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SAT SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b065rtf8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 The History of the Peloponnesian War b05s3stf (Listen) SAT The Beginning of the End SAT SAT 'My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the SAT taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for SAT ever,' Thucydides SAT Ancient Greek historian Thucydides' masterful first-hand SAT account chronicles the devastating wars between Athens and SAT Sparta during the 5th century BC. It was a life-and-death SAT struggle that reshaped the face of ancient Greece and pitted SAT Athenian democracy against Spartan militarism. SAT Thucydides himself was an Athenian aristocrat and general SAT who went on to record what he saw as the greatest war of all SAT time, applying a passion for accuracy and a contempt for SAT myth admired by historians today. And as father of modern SAT Realpolitik, his influence fed into the works of SAT Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbs and the politics of the Cold War SAT and beyond. SAT Today: an expedition to conquer Sicily spells the beginning SAT of the end of Athenian power. SAT Abridger: Tom Holland SAT Reader: David Horowitch SAT Producer: Justine Willett. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: David Horovitch SAT Author: Thucydides SAT Abridger: Tom Holland SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b065rtfb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b065rtfd (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b065rtfg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b065rtfj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b065xkg3 (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian SAT Bradley of the University of St Andrews. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b065xkg5 (Listen) SAT 'Two guys in suits took us to one side' SAT SAT 'Two guys in suits took us to one side'. A Muslim listener SAT travelling to Turkey talks about being stopped at the SAT airport and her love for the UK. Presented by Eddie Mair and SAT Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b065rtfl (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b065rtfn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b065xcgp (Listen) SAT Cornish Alps SAT SAT From a ferry, Helen sees the sharp, conical peaks that SAT dominate the coastline, known locally as the Cornish Alps. SAT The skipper, John Wood, explains how they were formed from SAT the spoils of the clay industry. SAT SAT Helen takes a closer look at one of the largest of the spoil SAT heaps near St Austell, known as the Sky Tip, and talks to SAT primary school teacher Ann Teague and local landlord Andrew SAT Dean about why they think it is such an important landmark. SAT They explain how they see beauty in the scarred industrial SAT landscape, and are campaigning to prevent a new town being SAT built near the peak. SAT SAT Helen then comes across a reunion of former clay workers at SAT the Wheal Martyn museum, where she meets Arthur Northey and SAT Colin Knellor. They started working in the industry as boys SAT of fourteen and as well as recounting stories from their SAT lives working in clay, they tell Helen that they would SAT welcome development on the brownfield sites where the clay SAT mines once stood. SAT SAT From a viewing platform high above a quarry, Helen looks SAT down at the lunar landscape of a working clay mine. Her SAT guide is Ivor Bowditch who worked as a mine captain, then as SAT a spokesperson for the china clay industry. He shows Helen SAT what the mining company has done to regenerate the land SAT after the clay has been taken from it. One of the main SAT projects is a series of clay trails through the landscape, SAT which Helen then explores with a group of walkers. SAT SAT Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Beth McLeod. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b066fqck (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b065rtfq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b066fqcm (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b066fqcp (Listen) SAT Larry Lamb SAT SAT Long before the actor Larry Lamb achieved notoriety as the SAT evil Archie Mitchell in EastEnders or twinkly Micky Shipman SAT in Gavin & Stacey he'd lived a life dramatic enough to be SAT made into a TV hit of its own. A working class London boy SAT with a troubled dad and a much loved mum Larry blundered SAT into acting more by chance than design. In his early years SAT he filleted fish and worked as an encyclopedia salesman and SAT later as an oil engineer in Libya and Canada. It was there SAT he really discovered his passion for acting and went on to SAT play opposite major stars - Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave SAT and Lauren Bacall among them. He's taken tea at Buckingham SAT Palace and hung out in George Harrison's kitchen. Despite SAT such successes Larry has always been a restless soul. Now, SAT however, he says he's finally grown up. SAT SAT Katherine Mills is a magician and mentalist. Combining SAT psychology and sociology with her love of trickery and SAT magic, Katherine crosses the line between the possible and SAT the truly amazing. She is one of only 100 women members in SAT the Magic Circle out of 1,500 total members. SAT SAT Joy Ballard is head teacher of Willows School in Cardiff SAT which features in a new series of the Educating Cardiff. Joy SAT left school at 16 without any qualifications and didn't go SAT back into education until she was 26. She has been a head SAT teacher since 2007 and this year won the national Pearson SAT Head Teacher Award. Educating Cardiff begins on Channel 4 on SAT 25th August. SAT SAT Listener John Dalby wrote to say he'd led a full and SAT interesting life over the past 67 years. Twenty plus years SAT at sea, he was the first commercial "pirate hunter" and is SAT now engaged in airborne reconnaissance and surveillance. SAT SAT This week's Inheritance Tracks are from the poet Simon SAT Armitage. SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Larry Lamb SAT Interviewed Guest: Katherine Mills SAT Interviewed Guest: Joy Ballard SAT Interviewed Guest: John Dalby SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Armitage SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b066fqcr (Listen) SAT Series 8, The Great Mull Air Mystery SAT SAT On Christmas Eve 1975, former Spitfire pilot Peter Gibbs SAT took off from the unlit airfield on the Isle of Mull and SAT never returned. SAT SAT It was a moonless night and having just finished dinner with SAT his girlfriend at the Glenforsa Hotel, it seemed a bizarre SAT and impetuous act. SAT SAT Then Gibbs' body was discovered on a hillside, but the plane SAT was nowhere to be seen and the story began to get stranger. SAT SAT Punt heads to the Mull to investigate, but with every piece SAT of evidence the mystery deepens. SAT SAT Was Gibbs attempting an illicit flight to Northern Ireland, SAT was he trying to fake his own death, or was it something in SAT creepy Room 14 that was to blame? SAT SAT As he tries to disentangle myth from reality, Punt hears SAT fishy tales from a suspicious local diver, unearths the SAT original pathologist and scrutinises the man who watched SAT Gibbs vanish into the night. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Bowen. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b066fqct (Listen) SAT Plasticity SAT SAT Isn't it remarkable that everyday objects, especially those SAT made from modern plastics, can bend, squash, stretch, and SAT generally 'shape-shift' in a number of ways? So how is that SAT possible? Bridget Kendall and guests consider plasticity SAT from several viewpoints: Aurora Robson is an artist who SAT works with plastic garbage, Sujata Kundu a nanochemist who SAT analyses plasticity at the level of atoms and electrons, and SAT Takao Hensch a neuroscientist investigating whether it's SAT possible to recreate youth-like plasticity in an adult SAT brain.(Photo: The Great Indoors: art installation by Aurora SAT Robson). SAT SAT Aurora Robson SAT SAT Aurora Robson is a multi-media artist known predominantly SAT for her transformative work intercepting the waste stream. SAT She is best known for assembling cast-off plastic bottles, SAT which she colourfully paints, into wildly inventive hanging SAT sculptures, the smaller ones sometimes containing LED SAT lights, and large works that fill entire rooms. Robson is SAT also the founding artist of Project Vortex, an international SAT collective of artists, designers and architects who work SAT with plastic debris. SAT And you can see some more of Aurora's transformative art in SAT the gallery on the right hand side of the page. SAT SAT Sujata Kundu SAT SAT Sujata Kundu is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of SAT Materials at Imperial College, London. A nanochemist, both SAT literally and professionally, Suze is also a passionate SAT science communicator, giving regular public lectures at SAT schools, universities and science festivals where she loves SAT sharing the secret science of everyday things. SAT SAT Takao Hensch SAT SAT Takao Hensch is joint professor of Neurology, Harvard SAT Medical School at Boston Children’s Hospital, and professor SAT of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard’s Center for SAT Brain Science. His research focuses on critical periods in SAT brain development. By applying cellular and molecular SAT biology techniques to neural systems, his lab identified SAT pivotal inhibitory circuits that orchestrate structural and SAT functional rewiring of connections in response to early SAT sensory experience. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b065rtfs (Listen) SAT Andy Warhol's Trousers SAT SAT The full story - correspondents with despatches from around SAT the world. In this edition: from Bangkok, scene of a SAT devastating bomb attack earlier in the week, it's the SAT smallest detail which makes the deepest impression; there's SAT a visit to the coastline of Somalia where a thriving piracy SAT industry has been closed down but myriad problems still SAT remain; Panama's cocoa bean industry: the experts may not be SAT entirely convinced that eating chocolate is good for you, SAT but there's no doubt it's proving beneficial to the economy SAT of that central American nation; we examine Sri Lanka's SAT relationship with the sweet heart of the country, otherwise SAT known as the coconut and our reporter sweats and strains in SAT the shop where Andy Warhol and generations of New York SAT rockers have gone shopping for their stage gear. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b065rtfv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 The New Workplace b066fqcw (Listen) SAT The New Employee SAT SAT Michael Robinson continues his exploration of the SAT contemporary world of work by talking to workers - and those SAT who recruit them - about their ambitions. SAT SAT Has the job for life disappeared and, if so, what is taking SAT its place? SAT SAT What skills do employers look for and how easy is it find SAT suitably qualified workers? SAT SAT The programme also explores the scope and nature of the SAT apprenticeships companies are now offering. SAT SAT Ministers have promised to create three million SAT apprenticeships by 2020, but will the government's new SAT apprenticeship levy overcome the historic problem of some SAT companies not investing in training their employees but SAT poaching workers trained by other firms instead? SAT SAT Producer Simon Coates. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b065xk1z (Listen) SAT Series 15, Episode 2 SAT SAT A satirical take on politics, media and celebrity recorded SAT at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SAT SAT Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis SAT MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. SAT SAT Produced by Bill Dare. A BBC Radio Comedy Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Debra Stephenson SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT Producer: Bill Dare SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b065rtfx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b065rtfz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b065xk23 (Listen) SAT Jeremy Corbyn, Dan Jones, Polly Toynbee, Elizabeth Truss SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Radio Theatre SAT at Broadcasting House, London, with the Labour leadership SAT contender Jeremy Corbyn MP, the historian Dan Jones, SAT Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and the Secetary of State SAT for the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs SAT Elizabeth Truss. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b066fqcy (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b066fxt1 (Listen) SAT Iris Murdoch: Dream Girl SAT SAT Helen McCrory stars as Iris Murdoch in a hallucinogenic trip SAT through the novelist's life, by Robin Brooks - part of the SAT Iris Murdoch season on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT When Iris, lying asleep beside husband John, wakes in the SAT middle of a midsummer night, she discovers that she is to be SAT visited by three spirits, and is to be conducted on a SAT journey through both her past and her writing. SAT SAT But who are these spirits accompanying her? What do they SAT have to show her about her past misdemeanours, and how art SAT may be made from them? And what dread monster coils in the SAT shadows, ready to strike? SAT SAT Iris Murdoch's spectacularly bad behaviour and her SAT extraordinary rise as a famous and popular novelist through SAT the 1950s, 60s and 70s, are the themes behind this inventive SAT new comedy drama. Iris was a woman with an insatiable SAT appetite for life, love and literature - her experiences and SAT numerous love affairs with both sexes shaped her writing and SAT fed into her novels. SAT SAT The Iris Murdoch season on Radio 4 also includes SAT dramatisations of two of her best novels - 'The Sea, The SAT Sea' starring Jeremy Irons and 'A Severed Head' starring SAT Julian Rhind-Tutt. SAT SAT Sound Designer: Alisdair McGregor SAT SAT Director/Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Iris Murdoch: Helen McCrory SAT The Spirit: Jonathan Cullen SAT Frank: Richard Goulding SAT Philippa: Amanda Root SAT Franz: Anton Lesser SAT Canetti: Jasper Britton SAT John: Robin Brooks SAT Female Don: Emily Joyce SAT Veza: Hannah Genesius SAT Student: Hannah Genesius SAT Director: Fiona McAlpine SAT Producer: Fiona McAlpine SAT Writer: Robin Brooks SAT SAT 15:30 Philip Glass: Taxi Driver b065tqz1 (Listen) SAT Philip Glass revisits his parallel lives in 1970s New York - SAT driving a taxicab through threatening twilight streets while SAT emerging as a composer in Manhattan's downtown arts scene. SAT SAT The Philip Glass Ensemble formed in 1968 and performed in SAT lofts, museums, art galleries and, eventually, concert SAT halls. Two of Glass's early pieces - the long form Music In SAT Twelve Parts and the opera Einstein on the Beach - secured SAT his reputation as a leading voice in new music. SAT SAT But America's soon-to-be most successful contemporary SAT composer continued to earn a living by driving a taxi until SAT he was 42. SAT SAT "I would show up around 3pm to get a car and hopefully be SAT out driving by 4. I wanted to get back to the garage by 1 or SAT 2am before the bars closed, as that wasn't a good time to be SAT driving. I'd come home and write music until 6 in the SAT morning." SAT SAT Glass's new musical language - consisting of driving SAT rhythms, gradually evolving repetitive patterns and SAT amplified voice, organs and saxophones - reflected the SAT urgency of the city surrounding him. New York, on the brink SAT of financial collapse, was crime-ridden and perilous. SAT Driving a cab offered more than a window on this gritty, SAT late night world. Almost every other month, according to SAT Glass, a driver colleague was murdered. Glass escaped SAT altercations with gangs and robbers in his cab. SAT SAT One of the most successful films at the time was Martin SAT Scorsese's Taxi Driver starring Robert DeNiro. Glass SAT couldn't bring himself to watch it until years later. He SAT says, "I was a taxi driver. On my night off, I was not going SAT to go watch a movie called Taxi Driver." SAT SAT Produced by Paul Smith. SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b066fzjy (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Actress Charlotte Rampling on SAT airbrushing, plastic surgery and her latest film role SAT SAT The actress Charlotte Rampling on airbrushing, plastic SAT surgery and her latest award winning film '45 Years'. What's SAT the reality of being a teacher? We hear three women's SAT experiences. The new leader of the Scottish labour party SAT Kezia Dugdale on her plans to rebuild the labour party in SAT Scotland. How dating and relationships are changing in the SAT digital age. Sport and motherhood with Olympic rower Anna SAT Watkins. Queens of Crime - the life and work of Josephine SAT Tey and music from 21 year old singer songwriter Ella Eyre. SAT SAT Presenter Jenni Murray SAT Produced by Dianne McGregor SAT Editor Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Charlotte Rampling SAT Interviewed Guest: Kezia Dugdale SAT Interviewed Guest: Anna Watkins SAT Performer: Ella Eyre SAT Producer: Dianne McGregor SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b066fzk0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b065xkg5 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b065rtg1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b065rtg3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b065rtg5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b066gfbm (Listen) SAT Arthur Smith, Juliette Binoche, Tony Singh, David Greig, SAT Eimear McBride, Tom Allen, Kathryn Joseph, RM Hubbert SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined in Edinburgh for SAT an Loose Ends special with Juliette Binoche, Tony Singh, SAT David Greig, Tom Allen and Eimear McBride. With music from SAT Kathryn Joseph and RM Hubbert. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Juliette Binoche SAT SAT ‘Antigone’ is at King’s Theatre, Edinburgh until Saturday SAT 22nd August. SAT SAT Eimear McBride SAT A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing’ is at Traverse 1, Edinburgh SAT until Sunday 30th August. SAT SAT David Greig SAT ‘Lanark’ is at Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh from Sunday SAT 23rd to Monday 31st August. SAT SAT Kathryn Joseph SAT SAT 'Bones You Have Thrown Me, And Blood I've Spilled' is out SAT now on Hits The Fan. SAT SAT Kathryn is playing at The Basement, Brighton on Thursday SAT 17th, Eden Court, Inverness on Saturday 26th and Lemontree, SAT Aberdeen on Sunday 27th September. SAT SAT RM Hubbert SAT SAT 'Breaks and Bone' is available now on Chemikal Underground. SAT SAT RM Hubbert is playing at Spiegeltent, Edinburgh on Sunday SAT 30th August, The Georgian Theatre, Stockton on Saturday 12th SAT and South Street Arts Centre, Reading on Wednesday 16th SAT September. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Juliette Binoche SAT Interviewed Guest: Tony Singh SAT Interviewed Guest: David Greig SAT Interviewed Guest: Tom Allen SAT Interviewed Guest: Eimear McBride SAT Performer: Kathryn Joseph SAT Performer: RM Hubbert SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b066gfbr (Listen) SAT Dr Dre SAT SAT Dr Dre's first album for 16 years is top of the charts and a SAT film charting the rise of NWA - his breakout 90s gangster SAT rap group - is playing to packed cinemas. SAT SAT Over the past 25 years Dr Dre has made an indelible mark on SAT popular culture. After NWA he founded a record label and SAT turned producer - SAT making global stars of artists like Snoop Dogg and Eminem. SAT SAT And he's a hugely successful businessman. His Beats brand - SAT whose headphones have become a ubiquitous fashion accessory SAT - was sold last year to Apple for $3bn (£1.8bn). SAT SAT It's all a long way from his start in life as a poor child SAT to a teenage mother in Los Angeles. But, as Mark Coles SAT hears, there's a dark side to Dr Dre's story of almost SAT unimaginable success. SAT SAT Producers: Keith Moore and James Melley. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b066gfbt (Listen) SAT Writer Ian Rankin joins the panel to review a pick of the SAT Best of The Fest SAT SAT In Edinburgh for The Festivals: Ian Rankin, Louise Welsh and SAT James Runcie review Theatre de Complicite's The Encounter, SAT Robert LePage's 887 Ex Machina, Adam Mars Jones' book about SAT his father and dealing with Alzheimer's, Netflix's series SAT Narcos, a new film about drug lord Pablo Escobar. And also SAT their own selections from the rich array available in the SAT city. SAT SAT Credits SAT Interviewed Guest: Ian Rankin SAT Interviewed Guest: Louise Welsh SAT Interviewed Guest: James Runcie SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b066gfbw (Listen) SAT Dickie Attenborough: A Life in Film SAT SAT In a career that encompassed acting, producing and SAT directing, Richard Attenborough was a mainstay of the SAT British film industry; in fact, for at least 20 years, he SAT was arguably the British film industry. At the time when SAT Attenborough began directing films, starting with Oh What a SAT Lovely War in 1969, British film was reaching an all time SAT nadir. Attenborough helped to bring it back from the brink. SAT SAT Inheriting a steadfast belief in citizenship and social SAT responsibility, Dickie or Dick (as he was known by his SAT friends) threw his phenomenal energy and determination into SAT making films like Gandhi and Cry Freedom, the latter telling SAT the story of the anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and the SAT journalist Donald Woods. He didn't set out to make box SAT office hits, yet Gandhi played for weeks at the Odeon SAT Leicester Square and won eight Oscars including best actor SAT for Ben Kingsley. SAT SAT Kingsley, Anthony Hopkins, David Puttnam, William Goldberg SAT and the late John Mills all join in celebrating SAT Attenborough's skill as a director of actors, his stamina SAT and his huge commitment to the British film industry. A year SAT on from his death, Susan Marling (who met and recorded with SAT Attenborough before he died) asks what his legacy has been. SAT SAT Produced by Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b065s7hp (Listen) SAT The Great Scott, The Talisman SAT SAT The Talisman is the finale of Scott's novels set during the SAT crusades but this one features the dying dog days of the SAT Third Crusade. Richard the Lionheart is de facto leader but SAT the military expedition has ground to a halt and the allies SAT are getting itchy feet. They are sick of Richard's SAT over-bearing leadership and, to make it worse, very few of SAT them still believe Jerusalem can be reconquered. SAT SAT To the modern reader this must be a rather recondite SAT setting. Beyond the jousting and the knightliness, how much SAT do we care about the crusades anymore? And that's without SAT opening the can of worms as to whether the West had any more SAT right to be there then than it does now. SAT SAT Jonathan Myerson, the adapter, wondered how to update this SAT story and find a modern parallel to this situation. SAT And then it came to him: Occupy London in 2011. Those SAT protestors started with the same, almost ecstatic belief in SAT the possibility of change. They aimed to seize the holiest SAT of places - the London Stock Exchange - but were beaten back SAT and forced to set up camp outside. As the original crusaders SAT came to loathe the heat and insect life in their desert SAT encampment outside Jerusalem, the protestors of Occupy came SAT to much the same conclusion - as winter set in - about SAT sleeping on the cold, wet flagstones of St.Paul's SAT Churchyard. And, in much the same way, the competing groups SAT started to feel it was time to pack up and go home. SAT SAT So, new listeners will follow Scott's original story of SAT conspiracy and counter-conspiracy and, most important of SAT all, star-crossed lovers but will hear new resonances in SAT this old tale. SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Kenny: John Wark SAT Hakim: Danny Rahim SAT Theo: Nicholas Woodeson SAT Rick: Alex Waldmann SAT Devvo: Martin Hutson SAT Lee: Ben Lloyd-Hughes SAT Robbo: Bryan Dick SAT Conrad: Alex Lanipekun SAT Bernie: Daisy Haggard SAT Edie: Pippa Bennett-Warner SAT Author: Walter Scott SAT Adaptor: Jonathan Myerson SAT Director: Jonathan Myerson SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b065rtg9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b065wwj7 (Listen) SAT Identity SAT SAT FutureProofing is a series in which presenters Timandra SAT Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the implications - social SAT and cultural, economic and political - of the big ideas that SAT are set to transform the way our society functions. SAT SAT Episode 2: Identity SAT SAT Timandra and Leo explore how we will answer the question SAT 'Who am I?' in future. New thinking points towards identity SAT becoming increasingly a matter of choice rather than a fixed SAT set of personal characteristics and social experiences. SAT Instead of the geographical accidents which determine our SAT places of birth and the environments in which we spend our SAT formative years, future identities appear set to become more SAT fluid, shaped by individual preference and an increasing SAT range of options available to us - and not just culturally, SAT but also regarding qualities such as our ethnicity and SAT gender. SAT SAT How might people express a more nuanced form of gender and SAT sexuality in future? If you are born with one ethnicity, SAT could you choose to identify as another? And if we are to SAT shift identity often, could that remove the stigma SAT traditionally attached to all those who present themselves SAT as very different people at different stages of their lives? SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT The future of identity? SAT SAT "Don’t forget your lingerie…” Timandra calls out to me. “It SAT all starts from within.” I'm headed for the Queer Tango SAT festival in Paris, and I've frankly got no idea what to SAT expect, except that there's going to be a boundary, and I'm SAT going to be on the wrong side of it. It's late when I arrive SAT at the Cirque Electrique, a big-top circus tent in the 20th, SAT on the Périphérique ring-road that circles the city, SAT separating in from out. I am in a vibrant cerise-pink shirt SAT that I have bought in a store near the Gare du Nord. SAT SAT The moon is up. I walk past the caravans into the tent. SAT There are men dancing with men, women dancing with women, SAT women dancing with men. Old and young, post-op and pre-on. SAT No one is looking at my shirt. It is a site of gender SAT oblivion, a place where the normal categories used to define SAT identity just don’t seem to be operating. Is this a glimpse SAT into the future? SAT SAT “Why queer tango?" I ask Jon. “Because it’s so hard”, he SAT says. And when I dance, I start to understand. In queer SAT tango there are no rules. It's like you’re playing rock, SAT paper, scissors, and for three solid minutes you’re managing SAT to throw the same identical shapes with your legs as your SAT partner. You can only do that, he tells me, if you are SAT joined to them, in the same physical and energetic space, if SAT you have forgotten the identity boundaries that we put SAT up-not just straight or gay, male or female, black or white, SAT but the big one - the Berlin Wall of identity boundaries - SAT me versus you. “Why queer tango?" I ask Diane, a French SAT banker. “To lose myself”, she says. SAT Leo SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b065ssrd (Listen) SAT Series 29, Second Semi-Final, 2015 SAT SAT (11/13) SAT Three more music lovers who have won their heats earlier in SAT the series join Paul Gambaccini for the second semi-final, SAT from London's historic Maida Vale studios. SAT SAT Paul's questions range across every style of music, from SAT Bruckner to the Beatles, Billie Holiday and Mel Brooks. With SAT the competition tougher than ever at the semi-final stage, SAT the breadth of the competitors' knowledge is really put to SAT the test. As well as answering general knowledge questions SAT on music they'll also have to 'specialise' in a category SAT chosen from a list of which they've had no warning SAT whatsoever. SAT SAT The winner takes another of the places in the 2015 Final. SAT Might this year's champion be among today's contenders? SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT ALAN FRANKLIN, a retired librarian from Fulham in London SAT SAT DAVID GREENWOOD, a programme manager from Haslemere in SAT Surrey SAT SAT GEORGE ROBEY, an IT consultant from Holmes Chapel in SAT Cheshire SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b065s7ht (Listen) SAT Series 5, Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan SAT SAT Paul Farley listens for ghosts and feels for flesh in the SAT new poems of Mark Doty and Andrew McMillan. Among the SAT subjects are baby mammoths and men working on their muscles SAT in gyms. The body and absent bodies bring a veteran American SAT poet and a young newcomer together across the Atlantic. SAT Prodcuer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b066tfvc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 New American Shorts b02lyb17 (Listen) SUN 26 Days SUN SUN A series of newly published stories examine contemporary SUN life across the water: SUN SUN 1. 26 Days by Ron Rash. SUN Daily life in the American heartlands is overshadowed by the SUN actions of a daughter, who is faraway SUN in a war-torn land... SUN SUN Reader Stuart Milligan SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Stuart Milligan SUN Producer: Duncan Minshull SUN Author: Ron Rash SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b066tfvg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b066tfvj (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b066tfvl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b066tfvn (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b066th2m (Listen) SUN Bells from the Cathedral Church of St Andrew, Wells in SUN Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b066gfbr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b066tfvq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b066th2p (Listen) SUN Bread of Life SUN SUN John McCarthy considers the importance of bread in our SUN physical and spiritual lives. SUN SUN John is baking with members of the bread group at an SUN organisation called Freedom from Torture. It looks after SUN survivors of torture from all over the world, people who SUN have been abused in their homelands and are now trying to SUN build new lives as exiles in the UK. Alongside regular SUN counselling, social and legal help, the clients can also SUN take advantage of group therapies such as the bread group. SUN As they measure, mix, knead, bake and eat, they talk about SUN the importance of bread in fulfilling both our physical and SUN spiritual needs. SUN SUN The programme includes readings from works by Primo Levi, SUN David Scott and Zimbabwean poet Amanda Hammar, as well as SUN two poems by Jean Atkin and Elizabeth Charis specially SUN commissioned for this programme by Writing West Midlands. SUN SUN Music comes from William Byrd and from Humperdinck's opera SUN Hansel and Gretel. SUN SUN The readers are Rachel Atkins, Kate Taylor and Jonathan SUN Keeble. SUN SUN Produced by Rosie Boulton SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: SUN Bread Generations SUN Author: SUN Jean Atkin SUN Publisher: SUN Specially commissioned poem by Writing West Midlands SUN Title: SUN A Man is dying for a piece of Bread for Adonis Musati, SUN Zimbabwean asylum seeker SUN Author: SUN Amanda Hammar SUN Title: SUN Knead Time Being: a meditation SUN Author: SUN Elizabeth Charis SUN Publisher: SUN Specially commissioned by Writing West Midlands SUN Title: SUN A Long way from Bread SUN Author: SUN David Scott SUN Publisher: SUN Bloodaxe 1998 SUN Title: SUN Hansel and Gretel SUN Author: SUN Brothers Grimm SUN Title: SUN If This is a Man SUN Author: SUN Primo Levi SUN Publisher: SUN Random House SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b066th2r (Listen) SUN Rathlin Island Seaweed SUN SUN Rathlin Island, just off the north coast of Northern Ireland SUN is bursting with protected flora and fauna but short on job SUN opportunities. Ruth Sanderson meets Kate Burns who, along SUN with her family, is reviving the island's kelp industry, SUN supplying sea vegetables to restaurants and shops around the SUN world. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b066tfvs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b066tfvv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b066th6s (Listen) SUN Sir Peter Fahy, Refugees in Austria, A sacred walk through SUN Bristol SUN SUN The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Sir Peter SUN Fahy, talks to Edward about his faith and his concerns for SUN the police force as he heads toward retirement. SUN SUN Bob Walker completes his final pilgrim walk in Bristol and SUN discovers that the city landscape there is steeped in SUN spirituality. SUN SUN This week Amnesty International criticised the conditions at SUN Traiskirchen Refugee Camp in Austria as thousands of people SUN from Syria are sheltering there. Journalist Hazel Southam SUN has been to the camp and has recorded a personal audio diary SUN for Sunday. SUN SUN Following this week's apology by the Scottish Catholic SUN Church to victims of child abuse, Trevor Barnes reports on SUN where the Church goes from here. SUN SUN This weekend, around 30,000 members of the global Ahmadiyya SUN Muslim Community will gather in the UK for an international SUN conference. Author Simon Valentine, who spent 18 months SUN living among the community in Bradford, explains their SUN beliefs and practices. SUN SUN More students than ever before, chose to study religious SUN studies at A-Level, more than doubling since 2003. But later SUN this year there are plans to change the curriculum. Will SUN this turn students away from wanting to study religion? SUN Edward asks Ben Wood, Vice-Chair of the National Association SUN of Teachers of Religious Education SUN SUN Producers SUN Tara Holmes SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN SUN Editor SUN Phil Pegum. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b066th6v (Listen) SUN National Eye Research Centre SUN SUN Jade Etherington presents The Radio 4 Appeal for National SUN Eye Research Centre SUN Registered Charity No 1156134 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'National Eye Research Centre'. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'National Eye Research SUN Centre'. SUN SUN National Eye Research Centre SUN SUN Forty people lose their sight every day in the UK. Going SUN blind is often feared second only to a cancer diagnosis. SUN Despite this only 2% of all medical research funding is SUN directed at sight loss and eye disease. We need your help to SUN correct this under-investment in eye research. SUN National Eye Research Centre funds research into the causes SUN and treatments of eye disease, sight loss and blindness. We SUN publish the results of that research in order to stimulate SUN further research advances in ophthalmology. The charity was SUN formed in 1986 and has invested over £17 million into eye SUN research. SUN SUN Our Research SUN SUN As a leading eye-disease research charity, we meet a SUN national need for increased research into the structure and SUN workings of the eye, into the causes of, and treatments for, SUN eye diseases and the prevention of blindness. We are SUN currently funding research into the leading causes of sight SUN loss and blindness such as age-related macular degeneration SUN (AMD), diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa SUN (RP) and uveitis. SUN Photo: *What your world looks like when you have AMD* SUN SUN Corneal Transplants - A Sight-Saving Research Success SUN SUN Research funded by the National Eye Research Centre improved SUN the success rate of corneal transplants from 50% to over SUN 90%. Now over 3,500 people have their sight restored in the SUN UK through corneal transplants every year. SUN Photo: *Researcher examining eye structures under the SUN microscope* SUN SUN Campaigning for Eye Research SUN SUN Two million people in the UK currently have a degree of SUN sight loss that has a significant impact on their daily SUN lives. However, that number is set to double by 2050 due to SUN our ageing population and the increasing incidence of SUN obesity, a key trigger of eye disease. Sight loss and SUN blindness currently costs the UK economy over £22bn every SUN year, yet much sight loss could be prevented with more SUN research. SUN Photo: *Speakers at a campaign launch in February 2015 at SUN the House of Commons pressing for more investment in eye SUN research.* SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b066tfvx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b066tfvz (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b066th6x (Listen) SUN From St Giles' Cathedral celebrating the Edinburgh Festival, SUN with Alexander McCall Smith. SUN Led by the Rev Helen Alexander with the Cathedral Choir SUN directed by Michael Harris. Organist, Peter Backhouse. SUN Anthem: O Clap Your Hands (Vaughan Williams). SUN SUN Alexander McCall Smith SUN Credit: Alex Hewitt SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b065xk25 (Listen) SUN John Gray: Recalling Eric Ambler SUN SUN John Gray recalls the life and work of the thriller writer SUN Eric Ambler and finds uncomfortable echoes of today's SUN society in the pages of his novels. SUN "What they reveal is a world ruled by financial and SUN geopolitical forces that care nothing for the human SUN individual. Most unsettlingly, this world is unmistakably SUN European." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx2x8 (Listen) SUN Marsh Tit SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Martin Hughes-Games presents the Marsh Tit. The marsh tit is SUN badly-named. It doesn't live in marshes, and is most at home SUN in older broad-leaved woodlands. "Oak tit" might be a better SUN name. Unlike some other tit species they don't travel far, SUN holding and defending their woodland territories throughout SUN the winter. SUN SUN ProducerBrett Westwood,MRS SARAH PITT,Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b066tfw1 (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 b066tk23 (Listen) SUN Susan springs into action, and Kenton feels ashamed. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Adrian Flynn SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Hazel Woolley: Annette Badland SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b066tk29 (Listen) SUN The Food Writers SUN SUN Long before the phrase Celebrity Chef, a generation of SUN writers and food experts had a major impact on the way we SUN cooked, ate and thought about food. Mary Berry, Rose Elliot, SUN Prue Leith, Claudia Roden and Katharine Whitehorn join Sue SUN MacGregor to recall the post-war decades of British food. SUN British food in the 1950s was a "great plain of desolation", SUN according to the first edition of the Good Food Guide. SUN Fourteen years of austerity under rationing had left their SUN mark on both the skill and the imagination of the ordinary SUN home cook. New arrivals Prue Leith and Claudia Roden found SUN British food disgusting, particularly in restaurants and SUN canteens. Both would go on to influence it for the better. SUN SUN As a younger generation sought an independent life away from SUN home, Katharine Whitehorn's classic survival manual, Cooking SUN in a Bedsitter, guided them through the problems of, SUN "cooking at ground level, in a hurry, with nowhere to put SUN the salad but the washing up bowl, which is in any case full SUN of socks." SUN SUN Elizabeth David introduced a generation of cooks to the SUN smells, taste and lifestyle of the Mediterranean, spawning a SUN design revolution that allowed consumers to get the look at SUN home. Restaurants introduced lighter, fresher ingredients SUN and updated décor. SUN SUN As growing numbers of women went out to work, supermarkets SUN and convenience food made life easier for many. Mary Berry SUN taught readers and viewers of the 1970s and 80s how to make SUN the most of their new freezer. Meanwhile, diners were SUN finally discovering vegetarian food was not just "a load of SUN old lentils", as Rose Elliot's books reached a new audience SUN seeking a healthier way of eating. SUN SUN Producer: Deborah Dudgeon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b066tfw3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b065sx74 (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at Sheffield City Hall, regulars SUN Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined SUN on the panel by Susan Calman, with Jack Dee in the chair. SUN Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. Producer - SUN Jon Naismith. 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: Andy Hamilton SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b066tk2c (Listen) SUN My Food Hero: Ella McSweeney Meets Wendell Berry SUN SUN Wendell Berry has been described as 'An American Hero' but SUN his work and teaching have inspired and influenced leaders, SUN writers and campaigners around the world. Ella McSweeney had SUN no hesitation in choosing him as her 'Food Hero' and travels SUN to meet him at his farm in Kentucky. She explains why his SUN work affected her so profoundly, even thousands of miles SUN away in Ireland. SUN SUN As a leading and respected farmer, writer, campaigner, SUN philosopher and poet, he wrote that "Eating is an SUN agricultural act" yet argues we have become disconnected SUN from the land by the industrialisation of the food chain, SUN that the growth of agribusiness has driven many small farms SUN out of business with a loss of their 'moral fibre and SUN wisdom' and is destroying rural communities. He argues we SUN must acknowledge the impact of agriculture to society. SUN SUN Yet despite his widespread influence he lives at a different SUN pace to the majority - using horses to work the land and SUN refusing to get a computer. SUN SUN For those unfamiliar with his work Ella will explain just SUN how significant he's been on politicians and game-changers SUN and, for those who know him already, a chance to hear his SUN thoughts on how to feed ourselves without destroying the SUN land and plant we have. SUN SUN Ella also visits the city of Louieville to see how people SUN are putting his thoughts into action in projects that SUN provide access to fresh food and but also unite communities SUN otherwise divided. SUN SUN Presented by Ella McSweeney SUN Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Ella McSweeney SUN Interviewed Guest: Wendell Berry SUN Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b066tfw5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b066tk2h (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Great Songbook b0639mst (Listen) SUN Ireland SUN SUN Everyone has heard of the Great American Songbook. In this SUN series Cerys Matthews explores the songbooks of other SUN countries. SUN SUN Today: Dublin, where Cerys discusses the musical heart of SUN the nation, seeks recommendations from a panel of experts SUN and pieces together her own Great Irish Songbook. SUN SUN Featuring musician and broadcaster Fiachna Ó Braonáin, SUN singer and song researcher Jerry O'Reilly, and cultural SUN historian Gerry Smyth. Recorded live at Whelans in Dublin. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b065xj64 (Listen) SUN Bedfordshire SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Bedfordshire. Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Anne SUN Swithinbank answer the audience questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio. SUN SUN Questions and Answers SUN Q – We use a lot of recycled materials in our gardening (eg SUN for raised beds) – can the panel describe the most striking SUN ‘planter’ that they’ve seen? SUN Matthew SUN – My two favourites – a really big metal tin with Greek SUN lettering that contained jalapeno peppers (pinched from the SUN pub) and a heavy old copper pan that I planted with SUN *Sempervivums*. To avoid drilling the latter I filled the SUN base with free-draining ‘Hydra leaker’ (expanded clay) and SUN then mounded the *Sempervivums* on top so the water drains SUN off. SUN Bunny SUN – Straw bales. Season them for ten days with water and SUN fertiliser and then plant in them. In a greenhouse SUN especially they are great for cucumbers as it keeps the SUN humidity up. Outside you can use them for potatoes and SUN lettuces. SUN Anne SUN – At Christmas I save chocolate tins, drill holes in their SUN bottoms, and use them for cut-and-come-again mixtures. I SUN can’t resist an old teapot, too. SUN SUN SUN Q – I got a neglected bottlebrush tree from a garden centre SUN – how can I restore it to its former glory? SUN Matthew SUN – [the tree is a] red-flowered Callistemon – found in Greece SUN but actually from Australia – soaking is a key thing to keep SUN moist and put it in a nice large, terracotta pot. SUN SUN SUN Q – Can you suggest some perennials with red flowers for a SUN ‘hot’ border? SUN Anne SUN – The *Monarda didyma*, the ‘Oswego tea’, or bergamot, one SUN called ‘Cambridge Scarlet’… some of the *Heleniums* are red SUN but they tend to be more of an orange/mahogany… then there SUN is the *Lobelia cardinalis* (but that needs a moist SUN soil)…some of the *Cannas* (but they’re not hardy SUN perennials)… then you’ve also got *Lychnis chalcedonica*, SUN sometimes known as ‘Maltese Cross’. SUN Bunny SUN – There’s a brilliant *Salvia *which has a very bright SUN orange/red flower (but you have to bring it in in winter). SUN Some of the peonies and oriental poppies are lovely and red. SUN SUN SUN Q – We’ve got a long (200yard/183m) gravel path through the SUN allotments – what is the most effective, organic way of SUN controlling the weeds? SUN Matthew SUN – This is a Bob Flowerdew favourite – use boiling water from SUN the kettle after you’ve made a cup of tea. SUN Bunny SUN – Or use a little, manageable flame gun. SUN Matthew SUN – Once you’ve cleared it you could then try putting down a SUN much finer gravel which will help SUN SUN SUN Q – For the past three years I’ve planted an *Acer* in SUN different parts of the garden and every year it has died on SUN me – suggestions please. SUN Anne SUN – These are temperamental plants - they’ll need quite SUN specific conditions. I’d recommend a ‘woodland’ SUN environment, so preferably north-facing, slightly raised so SUN they drain well in winter, put lots of compost in so you get SUN good moisture retention for the summer, not too sunny, some SUN shade, not too windy. That’s the sort of environment it SUN would like. SUN Bunny SUN – These picky plants are very susceptible to frost after SUN their leaves have opened in the first few years. So you’ve SUN really got to protect it from late frosts. And they like a SUN more acid soil too. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have two trellis areas on a north-facing wall, 2m x SUN 1m, what flowering plants would the panel suggest that I SUN grow? But not *Pyracantha* because it’s too prickly! SUN Bunny SUN – On my north-facing walls I like to grow roses and they do SUN really well. I’ve got *Phyllis Bide*, which is a SUN repeat-flowering rambler, which is covered in apricot-pink SUN blossom. ‘Madame Alfred Carrier’, or a *Hydrangea seemanii* SUN if you want something evergreen. SUN Matthew SUN – I grow *Camellias* on my north-facing wall and I grow them SUN as wall shrubs, tightly pruned against the wall, so they’re SUN almost like climbers. SUN SUN SUN Q – Does lichen kill shrubs? SUN Bunny SUN – I don’t think it does any harm whatsoever. It’s normally SUN just a sign that other plants are slowing in growth and the SUN lichen is making the most of it. SUN Matthew SUN – I agree. More likely you’ve got a problem in the soil or SUN another issue but presence of the lichen is just a SUN coincidence SUN SUN SUN Q – Lupins. My mother grew great swathes of them in SUN Cambridgeshire and they are a favourite flower of mine. I SUN have tried unsuccessfully to grow them in the clay soil near SUN the river in Bedford, have you any tips? SUN Bunny SUN – If they’re dying off in the first year I think you might SUN have a slug problem – slugs and Lupins are like bread and SUN butter! SUN Anne SUN – Have you done a soil test? Because Lupins really like a SUN neutral-to-acid soil. Also, don’t plant a Lupin out at SUN anything under a 5 inch (12.7cm) pot size. You could try SUN and make a slightly raised bed too to give a better growing SUN medium away from the clay. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have two pieces of garden paraphernalia that I SUN couldn’t go without! I have my gardening utility belt and I SUN have garden twine – I would like to know what the panel SUN could get rid of from their own gardening paraphernalia? SUN Bunny SUN – I’ve got lots of useless things! One is a ‘Spork’ (hybrid SUN spade and fork), and the garden shredder is useless too. SUN Matthew SUN – Every cheap bit of gardening stuff I’ve ever bought! SUN There’s a reason they’re cheap; it’s such a false economy. SUN Anne SUN – I just have a basic kit – comfortable forks and rakes. I SUN have a bulb-planter I could happily ditch though! SUN Eric SUN – I have one particular piece of machinery that I haven’t SUN thrown away in order to warn me off bad purchases and that’s SUN an Allen Scythe… SUN Other panellists SUN (in unison) – No! We love Allen Scythes.. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b066tk2m (Listen) SUN Fi Glover hears about the surprising rewards of youth work, SUN and the differing attitudes of one couple to cycling, and of SUN a much younger pair to ballroom dancing in the Omnibus SUN edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b066ttr9 (Listen) SUN Iris Murdoch: The Sea, the Sea, Episode 1 SUN SUN Jeremy Irons stars Iris Murdoch's 1978 Booker prize winning SUN novel, dramatised by Robin Brooks - as part of the Iris SUN Murdoch season on BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 2): SUN Charles Arrowby, a distinguished theatre-director, decides SUN to retire to a remote house by the sea in order to write his SUN memoirs. SUN SUN Sound Design: Wilfredo Acosta SUN SUN Producer: Fiona McAlpine SUN Director: Bill Alexander SUN An Allegra production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Charles Arrowby: Jeremy Irons SUN Lizzie Scherer: Joanna David SUN Gilbert Opian: Anthony Calf SUN Peregrine Arbelow: Tim McInnerny SUN Rosina Vamburgh: Sara Kestelman SUN Hartley Fitch: Maggie Steed SUN Ben Fitch: David Horovitch SUN James Arrowby: Simon Williams SUN Arkwright: Nick Underwood SUN Young Charles: Fred Fergus SUN Young Hartley: Eleanor Crosswell SUN Author: Iris Murdoch SUN Adaptor: Robin Brooks SUN Producer: Fiona McAlpine SUN Director: Bill Alexander SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b066ttrc (Listen) SUN Literary Landscape: The Coast SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup heads to Lyme Regis to explore the SUN literature of our coastline. SUN SUN She is joined by Julia Rochester author of The House at the SUN Edge of the World, which is set in a north Devon seaside SUN town, writer Patrick Barkham who has walked many miles of SUN the UK's seaside paths and Bristol University's Dr Alicia SUN Rix, to explore what has made the boundary between the land SUN and the sea such a fertile landscape for novelists' SUN imaginations. SUN Writer David Vann sends a postcard to tell us why, after a SUN lifetime on the sea, his fear of sharks still overwhelms SUN him. SUN While the celebrated Blake Morrison reads a poem from his SUN recent collection Shingle Street, which captures the SUN shifting pebbles of the Suffolk shoreline. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Julia Rochester SUN Interviewed Guest: Patrick Barkham SUN Interviewed Guest: Alicia Rix SUN Interviewed Guest: David Vann SUN Interviewed Guest: Blake Morrison SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b066ttrf (Listen) SUN Series 5, Tony Harrison SUN SUN Paul Farley hears Tony Harrison read a new long poem called SUN Polygons - a poem set in Delphi in Greece, that richly draws SUN together many of the poetic preoccupations of his life: SUN Greek tragedy, the wild landscapes of ancient human sacred SUN sites, the deaths and passing of poetic mates, and the SUN comforts of water and of wine. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Overage Drinkers b064ygls (Listen) SUN Heavy drinking by older people is causing a major public SUN health risk in the UK, yet the issue often falls below the SUN radar. SUN SUN While alcohol consumption among the young is falling, the SUN over 60s are drinking more, and more harmfully, with one in SUN three developing problems with alcohol for the first time in SUN later life and alcohol-related hospital admissions among the SUN old rising alarmingly. SUN SUN BBC reporter Leala Padmanabhan investigates, starting with SUN the story of her own father who developed alcoholism in his SUN 70s while caring for her mother, who has alcoholism-related SUN dementia. Despite his background as a doctor and his long SUN experience of witnessing his wife's alcoholism, Leala's SUN father was unable to rehabilitate himself, and his drink SUN problem helped contribute to his death in 2010. SUN SUN Leala's family is the starting point for a programme telling SUN her own and similar stories. SUN SUN A large number of people are developing problems in later SUN life, partly because of social factors associated with their SUN age, such as loneliness, bereavement, depression and SUN boredom. SUN SUN In addition to these late-onset drinkers there is a large SUN number of "baby boomers" who are carrying heavy drinking SUN patterns into old age. SUN SUN And yet alcohol problems are less likely to be detected in SUN older people, and where problems are detected, they are less SUN likely to be referred to an alcohol service for treatment. SUN SUN Leala talks to family members and friends about her own SUN father's decline. She also interviews people grappling with SUN a similar problem, campaigners working to raise awareness, SUN people working in treatment services, and social and medical SUN experts. SUN SUN Support Organisations SUN Drinkline SUN is a national alcohol helpline. If you're worried about your SUN own or someone else's drinking, you can call the free SUN helpline in complete confidence. They can put you in touch SUN with your local alcohol advice centre for help and support. SUN Helpline SUN : 0300 123 1110 SUN Alcoholics Anonymous SUN SUN If you seem to be having trouble with your drinking, or if SUN your drinking has reached the point where it worries you, SUN you may be interested to know something about Alcoholics SUN Anonymous and the A.A. programme of recovery from SUN alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire SUN to stop drinking. SUN SUN National Helpline: SUN 0800 9177 650 SUN SUN http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk SUN SUN Drinkaware SUN provides consumers with information to make informed SUN decisions about the effects of alcohol on their lives and SUN lifestyles. The charity aims to reduce alcohol misuse and SUN minimise alcohol-related harm in the UK. SUN SUN http://www.drinkaware.co.uk SUN SUN Addaction SUN has services throughout England and Scotland that help SUN people and their families recover from addiction and SUN substance misuse problems. The charity has services for both SUN adults and young people. SUN http://www.addaction.org.uk/ SUN Service finder SUN http://www.addaction.org.uk/service-finder.asp?section=98&se SUN tionTitle=Service+finder SUN SUN Aquarius SUN strives to help people, their families and friends overcome SUN the harms caused by alcohol, drugs and gambling. For SUN information, support, visit them online. SUN SUN http://www.aquarius.org.uk SUN SUN Adfam SUN works to improve support for families affected by drug and SUN alcohol use. They provide information for families and can SUN help them access a range of support options, including local SUN support groups across the UK. SUN General enquiries SUN : 020 7553 7640 (please note Adfam does not operate a SUN helpline) SUN http://www.adfam.org.uk/ SUN SUN Nacoa (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics) SUN is a charity that supports the needs of children growing up SUN in families where one or both parents suffer from alcoholism SUN or a similar addictive problem. SUN Helpline SUN : 0800 358 3456 SUN SUN Email: SUN helpline@Nacoa.org.uk SUN SUN SUN http://www.nacoa.org.uk SUN SUN Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol & Drugs SUN provides information and support to anyone who is concerned SUN about someone they care about who is misusing alcohol or SUN drugs. SUN Helpline SUN : 08080 10 10 11 SUN Email SUN : SUN helpline@sfad.org.uk SUN SUN http://www.sfad.org.uk SUN SUN Age UK SUN is a charity dedicated to improving later life for all. They SUN provide free information, advice and support on the issues SUN that matter to older people. SUN Age UK Advice (Age UK & Age Cymru) SUN : 0800 169 6565 SUN Age NI Advice SUN : 0808 808 7575 SUN Age Scotland Helpline SUN : 0845 125 9732 SUN SUN http://www.ageuk.org.uk SUN SUN Independent Age SUN is a charity providing information, advice and support to SUN older people their families and carers. SUN Phone SUN : 0800 319 6789 (10am-4pm, Monday to Friday) SUN Email SUN advice@independentage.or SUN SUN http://www.independentage.org SUN SUN SUN Cruse Bereavement Care SUN is there to support you after the death of someone close. SUN Helpline (England, Wales, NI) SUN : 0844 477 9400 (weekdays 9:30am–5pm) SUN Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland SUN : 0845 600 2227 SUN Email SUN : SUN helpline@cruse.org.uk SUN SUN http://www.cruse.org.uk SUN SUN SUN Bereavement Advice Centre SUN is a free helpline and web-based information service which SUN supports and advises people on what they need to do after a SUN death. SUN Helpline SUN : 0800 634 9494 or 01789 265077 (9am to 5pm Monday to SUN Friday) SUN SUN http://www.bereavementadvice.org SUN SUN SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b066gfbr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b066tfw7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b066tfw9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b066tfwc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b066ttrh (Listen) SUN Catherine Bott SUN SUN Singer and broadcaster Catherine Bott celebrates a Titan of SUN British film, delights in Prue Leith's 'explosive' marmalade SUN and presents two great real life dads. SUN SUN Also in the programme: King Charles meets his match in SUN Oliver Crumble, Tufty makes an appearance and there are a SUN host of actors from Peter Capaldi and Jo Brand to Jeremy SUN Irons and Miles Jupp. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b066ty8g (Listen) SUN Susan feels betrayed, and Carol senses unhappiness. SUN SUN 19:15 Wordaholics b01dhhps (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 5 SUN SUN Gyles Brandreth hosts a comedy panel show in which guests SUN are challenged to display their knowledge of words and SUN language. In this edition he is joined by Jack Whitehall, SUN Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Countdown's Susie Dent. SUN SUN This week's letter of the week is P which really packs a SUN punch. SUN SUN We learn why Susie Dent's favourite word is 'blurb', we find SUN out what a Chicago Piano was and we listen as Jack Whitehall SUN struggles to reduce to a tweet a particularly fruity passage SUN from his father's autobiography. SUN SUN Writers: James Kettle and Jon Hunter. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b066ty8j (Listen) SUN Series 11, Pick Me Up, by Angela Barnes SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded live in front of an audience at this SUN year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SUN SUN The series gets underway with a bittersweet tale by Angela SUN Barnes: BBC New Comedy Award winner in 2011 whose writing SUN credits include Radio 4's News Quiz and The Now Show. SUN SUN Completing the line-up, and coming up over the next two SUN Sundays, will be stories by Dane Baptiste (nominated for SUN last year's Best Newcomer at the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy SUN Awards) and acclaimed Scottish writer and performer Robert SUN Florence (co-creator of cult TV sketch comedy Burnistoun). SUN SUN Writer: Angela Barnes SUN SUN Angela Barnes SUN SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Angela Barnes SUN Performer: Angela Barnes SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b065xk1v (Listen) SUN Soaring diabetes - is there some good news? SUN SUN Diabetes SUN We heard earlier this week that there had been a 60% rise in SUN the number of cases of diabetes in the last ten years. But SUN is there actually some good news in these figures? SUN SUN Odd (attempted) burglaries SUN Police in Leicestershire have been sending forensic teams SUN only to attempted burglaries at houses with even numbers. SUN The papers reported it as a scandal driven by money-saving. SUN But was it in fact a sensible attempt to work out how best SUN to deploy tight resources? SUN SUN Men who pay for sex SUN Do one in 10 men regularly pay for sex, as a Channel 4 SUN Documentary claimed recently? SUN SUN Loop SUN The ancient Greeks saw magic in the geometry of an ellipse SUN and now mathematical writer Alex Bellos has but this to use SUN in a new variant of pool. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b065xk1s (Listen) SUN Presenter Lucy Ash remembers: SUN SUN Khaled Al-Asaad, the Syrian archaeologist beheaded by SUN Islamic State who was famous for his in depth knowledge and SUN love of the ancient city of Palmyra; SUN Jazz Summers, the maverick music manager who took Wham! to SUN China and had a reputation as a hard man; SUN Jack Gold, multi-BAFTA winning TV director of the Naked SUN Civil Servant and Goodnight Mr Tom; SUN Manuel Contreras, the army general who ran Chile's brutal SUN secret police during Pinochet's dictatorship; SUN And Dawn Wofford, the showjumping champion who won her first SUN competition at the age of three. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN Khaleed al-Asaad SUN SUN Lucy spoke to Amr Al Azm , associate professor of Middle SUN East history and anthropology at Shawnee State University in SUN Ohio who knew Mr al-Asaad. SUN SUN Born 1932; died 18 August 2015 aged 82. SUN SUN Jazz Summers SUN SUN Lucy spoke to music journalist Tim Ingham and to singer Lisa SUN Stansfield. SUN SUN Born 15 March 1944; died 14 August 2015 aged 71. SUN SUN Dawn Wofford SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her daughter, Valerie Coburn. SUN SUN Born 23 May 1936; died 12 July 2015 aged 79. SUN SUN General Manuel Contreras SUN SUN Lucy spoke to the Jane Chambers, journalist in Santiago. SUN SUN Born 4 May 1929; died 7 August 2015 aged 86. SUN SUN Jack Gold (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Julian Pettifer who worked with him on SUN *Tonight* and to actress Sheila Hancock. SUN SUN Born 28 June 1930; died 9 August 2015 aged 85. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Lucy Ash SUN SUN 21:00 The New Workplace b066fqcw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b066th6v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b065xchg (Listen) SUN Graphene SUN SUN It would take an elephant balanced on the tip of a pencil to SUN break through a sheet of graphene the thickness cling film. SUN That's the description those promoting this new wonder SUN material like to use to illustrate the strength of graphene. SUN The atomic material was isolated by two scientists at SUN Manchester University in 2004. Now, just over a decade and SUN one Nobel prize later, Peter Day visits the newly opened the SUN National Graphene Institute. Its aim is to bring business SUN and science together, to develop potential future uses for SUN graphene. Will this strategy succeed where Britain's past SUN attempts to spin out scientific discoveries have not? SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN (Image credit: The University of Manchester) SUN SUN Contributors include: SUN SUN Dr Nigel Salter, Managing Director, 2-DTech SUN http://2-dtech.com/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Paul Wiper, Research Associate, National Graphene SUN Institute SUN http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ SUN SUN SUN SUN James Baker, Business Director, National Graphene Institute SUN http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ SUN SUN SUN SUN Eddie Smith, Strategic Director for Manchester City Council SUN www.manchester.gov.uk SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Ania Servent, Knowledge Exchange Fellow, National SUN Graphene Institute SUN http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/ SUN SUN SUN SUN David Edgerton, Professor of the History of Science and SUN Technology, Kings College London SUN http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/Aca SUN emic/edgertond/edgertond.aspx SUN SUN SUN SUN Jonathan Haskell, Professor of Economics, Imperial College SUN Business School SUN http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haskel SUN SUN SUN SUN Morten Froseth, CEO, CrayoNano SUN www.crayonano.com SUN SUN SUN SUN Dr Achim Hoffmann IP Group SUN www.ipgroupplc.com SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b066ty8l (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b066ty8n (Listen) SUN Stephen Bush of The New Statesman analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b065xcgw (Listen) SUN Fifteen Seconds of Fame SUN SUN Antonia Quirke hears from listeners who found 15 seconds of SUN fame in the movies, like John Chapman whose hair can be seen SUN in two scenes in Star Wars. Hanja Kochansky rubbed shoulders SUN with Richard Burton in Cleopatra, while Diane Poole was SUN picked from her school playground to take the plum part of SUN Hayley Mills' sister in Whistle Down The Wind. Antonia SUN visits Downham village to meet Diane and her best friend Pam SUN Dyson, who played Pam in the movie. There's the tale of the SUN badly behaved extra and the resident of Notting Hill who was SUN greeted one morning by the sight of Rhys Ifans in his grey SUN underpants on his neighbour's doorstep. SUN SUN HOW TO MAKE YOUR HOUSE A MOVIE STAR SUN HOW TO MAKE YOUR HOUSE A MOVIE STAR SUN To register your house click SUN here SUN if you live in Wales SUN To register your house click SUN here SUN if you live in England but outside London SUN To register your house click SUN here SUN if you live in London SUN To register your house click SUN here SUN if you live in Scotland SUN To register your house click SUN here SUN if you live in Northern Ireland SUN SUN BUSTER KEATON ON TOUR IN BRITAIN SUN Did you see Buster Keaton on his tour of British theatres in SUN 1951? If you did, please e-mail us at SUN thefilmprogramme@bbc.co.uk SUN These are his tour dates: SUN June 18-23 Leicester Palace SUN June 35-31 Chiswick Empire SUN July 2-7 Wood Green Empire SUN July 9-14 Manchester Hippodrome SUN July 16-21 Derby Hippodrome SUN July 30-August 4 Leeds Empire SUN August 6-11 Glasgow Empire SUN August 13-18 Newcastle Empire SUN August 20-24 Bradford Alhambra SUN At the end of the tour the other acts gave Buster Keaton a SUN gift. Photograph courtesy of Bob Borgen. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: John Chapman SUN Interviewed Guest: Hanja Kochansky SUN Interviewed Guest: Diane Poole SUN Interviewed Guest: Pam Dyson SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b066th2p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b066tfxd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Move b04nv6m6 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON On average we move eight times during our lives and end up MON quite close to where we are born. MON MON But this week Rosie meets Tina, an American artist and MON serial mover. Tina gets itchy feet within months and is now MON drawn by the light and coastline of the North East. MON Fascinated by Scarborough where she knows no one but one MON on-line friend, Tina is trying to raise the money to make MON the 250 mile move through crowdfunding. MON MON Jim and Sheila are leaving behind their beloved converted MON barn to move from Derby to Northern Ireland. Sheila has MON never lived outside Derby but now in her 70s, Jim is taking MON her across the North Sea with her Labradors and his MON home-made aeroplane to be nearer the grandchildren and, with MON cheaper house prices, a dream of living like kings. But MON sadly before they go, they have a secret they must bid MON farewell to. MON MON Producers: Simon Elmes and Sarah Bowen. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b066th2m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b066tfxg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b066tfxj (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b066tfxl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b066tfxn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06829td (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian MON Bradley of the University of St Andrews. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b066v1vg (Listen) MON How global politics impact UK farms MON MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:56 Weather b066tfxq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwsb7 (Listen) MON Jackdaw MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Martin Hughes-Games presents the jackdaw. Jackdaws are MON scavengers with a reputation for stealing shiny or MON glittering objects. Martin Hughes-Games tells the story of a MON tame jackdaw he had as a child, which became a very MON colourful member of the family, with her very own store of MON costume jewellery to play with. MON MON Jackdaw (Corvus monedula) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b066v39n (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Just a Minute b0670gmc (Listen) MON Edinburgh Festival MON MON Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Susan Calman and Tom Allen MON find out just how hard it can be to talk for 60 seconds with MON no hesitation, repetition & deviation in this special MON episode recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Tom Allen MON MON 09:30 Soundstage b05mrptn (Listen) MON St James' Park MON MON Our urban parks and gardens create green lanes and oases of MON open spaces within our towns and cities. They are also MON conduits for wildlife as well as for people. St James' Park MON in Newcastle upon Tyne does have lush green turf but it is MON less of an oasis and more of a battlefield because since MON 1892 it has been the home of Newcastle United football club, MON and so regularly pounds with the clamour of human voices. At MON these times its anything but tranquil! On the northern MON boundary is Leazes Park a formal Victorian park opened in MON 1873. In this programme, Chris was keen to record the MON changing soundscape across these two connected parks over MON the course of a single day, match day. The recordings begin MON at 3am in the city centre as revellers start to leave the MON night clubs and make their way home; many of them crossing MON Leazes Park. A trail of food cartons provide rich pickings MON for mice which in turn are preyed upon by the park's tawny MON owls and foxes. At 4am, a robin sings stimulated by the glow MON of the street light. The first light of the day brings MON joggers and then parents with children to the park, where MON their excited chatter mingles with the calls of mallards and MON coots on the lake. Over the next few hours the park and city MON are transformed as fans gather for the match. Many arrive at MON Newcastle Central Station where their enthusiastic and MON almost deafening chants, are punctuated by the growls and MON barks of police dogs. The fans are escorted to the stadium. MON Inside, the match is an orchestra of sound as the voices of MON the fans ring out with excitement and anticipation, MON despondency and joy until the final whistle is blown. After MON the match, the fans disperse, and then the real magpies, MON return to the park to their night roost; their wild sounds MON filling the air. Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Chris Watson MON MON Born in 1953 in Sheffield where he attended Rowlinson School MON and Stannington College, Watson was a founding member of the MON influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret MON Voltaire during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. His sound MON recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees MON Television. Since then he has developed a particular and MON passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of MON animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As MON a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, MON Watson specialises in natural history and documentary MON location sound together with sound design in MON post-production. MON MON His television work includes many programmes in the David MON Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ MON which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. MON More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with MON David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which MON also won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012). MON MON Watson has recorded and featured in many BBC Radio MON productions including; ‘ MON The Listeners MON ’ and ‘The Wire’ which won him the Broadcasting Press MON Guild’s Broadcaster of The Year Award (2012), NATURE, Tweet MON of the Day, and ' MON The Cliff MON '. MON http://www.chriswatson.net/ MON MON Best of Natural History Radio Podcast MON This programme is available to download for free via the " MON Best of Natural History Radio MON " podcast MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b066v39q (Listen) MON Francis Bacon in Your Blood, Under the Spell MON MON Adrian Scarborough reads Michael Peppiatt's intimate and MON indiscreet account of his thirty-year friendship with the MON defining artist of our time. MON MON Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's MON French House to request an interview for a student magazine. MON Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis MON they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation MON that would continue until Bacon's death in 1992. MON MON The Soho photographer, John Deakin, who introduced the young MON student to the famous artist, called Peppiatt 'Bacon's MON Boswell'. And for decades, Peppiatt accompanied Bacon on his MON nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to MON louche club to casino, witnessing all aspects of Bacon's MON 'gilded gutter life', as well as meeting the likes of Lucian MON Freud, East End thugs, Andy Warhol and the Duke of MON Devonshire. He also frequently discussed painting with Bacon MON in his studio, where only the artist's closest friends were MON ever admitted. MON MON Despite the chaos Bacon created around him Peppiatt managed MON to record scores of their conversations ranging over every MON aspect of life and art, love and death. And here he shows MON Bacon close-up, grand and petty, tender and treacherous by MON turn, and often quite unlike the myth that has grown up MON around him. MON MON Today: the young ingenue Peppiatt is taken into Bacon's MON circle. MON MON Reader: Adrian Scarborough MON Writer: Michael Peppiatt is an art historian, curator and MON writer. His 1996 biography of Francis Bacon was chosen as a MON 'Book of the Year' by the New York Times. MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Adrian Scarborough MON Author: Michael Peppiatt MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b066v39s (Listen) MON Iris Murdoch, The coil contraceptive, Parenting girls MON MON As Girlguiding UK releases new research on the mental MON well-being of women and girls from 7 to 21, do the concerns MON of parents match up with the issues that worry their MON daughters? We hear the views of 12 and 13 year-olds, and MON Emma is joined by James Davies the managing director of MON Childwise Research and parenting educator Susie Hayman. MON MON Woman's Hour's drama this week adapts Iris Murdoch's novel, MON A Severed Head. We learn more about her life, her writing MON and her philosophical ideas with Anne Rowe, associate MON professor of English Literature and director of the Iris MON Murdoch Archive Project at Kingston University, and the MON writer and journalist Bidisha. MON MON In the latest in the series on men and relationships, Suzi MON Godson looks at what retirement can mean for couples. David MON Ainger, who is just over 80-years-old and a retired MON Barrister, describes the challenges of retirement, the MON ingredients of his long and happy marriage of 51 years to MON Elizabeth, and thinking ahead to a time when one of them may MON be widowed. MON MON And the contraceptive coil, more women are having them MON fitted. And whilst some women swear by theirs', others had MON no idea how painful it would be. So how much does it hurt? MON And do the doctors tell us? The programme asks Dr Kate MON Armitage, a GP in student surgery in Leeds, and Dr Sam Hutt, MON a GP and researcher from the Margaret Pyke centre. MON MON Presenter: Emma Barnett MON Producer: Helen Fitzhenry. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Emma Barnett MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b066v39v (Listen) MON Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head, Episode 1 MON MON by Iris Murdoch MON MON Dramatist ..... Stephen Wakelam MON Director ..... Sally Avens MON MON When Martin Lynch-Gibbon's wife runs off with her analyst MON and his best friend, Palmer Anderson, the three characters MON attempt to behave in a civilised manner; but there is the MON matter of Martin's mistress and Palmer's sister to contend MON with and undoubtedly the thin veneer of civilisation will MON crack in Murdoch's witty and wise story. MON MON Credits MON Martin: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Antonia: Victoria Hamilton MON Palmer Anderson: Matthew Marsh MON Honor Klein: Helen Schlesinger MON Georgie: Rhiannon Neads MON Alexander: Sam Dale MON Author: Iris Murdoch MON Adaptor: Stephen Wakelam MON Director: Sally Avens MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b066v39x (Listen) MON Series 20, The River Cam MON MON Alan Dein tackles the picturesque but crowded stretch of the MON River Cam that winds in and out of Cambridge. Here, MON house-boats, punts, rowing boats and cruisers fight for MON space on what is, the river manager says, the most crowded MON stretch of river in Britain. MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON 11:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03gg7n7 (Listen) MON Series 1, Problems With a Package MON MON Tom's parents are in Tenerife but that doesn't stop Tom MON making his weekly call. Tom lives to regret persuading them MON to explore more than just the hotel whilst they're on MON holiday. MON MON Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups gets underneath the skin of Tom MON and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a bit of MON totally legal phone hacking. MON MON Classic Wrigglesworth rants combined with a fascinating and MON hilarious glimpse into his family background and the MON influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and MON hang-ups. MON MON Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from MON Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the MON conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call MON to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate MON various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his MON family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off MON about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday MON annoyances. MON MON During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from MON 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from MON our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in MON a 30 minute phone call. MON MON Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle MON Additional Material by Miles Jupp MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Granny: Judy Parfitt MON Dad: Paul Copley MON Mum: Kate Anthony MON Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth MON Writer: James Kettle MON Writer: Miles Jupp MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 12:00 News Summary b066tfxs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Why Factor b06709t6 (Listen) MON The Moon MON MON The moon has fascinated humans everywhere and for all time. MON Why? Mike Williams explores the moon in mythology, how it MON has looked to the Earth-bound and he asks Alan Bean - one of MON the handful of people who have walked on the moon - what MON it's really like. MON MON Producer: Richard Knight. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b066vbkv (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b066tfxv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b066vbkz (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward MON Stourton. MON MON 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b066vbl1 (Listen) MON Gifts to the Corinthians MON MON Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive MON quality of charisma MON MON 1.Gifts to the Corinthians MON From St Paul's coining of the word to the commodification of MON charisma in the 21st century - an overview of this equivocal MON gift. MON MON St Paul coined the word "charisma" in his letters to the MON Corinthians, defining it as a divine gift, such as prophecy MON or speaking in tongues. Francine starts her exploration by MON learning about the volatile world in which St Paul was MON writing, and the many strange mystery religions and hero MON cults which abounded at the time. She brings the religious MON meaning of the word right up to date by exploring why these MON more flamboyant gifts do not suit all worshippers in today's MON Church of England. MON MON Far from a celebration of celebrity, Pinning Down the MON Butterfly is a very contemporary study. From the start, MON Francine explores the idea that charisma is an amoral MON quality, deeply implicated in the 2008 banking crisis, MON Britain's ambivalent relationship with politics and royalty, MON and the seductive draw of Osama Bin Laden and the new MON "digital caliphate" of the so-called Islamic State. MON MON Contributors include John Adair (Professor of Leadership at MON the UN), Moeletsi Mbeki, Derren Brown, Professor Lucy Riall, MON Kenneth Branagh, Peter Day, Elesa Zehndorfer, Professor MON Michael Kenny, Professor Patricia Fara, Helen Castor and MON Abdel Bari Atwan. MON MON Readings by Simon Russell Beale MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b066ty8g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b066vcmy (Listen) MON Fifteen Minutes MON MON By Sarah Wooley MON MON "Making money is art, and working is art and good business MON is the best art." - Andy Warhol MON MON Set in New York in the heady days of Studio 54, in the late MON 1970s and early 80s, "Fifteen Minutes" looks at the later MON period in Andy Warhol's life when he was painting portraits MON to commission and running 'Interview' magazine. Young MON editor, Bob Colacello has the bright idea of hiring the MON ageing Truman Capote to do celebrity interviews. In exchange MON for his monthly column, Capote would be gifted a portrait. MON And so began one of the most complicated and explosive of MON collaborations. MON MON A BBC Scotland production directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON Credits MON Bob Colacello: Will Howard MON Andy Warhol: Tobias Menzies MON Truman Capote: Adrian Rawlins MON Fred Hughes: David Seddon MON Director: Gaynor Macfarlane MON Writer: Sarah Wooley MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b066vcn0 (Listen) MON Series 29, Third Semi-Final, 2015 MON MON (12/13) MON Paul Gambaccini welcomes the last three of 2015's MON semi-finalists to the Radio Theatre, for the contest that MON will decide who takes the sole remaining place in the Final. MON MON The questions range across the usual wide spectrum of MON musical topics and performers - taking in Rodgers & Hart, MON Rossini, Wagner and John Lennon among many others. The MON competitors will have to pick an unseen special subject on MON which to answer individual questions, without having had any MON chance to prepare. As often, with the standard at the MON semi-final stage especially high, it could all be decided in MON the breathless pace of the closing quick-fire round. MON MON The winner returns next week to face the final hurdle in the MON race for the 29th annual Counterpoint champion's title. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b066tk2c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Travelling the Spaceways: The Cult of Sun Ra MON b046nvxs (Listen) MON Jez Nelson explores the life of Sun Ra - the renowned jazz MON composer, bandleader and pianist born 100 years ago. MON Sun Ra was the first black avant-garde musician, paving the MON way for Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Archie Shepp. He MON set up his own record label before independent labels MON existed, and was one of the first to use synthesizers in his MON music. He also commanded a unique and, some would say, MON unhealthy dedication from his band. They lived in his house MON and eschewed sex, drugs and even sleep in the pursuit of a MON higher cause - music. MON MON Two decades after his death, Sun Ra continues to inspire a MON dedicated following. His original band, the Arkestra, MON regularly sell-out European concert halls, there are MON numerous tribute bands around the World and even an annual MON Italian music festival exclusively devoted to him. So why MON does he continue to hold this cult status? Revisiting an MON intriguing interview he gave shortly before he died, and MON with new interviews with band members and Sun Ra obsessives, MON Jez Nelson asks whether, a century on from his birth, we are MON any better placed to understand Sun Ra's message. MON MON Contributors include Gilles Peterson, Marshall Allen, John MON Sinclair and Jerry Dammers. MON MON Producer: Joby Waldman MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b066vcn2 (Listen) MON Tunisia MON MON The luxury hotels in the beach resorts of Tunisia which were MON once packed with tourists now lie nearly empty. The MON slaughter on the beach at Sousse on June 26th has added MON Tunisia to a growing list of no-go areas for Western MON tourists. Tunisia is 99% Muslim but was considered an oasis MON of secularism in the Arab World. Its revolution in 2011 MON marked the beginning of The Arab Spring, bringing democratic MON government in place of a dictatorship. But all those hopes MON now appear to have turned to dust. Tunisia sends more MON fighters to Syria than any other Arab country, perhaps as MON many as 3000. Tunisia is now ruled by a coalition that MON includes an overtly Islamist party, called Ennahda. So what MON does the future hold for the country? Is it going down a MON radical route? MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by Zoe Petkanas, working on a Ph.D on MON Gender, Law and Social Change in North Africa at Cambridge MON University; Dr Radwan Masmoudi, President of the Centre of MON the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington D.C.; and MON Berny Sebe, Senior Lecturer in colonial and post colonial MON studies at Birmingham University. MON MON Produced by Nija Dalal-Small. MON MON 17:00 PM b066vcn4 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b066tfxx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b066vcn6 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Lloyd Langford, Henning Wehn, Sara Pascoe and Miles Jupp are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as magic, Austria, swans and onions. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Sara Pascoe MON Panellist: Miles Jupp MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b066vd0z (Listen) MON Peggy gets a shock, and Toby gets some help. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b066vd11 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b066v39v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 A Short History of Ukrainians in Britain b05vcsdn (Listen) MON Few people in Britain knew much about Ukraine until its MON recent revolution and war with Russian-backed rebels filled MON the news headlines. But, for decades, towns and cities MON across the UK have been home to Ukrainian communities MON created by refugees from a previous attempt to break free of MON Moscow's control. MON MON Award-winning author and journalist Oliver Bullough travels MON from Lockerbie and Edinburgh to Manchester and London to MON hear the stories of Britain's Ukrainians. He hears of the MON prisoners of war arriving after the Second World War - MON Ukrainians who fought with the German army against the MON Soviet Union, and then won asylum in the UK - and how they MON mingled with compatriots already here. MON MON Determined to preserve their culture in exile, they MON established churches and community centres, passing on their MON language, music and folklore to their British-born children. MON They dreamed of one day returning to a free homeland but, MON post-1991, when they could finally do so, it was a MON disappointment - corrupt, blighted and poor. More Ukrainians MON came from Ukraine to Britain, than left Britain for Ukraine. MON MON This is a story told in several voices - a musician who MON teaches the bandura (a traditional Ukrainian stringed MON instrument) to children in Manchester, the caretaker of a MON Ukrainian prisoner of war chapel in Lockerbie, a MON Scottish-Ukrainian SNP politician, a choreographer and a MON London GP. Set between these voices are the sounds of MON music-making, dancing, church services and protests on the MON streets of London. MON MON We hear how the revolution and war in Ukraine have MON galvanised Britain's Ukrainians to raise money and awareness MON for the future of their homeland. MON MON Producer: Cicely Fell MON An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON After the Second World War, some 35,000 Ukrainian prisoners MON of war were resettled in camps across the UK. MON MON Ukrainian dancing in Manchester MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b065x674 (Listen) MON The Harragas of Algeria MON MON Why are so many young people leaving Algeria? Unlike Syria MON or Libya, Algeria is supposedly a beacon of stability in a MON troubled region and it enjoys vast wealth from its oil and MON gas resources. Yet it remains a major source of illegal MON migrants to Europe and thousands continue to risk their MON lives crossing the sea to get there. They are known as MON 'Harraga', derived from the verb to burn in Arabic because MON they burn their identity documents. President Bouteflika's MON right hand man has called the harraga phenomenon "a national MON tragedy". Lucy Ash meets some of those heading for Europe's MON Eldorado and those bereaved friends and families of harragas MON who have disappeared in the Mediterranean. John Murphy MON producing. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5y (Listen) MON Snakes MON MON In much of the Christian West snakes don't get a good press, MON they are considered sly, even evil creatures that tempted MON Eve causing the downfall for all humanity - quite a burden MON to bear. The Bible is full of less than flattering MON references to snakes. Many people fear snakes and kill them MON on sight. Yet the image of a snake wrapped around a stick is MON the symbol of medicine. Our complex relationship with snakes MON means they are amongst the most persecuted creatures on MON earth. There is no denying that people have in inbuilt fear MON of snakes as psychological experiments show. DH Lawrence's MON poem The Snake encapsulates our contradictory relationship MON with serpents. He is mesmerised by the majesty of the snake, MON and honoured that it chose to be near him. After scaring the MON snake away he regrets his mean and petty action: "I despised MON myself and the voices of my accursed human education." MON Snakes are wound intricately throughout our beliefs, art and MON literature. MON MON Dr Ronald Jenner MON Dr Ronald Jenner is Head of the Invertebrates Division at MON the MON Natural History Museum MON London. He specialises in the study of the evolution of MON animal venoms and his work has been published in over 70 MON publications. MON In addition to being a Research Leader at the Museum, he is MON an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London. He MON has a PhD in systematic biology from the University of MON Amsterdam and a Masters in experimental zoology from Utrecht MON University. MON MON Catherine Howell MON Catherine Howell is Curator of Toys and Games at the MON V&A Museum of Childhood MON Her main research interests are games, optical toys and soft MON toys and she has contributed her expertise to a number of MON exhibitions and publications. MON She has played a key role in many of the Museum’s major MON exhibitions including Alice: The Wonderland of Lewis Carroll MON (1998). She was the curator of the hugely successful touring MON exhibitions Teddy Bear Story: 100 years of the teddy bear MON (2002) and Magic Worlds (2011). MON Catherine Howell has worked at the Museum of Childhood since MON 1991 and is the collections specialist on the history of MON childhood toys and games. MON MON MON Richard Kerridge MON Richard Kerridge is a nature writer. * MON Cold Blood MON *, a memoir of his childhood fascination with the British MON reptiles and amphibians, was published in 2014 and has just MON appeared in paperback. MON The book is about natural history, friendship, family, MON frogs, toads, newts, snakes, lizards, and the joys and MON anxieties of growing up. Richard has also published books MON and articles about nature writing and other kinds of wild MON literature. He teaches creative writing, including nature MON writing, at Bath Spa University, and was a founder of the UK MON branch of the MON Association for the Study of Literature and Environment MON MON Nigel Marven MON Nigel Marven is a naturalist and wildlife television MON presenter and producer. He began producing programmes at the MON BBC, including primetime programmes such as Incredible MON Journeys and Life of Birds, and then Granada Television, MON where he first found a role behind the camera. MON Nigel now runs his own production company, Image Impact, and MON makes films for audiences all over the world. MON MON Professor Gordon Orians MON Gordon Orians is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the MON University of Washington, Seattle and author of * MON Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare: How Evolution Shapes our MON Loves and Fears MON .