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SAT SAT Sometimes referred to as a Hang Drum, the Hang is not really SAT a drum at all, but a tuned metal pan that produces a SAT mellifluous, ethereal tone with echoes of the Trinidadian SAT steel pan or Indian ghatam. Some argue that it is not even a SAT musical instrument, but more a work of art, a sound SAT sculpture. SAT SAT The Hang (meaning Hand in the Bernese Swiss German dialect) SAT was born in the Swiss city of Berne in the year 2000. Played SAT with the hands and fingers, it has become a cult instrument SAT across the globe and demand far outstrips supply. SAT Prospective owners must go in person - by invitation only - SAT to the PANArt workshop in Berne to get their Hang. SAT Applications must be made by writing a letter, not an email. SAT Second hand Hangs can fetch over $10,000 on eBay. Some Hang SAT videos have over 11 million views from a vast online SAT community of enthusiasts. SAT SAT What makes the Hang so special? 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SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Ryan Craig SAT Fergus: Alex MacQueen SAT Penny: Amelia Lowdell SAT Patrick: David Acton SAT Kitty: Lizzy Watts SAT Gale: Christine Kavanagh SAT Director: Peter Kavanagh SAT Producer: Peter Kavanagh SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b062dhg8 (Listen) SAT RSC's Volpone, The Wonders, Go Set a Watchman, Marc Quinn TV SAT SAT The RSC's latest production is a contemporary setting of Ben SAT Johnson's 17th century comedy play Volpone. SAT Italian film The Wonders, is a film which won the Jury Prize SAT at this year's Cannes Festival. It's about a family of SAT beekeepers struggling to survive. SAT Harper Lee is not a prolific author. Her first 'new' work in SAT more than half a century is Go Set a Watchman. 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SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b061tfmp (Listen) SAT Series 11, Amputation SAT SAT A dilemma arises for a surgeon when a young woman called SAT Sarah is referred to his clinic. SAT SAT Six years earlier, Sarah injured her knee in a skiing SAT accident and the intervening years have been dominated by SAT operations to repair her knee, each followed by months of SAT gruelling rehabilitation. SAT SAT But despite all this, Sarah's knee remains unstable and SAT painful and it's taking its toll on her mental health. SAT SAT Various surgeons have refused to amputate her leg and SAT recommend that she either accept her existing level of SAT disability or agree to further operations. SAT SAT But Sarah is adamant - she wants her leg amputated. She SAT doesn't want to live as she is and has lost faith in the SAT medical profession's ability to give her a knee that will SAT enable her to be active. SAT SAT The surgeon is caught in a dilemma - he appreciates how she SAT feels but should he amputate her leg? SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. SAT SAT Producer: Beth Eastwood. SAT SAT Photo credit: EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images SAT SAT The Panel SAT Steve Mannion SAT Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals SAT SAT Andrea Adeleanu SAT Clinical Psychologist, Surrey & Borders NHS Foundation Trust SAT SAT Deborah Bowman SAT Professor of Ethics and Law at St George’s University of SAT London SAT SAT SAT Your Comments SAT SAT As a Dance movement therapist I listened to this programme SAT with interest. I had a similar injury 10 years ago, in the SAT middle of my dance therapy training which resulted in a SAT slight misalignement in my left leg. In no way was it as SAT severe as Sara's injury or it's consequences. However, I am SAT aware that having danced all my life and therefore with a SAT relationship to my body which gave me a perception of being SAT connected and in control made a big difference to my SAT attitude towards rehab and the consequences. It seemed to SAT me, listening initially to the programme that there seemed SAT to be an underlying unacknowledged hurt that exacerbated SAT Sarah's suffering. In no way do I think her response was SAT unwarranted, but the lack of agency, of being in control of SAT decisions about her own body and life were surely making the SAT experience even worse (and undoubtedly connecting to life SAT experiences at the root of her mental health problems in the SAT past.). Of course as a dance movement therapist, I wonder if SAT a more body-based approach to her therapeutic support may SAT not have helped her to gain a little more understanding and SAT confidence . I am sure that now she is again in the ' SAT driving seat' she will be able to rebuild her life with SAT renewed confidence and sense of self-worth. SAT prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SAT SAT (Helen Dexter) SAT Hi, I listened with interest today re amputation. I lost my SAT limbs due to meningitis 5 yrs ago at the age of 54. The SAT specific feedback I'd like to give is re exploring SAT expectations of mobility after surgery and the provision of SAT prosthetic limbs. I have 3 NHS limbs that allow me to walk, SAT drive, work (all limited) but I know that if I could afford SAT to go private I could have much more ability. SAT SAT I didn't hear in the analysis the expectations needing to SAT consider the limit to resourcing via the NHS for SAT prosthetics....waiting times etc etc. My expectations were SAT high but I soon learnt not to expect more than the NHS could SAT provide. For example the new digital hands look fantastic SAT but I don't spend time looking at articles about them as I'm SAT not able to fund one. I have to use what I'm provided with SAT to gain some function of my missing arm. I know there are SAT movable ankles but there is no funding so stairs, slopes are SAT all tricky with fixed metal ankles. SAT SAT The context of limited resources and cut backs has to be SAT part of the discussion as that's the reality for amputees in SAT civilian life. SAT Thanks SAT (Liz Curry) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT I have just listened to your program about the young lady SAT who had her leg amputated for chronic knee ligament damage. SAT I am a GP in the NHS & am horrified that she managed to SAT persuade the surgeons to amputate her otherwise good leg. I SAT listened to the whole SAT program before emailing you. I am very concerned for a SAT number of reasons; SAT 1) I didn't hear any other option discussed with her other SAT than arthrodesis (fusing the knee), what about a knee SAT replacement? This would have given her less pain, a SAT functioning knee & allowed her to get back to the sports she SAT wanted to do & I would suggest would have been better than a SAT prosthesis, SAT 2) As you pointed out in your program, she spent 5yrs SAT without any exercise but didn't do any disability sport, eg SAT wheelchair ones, why did she not do or be supported in SAT anything like this? SAT 3) I am very worried about this aspect of "patient SAT empowerment" (a principle I do generally support). The NHS SAT is there for provision of medical care with clinicians SAT providing advice so that patients can make an appropriate SAT informed choice, yes, but the NHS is not for doing just what SAT a patient has decided that that is what they wants whatever, SAT which was unfortunately what came over in this program, SAT 4) We work in a cash limited service that has to save SAT billions of £ this year and also improve services for lots SAT of groups of patients especially Dementia etc. Inappropriate SAT treatments should be limited. I accept I haven't done the SAT actual sums for whether £ would be saved in the long term SAT but short term we are short of £. SAT I don't usually respond to programs I hear but felt so SAT strongly after listening to your program this morning. I do SAT thank you for airing it though. I don't expect a response as SAT I anticipate there may be a number of polarised views on SAT this subject. SAT Thank you. Best wishes, SAT (Dr Stephen Riley, GP Nottingham) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT Hello, just listened to 'inside the ethics committee' on SAT amputation. I am concerned that no-one seemed to address SAT the very basic of healing which is nutrition. I would have SAT liked to see someone try putting her on a gluten free diet SAT to calm the nerves and a high protein diet for healing bone SAT with a supplement of green lipped mussel to rebuild SAT ligaments, plus Vit D. As a sufferer of a recently broken SAT ankle I know that all of this is necessary to aid healing. SAT The body needs to be given optimum conditions to help SAT itself. The medical profession under the NHS never consider SAT this. Drugs or surgeons or psychiatry are always the first SAT line of defence. Nutrition is not pseudoscience….we are all SAT made of umpteen chemicals as is our food!! SAT SAT (Alex) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT Goodness - how much has this whole procedure cost the nhs? SAT SAT (Mary) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT Hi there, I have to say that was an excellent article and a SAT subject close to my own heart. My left leg was badly broken SAT in my 20s and I have had multiple surgical procedures in an SAT attempt to repair 14 separate breaks, including bone grafts. SAT The surgeons actually recommended several times that my leg SAT would be best amputated at the knee and came close to SAT necessity several times due to subsequent infection. One SAT surgeon also cut through my sciatic nerve whilst repairing SAT my femur, meaning I lost all feeling and movement below the SAT knee. SAT SAT SAT SAT 20 years on and my leg troubles continue, but it has become SAT an issue of intense personal triumph that I keep my own leg, SAT despite the fact my life would certainly be easier with a SAT prosthesis. I was also highly active as a young man, having SAT served as a soldier, and I still manage to run and have even SAT boxed competitively for some time despite my severely SAT damaged leg. SAT SAT SAT SAT Thank you and good luck, Sarah, that was a very brave SAT decision and was inspiring to hear her courage. SAT SAT (Marc Riley, London) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT I had a snowboarding accident, had 15 operations and several SAT reconstructions. I then chose to have my leg amputated. SAT 12 months ago. I did my first triathlon a day after getting SAT a blade (10 years since I had last run) - 2 months after my SAT operation. Irrespective. You need to be talking about SAT funding in regards to the success, adaptability of the SAT patient. As an amputee everything is possible but everything SAT is a project and is dependent on your equipment - SAT prosthetic. The NHS is so underfunded in this area and SAT prosthetics are an incredibly expensive hobby. SAT SAT (Charlie) SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT SAT SAT Yeah adrenalin withdrawal, she's depressed. She's suffering SAT from a nappy clad modern and not so modern condition, I SAT can't do what I like doing so get rid. Life doesn't work SAT like that. SAT She'll feel the pain anyway so why consider this? She'll SAT regret it all and there'll be law suit, when she'll drain SAT the health service. I feel sorry for her but leave her SAT intact. Since I started this email you've denigrated this SAT woman by saying she's psychologically impairs and I doubt SAT she is, just a product of angst Britain. SAT SAT (Di) SAT SAT Programme Transcript - Inside the Ethics Committee SAT Downloaded from SAT www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 SAT SAT SAT THE ATTACHED TRANSCRIPT WAS TYPED FROM A RECORDING AND NOT SAT COPIED FROM AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. BECAUSE OF THE RISK OF SAT MISHEARING AND THE DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES OF IDENTIFYING SAT INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS, THE BBC CANNOT VOUCH FOR ITS COMPLETE SAT ACCURACY. SAT SAT SAT SAT INSIDE THE ETHICS COMMITTEE SAT SAT SAT Programme 1 – Amputation SAT SAT TX: 16.07.15 SAT SAT PRESENTER: JOAN BAKEWELL SAT SAT PRODUCER: BETH EASTWOOD SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Losing a leg is traumatic for anyone but what happens when SAT patient and surgeon disagree about treatment? Suppose the SAT patient asks for an amputation and the surgeon has his SAT doubts – must he respect the patient’s wishes? SAT SAT SAT SAT Welcome to Inside the Ethics Committee. SAT SAT SAT SAT The story begins for the surgeon three years ago in the SAT summer of 2012. A new patient, 25 year old Sarah, is on his SAT clinic list. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT I first heard about Sarah when a referral letter came across SAT my desk. It was an unusual referral because it made SAT reference to a young fit lady who had essentially come to SAT see me to consider whether or not we should accede to her SAT request to cut her leg off. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I was waiting around in his office, waiting for him to come SAT in, obviously nervous because you kind of feel like you’re SAT on the defensive straightaway because you’re scared that SAT somebody’s going to look at you like you’re stupid. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The surgeon doesn’t think she’s stupid but he’s dubious SAT about her request. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT I thought that my purpose in seeing her would be to give her SAT a different perspective on life, so that she could actually SAT understand that she’d be better off with her leg. So I was SAT well aware of the fact that this might cause some conflict SAT and some confrontation. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT As he came in he didn’t look at me like I had three heads, SAT so I thought okay I’m not being totally stupid. And we just SAT talked. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT She gave me a very clear history of having constant pain SAT that was made worse every time the knee gave way and when SAT Sarah was walking across the consulting room the shin bone SAT popped back forward beneath the thigh bone and despite the SAT fact that she’d been given knee braces to try and control SAT the wobbliness the knee brace just didn’t work. She was SAT trying to adapt to the instability by swinging the affected SAT leg out in a wide arc and walking on it without the leg SAT being beneath her body to try and stop the knee giving way, SAT it was a very awkward gait. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah’s problems with her knee start five years before, SAT she’s 20 years old and on a ski holiday, it’s January 2007. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT It was a beautiful sunny day but very, very icy and I just SAT went down, I just stopped suddenly and as I did so my knee SAT kind of bent further backwards but my boot didn’t detach SAT from the binding and it was then when I realised I had to SAT get a skidoo off the slope. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The doctor explains that Sarah has torn the cartilage in her SAT knee. It’s painful and unstable, so she doesn’t ski for the SAT rest of the holiday. But when she gets home a week later SAT it’s still no better. An MRI scan reveals that she has SAT ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT The anterior cruciate ligament is one of the major ligaments SAT inside the knee and it’s the ligament that stops the shin SAT bone from slipping forward underneath the thigh bone. It’s SAT a very common injury seen in many footballers, many SAT athletes, many rugby players and many skiers. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Not everyone with this injury needs surgery and Sarah hopes SAT she won’t either. But things come to a head a few months SAT later, in May, when she’s helping a friend move house. She SAT jumps down from the back of the removal van carrying a heavy SAT box. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT As I landed I couldn’t get back up. It swelled up SAT instantly, it was absolutely huge and it was from then SAT onwards that I couldn’t control the leg. Whereas before I’d SAT been able to stand up and my muscles could kind of hold it SAT in place a bit more but after May that was it, I just found SAT it so difficult to do anything with it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah has keyhole surgery to tidy up the ruptured ligament SAT and then a more invasive operation two weeks later to repair SAT it. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT After that sort of operation one would expect to have a SAT patient who has a stable knee, that allows them to go back SAT to activities of normal daily living and in most cases go SAT back to moderate to high level sporting activities. There’s SAT a phase of graduated rehabilitation and it would take most SAT people something between six to nine months to see that SAT they’ve got to about 95% of their recovery. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Well I was just hoping that it would be stable but by the SAT time I went to do a bit of rehabilitation we noticed that my SAT shin bone was moving forward of the knee and it just wasn’t SAT sitting in the right place when I was standing. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Further investigations reveal that some of the cartilage is SAT torn and that the first graft is not quite in the right SAT place, it’s too vertical. The following spring another SAT surgeon reconstructs the ligament again. Several months on, SAT it’s clear once again it hasn’t worked. It’s a huge SAT disappointment for Sarah who once had a very active sporting SAT life. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I couldn’t play sport with my friends or go out for a run SAT with my friends. I found it difficult to go up and down SAT stairs, any sort of hill I would generally struggle on SAT because I felt like my leg was bowing outwards and every SAT time I put weight through it it would get even worse. It’s SAT quite tender to walk on. I’d rely heavily on my left leg SAT rather than using that, just left leg everything really. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Further key-hole surgery the following year, by now it’s SAT spring 2009, confirms her fears – she’s still got a ruptured SAT ligament and further tears to the inner cartilage. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT Of course the shin bone and the thigh bone by this time had SAT got two or three holes in it from previous attempts to SAT reconstruct. And the first thing that these surgeons had to SAT do was to fill those holes in with bone graft and while they SAT were there they also re-repaired the inner cartilage that SAT had been torn. This was really setting the scene for the SAT next stage to reconstruct the anterior cruciate ligament. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s a tense six month wait for the third reconstruction. SAT After the op, Sarah’s leg is placed in a brace for several SAT weeks to keep it straight. Then there’s the physiotherapy. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I tried desperately to work my muscles, because I know SAT obviously making everything else around the knee strong – SAT that’s what I was trying to do. I listened to the physio, SAT they give me a few exercises and then I’d do that and then SAT I’d be in the gym working on the bike or doing the weights SAT machines that I was allowed to do – anything not to SAT aggravate it really. But straightaway I knew it hadn’t SAT worked. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Day to day life is increasingly unbearable. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT After each operation it became more painful, everything I’d SAT done for the past three and a half years was about getting SAT back to where I was and I was just getting so far away from SAT where I used to be that I couldn’t see a way out of this. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The endless cycle of surgery and rehabilitation is taking SAT its toll. Sarah seeks the opinion of another surgeon who SAT once again recommends a ligament reconstruction. She SAT decides to give it one last change and undergoes surgery in SAT the spring of 2011. SAT SAT SAT SAT Once again, the operation fails. Sarah is distraught. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I’d started weighing up how I was going to kind of carry on SAT with my rest of my life with the leg that I had. Then I SAT started looking into why don’t I see if they’ll take it off. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT The decision to take off a leg is clearly a decision that SAT can’t be reversed and it seemed a great tragedy to offer SAT Sarah an amputation without considering all other options. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT He actually suggested how about if we just leave it, don’t SAT do anymore operations and I said no and I just said would it SAT be possible to amputate the leg. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The surgeon can appreciate Sarah’s frustration but SAT amputating her leg seems extreme. He seeks the opinion of SAT other surgeons around the country. SAT SAT SAT SAT He asks one of them whether a fifth reconstruction could SAT improve things. That surgeon feels there is a 50-60% chance SAT it could. But what would success look like? SAT SAT SAT Surgeon (2) SAT SAT She would be able to walk unaided without the fear of SAT instability and carry out some gentle exercises and to an SAT extent she may be able to carry out activities such as SAT running. But she would have to accept that there would be a SAT chance that it might not work. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT There is another option. To fuse Sarah’s knee joint by SAT fixing her shin and thigh bones together, but Sarah refuses SAT - she’d be left with no movement in her knee at all. She’s SAT sent to another surgeon who explains that a partial knee SAT replacement might help her. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon (3) SAT SAT I explained to Sarah that ordinary everyday life as a young SAT adult would be unimpaired. And I’d expect her to be living SAT a completely age appropriate life in terms of activities. SAT Not in contact, not in martial arts but the normal life of SAT people in their twenties and thirties. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT From a very young age I’ve been so active, I felt like all SAT my fitness gains were lost and that without being fit and SAT being able to do functional dynamic things with the leg I SAT just didn’t feel another operation could do that. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon (3) SAT SAT Her life was really all about activity and achievement in a SAT competitive environment. Which of course for your average SAT teenager is completely normal but she certainly still felt SAT passionately that was the yardstick she wanted to be SAT measured by. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah is also put off by the fact that minor surgery would SAT occasionally be necessary to maintain her knee joint. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT By that time I’d had six operations and all four SAT reconstructions had failed and every surgeon told me they SAT were going to fix it. This was just another surgeon and I SAT didn’t have faith. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon (3) SAT SAT It was so maddening and so sad. She was absolutely SAT determined that she was going to be an amputee. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The referring surgeon collects all the opinions together…the SAT views vary to some degree but one thing is clear. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT The general opinion was that there were more surgical SAT processes that could be performed without cutting off SAT Sarah’s leg. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT It was Groundhog Day, I was just going round and round in SAT circles. I’d seen so many people and every appointment I SAT just didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT This is perhaps not surprising… amputation is not the norm. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon (2) SAT SAT The problem for us as medics is that we have certain SAT indications for which we carry out amputations – severe SAT infections, damage to nerves or blood vessels as occurs in SAT diabetes, devastating injuries – and in Sarah’s case she had SAT a normal functioning limb below her knee, she had a good SAT blood supply, good nerves, good skin, good tissue so it was SAT a little bit difficult to suggest that she should have an SAT amputation. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And amputation is not risk free. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon (3) SAT SAT If you asked a hundred amputees how many operations they’ve SAT had following their amputation the commonest would not even SAT be one, it would be two or three. How many times they’d had SAT antibiotics for an infected hair follicle – hands up all SAT over the place. How many times had they had to take their SAT limb off for a few weeks – hands up all over the place. SAT Lifelong amputation is no joke. Removing a perfect leg with SAT just a sore and unstable knee was absurd honestly. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Who are they to say what a perfect leg is? It’s the knee – SAT that’s quite a significant part of the body that you need to SAT get on with in life and I don’t care what people say SAT anymore. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right well joining me to discuss this case are: SAT SAT SAT SAT Stephen Mannion, who’s an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Blackpool SAT Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Andrea Adeleanu, a SAT Clinical Psychologist who works with people with SAT life-changing illnesses at Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation SAT Trust and Deborah Bowman, Professor of Ethics and Law at St SAT George’s University of London. SAT SAT SAT SAT Well Sarah is refusing this operation that the surgeons SAT recommend and she’s asking for ones they’re reluctant to SAT do. Now what do you make of that Steve? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Well it is most unusual that a young fit active woman is SAT requesting amputation but she has been put through an awful SAT lot of previous surgery and it’s really a question of how SAT bad her symptoms are at this point. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So why do you think the surgeons keep on trying to fix the SAT knee? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Surgeons are understandably reluctant to amputate, it is the SAT last resort and are reluctant to accept that operations have SAT not been successful. And the other aspect to it is SAT increasingly now orthopaedic surgeons are less exposed to SAT amputation, we live in very safe times, our vehicles are SAT very safe, we don’t get traumatic amputations from road SAT traffic accidents, we don’t see the burden of industrial SAT accidents we used to get back in previous decades. Most SAT orthopaedic surgeons don’t do this procedure and therefore SAT understandably are reluctant to undertake it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Sarah, at this stage, Andrea, is fed up, as she’s said, SAT she wants the leg off, now what happens when patients feel SAT they’ve lost trust in the doctors they’re not getting what SAT they want? