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It's SAT been a turbulent few years - drug binges in her teens, then SAT bulimia. She's now twenty two and is finding it difficult to SAT cope. SAT SAT She's prescribed antidepressants but stops taking them when SAT she's plagued by terrifying thoughts and images of killing SAT herself. These persist and, over the coming months, she SAT makes two serious suicide attempts and is admitted to SAT hospital several times. SAT SAT Samantha is detained under the Mental Health Act for her own SAT safety and is diagnosed with borderline personality SAT disorder. The recommended treatment is psychotherapy. She's SAT also offered antidepressants but the team don't think she's SAT overtly depressed. SAT SAT Samantha refuses all treatment - she's terrified of SAT antidepressants and doesn't want to talk. SAT SAT Three months on, she's discharged as the team don't think SAT being in hospital is helping her. But her family believe SAT it's the safest place for her. SAT SAT When Samantha gets home she spends most of her time online SAT on suicide chatrooms. The family monitor her activity and SAT their concerns about her suicidal thoughts trigger further SAT admissions to hospital. SAT SAT However, the team are reluctant to keep her in hospital for SAT long. They want to encourage her to take control of her life SAT and engage with treatment, which she is still refusing. In SAT contrast to most patients who are suicidal, Samantha seems SAT to have the capacity to refuse treatment. SAT SAT The senior psychiatrist on the team feels uneasy about the SAT pattern that's emerging. He consults the clinical ethics SAT committee to consider the best course of action. He also SAT wants to know what constitutes capacity in this suicidal SAT young woman. SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her panel discuss the issues. SAT SAT Producer: Beth Eastwood. SAT SAT Photo credit: Chris McGrath/ Getty Images SAT SAT The Panel SAT SAT Deborah Bowman, Professor of Ethics and Law at St George’s SAT University of London SAT SAT Cleo Van Velsen, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at East SAT London Hospitals NHS Trust SAT SAT Alys Cole-King, Psychiatrist at Betsi Cadwaladr University SAT Health Board and Royal College of Psychiatrists’ SAT spokesperson on suicide and self-harm SAT SAT SAT SAT Support Organisations SAT Samaritans SAT is available for anyone struggling to cope round the clock, SAT every single day of the year. They provide a safe place to SAT talk where calls are completely confidential. Get in touch SAT by phone or email or find the details for the local branch SAT online SAT SAT Phone: 08457 90 90 90 SAT SAT Email: SAT jo@samaritans.org SAT http://www.samaritans.org SAT SAT SAT Staying safe* * SAT provides SAT * * SAT practical, compassionate advice and links for anyone in SAT distress and feeling suicidal. 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SAT SAT SAT SAT The question we ask is how far should a medical team go in SAT their efforts to prevent a young woman from ending her SAT life? Does there come a point at which the individual SAT herself has the right to decide? SAT SAT SAT SAT Welcome to Inside the Ethics Committee. SAT SAT SAT SAT This story begins in 2010 when Samantha is 22 years old. SAT She’s had a very difficult few years. Drug binges when she SAT was a teenager, then bulimia when she was 19. Now she is SAT having to cope with the recent death of her mother from SAT breast cancer. The death devastates the whole family. SAT Samantha is the youngest of five children and lives at home SAT with her father. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT When my mum passed I just kind of went on autopilot. I SAT wasn’t in touch with my emotions at all, I didn’t know how SAT to grieve, didn’t know how to process anything. When SAT something big would come up I’d just go do something, just SAT leave the house to compensate with not feeling the feelings. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha tries to keep herself busy - waitressing, seeing SAT friends. She even goes abroad for a while, but by the end of SAT 2010 she starts falling back on old habits – being out a lot SAT and binging on drugs. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I just turned to the thing which I’d turned to since I was SAT 14 to deal with the emotions which I didn’t know how to deal SAT with. I’d binge for like three or four days and yeah I just SAT really started to yo yo. I would just wake up, my heart was SAT pounding out my chest, it just started to take its toll. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha spends several weeks in bed. Her family are SAT getting increasingly worried about her. They call the family SAT GP who prescribes antidepressants. Samantha’s not keen on SAT taking them but eventually agrees. Two days later she’s SAT terrified by how she’s feeling. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I was walking just up my high street and I suddenly got very SAT disjointed from my reality and I just got this influx of SAT quite violent suicidal thoughts and images and I’ve never SAT had anything like this. And the scare it kind of gave me – SAT I just ran back home, got into bed, cried loads. I SAT instantly called my brother who told me to call the doctor, SAT they prescribed me the medication, I didn’t tell him about SAT the suicidal thoughts because it was so shocking. And he SAT just said – sometimes you get worse, you just have to ride SAT it out. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But the next day, the suicidal feelings are so overwhelming SAT that Samantha stops taking the drug altogether. One of her SAT brothers has severe mental health problems and he tried to SAT take his own life soon after starting an antidepressant. Her SAT older brother, who’s been trying to help her, notices a SAT sharp decline in her mood. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT It went from her just being fatigued and fundamentally SAT depressed to being extraordinarily depressed and suicidal. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I suddenly was very detached, I went very linear into just SAT wanting to kill myself. I didn’t even know how I got from A SAT to B so fast. I just found myself getting lost in this dark SAT kind of world. I couldn’t be around my family – we’re a SAT very close family but I suddenly looked at them in a very SAT different light. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT If you were trying to implement any positivity into her mind SAT she would get aggressive and so the thought manifested SAT herself and she wouldn’t let go. And that escalated and SAT escalated and escalated and obviously through time SAT manifested into a reality. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT At the end of September 2011, Samantha takes an overdose. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I’m not known for doing the best things to myself but this SAT really was quite scary and you know I’ve been through this SAT before with my brother – he tried to kill himself on quite a SAT few occasions and I just – I never thought I would do it – SAT ever. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The family checks Samantha into a private clinic for a SAT month. She’s had hospital treatment for addiction problems SAT before and the family hope this will help. Being away from SAT the house and the family does bring Samantha some relief SAT but, after a few weeks, she is once again plagued by SAT suicidal thoughts and impulses: it’s as though her mind is SAT telling her what to do. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I had no control over what it was saying and it was just SAT constant bashing at me and it made me feel like everyone is SAT better off without you and you’re just a waste of time. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha is discharged from the clinic and her brother goes SAT to fetch her. The family doesn’t understand what’s SAT happening to her and is desperately worried. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT I wasn’t comfortable with her leaving the clinic, something SAT felt very off. On the drive back I could feel that she was SAT erratic in her mind. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT On the way back again I was getting these voices, it felt SAT like I was almost like electrified, like just high volts SAT going through. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT We got back to the home, everyone was happy to greet her, SAT she just went straight up to her room, had nothing to say to SAT anybody. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Shortly after, Samantha tries to take her own life again. SAT Her family calls an ambulance which takes her to hospital. SAT She has sustained major injuries - broken both ankles and SAT fractured four vertebrae. She has spinal surgery and both SAT legs in plaster casts. She is then transferred to a private SAT hospital for rehabilitation and physiotherapy. Just before SAT Christmas, and several weeks after her suicide attempt, she SAT is discharged. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT Learning to walk again was such a focus for me that maybe it SAT took my mind off things – I don’t know. I would do jigsaws SAT and start knitting – I was in a very calm head space for SAT what I had been in the months prior. And then February SAT things started to rapidly deteriorate and it was like SAT something internal had shifted. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha’s family gets her admitted to a private hospital SAT for a week or two. Talking therapy is on offer there but SAT she refuses to participate. When she gets back home she is SAT distraught – she’s still obsessed with ending her life. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I was in a real state. To get me through the day I was SAT taking about 10 sleeping tablets and they weren’t giving me SAT the effect of putting me to sleep, they were keeping me SAT awake. I thought I was in the matrix, I thought things were SAT controlled by aliens and I really lost touch, I was SAT petrified. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT She’d be totally erratic in her mind, I’d get phone calls SAT that she had just seen someone who wasn’t there talking to SAT her. She had episodes that I didn’t know how to relate to. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT By the spring of 2012, Samantha’s family are so worried SAT about her that they persuade her to attend a private clinic SAT where she is detained under the Mental Health Act on what’s SAT called a ‘Section 2’. This enables doctors to assess her SAT mental health for 28 days. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I didn’t trust my family, especially when I found out that SAT they pushed for the Section 2. I voluntarily went and SAT suddenly you get trapped and I guess you feel like a caged SAT animal sometimes, you know, you don’t have your free will to SAT do what you want to do. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT After 28 days, she is placed on a ‘Section 3’, for SAT treatment. The following day she’s transferred to the NHS. SAT What’s strange for Samantha is that she’s now in the same SAT hospital as her brother, who has his own mental health SAT problems, she’s just on a different ward. The psychiatrist SAT working there meets Samantha for the first time. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT I knew that she was a very high risk of suicide. She was SAT striking in that she wasn’t overtly depressed or low, she SAT did speak about feeling low, although there were no other SAT objective symptoms of her being depressed. When people are SAT severely depressed there might be a sort of slowing down of SAT their cognition affecting either their understanding about SAT their life, their ability to sort of make decisions around SAT what’s happening to them, a very flat – facial expression. SAT Whereas Samantha didn’t have any of those symptoms and she SAT was very clear in her thinking. She was quite animated and SAT articulate. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. SAT The psychiatrist lists the reasons why. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT The very severe suicide attempts, which seemed to be very SAT impulsive, the emotional instability sort of leading to SAT those attempts and she also gave a history of difficulties SAT with her emotional state from the age of 16. She’d used a SAT lot of recreational drugs which she may have been using to SAT regulate her emotional state. And difficulty with SAT relationships. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I remember going back to my room, I had my iPad and I did SAT some research and it didn’t – it didn’t really resonate with SAT me at all and funnily enough a couple of my friends on the SAT chat rooms had borderline personality disorder and when I SAT told them about my diagnosis they were like you don’t seem SAT like the type to have borderline personality disorder. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Borderline personality disorder is a controversial diagnosis SAT as the psychiatrist explains. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT I think what’s challenging about it is that sort of the SAT recommended treatment is intensive psychotherapy which very SAT many patients aren’t able to engage in because it requires SAT an ability to have a trusting relationship with a therapist SAT which is exactly what they struggle with. So you’re left SAT with a big gap between what’s recommended and what you can SAT actually do. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Individual and group therapy, several times a week, is SAT what’s on offer at this hospital. But for Samantha even one SAT session is too much. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT When the doctor asked me to participate in certain groups I SAT didn’t want to, I was just very resistant, I was very angry, SAT I was being held against my will, I didn’t see the point, I SAT didn’t want to get better. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Patients with borderline personality disorder are also at SAT risk of becoming depressed. While Samantha doesn’t appear SAT depressed, she describes feeling low. She’s offered SAT antidepressants, but she refuses. She’s terrified of them. SAT SAT SAT SAT Two weeks after being detained under the Mental Health Act SAT on Section 3, Section 3 is withdrawn. The psychiatrist SAT explains why. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT We didn’t think that it was really benefiting her, in that SAT she would just spend most of her day in bed. I guess some SAT people might argue well it’s keeping her safe. It’s a SAT difficult decision to make because obviously the risk is SAT there but what are you doing by keeping her in hospital? SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now that the Section 3 has been removed, Samantha is free to SAT leave. But the team encourage her to stay, which she does. SAT A discharge date is agreed but one night shortly before, SAT Samantha makes another suicide attempt. She is transferred SAT to A&E for treatment and then returned to the psychiatric SAT hospital until she is more stable. SAT SAT SAT SAT Having now spent three months in hospital, she is SAT discharged. SAT SAT SAT SAT Well joining me today to discuss the case now: Dr Alys SAT Cole-King, Psychiatrist at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health SAT Board and Royal College of Psychiatrists’ spokesperson on SAT suicide and self-harm and Cleo Van Velsen, Psychiatrist and SAT Psychotherapist at East London Hospitals NHS Trust, SAT specialising in borderline personality disorder. SAT SAT SAT SAT So let’s begin with that diagnosis we’ve heard so much SAT about, exactly what is it Cleo? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT Well borderline personality disorder is one of the SAT personality disorders described in our psychiatric SAT classification system. And borderline personality in SAT particular is based on an idea of somebody having a rather SAT unstable sense of self, perhaps as represented by an eating SAT disorder. It’s associated with moods that can go up and SAT down. Impulsive decisions, substance misuse, suicidal SAT thoughts and actions. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And what causes it? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT Well there is some evidence that aspects of personality are SAT inherited, early adverse environmental experiences can SAT contribute and then perhaps difficult stressful situations SAT later on can precipitate. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now we’ve heard it’s a controversial diagnosis – why? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT Personality disorder has a particular type of stigma SAT associated with it. Most psychiatrists would accept that SAT the notion of personality disorder can sometimes be hard to SAT define but it’s kind of indispensable for understanding SAT certain types of presentation. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Alys, what’s your reaction to this discussion about the SAT diagnosis? SAT SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT Well it absolutely resonates with me in terms of the stigma SAT because actually stigma stops people from seeking help, SAT stops them from receiving help and it is a huge problem SAT particularly with suicidal thoughts, self-harm and suicidal SAT behaviour. For example, about a million people a year die SAT by suicide worldwide and probably 20 times as many attempt SAT to take their life – we just don’t talk about it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well now she talks about being in the matrix and being taken SAT by aliens – what’s going on here? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT I think that would very much fit in this notion that she SAT goes into brief periods of time where she loses some touch SAT with reality. Also there’s quite a difference between – as SAT if she’s in a matrix into I am in a matrix – and that’s the SAT borderline dynamic that you’ve got of being almost on a SAT borderline and constantly falling to one side or the other. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Alys, if someone wants to end their life is it correct to SAT assume that they’ve got underlying mental health problems? SAT SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT There will be a greater proportion who do have a diagnosable SAT mental illness but suicidal thoughts themselves is not SAT necessarily due to having a mental disorder and it’s not SAT necessarily that they want to end their life, it’s just they SAT do not know how to cope with the turmoil or the distress SAT they’re in and if they can be persuaded to seek support they SAT can find a way through. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now we’ve heard that she was detained under the Mental SAT Health Act, first under Section 2 and then under Section 3. SAT Cleo, can you explain what these different sections mean? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT Yes. Section 2 is when somebody is detained to prevent harm SAT to self or others. When perhaps there’s a query about SAT diagnosis so that you have the power to detain somebody for SAT 28 days in hospital. In order for assessment it requires SAT two doctors and an accredited social worker. Section 3 SAT lasts up to six months and that is when the diagnosis has SAT been established and the section is put in place in order to SAT treat. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT How do people respond to that? Alys. SAT SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT Well for some people they can become very distressed. I SAT think you’d be surprised how with compassion and really SAT trying to engage with the person that actually people can SAT come to see that they will benefit. But certainly in the SAT very early stages it can be really tough. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Now Samantha has made three attempts on her life, so why SAT can’t she simply be detained until she’s better? SAT SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT Well sometimes, particularly with people who are suicidal, I SAT think the heightened suicide risk can actually be quite SAT short-lived and sometimes keeping people safe and if SAT required using the Mental Health Act is a recognised SAT treatment plan. But clearly in order to help somebody you SAT need to find a support that they’re happy to accept because SAT you cannot do support to somebody, it has to be something SAT they accept, then you work together. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well we’ve heard that the treatment recommended is SAT psychotherapy and she is refusing psychotherapy, what can be SAT done about that Cleo? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT Well I think that one needs to work on motivating her. SAT There’s a whole literature on motivational interviewing and SAT engagement of people with personality disorder. One of the SAT problems is if you admit somebody with this kind of SAT presentation to an ordinary psychiatric ward, perhaps where SAT there are lots of people with other disorders, that SAT environment isn’t always conducive, that’s why I tend to SAT have worked in specialist units where you can in a way have SAT a psychological environment going right from the beginning. SAT And I do feel for the psychiatrists because what happened SAT was, it seems, she just took to her bed in a regressive SAT state. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Yes. Now if she had agreed to psychotherapy would that put SAT her on the road to recovery? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT Samantha agreeing to have the psychotherapy would be a sign SAT of her getting better. So what one wants to do is to open SAT the choice and there are a range of types of psychotherapy SAT for borderline personality disorder that can be very SAT effective. The other thing to bear in mind is that the SAT research quite clearly shows that people with borderline SAT personality disorder can mature out of it. So an SAT intervention plus that can help somebody move on. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right, well now let’s return to Samantha’s story. SAT SAT SAT SAT It’s mid-July 2012 and Samantha is back home after a three SAT month stay in hospital. She is spending all her waking hours SAT online. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT She was obsessed with her iPad and it became such an SAT obsession and she was so secretive about it that we had to SAT know what was going on. At the times that she would go to SAT the toilet that was the times when you’d get a quick two SAT minute break where you can go in and that’s when I noticed SAT that she was on these suicide forums, she was talking to SAT other people from these chat forums. She used her laptop as SAT well because they had webcam sessions. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT You know some days it was just bringing light to the SAT situation, because you’re there with people that are going SAT through similar things which you are, just being able to SAT communicate and also communicate behind a screen, which SAT gives you the ability to hide behind yourself yet SAT communicate. It was a blessing for me during those times in SAT a way. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT Initially we were quite concerned about her being on a SAT suicide forum. She was quite clear that it wasn’t a suicide SAT site as such, it was just a space for her to express how she SAT was feeling. I was half convinced but I also was concerned SAT that she was spending so much time preoccupied with suicide SAT and spending so much time with other people who were equally SAT preoccupied with suicide. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I was on there for all of my waking day, speaking to these SAT people. And you build bondings with them in a weird way and SAT suddenly when they leave it’s a very uneasy feeling. The SAT thought of anyone else ending their life was quite sad and SAT we’d all be great words of wisdom for each other but just SAT none for our self. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But Samantha’s online activities take on a more worrying SAT direction – she’s begun looking for ways to end her life. SAT She buys some drugs and hides them. But her brother has been SAT tracking her emails. And when Samantha tries to end her SAT life again, he steps in. Samantha is furious. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT People say people that are suicidal are selfish because they SAT want to end their lives but you know they don’t know what SAT I’m going through entirely. I felt like it was selfish of SAT them to want to keep me here. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT I think that was enough evidence to say look come on, it SAT wasn’t a cry for help, she tried to kill herself only SAT because we had the edge on her that we protected her from SAT that one. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha spends three weeks in hospital. She’s then home SAT for a few weeks but her suicidal thoughts become so worrying SAT again that the family checks her into a private clinic. SAT When Samantha is discharged, another three weeks’ later, her SAT brother suggests she move in with him. He wants to try and SAT help her. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT So I stayed with him and we talked during nights and he’d SAT help me and you know a couple of weeks later same thing SAT comes where I just had enough. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s now November, a few weeks since Samantha’s last SAT hospital stay. She visits her father at the family home. SAT Her brother is waiting for her when her dad drops her back SAT at his flat. But rather than coming in, she jumps into a SAT taxi and disappears. Her brother suspects she’s going to SAT buy more drugs. Her phone’s off so he can’t track her. Her SAT email password’s been changed… but he remembers the location SAT of where she’d bought drugs before. He alerts the police SAT and they make their way to intercept her. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT She was brought to hospital by the police on a police SAT section, which is a section 136, and she was assessed as SAT having chronic suicidal urges. Although again she didn’t SAT seem overtly depressed, she was very clear and articulate, SAT she seemed to have capacity around her decisions to end her SAT life effectively. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha is kept in hospital but is not being detained under SAT the Mental Health Act. She can discharge herself at any SAT time. She is still refusing therapy. Her family want her SAT kept in hospital. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT I can see their perspective but they weren’t living the SAT day-to-day and I saw the growth in her attempts. When SAT you’ve had that experience and you’ve dealt with that first SAT hand if you hear that she’s going to try and kill herself SAT she is trying to kill herself. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT The family were understandably concerned and we did spend SAT some time sitting down with them and talking to them about SAT the difficulties that this is the treatment that we would SAT recommend. Samantha has the capacity to choose or refuse SAT that treatment. And we can’t enforce it. I was deeply SAT concerned and I thought that she was – was a very high risk SAT of suicide but I felt there was little more that we could do SAT other than to try and engage her in getting some treatment SAT for herself. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Five days after being admitted, Samantha decides to leave. SAT The psychiatric team make plans to support her in the SAT community. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT When it came time to leave I remember the nurse saying – so SAT shall I call your family. And at this point I didn’t know SAT that it was a choice, I was like – do you have to? And he SAT said no, it’s completely – it’s your right. So I said no I SAT don’t want them to be called. So I left. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT I know it’s illegal and there’s confidentiality elements but SAT given the circumstance it took me to call up the hospital to SAT find out that she’d been released and she’d gone AWOL again. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Joining Cleo Van Velsen and Alys Cole-King, to discuss this SAT case, is Deborah Bowman Professor of Ethics and Law and St SAT George’s University of London. SAT SAT SAT SAT Deborah, let’s begin with you and ask your overall SAT impression of this story so far. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT Do you know I’m sitting here listening and just feeling SAT absolutely torn. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT It’s desperate for the family isn’t it? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT It’s appalling, it’s awful. And families are often in a SAT very difficult position, particularly in relation to mental SAT health where they may be called upon to give additional SAT information or their description of how somebody is behaving SAT and it’s helpful to the team, it’s an act of love but it SAT also means that they’ve become the surveyor, if you like, of SAT their family member. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT So what can families do to help? Alys SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT Well I think the key thing is showing their love and support SAT and I recognise that sometimes it’s really hard to talk SAT about it and actually research of families who’ve been SAT bereaved by suicide they were asked could you tell your SAT loved one was suicidal and it’s so poignant because all SAT these families were saying yes, I was really worried about SAT them but I didn’t know how to broach the subject, I was SAT scared that it would upset them, that it would ruin the SAT relationship. And so I would always urge people to never be SAT afraid to talk about it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Cleo? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT I just would like to add that although it mentioned some SAT discussions with the family because the family have been so SAT involved in trying to help her I think that perhaps having SAT some family intervention to further the process could have SAT been useful. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT And Deborah? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT The more we can move away from the idea that everybody’s SAT autonomous and exists as an individual with no reference to SAT anyone else the better because actually autonomy is always SAT about our relationships and the sense we make of the world. SAT Having said that of course there are legal constraints on SAT what you can share with the family in terms of the SAT information you can share and how involved you can be with SAT the family but if you’re thinking about a therapeutic SAT intervention with the family that seems to me to be a very SAT sensible way. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right well now Samantha’s online a lot and going to suicide SAT chat rooms, now what do we make of that Alys? SAT SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT Suicide forums where people go online to talk about ending SAT their life is actually really unhelpful because when people SAT are really suicidal and very distressed their ability to SAT think about solutions are very much narrowed. If somebody’s SAT very distressed and suicidal themselves they can actually be SAT made more distressed when they hear about others. And if SAT only somebody would contact, for example, Samaritans where SAT they’re given the time and the space with somebody who’s SAT there to listen, people then could be supported to thinking SAT about other alternatives to suicide or self-harm. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But are there any chat rooms that are safe for people who SAT feel incline to take their own lives? SAT SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT Yeah absolutely, so for example Big White Wall – it’s an SAT online anonymous community but they have in real time online SAT wall guides to make sure that the conversation is safe and SAT people don’t come to harm. And I think it’s really SAT important now that the medical profession, in fact the whole SAT of the NHS, need to be aware of all the changes in social SAT media, it’s now a patient safety issue, that as SAT psychiatrists we need to understand what media our patients SAT are using and to advise them accordingly. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT What about when a patient like Samantha is being detained SAT under the Mental Health Act for their own safety, do they SAT take the technology away from them, do they take their SAT laptops away? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT I mean generally not but there have been one or two people SAT who are patients, for example, who have written about some SAT of the difficulties that their wish to engage with social SAT media, for example, have caused the team. And I also wonder SAT about when somebody is on the section, we are trying to SAT support somebody to the position of living their life and SAT making choices, so that’s a negotiation about the choices SAT that they are able to make. And there’s vast fictional SAT literature on suicide, would we confiscate certain titles? SAT You know those sorts of questions are really head hurting SAT when you start thinking about them. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right, well let’s continue with the real life story now. SAT SAT SAT SAT It’s mid November 2012. Samantha has discharged herself from SAT hospital after a five day stay. She catches a train to buy SAT drugs again and then checks into a hotel. Several hours SAT later her brother, accompanied by police, track her down. SAT She’s released into his care, admits that she’s purchased SAT drugs but begs him to let her keep them on the condition she SAT doesn’t take them. Having the drug matters to her. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I had an overwhelming sense of comfort. I was so erratic SAT and impulsive without it, whereas even though I would act on SAT impulse with it, obviously, from one of my previous SAT attempts, the days would be a lot easier and I would be a SAT lot calmer and I would be able to deal with things in a SAT different light. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Her brother agrees but the next day it’s too much pressure…. SAT he reads a post from her online which tells him she’s SAT thinking about taking the drug. He takes her back to the SAT NHS where she is again assessed under the Mental Health Act. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT Again they didn’t find evidence of depression that was SAT impairing her judgement. Appropriate treatment was SAT psychotherapy, she was refusing that. And they didn’t SAT believe that detention in hospital was appropriate for her. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The team also feel that being in hospital could actually be SAT harmful. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT She was regressing I think, while she was in hospital, so SAT she would spend all day just in bed, up all night on her SAT iPad, and we were worried that it wasn’t just maintaining SAT the status quo it was actually potentially making things SAT worse. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT While Samantha is now free to leave hospital, both the team SAT and her family encourage her to stay there until she feels SAT more stable. But Samantha doesn’t want to. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT Having her locked up was a much safer option and in some way SAT way selfish, you kind of wipe your hands with it, you go SAT well this is now your problem. Her being imprisoned was a SAT lot safer than her not. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT The family’s feelings and concerns are very understandable SAT but I think that the anxiety that they were expressing and SAT the extent to which they were trying to keep her safe was SAT actually maintaining the situation of her handing over the SAT responsibility to someone else, rather than actually SAT shifting that responsibility back to her about engaging in SAT some treatment for herself. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT So with that I went back to my brother’s, I got my suitcase SAT and I got my things and I left and me and my brother’s SAT relationship really did deteriorate. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha moves into a hotel. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT Although she didn’t want me around I’m going to have SAT somebody watching her and monitoring her and being with her SAT and that’s when I called upon the services of the security SAT that I had working for me and we put them on rotation – 24 SAT hours a day. Nobody else was taking care of this. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT Now it was I didn’t know how to go about ending my life, I SAT had someone watching me 24/7. I’d been suppressing my SAT anxiety and feelings with tranquillisers and things like SAT that and I would just be paralysed with anxiety – it was SAT absolutely hideous. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Two days after leaving hospital Samantha meets the SAT psychiatrist at the community mental health centre. The SAT psychiatrist wants to arrange support for her in the SAT community. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT The home treatment team were a bit concerned I think about SAT taking her on, given the risks. So I assessed her with SAT them. Our plan at that point was for us to meet with her SAT three times a week in the community mental health team and SAT over the weekend she was going to make contact with the bed SAT managers at the hospital. This was a very unusual SAT situation. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha agrees to the community support, as she believes it SAT will keep her out of hospital. She attends about half of her SAT appointments. She spends the rest of her time in her hotel SAT room on the suicide chat rooms. Her brother monitors this SAT from afar. Whenever she leaves, which is rarely, she is SAT followed by body guards. This goes on for a whole month. SAT SAT SAT Brother SAT SAT There was always a part in my mind that knew that time is SAT the best healer and that if we could protect her from SAT killing herself that slowly but surely what would seem like SAT an infinite reality of pain and suffering would ease down. SAT But she was so fixated on the idea of suicide that every day SAT was a challenge to keep her alive. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The whole mental health team are worried about her and offer SAT her a stay in hospital, but she refuses. They suggest that SAT a therapist visit her regularly at the hotel. She’s not keen SAT but agrees in the hope that it will keep her out of SAT hospital. SAT SAT SAT SAT The senior psychiatrist on the team feels uneasy about the SAT pattern that’s emerging. Samantha’s suicidal behaviour is SAT very different to what he’s seen in other patients with a SAT diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist (2) SAT SAT Usually people with borderline personality disorder when SAT engaging in acts of deliberate self-harm or attempted SAT suicide are in a state of greatly heightened emotion and it SAT is usually the extreme fluctuations in their mood that make SAT them prone to such events. But that wasn’t the case with SAT Samantha, she was calm, gave a coherent rationale almost for SAT why she wanted to end her life and that sooner or later she SAT was going to end it all. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT As we’ve heard the team think Samantha has the capacity to SAT refuse psychotherapy, a decision which could ultimately cost SAT her her life. The psychiatrist feels this premise warrants SAT closer scrutiny. He takes Samantha’s case to the Clinical SAT Ethics Committee at the Trust. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist (2) SAT SAT I think Samantha was the first time that there was a SAT controversy of this kind, namely that so many clinicians SAT felt that not only was there a great likelihood of somebody SAT ending their life but that they had the capacity to actually SAT make that decision. There was something obviously SAT uncomfortable about that and we were acting in contradictory SAT ways – on the one hand admitting her to hospital, on SAT occasion coercively, yet on the other hand saying this is SAT somebody who clearly has capacity to make decisions of a SAT gravity of this nature. I just felt like the understanding SAT of what constitutes capacity hadn’t been fully explored. So SAT anticipating that I would be managing her in the community SAT afterwards I really wanted to give some space for thought SAT about that contradiction. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT I’ll bring it back to our panel now. Should it ever be left SAT to the individual to decide to end their life? Deborah. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT It is something that I grapple with constantly. Ultimately SAT in a small number of cases it is possible for people to make SAT choices that might result in their death. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT But Deborah do you from personal experience know of SAT situations in which people have made the choice? SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT I have known of two people for whom suicide was their choice SAT I believe. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Cleo. SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT I can think of a situation where somebody as a young boy had SAT suicidal thoughts from the age of nine and had had a vast SAT amount of treatment and finally died by suicide at about SAT 32. And I do think that everything had been done that could SAT have been done to help him. I wouldn’t say it was rational SAT but I did feel that it had an inevitability about it. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well let’s just draw back from the details of this case and SAT ask a more general philosophical point if you like – can one SAT make a rational decision to end your own life? Deborah. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT Ooh gosh that’s one that has occupied philosophers for SAT centuries. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT They did it with great honour in some cases. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT Yes, yes. I do believe it can be rational, I don’t think SAT that’s the case here. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Cleo. SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT In this particular case I have a concern about this notion SAT of whether or not she has capacity. I don’t think she’s SAT capacitous for this decision about suicide because it’s a SAT result of her mental disorder. Capacity is about a SAT particular decision and in psychiatry people are able to SAT make decisions about aspects of their physical care but if SAT it results from a mental disorder can mean that it is not SAT possible to say they’re capacitous. Do I think that some SAT people have the right to die by suicide or make that SAT decision perhaps in the context of a severe physical illness SAT where in some ways it doesn’t seem to be an expression of SAT despair but an existential wish about their life that they SAT carry out. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Deborah. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT Intuitively it feels very different doesn’t it. I do think SAT there are interesting things about the reasons we can SAT tolerate someone’s decision and reasons that we can’t. And SAT actually is it up to us to take a view on that, when it does SAT it become our business? SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Right, well let me ask each of you what advice, if you were SAT the ethics committee, would you give to this medical team? SAT SAT SAT Van Velsen SAT SAT The advice that I would give would be to not agree that her SAT decision is entirely capacitous and continue to engage with SAT her for her to progress. SAT SAT SAT Bowman SAT SAT I am clear, I think actually I want to understand her SAT capacity much more, what is it that’s available to her and SAT have those options been considered in the context of her SAT capacity? It seems to me treatments become a bit disjointed SAT from an abstract notion of capacity and I’d like to see that SAT more meaningfully explored. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Alys? SAT SAT SAT Cole-King SAT SAT I would urge them to look again, is everything possible SAT being done to help this person and to actually never give SAT up. The evidence is that people change their mind and that SAT evidence cannot be ignored. The goal should be always to SAT prevent suicide. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Well What if invites us to rejoin the story, what happened SAT to Samantha. She is in a hotel room. Her movements both real SAT and online are being monitored 24/7. The question is does SAT she have the capacity to decide to end her life? The SAT clinical ethics committee gives its view. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist (2) SAT SAT The clinical ethics committee agreed that it was difficult SAT to say with certainty that she had capacity to commit SAT suicide and that was largely based on the view that she was SAT a young person who’d been through the awful trauma of losing SAT her mother, using drugs and living through quite fraught SAT family dynamics. And fundamentally that she was young and SAT didn’t really have the maturity to assimilate all that and SAT she had the capacity to grow, she had the capacity to learn SAT and the capacity potentially to see things differently. And SAT that therefore regarding her as having the ability to take SAT responsibility for ending her life was premature. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT If Samantha lacks the capacity to make her own decisions, SAT taking great control over her treatment could be warranted. SAT But the psychiatrist isn’t convinced this will help and SAT feels they need a new approach. Then, news from the family SAT brings things to a head. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist SAT SAT The family said that over the weekend from monitoring her SAT online activity one of the other people in the forum had SAT completed suicide and they were concerned that she was in a SAT suicide pact with this person. The bodyguards that had been SAT hired by the family had also said that she seemed drowsy. SAT So we were worried that she’d taken an overdose over the SAT weekend. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist (2) SAT SAT That kind of information just couldn’t be ignored and I felt SAT that if we were going to try and change the rules of SAT engagement it had to be from a point of safety and I didn’t SAT feel it was safe at that point in time and that’s why we SAT arranged the mental health assessment and I did detain her SAT at that point. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT Samantha is detained in hospital under Section 2, for SAT assessment. This makes sense given that those treating her SAT are starting to doubt her ability to make decisions for SAT herself. But they are not convinced it would help her feel SAT less suicidal as she is still refusing the treatment on SAT offer - therapy. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT No one can force you to talk, no one can force you to SAT partake in therapy. It was like you just don’t get it, I SAT don’t want to. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist (2) SAT SAT And that was fine from my point of view because what it SAT offered for me was an opportunity to engage her in SAT discussion in an environment where her safety could be SAT assured. And I did have some really good discussions with SAT her in hospital. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT What happened was that gradually Samantha began to trust the SAT psychiatrist. She also continued to talk to the therapist. SAT After 28 days her detention in hospital expired so she was SAT free to leave. But she was still plagued by suicidal SAT thoughts. The psychiatrist felt it was crucial they involve SAT her family. SAT SAT SAT Psychiatrist (2) SAT SAT She was somebody who was very much embedded in her family, SAT their dynamics were both contributing to the difficulties at SAT the time, despite the very best of intentions on their part SAT but also I felt that they were a possible facilitator of the SAT solution to her problems. So at that point I decided to SAT make contact with a family therapist. SAT SAT SAT Family psychiatrist SAT SAT I saw Samantha on the ward, 7th January, and it was very SAT clear to me that it was absolutely no use me joining the SAT regiment of people who were trying to get her to not kill SAT herself. I thought it was very important that I tried to SAT understand her reality. All I could do was to say look I SAT might be able to throw some light on this situation, would SAT you agree to see me with the family. Absolutely not to SAT start with but she wouldn’t mind seeing me on my own. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT When Samantha was discharged, the family therapist began SAT meeting her at her home. Over five months they met several SAT times. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT He would get my mind quite active and we would have quite SAT interesting conversations and that I found very enjoyable. SAT SAT SAT Family psychiatrist SAT SAT And I thought that was the right tone, that we were having SAT interesting conversations. And having got to that point I SAT thought one could begin to then gradually expand her SAT thinking away from what seemed to be this fixed point, which SAT only made sense if she killed herself. In a funny sort of SAT way she was rather disconnected from her emotions, her SAT descriptions of all of her family were somehow strangely two SAT dimensional. And so I felt that something about her SAT development had left her kind of not fully equipped to make SAT sense of relationships. And that when her mother died I SAT think she was left literally gutted and didn’t really know SAT how to connect to the family as a useful springboard to jump SAT off from. SAT SAT SAT Bakewell SAT SAT The family therapist met with Samantha’s family too. After SAT six months Samantha eventually began to join in and, very SAT gradually, over time, her suicidal feelings that had SAT consumed her for so long began to dissipate. SAT SAT SAT Samantha SAT SAT I started to notice a gradual shift in how my thoughts were SAT obsessing over when I would die and how I would die to kind SAT of considering others and life a little bit more. And I SAT think I was very resistant to it though because it had SAT become me. So without wanting to kill myself what and who SAT was I? And it seemed we all learnt a lot from this SAT experience and we all processed my mum’s death a bit more SAT together. I’m very lucky I got out of it alive. They did SAT everything they could to protect me and I’m exceptionally SAT grateful for that. SAT SAT ENDS SAT SAT Your Comments SAT SAT I have just listened to the programme on suicide. It was a SAT magnificently dramatic construct, brilliantly edited, SAT totally absorbing. The individual voices were completely SAT captivating in that each seemed easily and utterly credibly SAT to incarnate their own existence. The narrative thread was SAT perfectly unwound. The subject matter, which could so easily SAT have been handled in a way which was overly portentous and SAT leaden, was thought through with courage and SAT clear-sightedness. The subject matter could hardly have been SAT of greater importance in that it was about life and death in SAT its most direct and raw form. SAT Congratulations to the makers of this programme, which I SAT listened to almost with bated breath. On a visit to London SAT last year I saw Joan Bakewell in the street near the SAT National Gallery. Were I to see her now I would certainly be SAT that annoying person who just has to say how much I admire SAT the work she does. However, I really do not know who SAT scripted the text and/or carried out the editing work. Not SAT knowing who is largely responsible, in some sense, only SAT increases the admiration I feel for this wonderful SAT programme. SAT Diarmuid Drury SAT "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SAT SAT --- SAT SAT I have just listened to the effectively-presented programme SAT on the case of a young woman with chronic suicidal urges. SAT Clearly an extraordinary case, it served the purpose of the SAT programme well. SAT SAT I was struck by the fact that the family were able to spend SAT large sums of money in their great efforts to prevent the SAT girl from killing herself, though it became clear that much SAT of their intense and well-meaning effort was SAT counter-productive. It was only when a psychiatrist managed SAT to enable her to speak with him without any intervention by SAT the family that, gradually, real progress began to be made. SAT SAT SAT SAT Reference was made to the Samaritans in the programme but I SAT thought it was a shame that this dimension was undeveloped. SAT It sounded unlikely that the young woman contacted SAT Samaritans from all we heard (though we can’t be sure) but SAT what the organisation offers is well-trained SAT listeners SAT whose fundamental credo is that callers themselves determine SAT their life or death choices, though of course a Samaritans SAT listener’s skill lies in engaging with the caller in their SAT exploration of SAT their own SAT perceptions of their troubles without making any judgements, SAT just gently asking empathetic open questions. Some SAT Samaritans have had more experience of chronically suicidal SAT individuals than your ‘experts’ said they had had in the SAT programme. SAT SAT SAT SAT Peter Roberts SAT SAT SAT SAT --- SAT SAT I just would like to say just how riveting this episode SAT was. The tortuous, tricky business of staying neutral and SAT allowing the various voices space was well done. I am now SAT retired and have some distance from general practice where SAT this could and did crop up. What came over in this program SAT was just how redundant psychiatric labelling can be. SAT Borderline personality disorder label did not help her. It SAT just perpetuated the drama. The family therapist knows how a SAT family have to be held and everyone in that family has to SAT feel safe, and that holding will take time. SAT SAT A brave program. SAT Jeremy Vevers SAT SAT --- SAT SAT Thank you, this was an amazing programme - sensitive, SAT insightful, honest, and almost too moving to bear. I was a SAT bit surprised, though, that there was no representative from SAT outside the professionals, for example a philosopher or a SAT faith person. What this poor Samantha desperately SAT needed/needs (don’t we all?) is someone to love her, as she SAT is, not trying to change her, though change may result from SAT feeling being loved, just as you are. The family SAT (desperate, loving people) are too close to the situation to SAT be able to solve it (solution is often not possible, depends SAT on how we define it, I suppose). SAT Anyway, thank you again, this was a most important SAT programme, one of which Radio 4 can be proud. SAT Janet Watford SAT SAT --- SAT SAT "Personality disorder" is an unhelpful modern psychiatric SAT convenience for medics who wind up in this blind alley. What SAT the psychiatrists are saying even more than usually is that SAT they don't have a clue. A rigorous behavioural approach to SAT Samantha and her family would leave her with a clearer idea SAT of her responsibilities to self and society and would assist SAT us all in evolving her life plan in whichever direction it SAT takes. SAT SAT SAT SAT Alastair Deery SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b062jy90 (Listen) SAT Series 29, Heat 7, 2015 SAT SAT (7/13) SAT Music lovers from London and Surrey compete in the seventh SAT heat of the 2015 series. Paul Gambaccini's questions range SAT across all genres of music, from the classics to film and TV SAT music, jazz, Broadway, rock and pop. SAT SAT The winner goes through to the semi-finals in August and SAT takes a crucial step nearer the 29th annual Counterpoint SAT champion's crown. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT DAVID GREENWOOD, a programme manager from Haselmere in SAT Surrey SAT SAT PETER IVESON, a computer programmer from London SAT SAT DOUGLAS LEE, a painter and decorator, also from London. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry in the Remaking b062j06m (Listen) SAT Michael Rosen and Simon Armitage 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 26 JULY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0638bpc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Made in Bristol b01g65h5 (Listen) SUN Hood SUN SUN A man walks through the city late at night. 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SUN SUN Author: Marilyn French SUN SUN From: The Women's Room SUN SUN Publisher: Andrew Deutsch (1978) Warner Books reprint (1992) SUN ISBN 0 75150538 2 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Like a Beacon SUN Synopsis: Smells and sights trigger powerful memories and SUN longings for home. SUN SUN Author: Grace Nichols SUN SUN From: *Poems on the Underground*, Tenth Edition, edited by SUN Gerard Benson, Judith Chernaik & Cicely Herbert SUN SUN Publisher: W&N, 2001) SUN SUN SUN ISBN-10: SUN 0304348589 SUN ISBN-13: SUN 978-0304348589 SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN A house of my own SUN Synopsis: The author reflects on the freedom of having a SUN house that belongs entirely to her. 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SUN SUN Author: Gary Soto SUN SUN From: Home Course in religion SUN SUN Publisher: Chronicle Books (1991) SUN ISBN ISBN-10: SUN 087701857X SUN ISBN-13: SUN 978-0877018575 SUN SUN SUN The programme title: ‘Away Being, Coming Home’, refers to a SUN cross arts project in which young people, writers and SUN musicians created work inspired by photographs of empty SUN croft houses in the Hebrides, and the stories of their SUN former inhabitants. The programme opens with a poem, SUN 'Barren', read by author Marjorie Gill, in response to an SUN image of one of these homes left behind, entitled 'Unmade SUN Bed, Lewis', by photographer Ian Paterson. SUN SUN More images and details about the exhibition can be found SUN at: SUN Leaving Home SUN The Thrive Archive SUN SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b0638fys (Listen) SUN The Stag Beetle Hunt SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0638fz1 (Listen) SUN The Whole of Life for Christ SUN SUN Thousands gather in the Lake District town of Keswick to SUN grapple with the challenge of living the whole of life for SUN Christ (this year's Convention theme); including work, SUN leisure, community, public and home life, and our SUN responsibility to care for creation. Reading: 2 Corinthians SUN Chapter 5. Preacher: Jonathan Lamb (Convention Chair); Music SUN Director: Steve James. Producer: Katharine Longworth. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN Radio 4 opening announcement SUN SUN BBC Radio 4. And time now for Sunday Worship which was SUN recorded at this year’s Keswick Convention in Cumbria. The SUN music is led by Steve James and the preacher is Jonathan SUN Lamb, Minister-at-large for Keswick ministries. The SUN service, which looks at the nature of discipleship and SUN explores the theme of the convention “The Whole of Life for SUN Christ”, is led by Anna Putt. SUN SUN Leader (Anna Putt): SUN SUN Welcome to Keswick, in the heart of the English Lake SUN District, and to the 140th anniversary of the Keswick SUN Convention! Since its early beginnings on the lawns outside SUN St John’s church, each year thousands of Christians from SUN different denominations, generations and countries join SUN together to hear God’s Word, to celebrate God’s gospel, and SUN to enjoy God’s creation. SUN SUN This summer we welcome over 12,000 people of all ages to SUN look at the theme ‘The whole of life for Christ’, because SUN we’re persuaded that commitment to Christ calls for all that SUN we have and are, and means living out our discipleship in SUN every area of life – at home, work, and in the community. SUN In today’s service we’re going to look at the big reasons SUN for Christian discipleship. What is it that has driven SUN people the world over to establish hospitals, care for SUN orphans, fight against slavery, work for justice, cross SUN frontiers to proclaim the gospel and care for the neediest SUN in our world? And not only what is it that has motivated SUN them, but who? SUN SUN Our preacher is Jonathan Lamb, who serves as the SUN minister-at-large for Keswick Ministries, travelling to many SUN parts of the world to teach the Bible and encourage the SUN church. As we look at living the whole of life for Christ, SUN Jonathan will introduce three themes about the person of SUN Christ which call for our commitment to Him: we are loved by SUN Jesus our Saviour, we are responsible to Jesus our Judge, SUN and we are sent by Jesus our King. SUN SUN The seventeenth century hymn writer Joachim Neander urged us SUN to be wholehearted in our worship: Praise to the Lord! Oh, SUN let all that is in me adore Him! All that hath life and SUN breath, come now with praises before Him! Before we sing SUN that great hymn, we pray together: SUN SUN ‘Our Father, as we gather to declare your praise, we ask SUN that by your Holy Spirit you will unite us in worship of SUN Jesus Christ and encourage us in committed devotion to Him, SUN in whose name we pray. Amen’ SUN SUN Song 1 Praise to the Lord the Almighty SUN SUN Leader: SUN SUN Jesus Christ has many admirers, but far fewer disciples. And SUN perhaps this is because Jesus was uncompromising in his call SUN to discipleship. He urged his listeners to count the cost SUN before following him, as Matthew reminds us in chapter 16 of SUN his Gospel. SUN SUN Reading: Hannah Roberts (Matthew 16:24-27) SUN SUN Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and SUN take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save SUN their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me SUN will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the SUN whole world, yet forfeit their soul? For the Son of Man is SUN going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and SUN then he will reward each person according to what they have SUN done. SUN SUN Leader: Anna SUN SUN George Verwer is known worldwide as a wholehearted disciple SUN of Christ who is passionate about the cause of mission. He SUN is the founder of Operation Mobilisation, which works in SUN over 110 countries, helping to plant and strengthen SUN churches, especially in areas of the world where Christ is SUN least known. SUN SUN George has given his whole life to serve Christ, and he SUN still travels the world encouraging people to give SUN everything for the cause of the gospel. He tells us why he SUN has given his life to this cause … SUN SUN George Verwer segment: SUN SUN Leader: Anna SUN SUN As we have heard about that call to global mission, we sing SUN together about the hope of the nations, the Saviour of the SUN world, to whom we surrender our lives in joyful service. SUN Song 2 Everyone needs compassion, SUN SUN Leader : Anna SUN SUN In his famous book on Discipleship, the German pastor SUN Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that, when Christ calls someone, SUN he bids them come and die. In his second letter to the SUN Corinthians, Paul explains why the true disciple gladly SUN gives their whole life to Christ. Our preacher, Jonathan SUN Lamb, will reflect on what Paul is telling us but first SUN let’s listen to his words from 2 Corinthians 5. SUN SUN Reading: Hannah (2 Corinthians 5:14-17) SUN SUN For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that SUN one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for SUN all, that those who live should no longer live for SUN themselves but for him who died for them and was raised SUN again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point SUN of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do SUN so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new SUN creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here! SUN SUN Sermon segment 1: Jonathan SUN SUN I often drive into London on the M40, and if you make that SUN trip you’ll know that, shortly before the M25, the traffic SUN gets heavy and often comes to a stand-still. I sat in the SUN traffic jam for a while the other day, and noticed a field SUN to my left, bounded by a high fence. And on the fence a SUN graffiti artist had written a large and thought-provoking SUN message to the commuters stuck in the traffic. It was just SUN seven words: SUN SUN Why do I do this every day? SUN SUN That’s not a bad question. Why do we do what we do? What SUN motivates us, what shapes the way we live? What determines SUN our priorities? SUN SUN And what are the reasons why, this year at Keswick, we are SUN calling for wholehearted commitment to Jesus Christ? Why SUN give our lives to him? SUN SUN The apostle Paul was being criticised by some people in SUN Corinth who suggested that he was involved in Christian SUN service for nothing other than personal gain. He was trying SUN to build his own reputation; he was building a power base SUN for his growing personal empire, they said. So in 2 SUN Corinthians 5 he gives three fundamental motivations, three SUN big reasons for living the whole of life for Christ. SUN SUN First, we are loved by Jesus our Saviour. Paul explains in SUN verse 14, For Christ’s love compels us, because we are SUN convinced that one died for all. SUN SUN The first reason for wholehearted discipleship is because we SUN are loved. It is not in the first instance a sense of need, SUN or a sense of guilt, or a sense of personal fulfilment or SUN self advancement. We are pushed forward in our work by the SUN compulsion of Christ’s love. SUN SUN I once took a canoe trip which began gently on a wide lake. SUN Soon the lake narrowed to become a stream, and as the banks SUN moved closer together the water accelerated, lifting the SUN canoe and taking it forward. The banks exerted a gentle SUN pressure, and the canoe inevitably accelerated forwards. SUN And this is Paul’s emphasis: the love of Christ compels us, SUN pushes us forward. The logic is described by Paul in verses SUN 14,15. SUN SUN ‘For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that SUN one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for SUN all, that those who live should no longer live for SUN themselves but for him who died for them and was raised SUN again.’ SUN SUN SUN The centre of gravity in our life is no longer our old way SUN of life, our sinful, self-centred life, but the service of SUN Jesus Christ who has given everything for us. He gave SUN himself for us when he died on the cross - he gave SUN everything he had. And that calls for a wholehearted SUN response. As one Bible translation expresses it, ‘The love SUN of Christ leaves me no choice.’ SUN SUN So the first big reason to live the whole of life for SUN Christ, the first motivating force in Christian SUN discipleship, is that we are loved by Jesus our Saviour. We SUN now sing of that love, found in Jesus himself, who lay down SUN his life for us. SUN SUN Song 3 When Love came down to earth SUN SUN Leader: Anna SUN SUN The call to live wholeheartedly for Christ is founded on his SUN reconciling love for us. And having been reconciled, Paul SUN now shows us that our lives must be devoted to proclaiming SUN the message of gospel reconciliation to others, as good SUN stewards of all that God has given us. We read again from 2 SUN Corinthians 5. SUN SUN Reading: Hannah (2 Corinthians 5:10; 20-21) SUN SUN For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, SUN so that each of us may receive what is due for the things SUN done while in the body, whether good or bad …. We are SUN therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making SUN his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: SUN Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin SUN for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of SUN God.’ SUN SUN Sermon segment 2: Jonathan SUN SUN Here’s a second big reason for living our lives SUN wholeheartedly for Christ. We are responsible to Jesus our SUN Judge. We’ve read Paul’s urgent reminder in verse 10 that SUN ‘we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ.’ SUN SUN Here Paul describes a future reality that shapes our present SUN motivation. He’s referring to a judgment which Christians SUN will face. It’s a practical judgment on our stewardship, as SUN the rest of v10 makes plain: ‘That each one may receive SUN what is due to him for the deeds done while in the body, SUN whether good or bad.’ SUN SUN Jesus said the same in the Matthew passage which we read SUN earlier. When Jesus returns he will reward each person SUN according to what they have done. SUN SUN So what are we living for? SUN SUN A letter appeared in one of our newspapers recently, written SUN by a father who was working with his daughter on her SUN homework when she received a text from her mother which SUN said, ‘What do want from life?’ This was an unexpected and SUN profound question, and the father and daughter debated SUN various answers – wealth, fulfilment, love, perhaps? SUN SUN Five minutes later, she received a second message, blaming SUN predictive text: it was not ‘what do you want from life’, SUN but ‘what do you want from Lidl.’ SUN SUN But Paul is asking a serious question. What are you giving SUN your life for? How are you building? SUN SUN The judgment of Christ to which he refers is not a judgement SUN concerning our eternal destiny, because by his grace we are SUN saved from God’s wrath through Christ’s work. But Paul SUN refers to a time for giving an account of how we have lived SUN our lives. It’s a judgement on our stewardship. In his first SUN letter to the Corinthians Paul wrote about the importance of SUN ensuring that our lives are built on the foundation of Jesus SUN Christ. He is the one foundation who will withstand all SUN tests, and if we have built our lives on him - if we have SUN trusted his saving work - then we are absolutely secure, now SUN and for eternity. SUN SUN But the question remains, how will we build on that SUN foundation? Will we build with those things which are short SUN lived - wood, hay, straw - or will we build with those SUN things which are of lasting value - gold, silver, precious SUN stones? Because one day the quality of our building work SUN will be tested, and on that judgement day will it survive or SUN will it disappear in a cloud of smoke? SUN SUN So how you build matters. How you live your life counts. SUN Whether in business, or in home life, or in the cause of SUN Christian mission as George Verwer has described, Paul says SUN that in all of these things we must live for God’s purposes SUN and priorities. We are responsible to Jesus the Judge, and SUN that judgement day is a stimulus to wholehearted service, a SUN reminder of our obligations to live for Christ. SUN SUN It's a call to be wholehearted in living for the values of SUN God’s Kingdom. We are to live your lives with that future in SUN view. SUN SUN We are loved by Jesus our Saviour, we are responsible to SUN Jesus our judge, and finally, we are sent by Jesus our SUN King. Paul writes that ‘we are Christ’s ambassadors, as SUN though God were making his appeal through us. We implore on SUN Christ’s behalf - be reconciled to God. SUN SUN Having been reconciled to God through Christ’s work, we are SUN now ministers of reconciliation, and Paul uses the SUN illustration of the ambassador, the king’s envoy. It’s a SUN bold analogy. As he explains, it is as though God were SUN making his appeal through us! We are speaking on Christ’s SUN behalf. SUN SUN Christians are called to proclaim that Christ died for all, SUN and the basis of their authority is that they speak on SUN Christ’s behalf. He is the King, the Lord of all. Of SUN course, this must be done with humility and with sensitivity SUN to the culture in which we live, but the ministry of SUN reconciliation is founded on the fact that we are sent by SUN Jesus Christ, the Lord. Since Christ died for all, our task SUN is to take that Good News to a world broken by sin, and to SUN do so with the wholehearted commitment of those who are sent SUN by Jesus our King. SUN Let me conclude. The comedian Spike Milligan was once SUN taking a train journey when someone asked him where he came SUN from. ‘From London’, he said. So his fellow traveller SUN replied, ‘Which part?’ To which Spike Milligan replied, ‘All SUN of me.’ SUN SUN It’s a good answer. We’ve seen that in the light of all SUN that Christ has done, He wants all of me. SUN SUN So we return to the graffiti writer’s question: Why do I do SUN this every day? And here are the three big reasons for SUN living the whole of life for Christ: we are loved by Jesus SUN our Saviour - we are responsible to Jesus our Judge - we are SUN sent by Jesus our King. SUN SUN Isaac Watts captured both the wonder of Christ’s work, and SUN the committed response which that calls for, in the final SUN lines of his well known hymn. Love so amazing, so divine, SUN demands my soul, my life, my all. SUN SUN Song 4 When I survey SUN SUN Leader: Anna SUN SUN We now turn to prayer, remembering Jesus our Saviour, our SUN Judge and our King. SUN SUN Prayer - Mel Lacey: SUN SUN Dear Father, we thank you that Jesus is the Saviour who gave SUN his life to reconcile us to you and to one another. We thank SUN you that He is the Saviour of the world, and that his love SUN extends to us all, whoever we might be. We pray for those SUN who need to hear the liberating news of the Christian SUN message - that whilst we were still sinners, Christ died for SUN us. We lift to you those who long for forgiveness, SUN restoration and reconciliation. May they know the truth that SUN those who seek you with all their heart will find you. SUN SUN Congregational response: Lord and Saviour, hear our prayer SUN SUN Prayer - Patrick Fung: SUN SUN Father, we thank you that Jesus is the Judge, and that SUN trusting in his work on the cross we are free from SUN condemnation, and are able to live our lives responsibly SUN before him. We pray that we will be good stewards of the SUN lives you have given us, serving you and others in a world SUN of need. We pray for those who seek justice in their lives SUN or their nations, and pray this morning for the nations of SUN ……… … …… knowing that you are the judge of all the SUN earth, to whom every government, every leader, and every SUN individual, must give an account. We pray for those who SUN live under the tyranny of brutal regimes, and ask for your SUN mercy for them; we pray for those who are persecuted because SUN of their faith in you, and ask that, though now under SUN pressure, they may live in the sure hope that you will come SUN as Judge to restore all things. SUN SUN Congregational response: Lord and Judge, hear our prayer SUN SUN Prayer - Mel Lacey: SUN SUN We thank you that Jesus is the King, and that one day, every SUN knee will bow and every tongue confess that he is Lord. We SUN pray for his rule in our nation, our government and SUN opposition parties might live under his rule, governing with SUN righteousness and peace for the good of all. We pray for SUN the town of Keswick and for this county of Cumbria, for its SUN residents, its civic leaders and its church community, SUN praying for your will to be done, your gospel to advance, SUN and your church to continue to grow in its effectiveness. SUN Dear Lord, our Saviour, Judge and King, help us to surrender SUN our lives to you, in whose service s perfect freedom, and by SUN word and life, declare your love and kingly rule in every SUN sphere of life. SUN SUN Congregational response: Lord and King, hear our prayer SUN Leader: Anna SUN As part of our prayers, Yvonne Lyon sings about a prayerful SUN response which expresses our wholehearted devotion to the SUN Lord. What matters most to God is that we live a life SUN surrendered, obedient and true; to love as we have been SUN loved, and to give as we have received. SUN SUN Song 5 Yvonne Lyon When the things I crave are worthless SUN Patrick Fung: SUN SUN We join together in the prayer that Jesus taught us: SUN SUN Congregation: SUN SUN Our Father in heaven, SUN Hallowed be your name. SUN Your Kingdom come, SUN Your will be done, SUN On earth as in heaven. SUN Give us today our daily bread; SUN Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. SUN SUN Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. SUN For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours. SUN Now and forever. SUN Amen. SUN SUN Leader: Anna SUN SUN In the light of all that God has done for us through Christ, SUN we declare our wholehearted allegiance to Him in the words SUN of our closing hymn: Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, SUN High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art. SUN SUN Song 5 Be Thou my vision (Rend Collective version) SUN SUN SUN SUN Anna - Closing prayer: SUN SUN Our Father, as we remember all that Christ has done for us SUN on the cross, and all that Christ will do on that final day SUN when every knee will bow to Him, grant us the grace and SUN strength to live our lives wholeheartedly for Him. Send us SUN out in the power of your Spirit, to live and work to your SUN praise and glory. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. SUN SUN MUSIC - Band play out SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b062n4nv (Listen) SUN Peter Aspden: In Love with Greece SUN SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03thwdy (Listen) SUN White-Fronted 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 John Aitchison presents the white-fronted goose. Flocks of SUN White-Fronted Geese return each year to their favourite SUN wintering areas, the bogs and and saltmarshes of Ireland and SUN the Severn Estuary as well as western Scotland, although SUN smaller flocks are found elsewhere. John Aitchison recorded SUN the musical yapping of white-fronted geese for Tweet SUN listeners as they flew over his home in western Scotland. SUN SUN White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0638gpc (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 b0638gpj (Listen) SUN Roll up for the (Lower Loxley) village fete. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Debbie Aldridge: Tamsin Greig SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0638gpq (Listen) SUN Professor Monica Grady SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Monica Grady, Professor of SUN Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University. SUN SUN Well-known in scientific circles, at NASA and the European SUN Space Agency, she came to the attention of the general SUN public with her enthusiastic celebration when, as part of SUN the Rosetta project, the probe Philae became the first-ever SUN spacecraft to land on a comet - 67P - in November 2014. The SUN spacecraft had taken ten years to journey through space and SUN a decade was spent on the preparations. SUN SUN She was born in 1958 in Leeds as the eldest of eight SUN children. She studied chemistry and geology at Durham SUN University and did her PhD on carbon in meteorites at SUN Cambridge, where she worked closely with Professor Colin SUN Pillinger on the Beagle 2 project to Mars. She first worked SUN at the OU in 1983 before joining the Department of SUN Mineralogy of the Natural History Museum, becoming Head of SUN the Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy Division. She is SUN married to Professor Ian Wright who is one of the lead SUN scientists on the Rosetta cometary mission and they have one SUN son. She was awarded a CBE in 2012 for services to space SUN sciences and asteroid (4731) was named "Monicagrady" in her SUN honour. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Monica Grady SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b0638bq0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b062jy98 (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 63rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a SUN return visit to the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. Regulars SUN Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once SUN again joined on the panel by Miles Jupp with Jack Dee in the SUN chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN It is a BBC Radio Comedy 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 b0638gpx (Listen) SUN Bread for Scotland SUN SUN Scotland has a problem with food. For all the salmon, SUN whiskey and summer berries celebrated in this year of SUN Scottish Food & Drink, the Government says its spending SUN billions fighting an obesity crisis, and when it comes to SUN groceries, the supermarket is king. SUN SUN But for the last five years, a small community run bakery on SUN the Scottish borders has been quietly gaining momentum, SUN aiming to change the way Scotland thinks about food, and SUN more specifically, about bread. SUN SUN In this programme, Sheila Dillon visits the people behind SUN Breadshare, now based in Edinburgh. In the city's first SUN community run bakery, husband and wife team Debra Riddell SUN and Geoff Crowe, along with their son and a host of bakers SUN and volunteers sell bread made with simple ingredients, and SUN teach people how to make it. Could this be the key to SUN reconnecting Scottish people with Scottish food? SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Debra Riddell SUN Interviewed Guest: Geoff Crowe SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0638bq2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0638h03 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 In Search of the Black Mozart b05wy63w (Listen) SUN Episode 2 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 explores the remarkable life of SUN Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of a slave who ended up SUN being one of the finest violinists, composers and swordsman SUN in Europe. And he also led the first all black regiment SUN during the French Revolution against the King, whilst SUN teaching music to Marie Antoinette. SUN SUN Chi-chi also hears about the life of the child prodigy SUN violinist George Bridgetower who delighted all who heard him SUN included the Prince of Wales. He went on to play with SUN Beethoven and inspire him to write one of the most difficult SUN violin sonatas of the period. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b062n4nj (Listen) SUN Summer Garden Party SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the GQT Summer Garden Party from the SUN National Botanic Garden of Wales. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton. SUN SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b0649cm7 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about bravery in the line of SUN fire, how drug addiction affects a relationship, and what SUN kind of school a 9 year old with autism wants to go to. All SUN in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you 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 b0638hpl (Listen) SUN Tender Is the Night: A Romance, Episode 2 SUN SUN by F Scott Fitzgerald SUN Dramatised by Robin Brooks SUN SUN Episode Two SUN SUN Nicole Diver has had a breakdown and, together with her SUN husband Dick, she flees Paris. The events of the past are SUN beginning to take a toll on their marriage and only one of SUN them has the strength to survive. 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 Swanson: Laurie Brown SUN Baby: Anita Vettesse SUN Kathe: Anne Lacey SUN Caroline: Anne Lacey SUN Franz: Nick Underwood SUN Warren: Nick Underwood SUN Collis: 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 b0638hpn (Listen) SUN Virginia Baily - Early One Morning, Jacqueline Wilson on SUN What Katy Did SUN SUN Mega selling children's writer and former Children's SUN Laureate Jacqueline Wilson talks to Mariella Frostrup about SUN her new book - an updated version of the classic, What Katy SUN Did. SUN Virginia Baily's new novel, Early One Morning, is set in SUN Rome and shifts between the Second World War and the 1970s. SUN It tells the story of Chiara, who rescues a young Jewish boy SUN in 1943 and lives with the consequences of that moment for SUN the rest of her life. SUN SUN Producer: Nicola Holloway. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Jacqueline Wilson SUN Interviewed Guest: Virginia Baily SUN Producer: Nicola Holloway SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry in the Remaking b0638j4n (Listen) SUN Jacob Sam-La Rose and Zaffar Kunial 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 Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 Should Extremism Be a Crime? b062khlh (Listen) SUN John Ware investigates plans to counter the activities of SUN those classed as non-violent extremists. Glorifying SUN terrorism is already a crime. In future, expressing views SUN deemed contrary to British values could be illegal too. A SUN new bill would allow police to impose prevention orders SUN aimed at silencing those who preach an extremist message. SUN The law could be used to shut down the premises used to host SUN such speakers. It is part of the "muscular liberal" approach SUN set out by David Cameron in 2011. But does it risk SUN compromising the liberal values it is designed to protect? SUN SUN Producer: Chloe Hadjimatheou SUN Reporter: John Ware SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b06385hy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0638bq4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0638bq6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0638bq8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0638kgk (Listen) SUN Adrian Goldberg SUN SUN Adrian Goldberg chooses his BBC Radio highlights from the SUN past week. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0638kgm (Listen) SUN Adam is on the front foot, and Jolene has a plan for the SUN pub. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01c7lk6 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN SUN Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all SUN about words. SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and SUN comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat SUN star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and SUN Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. SUN SUN Gyles is the longest-serving wordsmith in Countdown's SUN Dictionary Corner and the author of numerous wordplay books. SUN But now it's time for him to encourage other people to show SUN off their knowledge of words and playfulness with language. SUN SUN Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. SUN There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, SUN new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus SUN the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful SUN words: the whole world of words in twenty-eight minutes. SUN SUN Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler SUN and buckfitches - the difference between French marbles, SUN French velvet and the French ache - hear the glorious poetry SUN of the English language, as practiced from writers varying SUN from William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice - and spend half an SUN hour laughing and learning with some of the finest SUN Wordaholics in the business. SUN SUN Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 19:45 A Pocketful of Rye b0638p8n (Listen) SUN Marsh Fever SUN SUN This is the final story in a series of three set in and SUN around Rye in East Sussex. SUN SUN Teresa Gallagher reads this beautiful tale of a young girl SUN who has been badly treated in the past and the result of SUN that treatment is lying sick before her. Believing that she SUN has the secret to his recovery she decides it is time to SUN make a claim on what is rightfully hers. SUN SUN Written by Alison Fisher SUN Producer: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Alison Fisher SUN Reader: Teresa Gallagher SUN Producer: Celia de Wolff SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b062ndjt (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for listener comment. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b062ndjr (Listen) SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0631nq3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0638fyz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0630p11 (Listen) SUN Free Movement: Britain's Burning EU debate SUN SUN Freedom of movement will be a key battleground in Britain's SUN crucial EU debate. It gives EU citizens the right to live SUN and work anywhere in the union and is praised by supporters SUN as boosting prosperity. But critics say it has created SUN unsustainable waves of mass migration and must be SUN restricted. So where does this policy actually come from, SUN and what does it mean in practice? Sonia Sodha discovers why SUN it has become such a crucial issue, and what's at stake as SUN Britain decides its European future. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby SUN Editor: Hugh Levinson SUN SUN (Photo credit: Getty Images) SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0638png (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0638pnj (Listen) SUN Agnes Poirier analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b062n1f7 (Listen) SUN Robert Carlyle, Pete Docter on Inside Out, Joseph Losey SUN SUN With Francine Stock SUN SUN The Full Monty and Trainspotting star Robert Carlyle SUN discusses the challenges of directing himself in The Legend SUN Of Barney Thomson and reveals which part of the job made him SUN want to stick a fork in his eye. SUN SUN Up director and producer Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera delve SUN into the mind of a 11 year old for their latest animation, SUN Inside Out, and discuss the research they conducted into SUN human emotions, and the surprising conclusions they came to. SUN SUN Joseph Losey, the director of The Servant and Modesty SUN Blaise, is remembered by his wife Patricia who tells SUN Francine what it was like on board Richard Burton and SUN Elizabeth Taylor's super-yacht. 'Mes Annees Avec Joseph SUN Losey' by Patricia Losey is available now, in French. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Carlyle SUN Interviewed Guest: Pete Docter SUN Interviewed Guest: Jonas Rivera SUN Interviewed Guest: Patricia Losey SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0638fyq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 JULY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0638bs0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b062kx4g (Listen) MON The colour black, Mixed-race people MON MON Black: the cultural and historical meaning of the darkest MON colour. From the 'little black dress' which epitomises chic, MON to its links to death, depression and evil, 'black' embodies MON many contrasting values. White Europeans exploited the MON negative associations of 'black' in enslaving millions of MON Africans whilst artists & designers have endlessly deployed MON the colour in their creative work. Laurie Taylor talks to MON John Harvey, Life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MON about his new book which explores how 'black' came to have MON such ambiguous and varied meanings. They're joined by MON Bidisha, the writer and broadcaster. MON MON Also, the last 20 years has seen a major growth in the MON number of people of mixed racial heritage. Miri Song, MON Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, talks MON about her research into the ways that multiracial parents MON with white partners talk to their their children about race MON and identity. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0638cy6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0638bs4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0638bs6 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0638bs9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0638bsd (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0638ryb (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Angela MON Graham. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0638ryd (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0638bsg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x457w (Listen) MON Grey Partridge 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 Bill Oddie presents the Grey partridge. The grey partridge, MON a plump game bird, is now a rarity across most of the UK. MON Found on farmland, a partridge pair will often hold MON territory in a few fields beyond which they seldom stray MON during their whole lives. They should be doing well but MON increasing field sizes, which reduce nesting cover and the MON use of pesticides, which kill off vital insects, have taken MON their toll. MON MON Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b0638xbb (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 b0638xbd (Listen) MON Series 3, Clare Short 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 MON their formative influences and experiences, and the impact MON on their lives of people they have known. MON MON In the final programme of this series, Clare Short, the MON former International Development Secretary, discusses how MON her values reflect her Catholic upbringing in Birmingham and MON her father's sense of injustice at Britain's treatment of MON Ireland. After university, she joined the civil service, but MON her policy work at the Home Office prompted her to enter MON politics instead of continuing to advise others. MON MON She became MP for Birmingham Ladywood in 1983 and courted MON controversy by criticising Alan Clark, then an employment MON minister, for being incapable in the Commons, and also by MON calling for a ban on Page 3 pin-ups. After Labour's 1992 MON defeat, she was appointed Shadow Minister for Women by John MON Smith, the Labour Leader, and was instrumental in seeing MON that Labour adopted more women as parliamentary candidates. MON MON After Tony Blair appointed her to the Cabinet in 1997 as MON International Development Secretary, she played an important MON role in establishing the UN's Millennium Development Goals MON on tackling extreme poverty and achieving basic human MON rights. However, she later disagreed with Blair over the MON Iraq war, and after resigning from the Cabinet in May 2003 MON she criticised the absence of proper debate and democratic MON process in Blair's government. MON MON Clare Short resigned the Labour whip in 2006 and sat as an MON independent MP until 2010. She continues to work on global MON development, including the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the MON urbanisation of the poor, and humanitarian issues. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b063n3sw (Listen) MON Long Time No See, Episode 1 MON MON The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her MON Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her MON childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death MON and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his MON childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met MON her mother. MON MON Episode 1: MON Jamaica, 1935: a young boy is repeatedly beaten by his MON Chinese father. Both man and boy are drawn to the throw of MON the dice. Decades later, a young woman in Ilford mourns the MON death of her gambling father. MON MON Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined MON sections of Chick's life read by Colin Salmon. MON MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Hannah Lowe MON Author: Hannah Lowe MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0638xbj (Listen) MON The programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0638xbl (Listen) MON Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian MON Revolutionary, Episode 1 MON MON Writing the Century explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people. MON MON Set in 1930's Calcutta 'Letters from a Young Indian MON Revolutionary' is the true story of Tanika Gupta's great MON uncle Dinesh Gupta and his resistance to British Colonial MON rule based on the letters he wrote while imprisoned in MON Alipore Jail and his brother Pritish Gupta's journals. MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON Credits MON Dinesh: Ameet Chana MON Kamala: Archie Panjabi MON Older Pritish: Vincent Ebrahim MON Young Pritish: Sagar Arya MON Badal: Chris Nayak MON Writer: Tanika Gupta MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b0639gxq (Listen) MON BF Skinner and Superstition in the Pigeon MON MON Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series MON which examines the work of the people who have changed our MON understanding of the human mind. This week she explores the MON legacy of BF Skinner and Behaviourism. One of the most MON famous psychologists of the 20th century, by applying to MON human learning the theory he developed through animal MON studies, he became one of the most controversial. MON MON Claudia is shown round his study by his daughter, Julie MON Vargas; remaining much as it was when he died in 1990, it is MON full of quirky, Heath-Robinson-type, home-made gadgets, MON evidence of Skinner's practicality and ingenuity. They MON reveal another side to the man famous for his operant MON conditioning experiments with rats and pigeons, and infamous MON for his template for what some have described as a MON totalitarian state, in his book 'Beyond Freedom and MON Dignity'. MON MON Claudia also meets his younger daughter, Deborah Buzan, and MON explodes the myth that she was raised in one of Skinner's MON experimental 'boxes'. MON MON She hears more about the man and his work from Richard MON McNally at Harvard, and Gordon Bower and Lee Ross of MON Stanford University. MON MON Producer: Marya Burgess. MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b0639gxs (Listen) MON Series 2, All Change MON MON It's January in Hilary Lyon's Secrets and Lattes - and time MON to beat the post-festive blues. MON MON Hilary Maclean and Hilary Lyon star as sisters Trisha and MON Clare who run Cafe Culture in Edinburgh's leafy Bruntsfield. MON Trisha is on a single-minded start-of-the-year health kick MON while trying to get over yet another breakup with her MON long-distance lover Richard (Roger May), and Clare is MON desperate for a business project to get over her crush on MON sexually-ambivalent chef Callum (Derek Riddell). MON MON Trisha and Clare find they have distinctly different ideas MON about hosting a Burns Supper, trainee chef and recovering MON kleptomaniac Lizzie (Pearl Appleby) makes a new friend, and MON everybody parties in true Rabbie Burns' spirit until an MON unexpected guest makes for a dramatic turn of events. 