* MON Among other areas, his research has focussed on behavioral MON ecology, such as habitat selection, mate selection and MON mating systems, selection of prey and foraging patches MON (foraging theory), and relationships between ecology and MON social organisation. MON MON Dr Mark Porter MON Dr Mark Porter is the elected British Medical Association MON council chair and a consultant anaesthetist at the MON University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS MON Trust. MON His special interest is in obstetric anaesthesia and the MON continual development of maternity services to improve the MON mother's experience. MON In the past he has been a clinical director of his MON department, and the chair of the medical staff local MON negotiating committee. MON MON MON Dr Deepak Shimkhada MON Dr Deepak Shimkhada has taught courses in Asian religions, MON including Hinduism and Buddhism at Claremont McKenna College MON and at the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate MON University, the University of the West, and California State MON University-Northridge. MON As art historian, Shimkhada happily marries two disciplines. MON He is the author of many art historical articles published MON in journals such as MON Artibus Asiae MON Arts of Asia MON Oriental Art MON and MON Orientations MON MON Megan Yapp MON Aged just 12, Megan Yapp took on Natural Histories presenter MON Brett Westwood in a game of snakes and ladders. MON While Brett landed on 'avarice' and his greed for material MON wealth sent him backwards on the board down the scales of a MON snake, Megan navigated the ladders and rolled a seven to MON find herself sitting in seventh heaven at the top of the MON board. MON MON 21:30 From the Cockpit to the Operating Theatre b05y16mv (Listen) MON The human brain is fallible. In emergency situations it can MON be easily overloaded with information or be unable to MON override social rules of hierarchy and deference. This can MON have disastrous consequences, particularly in scenarios like MON aeroplane failures or surgical emergencies. On March 27, MON 1977 one of the deadliest ever air crashes happened in MON Tenerife, killing 583 people. There was nothing technically MON wrong with either plane involved in the collision. The MON overriding factor was found to be the authority gradient in MON the cockpit of 1 plane with the high status captain MON overruling the co pilot who thought they weren't cleared for MON take off. This was a game changing event for the airline MON industry. Claudia Hammond investigates how years of research MON in aviation psychology have made events like that a rarity MON and have given rise to huge improvements in understanding MON human behaviour and how mistakes are made so deathly MON disasters can be prevented. The world of aviation has MON embraced a so called 'just culture' where reporting errors MON and near misses are encouraged to prevent a similar mistake MON turning into a disaster in the future. But what has medicine MON learned from aviation psychology and how close is it to a MON similar just culture? Surgical check lists have been MON introduced to try and prevent errors like operating on the MON wrong limb and making sure teams communicate with one MON another. But how effective are they and could surgery learn MON more from aviation about the psychology of safety and being MON open about errors to prevent them in the future? MON MON 21:58 Weather b066tfxz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b066vd5t (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b066vd5w (Listen) MON Tightrope, Episode 1 MON MON Episode One. MON MON A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political MON alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the MON moral uncertainties of the Cold War. MON MON Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative MON working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and MON imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. MON MON Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse MON herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. MON However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to MON work for the greater good is never far away. MON MON As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and MON the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian MON finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass MON to guide her. MON MON She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between MON her beliefs, her profession and her desires. MON MON Reader: Peter Firth MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Peter Firth MON Author: Simon Mawer MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON MON 23:00 Short Cuts b05tkzng (Listen) MON Series 7, Investigation MON MON Josie Long presents stories of investigations - both amateur MON and professional. MON MON The comedian Alex Edelman describes his search for a missing MON cult legend, a German historian talks about the trouble of MON tracking down Hitler's head and a group of young mothers MON gather together to solve the mystery of disappearing MON teething powder. MON MON Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON The items featured in this programme are: MON MON Maria MON Produced by Martin Johnson MON MON Hitler or Bust MON Produced by Rose de Larrabeiti MON MON Teething Problems MON Produced by Luke Eldridge MON MON Finding Joe Hammond MON Featuring Alex Edelman MON Produced by Sophie Black. MON MON 23:30 The Invention of Spain b01nk276 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Catalonia, Castille, Galicia and the Basques ... it's been MON said that many of Spain's problems come from the pretence MON that she is one country. In The Invention of Spain Misha MON Glenny explores whether this is true. Three documentaries, MON from 1492 to 1898, from Columbus to El Desastre, tell the MON story of the rise and fall of an empire. But they also MON reveal the fractured state of a nation, both in history and MON now. MON MON "I can't imagine Spain ever cohering - if it did it wouldn't MON be Spain." Felipe Fernandez Armesto. MON MON The first programme begins in the annus mirabilis of 1492, MON when the last Moors in Granada surrendered, Columbus MON discovered the New World, and an edict was published MON expelling the Jews. This year is frequently cited as the MON birth of modern Spain, but behind the national mythology MON another story lurks. "The birth of this embryonic Spain is MON rooted in the idea of exclusion," says one contributor, "and MON that is a very nasty thing to have in your history." MON MON Misha Glenny is a former BBC correspondent and winner of a MON Sony gold. Producer Miles Warde has previously collaborated MON with Misha Glenny on The Invention of Germany, Garibaldi's MON Grand Scheme and The Alps. Contributors include Sir John MON Elliott, Inigo Gurruchaga of El Correo newspaper, Mia MON Rodriguez Salgado and Madrid MP Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b066tfyz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b066v39q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b066tfz1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b066tfz3 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b066tfz5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b066tfz7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b068v093 (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian TUE Bradley of the University of St Andrews. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b066vtnc (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt5h (Listen) TUE Shore Lark TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Shore TUE Lark. Shore Larks are also known as horned larks because in TUE the breeding season the male birds sprout a pair of black TUE crown feathers which look like satanic horns, but at any TUE time of year the adult larks are striking birds. They are TUE slightly smaller than a skylark but with a yellow face, a TUE black moustache and a black band on the chest. TUE TUE Shore Lark (Eremophila alpestris) TUE Image courtesy of Richard Brooks (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b066vws8 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b066vwsb (Listen) TUE Series 8, Do You Promise Not to Tell? TUE TUE Do you want to know a secret? Of course you do! And how much TUE more appealing to speak a language which is itself secret, TUE known only to a select few. One of whom is Stephen Fry. TUE TUE Stephen leads us into a world of private communication, only TUE to find such languages are not just to keep secrets - they TUE also build camaraderie, foster creativity, forge identity, TUE and save lives. TUE TUE Former New York cop Lou Savelli reveals the lingo of the TUE city's street gangs, taking us to the heart of a dark world TUE where the key to the code means the difference between life TUE and death. Better know your bugs from your puppies. TUE TUE Former MI6 officer and espionage historian Harry Ferguson TUE lays bare the language of the spy, from obscure jargon to TUE the language you use to talk someone into betraying their TUE country. But, he warns, secrecy can become a poisonous TUE addiction. TUE TUE There are less sophisticated groups who use secret TUE languages. As linguist Professor Bill Lucas reveals, TUE practically every family secretes obscure neologisms which TUE mean nothing to outsiders. Finding a lost bimmer on the TUE floordrobe does add a bit of colour to the daily grind. TUE TUE At the doctors, you've encountered a whole world of secret TUE medical language designed to mystify. You might even have TUE benefitted, says Dr Phil Hammond. After all, a sore shoulder TUE doesn't sound like much, but 'call it by a fancy latin name TUE and you can get out of sex, work and the washing up for a TUE week'. TUE TUE From Polari to Morganish (what do you mean you've never TUE heard of it?) Stephen Fry cracks the code and lets us in on TUE the secret. Just don't tell anyone else. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Taylor TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot b066vwsd (Listen) TUE Cornwall TUE TUE When a new steam train connected Paddington to St Ives, TUE Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf's father, decided that taking TUE a family house at the tip of England would benefit the whole TUE family. So, packing up the entire household - children, TUE dogs, servants and books - the Stephens travelled West. TUE Talland House would be their deeply loved holiday home for 3 TUE months every year. TUE TUE From Gurnard's Head to Zennor, the young Virginia learnt to TUE stride out on ambitiously long walks over rugged gorsy cliff TUE paths and lonely granite-strewn moors. She would never stop TUE re-writing these landscapes of early happiness - in her TUE novels, her diaries, her memoirs; and she would keep coming TUE back - alone or with family and friends - 'bringing the TUE sheaves' of her adult life back to the places of her TUE childhood. TUE TUE Woolf's walking was the counterpart to her imaginative TUE roaming, and the rhythm of her steps would often set the TUE pace of her prose. Alexandra Harris sets out to follow some TUE of her paths by the sea with writer Michael Bird. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b066vwsg (Listen) TUE Francis Bacon in Your Blood, Bacon's Boswell TUE TUE Adrian Scarborough reads Michael Peppiatt's intimate and TUE indiscreet account of his thirty-year friendship with the TUE defining artist of our time. TUE TUE Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's TUE French House to request an interview for a student magazine. TUE Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis TUE they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation TUE that would continue until Bacon's death in 1992. TUE The Soho photographer, John Deakin, who introduced the young TUE student to the famous artist, called Peppiatt 'Bacon's TUE Boswell'. And for decades, Peppiatt accompanied Bacon on his TUE nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to TUE louche club and casino, witnessing all aspects of Bacon's TUE 'gilded gutter life'. TUE TUE Despite the chaos Bacon created around him Peppiatt managed TUE to record scores of their conversations ranging over every TUE aspect of life and art, love and death. TUE Today: Peppiatt becomes Bacon's Boswell, and there is TUE mischief in Morocco. TUE Reader: Adrian Scarborough TUE Writer: Michael Peppiatt is an art historian, curator and TUE writer. His 1996 biography of Francis Bacon was chosen as a TUE 'Book of the Year' by the New York Times. TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Adrian Scarborough TUE Author: Michael Peppiatt TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b066vwsj (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 b067b4x7 (Listen) TUE Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Iris Murdoch TUE TUE Dramatist ..... Stephen Wakelam TUE Director ..... Sally Avens TUE TUE Martin's wife may have left him for his friend and her TUE analyst, Palmer Anderson, but they are determined that they TUE should remain on civilised terms. But how does Martin now TUE feel about his own mistress, Georgie, and why does Honor TUE Klein, Palmer's frightening sister, insist on passing TUE judgement on Martin's behaviour? Murdoch's witty satire on TUE analysis and amorality. TUE TUE Credits TUE Martin: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Antonia: Victoria Hamilton TUE Honor Klein: Helen Schlesinger TUE Georgie: Rhiannon Neads TUE Author: Iris Murdoch TUE Adaptor: Stephen Wakelam TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9bhw (Listen) TUE Daffodils TUE TUE Wordsworth's famous poem is always in the top 5 most loved TUE poems in English. His encounter with daffodils in the Lake TUE District has become a romantic expression of our TUE relationship with nature. They are radiant beauties that TUE bring hope to the heart after the long winter months. A A TUE Milne also wrote charmingly about daffodils laughing off TUE winter in his poetry for children. The native flowers are TUE delicate and small, unlike the cultivated, rather brash TUE varieties that adorn roadside verges and roundabouts, TUE creating much daffodil snobbery. Daffodils are the national TUE flower of Wales, though only since the 19th Century, TUE promoted by Lloyd George who thought them more attractive TUE than leeks. Attractiveness though led them to be associated TUE with vanity, the Greek Narcissus (daffodils in Latin: TUE narcissus) fell in love with his own reflection and pined TUE away. Their appearance in Lent gives them the name Lenten TUE Lilly and associated with resurrection, but in Eastern TUE cultures it is the flower of wealth and good fortune. It has TUE been used throughout history as a medicine, despite being TUE toxic. Today it is grown extensively in Wales as its bulb TUE contains galantamine, a drug used in the treatment of TUE Alzheimer's. Whatever way you look at daffodils they are TUE quintessentially a part of human cultures wherever it grows TUE and can be considered the flower that brightens Britain TUE after long, cold winters. TUE TUE Dr Fred Rumsey TUE Dr Fred Rumsey is Angela Marmont Centre Enquiries Officer, TUE Plants, at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE in London. He has a strong interest in conservation and TUE deals with plant identification enquiries within the TUE Identification and Advisory Service team. TUE He also provides expert taxonomic advice to various Taxon TUE Groups, sits on the TUE International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) TUE specialist groups and referees for several families for the TUE Botanical Society of the British Isles TUE TUE Professor Sally Bushell TUE Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian TUE Literature at Lancaster University. Her primary research TUE specialism is in TUE British Romanticism TUE the TUE poetry of William Wordsworth TUE and the interpretation of poetic process. TUE Her first book was TUE Re-reading The Excursion TUE She then co-edited the Cornell edition of The Excursion and TUE published Text as Process: Creative Composition in TUE Wordsworth, Tennyson and Dickinson. TUE TUE TUE Monty Don TUE Monty Don is best known for his presence on BBC television's TUE Gardeners’ World TUE and BBC Radio 4's Shared Planet and is the author of TUE several books. TUE He lives close to the land, not only through his garden TUE which features weekly on Gardeners’ World but in the hills TUE near where he lives, where he farms sheep. TUE TUE Fflur Gwynn TUE Fflur Gwynn is Senior Curator of Cultural Life at TUE St Fagans: National History Wales TUE She oversees collections relating to music, folklore and TUE customs, cultural, educational and social institutions, TUE popular culture, sports and children's toys and games within TUE Wales. TUE She has an MA in History of Design from the V&A Museum and TUE the Royal College of Art and her specialist subjects include TUE Welsh music and popular culture and 20th century craft. TUE TUE Professor Jane Lawrence TUE Jayne Lawrence is Professor and Head of the TUE Pharmaceutical Biophysics Group TUE She is currently on a part-time secondment at the TUE Royal Pharmaceutical Society TUE (RPS) as their Chief Scientist. TUE Jayne is particularly interested in understanding how the TUE structure of a molecule influences the molecular TUE architecture of the delivery vehicle it forms and its fate TUE in the target cell. To achieve these aims she uses a range TUE of advanced analytical techniques including light and TUE neutron scattering and reflectivity. TUE TUE Dr Fleur Rothschild TUE Fleur Rothschild, PhD, has worked in Birkbeck College, TUE University of London, since 1998. She established the TUE Academic English Unit in Birkbeck for the induction of TUE International Students into the culture, practices and TUE horizon of expectations of the British Higher Educational TUE system. TUE Fleur has lectured on Chaucer, Shakespeare and Early Modern TUE drama and is currently the Learning Development Co-ordinator TUE and Tutor for the School of Arts. She has an abiding passion TUE for plants of all kinds and is a guerrilla gardener. A TUE particular fascination is with daffodils and she has a book TUE forthcoming on Reaktion Press about the daffodil's TUE horticultural and cultural history. TUE TUE 11:30 The School Is Full of Noises b066vyy7 (Listen) TUE How did tape loops, recycled everyday sounds and countless TUE other weapons of the avant-garde find their way into school TUE music lessons during the 1960s? That's the challenge for Ian TUE McMillan as he sets out on the trail of one of music TUE education's more unexpected byways. TUE TUE It begins in an attic. Jonny Trunk is a collector of music's TUE less travelled pathways, amongst them LPs of school children TUE from the 1960s performing the most ambitious musical works TUE imaginable. They have titles like 'Music for Cymbals', 'An TUE Aleatory Game' and 'Don't Drink and Drive'. TUE TUE So where did this all come from? Ian sets out to rediscover TUE the creators of these musical curiosities, both the TUE educators who conceived them and also the pupils themselves. TUE Now in their 50s, what might the former pupils of the likes TUE of Burnt Yates School and Hessington Primary make of those TUE experiences from their youth? TUE TUE Eventually Ian's travels take him to a dark place. A very TUE dark place. In a cavern complex near Pateley Bridge he TUE retreads footsteps taken by children not just for a TUE recording project but also one of those schools TUE documentaries we love to chuckle over at the distance of TUE five decades. Only now can we discover what the class of '69 TUE really thought of these ground-breaking musical adventures. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b066tfz9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Why Factor b06709w2 (Listen) TUE The High Heel TUE TUE Today's Why Factor investigates the biology of mating, the TUE psychology of status and a lot of gender politics...all TUE encapsulated in a common object worn by women around the TUE world. Why do millions of people choose to walk on strange, TUE stilt like shoes? Join Mike Williams as he practices his TUE catwalk strut in The High Heel. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b06795qk (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b066tfzc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b06795qm (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward TUE Stourton. TUE TUE 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b066vyyf (Listen) TUE The Power of Presence TUE TUE Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive TUE quality of charisma. TUE 2.The Power of Presence. TUE Divine grace as experienced by medieval mystics Margery TUE Kempe and Joan of Arc. TUE TUE After the early apostolic era, the Church hierarchy TUE preferred to channel divine communication through its own TUE bishops, but Medieval Europe features a surprising number of TUE women mystics who - risking charges of heresy - claimed that TUE they experienced direct interaction with God. TUE TUE Francine Stock learns about the extraordinary story of the TUE Norfolk housewise Margery Kempe, who wept her way across TUE Europe to Jerusalem. She compares her story with that of the TUE more public-spirited Joan of Arc, whose divine calling led TUE to her military defence of France. The charismatic presence TUE of both is evoked by historians Anthony Beale - who calls TUE Margery Kempe a "contemporary Kardashian" - and Helen TUE Castor, author of a new biography of Joan of Arc. TUE TUE Meanwhile, the quality of presence in charismatic TUE individuals is anatomised by film and stage actor, Kenneth TUE Branagh. TUE TUE With readings by Simon Russell Beale. TUE TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b066vd0z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038hg46 (Listen) TUE When Greed Becomes Hunger, The Pit TUE TUE By D.J. Britton TUE TUE The first in a two part drama about global food security. TUE TUE British trader Phil Ward has just moved to the US with his TUE wife Sian to start work at the Chicago Board of Trade. When TUE the grain market is thrown into turmoil, Phil's boss - Joel TUE Bosco - calls him in to make sense of the numbers. Phil TUE uncovers a global trend in food scarcity that represents a TUE huge financial opportunity for the company. But what if the TUE market fails? TUE TUE World food security is a hot topic. Internationally, after TUE record growth, global wheat exports have fallen by 10 per TUE cent in the last year. Prices are rising inexorably. TUE According to Oxfam, 800 million people are currently TUE malnourished - a greater figure than ever before. As cereal TUE production falls, world population numbers continue to rise, TUE and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation predicts food TUE demand will double by 2030. Meanwhile world food security TUE remains left to the volatility of the global free market. TUE TUE When Greed Becomes Hunger asks whether the world can afford TUE to trust the free market with its food supply. TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production. TUE TUE Credits TUE Phil: Matthew Gravelle TUE Sian: Carys Eleri TUE Joel: Stuart Milligan TUE Beth: Zoe Tapper TUE Donnie: Ronan Summers TUE Carfi: Amaka Okafor TUE Writer: DJ Britton TUE Director: James Robinson TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b066vyyr (Listen) TUE Claire Tomalin, Jessie Childs, Dan Jones and Justin Champion TUE join Helen Castor for a Historians' Question Time from the TUE Chalke Valley History Festival. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Playlist Series b03m8610 (Listen) TUE Nell Gwyn's Playlist TUE TUE David Owen Norris recreates the musical world of the first TUE female star of the English stage. TUE TUE Nell Gwyn was a celebrity in the modern sense - and nobody TUE could get enough of her. Just four years after women were TUE first allowed on stage, "pretty witty Nell" was one of the TUE sights of London - the equivalent of a modern stand-up TUE comedian or rapper, improvising lines and comedy. And women TUE on stage could deliver all sorts of subversive messages they TUE were not allowed to express in real life, where they were TUE expected to be chaste and obedient. TUE TUE This programme is recorded on location in the Theatre Royal TUE Drury Lane, Nell's theatre. Musician David Owen Norris TUE discovers and records some of Nell's famous songs in her TUE mocking, sexy and provocative voice. He then plays them to a TUE trio of Nell Gwyn experts - actor and theatre historian Ian TUE Kelly, scholar Judith Hawley, and early music expert Lucie TUE Skeaping. TUE TUE The songs are brought to life by jazz singer Gwyneth Herbert TUE and classical singer Thomas Guthrie. They include a TUE satirical account of being pinned to the ground by a fat TUE greasy lover; a camp dialogue between Nell and her rival for TUE the King's affections, the French Catholic Louise; and a TUE message from Nell's sexy ghost. TUE TUE David Owen Norris is a pianist and composer and Professor of TUE Music at Southampton University. TUE TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Writing a New South Africa b052ln5f (Listen) TUE Johannesburg, City of Recent Arrivals TUE TUE Writing a new South Africa TUE TUE A picture of South Africa now, as seen by a new generation TUE of writers and poets. TUE TUE In programme 1 Thabiso talks to Johannesburg-based writers TUE and poets about the changing cityscape and how the past TUE impacts on the present in their work. He takes a walk TUE through the bustling University district of Braamfontein TUE with Ivan Vladislavic, who has documented the city in his TUE novels and non-fiction work 'Portrait with Keys', and they TUE explore writing about Hillbrow, the troubled inner city TUE district, where the social integration and dynamic culture TUE looked in the early 1990s as though it might be a positive TUE future vision of the country. He talks to the prominent poet TUE Lebo Mashile, an inspiration to the younger poets coming TUE through now, about the emergence of the black female voice TUE in the past twenty years, and the legacy of the past. And he TUE meets Niq Mhlongo, whose most recent book 'Way Back Home' TUE looks critically at the struggle against apartheid, and the TUE way those who went into exile to fight for the movement are TUE haunted by their experiences. TUE TUE In a three part series, street poet 'Afurakan' Thabiso TUE Mohare explores the major cities of Johannesburg and Cape TUE Town, talking to 'Born Frees', writers of the freedom TUE generation - those born under apartheid but whose adult TUE years have been spent in a new democracy, and gaining TUE insights from an older generation who only began to publish TUE their work in the new democratic era. TUE TUE Thabiso looks at South Africa two decades after the fall of TUE apartheid, through the themes writers are choosing to engage TUE with in their work. These authors, poets and playwrights are TUE exploring the past and present, from apartheid's legacy to TUE political corruption, and the chaos of the inner city; some TUE are exorcising ghosts, and some tackling current issues, or TUE looking to an imagined future. There is plenty to write TUE about after the end of the struggle. TUE TUE Thabiso talks to new voices who are just making their names, TUE and those who are already established, addressing the TUE problems they face, causes for optimism, and the way TUE conditions and opportunities have changed for writers in the TUE past two decades. He looks at what they feel to be their TUE literary heritage, and who they take inspiration from in a TUE culture still feeling the inequalities of the educational TUE legacy of apartheid. Literacy issues and the lack of a TUE culture of reading more widely mean that the market for TUE books is small, and the road to the arts truly blossoming TUE into normalcy in South Africa after the end of apartheid has TUE been uneven and complex. Other outlets for storytelling too TUE - poetry and spoken word events, plugging into older TUE traditions - are supporting the flowering of a diversity of TUE voices as hoped for when the political landscape changed so TUE radically in 1994, with writers of all ethnicities pitching TUE in to the fray. Radio 4 explores the range of voices now TUE being heard and the picture they present. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b066w57n (Listen) TUE Series 37, Ade Adepitan on George Washington Williams TUE TUE George Washington Williams was an incredibly early, TUE mould-breaking, self-made black intellectual who fought in TUE the American civil war and went on to write the first TUE history of African Americans. He met King Leopold of Belgium TUE and exposed that country's treatment of Africans under TUE Belgian colonial rule. TUE Nominating the life of George Washington Williams is TUE television presenter, and former Paralympic medallist, Ade TUE Adepitan. The expert witness is Dr David Brown, Senior TUE Lecturer in American Studies at the University of TUE Manchester. The presenter is Matthew Parris. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Ade Adepitan TUE Interviewed Guest: David Brown TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar TUE TUE 17:00 PM b06795qp (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b066tfzf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mitch Benn Specials b066w57q (Listen) TUE The Freewheelin' Mitch Benn TUE TUE Everybody knows that Elvis changed everything. Everybody TUE knows that the Beatles changed everything. Not as many TUE people realise that Bob Dylan actually DID change TUE everything. TUE TUE Mitch Benn looks at how Bob Dylan changed what it is to be a TUE songwriter, changed what it is to be a rock star and, more TUE than anyone, changed what it is to be a singer. TUE TUE Written by and starring Mitch Benn TUE TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Mitch Benn TUE Writer: Mitch Benn TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b066w654 (Listen) TUE It is time to say goodbye, and Tom seems upbeat. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b066w656 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b067b4x7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Debt Business b066w659 (Listen) TUE Leading economist and former head of the Financial Services TUE Authority, Adair Turner explores the implications of the TUE current levels of household debt in the UK. TUE TUE While the UK economy recovers, many consumers are getting TUE further into debt. We hear from some of them, and from the TUE debt charities trying to help, who describe the impact this TUE is having on the UK's fiscal and mental health. TUE TUE But Lord Turner claims the ramifications reach much further TUE than the individual. When growth increasingly depends upon TUE borrowing in order to fuel consumer spending, he argues, the TUE whole economy is rendered more vulnerable to collapse. TUE TUE He explores the potential impact of rising interest rates - TUE both on the individuals in debt and overall economic TUE stability. Professor Atif Mian, co-author of The House of TUE Debt, argues that excessive mortgage debt was the key cause TUE of the recession after 2008, rather than the banks' TUE inability to lend more money. TUE TUE Lord Turner discusses his own radical suggestions for change TUE with two eminent colleagues - William White of the OECD and TUE Harvard Professor Ken Rogoff, former chief economist of the TUE IMF. TUE TUE Producers: Deborah Dudgeon and Emma Jarvis TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b066w65c (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack TUE b054pmgy (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Robert McCrum journeys into his own brain to understand more TUE about stroke. TUE TUE Ever since he suffered a severe stroke in 1995, Robert has TUE been living with its consequences. He says, "It's one of the TUE remorseless side-effects of the affliction that, if you TUE survive it, you will live with its after-effects and the TUE conundrum about existence it poses, for the rest of your TUE life." The demands of an ongoing recovery still have to be TUE met. TUE TUE In the second programme, we follow Robert through an TUE intensive two week long rehabilitation course to rejuvenate TUE his left side. This is conducted by Consultant Neurologist TUE Dr Nick Ward at the National Hospital for Neurology and TUE Neurosurgery in London. Ward is at the cutting edge of TUE neurological research, but Robert is sceptical that his TUE condition can be improved when part of his brain, roughly TUE the size of a lime, is dead and sending no signals to the TUE rest of his body. TUE TUE In the process, Robert explores stroke rehabilitation more TUE generally and seeks to understand more about the brain's TUE "plasticity"- its capacity to find fresh neural pathways and TUE repair itself. TUE TUE Producer: Melissa FitzGerald TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Robert McCrum's brain scan TUE Image supplied by the TUE PLORAS TUE research team TUE TUE Support Organisations TUE Different Strokes TUE A Charity set up by younger stroke survivors for younger TUE stroke survivors (below retirement age) empowering younger TUE stroke survivors, their families and friends to reclaim TUE their lives and ambitions through active support. TUE TUE Helpline: 01908 317618 or 0845 130 7172. Monday to Friday TUE 9am – 5pm, or leave a message. TUE Find out more about Different Strokes online text-chat TUE Different Strokes TUE TUE Stoke Association TUE provides up-to-date stroke information for stroke patients, TUE their families and carers. TUE TUE Helpline 0303 3033 100 or visit TUE TalkStroke TUE TUE 21:30 Fry's English Delight b066vwsb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b066tfzh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b06795qr (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b06795qt (Listen) TUE Tightrope, Episode 2 TUE TUE A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political TUE alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the TUE moral uncertainties of the Cold War. TUE TUE Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative TUE working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and TUE imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. TUE TUE Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse TUE herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. TUE However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to TUE work for the greater good is never far away. TUE TUE As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and TUE the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian TUE finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass TUE to guide her. TUE TUE She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between TUE her beliefs, her profession and her desires. TUE TUE Episode Two. TUE With the war in Europe finally over, Marian is contacted by TUE her previous spy handler. Eleven-year-old Sam meets Marian TUE for the first time when his family visits her parents. TUE TUE Reader: Peter Firth TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Peter Firth TUE Author: Simon Mawer TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE TUE 23:00 Gossip from the Garden Pond b04g7d6q (Listen) TUE The Tadpole and the Dragonfly TUE TUE The Tadpole played by Julian Rhind Tutt and the Dragonfly TUE played by Alison Steadman, reveal the truth about life in a TUE garden pond, in the first of three very funny tales, written TUE and introduced by Lynne Truss, with sound recordings by TUE Chris Watson. TUE TUE The jaunty Tadpole revels in his youth as he darts about the TUE pond, generally avoiding his neighbours because most of them TUE want to eat him! "When are you going to grow up?" asks the TUE Dragonfly. This is far from easy as the tadpole is quick to TUE point out, as he has to go through a whole traumatic TUE body-changing metamorphosis. The only disadvantage, he TUE reckons, of being young and immature of course, is that you TUE have no hands, which makes things tricky when you want to TUE wave at anyone or take a selfie, but it's a small price to TUE pay for the freedom of youth reckons our happy-go-lucky TUE fellow, until a strange dream signals a life-changing event. TUE "One minute you're wiggling, wiggling. and the next you look TUE absolutely daft waving your bottom around, coz there's TUE nothing on the end of it" TUE TUE The Dragonfly is lighter than air, quick, beautiful; all TUE dazzling wings and observant eyes . She is also quite highly TUE sexed and living life at a great rate knowing that she TUE doesn't have much time. Having spent months and months TUE living in the murk and mud of the garden pond as an ugly, TUE aggressive nymph, her life was transformed when she felt TUE impelled to climb up a stem and was transformed into an TUE adult. She is dazzling; with her aerial acrobatics, fine TUE wings and long slender limbs. But she knows she hasn't long TUE to live and before she dies, she must feed and find a mate TUE "I'm gorgeous, I'm ready ... and I'm hot, hot, hot". TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Pond life inspiration TUE An illustration of pond life courtesy of TUE Kenneth Anderson TUE . © Kenneth Anderson TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Lynne Truss TUE Tadpole: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Dragonfly: Alison Steadman TUE Producer: Sarah Blunt TUE Writer: Lynne Truss TUE TUE 23:30 The Invention of Spain b01npb14 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE September 11th in Barcelona is celebrated annually as the TUE national day of Catalonia. This year more than a million TUE people marched through the city, waving their distinctive TUE flags - many want independence from Madrid. This is clearly TUE a critical moment in Spanish history, but the mood of TUE separation is not new. TUE TUE In The Invention of Spain, Misha Glenny explores flashpoints TUE and fragmentation in the Spanish monarchy's territorial TUE possessions - from the revolts of Catalonia in both 1640 and TUE 1714, to the emergence of the United Provinces, or the TUE Dutch, as a nation separate and free from their Habsburg TUE overlords. TUE TUE "This was a David and Goliath struggle. The Spanish army was TUE indisputably the strongest in Europe," says Ben Kaplan of TUE UCL. ""For this smattering of rebels living in this marshy TUE bogland was adventurous at best, and suicidal at worst." TUE TUE With contributions from Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo, Felipe TUE Fernandez Armesto and Sir John Elliott. Misha Glenny is a TUE winner of a Sony gold. Producer Miles Warde previously TUE collaborated with him on The Invention of Germany. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b066tg1q (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b066vwsg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b066tg1y (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b066tg24 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b066tg2b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b066tg2f (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b068v66f (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian WED Bradley of the University of St Andrews. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b066w6s0 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling WED WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt7v (Listen) WED Firecrest WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the WED Firecrest. Firecrests are very small birds, a mere nine WED centimetres long and are often confused with their much WED commoner cousins, goldcrests. Both have the brilliant orange WED or yellow crown feathers, but the firecrest embellishes WED these with black eyestripes, dazzling white eyebrows and WED golden patches on the sides of its neck ... a jewel of a WED bird. WED WED Firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus) WED Image courtesy of David Kjaer (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b068v68m (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 What's the Point of...? b066w738 (Listen) WED Series 7, The Book of Common Prayer WED WED Quentin Letts examines some of Britain's cherished WED institutions. WED WED 09:30 Witness b066w73b (Listen) WED The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes WED WED In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein ordered the draining of WED southern Iraq's great marshes. It was one of the biggest WED environmental disasters of the twentieth century, and with WED it, an ancient way of life - dating back thousands of years WED - was almost wiped out. We hear from the Iraqi WED environmentalist Azzam Alwash, who has been trying to WED restore the marshes, and to the journalist Shyam Bhatia, who WED saw the destruction. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b066w9g8 (Listen) WED Francis Bacon in Your Blood, 'The dregs are what I prefer.' WED WED Adrian Scarborough reads Michael Peppiatt's intimate and WED indiscreet account of his thirty-year friendship with one of WED the greatest artists of our time. WED Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's WED French House to request an interview for a student magazine. WED Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis WED they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation WED that would continue until Bacon's death in 1992. WED The Soho photographer, John Deakin, who introduced the young WED student to the famous artist, called Peppiatt 'Bacon's WED Boswell'. And for decades, Peppiatt accompanied Bacon on his WED nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to WED louche club and casino, witnessing all aspects of Bacon's WED 'gilded gutter life'. WED Despite the chaos Bacon created around him Peppiatt managed WED to record scores of their conversations ranging over every WED aspect of life and art, love and death. WED Today: high and low-life in Paris. WED Reader: Adrian Scarborough WED Writer: Michael Peppiatt is an art historian, curator and WED writer. His 1996 biography of Francis Bacon was chosen as a WED 'Book of the Year' by the New York Times. WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Adrian Scarborough WED Author: Michael Peppiatt WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b066w9gb (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b067b5gc (Listen) WED Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head, Episode 3 WED WED by Iris Murdoch WED WED Martin is forced to explain his adultery to his adulterous WED wife and her lover and finds his civilised front buckling in WED an unexpected fashion. WED WED Credits WED Martin: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Antonia: Victoria Hamilton WED Honor Klein: Helen Schlesinger WED Palmer Anderson: Matthew Marsh WED Georgie: Rhiannon Neads WED Author: Iris Murdoch WED Adaptor: Stephen Wakelam WED Director: Sally Avens WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b05w8dnl (Listen) WED Ndaizivei and Sekai - Being Strong WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a young woman WED born in the UK and her grandmother, about the strength she WED showed when living under white rule in Rhodesia. Another in WED the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Truth Be Told b066w9gg (Listen) WED Helen Zaltzman invites brave members of the public to take WED to the stage in front of a live audience to tell a true WED personal story of escape. WED WED We hear three people fighting their way out of difficult WED situations - a late-night attack in a phone box, being swept WED out to sea by a strong current, and the unusual advances of WED a surgeon with a bladder fetish. WED WED Funny, sometimes shocking and all true, these are remarkable WED tales of life-changing experiences. WED WED Truth Be Told features stories first told at live WED storytelling nights across the UK including Spark London, WED The Moth and Natural Born Storytellers. WED WED Presenter: Helen Zaltzman WED Contributors: Jane Walshe, Nav Chawla and David Dinnell WED WED Sound Engineers: Gerry O'Riordan and Tom Burchell WED WED Producer: Matt Hill WED Executive Producer: Dirk Maggs WED WED A PPM production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b066w9gj (Listen) WED Series 4, The Baby WED WED When their friend Marion Duffett is called away on a family WED matter, she asks Damien and Anthony to look after her baby. WED Something which Anthony is infinitely more inclined towards WED than Damien. Still, it's come at a good time as Damien is WED angling for a role as an ambassador for a children's WED charity. WED WED At the same time, Damien's street food series is gathering WED pace and he is forced to go to a music festival and engage WED in a cook-off with Ray Jarrow. WED WED The producer was Sam Michell. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony: Justin Edwards WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED Ray Jarrow: Chris Brand WED Jasmine: Alex Tregear WED Alison: Jessica Turner WED Trevor: David Acton WED Marco: David Acton WED Producer: Sam Michell WED Writer: James Kettle WED WED 12:00 News Summary b066tg2x (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Why Factor b0670b0d (Listen) WED The Watch WED WED Nearly everyone now carries a phone which tells us the time. WED Yet sales of luxury watches have never been higher. Mike WED Williams explores why the seemingly obsolete technology in WED mechanical watches is still highly desirable, and what WED wearing one says about its owner. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b067h5bf (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b066tg36 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b067h5bh (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward WED Stourton. WED WED 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b066wcy2 (Listen) WED The Queen's Touch WED WED Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive WED quality of charisma. WED WED 3.The Queen's Touch WED WED In the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth, a belief WED prevailed in the "royal touch" - the ability of the queen to WED heal subjects of scrofula by the laying on of hands. This WED power was seen as a charismatic gift, bestowed by God at her WED coronation. But this is not entirely a thing of the distant WED past. Francine Stock is surprised to learn that even at the WED coronation of our own Queen Elizabeth in 1953, the moment of WED anointing - when divine power is believed to be bestowed WED upon royalty - was not shown on camera. WED WED Francine explores this idea of what the German sociologist WED Max Weber called "charisma of office" with historian Anna WED Whitelock and John Adair, Professor of Leadership at the UN. WED She also hears from teenage sea cadet, Sophie, who is proud WED to have attended on the Queen - and even folded the royal WED blanket! WED WED Francine explores with Anna Whitelock how a version of the WED royal touch seems to persist even today, and wonders whether WED it will continue among the new-look, younger royals of the WED 21st century. WED WED Reader: Simon Russell Beale WED WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b066w654 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038hk0k (Listen) WED When Greed Becomes Hunger, The Pen WED WED The second in a two part drama about global food security. WED WED It's three years after the events of part one and a new WED world order is dominated by global food protectionism, an WED unpredictable climate and, most of all, hunger. WED WED Phil and Sian have used the money they made to buy a farm in WED mid-Wales. But as an international enquiry is launched into WED the causes of the crash, the couple's country idyll provides WED little shelter from an angry world, hungry for answers. WED WED World food security is a hot topic. Internationally, after WED record growth, global wheat exports have fallen by 10 per WED cent (2012/13 figs). Prices are rising inexorably. According WED to Oxfam, 800 million people are currently malnourished - a WED greater figure than ever before. As cereal production falls, WED world population numbers continue to rise, and the UN Food WED and Agriculture Organisation predicts food demand will WED double by 2030. Meanwhile world food security remains left WED to the volatility of the global free market. WED WED When Greed Becomes Hunger asks whether the world can afford WED to trust the free market with its food supply. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Phil: Matthew Gravelle WED Sian: Carys Eleri WED Joel: Stuart Milligan WED Sunita: Amita Dhiri WED James: Ben Crowe WED Huw: Nathan Sussex WED Heledd: Carla Turner WED Writer: DJ Britton WED Director: James Robinson WED WED 15:00 The New Workplace b066fqcw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack WED b054pmgy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Inconspicuous Consumption b054t3s8 (Listen) WED Framing Device WED WED A series exploring the cultural consumption that other media WED ignore. WED WED Sarah Cuddon looks at - and through - a diversity of frames WED to understand what they're for, how they work and why we WED develop such strong feelings about them. In galleries, WED framers shops and people's homes, she meets those involved WED in negotiations over frames. WED WED In a local London framing shop, Sarah hears about a request WED to frame a (human) ponytail, and meets the man who had his WED pacemaker framed. She tries to understand the allure of the WED ornate gold frame and considers the modern day opposite - WED framelessness. WED WED She hears how Europe's galleries have obsessed over the WED 'white box frame' and she meets an artist for whom frames WED are merely an old-fashioned decoration. WED WED What emerges is as much about how people see their WED possessions as it is about framing. Choosing the right frame WED for a deceased love one for example, is a revealing WED business. Which is why Robert's story is so telling. For WED him, the very business of framing provides a metaphorical WED framing device for his life story. WED WED Produced and Presented by Sarah Cuddon WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b066wfnw (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b068zpbb (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b066tg3w (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b066wfny (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 WED WED Award winning writer, actress and comedian Isy Suttie WED presents the pick of the best live sketch groups currently WED performing on the UK comedy circuit. Each week Sketchorama WED will showcase three acts performing character, broken and WED musical sketch comedy all brought together by our brilliant WED new host for series 4. WED WED Groups featured in this episode will be performing at this WED year's Edinburgh Festival so a real chance to hear some of WED the latest sketch acts making a name for themselves at the WED Fringe 2015. WED WED Sketch is a huge part of our British comedy heritage and WED there are so many incredibly talented and inventive sketch WED acts on the UK comedy scene with over 100 groups performing WED at the Edinburgh Festival every year. Sketchorama aims to WED bring hidden gems and established live acts to the airwaves, WED offering a truly unmissable show for sketch lovers on Radio WED 4. WED WED Produced by Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b066wfp0 (Listen) WED Harrison Burns has an idea, and Jim senses Machiavellian WED intent. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b066wfp2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b067b5gc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 FutureProofing b066wfp4 (Listen) WED The Blockchain WED WED FutureProofing is a series in which presenters Timandra WED Harkness and Leo Johnson examine the implications - social WED and cultural, economic and political - of the big ideas that WED are set to transform the way our society functions. WED WED Episode 3: The Blockchain WED WED Can computer technology and its systems for record-keeping, WED transparency and verification replace the role of trust in WED our society? The digital currency Bitcoin can be used to WED make peer to peer financial transactions without a central WED banking authority. The technology underlying this system is WED called the blockchain, and is enthusiastically advocated by WED libertarians. In this programme Timandra and Leo investigate WED whether its ramifications could go much further than WED currency and reach into disrupting the roles of government, WED from providing identity documents to tax collection. Or will WED governments, banks and other large powerful bodies meet the WED political and technical challenges of the blockchain by WED incorporating it into their own activities? WED WED Producer: Jonathan Brunert. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b066wfp6 (Listen) WED Writing Myself into the Script WED WED The playwright Bola Agbaje on why black women are still WED under-represented on British TV. WED WED "If people don't see people like me, how will they WED understand me?" she says. "I quit drama school to pursue WED writing," she says, "because I wanted to write myself into a WED script." WED WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Mind Changers b063ztb0 (Listen) WED Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach WED WED Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series WED which examines the work of the people who have changed our WED understanding of the human mind. This week she explores Carl WED Rogers' revolutionary approach to psychotherapy, led by the WED client and not the therapist. His influence can be seen WED throughout the field today. WED WED Claudia meets Rogers' daughter, Natalie Rogers, who has WED followed in her father's footsteps and developed Expressive WED Arts Person-Centred Therapy, and hears more about the man WED from Maureen O'Hara of the National University at La Jolla, WED who worked with him. Richard McNally of Harvard University WED and Shirley Reynolds of Surrey University explain how far WED Rogers' influence extends today, and Claudia sees this for WED herself in a consulting room in downtown San Francisco, WED where she meets Person-Centred psychotherapist, Nina WED Utigaard. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess WED WED Three Approaches to Psychotherapy (1965): film clips WED courtesy of Sharon K. Shostrom, Psychological & Educational WED Films. WED WED 21:30 What's the Point of...? b066w738 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b066wfp8 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0679c0g (Listen) WED Tightrope, Episode 3 WED WED A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political WED alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the WED moral uncertainties of the Cold War. WED WED Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative WED working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and WED imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. WED WED Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse WED herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. WED However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to WED work for the greater good is never far away. WED WED As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and WED the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian WED finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass WED to guide her. WED WED She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between WED her beliefs, her profession and her desires. WED WED Episode Three. WED By Simon Mawer. Marian goes on a date with an RAF officer. WED The atomic bomb is dropped for the first time. Marian and WED her scientist brother Ned are horrified at the implications WED of this act. WED WED Reader: Peter Firth WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Peter Firth WED Author: Simon Mawer WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED WED 23:00 Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side WED b066wglv (Listen) WED Series 2, Full Tartan Jacket WED WED The second series of Elvis McGonagall's daft comic world of WED poems, mad sketches, satire and facetious remarks, broadcast WED from his home in the Graceland Caravan Park just outside WED Dundee. WED WED Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary, comedian and WED broadcaster Elvis McGonagall (aka poet and performer Richard WED Smith) continues his frenzied and largely ineffectual search WED for the bright side. He is unenthusiastically convinced that WED there is a positive side to life. He's heard talk of it. He WED may even have caught a glimpse of it somewhere. So, from his WED caravan in the Graceland Caravan Park near Dundee, the WED Scottish punk poet goes in search of it. WED WED With the hindrance of his dog Trouble and his friend Susan WED Morrison, Elvis does his very best to accentuate the WED positive - but the negative has a nasty habit of coming back WED to roost with the grim regularity of an unimaginative WED pigeon. WED WED Recorded entirely on location, in a caravan on a truly WED glamorous industrial estate somewhere in Scotland. WED WED Episode 1: Full Tartan Jacket WED Elvis is being photographed for an interview in a style WED magazine, but will his tartan dinner jacket cut the mustard? WED And does that shade of mustard really suit him? Can it be WED that his career as a fashion icon is dead in the water? WED WED Written by Elvis McGonagall with Helen Braunholtz-Smith and WED Frank Stirling. WED WED Director: Frank Stirling WED A Unique Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Elvis MacGonagall: Richard Smith WED Narrator: Clarke Peters WED Susan: Susan Morrison WED Dexter Clarke: Roger Lloyd Thompson WED Actor: Lewis Mcleod WED Actor: Gabriel Quigley WED Actor: Helen Braunholtz-Smith WED Writer: Richard Smith WED Writer: Helen Braunholtz-Smith WED Writer: Frank Stirling WED Director: Frank Stirling WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01snbm8 (Listen) WED Series 2, About Animals WED WED EPISODE FIVE: ABOUT ANIMALS WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of WED the disappointed family members. She loves Nathan, but she WED 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. WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down WED architecture for comedy. How can her grandson go on stage WED and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the WED good Christian way! WED So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan WED do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or WED will he give in to his family's interference? WED WED About Animals WED WED It turns out Grandma's Achilles heel is a mouse! Nathan WED can't believe he's lost his fearless Grandma because of a WED mouse and is determined to catch the mouse and restore his WED Grandma to feisty normality. WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED Credits WED Nathan: Nathan Caton WED Mum: Adjoa Andoh WED Dad: Curtis Walker WED Grandma: Mona Hammond WED Robber: Don Gilet WED Steve: Don Gilet WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Nathan Caton WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Ola WED Writer: Maff Brown WED WED 23:30 The Invention of Spain b01ns477 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED On February 15 1898, an American warship blew up suddenly WED and sank. The USS Maine had been moored in Havana harbour, WED sent by President McKinley from Key West to protect American WED interests in Cuba. It's still unclear if Spanish colonial WED forces were in anyway responsible for the sinking of the USS WED Maine. What we know for certain is that the brief, bloody WED war that followed completely changed the world. WED WED In the third and final programme of The Invention of Spain, WED Misha Glenny charts imperial decline, from the early WED independence of Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico, up to the WED 1898 war that saw Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines all WED break free. With contributrions from Cayetana Alvarez de WED Toledo, Sir John Elliott, and Samuel Moncada, historian and WED Venezuelan ambassador to London. "The point is why do they WED (the colonies) follow Spain so long ? That is the miracle, WED not independence." WED WED Misha Glenny is a Sony award winning broadcaster. His WED previous collaborations with producer Miles Warde include WED The Invention of Germany,. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 AUGUST 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b066tgb1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b066w9g8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b066tgb4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b066tgb7 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b066tgbd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b066tgbn (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0689n5k (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian THU Bradley of the University of St Andrews. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b066zhs0 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Felicity Evans and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkt9y (Listen) THU Bobolink THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the THU Bobolink. You might never have heard of a Bobolink - but THU these birds do occur very rarely in the UK although their THU true home is in the grasslands of Canada and the northern THU states of the USA. They look like large finches but belong THU to the family of New World blackbirds. Because the breeding THU males have black and white plumage they are sometimes called THU 'skunk blackbirds'. THU THU The sound archive recording of the bobolink featured in this THU programme was sourced from The Macaulay Library at the THU Cornell Lab of Ornithology. THU THU Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) THU Image courtesy of Getty Images THU THU Macaulay Library THU The sound archive of the boblink featured in this programme THU was source via the THU Macaulay Library THU at The Cornell Lab of Oranthology. THU THU 06:00 Today b066zkv1 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Fantasy Festival b066zkv3 (Listen) THU Ruby Wax THU THU Ruby Wax joins presenter Tim Samuels to curate and create THU the festival of her wildest dreams THU THU What if you could create your own festival - where you set THU the agenda, chose the guests, pick the acts, and dictate the THU weather, the food and the ambience? A festival where anyone THU - whether dead or alive - can be summoned to perform, and THU nothing is unimaginable. THU THU Fantasy Festival is a chance for someone to become the THU curator of the festival of their very own dreams. And the THU festival curator in this programme is poster girl for mental THU health, writer, performer and comedian - Ruby Wax THU THU Ruby outlines her dream festival - entitled 5 Star Anarchy THU and taking place in Notting Hill. It's a festival of the THU extremes. Radiohead are playing in the distance and THU scientists are giving lectures about the latest advances in THU their fields. But centre stage is a series of outrageous THU experimental theatre shows designed to fry Ruby's mind. It's THU an event for Ruby to feed the animal side of her own nature. THU THU She says, "Why my festival is so nuts is cos I've seen too THU much. If I was a kid, I'd just want a merry go round. So I'm THU not so proud that I need such extremes, but I'm on that high THU a dose of adrenaline. We all want to be pulled out of our THU heads, so I'm feeding that." THU THU Ruby Wax is a comedian, writer and mental health campaigner. THU With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from THU Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, THU Ruby is now focused on mental health through writing and THU lecturing. She encourages people to understand how their THU brains work and rewire their thinking in order to find calm THU in a frenetic world. THU THU Produced by Rosie Boulton THU A Monty Funk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Last Day b04hyw6b (Listen) THU Advice THU THU How should you approach your last day of work? Should it be THU a time of celebration or remorse? Should you go out in a THU blaze of glory or with as little ceremony as possible? Life THU coach Carol Ann Rice and ACAS spokesman Stewart Gee give THU their advice on the best way to go and we hear the story of THU Mary Manion whose day did not go as she expected at all. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b066zkv5 (Listen) THU Francis Bacon in Your Blood, Poor George THU THU Adrian Scarborough reads Michael Peppiatt's intimate and THU very indiscreet account of his thirty-year friendship with THU the defining artist of our time. THU THU Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's THU French House to request an interview for a student magazine. THU Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis THU they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation THU that would continue until Bacon's death in 1992. THU For decades, Peppiatt accompanied Bacon on his nightly round THU of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club and THU casino, witnessing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter THU life'. And despite the chaos Bacon created around him THU Peppiatt managed to record scores of their conversation, and THU here he shows Bacon close-up, grand and petty, tender and THU treacherous by turn, and often quite unlike the myth that THU has grown up around him. THU Today: death, guilt and inspiration. THU Reader: Adrian Scarborough THU Writer: Michael Peppiatt is an art historian, curator and THU writer. His 1996 biography of Francis Bacon was chosen as a THU 'Book of the Year' by the New York Times. THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Adrian Scarborough THU Author: Michael Peppiatt THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b067b5nj (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 b067b5nl (Listen) THU Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head, Episode 4 THU THU by Iris Murdoch THU THU Dramatist ..... Stephen Wakelam THU Director ..... Sally Avens THU THU As Martin finds himself evermore enthralled by the Goddess THU like qualities of Honor Klein he finds himself entering a THU world that seems almost mythological in its practices and THU would leave modern day society outraged. THU THU Credits THU Martin: Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Antonia: Victoria Hamilton THU Palmer Anderson: Matthew Marsh THU Alexander: Sam Dale THU Author: Iris Murdoch THU Adaptor: Stephen Wakelam THU Director: Sally Avens THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b066zkv7 (Listen) THU Losing Louisiana THU THU Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, THU leaving over 1800 people dead and causing billions of THU dollars of damage. It was dramatic and destructive - but THU Katrina has been described as 'like a cold suffered by a THU cancer patient'. The cancer is the erosion of the coastal THU wetlands of Southern Louisiana, a slow motion environmental THU disaster that has continued almost unabated since Katrina. THU Caused by the taming of the Mississippi and oil and gas THU exploration, a football field of coastal land washes away THU every hour, and with it the homes, places and livelihoods THU that have sustained the storied Cajun culture. James THU Fletcher travels to Bayou Lafourche and the town of Leeville THU to get to know one community facing the reality of losing THU their past and their future. THU THU 11:30 The Jacqueline Effect b066zp9x (Listen) THU A small girl of 4 living in Croydon heard a cello playing on THU the radio. THU 'I want to make that noise', she said to her mother. THU THU Her name was Jacqueline Du Pré. Aged 5 she was studying at THU the London Cello School; at 16 she made her sensational THU Wigmore Hall debut. 12 years later, she gave her final THU performance, a victim of multiple sclerosis. THU THU Du Pré, who died in 1987, would have been 70 years old in THU 2015. During that intense decade of her career, thousands THU heard, and saw Du Pré perform, and were inspired to take up THU the instrument themselves. THU THU Unlikely cellists joined school orchestras and for decades THU to come, cello posts in orchestras around the world would be THU over-subscribed, competition driving the technical level THU higher and higher. Superb cello virtuosi emerged from THU conservatoires all over the world in ever greater numbers - THU a phenomenon known as 'The Jacqueline Effect'. THU THU Her tragic story, the subject of books, plays and a feature THU film, continues to intrigue: her super-human musical gifts, THU international success, turbulent personal life and marriage THU to Daniel Barenboim, and her affliction with MS at an early THU age. THU THU Now, music journalist Helen Wallace, who herself took up the THU cello after experiencing Du Pré on film, asks if she still THU has the potential to inspire, and whether her unique THU reputation was deserved. THU THU Christopher Nupen's 1967 'Omnibus' documentary brought her a THU vast new audience, and he reflects on his part in creating THU the phenomenon, as do professional cellists who knew her - THU William Bruce and Moray Welsh - plus Alisa Weilerstein - THU superstar cellist of the new generation who fell in love THU with a cellist she never knew. THU So, has the Jacqueline Effect survived? THU THU Producer: Sara Jane Hall THU (who also took up the cello after seeing Jacqueline Du Pre). THU THU 12:00 News Summary b066tgch (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Why Factor b0670bf8 (Listen) THU The Earworm THU THU They can be annoying, infuriating, but what is happening in THU the head when we hear a piece of music which then refuses to THU go away? Mike Williams investigates the "sticky song" for THU The Why Factor. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b0679n77 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b066tgcs (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0679n79 (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Edward THU Stourton. THU THU 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b066zp9z (Listen) THU Animal Magnetism THU THU Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive THU quality of charisma. THU THU 4.Animal Magnetism THU THU The 18th century medical doctor, Franz Mesmer, was a THU European celebrity in his day. Francine Stock hears from THU historian of science Patricia Fara about Mesmer's use of THU so-called "animal magnetism" to heal - and wonders about THU Mesmer's erotic input. Meanwhile, the actor Simon Russel THU Beale reads some truly extraordinary contemporary accounts THU of Mesmer's impact in Britain and France. THU THU Attempting further to understand Mesmer's healing powers, THU Francine also explores the charismatic power of the mesmeric THU or hypnotic gaze. The distinguished art historian, Richard THU Cork, shares his memories of the gaze of Pablo Picasso, THU while the illusionist, Derren Brown, frankly shares some THU professional secrets with Francine. THU THU Producer; Beaty Rubens. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b066wfp0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b066zw4z (Listen) THU Red and Blue, Alive THU THU Philip Palmer's series about ex-military wargamer Bradley THU Shoreham this time sees him challenging a flood defence THU team's strategy where, faced with the unexpected, he's THU forced to rewrite his game-plan. Hedge fund baroness, THU Alessandra Pacetti, the woman who tried to have him killed, THU continues to pursue him until cornered, a battle-scarred THU Bradley pushes her into revealing her hand. THU THU Directed by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU Credits THU Bradley Shoreham: Tim Woodward THU Alessandra Pacetti: Sara Kestelman THU Billy Tait: Neil Grainger THU Director: Gemma Jenkins THU Writer: Philip Palmer THU THU 15:00 Open Country b066zvy3 (Listen) THU The Glenfinnan Gathering THU THU The Glenfinnan Gathering is an annual Highland games event THU that takes place on the shores of Loch Shiel, on the west THU coast of Scotland, in the shadow of the Jacobite Monument THU every August. It has now been running for over 50 years and THU commemorates the raising the standard by Bonnie Prince THU Charlie in 1745. THU THU The Gathering features traditional Highland games events: THU hammer throwing, caber tossing, traditional dancing and THU piped bands. It's a chance for people from the local area to THU compete with their friends and neighbours. THU THU Helen Mark meets the organisers, competitors and spectators THU who all make this event a vital part of the local calendar THU and discovers what links these folk to the landscape and the THU history that they celebrate. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b066th6v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b066ttrc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b066zvy5 (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b066zvy7 (Listen) THU Series that investigates the news in science and science in THU the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b0679n7c (Listen) THU News interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b066tgd2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b066zvy9 (Listen) THU Series 5, Calypso; Follow Me THU THU One of the world's best storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 THU doing what he does best. THU THU This week: the story of an unorthodox minor operation in THU Calypso, a reflection on selfie culture in Follow Me and a THU final extract from his diaries (5/6) 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 b066zvyc (Listen) THU Rob is very persuasive, and Lower Loxley is transformed. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0679f1j (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b067b5nl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b066zvyf (Listen) THU E-Cigarettes: Another Puff THU THU More than two million people in Britain are thought to have THU used electronic cigarettes. Whitehall civil servants think THU that e-cigarettes are one of the most significant public THU health success stories of our generation. THU THU Just last week Public Health England published an update on THU the best evidence available. It found that e-cigarettes have THU become the number one quitting aid used by smokers. The THU report said the health risks of using e-cigarettes are THU minimal when compared to the harm associated with smoking THU cigarettes. Yet nearly half of all adults perceive THU e-cigarettes to be at least as harmful as traditional THU tobacco. THU THU Why? THU THU In Wales, the principality's government plans to ban their THU use in public places and hopes that a new law will be passed THU within the next 12 months. Wesley Stephenson asks why the THU two governments have such different approaches, and who's THU right? THU THU Presenter: Wesley Stephenson THU Producer: Smita Patel THU THU A version of this programme was first broadcast on 3rd July, THU 2014. THU THU 20:30 In Business b066zvyh (Listen) THU Companies without Managers THU THU Who's your boss? Peter Day explores how three different THU companies, in three different countries, do business without THU managers. Who hires and fires? And how do you get a pay THU rise? He asks how these radical organisations emerged, and THU whether other companies may follow their lead. THU THU Producer: Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b066zvy7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Fantasy Festival b066zkv3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b066zvyk (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0679f1n (Listen) THU Tightrope, Episode 4 THU THU A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political THU alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the THU moral uncertainties of the Cold War. THU THU Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative THU working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and THU imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. THU THU Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse THU herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. THU However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to THU work for the greater good is never far away. THU THU As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and THU the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian THU finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass THU to guide her. THU THU She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between THU her beliefs, her profession and her desires. THU THU Episode Four. THU By Simon Mawer. Marian is called to Hamburg to testify THU against the Germans who worked in Ravensbrück concentration THU camp. Afterwards, she meets an intriguing Russian officer THU and his friend. THU THU Reader: Peter Firth THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Peter Firth THU Author: Simon Mawer THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU THU 23:00 Woman's Hour b066zvym (Listen) THU Late Night Woman's Hour: Lust THU THU What turns women on? Can they be honest about what they THU want? How can they get it? Lauren Laverne and guests Caitlin THU Moran author and journalist; Nichi Hodgson, ex professional THU dominatrix; sexual therapist Mike Lousada. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Lauren Laverne THU Producer: Rebecca Myatt THU Interviewed Guest: Caitlin Moran THU Interviewed Guest: Nichi Hodgson THU Interviewed Guest: Mike Lousada THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b066tgp8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b066zkv5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b066tgph (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b066tgpn (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b066tgpz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b066tgq7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b06907j5 (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection to start the day with Rev Dr Ian FRI Bradley of the University of St Andrews. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0670033 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bktkx (Listen) FRI Mourning Dove FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the FRI Mourning Dove. On a November evening at the end of the last FRI Millennium, Maire MacPhail looked through the window of her FRI home on the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides to FRI see an odd pigeon sitting on the garden fence. It looked FRI tired, as well it might have done, for it turned out to be FRI only the second mourning dove to occur naturally in the FRI British Isles. FRI FRI The sound archive recording of the mourning dove featured in FRI this programme was sourced from : FRI Andrew Spencer, XC109033. Accessible at FRI www.xeno-canto.org/109033. FRI FRI Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) FRI Image courtesy of Getty Images. FRI FRI Audio of Mourning Dove recorded by Andrew Spencer FRI (Xeno-Canto) FRI FRI The audio archive of the Mourning Dove featured in this FRI programme was recorded by Andrew Spencer and was sourced via FRI Xeno-Canto.org. FRI FRI Ref: Andrew Spencer, XC109033 / Access at FRI www.xento-canto.org/109033 FRI FRI Used under the licence terms: CC By-NC-SA 3.0 FRI FRI 06:00 Today b06907k9 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b066tk29 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0670035 (Listen) FRI Francis Bacon in Your Blood, A Kind of Immortality FRI FRI Adrian Scarborough reads Michael Peppiatt's intimate and FRI very indiscreet account of his thirty-year friendship with FRI the defining artist of our time. FRI Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's FRI French House to request an interview for a student magazine. FRI Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis FRI they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation FRI that would continue until Bacon's death in 1992. FRI For decades, Peppiatt accompanied Bacon on his nightly round FRI of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club, FRI witnessing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter life'. And FRI here he shows Bacon close-up, grand and petty, tender and FRI treacherous by turn. FRI Today: Peppiatt loses a 'father', and becomes a man. FRI Reader: Adrian Scarborough FRI Writer: Miichael Peppiatt is an art historian, curator and FRI writer. His 1996 biography of Francis Bacon was chosen as a FRI 'Book of the Year' by the New York Times. FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Adrian Scarborough FRI Author: Michael Peppiatt FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0670c7v (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 b067b69s (Listen) FRI Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Iris Murdoch FRI FRI Dramatised by Stephen Wakelam FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI The merry-go round of partner swapping comes to a grinding FRI halt but just who will end up with who? FRI There are shocks and surprises right up to the end of FRI Murdoch's blackly comic satire. FRI FRI Credits FRI Martin: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Antonia: Victoria Hamilton FRI Honor Klein: Helen Schlesinger FRI Palmer Anderson: Matthew Marsh FRI Georgie: Rhiannon Neads FRI Alexander: Sam Dale FRI Author: Iris Murdoch FRI Adaptor: Stephen Wakelam FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI FRI 11:00 Mending Young Minds b0670037 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI A moving and insightful two part series exploring childhood FRI and adolescent mental health conditions with young patients FRI and their therapists at the world renowned Tavistock Centre FRI in London. FRI FRI Over recent years the number of British children suffering FRI from psychiatric illnesses has increased considerably and FRI the age of presentation is falling. The Sunday Times has FRI reported that the number of children admitted to hospital FRI for self-harm, eating disorders and other psychological FRI problems has doubled in four years. One in ten children aged FRI 5 to 16 has a mental health disorder, according to the FRI Parliamentary task force report 2014, and there has been a FRI dramatic increase in demand for childhood and adolescent FRI mental health services across the country. FRI FRI Dr. Juliet Singer goes inside the Tavistock Clinic in North FRI London to speak to young patients and their therapists about FRI the mental health conditions affecting their generation - FRI including depression, OCD, self-harm and anxiety - and the FRI treatments available to them. FRI FRI The series explores why mental health problems among young FRI people appear to be getting worse, with increased pressures FRI from schools, parents, peer groups and social media. FRI FRI Producer: Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Sisters b0670039 (Listen) FRI Lazy Susan FRI FRI Fiona is offered a slot on a local radio show as the FRI resident legal adviser. But as the nerves kick in, Susan FRI coaches her on how to have confidence and behave like a real FRI celebrity. FRI FRI As Fiona's inner diva begins to surface, Blake is hauled in FRI to be her security guard and Susan is put to work as her PR FRI team. FRI FRI All the attention goes to Fiona's head and soon she is FRI expanding the range of legal advice she offers to completely FRI inappropriate areas including distinctly dodgy advice on FRI affairs of the heart. Even Blake's body-guarding skills FRI can't save her from herself. FRI FRI Written by Susan Calman and starring Susan Calman, Ashley FRI Jensen and Nick Helm. FRI FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI Executive Producer: Paul Schlesinger FRI A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Susan Calman FRI Actor: Ashley Jensen FRI Actor: Nick Helm FRI Writer: Susan Calman FRI Producer: Mollie Freedman Berthoud FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b066tgqw (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Why Factor b0670bsc (Listen) FRI Pilgrimage FRI FRI Tens of millions of Hindus, bathe in holy waters at the FRI Kumbh Mela, Jews from around the world make their way to the FRI Western Wall in Jerusalem. Islam has the Hajj - a Pilgrimage FRI to Mecca and Christians have walked the same paths for FRI centuries. Many others are eschewing ideas of a FRI "traditional" holiday or break and are seeking some sort of FRI spiritual enlightenment instead. What do they get out of it? FRI Mike Williams asks why the Pilgrimage is getting ever more FRI popular. FRI FRI Producer: Jim Frank. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b067003c (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b066tgqz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b067003f (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Shaun FRI Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b067003h (Listen) FRI Red Shirts and Black Shirts FRI FRI Francine Stock attempts to pin down the alluring yet elusive FRI quality of charisma FRI FRI 5.Red Shirts and Black Shirts FRI Charismatic nationalist leadership FRI FRI In the 1860s, Giuseppe Garibaldi was the most famous man in FRI Europe. A correspondent from the London Times encountered FRI him at a public rally in Palermo, and described how men FRI threw themselves forward to touch the hem of his garment, FRI while mothers offered their babies up to be blessed by him. FRI FRI With the help of historian Professor Lucy Riall, Francine FRI explores the creation of the charismatic national commander FRI who would lead the Risorgimento and establish Rome as the FRI capital of a newly united Italy. She hears about his natural FRI charm, his physical appearance and clothes, but also about FRI his protean ability to be different things to different FRI people and to exploit new technology to spread his image and FRI his message. FRI FRI Francine then moves on to a more recent example of radical FRI leadership. She hears from the writer and broadcaster, Abdel FRI Bari Atwan, about his secret visit to Osma Bin Laden in the FRI Tora Bora caves of Afghanistan and about how, in turn, the FRI publicity machine of Al Quaeda used contemporary new FRI technology to advance their cause. FRI FRI Finally, Francine investigates the dangers of this type of FRI nationalist leadership, and hears from Lucy Riall about how FRI Garibaldi's Red Shirts were to be a direct inspiration for FRI the Black Shirts of Mussolini. FRI FRI Reader: Simon Russell Beale FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b066zvyc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b0670101 (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 2 FRI FRI Drama: Brief Lives by Philip Meeks FRI More tales from the new series about the team of Manchester FRI Paralegals. Frank and Sarah drive to the country to FRI celebrate a friend's eightieth birthday but find themselves FRI in the centre of a family tragedy going back decades. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Kathryn Hunt FRI Eileen: Judith Barker FRI Sadie: Joan Kempson FRI Kilbeck: Stephen Fletcher FRI Blaydon: Dale Meeks FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Philip Meeks FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0670103 (Listen) FRI Correspondence Edition FRI FRI Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from Kew FRI Gardens. Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Matthew FRI Wilson answer the audience questions. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Angielski b06707k8 (Listen) FRI Another Kind of Man FRI FRI Three newly commissioned stories offering different angles FRI on the Polish experience in London. FRI FRI Estimates vary but there are now approximately 750,000 Poles FRI living in the UK. And Polish is now the second most spoken FRI language in England. Much of this is the result of FRI immigration since Poland joined the EU in 2004 - but there FRI is also an older community that developed in the years after FRI the Polish Resettlement Act of 1947. FRI FRI Episode 1: Another Kind of Man by Anya Lipska FRI Janusz Kiszka stands at the edge of an East End cemetery FRI watching the mourners leave. But who have they just buried? FRI FRI Anya Lipska's crime thrillers, set in East London, follow FRI the adventures and investigations of Janusz Kiszka, tough FRI guy/fixer to the Polish community and sharp-elbowed young FRI police detective Natalie Kershaw. The third novel in the FRI series - A Devil under the Skin - was published in June FRI 2015. Anya is married to a Pole and lives in East London. FRI Originally trained as a journalist, she now works as a TV FRI producer. Another Kind of Man is her first story for radio. FRI FRI Reader: Adam Hypki FRI FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Anya Lipska FRI Reader: Adam Hypki FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b06707kb (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b06707kd (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b05w8dp7 (Listen) FRI Christine and Sheila - Living Without Roots FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversations between sisters who FRI came to Lancashire from Rhodesia in their teens, reflecting FRI on the impact this displacement has had on their lives. 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 b067b6mf (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b066tgr1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b06707kg (Listen) FRI Series 15, Episode 3 FRI FRI Topical impressions show that offers a satirical take on FRI politics, media and celebrity. Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra FRI Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b06707kj (Listen) FRI Pip knows what she wants, and Pat is full of praise. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Sean O'Connor FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b06707kl (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b067b69s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b06707kn (Listen) FRI Billy Bragg, Peter Oborne FRI FRI Ed Stourton presents political debate from BBC Radio Theatre FRI in London with a panel including the singer Billy Bragg and FRI the political journalist Peter Oborne. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b06707kq (Listen) FRI Another Kind of Atheism FRI FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly b06707ks (Listen) FRI Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI Francine Stock's history of the alluring yet elusive quality FRI that is charisma. FRI FRI This omnibus edition of the first five episodes moves from FRI St Paul's coining of the word in the 1st century of the FRI Christian Era right up the contemporary era, when charisma FRI continues to be a powerful influence, not always for the FRI good, in the fields of politics, banking and terrorism. FRI FRI Along the way, she takes in early medieval mystics such as FRI Margery Kempe and Joan of Arc; the Elizabethan belief in the FRI so-called "Royal Touch" and its different manifestations FRI today; the powerful healing claims of Franz Mesmer; and FRI radical charismatic leaders from Garibaldi to Osama Bin FRI Laden. FRI FRI Reader: Simon Russell Beale FRI Producer : Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b066tgr3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b06708pq (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b067h157 (Listen) FRI Tightrope, Episode 5 FRI FRI A tale of love, betrayal and espionage as the political FRI alliances forged during the Second World War give way to the FRI moral uncertainties of the Cold War. FRI FRI Marian Sutro is a highly successful British SOE operative FRI working with the French Resistance. Then she is betrayed and FRI imprisoned in Ravensbrück by the Nazis. FRI FRI Returning to England a broken woman, she attempts to immerse FRI herself in a normal life with a mundane job in London. FRI However, the lure of the secret service and her desire to FRI work for the greater good is never far away. FRI FRI As the Americans test ever more deadly atomic weapons and FRI the Russians join the frantic race to match them, Marian FRI finds herself in demand by all sides with no moral compass FRI to guide her. FRI FRI She must walk an increasingly precarious tightrope between FRI her beliefs, her profession and her desires. FRI FRI Episode Five. FRI By Simon Mawer. Marian discovers a disturbing truth about FRI her brother Ned. Meanwhile, Major Fawley attempts to recruit FRI her back into the secret service. FRI FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Peter Firth FRI Author: Simon Mawer FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI 23:00 Woman's Hour b06708zc (Listen) FRI Late Night Woman's Hour: Intoxication FRI FRI Lauren Laverne and guests disucss women, booze, drugs and FRI losing control. FRI FRI Presenter: Lauren Laverne FRI Producer: Rebecca Myatt. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b05vzzyp (Listen) FRI Celia and MaryJane - Refusing to Be Segregated FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a centenarian and her FRI daughter who recall the stand the mother took against the FRI unequal Rhodesian education system when she was a head FRI teacher. 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
21 August, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 22/08/2015 - 28/08/2015
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