more TUE about stroke. TUE TUE Ever since he suffered a severe stroke in 1995, Robert has TUE been living with its consequences. He says, "It's one of the TUE remorseless side-effects of the affliction that, if you TUE survive it, you will live with its after-effects and the TUE conundrum about existence it poses, for the rest of your TUE life." The demands of an ongoing recovery still have to be TUE met. TUE TUE This two part series is a reflection and continued TUE discovery, twenty years on, of Robert McCrum's condition. TUE TUE Producer: Melissa FitzGerald TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio4. TUE TUE Robert McCrum's brain scan TUE Image supplied by the TUE PLORAS TUE research team TUE TUE Support Organisations TUE Different Strokes TUE A Charity set up by younger stroke survivors for younger TUE stroke survivors (below retirement age) empowering younger TUE stroke survivors, their families and friends to reclaim TUE their lives and ambitions through active support. TUE TUE Helpline: 01908 317618 or 0845 130 7172. Monday to Friday TUE 9am – 5pm, or leave a message. TUE Find out more about Different Strokes online text-chat TUE Different Strokes TUE TUE TUE Stoke Association TUE provides up-to-date stroke information for stroke patients, TUE their families and carers. TUE TUE Helpline 0303 3033 100 or visit TUE TalkStroke TUE TUE TUE TUE 21:30 Fry's English Delight b065tqyq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b065rt5d (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b065vs3m (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065vrtn (Listen) TUE Go Set a Watchman, Episode 7 TUE TUE GO SET A WATCHMAN TUE TUE In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive TUE second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for TUE decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', TUE this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through TUE adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a TUE compelling and important release to Radio 4. TUE TUE Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb TUE for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into TUE the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her TUE beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship TUE with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same TUE place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother TUE Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust TUE shattered before she is able to become her own woman. TUE TUE Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill TUE A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept TUE over and revered by generations since its publication in TUE 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. TUE TUE Read by Fenella Woolgar TUE TUE Written by Harper Lee TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Fenella Woolgar TUE Author: Harper Lee TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 23:00 Fresh from the Fringe b067xjql (Listen) TUE Fresh from the Fringe: 2015, Part 2 TUE TUE The cream of sketch and stand up comedy, hot from this TUE year's Edinburgh fringe festival. TUE TUE Producer - Joe Nunnery. TUE TUE 23:30 The Invention of Germany b0167zl1 (Listen) TUE The Rise of Prussia TUE TUE Germany history is often obscured by the fog of Nazism, TUE making it easy to forget both the high culture, and its TUE often feeble past. There is for example in Koblenz a TUE fountain, marked in 1812 by Napoleon's army heading east, TUE and by the Russians in 1813 heading west. In this series TUE Germany is the turntable, the chess board, the stomping TUE ground of Europe. TUE TUE "It's very difficult to think of Germany at this time as TUE having a future of unity and power," says Professor Norman TUE Davies. "It was in many ways retarded." TUE TUE In this second programme, Misha Glenny explores the rise of TUE Prussia - from Frederick the Great in 1740 to humiliation by TUE Napoleon in 1806. He discovers a state far removed from the TUE images of Iron Crosses, spiked helmets and officious TUE bureaucrats of popular imagination. It is Prussia that will TUE eventually create modern Germany, but first there are TUE several myths to dispel. TUE TUE Misha Glenny is a former BBC central European correspondent TUE and winner of a Sony gold. The producer is Miles Warde, who TUE collaborated with Misha Glenny on previous series about the TUE Alps, the Habsburgs and Garibaldi. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b065rt68 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book at Bedtime b05s310r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b065rt6b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b065rt6d (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b065rt6g (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b065rt6j (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b065vs42 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Venerable Peter Eagles. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b065vs44 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2x8 (Listen) WED Marsh Tit 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 Marsh Tit. The marsh tit is WED badly-named. It doesn't live in marshes, and is most at home WED in older broad-leaved woodlands. "Oak tit" might be a better WED name. Unlike some other tit species they don't travel far, WED holding and defending their woodland territories throughout WED the winter. WED WED ProducerBrett Westwood,MRS SARAH PITT,Sarah Blunt. WED WED Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b066d7j0 (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...? b065vsdg (Listen) WED Series 7, RoSPA WED WED Quentin Letts examines the Royal Society for the Prevention WED of Accidents. WED WED 09:30 Witness b065vsdj (Listen) WED In the early 1990s, gang warfare in South Central Los WED Angeles was claiming hundreds of lives a year. Then, in WED 1992, peace activist Aqeela Sherrills helped negotiate a WED truce between the two main black gangs, the Bloods and the WED Crips. He tells Witness how it transformed his local WED neighbourhood of Watts. WED WED 09:45 Book at Bedtime b05s3c5q (Listen) WED The History of the Peloponnesian War, Spartan Surrender at WED Pylos WED WED 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the WED taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for WED ever,' Thucydides WED WED Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand WED account chronicles the devastating wars between Athens and WED Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death WED struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted WED Athenian democracy against Spartan militarism. WED WED Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general WED who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all WED time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for WED myth admired by historians today. And as father of modern WED Realpolitik, his influence fed into the works of WED Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War WED and beyond. WED WED Today: the shocking