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SAT SATURDAY 02 JULY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b07h2vrk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b07hj59r (Listen) SAT White Sands, Beginning SAT SAT Much loved author Geoff Dyer has been described as a 'true SAT original' by William Boyd. White Sands is his latest travel SAT book and is a collection of travel essays that go beyond the SAT logistics of getting from A to B and offer mediations on SAT landscape, time and humanity all relayed with characteristic SAT wit and sharp observation. In this last episode Dyer is back SAT in Los Angeles, but an episode in hospital provokes a more SAT internal journey. SAT SAT Read by Alex Jennings who has recently played Willy Wonka in SAT Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alan Bennett in The SAT Lady in the Van. SAT SAT Abridged by Katrin Williams SAT Produced by Julian Wilkinson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Alex Jennings SAT Author: Geoff Dyer SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Producer: Julian Wilkinson SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07h2vrm (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07h2vrp (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07h2vrr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b07h2vrt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07hj999 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim SAT writer, Sarah Joseph. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b07hwfht (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b07h2vrw (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b07h2vry (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b07hhwyh (Listen) SAT Midsummer Music in Orkney SAT SAT Orkney has a great heritage of music so for this weeks Open SAT Country Helen Mark visits the St Magnus International SAT Festival of Music and Arts. Now in its 40th year St Magnus SAT was founded by the late Orkney-based composer, and Master of SAT the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This years SAT festival will celebrate his legacy as well as shining a SAT light on new talent from the islands. SAT SAT During the summer months Orkney enjoys 'Twilight All Night' SAT due to its latitude, Helen discovers what this means for the SAT people who live there and the festival. She meets local SAT musicians and composers to find out how the unique SAT landscape, history and wildlife of Orkney inspire individual SAT creativity and how music contributes to the community spirit SAT so integral to island life. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07h2vs0 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b07h2vs2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07hwhg7 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b07h2vs4 (Listen) SAT Denise Welch and Brendan Foster SAT SAT Saturday Live's summer road trip begins in South Shields, SAT with Aasmah Mir and Richard Coles. SAT SAT As preparations for the maritime themed summer parade get SAT underway, actor and presenter Denise Welch talks about why SAT the North East will always be home, the return of TV series SAT Boy Meets Girl and keeping her Geordie accent. SAT SAT Olympian Brendan Foster talks about his athletic career and SAT his inspiration for founding the Great North Run. SAT SAT Leading the summer parade in South Shields is listener Ray SAT Spencer, who is also the Executive Director of the Customs SAT House arts centre. Ray will be revealing his maritime themed SAT costume and sharing his love of pantomimes. SAT SAT JP Devlin reveals what happened when he followed up a SAT listener email and went to the reunion of the Double Decker SAT Club, who set off on a holiday across Europe in the summer SAT of 1964, on a red double decker bus purchased from London SAT Transport. SAT SAT Graham Young has been celebrating the British chippy for the SAT Birmingham Mail since 2005. He talks about how he became a SAT chip reviewer and what makes the perfect take-away. SAT SAT Mike, Chris, Steve and Ken from the English folk group The SAT Wilson Family will be performing live and talking about the SAT regional influences that inspire them. SAT SAT Chris Rea shares his Inheritance Tracks. He has chosen My SAT Father, sung by Nina Simone and So What by Miles Davis. SAT SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT The Wilson Family SAT www.thewilsonfamilyalbum.co.uk/ SAT SAT Great North Run SAT Great North Run SAT SAT Chris Rea SAT Chris Rea SAT has released a new edition of La Passione, a film and SAT soundtrack based loosely on his dreams as a young boy SAT growing up in the industrial North East and his love of SAT Formula 1. SAT SAT Boy Meets Girl SAT Boy Meets Girl SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Denise Welch SAT Interviewed Guest: Brendan Foster SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Graham Young SAT Performer: The Wilson Family SAT Interviewed Guest: Chris Rea SAT Producer: Claire Bartleet SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 I Was... b06bnbpg (Listen) SAT Series 2, Chet Baker's Last Tour Manager SAT SAT Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter and singer came to prominence SAT after he joined the Gerry Mulligan quartet in 1952 at the SAT heart of the world's first piano-less jazz quartet and the SAT originator of cool jazz. Using their instruments, (Gerry SAT Mulligan on baritone sax and Chet Baker on trumpet, SAT sometimes singing) and playing engaging, contrapuntal SAT improvisations they made a startling breakthrough in cool SAT jazz. Chet Baker, the singing, trumpet playing star was SAT hatched. SAT SAT When the elements of sex, jazz and cool combined they SAT created the equivalent of an intellectual nuclear fusion. No SAT one encapsulates that explosion better than the arrival on SAT the jazz scene of Chet Baker. SAT SAT Jim Coleman, owner of a hi fi store on New York's 2nd Avenue SAT managed Chet's touring schedules for the last four years of SAT his life. Chet was unable to play in certain American clubs SAT as a result of his being criminalised by heroin addiction. SAT He had been busted in Europe too. SAT SAT Jim tells the story of how they met briefly across three SAT time periods: once when Jim was thirteen and studying SAT trumpet in Rome, when his sister Joan married Chet's bass SAT player and when Jim opened his hi fi store. In the eighties SAT Jim offered to manage Chet's difficult touring schedule. A SAT moving and fascinating account of the final years of Chet SAT Baker as they intertwined with the owner of a hi fi shop, as SAT Chet tried to tour the US and Europe whilst in the fatal SAT grip of heroin addiction. SAT SAT Written and Presented by Andrew McGibbon SAT SAT Produced by Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon SAT SAT A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b07jdk2s (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b07h2vs6 (Listen) SAT Planes, Tanks and Teaspoons SAT SAT Reports from writers and journalists around the world. SAT Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b07h2vs8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b07hwhg9 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b07hj8bn (Listen) SAT Series 16, Episode 3 SAT SAT The main political parties are in meltdown, Britain's future SAT is uncertain, the currency has been in free fall. So it's SAT probably time to relax and have a laugh at it all. SAT The show attempts to make sense of one of the busiest news SAT weeks since... well, since last week. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b07h2vsb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b07h2vsd (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b07hj8bs (Listen) SAT Graham Brady MP, Caroline Flint MP, Paul Nuttall MEP, Matt SAT Wrack. SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from St Nicholas Parish Church in Fleetwood, Lancashire, SAT with a panel including the Chairman of the 1922 Committee SAT Graham Brady MP, the former Labour Minister Caroline Flint SAT MP, the Deputy Leader of UKIP Paul Nuttall MEP, and the SAT General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union Matt Wrack. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b07h2vsg (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b07hwhgc (Listen) SAT Roald Dahl: Boy SAT SAT To celebrate the centenary year of Roald Dahl's birth, a SAT full dramatization of tales from his own childhood. SAT Sometimes magical, sometimes grotesque but always true, SAT Dahl's boyhood stories are as remarkable as the acclaimed SAT fiction he would go on to write as an adult. SAT SAT "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own SAT life. It is usually full of all sorts of boring details. SAT This is not an autobiography." SAT SAT The story of Roald Dahl's childhood is filled with SAT excitement and wonder but also terror and great sadness. We SAT learn of his experiences at cruel boarding schools, his SAT daring Great Mouse Plot, the dangers of Boazers, the SAT pleasure/pain of the local sweetshop and his time as a SAT chocolate taster. Just some of the marvellous, extraordinary SAT events that no doubt went on to inspire his best-selling SAT books. SAT SAT Patrick Malahide provides the voice of Dahl in a colourful SAT adaptation by Lucy Catherine. SAT SAT Dramatised by Lucy Catherine SAT SAT Directed by Helen Perry SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Roald Dahl: Patrick Malahide SAT Young Dahl: Tarkan Uzun SAT Teenage Dahl: Isaac Rouse SAT Mother: Joanna Van Kampen SAT Bressington: Daniel Noel SAT Thwaites: Devon Ruckley SAT Matron: Adie Allen SAT Dr Dunbar: Richard Nichols SAT Mrs Pratchett: Elizabeth Bennett SAT Corkers: Jason Barnett SAT Carleton: Tom Forrister SAT Williamson: Sam Rix SAT Ellen: Kirsty Oswald SAT Captain Hardcastle: Nick Underwood SAT Mr Cadbury: James Lailey SAT Grandfather: Sean Baker SAT Adaptor: Lucy Catherine SAT Author: Roald Dahl SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT SAT 15:30 Tales From the Stave b07h9xdn (Listen) SAT Series 13, The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams SAT SAT Frances Fyfield is joined by former BBC Young Musician of SAT the Year Jennifer Pike, her father Jeremy, head of SAT Composition at Cheetham's school of music in Manchester, and SAT composer David Matthews to examine the only manuscript of SAT Ralph Vaughan Williams' enduringly popular British Classic - SAT 'The Lark Ascending'. SAT The score for Orchestra and Violin has been lost but the SAT British Library have the manuscript for piano and violin, SAT the form in which the piece was first heard at Shirehampton, SAT near Bristol with the Violinist Marie Hall. Her autograph SAT appears on the score but not the composer's. SAT SAT There's debate about whether the manuscript is in the hand SAT of the composer or a copyist. The guests agree that it's SAT probably a copyist but there are so many corrections, SAT paste-overs and rewrites that the composer's penmanship SAT makes up almost half the score. SAT SAT The beauty of the piece, a response in 1914 to George SAT Meredith's Poem 'The Lark Ascending', is undisputed. What SAT surprises and intrigues the team is just how much work went SAT into what appears a very fluid, easy depiction of the Lark SAT high above a landscape rich in Vaughan Williams folk SAT inspired melodies. He'd put it aside over the war years and SAT it was only in 1920, while staying near Bristol that he SAT worked on it again. It's thought that Marie Hall was SAT alongside him in that process of refinement and, as many SAT people agree, perfection. Jennifer plays detailed passages SAT that have been crossed out and, occasionally re-introduced SAT into the score. SAT And there's a discovery concerning the cover leaf that it SAT appears might go some way to explaining why the orchestral SAT score has been lost and might yet be found. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b07h2vsj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Brexit debate, Infidelity, Olivia de SAT Havilland at 100 SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b07h2vsl (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b07hj0qb (Listen) SAT Life after Brexit SAT SAT How will the vote to leave the EU affect big and small SAT businesses in the UK? Evan Davis and guests discuss trade SAT deals, tariffs and 'passporting' rights that allow UK-based SAT firms to sell financial products and services from Britain SAT to EU customers. They'll also explore how companies can turn SAT the current economic uncertainty into business SAT opportunities. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Anne Richards, CEO, M & G Investments SAT SAT Juergen Maier, CEO Siemens UK SAT SAT Julia Gash, Founder and CEO, BIDBI SAT SAT Jan Atteslander, EconomieSuisse SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07h2vsn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b07h2vsq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07h2vss (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b07hwhgf (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Arthur Smith, Omid Djalili, Glen Matlock, SAT Christopher Timothy, Cleo Sylvestre, Michael Kiwanuka, SAT Philip Achille SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Omid Djalili, SAT Glen Matlock, Christopher Timothy and Cleo Sylvestre for an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music SAT from Philip Achille. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Omid Djalili SAT SAT Schmuck For a Night SAT at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the Pleasance Grand, SAT before crossing the UK on a huge tour throughout the SAT autumn/winter and spring of 2017 SAT SAT We Are Many*, *about the global anti-war demonstrations that SAT took place in 800 cities on February 15th 2003, to date the SAT largest mobilisation of human beings in the history of the SAT earth. This is to be released by Universal on the 18th July. SAT SAT Michael Kiwanuka SAT SAT Michael Kiwanuka releases his new album, Love & Hate, on the SAT 15th July 2016 through Polydor Records. He’s playing British SAT Summer Time concert in Hyde Park on 3rd July and the SAT Latitude Festival on the 17th July SAT SAT Cleo Sylvestre SAT SAT The Marvellous Adventures of Mary Seacole is part of the SAT Women And War Festival which runs from July 4 -31 in London SAT at Fredericks Place and this production will be transferring SAT to C Venues from 3-29 August at this year’s Edinburgh SAT Festival. SAT SAT Glen Matlock SAT SAT The Glen Matlock Band 40th Anniversary of punk celebration SAT on Saturday 9th July at the Brooklyn Bowl, 02 Peninsula SAT Square, London SAT SAT Philip Achille SAT SAT Playing at the The Dysart Petersham in Surrey on 3rd July SAT and Larmer Tree Festival on 15th July. Arrietty Volume II is SAT out now and available to buy from www.philipachille.com SAT SAT Christopher Timothy SAT SAT Hobson’s Choice at the Vaudeville Theatre, London until 10th SAT September 2016 SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Omid Djalili SAT Interviewed Guest: Glen Matlock SAT Interviewed Guest: Christopher Timothy SAT Interviewed Guest: Cleo Sylvestre SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Kiwanuka SAT Performer: Philip Achille SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b07hwhl7 (Listen) SAT Stephen Crabb SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b07h2vsv (Listen) SAT Hisham Matar, Faith Healer, The Colony, David Hockney, Brief SAT Encounters SAT SAT Emma Watson plays an air stewardess who gets caught up in SAT the Chilean politics of early era Pinochet. The Colony SAT explores a little-known side of the regime SAT Faith Healer is Brian Friel's play about the fallibility of SAT remembering, revived at London's Donmar Warehouse SAT Libyan writer Hisham Matar tells the story of how the SAT disappearance of his father led his own exile from his SAT homeland and political awakening during Ghadafi's SAT dictatorship SAT David Hockney's work created on iPad and a collection of 82 SAT portraits are on show in 2 new exhibitions SAT ITV's Brief Encounters is a drama about the founding of the SAT Ann Summers' retail outlets SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Stephanie Merritt, Dreda Say SAT Mitchell and Pat Kane. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT The Colony SAT The Colony SAT is in cinemas and available on demand now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Faith Healer SAT Faith Healer SAT is at the Donmar Theatre in London until 20 August 2016 SAT SAT Image: Stephen Dillaine as Frank in Faith Healer. Photo SAT credit: Johan Persson SAT SAT SAT Hisham Matar SAT SAT The Return by Hisham Matar is available in hardback and SAT ebook now. SAT SAT David Hockney SAT David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life SAT is at The Royal Academy in London, until 2 October 2016. SAT David Hockney- The Yosemite Suite SAT is at Annely Juda Fine Art in London until 19 August 2016. SAT SAT Image: A photograph from the David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits SAT and 1 Still-life exhibition. Photo credit: Jerome SAT Weatherald. SAT SAT SAT SAT Brief Encounters SAT SAT Brief Encounters begins on ITV on Monday 4 July at 9pm. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Stephanie Merritt SAT Interviewed Guest: Dreda Say Mitchell SAT Interviewed Guest: Pat Kane SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b07hwhl9 (Listen) SAT Roald Dahl: In His Own Words SAT SAT With the help of his granddaughter Sophie, Roald Dahl tells SAT his own remarkable story in the style of one of his SAT much-loved books. Illustrated with newly discovered archive SAT recordings and songs and music exclusively recorded by the SAT cast and musicians in the Royal Shakespeare Company's SAT Matilda The Musical at the Cambridge Theatre in London, this SAT Archive on 4 marks the centenary of the writer dubbed 'the SAT best storyteller in the world'. SAT SAT The programme contains excerpts from interviews with Roald SAT Dahl on NRK, Op Reis with Ivo Niehe, Desert Island Discs SAT with Roy Plomley, Parkinson, Wogan, Saturday Matters With SAT Sue Lawley, Pebble Mill at One, Saturday Superstore, SAT Whicker's World, Start The Week, Bookmark, The World of SAT Books, Meridian, The Friday Serial, The Many Lives of Roald SAT Dahl, A Dose of Dahl's Magic Medicine, Treasure Islands, PM SAT & BBC News. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b07h65by (Listen) SAT Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory, Episode 2 SAT SAT Tabasco, Mexico in the 1930s. The last priest is on the run SAT from the anti-Catholic authorities, who put any priests they SAT find before the firing squad. Stephen Rea and Hugo Speer SAT star in Graham Greene's masterpiece, dramatised by Nick SAT Warburton. SAT SAT The Lieutenant remains determined to track down the last SAT priest in the state - the whisky priest. SAT SAT Directed by Emma Harding. SAT SAT Credits SAT The Whisky Priest: Stephen Rea SAT The Lieutenant: Hugo Speer SAT The Narrator: Danny Sapani SAT Tench: James Lailey SAT The Chief of Police: Brian Protheroe SAT Luis: Milo Parker SAT Luis's mother: Nicola Ferguson SAT Padre Jose: Sean Baker SAT Beggar: Sean Baker SAT Maria: Adie Allen SAT Jose's Wife: Adie Allen SAT Grandmother: Elizabeth Bennett SAT Captain Fellows: Nick Underwood SAT The Governor's Cousin: Nick Underwood SAT Coral: Kirsty Oswald SAT The Mestizo: Jason Barnett SAT Brigitta: Amy Jayne SAT Author: Graham Greene SAT Adaptor: Nick Warburton SAT Director: Emma Harding SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b07h2vsx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b07hgh5f (Listen) SAT Morality of Victors and Vanquished SAT SAT Pundits and politicians alike are struggling to capture the SAT enormity of the consequences of the result of the referendum SAT vote. It's at times like these people often turn to George SAT Orwell for inspiration. He likened our nation to "a family SAT with the wrong members in control" - "that" he said SAT "perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England SAT in a phrase." Who'll be left standing and in charge after SAT all the political recriminations and bloodletting have ended SAT is still not clear. It's been described as the worst SAT peace-time constitutional crisis this country has faced. So SAT this week on the Moral Maze we're asking what should now be SAT the moral priority for the victors and the vanquished? Has SAT the democratic will of the people been clearly expressed so SAT that the victors must now deliver Brexit at any price? Is it SAT the moral duty of those who championed Brexit to deliver on SAT all their promises made during the campaigning? Or, once SAT normal politics has resumed, should the utilitarian SAT principle of cutting the best possible deal triumph - even SAT if that means forgetting campaign promises on immigration SAT and the single market? Should the vanquished now support SAT Brexit and work towards it with all the enthusiasm they can SAT manage? Or was this a mistake by the British people that SAT means they have a moral duty to go on fighting to keep SAT Britain in the EU and campaign for a second referendum? Or SAT should the priority, above all others, be to find a way to SAT heal a divided nation? SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b07h6gwy (Listen) SAT Series 30, Heat 2, 2016 SAT SAT Three more music lovers join Paul Gambaccini for the second SAT heat of the 2016 tournament, from the historic Maida Vale SAT studios of the BBC. Paul will be putting the breadth and SAT depth of their musical knowledge to the test, as they SAT compete for a place in the semi-finals later this summer. SAT SAT The questions and extracts range from Russian opera to 1960s SAT TV themes and big band jazz - and that's just in the first SAT round. As always, the competitors also have to select a SAT special musical topic for their own individual round, from a SAT list of five which they've been given no previous sight of, SAT and no chance to prepare. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT TIMOTHY BETTS, a retired greenkeeper from Walsall SAT SAT ALASTAIR GILLIES, a retired archivist from Formby in SAT Lancashire SAT SAT JO LAWRENCE, a retired NHS manager from Beckley in East SAT Sussex. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b07h65c2 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Simon Armitage in the Somme SAT SAT One hundred years after the beginning of the catastrophic SAT battle of the Somme, Paul Farley crosses the battlefield in SAT north-eastern France with Simon Armitage to hear his new SAT poems inspired by wartime aerial photographs of the area and SAT Virgil's ancient Georgics (quasi-didactic texts on good land SAT use and husbandry). Taking these new poems back to their SAT source involves travelling along an old Roman road that runs SAT through open farmland. One hundred years ago a paltry mile SAT or two along this road were the scene of horrendous carnage SAT as British and Allied troops attempted to attack and overrun SAT the German lines. Months after the battle began in July 1916 SAT only a mile or so of ground had been won. An appalling price SAT had been paid. In one of the many wartime cemeteries now SAT chequering the French farmland is the grave of a William SAT Shakespeare. Many others and much else died in those months SAT and Simon Armitage and the Echo Chamber have been to listen. SAT His poem sequence is called 'Still' and was commissioned by SAT 14-18 NOW, the UK's arts programme for the First World War SAT centenary, the Writer's Centre Norwich, and Norfolk and SAT Norwich Festival. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 JULY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b07hwm1t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Introductions b044gkbf (Listen) SUN Naz SUN SUN 'Introductions' is a fresh exploration of what an SUN introduction means for British South Asian culture in SUN contemporary society, where the internet, cultural SUN diversity, and freedoms previously unavailable to members of SUN that society bounce off established traditions of arranged SUN matches or family marriages. SUN SUN Written by three authors from The Whole Kahani, a British SUN South Asian writers group, the stories in 'Introductions' SUN explore what it means to be mixed race, the tensions between SUN modern independence and family traditions, and the impact of SUN really going it alone in the face of family expectations. SUN SUN In Naz by Iman Qureshi, Naz forges a life alone, except for SUN her precious dog Doris. Rejecting her own parents' SUN compromised marriage, she shuns relationships until one day SUN Doris takes a shine to the most unlikely of people... SUN SUN Reader: Rita Das SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: David Roper SUN Writer: Iman Qureshi SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07hwm1w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07hwm1y (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwm20 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b07hwm22 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b07hwtdg (Listen) SUN All Saints, Inveraray SUN SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b07hwhl7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b07hwm24 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b07hwtdj (Listen) SUN Grace SUN SUN Award winning poet, Michael Symmons Roberts explores the SUN deep meanings that lie behind the word 'grace' and how this SUN and other words have lost some of their original power. SUN SUN Roberts explains, "the poet Seamus Heaney once used the SUN phrase 'the big lightening, the emptying out' to describe SUN the thinning of our religious language, the loss of meaning SUN in terms that once were common currency to describe SUN theological ideas or mystical or spiritual experience". SUN SUN Roberts laments the fact that words like water and wood at SUN one time conjured images of the baptism and crucifixion of SUN Christ, but are now more sterile and impotent. But 'grace' SUN is his central theme and, through the poetry of Elizabeth SUN Bishop and RS Thomas and the insights of the great German SUN theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, he tries to restore some of SUN the depth and wonder of a word which we have perhaps taken SUN for granted. SUN SUN Having a hit song using its most famous iteration has not SUN helped. Roberts explains, "Amazing Grace is still one of our SUN best known hymns...but in the course of more than two SUN centuries of singing John Newton's story of salvation and SUN rescue, some lines have survived better than others in SUN retaining their power to communicate a shared experience. SUN Anyone today could connect with the line 'I once was lost, SUN but now am found'. But I suspect the same could not be said SUN for 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, / And grace my SUN fears reliev'd." SUN SUN The music in the programme includes Judy Collins, Elbow and SUN Jeff Buckley's famous song Grace. SUN SUN Roberts concludes that it is the responsibility of all of us SUN to restore the power of our language and generate new ways SUN of talking about the human experience. SUN SUN Presenter: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Producer: Michael Wakelin SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Breakfast Song SUN SUN Author: Elizabeth Bishop SUN SUN Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Anathemata SUN SUN Author: David Jones SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN SUN Title: Wetherby SUN SUN Author: David Hare SUN SUN Publisher: Faber & Faber SUN SUN Title: A Good Man Is Hard To Find SUN SUN Author: Flannery O'Connor SUN SUN Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd SUN SUN Title: Grace and Necessity SUN SUN Author: Rowan Williams SUN SUN Publisher: Continuum SUN SUN Title: From Gravity And Grace SUN SUN Author: Simone Weil SUN SUN Publisher: Routledge SUN SUN Title: The Cost of Discipleship SUN SUN Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer SUN SUN Publisher: SCM Press SUN Title: The Bright Field SUN SUN Author: RS Thomas SUN SUN Publisher: MacMillan SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b07hwtdl (Listen) SUN Getting a Start in Farming SUN SUN Few people are lucky enough to begin their farming career SUN actually owning their own farm. Share farming provides many SUN a new entrant to agriculture that important first step on SUN the farming ladder. But at Stream Farm, nestled in the folds SUN of the Quantock Hills in Somerset, a form of share farming SUN is undertaken in an altogether different and egalitarian SUN way. SUN SUN Following a successful career in urban regeneration, just SUN over a decade ago James Odgers moved his family lock, stock SUN and barrel to an established 100 hectare farm. He and his SUN wife woke the next day and realised they now had the SUN responsibility of managing the farm including a herd of SUN Dexter cows they had inherited. With no farming background SUN or experience, James's learning curve was a steep yet over SUN the years his vision to bring a self-sustaining community to SUN this valley materialised. SUN SUN Caz Graham travels to Somerset to meet James and a few of SUN his business partners. Stream Farm's vision is that James SUN supplies the infrastructure and a succession of new entrants SUN to farming takes on a number of businesses James has set up, SUN from a trout smokery to pigs, sheep, beef and chickens. SUN Every Wednesday James drives to London where specialist SUN outlets sell his Stream Farm products, but underlying all of SUN this is a desire to keep local people, who would otherwise SUN be unable to farm themselves, in their community. SUN SUN Producer: Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b07hwm26 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b07hwm28 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b07hwm2b (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b07hwtwq (Listen) SUN CHICKS SUN SUN Alan Titchmarsh presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN CHICKS - Country Holidays for Inner City Kids SUN Registered Charity No 1080953 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'CHICKS' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'CHICKS'. SUN SUN CHICKS SUN SUN CHICKS provides free respite breaks to disadvantaged SUN children from all across the UK. We believe every child SUN deserves the chance to make positive childhood memories. A SUN CHICKS break inspires new confidence and self-esteem, and SUN gives children the chance to simply be a child again. SUN SUN Eliza at the beach SUN Eliza, whose story you hear in the appeal, grew in SUN confidence throughout her CHICKS break. Afterwards, she made SUN a great start to secondary school and would even take part SUN in PE, which she wouldn’t do before. SUN SUN Making magical memories SUN SUN Each CHICKS break includes adventurous activities, time in SUN the great outdoors and the chance to relax. Children can SUN challenge themselves and enjoy different experiences with SUN new friends. SUN SUN Long lasting impact SUN SUN CHICKS breaks have a long-lasting impact on the children. SUN Increased confidence and self-esteem mean they are better SUN equipped to cope with the problems they face at home. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b07hwm2d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b07hwm2g (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b07hwtws (Listen) SUN Unbounded Love SUN SUN Live from Solihull Chapel, the Bishop of Birmingham, the SUN Right Reverend David Urquhart preaches on the theme of SUN "Unbounded Love". The service is led by the School's SUN Chaplain, Father Andrew Hutchinson and explores faith SUN through testing and perseverance, marking the 100th SUN anniversary of the start of the battle of the Somme. SUN SUN Music from the Solihull School Choirs, directed by Oliver SUN Walker, includes "Love Divine", "The Servant King" and "Lord SUN for the Years" with William Harris' "Almighty and most SUN merciful Father", Peter Irving's "For the Fallen" and SUN Richard Allain's "A prayer of St Richard of Chichester". The SUN organist is Peter Irving. SUN SUN Producer: Janet McLarty. SUN SUN Script (without sermon) SUN SUN Opening anno from Continuity: BBC Radio 4. The Bishop of SUN Birmingham The Rt Revd David Urquhart is the preacher now on SUN Sunday Worship which comes live from Solihull School Chapel. SUN The service is introduced by the School's Chaplain, Father SUN Andrew Hutchinson: SUN Fr Andrew: SUN Good morning. We welcome you to the home of this thriving SUN Christian community in the heart of the West Midlands. We SUN believe ourselves to be unique in being the only day school SUN offering weekly Sunday worship – a spiritual centre of SUN gravity for staff and pupils alike across the academic year. SUN SUN Our chapel choirs will lead the singing this morning – and SUN we are delighted to welcome Bishop David to preach. SUN SUN Over the last two days our nation’s all consuming concerns SUN about our future relationship with the EU and over the state SUN of our national politics may have diminished just slightly. SUN Our perspectives have sharpened as we have paused to mark SUN something of overriding importance, the centenary of the SUN Battle of the Somme. Our theme today is ‘Unbounded Love’, SUN but that Christian ideal will be explored through the lens SUN of remembrance as we remember those who gave so much. Our SUN first hymn looks back in thanks to God – ‘Lord for the Years SUN your Love has kept and guided.’ SUN Hymn 1 – Lord, for the years your love has kept and guided SUN [Organ, with choir/trumpet descant in final verse] SUN Father Andrew: SUN And so we gather today with the jarring images of the waste SUN and ruin of war imprinted on our minds and imaginations, to SUN remember all those who were involved in the Battle of the SUN Somme. We honour the memory of those who inhabited that SUN war-shattered landscape, those who endured the mud and the SUN blood; those who showed great courage and loyalty to SUN comrades at arms; those who saw the unspeakable sight of SUN bodies broken; those whose minds were numbed by the noise of SUN bombardment, and those whose eyes saw the ugliness of SUN disfigured, weeping and frightened faces. For all who were SUN engaged in combat, those who tended the maimed and injured, SUN the fallen, and for those families who hold in their history SUN the memories of deceased soldiers, we ask for God’s mercy, SUN and for ourselves, the grace also to remember. SUN SUN And so as we remember those who fought and those who SUN remained anxiously at home in this community and throughout SUN our country, let us pray that God will heal all memories SUN down the generations and speak a word of peace. SUN SUN Prayer of Confession SUN Lord, for nations and kingdoms shaken by war. SUN Lord, have mercy. SUN All Lord, have mercy. SUN Lord, bring comfort to those who mourn and have suffered SUN loss. SUN Christ, have mercy. SUN All Christ, have mercy. SUN Lord, speak your word of peace and calm our fears. SUN Lord, have mercy. SUN All Lord, have mercy. SUN Bishop David: SUN May the God of all healing and forgiveness SUN draw you to himself SUN and cleanse you from your sins, SUN that you may behold the glory of his Son, Jesus, SUN and delight in his unbounded love, SUN Amen. SUN SUN Father Andrew: SUN O God our light and our defence, SUN breathe your gentle Spirit over the wastes of our world. SUN Protect our memories from the infection of hate, SUN that we may live free from fear and resentment. SUN May the light of Christ lead us SUN out of the valley of the shadow of death SUN onto paths of reconciliation, forgiveness and peace SUN for the sake of the world your Son came to save. SUN All Amen. SUN Father Andrew: SUN Our Headmaster is David Lloyd: SUN Headmaster: SUN It’s always a humbling experience on November the 11th each SUN year to watch the whole community come together to remember SUN those who fought and died in the First and Second World Wars SUN and so many other conflicts. This overwhelming sense of loss SUN was felt no more strongly than in our schools, with many of SUN the first volunteers in World War 1 being patriotic and SUN enthusiastic pupils – just like those I see singing in the SUN choir here today. Of the thousands upon thousands of young SUN men who fought in the Great war, 55 were from Solihull SUN school. 10 former Solihull pupils died in the Somme, 4 on SUN the first day. And other communities would have been SUN affected even more deeply. On Remembrance Day each year the SUN school comes together to recall those who gave their lives, SUN that we might enjoy freedom and peace. SUN SUN Lieutenant Charles Herbert Lander was a member of the 10th SUN Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and came to Solihull SUN School in 1907 at the age of 14. He returned from the war, SUN and his published diaries convey the quite prosaic but SUN intermittently shocking nature of trench warfare. SUN SUN READER 1: SUN July 3rd: Still no news but much speculation. During the SUN afternoon a number of us were detailed to report to brigade SUN HQ in the “Tara-Usna” line. Before moving off in battle SUN order we handed to the quartermaster letters for home: last SUN letters, which he understood were only to be posted if we SUN were killed. What outpourings of love and sentiment had been SUN put into those letters for by this time most of us were SUN thoroughly worked up with the awful waiting. At brigade H.Q. SUN we were kept waiting for hours, sitting huddled up in the SUN trenches nearby; and very little news of importance could we SUN gather. SUN SUN READER 2: SUN July 4th: We passed a few of our machine gun posts, all SUN standing to and some rather unpleasant sights as well. One SUN particular made me feel very sick. I slipped when wading SUN through some water and my hand caught hold of something SUN round and slimy, half submerged, which rolled over and SUN shewed it to be the head of a dead British Tommy, whose SUN lower portions were stuck in the slime of trench boards. SUN This was the first dead body I had ever seen. When we SUN arrived at what I presumed to be our old support line, our SUN guide got out of the trench and we moved across the top SUN toward the right. I now began to feel a little bit shaky, as SUN the machine guns appeared to be firing at us and stray SUN bullets were flying about, and as it appeared to me in all SUN directions. SUN SUN READER 1: SUN Of course I had lost my bearings; I began to wonder whether SUN our guide was lost also, but he was rather indignant when I SUN mentioned to him that it seemed we were going too far to the SUN right. We were now stumbling along for what seemed miles on SUN slippery shell-torn ground through barbed wire and in and SUN out of the remains of exceptionally deep trenches. We passed SUN what our guide told us was the great mine crater then of a SUN sudden he stopped, saying, ‘Battalion HQ Sir’ and there was SUN one of our sentries at the top of a dugout – a German SUN dugout. There we were not worried much by shell fire and SUN all the stuff that came over was small and dropped on the SUN battalion on our right – lucky for us. SUN SUN Anthem: For the Fallen (Peter Irving) [Chamber Choir, SUN trumpet and organ] SUN SUN Fr Andrew: SUN ‘For the fallen’, composed by today’s organist Peter Irving SUN and performed by the Solihull School Chamber Choir and SUN trumpeter Jonathan Sheppard, conducted by Oliver Walker. SUN SUN Early in St Matthew’s Gospel we hear how Jesus saw the SUN crowds coming towards him, prompting him to go up a SUN mountainside and sit down in the well-known posture of a SUN rabbi or teacher. Jesus had been announcing that the SUN kingdom of heaven was at hand, calling for people to repent. SUN Now, in what has been described as the manifesto of His SUN kingdom, Jesus unveils the foundations and character of life SUN in that kingdom for all generations: SUN SUN (Matthew 5 : 3 – 12) SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor: SUN SUN Reader 2 The Kingdom of heaven belongs to them! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are those who mourn: SUN SUN Reader 2 God will comfort them! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are those who are humble: SUN SUN Reader 2 They will receive what God has promised! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what SUN God requires: SUN SUN Reader 2 God will satisfy them fully! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are those who are merciful to others: SUN SUN Reader 2 God will be merciful to them! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are the pure in heart: SUN SUN Reader 2 They will see God! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are those who work for peace: SUN SUN Reader 2 God will call them his children! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are those who are persecuted because they do SUN what God requires: SUN SUN Reader 2 The Kingdom of heaven belongs to them! SUN SUN Reader 1 Happy are you when people insult you and persecute SUN you and tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you SUN are my followers. Be happy and glad, for a great reward is SUN kept for you in heaven. This is how the prophets who lived SUN before you were persecuted. SUN SUN Fr Andrew: SUN Our next hymn recalls the humility and obedience of Christ, SUN worthy of our worship and praise. SUN SUN Hymn 2- From heaven you came, helpless babe, [organ and SUN cello accompaniment] SUN SUN Homily Bishop David SUN SUN Anthem: I give to you a new commandment (Peter Nardone) SUN [Chamber Choir] SUN The Prayers [Chamber Choir sing sung refrain after each SUN prayer – ‘The Solihull Intercession’ by Simon Phillips, SUN words by Dr Samuel Johnson] SUN SUN Father Andrew: SUN Let us pray SUN SUN Reader 1: SUN Eternal God, our refuge and strength, SUN on this day we remember before you SUN all who experienced the battle on the Somme: SUN those who faced the terrible waste and devastation, SUN who fought against all the odds, endured the clinging mud, SUN and the squalor of the trenches. SUN We recall with thanksgiving the loyalty shown to comrades SUN and SUN the bravery of those who overcame their fear, SUN the courage of those who daily faced the pounding of SUN artillery, SUN gun-fire and shrapnel. SUN Choir Refrain 1 - The Solihull Intercession SUN Reader 2: SUN Lord, may we never forget the devastating loss of this SUN battle, SUN the anxiety on the home-front, SUN and the sacrifices that were made. SUN Through our remembrances today, strengthen our resolve SUN to oppose naked aggression, to defend the weak, SUN and to speak your word of peace in times of conflict and SUN insecurity. SUN Choir Refrain 2 - The Solihull Intercession SUN Reader 3: SUN We pray for our nation living through very different times SUN of uncertainty. SUN We pray for our political leaders, those who work in the SUN media, for civil servants and business leaders. SUN O God, our maker and our strength, SUN from whose love in Christ we can never be parted SUN either by death or life: SUN Look in mercy on all for whom we pray this day, SUN and grant us your protection and peace, SUN that we may be saved in body and soul, SUN through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. SUN Choir Refrain 3 - The Solihull Intercession SUN Father Andrew: SUN As we ask that God’s will may be done in this and every SUN place, so we pray together as Jesus Christ has taught us: SUN SUN All: Our Father, who art in heaven, SUN hallowed be thy name; SUN thy kingdom come; SUN thy will be done SUN on earth as it is in heaven. SUN Give us this day our daily bread. SUN And forgive us our trespasses, SUN as we forgive those who trespass against us. SUN And lead us not into temptation; SUN but deliver us from evil. SUN for thine is the kingdom, SUN the power and the glory, SUN for ever and ever. Amen. SUN Father Andrew: SUN St Richard, Bishop of Chichester in the 13th century, was SUN well acquainted with hard work and suffering. Though a SUN gifted scholar and lawyer, he was not afraid of physical SUN labour; and as Bishop he found himself a homeless outcast in SUN his own diocese, until King Henry III finally accepted his SUN appointment by the Pope. His famous prayer reflects the SUN commitment and perseverance necessary for anyone who seeks SUN to be a true follower of Jesus. SUN O most merciful Redeemer, friend and brother, SUN May I know Thee more clearly, SUN Love Thee more dearly, SUN Follow Thee more nearly.] SUN SUN Anthem: A prayer of St Richard of Chichester (Richard SUN Allain) SUN [all treble and sop voices and organ] SUN SUN Father Andrew: SUN ‘A Prayer of St Richard of Chichester’ by Richard Allain, SUN sung by the Boys’ and Girls’ choirs here at Solihull School. SUN We end our service today with a statement of intent in light SUN of our forebears who gave so much, and thanking God for his SUN continued care of us. It’s lead by our Headmaster and Head SUN Girl (tbc), after which Bishop David will give the blessing. SUN Headmaster: SUN Let us now pledge ourselves today to live as good SUN neighbours, to honour the past, to care for all who are in SUN need, and to live at peace among ourselves and with all SUN people. SUN SUN HEAD BOY or GIRL? SUN Lord God, Father of all, SUN we pledge ourselves to serve you, SUN this neighbourhood and country, SUN to bring relief to all who are in need, SUN and comfort to the sad, lonely, and distressed; SUN Keep us ever mindful of the struggles SUN and achievements of former generations, SUN and of this place where we make our home, SUN now, and in the days to come. SUN All: Amen. SUN SUN Bishop David: SUN May God the Holy Trinity SUN guard and defend you on every side, SUN sustain you in times of difficulty, SUN and strengthen you in faith and hope; SUN and the blessing of God almighty, SUN the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit SUN be with you and all whom you love, SUN now and always. SUN All: Amen. SUN Fr Andrew: SUN In a world torn apart by war, injustice, greed and hatred, SUN God calls us to his unbounded life and love. Love Divine, SUN all loves excelling. SUN SUN Hymn 3- Love divine, all loves excelling, SUN [Organ with trumpet and choir descant in final verse] SUN Organ Voluntary SUN SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b07hj8bv (Listen) SUN On Brexit SUN SUN The philosopher John Gray argues that Brexit will have a SUN greater impact on the EU than it will on the UK. And he SUN predicts the British experience is likely to be repeated SUN across much of continental Europe over the next few years. SUN SUN But, he says, rather than recriminating about what is past, SUN we should be looking to the future. "We find ourselves in a SUN new world", he writes. "Why not make the best of it?" SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: John Gray SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45m5 (Listen) SUN Egyptian Goose SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Bill Oddie presents the Egyptian goose. Although Egyptian SUN geese are common throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa and SUN in Egypt, they are now officially a British bird. These SUN striking birds attracted the attention of wildfowl SUN collectors and the first geese were brought to the UK in the SUN 17th century. By the 1960's it became obvious that the geese SUN were breeding in the wild in East Anglia and since then SUN they've spread in south and eastern England. SUN SUN Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of Guy Rogers (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b07hwm2j (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 b07hwv04 (Listen) SUN Neil reaches a decision, and Anna has a lot on her mind. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Paul Brodrick SUN Director: Naylah Ahmed SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin 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 Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Stephen South: Richard Pepple SUN Kaz: Amaka Okafor SUN Simon Hawkes: Simon Armstrong SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b07hwv06 (Listen) SUN Matthew Barzun SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the US Ambassador to the United SUN Kingdom, Matthew Barzun. SUN SUN Born in New York City as the second of four children to SUN Roger Barzun, a lawyer, and his wife Serita Winthrop, he was SUN brought up in the small Massachusetts town of Lincoln. He SUN followed in the family tradition and read History and SUN Literature of America at Harvard University, taking a break SUN for a year to work as a teaching assistant in Cape Town. SUN After graduating he worked for an internet start-up company SUN in San Francisco, where he became chief strategy officer. He SUN left in 2004 after getting involved with fundraising for SUN John Kerry's failed presidential campaign. SUN SUN He was in the audience for Barak Obama's, 'there are no red SUN or blue States, just a United States' speech in 2004 and SUN subsequently went to work for him, fundraising for Obama's SUN 2008 bid for the White House. When President Obama won, he SUN appointed Matthew as Ambassador to Sweden only to recall him SUN to take up the role of National Finance Chair for the 2012 SUN re-election campaign. Matthew is credited with developing a SUN 'low dollar' model of funding, where many pay a few dollars SUN for tickets to political events. In July 2013, he was SUN nominated as the new Ambassador to the UK by President SUN Obama, a post he took up in August 2013 and which ends in SUN January 2017. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Matthew Barzun SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b07hwm2l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07h6qsp (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 65th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote SUN to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based SUN entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run SUN at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool where regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Rory Bremner, with Jack Dee as the programme's SUN reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect SUN inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the SUN piano. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN It is a BBC Studios production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Andy Hamilton SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b07hwv25 (Listen) SUN School food - a risky future? SUN SUN The Prime Minister says free schools meals for infants in SUN England and Wales will remain. But small schools are facing SUN funding cuts to provide them. Sheila Dillon asks how SUN teachers and cooks will cope. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon SUN Produced by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b07hwm2n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b07hwm2q (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07hj8bb (Listen) SUN Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel pay a visit to Braintree and SUN Bocking Public Gardens in Essex. Matthew Wilson, Christine SUN Walkden and Pippa Greenwood answer the horticultural queries SUN this week. SUN SUN Produced by Darby Dorras SUN Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Diamondback Moth SUN SUN Factsheet SUN Q – Will several ants’ nests in a greenhouse cause any SUN problems to crops? SUN SUN SUN Christine – No. They might move soil from the root system SUN but other than that, no. SUN SUN SUN Q – My daughter had a Bamboo that she’s dug up. But it’s SUN still coming up. She doesn’t want to use weed killer – what SUN can we do? SUN SUN SUN SUN Matthew – Best thing to do, rather than dig, is to pull off SUN the root as aggressively as possible, because the snapping SUN action will discourage regrowth. This method will either SUN kill it or cause millions of offshoots. It’s a 50/50! SUN SUN SUN Q – What would the panel recommend that I could plant in a SUN bed that never sees any sunshine? SUN SUN SUN SUN Matthew – What you can get is lots of interesting foliage SUN rather than flowering plants. For example: *Pulmonaria* SUN ‘Blue Ensign’. I grow that with *Dryopteris erythrosora*, a SUN tolerant fern. Matteuccia struthiopteris (‘The Shuttlecock’ SUN fern) – a fern that’s good in wet shade. *Deschampsia SUN cespitosa* – native grass. SUN SUN SUN SUN Christine – *Rheum palmatum*. Many of the *Heucheras* will SUN do well. *Ligularias* come to mind – they won’t flower as SUN well but the foliage will look good. SUN SUN SUN Q – I planted a Bramley apple tree 35 years ago and it’s now SUN making a lot of growth going straight up from the centre. SUN It competes with a nearby Field Maple. I’d like to take SUN centre out of it – can I do this or is the tree too old? SUN SUN SUN Christine – I would selectively prune it – nice and slowly. SUN Take out a third of the centre each year, over three years, SUN to open it gradually. If you really clout it it will SUN produce water shoots ie non-fruiting shoots. SUN SUN SUN Q – I recently bought a lovely *Hebe* called ‘Purple SUN Shamrock’ which is described as a new “sport” of the *Hebe* SUN ‘Mrs Winder’. What is a “sport”? SUN SUN SUN Christine – A “sport” is where you have a mutation of growth SUN caused by physical damage, or genetic interference, SUN sometimes growing conditions. And all it is is a change in SUN characteristic from the original plant. Quite a lot of our SUN popular Chrysanthemum varieties are sports and they will SUN come true if you propagate them; some others won’t. SUN SUN SUN SUN Matthew – If you look at the ‘Lawson’s cypresses’ they are SUN all sports taken from cuttings from different parts of the SUN plant. Lawson’s arrow is taken from the top of the plant; SUN Lawson’ bun is from towards the bottom. I was going to SUN retire on the very contorted “sports” of *Taxus baccata* or SUN ‘Common Yew’… but unfortunately the contortion was just SUN caused by Bindweed. SUN SUN SUN Q – Our Lavender hedges are heavily infested with Lavender SUN or Rosemary beetles and I’d like to know if there is a SUN bee-friendly control for this pest? SUN SUN Pippa – I would recommend that physical picking off is the SUN best method for getting rid of them. Sorry! SUN SUN SUN SUN Christine – Put yellow sticky traps under the plants, then SUN when you give the plant a whack the beetles will fall off SUN and you can take them away. SUN SUN SUN Q – Could the panel suggest what we could plant for minimal SUN maintenance, all year round interest, and maximum interest SUN in the Braintree and Bocking Public garden of 24m square. SUN SUN SUN Matthew – I would focus on one big, impressive blast per SUN season. Summer – really good repeat-flowering Rose. So for SUN yellow go for a ‘Port Sunlight’; white go for ‘Winchester SUN Cathedral’ or ‘Hyde Hall’. Autumn – a nice clump of SUN Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’. Spring – lots of bulbs. SUN Winter – I would go for orange ‘Midwinter Fire’ (*Cornus SUN sanguinea*) or ‘Winter Bonfire’. SUN SUN SUN SUN Pippa – I would stick to miniature bulbs in Spring – classic SUN yellows like ‘Tete-a-Tete’, ‘Narcissus’ – to reduce SUN maintenance. Herbaceous perennials like Herbaceous Geraniums SUN in and amongst them would be good too. Also, try and get SUN some Snowdrops and Crocuses in there if you can. SUN SUN SUN SUN Christine – Sheets of *Cyclamen coum* (Spring) and sheets of SUN *Cyclamen hederifolium* (Autumn) – but don’t put them SUN together as the *hederifolium* will choke the *coum*. For SUN bulbs go for the *Scillas*, the *Puschkinias*, the SUN *Anemones*, the *Eranthises* – all great plants. For SUN berries go for *Viburnum opulus* ‘Compactum’. SUN SUN SUN Q – I am very fond of Florence Fennel but all attempts to SUN grow it have failed. Should it be possible or should I give SUN up? SUN SUN SUN SUN Christine – I’ve never been successful but I’m on a very SUN light, alluvial loam and I think it prefers heavier soil. SUN It needs an early start and can take two/three years to SUN build to a reasonable size. It doesn’t really like dryness SUN at first too. I’ve tried pot and garden. SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b07hwycc (Listen) 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 b07hwwjv (Listen) SUN Roald Dahl: Going Solo, Episode 1 SUN SUN To celebrate the centenary year of his birth, a full SUN dramatization of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical SUN overseas adventure. SUN SUN Beginning aboard the SS Mantola, Dahl sets sail for Africa SUN at the tender age of 22. He experiences the remnants of SUN colonial British life, filled with eccentric characters, and SUN is thrown into a world as bizarre and surprising as any you SUN will find in his fiction. SUN SUN "Life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a SUN small number of great ones." SUN SUN Stationed in Tanzania, Dahl is faced with the excitement of SUN the wild; lions carrying off women in their mouths; fatal SUN green mambas captured by snake men. But his SUN savannah-sun-drenched life is interrupted when World War II SUN erupts. Dahl is ordered to round up the German inhabitants SUN of Dar es Salaam and experiences first-hand the horror of SUN war. SUN SUN Patrick Malahide provides the voice of Dahl in a colourful SUN adaptation by Lucy Catherine. SUN SUN Dramatised by Lucy Catherine SUN SUN Directed by Helen Perry SUN A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Roald Dahl: Patrick Malahide SUN Young Dahl: John Heffernan SUN Mother: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Mdisho: Eric Abrefa SUN Major Griffiths: Brian Protheroe SUN Mrs Griffiths: Clare Perkins SUN Miss Trefusis: Elizabeth Bennett SUN Sandford: Nick Underwood SUN Savory: James Lailey SUN Parkinson: Tom Forrister SUN Mackintosh: Sam Rix SUN Snakeman: Sean Baker SUN Sergeant: Jason Barnett SUN Adaptor: Lucy Catherine SUN Author: Roald Dahl SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b07hwwjx (Listen) SUN Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox SUN SUN Maggie O'Farrell talks to James Naughtie about her novel The SUN Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. Recorded at the Borders Book SUN Festival with an audience of readers. SUN SUN August's Bookclub choice : After the Fire A Still, Small SUN Voice by Evie Wyld (2010) SUN SUN Interviewed guest : Maggie O'Farrell SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: James Naughtie SUN Interviewed Guest: Maggie O'Farrell SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b07hwwl9 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Sharon Olds SUN SUN In New York City Paul Farley hears some new odes from Sharon SUN Olds addressed to bodies and body parts, both shoddy and SUN enduring. Sharon Olds' poetry is almost always personal and SUN is renowned for its frank directness. She has written SUN unflinchingly about abuse in her family and her broken SUN marriage. Much imitated and highly influential no one SUN compares to her. She reads her new poems about her hymen, SUN and her wattles, a composting toilet, and the tampon. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 One Day in Entebbe b07hg4vg (Listen) SUN Forty years ago, the world gasped as it witnessed one of the SUN most outlandish rescue missions ever undertaken. Israeli SUN commandos flew 2,500 miles to free more than a hundred SUN hostages, passengers whose plane had been hijacked and SUN diverted to Entebbe. In the dead of night, they were plucked SUN out from under the nose of Uganda's larger-than-life SUN dictator, Idi Amin. SUN SUN The operation would become a template for special forces SUN operations, taught at military colleges around the globe. It SUN would change the calculus in the Middle East, altering the SUN way Israel was seen and the way it saw itself. And it would SUN set one young man on the path to eventual power. SUN SUN Through exclusive and intensely personal interviews with SUN those involved, including Israeli prime minister Binyamin SUN Netanyahu and two of his predecessors - Ehud Barak and SUN Shimon Peres - as well as former hostages, ex-commandos and SUN the one-time Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled, writer and SUN broadcaster Jonathan Freedland tells the remarkable story of SUN that day in July 1976. SUN SUN He hears Netanyahu confess that he would not be prime SUN minister today had it not been for Entebbe where his brother SUN led the commando unit and was killed in action - proof that SUN the impact of that one day in Entebbe lives on. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b07hwhl7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07hwm2s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b07hwm2v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07hwm2x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b07hwm2z (Listen) SUN Antonia Quirke SUN SUN Antonia Quirke chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b07hwwvd (Listen) SUN Pat and Tony have to change their plans, and Anna needs to SUN make herself scarce. SUN SUN 19:15 Rumblings from the Rafters b07hwxbk (Listen) SUN House Fly and Soprano Pipistrelle Bat SUN SUN An annoying House Fly played by Lee Mack and a warm-hearted SUN Soprano Pipistrelle Bat played by Pam Ferris, reveal the SUN truth about life in a draughty old attic in a house in SUN Amersham in the second of three very funny tales, written SUN and introduced by Lynne Truss, with additional sound SUN recordings by Chris Watson. SUN The House Fly loves life. "The best bit is the buzzing". He SUN loves the aerobatics, dodging the flypapers in the attic and SUN "... my favourite manoeuvre, settling on the ceiling. It is SUN unbelievably brilliant" He loves to buzz. But he also loves, SUN what to humans, is a disgusting way of life. He loves to SUN walk around on filth and to poo everywhere and to spread SUN disease "And listen, we don't mind! Not at all. It's the SUN least we can do". He would love to spread more diseases and SUN takes great joy in telling us just exactly how he does this SUN ... perhaps best not to listen if you're eating! SUN The Soprano Pipistrelle Bat is a very different creature; a SUN tiny bat with a huge and loving heart. She is nine years old SUN and has given birth to a single pup each year. Her newest SUN pup, Jethro, is her darling; "... such a lovely little face. SUN Chestnut fur. Perfect little ears. He smells like chicken SUN flavour crisps. Ooh, I could eat him." He is six weeks old SUN and weaning - proudly catching insects for himself; and this SUN is always a poignant time for this mother-bat, where pride SUN and sadness mingle. The main concern with Jethro, she finds, SUN is that he can't seem to grasp the idea of torpor, "Oh don't SUN mum. Don't go torpid. It's like you're dying", but as she SUN knows "torpor is nothing to be scared of, .. torpor is your SUN friend". SUN SUN House Fly: Lee Mack SUN Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris SUN Written and introduced by Lynne Truss SUN Wildlife sound recordings Chris Watson SUN Producer Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Lynne Truss SUN House Fly: Lee Mack SUN Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris SUN Producer: Sarah Blunt SUN Writer: Lynne Truss SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b068sp4j (Listen) SUN Series 11, Cats Who Walk Like Gentlemen, by Robert Florence SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded live in front of an audience at this SUN year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SUN SUN In the final story of the series, Robert Florence reveals SUN the dark doings of the Scottish branch of the Illuminati. SUN SUN As well as his interest in secret societies, Robert Florence SUN is the acclaimed writer and co-creator of BBC Scotland's SUN cult sketch show Burnistoun. SUN SUN Writer: Robert Florence SUN SUN Robert Florence SUN SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Robert Florence SUN Performer: Robert Florence SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b07hj8bj (Listen) SUN Following the confirmation that the UK had voted to leave SUN the European Union, BBC Radio 5Live cancelled their planned SUN schedules and extended their phone-ins after being contacted SUN by thousands of listeners. But some Feedback correspondents SUN question whether the result merited the such comprehensive SUN coverage and why some sports coverage was shelved. Other SUN listeners have also queried the benefit of hearing SUN "outlandish claims" being made by callers. Gill Farrington, SUN 5Live's Breakfast programme editor answers these listeners' SUN queries. SUN SUN Feedback listeners also have concerns with how Radio 4 has SUN been reporting on Brexit. Many feel that the station has a SUN post-referendum tone of "doom and gloom". SUN SUN And over the next two weeks, Feedback is exploring the SUN pioneering world of visual radio. What's in the pipeline for SUN your viewing? Is it taking resources away from other areas? SUN What works best for each station's audience? It begins in SUN 5Live where the Head of Digital Will Cooper details his SUN plans. SUN SUN And it's not often that we have an inbox full of audience SUN members admitting to having cried at the radio, but SUN narrative series The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away moved many SUN listeners. The story unfolded over five days telling of two SUN families faced with losing their children. Cole Moreton, who SUN wrote and presented the series, gives the inside story of SUN how it was made. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b07hj8bg (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Pakistani qawwali singer Amjad Sabri. A huge star in his SUN homeland, he was shot dead in his car in Karachi. SUN SUN The auctioneer Lorna Kelly who turned her back on a SUN glittering New York lifestyle to work with Mother Teresa. SUN SUN The psychologist Jerome Bruner whose work brought new SUN insight into how children learn. SUN SUN Bob Holman who gave up his academic career to live and work SUN with people on housing estates. SUN SUN And Scotty Moore who played guitar on many of Elvis SUN Presley's biggest hits. SUN SUN Producer: Dianne McGregor. SUN SUN Amjad Sabri SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Anwar Akhtar, Director of the Samosa SUN Media Project and to the music writer and broadcaster, Robin SUN Denselow. SUN SUN Born 23 December 1970; died 22 June 2016 aged 45. SUN SUN Lorna Kelly SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her friend, Chris Peregrin. SUN SUN Born 12 August 1945; died 15 June 2016 aged 70. SUN SUN Jerome Bruner SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his friend and former colleague, SUN Professor Kathy Sylva, to writer and broadcaster Michael SUN Rosen and to Professor John Oates from the Open University. SUN SUN Born 1 October 1915; died 5 June 2016 aged 100. SUN SUN Bob Holman SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his widow, Annette Holman, to his friend SUN Terry Philpot, and to the Conservative politician, Ian SUN Duncan Smith. SUN SUN Born 8 November 1936; died 15 June 2016 aged 79. SUN SUN Scotty Moore (pictured) SUN SUN Born 27 December 1931; died 28 June 2016 aged 84. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Anwar Akhtar SUN Interviewed Guest: Robin Denselow SUN Interviewed Guest: Chris Peregrin SUN Interviewed Guest: Kathy Sylva SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael Rosen SUN Interviewed Guest: John Oates SUN Interviewed Guest: Annette Holman SUN Interviewed Guest: Terry Philpot SUN Interviewed Guest: Iain Duncan Smith SUN Producer: Dianne McGregor SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b07hwhg9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b07hwtwq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b07h6zg7 (Listen) SUN The Charitable Impulse SUN SUN Charity is big business. In the UK, over £9 billion is SUN donated to charitable institutions each year. But SUN fundraising can also be controversial as recent news stories SUN about expensive electricity tariffs, elderly donors SUN receiving incessant requests for donations and the tactics SUN of some "chuggers" have confirmed. SUN SUN So studies in experimental psychology that reveal which SUN approaches persuade people to be more generous are timely SUN and could offer charities a neat way to raise more money. SUN David Edmonds explores the results of this research - SUN including findings published for the first time. He asks if, SUN by adopting techniques already used by the marketing and SUN advertising industries, charities could transform their SUN fortunes - but at what cost? SUN SUN Producer Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b07hwm33 (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b07hwxs9 (Listen) SUN Notes on Blindness SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to James Spinney and Peter Middleton, SUN the makers of a ground-breaking documentary, Notes On SUN Blindness, that's also showing in Virtual Reality. SUN SUN Composer Neil Brand on the chord that defined film noir, SUN which made its first appearance in Double Indemnity. SUN SUN In a season of sequels, prequels, remakes and re-boots, SUN critics Tim Robey and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh are on hand to SUN help us watch better movies this summer. SUN SUN Notes On Blindness SUN You can find a list of Notes On Blindness screenings across SUN the UK SUN here SUN . SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: James Spinney SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Middleton SUN Interviewed Guest: Neil Brand SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Robey SUN Interviewed Guest: Larushka Ivan-Zadeh SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b07hwtdj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 JULY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b07hwm50 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b07hgcq0 (Listen) MON Good neighbours, The connection between sport and domestic MON abuse MON MON Good Neighbours and the democracy of everyday life. Our MON neighbours do small favours and greet us on the street. They MON also, on occasion, startle us with noises at night and even MON betray us to the authorities. Laurie Taylor talks to Nancy MON Rosenblum, the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in MON Politics and Government at Harvard University, about her MON study into our many and varied encounters with the people MON 'next door' - from suburbia to popular culture; in peaceful MON times & during disasters and across time and culture. MON They're joined by Graham Crow, Professor of Sociology at the MON University of Edinburgh. MON Also, the connection between sporting events and violence MON against women. Jodie Swallow, Post Graduate Research Student MON at Chester University, discusses her research into women's MON experience of domestic abuse in the context of the FIFA MON World Cup and the Six Nations Rugby Union Tournament. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Professor Nancy L. Rosenblum at Harvard University MON Professor Graham Crow at the University of Edinburgh MON MON Jodie Swallow, PhD candidate at the University of Chester MON MON Nancy L. Rosenblum, *Good Neighbors: The Democracy of MON Everyday Life in America, *(Princeton University Press, MON 2016) MON National Domestic Violence Helpline MON for women sufferers or those calling on their behalf MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b07hwtdg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07hwm52 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07hwm54 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwm56 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b07hwm58 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07k9j73 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim MON writer, Sarah Joseph. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b07hwm5b (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b07hwm5d (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thwxg (Listen) MON Black-Throated Diver MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON John Aitchison presents the black-throated diver. MON Black-throated divers are strong contenders for our most MON beautiful bird. Their breeding plumage with a neck barcoded MON in white, an ebony bib and a plush grey head, is dramatic. MON The black dagger-like bill and broad lobed feet are perfect MON for catching and pursuing fish which the divers bring to MON their chicks in nests on the shoreline of the Scottish Lochs MON on which they breed. MON MON Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b07j3mtz (Listen) MON News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and MON Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b07hwm5g (Listen) MON Love, Loss and Scandal MON MON On Start the Week Andrew discusses love, loss and scandal. MON Carrie Cracknell is directing Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, MON the story of an overpowering, self-destructive love affair MON set in post-war Britain. Michel Faber's collection of poetry MON explores the loss and grief at the death of his beloved MON wife, Eva. AE Housman wrote a series of poems at the end of MON the 19th century - A Shropshire Lad - which were hugely MON popular and came to encapsulate the nostalgia for an MON unspoilt pastoral idyll, but the writer Peter Parker says MON they're also shot through with unfulfilled longing for a MON young man. Homosexuality only became legal in the late 1960s MON and John Preston retells the story of the MP Jeremy Thorpe - MON a tale of sex, lies, murder and scandal at the heart of the MON establishment. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Carrie Cracknell MON Interviewed Guest: Michel Faber MON Interviewed Guest: Peter Parker MON Interviewed Guest: John Preston MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b07j3mv1 (Listen) MON Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Episode 1 MON MON Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my MON generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been MON possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has MON risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip MON Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and MON revealing biography. MON MON Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and MON there is new personal testimony from those who knew and MON worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, MON presenting new details of his difficult relationship with MON his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with MON Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn MON Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic MON conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime MON career. MON MON Read by Nickolas Grace MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Directed by Celia de Wolff MON MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Nickolas Grace MON Author: Philip Eade MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Director: Celia de Wolff MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b07hwm5j (Listen) MON Jacqueline Gold, The women are coming, Colleagues crying MON MON Theresa May is the favourite to be the Conservative leader, MON Angela Eagle has put name forward to take over Labour, and MON we already have a female First Minister in Scotland with MON Nicola Sturgeon. In Europe Angela Merkel is still the one in MON control and let's not forget that Hillary Clinton could be MON US President by the end of the year. So, is this time MON finally the time for women politicians? MON MON Award winning poet, Helen Mort has just published her highly MON anticipated second collection of poetry, No Map Could Show MON Them which explores the lives of pioneering female MON mountaineers, campaigners and runners. She reads two poems MON from her new collection. MON MON Jacqueline Gold, the CEO of Ann Summers, talking about eh MON changing landscape of the adult entertainment industry and MON why she's a big fan of the new ITV drama, Brief Encounters, MON based on the Ann Summers party reps of the 1980s. MON MON Is crying at work still taboo? And how can we best support MON our work colleagues when they become tearful? MON MON Rachel Tunnard's new film, Adult Life Skills, pulls off the MON almost-impossible. It's a comedy about grief. Set in the MON Peak District it's about Anna whose twin brother has died. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON Interviewed Guest: Quentin Letts MON Interviewed Guest: Laurie Penny MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Mort MON Interviewed Guest: Jacqueline Gold MON Interviewed Guest: Emily Grossman MON Interviewed Guest: Nell Frizzell MON Interviewed Guest: Rachel Tunnard MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07j40wr (Listen) MON Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist, The Bookseller MON MON Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in MON dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre MON and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous MON for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of MON crooks, cheats and schemers. MON MON The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a MON writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly MON social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly MON characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy MON cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human MON nature. MON MON In The Bookseller, we find Mr Buggage and his secretary Miss MON Tottle hard at work in the back room of Mr Buggage's book MON shop in London's Charing Cross Road. It soon becomes clear MON that they are running a most successful business - but the MON fortune they are amassing is not from the sale of books. MON MON Written by Roald Dahl MON Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan. MON MON Director: David Blount MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Storyteller: Charles Dance MON Mr Buggage: Toby Jones MON Miss Tottle: Celia Imrie MON Mrs Northcote: Jean Trend MON Mr Northcote: Richard Attlee MON Author: Roald Dahl MON Adaptor: Stephen Sheridan MON Director: David Blount MON MON 11:00 The Untold b07j40wt (Listen) MON Tilting at Poker MON MON Lister has taken redundancy, sold his home - a narrowboat - MON and is trying to make it as a professional poker player. His MON aim is to go to Las Vegas. But a run of bad luck has put him MON in "tilt" - the mental problem that can affect poker players MON when their luck goes bad and they start to play badly as a MON reaction. Can he get his head straight and start winning MON again? Maybe, with the intervention of a top poker MON psychologist. MON Presenter: Grace Dent MON Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 11:30 The Break b07j40ww (Listen) MON The Girl from the South MON MON Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson), out of the blue, decides that MON his nephew Andy (Tom Palmer) needs a girlfriend. Andy MON decides that he does not. Jeff persists - Fish Shop Frank MON (Mark Benton) has his niece visiting from down south, and MON she is, by all accounts, "a lovely girl". MON MON While waiting for Andy to agree, Jeff takes him to the local MON hypermarket ostensibly for supplies, but in fact because MON Jeff has read in a magazine that supermarkets are the ideal MON place for young singles to meet. MON MON While Jeff is wrongly detained for shoplifting, Andy runs MON into an old flame from London, Liz (Shobna Gulati). She's MON staying with her Uncle Frank - so this is the "lovely girl" MON Jeff's been banging on about! How can Andy rekindle the MON relationship with his old flame without - annoyingly - oving MON Jeff right? 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 Corinne: Alison Steadman MON Joyce: Alison Steadman MON Liz: Shobna Gulati MON Carenza: Shobna Gulati MON Alan: Rasmus Hardiker MON Frank 2: Rasmus Hardiker MON Writer: Ian Brown MON Writer: James Hendrie MON Director: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON MON 12:00 News Summary b07hwm5l (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Witness b07j40wy (Listen) MON Starbucks: The Early Days MON MON It is 45 years since the Starbucks coffee company was MON established in Seattle. But its original founders had no MON intention of selling hot drinks. Claire Bowes has spoken to MON Zev Siegl and Jerry Baldwin, two of the enthusiasts who MON started the company, which has changed the way millions of MON people around the world start their days. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b07hwm5n (Listen) MON Lord Holmes of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, MON Career coaching MON MON A report published today has found that the Care Act has MON made little or no difference to the 5.4 million carers in MON England since it was introduced last year. The Act gives MON carers rights on a par with the people they look after - MON including the right to an assessment of their OWN needs. If MON they're eligible, they're entitled to support, funded by MON their local authority. 100 million pounds was made available MON to help this all work. Carers Trust is the largest charity MON for unpaid carers and it surveyed and spoke to unpaid carers MON looking after their sick or disabled family and friends, and MON to health and social care professionals to find out how well MON they thought the new act, which entitles carers to an MON assessment of their needs was working. MON MON The advertising regulator has been investigating complaints MON against websites that use the idea that a sale is about to MON end to persuade you to buy. Some have ticking clocks on MON screen counting down the time left to buy in a sale. People MON have complained that some of these clocks just start up MON again when the countdown is finished and that the sale MON prices are available all the time. MON MON It seems more and more of us are unhappy at work. Earlier MON this year, research for the CIPD, which represents the HR MON industry, suggested a quarter of the UK workforce is looking MON for a new job. Career coaches are also reporting an increase MON in demand for their services. They offer guidance and MON support for people trying to find out what they really want MON to do and how to do it. But with no official accreditation MON scheme for this fast-growing industry, how can we tell MON whether a coach will help us? Andrew Fletcher reports. MON MON This summer British Airways will fly more than 1,500 MON athletes to and from the Olympic and Paralympic Games in MON Rio. As team GB's main sponsor, they'll also be responsible MON for safely transporting the athlete's equipment. Lord Holmes MON of the Equality and Human Rights Commission is worried about MON that. It's because of what happened to Athena Stevens, a MON disabled poet and playwright. She has cerebral palsy and MON used a specialist wheelchair worth more than £25,000. We MON hear what happened when she was taking a British Airways MON flight from London City Airport last October. MON MON 12:57 Weather b07hwm5q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07hwm5s (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07j40x0 (Listen) MON The Greek Civil War MON MON In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years MON of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the MON Greek Civil War - and hears from three people who were MON caught up in it. MON MON In 1944 Greece was liberated from Nazi occupation. But the MON German retreat left a vacuum and instead of peace the MON devastated country descended into civil war. MON MON The Greek civil war grew out of a left- right split in Greek MON society. But it also marked a shift - from the Allies' war MON against Nazi fascism to a fight to stop a Communist MON takeover: the prelude, in other words, to the long battle MON between East and West over the decades to come, about who MON would control Europe. MON MON Featuring John Clarke MBE, Zozo Petropoulos and Nicholas MON Rizopolous. MON MON Readings by Mia Soteriou. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b07hwwvd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b044j7q2 (Listen) MON Missing in Action MON MON by Clare Lizzimore MON MON Natalie's husband went Missing In Action, in Helmand MON Province. Then one day, she spots him in a supermarket. He MON swears he's someone else. But she knows it's him. MON MON Is this love, or obsession? Is he who he says he is? And MON what will he do with the new life she's offering him? MON MON Clare Lizzimore's first play for radio explores the fight MON which begins back home, after the guns fall silent. MON MON Writer and director Clare Lizzimore's first stage play, MON 'Mint', starring Sam Troughton, debuted in the Royal Court's MON Weekly Rep season last year, to rave reviews. Clare has been MON resident director at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow; staff MON director at the Royal National Theatre, and she is currently MON an Associate Director at Hampstead Theatre. As a director, MON her credits include 'Bull' by Mike Bartlett at Sheffield MON Crucible and in New York, 'One Day When We Were Young' by MON Nick Payne as part of the Paines Plough Roundabout Season, MON and 'Lay Down Your Cross' by Nick Payne at Hampstead MON Theatre. At the Royal Court, she directed 'Faces in the MON Crowd' by Leo Butler in 2008, and has worked extensively MON with the International department. MON MON Produced by Claire Grove and Jonquil Panting MON Directed by Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Daniel: Sam Troughton MON Laura: Liz White MON Natalie: Anna Madeley MON Commanding Officer: Clive Hayward MON Brian: Craige Els MON Foreman: Michael Bertenshaw MON Producer: Claire Grove MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Writer: Clare Lizzimore MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b07j4384 (Listen) MON Series 30, Heat 3, 2016 MON MON (3/13) MON Competitors from Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and West MON Yorkshire join Paul Gambaccini for the latest heat of the MON wide-ranging music quiz. From Beethoven and Korngold to MON Elton John and Led Zeppelin, the questions and extracts test MON their knowledge of music in all its variety and provide MON something for all tastes. MON MON Today's contest comes from the headquarters of the BBC MON Philharmonic in Salford, and the winner will automatically MON take a place in the semi-finals with a real chance of MON competing in the 30th Counterpoint Final at the Proms in MON September. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b07hwv25 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b07j4386 (Listen) MON Glyn Maxwell MON MON The poet and playwright, Glyn Maxwell, introduces his MON favourite poetry and prose. Beginning with some Edward Lear MON first heard on tape in the back of the family car, his MON choices include Auden, Robert Frost and Katherine Mansfield. MON And Glyn reads and discusses the work of his friend and MON mentor, Derek Walcott. MON Producer: Chris Ledgard. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Glyn Maxwell MON Producer: Chris Ledgard MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b07j4388 (Listen) MON Series 14, The Sound of Music MON MON The Sound of Music MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at Glastonbury MON Music Festival. They are joined by comedian Matt Kirshen, MON musicians KT Tunstall and Nitin Sawhney and scientists Lucy MON Cooke and Trevor Cox. No Julie Andrews for this special MON edition of the long running science/comedy show, although MON music does take centre stage as the panel discuss the MON evolution and science of why and how humans are programmed MON to love everything from the Rolling Stones to Rap to MON Rachmaninoff. They'll also be looking at whether there are MON any examples of music in the animal kingdom and whether MON gorillas really hum. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b07hwm5v (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07hwm5x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07j438b (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 2 MON MON The 65th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke-Taylor are MON once again joined on the panel by Rory Bremner with Jack Dee MON in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON It is a BBC Studios production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Jeremy Hardy MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Rory Bremner MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07j43hd (Listen) MON Carol treats her daughter, and Pip shows she will not be MON conned. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b07hwm5z (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07j40wr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 I Work for the Government, and Let's Leave It at That MON b07j47py (Listen) MON The secret services tried to recruit Westminster Lobby MON Correspondent Julia Langdon at school. Ever since she has MON been fascinated by espionage. She uncovers how women are MON recruited then and now. MON MON Julia goes "behind the wire" at GCHQ to discover how they MON are targeting potential female employees at university and MON school. She interviews former head of MI5 Eliza MON Manningham-Buller who tells her how she was recruited, chats MON to two sisters about their secret work in the Second World MON War, and meets a former Miss Moneypenny who talks about MON working for MI6. MON MON Presenter: Julia Langdon MON Producer: David Morley MON A Bite Media production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b07j47q0 (Listen) MON Obama's World MON MON Politico foreign correspondent Nahal Toosi examines the MON international record of President Obama's eight years in MON office and tries to discern the governing principles behind MON his foreign policy. The president sought to avoid costly MON overseas interventions - yet his critics allege that he has MON allowed rival powers like Russia and China to flex their MON muscles and threaten American interests. And he has been MON condemned for his signature foreign policy achievements, MON like rapprochements with Iran and Cuba. With interviews MON gathered in Europe, the Middle East and in Washington DC, MON Nahal examines the president's decisions to ask if there is MON such a thing as an "Obama Doctrine". MON Producer: Lucy Proctor. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b07h9xdl (Listen) MON Ant MON MON For centuries we've peered at them, delighted and terrified MON at seeing our best and worst traits in miniature. Brett MON Westwood investigates why we see ourselves in the Ant. MON MON With contributions from the Ant Lab of Nigel Franks, giant MON ants as seen by Judith Buchanan, slave-making ants as MON interpreted by John Clarke and Tom Waits, and the robot MON swarm of Sabine Hauert. Plus St Paul's Cathedral and a whole MON ant colony between 2 microscope slides. MON MON Readings by Nicola Ferguson and Brian Protheroe: poems by MON John Clare, Peter Kane Dufault and Matthew Francis; and the MON works of Ovid, Adam Smith, William Gould and César Vallejo. MON Plus the fearsome threat of H G Wells' The Empire of the MON Ants, and the films Antz, and THEM! MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON Dr Andrew Polaszek MON Andrew is a Researcher in Entomology at the Natural History MON Museum, London. His fascination with insects started in MON childhood, turning over the stones in his South London MON garden to reveal “the Serengeti in miniature”. MON He is committed to public outreach, science education, and MON the facilitation of descriptive taxonomy using modern MON techniques. A current priority is the use of high-quality MON images to inform society at all levels about the importance MON of parasitoids and other wasps, as well as bees and ants, as MON ecosystem service providers. MON MON Professor Judith Buchanan MON Judith Buchanan is Professor of Film and Literature and MON Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the University MON of York and Director of Silents Now. She has expertise in MON the transmission of stories across generations and across MON media, in Shakespeare performance histories and in silent MON cinema. MON Through the creative work of MON Silents Now MON she brings back little-known films from the silent era as a MON source of pleasurable engagement for contemporary audiences MON in the UK and elsewhere, thereby helping to ensure the MON preservation and ongoing life of a valuable but threatened MON part of our heritage. MON She is the author of, among other things, Shakespeare on MON Film and Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb MON Discourse and the editor of The Writer on Film: Screening MON Literary Authorship. She speaks regularly to public as well MON as to academic audiences and her voice-overs can be found on MON the BFI’s newly released ‘Play On! Shakespeare in Silent MON Film'. MON Twitter: MON @jrbyork MON MON Dr John Clark MON Born and raised in Canada, John Clark completed degrees at MON the universities of Western Ontario and Toronto before MON receiving a DPhil at the University of Oxford. He MON subsequently held fellowships at Oxford and at the MON University of Kent, where he was a Wellcome Lecturer in the MON history of medicine and life sciences. MON He is currently a lecturer in the School of History and MON director of the Institute for Environmental History at the MON University of St Andrews. His teaching and research focus on MON the history of science, medicine, and environment; and his MON publications include MON Bugs and the Victorians MON In 2014, he was a visiting senior fellow at The Ohio State MON University. MON MON Professor Nigel Franks MON Nigel Franks is Professor of Animal Behaviour and Ecology at MON the University of Bristol. The focus of his research at the MON university's MON Ant Lab MON is on the simple rules of interaction among worker ants that MON generate complexity and sophistication at the level of the MON colony. Recent studies by the team have begun to demonstrate MON the algorithmic basis of the self organisation of ant MON colonies. MON Ant colonies embody all of the most important aspects of MON biological organisation. In simple terms they are more than MON the sum of their parts and they are robust flexible systems MON that are capable of self repair. The fundamental advantage MON of ant colonies as experimental biological materials is that MON they can be quickly taken apart and rapidly and easily put MON together again. This is the reason why we study ant colonies MON rather than natural neural networks which exhibit similar MON capabilities but can be experimentally intractable. MON Picture: EXI Photography MON MON Dr Sabine Hauert MON Dr Sabine Hauert is a swarm engineer at the MON Bristol Robotics Laboratory MON and is interested in designing large collective systems that MON self-organise. Swarm strategies are either inspired from MON natural collectives such as ant colonies and bird flocks or MON are automatically designed in simulation using machine MON learning and crowdsourcing. MON It has been used to design swarming nanoparticles for cancer MON treatment and for deploying large aerial swarms for MON communication relay. She is also working towards using MON automatic swarm design to understand natural self-organised MON systems such as those found in the brain or the immune MON system. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b07hwm5g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b07hwm61 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b07hwm63 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07j47q2 (Listen) MON The Muse, Episode 1 MON MON When on a summer's day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the MON steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position MON as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is MON about to change. For there she meets the glamorous and MON enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her MON confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of MON writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is MON holding back, and when 'Rufina and the Lion', a lost Spanish MON masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to MON suspect that the mystery behind the painting's origins and MON her mentor's secrecy may be somehow connected. MON MON The truth about 'Rufina and the Lion' lies in 1936 and a MON large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the MON daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his MON beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic MON ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac MON Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, MON passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and MON devastating consequences for them all. MON MON Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful MON story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and MON deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from MON Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist. MON MON Written by Jessie Burton MON MON Abridged by Doreen Estall MON MON Read by Martina Laird MON MON Produced by Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Martina Laird MON Author: Jessie Burton MON Abridger: Doreen Estall MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON MON 23:00 Don't Log Off b07j47q4 (Listen) MON Series 7, Clean Slate MON MON Alan Dein continues his series of nocturnal conversations MON with random strangers. Settling down for the night, he locks MON the studio door and opens the microphone to people he MON encounters online. MON MON As he crisscrosses the world, he hears from a Kenyan pilot MON who lives her childhood dream of flying helicopters over MON hammerhead sharks in Key West, a Parisian designer stopped MON in his tracks by meningitis and a man in Pennsylvania MON accused of bewitching his wife. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b07j48d4 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 JULY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b07hwm7w (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b07j3mv1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07hwm7y (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07hwm80 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwm82 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b07hwm84 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07kg17y (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim TUE writer, Sarah Joseph. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07hwm86 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emily Hughes. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thvkt (Listen) TUE Slavonian Grebe TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE John Aitchison tells the story of the Slavonian grebe. In TUE winter, Slavonian Grebes, with their vermilion eyes, bright TUE and shiny as redcurrants, fly south from Scandinavia and TUE Iceland to spend the winter around our coasts. Their winter TUE plumage is black, grey and white but in spring they moult TUE into their breeding plumage with a rich chestnut throat and TUE belly and golden ear-tufts. A small population breed on a TUE few Scottish Lochs where you might hear their trilling TUE calls. TUE TUE Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus) TUE Webpage image courtesy (RSPB) (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07j4jg6 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b07j4jg8 (Listen) TUE Faraneh Vargha-Khadem TUE TUE Self-taught Professor of Developmental Cognitive TUE Neuroscience, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem has spent decades TUE studying children with developmental amnesia. Her mission: TUE to understand how we form memories of the events in our TUE past, from things we've experienced to places we've visited TUE and people we've met. She talks to Jim about the memories we TUE lay down during our lives and the autobiographies stored in TUE our brains that define us as individuals. Faraneh was also TUE part of the team that identified the FoxP2 gene, the so TUE called 'speech gene', that may explain why humans talk and TUE chimps don't. Plus Faraneh discusses how her Baha'i faith TUE informs her scientific thinking. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b07j4jgb (Listen) TUE Datshiane Navanayagam speaks to Soweto Kinch TUE TUE Unexpected stories of education: Datshiane Navanayagam TUE speaks to the musician and broadcaster Soweto Kinch about TUE his experience as an inner-city child of going to a private TUE school. TUE TUE The journalist Datshiane Navanayagam had a challenging TUE childhood which involved periods of homelessness. But her TUE parents always had high expectations of her and what she TUE could achieve educationally. She was awarded a bursary to a TUE private school, and went onto Oxford University. As a result TUE she's fascinated by the transformative role of education and TUE for three editions of One to One is speaking to people who TUE went on unexpected educational journeys. TUE TUE Today she meets the musician and broadcaster Soweto Kinch. TUE Soweto was brought up in inner city Birmingham, but from the TUE age of nine was educated in private schools. On a daily TUE basis he found himself crossing cultural boundaries and TUE confounding expectations. He discusses this experience with TUE Datshiane in terms of the confidence it gave him, and in the TUE context of his West Indian heritage. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b07k1dsj (Listen) TUE Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Episode 2 TUE TUE Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my TUE generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been TUE possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has TUE risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip TUE Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and TUE revealing biography. TUE TUE Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and TUE there is new personal testimony from those who knew and TUE worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, TUE presenting new details of his difficult relationship with TUE his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with TUE Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn TUE Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic TUE conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime TUE career. TUE TUE Read by Nickolas Grace TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Directed by Celia de Wolff TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Nickolas Grace TUE Author: Philip Eade TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Director: Celia de Wolff TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b07hwm88 (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07j4kc7 (Listen) TUE Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist, Poison TUE TUE Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in TUE dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre TUE and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous TUE for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of TUE crooks, cheats and schemers. TUE TUE The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a TUE writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly TUE social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly TUE characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy TUE cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human TUE nature. TUE TUE In Poison, rubber planter Harry Pope fears that a krait - a TUE lethally venomous snake - has crawled under his bed sheets TUE and is nestling on his stomach. His friend, Timber Woods, TUE calls the local doctor for urgent assistance. When Dr TUE Ganderbai arrives, tension mounts as he puts an ingenious TUE and desperate plan into operation. TUE TUE Written by Roald Dahl TUE Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan TUE TUE Director: David Blount TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Storyteller: Charles Dance TUE Timber Woods: Jonathan Keeble TUE Harry Pope: Ben Crowe TUE Dr Ganderbai: Madhav Sharma TUE Author: Roald Dahl TUE Adaptor: Stephen Sheridan TUE Director: David Blount TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b07j4kc9 (Listen) TUE Lobster TUE TUE Brett Westwood looks at how the lobster is a creature that TUE when drawn up from the deep is made to shed its natural TUE identity as an ancient predator of the sea floor and has TUE become an improbable sex symbol, an epicure's delight, a TUE muse for surrealist artists a fearsome little nipper thanks TUE to those pincers. Not all lobsters have claws, but the ones TUE in this programme do. They're the European and American TUE species, which come equipped with enormous claws like TUE oversized boxing gloves, and a tough armour evolved to TUE withstand the rigours of life on the rocks. Producer: Tom TUE Bonnett. TUE TUE Dr Paul Clark TUE Dr Paul Clark has worked at the TUE Natural History Museum TUE in London for more than 40 years. He started as an TUE Assistance Scientific Officer in the Crustacea Section on 19 TUE November 1974 and since then has worked as curator of the TUE decapod collection, working with 10-footed animals such as TUE crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns, and shrimp. TUE For the lastdecade his work has focused mainly on research; TUE taxonomy and systematics of decapods, brachyuran crab TUE larvae, some eel studies, invasive decapoda and riverine TUE plastic litter. TUE TUE Giovanni Aloi TUE Giovanni Aloi is an expert in the representation of animals TUE and plants in modern and contemporary art. He is a lecturer TUE in History of Art and Visual Cultures at the School of the TUE Art Institute of Chicago, Sotheby’s Institute of Art London TUE and New York, and Tate Galleries. TUE In 2006, he founded TUE Antennae TUE the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. It