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 Callum: Derek Riddell MON Lizzie: Pearl Appleby MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Moray Hunter MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON MON 12:00 News Summary b0638bsj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 A History of Ideas b0639gxv (Listen) MON What Is Love? 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 'What is Love?'. MON MON Helping him answer it are theologian Giles Fraser, writer MON Lisa Appignanesi, classicist Edith Hall and psychotherapist MON Mark Vernon. MON MON For the rest of the week Giles, Lisa, Edith and Mark will MON take us further into the history of ideas about love with MON programmes of their own. Between them they will examine MON Freud's ideas on erotic love, Jesus and altruism, the first MON guidance on how to be a loving parent, by Rousseau and MON Aristophanes' speech which explains how love was born. MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b0639gxx (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0638bsl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0639gxz (Listen) MON Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by MON Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 The New Economy: Does Sharing Mean Caring? b063n3sy (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Tim Samuels explores the sharing economy. In this first MON programme, he looks at accommodation. MON MON If necessity does wonders for invention, then it makes sense MON that the sharing economy was born during the recession. As MON we tightened our belts, those possessions gathering dust - MON and skills going untapped - looked less like clutter, and MON more like a way of earning a few quid. MON MON The spare room in a flat, the extra seat in the car, an idle MON hedge-trimmer gathering cobwebs could earn some extra cash. MON MON From this seed, a whole sector has grown at a dizzying pace MON - propelled by some serious venture capital that smelt the MON potential to commercialise our natural, sociable instincts. MON MON A gift economy has been around since food and resources were MON shared among families, neighbours, and friends. But MON technology has advanced it further and there's now an array MON of new companies with shiny logos and mantras to match. Tim MON Samuels asks who wins and who loses in this new economy. MON MON The Government has set out their ambition for the UK to MON become a global hub for the sharing economy but, in doing MON so, will this sector merely morph into traditional big MON business in all but name? MON MON Tim speaks to business owners and consumers as we ask MON whether we need to rethink governance in this shared future. MON MON Over five episodes Tim asks whether sharing means caring. MON MON Producer: Barney Rowntree MON A Tonic Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0638kgm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0383lf2 (Listen) MON Watch Me MON MON By Sarah Woods. MON MON A love story about the power of mirror neurons. MON MON Anja works in advertising, Rhys is a single dad. Their fates MON collide at a focus group, in which Rhys takes exception to MON Anja's baby food campaign. Both have their reasons to resist MON falling in love, but their brains have other ideas. MON MON Anja and Rhys's love story is told from a neurological MON perspective, by neuroscientist Christian Keysers. It's the MON story of two individuals whose brains begin to 'mirror' each MON other as they gradually fall in love. As Christian says it's MON "...not so much an exchange of information as two brains MON becoming one." MON MON Author of 'The Empathic Brain', Christian is Head of the MON Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute for MON Neurosciences. He seeks to understand how, as social MON animals, our brains mirror those of other people, so that MON understanding others is not an effort of explicit thought MON but an intuitive sharing of emotions, sensations and MON actions. MON MON Directed by James Robinson MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production. MON MON Credits MON Anja: Sarah Smart MON Rhys: Alun Raglan MON Lucy: Amaka Okafor MON Rob: Simon Ludders MON Woman: Claire Cage MON Narrator: Christian Keysers MON Writer: Sarah Woods MON Director: James Robinson MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b0639jp4 (Listen) MON Series 29, Heat 8, 2015 MON MON (8/13) MON Everything from cats in classical music to the hits of Queen MON is on offer to the competitors in the ultimate quiz for MON music lovers, which reaches its eighth heat of the 2015 MON series. MON MON Paul Gambaccini puts questions on every imaginable musical MON style and era to this week's trio of contestants. At stake MON is another of the places in this year's semi-finals. MON MON As always, as well as answering general knowledge music MON questions, they'll have to pick a musical topic in which to MON specialise, with no prior warning of the choices and no MON chance whatsoever to prepare. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0638gpx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b0639jp6 (Listen) MON Paddy Ashdown MON MON Paddy Ashdown reads from his favourite works of poetry and MON prose at home in Somerset, with readings by Simon Armstrong MON and Pippa Haywood, including Shakespeare, John Donne, Tagore MON and Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Music and MON verse provided by singer songwriter, Steve Knightley from MON Show of Hands MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON Extracts used MON MON MON MON The Good Morrow by John Donne MON MON Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare MON MON Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen MON MON The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides MON (translated by Rex Warner) MON MON The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle MON A Letter from 1920 by Ivo Andric MON (translated by Lenore Grenoble) MON MON Unity in Diversity by Rabindranath Tagore MON The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 MON by MON Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn MON (translated by Thomas P. Whitney) MON MON Satire III by John Donne MON MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Paddy Ashdown MON Reader: Simon Armstrong MON Reader: Pippa Hayward MON Producer: Maggie Ayre MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0639jp8 (Listen) MON Series 12, The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: San Francisco MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage in San Francisco MON for the last of their USA specials. They talk alien MON visitations, UFOs and other close encounters with astronomer MON Dr Seth Shostack, NASA scientist Dr Carolyn Porco, and MON comedians Greg Proops and Paul Provenza. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b0639jpb (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0638bsn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0639jpd (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit MON to the Alban Arena in St Albans. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Omid Djalili, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON provides piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is MON 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: Omid Djalili MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0639jpg (Listen) MON Ian gets an interesting offer, and Charlie faces a MON conundrum. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0639jpj (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0638xbl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Night Shift b0639jpl (Listen) MON Sarah Montague, in the company of two fellow night-workers, MON investigates how working when most people are sleeping MON affects our bodies. MON MON "The assumption has always been that our bodies adapt to the MON nightshift," says Professor Russell Foster. "But now MON neuroscience is beginning to unravel the fundamental MON mechanism of sleep ... and the extraordinary finding is that MON we don't adapt." MON MON If the body clock is disrupted, Sarah discovers, our organs MON don't function properly and we can't control our metabolism. MON There's evidence to suggest that nightshift workers have a MON higher incidence of diabetes, heart disease and some MON cancers. MON MON We follow Sarah and the night-workers through their shifts MON as they attempt to carry out their normal duties but MON struggle with tiredness and poor concentration. MON MON In the US there are several class action suits by nightshift MON workers who accuse their employers of damaging their health. MON The Danish government has paid compensation to night-workers MON who developed breast cancer. Many argue that similar demands MON are bound to arise in the UK. MON MON We hear how some companies are "chronotyping" their staff - MON finding out whether they're a lark or an owl - before MON scheduling their shifts. And we find out that millions are MON being spent on drugs which could allow us to turn on and off MON a sleep "switch". MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Adele Armstrong MON Editor: Richard Knight. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b062mxfj (Listen) MON South Africa Unplugged MON MON South Africa is in crisis as the national electricity MON generator, Eskom, struggles to provide an adequate power MON supply and rolling blackouts hit the country on a regular MON basis. As Neal Razzell reports, there's now concern that MON jobs and growth are at risk from the power cuts, and the MON ruling ANC - which blames the problem on inheriting an MON apartheid-era network designed only for the white population MON - stands accused of complacency and incompetence. MON MON Michael Gallagher producing. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5t (Listen) MON Coral MON MON Coral can take on many forms from branching, tree like MON structures to flat table tops. They are colourful and MON bright, often described as underwater gardens. Yet they are MON double edged beauties. MON MON Their ragged structure tore the hulls from wooden ships, MON causing the death of many sailors. Poisonous fish lurk MON amidst the beauty and sharks patrol the edges. MON MON Charles Darwin's ship The Beagle had the task of mapping MON coral reefs, so dangerous were they to shipping, and they MON formed the topic of his first book. Darwin couldn't see the MON reefs underwater, but he still managed to work out how they MON formed, leaping from top to top with the aid of a "leaping MON stick". MON MON Coral has entered our literature with tales of paradise MON islands, from Ballantyne's The Coral Island in the 19th MON century, where three young boys create paradise, to the flip MON side in Golding's Lord of the Flies. Paradise though was MON shattered between 1946 and 1958. This was the dawn of the MON nuclear age when deep wells were sunk into tropical reefs in MON the Pacific and bombs detonated. But it was the drilling MON cores that proved Darwin was right, over 100 years after he MON proposed his theory. MON MON More recently coral reefs were the setting for the film MON Finding Nemo, a film so popular it set off a craze for clown MON fish as pets, causing real concern for the future of clown MON fish on many tropical reefs. According to National MON Geographic, demand for clown fish in aquaria tripled after MON the film was released. In response to the concern some MON aquarium owners decided to release their fish back into the MON wild, but unfortunately in the wrong place, causing the MON clown fish to become an invasive alien species. MON MON Such is the tangled web we humans weave! MON MON But no matter the reality, we seem to crave the vision of MON paradise that coral reefs provide. They will always be MON glorious places in our hearts and minds. MON MON Dr Kenneth Johnson MON Dr Kenneth Johnson is Coral Reef Researcher at the MON Natural History Museum MON He researches the history of corals and coral reefs as they MON respond to environmental change over time scales ranging MON from decades to millions of years. MON He has collected new data from modern and fossil coral reefs MON in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia to constrain future MON modes of change in reef ecosystems as they respond to MON accelerating human impacts. MON Ken has published more than 50 research papers in major MON scientific journals including Science, Geology, Bioscience, MON Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Coral MON Reefs. MON MON MON Jason DeCaires Taylor MON In 2006, MON Jason DeCaires Taylor MON founded and created the MON world’s first underwater sculpture park MON Situated off the west coast of Grenada in the West Indies it MON is now listed as one of the Top 25 Wonders of the World by MON National Geographic MON and was instrumental in the creation of a MON National Marine Protected Area MON by the local Government. MON Following on in 2009 he co-founded MON Museo Subacuático de Arte MON a museum with a collection of over 500 of his sculptural MON works, submerged off the coast of Cancun, Mexico. MON Taylor’s art is a paradox of creation, constructed to be MON assimilated by the ocean and transformed from inert objects MON into living breathing coral reefs, portraying human MON intervention as both positive and life-encouraging. MON MON MON Dr Erica Hendy MON Dr Erica Hendy is MON lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles MON at the University of Bristol, crossing the disciplines of MON biology, geology and chemistry in the study of coral reefs. MON She specialises in documenting past climates and MON environments, and identifying how the ecosystem responds. MON Much of this information is recorded in the skeletons of MON massive coral colonies. MON MON Professor Ralph Pite MON Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the MON University of Bristol. His research is focused on the MON Romantic period MON Thomas Hardy MON ecocriticism MON and 20th-century poetry. MON He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost MON and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three MON years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. MON Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the MON simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call MON sustainable. MON MON 21:30 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b0638xbd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0638bsq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0639jsg (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0639k87 (Listen) MON The Mark and the Void, Episode 1 MON MON What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel MON called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named MON after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, MON a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an MON ex-KGB man? You guessed it... MON MON The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of MON institutional folly, following the success of his wildly MON original Skippy Dies. MON MON While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp MON and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is MON approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for MON his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets MON steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing MON influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. MON But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, MON even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on MON Claude's side at all? MON MON The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the MON deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and MON commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever MON written about a financial crisis. MON MON Abridged by Sara Davies. MON MON Produced by Jenny Thompson. MON MON Read by Peter Serafinowicz. MON MON Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Peter Serafinowicz MON Author: Paul Murray MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Jenny Thompson MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b05qgch3 (Listen) MON Series 7, Heartsong MON MON From the first touch to the last kiss, Josie Long hears MON stories of love, loss and finding yourself. MON MON An audio diary shines a light on how we rebuild ourselves MON after the end of a relationship, a final kiss in a love MON affair holds us in a moment crackling with tension, and a MON first touch offers a moment of tenderness. MON MON Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON The items featured in today's programme are: MON MON A Kiss MON Produced by Kaitlin Prest with music by Kyle Kaplan MON Editorial support from the School of Making Thinking, and MON Terrence Pender and Mitra Kaboli. MON Originally aired on Radiotopia's The Heart. MON http://www.theheartradio.org/ MON MON Edith's Passport MON Produced by Eloise Stevens with music by Raphaella MON Cello played by George Cooke MON MON When Will This End? MON Produced by Sally Herships with Carolyn Lenske MON MON Prepared to Love MON Feat. Adrian Howells MON Produced by Karl James MON Originally aired on The Dialogue Project MON You can hear the story in it's entirety here: MON http://understandingdifference.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/prepar MON d-to-love.html. MON MON 23:30 Shared Experience b05vy5nv (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON A new series of Shared Experience begins with a listener who MON responded after hearing the programme in which four mothers MON talked about the pain of leaving their children. Daniel got MON in touch wanting to talk about his own experience of being MON left by his mother at the age of ten. He talks to Fi Glover MON and meets Sam, the Mum from the original programme who left MON her daughter while she battled addiction. What takes place MON is a painfully honest discussion about the emotional damage MON Daniel and Sam's daughter suffered. MON MON Producer: Maggie Ayre. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 JULY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0638btp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b063n3sw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0638btr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0638btt (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0638btw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0638bty (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0639kgy (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Angela TUE Graham. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0639kh0 (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 b03x458y (Listen) TUE Great Crested Grebe 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 Bill Oddie presents the great crested grebe. In Spring, TUE great crested grebes perform a high ritualized mating TUE display. This includes head shaking and a spectacular TUE performance during which both male and female birds gather TUE bunches of waterweed and as they swim towards each other, TUE before rising vertically in the water, chest to chest, and TUE paddling furiously to keep themselves upright. TUE TUE Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0639kzs (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b0639kzv (Listen) TUE EO Wilson TUE TUE E O Wilson has been described as the "world's most evolved TUE biologist" and even as "the heir to Darwin". He's a TUE passionate naturalist and an absolute world authority on TUE ants. Over his long career he's described 450 new species of TUE ants. TUE TUE Known to many as the founding father of socio-biology, E O TUE Wilson is a big hitter in the world of evolutionary theory. TUE But, recently he's criticised what's popularly known as The TUE Selfish Gene theory of evolution that he once worked so hard TUE to promote (and that now underpins the mainstream view on TUE evolution). TUE TUE A twice Pulitzer prize winning author of more than 20 books, TUE he's also an extremely active campaigner for the TUE preservation of the planet's bio-diversity: he says, TUE "destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a TUE Renaissance painting to cook a meal". TUE TUE E O Wilson talks to Jim al-Khalili about his life TUE scientific. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0639kzx (Listen) TUE Adrian Chiles speaks to Larissa Pelham TUE TUE Adrian Chiles talks to Larissa Pelham, Head of Emergency TUE Food Security and Livelihoods for Oxfam, about how charities TUE seek to eradicate malnourishment in the Third World, by TUE working with local food producers. TUE TUE It's well known that TV and radio presenter Adrian Chiles TUE loves football. What's less well known is his real passion: TUE food, both eating and cooking it. Adrian believes in the TUE power of food to change lives, to improve society and to TUE bring people together. TUE TUE At this year's Bristol Food Connections festival, he TUE recorded two editions of One to One in front of an audience TUE with guests who have extraordinary life changing food TUE stories to tell. TUE TUE Larissa Pelham has spent most of her career trying to ensure TUE that all people, at all times, have physical and economic TUE access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food, that's the TUE definition of food security, but she explains the TUE difficulties of doing this in areas of political unrest or TUE natural disaster. TUE TUE She also discusses with Adrian the effect her work has had TUE on her own attitude to food and eating. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b063n58m (Listen) TUE Long Time No See, Episode 2 TUE TUE The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her TUE Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her TUE childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death TUE and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his TUE childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met TUE her mother. TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE 'Mum, am I half-caste ?' The author's parents were an TUE unlikely combination - her mother a white, English teacher TUE from Essex, and her father, twenty-three years older, an TUE immigrant gambler from Jamaica. TUE TUE Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined TUE sections of Chick's life read by Colin Salmon. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Hannah Lowe TUE Author: Hannah Lowe TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0639kzz (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 b0639msr (Listen) TUE Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian TUE Revolutionary, Episode 2 TUE TUE Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary by Tanika Gupta TUE TUE Set in 1930's Calcutta and based on letters and diary TUE entries this is the true story of Tanika Gupta's great uncle TUE Dinesh Gupta and his resistance to British Colonial rule. TUE TUE Unbeknown to his family Dinesh has decided to embark on a TUE violent course of action. TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE Credits TUE Dinesh: Ameet Chana TUE Older Pritish: Vincent Ebrahim TUE Young Pritish: Sagar Arya TUE Badal: Chris Nayak TUE Swann: Stephen Hogan TUE Simpson: Stephen Hogan TUE Binoy: Nicholas Khan TUE Writer: Tanika Gupta TUE Director: Nadia Molinari TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9b6j (Listen) TUE Dinosaurs TUE TUE Our collective imaginations go wild at the thought of TUE lumbering, ferocious beasts that were so powerful they once TUE ruled the earth. T Rex scares us witless and diplodocus was TUE an astonishing creature of breath taking proportions. It is TUE no wonder then that dinosaur books, especially for children, TUE appeared in the early nineteenth century and are still TUE flying of the shelves today. TUE TUE Dinosaur exhibitions always draw throngs of people. From the TUE Crystal Palace dinosaurs in London built in the mid 19th TUE Century to the wonderful animatronic models in today's TUE modern museums, these ancient beasts speak to us of a TUE different planet earth, lost in deep time, gone for ever. TUE Yet they have left us bones and teeth that are still TUE revealing amazing facts. Recent science shows most dinosaurs TUE were not cold bloodied reptiles but warm blooded, feathered TUE and colourful. They lived for 160 million years, occupying a TUE warm humid planet rich in vegetation. TUE TUE When we use the world 'dinosaur' we mean it as a derogatory TUE term for someone who can't adapt but nothing could be TUE further from the truth. These were supreme rulers that were TUE brought down by an Act of God that defies imagination. So TUE huge was the impact of the meteorite that the earth went TUE cold and dark. Dinosaurs though will never leave us, we will TUE take them with us into the future, in our stories, films and TUE science and we will learn from their old bones ever more TUE details about life on earth, and how even the most TUE successful creatures on earth are, in reality, so fragile. TUE TUE Professor Paul Barrett TUE Professor Paul Barrett is a world-leading expert on the TUE evolution and biology of dinosaurs and other extinct TUE reptiles and has published more than 100 scientific papers TUE and books. He joined the TUE Natural History Museum TUE in 2003 and is a Merit Researcher in the Department of Earth TUE Sciences and Head of Division for Fossil Vertebrates, TUE Anthropology and Micropalaeontology. Prior to this he held TUE academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge and TUE Oxford. TUE His main areas of interest are in TUE the biology of plant-eating dinosaurs TUE describing new dinosaurs, and in large-scale evolutionary TUE processes, such as the coevolution of animals and plants TUE through time. TUE During the course of this work, he has travelled extensively TUE to work on museum collections around the world and conducted TUE fieldwork in China, the UK and South Africa. He is currently TUE President of the TUE Palaeontographical Society TUE holds numerous editorial positions and sits on the councils TUE and committees of several learned societies. TUE Twitter: TUE @NHMdinolab TUE TUE Professor Mike Benton TUE Michael Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at TUE the TUE University of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences TUE He was elected TUE Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014 TUE for his fundamental contributions to understanding the TUE history of life, particularly biodiversity fluctuations TUE through time. He has led in integrating data from living and TUE fossil organisms to generate phylogenies – solutions to the TUE question of how major groups originated and diversified TUE through time. TUE This approach has revolutionised our understanding of major TUE questions, including the relative roles of intrinsic and TUE extrinsic factors on the history of life, whether diversity TUE reaches saturation, the significance of mass extinctions, TUE and how major clades radiate. TUE TUE Dr Kelvin Corlett TUE Dr Kelvin Corlett is a lexicographer and senior assistant TUE editor at the TUE Oxford English Dictionary TUE which he joined shortly after completing a PhD in TUE mathematics at the University of East Anglia. TUE Specialising in scientific vocabulary, he is part of the TUE editorial team currently working on the ongoing project to TUE completely revise the OED. TUE TUE Melanie Keene TUE Melanie Keene is a TUE historian of science at Homerton College, Cambridge TUE where she also acts as Graduate Tutor. She has written TUE widely on the history of science for children; on scientific TUE books and objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth TUE centuries, and on topics from candlesand pebbles to board TUE games, toy sets, and model dinosaurs. TUE She is the author of TUE Science in Wonderland: the scientific fairy tales of TUE Victorian TUE Britain TUE TUE Adrienne Mayor TUE Adrienne Mayor is an independent folklorist/historian of TUE science who investigates natural knowledge contained in TUE pre-scientific myths and oral traditions. Her research looks TUE at ancient "folk science" precursors, alternatives, and TUE parallels to modern scientific methods. TUE Her two books on pre-Darwinian fossil traditions in TUE classical antiquity and in Native America; TUE Fossil Legends of the First Americans TUE and TUE The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman TUE Times TUE have opened up a new field within geomythology. TUE Twitter: TUE @amayor TUE TUE Professor John O'Maoilearca TUE John Ó Maoilearca is Professor of Film and Television TUE Studies at Kingston University, London. He has published 10 TUE books, including (as author) Bergson and Philosophy, TUE Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline, Philosophy and the TUE Moving Image: Refractions of Reality, and as editor Laruelle TUE and Non-Philosophy and The Bloomsbury Companion to TUE Continental Philosophy . TUE His latest book – on animals, cinema, and philosophy – is TUE entitled TUE All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy TUE . TUE TUE 11:30 The Great Songbook b0639mst (Listen) TUE Ireland TUE TUE Everyone has heard of the Great American Songbook. In this TUE series Cerys Matthews explores the songbooks of other TUE countries. TUE TUE Today: Dublin, where Cerys discusses the musical heart of TUE the nation, seeks recommendations from a panel of experts TUE and pieces together her own Great Irish Songbook. TUE TUE Featuring musician and broadcaster Fiachna Ó Braonáin, TUE singer and song researcher Jerry O'Reilly, and cultural TUE historian Gerry Smyth. Recorded live at Whelans in Dublin. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b0638bv0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 A History of Ideas b0639msw (Listen) TUE Classicist Edith Hall on Aristophanes in Plato TUE TUE In 416BC the Greek playwright Aristophanes went to a TUE drinking party. The guests included many famous Athenians, TUE including Socrates, and all of them delivered a speech about TUE love. Aristophanes' speech, says presenter Edith Hall, is TUE 'quite simply the most charming account of why humans need a TUE love partner, another half, in world literature.' TUE In the beginning, he says, humans had two bodies - four TUE legs, four arms. These early humans wheeled around the TUE planet doing cartwheels and were blissfully happy. Then they TUE offended the gods who split them in two. This explains why TUE we are always looking for our other half. TUE This speech appears in Plato's Symposium. Edith's programme TUE also features matchmaker Mary Balfour who shares some of her TUE own experience about the search for love; while Edith TUE explains her belief that the absence of love begins with the TUE primal separation of mother and child. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b0639v9d (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0638bv2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0639vpn (Listen) TUE Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by TUE Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 The New Economy: Does Sharing Mean Caring? b063n58p (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Tim Samuels explores the sharing economy. In this second TUE programme, he looks at services. TUE TUE If necessity does wonders for invention, then it makes sense TUE that the sharing economy was born during the recession. As TUE we tightened our belts, those possessions gathering dust - TUE and skills going untapped - looked less like clutter, and TUE more like a way of earning a few quid. TUE TUE The spare room in a flat, the extra seat in the car, an idle TUE hedge-trimmer gathering cobwebs could earn some extra cash. TUE TUE From this seed, a whole sector has grown at a dizzying pace TUE - propelled by some serious venture capital that smelt the TUE potential to commercialise our natural, sociable instincts. TUE TUE A gift economy has been around since food and resources were TUE shared among families, neighbours, and friends. But TUE technology has advanced it further and there's now an array TUE of new companies with shiny logos and mantras to match. Tim TUE Samuels asks who wins and who loses in this new economy. TUE TUE The Government has set out their ambition for the UK to TUE become a global hub for the sharing economy but, in doing TUE so, will this sector merely morph into traditional big TUE business in all but name? TUE TUE Tim speaks to business owners and consumers as we ask TUE whether we need to rethink governance in this shared future. TUE TUE Over five episodes Tim asks whether sharing means caring. TUE TUE Producer: Barney Rowntree TUE A Tonic Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0639jpg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b0639vpq (Listen) TUE Pact of Silence TUE TUE Set during the brutal dictatorship of the late 1970s in TUE Argentina, a young woman's life is turned upside down when TUE she is confronted with the shocking truth about her origins. TUE TUE "If you were born between 1975 and 1980 and have doubts TUE about your identity - if you think you might not be who they TUE say you are, contact the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo." TUE TUE This is an advertisement that has appeared in Argentine TUE newspapers since 1997. TUE TUE In 1976, the dictatorship in Argentina tortured and killed TUE up to 30,000 people. Pregnant women were kept alive until TUE they gave birth and their babies given to childless military TUE families to bring up as their own. TUE TUE For the past four decades, the Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo TUE in Argentina have campaigned for those responsible to be TUE brought to justice and to find out the fate of their TUE children and the whereabouts of five hundred children stolen TUE from their families during the military regime. The TUE Grandmothers' mission is to identify these now grown up TUE children and reunite them with their biological families. TUE TUE A Pact of Silence tells the story of Mariana, a young woman TUE who has been identified by the Grandmothers as one of these TUE kidnapped children, and the anguish she experiences as she TUE comes to realise that her beloved adoptive father might have TUE had a significant role to play in the disappearance of her TUE birth parents. TUE TUE Produced by Natasha Dack TUE A Tigerlily production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Producer: Natasha Dack TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0639vps (Listen) TUE Popular history series. TUE TUE 15:30 Flexagon Radio b0639vpv (Listen) TUE James Rhodes TUE TUE A series which encourages guests to "think with the heart TUE and feel with the intellect." In this second programme, TUE Murray Lachlan Young invites concert pianist James Rhodes to TUE combine his favourite sounds and his most passionately held TUE ideas in unexpected ways, by feeding them into an electronic TUE device called 'The Flexagon'. TUE TUE Murray has not prepared an interview but, instead, he and TUE James 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 The sounds on James' list include the hubbub of concert TUE audiences arriving and chatting before a performance, a TUE Zippo cigarette lighter, the flicking of light switches, and TUE Chopin's Polonaise-Fantaisie. These, and James's other TUE sounds, are flexed together with audio suggested by his TUE passion for music education. TUE TUE The result is unpredictable but leads to surprising TUE conversation and some unexpected improvisation on the grand TUE piano at which James and Murray sit together in studio. 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 b0639w3v (Listen) TUE In the 1940s and 50s, as technology raced forwards and the TUE Cold War intensified, many states came to rely on encryption TUE machines to keep their secrets safe. TUE TUE But what if a leading code-machine company gave the US TUE National Security Agency secret access to their best TUE machines - machines they were selling to states across the TUE world? TUE TUE Gordon Corera reveals new evidence of a secret deal, and TUE examines its implications at the height of the Cold War. TUE TUE PRODUCER: PHIL TINLINE. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0639w3x (Listen) TUE Mark Haddon and Miriam Margolyes TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by actress Miriam Margolyes and TUE writer Mark Haddon to discuss favourite books, including TUE 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, 'Breakfast at TUE Tiffany's' by Truman Capote and 'To the Lighthouse' by TUE Virginia Woolf. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Miriam Margolyes TUE Interviewed Guest: Mark Haddon TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0639w3z (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0638bv4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b0639w41 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE TUE Which particular football match is Elis James obsessed with? TUE What's Penny Smith's worst habit? What was the worst thing TUE Russell Grant did as a child? TUE TUE All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in TUE the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested TUE on how well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE TUE In this case, comedian Elis James picks his radio show TUE co-host, presenter Penny Smith picks her brother-in-law and TUE astrologer Russell Grant picks his mum. TUE TUE Producer: Matt Stronge. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Miles Jupp TUE Panellist: Elis James TUE Panellist: Penny Smith TUE Panellist: Russell Grant TUE Producer: Matt Stronge TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0639w43 (Listen) TUE Brian takes some advice, and Pip plays it cool. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0639w45 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0639msr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 HSBC, Muslims and Me b0639w47 (Listen) TUE In the summer of 2014 HSBC dispatched a batch of identical TUE letters to several prominent Muslims telling them that their TUE accounts would be closed. The bank said that it no longer TUE had the "risk appetite" to handle their money. But it failed TUE to explain why or to offer a right of appeal. So what TUE happened? TUE TUE Pursuing this story led journalist Peter Oborne to resign TUE his job as Chief Political commentator of the Daily TUE Telegraph: the paper had refused to publish an article he TUE had written which was critical of HSBC's decision. TUE TUE Footloose and temporarily freelance, Oborne embarked on an TUE intriguing journey to discover the cause of the bank's TUE decision. Were the Muslims targeted by mistake or were they TUE targeted because they are Muslims? Was Peter naive to think TUE the accounts would be closed without good reason? And, given TUE the fact that many of those cut off by the bank had links to TUE the Muslim Brotherhood, could the HSBC's actions have TUE anything to do with David Cameron's announcement of a TUE government review of this Islamist network? TUE TUE Oborne is shocked when he finds out the truth. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Meisel TUE Presenter: Peter Oborne. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0639w49 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b0639w4c (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b0639kzv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0638bv6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0639w4f (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0639w9l (Listen) TUE The Mark and the Void, Episode 2 TUE TUE What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel TUE called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named TUE after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, TUE a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an TUE ex-KGB man? You guessed it... TUE TUE The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of TUE institutional folly, following the success of his wildly TUE original Skippy Dies. TUE TUE While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp TUE and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is TUE approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for TUE his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets TUE steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing TUE influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. TUE But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, TUE even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on TUE Claude's side at all? TUE TUE The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the TUE deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and TUE commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever TUE written about a financial crisis. TUE TUE Abridged by Sara Davies. TUE TUE Produced by Jenny Thompson. TUE TUE Read by Peter Serafinowicz. TUE TUE Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Peter Serafinowicz TUE Author: Paul Murray TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Jenny Thompson TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0639jp8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Shared Experience b05wy646 (Listen) TUE Series 3, After an Accident TUE TUE Life is going fantastically well and the world is full of TUE promise, and then it takes a dramatically different turn one TUE day when an accident changes things for ever. This happened TUE to the three guests in this week's programme - David broke TUE his neck diving into a shallow ocean pool in Australia, Sian TUE was hit by a taxi on holiday and Kelly suffered severe burns TUE and injuries to her leg following a car crash. Their TUE injuries were life changing. They share their experiences of TUE dealing with the after effects with each other and host Fi TUE Glover TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0638bw9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b063n58m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0638bwc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0638bwf (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0638bwh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0638bwk (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b064dcq9 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Angela WED Graham. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0639wcx (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45bg (Listen) WED Sand Martin 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 Bill Oddie presents the sand martin. The flickering shapes WED of sand martins over a lake or reservoir are a welcome sign WED of spring. After winging their way across the Sahara Desert, WED the first birds usually arrive in the UK in March. They're WED smaller than house martins or swallows, and they're brown WED above and white below with a brown band across their chest. WED Often you can hear their dry buzzing calls overhead before WED you see them. WED WED Sand martin (Riparia riparia) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b0639wwr (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b0639wwt (Listen) WED It was February 2011 when Giles Duley, an independent WED 39-year-old British photographer, was blown up by a landmine WED in Afghanistan. He became a triple amputee, losing his left WED arm and both legs. His life is a miracle - most soldiers WED with similar injuries do not survive. WED WED He was with the 1st Squadron of the 75th Cavalry Regiment of WED the US Army, a "small unit from the midwest", and studying WED the "huge impact" of war on soldiers. He was into his fourth WED week but not making much progress, when he turned to talk to WED an American soldier. All at once he felt "a click in my WED right leg" - the pressure plate that set off the landmine. WED "It is pretty instantaneous from click to explosion. And yet WED everything seemed to go into slow motion. I was tossed by WED the blast but there was not much noise - just bright, white, WED hot light. I remember seeing myself from outside my body. WED Not a religious experience but intense heat and fire and the WED strangely calm sense of flying through the air.". WED WED 09:30 Witness b0639www (Listen) WED Series looking at key events in history, featuring archive WED accounts from the people who were there. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b063n7m3 (Listen) WED Long Time No See, Episode 3 WED WED The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her WED Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her WED childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death WED and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his WED childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met WED her mother. WED WED Episode 3: WED In Jamaica, a mother rejects her son. Years later, in WED Ilford, a daughter disavows her father. But the pull of home WED remains almost as strong as the lure of rice and peas or the WED throw of the dice. WED WED Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined WED sections of Chick's life read by Colin Salmon. WED WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Hannah Lowe WED Author: Hannah Lowe WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0639wwy (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 b0639wx0 (Listen) WED Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian WED Revolutionary, Episode 3 WED WED Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary by Tanika Gupta WED part of Writing the Century: a drama series exploring the WED 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real WED people. WED WED Set in 1930's Calcutta and based on letters and diary WED entries this is the true story of Tanika Gupta's great uncle WED Dinesh Gupta and his resistance to British Colonial rule. WED WED Following the attack on the Writers' Building, Dinesh Gupta WED is incarcerated in a brutal prison regime awaiting trial. WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED Credits WED Dinesh: Ameet Chana WED Older Pritish: Vincent Ebrahim WED Young Pritish: Sagar Arya WED Kamala: Archie Panjabi WED Tegart: Jonathan Keeble WED Writer: Tanika Gupta WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b0639wx2 (Listen) WED Duncan and Paul - The Band Plays On WED WED Fi Glover with band members who have played together for WED decades in different bands. Even though they have still not WED known success, their commitment to music remains just as WED strong. Another in the series that proves it's surprising WED 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 Heads Up! The First Head Transplant b0639wx4 (Listen) WED Dr Sergio Canavero has a dream. He wants to perform the WED world's first human head transplant on severely disabled WED Valery Spiridonov by 2017. But he can't realise his dream to WED do this in the United States without a medical license. WED WED Presenter James Peak follows Dr Canavero to Annapolis, WED Maryland as he pitches his complex medical procedure to a WED conference of neurosurgeons. WED WED Is Dr Canavero a brilliant physician-visionary, years ahead WED of his time, or a rabid self-publicist? Is he an Einstein or WED a Frankenstein? WED WED Produced by James Peak WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b03c3dx7 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 6 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 final episode of the series looks at some pretty WED creative accounting; cross-examines an expert witness; and WED asks why it is that posh men's trousers are all the same WED colour. WED WED Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. WED Original music by Susannah Pearse. 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 b0638bwn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 A History of Ideas b0639wy3 (Listen) WED Theologian Giles Fraser on Altruism WED WED Giles Fraser discusses gene theory versus altruism with WED playwright Tom Stoppard whose play The Hard Problem explores WED the extent to which our genes dictate human acts of love and WED kindness, and Armand Leroi, the evolutionary biologist who WED says we are merely programmed to carry out altruistic acts. WED WED Producer: Maggie Ayre. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b0639wy5 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0638bwq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0639wy7 (Listen) WED Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by WED Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 The New Economy: Does Sharing Mean Caring? b063n7mb (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Tim Samuels explores the sharing economy. In this third WED programme, he looks at transport. WED WED If necessity does wonders for invention, then it makes sense WED that the sharing economy was born during the recession. As WED we tightened our belts, those possessions gathering dust - WED and skills going untapped - looked less like clutter, and WED more like a way of earning a few quid. WED WED The spare room in a flat, the extra seat in the car, an idle WED hedge-trimmer gathering cobwebs could earn some extra cash. WED WED From this seed, a whole sector has grown at a dizzying pace WED - propelled by some serious venture capital that smelt the WED potential to commercialise our natural, sociable instincts. WED WED A gift economy has been around since food and resources were WED shared among families, neighbours, and friends. But WED technology has advanced it further and there's now an array WED of new companies with shiny logos and mantras to match. Tim WED Samuels asks who wins and who loses in this new economy. WED WED The Government has set out their ambition for the UK to WED become a global hub for the sharing economy but, in doing WED so, will this sector merely morph into traditional big WED business in all but name? WED WED Tim speaks to business owners and consumers as we ask WED whether we need to rethink governance in this shared future. WED WED Over five episodes Tim asks whether sharing means caring. WED WED Producer: Barney Rowntree WED A Tonic Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0639w43 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04d4nhf (Listen) WED The Good Listener WED WED This authentic drama takes us inside the intelligence agency WED GCHQ, where agents are tracking three young British Muslims WED as they head for Syria. WED WED Henry Morcombe, an experienced GCHQ analyst, is tasked with WED establishing whether they intend to deliver humanitarian aid WED or join the armed conflict. He realises that there is more WED to this case than meets the eye when the team discovers the WED boys' true purpose in Syria. WED WED How to protect the public while keeping within legal and WED ethical boundaries is far from straightforward, and tensions WED emerge as the team responds to unfolding events. WED WED GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) has come WED under closer scrutiny in recent years and yet little is WED known about the operations of this highly secretive, but WED strategically essential, spy agency. The production team WED gained access to GCHQ during the making of the drama. The WED story and the characters presented here are fictional. WED WED Written by Fin Kennedy WED WED Story consultant: Kris Hollington WED Sound design: Alisdair McGregor WED WED Produced and directed by Boz Temple-Morris WED A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Henry: Owen Teale WED Jacqui: Pollyanna McIntosh WED Siddiq: Ashley Kumar WED Alison: Alison Newman WED David: Richard Maxted WED Gerry: Dominic Hawksley WED Khaled: Faraz Alauddin WED Zak: Ahmed Malik WED Abdul: Ali Malik WED Witness: Fin Kennedy WED Director: Boz Temple-Morris WED Producer: Boz Temple-Morris WED WED 15:00 Money Box b0631nq3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b0639w4c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0639xmq (Listen) WED Prison gangs in US, Millionaire children WED WED Prison gangs in the USA. Laurie Taylor talks to David WED Skarbek, Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy at WED King's College, London, about his research into the hidden WED world of convict culture, inmate hierarchy and jail WED politics. He finds sophisticated organisations, often with WED written constitutions, behind the popular image of chaotic WED violence. They're joined by Jane Wood, Senior Lecturer in WED Forensic Psychology at the University of Kent. WED WED Also, what would children do with an unexpected windfall of WED a million pounds? Sally Power, Professor of Education at WED Cardiff University, asked this question in order to explore WED children's values and priorities. Would they spend, save or WED give it away? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0639xnw (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0639xny (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0638bws (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b0639xp0 (Listen) WED Series 2, Sugar WED WED Comedian Simon Evans' new series about the economics of some WED of the goods - or bads - to which we're addicted. 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 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 sugar. Some people say sugar could be the new WED tobacco - exposed as a health risk that's been knowingly WED concealed for decades. And the trouble is sugar is in almost WED everything now - even things that 'look' savoury. What part WED does economics have to play in how we have got to this WED point? How do we make sense of what the food industry is WED doing with sugar? And if we want to invest in this WED addiction, how do we do it? WED With the help of economics guru, More Or Less host Tim WED Harford and the Queen of investment know-how, Merryn WED Somerset Webb, plus author David Gillespie, Simon walks us WED around the economics of this very familiar commodity and WED pokes fun at our relationship with it. WED Presented by Simon Evans, with regular guests Tim Harford WED 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: Tim Harford WED Interviewed Guest: Merryn Somerset Webb WED Interviewed Guest: David Gillespie WED Writer: Simon Evans WED Writer: Benjamin Partridge WED Writer: Andy Wolton WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0639xp2 (Listen) WED The Fairbrothers walk out the goslings, and David needs a WED plan of action. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0639xp4 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0639wx0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0639xsr (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Anne WED McElvoy and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0639xst (Listen) WED Passports for a Price WED WED Katy Long argues that we should think differently about WED citizenship. She compares how citizenship and passports are WED bought and sold, and explores the ethical implications. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Is Ignorance Bliss? b0639xsw (Listen) WED In an age where we are saturated with information are we WED ever better off just 'not knowing'? Could 'not knowing' WED improve our memory, enhance our learning and even making us WED happier? WED WED As someone who is occupationally immersed in information, WED author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera sets out to discover WED if ignorance really is bliss. WED WED Leading us gently through a journey of the 'unknown', WED Sathnam meets scientists and psychologists who are WED investigating the realms of ignorance. WED WED James Carse, Professor Emeritus at NYU has identified three WED types of ignorance - ordinary, wilful and higher, and says WED that this is a subject area he just can't resist talking WED about. Carse's research takes us back to a small group of WED medieval monks who dedicated their life to 'not knowing'. WED WED Jumping back into the 21st Century Sathnam will join Lisa WED Son of Columbia University. She has conducted recent studies WED into the virtues of ignorance and how the process of WED ignorance can actually enhance our memory and learning. WED WED Talking about education, Professor of Biology Stuart WED Firestein runs a course on ignorance - it's one of his most WED popular classes and basically involves a group of very smart WED people talking about what they don't know. WED WED Alongside the 'science of ignorance' will be a healthy dose WED of personal reflection from those who have chosen ignorance WED as a way of life, including musician Johnny Borrell who WED boycotted the news as he believes you can find out more WED truth by walking down the street with a guitar. WED WED Produced in Bristol by Nicola Humphries. WED WED 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b0639wwt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0639ytz (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0639yv1 (Listen) WED The Mark and the Void, Episode 3 WED WED What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel WED called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named WED after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, WED a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an WED ex-KGB man? You guessed it... WED WED The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of WED institutional folly, following the success of his wildly WED original Skippy Dies. WED WED While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp WED and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is WED approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for WED his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets WED steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing WED influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. WED But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, WED even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on WED Claude's side at all? WED WED The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the WED deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and WED commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever WED written about a financial crisis. WED WED Abridged by Sara Davies. WED WED Produced by Jenny Thompson. WED WED Read by Peter Serafinowicz. WED WED Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Peter Serafinowicz WED Author: Paul Murray WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Jenny Thompson WED WED 23:00 Terry Alderton's All Crazy Now b0639zzw (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Terry Alderton sings every song and plays every character in WED this one man comedy and musical explosion. WED WED Meet Mr Trenchcoat, Victor, Street Kid, Morgan the Free Man WED and many others and let Terry take you on a sonic journey WED through comedy and possible madness. WED WED Prepare to be surprised, shocked and delighted. No monkeys WED were harmed in the making of this show and, of course, he WED didn't actually shoot a sparrow. WED WED Written by and starring Terry Alderton. WED Additional material from Johnny Spurling, Boothby Graffoe, WED Richard Melvin, Julia Sutherland and Owen Parker. WED WED Sound designed by Sean Kerwin WED WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Terry Alderton WED Writer: Terry Alderton WED Writer: Johnny Spurling WED Writer: Boothby Graffoe WED Writer: Richard Melvin WED Writer: Julia Sutherland WED Writer: Owen Parker WED Producer: Richard Melvin WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01s4r79 (Listen) WED Series 2, About Upset Mums WED WED EPISODE ONE: ABOUT UPSET MUMS WED WED In a mix of stand-up and re-enacted family life - Nathan WED Caton illustrates what can happen when you don't listen to WED your Mum. WED WED Cast: WED WED NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON WED MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH WED DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER WED GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND WED REVEREND WILLIAMS ..... DON GILÉT WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Maff Brown and Ola WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career in comedy. WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of WED the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she WED just wants the best for her son. However, she'd also love to WED brag and show her son off to her friends, but with Nathan WED only telling jokes for a living it's kind of hard to do. She WED loves Nathan, but she aint looking embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad works in the construction industry and was WED looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two of WED them could work together in the same field. But now Nathan WED has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is clumsy and WED hard-headed and leaves running the house to his wife (she WED wouldn't allow it to be any other way). WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down WED architecture for comedy. She can't believe she left the WED paradise in the West Indies and came to the freezing United WED Kingdom for a better life so that years later her grandson WED could 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use WED foul language and filthy material... it's not the good WED Christian way! WED WED So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan WED do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or WED will he give in to his family's interference? WED WED Credits WED Nathan: Nathan Caton WED Mum: Adjoa Andoh WED Dad: Curtis Walker WED Grandma: Mona Hammond WED Reverend Williams: Don Gilet WED Writer: Nathan Caton WED Writer: James Kettle WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED WED 23:30 Shared Experience b05xggjh (Listen) WED Series 3, Bullying at School WED WED "At nights I'd find myself praying to God to kill me" - 13 WED year old James shares his story of being bullied at school. WED He and two other teenagers George and Paris tell Fi Glover WED how they came through some very dark days of being WED physically and verbally attacked by fellow pupils for being WED different. WED WED Producer: Maggie Ayre. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 JULY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0638bxn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b063n7m3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0638bxq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0638bxs (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0638bxv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0638bxx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b064dcqc (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Angela THU Graham. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b063cxn0 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45jq (Listen) THU Goldeneye 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 Bill Oddie presents the goldeneye. Although they're a common THU winter visitor, you'll need to travel to Speyside in the THU Scottish Highlands to see goldeneyes in their breeding THU season where, since 1970, a small population has bred there. THU Unlike dabbling ducks, such as mallard and teal, they don't THU need muddy shorelines and lots of vegetation. Goldeneyes are THU diving ducks that feed mainly on shellfish and crustaceans. THU THU Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b0648nnc (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b063cxn2 (Listen) THU Series 11, Withdrawing Feeding in Children THU THU Food and water are the very essence of life. But is there THU ever a time when food and water should be withheld in THU someone who is not otherwise dying? And what if that someone THU is a child? THU THU Emma is born with a smooth brain; a life-limiting condition THU that means she will never develop skills beyond that of a 6 THU month old baby. Her condition also means she has difficulty THU swallowing and has to be fed artificially. THU THU As she passes her tenth birthday things start to become more THU difficult; she increasingly seems to be in pain but the THU medical team are not sure why and Emma cannot tell them. THU THU Her consultants eventually trace the source of her pain to THU her intestines and slowly they realise that they can no THU longer feed her artificially. They are all agreed that THU feeding must be withheld to ease her pain but they know that THU would ultimately lead to her death. THU THU Although her prognosis has always been shortened, Emma is THU not otherwise dying - her heart is strong, her kidneys are THU functioning, and she breathes without difficulty. THU Withholding nutrition would bring her life to an end over THU the coming weeks; should the team be making those decisions THU in a child who is not already dying? THU THU Joan Bakewell leads a panel of experts to discuss. THU THU Producer: Lorna Stewart THU THU Photo Credit: Joe Raedle /Getty Images. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0638xbg (Listen) THU Long Time No See, Episode 4 THU THU The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her THU Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her THU childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death THU and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his THU childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met THU her mother. THU THU Episode 4 THU A family trip to Jamaica reveals more of a family than THU anticipated. THU THU Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined THU sections of Chick's life read by Colin Salmon. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Hannah Lowe THU Author: Hannah Lowe THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b063cxn4 (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 b063cxn6 (Listen) THU Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian THU Revolutionary, Episode 4 THU THU Tanika Gupta's Letters from a Young Indian Revolutionary set THU in 1930's Calcutta is part of Writing the Century: a drama THU series exploring the 20th century through the diaries and THU correspondence of real people. THU THU Young Indian Revolutionary Dinesh Gupta awaits execution THU while his family hope for a chance to appeal. . THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Dinesh: Ameet Chana THU Kamala: Archie Panjabi THU Older Pritish: Vincent Ebrahim THU Young Pritish: Sagar Arya THU Singer: Ray Jayanta THU Writer: Tanika Gupta THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b063cxn8 (Listen) THU A Mediterranean Rescue THU THU In one of the largest operations of its kind, thousands of THU migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were pulled off THU cramped, unseaworthy boats in the Mediterranean in June. THU Gabriel Gatehouse has had rare access to the operation. He THU follows two young men as they try to find a new home in THU Europe, from the moment they board a privately-funded search THU and rescue ship, to their attempts to evade the Italian THU police. THU THU 11:30 A Cold War Dance b063cxnb (Listen) THU Dancers and crew of the Martha Graham Dance Company bring to THU life their US State Department sponsored tour of Southeast THU Asia in 1974. THU THU A 'soft power' dance during the Cold War, the tour was THU designed to refute the image of Americans as military and THU materialistic. It was the tail end of the war in Vietnam and THU after Watergate. The dancers were asked to dance and deport THU themselves as ambassadors for another kind of America. They THU left for Taiwan the month Nixon left the White House. THU THU They danced with Imelda Marcos in Manila and curtseyed to THU the King of Thailand in Bangkok, saw off the Bolshoi ballet THU in Jakarta and bats and salamanders in Rangoon. They tell of THU how they were transformed by their experience, but were THU their audiences? THU THU Saigon was the dancers' last stop - just six months before THU the US evacuation. Could Modern Dance really compensate for THU the USA's military presence in South Vietnam? THU THU Produced by Frances Byrnes THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b0638bxz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 A History of Ideas b063d348 (Listen) THU Psychotherapist Mark Vernon on Freud THU THU What is love? Psychotherapist Mark Vernon looks at Freud's THU ideas on the Greek god Eros, which he saw as a kind of life THU force running through us, shaping our desires and passions THU THU Freud is often thought of as reducing everything to sex, but THU in his view, for humans even sex isn't even really about THU sex. Although he started off thinking that sex was about THU biological release of pressure - like a steam engine - he THU quickly realised, from working with patients, that it was THU more about fantasy and imagination. THU THU Humans want far more from sex than just reproduction or THU physical stimulation. Freud used the Greek god Eros as a THU metaphor for the unconscious forces that motivate us. He THU thought of Eros as a something like a force field of love, THU going beyond the simple one-to-one sexual attraction to a THU broader desire to get more out of life. Eventually he saw THU Eros as a desire for unification with the whole of humanity THU that is built into the dynamic of life itself - the yearning THU that wants to pass life on in children, the passion for THU creativity and discovery, THU THU Presenter: Mark Vernon THU Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b063d55p (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0638by1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b063d34b (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by THU Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 The New Economy: Does Sharing Mean Caring? b0639gy1 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Tim Samuels explores the sharing economy. In this fourth THU programme, he looks at energy services. THU THU If necessity does wonders for invention, then it makes sense THU that the sharing economy was born during the recession. As THU we tightened our belts, those possessions gathering dust - THU and skills going untapped - looked less like clutter, and THU more like a way of earning a few quid. THU THU The spare room in a flat, the extra seat in the car, an idle THU hedge-trimmer gathering cobwebs could earn some extra cash. THU THU From this seed, a whole sector has grown at a dizzying pace THU - propelled by some serious venture capital that smelt the THU potential to commercialise our natural, sociable instincts. THU THU A gift economy has been around since food and resources were THU shared among families, neighbours, and friends. But THU technology has advanced it further and there's now an array THU of new companies with shiny logos and mantras to match. Tim THU Samuels asks who wins and who loses in this new economy. THU THU The Government has set out their ambition for the UK to THU become a global hub for the sharing economy but, in doing THU so, will this sector merely morph into traditional big THU business in all but name? THU THU Tim speaks to business owners and consumers as we ask THU whether we need to rethink governance in this shared future. THU THU Over five episodes Tim asks whether sharing means caring. THU THU Producer: Barney Rowntree THU A Tonic Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0639xp2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b063d34d (Listen) THU The Good Listener: Ghost in the Machine THU THU A new episode of The Good Listener returns to GCHQ where THU agents are devising ways to gather data from millions of THU mobile phone users - from friends and foe alike. A major THU phone company of a European ally has become the target. THU THU Documents released by whistleblower Ed Snowden refer to an THU 'Operation Socialist', suggesting that UK's spy agency GCHQ THU were behind a cyber attack on Belgacom, Belgium's largest THU phone company. The operation was intended to gather data THU from millions of mobile phone users around the world. The THU 'malware' that was subsequently found on the Belgian phone THU provider's systems is one of the most advanced spy tools THU ever seen. THU THU Ghost in the Machine follows fictional characters inside THU GCHQ in a story inspired by this operation. The team need to THU devise ways to deal with a changing digital world but not THU everyone is happy with the agency's approach. THU THU Written by Fin Kennedy THU Sound design by Alisdair McGregor THU THU Produced and Directed by Boz Temple-Morris THU A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Henry: Owen Teale THU Jacqui: Charlotte Randle THU Siddiq: Ashley Kumar THU Alison: Alison Newman THU David: Richard Maxted THU Gerry: Dominic Hawksley THU Actor: Louis Brady THU Actor: Dash Dirickx THU Actor: Poppy Temple-Morris THU Actor: Madeleine Kelly THU Actor: Lois Ashley-Lynch THU Writer: Fin Kennedy THU Producer: Boz Temple-Morris THU Director: Boz Temple-Morris THU THU 15:00 Open Country b063d34g (Listen) THU Rathlin Island THU THU Helen Mark visits Rathlin Island situated just off the North THU Coast of Antrim. THU THU Despite having a population of just over a hundred people, THU Rathlin Island is a thriving community. Its rugged landscape THU is home to a population of farmers and fishers, and supports THU thousands of sea birds. THU THU Each year around thirty thousand tourists flock to the THU island and Helen discovers what its like to live there THU during the busy summer months, and once the tourists have THU left and the island is quiet once more in the winter months. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0638fyz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0638hpn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b063d34j (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b063d34l (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b063d34n (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0638by3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b063d34q (Listen) THU Series 5, The Understudy, Big Boy THU THU One of the world's best storytellers, back on BBC Radio 4 THU doing what he does best. THU THU There are two stories, this week: THU The Understudy sees some questionable childcare from the THU child's point of view, and Big Boy is about a problem many THU of us have faced when one flush just isn't enough. THU THU And there are some extracts from David's unique diary. THU THU Produced by Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: David Sedaris THU Writer: David Sedaris THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU THU 19:00 The Archers b063d34s (Listen) THU Charlie feels at a loss, and Brian lays it on the line. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b063d34v (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b063cxn6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b063d34x (Listen) THU Radicals, Rights and Hunting - The Battle for the RSPCA THU THU Peter Marshall uncovers the real story about the fight for THU control of the RSPCA. THU THU This summer the charity elected its new ruling council. As THU members prepared to vote, stories in the national press THU warned that animal rights activists were fighting to gain THU control of the animal welfare charity and use it to pursue THU their radical agenda. THU THU But are these stories true? THU THU Peter talks to the men and women at the front line of this THU battle for influence at one of the best known, best funded THU and best loved charities in England and Wales. He meets the THU so-called radicals to discuss their views, and finds out why THU their enemies have left the RSPCA in protest. It's a tale of THU dirty tricks and sometimes vicious skirmishes. THU THU As he delves deeper into the politics and history of the THU charity, Peter discovers an old feud at the heart of this THU story, one that has dominated life at the RSPCA for decades THU and confounds politicians to this day - the thorny issue of THU fox hunting. THU THU Producer: Lucy Proctor. THU THU 20:30 In Business b063d34z (Listen) THU Driverless Cars THU THU As the race to develop driverless cars hots up around the THU world, the UK is determined not to be left in the slow lane. THU Government money is being invested to help test vehicles and THU 'pods' over the next three years. THU It's not just the robotic technology which is being THU developed- building the trust of the public in vehicles THU which eventually won't need drivers behind the wheel is THU crucial THU There's still a long way to go, and Peter Day talks to those THU involved in this brave new world of transport. THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b063d34l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Punt PI b04bj7pk (Listen) THU Series 7, The Case of the MP Who Vanished THU THU Steve Punt turns private investigator and examines the THU curious case of the socialist MP Victor Grayson who vanished THU into thin air! THU THU Firebrand politician, champion of the mill workers, scion of THU the establishment, fancy dresser, hard drinker, man about THU town. Victor Grayson was many things when he erupted onto THU the public stage in 1907 as the first and last independent THU socialist MP, aged 26. However this shooting star THU disappeared from sight in 1920, under mysterious THU circumstances, with no confirmed sightings after that. THU THU Punt P.I. sets out on a trail through Yorkshire valleys, THU dusty archives and seedy Soho to pick up clues to Victor's THU disappearance. THU THU Producer Neil McCarthy. THU THU Punt PI and Mike Shaw THU THU Punt PI and Mike Shaw outside the Marsden Socialist Club, THU trying to piece together the mysterious case of Victor THU Grayson. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b063d43r (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b063d43t (Listen) THU The Mark and the Void, Episode 4 THU THU What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel THU called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named THU after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, THU a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an THU ex-KGB man? You guessed it... THU THU The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of THU institutional folly, following the success of his wildly THU original Skippy Dies. THU THU While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp THU and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is THU approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for THU his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets THU steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing THU influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. THU But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, THU even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on THU Claude's side at all? THU THU The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the THU deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and THU commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever THU written about a financial crisis. THU THU Abridged by Sara Davies. THU THU Produced by Jenny Thompson. THU THU Read by Peter Serafinowicz. THU THU Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Peter Serafinowicz THU Author: Paul Murray THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Jenny Thompson THU THU 23:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04jlrxv (Listen) THU Series 10, How to Be a Good Citizen THU THU Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves THU with a broadcast of national comic import! THU THU In this programme, Jeremy attempts to understand THU citizenship, to examine the State and to spell surveillance. THU Looking over his shoulder at the script will be Gordon THU Kennedy (Absolutely) and Carla Mendonça. 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, "Kids should never be THU fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old THU daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she THU was old enough to go out and make her own". 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 Presenter: Jeremy Hardy THU Producer: David Tyler THU Writer: Jeremy Hardy THU THU 23:30 Shared Experience b05xxjgj (Listen) THU Series 3, Taken Hostage THU THU Fortunately, most people will not have the experience shared THU by Fi Glover's guests this week. Peter spent six years THU working in Georgia. The day before he was due to fly home THU from the posting, he was kidnapped at gunpoint and held in THU squalid conditions for six months. Contrast that with THU another Peter who surfed and drank beer while his ship was THU held for three months during the blockade of the Suez Canal. THU Sarah meanwhile was setting out across Kenya to work in an THU orphanage in neighbouring Tanzania when the bus she was THU travelling in was held up by bandits and driven off-road THU into the bush. The interesting thing that emerges from their THU conversation is that two of them appear to have coped better THU with their experiences, while one man subsequently THU struggled. THU THU Producer: Maggie Ayre. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 JULY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0638bzn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0638xbg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0638bzt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0638bzw (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0638bzy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0638c00 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b064db7l (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Angela FRI Graham. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b063d59d (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45lf (Listen) FRI Snow Goose 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 Bill Oddie presents the snow goose. Snow geese breed in the FRI Canadian Arctic and fly south in autumn to feed. Their FRI migrations are eagerly awaited and the arrival of thousands FRI of these white geese with black-wingtips is one of the FRI world's great wildlife spectacles. Here, on the opposite FRI side of the Atlantic, snow geese are seen every year, often FRI with flocks of other species such as white-fronted geese. FRI Snow geese are commonly kept in captivity in the UK, and FRI escaped birds can and do breed in the wild. So, when a white FRI shape turns up amongst a flock of wild grey geese, its FRI origins are always under scrutiny. FRI FRI Snow goose (Chen caerulescens) FRI Webpage image courtesy of Mark Sisson (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI Recording of a snow goose by Paul Marvin FRI FRI Included in this programme is an audio recording of a snow FRI goose recorded by Paul Marvin: it was sourced via the FRI website Xeno-canto.org. FRI FRI FRI FRI Reference XC143615. Accessible at FRI www.xeno-canto.org/143615 FRI FRI 06:00 Today b063dcg2 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0638gpq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b063n285 (Listen) FRI Long Time No See, Episode 5 FRI FRI The poet Hannah Lowe reads from her memoir about her FRI Jamaican father and her relationship with him during her FRI childhood in Essex. Using a notebook found after his death FRI and letters and interviews with family, she recreates his FRI childhood and young adult years in the decades before he met FRI her mother. FRI FRI Episode 5. FRI A young woman forges her own path. Chick dwindles before his FRI family's eyes, but his daughter's gaze is focussed FRI elsewhere. FRI FRI Read by the author, Hannah Lowe, with recreated and imagined FRI sections of Chick's life read by Colin Salmon. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Hannah Lowe FRI Author: Hannah Lowe FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b063dcg4 (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 b063dcg8 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century - Letters from a Young Indian FRI Revolutionary, Episode 5 FRI FRI Calcutta 1931. Dinesh Gupta is in Alipore Jail sentenced to FRI execution by hanging following his attack on the British FRI Colonial Office Writers' Building where he shot a British FRI officer dead. His family and Gandhi have appealed but will FRI they succeed? FRI FRI Concluding episode of Tanika Gupta's Letters from a Young FRI Indian Revolutionary part of Writing the Century our drama FRI series exploring the 20th century through the diaries and FRI correspondence of real people. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI Credits FRI Dinesh: Ameet Chana FRI Older Pritish: Vincent Ebrahim FRI Young Pritish: Sagar Arya FRI Swann: Stephen Hogan FRI Tegart: Nicholas Khan FRI Writer: Tanika Gupta FRI Director: Nadia Molinari FRI FRI 11:00 America's Fan Club b06084k8 (Listen) FRI You have to be a direct descendent of a veteran of the War FRI of Independence to join The Daughters of the American FRI Revolution. Set up 125 years ago when its brother FRI organisation refused to accept women, it now far eclipses FRI the Sons of the American Revolution. It was once the FRI watchword for white, exclusive privilege and is famous for FRI refusing to allow a black singer to perform, but now it's FRI membership is growing and it proudly boasts women of all FRI backgrounds and colour. Its aims have changed little in its FRI history: patriotism, education and the preservation of FRI historic buildings. Emma Barnett joins four thousand of its FRI members at its annual Congress in Washington to find out why FRI women are choosing to join, and how they are interpreting FRI the organisation's aims in the 21st century. FRI Producer: Katy Hickman. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b063dcgb (Listen) FRI Series 10, Things That Go Bump in the Day FRI FRI The Sparrowhawk team are forced to work together to overcome FRI a little problem they discover in the office. Lead by Clare, FRI they're thinking outside the box... 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 Libby: Sarah Kendall FRI Joan: Sarah Thom FRI Enna: Sarah Thom FRI Mr Mortimer: David Cann FRI Buzzcock: David Cann FRI Jolyon Meryk: Keiran Hodgson FRI Greg: Keiran Hodgson FRI Writer: Harry Venning FRI Writer: David Ramsden FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b0638c02 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 A History of Ideas b063dcgg (Listen) FRI Writer Lisa Appignanesi on the Love of Children FRI FRI How should we love our children? Can we build on the FRI feelings we experience when we see them for the first time, FRI raise them by instinct and personal principles or should we FRI consult the childcare gurus of the internet and the FRI bookshelves? FRI FRI Lisa Appignanesi, novelist, biographer and author of 'All FRI ABout Love' suggests that we should turn to the first FRI childcare expert of them all, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The FRI father of the Romantic movement was one of the first FRI philosophers to consider the importance of the initial bond FRI between mother and child, strongly opposing the fashionable FRI habit of farming newborn babies out to wet nurses. FRI FRI Rousseau failed to follow his own advice, abandoning his FRI five children to the Paris orphanage, but his writing FRI belatedly raised our children to a status worthy of FRI philosophical debate. FRI FRI Lisa is joined in her ruminations by psychoanalyst, Adam FRI Phillips, Rousseau expert Christopher Brooke and her own son FRI and grandson. FRI FRI This is part of a week of programmes asking, 'What is FRI love?'. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b063dcgj (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0638c04 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b063dcgn (Listen) FRI Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by FRI Mark Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 The New Economy: Does Sharing Mean Caring? b063n287 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Tim Samuels explores the sharing economy. In this final FRI programme, he looks at governance and the future. FRI FRI If necessity does wonders for invention, then it makes sense FRI that the sharing economy was born during the recession. As FRI we tightened our belts, those possessions gathering dust - FRI and skills going untapped - looked less like clutter, and FRI more like a way of earning a few quid. FRI FRI The spare room in a flat, the extra seat in the car, an idle FRI hedge-trimmer gathering cobwebs could earn some extra cash. FRI FRI From this seed, a whole sector has grown at a dizzying pace FRI - propelled by some serious venture capital that smelt the FRI potential to commercialise our natural, sociable instincts. FRI FRI A gift economy has been around since food and resources were FRI shared among families, neighbours, and friends. But FRI technology has advanced it further and there's now an array FRI of new companies with shiny logos and mantras to match. Tim FRI Samuels asks who wins and who loses in this new economy. FRI FRI The Government has set out their ambition for the UK to FRI become a global hub for the sharing economy but, in doing FRI so, will this sector merely morph into traditional big FRI business in all but name? FRI FRI Tim speaks to business owners and consumers as we ask FRI whether we need to rethink governance in this shared future. FRI FRI Over five episodes Tim asks whether sharing means caring. FRI FRI Producer: Barney Rowntree FRI A Tonic Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b063d34s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0375byr (Listen) FRI Irongate FRI FRI James Fleet and Emma Fielding star in Nick Warburton's FRI two-hander play about love and loss. A woman walks once a FRI year along the Thames, from Kew to Tower Bridge. Why? FRI FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI Emma Fielding & James Fleet outside the studio FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Nick Warburton FRI Laura: Emma Fielding FRI Teal: James Fleet FRI Producer: Peter Kavanagh FRI Director: Peter Kavanagh FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b063dcgw (Listen) FRI Summer Garden Party FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts the GQT Summer Garden Party from the FRI National Botanic Garden of Wales. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Computer Speaks b063dcgy (Listen) FRI Tom FRI FRI An original short story for radio by A.L. Kennedy. FRI FRI Our relationship with computers is an intimate one. What FRI would they say about us if they could speak? The last of FRI three stories about computers finding their voice. FRI FRI A.L.Kennedy was born in Dundee in 1965. She is the author of FRI 16 books: 6 novels, 7 short story collections and 3 works of FRI non-fiction. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts FRI and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was FRI twice included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists FRI list. FRI FRI She has won awards including the 2007 Costa Book Award and FRI the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. She FRI is also a dramatist for the stage, radio, TV and film. She FRI is an essayist and regularly reads her work on BBC radio. FRI She occasionally writes and performs one-person shows. She FRI writes for a number of UK and overseas publications and for FRI The Guardian Online. FRI FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI Readers: Neve McIntosh and John MacKay. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Neve McIntosh FRI Reader: John MacKay FRI Writer: AL Kennedy FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b063dch0 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b063dch2 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b063dch4 (Listen) FRI Malcolm and Ann - Married to the Farm FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a farmer and his FRI town-bred wife, about the total commitment to the livestock FRI and the farm that is essential in a farming marriage. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b063dch6 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0638c06 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b063dch8 (Listen) FRI Series 46, Episode 5 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 b063dchb (Listen) FRI Henry gets a surprise gift, and Jennifer feels frustrated. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Gwenda Hughes FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Mr Kimberley: Mark Tandy FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b063dchd (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b063dcg8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b063dgs7 (Listen) FRI Bishop of Norwich Rt Rev Graham James, Nikki King FRI FRI Shaun Ley presents political debate and discussion from FRI Attleborough in Norfolk with the Bishop of Norwich Rt Rev FRI Graham James and Nikki King the former MD and Honorary FRI Chairman of Isuzu Truck UK Limited. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b063dgs9 (Listen) FRI Adam Gopnik FRI FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Adam Gopnik FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Ideas b063dgsc (Listen) FRI Omnibus, What Is Love? FRI FRI Melvyn Bragg hosts as theologian Giles Fraser, writer Lisa FRI Appignanesi, classicist Edith Hall and psychotherapist Mark FRI Vernon discuss the history of ideas around Love. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0638c0f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b063dgsf (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b063dgsh (Listen) FRI The Mark and the Void, Episode 5 FRI FRI What links the Bank of Torabundo, an art heist, a novel FRI called For the Love of a Clown, a four-year-old boy named FRI after TV detective Remington Steele, a lonely French banker, FRI a tiny Pacific island, and a pest control business run by an FRI ex-KGB man? You guessed it... FRI FRI The Mark and the Void is Paul Murray's madcap new novel of FRI institutional folly, following the success of his wildly FRI original Skippy Dies. FRI FRI While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp FRI and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is FRI approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for FRI his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets FRI steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing FRI influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. FRI But can an investment banker be turned into a romantic hero, FRI even with a writer on his side? And is Paul actually on FRI Claude's side at all? FRI FRI The Mark and the Void is a stirring examination of the FRI deceptions carried out in the names of art, love and FRI commerce - and is also probably the funniest novel ever FRI written about a financial crisis. FRI FRI Abridged by Sara Davies. FRI FRI Produced by Jenny Thompson. FRI FRI Read by Peter Serafinowicz. FRI FRI Music: Money by The Flying Lizards and Je Veux by Zaz. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Peter Serafinowicz FRI Author: Paul Murray FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Jenny Thompson FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b0639w3x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 A Century of Hope b04kzz5t (Listen) FRI Born in Eltham in South London, Bob Hope emigrated with his FRI family to the USA at the age of five, and became unique FRI among the great entertainers of the last century. He was at FRI some point number one in radio, in film, and in television. FRI FRI For over half a century, Bob Hope was perhaps the most FRI famous comedian on the planet. He worked with teams of FRI writers round the clock to feed his famously quick-fire FRI joke-filled act. He was a tireless entertainer of the troops FRI in wartime, a phenomenally successful businessman and had FRI naval ships, airports, theatres and highways named after FRI him. FRI FRI American comedian Greg Proops is a very different performer FRI to Hope. Greg is a one-man-band whose comedy is improvised FRI with a hard, often radical edge. In spite of their huge FRI differences in style and the political gulf between them, FRI Greg admires Hope's timing as well as the skill and bravado FRI with which he worked an audience. FRI FRI But what kind of a man was Bob Hope and what is his FRI reputation and legacy today? FRI FRI Greg sets out to answer these questions with the help of FRI those who knew him best including his daughter Linda and FRI Bill Faith - his publicist for many years. We hear from some FRI of the writers who were on his team in the 70s and 80s. Greg FRI also talks to critic and biographer John Lahr to get his FRI insight and reminiscences of the man of whom writer John FRI Steinbeck said, 'It is impossible to see how he can do so FRI much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard, and can be FRI so effective. He works month after month at a pace that FRI would kill most people.' FRI FRI Produced by Barney Rowntree FRI A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b063dh1s (Listen) FRI Vera and Betty - We Don't Do Age FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between friends who retired to FRI Hay on Wye to relax, and ended up running the North Weir FRI Trust. 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
24 July, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 25/07/2015 - 31/07/2015
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