defeat of the Spartans on the island of WED Pylos. WED Abridger: Tom Holland WED Reader: David Horovitch WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED Credits WED Reader: David Horovitch WED Author: Thucydides WED Abridger: Tom Holland WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b065vsdn (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b065vsdq (Listen) WED The Pillow Book, Episode 3 WED WED Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! Robert WED Forrest's popular thriller set in 10th century Japan. WED WED Yukinari finds himself unexpectedly thrown together with his WED oldest friend Takashi, a man who seems much changed since WED the two of them last met. WED WED Meanwhile, within the Palace, Shonagon is determined to find WED out where Yukinari has gone and whether Lord Asaji may hold WED the key to the policeman's disappearance. WED WED Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and WED lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese WED court. WED WED Written by Robert Forrest. WED WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell WED Yukinari: Cal Macaninch WED Asaji: Robert Jack WED Takashi: Alexander Morton WED Writer: Robert Forrest WED Director: Lu Kemp WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b065vsds (Listen) WED Reece and Jennifer - Dancing Divisions WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation between two 13 year olds about WED how it's their widely differing attitudes to competition WED that hold the key to their successful dance partnership, WED recorded in the mobile Booth in Guernsey - another n the WED series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you WED listen. WED WED Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that WED proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The WED 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 b065vsdv (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED WED Kavita Puri listens in to intimate and heartfelt WED conversations between the early pioneers to Britain from the WED Indian subcontinent and their children. They talk about what WED is important to carry on between the generations and discuss WED whether the act of migration always means loss. WED Producer: Smita Patel. WED WED 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b065vsdx (Listen) WED Series 4, The Birthday WED WED Damien rents a narrow boat for a weekend cruising around the WED heart of England with his partner Anthony, his producer WED friend Marion Duffett, his parents Janet and Dennis, his WED agent Ian, and his builder Mr Mullaney, during which he WED hopes to relax but also ease tensions between Mr Mullaney WED and Anthony who aren't getting on well following an WED Anthony-induced hiccup in their newly formed property WED business. But canalling isn't always as easy as it looks... 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 Dennis Trench: Philip Fox WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED Marion Duffett: Lesley Vickerage WED Janet Trench: Selina Cadell WED Mr Touchstone: David Acton WED The Waitress: Alex Tregear WED Producer: Sam Michell WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED WED 12:00 News Summary b065rt6l (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Four Thought b05sttjh (Listen) WED John Williams WED WED Comedian John Williams finds unexpected joy in his autistic WED son's view of life, despite the inevitable struggles. WED WED "I have learnt far far more about the human condition, and WED what it truly means to be alive from just being with those WED with learning disabilities than I have from any eminent WED teacher or book." WED WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b066f7zk (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b065rt6n (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b066f91x (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, including WED Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn answering WED questions from listeners, presented by Martha Kearney. WED WED Editor: Nick Sutton. WED WED 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain b065vsdz (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and WED techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical WED and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our WED lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into WED protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and WED broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in WED Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some WED cases even reverse, mental deterioration. WED WED In this episode Sian analyses the importance of mental WED exercise to brain health with Professor Nazanin Derakhshan, WED Dr Hannah Critchlow, and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine WED Loveday and her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant WED Psychiatrist who took up online word games and running a WED choir to combat memory loss. WED Producer: Dixi Stewart. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b065vrlg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b065vsf1 (Listen) WED Undercover Mumbai, Episode 2 WED WED Disgraced police inspector Alia Khan is enlisted to help WED catch a serial killer whose preferred location for his WED crimes is the rooftop of the hotel where Alia is WED receptionist. Teaming up with incompetent Inspector Ratna WED Shinde, it soon becomes clear that the murderer is trying to WED communicate something to Alia through the victims WED themselves. WED WED Concluding episode of the second series of the police WED detective drama, set and recorded on location in Mumbai. WED Written by Ayeesha Menon and directed by John Dryden. WED WED Production: WED Sound Recordist - Ayush Ahuja WED Sound Design - Steve Bond WED Script Editor - Phillip Shelley WED Music - Sacha Putnam. WED Writer - Ayeesha Menon WED Assistant Producer - Toral Shah WED Producer - Nadir Khan WED Director - John Dryden WED WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Alia: Prerna Chawla WED Ratna: Shivani Tanksale WED Jamal: Kenny Desai WED Yamraj: Abhay Mahajan WED Meenakshi: Ratnabali Bhattacharjee WED Faisal: Prashant Prakash WED Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mital WED Senior Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur WED The Hotel Manager: Joy Sengupta WED Principal Pandey: Sohrab Ardeshir WED Inspector Siddiqui: Adhir Bhat WED Home Minister: Satchit Puranik WED Dhruv: Neil Bhoopalam WED Shaina Patel: Preetika Chawla WED Ensemble: Vivek Madan WED Ensemble: Nadir Khan WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Writer: Ayeesha Menon WED WED 15:00 The New Workplace b065rlry (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack WED b0540b3p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 The Business of Film with Mark Kermode b054pbwz (Listen) WED The Business of Showing WED WED In this final programme, Mark Kermode considers the business WED of showing films. The route from script to finance to screen WED can be a long one - but then it all comes down to one WED