is an TUE international reference point for the debate on animals in TUE the arts. He is the author of Art & Animals and is currently TUE working on two monographs, one on taxidermy in contemporary TUE art and another on plants in contemporary art, both due for TUE publication in 2016. TUE TUE TUE Trevor Corson TUE In the pursuit of writing projects Trevor Corson has TUE wandered restaurant kitchens, worked as a commercial TUE fisherman, resided among Buddhist priests in Japan, begged TUE his way aboard scientific research ships, and observed TUE protest movements in China. TUE His first book, TUE The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists TUE Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean TUE began as a centerpiece article in the Atlantic that was TUE included in the Best American Science Writing edited by TUE Oliver Sacks. To research the book Trevor lived on a small TUE island off the Maine coast for two years while working TUE full-time as a crew member on a lobster boat, then spent TUE months holed up in laboratories and zoology libraries TUE learning about the surprising soap opera of decapod mating TUE habits. TUE TUE TUE Dr Charlie Ellis TUE Charlie Ellis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the TUE National Lobster Hatchery TUE in Padstow. Having grown up in coastal North Cornwall, he TUE became interested in creating sustainable ways to meet TUE seafood demand, and the conservation of both traditional TUE inshore fishing fleets and the populations they target. TUE He has studied the population ecology of European lobsters TUE in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and his Univrsity of TUE Exeter PhD thesis examined the stock enhancement project run TUE to conserve the species at the National Lobster Hatchery. TUE This project aims to use genetic markers to test population TUE structure and reproductive ecology in local lobsters, and TUE provide lobster hatcheries and alternative stock TUE conservation measures with a genetic method to identify TUE released animals, enabling assessments of how well they TUE contribute to the sustainability of pressured or depleted TUE marine populations. TUE TUE Dr Zoe Jaques TUE Dr Zoe Jaques is Lecturer in Children's Literature at the TUE University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Homerton College. TUE She has published on topics ranging from the history of TUE metamorphosis to the representation of archery in modern TUE children’s fiction. The majority of her research concerns TUE children’s literature and she has a particular interest in TUE the representation of the non-human. TUE Her most recent book, TUE Children’s Literature and the Posthuman TUE considers how questions of the animal, environment and TUE technology emerge in children’s fantasy literature and film. TUE She also has an interest in book history and illustration. TUE She has published extensively on Lewis Carroll’s Alice. TUE TUE Olivia Orchart TUE Olivia Orchart is Displays Supervisor at Bristol Aquarium TUE where she helps to look after a huge variety of marine life TUE ranging from stingrays and sharks to seahorses, jellyfish TUE and giant Pacific octopus. She trained at Bangor University TUE where she gained a Masters degree in Marine Biology. TUE TUE Len Walters TUE Len Walters is a commercial fisherman in Cardigan Bay in TUE West Wales. He started catching lobsters for fun as a young TUE boy and it grew into a pastime that he has been working on TUE for more than 25 years. He catches lobster and crab for TUE export and for his wife, Mandy, to prepare and sell at TUE markets. TUE TUE Mandy Walters TUE Mandy Walters runs a seafood market stall at the TUE Food and Farming Award-winning St Dogmael's market TUE where she sells lobster and crab prepared herself. TUE She encourages people to try her produce and teaches people TUE how to cook it as she believes this, and the weather, are TUE the main reason people in Wales have not traditionally eaten TUE this local food. TUE TUE 11:30 India's Classical Music Marathon b07j4kfy (Listen) TUE Aditya Chakrabortty journeys to Kolkata and into the TUE mythology of one of India's most precious musical TUE traditions. TUE TUE Over the course of an all-night classical music concert - or TUE 'conference' - hear some of the best Indian classical TUE musicians on the planet describe the intricacies of their TUE art, and explain why it might not last much longer in a TUE culture short of attention and keen for quick satisfaction. TUE TUE "The whole day is so much full of noise, of work, of TUE distraction ... Indian classical music is more about TUE meditation. Nights give us that tranquillity. The listener TUE needs to be free of his worldly worries, as musicians paint TUE on the canvas of silence." TUE TUE At the Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra Conference, on the bank of TUE the river Ganges just north of Kolkata, sitarists, TUE tabla-players, vocalists and other instrumentalists start at TUE 8pm and try to outplay each other until 7 o'clock in the TUE morning, to an audience of nearly 3,000. In doing so, they TUE re-enact a tradition central to Indian classical music, TUE which was based on such a competitive tradition with artists TUE battling each other in front of a royal court. TUE TUE It's magical, hypnotic, mesmerising - but do modern TUE audiences have the stamina or the will to keep awake for TUE arguably the world's most famous sitar player, Shahid TUE Parvez, at 5 o'clock in the morning? TUE TUE Aditya meets some of the audience members and musicians TUE trying to keep the all-night conference alive, including TUE some of Indian classical music's biggest names - Shahid TUE Parvez, Tanmoy Bose and Ajoy Chakrabarty, as well as the TUE Kolkata-based writer and classically trained singer Amit TUE Chaudhuri. TUE TUE Produced by Eve Streeter TUE A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b07hwm8b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Witness b07j4kg0 (Listen) TUE The Renovation of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper TUE TUE In 1999 one of Leonardo da Vinci's great masterpieces was TUE revealed to the public in Milan, after 20 years of TUE painstaking restoration work. Mike Lanchin has spoken to TUE Pinin Brambilla who led the restoration team. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b07hwm8d (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b07hwm8g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07hwm8j (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07jlq39 (Listen) TUE The Czech Coup TUE TUE In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years TUE of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the TUE Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948 - and hears TUE from three people who lived through it. TUE TUE At the beginning of 1948 Czechoslovakia had been the only TUE parliamentary democracy left in East Europe. But within a TUE couple of months it was part of the Soviet bloc. Not through TUE the invasion of Soviet tanks -that would come later, in 1968 TUE - but through the actions of local Communists, with the TUE influence of the Soviet Union looming in the shadows. TUE TUE Featuring Karel Janovicky, John Palka and Sylva Simsova. TUE TUE Music: Variations on the Theme of Brigadier H. Smith by TUE Karel Janovicky TUE TUE Producer: Martin Williams. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07j43hd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b07j4pg2 (Listen) TUE Amsterdam TUE TUE by Lenny Henry TUE TUE A 'bonding' weekend in Amsterdam for Juliette, her teenage TUE kids and her boyfriend goes pear-shaped in this new comedy TUE drama. TUE TUE Directed by Mary Peate TUE TUE No stranger to Radio 4, this is Sir Lenny Henry's third TUE original drama. His earlier plays for this network were the TUE very well-received Corinne Come Back And Gone and Miss You TUE Still. TUE TUE Credits TUE Juliette: Frances Barber TUE Earl: Tyrone Huggins TUE Conroy: Lee Hodge TUE Junior: Jack Loxton TUE Lars from Mars: James Lailey TUE Huge Luke: Ewan Bailey TUE Announcements/Commentaries: Scarlett Brookes TUE Announcements/Commentaries: Adie Allen TUE Announcements/Commentaries: Anne Bunting TUE Announcements/Commentaries: Marc Beeby TUE Announcements/Commentaries: Shuming Chen TUE Director: Mary Peate TUE Writer: Lenny Henry TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b07j4pg4 (Listen) TUE Series 9, Vanishing Point TUE TUE From the man who'll help you disappear to coping with a TUE sudden, shocking loss - Josie Long looks at vanishing TUE points. TUE TUE We hear stories of private investigators, the search for TUE solitude in the dust bowl and a woman's life changing in one TUE devastating second. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b07j4ppt (Listen) TUE Series 8, Trust me... I'm an expert TUE TUE The series that looks at current events through the lens of TUE psychology. Michael Blastland explores the quirky ways in TUE which we humans think, behave and make decisions. TUE TUE In this week's programme, a question of trust - why do TUE people have a tendency to distrust experts and expertise? It TUE has been made much of in the UK's Brexit campaign to leave TUE the European Union. 'People in this country have had enough TUE of experts,' claimed Leave campaigner Michael Gove. What's TUE behind this lack of faith in authority? TUE TUE The Zoo team discover that the difficulty of evaluating TUE expertise is a problem we all face - because to really TUE understand what's going on, you have to know what you don't TUE know, and it's easier to spot the flaws in other people's TUE reasoning and knowledge than to see it in ourselves. But TUE then forecasting is a tricky business, and the experts don't TUE always get it right. So, who to trust? TUE TUE Michael Blastland is joined by resident Human Zoo TUE psychologist Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science TUE at Warwick Business School, and roving reporter Timandra TUE Harkness. TUE TUE Guests this week include David Dunning, professor of TUE psychology at the University of Michigan; Professor Barbara TUE Mellers from the University of Pennsylvania; journalist TUE turned teacher Steve McCormack; and Olympic silver medalist TUE and two-time world champion rower Annie Vernon. TUE TUE Producer: Eve Streeter TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Document b07j4ppw (Listen) TUE As part of Radio 4's Cold War season, Document unearths new TUE evidence from key moments in the 1940s and 1950s. TUE TUE In the first edition of the series, Gordon Corera TUE re-examines the CIA's attempt to subvert Albania's communist TUE government in the early 1950s. TUE TUE The failure of the operation has been blamed for decades on TUE the Soviet spy Kim Philby. But with the help of new evidence TUE provided by historian Steve Long, Gordon investigates TUE whether this story really stands up. TUE And he asks why, at the height of the Cold War, the CIA was TUE secretly meeting agents of a communist power. TUE TUE With: Steve Long, Beatrice Heuser, Rory Cormac, Albert TUE Lulushi. TUE TUE PRODUCER: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b07j4qx4 (Listen) TUE Alex Jones and Victoria Hislop TUE TUE One Show presenter Alex Jones and writer Victoria Hislop TUE talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Alex TUE Jones has chosen The Girls by Lisa Jewell, while Harriett's TUE pick is Days of Abandonment by the writer everyone's talking TUE about, who goes by the pseudonym Elena Ferrante. And what do TUE three women who aren't keen on Virginia Woolf make of TUE Victoria's choice, Michael Cunningham's The Hours? Producer TUE Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Alex Jones TUE Interviewed Guest: Victoria Hislop TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b07hwm8n (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07hwm8q (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b07j4qx6 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Chris Packham TUE TUE Naturalist Chris Packham reads from the nature diaries he TUE kept as a teenager, and is interviewed by Rufus Hound about TUE his formative years - which were mostly spent up trees, TUE looking for birds. TUE TUE A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Chris Packham TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07j53dg (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. Kenton gets some TUE shocking news, and Lilian has a birthday offer. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b07hwm8s (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07j4kc7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b07j537j (Listen) TUE The Price of PFI TUE TUE Successive government procurement strategies have repeatedly TUE promised high quality public buildings made possible through TUE Public Finance Initiatives, but is that what's been TUE delivered? What went wrong in Edinburgh where 17 schools TUE remained closed after the Easter break because of fears TUE walls might collapse on children and staff? Allan Urry TUE reveals new concerns about the extent of fire safety TUE problems in some schools and hospitals because contractors TUE failed to ensure they were built to specification. How safe TUE are they, and who's footing the bill to put them right? TUE TUE Producer: Ian Muir Cochrane TUE Reporter: Allan Urry. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b07hwm8v (Listen) TUE Blind people on stage, film and TV TUE TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b07j537l (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b07j4jg8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b07hwm8x (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b07hwm8z (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07j537n (Listen) TUE The Muse, Episode 2 TUE TUE When on a summer's day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the TUE steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position TUE as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is TUE about to change. For there she meets the glamorous and TUE enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her TUE confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of TUE writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is TUE holding back, and when 'Rufina and the Lion', a lost Spanish TUE masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to TUE suspect that the mystery behind the painting's origins and TUE her mentor's secrecy may be somehow connected. TUE TUE The truth about 'Rufina and the Lion' lies in 1936 and a TUE large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the TUE daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his TUE beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic TUE ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac TUE Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, TUE passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and TUE devastating consequences for them all. TUE TUE Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful TUE story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and TUE deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from TUE Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist. TUE TUE Written by Jessie Burton TUE TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall TUE TUE Read by Martina Laird TUE TUE Read by Jessica Raine TUE TUE Produced by Heather Larmour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Martina Laird TUE Reader: Jessica Raine TUE Author: Jessie Burton TUE Abridger: Doreen Estall TUE Producer: Heather Larmour TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b07j4388 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b07j537q (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 JULY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b07hwmbv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b07k1dsj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07hwmbx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07hwmbz (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwmc1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b07hwmc3 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07kpzvf (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim WED writer, Sarah Joseph. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b07hwmc5 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03whpln (Listen) WED St Kilda Wren WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Bill Oddie presents the St Kilda wren. The Island of St WED Kilda is not where you'd expect to see wrens but the wrens WED that sing along the cliffs of St Kilda are the same species WED as the common wren, but after 5000 years of isolation WED they've evolved a different song and are slightly larger and WED slightly paler than the mainland wrens. Bill Oddie remembers WED an encounter with the St Kilda Wren. WED WED St Kilda Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b07j571d (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b07j571g (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 b07k1dxp (Listen) WED Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Episode 3 WED WED Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my WED generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been WED possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has WED risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip WED Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and WED revealing biography. WED WED Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and WED there is new personal testimony from those who knew and WED worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, WED presenting new details of his difficult relationship with WED his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with WED Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn WED Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic WED conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime WED career. WED WED Read by Nickolas Grace WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Directed by Celia de Wolff WED WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Nickolas Grace WED Author: Philip Eade WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Director: Celia de Wolff WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b07hwmc7 (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b07j571j (Listen) WED Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist, My Lady Love, My Dove WED WED Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in WED dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre WED and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous WED for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of WED crooks, cheats and schemers. WED WED The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a WED writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly WED social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly WED characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy WED cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human WED nature. WED WED In My Lady Love, My Dove, starring Penelope Keith, we meet WED Arthur and Pamela Beauchamp, a wealthy couple who like to WED play bridge. However, they are continually being beaten by WED the Snapes - a younger couple who stay with them as house WED guests. But Pamela has devised a cunning way of getting her WED own back. WED WED Written by Roald Dahl WED Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan WED WED Director: David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Storyteller: Charles Dance WED Pamela: Penelope Keith WED Arthur: Richard O'Callaghan WED Henry: Nicholas Boulton WED Sally: Jaimi Barbakoff WED Author: Roald Dahl WED Adaptor: Stephen Sheridan WED Director: David Blount WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b07j571l (Listen) WED Ben and Rufus - I Never Say I'm a Cabaret Performer WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation about how those who choose to WED tread the boards are perceived, between friends who know all WED about the hard work and dedication that choice requires. WED Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED 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 You May Now Turn Over Your Papers b07hwwbd (Listen) WED Cambridge Classics professor, Mary Beard, tells the WED intriguing story of the history of exams and asks what are WED exams really for. In her quest for an answer, she scales the WED rooftops of King's College, Cambridge, grills a well-known WED comedian in Latin and discovers Charles Darwin was a WED terrible student more interested in finding beetles than WED doing his exams. WED WED Mary delves into the world of exams past and present in the WED company of comedian Richard Herring, roof-walker and WED academic, Katherine Rundell, fellow Classicist Simon WED Goldhill and others. WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 11:30 Plum House b07j571n (Listen) WED Series 1, Peter vs Prynne WED WED Comedy about the inept staff at a historic house, starring WED Simon Callow, Miles Jupp and Jane Horrocks. WED WED Every year thousands of tourists flock to the Lake District. WED But one place they never go to is Plum House - the former WED country home of terrible poet George Pudding (1779-1848). WED Now a crumbling museum, losing money hand over fist, it WED struggles to stay open under its eccentric curator Peter WED Knight (Simon Callow). WED WED Can anyone save Plum House from irreversible decline? WED WED In this episode, Tom has organised a special summer event WED and invited the great and good from the world of George WED Pudding scholarship to gather round the museum's celebrated WED plum tree. It's bound to be a day to remember. But with WED Peter encountering his arch nemesis - the unbearably pompous WED Mungo Prynne (Roger Allam), Julian upsetting a neighbouring WED farmer and Emma rather enjoying the plum punch, will it be WED remembered for the right reasons? WED WED Written by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna WED Directed and Produced by Paul Schlesinger WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Peter: Simon Callow WED Julian: Miles Jupp WED Maureen: Jane Horrocks WED Tom: Tom Bell WED Alan: Pearce Quigley WED Emma: Louise Ford WED Mungo Prynne: Roger Allam WED Barry Bunting: Sean Gilder WED Director: Paul Schlesinger WED Producer: Paul Schlesinger WED Writer: Ben Cottam WED Writer: Paul Mckenna WED WED 12:00 News Summary b07hwmcb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Witness b07j5v6t (Listen) WED Spanish Republic WED WED Series looking at key events in history, featuring testimony WED from the people who were there. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b07hwmcd (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b07hwmcg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b07hwmcj (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07jlq44 (Listen) WED The 1948 Election in Italy WED WED In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years WED of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the WED divisive 1948 general election in Italy. WED WED Featuring Giorgio Napolitano, Sergio Romano and Aldo WED Tortorella. WED WED Readings by George Rossi. WED WED Producer: Martin Williams. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07j53dg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b07j68n9 (Listen) WED States of Mind: The Sky Is Wider WED WED When Ella is asked questions pointing her towards places and WED memories, she begins to realise that the world she lives in WED now is just the imagined life of her mind and in reality she WED is in hospital in a minimally conscious state. Ella realises WED that these questions, posed by a neurologist, are attempts WED to discover whether she is conscious and that her possible WED answers are her only way to communicate with others, WED especially with her daughter, Charlie, who has her own WED questions that desperately need answers. WED WED The Sky is Wider was developed through Wellcome Experimental WED Stories in consultation with Anil Seth (Professor of WED Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and co-director at WED Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of WED Sussex). The drama was inspired by the themes of the current WED States of Mind exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London WED which explores the nature of consciousness and runs until WED 16th October 2016. WED WED The drama asks what it is to be a self. It explores an WED 'active approach' in which the neurologist asks questions of WED the patient in an attempt to ascertain their level of WED consciousness by examining the brain responses. Currently WED brain imaging (fMRI, EEG) can be used to actively decode WED responses to questions in patients who, following severe WED brain injury, are left in minimally conscious states. These WED methods represent a revolution in clinical neurology; WED allowing us to assess whether there is any residual WED consciousness or awareness left, following devastating brain WED injury and allowing us to open a means of communication. WED WED Written by Linda Marshall Griffiths WED Directed by Nadia Molinari WED Sound Design by Steve Brooke WED Programme Consultant Anil Seth WED WED Listen on headphones for a unique 3D immersive experience. WED WED At the edges of awareness WED by Anil Seth WED Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and WED co-director at Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, WED University of Sussex WED WED Imagine this. Following a brain injury you lie in a hospital WED bed and from the outside you appear to be totally WED unconscious. You don’t respond to anything the doctors or WED your family say, you make no voluntary movements, and WED although you still go to sleep and wake up there seems to be WED nobody at home. But your ‘inner universe’ of conscious WED awareness still remains, perhaps flickering and WED inconsistent, but definitely *there*. How could anyone else WED ever know, and how could you ever communicate with your WED loved ones again? WED WED Two radio dramas, *The Sky is Wider* and *Real Worlds*, WED engage with these critical questions by drawing on the WED cutting edge of the neurology and neuroscience. Recent WED advances have enabled researchers to not only diagnose WED ‘residual’ awareness following severe brain injuries, but WED also to open new channels of communication with WED behaviourally unresponsive patients. The key medical WED challenge is to distinguish between the so-called ‘ WED vegetative state WED ’ in which there truly is no conscious awareness, from ‘ WED minimally conscious WED ’ or ‘ WED locked-in WED ’ conditions where some degree of consciousness persists WED (even normal consciousness, in the locked-in state), even WED though there are no outward signs. WED WED Linda Marshall Griffiths' drama *The Sky is Wider* takes WED inspiration from an ‘active approach’ in which the WED neurologist asks questions of the patient and monitors their WED brain activity for signs of response. In a WED classic study WED from about 10 years ago, Adrian Owen and his team asked WED behaviourally unresponsive patients to imagine either WED walking around their house or playing tennis, while their WED brains were scanned using functional MRI (which measures WED regional metabolic activity in the brain). These questions WED were chosen because imagining these different behaviours WED activates different parts of the brain, and so if we see WED these selective activations in a patient, we know that they WED have understood and are voluntarily following the WED instructions. If they can do this, they must be conscious. WED It turns out that WED between 10-20% of patients WED behaviourally diagnosed as being in the vegetative state can WED pass this test. Equally important, this same method can be WED used to establish simple communication by (for example) WED asking a patient to imagine playing ‘tennis’ to answer ‘yes’ WED and walking around a house to answer ‘no’. WED WED These developments represent a revolution in clinical WED neurology. Current research is increasing the efficiency of WED active approaches by using the more portable WED electroencephalography (EEG) instead of bulky and expensive WED MRI. ‘Passive’ techniques in which residual consciousness WED can be inferred without requiring patients to perform any WED task WED are also rapidly improving WED These methods are important because active approaches may WED underestimate the incidence of residual awareness since not WED all conscious patients may understand or be able to follow WED verbal instructions. WED WED Alongside these scientific developments we encounter WED pressing ethical questions. How should we treat patients in WED these liminal states of awareness? And given a means of WED communication, what kinds of questions should we ask? *The WED Sky is Wider* explores these challenging ethical issues in a WED compelling narrative which gives dramatic voice to the WED mysterious conditions of the vegetative and minimally WED conscious states. WED WED Credits WED Ella: Christine Bottomley WED Charlie: Sydney Wade WED Neurologist: Wil Johnson WED Nurse: Yusra Warsama WED Writer: Linda Marshall Griffiths WED Director: Nadia Molinari WED Publicity: Steve Brooke WED WED 15:00 Money Box b07hwmcl (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b07j537l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b07j68nc (Listen) WED A special programme on Pierre Bourdieu WED WED Sociological discussion programme, presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b07hwmcn (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b07hwmcq (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07hwmcs (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04wv049 (Listen) WED Series 6, Roy Walker WED WED Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new WED experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. WED Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show WED all about embracing the new. WED WED This week, Marcus persuades Roy Walker, the comedian made WED famous by Catchphrase, to see his first ever Shakespeare WED play and banter with the audience for the first time. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke WED Interviewed Guest: Roy Walker WED WED 19:00 The Archers b07j68nf (Listen) WED Helen and Kaz find common ground, and Rob lays it on the WED line. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b07hwmcv (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07j571j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b07j68nh (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Michael WED Portillo and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b07j68nk (Listen) WED Series 2, Nuts WED WED David Baddiel sets out to make sense of some apparently WED puzzling topics. WED WED In the first programme of this series, after receiving WED suggested topics on social media, David tries to understand WED why nuts have hard shells. He visits the Royal Botanic WED Gardens in Kew to meet the head of the arboretum, and a nut WED tree; and speaks to Thor Hanson, the author of 'The Triumph WED of Seeds'. On his journey to understanding David finds WED himself discussing evolution, fruit, badger poo, concrete WED and absent-minded squirrels. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Nature b07j68nm (Listen) WED Series 9, The Rainforest Canopy WED WED With a two metre wingspan, strong hooked beak and four inch WED talons, harpy eagles are one of the most powerful birds of WED prey in the world and have been known to attack people who WED get too close to their nests, so when wildlife cameraman WED John Aitchison agreed to spend a month on a tiny platform WED high up in rainforest canopy in Venezuela to try and film a WED young eagle chick hunting for the first time, it was with WED some trepidation at what might lie ahead. John abseiled down WED from his platform each night to grab a meal and a few hours WED of sleep, but before dawn he climbed back up onto his tiny WED platform, just big enough for him and his camera. High up in WED the rainforest canopy, his neighbours included bellowing WED howler monkeys, flocks of squawking parrots and colourful WED butterflies as well as highly venomous snakes and stinging WED ants. He also had to endure some torrential storms and WED powerful winds. But his perseverance was rewarded with WED stunning views across the forest, magical misty mornings, WED very close encounters with the harpy chick and a most WED unexpected meeting between the young eagle and a very brave WED sloth! Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b07j571g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b07hwmcz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b07hwmd1 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07j68np (Listen) WED The Muse, Episode 3 WED WED When on a summer's day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the WED steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position WED as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is WED about to change. For there she meets the glamourous and WED enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her WED confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of WED writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is WED holding back, and when 'Rufina and the Lion', a lost Spanish WED masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to WED suspect that the mystery behind the painting's origins and WED her mentor's secrecy may be somehow connected. WED WED The truth about 'Rufina and the Lion' lies in 1936 and a WED large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the WED daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his WED beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic WED ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac WED Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, WED passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and WED devastating consequences for them all. WED WED Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful WED story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and WED deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from WED Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist. WED WED Written by Jessie Burton WED WED Abridged by Doreen Estall WED WED Read by Jessica Raine WED WED Produced by Heather Larmour. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jessica Raine WED Author: Jessie Burton WED Abridger: Doreen Estall WED Producer: Heather Larmour WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b07j68pq (Listen) WED Series 3, Lach's Antihoot WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. WED WED His night, held in various venues around New York, was WED called the Antihoot. Never quite fitting in and lost WED somewhere lonely between folk and punk music, Lach started WED the Antifolk movement. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others; he discovered and nurtured lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches. WED But nobody discovered him. WED WED In this, the final episode, Lach decides it's time to bring WED back the Antihoot and wonders what this adventure might WED bring. WED WED Written by Lach WED Performed by Lach, Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin WED Sound Design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED WED Executive Producer: Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b07j68qd (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 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. WED WED Work, family, literature, and their own badly-scuffed dreams WED are the funny, if warped conversational currency. WED WED A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b07j68qg (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 JULY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b07hwmg9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b07k1dxp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07hwmgc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07hwmgf (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwmgh (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b07hwmgk (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07ktf2t (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim THU writer, Sarah Joseph. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b07hwmgm (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emily Hughes. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5cbg (Listen) THU Lesser Redpoll 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 David Attenborough presents the lesser redpoll. You can spot THU Lesser Redpolls hanging like tiny acrobatic parrots among THU the slender twigs, while a rain of papery seeds falls down THU around them. They're lively birds which allow you to get THU fairly close, and then sometimes flocks will explode en THU masse for no apparent reason and fly around calling. THU THU Lesser Redpoll (Carduelis cabaret) THU Webpage image courtesy of Steve Knell (rspb-images.com). THU THU 06:00 Today b07j68xq (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b07j7j6h (Listen) THU Pip makes a suggestion, and Alistair blames himself. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b07j7j6m (Listen) THU The Price of Life THU THU It's hard to put a value on a human life. When you're well, THU perhaps you don't think about it. But if you're ill, getting THU access to the right drugs, whatever the cost, is a priority. THU But the NHS does not have a bottomless pit of money. And THU some medicines are judged too expensive to be freely THU available, so patients miss out on treatments that could THU save or extend their lives. There are usually two villains THU of the piece: The drugs companies for charging too much; the THU NHS for not stumping up the cash. In this edition, Evan THU Davis and guests explore how pharmaceutical companies price THU their drugs, the role of the NHS in deciding how much the THU medicines are worth and, in the case of generic or THU non-branded drugs, they'll ask whether competition is THU working properly to keep down the NHS medicines bill. THU THU Guests: THU Erik Nordkamp, Managing Director, Pfizer UK THU THU Carole Longson, Director of the Centre for Health Technology THU Evaluation at NICE, the National Institute for Health and THU Care Excellence THU THU Warwick Smith, Director-General, British Generic THU Manufacturers Association THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b07hwmh2 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford explores the science that is changing our THU world. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b07j699g (Listen) THU The Invention of Photography THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development of THU photography in the 1830s, when techniques for 'drawing with THU light' evolved to the stage where, in 1839, both Daguerre THU and Fox Talbot made claims for its invention. These followed THU the development of the camera obscura, and experiments by THU such as Thomas Wedgwood and Nicéphore Niépce, and led to THU rapid changes in the 1840s as more people captured images THU with the Daguerreotype and calotype. These new techniques THU changed the aesthetics of the age and, before long, inspired THU claims that painting was now dead. THU THU With: Elizabeth Edwards, Alison Morrison-Low and Simon THU Schaffer. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU Interviewed Guest: Elizabeth Edwards THU Interviewed Guest: Alison Morrison-Low THU Interviewed Guest: Simon Schaffer THU THU 21:58 Weather b07hwmhb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b07hwmhd (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07j7j6p (Listen) THU The Muse, Episode 4 THU THU When on a summer's day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the THU steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position THU as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is THU about to change. For there she meets the glamorous and THU enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her THU confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of THU writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is THU holding back, and when 'Rufina and the Lion', a lost Spanish THU masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to THU suspect that the mystery behind the painting's origins and THU her mentor's secrecy may be somehow connected. THU THU The truth about 'Rufina and the Lion' lies in 1936 and a THU large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the THU daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his THU beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic THU ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac THU Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, THU passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and THU devastating consequences for them all. THU THU Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful THU story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and THU deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from THU Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist. THU THU Written by Jessie Burton THU THU Abridged by Doreen Estall THU THU Read by Martina Laird THU THU Produced by Heather Larmour. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Martina Laird THU Author: Jessie Burton THU Abridger: Doreen Estall THU Producer: Heather Larmour THU THU 23:00 Ria Lina: School of Riason b07j7jkl (Listen) THU Award-winning comic Ria Lina shares her surprising THU experience of the year she concluded her local school wasn't THU making the grade and decided to school her children at home. THU THU Well, not all of them, just the two she can stand. THU THU No one was going to screw up her children better than she THU was. But suddenly, the responsibility for everything they THU were learning was upon her shoulders. Ria's eclectic THU upbringing and education provides a unique perspective on THU what is and isn't important for her children to learn, but THU none of that means she's necessarily the best equipped to THU guide the youth of today into the future of tomorrow. She THU had to quickly dig into the issues of what we teach, and how THU - writing her own curriculum with comedic results. THU THU A lightly political-topical exposition on the dumbing down THU of society that arrives at a couple of surprising if THU delicious conclusions, while offering the idea of home THU schooling as a serious alternative contender to the current THU schooling system. It's didactic comedy for anyone who ever THU went to school. Complete with songs. THU THU Ria Lina is an award-winning stand-up and musical comedy act THU who has electrified audiences across the globe with her THU biting material. Half Filipino, half German, she was born in THU Britain but raised in the USA and Europe. She's a trained THU actor, singer and dancer, was a member of The National Youth THU Theatre, and had an extensive education (she studied the THU International Baccalaureate before going on to acquire a BSc THU in Experimental Pathology, an MSc in Forensic Science and a THU PhD in Viral Bio-informatics). All this, and she even found THU time to learn to play the ukulele. THU THU Produced by Lianne Coop THU An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Ria Lina THU Writer: Ria Lina THU Producer: Lianne Coop THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b07j7jkn (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 JULY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07hwmk5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b07k1hk2 (Listen) FRI Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Episode 4 FRI FRI Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my FRI generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been FRI possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has FRI risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip FRI Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and FRI revealing biography. FRI FRI Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and FRI there is new personal testimony from those who knew and FRI worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, FRI presenting new details of his difficult relationship with FRI his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with FRI Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn FRI Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic FRI conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime FRI career. FRI FRI Read by Nickolas Grace FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Directed by Celia de Wolff FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nickolas Grace FRI Author: Philip Eade FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Director: Celia de Wolff FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07hwmk7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07hwmk9 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwmkc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07hwmkf (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07jlqzv (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim FRI writer, Sarah Joseph. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b07hwmkh (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emily Hughes. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztrw (Listen) FRI Greylag Goose FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI David Attenborough presents the story of the Greylag Goose. FRI Greylags are the biggest and bulkiest of our wild grey geese FRI with bright orange bills and pink legs. When they fly, you FRI can see large pale grey panels on the wings. The greylag has FRI been fully domesticated for around three thousand years. FRI FRI Greylag Goose (Anser anser) FRI Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07j7ntt (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b07hwv06 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b07k1jnw (Listen) FRI Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Episode 5 FRI FRI Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my FRI generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been FRI possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has FRI risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip FRI Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and FRI revealing biography. FRI FRI Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and FRI there is new personal testimony from those who knew and FRI worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, FRI presenting new details of his difficult relationship with FRI his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with FRI Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn FRI Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic FRI conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime FRI career. FRI FRI Read by Nickolas Grace FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Directed by Celia de Wolff FRI FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nickolas Grace FRI Author: Philip Eade FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Director: Celia de Wolff FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b07hwmkm (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07j7ntw (Listen) FRI Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist, The Butler FRI FRI Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in FRI dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre FRI and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous FRI for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of FRI crooks, cheats and schemers. FRI FRI The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a FRI writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly FRI social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly FRI characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy FRI cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human FRI nature. FRI FRI In The Butler, we meet George Cleaver, the Sausage King of FRI the North, who sells his business and moves to London in FRI order to enter society. He employs a butler, Tibbs, to help FRI him to do this. Tibbs explains that it's vital Cleaver FRI learns as much as he can about fine wines - and, to this FRI end, Tibbs sets about buying rare and expensive vintages and FRI educating his employer. Before long, Cleaver feels he no FRI longer needs his butler's advice. FRI FRI Written by Roald Dahl FRI Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan FRI FRI Director: David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Storyteller: Charles Dance FRI George Cleaver: Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Mrs Cleaver: Sarah Badel FRI Tibbs: Nickolas Grace FRI Lord Dungeness: Nicholas Boulton FRI Author: Roald Dahl FRI Adaptor: Stephen Sheridan FRI Director: David Blount FRI FRI 11:00 Farewell Doctor Finlay b07j7nty (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Doctor Margaret McCartney tells the story of general FRI practice in the UK from the surgeon-apothecaries of the 18th FRI century to the troubled early years of the NHS. FRI FRI "The history of medicine is the history of general FRI practice," declares historian Martin Edwards - and this FRI programme shows why, starting with the first golden age of FRI general practice in the 18th century when growing affluence FRI meant people could afford to seek out surgeon-apothecaries FRI who did primitive surgery and bloodletting, and dosed FRI patients with powerful purgative drugs. FRI FRI In 1858, the Medical Act introduced the registration of FRI doctors and created the General Medical Council, which still FRI regulates GPs today. FRI FRI Legendary GP and medical author Julian Tudor Hart describes FRI how the National Insurance Act of 1911 meant GPs could FRI "prescribe money" in the form of benefits to sick and FRI injured men, at a time when most medicine was ineffective. FRI Only in the 1930s - the period when Dr Finlay's Casebook was FRI set - did a new generation of effective medicines come into FRI being. FRI FRI The programme also considers how the 1911 Act, the Medical FRI Aid Societies, the Highlands and Islands Medical Service and FRI World War Two laid the foundations for the National Health FRI Service. FRI FRI Presented by Dr Margaret McCartney FRI Produced by Mike Hally FRI FRI A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04nvf5n (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 5 FRI FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch FRI show. FRI FRI 5/6: This penultimate edition of the series presents the FRI only detectives who've not had their own TV show yet; a FRI well-disguised sketch about the residents of the savannah; FRI and a revolutionary email exchange.. FRI FRI The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was FRI described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and FRI "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite FRI some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio FRI Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was FRI nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series FRI actually won a Radio Academy award. FRI FRI In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like FRI the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them FRI that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand FRI not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to FRI completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in FRI other words, but about different things and with different FRI jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will FRI involve talking animals.) FRI FRI Written by and starring ... John Finnemore FRI Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry FRI Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Finnemore FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: Simon Kane FRI Ensemble: Lawry Lewin FRI Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b07hwmkp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Witness b07j7nv1 (Listen) FRI Forced Sterilisation in Peru FRI FRI Series looking at key events in history, featuring testimony FRI from the people who were there. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b07hwmkr (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b07hwmkt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b07hwmkw (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07jlq6n (Listen) FRI The Fall of Shanghai FRI FRI In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years FRI of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the fall FRI of Shanghai in 1949, a pivotal event which helped pave the FRI way for the emergence of a new Communist power in Asia - the FRI People's Republic of China. FRI FRI Featuring Eddy Hsia, Betty Barr Wang, George Barr Wang and FRI Liliane Willens. FRI FRI Producer: Martin Williams. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b07j7j6h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b07j7nv3 (Listen) FRI Defoe: Merchant, Writer, Convict, Spy FRI FRI Throughout his life Daniel Defoe was never far from trouble FRI and died hiding from creditors. Philip Palmer's biographical FRI drama tells the story of a man trying to survive in an FRI extremely hard world; of how he wrote his way out of trouble FRI in prison, came to the attention of one of the most powerful FRI men in England, and became a spy for the government in the FRI lead up to the Act of Union. FRI FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI FRI This summer Radio 4 are putting a spotlight on Daniel Defoe, FRI with three dramas and a documentary about the great 18th FRI century writer, chancer, pamphleteer, hack, part-time spy, FRI political meddler, and unsuccessful merchant never far away FRI from scandal and debt. FRI FRI Born simply Daniel Foe, he added the Gallic-sounding "De" to FRI give himself a bit of continental class. He died hiding from FRI creditors. He was also a sincere Christian. In other words, FRI in many ways he embodies the teeming contradictions of his FRI century. His story is that of a man trying to survive in an FRI extremely hard world. FRI FRI Ben Miles plays Daniel Defoe across the three dramas. FRI FRI In A Journal of the Plague Year, Defoe creates an alter-ego FRI reporter who conducts interviews on the streets of a London FRI beleaguered by the Great Plague of 1665. Meanwhile, in his FRI real life (in 1722) the debt collectors are beating at his FRI door - and Defoe relies on his best friend Nathaniel (Adrian FRI Scarborough) to send them packing. The action moves between FRI the real Defoe and his invented alter-ego in this adaptation FRI of one of the earliest examples of long-form journalism. Or FRI is it fiction? FRI FRI Jessica Hynes, Ben Miles, Alison Steadman and Blake Ritson FRI star in a new adaptation of Moll Flanders that continues the FRI theme of fact vs. fiction. Called "the truest realism in FRI English literature" and "the tale of a hot, earthy wench," FRI it meets both expectations while also offering a remarkable FRI portrayal of an ingenious mind. Moll is born in Newgate FRI prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of FRI whoever will take her in. From this unfavorable beginning, FRI the lusty, resourceful Moll loves and bargains her way from FRI rags to riches, from prostitution in the streets of London FRI to prosperity on a Virginia plantation. Defoe's novel, like FRI so many early examples of the form, is a mock autobiography, FRI a fiction masquerading as a documentary record of a single FRI life. FRI FRI Philip Palmer's original biographical drama begins with FRI Defoe's sentencing in Newgate Prison for seditious libel. FRI While incarcerated he wrote Hymn to the Pillory, a poem FRI lambasting the establishment, and managed to smuggle it out FRI of the prison so that when he was placed in the pillory the FRI approving mob threw flowers instead of rocks. This brought FRI him to the attention of Robert Harley, one of the most FRI powerful men in England, and Defoe became a FRI propaganda-machine, and even a spy for the government in the FRI build up to the Act of Union. The drama stars Niamh Cusack FRI as Mary Defoe and Pip Torrens as Robert Harley. FRI FRI Mark Lawson also presents a documentary exploring the FRI far-reaching influence of Daniel Defoe. Bookshops have FRI separate sections for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, FRI Travel Writing, Journalism, Economics and Politics. But all FRI of these different forms of writing were more or less FRI created by one author - Daniel Defoe. Defoe also pioneered, FRI three hundred years ago, what has become one of the most FRI fashionable literary tactics of the 21st century: "faction", FRI which blurs history and story. Although now considered FRI foundations of the realistic English novel, Defoe's Robinson FRI Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1721) were initially FRI published with only the names of their narrators on the FRI cover, and were sold and bought as memoirs. Defoe's A FRI Journal of the Plague Year (1722), an account of the bubonic FRI epidemic, is still often read as reportage, but was FRI "faction" based on extensive research. His book, A Tour FRI Through the Whole Isles of Great Britain (1724), can be seen FRI as one of the beginnings of travel writing and The Complete FRI English Tradesman (1726) is one of the first business or FRI economic texts. As the author of more than 500 pamphlets, FRI Defoe is also a forefather of British journalism. In the FRI company of writers, biographers, critics, and cartoonists, FRI Mark Lawson tells the story of the man who never stopped FRI telling stories. FRI FRI Credits FRI Daniel Defoe: Ben Miles FRI Mary Defoe: Niamh Cusack FRI Robert Harley: Pip Torrens FRI Gaoler: Nick Underwood FRI Gaoler: Brian Protheroe FRI Director: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI Writer: Philip Palmer FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07j7nv5 (Listen) FRI Galleries of Justice, Nottingham FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel answer horticultural questions FRI from the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham. Dealing with the FRI queries this week are Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and FRI Pippa Greenwood 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 The Poison Frog b07j7nv7 (Listen) FRI Written by Hannah Vincent. A curious tale featuring a FRI mother, a daughter and an amphibian. The swelling on Vicky's FRI mother's neck creates unforeseen family tensions. FRI FRI Hannah Vincent lives in Brighton. She began her writing life FRI as a playwright and her first radio play, Come to Grief, was FRI a re-working of one of her stage plays. It won the BBC 2015 FRI Audio Award for Best Adaptation. Hannah's first novel is FRI Alarm Girl. She is currently writing a second novel and FRI carrying out doctoral research in creative and critical FRI writing at the University of Sussex. She teaches Creative FRI Writing for the Open University and will become a Royal FRI Literary Fund fellow in September. FRI FRI Writer: Hannah Vincent FRI Reader: Sinead Matthews FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Hannah Vincent FRI Reader: Sinead Matthews FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b07j7nv9 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b07jx1db (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b07j7nvc (Listen) FRI David and John - Bowing Out Gracefully FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a thespian conversation about how long FRI one can continue to direct youth theatre and be a useful FRI mentor. Another in the series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b07hwmky (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07hwml0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b07j7nvf (Listen) FRI Series 16, Episode 4 FRI FRI The topical satirical show that mixes political vituperation FRI with media savaging is back. With a referendum on Europe, a FRI presidential election in America and the BBC in crisis, the FRI team will focus on the things that matter, and quite a few FRI things that don't, like Top Gear and most things on BBC FRI Three. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b07j7nvh (Listen) FRI Anna gives Helen another option, and Lilian is in her FRI element. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mary Cutler FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Miranda Elliott: Lucy Fleming FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Kaz: Amaka Okafor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b07hwml2 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07j7ntw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b07j7nvk (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Sandbach FRI Town Hall in Cheshire. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07j7nvm (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07j7nvp (Listen) FRI Omnibus 1 FRI FRI Bridget Kendall presents a series tracing the crucial FRI turning points of the early Cold War. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b07hwml4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b07hwml6 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07j7pdk (Listen) FRI The Muse, Episode 5 FRI FRI When on a summer's day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the FRI steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position FRI as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is FRI about to change. For there she meets the glamorous and FRI enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her FRI confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of FRI writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is FRI holding back, and when 'Rufina and the Lion', a lost Spanish FRI masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to FRI suspect that the mystery behind the painting's origins and FRI her mentor's secrecy may be somehow connected. FRI FRI The truth about 'Rufina and the Lion' lies in 1936 and a FRI large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the FRI daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his FRI beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic FRI ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac FRI Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, FRI passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and FRI devastating consequences for them all. FRI FRI Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful FRI story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and FRI deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from FRI Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist. FRI FRI Written by Jessie Burton FRI FRI Abridged by Doreen Estall FRI FRI Read by Jessica Raine FRI FRI Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Jessica Raine FRI Author: Jessie Burton FRI Abridger: Doreen Estall FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b07j4qx4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b07j7pdm (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b07j7q4d (Listen) FRI Omar and Radhika - Education Is Everything FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation about how her son's FRI performance ambitions are making his mother re-think the FRI career expectations she's absorbed from her culture. Another FRI in 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
01 July, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 02/07/2016 - 08/07/2016
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