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SAT SATURDAY 04 JUNE 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b07cmk1n (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b07cypk4 (Listen) SAT Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother, Episode SAT 5 SAT SAT In the centenary year of his birth, Roald Dahl's letters to SAT his mother are newly collected by Donald Sturrock and SAT abridged for radio by Katrin Williams. The author's words to SAT Sofie Magdalene spanned decades.. SAT SAT The author describes marriage to Patricia Neal, then family SAT tragedy. And there's a final tribute to Sofie Magdalene SAT ("Dear Mama.."), receiver of hundreds and hundreds of his SAT missives from the age of nine.. SAT SAT Readers Donald Sturrock and Rory Kinnear SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Rory Kinnear SAT Reader: Donald Sturrock SAT Author: Roald Dahl SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07cmk1q (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07cmk1s (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07cmk1v (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b07cmk1x (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07cyw4y (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rania SAT Hafez, a senior lecturer in education at the University of SAT Greenwich. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b07cyw50 (Listen) SAT 'Is the mountain giving you a sign?' SAT SAT Nick Talbot reached the summit of Everest in May 2016. After SAT being on the mountain when it was closed in 2014 and 2015, SAT we hear what drove him to try again. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b07cmk1z (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b07cmk21 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b07cykcd (Listen) SAT Series 33, Wayfarers Walk with Nigel Clifford SAT SAT Clare Balding and the head of Ordnance Survey, Nigel SAT Clifford walk along Wayfarers Walk from Coombe Gibbet to SAT Highclere, on the Berkshire, Hampshire Border. In this SAT series Clare talks to those involved in epic walks of many SAT consecutive days and covering many hundreds of miles. Clare SAT and Nigel talk about the joy of poring over maps while SAT planning such adventures. SAT They are accompanied by Clare's dog Archie, who particularly SAT enjoys their lunch stop. SAT SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Nigel Clifford SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07djjy1 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Transatlantic Trade and Investment SAT Partnership - TTIP SAT SAT Sybil Ruscoe hosts a debate about the controversial SAT Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - or TTIP. SAT It's the biggest bilateral trade deal ever negotiated, and SAT aims to lower trade tariffs and boost exports between the SAT European Union and the United States. SAT Guests are MEPs Julie Girling (Conservative) and Molly Scott SAT Cato (Green); President of the NFU Meurig Raymond; and SAT Co-founder of 'Ladies in Beef' Jilly Greed. SAT Concerns about the deal include the US's use of growth SAT hormones in their beef cattle; genetic modification; and the SAT use of some chemicals to wash poultry meat - all currently SAT banned in the EU. SAT There are fears some sectors - especially beef and poultry - SAT would be hit hard if cheaper American imports are allowed SAT in. SAT But there is also the opportunity for greater exports to the SAT US - especially of specialty cheese and other dairy. SAT Produced in Bristol by Sally Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b07cmk23 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07djs4q (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b07djk3s (Listen) SAT Michaela Strachan SAT SAT This week on Saturday Live - Aasmah Mir and Kate Silverton SAT speak to wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan about her long SAT and varied career, train enthusiast David Brewer, the man SAT who has photographed every railway station in the UK, Rachel SAT Mariner on swapping the courtroom to write for the stage and SAT Mark Simpson, Young Musician of the Year in 2006 and is a SAT nominee in the South Bank Sky Arts Awards for The Immortal, SAT his new work for orchestra and chorus. Plus Juliet Stevenson SAT shares her Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Ladybird Book SAT Jim Keating and his daugher Susan tell us about how he SAT appeared as the soldier in the 1960s Ladybird 'People at SAT Work' books. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Kate Silverton SAT Interviewed Guest: Michaela Strachan SAT Interviewed Guest: David Brewer SAT Interviewed Guest: Rachel Mariner SAT Interviewed Guest: Mark Simpson SAT Interviewed Guest: Juliet Stevenson SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b07djk3v (Listen) SAT Series 13, Aldeburgh SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the programme from Aldeburgh, Suffolk. SAT Rachel McCormack, Tim Hayward, Itamar Srulovich and Barry SAT Smith are the panellists answering the questions. SAT SAT Produced by Darby Dorras SAT Assistant producer: Hannah Newton SAT SAT Food consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b07f6n9h (Listen) SAT Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator? SAT SAT Translating from one language to another is fraught with SAT difficulty - capturing exact words can be hard enough let SAT alone more subtle meanings like metaphor, pathos, or SAT culturally specific references and phrases. But machine SAT translation is even more complex, although it is developing SAT at a very rapid pace and both text and voice can now be SAT translated very quickly. Bridget Kendall and guests explore SAT whether machine translation means an end to human SAT translators and what impact it might have on our desire and SAT ability to learn and immerse ourselves in other languages. SAT SAT (Photo: Scholar reading Walatta Petros manuscript at SAT monastery. Credit: Wendy L.Belcher). SAT SAT Vikram Dendi SAT SAT Vikram Dendi is the Strategy Director for Microsoft Research SAT and acts as the Technical & Strategy Advisor to the Head of SAT Microsoft Research, based in Washington State, USA. SAT Vikram has been at Microsoft Research for five years. Prior SAT responsibilities included helping transform research SAT technologies like machine translation. He was responsible SAT for shaping the product direction and business strategy for SAT Microsoft’s translation platform, which is used by most SAT major Microsoft products, including Bing, Office and SAT Windows, as well as many partner products such as Facebook, SAT eBay and Twitter. SAT Vikram's research interests include Computer Human SAT Interaction, Social Computing, Intelligent Interfaces and SAT Software Agents. SAT SAT Wendy Belcher SAT SAT Wendy Belcher is Associate Professor of medieval, early SAT modern and modern African literature at Princeton University SAT in the USA. SAT Prof. Belcher has been studying African literature for over SAT two decades and is working, through research and SAT translation, to bring attention to early African literature, SAT particularly that written in African languages. With Dr SAT Michael Kleiner she translated from the original Gəˁəz SAT (classical Ethiopic) what is possibly the first biography of SAT an African woman: The Life and Struggles of Our Mother SAT Walatta Petros. SAT Wendy’s research interests emerge from her experiences SAT growing up in East and West Africa, where she became SAT fascinated with the richness of Ghanaian and Ethiopian SAT intellectual traditions. SAT SAT Daniel Hahn SAT SAT Daniel Hahn is a British writer, editor and translator. SAT His translations from Portuguese, Spanish and French include SAT fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and SAT non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel SAT laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. He has SAT served as chair of the Translators Association and national SAT programme director of the British Centre for Literary SAT Translation, and is currently chair of the Society of SAT Authors. He serves on the board of trustees of a number of SAT organisations working with literature, literacy and free SAT expression, including English PEN, Pop Up and Modern Poetry SAT in Translation. Daniel is interested in how the job of SAT translator is changing to encompass a more ambassadorial and SAT advocacy role. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b07cmk26 (Listen) SAT Writing on the Wall SAT SAT A week in the life of correspondents around the world. In SAT this edition, the paint flies as the race for the presidency SAT in Peru gets colourful; a battle for control of the Iraqi SAT city of Falluja is about to begin - it could be a long and SAT gruelling one, the ISIS fighters dug in there have had time SAT to prepare for the arrival of the government forces; time is SAT running out for the German authorities to prosecute those SAT who committed mass murder in Hitler's time - we meet a man SAT trying to hunt them down before it's too late; a barbed wire SAT fence may be in place but migrants are making it through the SAT border from Bulgaria to Serbia with help from smugglers ... SAT and some policemen. And on a visit to Asmara, the Italianate SAT capital city of Eritrea in north east Africa, our SAT correspondent tries to find out the truth about allegations SAT of repression, political prisoners and torture. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b07cmk28 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b07djk7f (Listen) SAT National insurance - how some workers pay twice SAT SAT Hundreds of thousands of people working as contractors are SAT being forced to pay nearly half their income in tax and SAT national insurance due to a loophole in employment rules. In SAT effect they are treated as both employee and employer and SAT pay double national insurance contributions. As a result a SAT total of 45% of their often low pay disappears before they SAT see it. SAT SAT The European Health Insurance Card allows holders to receive SAT the same state-provided medical care as the citizens of the SAT country you're visiting but with the EU referendum looming, SAT where would a Leave vote leave us? SAT SAT After the price of oil tanked to historic lows at the start SAT of 2016 it has now almost doubled from $27 to $50 a barrel. SAT As a result petrol and diesel have gone up 10% from under £1 SAT to around £1.10 at the pumps. And the price of domestic SAT energy costs is set to rise sharply. Is now the time to be SAT looking for a fixed deal?? SAT SAT And closing the gender pay gap. We report on the University SAT paying its female academics a one-off pay rise that will SAT bring their salaries up to those of their male colleagues. SAT SAT Presenter: Paul Lewis SAT Reporter: Charmaine Cozier SAT Producer: Alex Lewis SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT Changes to Self Employment 2014 SAT Travel and subsistence changes SAT SAT Ofgem.gov SAT The Energy Shop SAT Oil-price.net SAT About the EHIC SAT Applying for an EHIC card SAT University closes gender pay gap SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b07cyvkd (Listen) SAT Series 90, Episode 8 SAT SAT Jeremy Hardy, Samira Ahmed, Frankie Boyle and Kerry Godliman SAT are Miles' guests in the long-running satirical quiz of the SAT week's news. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Sheehan. SAT SAT A BBC Studios Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Samira Ahmed SAT Panellist: Frankie Boyle SAT Panellist: Kerry Godliman SAT Producer: Paul Sheehan SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b07cmk2b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b07cmk2d (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b07cyvkp (Listen) SAT Julia Hartley Brewer, Caroline Green MP, Lord Heseltine, SAT Gisela Stuart MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from St Helen SAT and St Katharine School in Abingdon with a panel including SAT the columnist and broadcaster Julia Hartley Brewer, the SAT Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, the conservative peer Lord SAT Heseltine and Gisela Stuart the Labour MP and Chair of Vote SAT Leave. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b07cmk2g (Listen) SAT Any Answers after the Saturday broadcast of Any Questions? SAT Lines open at 1230 SAT Call 03700 100 444. Email is any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Or SAT tweet, the hashtag is BBCAQ. Follow us @bbcanyquestions. SAT SAT 14:30 Dangerous Visions b07c2wm0 (Listen) SAT The Kraken Wakes, Episode 2 SAT SAT John Wyndham's science fiction novel adapted by Val SAT McDermid. Performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a SAT terrifying modern retelling of alien invasion and global SAT flooding. Starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Higgins and Richard SAT Harrington. SAT SAT The floods have recently devastated parts of Britain. But SAT what if the flood waters never subsided? What if an apparent SAT meteor shower was actually the invasion fleet of an alien SAT race, incubating in the ocean deeps until they were ready to SAT begin their war of attrition against the human race? What if SAT we were trapped on a drowning planet? SAT SAT Val McDermid is a long-time fan of Wyndham's work and SAT retells this dramatic novel in light of contemporary fears SAT of climate change. SAT SAT Recorded with a live orchestral accompaniment from the BBC SAT Philharmonic. Composer Alan Edward Williams worked with Val SAT to create a brand new 50's B movie inspired orchestral score SAT that takes on the role of the unseen Kraken during the SAT performance . SAT SAT Episode 2: SAT Following the remote, far flung lone alien attacks, Europe SAT is now under attack too. When people fight back, the sea SAT tanks withdraw, the attacks abate and there is a silence. It SAT is short lived. A new form of attack takes hold. The weather SAT is changing. Banks of fog smother the world. And the sea SAT level is rising. Rivers begin bursting their banks, tracts SAT of the country become uninhabitable and civil society starts SAT to break down. The lights are going out all over the world. SAT Silence. SAT SAT Mike and Phyllis fight to survive as much of the world is SAT submerged and most of the global population dead or SAT displaced. SAT SAT Performed 'as live' with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra SAT Prof Alan E Williams SAT Clark Rundell SAT SAT Director and Producer: Justine Potter SAT A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Mike Watson: Paul Higgins SAT Phyllis Watson: Tamsin Greig SAT Becker: Richard Harrington SAT Denzel: Richard Harrington SAT Dr Emma Chisholm: Sally Carman SAT Aziz: Abdullah Afzal SAT Humza: Abdullah Afzal SAT Bill: Gareth Cassidy SAT Jonah: Gareth Cassidy SAT First Minister Nicola Sturgeon: Nicola Sturgeon SAT Director: Justine Potter SAT Producer: Justine Potter SAT SAT 15:30 The Tale of Jimmy Scott b07cvhrv (Listen) SAT Mary Anne Hobbs presents the story of jazz singer Jimmy SAT Scott, one of the 20th century's most overlooked vocalists. SAT Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1925, James Victor Scott's life SAT was filled with loss, pain, struggle and setbacks from the SAT start. It would all reflect in his music, yet he remained SAT upbeat and positive until his death in 2014. SAT SAT Mary Anne learns about the man who came to prominence as SAT Little Jimmy Scott, sang with the Lionel Hampton Band in the SAT late 1940s and released his biggest hit - Everybody's SAT Somebody's Fool - but was un-credited on the record. It set SAT up a long list of un-credited performances, bad contracts SAT and difficult dealings with the label who signed him. So why SAT was a singer with such talent left largely unknown outside SAT of the industry? SAT SAT As a teenager, Jimmy was diagnosed with Kallmann syndrome, a SAT genetic condition which affects the production of hormones, SAT meaning he wouldn't go through puberty and would be left SAT with his trademark high pitched singing voice. But the SAT syndrome led to questions around his androgynous appearance SAT and gender defying vocals. SAT SAT In 1963 it seemed as though Jimmy's luck would turn a corner SAT when he collaborated with Ray Charles to make the critically SAT acclaimed Falling In Love Is Wonderful - cited by many as SAT one of the greatest jazz love albums of all time. However, SAT the album was withdrawn due to contractual problems. Jimmy SAT moved back to Cleveland and began finding work as a shipping SAT clerk, hospital clerk, and busboy throughout the 1970s and SAT 80s. SAT SAT It would take until 1991 for Jimmy to resurface and SAT experience the attention and respect that was missing in his SAT early career. SAT SAT Mary Anne Hobbs speaks to Jimmy's wife Jeanie Scott, SAT biographer David Ritz and record producer Tommy LiPuma. SAT SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b07cmk2j (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. Lang reflects on her SAT musical career and tells us about her new album made in SAT collaboration with Neko Case and Laura Veirs. SAT SAT The Labour MP Jess Phillips and scientist Dr Emily Grossman SAT discuss the Reclaim The Internet campaign and how they deal SAT with online abuse. SAT SAT There is a direct link between exam time and self harm in SAT young people. Young women are most at risk and a recent SAT report shows the largest increases in intentional poisonings SAT among females aged 16 to 17 years old. Sarah Brennan, the SAT Chief Executive of Young Minds, and Natasha Devon, the SAT former mental health champion for schools, discuss. SAT SAT We hear from the award winning writer and critic Margo SAT Jefferson about her new book Negroland reflecting on her SAT childhood spent among the great and the good of Chicago's SAT black elite. SAT SAT Who is driving the big debates of the day and why don't we SAT see more women involved in the Brexit debate? Where are all SAT the women polemicists? Broadcasters Nick Ferrari, Camilla SAT Long and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown discuss. SAT SAT With two hours to curtain up Natasha Barnes was asked to SAT step into the role of Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl, SAT the understudy for Sheridan Smith. Showered with good SAT reviews she tells us what it's been like to be thrust into SAT the limelight. SAT SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT Interviewed Guest: Jess Phillips SAT Interviewed Guest: Emily Grossman SAT Interviewed Guest: k.d lang SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Brennan SAT Interviewed Guest: Natasha Devon SAT Interviewed Guest: Margo Jefferson SAT Interviewed Guest: Nick Ferrari SAT Interviewed Guest: Camilla Long SAT Interviewed Guest: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown SAT Interviewed Guest: Natasha J Barnes SAT SAT 17:00 PM b07cmk2l (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b07cynnb (Listen) SAT Profit or plunder? SAT SAT Asset management - or asset stripping? This week Evan Davis SAT asks when making a profit from running a business becomes SAT simple plundering. SAT SAT In business, things go wrong at the best of times ... SAT mistakes are made, luck turns bad. But sometimes things can SAT also go wrong not because of bad luck, but because someone SAT makes money out of failure. SAT SAT The "profit or plunder" question has been raised by events SAT at BHS. It was struggling, facing intense competition in a SAT tough retail environment. But the owner took quite a bit of SAT money out of the company. And the staff pension fund went SAT into deficit. Sir Phillip Green, who was then in charge, SAT sold the business to an inexperienced former bankrupt who SAT didn't make it work and it is now in administration. SAT SAT This has made a lot of people angry - but aside from BHS, SAT how do we distinguish between a case that is bad luck, a bad SAT apple, or a system that is badly designed? SAT SAT Joining Evan Davis in the Bottom Line studio this week are SAT Bruce Davis of peer-to-peer lender Abundance, Breffni Walsh SAT of Brands Are Best and Garry Wilson of private equity firm SAT Endless LLP. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07cmk2n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b07cmk2q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07cmk2s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b07djnz4 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Nikki Bedi, David Baddiel, Indhu SAT Rubasingham, Paul Charles, Matthew Xia, Golden Rules, SAT Xylaroo SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by David Baddiel, SAT Indhu Rubasingham, Paul Charles and Matthew Xia for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Golden Rules and Xylaroo. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT David Baddiel SAT 'My Family: Not The Sitcom' is at London's Chocolate Menier SAT Factory until Saturday 25th June. SAT SAT Indhu Rubasingham SAT 'The Invisible Hand' is at London's Tricycle Theatre until SAT Saturday 2nd July. SAT SAT Paul Charles SAT 'St Ernan's Blues' is published by Dufour Editions on 16th SAT June. SAT SAT Matthew Xia SAT 'Blue/Orange' is at London's Young Vic until Saturday 2nd SAT July. SAT SAT Golden Rules SAT 'Golden Ticket' is available now on Lex Records. SAT SAT Xylaroo SAT SAT ‘Sweetooth’ is available on Friday 3rd June on Sunday Best / SAT PIAS. SAT SAT Xylaroo are playing the London Palladium on Sunday 5th, SAT Rough Trade West on Tuesday 7th, Hootenanny, Brixton on SAT Wednesday 8th June and various festivals across the summer, SAT including Bestival. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Interviewed Guest: David Baddiel SAT Interviewed Guest: Indhu Rubasingham SAT Interviewed Guest: Paul Charles SAT Interviewed Guest: Matthew Xia SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT Performer: Golden Rules SAT Performer: Xylaroo SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b07djnz6 (Listen) SAT Nicolas Maduro SAT SAT The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, has vowed to keep SAT alive the defiant revolution begun by Hugo Chavez. And that SAT revolution has global radical support. But with growing SAT economic chaos and street protests, it's feared that SAT Venezuela is descending into chaos. Maduro has maintained SAT the cult of Chavez, blamed his problems on CIA plots, and SAT told the women of Venezuela to stop using hair driers as the SAT oil-rich country faces constant power cuts. So what has SAT shaped Maduro in his defiance? Can he hold the country SAT together? Chris Bowlby explores his life and career. SAT SAT Producer: Alex Burton. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b07cmk2v (Listen) SAT Minefield at Royal Court, The Nice Guys, Versailles, Francis SAT Spufford, Dora Maurer SAT SAT Minefield at London's Royal Court Theatre examines the SAT personal effects of The Falklands War on veterans from both SAT sides using testimonies of the actors who are all former SAT combatants. SAT The Nice Guys is a new film with Ryan Gosling and Russell SAT Crowe as a couple of mismatched private eyes SAT BBC TV is showing Versailles, a drama series about the SAT goings-on at the court of Louis XIV- the Sun King - has SAT already caused consternation in France, but why? SAT Francis Spufford's first novel Golden Hill is set in the SAT grubby dangerous world of Manhattan in 1746: New York before SAT it became New York. SAT The 50 year career of Hungarian conceptual artist Dora SAT Maurer is marked in an exhibition at London's White Cube SAT Gallery SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Richard Eyre, Francis Stonor SAT Saunders and Jamila Gavin. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Minefield SAT Minefield SAT is at the Royal Court in London until 11 June 2016 as part SAT of the SAT LIFT Festival SAT SAT Images above and left: © Manuel Abramovich SAT SAT The Nice Guys SAT The Nice Guys SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Francis Spufford SAT SAT Golden Hill by SAT Francis Spufford SAT is available in hardback and ebook now. SAT SAT SAT Versailles SAT SAT The first episode of SAT Versailles SAT is available to watch on BBC Iplayer now. The series SAT continues on BBC Two on Wednesday 9 June at 9pm. SAT SAT SAT Dóra Maurer SAT Dóra Maurer 6 out of 5 SAT is at the White Cube Mason’s Yard in London until 9 July SAT 2016. SAT SAT Image: © the artist. Photo © White Cube (Prudence Cuming SAT Associates Ltd). SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Eyre SAT Interviewed Guest: Francis Stonor Saunders SAT Interviewed Guest: Jamila Gavin SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b07djnzb (Listen) SAT A Guide to the Modern Snob SAT SAT It's 170 years since William Makepeace Thackeray wrote his SAT gazetteer of early Victorian social life, The Book of Snobs. SAT Most of our views on snobbery come from this single text. SAT Now, writer DJ Taylor wants to update this user's guide to SAT the snob for the 21st century. He is joined in his search SAT for the modern snob by snobs and snob observers from all SAT walks of life, as well as by voices from the archive. SAT SAT From the Raj to reality TV, from Westminster to the SAT gentlemen's outfitters of Savile Row, Taylor argues that, at SAT bottom, most of us are snobs and that snobbery is an SAT essential part of the face we offer to the world. SAT SAT Comedian Al Murray explores the role of snobbery as a SAT comedic device, from Fawlty Towers to his own Pub Landlord. SAT Jess Phillips MP reveals the snobberies of Parliament - and SAT says we would all benefit if the Palace of Westminster was SAT mothballed and replaced with a more up-to-date institution. SAT And, with broadcaster and self-professed beer snob Hardeep SAT Singh Kohli, Taylor asks why more and more people are using SAT snobbery as a marker of identity, a badge of pride. SAT SAT Produced by Hannah Marshall SAT A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Dangerous Visions b07bzhws (Listen) SAT Brave New World, Episode 2 SAT SAT by Aldous Huxley SAT SAT The Dangerous Visions Season continues with the second part SAT of Aldous Huxley's Classic dystopian tale . John the SAT "Savage" has been brought back to a "civilised" world where SAT promiscuity is the norm, eugenics a respectable science and SAT the drug Soma freely available. Can he retain the ideal of SAT freedom his childhood taught him? Dramatised by Jonathan SAT Holloway. SAT SAT Director: David Hunter. SAT SAT Credits SAT Bernard: Justin Salinger SAT Helmholtz: Jonathan Coy SAT Lenina: Pippa Bennett-Warner SAT The Director: Anton Lesser SAT John: Milton Lopes SAT Linda: Karina Fernandez SAT Fanny: Nicola Ferguson SAT Henry: Sam Rix SAT Miss Keats: Scarlett Brookes SAT Mustapha Mond: Sean Baker SAT Dr Shaw: Nick Underwood SAT Author: Aldous Huxley SAT Adaptor: Jonathan Holloway SAT Director: David Hunter SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b07cmk2x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 FutureProofing b07cx3q4 (Listen) SAT The Future of War SAT SAT Technology threatens to transform warfare more than almost SAT any other human activity. But what does the future of war SAT look like in the 21st century? SAT SAT Presenters Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson hear from those SAT helping to design and build new weapons systems, experts in SAT military strategy and defence policy, and those like veteran SAT war photographer Don McCullin who have experienced the full SAT horror of war, to explore what might change when the SAT technology revolution of today is applied to the conflicts SAT of the century ahead. SAT SAT Producer: Jonathan Brunert. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b07ctvfy (Listen) SAT Series 6, The University of Glasgow SAT SAT A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this SAT week from the University of Glasgow, with specialist SAT subjects including Earth Science, Medicine and Astrophysics SAT and Cosmology, and the questions ranging from Rudolf Hess to SAT Vaslav Nijinsky via smallpox and syzygys. SAT SAT The programme is recorded on location at a different SAT University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates SAT against three of their Professors in an original and fresh SAT take on an academic quiz. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow SAT and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the SAT students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages SAT and science, but also their Professors' awareness of SAT television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In SAT addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope SAT for mild embarrassment on both sides. SAT SAT Other Universities featured in this series include SAT Gloucestershire, Chester, Birmingham City, Bath and York. SAT SAT Produced by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b07ctkyt (Listen) SAT Miscellany SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a miscellany of listeners poetry SAT requests. Poets include John Clare, WH Davies, Laurence SAT Lerner and Olive Ritch. Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT In Time of the Breaking of Nations SAT SAT by Thomas Hardy SAT SAT From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Pier-Glass SAT SAT By Robert Graves SAT SAT From Robert Graves – Collected Poems SAT SAT Published by Oxford University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Mementos SAT SAT by Charlotte Bronte SAT SAT From The Brontes SAT SAT Published by Everyman Poetry SAT SAT SAT SAT On the Hill SAT SAT by Alfred Lord Tennyson SAT SAT From Alfred Lord Tennyson – Complete Works SAT SAT Published by Delphi Classics SAT SAT SAT I'll Dream Upon the Days to Come SAT SAT by John Clare SAT SAT The Later Poems of John Clare, 1837–1864, Volume II SAT SAT Published by Clarendon Press SAT SAT SAT SAT A Great Time SAT SAT by WH Davies SAT SAT From Modern British Poetry SAT SAT Published by Harcourt, Brace SAT SAT SAT SAT Kin SAT SAT by Deborah Harvey SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://deborahharvey.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/kin.html SAT SAT SAT SAT The Hand Game SAT SAT by Olive Ritch SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poetrysoc.com/content/npc30/npc03/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Rembrandt Addresses His Mirror SAT SAT By Laurence Lerner SAT SAT From Rembrandt’s Mirror by Laurence Lerner SAT SAT Published by Vanderbilt University Press SAT SAT SAT SAT The Ancient World SAT SAT by Mark Doty SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/mark-doty/the-ancient-w SAT rld/ SAT SAT SAT SAT Judging Distances SAT SAT By Henry Reed SAT SAT From The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry; from Britain SAT and Ireland SAT SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SAT SAT Nothing Twice SAT SAT by Wislawa Szymborska translated by Clare Cavangh and SAT Stanislaw Barranczak SAT SAT From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 JUNE 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b07djtr8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Stories from Songwriters b043wk19 (Listen) SUN The Announcer's Daughter SUN SUN Hattie Morahan reads Eliza Carthy's unusual and playful SUN fairy tale, 'The Announcer's Daughter'. Eliza has been SUN nominated for the Mercury Prize twice and grew up immersed SUN in the world of traditional music - her parents are folk SUN legends Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson. She approaches the SUN tradition in new and innovative ways creating utterly SUN contemporary work. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Hattie Morahan SUN Writer: Eliza Carthy SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07djtrb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07djtrd (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07djtrg (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b07djtrj (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b07djym2 (Listen) SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b07djnz6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b07djtrl (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b07djym4 (Listen) SUN Joy SUN SUN Lord Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi, uses his debut SUN presenting Something Understood to reflect on joy through SUN music, prose and poetry and some profound insights from his SUN own life. SUN SUN In a deep and moving programme Rabbi Sacks reflects on the SUN difference between joy and happiness. The programme begins SUN with a blast from Beethoven's great Choral Symphony and the SUN final movement which uses the words of Schiller's Ode to Joy SUN , Freude, schöner Götterfunken, "Joy, O wondrous spark SUN divine." He goes on to point out the fact that Jewish SUN history has not been obviously full of joy, but he uses two SUN Psalms to illustrate the fact that despite suffering the SUN Jewish faith is full of joy and the praise of God. SUN SUN He ponders the uncertain world we live in and the anxiety it SUN causes. Nevertheless he says "we are in a world filled with SUN beauty. Every breath we breathe is the spirit of God within SUN us. Around us is the love that moves the sun and all the SUN stars. We are here because someone wanted us to be." SUN SUN Another aspect of the modern world, the 'selfie', prompts an SUN insight inspired by Wordsworth's poem Lines Composed a Few SUN Miles above Tintern Abbey. "The self is too narrow a place SUN to find meaning and satisfaction...the power of joy is that SUN it momentarily silences the self so that we can see into SUN "the life of things" and hear the music of the universe." SUN SUN Presenter: Lord Sacks SUN Producer: Michael Wakelin SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b07djym6 (Listen) SUN Sparrowhawks SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN Fast, furious and dashing, the eruption of a sparrowhawk SUN after its prey - can be a heart stopping moment. This SUN opportunistic hunter of the woodland edge, sparrowhawks are SUN increasingly coming into our gardens attracted by a SUN smorgasbord of birds coming to our feeders. In this SUN programme from 1993, Jessica Holm joins renowned sparrowhawk SUN scientist Ian Newton along with ecologist Ian Wylie in a SUN Northamptonshire wood where the chance of glimpsing a SUN sparrowhawk may be slim but they persevere to find evidence SUN of this highly skilled predator. SUN SUN In the UK sparrowhawk populations have risen by about 150% SUN between 1975 and 2008; although recently there has been a SUN modest decline to a fairly stable population of about 40,000 SUN birds. SUN SUN Producer Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b07djtrn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b07djtrq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b07djtrs (Listen) SUN Grandson of Hamas; Asylum report; Carly Paoli 'Ave Maria' SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b07djym8 (Listen) SUN Shelter SUN SUN Annie Lennox makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Shelter SUN Registered Charity No 263710 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Shelter ' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Shelter'. SUN SUN Shelter SUN SUN Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with SUN bad housing and homelessness through our advice, support and SUN legal services. We’re here so no one has to fight bad SUN housing or homelessness on their own. SUN SUN Last year 180,000 people called our helpline in urgent need SUN of help and advice. But, we were only able to answer two SUN thirds of these calls. We don’t want any call to go SUN unanswered; we believe everyone should have a safe, secure SUN and affordable place to call home, which is why we are SUN appealing for your support. SUN SUN Louise SUN SUN As you hear in the appeal, Louise and her children spent SUN over a year homeless. They had to sleep on friends’ sofas SUN and live in one cramped room of a bed and breakfast. SUN Reaching breaking point, Louise called Shelter’s free SUN helpline. Thanks to Shelter, Louise and her children now SUN have a safe place they can call home. SUN SUN Every eleven minutes... SUN Every 11 minutes in Britain a family like Louise’s loses SUN their home. And thousands more are living in terrible SUN housing conditions; black mould covering the walls, mice SUN infestations or exposed wiring where children are playing. SUN SUN Free national helpline SUN SUN Shelter's free national helpline is available 365 days a SUN year to offer expert housing advice to anyone struggling SUN with bad housing or homelessness - no matter what their SUN situation. SUN Just one call to the Shelter helpline can be the difference SUN between someone losing their home or keeping it. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b07djtrv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b07djtrx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b07djymb (Listen) SUN Thy Will Be Done SUN SUN "Thy will be done" SUN Continuing the occasional series on the Lord's Prayer, the SUN Rev David Bruce asks what it means when Christians pray "Thy SUN will be done on earth, as it is in heaven" and how this SUN should influence the way in which they relate to the society SUN in which they live, SUN SUN From Hillsborough Presbyterian Church, Co Down SUN Led by the Rev Dr Bert Tosh , with the New Irish Choir, SUN directed by Jonathan Rea. SUN SUN Choicest Psalmody (Rea) SUN From all that dwell below the skies (EASTER SONG) SUN Micah 6.1-8 SUN The Lord's Prayer (David Fanshawe) SUN Matthew 7.21-26 SUN O Thou who camest from above (HEREFORD) SUN God of Justice (Hughes) SUN May the mind of Christ my Saviour (ST LEONARDS) SUN A Clare Benediction (Rutter). SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b07cyvkr (Listen) SUN A reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03zdkjv (Listen) SUN Snipe 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 Kate Humble presents the snipe. The snipe is an intricately SUN patterned wader, not much bigger than a blackbird but with SUN an enormously long bill. In the breeding season they fly SUN high above their territories before dashing earthwards and SUN then sweeping upwards again. Throughout this display you'll SUN hear a bleating sound, known as 'drumming'. Find out how the SUN sound is made in today's programme. SUN SUN Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b07djtrz (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 b07djzyn (Listen) SUN Johnny stands by Tom, and the Aldridges celebrate. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Will Grundy: Phil Molloy SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b07djzyq (Listen) SUN David Nott SUN SUN David Nott, vascular & war surgeon, is interviewed by Kirsty SUN Young for Desert Island Discs SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: David Nott SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b07djts1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b07cv0xz (Listen) SUN Series 75, Episode 3 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of SUN the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 SUN seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No SUN repetition? That's no small order after nearly 50 years. SUN SUN Paul Merton, John Finnemore, Gyles Brandreth and Sheila SUN Hancock join host Nicholas Parsons, and the topics on the SUN cards include Kew Gardens, Thomas Hardy and Wasabi Peas. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: John Finnemore SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Sheila Hancock SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b07djzys (Listen) SUN An Archive for Food SUN SUN In the British Library there is an archive of life story SUN sound recordings which tells the true story of how our food SUN has changed over the past century. Until now, this SUN collection has been accessible only by visiting the British SUN Library. Now, for the first time, the 'National Life Stories SUN project' is being made public online. Featuring hundreds of SUN voices, and thousands of hours of interviews, it is one of SUN the most comprehensive and revealing resources we have on SUN food in the UK. Contributors range from chefs like Shaun SUN Hill and Albert Roux, to biscuit factory managers, from SUN butchers to apple growers. SUN SUN In this edition, The Food Programme is collaborating with SUN the British Library to bring you highlights from the SUN 'National Life Stories' archive. Historian Polly Russell SUN picks voices which shed light on hidden parts of the food SUN industry, from restaurant kitchens to the high street. And SUN in recounting these histories to today's chefs, SUN restaurateurs and shop owners, she finds how working in SUN British food has changed. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon with Polly Russell & Barley SUN Blyton SUN Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN More stories.... SUN You can explore the National Life Stories Food Collection SUN for yourself SUN here SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Presenter: Polly Russell SUN Presenter: Barley Blyton SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b07djts3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b07djts5 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 In Wales the Ball Is Round b07djzyv (Listen) SUN Football and Rugby, Meaning and Myth SUN SUN Football is the Welsh national sport. Yes, you read that SUN right. Comedian and writer Elis James gives a polemical SUN appraisal of football's role in constructing modern Welsh SUN identity. (1/2) SUN SUN The story of football in Wales tells a richer, SUN geographically-wider, more socially-inclusive national story SUN than rugby, the country's much vaunted "national sport". The SUN Welsh football story has long embraced crosspollination from SUN ethnic communities, the influx and growth of industries SUN other than coal and steel, and the myriad geographical, SUN social and linguistic divisions that crisscross Wales. In SUN 2016, more Welsh people watch football and follow their SUN local team than rugby; six times as many Welsh women play SUN football than its oval-balled cousin. SUN SUN But no-one's listening. Across Offa's Dyke and within the SUN Welsh media, we're being sold a myth. Rugby articulates a SUN set of comfy, uninterrogated clichés about a fabled Welsh SUN national psyche (Poetry! Coal mines! Celts! Oppressed by the SUN English!) that's ossified. Only in the story of Welsh SUN football - virtually ignored by British sporting media - SUN does one find laid bare the difficult, rich tapestry of SUN Wales today. SUN SUN As the Welsh national football team embarks on its first SUN major tournament for nearly sixty years, Elis James examines SUN why sport plays such a key role - within Wales and to all of SUN us - in constructing different kinds of national, ethnic and SUN personal identities. What are the difficulties and myths SUN that are generated when a sport is elevated to "national" SUN status? And for small nations like Wales taking confidence SUN from the patriotism their national teams generate - how much SUN does a national sport help them stand on their own two feet SUN - and how much does it distract from the hard questions of SUN what it means to be a nation? SUN SUN In the first episode, Elis James explores the extent to SUN which football has played second-fiddle to rugby in Wales. SUN How much does the constant veneration of a mythologised SUN national sport - and football's failure to break through SUN into the popular imagination - hold Wales back from being a SUN forward-looking, modern nation? SUN SUN With contributions from Martin Johnes, Sarah Dunant, Laura SUN McAllister, Dai Smith and Simon Kuper. SUN SUN Producer: Steven Rajam. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07cyvk3 (Listen) SUN Hay Festival SUN SUN Peter Gibbs hosts the horticultural panel programme from the SUN Hay Festival. Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa SUN Greenwood answer the questions from the audience. SUN SUN This week they discuss keeping plants in campervans, how to SUN prevent onion rot and the best edible plants for a SUN greenhouse. In the features Pippa Greenwood visits the SUN Westonbury Mill Water Gardens to discover the benefits of SUN water in planting and the panel recommend their favourite SUN gardening books. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Fact Sheet SUN Q – Last year I sowed 5000 onion seeds of ‘Santero’ and 5000 SUN onion sets – when they dried, the onions from sets had rot SUN but the seeds didn’t – why is this? SUN SUN Bob – Soil conditions are very critical for allowing rot SUN into plants – The seeds and sets grow in different stages. SUN By using a soil mill, you can damage the basal plate – if SUN that’s bruised it can let the rot in. It’s not a good idea SUN to push sets into the ground – better to put them on the SUN surface, cover them with some soil until they have managed SUN to root then brush the soil away. SUN SUN SUN Q – Soon I will be living in a small campervan - can the SUN panel recommend any plants to improve the aesthetic of the SUN van? SUN SUN Matthew – Bonsai trees. SUN SUN Pippa – it’s going to be difficult – you could grow SUN something in a long, slim trough-shaped container that you SUN could train up a trellis – maybe with variegated Ivy and a SUN Clematis. You could also plant some spring bulbs in the SUN base. SUN SUN Bob – Herbs: Basil, Thyme, Rosemary, Sage, Mint and Oregano. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a greenhouse in my school garden, it’s in full SUN sun and has little ventilation – what edible crops can we SUN grow that will harvest before July 20th? SUN SUN SUN Pippa – Put some ventilation in there – the temperature will SUN be too high without it. Take out a pane of glazing to create SUN a window. Early crops of strawberries and tomatoes. Also SUN lettuces. SUN SUN Bob – Fruit plants in big pots: Gooseberries, Blackcurrants, SUN Redcurrants and some grape vines – ‘Siegerrebe’ and ‘Boskoop SUN Glory’ varieties are good. Bring them inside from February. SUN SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a problem with my rose bush – can you help? SUN SUN Pippa – It’s a classic example of proliferation, the petals SUN are really densely packed – a lot of them are green with the SUN orange colour in the centre and right in the middle there is SUN a collection of buds and more growth. It’s a second rose SUN growing from the centre – it is usually caused from physical SUN damage – it could be frost or hail at the wrong time. It SUN could also be a virus or a mycoplasma – I would remove the SUN potentially infectious plant. SUN SUN Q – How do I differentiate weeds from the other small SUN plants? SUN SUN Bob – I would sow in a pattern such as an H shape – this SUN will help to know where your plants should be growing. You SUN could also take a handful of soil from the area and plant it SUN up separately, everything that grows out of that will be a SUN weed and should help you to identify the weeds in the SUN future. SUN SUN Pippa – I would sow straight lines. Before you sow the seeds SUN you should cultivate the soil and remove the large crop of SUN weeds. SUN SUN Matthew – you can create a herringbone pattern by sowing in SUN alternate patches of straight lines. SUN SUN SUN Q – We plant edible plants for the public to pick and use – SUN we have acquired a south-facing bank with stony, dry and SUN unproductive soil. Which herbs and fruit can we grow to SUN provide interest for 12 months of the year? SUN SUN Bob – Nuts; Hazels/Cobs/Filberts – especially red-skinned SUN are good on a dry, stony soil. SUN SUN Matthew – You could produce wine from vines on the stony SUN bank – start small but they will work well after the roots SUN are very deep into the ground. Use the rule ‘2 bottles per SUN square yard’ (9 square feet/ 0.8 square metres). SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b07djzyx (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from Cumbria, Lancashire SUN and London, about the ways people view those who look or SUN live differently from them, in the Omnibus edition of the SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN 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 b07dk01s (Listen) SUN Major Barbara, Episode 1 SUN SUN After a long absence George Bernard Shaw returns SUN to the Radio 4 airwaves in this new 2 part drama. SUN Starring Eleanor Tomlinson as Barbara and SUN Rebecca Front as Lady Britomart. SUN Barbara's mission is to save East End souls in the West Ham SUN Salvation shelter. A tale of rich privilege and a battle of SUN wills. All SUN wrapped up in a romance, the return of a long lost father SUN and SUN a little matter of finding a foundling to carry on the SUN Undershaft SUN arms and gunpowder empire. SUN SUN Concertina played by Colin Guthrie and the SUN Cornet by Peter Ringrose SUN SUN Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN Major Barbara, written in 1905, is funny, enjoyable and SUN crafty in dividing opinion and it leaves you pondering SUN whether anything has changed over the years. It cleverly SUN splits into two episodes for this Radio 4 production. SUN SUN At its heart - a simple and intriguing conflict: the SUN struggle between arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his SUN Salvationist daughter Barbara. Can a father win his SUN daughter's heart and mind? SUN SUN All the best things about George Bernard Shaw are here - the SUN humour, the teasing paradoxical thinking and the sense of SUN life being both absurd and deadly serious. How should people SUN be ruled and how should they be helped? And who is really SUN pulling the strings in the struggle for power - politicians SUN or money? SUN SUN Credits SUN Barbara: Eleanor Tomlinson SUN Adolphus (Dolly): Jack Farthing SUN Lady Britomart: Rebecca Front SUN Andrew Undershaft: Matthew Marsh SUN Stephen: Joel MacCormack SUN Sarah: Scarlett Brookes SUN Charles (Cholly): Kieran Hodgson SUN Morrison: Brian Protheroe SUN Mrs Baines: Susan Jameson SUN Jenny Hill: Nicola Ferguson SUN Bill Walker: Ewan Bailey SUN Snobby Price: Sargon Yelda SUN Rummy Mitchens: Adie Allen SUN Peter Shirley: Sean Baker SUN Director: Tracey Neale SUN Producer: Tracey Neale SUN Writer: George Bernard Shaw SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b07dk0y1 (Listen) SUN Tony Harrison's Poem v SUN SUN James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Tony Harrison SUN about his controversial poem v. first published in 1985. SUN SUN Harrison wrote the poem in 1985, after being angered by SUN graffiti sprayed on his parents' grave by football fans in SUN his home town of Leeds. SUN SUN A filmed version of the poem, directed by Richard Eyre, SUN caused controversy two years later when it was announced SUN that it was to be broadcast on Channel 4. SUN SUN The poem, which includes repeated strong language was SUN denounced by tabloid newspapers as a "torrent of filth". A SUN group of Conservative MPs signed an early day motion to have SUN the programme pulled from the schedules. SUN SUN Others defended the poet's right to use such language to SUN draw attention to the wanton desecration of his family's SUN grave. It was also seen against the backdrop of the Miners' SUN strike and racial intolerance in British cities. SUN SUN Recorded at the Hexham Book Festival. SUN SUN July's Bookclub choice : The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by SUN Maggie O'Farrell (2006) SUN SUN Interviewed guest : Tony Harrison SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Tony Harrison SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b07dk0y3 (Listen) SUN Attila the Stockbroker's Mum SUN SUN Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including a moving SUN poem by Attila the Stockbroker reflecting on his mother's SUN rich life before Alzheimer's gradually robbed her of her SUN memory. SUN The readers this week are Simon Armstrong, Rosie Cavaliero, SUN Attila the Stockbroker and Radio 4 announcer and poetry SUN lover, Zeb Soanes. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN SUN Please Mrs Butler SUN SUN by Allan Ahlberg SUN SUN From Please Mrs Butler SUN SUN Published by Puffin Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 SUN SUN by William Wordsworth SUN SUN From William Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber and Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN A Subaltern’s Love Song SUN SUN by John Betjeman SUN SUN From The Best of Betjeman SUN SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN SUN SUN On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters SUN SUN by Oscar Wilde SUN SUN From Oscar Wilde Selected Poems SUN SUN Published by Fyfield Books SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Endymion SUN SUN by John Keats SUN SUN From Keats’s Poetry and Prose SUN SUN Published by W.W Norton and Company SUN SUN SUN SUN To Night SUN SUN by Joseph Blanco White SUN SUN From Hispanic Anthology SUN SUN Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons SUN SUN SUN SUN The Long Goodbye by Attila the Stockbroker SUN SUN From Arguments Yard by Attila the Stockbroker SUN SUN Published by Cherry Red Books SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Reader: Simon Armstrong SUN Reader: Rosie Cavaliero SUN Reader: Attila the Stockbroker SUN Reader: Zeb Soanes SUN Producer: Christine Hall SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b07cx2rt (Listen) SUN Fair Game SUN SUN English football clubs enjoy a high profile around the SUN world, leading to many companies vying to do business with SUN them. But have some football clubs entered into financial SUN deals with companies with questionable backgrounds? SUN SUN File on 4 explores whether clubs are vulnerable to companies SUN and individuals who use the reputation of English football SUN to lend credibility to their activities. But what due SUN diligence do clubs undertake when securing such deals? Allan SUN Urry looks at the relationship between soccer and SUN sponsorship. He hears from some of the victims who've lost SUN money, because they believed those who do business with the SUN biggest names in football, could be trusted. SUN SUN Reporter - Allan Urry SUN Producer - Emma Forde. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b07djnz6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07djtsc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b07djtsf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07djtsh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b07dk3db (Listen) SUN Susan Calman SUN SUN Susan Calman picks her favourite radio from the last week. SUN You'll hear a singer with an unbelievable voice, a time SUN travelling murderer, Dave Gorman's sexy laugh and tennis SUN commentators with a thing for Novak Jokovic's hair. You'll SUN also hear how Robert Peston's idiosyncratic voice has helped SUN and hindered him and three tales of an eerie future. SUN SUN Production team: Kevin Mousley, Kay Bishton and Sally SUN Richardson. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b07dk3dd (Listen) SUN It is a busy day at Brookfield, and Lilian feels she has SUN made the right decision. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01slrsw (Listen) SUN Greek Tragedy SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests SUN Mark Billingham and Natalie Haynes. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 Dangerous Visions b07bzjss (Listen) SUN Dark Vignettes, Spine SUN SUN The third of four specially-commissioned stories in the SUN Dangerous Visions series. SUN SUN Spine by Anita Sullivan SUN Set in the not-too-distant future. A mother and son must run SUN the gauntlet of high-tech security, and severe SUN travel-restrictions, to leave their homeland in search of a SUN better life. SUN SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN Reader: Martina Laird SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Martina Laird SUN Writer: Anita Sullivan SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b07cyvk5 (Listen) SUN With one of the biggest national decisions inching closer, SUN listeners give their verdict on the BBC's referendum SUN coverage so far. Some feel that the network is giving more SUN attention to one side of the campaign - particularly in its SUN headline reporting - others are concerned that the BBC is SUN only reflecting a limited set of views. Most pertinently, SUN those following the coverage ask whether the corporation's SUN impartiality restricts its reporters from digging out hard SUN facts. Assistant political editor Norman Smith responds to SUN these queries and discusses how he deals with this turbulent SUN political story. SUN SUN Have you ever wondered about the class background of the SUN BBC's producers, presenters and even on-air guests? Do you SUN want a run-down of whether interviewees on Radio 4's Today SUN programme are from a certain class hierarchy? These are the SUN probing questions from certain Feedback listeners - some of SUN whom wonder if this gives Radio 4 an overall middle-class SUN tone. Katherine Godfrey, a Feedback producer, drills down SUN into the BBC's statistics and asks what the corporation is SUN doing to better reflect the class composition of Britain. SUN SUN On-going Radio 4 series Born in Bradford follows one of the SUN biggest medical research projects in the UK. Beginning in SUN 2007, the programmes investigate child development and how SUN this might explain the causes of some diseases. In the SUN latest edition presented by Winifred Robinson (You and SUN Yours), emotional and difficult conversations with pregnant SUN women moved many listeners. SUN SUN And fans of From Our Home Correspondent explain why this SUN sister programme offers a unique quality to their radio SUN listening. SUN SUN Produced by Karen Pirie. SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b07dk3hd (Listen) SUN Carla Lane, Sir Denys Henderson, Jane Fawcett, Alan Devereux SUN and Buster Cooper SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Carla Lane who wrote hit TV comedies including The Liver SUN Birds, Bread and Butterflies. Wendy Craig pays tribute. SUN SUN The ICI Chairman Sir Denys Henderson, who fought off a SUN takeover bid from Lord Hanson and split the company into two SUN parts. SUN SUN Jane Fawcett, the former debutante who worked with the SUN code-breakers at Bletchley Park and then fought to conserve SUN many of Britain's greatest Victorian buildings. SUN SUN And Alan Devereux who for nearly fifty years played Sid SUN Perks in the Archers. SUN SUN Carla Lane (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her son Carl Hollins and to actress Wendy SUN Craig. SUN SUN Born 5 August 1928; died 31 May 2016 aged 87. SUN SUN Sir Denys Henderson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Martin Adeney, former Vice-President of SUN public affairs for ICI. SUN SUN Born 11 October 1932; died 21 May 2016 aged 83. SUN SUN Jane Fawcett SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her son, James Fawcett and to Michael Smith SUN who wrote ‘The Debs of Bletchley Park’. SUN SUN Born 4 March 1921; died 21 May 2016 aged 95. SUN SUN Alan Devereux SUN SUN Matthew spoke to radio critic and Archers fan, Gillian SUN Reynolds. SUN SUN Born 2 March 1941; died 29 May 2016 aged 75. SUN SUN George “Buster” Cooper SUN SUN Last Word spoke to fellow jazz musician Digby Fairweather. SUN SUN Born 4 April 1929; died 13 May 2016 aged 87. SUN SUN Credits SUN Interviewed Guest: Carl Hollins SUN Interviewed Guest: Wendy Craig SUN Interviewed Guest: Martin Adeney SUN Interviewed Guest: James Fawcett SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Smith SUN Interviewed Guest: Gillian Reynolds SUN Interviewed Guest: Digby Fairweather SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b07djk7f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b07djym8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b07cv0y7 (Listen) SUN Protectionism in the USA SUN SUN Edward Stourton examines America's long history of SUN resistance to free trade, and asks why it has again become SUN such a potent political force. Donald Trump's most SUN consistent policy has been opposition to free trade SUN agreements which he sees as unfair, particularly with China. SUN On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders has been equally SUN opposed, if for different reasons, while Hillary Clinton has SUN had to tack away from her previous support for free trade SUN pacts. Edward looks back to debates from the 19th century to SUN the 1990s to shed new light on these forces. And he asks SUN whether the protectionist impulse is a natural reaction to SUN globalisation's wrenching changes. SUN Producer: Smita Patel. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b07djtsk (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b07cynn4 (Listen) SUN Will The Nice Guys Ever Be The Nice Gals? SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Francine asks Shane Black, the creator of the Lethal Weapon SUN series, why buddy movies tend to be about men and whether SUN The Nice Guys will ever be The Nice Gals. SUN SUN Director Louise Osmond and producer Rebecca O'Brien talk SUN about their seemingly irreverent documentary on Ken Loach - SUN Versus, and reveal how the radical director once stood as a SUN Conservative candidate, albeit at a school election. SUN SUN Two independent cinema owners, Alistair Till and Kevin SUN Markwick, tell us how they plan to survive a summer of SUN sport. And why they are both praying for rain. SUN SUN Versus SUN SUN Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach, is in cinemas at SUN pay what you can screenings on Sunday 5 June, find more SUN details SUN here SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Shane Black SUN Interviewed Guest: Louise Osmond SUN Interviewed Guest: Rebecca O'Brien SUN Interviewed Guest: Alistair Till SUN Interviewed Guest: Kevin Markwick SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b07djym4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 JUNE 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b07djtvz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b07cx2cq (Listen) MON Ale drinkers, Northern accents MON MON Northern accents at work: Trainee teachers are under MON pressure to speak the Queen's English. Laurie Taylor talks MON to Alex Barrata, lecturer in Linguistics at the University MON of Manchester, & author of a study which finds that certain MON regional accents are frowned upon in a profession that would MON normally oppose discrimination. They're joined by Paul MON Kerswell, Professor in the Department of Language and MON Linguistic Science at the University of York. MON MON Sensible drinkers: the drinking discourses of real ale MON enthusiasts. Thomas Thurnell-Read, Lecturer in Cultural MON Sociology at the University of Loughborough, explores the MON way in which some drinkers construct themselves as sociable MON and self controlled, in contrast to their hedonistic and MON unruly counterparts MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Alexander Barratta at the University of Manchester MON Paul Kerswill at the University of York MON Thomas Thurnell-Read at Loughborough University MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b07djym2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07djtw2 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07djtw4 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07djtw7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b07djtwb (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07g10f1 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rania MON Hafez, a senior lecturer in education at the University of MON Greenwich. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b07dkk05 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b07djtwg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45bg (Listen) MON Sand Martin MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Bill Oddie presents the sand martin. The flickering shapes MON of sand martins over a lake or reservoir are a welcome sign MON of spring. After winging their way across the Sahara Desert, MON the first birds usually arrive in the UK in March. They're MON smaller than house martins or swallows, and they're brown MON above and white below with a brown band across their chest. MON Often you can hear their dry buzzing calls overhead before MON you see them. MON MON Sand martin (Riparia riparia) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b07dkk07 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b07dkk09 (Listen) MON Genes: Our medical inheritance MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr traces the quest to decipher MON the human genome. The idea of a 'unit of heredity' first MON emerged at the end of the 19th century: cancer physician MON Siddhartha Mukherjee recounts the history of the gene and MON the latest research into genetic heredity and mutation. MON Giles Yeo looks at what genes can tell us about body weight, MON while Aarathi Prasad explores how India practises medicine - MON from cutting-edge science to traditional healing. The MON historian Emily Mayhew traces the medical breakthroughs that MON have emerged from the battlefield, from World War I to the MON conflict in Afghanistan. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Siddhartha Mukherjee MON Interviewed Guest: Emily Mayhew MON Interviewed Guest: Giles Yeo MON Interviewed Guest: Aarathi Prasad MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b07dkk0c (Listen) MON Only in Naples, Episode 1 MON MON Katherine Wilson tells her story of travelling to Naples in MON the Sixties and discovering love, food and family in a MON uniquely Neapolitan way. MON MON Fresh out of college in 1996, Katherine arrives in Naples MON from America to intern at the United States Consulate. MON "There is a chaotic, vibrant energy about Naples that forces MON you to let go and give in," writes Katherine, who meets MON handsome, studious Salvatore and finds herself immediately MON enveloped by his elegant mother, Raffaella, and the rest of MON the Avallone family. MON MON From that moment, Katherine's education begins. Never eat MON the crust of a pizza first, always stand up and fight for MON yourself and your loved ones, and consider mealtimes sacred MON - food must be prepared fresh and consumed in compagnia. MON MON Immersed in Neapolitan culture, traditions, and cuisine, MON slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and longing MON for Raffaella's company and guidance, Katherine discovers MON how to prepare meals that sing - from hearty, thick ragu to MON comforting rigatoni alla Genovese, to name but two. MON MON Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday services, MON marriage, and motherhood, Katherine comes to appreciate MON carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort MON and confidence in one's own skin. Raffaella and her famiglia MON are also experts at sdrammatizzare, knowing how to suck the MON tragedy from something and spit it out with a great big MON smile. MON MON Part travel tale, part love letter, Only in Naples is a MON sumptuous story that is a feast for the senses. MON MON Fenella Woolgar ... Reader MON MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Katherine Wilson MON Reader: Fenella Woolgar MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b07djtwn (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07dkk0f (Listen) MON A Small Town Murder, Episode 1 MON MON Meera Syal returns as family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell MON in the eighth series by Scott Cherry. MON MON While still grieving over the disappearance of one of her MON closest work colleagues, Jackie is sent to talk to Rachel MON Dickson, whose son has just been seriously injured in a hit MON and run incident. Jackie knows Rachel of old - she is MON married to one of Birmingham's notorious villains. MON MON Written by Scott Cherry MON Produced and Directed by Clive Brill MON MON A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Jackie: Meera Syal MON Peter: Matthew Marsh MON Rachel: Monica Dolan MON Rob: John Light MON John: John Hollingworth MON Simone: Jasmine Hyde MON Writer: Scott Cherry MON Producer: Clive Brill MON Director: Clive Brill MON MON 11:00 The Untold b07dkk0h (Listen) MON Battle Song MON MON Grace Dent tells the story of Deborah, a dynamic barbershop MON singer, in the lead up to the biggest competition of the MON year. MON MON Deborah loves her family, her dog and, possibly most of all, MON barbershop singing. MON MON She would drive hundreds of miles each week to sing in the MON best choruses in southern England. Now living in MON Christchurch, she sings with Wessex Harmony and music runs MON through the fabric of the house; her husband directs her MON current chorus, her daughter sings in her barbershop quartet MON and her desk drawers are stuffed with singing medals. MON MON Once a year the Ladies Association of British Barbershop MON Singers holds a convention to find the country's most MON talented chorus. Over two thousand women in sparkling MON outfits and identical makeup and jewellery, are pitted MON against each other. And Deborah starts to plan for this MON wonderful weekend a year ahead. MON MON But in May she finds a lump on her breast. It is cancer. MON MON Grace follows her through the year, looking at what Deborah MON is prepared to do to compete, the risks she wants to take, MON the sacrifices the family are prepared to make and asks what MON happens if she doesn't get there. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen. MON MON 11:30 The Break b07dkk0k (Listen) MON Cold Mountain MON MON Andy (Tom Palmer) is beginning to settle in to the unusual MON seaside town of Flamford. When he and his Uncle Jeff (Philip MON Jackson) find an abandoned fridge in the street, Jeff seizes MON the opportunity to teach his nephew the value of MON entrepreneurship. MON MON Unfortunately, his plans are complicated by a particularly MON diligent and zealous Police Officer (Mark Benton), a MON hard-nosed private landlord (Rasmus Hardiker) and Fish Shop MON Frank's refusal to see a business opportunity when it's sat MON on the pavement outside his chip shop. MON MON Along the way, they meet a pair of half-hearted pirates, an MON eccentric plutocrat, Jeff's on-off paramour, Corinne (Alison MON Steadman) and the youngest-sounding pub landlord in Britain. MON MON Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie MON Producer/Director: Gordon Kennedy MON An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Jeff: Philip Jackson MON Andy: Tom Palmer MON Frank: Mark Benton MON PC Clark: Mark Benton MON Corinne: Alison Steadman MON Joyce: Alison Steadman MON Morag: Alison Steadman MON Max: Rasmus Hardiker MON Julie: Shobna Gulati MON Writer: Ian Brown MON Writer: James Hendrie MON Director: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON MON 12:00 News Summary b07djtww (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Unseen - A History of the Invisible b07dkkjy (Listen) MON Invisible Forces MON MON Science writer and broadcaster Philip Ball sets out on a MON quest to explore the peculiar world of the invisible, a MON mysterious realm where magic and science meet. MON MON In this first episode, Philip finds himself face to face MON with the death mask of Sir Isaac Newton. At the Royal MON Society in London he meets librarian Keith Moore who reveals MON that Newton's work on invisible forces such as gravity was MON influenced by his secret fascination with the occult. MON MON The notion that the world was governed by invisible MON universal forces was a central feature of natural magic. MON Newton was scorned by critics such as Gottfried Leibniz, who MON labelled him an occultist, yet he was able to mathematise MON his invisible forces and prove them to be very real. So the MON idea of an invisible force acting across empty space didn't MON get consigned to the realm of superstitious magic - instead, MON it became a central feature of physics. MON MON Presenter: Philip Ball MON Producer: Max O'Brien MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b07djtwy (Listen) MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b07djtx1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07djtx5 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away b07dkkk0 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON August 2003. A virus has attacked the heart of a 15 year-old MON Scottish boy named Marc McCay and it will take a miracle to MON save him. Meanwhile, in Grantham, 16 year-old Martin Burton MON collapses at home. Writer and journalist Cole Moreton tells MON the story of what happens when the death of a child MON miraculously allows others to live. MON MON A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b07dk3dd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0435hrb (Listen) MON Original British Dramatists, When the Night Has No Right to MON Be King MON MON ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMATISTS MON Discover 10 new voices over 10 Afternoon Dramas MON MON There was a time when love blazed through Chris' life but MON now Sarah is gone and Chris must cross the broken ground of MON all that he has lost in order to save himself. MON MON A man finds himself suspended between the living and the MON dead in John Lynch's moving and powerful drama about grief MON and the redemptive power of love. Inspired by Greek MON mythology of the Underworld, it explores altered MON consciousness and the turbulence of time and memory. MON MON John Lynch is a successful film and television actor (Cal, MON In The Name of the Father, Sliding Doors, The Fall). He is MON also a writer. He has written two novels 'Torn Water' and MON 'Falling out of Heaven'. He co-wrote the screenplay 'Best' MON about George Best. He is currently writing his third novel. MON This is his first drama for radio. MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari MON Sound Design by Steve Brooke. MON MON Credits MON Chris: John Lynch MON Joshua: Steven Mackintosh MON Sarah: Chetna Pandya MON Carl: Steve Evets MON James: Steve Evets MON Peg: Sally Carman MON Rachel: Sally Carman MON Ruth: Sally Carman MON Hades: Jonathan Keeble MON Harry: Jonathan Keeble MON Keith: Jonathan Keeble MON Director: Nadia Molinari MON Writer: John Lynch MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b07dklgc (Listen) MON Series 6, Birmingham City University MON MON A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this MON week from the Birmingham City University, with specialist MON subjects including Visual Communication, English Literature MON and Sociology, and questions ranging from Squash and Stretch MON to Roger McGough via Clement Attlee and the Duckworth-Lewis MON Method. MON MON The programme is recorded on location at a different MON University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates MON against three of their Professors in an original and fresh MON take on an academic quiz. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow MON and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the MON students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages MON and science, but also their Professors' awareness of MON television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In MON addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope MON for mild embarrassment on both sides. MON MON Other Universities featured in this series include MON Gloucestershire, Chester, York, Bath and Glasgow. MON MON Produced by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b07djzys (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Moss Side Gym Stories b07dklgf (Listen) MON Moss Side Mirrors MON MON Jackie Kay, acclaimed writer and Scotland's new Makar, MON writes a poem, commissioned by the BBC and inspired by the MON women who use Manchester's Moss Side Leisure Centre. MON MON Close to the Centre are streets named in honour of one of MON the city's most famous residents, Elizabeth Gaskell, who MON moved to Manchester in the 1830s and knew these streets, as MON fields. In her debut novel, Mary Barton, Gaskell described MON this area as a place of serene rural beauty, where MON Manchester's families would come to walk, talk, rest and MON rejuvenate. MON MON By the later part of the 20th century, the green fields had MON been replaced by housing estates. Moss Side's reputation for MON riots, gangs and guns spread nationwide but its ability to MON inspire writers remained intact, and a peaceful oasis - MON otherwise known as the Moss Side Leisure Centre - could MON still be found. In the first of these two programmes, the MON poet Mike Garry returned to the Moss Side Leisure Centre to MON perform his epic poem, Men's Morning, inspired by the Centre MON and the men who used it. MON MON In this programme, Jackie Kay premieres her 21st century MON response - Moss Side Mirrors - an ode to the women who, like MON their 19th century antecedents immortalised by Elizabeth MON Gaskell, have found in this neighbourhood a place to escape MON from the pressures of daily life - to breathe deeply, MON unwind, and renew themselves. MON MON Presented by Jackie Kay and produced in Salford by Claire MON Press and Ekene Akalawu. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b07dklgh (Listen) MON Belgium MON MON Discussion programme in which guests from different faith MON and non-faith perspectives debate the challenges of today's MON world. MON MON 17:00 PM b07djtxw (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07djtyn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b07dklgk (Listen) MON Series 75, Episode 4 MON MON Josh Widdicombe, Marcus Brigstocke, Holly Walsh and Paul MON Merton join Nicholas Parsons to attempt to speak on the MON subject of his choosing for 60 seconds without hesitation, MON deviation or repetition. MON MON On the cards this week: Muhammad Ali, The Garden of England, MON and Sellotape. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Josh Widdicombe MON Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07dkll9 (Listen) MON Anna updates Helen, and Jennifer wants Phoebe to take a MON break. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b07djtyz (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07dkk0f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Borders of Sanity b07f50c0 (Listen) MON Sweden's Adolescents MON MON Despite Sweden's reputation as an ideal place to grow up, MON the mental health of its adolescents has become a public MON health concern, with more young people reporting problems MON and seeking psychiatric help. MON MON Is it down to a tougher economic climate, school stress, MON social media, so-called "curling parents"? MON MON Christopher Harding investigates and asks whether Sweden is MON struggling to strike a balance between good mental health MON awareness and the creation of a medicalized culture of MON vulnerability with young people hung up on everyday troubles MON and traumas, dwelling on their reactions as pathological. MON MON Producer: Keith Moore. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b07dknlv (Listen) MON Silicon Valley Values MON MON David Baker explores the identity and values of Silicon MON Valley - and what they mean for the rest of us. He talks to MON entrepreneurs, investors, academics and activists about how MON those values are permeating the world and what to do when MON they clash with other priorities down on the ground. MON Producer: Peter Snowdon. MON MON 21:00 The Science of Resilience b07cvhrs (Listen) MON Confucius said "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, MON but in rising every time we fall." Some people, however, are MON just better at getting back up when the most challenging MON life events knock them down. Today there is a growing body MON of research into mental resilience; where it comes from, why MON it matters and how it can be nurtured. MON MON Journalist Sian Williams explores the science of resilience; MON she meets Dr Michael Pluess from Queen Mary University of MON London who is testing for the resilience gene, and Professor MON Toni Bifulco who, along with her colleague Dr David Westley MON at Middlesex University, has developed an online test for MON those at risk of resilience failure. MON MON Nobel laureate Professor Daniel Kahneman and science MON journalist and psychologist Daniel Goleman offer expert MON insight into resilience. Professor Martin Seligman who MON founded the Penn Resiliency Program, and David Clark, MON Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of MON Oxford, describe the psychological background to mental MON strength and how it can be developed. Professor Lord Richard MON Layard from the LSE explains the economic benefits of MON building resilience into society. Sian visits Icknield MON Community College in Watlington in Oxfordshire where MON resilience is on the curriculum and watches a lesson in MON which children are taught to bounce back. She meets MON students, Headmaster Mat Hunter, teacher Claire Foster, and MON Lucy Bailey and Emma Judge from the resilience-building MON organisation How To Thrive. MON MON The documentary is informed by Sian's own MSc research into MON post-traumatic growth and also from personal testimony: MON while drafting her thesis for academic publication, she MON experiences a sudden and very personal trauma which changes MON her view of resilience. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b07dkk09 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b07djtzg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b07djtzj (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Dangerous Visions b07dknlz (Listen) MON Never Let Me Go, Episode 6 MON MON For Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season of dystopian MON storytelling our Book at Bedtime is Booker Prize-winning MON author Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel of friendship, love MON and loss. MON MON Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the sheltered MON world of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As MON they grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of MON their isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store MON for them. MON MON Ishiguro's alternative vision of late 1990s England is a MON disquieting meditation on what makes us human, whether we MON can escape the fate set out for us and how we each find MON meaning in our lives. MON MON Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the novel. MON MON Written by Kazuo Ishiguro MON Read by Rachel Shelley MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON Produced by Mair Bosworth. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Rachel Shelley MON Author: Kazuo Ishiguro MON Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON Producer: Mair Bosworth MON MON 23:00 Self's Search for Meaning b07dknm1 (Listen) MON Science MON MON Where does the modern Briton look to find meaning? Many take MON their lead from key figures in Science, in Philosophy or in MON Faith, whose beliefs seem compelling - resounding in song, MON fashioned in stone and beamed into packed presentation MON halls... But away from the noise, what's actually at the MON core of the ideas being conveyed? Are they as forceful, MON distilled to their essence, and can they really imbue our MON lives with purpose? MON In a three part series, Will Self asks some of Britain's key MON opinion makers to share, in simple terms, their conclusions MON about the nature - and meaning - of our existence. In the MON absence of certainty, what is it exactly that strengthens MON their convictions, and how do these inform their everyday MON actions? How do we live well, in service to a higher purpose MON - and can we find meaning without one? MON With contributors including Dr. Rowan Williams, Alain de MON Botton and Baroness Susan Greenfield, Self explores three MON fields of human comprehension, before probing their MON foundations in open, lively and searching discussion. MON Episode breakdown: MON 1. Leaders of Science - 06/06 tx date MON 2. Leaders of Thought - 13/06 MON 3. Leaders of Faith - 20/06. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b07dknm3 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 JUNE 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b07djv4z (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b07dkk0c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07djv5b (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07djv5d (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07djv5g (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b07djv5j (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07f516c (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rania TUE Hafez, a senior lecturer in education at the University of TUE Greenwich. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07dlww0 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03wq2nz (Listen) TUE Lapwing TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Bill Oddie presents the lapwing. The lovely iridescent TUE greens and purples of the lapwing: with its delicate crest TUE and broad rounded wings that almost seem to twinkle in level TUE flight, they are seen less often on our farmland today. At TUE one time they were so common that their freckled eggs were TUE harvested and sent off to the cities to pamper the palates TUE of urban epicures. TUE TUE Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07dlww2 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b07dlww4 (Listen) TUE Marcus du Sautoy TUE TUE Marcus du Sautoy wasn't particularly good at maths at TUE school; but a teacher spotted his aptitude for abstract TUE thought and he started reading, and enjoying, journals TUE filled with mathematical proofs. His thesis on the TUE mathematics of symmetry launched him as a world class TUE mathematician. And before he dies he wants to know: can you TUE predict the properties of the next symmetrical object that TUE could possibly exist in a hundred thousand dimensions or TUE more? Marcus talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his passion for TUE the performing arts, as well as mathematics; and why, for TUE him, mathematics is as much a creative art as a science. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b07dlww6 (Listen) TUE David Greig and Angela Mudge TUE TUE What does it take to be a successful runner of extreme TUE distance and why do people do it? TUE TUE David Greig is the Artistic Director of the Lyceum Theatre TUE in Edinburgh and an internationally successful playwright. TUE He's also an ultra-marathon runner who has twice completed TUE the punishing 96 mile West Highland Way as well as many TUE other long-distance races. He took up running fifteen years TUE ago when he stopped smoking and running has since become an TUE endorphin-fuelled obsession. TUE TUE For One to One, David speaks to two fellow runners. Last TUE week, he met Ben Smith who is attempting to set a world TUE record by running 401 marathons on 401 consecutive days. TUE Today he speaks to former world hill running champion, TUE Angela Mudge. Born with birth defects that affected her TUE feet, Angela spent the first two and half years of life TUE almost continually with her lower legs and feet in plaster. TUE Despite this, she went onto be a hugely successful TUE long-distance runner. Her most memorable race was when she TUE became the first woman to break three hours when she won the TUE Sierre-Zinal - 'the race of the 4000m peaks'. TUE TUE But why do they do it? TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b07f4zh3 (Listen) TUE Only in Naples, Episode 2 TUE TUE Katherine Wilson tells her story of travelling to Naples in TUE the Sixties and discovering love, food and family in a TUE uniquely Neapolitan way. TUE TUE Fresh out of college in 1996, Katherine arrives in Naples TUE from America to intern at the United States Consulate. TUE "There is a chaotic, vibrant energy about Naples that forces TUE you to let go and give in," writes Katherine, who meets TUE handsome, studious Salvatore and finds herself immediately TUE enveloped by his elegant mother, Raffaella, and the rest of TUE the Avallone family. TUE TUE From that moment, Katherine's education begins. Never eat TUE the crust of a pizza first, always stand up and fight for TUE yourself and your loved ones, and consider mealtimes sacred TUE - food must be prepared fresh and consumed in compagnia. TUE TUE Immersed in Neapolitan culture, traditions, and cuisine, TUE slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and longing TUE for Raffaella's company and guidance, Katherine discovers TUE how to prepare meals that sing - from hearty, thick ragu to TUE comforting rigatoni alla Genovese, to name but two. TUE TUE Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday services, TUE marriage, and motherhood, Katherine comes to appreciate TUE carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort TUE and confidence in one's own skin. Raffaella and her famiglia TUE are also experts at sdrammatizzare, knowing how to suck the TUE tragedy from something and spit it out with a great big TUE smile. TUE TUE Part travel tale, part love letter, Only in Naples is a TUE sumptuous story that is a feast for the senses. TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Katherine Wilson TUE Reader: Fenella Woolgar TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b07djv5l (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07dlww8 (Listen) TUE A Small Town Murder, Episode 2 TUE TUE Meera Syal returns as family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell TUE in the eighth series by Scott Cherry. TUE TUE While still grieving over the disappearance of one of her TUE closest work colleagues, Jackie is sent to talk to Rachel TUE Dickson, whose son has just been seriously injured in a hit TUE and run incident. Jackie knows Rachel of old - she is TUE married to one of Birmingham's notorious villains. TUE TUE Written by Scott Cherry TUE Produced and Directed by Clive Brill TUE TUE A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jackie: Meera Syal TUE Peter: Matthew Marsh TUE Rachel: Monica Dolan TUE Rob: John Light TUE John: John Hollingworth TUE Simone: Jasmine Hyde TUE Writer: Scott Cherry TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE Director: Clive Brill TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b07dlwwb (Listen) TUE Fly TUE TUE Houseflies, bluebottles, fruit flies - Brett Westwood TUE explores how these flies that live close to us have buzzed TUE in our imagination but have also taught us much about who we TUE are. A scholar of literature, a genetic investigator, a TUE naturalist, a forensic entomologist and a plain fly-lover TUE come together to talk flies: Steve Connor, Peter Lawrence, TUE Peter Marren, Martin Hall, and Erica McAlister. Readers: TUE Anton Lesser and Niamh Cusack. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 11:30 While My Guitar Gently Bleeps b07dlx8y (Listen) TUE A plumber eating a mushroom, and a spiny mammal jumping on a TUE golden ring - you'd be forgiven for thinking these actions TUE would make pretty indistinct or ambiguous sounds. But TUE comedian, writer and musician Isy Suttie discovers why - TUE thanks to Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog - they're some TUE of the most evocative sounds of the 1980s and 90s. Along TUE with these sounds, the plinky plonky music of early video TUE games buried itself inside a generation of ears growing up TUE among Commodores, Ataris, Segas and Nintendos. Loosely TUE referred to as "chiptune", many musicians and producers now TUE use the jagged, electronic textures in their songs, going to TUE great lengths to deliberately limit their audio palette for TUE the sake of authenticity; some even rip apart old computers TUE and consoles to build instruments faithful to the original TUE sounds. Its ubiquity in film and TV scores is another TUE testament to its efficiency in evoking that era. TUE TUE Isy traces the evolution of chiptune from early electronic TUE music, looking at how composers like Hirokazu Tanaka and TUE Koji Kondo created the catchy and unmistakeable themes of TUE Tetris and Super Mario Brothers. She meets current chiptune TUE artists, including the band whose instruments are joysticks TUE and game controllers, and uses their advice to write her own TUE digital classic. But can she convince the organisers of a TUE die-hard gaming event to use it as their theme tune, and TUE survive silicon scrutiny? TUE Produced by Benn Cordrey. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b07djv5n (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Unseen - A History of the Invisible b07dlx90 (Listen) TUE Conjuring the Invisible TUE TUE Science writer and broadcaster Philip Ball sets out on a TUE quest to explore the peculiar world of the invisible, a TUE mysterious realm where magic and science meet. TUE TUE In this episode, Philip pays a visit to a secretive TUE institution in the heart of London - The Magic Circle. There TUE he meets historian of magic and master conjuror William TUE Houston who charts the relationship between science, stage TUE magic and the early days of cinema. TUE TUE Stage magicians have always been early adopters of the TUE latest scientific discoveries, harnessing cutting edge TUE research and using it to fool their audiences. In the TUE eighteenth century, stage magicians used discoveries in the TUE field of optics to conjure up invisible spirits in occult TUE themed light shows called phantasmagoria. TUE TUE The magic lanterns used in the phantasmagoria performances TUE were primitive projectors. As the technology progressed, TUE cinema was born. Many of the early cinematographers were TUE keen stage magicians and used classic conjuring tricks to TUE pioneer special effects. The most prominent effects made TUE people and objects suddenly vanish and rendered ghostly TUE figures on the screen. As Philip discovers, the obsession of TUE the cinema pioneers with the invisible and the spirit world TUE was no coincidence, given the magic lantern's occult past. TUE TUE Presenter: Philip Ball TUE Producer: Max O'Brien TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b07djv5q (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b07djv5s (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07dlx92 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away b07f4k5f (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE It's August 2003 and life hangs in the balance for two TUE teenage boys. A virus has attacked the heart of a Scottish TUE boy called Marc McCay. Only 15 years old - he is slowly TUE dying. Meanwhile further south an English boy is in grave TUE danger. 