nervous opening weekend. WED Marketing may convince us of a film's merit but, one comment WED on social media can ruin even the most inventive campaign. WED WED Film festivals are vital for launching a film. The Autumn WED festival season is where artistic creators battle for the WED first showing of the most talked about films. For many WED independent film makers exposure through awards is seen as a WED crucial - or perhaps only - means of survival. The artistic WED director of the Toronto Film festival reveals how film WED makers plead with him to admit their films. WED WED The decline in DVD sales has led to nearly a halving of WED studio profits. Vincent Bruzzese runs a research WED entertainment firm and believes there is a disconnect WED between the film makers and the audience. By analysing data, WED it's possible to work out why a certain scene works. Hit on WED certain story tropes and a film will do well. WED WED Netflix and Amazon's are all about giving customers what WED they want. Their algorithms are set to challenge the WED studios' dominance. How long is it until the streaming WED services become major studios themselves? WED Meanwhile, the growth of cinema multiplexes have paved the WED way for boutique cinemas and the notion of the film as an WED event. Audiences today are engaging with films in very WED different ways, so how do UK cinemas make most of their WED money? WED WED Producers: Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones WED A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b065vsfp (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b066drvp (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b065rt6q (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b062nrxn (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 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. WED WED The programme showcases three up and coming groups featuring WED character, improv, broken and 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. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b065vsfr (Listen) WED There is agreement at Berrow Farm, and Jill masks her WED disapproval. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b065wwj5 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b065vsdq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b065wwj7 (Listen) WED Identity WED WED FutureProofing is a series in which presenters Timandra WED Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the implications - social WED and cultural, economic and political - of the big ideas that WED are set to transform the way our society functions. WED WED Episode 2: Identity WED WED Timandra and Leo explore how we will answer the question WED 'Who am I?' in future. New thinking points towards identity WED becoming increasingly a matter of choice rather than a fixed WED set of personal characteristics and social experiences. WED Instead of the geographical accidents which determine our WED places of birth and the environments in which we spend our WED formative years, future identities appear set to become more WED fluid, shaped by individual preference and an increasing WED range of options available to us - and not just culturally, WED but also regarding qualities such as our ethnicity and WED gender. WED WED How might people express a more nuanced form of gender and WED sexuality in future? If you are born with one ethnicity, WED could you choose to identify as another? And if we are to WED shift identity often, could that remove the stigma WED traditionally attached to all those who present themselves WED as very different people at different stages of their lives? WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b065wwj9 (Listen) WED The Whirlpool Economy WED WED Charles Leadbeater argues that we are living in a whirlpool WED economy, where we are moving faster but seem to be standing WED still. And he suggests some changes we could make to break WED out of it. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Mind Changers b0639gxq (Listen) WED BF Skinner and Superstition in the Pigeon WED WED Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series WED which examines the work of the people who have changed our WED understanding of the human mind. This week she explores the WED legacy of BF Skinner and Behaviourism. One of the most WED famous psychologists of the 20th century, by applying to WED human learning the theory he developed through animal WED studies, he became one of the most controversial. WED WED Claudia is shown round his study by his daughter, Julie WED Vargas; remaining much as it was when he died in 1990, it is WED full of quirky, Heath-Robinson-type, home-made gadgets, WED evidence of Skinner's practicality and ingenuity. They WED reveal another side to the man famous for his operant WED conditioning experiments with rats and pigeons, and infamous WED for his template for what some have described as a WED totalitarian state, in his book 'Beyond Freedom and WED Dignity'. WED WED Claudia also meets his younger daughter, Deborah Buzan, and WED explodes the myth that she was raised in one of Skinner's WED experimental 'boxes'. WED WED She hears more about the man and his work from Richard WED McNally at Harvard, and Gordon Bower and Lee Ross of WED Stanford University. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of...? b065vsdg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b066f91z (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065wwjc (Listen) WED Go Set a Watchman, Episode 8 WED WED GO SET A WATCHMAN WED WED In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive WED second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for WED decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', WED this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through WED adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a WED compelling and important release to Radio 4. WED WED Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb WED for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into WED the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her WED beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship WED with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same WED place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother WED Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust WED shattered before she is able to become her own woman. WED WED Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill WED A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept WED over and revered by generations since its publication in WED 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. WED WED Read by Fenella Woolgar WED WED Written by Harper Lee WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Fenella Woolgar WED Author: Harper Lee WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 23:00 Terry Alderton's All Crazy Now b065wwjf (Listen) WED Working Class Normals WED WED The last episode in this series sees Terry Alderton at his WED very best. Sketches, songs and general hilarity from a WED brilliant mind. Bears, airports, stand up, accents, and even WED the