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT I’m not sure that it’s always about losing trust in the SAT doctors actually. I think we’ve got a new breed of patients SAT on our hands – people who are actually shopping for SAT solutions that fit their lifestyles. Patients have access SAT to a lot more information on the internet and from other SAT sources, so it is much more possible for an intelligent SAT thinking woman to know what surgical options or other SAT options she’s got. And our medical and psychological SAT framework is about fixing things, it’s not about actually SAT people coming in and saying look I’d be better off with a SAT different solution. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So what do you believe should be done for patients who have SAT sort of lost trust in what’s happening? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT All I can do is talk about my practice and my practice is SAT about helping people understand that our basic psychology SAT hardwires us to try and fix problems, whether we’re doctors SAT or patients, but actually good decision making demands that SAT we think about what are we in business to do. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And Deborah? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT For me this is a how do you care for someone and work with SAT someone in an environment where there are objective things SAT that can be looked at in terms of the state of the knee and SAT the state of the limb but you also have somebody saying SAT subjectively this is what it means to me and you have to SAT attend to both. And I think it’s about the complexity of SAT bringing together the subjective and the objective to make a SAT decision that’s meaningful, that somebody can live with. SAT It’s about the unique subjectivity of pain and the impact on SAT Sarah’s life versus, if you like, the years of training and SAT the clinical view of the surgeons, which is what we want SAT from them. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Steve, can a surgeon be forced to give an operation? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT No not at all, the surgeon will only be acting according to SAT what he or she thinks is the patient’s best interests, if SAT they feel that amputation isn’t in the patient’s best SAT interest then they cannot be obliged to undertake such an SAT operation. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But subjectivity comes into this, so how is a surgeon to SAT know what the patient feels like? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT It’s very, very difficult to really do that. Again you can SAT do a clinical examination. I’ve done research looking at SAT quality of life studies in this group of patients, to say SAT look at them beforehand and how much pain they have and look SAT at them after amputation. And there definitely are a group SAT of patients who benefit from amputative surgery. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And do they benefit from having the surgeon collaborate with SAT what they’re requesting rather than imposing a clinical SAT solution? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Increasingly now surgeons and the medical profession must SAT respect patient’s wishes and in this patient’s case clearly SAT her wish for amputation needs to be considered carefully. SAT We do have to also recognise that in some patients it isn’t SAT necessarily in their best interests, they may be have SAT psychological issues which cause them to request this SAT operation. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Well we come on to that in a moment but do you think, SAT Deborah, that patients have the right to ask for a SAT particular treatment? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT You have the right to express a preference. So consent is SAT about expressing a preference. You’re given the options and SAT you agree to them or you choose between them but that right SAT doesn’t extend to what we call demanding treatment. So no SAT one has the right to go in and say I have self-diagnosed or SAT even been diagnosed with X, I would like you to do Y and I SAT insist that you do Y. However, it rarely comes to that, I SAT mean most good therapeutic relationships are not predicated SAT upon somebody saying give me X and somebody else saying SAT absolutely not and I think we heard that from the surgeon in SAT the first excerpt – that he was very open. But we also SAT heard that Sarah was saying nobody has listened to me, and SAT by the end she said I’m not listening to anyone else, I SAT don’t care what they say. And that’s the rub in this case. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well let’s get back to the real life story. It’s now early SAT 2013. The surgeon hasn’t heard from Sarah since he referred SAT her on. He’s quietly hoping that she’s found a solution SAT elsewhere. But then she reappears on his clinic list SAT requesting amputation. While the surgeon is still reluctant SAT to agree to her request, he also feels torn. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT It would be very easy for me to have said to Sarah – go SAT away, I will not cut your leg off. But balanced against SAT that is our duty to care for a patient and relieve SAT suffering. So instead of dismissing Sarah to the scrapheap SAT of non-surgical solution I would have thought that it was SAT only fair to really explore this issue of amputation SAT thoroughly in order to number one either say we should not SAT cut her leg off or number two there is a reasonable chance SAT that by cutting her leg off we would improve her life. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The surgeon seeks the input of a range of specialists who SAT know Sarah’s case. SAT SAT SAT SAT A key question is whether she has the capacity to consent to SAT having her leg amputated. This is complicated by the fact SAT that Sarah has suffered bouts of depression in the past, SAT which have increased since her knee injury, things come to a SAT head after the last operation fails. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I became very depressed by that point. I couldn’t see a way SAT forward, I was losing my job, I was in a poor relationship, SAT I was devastated that I’d never play football again or be SAT the person that I thought I was going to be. I was fed up SAT of living in pain, I mean after that operation the nerve SAT pain in my foot became quite intense. I was living with SAT chronic back pain. The pain was just increasing all the SAT time, I’d try oral morphine and even that didn’t work, I was SAT just miserable. I self-harmed, after a period of a few SAT months I got to the point where I tried to commit suicide. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah’s psychiatrist. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT When I first saw Sarah after she had tried to commit suicide SAT she was briefly admitted to hospital. It became apparent SAT that she’d seen some of my colleagues in another part of the SAT country and they’d tried to help her with psychotherapy and SAT antidepressant medication, which to some extent had helped SAT but Sarah really had felt at times that the medication SAT wasn’t really making a big difference, that the main problem SAT really was her leg and the loss of function. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The psychiatrist prescribes a different antidepressant but SAT he suspects that she’s right – that the root cause of her SAT depression lies in her frustration at not being able to SAT exercise. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT Exercise was a very important part of her life, she’d had a SAT difficult childhood and it was a good way of releasing some SAT of the tension she felt. It gave her an identity as someone SAT who was keen on sport and she wanted to get as high as SAT possible in the sporting world and the fact she couldn’t SAT exercise in the way she’d been used to was hugely SAT frustrating for her and made her depressed and she suffered SAT with difficulty sleeping and she had recurrent thoughts that SAT life was not worth living because of her disability. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I’m a massive sport [indistinct words].. a massive SAT footballer, I was a Thai boxer and that kind of thing. So SAT if I had any problems I’d always go out for a run, go SAT cycling or do something. Now I just didn’t seem to have SAT anywhere to vent my frustrations. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Despite the ongoing problems with her knee Sarah finds she’s SAT able to do some cycling. But after the fifth operation her SAT awkward gait makes cycling too painful. SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT At first I tried to push myself through the pain but it was SAT just getting worse. So I stopped with the cycling. But by SAT that time I was so depressed that I couldn’t see a way SAT forward. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The psychiatrist encourages Sarah to have psychotherapy to SAT help her deal with the difficult things in her past and SAT manage the emotional distress her knee is causing. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I came out of hospital and I was still not in a great place SAT with the knee issues, it was making it so difficult and I SAT was desperate, I was desperate for someone to sort my leg SAT out so I could get back to being me. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT Well I could see her point of view. The frustration of SAT going from specialist to specialist. She felt that she had SAT come to the end of the road, even if they hadn’t. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But something else concerns the psychiatrist. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT She got to a point where she was expressing a hatred for her SAT dysfunctional knee and of course this was a bit of a concern SAT because it was quite an extreme hatred. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The psychiatrist also considers whether Sarah has body SAT dysmorphic disorder – a condition where the patient forms an SAT irrational obsession with a minor defect in their SAT appearance… SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT As you can imagine such patients do turn up in the SAT consulting rooms of plastic surgeons and dermatologists and SAT it’s very important to identify them because in many cases SAT the surgical procedure will not be successful, the person SAT will still be dissatisfied with their appearance. So this SAT was something that we had to be sure that Sarah did not SAT have. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The psychiatrist also wants to be sure that Sarah has SAT realistic expectations of what amputation might offer. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I have a lot going on in life, I knew I was always going to SAT have mental health problems when things go wrong, but I also SAT felt like the leg’s one problem in itself, it was never SAT about me thinking this was going to solve all my problems, SAT because I’m not that daft. I wasn’t desperate to get back SAT to my old life because I’d lost that, I just knew that the SAT amputation could help with my pain and my activity levels, SAT it was a possibility – maybe not other people, but for me, SAT yeah. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So we come back to the panel to discuss the case as it’s SAT reached now. SAT SAT SAT SAT Tell me more about this body dysmorphic disorder. Have you SAT come across it Steve? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Very rarely, it’s really just a hatred of one part of the SAT body, the person becomes fixated on that aspect of the body SAT and they want it changed or removed and if you then do that SAT it’ll still be a problem with regard to the missing part of SAT the body or it will focus somewhere else. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And have you come across it yourself? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Yeah I have a specialist practice with people who request SAT amputations and a small proportion – I tend to refer these SAT to psychologists to determine whether this is indeed the SAT case before considering surgery further. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Andrea, Sarah’s talked about her hated leg, how is that SAT different from what Steve Mannion’s just explained? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT When we think about this limb hatred diagnostically it SAT should be a limb or a part of the body that has nothing SAT wrong with it. So I don’t see any evidence from the way SAT Sarah’s talking that this would apply to her. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Sarah talks about getting her old life back, now is that SAT even possible? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT My question is why she hasn’t already. Every sports centre SAT I know now has activities for people in wheelchairs and SAT things, she could have been out being sporty for the last SAT five years. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But she’s not in a wheelchair. SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT No she’s not but she could compete, she could be out wheel SAT running. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But she doesn’t want to be there. This concept we have that SAT when something goes wrong what we’d like to be is our former SAT self – is that even an idea that runs? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT No it isn’t. She’s been dealt a really bad hand of cards SAT with this accident. Her old leg, she was born with, her SAT perfect leg, is gone, whether she has the amputation or SAT whether she continues to allow revisions, she has a knee SAT that isn’t perfect. I like the idea that she wants to be SAT more active, I’m worried about escaping pain because I think SAT the chance is she can escape pain. So there’s something SAT about what she moving towards as opposed to what she’s SAT trying to fix, is really important for me. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So how is she going to be reconciled to that? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT What often happens is that surgeons will refer to a SAT psychologist or a psychiatrist at that point to say are they SAT able to make this decision, what are the risks that they get SAT terribly depressed or have difficulties post-surgery. And I SAT think people are often very insulted by that – not only do SAT they have a bad leg but now they’re being told they’re mad. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Her talking about hating her limb is very disturbing for her SAT isn’t it? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT Yes, if she was my patient I would want to be exploring with SAT her what that’s about because I think that a lot of her SAT hatred of her life, as it is at the moment, is getting very SAT focused in that knee and for me there is a question about to SAT what extent there are ways in which she could be coached – SAT and I don’t think psychotherapy is necessarily the right SAT approach but kind of life coached into thinking through how SAT living with pain and living with the leg as it is could be SAT an option for her. What I want to know is that she has been SAT down all those avenues and by-ways, she hasn’t got so SAT focused on get rid of the pain. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And Deborah? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT As Andrea was talking I was thinking this is about making SAT meaning out of autonomy, so actually sitting with somebody SAT and saying this is how you’re expressing your preferences at SAT the moment but have you thought about these other things and SAT what might this be like in testing it. And that’s not SAT challenging autonomy, it’s giving it meaning, it’s fostering SAT it and I think it’s really important to emphasise that. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Andrea, she’s had some mental health problems in the past so SAT could that be swaying her judgement do you think? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT There’s no evidence that people with mental health problems SAT don’t know their own mind and don’t make good decisions or SAT even change their minds after the event. Absolutely no SAT evidence at all. A very tiny minority of people with very SAT severe mental health difficulties don’t have capacity for SAT very brief periods of time and then they know exactly what SAT they’re doing and what they’re wanting. What we do know SAT though is that people with mental health problems, SAT especially if rooted in a difficult childhood, are sometimes SAT more upset by making mistakes, they have more problems in SAT feeling good about themselves and I would always be wanting SAT to prepare somebody as they go up to radical surgery to SAT manage. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Deborah Bowman, does pain affect your judgement? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT It affects everything and I’m speaking from personal SAT experience rather than any expertise as an academic here. SAT But I think that’s not the same as saying someone doesn’t SAT have capacity. Capacity has very clear criteria, it’s SAT decision specific, it’s about what you understand, it’s SAT about what you can retain and it’s about your ability to SAT weigh up information and then express what you’d like. Now SAT on the basis of what we’ve heard I don’t doubt Sarah’s SAT capacity. If there is a question it’s probably about the SAT weighing up because she feels so hopeless and so stuck but SAT I’m not persuaded that there is a legitimate question about SAT her capacity. I think it’s also important to emphasise SAT capacity isn’t about the decision you make, it’s about your SAT ability to make it, so the fact that someone makes a SAT decision that I wouldn’t make or that you wouldn’t make SAT doesn’t mean that their capacity’s in question, it means SAT they’re different. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But it’s also a question of the imaginative capacity of the SAT medical team to know what it must feel like, can any of us SAT really know what it’s like to have that kind of problem, SAT Stephen? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Very important to counsel this patient and also be aware of SAT her expectations. Because of the sophistication of modern SAT prosthesis below the knee amputations, so blade runners and SAT the like, they can have normal ambulation. This amputation SAT would need to be through knee or above knee because of the SAT previous surgery that she’s had and the level of mobility is SAT far less and the difficulty with the prosthetics is far SAT greater. The way to do this would be to talk to and see SAT people with these particular amputations and then work out SAT what the expectations might be in terms of getting back to SAT sporting activity and being pain free. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So Andrea. SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT When we think about transgender people we expect them to SAT live in that way and experience it a bit and I think Steve’s SAT absolutely right. But we have got these inspiring images SAT now. We saw the Invictus Games, we had the Paralympics, we SAT know how amazing some of our Paralympic athletes are. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Okay, well let’s get back to the real life case as it was SAT lived. SAT SAT SAT SAT The psychiatrist is confident that Sarah is not suffering SAT from body dysmorphic disorder. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT Well clearly Sarah had some objective disability. The SAT surgeons had attempted to repair an obvious defect in her SAT knee and so it was clear that Sarah’s view of her knee was SAT entirely consistent with the opinions of the orthopaedic SAT surgeons and therefore this was not a case of body SAT dysmorphic disorder. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT As we’ve heard, Sarah is in considerable pain. The surgeon SAT refers her to rehabilitation and pain experts so they can SAT consider with her the impact amputation might have. SAT SAT SAT Rehabilitation Specialist SAT SAT My main concern is always patient expectation and her SAT expectations are very similar to so many young people with SAT orthopaedic injuries, particularly those that have been SAT injured through sport. Often patients will go for an SAT operation presuming at the end of it they’ll be up, running SAT and doing everything that they want to do immediately. But SAT the rehabilitation post-amputation is a long process. So SAT managing those expectations in young orthopaedic patients is SAT quite often very, very difficult. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT He talked through the kind of pros and the cons and really SAT did not beat around the bush, he really told me everything SAT to expect. I was then sent to a physiotherapist that deals SAT with post-amputation rehabilitation and I actually got to SAT see a prosthetist as well who showed me all the different SAT kind of limbs. When I walked into his office he said to me SAT – I can get you walking better than that. It was a SAT possibility. I knew it wasn’t definite, there’s always days SAT when you’re going to have problems with the stump or other SAT issues, I get that but this was the only way forward for me. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The rehabilitation specialist has another concern. SAT SAT SAT Rehabilitation Specialist SAT SAT We can take your leg away but we may not get rid of the SAT pain. Which is always a very big thing because if you’ve SAT got a painful foot and you can see your foot, you know why SAT you’ve got pain. If your foot’s disappeared because of SAT surgery or an amputation then – and you’ve still got exactly SAT the same pain it becomes psychologically very distressing. SAT So getting her into a strong a position as possible SAT psychologically was very important before any surgery was SAT contemplated. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I always knew that having pain issues for so long could SAT potentially follow on after the operation, I knew that. The SAT longer you have problems with a limb the greater your chance SAT of phantom pain and things like that. So I accepted that. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT If they are to go ahead, the surgeon feels that a through SAT knee amputation will provide a better fit for a prosthetic SAT limb than amputating above the knee. But this involves SAT leaving the end of Sarah’s thigh bone and kneecap in place. SAT As they are in the site of her painful joint, they may they SAT may be contributing to her pain. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT I thought it was very important that Sarah understood SAT exactly what we meant by success. She was probably able to SAT walk no more than 30-50 yards before she had to stop. I SAT believed we would be able to get her to walk on a false leg SAT for most of the day and that she would have a leg that would SAT not be unduly uncomfortable and we had to discuss at length SAT how much undue discomfort had to be accepted. I thought on SAT balance that we would have in the order of a 60% chance of SAT success. But I did have a significant worry in my mind that SAT we might make her worse. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But Sarah is unperturbed. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I knew that once the leg’s off it’s off. But at the same SAT time if something happened then that’s on me, that’s not on SAT anybody else, that’s me for making that decision. Providing SAT I could wear a limb afterwards I was always going to make SAT that work. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So back to my panel now to continue the discussion about SAT this particular story. SAT SAT SAT SAT The surgeon there, Steve, talked about through knee SAT amputation, can you explain that? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT In terms of lower limb amputation levels one is below knee, SAT through the shin bone, then there’s the through knee, which SAT is through at the level of the knee joint. And then the SAT other, above knee, through the thigh bone. The advantages SAT of through knee compared to above knee is a longer level SAT arm, it’s an end bearing stump and you have better SAT suspension of the socket. There are however some SAT difficulties regarding the prosthesis which can be bulky at SAT the knee joint and it doesn’t look so good although modern SAT prostheses are increasingly overcoming these cosmetic SAT concerns. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT We’ve also heard about phantom limb pain, can that be SAT reduced? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Part of her problem is that she had pain for so long SAT beforehand and there are kind of hardwiring mechanisms in SAT the brain by which this pain continues. But there’s also SAT something about the surgical technique of the amputation. SAT Sectioning the nerves higher than the level of the stump, so SAT that they’re not bound in the scar tissue around the end of SAT the stump, weight is not being borne on the end of the nerve SAT – these are things which can all help. And also a very SAT comprehensive programme of post-operative rehabilitation can SAT also reduce the incidence of phantom limb pain and also SAT reduce its duration. It’s extremely common, nearly all SAT amputees get it but for the most part it resolves within SAT time. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Andrea, are there ways of dealing with it psychologically? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT As far as psychologists are concerned the way we deal with SAT pain doesn’t really make a difference about whether the limb SAT is there or not. We’re trying to help people use techniques SAT like mindfulness but also using a range of work that we do SAT with physios about the way they use their bodies to help SAT them manage the impact. Brains are where pain is located SAT more than actually the site of the injury or the damage in SAT chronic pain. Unfortunately the longer you have pain the SAT less it takes to set the brain off into thinking that there SAT is major damage and give you the acute reaction. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now you’ve mentioned mindfulness, can you just indicate in SAT what way that helps? SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT There’s quite a lot of evidence now that learning to SAT meditate using this originally Buddhist style of meditation, SAT although now in pain clinics we teach a secular version, SAT changes the way various parts of the brain actually work and SAT make it much more possible for people to raise their pain SAT threshold and also to be less focused on it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Steve, there’s an existing pain that she’s got and it’s SAT getting her down, is there any guarantee that it will be SAT reduced by having her leg amputated? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Well the pain can be from instability, degenerative changes SAT in the knee joint or a complex regional pain syndrome SAT related to the multiple surgical insults, if you like that SAT she’s had around the knee. Some of those will be amenable SAT to amputative surgery and some are not necessarily. Overall SAT it’s a difficult judgement we should do on a case by case SAT basis to determine whether amputation is in her best SAT interests. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Okay, so if the leg is amputated how are you going to SAT measure success? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT So the way I do it is by a quality of life questionnaire SAT before and afterwards, it’s called a short form 36, it gives SAT you a picture of what the quality of life was like before SAT and after. And on that basis you can determine whether the SAT person’s quality of life has been improved by virtue of your SAT operation. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Deborah, how do you think the outcome should be assessed? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT I think talking to Sarah would be a good start. I’m not SAT being facetious, I think it seems to me she has lived with SAT this since 2007, she is the one who has experienced all SAT sorts of promises and expectations, actually been given to SAT her by other people very often, she’s had a very confusing SAT picture presented to her of likely surgery. It’s SAT unsurprising to me that she feels unheard and it would be SAT surprising to me not to think about Sarah’s perspective both SAT before and after. Her expectations matter, of course they SAT do. And I also think there is a sense in which we have to SAT be honest and I suspect this won’t be news to Sarah, we SAT can’t possibly know what it’s going to be like for her, SAT everybody is making a judgement in prevailing uncertainty. SAT We have to be honest about that. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But we also have to handle her expectations and to know that SAT it would make her feel happier to have it must be one of the SAT elements in your survey, is that so Steve? SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Absolutely yeah. And experience of other patients faced SAT with this dilemma. I had a young man who had a relative SAT innocuous injury – spraining his ankle – but continued pain, SAT several operations. His marriage failed, his business SAT failed, he was on constant opiates – morphine – and his SAT quality of life was very, very poor. Amputative surgery SAT truly transformed his life and this was even in the national SAT press because he had done so well. And experience with SAT patients like that helps me, personally, to identify those SAT in whom amputative surgery is in their best interests. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right, well now I’m going to ask each of you now if you were SAT in the ethics committee and this had been referred to you SAT what would your advice be – amputate or not? Andrea. SAT SAT SAT Adeleanu SAT SAT Ouch. I think I would like to see Sarah have a bit of life SAT coaching, either as a preparation for this surgery or an SAT accompaniment afterwards. And on that basis I’d say yes. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Stephen. SAT SAT SAT Mannion SAT SAT Very difficult not having seen her but personally I think SAT she’s well informed, she has good basis for this decision SAT and I think probably amputation is in her best interests. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Deborah. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT I agree. I think she is expressing her autonomy in a SAT meaningful way. I think the team has worked hard, SAT particularly in the latter stages to explore the options and SAT to really try and think about what the future might be and SAT on that basis I’d support surgery. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well thank you to each of you. SAT SAT SAT SAT Let’s find out what happened to Sarah. SAT SAT SAT SAT The psychiatrist gives his view on the aspect that troubles SAT him most about Sarah’s request for amputation. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT It was the extreme nature of this hatred of her leg that was SAT a cause for concern. However, on balance we felt that this SAT was a consistent view that Sarah held about her knee, which SAT had grown over the long period of time that she had become SAT frustrated with her lack of function and her pain. And so SAT it was understandable and I felt that we, as a medical SAT profession, should start seriously considering whether SAT actually taking away this hated leg was actually going to SAT help her to move forward from a physical and a psychological SAT perspective. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The surgeon brought the psychiatrist together with the SAT rehabilitation and pain specialists to come to a decision. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT We had a teleconference in the autumn of 2013 I believe with SAT all the interested parties swapping opinions and really SAT coming to an agreement that number one, Sarah was of sound SAT mind to make a decision; number two, that we all agreed that SAT on the balance of probabilities taking Sarah’s leg off would SAT be the best thing for her. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The surgeon also took the case to their clinical ethics SAT committee who agreed with their decision. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I was nervous but at the same time I was just so grateful SAT that the surgeon was helping me out. I had to look forward, SAT I couldn’t think negatively, I just had to sit there and get SAT it done and then deal with it afterwards – you know SAT afterwards is where everything begins. SAT SAT SAT Surgeon SAT SAT I saw Sarah the day before her operation, she was very SAT apprehensive and very anxious and despite all that had gone SAT before I did have some concerns that we still may be doing SAT the wrong thing. Sarah was adamant that we should go ahead, SAT I was convinced, the team were convinced and we went ahead SAT the next day and performed the amputation through the knee. SAT SAT SAT Physiotherapist SAT SAT ..with your left leg on this box and then reaching with your SAT prosthetic leg out to each of the cones in turn to balance. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Do I have to turn… SAT SAT SAT Physiotherapist SAT SAT …turn towards the cones. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Cool. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT We recorded with Sarah back in March, 10 months after her SAT leg was amputated. SAT SAT SAT Physiotherapist SAT SAT …land the prosthetic, that’s better. How’s the socket SAT feeling? SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT My socket’s fine. SAT SAT SAT Physiotherapist SAT SAT Okay, keep going. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT I’m just not very good at this. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT It’s not as if you just put a leg on and there you go just SAT get on with it, it’s a slow process. I’ve spent a lot of SAT time doing rehabilitation, I’ve gone from just getting the SAT limb to working out in the gym, and then jogging and just SAT going back to an active kind of life. After nearly eight SAT years of not being able to do normal kind of activities it’s SAT quite weird to get back to doing stuff. SAT SAT SAT Physiotherapist SAT SAT …do you hop from the prosthetic on to the left. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT You feel like you’re going to get really far and you don’t. SAT SAT SAT Physiotherapist SAT SAT No, you’re getting some nice drive with that new foot. SAT Good. No problems from your back? SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT Once you’ve had your leg off the pain doesn’t go, it’s just SAT different. My foot isn’t even there but I get pain which is SAT very similar to what I used to have but I’m far more active SAT and that’s a massive distraction in itself. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Since the recording, Sarah has needed surgery on her SAT residual limb. The kneecap was making the fit with her SAT prosthetic limb uncomfortable, inhibiting her progress. SAT Despite this setback she’s still convinced amputating her SAT leg was the right decision. SAT SAT SAT Sarah SAT SAT That was the start of my life again. Since the leg’s come SAT off I’ve done so much – I’ve learnt how to surf, I skydive, SAT just been skiing – I’ve not been so active since way before SAT I injured my knee, so I’m a big kid again really and I’ve SAT not looked back. SAT SAT SAT SAT ENDS SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b061qhsx (Listen) SAT Series 29, Heat 6, 2015 SAT SAT (6/13) SAT The latest heat of the eclectic music quiz comes from SAT Salford, with Paul Gambaccini welcoming competitors from SAT Leicestershire, Cheshire and West Yorkshire. SAT SAT They'll have to demonstrate the breadth of their musical SAT knowledge, with questions and extracts ranging from Brahms SAT to Tippett, 60s and 70s pop and the music of war films. SAT SAT As usual, Paul will also be springing a choice of musical SAT special topics on the contestants, from which they have to SAT pick one on which to answer their own individual questions. SAT SAT The winner takes another of the places in the semi-finals SAT next month. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT SUE BATES, a retired teacher from Loughborough SAT SAT RUSSELL KING, a management consultant from Hebden Bridge in SAT West Yorkshire SAT SAT GEORGE ROBEY, an IT solutions consultant from Holmes Chapel SAT in Cheshire SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry in the Remaking b061pqlk (Listen) SAT Fiona Sampson and Glyn Maxwell SAT SAT Six poets re-read Ted Hughes' ground-breaking book about how SAT to write poetry which began life in the 1960s as a series of SAT BBC schools radio broadcasts. The programmes and chapters SAT had titles like Capturing Animals, Meet My Folks, Moon SAT Creatures, and Wind and Weather. Each is full of Ted Hughes' SAT interests and energies. Not one mentions rhyme or metre. SAT With Michael Rosen, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Fiona SAT Sampson, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Zaffar Kunial and archive SAT readings from the original broadcasts by Ted Hughes. SAT SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 JULY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b062hb8c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Made in Bristol b01dj7sv (Listen) SUN Reality Check SUN SUN Tania Hershman's three short pieces of flash fiction SUN commissioned for the More Than Words Festival in Bristol are SUN linked by the theme of science. A professor confronts a SUN childhood ghost during a storm at sea; a scientist is SUN visited in the lab by a character from fiction; and a group SUN of biochemists find themselves the life and soul of a party. SUN SUN Tania Hershman writes short stories, poetry and flash SUN fiction, is writer in residence at the Science Faculty at SUN Bristol University and has a second short story collection, SUN My Mother Was An Upright Piano: Fictions coming out shortly. SUN SUN Producer: Sara Davies. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b062hb8f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b062hb8k (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b062hb8p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b062hb8r (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b062hdp6 (Listen) SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b061t68t (Listen) SUN Questioning Success SUN SUN Jennifer Kavanagh questions the value of success, arguing SUN that it is the moral content of what we do, rather than SUN doing it well or badly, on which we should judge ourselves. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b062hb8t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b062hn6j (Listen) SUN Breath, You Invisible Poem SUN SUN John McCarthy considers the cultural and metaphorical SUN significance of breathing. SUN SUN For most of us breathing is so continuous, so easy, that SUN it's something we take for granted. But without breath SUN nothing is possible. Breath energizes movement and enables SUN bodily activities. It punctuates speech, and is central to SUN singing and the playing of many musical instruments. And in SUN particular situations, giving birth or meditating, it SUN becomes the focus of our attention and is bound by specific SUN techniques. SUN SUN John McCarthy explores a range of different breathing SUN experiences. From God's breath of life, blown into Adam's SUN nostrils at the dawning of the World, to the Navajo Indian SUN idea about a Little Wind hidden in our ears, he looks at how SUN the breath has traditionally been understood as something SUN that connects spirit and body. We talk about a first and SUN last breath as marking the beginning and end of life, it's SUN also affected by mood and emotion. SUN SUN The programme features readings taken from the Sonnets to SUN Orpheus, Book II by Rainer Maria Rilke, Phenomenology of SUN Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's and Breathing by SUN Josephine Dickinson. Music comes from Maria Callas, Nick SUN Cave and the New Zealand All Blacks. SUN SUN The readers are Helen Bourne and Brian Fenton. SUN SUN Producer: Emily Williams SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: SUN ‘Breath’ by Rainer Maria Rilke from Sonnets to Orpheus, Book SUN II SUN Synopsis: SUN Poem exploring ways in which breathing connects us to the SUN world. SUN Title: SUN ‘On Breath’ by Aristotle SUN Synopsis: SUN Evoking the power and omnipotence of wind,air, and breath. SUN Title: SUN ‘The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies’ by Michel SUN Serres SUN Synopsis: SUN Considering different forms of voluntary and involuntary SUN breathing. SUN Title: ‘ SUN Whisper Music’ by Stephen Connor. SUN Synopsis: SUN On the disappearance and reappearance of the aspirated h SUN sound in english. SUN Title: SUN ‘A Riddle’ by poet Catherine Fanshaw SUN Synopsis: SUN The answer is the letter H, sometimes pronounced and SUN sometimes silent. SUN Title: SUN ‘What I talk about when I talk about running’ by Haruki SUN Murikami SUN Synopsis: SUN Description of the runners high experienced during an SUN ultra-marathon SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Phenomenology of Perception’ by Maurice Merleau-Ponty SUN Synopsis: SUN Evoking the idea of an immense lung SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Breathing’ from Silence Fell by Josephine Dickinson SUN Synopsis SUN : A poem capturing the landscape and shared experiences of SUN the author and her husband as he struggles for breath. SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b062hn6l (Listen) SUN The Snakebirds of May SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN Sitting as it does on the junction between the Firth of SUN Forth and the North Sea, the Isle of May acts as a magnet SUN for seabirds. During the breeding season it is home to SUN thousands of birds, along with a small group of seabird SUN ecologists. SUN SUN In 1993 Lionel Kelleway visited the island for Living World SUN to look at one species in particular, the shag. Here he was SUN joined by Mike Harris and Sarah Wanlass from the Centre of SUN Ecology and Hydrology. After arriving on the island, Sarah SUN and Mike unfurl the up's and down's of seabird ecology. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b062hb8w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b062hb8y (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b062hn6n (Listen) SUN In remembrance of the Maylasian Airline flight MH17 SUN sunflowers are growing as a living memorial to those who SUN died. 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SUN SUN Trevor Barnes has been looking at the impact of work life SUN balance of clergy and what causes them stress? SUN SUN Punk rock vicar Phil Chew tells William why he takes to the SUN stage with a mohican and a dog collar as he sings with the SUN band 'Revisit'. SUN SUN Reform Judaism in the UK has made the dramatic decision to SUN change the traditional definition of a Jew which has been SUN universal for the last 2,000 years. What does this mean and SUN what impact will this have? Rabbi Jonathan Romain & Dr SUN Yaakov Wise debate SUN SUN Producers SUN Tara Holmes SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN SUN Editor Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors SUN Thomas Schansman SUN Paul McGeough SUN Neville Kyrke-Smith SUN Quentin Letts SUN Poly Toynbee SUN Reverand Phil Chew SUN Rabbi Jonathan Romain SUN Dr Yaakov Wise. 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SUN SUN To change this we are leading an innovative community SUN mapping programme in the Congo Basin to highlight the SUN presence of otherwise 'invisible' forest peoples. Local SUN communities use their maps to support legal claims to their SUN traditional lands and collectively the maps are used to SUN influence lawmakers to provide greater protection for SUN indigenous peoples and their forest in the world. SUN SUN 'MappingForRights' SUN SUN By producing maps of their traditional lands, otherwise SUN ‘invisible’ remote rainforest communities can demonstrate SUN their presence to those charged with deciding what happens SUN to these lands. SUN *Photo: An indigenous woman using a tablet to map her SUN traditional land in Cameroon.* SUN SUN Map: Monitor: Protect: SUN SUN Evidence is now showing that rainforest is thriving in areas SUN where forest peoples have been given the legal title for SUN their lands, like some areas of the Amazon, which is why the SUN Rainforest Foundation UK puts forest peoples’ rights at the SUN centre of its work. SUN *Photo: Rainforest in Peru* SUN SUN Putting the power in the hands of communities SUN SUN With your help, up to 1,000 communities, spanning over 4 SUN million hectares of Congo Basin rainforest, will be SUN supported through RFUK’s mapping programme. SUN *Photo: A mapping team, made up of members of a local SUN community, who are documenting where they live and how they SUN use the rainforest.* SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b062hb90 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b062hb92 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b062hn6s (Listen) SUN Buxton Festival SUN SUN Radio 4 makes its annual visit to Buxton on the edge of SUN Derbyshire's Peak District for a Festival Eucharist from St SUN John's Church, sung to Schubert's Mass in C by the Buxton SUN Madrigal Singers with soloists from the Festival Opera SUN Company directed by Michael Williams. The celebrant is Canon SUN Stephen Shipley and the preacher is the Revd John Hudghton, SUN Rector of Buxton. Producer: Andrew Earis. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: SUN BBC Radio 4. And now it’s time for Sunday Worship which is SUN an edited recording of a communion service held last Sunday SUN at the Buxton Festival. It’s sung to the music of Schubert SUN (his Mass in C) and Mozart - by the Buxton Madrigal Singers SUN with soloists from the Festival Opera Company. The SUN celebrant is Canon Stephen Shipley and the preacher is the SUN Rector of Buxton, the Revd John Hudghton. The service SUN begins with the hymn: ‘Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore SUN him.’ SUN SUN Hymn: SUN (Tune: Austria) SUN SUN Praise the Lord! ye heavens adore him; SUN SUN Welcome by Canon Stephen Shipley SUN SUN Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and the Lord SUN Jesus Christ be with you. SUN And also with you. SUN SUN Good morning and welcome to the Parish Church of St John the SUN Baptist here in Buxton on the edge of Derbyshire’s Peak SUN District. Many thousands of people visit our attractive spa SUN town for a rich variety of musical and literary events SUN during the Buxton Festival and the Fringe, and this is one SUN of three special services . The beautiful Edwardian theatre SUN just across the road from here is the venue for many lesser SUN known operas, and this church is the setting for many SUN concerts. But on Sunday mornings we come together to give SUN thanks to God for the way music and the arts kindle our SUN hearts and open our minds to his divine mystery. We pray SUN that as those gifts enhance and renew our lives, so we may SUN glorify God in a fuller dedication of ourselves. SUN SUN Jesus said: ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows SUN me shall never walk in darkness but shall have the light of SUN life.’ Let us therefore bring our sins into his light and SUN confess them in penitence and faith. SUN Please sit quietly SUN Kyrie eleison (Lord, have SUN mercy) Schubert SUN SUN Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, SUN have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your SUN sins, SUN confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, SUN and keep you in life eternal; SUN through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. SUN SUN The New Testament Reading SUN SUN A reading from the Book of Revelation: SUN SUN Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, SUN bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the SUN Lamb through the middle of the street of the city. On either SUN side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds SUN of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of SUN the tree are for the healing of the nations. Nothing SUN accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God SUN and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship SUN him; they will see his face, and his name will be on their SUN foreheads. And there will be no more night; they need no SUN light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, SUN and they will reign for ever and ever. (Revelation 22: 1-4) SUN SUN This is the word of the Lord: SUN Thanks be to God. SUN SUN Hymn: SUN (Tune: St Cecilia) SUN Please stand SUN SUN Thy kingdom come, O God, SUN SUN The Gospel SUN Please remain standing SUN SUN Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke: SUN Glory to you, O Lord. SUN SUN Then Jesus told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree planted SUN in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and SUN found none. So he said to the gardener, “See here! For three SUN years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and SUN still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the SUN soil?” He replied, “Sir, let it alone for one more year, SUN until I dig round it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit SUN next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.” SUN ’ SUN SUN Jesus said therefore, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? And SUN to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that SUN someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a SUN tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.’ SUN (Luke 13: 6-9, 18-19) SUN SUN This is the Gospel of the Lord: SUN Praise to you, O Christ. SUN SUN The Sermon – The Revd John Hudghton SUN SUN In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Being a gardener I relate to these parables we’ve heard this SUN morning. We have the contrasting frustration of a failing SUN cultivated fruit tree which has absorbed effort and SUN resources and the success of a flourishing weed almost SUN coming out of nowhere. SUN SUN The fig tree in Jesus’ first parable was understood to SUN represent Israel: tended and nurtured by the gardener. God SUN purposefully cared for Israel with the intention that his SUN people would be fruitful. The law and the prophets made it SUN clear that he wanted Israel to be a place where the poor SUN were not destitute; where there was social justice for even SUN the least; and a people who would extend blessing to the SUN Gentile world. Those whom he prospered were to bless and SUN enrich others. SUN SUN So what might Jesus’ disapproval of the fig tree say to our SUN world of gross inequality? A world of poverty – where many SUN are knocking on the doors of Europe. SUN SUN Two thousand years ago the nation of Israel was fruitless. SUN As in so many parts of the ancient world, desperate poverty SUN and exclusion of all manner of people was the order of the SUN day. Born into the wrong circumstances? Contracted SUN disease? Made the wrong moral choices in life? Then you SUN were outcast. Some religious leaders wouldn’t even walk on SUN the same side of the road, let alone enter the house of a SUN Gentile or sinner. SUN In Jesus’ mind, Israel was like a fig tree, luxuriant in SUN foliage, but barren. SUN SUN Frustratingly we know that the most successful plants are SUN weeds! Without effort I grow prolific crops of horsetail, SUN docks, dandelions and nettles anywhere and everywhere. SUN Scholars debate which variety of mustard Jesus was talking SUN about, some were enormous, but one thing is for sure, SUN mustard was a plant prohibited from Jewish gardens. It was SUN considered an invasive weed – viewed perhaps with the same SUN level of disapprobation reserved for Japanese knotweed in SUN Britain today. SUN SUN Jesus’ listeners might have been shocked as he used a SUN non-kosher plant, a garden nuisance, to illustrate God’s SUN kingdom. This was not just about the plant’s phenomenal SUN growth, but he was talking about who God was working in and SUN through. He’d gathered around him those rejected by SUN religious society, the common, the poor, those suffering SUN illness, the socially unacceptable and the sexually immoral. SUN Jesus even ministered to Gentiles and penitent tax SUN collectors - all social rejects – but loved and accepted by SUN God. He made them his disciples, led them to repentance SUN and forgiveness, introduced them to God as Father. He taught SUN them how God could work through them in the world and to SUN spread the good news of God’s love to others through word SUN and action. Jesus modelled an inclusive society. These SUN parables not only challenge society but also the Church. SUN Yesterday’s Church was the Church of Christendom – when we SUN thought of ourselves as a Christian country, regardless of SUN people’s personal commitment. There were parts of that SUN Church which were sometimes more like the fig tree than the SUN mustard - soaking up resources, favouring privilege and SUN displaying all the trappings of temporal power. Times have SUN changed though. The commitment of those who are part of SUN today’s Church enriches community often in the most deprived SUN parts of the country. SUN SUN I see the passing of Christendom as bringing the opportunity SUN for the Church to become the people we were purposed to be: SUN egalitarian, inclusive and as pervasive as those nuisance SUN weeds. It’s not just about creating new structures and SUN activities – repackaging forms of Church. It’s about being SUN obedient disciples, emulating how Jesus went out and shared SUN the good news with those prepared to listen. Justin Welby, SUN the Archbishop of Canterbury, has described the necessity of SUN a seismic shift – a shift that transforms the individuals SUN who make up the Church - not just the clergy - to become SUN messengers of the good news in deed and in word. SUN SUN So it’s time for a change. It’s time for us to get back to SUN being the Church Jesus meant us to be. Not a pampered tree, SUN luxuriant in leaf, consuming resources, excluding those we SUN don’t like and bearing little fruit, but to be like the SUN despised mustard tree – fast growing, pervasive and SUN universal! Amen. SUN SUN Credo in unum Deum (I believe in one God) SUN Schubert SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b061tsyp (Listen) SUN Adam Gopnik: In Praise of Privacy SUN SUN Although he loves to read collections of private letters by SUN public figures, Adam Gopnik feels disturbed and offended by SUN the lip-smacking ease with which people thumb through SUN Hillary Clinton's or Amy Pascal's once private e-mails and SUN asks what are the proper limits of privacy in the Internet SUN age. Are we putting at risk part of the future historical SUN record? SUN "The practice of showing what life is really like later SUN depends on keeping some parts of life clandestine while SUN they're happening". SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwvx5 (Listen) SUN Barnacle Goose SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Martin Hughes-Games presents the Barnacle Goose. Yapping SUN like terriers, skeins of barnacle geese leave their roosts SUN on mud-flats and fly inland at dawn to feed in grassy SUN fields. SUN SUN Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b062hpld (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b062hplg (Listen) SUN Debbie makes up her mind, and Kate is not the mother Phoebe SUN wants. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Debbie Aldridge: Tamsin Greig SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b062hplj (Listen) SUN Noel Gallagher SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician, Noel SUN Gallagher. SUN SUN He was the principal songwriter of the band Oasis - his SUN younger brother, Liam was the lead singer. Born to Irish SUN parents, as a child he spent his summers visiting his SUN mother's family in rural County Mayo, in sharp contrast to SUN the Manchester council estate where they lived. He taught SUN himself to play the guitar and loved music: he was road SUN manager for the Inspiral Carpets before joining Liam in SUN Oasis. SUN SUN Their debut album in 1994 marked the beginning of the band's SUN rise to fame as part of the Britpop movement. In 1996 they SUN played in front of 250,000 fans over two consecutive nights SUN at Knebworth and following the Labour landslide in 1997, SUN Noel attended what became known as the Cool Britannia party SUN held in Downing Street by Tony Blair. Oasis won six BRIT SUN Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards before disbanding in SUN August 2009. SUN SUN He's since formed his own band - Noel Gallagher's High SUN Flying Birds. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Noel Gallagher SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b062hb94 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b061qht5 (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 63rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote SUN to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based SUN entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run SUN at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings where regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Miles Jupp, with Jack Dee as the programme's SUN reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect SUN inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the SUN piano. 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: Miles Jupp SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b062htl5 (Listen) SUN Fast Food Workers SUN SUN With a new "living wage" announced Sheila Dillon explores SUN the world of fast food workers. In the U.S. a campaign over SUN low pay, started in 2012, has now gone global. Saying they SUN could no longer live on the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 SUN the workers called for a salary based on $15.00 an hour. SUN SUN The protests spread to more than 200 cities and inspired SUN workers in other parts of the world to stand up for better SUN pay. The campaign received the backing of President Barack SUN Obama and cities including Seattle, San Francisco and Los SUN Angeles have now increased the minimum wage. SUN SUN Sheila hears from one fast food work in New York's Bronx, SUN Flavia Cabrell. She holds down two jobs including one at a SUN McDonalds' restaurant and low pay led her to take action and SUN join the protests. She explains why she's motivated by SUN wanting to change the future for her children. SUN SUN Meanwhile low pay was one of the main targets in Chancellor SUN George Osborne's summer budget. Changes to tax credits and SUN the introduction of a "national living wage" was the SUN outcome. But some workers say the changes will still mean SUN they live a precarious financial existence with zero hours SUN contracts still a dominant model in the food industry and SUN the living wage only applicable to over 25's. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Flavia Cabrell SUN Producer: Dan Saladino SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b062hb9l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b062htl7 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 In Search of the Black Mozart b05wdsnl (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and SUN performing in concert halls the world over as the principal SUN double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. SUN More recently, she's been on a personal journey seeking out SUN the lives and careers of black classical musicians from the SUN eighteenth century who like her, played and composed music SUN at the highest levels. In some cases, slivers of their lives SUN are on record but you have to be quite determined to find SUN out. SUN SUN Chi-chi puts the record straight and with the help of some SUN of the finest musical researchers around, she brings to the SUN fore the music and lives of musicians like SUN violinist/composer Joseph Emidy, virtuoso violinist George SUN Bridgetower and composer Joseph Bologne, aka Chevalier de SUN St-George who not only met Mozart in his lifetime, but who SUN was known by all those who heard his music as the 'Black SUN Mozart'. SUN SUN In today's programme she visits the British Library to find SUN our more about Ignatius Sancho - someone who was born into SUN slavery and ended up being the first person of colour in SUN Britain to have the vote. Also of interest to Chi-chi are SUN his musical compositions which are held at the British SUN Library. Together with music curator, Nicolas Bell and SUN Sancho expert Professor Brychhan Carey the three of them SUN assess Sancho's musical ability and life. SUN SUN In a more sinister turn of events, Chi-chi talks to Handel SUN scholar, Dr. David Hunter who shares his research which SUN reveals that Handel, whilst composing some of the most SUN beautiful music around was an investor in slavery. SUN SUN She also hears about the violinist and composer Joseph Emidy SUN who became a musical star of Cornwall's music scene and SUN meets up with one of his musical ancestors. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b061tqv7 (Listen) SUN Bedford SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Bedford. Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank, Matthew Wilson SUN answer audience questions. SUN SUN Matt Biggs reveals his favourite garden of all time and the SUN panel share some topical tips. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – I have planted a 30cm (12inch) aubergine in a sunny and SUN sheltered corner of my allotment. I have read that they SUN prefer a moist atmosphere, have I made a mistake? SUN Anne SUN – No, that advice is for growing in a greenhouse, as they SUN are susceptible to red spider mite. Aubergines need heat SUN and sunshine – as long as you keep it well watered. SUN Bunny SUN – I worry that you’ve planted too late. You need to start SUN aubergines very early to get good quantities of produce. SUN Start off at the end of May. SUN Q – My Dahlias have made a splendid start to the season but SUN the village show is about 9 weeks away – any tips to ensure SUN I have prize-winning blooms on the day? SUN Bunny SUN – They will go on and on as long as you deadhead and keep SUN the slugs away. Lots of food and water. SUN Matthew – SUN The really keen competitors will select four or five blooms SUN on each plant, then whittle them down, and bag them the day SUN before the event to protect the flower. SUN Q – Last year the Students’ Union (at the University of SUN Bedfordshire) was awarded funding towards sustainability SUN projects on campus. One of which was the Students Eats SUN Project, which involves a campus allotment where students SUN can grow their own vegetables. What is a good beginner SUN vegetable for our students to grow? SUN Bunny – SUN ‘Cut and come’ lettuce. Globe artichokes. Chillies. SUN Courgettes. Herbs (parsley, coriander, etc). If you’ve got SUN raised beds and good compost you’ll do well. SUN Matthew SUN – Park a BBQ down there and when you’re cooking use the SUN stuff around you. Focus on what you would want to eat. SUN Q – Earlier this year I seeded 150m2 (1614.5ft2) with a mix SUN of annual and perennial wild flowers, they are currently SUN being enjoyed by bees and butterflies. Can the panel advise SUN what I should do at the end of the season to prepare for a SUN similar show of colour next year? SUN Bunny – SUN You want to make it nutrient-poor – so cut it and remove the SUN cuttings. Do it in strips so you don’t leave the insects SUN homeless. And don’t do anything before the end of July. SUN Matthew – SUN Over-seed it with a plant called Yellow Rattle because it SUN semi-parastises grasses and grass is your enemy in a SUN meadow. SUN Q – Can you identify what’s eating my peas? It’s just a SUN two-foot section in the middle of the row and the rest of it SUN is growing well. SUN Anne – SUN It looks like a snail to me – they find a favourite plant or SUN area and they like to stick to it SUN Eric – SUN If you remove the snail you need to move it at least 20 SUN yards (18 metres) from the site otherwise it will find its SUN way back SUN Bunny – SUN I’m not convinced – I think it’s something bigger like a SUN hare or a badger, even. If it is a snail try using SUN mineralised straw mulch – they hate the iron that’s in it SUN and won’t crawl over it. SUN Q – Can you use cat litter to deter snails? SUN Anne – SUN Well, anything absorbent is going to stop a snail in its SUN tracks, so it might. SUN Q – I struggle to grow celery on my allotment and the only SUN one that I have grown (in a car tyre) is over 2m (6.5ft) SUN tall. How do I grow smaller celery? SUN SUN Bunny – Celery likes a very moist soil – put it in a SUN container with lots of water and then just pick it round the SUN sides when it gets to the size you want. SUN Q – If the panel were to give a single, top-tip to a SUN beginner rose grower what would it be? SUN Bunny – SUN They do really thrive on a good, rich soil. Add lots of SUN organic matter. When you put in a rose it doesn’t establish SUN straight away – it can take three or four years to turn into SUN a good bush. My favourite rose for scent is a Banksia Rose. SUN Matthew – SUN Make sure you give them enough space. My favourite species SUN rose is *Rosa glauca*, small pink flowers but beautiful SUN pewter grey/dusty pink foliage. For a modern rose go for SUN Gertrude Jekyll. SUN Anne – SUN For a Hybrid tea go for an Alec’s Red or a Madame Hardy SUN Q – I’m looking for top tips on what to do about Mare’s SUN Tail? SUN Matthew – SUN You can’t get rid of it. You can reduce its vigour by SUN excluding light (cardboard boxes over the top), but it has a SUN strong rootstock and it will come back. Best thing to do is SUN plant other vigorous plants alongside it – like Japanese SUN anemones or big-leaved Hostas like the *Hosta sieboldiana* – SUN that will outcompete it. SUN Bunny - SUN You can get professional teams in that deal with Mare’s Tail SUN and Knotweeds so it might be worth going down that route. SUN Topical Tips: SUN Matthew SUN – if you’re going on holiday and you’ve got lots of pots SUN spend a couple of quid (£30) on a little battery-operated, SUN inline irrigation computer, plug it into your tap, run a bit SUN of line out, put drippers into your pots, and you’re off. SUN Anne – SUN If you eat lots of avocado pears and you’ve been putting the SUN pips in the compost – look out for the stones because they SUN often start to grow in a nice warm compost heap and if you SUN find one that’s split and is shooting, you can pot it and it SUN will grow into a nice little leafy houseplant. SUN Bunny – SUN Get a kitchen blackboard and write up what you’ve got in the SUN garden to cook with so you don’t miss things. SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b062htl9 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations acknowledging the impact of SUN self-harm, MS and arthritis while finding ways to deal with SUN them, from Cumbria, Glasgow and London. All 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 b062htlc (Listen) SUN Tender Is the Night: A Romance, Episode 1 SUN SUN by F Scott Fitzgerald SUN dramatised by Robin Brooks SUN SUN Episode One SUN SUN Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the SUN French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans SUN to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick SUN Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. SUN Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a young film star, SUN who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little SUN of the dark secrets that hold them together. SUN SUN The book regarded by many as Fitzgerald's greatest. A SUN beautiful and poignant novel about marriage, glamour and SUN disintegration. SUN SUN Produced and directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. SUN SUN Credits SUN Dick Diver: Simon Harrison SUN Nicole Diver: Melody Grove SUN Rosemary: Kelly Burke SUN Tommy: Finn den Hertog SUN Abe North: Mark McDonnel SUN McKisco: Laurie Brown SUN Violet: Anita Vettesse SUN Baby: Anita Vettesse SUN Mother: Anne Lacey SUN Franz: Nick Underwood SUN Warren: Nick Underwood SUN Collis: Alasdair Hankinson SUN Buddy: Alasdair Hankinson SUN Narrator: Sam Dale SUN Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane SUN Director: Gaynor Macfarlane SUN Author: F Scott Fitzgerald SUN Abridger: Robin Brooks SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b062hx63 (Listen) SUN Judy Blume SUN SUN Mariella is joined by the American writer Judy Blume who is SUN best known for her groundbreaking teen fiction including SUN Forever and Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. She SUN discusses her new adult novel In The Unlikely Event. It's SUN set against the extraordinary events of 1952 when three SUN planes crashed in Elizabeth, New Jersey over the space of 58 SUN days. SUN SUN We discuss two books which explore opposite ends of German SUN society just before Hitler came to power. Blood Brothers by SUN Ernst Haffner is set amongst a band of teenage boys in the SUN underbelly of Berlin. While Reunion by Fred Uhlman is a SUN beautifully rendered tale of a friendship which is destined SUN not to survive. Mariella talks to Blood Brothers' translator SUN Michael Hofmann and Rachel Seiffert, who has written the SUN afterword to Reunion. SUN SUN And the joys of writing a novel with a friend. Gavin Kovite, SUN a former soldier turned army lawyer and writer, and SUN Christopher Robinson, a poet and writer, reveal how they SUN joined forces to create War of the Encyclopaedists, a novel SUN about a friendship conducted partly online. SUN SUN Read the first chapter of In The Unlikely Event by Judy SUN Blume SUN In The Unlikely Event: Chapter 1 SUN by Judy Blume SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Judy Blume SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Hofmann SUN Interviewed Guest: Rachel Seiffert SUN Interviewed Guest: Gavin Kovite SUN Interviewed Guest: Christopher Robinson SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry in the Remaking b062j06m (Listen) SUN Michael Rosen and Simon Armitage SUN SUN Six poets re-read Ted Hughes' ground-breaking book about how SUN to write poetry which began life in the 1960s as a series of SUN BBC schools radio broadcasts. The programmes and chapters SUN had titles like Capturing Animals, Meet My Folks, Moon SUN Creatures, and Wind and Weather. Each is full of Ted Hughes' SUN interests and energies. Not one mentions rhyme or metre. SUN With Michael Rosen, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Fiona SUN Sampson, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Zaffar Kunial and archive SUN readings from the original broadcasts by Ted Hughes. SUN SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b061qzx6 (Listen) SUN Police Complaints: A Fair Cop? SUN SUN Complaints against the police are running at a record high. SUN The vast majority, nine out of ten, are rejected from the SUN start. But when complainants appeal to the Independent SUN Police Complaints Commission, one in 2 cases is overturned. SUN Others - disgruntled with the way they've been treated by SUN the police - sue the force. File on 4 hears from people SUN who've been battling for years to pursue a complaint and who SUN claim the process is unfairly weighted in favour of the SUN police. SUN In the Queen's Speech the Government confirmed its plans to SUN overhaul the complaints system in order to restore public SUN confidence. As part of the reform, Police and Crime SUN Commissioners could be able to decide if they want to handle SUN allegations against their local forces. The Commissioners SUN themselves are divided on whether they want this additional SUN role and critics say they would not have the resources to do SUN it effectively. SUN So just what recourse do you have when you feel you've been SUN dealt with unfairly by the police? And will the Home Office SUN proposals make any difference? Claire Savage investigates. SUN Presenter: Claire Savage Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b062dhg6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b062hb9t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b062hb9w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b062hb9y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b062j2xt (Listen) SUN Julian Worricker SUN SUN Unusual sounds abound this week....from a newly discovered SUN musical instrument to two prominent beatboxers who need no SUN instrument at all. More than thirty years may have elapsed SUN since Dr David Owen left Labour to join the SDP, but you can SUN hear how much the decision still affects him. Plus Annie SUN Nightingale's fifty years in broadcasting. SUN SUN Join Julian Worricker, for his Pick of the Week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b062j2xw (Listen) SUN Roll up for the (Lower Loxley) village fete. Roll over, SUN Brian? SUN SUN 19:15 The Kindness of Strangers b062j2xy (Listen) SUN Inspired by a random act of kindness, author and poet John SUN Osborne wrestles with the idea of donating one of his SUN kidneys to a virtual stranger in this autobiographical tale. SUN SUN 19:45 A Pocketful of Rye b062j2y0 (Listen) SUN A Rye Boy SUN SUN This is the second in a series of three stories set in and SUN around Rye in East Sussex. SUN SUN A Rye Boy, written by Marian Garvey and read by Niall Buggy, SUN is an evocative tale of how a farmer struggles to deal with SUN his wife when a sculptor comes to town. She becomes SUN distressed and things get out of hand. SUN SUN Producer: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Marian Garvey SUN Reader: Niall Buggy SUN Producer: Celia de Wolff SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b061txyz (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for listener comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b061txyx (Listen) SUN Rev Joyce Bennett, Prince Saud al-Faisal, Burt Shavitz, SUN Michael Oliver, Ian Allan SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Joyce Bennett who was the first English woman to be ordained SUN as an Anglican priest. It happened in Hong Kong in 1971. SUN SUN Prince Saud al-Faisal, who was the world's longest serving SUN foreign minister, representing the interests of Saudi Arabia SUN for forty years. SUN SUN Burt Shavitz, the American beekeeper who developed a popular SUN range of beeswax products. SUN SUN Professor Michael Oliver, the physician who demonstrated the SUN link between cholesterol and heart disease. SUN SUN And the publisher Ian Allan, whose books of locomotive SUN numbers led to the hobby of trainspotting. SUN SUN Producer: Paula McGinley. SUN SUN Revd Joyce Bennett SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Christina Rees, a leading laywoman in the C SUN of E and a member of the General Synod who knew Joyce well, SUN and to former BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent Ted SUN Harrison. SUN SUN Born 22 April 1923; died 11 July 2015 aged 92. SUN SUN Prince Saud al-Faisal SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Sir Derek Plumbly, former British SUN Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and to Fawaz Gerges who is Chair SUN of Contemporary Middle Eastern studies at the LSE. SUN SUN Born 2 January 1940; died 9 July 2015 aged 75. SUN SUN Burt Shavitz (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his brother, Carl Shavitz. SUN SUN Born 15 May 1935; died 5 July 2015 aged 80. SUN SUN Prof Michael Oliver SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Dr Anthony Toft who became President of the SUN Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh after Michael SUN Oliver. SUN SUN Born 3 July 1925; died 7 June 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Ian Allan SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son, David Allan. SUN SUN Born 29 June 1922; died 28 June 2015 aged 92. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Christina Rees SUN Interviewed Guest: Ted Harrison SUN Interviewed Guest: Derek Plumbly SUN Interviewed Guest: Fawaz Gerges SUN Interviewed Guest: Carl Shavitz SUN Interviewed Guest: Anthony Toft SUN Interviewed Guest: David Allan SUN Producer: Paula McGinley SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b062dh75 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b062hn6q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b061qhtf (Listen) SUN Populism SUN SUN Who are "the people" - and who's keeping power from them? SUN Eliane Glaser explores how across Europe and beyond, SUN populist movements are claiming they can to put back SUN politicians in touch with voters and reinvigorate democracy SUN from the grassroots. From UKIP's millions of voters to the SUN passionately engaged Scottish referendum, from the rise of SUN nationalist parties in northern Europe to burgeoning SUN left-wing movements like Syriza and Podemos further south, SUN traditional politicians are feeling the public's wrath. But SUN how much of the crowd-pleasing rhetoric can be taken at face SUN value - and do politicians really now think of themselves as SUN ordinary people? SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Professor PAUL TAGGART, University of Sussex SUN Professor VERNON BOGDANOR, King's College London SUN DOUGLAS CARSWELL, UKIP MP for Clacton SUN SIRIO CANOS, Podemos SUN PETER OBORNE, journalist and author SUN Professor CAS MUDDE, University of Georgia SUN SUN Producer: Polly Hope. SUN SUN (Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images. Picture shows a woman SUN holding a placard at a demonstration on 5th July 2015) SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b062j3md (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b062j3mg (Listen) SUN Andrew Gimson analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b061tk96 (Listen) SUN Michael Douglas, X + Y, The secrets of a storyboard artist SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN Michael Douglas discusses his first super-hero movie, SUN Ant-Man, and explains why he's become the go-to guy for SUN lengthy monologues SUN SUN Director Morgan Matthews explains why he turned his SUN documentary about a maths Olympiad, Beautiful Young Minds, SUN into a feature film, X + Y. SUN SUN Martin Asbury lets light in on the magic of the storyboard SUN artist. SUN SUN X+Y (12A TBC) SUN Nathan (Asa Butterfield) and Zhang Mei (Jo Yang) star SUN in 'X+Y' , inspired by the BAFTA-nominated documentary SUN Beautiful Young Minds. 'X+Y' is available on DVD from 13th SUN July 2015. Image copyright: Koch Media SUN SUN SUN Ant-Man (12A) SUN Michael Douglas reflects on the state of filmmaking and how, SUN like Ant-Man, the little guys are taking on the powerful SUN corporations. Ant-Man is released on Friday 17 July. SUN (Image: Paul Rudd. Copyright: Walt Disney Studios) SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Douglas SUN Interviewed Guest: Morgan Matthews SUN Interviewed Guest: Martin Asbury SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b062hn6j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 JULY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b062hbc7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b061t68c (Listen) MON Middle-class drug dealers, Globalisation of white collar MON work MON MON Middle class drug dealers: Laurie Taylor discusses a study MON into suburban drug selling amongst well heeled teens in a MON wealthy suburb of Atlanta, USA. The author, Richard Wright, MON Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Andrew MON Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, MON reveals a world which provides a striking counterpoint to MON the devastation of the drug war in poor, minority MON communities. Instead, he found that middle class 'dealing' MON rarely disrupted conventional career paths or involved legal MON risks and violence. A British perspective is provided by MON Richard Hobbs, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the MON University of Essex. MON MON Also, white collar jobs which move to the Global South. MON Shehzad Nadeem, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the City MON University of New York, charts the impact on emerging MON economies of the globalisation of IT and service sector MON work. Is it producing upward mobility in countries like MON India? MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b062hdp6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b062hbc9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b062hbcc (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b062hbcf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b062hbch (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0630nxr (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sarah MON Joseph. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b062j848 (Listen) MON Aquaculture around British Isles, Prawn wars, Rural MON foodbanks MON MON Felicity Evans hears about the 'coastal harvest' of MON crustaceans and shellfish from the waters around the British MON Isles. Donal Maguire, Aquaculture Development Manager for MON BIM, Ireland's Sea Fisheries Board, explains why from his MON point of view farmed seafood is the way forward. MON MON Meanwhile, we hear about the conflict at sea between MON creelers, trawlermen and scallop dredgers off the west coast MON of Scotland. MON MON Also, the role of rural foodbanks, explored in a report from MON Pembrokeshire. Professor Pat Caplan of Goldsmiths, MON University of London is comparing how people relate to urban MON and rural foodbanks. MON MON Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b062hbck (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thvvc (Listen) MON Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 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 John Aitchison presents the lesser spotted woodpecker. MON Lesser spotted woodpeckers are the smallest of our three MON woodpeckers and about the size of a house sparrow. They have MON horizontal white stripes across their backs, hence their old MON name of 'barred woodpecker'. The lesser spotted woodpecker MON is one of our most elusive birds. For most of the year it's MON relatively silent but in late February and March, males MON begin to stake out their territories in old woods and MON orchards by calling loudly and drumming softly. MON MON Lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor) MON Webpage image courtesy of Mike Lane (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b062jsmq (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b062jsmv (Listen) MON Series 3, Nigel Lawson MON MON In this series, Peter Hennessy, the historian of modern MON Britain, asks senior politicians to reflect on their life MON and times. Each week, Peter invites his guest to explore the MON impact of formative influences, experiences and people in MON his or her life. MON MON In this programme, Nigel Lawson, a self-proclaimed Tory MON radical and a key ally of Margaret Thatcher in challenging MON and reforming the post-war economic consensus, discusses his MON transition from an enjoyable existence at Oxford to MON journalism and eventually to front-line politics. MON MON Lawson joined the Financial Times in 1956 and five years MON later became City Editor of the new 'Sunday Telegraph'. His MON appetite for politics was whetted in 1963, when he was MON recruited to work in Number 10. After the Conservatives lost MON power, he returned to journalism and in 1966 became editor MON of 'The Spectator'. He narrowly failed to win election to MON parliament in 1970 and finally entered the Commons in 1974. MON MON Lawson found that his radical economic ideas chimed with MON those of Margaret Thatcher, who won the Conservative MON leadership in 1975. He became a key architect of Tory MON economic policy and after the 1979 election was appointed to MON the Treasury. But it was as Chancellor in the 1980s that MON Lawson made his greatest impact by extending and entrenching MON Thatcher's reforms with dramatic cuts in income tax rates, MON an ambitious programme of privatisation and extensive MON de-regulation. However, he opposed the poll tax and then in MON 1989 resigned over the role of Thatcher's special adviser, MON Alan Walters. MON MON Lawson now sits in the House of Lords. His radicalism on the MON economy and Europe extends to what he sees as a misguided MON consensus on global warming policy, of which he is a MON trenchant critic. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b062jsmz (Listen) MON On the Move, Leaving and Biking MON MON In the first episode of his vivid and honest memoir Oliver MON Sacks recounts his passion for motorbikes and his bond with MON his schizophrenic brother. MON MON In On the Move, Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and MON best-selling author, who is probably best known for his MON book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, recounts his MON fascinating life story. Here he delves into his early MON fascination with speed, his experiences as a young MON neurologist and his work with his patients. He tells how his MON work with a group of the chronically ill, who lay forgotten MON in the back wards of a New York hospital shaped his work as MON a clinician, and led him to write about them movingly in one MON of his earliest books, Awakenings. He also tells us about MON his personal highs and lows, his guilt at leaving England MON for America, his ill health and finally finding love. MON MON Read by Oliver Ford Davies MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Oliver Davies MON Author: Oliver Sacks MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b062jsn3 (Listen) MON Family Life MON MON Research done by the Office of National Statistics and the MON Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows MON the UK is one of the happiest countries in the world in MON terms of family. More than NINETY per cent of Britons said MON they were either very or fairly satisfied with the quality MON of their family life. MON MON This morning we're like to hear about your experiences of MON family life in the Britain today. MON MON If you are sharing the children after divorce or juggling as MON a working parent - or even living with a group of friends MON you consider family - why not get in touch. Perhaps you're a MON single sex couple with kids or a single mum or dad raising MON children with the support of an extended family. Tell us MON what family means to you. MON MON Email us now via the website or call Jane Garvey after 9am MON on Monday morning on 03700 100 444. MON MON Presenter Jane Garvey MON Producer Jane Thurlow. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Jane Thurlow MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b062jsn5 (Listen) MON Rachel's Cousins, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5. A Glasgow lawyer arrives at a police station MON to represent three drunken women - only to find they are her MON relatives. MON When they discover they share the BRCA2 cancer gene, they MON become MON unexpectedly caught up in each other's lives. By Ann Marie MON Di Mambro. MON MON Other parts are played by the cast. MON MON Producer/director: Bruce Young MON BBC Scotland. MON MON Credits MON Rachel: Tamara Kennedy MON Marilyn: Gabriel Quigley MON Josie: Karen Bartke MON Shirley: Sarah McCardie MON Bobby: Alan McHugh MON Alex: Robin Laing MON Kevin: Stevie Hannan MON Becca: Nicola Jo Cully MON Carol: Veronica Leer MON Director: Bruce Young MON Producer: Bruce Young MON Writer: Ann Marie Di Mambro MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b062jsn7 (Listen) MON Carol Dweck and Growth Mindset MON MON Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series MON which examines the work of the people who have changed our MON understanding of the human mind. This week she interviews MON Carol Dweck, who identified that individuals tend towards a MON fixed or a growth mindset regarding what they can learn and MON achieve. She also showed that a fixed mindset can be MON changed, and that once people adopt a growth mindset, they MON can achieve more. MON MON Claudia visits a UK primary school where growth mindset is MON part of the curriculum, and sees how children who don't like MON maths soon change their attitude at a summer camp in MON California, once they're shown that getting the wrong answer MON actually makes their brains grow more than getting the right MON answer. MON MON She hears more about Dweck and her work from colleagues Greg MON Walton and Jo Boaler at Stanford University, and executive MON head Dame Alison Peacock at the Wroxham Primary School. MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b062jsn9 (Listen) MON Series 2, Strictly Christmas MON MON It may be nearing Christmas in Episode 3 of Secrets and MON Lattes by Hilary Lyon, but it's not all tidings of joy in MON Edinburgh's Cafe Culture. MON MON Sibling cafe owners Trisha (Hilary Maclean) and Clare MON (Hilary Lyon) are being haunted by their ex-partners. MON Richard (Roger May) gets in touch with Trisha with some MON surprising news and Clare's almost ex-husband Struan (Stuart MON McQuarrie) is disconcertingly hovering around the city MON sticking his beak in. MON MON Meanwhile, multi-talented new chef Callum (Derek Riddell) MON continues to turn everybody's head with some unexpectedly MON fancy footwork. MON MON An invitation to a ball sees the sisters and would-be chef MON Lizzie (Pearl Appleby) resembling characters from a well MON known fairy story but will anyone actually end up kissing MON their very own prince? MON MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producers: Gordon Kennedy and Moray Hunter MON An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Trisha: Hilary Maclean MON Clare: Hilary Lyon MON Richard: Roger May MON Struan: Stuart McQuarrie MON Callum: Derek Riddell MON Lizzie: Pearl Appleby MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Moray Hunter MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON MON 12:00 News Summary b062hbcm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 A History of Ideas b062jsnc (Listen) MON How Should We Live Together? MON MON A history of ideas. Presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in MON many voices. MON MON Each week Melvyn is joined by four guests with different MON backgrounds to discuss a really big question. This week he's MON asking 'How should we live together?'. MON MON Helping him answer it are economist Kate Barker, historian MON Justin Champion and the philosophers Timothy Secret and MON Angie Hobbs. MON MON For the rest of the week Kate, Justin, Timothy and Angie MON will take us further into the history of ideas around this MON question with programmes of their own. Between them they MON will examine: Adam Smith's idea of the free market; John MON Locke's prescription for cohesion in a diverse society - MON Toleration; ideas of ancestor worship as practiced by MON followers of Confucius; and Plato's idea of the Philosopher MON Kings - government by the wise. MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b062jsnh (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b062hbcp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b062jsnk (Listen) MON Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by MON Edward Stourton. MON MON 13:45 Brits Abroad b062jsnm (Listen) MON Berlin MON MON There are nearly 300,000 Brits in Germany and for young MON musicians and artists, Berlin is the 'happening' place, MON offering creative opportunities, cheap living , good music MON and a 24/7 party culture. MON MON In the first of this new series, Sarfraz Manzoor talks to MON Brits Abroad in Berlin as he looks at MON the other side of EU immigration. The city has always lured MON young Brits and, when the wall came down 25 years ago, empty MON buildings to squat and cheap rents proved an added MON attraction. MON MON But what is the impact on existing communities and the MON effect of the English speaking bubble within the city? MON MON Sarfraz talks to Brits like Asian comedian Dharmander Singh, MON who's part of a new emerging comedy scene, as well as MON musician Lucas Hunter and three brothers who've set up a MON successful cafe cum fashion business cum nightclub, funded MON by a variety of jobs including working in a call centre. MON MON He finds how expats like the Brits have led to MON gentrification in some of Berlin's poorest areas, pricing MON out existing communities. And, through German comedian MON Karsten Kaie's satirical show, he discovers 'How to become a MON Berliner in One Hour'. MON MON Producer: Sara Parker MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b062j2xw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b062jy8y (Listen) MON The Gold Killing, Episode 1 MON MON by Paul Sellar MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON Boxer turned businessman Joe Stein wouldn't normally get MON involved with Mafia money but he's on his uppers; when he MON hears of a Ghanaian gold mine with incredible deposits he MON wants a piece of the action. But the returns from the mine MON begin to pay dividends that Joe would rather be without. MON MON Paul Sellar is a playwright working in theatre, film and MON radio. MON His last play for radio The Moonflask met with excellent MON reviews and his first play The Takeover (BBC Radio 3) was MON nominated for the Prix Europa, Berlin 2012 and shortlisted MON for the Imison award (2013). The film version of his stage MON play 2Graves premiered at the Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel MON for the EEFF 2013 and is to be distributed via Trinity Film. MON MON Robert Glenister's work extends across television, theatre MON and radio. He is best known for his roles in 'Hustle' and MON 'Spooks' MON Pip Torrens has recently been seen in 'Poldark' and was MON heard in 'The Cazalets' on Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Joe Stein: Robert Glenister MON The Marquess: Pip Torrens MON Tony Bollom: David Hounslow MON Val: Amelia Lowdell MON Yelena: Amelia Lowdell MON George: Obi Abili MON Suzy: Alex Tregear MON The Countess: Rhiannon Neads MON Sidney Green: Stephen Critchlow MON Director: Sally Avens MON Writer: Paul Sellar MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b062jy90 (Listen) MON Series 29, Heat 7, 2015 MON MON (7/13) MON Music lovers from London and Surrey compete in the seventh MON heat of the 2015 series. Paul Gambaccini's questions range MON across all genres of music, from the classics to film and TV MON music, jazz, Broadway, rock and pop. MON MON The winner goes through to the semi-finals in August and MON takes a crucial step nearer the 29th annual Counterpoint MON champion's crown. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b062htl5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b062jy92 (Listen) MON Henry Marsh MON MON Neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm Henry Marsh chooses MON writing that means something to him, from The Hobbit to The MON Fine Art of Cabinetmaking to Thinking, Fast and Slow. MON Recorded at his home with readers Tim Pigott-Smith and MON Joanna David. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Extracts Chosen MON MON The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien MON MON Watching the English by Kate Fox MON MON The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov. Translated by Michael MON Glenny MON MON The Fine Art of Cabinet making by James Krenov MON MON Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman MON MON The Truce by Primo Levi MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Henry Marsh MON Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith MON Reader: Joanna David MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b062jy94 (Listen) MON Series 12, The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: Chicago MON MON Fossil Records and other Archaeological Hits. MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage in Chicago, MON Illinois, to discuss fossil records and evolution. They are MON joined on stage by host of NPR's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" MON Peter Sagal, comedian and Saturday Night Live alumnus Julia MON Sweeney, palaeontologist Paul Sereno and evolutionary MON biologist Jerry Coyne. MON MON 17:00 PM b062jy96 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b062hbct (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b062jy98 (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 2 MON MON The 63rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. Regulars MON Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once MON again joined on the panel by Miles Jupp with Jack Dee in the MON chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON 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: Miles Jupp MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b062jy9b (Listen) MON Bert is finding his independence, and Jill is reaching out MON to Kenton. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b062jz7m (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b062jsn5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Ways of Thinking b05pl2rx (Listen) MON In an increasingly digital world, it's easy to feel MON overwhelmed. Many of us conclude that we just don't have the MON right brain for this kind of thing. Author Naomi Alderman MON discovers her latent ability to contribute to our digital MON future. In the early days of computers, only ultra-logical MON reductionist thinkers could participate. Amateurs were MON easily frustrated by computers that seemed to lack common MON sense. 40 years on, it's a very different story. You don't MON have to think in 1s and 0s to be a digital creative. Naomi MON already writes storylines for computer games but she has MON left the coding to others. Now she finds out if she could do MON it. She meets the coding experts who think that we've all MON got something to offer to the digital world. MON MON Producer: Alex Mansfield. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0630p11 (Listen) MON Free Movement: Britain's Burning EU debate MON MON Freedom of movement will be a key battleground in Britain's MON crucial EU debate. It gives EU citizens the right to live MON and work anywhere in the union and is praised by supporters MON as boosting prosperity. But critics say it has created MON unsustainable waves of mass migration and must be MON restricted. So where does this policy actually come from, MON and what does it mean in practice? Sonia Sodha discovers why MON it has become such a crucial issue, and what's at stake as MON Britain decides its European future. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby MON Editor: Hugh Levinson MON MON (Photo credit: Getty Images) MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5n (Listen) MON Nightshades MON MON It is hard to think of a more diverse and wonderful group of MON plants. They enchant us, poison us, make us feel sexy, give MON us hallucinations, heal us and feed us. MON MON The screaming mandrakes in Harry Potter and the shamanistic MON dreams of tribal elders eating giant trumpet flowers testify MON to the magical powers of this group. MON MON Its culinary properties enhance the ever intricate flavours MON of modern cuisine while its fatal attractions have been used MON by murderers, most famously Dr Crippen. MON MON This is the group that contains mandrake, potatoes, MON chillies, aubergines, deadly nightshade and tomatoes. These MON are the plants that have entered our culture through food MON and medicine, drugs and love. MON MON It is strange that the European plants in the group are MON mainly poisonous yet those that grow in the New World are MON often spicy and enriching. MON MON Fearing anything that looked like nightshade the first MON plants that were brought here from the New World were MON regarded with suspicion, yet quickly we adopted them, so MON much so that it is impossible to conceive of Italian food MON without tomatoes or Friday night fish and chips, yet they MON are aliens in a strange land. We have a lot to thank this MON group for. MON MON It soothed us before anaesthetics, sent our imaginations MON flying and tempted us with alluring flavours - and they are MON still pushing the frontiers of both medicine and food today. MON MON Dr Sandy Knapp MON Dr Sandra Knapp is Head of Plants Division at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London and a specialist on the taxonomy of the nightshade MON family, Solanaceae. The family includes the megadiverse MON genus Solanum which contains potatoes, tomatoes and MON eggplants and is one of the few flowering plant genera that MON contains more than 1,000 species. MON She began working at the Natural History Museum in 1992 and MON has described more than 75 new species of plants. She is the MON author of several popular books on the history of science MON and botanical exploration, including the award-winning MON Potted Histories MON In 2009 she was honoured by the MON Peter Raven Outreach Award MON by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the MON UK National Biodiversity Network MON ’s John Burnett Medal. MON MON Xanthe Clay MON Xanthe Clay MON misspent her youth backpacking around Arabia, China and MON South America, eating and drinking her way through the good: MON mezze, ceviche and dim sum. The bad: camel tripe. And the MON downright dangerous: bootleg pisco sours. MON Back in the UK, she worked as a bookseller specialising in MON cookery books, and when the bookshop chain folded she spent MON her redundancy money training to be a chef. She worked as a MON chef and caterer in the West Country before starting the MON Readers’ Recipe MON column for MON The Telegraph MON Since then she has worked on both food and cookery features MON for Weekend Telegraph. MON Twitter: MON @xantheclay MON MON Joyce Frome MON Joyce Froome is Assistant Curator at the MON Museum of Witchcraft and Magic MON in Boscastle, Cornwall, which is home to a collection of MON over 2,500 objects representing all aspects of European MON magic. MON She is also author of MON Wicked Enchantments: A History of the Pendle Witches and MON Their Magic MON MON Professor Michael Heinrich MON Michael Heinrich is a Professor of Pharmacognosy and the MON head of the research cluster ‘Biodiversity and Medicines’ at MON the MON UCL School of Pharmacy MON Professor Heinrich has many years of research experience in MON a multitude of transdisciplinary aspects of medicinal and MON food plant research, as well as at the interface of cultural MON and natural sciences. He is Editor in Chief of MON Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology MON as well as Reviews Editor of the MON Journal of Ethnopharmacology MON MON Andrew Smith MON Andrew F. Smith MON teaches food studies at the New School in New York. He is MON also an author and editor and recently published MON Sugar: A Global History MON He serves as the editor for the “ MON Edible Series MON ” and the “Food Controversies Series” at MON Reaktion Books MON Twitter: MON @tomato1946 MON MON Alain Touwaide MON Alain Touwaide searches for ancient manuscripts and texts MON about medicinal plants in libraries all over the world. A MON Classicist he has spent his career in medical schools, MON colleges of pharmacy and faculties of science worldwide, and MON is currently the Scientific Director of the MON Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions MON MON 21:30 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b062jsmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b062hbcw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b062k3fj (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b063jr7f (Listen) MON The Girl on the Train, Episode 6 MON MON Paula Hawkins' international bestseller comes to BBC Radio 4 MON in this thrilling multi-voice narration starring Sally MON Hawkins, Lyndsey Marshal and Zoe Tapper. MON MON Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She MON knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking MON a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she MON knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and MON Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is MON perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. MON MON And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute MON until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's MON changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the MON lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's MON much more than just the girl on the train... MON MON Readers: MON Rachel ..... Sally Hawkins MON Megan ..... Lyndsey Marshal MON Anna ..... Zoe Tapper MON MON Abridger ..... Neville Teller MON Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. MON MON Credits MON Rachel: Sally Hawkins MON Megan: Lyndsey Marshal MON Anna: Zoe Tapper MON Author: Paula Hawkins MON Abridger: Neville Teller MON Producer: Jenny Thompson MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b05pn672 (Listen) MON Series 7, Here Be Dragons MON MON A baby monitor which opens up a terrifying world, an MON explorer who ventures into the unknown and a woman who longs MON to disappear into space - Josie Long hears about dreams, MON desires and darkness in unmarked territories. MON MON On old maps, the uncharted areas - dangerous or unexplored MON landscapes - used to be marked with illustrations of sea MON serpents rising from the water or dragons stalking the land. MON Sometimes these areas would just be marked with a phrase, MON 'Here Be Dragons'. In this programme, Josie hears tales of MON modern exploration - from space travel to the insides of our MON bodies, from night terrors to new worlds. 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 Baby Monitor MON Produced by Peregrine Andrews MON MON Dangerous Appetites MON Feat. Joe Dunthorne MON MON The Blue Nile MON Feat. John Blashford Snell MON MON The Call MON Produced by Rikke Houd with Sheida Jahanbin. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b062k3fn (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 JULY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b062hbf5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b062jsmz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b062hbf7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b062hbf9 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b062hbfc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b062hbff (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0630pfb (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sarah TUE Joseph. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b062k7ps (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thwm0 (Listen) TUE Golden Pheasant 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 John Aitchison presents the golden pheasant. Golden TUE pheasants are native to the mountains of China where they TUE live in thick bamboo forest. The males are TUE brightly-coloured; gold and scarlet, with a long tail and a TUE cape of black and orange which they use to woo the much TUE duller brown females. From the late 1800's Golden Pheasants TUE were introduced to many bird collections and shooting TUE estates around the UK. Today the strongest colonies are in TUE East Anglia. TUE TUE Golden Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus) TUE Webpage courtesy of Chris Knight (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE The Living World: Golden Pheasant TUE TUE If you would like to hear more programmes about golden TUE pheasant, you might be intertesed in listening to TUE this programme TUE which was originally broadcast on Sunday 28th April 2013. TUE TUE TUE TUE Brett Westwood joins Paul Stancliffe of the British Trust TUE for Ornithology in search of wild golden pheasants in the TUE conifer woods of Norfolk. Here, in spite of their bright TUE colours, they are very elusive and behave much as they do in TUE their native China, skulking in dense undergrowth and TUE glimpsed only as they dash across rides. TUE TUE TUE http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s38s0 TUE TUE 06:00 Today b062k7pv (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b062k9zz (Listen) TUE Niamh Nic Daeid TUE TUE Forensic chemist Niamh Nic Daeid talks to Jim Al-Khalili TUE about investigating fires and analysing legal highs. TUE TUE Her team were involved in studying the infamous Philpott TUE case in Derby when six children tragically died in a fire TUE set by their parents, Mick and Mairead. They devised TUE experiments to find out why, despite having smoke alarms TUE fitted inside the house, none of the children woke up. TUE TUE Chemistry has also been pushed to the limits to identify TUE 'legal highs', or Novel Psychoactive Substances. Around 350 TUE new drugs are released on to the market every month, with TUE Europe a hotspot for buyers. TUE TUE Plus, Niamh talks about the serious problems facing the TUE world of forensic science. The field, she says, is in TUE crisis. With rock-bottom research budgets, and the list of TUE miscarriages of justice growing, how can we fix forensic TUE science? TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b062kb01 (Listen) TUE Selina Scott talks to ghostbuster Hayley Stevens TUE TUE Selina Scott is intrigued and fascinated by ghosts and TUE believes she has one of her own, which resides in the TUE kitchen of her home, an 15th century farmhouse in rural TUE North Yorkshire. TUE TUE In the final of her three programmes for One to One, Selina TUE talks to ghostbuster Hayley Stevens who doesn't believe in TUE ghosts. TUE TUE She offers Selina a rational explanation for the ghostly TUE presence in her house. TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b062kb03 (Listen) TUE On the Move, Power Lifting and New Directions TUE TUE In his candid memoir, the physician and best-selling author, TUE Oliver Sacks recalls the start of his work as a clinician. TUE First of all he turns to his days as a power lifter and TUE reflects on a personal struggle. TUE TUE Read by Oliver Ford Davies. TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Oliver Davies TUE Author: Oliver Sacks TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Elizabeth Allard TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b062kdd1 (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 b062kdd3 (Listen) TUE Rachel's Cousins, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5. A Glasgow lawyer has to deal with the wayward relatives TUE she's been brought up to ignore when TUE they discover they share the BRCA2 cancer gene. TUE TUE Unlikely allies Rachel and Marilyn begin to bond - until TUE Rachel accuses Marilyn of stealing. TUE TUE By Ann Marie Di Mambro. TUE TUE Other parts are played by the cast. TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young TUE BBC Scotland. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rachel: Tamara Kennedy TUE Marilyn: Gabriel Quigley TUE Josie: Karen Bartke TUE Shirley: Sarah McCardie TUE Bobby: Alan McHugh TUE Alex: Robin Laing TUE Kevin: Stevie Hannan TUE Becca: Nicola Jo Cully TUE Carol: Veronica Leer TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE Writer: Ann Marie Di Mambro TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5t (Listen) TUE Coral TUE TUE Coral can take on many forms from branching, tree like TUE structures to flat table tops. They are colourful and TUE bright, often described as underwater gardens. Yet they are TUE double edged beauties. TUE TUE Their ragged structure tore the hulls from wooden ships, TUE causing the death of many sailors. Poisonous fish lurk TUE amidst the beauty and sharks patrol the edges. TUE TUE Charles Darwin's ship The Beagle had the task of mapping TUE coral reefs, so dangerous were they to shipping, and they TUE formed the topic of his first book. Darwin couldn't see the TUE reefs underwater, but he still managed to work out how they TUE formed, leaping from top to top with the aid of a "leaping TUE stick". TUE TUE Coral has entered our literature with tales of paradise TUE islands, from Ballantyne's The Coral Island in the 19th TUE century, where three young boys create paradise, to the flip TUE side in Golding's Lord of the Flies. Paradise though was TUE shattered between 1946 and 1958. This was the dawn of the TUE nuclear age when deep wells were sunk into tropical reefs in TUE the Pacific and bombs detonated. But it was the drilling TUE cores that proved Darwin was right, over 100 years after he TUE proposed his theory. TUE TUE More recently coral reefs were the setting for the film TUE Finding Nemo, a film so popular it set off a craze for clown TUE fish as pets, causing real concern for the future of clown TUE fish on many tropical reefs. According to National TUE Geographic, demand for clown fish in aquaria tripled after TUE the film was released. In response to the concern some TUE aquarium owners decided to release their fish back into the TUE wild, but unfortunately in the wrong place, causing the TUE clown fish to become an invasive alien species. TUE TUE Such is the tangled web we humans weave! TUE TUE But no matter the reality, we seem to crave the vision of TUE paradise that coral reefs provide. They will always be TUE glorious places in our hearts and minds. TUE TUE Dr Kenneth Johnson TUE Dr Kenneth Johnson is Coral Reef Researcher at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE He researches the history of corals and coral reefs as they TUE respond to environmental change over time scales ranging TUE from decades to millions of years. TUE He has collected new data from modern and fossil coral reefs TUE in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia to constrain future TUE modes of change in reef ecosystems as they respond to TUE accelerating human impacts. TUE Ken has published more than 50 research papers in major TUE scientific journals including Science, Geology, Bioscience, TUE Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Coral TUE Reefs. TUE TUE TUE Jason DeCaires Taylor TUE In 2006, TUE Jason DeCaires Taylor TUE founded and created the TUE world’s first underwater sculpture park TUE Situated off the west coast of Grenada in the West Indies it TUE is now listed as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by TUE National Geographic TUE and was instrumental in the creation of a TUE National Marine Protected Area TUE by the local Government. TUE Following on in 2009 he co-founded TUE Museo Subacuático de Arte TUE a museum with a collection of over 500 of his sculptural TUE works, submerged off the coast of Cancun, Mexico. TUE Taylor’s art is a paradox of creation, constructed to be TUE assimilated by the ocean and transformed from inert objects TUE into living breathing coral reefs, portraying human TUE intervention as both positive and life-encouraging. TUE TUE TUE Dr Erica Hendy TUE Dr Erica Hendy is TUE lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles TUE at the University of Bristol, crossing the disciplines of TUE biology, geology and chemistry in the study of coral reefs. TUE She specialises in documenting past climates and TUE environments, and identifying how the ecosystem responds. TUE Much of this information is recorded in the skeletons of TUE massive coral colonies. TUE TUE Professor Ralph Pite TUE Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the TUE University of Bristol. His research is focused on the TUE Romantic period TUE Thomas Hardy TUE ecocriticism TUE and 20th-century poetry. TUE He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost TUE and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three TUE years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. TUE Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the TUE simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call TUE sustainable. TUE TUE 11:30 The Great Songbook b062kdd5 (Listen) TUE France TUE TUE France's popular music legacy is vast and diverse. Cerys TUE Matthews travels to Paris in search of some of the key TUE classic songs that constitute the French songbook, and talks TUE to a panel of guests including musicologist Catherine TUE Rudent, writer and commentator Catherine Guilyardi and TUE popular music journalist Bertrand Dicale. Whilst some French TUE songs have been chart successes in the UK, and others have TUE become jazz standards, Cerys uncovers a patrimony that TUE ranges from the seductive to the salacious, but which is TUE always delivered with wit and panache. And with some 3,000 TUE French songs including 'Paris' in their titles, the city TUE itself acts as muse as well as backdrop to many of France's TUE greatest popular classics. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b062hbfh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 A History of Ideas b062kdd7 (Listen) TUE Historian Justin Champion on Toleration TUE TUE Professor Justin Champion examines Locke's theory of TUE Toleration through the inhabitants of Spitalfields past and TUE present. He goes to Brick Lane whose famous mosque was built TUE as a Huguenot Church and became a synagogue before becoming TUE the centre of Bengali life in London. He meets the Bishop of TUE London, himself of Huguenot descent and local politician TUE Abdal Ullah to discuss religious tolerance then and now TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b062kdd9 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b062hbfk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b062zzyf (Listen) TUE Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by TUE Edward Stourton. TUE TUE 13:45 Brits Abroad b0643t2r (Listen) TUE France TUE TUE There are so many retired Brits in the South West of France TUE that it has been dubbed 'little England'. Sarfraz Manzoor TUE meets British builders and tradespeople who are meeting the TUE needs of Brits renovating retirement and second homes. TUE TUE As well as seeing business opportunities, many come to TUE secure a better life for their children with small village TUE schools and a safe rural environment. TUE TUE They come for a better life but often don't speak French and TUE stick together in English speaking cliques. So how different TUE are they from the immigrants in Britain who are often TUE criticised for not integrating? TUE TUE Are they under-cutting French builders or offering different TUE skills? And why is that the Brits prefer British builders - TUE and even British hairdressers? TUE TUE Producer:Sara Parker TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b062jy9b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b062kfmg (Listen) TUE The Gold Killing, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Paul Sellar TUE TUE Part Two TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE TUE Boxer turned businessman Joe Stein wouldn't normally get TUE involved with mafia money but he's on his uppers; when he TUE invests the money in a Ghanaian gold mine he sets off a TUE macabre series of murders and Joe finds himself in the TUE biggest fight of his life - a fight to stay alive. TUE TUE Credits TUE Joe Stein: Robert Glenister TUE The Marquess: Pip Torrens TUE Tony Bollom: David Hounslow TUE George: Obi Abili TUE Father Dubaku: Obi Abili TUE Suzy: Alex Tregear TUE Tanu: Danny Sapani TUE DI Hume: Danny Sapani TUE Val: Amelia Lowdell TUE Yelena: Amelia Lowdell TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Writer: Paul Sellar TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b062kfmj (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined by Andrea Wulf and Dr Paul Warde for TUE an environmental Making History. TUE TUE Helen Castor meets up with Professor Tom Williamson in south TUE Norfolk to hear how our understanding of what makes a wood TUE 'ancient' is changing - and why it matters. TUE TUE Conservationist Graham White is in Dunbar, the home of John TUE Muir - the father of American conservation. TUE TUE Paul Warde discusses his work on the history of TUE sustainability and Andrea Wulf previews her up-comming TUE biography of Alexander von Humboldt. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Flexagon Radio b062kg70 (Listen) TUE Hugh Aldersey-Williams TUE TUE A series which encourages guests to "think with the heart TUE and feel with the intellect". In this first programme, TUE Murray Lachlan Young invites writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams TUE to combine his favourite sounds and his most passionately TUE held ideas in unexpected ways - by feeding them into an TUE electronic device called 'The Flexagon'. TUE TUE Murray has not prepared an interview but, instead, he and TUE Hugh respond spontaneously to what the Flexagon returns to TUE them in the form of short audio 'Flexes'. Neither of them TUE knows which of the sounds, music and speech the Flexagon TUE will select, nor how it will combine them. The idea is to TUE throw up connections that might not otherwise have occurred TUE to guests, and to encourage them to think and feel about TUE their concerns and passions in a different way. TUE TUE Hugh's list of sounds include evocations of a childhood TUE spent in central London listening to Guards bands playing TUE marches on their way to Buckingham Palace, and the TUE children's literature he was read by his American mother. TUE From later life, there's the flocking of coastal birds in TUE Norfolk where he now lives and writes. TUE TUE These, and Hugh's other sounds, are flexed together with TUE audio suggested by his passion for linking science and the TUE arts, and for breaking down the barriers between the 'Two TUE Cultures' as expressed by C.P. Snow in the year of Hugh's TUE birth. TUE TUE The unpredictability increases as the Flexagon introduces TUE some audio of its own, drawn from the BBC Radio archives, to TUE create even more unusual associations between apparently TUE disparate material, and to alter perspectives on familiar TUE issues. TUE TUE Producer: Adam Fowler TUE An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Document b062kg72 (Listen) TUE Dominic Streatfeild tells the story of The Strange Voyage of TUE the 'Blonde Angel'. Captain Alfredo Astiz had waged a very TUE dirty part of Argentina's 'Dirty War'. As part of the TUE notorious ESMA he had kidnapped and disappeared mothers, TUE daughters, sons - even nuns. As part of 'Operation Alpha' TUE Astiz led a detachment of Argentine commandos to seize South TUE Georgia island, raising the Argentine flag on 2 April 1982, TUE a crucial act in the escalation of the Falklands conflict. TUE His surrender and capture quickly became a problem for the TUE British. Both the French and Swedish governments were under TUE public pressure to discover the fate of their own nationals TUE who Astiz had disappeared, but Britain, anxious over the TUE fate of its own P.O.Ws in Argentine hands and bound by the TUE Geneva convention, felt it could do little to help. What TUE happened next was an extraordinary voyage to Britain for TUE Astiz, the first P.O.W. to be held on British soil since TUE World War Two. TUE TUE Using newly declassified documents, the writer and historian TUE Dominic Streatfeild explores the dilemmas that Astiz posed TUE and finds those who dealt with the 'Blonde Angel of Death'. TUE TUE Producer TUE Mark Burman. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b062kg74 (Listen) TUE Adam Hart-Davis and Sue Blackmore TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by psychologist Sue Blackmore and TUE her husband the broadcaster and historian of inventions Adam TUE Hart-Davis to discuss favourite books. TUE TUE These include 'Inventions of The Middle Ages' by Chiara TUE Frugoni, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' by Rachel TUE Joyce and 'Somewhere Towards the End' by Diana Athill. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Adam Hart-Davis TUE Interviewed Guest: Sue Blackmore TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 17:00 PM b062kg76 (Listen) TUE News interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b062hbfm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b062khlc (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE What's Lucy Porter's least favourite town to perform in? Has TUE Cornelius's pal Jonathan ever won any money as a result of a TUE tip from Cornelius? Who is Tom Wrigglesworth's all time TUE hero? TUE TUE All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in TUE the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested TUE on how well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE TUE In this case, comedian Lucy Porter picks her agent, comedian TUE Tom Wrigglesworth picks his father, and Cornelius Lysaght TUE picks an old school friend. TUE TUE Producer: Matt Stronge. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Miles Jupp TUE Panellist: Lucy Porter TUE Panellist: Cornelius Lysaght TUE Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Producer: Matt Stronge TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b062kcyx (Listen) TUE Susan has big plans, and Kate finds sisterly support. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b062khlf (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b062kdd3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Should Extremism Be a Crime? b062khlh (Listen) TUE John Ware investigates plans to criminalise the activities TUE of those classed as non-violent extremists. Glorifying TUE terrorism is already a crime. In future, expressing views TUE deemed contrary to British values could be illegal too. A TUE new bill would allow police to impose prevention orders TUE aimed at silencing those who preach an extremist message. TUE The law could be used to shut down the premises used to host TUE such speakers. It is part of the "muscular liberal" approach TUE set out by David Cameron in 2011. But does it risk TUE compromising the liberal values it is designed to protect? TUE TUE Producer: Chole Hadjimatheou TUE Reporter: John Ware. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b062khlk (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b062khlm (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b062k9zz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b062hbfp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b062khlz (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b062k3fl (Listen) TUE The Girl on the Train, Episode 7 TUE TUE Paula Hawkins' international bestseller comes to BBC Radio 4 TUE in this thrilling multi-voice narration starring Sally TUE Hawkins, Lyndsey Marshal and Zoe Tapper. TUE TUE Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She TUE knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking TUE a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she TUE knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and TUE Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is TUE perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. TUE TUE And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute TUE until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's TUE changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the TUE lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's TUE much more than just the girl on the train... TUE TUE Readers: TUE Rachel ..... Sally Hawkins TUE Megan ..... Lyndsey Marshal TUE Anna ..... Zoe Tapper TUE TUE Abridger ..... Neville Teller TUE Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rachel: Sally Hawkins TUE Megan: Lyndsey Marshal TUE Anna: Zoe Tapper TUE Author: Paula Hawkins TUE Abridger: Neville Teller TUE Producer: Jenny Thompson TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b062jy94 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b062khm8 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b062hbgj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b062kb03 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b062hbgl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b062hbgn (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b062hbgq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b062hbgs (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0630q6c (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sarah WED Joseph. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b062kphp (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thwdy (Listen) WED White-Fronted Goose 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 John Aitchison presents the white-fronted goose. Flocks of WED White-Fronted Geese return each year to their favourite WED wintering areas, the bogs and and saltmarshes of Ireland and WED the Severn Estuary as well as western Scotland, although WED smaller flocks are found elsewhere. John Aitchison recorded WED the musical yapping of white-fronted geese for Tweet WED listeners as they flew over his home in western Scotland. WED WED White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b062kpqj (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b062kqyl (Listen) WED Melanie Reid WED WED Before her accident Melanie Reid says she lived life at 10 WED million miles an hour - a working mother, keen horse rider WED and award winning accident. That all changed in an instant WED when her horse refused to go over a jump at a cross country WED training practice. She fell face first, her body contorted, WED and realized almost immediately that something terrible had WED happened:"Everything went bright red and my whole body was WED suffused by this intense feeling of warmth and I knew I'd WED done something catastrophic." WED WED She started writing Spinal Column three weeks later - the WED thought of documenting her experiences coming as she lay in WED an MRI scanner. It was, she tells Peter, her way of WED chronicling the war zone that was now her body: "'I remember WED lying there thinking I've got to tell people how weird and WED frightening this is. And it was great therapy for me. Being WED a journalist helped; it helped to process the shock, WED superficially. And it helped to process the suddenness of WED the change. Because from being someone who was busy, busy, WED busy, I was precipitated into the life of someone who's 30 WED years older than I am." WED WED This series of No Triumph No Tragedy opened with an WED interview with the newly appointed Cabinet Member Robert WED Halfon, who was born with spastic displegia. Later in the WED series Peter meets Giles Duley, a former fashion WED photographer who was injured after becoming what he WED describes as an anti-war photographer. He stepped on an WED improvised explosive device in 2011 in Afghanistan while WED embedded with American soldiers and lost both legs and an WED arm, but still continues his trade. Indeed, he returned to WED Afghanistan not long after his rehabilitation and is now WED documenting the effects of war across the world. WED WED The last series received a terrific response from listeners WED and critics: hundreds of letters and calls generated by the WED achievements and attitudes of blind musician Raul Midon, WED Paralympic Gold medallist Sophie Christiansen and the former WED Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Chris Woodhead. Chris has WED never ducked an issue in his life, and he's not ducking the WED ultimate one: how to face death. Diagnosed with the WED progressive condition of Motor neurone Disease in 2006, he WED was blunt with listeners about his right to die - when, how WED and where he chooses. WED WED 09:30 Witness b0639lr4 (Listen) WED The Death of Walter Rodney WED WED It is 35 years since the Guyanese opposition leader and WED academic, Dr Walter Rodney, was killed in a bomb explosion. WED He was one of the leaders of a movement trying to bridge the WED racial divide in Guyana's politics. His supporters said he WED had been assassinated on the orders of the government. We WED hear from his widow, Patricia Rodney, and from Wazir Mohamed WED who was a young activist at the time. WED (Photo: Walter Rodney. Credit: the Walter Rodney Family). WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b062kqyn (Listen) WED On the Move, Uncovering Forgotten Lives WED WED In his vivid and honest memoir, the neurologist and writer, WED Oliver Sacks reflects on love and loss. First of all he WED recalls the extraordinary lives of the patients who inspired WED his bestselling book, Awakenings. WED WED Read by Oliver Ford Davies WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Oliver Davies WED Author: Oliver Sacks WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Elizabeth Allard WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b062kqyq (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 b062ktl9 (Listen) WED Rachel's Cousins, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5. A Glasgow lawyer has to deal with the wayward relatives WED she's been brought up to ignore when they discover they WED share the BRCA2 cancer gene. WED WED Josie seeks advice from Rachel when she admits she's been WED lying to the rest of the family. WED WED By Ann Marie Di Mambro WED WED Other parts are played by the cast. WED Producer/director: Bruce Young WED BBC Scotland. WED WED Credits WED Rachel: Tamara Kennedy WED Marilyn: Gabriel Quigley WED Josie: Karen Bartke WED Shirley: Sarah McCardie WED Bobby: Alan McHugh WED Alex: Robin Laing WED Kevin: Stevie Hannan WED Becca: Nicola Jo Cully WED Carol: Veronica Leer WED Director: Bruce Young WED Producer: Bruce Young WED Writer: Ann Marie Di Mambro WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b062ktlc (Listen) WED Kevin and Derek - In the Line of Fire WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a former soldier WED and a war photographer, both of them artists, about an WED incident in Bosnia. Another in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 The Bletchley Girls b062ktlf (Listen) WED For decades it was Britain's best kept secret, the huge WED codebreaking operation centred around a Victorian mansion in WED Buckinghamshire, Bletchley Park. Despite the fact that at WED least 8000 people worked at Bletchley, and many others in WED listening and codebreaking centres across the country, WED no-one gave the secret away. And when the story did WED eventually begin to emerge, the star-studded heroes of WED Bletchley's narrative were men, led by the most famous WED cryptanalyst of them all, Alan Turing. In recent years, WED Hollywood blockbusters have cemented the reputation of those WED clever boffins, who have been credited with shortening the WED Second World War by many months. WED However, if you walked through the gates of Bletchley WED seventy years ago, you would have been struck not by the WED number of men working there but the number of young women. WED That's because by 1944 three quarters of Bletchley's WED workforce was made up of very young women, or girls, often WED just out of school. WED Tessa Dunlop speaks to some of those Bletchley girls, now in WED their late 80s and 90s, about their stories. Who were they WED and what did they do? Why were they selected to work in WED Britain's most secret organisation and what impact did WED Bletchley have on the rest of their lives? WED Producer: John Murphy. WED WED 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b03brkf1 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED WED John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, WED regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things WED like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit WED sketch show. WED WED The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by WED The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny WED sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The WED second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and WED Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. WED WED This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches WED about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how WED goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate WED instead on the the big, serious issues. WED WED This fifth episode of the series reveals the truth behind WED some famous anecdotes and a curious tale of a hard-bitten WED dame. Part of this show are in 3-D. Unfortunately, it's a WED horrible part. WED WED Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. WED WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Finnemore WED Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Ensemble: Simon Kane WED Ensemble: Lawry Lewin WED Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: John Finnemore WED WED 12:00 News Summary b062hbgv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 A History of Ideas b062ktlh (Listen) WED Economist Kate Barker on the Free Market WED WED Is a Free Market the vital foundation of a fair, dynamic and WED creative society? The father of economics, Adam Smith WED certainly thought so. Since the publication of 'The Wealth WED of Nations' in 1776 Smith's thoughts on trade and WED money-making have come to be seen as the theoretical WED foundations of a rational and rather uncaring form of pure WED capitalism. WED WED Economist, Dame Kate Barker is keen to put the soul back WED into Smith, revealing the staunch moral principles that WED underlined his view of a fair and just capitalist society. WED She wants to measure today's markets against the standards WED set by the sage of the Scottish Enlightenment. Would WED Britain's markets in groceries, homes or financial services WED bring a smile to Smith's stern visage? WED WED Kate is joined in her quest by Smith's latest biographer WED Jesse Norman, by housing market analyst Yolande Barnes and WED by Christine Tacon, the government's grocery market WED regulator. WED WED This is part of a week of programmes examining how we should WED live together. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b062ktrq (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b062hbgx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b062ktrs (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by WED Edward Stourton. WED WED 13:45 Brits Abroad b0645548 (Listen) WED Ibiza WED WED Ibiza has long been associated with clubbing and Brits WED behaving badly, but it has a very different side - one of WED tranquil beauty which is increasingly attracting the rich WED and famous, as well as Brits who live on the island and WED commute to UK. WED WED In the 1950s, Ibiza was a poor island where locals made a WED meagre living through farming and fishing. Now many have WED become rich through tourism and selling their land and WED farms. And while mainland Spain has high unemployment, Ibiza WED has seasonal jobs and a service industry supporting those WED living there all year round. WED WED What will be the long-term impact of the new influx of Brits WED searching for peace - ranging from Cathal Smyth (Chas Smash) WED from the very London band Madness, to a single mother with WED her teenage son starting a new life. WED WED Producer:Sara Parker WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b062kcyx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b062kx4b (Listen) WED Curious Under the Stars, Gathering Storm WED WED By Meic Povey WED WED The last in the series set in Glan Don, a wild and WED mysterious village perched on the Welsh coast. WED WED When a violent storm brings down the Great Oak of Glan Don, WED legend suggests that the survival of the village is WED threatened. So the villagers come together to attempt to WED save the tree. But as the weather worsens, Gareth and Bethan WED get trapped in the rising floodwaters and the truth of their WED tempestuous past is laid bare. WED WED Starring Elis James (Crims), Louise Ford (Chickens) and Ifan WED Huw Dafydd (Gavin and Stacey), Curious Under the Stars takes WED us deep into a Welsh landscape of myth, magic and mayhem. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Gareth: Elis James WED Diane: Louise Ford WED Bethan: Eiry Hughes WED Emlyn: Ifan Huw Dafydd WED Gwyn: Matthew Gravelle WED Megan: Aimee-Ffion Edwards WED Director: James Robinson WED Writer: Meic Povey WED WED 15:00 Money Box b062kx4d (Listen) WED What would you like to do with your pension pot, leave it WED invested, take some cash or is an annuity a good idea? Call WED 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk with your questions. WED WED The way we access our pension funds has changed dramatically WED but how do you and should you take advantage of pension WED freedom? WED WED Before cashing in or switching out of a pension scheme, you WED need to find out whether you would lose any valuable WED guaranteed annuity rates (GARs). Offered by some older-style WED pensions, these rates can be double those available now. WED WED Have you considered the tax you may have to pay when taking WED income from your pension, how can you manage this sensibly? WED WED If you want income certainty, should you consider buying an WED annuity, what are the best options at the moment and can you WED enhance potential payments? WED WED There have also been changes to the way pensions can be WED inherited. WED WED Or perhaps you have a question about saving into a pension WED scheme? WED WED Whatever you want to do with your pension, Paul Lewis and WED guests will be waiting to help with your questions. Joining WED Paul will be: WED WED Billy Burrows from retirement options website WED williamburrows.com WED Michelle Cracknell, Chief Executive, The Pensions Advisory WED Service. WED Tom McPhail, Head of Pensions Research, Hargreaves Lansdown. WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. 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WED WED Related links WED Gov.UK: Summer Budget 2015 WED Gov.UK: March Budget 2015 WED New State Pension Top Up WED The Pensions Advisory Service WED Money Advice Service: Work, pensions and retirement WED Money Advice Service: Types of Pension WED Money Advice Service: Defined Contribution Pension Schemes WED Money Advice Service: Pension calculator WED Money Advice Service: Pension basics WED WED GOV.UK: State Pension WED GOV.UK: State Pension Calculator WED GOV.UK: Contact the Pension Service WED GOV.UK: Workplace Pensions WED Unbiased WED Personal Finance Society: Find an Adviser WED Society of Later Life Advisers WED Citizens Advice: Getting financial advice WED Financial Conduct Authority: Scams WED WED WED WED WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b062khlm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b062kx4g (Listen) WED The colour black, Mixed-race people WED WED Black: the cultural and historical meaning of the darkest WED colour. From the 'little black dress' which epitomises chic, WED to its links to death, depression and evil, 'black' embodies WED many contrasting values. White Europeans exploited the WED negative associations of 'black' in enslaving millions of WED Africans whilst artists & designers have endlessly deployed WED the colour in their creative work. Laurie Taylor talks to WED John Harvey, Life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, WED about his new book which explores how 'black' came to have WED such ambiguous and varied meanings. They're joined by WED Bidisha, the writer and broadcaster. WED WED Also, the last 20 years has seen a major growth in the WED number of people of mixed racial heritage. Miri Song, WED Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, talks WED about her research into the ways that multiracial parents WED with white partners talk to their their children about race WED and identity. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b062kx4j (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b062kx4l (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b062hbgz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b062kx4n (Listen) WED Series 2, Coffee WED WED Comedian Simon Evans returns with a new series about the WED economics of some of the goods - or bads - we are addicted WED to. WED WED If you crave your daily coffee, can't get by without a WED cigarette, feel that mid-afternoon slump without your WED sugar-fix, or can't face an evening without a glass of wine, WED you are definitely not alone. But have you ever thought WED about the economics that has made your addiction possible? WED Who does it profit? And would you want to make some canny WED investments that take advantage of our human weaknesses? WED WED In this series, Simon Evans looks at the economics, history WED and health issues behind these oh-so-addictive commodities. WED WED This week it's coffee. How much are we now drinking as a WED nation? And how much of the price of a cup of coffee is WED actually the coffee beans? Are we giving coffee growers the WED best deal when we buy Fairtrade coffee or should we be WED seeking out Direct trade coffee? And could this be the least WED harmful of all addictions? Perhaps even a positive WED addiction, with the coffee shop being, as Steven Johnson WED said (in his recent 'Where good ideas come from' TED talk), WED 'a place where ideas can have sex'? WED WED Simon speaks to specialist coffee experts Onny Loisel and WED Michael Cleland. He is also joined by economics guru, More WED Or Less host Tim Harford and the Queen of investment WED know-how, Merryn Somerset-Webb, as he walks us around the WED economics of this very familiar commodity and pokes fun at WED our relationship with it. WED Presented by Simon Evans, with Onny Loisel and Michael WED Cleland, Tim Harford and Merryn Somerset Webb. WED Written by Simon Evans, Benjamin Partridge and Andy Wolton. WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Simon Evans WED Interviewed Guest: Onny Loisel WED Interviewed Guest: Michael Cleland WED Interviewed Guest: Tim Harford WED Interviewed Guest: Merryn Somerset Webb WED Writer: Simon Evans WED Writer: Benjamin Partridge WED Writer: Andy Wolton WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 19:00 The Archers b062kc9x (Listen) WED Josh has a 'brilliant' scheme, and Debbie has ideas for WED Adam. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b062kx4q (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b062ktl9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b062kx4s (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox, Melanie WED Phillips and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b062kx4v (Listen) WED Pirates and Puritans WED WED Tom Feiling tells a story about the relationship between WED pirates and puritans on the small Caribbean island of Old WED Providence. WED WED Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton. WED WED 21:00 Past Imperfect b062kx4x (Listen) WED Startling new research shows how false memories can be WED artificially generated and used to change behaviour - with WED implications for advertising, military intelligence and the WED treatment of addictions. WED WED Memory is more of a creative than a mechanical process. Like WED a Wikipedia entry, we can make changes to our WED autobiographical history - but so can other people. WED WED Martin Plimmer meets experts and observes experiments WED demonstrating the fragility of memory and the ease with WED which false memories can be implanted. WED WED At Warwick University, Prof Kimberley Wade has implanted WED false memories of childhood experiences such as taking a hot WED air balloon ride. Martin follows an experiment in which WED participants form vivid memories of activities they have not WED actually experienced. WED WED At Hull University, Prof Giuliana Mazzoni reveals how WED implanted false memories can change people's behaviour. WED Working with unsuspecting volunteers, she explores whether WED she can alter their food preferences by creating false WED memory of an adverse reaction to eating turkey sandwiches. WED WED Martin discusses the implications of this research with US WED psychologist Prof Elizabeth Loftus who believes it could be WED used to treat obesity and addictions by introducing false WED memories of disliking fatty foods, alcohol or drugs. WED WED Professor Loftus has also worked with the US military on WED ways of implanting false memories of their interrogator in WED enemy prisoners - raising admitted ethical issues and WED concerns about the abuse of these techniques. WED WED And Martin Plimmer learns how our memories are all being WED subtly altered by advertising - as certain types of adverts WED can create false memories of experiencing and liking a WED product. WED WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b062kqyl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b062kx4z (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b062kx51 (Listen) WED The Girl on the Train, Episode 8 WED WED Paula Hawkins' international bestseller comes to BBC Radio 4 WED in this thrilling multi-voice narration starring Sally WED Hawkins, Lyndsey Marshal and Zoe Tapper. WED WED Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She WED knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking WED a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she WED knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and WED Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is WED perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. WED WED And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute WED until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's WED changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the WED lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's WED much more than just the girl on the train... WED WED Readers: WED Rachel ..... Sally Hawkins WED Megan ..... Lyndsey Marshal WED Anna ..... Zoe Tapper WED WED Abridger ..... Neville Teller WED Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. WED WED Credits WED Rachel: Sally Hawkins WED Megan: Lyndsey Marshal WED Anna: Zoe Tapper WED Author: Paula Hawkins WED Abridger: Neville Teller WED Producer: Jenny Thompson WED WED 23:00 Bunk Bed b062kx53 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED WED Two men in darkness, sharing a bunk bed and a stream of WED semi-consciousness about family, relationships, work and WED imagined life. WED WED We all crave a place where our mind and body are not applied WED to a particular task. The nearest faraway place from daily WED life. Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange WED thoughts which don't have to be shooed into context, but WED which can be followed like balloons escaping onto the air. WED Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, the restless WED mind can wander. WED WED After an acclaimed reception by The Independent, The Sunday WED Telegraph, The Observer and Radio 4 listeners, Bunk Bed WED returns with its late night stream of semi-consciousness. WED WED In this episode, toe-curling accounts of professional WED blunders, the meaning of hackneyed, writing Alan Partridge, WED the sadness of Chas and Dave and Peter Curran's horror at WED his tally of 7,000 interviews. WED WED Elsewhere in the series, Patrick and Peter deal with WED Therapy, children's happiness, JRR Tolkien, Babysham, Aldous WED Huxley, and correction fluid - among a ragbag of subjects. WED WED Written and performed by Patrick Marber and Peter Curran WED Producer: Peter Curran WED A Foghorn production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 I, Regress b01s0dlz (Listen) WED Series 2, Mirrors WED WED A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an WED unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees WED Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff WED Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking WED unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through WED their subconscious. WED WED Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client WED who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient WED is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the WED various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are WED played out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or WED nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny WED as it is disturbing. WED WED The cast across the series include Bob Mortimer, Daisy WED Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy-Ann Oberman. WED WED A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone WED else's head! WED WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Matt Berry WED Producer: Sam Bryant WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b062kx55 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 JULY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b062hbhw (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b062kqyn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b062hbhy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b062hbj0 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b062hbj2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b062hbj4 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0630g5w (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sarah THU Joseph. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b062mf8r (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thwxg (Listen) THU Black-Throated Diver 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 John Aitchison presents the black-throated diver. THU Black-throated divers are strong contenders for our most THU beautiful bird. Their breeding plumage with a neck barcoded THU in white, an ebony bib and a plush grey head, is dramatic. THU The black dagger-like bill and broad lobed feet are perfect THU for catching and pursuing fish which the divers bring to THU their chicks in nests on the shoreline of the Scottish Lochs THU on which they breed. THU THU Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b062mfqv (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b062mhnl (Listen) THU Series 11, Suicide THU THU Samantha is coping with the recent death of her mother. It's THU been a turbulent few years - drug binges in her teens, then THU bulimia. She's now twenty two and is finding it difficult to THU cope. THU THU She's prescribed antidepressants but stops taking them when THU she's plagued by terrifying thoughts and images of killing THU herself. These persist and, over the coming months, she THU makes two serious suicide attempts and is admitted to THU hospital several times. THU THU Samantha is detained under the Mental Health Act for her own THU safety and is diagnosed with borderline personality THU disorder. The recommended treatment is psychotherapy. She's THU also offered antidepressants but the team don't think she's THU overtly depressed. THU THU Samantha refuses all treatment - she's terrified of THU antidepressants and doesn't want to talk. THU THU Three months on, she's discharged as the team don't think THU being in hospital is helping her. But her family believe THU it's the safest place for her. THU THU When Samantha gets home she spends most of her time online THU on suicide chatrooms. The family monitor her activity and THU their concerns about her suicidal thoughts trigger further THU admissions to hospital. THU THU However, the team are reluctant to keep her in hospital for THU long. They want to encourage her to take control of her life THU and engage with treatment, which she is still refusing. In THU contrast to most patients who are suicidal, Samantha seems THU to have the capacity to refuse treatment. THU THU The senior psychiatrist on the team feels uneasy about the THU pattern that's emerging. He consults the clinical ethics THU committee to consider the best course of action. He also THU wants to know what constitutes capacity in this suicidal THU young woman. THU THU Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. THU THU Producer: Beth Eastwood. THU THU Photo credit: Chris McGrath/ Getty Images THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b062mhnn (Listen) THU On the Move, The Leg Incident THU THU In his vivid memoir, the neurologist and writer, Oliver THU Sacks explores how breaking his own leg led to new insights THU into how the brain works. He also recalls the difficulties THU that followed when he decided to write a book about this THU disquieting experience. THU THU Read by Oliver Ford Davies. THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton. THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Oliver Davies THU Author: Oliver Sacks THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Elizabeth Allard THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b062mhnq (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 b062mxfg (Listen) THU Rachel's Cousins, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5. A Glasgow lawyer has to deal with the wayward relatives THU she's been brought up to ignore when they discover they THU share the BRCA2 cancer gene. Drama by Ann Marie Di Mambro. THU THU Bobby seeks out his ex-wife and daughter to explain the THU risks of the BRCA2 gene. THU THU Other parts are played by the cast. THU Producer/director: Bruce Young THU BBC Scotland. THU THU Credits THU Rachel: Tamara Kennedy THU Marilyn: Gabriel Quigley THU Josie: Karen Bartke THU Shirley: Sarah McCardie THU Bobby: Alan McHugh THU Alex: Robin Laing THU Kevin: Stevie Hannan THU Becca: Nicola Jo Cully THU Carol: Veronica Leer THU Director: Bruce Young THU Producer: Bruce Young THU Writer: Ann Marie Di Mambro THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b062mxfj (Listen) THU South Africa Unplugged THU THU South Africa is in crisis as the national electricity THU generator, Eskom, struggles to provide an adequate power THU supply and rolling blackouts hit the country on a regular THU basis. As Neal Razzell reports, there's now concern that THU jobs and growth are at risk from the power cuts, and the THU ruling ANC - which blames the problem on inheriting an THU apartheid-era network designed only for the white population THU - stands accused of complacency and incompetence. THU THU Michael Gallagher producing. THU THU 11:30 Time Noodles b062mxfl (Listen) THU In the West we are used to stand-up comics but in Japan they THU have sit-down comedy. THU THU In Time Noodles, Chie Kobayashi introduces Radio 4 to the THU ancient coming story-telling art of Rakugo which dates back THU to the 18th Century and has changed little over the THU centuries. The comedian sits on his knees wearing THU traditional Kimono and performs entertaining dialogues THU between characters, taking on the different voices, THU expressions and mannerisms. Time Noodles is the title of a THU classic Rakugo tale based on two noodle-shop owners and THU their customers. THU THU The style, structure and rich tradition of Rakugo has been THU handed down from generation to generation and from master to THU student - known as Deshi - over a number of years. THU Traditionally there were no female Rakugo-ka (performers) THU but now, thanks to Kimie Oshima that's changing fast. She's THU determined to translate and export this ancient art of THU laughter to English speaking audiences and poke fun at the THU stereotypical image of the humourless Japanese. English THU language Rakugo is inevitably different from the original, THU she says, but her ultimate goal is to make Rakugo as THU internationally popular as an art form as sushi is in global THU cuisine. Will she succeed - or is too much simply lost in THU translation? THU THU Producer: Ruth Evans THU A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b062hbj6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 A History of Ideas b062mxfp (Listen) THU Philosopher Angie Hobbs on Plato's Philosopher Kings THU THU Professor Angie Hobbs asks if the key to harmonious living THU could be found in Plato's Republic where he proposes that THU the ideal state be run by philosophers and not by those who THU seek power for their own ends. THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06301g8 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b062hbj8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06301gb (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by THU Edward Stourton. THU THU 13:45 Brits Abroad b0645fwv (Listen) THU Warsaw THU THU Poland's growing economy is attracting an increasing number THU of Brits to Warsaw in search of business opportunities. THU Sarfraz Manzoor meets them and compares their experience THU with the half a million or so Poles who have settled in the THU UK. THU THU Some, like the Cowen brothers, have brought British THU expertise to the Poland through business clubs - and an THU expanding chain of fitness gyms. Two other brothers also THU teach English, which is seen by Poles THU as a passport to success and even a job requirement in THU Warsaw. Other Brits have left family and friends behind in THU UK to develop themselves and their careers. THU THU Whatever the reason, the Polish offer a much warmer welcome THU to Brits than many Poles get in Britain. THU THU Producer: Sara Parker THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b062kc9x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b036twsz (Listen) THU Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear THU THU Alistair McGowan's witty and poignant new drama about his THU musical hero - the visionary and eccentric French composer THU Erik Satie and the three key relationships in his life. THU THU Starring Alistair McGowan as Erik Satie, Nathaniel Parker as THU Claude Debussy, Imogen Stubbs as Suzanne Valadon and THU Charlotte Page as Paulette Darty. THU THU Satie is now most famous for his delicate and dreamlike THU 'Gymnopedies', but he was a man ahead of his time - turning THU his back on the musical conventions of his day and composing THU spare, 'white' pieces with strange titles, such as 'Flabby THU Preludes for a Dog' and 'Three Pieces in the Shape of a THU Pear' THU THU But he was also a complex and solitary man. McGowan's drama THU looks at three key figures in Satie's life - his friend and THU rival, Claude Debussy; his first love, the artist Suzanne THU Valadon and the society soprano, Paulette Darty, for whom he THU nurtured a long, but undeclared, devotion. THU THU But despite the poignancy of Satie's romantic life, this is THU a fresh and funny portrayal of an engagingly eccentric THU figure - a man who saved time deciding what to wear by THU buying seven, identical, yellow, corduroy suits (one for THU every day of the week) and who, for a time, consumed only THU white foods in the hope of instilling that simplicity and THU purity into his own body and music. THU THU All other parts played by members of the company. THU THU Directed by Emma Harding. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Alistair McGowan THU Erik Satie: Alistair McGowan THU Claude-Achille Debussy: Nathaniel Parker THU Suzanne Valadon: Imogen Stubbs THU Paulette Darty: Charlotte Page THU Willy Gaulthier-Villar: Kevin Eldon THU Ravel: Kevin Eldon THU Bertrand: Michael Bertenshaw THU Dreyfuss: Michael Bertenshaw THU Emma Debussy: Philippa Stanton THU Waiter: David Seddon THU Policeman: David Seddon THU Musician: Jonathan Storey THU Director: Emma Harding THU Producer: Emma Harding THU THU 15:00 Open Country b062n1f5 (Listen) THU Helen Mark takes to the seas to explore the North Antrim THU Coastline, taking in Giant's Causeway and Carrick-a-Rede THU from the water. THU THU She meets Robin Ruddock who teaches people to kayak along THU this coast and is joined by experts from Ulster Wildlife who THU tell her about the Living Seas project and the richness and THU diversity of marine life found in the waters off the North THU Antrim Coast. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b062hn6q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b062hx63 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b062n1f7 (Listen) THU Pete Docter on Inside Out THU THU With Francine Stock THU THU Up director Pete Docter discusses his latest animation THU Inside Out, set inside a young girl's mind. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Pete Docter THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b062n1f9 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b06301gd (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b062hbjb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's a Fair Cop b062n1fc (Listen) THU Series 2, Property THU THU Policeman turned stand-up Alfie Moore takes an audience THU through real-life crime scenarios. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Alfie Moore THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Writer: Alfie Moore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b062kcdv (Listen) THU Pip gets some friendly attention, and Brian gets the benefit THU of Charlie's wisdom. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b062n1ff (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b062mxfg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0612hjs (Listen) THU Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse THU THU In June, the High Court ruled that the Jehovah's Witnesses THU organisation was liable for sexual abuse committed by one of THU its members. THU THU The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain - to give THU the group its official name - had failed to take adequate THU safeguarding steps when senior members of the organisation THU were aware that a fellow Witness was a known paedophile. THU THU It was the first civil case in the UK of historical sexual THU abuse brought against the Christian-based religious THU movement. THU THU The BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, THU explores the implications of the Court's decision and THU investigates the Jehovah's Witnesses explicit policy of THU attempting to deal with all allegations of sexual abuse THU in-house. THU THU The Report has gained access to confidential internal THU documents, sent out only to those who are senior in the THU Jehovah's Witnesses. These reveal the organisation's THU reluctance to involve the secular authorities in cases where THU a crime has been committed by one Witness against another. THU THU Caroline Wyatt hears from former Witnesses who have suffered THU abuse and who claim that the organisation's doctrine and THU procedures have allowed offenders within the congregation to THU avoid prosecution. THU THU Presenter: Caroline Wyatt THU Producer: Hannah Barnes. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b062n1fk (Listen) THU Supermarkets THU THU Food deflation, the rise of the discount grocers and THU continuing price wars. Evan Davis and guests discuss who are THU the long-term winners in the supermarkets' battle to gain THU market share. THU THU Guests: THU Mark Price, Managing Director, Waitrose THU Steve Murrells, CEO, Co-operative Foods THU Kevin Gunter, Chairman, Fulton's Foods THU THU Producer: THU Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b062n1f9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Punt PI b049p9yp (Listen) THU Series 7, The Baker Street Bank Robbery THU THU Steve Punt turns gumshoe, investigating curious rumours THU surrounding the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. THU THU Quite possibly the most audacious heist in British history, THU the robbers tunnelled into the bank's vault from the THU basement of a shop two doors down. They escaped with a haul THU worth an estimated £30 million today. THU THU Though four robbers were convicted, intriguing claims THU persist - most notably that the security services mounted THU the heist to secure compromising photographs of a senior THU public figure. THU THU Punt sifts the evidence, calls in the experts and attempts THU to establish fact from fiction. THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0630hf8 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b062n1fm (Listen) THU The Girl on the Train, Episode 9 THU THU Paula Hawkins' international bestseller comes to BBC Radio 4 THU in this thrilling multi-voice narration starring Sally THU Hawkins, Lyndsey Marshal and Zoe Tapper. THU THU Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She THU knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking THU a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she THU knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and THU Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is THU perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. THU THU And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute THU until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's THU changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the THU lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's THU much more than just the girl on the train... THU THU Readers: THU Rachel ..... Sally Hawkins THU Megan ..... Lyndsey Marshal THU Anna ..... Zoe Tapper THU THU Abridger ..... Neville Teller THU Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. THU THU Credits THU Rachel: Sally Hawkins THU Megan: Lyndsey Marshal THU Anna: Zoe Tapper THU Author: Paula Hawkins THU Abridger: Neville Teller THU Producer: Jenny Thompson THU THU 23:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04hyy1f (Listen) THU Series 10, How to Define Oneself in Terms of Regional, THU Cultural and Geopolitical Identity Without Tears THU THU Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves. THU THU In this post-referendum world, Jeremy Hardy dispassionately THU examines the questions of nationality, identity and accents. THU The noo. THU THU Helping him get to grips with the new world will be stand-up THU comedian Susan Murray and, broadly speaking, Scotsman Moray THU Hunter (Absolutely). THU THU Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of THU debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank THU exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, THU erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series THU of his show, famous for lines like, "Islam is no weirder THU than Christianity. Both are just Judaism with the jokes THU taken out." THU THU Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they THU first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show THU was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on THU a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since THU the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment THU department was besieged, questions were asked in the House THU and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible THU for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with THU Paul Lewis. THU THU Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony THU Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for THU Chemistry. He is a much-loved regular on both The News Quiz THU and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He can't sing. THU THU Written by Jeremy Hardy THU THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Jeremy Hardy THU Performer: Jeremy Hardy THU Performer: Susan Murray THU Performer: Moray Hunter THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 23:30 China's Football Revolution b05wz0kh (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU China may be the most populous country in the world with THU growing importance on the global stage but, as football fan THU Clive Anderson discovers, international success at the THU world's most popular sport has eluded this vast country. THU THU In Beijing and Guangzhou, Clive explores why China ranks THU only 82nd in the world and has only qualified for one World THU Cup, despite the huge popularity of football among fans. THU THU Football in China has been plagued by years of corruption THU scandals, match fixing and bribery, and over 50 football THU officials were imprisoned in a crackdown in 2012. Clive THU speaks to a former Chinese player who found himself involved THU in the scandal, discussing how it has affected the game. THU THU Does football really matter when the country is becoming so THU successful economically? The country's President Xi Jinping THU thinks it does. A football fan himself, he's issued a major THU reform to try and turn the game around and put China on a THU course to win the World Cup. He's even invited stars such as THU David Beckham to become an ambassador for the game. THU THU Clive visits clubs, matches, and the largest football THU academy in the world, built by a multi-billion dollar THU property tycoon, to find out whether efforts to improve the THU national game are paying off. THU THU The European leagues are also keen to get in on the Chinese THU game by training coaches. In the second programme, Clive THU considers what impact China's desire for football success THU has had on its relationship with the rest of the footballing THU world. THU THU Produced by Jo Wheeler THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 JULY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b062hbk8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b062mhnn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b062hbkb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b062hbkd (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b062hbkj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b062hbkl (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b062ztc0 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Sarah FRI Joseph. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b062ncyj (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03tj99h (Listen) FRI Wigeon 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 John Aitchison presents the wigeon. Wigeon are dabbling FRI ducks and related to mallards and teal but unlike these FRI birds Wigeon spend much of their time out of the water FRI grazing waterside pastures with their short blue-grey bills. FRI The drakes are handsome-looking birds with chestnut heads FRI and a cream forehead which contrasts well with their pale FRI grey bodies. FRI FRI John Aitchison recorded a flock of wigeon, for Tweet FRI listeners, on a pool in Norfolk where they had found a safe FRI place to roost on an island. FRI FRI Wigeon (Anas penelope) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b062n4n2 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b062hplj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b062n4n4 (Listen) FRI On the Move, Ill Health and Love FRI FRI The writer and physician Oliver Sacks finds love in today's FRI episode of his candid memoir. First of all he confronts his FRI own ill health and the effects on his eyesight which are FRI disabling but also "enthralling". FRI FRI Read by Oliver Ford Davies FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Oliver Davies FRI Author: Oliver Sacks FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Elizabeth Allard FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b062ncyl (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 b062n4n6 (Listen) FRI Rachel's Cousins, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/5. A Glasgow lawyer has to deal with the wayward relatives FRI she's been brought up to ignore when they discover they FRI share the BRCA2 cancer gene. Drama by Ann Marie Di Mambro. FRI FRI When her boss offers her a promotion Rachel has to decide FRI where her loyalties lie. FRI FRI Other parts are played by the cast. FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young FRI BBC Scotland. FRI FRI Credits FRI Rachel: Tamara Kennedy FRI Marilyn: Gabriel Quigley FRI Josie: Karen Bartke FRI Shirley: Sarah McCardie FRI Bobby: Alan McHugh FRI Alex: Robin Laing FRI Kevin: Stevie Hannan FRI Becca: Nicola Jo Cully FRI Carol: Veronica Leer FRI Director: Bruce Young FRI Producer: Bruce Young FRI Writer: Ann Marie Di Mambro FRI FRI 11:00 Who Wants to Be a Nurse? b062n4n8 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Professional nursing bodies have long debated how best to FRI train our nurses so that they have the mix of skills they FRI need to serve patients well. Jenny Clayton follows a variety FRI of nurses in training, to explore the purpose and future of FRI nursing in the modern NHS. FRI FRI In this second programme, Jenny meets nurses at Princess FRI Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, who have carried on FRI their training since they first qualified. She follows them FRI as they reflect on their roles, from treating patients in FRI A&E, to managing a complex care ward. FRI FRI Ruth Palmer is an Emergency Nurse Practitioner, which means FRI she's trained to diagnose and treat a range of injuries and FRI illnesses - someone with a broken arm, for example, might be FRI assessed, put in plaster and discharged by Ruth, without FRI ever seeing a doctor. "Some people don't want to be seen by FRI 'just a nurse', but that's fine, that's their choice. Quite FRI often the queue for the doctor's twice as long, but that's FRI fine if that patient wants to see a doctor. But that very FRI rarely happens." FRI FRI Caroline Ashton is Ward Manager of a Complex Care Ward, FRI which deals with patients with long term chronic conditions. FRI "I'm probably known on the ward as the person that baths the FRI most patients, because I think that's the time you have the FRI opportunity to find out how the patient is." FRI FRI Meanwhile, there's a shortage of nurses across the country. FRI In the year to March 2014, hospitals in Essex spent £18 FRI million on agency staff. We hear from a former nurse who FRI left Princess Alexandra ten years ago, but who's now FRI completed a Return to Practice course - part of an FRI initiative to draw on the pool of nursing talent not FRI currently working in the field. FRI FRI Producer: Hannah Marshall FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b062n4nb (Listen) FRI Series 10, Sisters FRI FRI Episode Three- Sisters FRI FRI Clare and her estranged sister are forced to co-operate with FRI one another, in between some Sparrowhawk team lead FRI self-defence training. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering FRI in other people's lives on both a professional and personal FRI basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI FRI Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control FRI both her professional and private life In today's Big FRI Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an FRI involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Clare: Sally Phillips FRI Brian: Alex Lowe FRI Nali: Nina Conti FRI Megan: Nina Conti FRI Ray: Richard Lumsden FRI Helen: Pippa Haywood FRI Simon: Andrew Wincott FRI Libby: Sarah Kendall FRI Joan: Sarah Thom FRI Sarah Barker: Sarah Thom FRI Scarlett: Eleanor Curry FRI Stine Wetzel: Amelia Lowdell FRI Hunter: Neet Mohan FRI Dylan: Elliot Steel FRI Writer: Harry Venning FRI Writer: David Ramsden FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b062hbkn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas b062n4nd (Listen) FRI Philosopher Timothy Secret on Ancestor Worship FRI FRI If we're to live well together we must first learn to live FRI well with the dead, says Timothy Secret. FRI FRI At traditional Chinese funerals money, and sometimes paper FRI effigies of goods like washing machines and aeroplanes are FRI burned so that the dead might be adequately equipped in the FRI afterlife. To the Western onlooker this can feel strange but FRI Timothy Secret believes we have something to learn. FRI FRI For Confucius, the Chinese teacher and thinker, respect for FRI and obedience to your parents is one of the most important FRI rules to follow in life and Frances Wood, an expert in FRI Chinese history and society explains why this applies even FRI after their death: observing proper mourning rituals and FRI then honouring your ancestors through twice yearly grave FRI tending. FRI FRI Darian Leader, a psychoanalyst, sets out how Western FRI attitudes towards mourning and the dead have become FRI disrupted veering between the two extremes of determined FRI "closure" and "moving on" on the one hand and excessive FRI obsession with the dead on the other. FRI FRI Producer: Natalie Steed. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b062ncyn (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b062hbkq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b062ncyq (Listen) FRI Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by FRI Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Brits Abroad b0645fz0 (Listen) FRI Bulgaria FRI FRI Sarfraz Manzoor meets the British retirees who are moving to FRI rural villages in Bulgaria and can have a good life on their FRI UK pensions. FRI FRI They can buy a house for as little as the cost of a 'second FRI hand car', as younger Bulgarians abandon their homes for the FRI city lights or opportunities in the cities or other FRI countries like Britain. FRI FRI Despite the fact that life is hard for Bulgarians, they FRI welcome the Brits, recognising the benefits they bring to FRI village life and the local economy. Retired Brits also FRI benefit from the reciprocal health care and, when Sally FRI Rickard had breast cancer, all her treatment was free and FRI there were no waiting lists. FRI FRI By contrast, Bulgarians often have to pay for medication and FRI towards treatment. Such is the plight FRI of some of their Bulgarian neighbours that a group of Brits FRI have set up a charity to help them. FRI FRI None want to go back to UK and are worried that, if Britain FRI left the EU, they wouldn't be able to afford to continue FRI living in Bulgaria. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Parker FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b062kcdv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b062n4ng (Listen) FRI Rumpole, Rumpole and the Tap End FRI FRI Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Rumpole in a story by John FRI Mortimer, and adapted by Richard Stoneman. FRI FRI Tony Timson finds himself in hot water when charged with the FRI attempted drowning of his wife April, while sharing a bath FRI with her. Rumpole not only defends Tony but also protects FRI Judge Guthrie Featherstone QC as he upsets women everywhere FRI with sexist pronouncements about their proper place in the FRI tub. FRI FRI Rumpole and Tony Timson have a conference in Brixton Prison FRI where Timson explains that April had been planning to wear FRI outrageous clothes to a party on the night in question. The FRI party was at the home of a friend, Chrissie. One of the FRI party guests would be Peter 'Peanuts' Molloy. Molloys vs FRI Timsons equals Montagues vs Capulets. Tony Timson says that FRI April wound him up by suggesting Peanuts was more virile FRI than he was. FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI Produced by Catherine Bailey FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Horace Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde FRI Claude Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony FRI Tony Timson: Stephen Critchlow FRI Guthrie Featherstone: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Charles Hearthstoke: David Shaw-Parker FRI Phillida Erskine-Brown: Cathy Sara FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Adaptor: Richard Stoneman FRI Author: John Mortimer FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b062n4nj (Listen) FRI Summer Garden Party FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the GQT Summer Garden Party from the FRI National Botanic Garden of Wales. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Computer Speaks b062n4nl (Listen) FRI Secondary Memory FRI FRI An original short story for radio by Danielle McLaughlin. FRI FRI Our relationship with computers is an intimate one. What do FRI they know of our lives? And what would they say about us if FRI they could speak? The second of three stories about FRI computers finding their voice. FRI FRI Danielle McLaughlin's stories have appeared in newspapers FRI and magazines such as The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, The FRI Penny Dreadful, Long Story, Short and The New Yorker. She is FRI currently Editor for Short Stories in English at Southword FRI Journal. Her debut collection of short stories, Dinosaurs on FRI Other Planets, will be published in Ireland in October 2015 FRI by The Stinging Fly Press, and in the UK (John Murray), US FRI (Random House) and Germany (Luchterhand) in 2016. FRI FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI Reader: Samuel Barnett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Samuel Barnett FRI Writer: Danielle McLaughlin FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b062ndjr (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b062ndjt (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b062n4nn (Listen) FRI Jo and Louis - Dream School FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a mother and her FRI nine-year old son. Being home-schooled is preferable to his FRI experience at school, but he knows what would suit him FRI better. Another in the series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b062ndjw (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b062hbks (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b062n4nq (Listen) FRI Series 46, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b062kcpf (Listen) FRI Kenton is keen to shake things up, and Adam is put on the FRI spot. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Adrian Flynn FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Debbie Aldridge: Tamsin Greig FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b062ndjy (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b062n4n6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b062n4ns (Listen) FRI Lady Butler Sloss, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Robert Halfon MP, FRI Michael Morpurgo FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Exeter Further Education College with a panel including FRI the cross bench peer Lady Butler Sloss, Labour leader FRI candidate Jeremy Corbyn, the Minister without Portfolio and FRI Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, Robert Halfon MP FRI and the former Children's Laureate, writer and founder of FRI Farms for City Children Michael Morpurgo. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b062n4nv (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas b062n4nx (Listen) FRI Omnibus, How Should We Live Together? FRI FRI Economist Kate Barker, historian Justin Champion and FRI philosophers Timothy Secret and Angie Hobbs discuss the FRI history of ideas around how to live together. Melvyn Bragg FRI presents. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b062hbkv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b062ndk0 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b062n4nz (Listen) FRI The Girl on the Train, Episode 10 FRI FRI Paula Hawkins' international bestseller comes to BBC Radio 4 FRI in this thrilling multi-voice narration starring Sally FRI Hawkins, Lyndsey Marshal and Zoe Tapper. FRI FRI Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She FRI knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking FRI a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she FRI knows the people who live in one of the houses. 'Jess and FRI Jason', she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is FRI perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. FRI FRI And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute FRI until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's FRI changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the FRI lives she's only watched from afar. Now they'll see: she's FRI much more than just the girl on the train... FRI FRI Readers: FRI Rachel ..... Sally Hawkins FRI Megan ..... Lyndsey Marshal FRI Anna ..... Zoe Tapper FRI FRI Abridger ..... Neville Teller FRI Producer ..... Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Rachel: Sally Hawkins FRI Megan: Lyndsey Marshal FRI Anna: Zoe Tapper FRI Author: Paula Hawkins FRI Abridger: Neville Teller FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b062kg74 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 China's Football Revolution b05xj1ql (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI China, a country of over 1.3 billion people, is riding high FRI on the global stage. But success at the world's most popular FRI sport is eluding the nation. FRI FRI In the second part of his series on the growth of football FRI in China, Clive Anderson explores the relationship between FRI Britain and China as President Xi Jinping embarks on a FRI massive football reform programme. FRI FRI Clive visits a school in Beijing where PE teachers are being FRI trained by Premier League coaches, and he explores how FRI foreign players are being imported to improve the Chinese FRI game. Even David Beckham has been hired as a Chinese FRI football Ambassador. FRI FRI But can China achieve the same success at football as it has FRI in Olympic sports - and what impact might this have on its FRI relationship with the rest of the world? FRI FRI Produced by Jo Wheeler FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b062n4p1 (Listen) FRI Nabbs and Maria - The Relapse and the Relationship FRI FRI Fi Glover with a couple whose happy relationship was put at FRI risk by his relapse into addiction, but who are making FRI tentative steps to re-build what was lost. Another in the FRI series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you FRI listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
17 July, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 18/07/2015 - 24/07/2015
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