16-year-old Martin Burton collapsed at home in TUE Grantham at 2 o'clock in the morning and his mother has TUE called the emergency services. Writer and journalist Cole TUE Moreton tells the story of what happens when the death of a TUE child miraculously allows others to live. TUE TUE A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07dkll9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b07dlxk4 (Listen) TUE Murdering My Dad TUE TUE Murdering My Dad TUE by Rachel Mathews TUE A dark comedy about an adolescent girl who decides to kill TUE her dad. When Lily's dad announces they are moving from her TUE beloved city life in London, to the countryside up North, TUE Lily can bear it no longer and decides to take drastic TUE action. Lily takes inspiration from infamous historical TUE murderesses such as Lizzie Borden. This off beat drama TUE explores the dynamic and sometimes fraught relationship with TUE fathers and adolescent daughters. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Pauline Harris TUE TUE Rachel Mathews has written two previous dramas for Radio 4, TUE Chin Hair and The City At Night. She in an award winning TUE short film writer with Danny & His Amazing Teeth and is TUE Winner of The London Screenwriters' Festival/The Wellcome TUE Trust's 'Inspired By Science' Treatment Award 2011 for her TUE feature film Matrioshka. Producer/Director Pauline Harris is TUE multi national and international programme maker with TUE productions such The Startling Truths of Old World Sparrows, TUE the British Premier of The Color Purple, and TUE producer/co-creator of Blood, Sex and Money: Emile Zola, TUE staring Glenda Jackson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Lily: Evie Killip TUE Julie: Shannon Flynn TUE Phil: Jonathan Keeble TUE Carol: Julia Rounthwaite TUE Toby: Finn Monteath TUE Director: Pauline Harris TUE Producer: Pauline Harris TUE Writer: Rachel Mathews TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b07djk3v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Shared Experience b07dlxmg (Listen) TUE Series 5, Scammed TUE TUE What happens when you become the victim of a sophisticated TUE scam that leaves you thousands of pounds out of pocket? TUE Leaving aside the financial implications, Fi Glover hears TUE how three people who would not seem likely targets for such TUE fraudsters have been left with feelings of shame after the TUE event. TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b07dlxmj (Listen) TUE Artificial Intelligence and the Law TUE TUE Artificial Intelligence has made great advances in recent TUE years, with computer scientists developing cars without TUE drivers, planes without pilots and mobile phones which can TUE double up as a personal assistant. The legal profession is TUE proving to be rich territory in the AI field too. TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg meets computer scientists at the University TUE of Liverpool, who are using 'computational argumentation' to TUE digitally decide the results of legal cases, proving that AI TUE can be just as discerning as a court judge. He also meets TUE the founder of a law firm already making the most of TUE existing AI technology to benefit customers and build TUE business. TUE TUE But just how far is the legal profession - and the general TUE public - willing to trust the judgement of an AI algorithm? TUE The IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice, Professor Richard TUE Susskind, explains where AI might fit into the legal sphere TUE in years to come. TUE TUE Also: The First 100 Years is a new digital history project, TUE charting the pioneering role women have played in the legal TUE profession. Law in Action speaks to the project's founder TUE Dana Denis-Smith and Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. TUE TUE Producers: Richard Fenton-Smith & Ben Crighton. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b07dlxml (Listen) TUE Trevor McDonald and Jon Snow TUE TUE Sir Trevor McDonald, formerly of ITV News at Ten, and Jon TUE Snow, of Channel 4 News, discuss favourite books with TUE Harriett Gilbert. Together in studio for the first time, TUE they share thoughts and reminiscences on working together as TUE they discuss a much-loved look at the British, Notes From A TUE Small Island: Journey Through Britain by Bill Bryson; a new TUE novel: Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift and a timely study TUE of a crucial time in American politics: Master of the TUE Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 3) by Robert A TUE Caro. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Trevor McDonald TUE Interviewed Guest: Jon Snow TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b07djv5v (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07djv5x (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b07dlxmq (Listen) TUE Series 7, Lionel Shriver TUE TUE The writer Lionel Shriver reads from her frank and highly TUE personal teenage journals, while discussing her formative TUE years with Rufus Hound. TUE TUE She talks about her attempts to rebel against her religious TUE upbringing, her complex relationship with her older brother, TUE and her suspicion of young children - which began when she TUE was little more than a child herself. TUE TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE Executive Producer: Aled Evans TUE A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Lionel Shriver TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE Executive Producer: Aled Evans TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07dlxrb (Listen) TUE David is on edge, and Jolene changes tack. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b07djv5z (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07dlww8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b07dlxxt (Listen) TUE The Cancer Drugs Fund TUE TUE Over the past five years thousands of patients in England TUE have been given access to new but expensive cancer drugs TUE through a special Cancer Drugs Fund. But critics argue that TUE hundreds of millions have been spent on drugs that offered TUE poor value for money with sometimes limited effects. The TUE Fund is now being reformed but cancer charities have written TUE to the Prime Minister to express deep concern that drugs TUE will now struggle to gain approval. Phil Kemp investigates TUE the record of the Cancer Drugs Fund and asks if the proposed TUE changes will offer better value for money or access for TUE patients. TUE TUE Reporter: Phil Kemp TUE Producer: Anna Meisel. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b07djv61 (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b07dlxxw (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b07dlww4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b07djv63 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b07djv65 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Dangerous Visions b07dlxxy (Listen) TUE Never Let Me Go, Episode 7 TUE TUE For Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season of dystopian TUE storytelling our Book at Bedtime is Booker Prize-winning TUE author Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel of friendship, love TUE and loss. TUE TUE Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the sheltered TUE world of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As TUE they grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of TUE their isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store TUE for them. TUE TUE Ishiguro's alternative vision of late 1990s England is a TUE disquieting meditation on what makes us human, whether we TUE can escape the fate set out for us and how we each find TUE meaning in our lives. TUE TUE Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the novel. TUE TUE Written by Kazuo Ishiguro TUE Read by Rachel Shelley TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Produced by Mair Bosworth. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Rachel Shelley TUE Author: Kazuo Ishiguro TUE Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Producer: Mair Bosworth TUE TUE 23:00 What Does the K Stand For? b0507mbg (Listen) TUE Series 2, A Royal Visit TUE TUE Stephen K Amos' sitcom about his own teenage years, growing TUE up black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. TUE TUE Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. Produced by TUE Colin Anderson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos TUE Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah TUE Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna TUE Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas TUE Vincent Amos: Don Gilet TUE Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly TUE Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson TUE Fergie: Margaret Cabourn-Smith TUE Moira S: Margaret Cabourn-Smith TUE Ms Hunt: Margaret Cabourn-Smith TUE Producer: Colin Anderson TUE Writer: Jonathan Harvey TUE Writer: Stephen K Amos TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b07dlxyq (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 JUNE 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b07djv7p (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b07f4zh3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07djv7r (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07djv7t (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07djv7w (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b07djv7y (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07g6xkz (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rania WED Hafez, a senior lecturer in education at the University of WED Greenwich. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b07dly5g (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02ttqwv (Listen) WED Turtle Dove WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Steve Backshall presents the turtle dove. The soft purring WED song of the turtle Doves are mentioned in the Song of WED Solomon in the Bible: " The voice of the turtle is heard in WED our land". They are migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and are WED now a treat to see here in the UK where they breed in WED farmland and scrub where they can find weed seeds for their WED growing young. WED WED Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur) WED Image courtesy for RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b07dly5j (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b07dly5l (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b07f4q8c (Listen) WED Only in Naples, Episode 3 WED WED Fresh out of college in 1996, Katherine arrives in Naples WED from America to intern at the United States Consulate. WED "There is a chaotic, vibrant energy about Naples that forces WED you to let go and give in," writes Katherine, who meets WED handsome, studious Salvatore and finds herself immediately WED enveloped by his elegant mother, Raffaella, and the rest of WED the Avallone family. From that moment, Katherine's education WED begins: Never eat the crust of a pizza first, always stand WED up and fight for yourself and your loved ones, and consider WED mealtimes sacred-food must be prepared fresh and consumed in WED compagnia. WED Immersed in Neapolitan culture, traditions, and cuisine, WED slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and longing WED for Raffaella's company and guidance, Katherine discovers WED how to prepare meals that sing, from hearty, thick ragù to WED comforting rigatoni alla Genovese, to name but two. WED Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday services, WED marriage, and motherhood (in Naples, a pregnancy craving WED must always be satisfied!), Katherine comes to appreciate WED carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort WED and confidence in one's own skin. Raffaella and her famiglia WED are also experts at sdrammatizzare, knowing how to suck the WED tragedy from something and spit it out with a great big WED smile. Part travel tale, part love letter, Only in Naples is WED a sumptuous story that is a feast for the senses. WED WED Credits WED Writer: Katherine Wilson WED Reader: Fenella Woolgar WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b07djv80 (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b07dly5n (Listen) WED A Small Town Murder, Episode 3 WED WED Meera Syal returns as family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell WED in the eighth series by Scott Cherry. WED WED While still grieving over the disappearance of one of her WED closest work colleagues, Jackie is sent to talk to Rachel WED Dickson, whose son has just been seriously injured in a hit WED and run incident. Jackie knows Rachel of old - she is WED married to one of Birmingham's notorious villains. WED WED Written by Scott Cherry WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED WED A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Jackie: Meera Syal WED Peter: Matthew Marsh WED Rachel: Monica Dolan WED Rob: John Light WED John: John Hollingworth WED Simone: Jasmine Hyde WED Writer: Scott Cherry WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Director: Clive Brill WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b07dly5q (Listen) WED Claudia and Alan - Living After Loss WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation about how two people WED dealt with the death of someone close to them in very WED different ways. Another in the series that proves it's WED surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 The Borders of Sanity b07f50c0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Polyoaks b07dlygk (Listen) WED Series 4, Duty of Candour WED WED Satire on the NHS by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer. WED WED Credits WED Roy: Nigel Planer WED Hugh: Simon Greenall WED Monica: Polly Frame WED Jeremy: David Westhead WED Lauren: Zalie Burrow WED Mrs Shaw: Kate McDaniel WED Mrs Cox: Kate McDaniel WED Mr Cox: Julian Dutton WED Mr Todd: Julian Dutton WED Writer: Phil Hammond WED Writer: David Spicer WED Director: Frank Stirling WED WED 12:00 News Summary b07djv82 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Unseen - A History of the Invisible b07dm2k8 (Listen) WED The Spirit World WED WED Science writer and broadcaster Philip Ball sets out on a WED quest to explore the peculiar world of the invisible, a WED mysterious realm where magic and science meet. WED WED In this episode, Philip visits London's College of Psychic WED Studies to meet archivist and historian Leslie Price. The WED college is a unique institution, dedicated to furthering WED research into the psychic arts for over 130 years. In a WED seance room, surrounded by spirit photographs, Leslie WED reveals that 19th century developments in communications WED technologies such as telegraphy had a profound impact on the WED popular religion of spiritualism. Spiritualists believed WED that it was possible to converse with the invisible dead and WED the discovery that we could communicate over vast distances WED with unseen figures using the telegraph seemed to offer WED their beliefs a form of scientific verification. WED WED The invention of radio, which sent invisible messages WED through the air, appeared to lend some support not just to WED spiritualism but to a whole range of paranormal and psychic WED phenomena, such as telepathy and telekinesis. WED WED Later, the discovery of invisible X-rays which could peer WED into our bodies, revealing images of our skeletons like a WED presentiment of death, was also fascinating to those who WED believed in the spirit realm. X-rays and radioactivity WED shattered the notion that the material world was WED impenetrable, all of a sudden atoms could be broken apart. WED WED Philip explains that those who believed in invisible spirits WED were hugely stimulated by this scientific research that WED suggested there is far more to our world than meets the eye. WED WED Presenter: Philip Ball WED Producer: Max O'Brien WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b07djv84 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b07djv86 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b07dm2kb (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away b07f4ls8 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED August 2003 - life hangs in the balance for two teenage WED boys. A virus has attacked the heart of a Scottish boy WED called Mark McCay and he is slowly dying in a hospital bed WED in Newcastle. His only hope is a new heart. Down in WED Nottingham, 16 year-old Martin Burton is in intensive care WED with damage to the brain. His mother Sue had just been told WED there was no chance of recovery. His father Nigel has rushed WED home from the United States to be by his side. Writer and WED journalist Cole Moreton tells the story of what happens when WED the death of a child miraculously allows others to live. WED WED A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07dlxrb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b045877x (Listen) WED A Night Visitor WED WED by Stephanie Jacob. WED WED Forced by debt to downsize to an isolated Norfolk cottage WED Hilary and Tom have a terrifying visitor one stormy night. WED But it might be just the thing their ailing marriage needs. WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED Credits WED Hilary: Stella Gonet WED Tom: David Cann WED Martin: Carl Prekopp WED Director: David Hunter WED Writer: Stephanie Jacob WED WED 15:00 Money Box b07dm2pg (Listen) WED Adam Shaw and guests discuss: Why don't house prices fall if WED they are unaffordable for many people? Prices are now over WED six times an average salary, making it difficult for young WED buyers to save a high enough deposit to get onto the housing WED ladder. Yet the picture is mixed. In some areas of Scotland WED and the North East of England house prices have actually WED fallen over the past year. Yet affordability is still an WED issue throughout the UK, experts say. What keeps the price WED of buying a property so high? Is it a lack of supply with WED not enough houses being built in the UK, the increase of WED amateur landlords, more foreign investors, or ironically WED cheap mortgages? Contact the programmes with your WED experiences and questions. WED WED Email moneybox@bbc.co.uk or tweet @moneybox. Or ring: 03 700 WED 100 444. Lines open from 13:00 on Wednesday. WED Council of Mortgage Lenders WED Help to Buy WED Moneysavingexpert.com WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b07dlxxw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b07dm2pj (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b07djv88 (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b07djv8b (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07djv8d (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:28 EU Referendum Campaign Broadcasts b07dm2pl (Listen) WED Stronger IN Europe, 08/06/2016 WED WED Referendum Campaign Broadcast by the Stronger IN Europe WED campaign for the Referendum on the United Kingdom's WED membership of the European Union on 23rd June 2016. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b07dm2pn (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 4 WED WED Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show WED which dares to commit heresy. WED WED Her guests this week are newspaper columnist Julia WED Hartley-Brewer, TV presenter Richard Osman and food critic, WED television presenter and novelist Giles Coren. They discuss WED David Bowie, iceberg houses and The Great British Bake Off. WED WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Victoria Coren Mitchell WED Panellist: Julia Hartley-Brewer WED Panellist: Richard Osman WED Panellist: Giles Coren WED WED 19:00 The Archers b07dm2pq (Listen) WED Lynda eyes up the competition, and Pat has a question for WED Susan. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b07djv8g (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07dly5n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b07dm2ps (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Claire Fox WED and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b07dm2px (Listen) WED Questions of Identity WED WED Marina Lewycka explores how identity is formed. WED WED Marine discusses how - from the Second World War to the WED conflict in the Ukraine - others have interpreted her WED identity through the prism of world events and their own WED prejudices, and asks why our identities are so often defined WED by others. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b07dm8tb (Listen) WED Series 3, Maxwell's Demon WED WED Philip Ball explains the thought experiment that challenged WED both physics and religion. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b07dly5l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b07djv8j (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b07djv8l (Listen) WED The global challenges facing the next US President WED WED The US Presidential race now looks increasingly like a WED battle between Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton WED WED But what would President Trump or President Clinton do about WED the big foreign policy issues facing the United States ? WED WED Multi-dimensional war in Syria; Putin flexing his muscles in WED Russia; Beijing's territorial claims in the South China WED WED These headaches and more await the next occupant of the WED White House WED WED Ritula Shah chairs a discussion with a panel of experts at WED the prestigious Carnegie Institute in Washington. WED WED 22:45 Dangerous Visions b07dm8td (Listen) WED Never Let Me Go, Episode 8 WED WED For Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season of dystopian WED storytelling our Book at Bedtime is Booker Prize-winning WED author Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel of friendship, love WED and loss. WED WED Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the sheltered WED world of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As WED they grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of WED their isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store WED for them. WED WED Ishiguro's alternative vision of late 1990s England is a WED disquieting meditation on what makes us human, whether we WED can escape the fate set out for us and how we each find WED meaning in our lives. WED WED Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the novel. WED WED Written by Kazuo Ishiguro WED Read by Rachel Shelley WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Produced by Mair Bosworth. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Rachel Shelley WED Author: Kazuo Ishiguro WED Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Producer: Mair Bosworth WED WED 23:00 Lenny Henry: Rogue's Gallery b07dm8tg (Listen) WED Moone Sisters WED WED Another twist-in-the-tail story from Lenny Henry. Set in WED World War II, he plays an American GI serving in Cornwall WED whose relationship with a local woman - who runs a cafe deep WED in the woods - will change his life forever. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Lenny Henry WED Writer: Lenny Henry WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b07dm8tj (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not WED applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. WED Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts WED which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be WED followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, WED in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. WED WED This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and WED Peter Curran. Here they try to get the heart of things in an WED entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place WED for typical male banter. From under the bed clothes they WED play each other music, and archive of Angela Carter, WED ex-Prime Ministers, a Castrato singer, and an elephant WED playing the piano. Work, family, literature, and their own WED badly-scuffed dreams are the funny, if warped conversational WED currency. WED WED A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b07f506f (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 JUNE 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b07djvb3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b07f4q8c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07djvb5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07djvb7 (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07djvb9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b07djvbc (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07f517w (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rania THU Hafez, a senior lecturer in education at the University of THU Greenwich. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b07dnnkb (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Vernon Harwood. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tpmn (Listen) THU Quail THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Quail. Quails are summer THU visitors in varying numbers to the UK, mainly from southern THU Europe and Africa - and sudden arrivals of migrating flocks THU in the Mediterranean countries were once more common than THU they are nowadays. THU THU Quail (Coturnix coturnix) THU Image courtesy of Tony Hamblin (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b07dnnkg (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b07dnnkm (Listen) THU Penicillin THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss penicillin, discovered by THU Alexander Fleming in 1928. It is said he noticed some THU blue-green penicillium mould on an uncovered petri dish at THU his hospital laboratory, and that this mould had inhibited THU bacterial growth around it. After further work, Fleming THU filtered a broth of the mould and called that penicillin, THU hoping it would be useful as a disinfectant. Howard Florey THU and Ernst Chain later shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine with THU Fleming, for their role in developing a way of THU mass-producing the life-saving drug. Evolutionary theory THU predicted the risk of resistance from the start and, almost THU from the beginning of this 'golden age' of antibacterials, THU scientists have been looking for ways to extend the lifespan THU of antibiotics. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b07f4q8f (Listen) THU Only in Naples, Episode 4 THU THU Fresh out of college in 1996, Katherine arrives in Naples THU from America to intern at the United States Consulate. THU "There is a chaotic, vibrant energy about Naples that forces THU you to let go and give in," writes Katherine, who meets THU handsome, studious Salvatore and finds herself immediately THU enveloped by his elegant mother, Raffaella, and the rest of THU the Avallone family. From that moment, Katherine's education THU begins: Never eat the crust of a pizza first, always stand THU up and fight for yourself and your loved ones, and consider THU mealtimes sacred-food must be prepared fresh and consumed in THU compagnia. THU Immersed in Neapolitan culture, traditions, and cuisine, THU slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and longing THU for Raffaella's company and guidance, Katherine discovers THU how to prepare meals that sing, from hearty, thick ragù to THU comforting rigatoni alla Genovese, to name but two. THU Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday services, THU marriage, and motherhood (in Naples, a pregnancy craving THU must always be satisfied!), Katherine comes to appreciate THU carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort THU and confidence in one's own skin. Raffaella and her famiglia THU are also experts at sdrammatizzare, knowing how to suck the THU tragedy from something and spit it out with a great big THU smile. Part travel tale, part love letter, Only in Naples is THU a sumptuous story that is a feast for the senses. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Katherine Wilson THU Reader: Fenella Woolgar THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b07djvbf (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07dnnkt (Listen) THU A Small Town Murder, Episode 4 THU THU Meera Syal returns as family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell THU in the eighth series by Scott Cherry. THU THU While still grieving over the disappearance of one of her THU closest work colleagues, Jackie is sent to talk to Rachel THU Dickson, whose son has just been seriously injured in a hit THU and run incident. Jackie knows Rachel of old - she is THU married to one of Birmingham's notorious villains. THU THU Written by Scott Cherry THU Produced and Directed by Clive Brill THU THU A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Jackie: Meera Syal THU Peter: Matthew Marsh THU Rachel: Monica Dolan THU Rob: John Light THU John: John Hollingworth THU Simone: Jasmine Hyde THU Writer: Scott Cherry THU Producer: Clive Brill THU Director: Clive Brill THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b07gxhhr (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine THU news developments in their region. THU THU 11:30 A Portrait Of... b04vkkpd (Listen) THU Andrew Motion THU THU We go into the artist's studio to follow portrait painter THU Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints the former poet laureate THU Andrew Motion. THU THU A personal, immersive journey exploring art unfolding, this THU is an insight into the private encounter of two acclaimed THU artists, and we listen in to what this process is like for THU both the painter and the painted. THU THU It's a unique relationship, a little like being in the THU therapist's chair - the painter stripping away the layers to THU reveal the true likeness of her subject, the sitter under THU the microscope, exposed and studied. Fiona Graham-Mackay THU shares the secrets of the portrait painter as she captures THU the sitter on canvas; the sitter reflects on what being THU painted reveals and contemplates the prospect of being THU immortalised in oil. THU THU Fiona Graham-Mackay has painted hundreds of portraits, THU including Prince Michael of Kent, Seamus Heaney and Lord THU Carrington. In all her sittings she has always been THU fascinated by her conversations with her subjects and THU continues to be amazed by how people open up in ways that THU surprise even themselves as she paints them. What is THU revealed goes beyond anything you might expect in an THU ordinary interview. THU THU Produced by Eve Streeter THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b07djvbh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Unseen - A History of the Invisible b07dnpcb (Listen) THU The Invisibly Small THU THU Science writer and broadcaster Philip Ball sets out on a THU quest to explore the peculiar world of the invisible. THU THU In this episode, Philip examines the philosophical impact of THU the invention of the microscope and the discovery of the THU world of the invisibly small. The revelation of the THU existence of an invisible micro-world profoundly altered THU man's picture of himself in the cosmos and his relationship THU with the divine. THU THU At the Royal Society in London, Philip leafs through an THU original copy of Robert Hooke's pioneering work of THU microscopy, Micrographia. The book contains detailed THU drawings of tiny insects, their complex physical forms THU revealed for the first time by the microscope. Hooke's THU research also showed that the edges of razor blades and THU other man made items were infact riddled with imperfections THU when scrutinised at a microscopic level. This discovery was THU taken as evidence of the imperfection of mankind compared to THU God the creator. THU THU The early microscopists were expecting to unveil the hidden THU mechanisms of the world when peering through their lenses. THU Instead they found a microscopic realm that was teeming with THU previously invisible life forms. Philip learns that this THU discovery had a profound philosophical impact at the time. THU The image of mankind at the centre of a universe that God THU created for us was shaken to its core by the revelation of a THU whole world of microscopic existence that had previously THU been unknown. THU THU Presenter: Philip Ball THU Producer: Max O'Brien THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b07djvbk (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b07djvbm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b07dnpcd (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away b07f4q8h (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU A virus has attacked the heart of a 15 year-old Scottish boy THU called Mark McCay who is in hospital in Newcastle. 16 THU year-old Martin Burton suffered irreversible brain damage, THU and his parents agreed for his organs to be donated. His THU heart has gone to 15 year-old Marc McCay, in hospital in THU Newcastle, who remains unconscious. Writer and journalist THU Cole Moreton tells the story of what happens when the death THU of a child miraculously allows others to live. THU THU A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b07dm2pq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Tommies b07dnqjj (Listen) THU 9 June 1916 THU THU Lee Ross, Indira Varma, Sagar Radia and Ewan Bailey star in THU this story by Michael Chaplin. THU THU In the build up to the Somme Mickey Bliss's plan to test THU Capitaine Vasserot's new communication device in No Man's THU Land doesn't go according to plan. THU THU Meticulously based on war diaries and eye-witness accounts, THU each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war exactly THU 100 years ago. THU THU This series of TOMMIES follows the fortunes of Mickey Bliss THU and his fellow signallers from the Lahore Division of the THU British Indian Army. They are cogs in an immense machine, THU one which connects situations across the whole theatre of THU war, over 4 long years. THU THU Series created by Jonathan Ruffle THU Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross THU Commentator: Indira Varma THU Albert Pinto: Colin Hoult THU Demanjit Singh: Sagar Radia THU Capitaine Vasserot: Ewan Bailey THU Francis Woodrington: Nick Underwood THU Eckhart Bauer: Sam Alexander THU Sapper: Sargon Yelda THU Producer: David Hunter THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: David Hunter THU Writer: Michael Chaplin THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b07dnqjl (Listen) THU Series 33, Severn Way with Lucy Newcombe THU THU Clare Balding continues this series of epic walks by meeting THU up with a retired RAF officer, Lucy Newcombe, who started THU walking round the coast of Britain last summer. By the time THU her journey ends she expects to have covered over six THU thousand miles. Lucy and Clare discuss the kindness of THU strangers, their love of the British countryside, home-made THU cake and the best way to deal with dogs. They walk for six THU miles along the Severn Way and are joined by Lucy's sister THU in law, Laura, who, as she lives locally, has been operating THU as landlady, laundress and taxi driver for the past two THU weeks. She tells Clare about the changes this journey has THU made to Lucy, once a loner, now discovering that she likes THU the company of her fellow man. Lucy however insists she's THU not walking alone to discover herself, find her inner voice THU or to make plans for a new career. Lucy walks for the joy of THU it and the chance to see more of the country she loves. THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Lucy Newcombe THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b07djym8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b07dk0y1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b07dnqjp (Listen) THU I Am Belfast THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Film-maker Mark Cousins and composer David Holmes discuss THU their documentary I Am Belfast and reveal why they rarely THU went to the cinema at the height of The Troubles. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Mark Cousins THU Interviewed Guest: David Holmes THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b07djvbp (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford explores the science that is changing our THU world. THU THU 17:00 PM b07djvbr (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07djvbt (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:28 EU Referendum Campaign Broadcasts b07dnqnl (Listen) THU Vote Leave, 09/06/2016 THU THU Referendum Campaign Broadcast by the Vote Leave campaign for THU the Referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the THU European Union on 23rd June 2016. THU THU 18:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07dntk7 (Listen) THU Series 2, Sex and Sexuality THU THU Paul Sinha returns for a second series of his History THU Revision, the show that uncovers the fascinating stories THU that we've forgotten in our onward march of progress. In the THU last series we learned how Alexander Graham Bell did NOT THU invent the telephone, and that the World Cup final of 2014 THU could only have happened because of the 1415 invasion of THU Morocco. THU THU 3/4: Sex & Sexuality. THU This week, Paul looks at the role lust has played in driving THU history. Stories range from the loving marriage that THU prevented Dr Zhivago winning an Oscar, to the most depraved THU Roman Emperor of them all (it's not who you think), to the THU British monarch whose gay affairs changed the world. Phwoar, THU eh? THU THU "Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a THU listen" - The Telegraph THU THU Written and performed by Paul Sinha THU Produced by Ed Morrish THU THU A BBC Radio Comedy Production. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Paul Sinha THU Performer: Paul Sinha THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU 19:00 The Archers b07dntk9 (Listen) THU Lilian makes herself clear, and the Grundys enjoy a summer THU tradition. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b07djvbw (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07dnnkt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b07dlxmj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b07dntkc (Listen) THU Old Dog, New Tricks THU THU It is not easy to teach new tricks to the business world's THU old dogs. The latest fashionable solution for big THU corporations slowed down by bureaucracy and traditional ways THU of thinking is to incubate tech start-ups. The idea is that THU the big corporation benefits from the creativity and "can THU do" attitude of the start-up. In return the start-up gets THU funding, professional advice and help navigating the THU corporate world to reach the top decision makers. The model THU is known as "corporate acceleration" and it is growing in THU popularity. Evan Davis hears how it works. THU THU GUESTS: THU THU Jess Williamson, Director, Techstars with Barclays FinTech THU Accelerator THU THU David Fogel, Head of Accelerator & Deputy Director at Wayra THU UK THU THU Emily Forbes, Founder, Seenit THU THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b07djvbp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b07dnnkm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b07djvby (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b07djvc0 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Dangerous Visions b07dntkf (Listen) THU Never Let Me Go, Episode 9 THU THU For Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season of dystopian THU storytelling our Book at Bedtime is Booker Prize-winning THU author Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel of friendship, love THU and loss. THU THU Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the sheltered THU world of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As THU they grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of THU their isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store THU for them. THU THU Ishiguro's alternative vision of late 1990s England is a THU disquieting meditation on what makes us human, whether we THU can escape the fate set out for us and how we each find THU meaning in our lives. THU THU Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the novel. THU THU Written by Kazuo Ishiguro THU Read by Rachel Shelley THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU Produced by Mair Bosworth. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Rachel Shelley THU Author: Kazuo Ishiguro THU Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU Producer: Mair Bosworth THU THU 23:00 The World of Simon Rich b07dnvdm (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Simon Rich has been Saturday Night Live's youngest writer, a THU staff writer for Pixar and a regular contributor to The New THU Yorker - as well as one of the funniest short story writers THU of his generation. Now he brings his enchanting, absurd THU world to radio with his first British comedy show. THU THU The series takes us across time and space, from the design THU of the universe and prehistoric love triangles to the THU terrors of life as an unused condom inside a teenager's THU wallet. THU THU Performing the stories alongside Simon is a cast of UK comic THU talent, starring Peter Serafinowicz and Tim Key, with Cariad THU Lloyd, Jamie Demetriou, Joseph Morpurgo and Claire Price. THU THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU Executive Producer: Richard Wilson THU A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Simon Rich THU Performer: Simon Rich THU Ensemble: Peter Serafinowicz THU Ensemble: Tim Key THU Ensemble: Cariad Lloyd THU Ensemble: Jamie Demetriou THU Ensemble: Joseph Morpurgo THU Ensemble: Claire Price THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b07dnvdp (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 JUNE 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07djvdf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b07f4q8f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07djvdh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07djvdk (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07djvdm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07djvdp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07f4yrp (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rania FRI Hafez, a senior lecturer in education at the University of FRI Greenwich. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b07dnxzj (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x457w (Listen) FRI Grey Partridge FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Bill Oddie presents the Grey partridge. The grey partridge, FRI a plump game bird, is now a rarity across most of the UK. FRI Found on farmland, a partridge pair will often hold FRI territory in a few fields beyond which they seldom stray FRI during their whole lives. They should be doing well but FRI increasing field sizes, which reduce nesting cover and the FRI use of pesticides, which kill off vital insects, have taken FRI their toll. FRI FRI Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07dnxzl (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b07djzyq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b07f4yrr (Listen) FRI Only in Naples, Episode 5 FRI FRI Fresh out of college in 1996, Katherine arrives in Naples FRI from America to intern at the United States Consulate. FRI "There is a chaotic, vibrant energy about Naples that forces FRI you to let go and give in," writes Katherine, who meets FRI handsome, studious Salvatore and finds herself immediately FRI enveloped by his elegant mother, Raffaella, and the rest of FRI the Avallone family. From that moment, Katherine's education FRI begins: Never eat the crust of a pizza first, always stand FRI up and fight for yourself and your loved ones, and consider FRI mealtimes sacred-food must be prepared fresh and consumed in FRI compagnia. FRI Immersed in Neapolitan culture, traditions, and cuisine, FRI slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and longing FRI for Raffaella's company and guidance, Katherine discovers FRI how to prepare meals that sing, from hearty, thick ragù to FRI comforting rigatoni alla Genovese, to name but two. FRI Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday services, FRI marriage, and motherhood (in Naples, a pregnancy craving FRI must always be satisfied!), Katherine comes to appreciate FRI carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort FRI and confidence in one's own skin. Raffaella and her famiglia FRI are also experts at sdrammatizzare, knowing how to suck the FRI tragedy from something and spit it out with a great big FRI smile. Part travel tale, part love letter, Only in Naples is FRI a sumptuous story that is a feast for the senses. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Katherine Wilson FRI Reader: Fenella Woolgar FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b07djvdr (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:40 15 Minute Drama b07dnyb1 (Listen) FRI A Small Town Murder, Episode 5 FRI FRI Meera Syal returns as family liaison officer Jackie Hartwell FRI in the eighth series by Scott Cherry. FRI FRI While still grieving over the disappearance of one of her FRI closest work colleagues, Jackie is sent to talk to Rachel FRI Dickson, whose son has just been seriously injured in a hit FRI and run incident. Jackie knows Rachel of old - she is FRI married to one of Birmingham's notorious villains. FRI FRI Written by Scott Cherry FRI Produced and Directed by Clive Brill FRI FRI A Brill production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jackie: Meera Syal FRI Peter: Matthew Marsh FRI Rachel: Monica Dolan FRI Rob: John Light FRI John: John Hollingworth FRI Simone: Jasmine Hyde FRI Writer: Scott Cherry FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI Director: Clive Brill FRI FRI 10:55 A National Service of Thanksgiving for the Queen's FRI 90th Birthday b07dnyvs (Listen) FRI Live from St Paul's Cathedral with a sermon by the FRI Archbishop of Canterbury and in the presence of Her Majesty FRI the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, other members of the Royal FRI Family and heads of government. Favourite hymns, familiar FRI and newly commissioned anthems sung by the world famous St FRI Paul's Cathedral Choir, and commentary by James Naughtie. FRI Producer: Katharine Longworth. FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b07djvdt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Unseen - A History of the Invisible b07dnyvv (Listen) FRI Becoming Invisible FRI FRI Science writer and broadcaster Philip Ball sets out on a FRI quest to explore the peculiar world of the invisible. FRI FRI Our fascination with achieving invisibility stretches back FRI over thousands of years. In ancient myths, invisibility used FRI to be a gift of the gods and the goddesses. Now, after FRI millennia of dreaming about it, science might be on the FRI threshold of letting us master invisibility for real. FRI FRI While the earliest scientific proposals for invisibility FRI cloaks appear in fiction, today it's not just storytellers FRI and folklorists who speak of them, but physicists and FRI engineers. And they've made them too. Over the past decade FRI there have been scientific reports of cloaks, shields and FRI other devices that can make things seemingly vanish - from FRI humble pieces of paper to fish, cats, people, even entire FRI buildings. FRI FRI Philip hears from Sir John Pendry, the pioneering physicist FRI who hit the headlines when he published a paper detailing FRI the first working invisibility cloak. In order to see a FRI cloak in action, Philip travels to the University of FRI Birmingham to meet Dr Jensen Li in the Metamaterials Lab. FRI Jensen's cloaking device proves to be nothing like the FRI cloaks of myth and fantasy, leaving Philip to question FRI whether we should be discussing the real and fictional FRI invisibility cloaks in the same breath. FRI FRI Presenter: Philip Ball FRI Producer: Max O'Brien FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b07djvdw (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b07djvdy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b07dnyvx (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away b07f4sw0 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In August 2003, 16 year-old Martin Burton suffered FRI irreversible brain damage, and his parents Nigel and Sue FRI agreed for his organs to be donated. Martin's corneas were FRI frozen for future use, his right kidney was transplanted FRI into an older woman, his left kidney into an older man. FRI Martin's liver saved the life of Andrew Seely, a man in his FRI thirties. Martin's heart has gone to 15 year-old Marc McCay. FRI FRI In the final part of the series, journalist and writer Cole FRI Moreton joins Nigel and Sue Burton as they travel up to FRI Scotland to see Marc. Cole wants to find out how life has FRI been for him these past 13 years since the transplant that FRI saved his life. Cole is going to ask Marc to let Sue put a FRI hand on his chest and feel the heart that came from her son FRI beating inside him. FRI FRI A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b07dntk9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b042zsy3 (Listen) FRI Original British Dramatists, Paris, Nana & Me FRI FRI ORIGINAL BRITISH DRAMATISTS FRI Discover 10 new voices over 10 Afternoon Dramas FRI FRI In 2009 writer and performer Caroline Horton took her ninety FRI year-old Grandmother on one last trip to Paris. Having grown FRI up hearing her Nana's vivid stories of the city, Caroline FRI excitedly planned their Parisian adventure. But it's hard to FRI have an unforgettable trip with someone who can't remember FRI what they were doing yesterday. And sight-seeing is not much FRI fun with somebody who is virtually blind. A funny and FRI heartbreakingly poignant journey through the city of love FRI and the ravages of time. FRI FRI Caroline Horton is a young writer/performer with a talent FRI for comedy, telling stories and touching hearts. She was FRI named Best Solo Performer at The Stage Awards 2010 for her FRI show 'You're Not Like the Other Girls Chrissy'. Her follow FRI up play, 'Mess', won Best Ensemble at The Stage Awards 2012 FRI as well as the Argus Angel Award in 2013. FRI FRI Directed by James Robinson FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Herself: Caroline Horton FRI Nana: Chantal Garrigues FRI Other Parts: Jot Davies FRI Director: James Robinson FRI Writer: Caroline Horton FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07dnyvz (Listen) FRI Keswick FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from FRI Keswick. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny Guinness FRI answer the questions from the audience. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 About the Mountain b07fdm23 (Listen) FRI The snow is falling and it's the end of the day on the FRI mountain. A young snow-boarding instructor does a head count FRI of her charges - a group of schoolboys. One has been left FRI behind and she sets off to find him. FRI FRI A newly commissioned story from award-winning poet Frances FRI Leviston (Public Dream, Disinformation) whose first short FRI story was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story FRI Award. FRI FRI Written by Frances Leviston FRI Commissioned and produced for the BBC by Jill Waters FRI Read by Emily Beecham FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Frances Leviston FRI Reader: Emily Beecham FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b07dnyw1 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b07dnyw3 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b07dnwls (Listen) FRI Susanna - Talking to Mum FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces the conversation one woman wishes she FRI could have had with her mother before she died. Another in FRI the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when FRI 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 b07djvf0 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07djvf2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b07dp051 (Listen) FRI Series 90, Episode 9 FRI FRI Jeremy Hardy, Sarah Kendall, Camilla Long and Lucy Porter FRI are Miles' guests in the long-running satirical quiz of the FRI week's news. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Sheehan. FRI FRI A BBC Studios Production. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Miles Jupp FRI Panellist: Jeremy Hardy FRI Panellist: Sarah Kendall FRI Panellist: Camilla Long FRI Panellist: Lucy Porter FRI Producer: Paul Sheehan FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b07dp053 (Listen) FRI There is bad news at Ambridge Hall, and Helen shares her FRI fears. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Keri Davies FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Kaz: Amaka Okafor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b07djvf5 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07dnyb1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b07dp055 (Listen) FRI Tasmina Ahmed Sheik MP, Lord Forsyth, Merryn Somerset Webb FRI FRI Ritula Shah presents political debate from George Watson FRI College in Edinburgh with the SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed Sheik, FRI the Conservative Peer Lord Forsyth, and the Editor of FRI Moneyweek Merryn Somerset Webb. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07dp057 (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yqz04 (Listen) FRI Five Hundred Years of Friendship: Omnibus, Episode 1 FRI FRI The changing meaning of friendship over the centuries: the FRI weekly omnibus edition of Dr Thomas Dixon's timely history. FRI FRI From social networks involving perhaps 150 friends around FRI the well or at the bake-house, to contemporary Social FRI Networks which might extend over the globe and include a FRI thousand Friends, Thomas Dixon's history considers both the FRI differences and similarities between friendships as we FRI experience them today and as people lived them out in the FRI sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. FRI FRI This first of three omnibus editions takes on board FRI questions of the function of friendship - emotional or FRI instrumental; the Biblical contradictions about friendships FRI - universal or individual; the impact of commerce and FRI politics on friendship; and whether men and women can really FRI be friends without a sexual element. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b07djvf7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b07djvf9 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Dangerous Visions b07dp059 (Listen) FRI Never Let Me Go, Episode 10 FRI FRI For Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season of dystopian FRI storytelling our Book at Bedtime is Booker Prize-winning FRI author Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel of friendship, love FRI and loss. FRI FRI Kathy, Tommy and Ruth have only ever known the sheltered FRI world of Hailsham, a secluded country boarding school. As FRI they grow up, they begin to understand the true purpose of FRI their isolated upbringing and the fate that lies in store FRI for them. FRI FRI Ishiguro's alternative vision of late 1990s England is a FRI disquieting meditation on what makes us human, whether we FRI can escape the fate set out for us and how we each find FRI meaning in our lives. FRI FRI Book at Bedtime is an abridged version of the novel. FRI FRI Written by Kazuo Ishiguro FRI Read by Rachel Shelley FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Produced by Mair Bosworth. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Rachel Shelley FRI Author: Kazuo Ishiguro FRI Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Producer: Mair Bosworth FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b07dlxml (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b07dp05c (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b07dp0s5 (Listen) FRI Armida and Bernice - You've Left Your Mark FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who know FRI that one of them will not be alive much longer, remembering FRI the good times and facing their impending loss together. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
03 June, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 04/06/2016 - 10/06/2016
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