odd catchphrase. Perfect. WED WED Written by and starring Terry Alderton. With additional WED material from Johnny Spurling, Boothby Graffoe, Richard WED Melvin, Julia Sutherland and Owen Parker. WED WED Sound designed by Sean Kerwin 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 b01sjj87 (Listen) WED Series 2, About Poorly Relatives WED WED EPISODE FOUR: ABOUT POORLY RELATIVES 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 - At the end of the day she just wants the WED best for her son. However, she'd also love to brag and show WED her son off to her friends, but with Nathan only telling WED jokes for a living it's kind of hard to do. She loves WED Nathan, but she aint looking embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad - works in the construction industry and WED was looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two WED of them could work together in the same field. But now WED Nathan has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is WED clumsy and hard-headed and leaves running the house to his WED wife (she wouldn't allow it to be any other way). WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma - cannot believe Nathan turned down WED architecture for comedy. How can her grandson go on stage WED and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the WED good Christian way! WED WED So with the weight of his family's disappointment will WED Nathan be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or will he WED give in to his family's interference? WED WED About Poorly Relatives WED WED Nathan Caton is unsympathetic when his parents are poorly as WED he has an important gig and needs to be on his A game. But WED he agrees not to tell Grandma that they're poorly as she WED doesn't believe in poorly. WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED REVEREND WILLIAMS ..... DON GILÉT 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 The Invention of Germany b016lbtm (Listen) WED Germany Unified WED WED In 1871, at the Palace of Mirrors in Versailles, the king of WED Prussia was crowned emperor of the newly unified German WED empire - a quite staggering event. This is the story of WED Germany's journey to define itself, indeed to stamp itself, WED on the European map. WED WED "Everything was decided by military strength, but also by a WED revolutionary idea that there were parts of the map reserved WED for particular nations - blood and soil, and that if you WED pick up a handful of soil, this is German, and if you move WED fifty yards to the left, this is French." Professor Norman WED Davies. WED WED Travelling from the great areas of conflict - Alsace WED Lorraine in the west to Konnigratz in the east - Misha WED Glenny brings to life moments in European history that have WED huge resonance today. Contributors include Dr Abigail Green WED of Oxford University, and Professor Michael Sturmer, a WED former advisor to Helmut Kohl. WED WED The producer is Miles Warde. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b065rt7s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book at Bedtime b05s3c5q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b065rt7v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b065rt7x (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b065rt7z (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b065rt81 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b066dfb7 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Venerable Peter Eagles. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b065x2l8 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx6nq (Listen) THU Willow Tit 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 Willow Tit. Willow Tits are THU declining rapidly in many areas: they are very similar to THU marsh tits, so alike in fact that no-one realised that they THU existed here until 1897 and their identity as a breeding THU bird in the UK was confirmed three years later. THU THU Willow Tit (Poecile montanus) THU THU Image courtesy for Mike Lane (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b066dfbc (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Fantasy Festival b065x66y (Listen) THU Baroness Mary Warnock THU THU Baroness Mary Warnock joins presenter Tim Samuels to curate THU and create the festival of her wildest dreams. THU THU Festivals are fast becoming significant events on more and THU more people's calendars. Whether it's a huge rock fest or a THU small scale village event, it's somebody's job to imagine THU the festival before it happens, and to assemble all the THU pieces of the jigsaw that are needed to bring their vision THU to life. THU THU But what if you could create your own festival - where you THU set the agenda, chose the guests, pick the acts, and dictate THU the weather, the food and the ambience? A festival where THU anyone - whether dead or alive - can be summoned to perform, THU and nothing is unimaginable. THU THU Fantasy Festival is a chance for someone to become the THU curator of the festival of their very own dreams. And the THU festival curator in this programme is the moral philosopher, THU Baroness Mary Warnock who recently retired from the House of THU Lords at the age of 91. THU THU Baroness Warnock outlines her dream festival which takes THU place on the uninhabited island of Tanera Mor in the Summer THU Isles off the West Coast of Scotland. There she convenes a THU group of 50 people to camp, walk and talk about the effect THU that wild nature has on the human spirit. Her guests include THU Haydn, Wordsworth and Coleridge as she attempts to revive THU the Romantic ideal of spending time in wilderness landscapes THU in order to reconnect with nature. It's Mary's conviction THU that if we don't experience wild nature in our lives, we THU lose something vital of ourselves. THU THU Produced by Rosie Boulton THU A Monty Funk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Last Day b04hysdg (Listen) THU The Final Whistle THU THU Very few sportsmen and women get to choose when they retire, THU as often it is forced through injury, loss of form or the THU capriciousness of the sports market. Even for those are able THU to pick their time find professional sport leaves a large THU hole in their lives. Former rugby union players Will James THU and Damian Hopley share their stories of the way they left, THU or were forced to leave the sport they loved and how they THU filled the void the sport left. THU THU 09:45 Book at Bedtime b05s3ltg (Listen) THU The History of the Peloponnesian War, An Athenian Atrocity THU THU 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the THU taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for THU ever,' Thucydides THU Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand THU account charts the devastating wars between Athens and THU Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death THU struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted THU Athenian democracy against Spartan militarism. THU Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general THU who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all THU time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for THU myth admired by historians today. And as father of modern THU Realpolitik, his influence fed into the works of THU Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War THU and beyond. THU Today: after an Athenian atrocity in Melos, both sides THU prepare for war in Sicily. THU Abridger: Tom Holland THU Reader: David Horovitch THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU Credits THU Reader: David Horovitch THU Author: Thucydides THU Abridger: Tom Holland THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b066dfbh (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 b065x672 (Listen) THU The Pillow Book, Episode 4 THU THU Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! Robert THU Forrest's popular thriller set in 10th century Japan. THU THU Shonagon investigates Yukinari's disappearance from the THU Palace. Meanwhile the Lieutenant finds himself held hostage THU by his childhood friend, Takashi, who - it appears - has THU been commissioned to deliver the Lieutenant's head to THU someone within the Palace walls. THU THU Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and THU lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese THU court. THU THU Written by Robert Forrest. THU THU Directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell THU Yukinari: Cal Macaninch THU Asaji: Robert Jack THU Takashi: Alexander Morton THU Writer: Robert Forrest THU Director: Lu Kemp THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b065x674 (Listen) THU The Harragas of Algeria THU THU Why are so many young people leaving Algeria? Unlike Syria THU or Libya, Algeria is supposedly a beacon of stability in a THU troubled region and it enjoys vast wealth from its oil and THU gas resources. Yet it remains a major source of illegal THU migrants to Europe and thousands continue to risk their THU lives crossing the sea to get there. They are known as THU 'Harraga' derived from the verb to burn in Arabic because THU they burn their identity documents. President Bouteflika's THU right hand man, has called the harraga phenomenon "a THU national tragedy". Lucy Ash meets some of those heading for THU Europe's Eldorado and those bereaved friends and families of THU harragas who have disappeared in the Mediterranean. John THU Murphy producing. THU THU 11:30 Decoding the Masterworks b065x676 (Listen) THU Paolo Uccello - The Hunt in the Forest THU THU Dr Janina Ramirez is joined by Professor Martin Kemp and THU Professor Catherine Whistler of the Ashmolean museum to THU examine and decode the perspective brilliance of Paolo THU Uccello's painting The Hunt in the Forest. THU The painting is thought to be one of the last major works THU completed by Uccello before his death in 1475 and is rich in THU the work he had done involving perspective. The huntsmen's THU lances, the branches of the trees and other decorative THU details all contribute to the focus on an apparent vanishing THU point at the heart of the painting in the gloom of the THU forest. THU It's thought to be part of an elaborate domestic decoration, THU possibly for a linen box and it now holds pride of place in THU the Ashmolean's collection. You can see it by following the THU link below. THU THU http://www.ashmolean.org/education/resources/resources2011/T THU PHuntInTheForestNotes THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b065rt83 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Four Thought b05y0ql3 (Listen) THU Amanda Palmer THU THU In the third of four editions from this year's Hay Festival THU a pregnant Amanda Palmer talks about the prospect of THU reconciling art and motherhood. THU THU "And right now, at 24 weeks pregnant, all I can do is look THU at the female heroes who've preceded me and not descended THU into crappy boringness, and pray to the holy trinity: Patti THU Smith. Ani Difranco. Bjork. Hear my prayer: may I not get THU baby brain." THU THU Producer: Lucy Proctor. THU THU Image courtesy of Shervin Lainez. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b066cw6l (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b065rt85 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0684thq (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, including THU Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper answering THU questions from listeners, presented by Martha Kearney. THU THU Editor: Nick Sutton. THU THU 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain b065xcgc (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and THU techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical THU and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our THU lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into THU protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and THU broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in THU Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some THU cases even reverse, mental deterioration. THU THU In this episode Sian analyses the importance of sleep to THU brain health with Professor Angela Clow, Dr Hannah THU Critchlow, and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and THU her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who THU started keeping a sleep diary to combat memory loss. THU THU Producer: Dixi Stewart. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b065vsfr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b065xcgf (Listen) THU Red and Blue, Hazard THU THU Philip Palmer's series about ex-military wargamer Bradley THU Shoreham this time sees him hired to stress test the THU emergency services where his divide and rule tactics soon THU provoke hostility. Meanwhile his spectacular falling out THU with the super-rich hedge fund baroness, Alessandra Pacetti, THU threatens further shocking repercussions. THU THU Directed by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Bradley Shoreham: Tim Woodward THU Alessandra Pacetti: Sara Kestelman THU Harry Douglas: David Hounslow THU Katie Wilson: Jane Slavin THU Alan Myerson: Stephen Critchlow THU Claire Patterson: Christine Kavanagh THU Actor: Chris Pavlo THU Actor: Jessica Turner THU Actor: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Actor: Sam Dale THU Actor: Rhiannon Neads THU Actor: Alex Tregear THU Writer: Philip Palmer THU Director: Gemma Jenkins THU THU 15:00 Open Country b065xcgp (Listen) THU Cornish Alps THU THU From a ferry, Helen sees the sharp, conical peaks that THU dominate the coastline, known locally as the Cornish Alps. THU The skipper, John Wood, explains how they were formed from THU the spoils of the clay industry. THU THU Helen takes a closer look at one of the largest of the spoil THU heaps near St Austell, known as the Sky Tip, and talks to THU primary school teacher Ann Teague and local landlord Andrew THU Dean about why they think it is such an important landmark. THU They explain how they see beauty in the scarred industrial THU landscape, and are campaigning to prevent a new town being THU built near the peak. THU THU Helen then comes across a reunion of former clay workers at THU the Wheal Martyn museum, where she meets Arthur Northey and THU Colin Knellor. They started working in the industry as boys THU of fourteen and as well as recounting stories from their THU lives working in clay, they tell Helen that they would THU welcome development on the brownfield sites where the clay THU mines once stood. THU THU From a viewing platform high above a quarry, Helen looks THU down at the lunar landscape of a working clay mine. Her THU guide is Ivor Bowditch who worked as a mine captain, then as THU a spokesperson for the china clay industry. He shows Helen THU what the mining company has done to regenerate the land THU after the clay has been taken from it. One of the main THU projects is a series of clay trails through the landscape, THU which Helen then explores with a group of walkers. THU THU Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Beth McLeod. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b065rv5x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b065s7hr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b065xcgw (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b065xcgy (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b066fbyg (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b065rt87 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b065xch2 (Listen) THU Series 5, Little Guy, The Ones That Got Away, Now Hiring THU Friendly People THU THU One of the world's finest storytellers, back on BBC Radio 4 THU doing what he does best. THU THU This week, there are reflections on being small in Little THU Guy, fulmination in the coffee queue in Now Hiring Friendly THU People, and an off the cuff question to David's boyfriend THU leads to a surprising answer in The Ones That Got Away. THU There are also some more questions from the audience. THU THU Produced by 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 b065xch4 (Listen) THU Peggy talks shop, and Rob explains himself. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b065xch8 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b065x672 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b065xchb (Listen) THU Tunisia on the Fault Line THU THU The gun attack on the beach resort of Sousse that killed 38 THU tourists in June deterred many holidaymakers from travelling THU to Tunisia. But not journalist Frances Stonor Saunders. She THU set off for an all-inclusive holiday package to Hammamet, a THU nearby seaside resort. As well as deserted beaches and THU eerily empty hotels, Frances has a chance encounter with a THU man who helped foil a previous terror attack at a popular THU tourist site. And she hears why Tunisians are refusing to go THU to local hotels, despite desperate pleas from hotel owners. THU THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU (Image credit: European Photopress Agency) THU THU 20:30 In Business b065xchg (Listen) THU Graphene THU THU It would take an elephant balanced on the tip of a pencil to THU break through a sheet of graphene the thickness cling film. THU That's the description those promoting this new wonder THU material like to use to illustrate the strength of graphene. THU The atomic material was isolated by two scientists at THU Manchester University in 2004. Now, just over a decade and THU one Nobel prize later, Peter Day visits the newly opened the THU National Graphene Institute. Its aim is to bring business THU and science together, to develop potential future uses for THU graphene. Will this strategy succeed where Britain's past THU attempts to spin out scientific discoveries have not? THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b065xcgy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Fantasy Festival b065x66y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b066fchf (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065xchl (Listen) THU Go Set a Watchman, Episode 9 THU THU GO SET A WATCHMAN THU THU In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive THU second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for THU decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', THU this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through THU adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a THU compelling and important release to Radio 4. THU THU Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb THU for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into THU the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her THU beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship THU with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same THU place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother THU Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust THU shattered before she is able to become her own woman. THU THU Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill THU A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept THU over and revered by generations since its publication in THU 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. THU THU Read by Fenella Woolgar THU THU Written by Harper Lee THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Fenella Woolgar THU Author: Harper Lee THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 23:00 Woman's Hour b065xchn (Listen) THU Late Night Woman's Hour: Dating in the Digital Age THU THU Lauren Laverne and guests take a night night live look at THU how dating, identity and relationships are changing. THU Presenter: Lauren Laverne THU Producer: Luke Mulhall. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Lauren Laverne THU Producer: Luke Mulhall THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 AUGUST 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b065rt9j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book at Bedtime b05s3ltg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b065rt9l (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b065rt9n (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b065rt9q (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b065rt9s (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06850w7 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Venerable Peter Eagles. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b06855zc (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx6vq (Listen) FRI Hawfinch 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 Hawfinch. The Hawfinch is a FRI large thickset finch with a massive bill. It uses this to FRI crack open hawthorn and cherry stones as well as hornbeam FRI seeds to get at the soft kernels inside. In doing so, it FRI exerts a force of around 180 pounds per square inch. FRI FRI Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) FRI Image courtesy of David J Slater (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b066dfzy (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b065rvpv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book at Bedtime b05s3stf (Listen) FRI The History of the Peloponnesian War, The Beginning of the FRI End FRI FRI 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the FRI taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for FRI ever,' Thucydides FRI Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand FRI account chronicles the devastating wars between Athens and FRI Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death FRI struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted FRI Athenian democracy against Spartan militarism. FRI Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general FRI who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all FRI time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for FRI myth admired by historians today. And as father of modern FRI Realpolitik, his influence fed into the works of FRI Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War FRI and beyond. FRI Today: an expedition to conquer Sicily spells the beginning FRI of the end of Athenian power. FRI Abridger: Tom Holland FRI Reader: David Horowitch FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Horovitch FRI Author: Thucydides FRI Abridger: Tom Holland FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b066dg00 (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 b065xh39 (Listen) FRI The Pillow Book, Episode 5 FRI FRI Lady Shonagon and Lieutenant Yukinari return! Robert FRI Forrest's popular thriller set in 10th century Japan. FRI FRI Shonagon receives an invitation to visit Lord Asaji in his FRI grotto. Meanwhile Takashi delivers the Lieutenant Yukinari's FRI head, as he was commissioned to do. FRI FRI Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a poet and FRI lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the 10th Century Japanese FRI court. FRI FRI Written by Robert Forrest. FRI FRI Directed by Lu Kemp. FRI FRI A BBC Scotland Production for Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shonagon: Ruth Gemmell FRI Yukinari: Cal Macaninch FRI Asaji: Robert Jack FRI Takashi: Alexander Morton FRI Writer: Robert Forrest FRI Director: Lu Kemp FRI FRI 11:00 The Gover Way b037r5d9 (Listen) FRI In 1989 the doors closed for the last time at Alf Gover's FRI Cricket School in East Hill, Wandsworth, South London. FRI FRI Writer Charlie Connelly, an alumnus of the legendary FRI coaching venue, explores the extraordinary global legacy of FRI this outwardly charmless but inwardly magical building and FRI the extraordinary man who ran it. FRI FRI Alf Gover enjoyed a distinguished career as a fast bowler FRI for Surrey and England during the 1930s, but it was the FRI cricket school he gave his name to in 1938, and which FRI changed little over the next half century, that made his FRI reputation as, in the words of Wisden, "cricket's Mr Chips". FRI FRI From legends of the game like Viv Richards and Garry Sobers FRI to Sunday afternoon sloggers and uncoordinated schoolboys, FRI Alf Gover would devote exactly the same level of attention FRI to their straight bat and high left elbow. FRI FRI The claustrophobic, gas-lit, draughty south London venue FRI became a mecca to players from all over the world - even FRI Harold Pinter had a picture of himself batting at the Gover FRI school hanging over his desk, while a young John Major would FRI save up his pocket money for lessons from the master. FRI FRI Featuring archive recordings and interviews with Nicholas FRI Parsons, Sir Trevor McDonald and former Surrey captain FRI Mickey Stewart, as well as family members and cricket people FRI from all levels of the game, Charlie argues that Alf Gover FRI deserves to be remembered as one of the greatest English FRI cricket figures of all time. FRI FRI Presenter: Charlie Connelly FRI FRI Producer: David Prest FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Sisters b065xhth (Listen) FRI No Wi-Fi FRI FRI Susan has hidden Fiona's work phone, in a bid to encourage a FRI healthier work-life balance. But Fiona declares Susan a FRI hypocrite due to her own constant internet use and online FRI gaming. Each sister thinks the other is completely addicted FRI so they set themselves a challenge to go without their FRI devices for 24 hours. FRI FRI In the empty hours that lie ahead, the pair try to find ways FRI to occupy themselves but inevitably end up getting FRI increasingly irate with one another. FRI FRI As they try to stave off the building frustration, Susan FRI makes a rash decision, while Blake's attempts to hijack the FRI neighbours' Wi-Fi don't end well. FRI FRI Written by Susan Calman FRI Starring: Susan Calman, Ashley Jensen, Nick Helm FRI FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI Executive Producer: Paul Schlesinger FRI A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Susan Calman FRI Actor: Ashley Jensen FRI Actor: Nick Helm FRI Writer: Susan Calman FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b065rt9v (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Four Thought b05pnw2z (Listen) FRI Amy Golden FRI FRI Amy Golden, who is seriously disabled - she can move only FRI her right arm and cannot speak - shares what life is like FRI through her eyes. In an essay read by actor Rhiannon Neads, FRI she reveals her frustrations, her battle with depression and FRI also the pleasures of being able to watch what other people FRI are up to without being noticed. "I think perhaps they FRI sometimes allow me to pick up on things because they don't FRI realise that there's a thinking, feeling person inside this FRI body," she says. Her talk is a passionate plea to be heard FRI and noticed. "If you want to know what I want to say you FRI have to focus on me," Amy insists. "You can't ignore me, or FRI pretend I'm not here." FRI FRI Producer: Sheila Cook FRI Editor: Richard Knight. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b065xhtk (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b065rt9x (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0689wgk (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun FRI Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 How to Have a Better Brain b065xhtm (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Evidence-based, information-rich and full of smart tips and FRI techniques, How To Have A Better Brain delivers a practical FRI and optimistic guide to boosting brain power throughout our FRI lives. Drawing on the latest neurological research into FRI protecting and preserving cognitive function, journalist and FRI broadcaster Sian Williams, currently studying for an MSc in FRI Psychology, investigates the best ways to avert, and in some FRI cases even reverse, mental deterioration. FRI FRI In this episode Sian analyses the importance of diet to FRI brain health with Professor Barbara Sahakian, Dr Hannah FRI Critchlow, and neuropsychologist Dr Catherine Loveday and FRI her mum, Scilla, a former Consultant Psychiatrist who took FRI up eating chocolate every day to combat memory loss. FRI FRI Producer: Dixi Stewart. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b065xch4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b065xj53 (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 1 FRI FRI Drama: Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly. FRI Return of the series about Frank Twist and his team of legal FRI representatives. A naked young woman is arrested for FRI protesting against the fur trade, but this is just the FRI beginning of a tortuous maze for Frank. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Ronnie: Rachel Austin FRI Amanda: Sophia Di Martino FRI Jade: Kellie Shirley FRI Barry: James Quinn FRI PC: Hamilton Berstock FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Tom Fry FRI Writer: Sharon Kelly FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b065xj64 (Listen) FRI Bedfordshire FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Bedfordshire. Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Anne FRI Swithinbank answer the audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio. FRI FRI 15:45 Joe Smith and His Waxworks b065xk1q (Listen) FRI The Waxy-way 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 hear Uncle Joe in action as he FRI describes the execution of King Charles I and the love life FRI of Bluff King Hal in his own inimitable way - with very FRI little regard for historical accuracy. 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 b065xk1s (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b065xk1v (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b065xk1x (Listen) FRI Joanna and Jenny - Living Where We Work FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between friends and colleagues FRI from a charity in London's East End who find that it helps FRI to live in the same world as the young people they work FRI with, recorded in the mobile Booth in Tower Hamlets - FRI another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. The FRI 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 b066d2gy (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b065rt9z (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b065xk1z (Listen) FRI Series 15, Episode 2 FRI FRI A satirical take on politics, media and celebrity. FRI FRI Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis FRI MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. FRI FRI Produced by Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b065xk21 (Listen) FRI Kenton feels ashamed, and Jill is dignified. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Marina Caldarone 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 Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Hazel Woolley: Annette Badland FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b066d2h2 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b065xh39 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b065xk23 (Listen) FRI Jeremy Corbyn, Dan Jones, Polly Toynbee, Elizabeth Truss FRI FRI Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Radio Theatre FRI at Broadcasting House, London, with the Labour leadership FRI contender Jeremy Corbyn MP, the historian Dan Jones, FRI Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and the Secetary of State FRI for the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs FRI Elizabeth Truss. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b065xk25 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 What Is a Story? b065xk27 (Listen) FRI Omnibus: Part 2 FRI FRI Marina Warner - in the company of leading contemporary FRI writers - looks at the world of contemporary fiction, FRI considering writing and storytelling from a number of FRI different angles. FRI FRI Marina is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize FRI 2015 and this programme draws on the expertise of this FRI year's International Booker judging panel, the views of the FRI shortlisted writers, as well as other key literary talent. FRI FRI She speaks with writers as diverse as Julian Barnes, FRI Michelle Roberts, Fanny Howe, Marlene van Niekerk, Alain FRI Mabanckou, Lydia Davis, Edwin Frank, Elleke Boehmer, FRI Wen-Chin Ouyang, Daniel Medin, Nadeem Aslam and this year's FRI Man Booker International winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. FRI FRI Key to this exploration will be questions around the FRI boundaries between fact and fiction, which Marina believes FRI are central to any discussion of the subject, since readers' FRI pleasure depends so much on trust built up between the FRI storyteller/writer and the audience. FRI FRI In this compilation created from five programmes originally FRI broadcast in July this year, Marina FRI considers the work of imagination in making up stories and FRI looks at older forms of narrative, including animal fables, FRI fairy tales, ghost stories and myths. FRI FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b065rtb1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b066tqbj (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b065xk29 (Listen) FRI Go Set a Watchman, Episode 10 FRI FRI GO SET A WATCHMAN FRI FRI In the literary event of the year Harper Lee's explosive FRI second novel has finally been published. Believed lost for FRI decades after the publication of 'To Kill A Mockingbird', FRI this book revisits much-loved characters, this time through FRI adult eyes. This abridgement for Book at Bedtime brings a FRI compelling and important release to Radio 4. FRI FRI Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb FRI for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into FRI the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her FRI beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship FRI with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same FRI place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother FRI Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust FRI shattered before she is able to become her own woman. FRI FRI Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill FRI A Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept FRI over and revered by generations since its publication in FRI 1960. She lives in Monroeville, Alabama. FRI FRI Read by Fenella Woolgar FRI FRI Written by Harper Lee FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Fenella Woolgar FRI Author: Harper Lee FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour b065xk2c (Listen) FRI Late Night Woman's Hour: What Makes a Man? FRI FRI Lauren Laverne talk men and masculinity with writer and FRI comedian Richard Herring and endocrinologist and medical FRI educator Leighton Seal. FRI FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI Producer: Rebecca Myatt FRI FRI Interviewed Guest: Richard Herring FRI Interviewed Guest: Leighton Seal. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI Interviewed Guest: Richard Herring FRI Interviewed Guest: Ben Bailey Smith FRI Interviewed Guest: Leighton Seal FRI Producer: Rebecca Myatt FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b065xk2f (Listen) FRI Stanley and Sonja - Back on the Bike FRI FRI Fi Glover with a couple who met through cycling over 50 FRI years ago. He's still pedalling, but she's stopped. If he FRI has his way, though, she'll soon be back in the saddle. FRI Recorded in the mobile Booth at Durrell Wildlife Park in FRI Jersey, it's another conversation in the series that proves FRI it's 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
14 August, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 15/08/2015 - 21/08/2015
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